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WMG: Korra The Setting
For theories about other subjects, see The Legend Of Korra Wild Mass Guessing Index.
Harmonic Convergence did not 'create' new Airbenders, it just awakened latent power. In a way, it jump-started the bending potential of non-benders.
We know that Bending is transmitted by blood. Previously I had read that bending was more cultural but Legend of Korra show several characters of mixed origin. Fittingly, the major set of mixed siblings all display a variety in their elements. Mako and Bolin are brothers yet one is a firebender while the other is an earthbender. Aang and Katara's children are also a similar case; one is a waterbender, one is an airbender and the third was (previously) a non-bender. Isn't it just the neat little coincidence that Bumi, the child of the former Last Airbender just so happen to suddenly become an Airbender himself? My theory is that harmonic convergence 'jump started' the untapped bending potential of individuals.
But you may be wondering; what about all those airbenders all over the world? Their dad wasn't Aang. Well, see, Aang may have been the Last Airbender but I find it dubious he was the only one with Air Nomad blood. I mean, come on, let's be realistic here; surely there were people who had Air Nomad ancestry somewhere in their family tree. Even if it was as far as a dozen generation behind. So, what hapenned is this; some (all?) the non-benders who had Airbender blood, no matter how thin, received a boost that was just enough to activate their distant and latent airbending. It didn't work on the people with Air Nomad blood who already had bending because only the Avatar can bend more than a single element.
• I thought this too. I even went so far as to say that the lack of Airbenders is what prevented the spontaneous eruption of airbenders across the world, this is what people are talking about when they talk about the world being out of balance; it is not just a political balance. Aang achieved a political balance, but harmonic convergence reset the metaphysical balance of the world to a pre-genocide status, bringing out those who had the capacity to have been born an airbender, the descendants of the air nomads.
After all, she was a racist bitch to Wan and all. With the latter, it's defenitely harder to prove, but he did honour his promise to Unalaq and allowed him to take control (since he was the one who wanted to destroy civilisation and Unavaatu said to Korra he "he'd be the one true Avatar", something that seems very silly for Vaatu to be saying). It's just that their personalities are currently set this way.
• Makes sense. Raava and Vaatu already have some personifiation of the Yin-Yang concept in that neither can exist without the other.
There will be a hidden Airbending culture
Just like the Sun Warriors in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the will be a tribe of ancient airbenders hidden. They will be called the Sky Barbarians, they will be based off the Mongols, they will have Canadian accents (there's waterbending rednecks, so why not?), and they will have been plotting world domination for decades.
They will invade Republic City at some point. They will be the polar opposite of the Air Nomads, preffering violence over everything else and using all dangerous airbending techniques like tornados, hurricanes, choking people, venemous-gas/fart bending, soundbending and lightbending.
As it turns out, Korra will have a dillema. To save the world, she'd have to commit genocide.
• This troper wants this to be true just to see fart bending.
• Haven't we already seen Meelo do that?
• If we hadn't before we have now
• We have all tasted his fury
• I like this idea except I'd personally prefer to see airbending ninjas than barbarians.
• So...Basically, The Vandenreich- Avatar style?
• Certainly looks likely as of the Book 3 trailer!
• Except they're not so much hidden as newly emergent.
The invention of guns will appear
• Mostly it'll be flintlock pistols, rifles, muskets, and blunderbass, in order to give power to non-benders. The heroes will all be gunhaters naturally.
• Possible. There was gunpowder in the original series, as well as some prototypical cannons in the third season. Guns would be a natural development from those.
• Who says they should hate guns? Benders may not use guns because they don't NEED guns! I always kind of liked to picture a hard-core Sokka with a shotgun (of the blunderbuss variety.) Maybe the normals of this season will pack heat!
• They could hate guns because of corrupt militias that use guns to massacre civilians or benders. Arrows, swords, and other such weaponry (and bending too) require training and discipline, and thus much time and money to create armies with. Mass-produced guns mean instant armies of whoever happens to be on hand. Anti-bender revolts could get bloody.
• That's a silly generalization. You mass distribute guns — especially older, primitive guns — without any training or discipline and you end up blowing yourself up. Just because guns are not as flashy as non-firearm weaponry doesn't mean there's no training or discipline involved. By that logic they should also hate spears or javelins since they are also easily mass produced, required relatively less training compared to swords, and far outranged swords. And, you forget that corrupt militias have already been using bending and other non-firearms to oppress people (remember that episode with Zuko defending the town) for far longer. Lastly, guns = instant armies may be true now because of modern industry and guns like the Kalashnikov, but any guns likely to be developed in this time will be like the older arquebuses. Not to mention the need to manufacture gunpowder and ammo. And given that any gun industry would be in its infancy given that there wasn't one before, they're still at least years away from any sort of large-scale mass production, much less "instant armies".
• Gun might have existed in the Gaang's time. The tech we see during the Gaang's time implies they had to have had the possibility of such weapons. They might have just not been that pronounced for various reasons. Namely like those stated above, the guns of Gaang's time were too unstable for mass use and the high bender count in armies would look down on such weaponry. The Anti-Bender mentality mixed with more advanced and stabler weapons could very well allow for the anti-bender forces to take up guns or refine gun related tech into guns to equalize the common man against the "magical" benders.
• Although there is argument for both sides, I doubt it. Having guns would continue the creator's habit of introducing nuanced, mature subjects. It would also be consistent with the probable theme of technological advancement. Lastly, it is a good way to even the odds between benders and common non-benders, although low-level earthbenders would obviously have it easier than low-level airbenders. That said, guns would be more difficult to pull off. American cartoons are bound to certain expectations, far more so than Japanese ones. I seriously doubt we'd see anyone killed or crippled onscreen by gunfire. Because of that, it would be very easy for the gun-wielding bad guys to degenerate into Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, which would make them nonthreatening. As much as I would like to see it, I don't think the creators would risk that when, in the original, there were several threatening nonbenders, although admittedly they were in the top three percent.
• One thing you have to remember is the style of gun that they would have had are very very very inaccurate. They were really only effective with massed soldiers and very short distances. It really wasn't until the late 1700's that very accurate guns cam, even then it took trained marksmen to be accurate over a dozen yards.
• Now that the show is actually out (I assume this guess was made before it aired), the setting has turned out to be a lot more 20's-like than was initially believed; considering the level of technology we've seen, something like a revolver or even a Tommy gun wouldn't seem too out of place.
• The guns might look like Steam Punk versions of the weapons found in the Huolongjing, a Chinese text on the use of gunpowder.
• The United Forces ships seen at the end of episode 10 have what are unmistakably cannons mounted on their decks. Considering how even the original series managed to have cannons at some point (mounted on the Fire Nation airships), it might be safe to assume that while artillery is okay, handheld guns may still be verboten.
• Wait, never mind— the "cannons" turned out to be long-range Firebending enhancers. Still no powder-based projectile weapons of any sort.
Despite the high technology, guns will not' make an appearance
The creators want to keep the show kid friendly and know it would be too much of a Game Breaker in terms of story telling.
• Four words: Batman: The Animated Series.
• Considering that the Republic City police force mainly uses Metalbending, guns wouldn't be as much of a Game Breaker as you'd think.
• Indeed, guns may not appear in any significant capacity, because any Metalbender could crush them into pieces of junk metal without effort. And since they make the bulk of the police force, any criminal relying on a firearm would be apprehended in a flash.
• Indeed, that may be why metalbenders are the police, and would account for why there aren't any guns. Even if they existed, if your weapon is easily destroyed by the police, chi-blocking techniques would be much more effective and therefore the weapon of choice for non-benders.
• Might be confirmed since the Equalists' Humongous Mecha are made of platinum, impractical armor against firearms but purified enough that metalbenders can't affect them. Courtesy of Hiroshi Sato.
• What does Batman: The Animated Series have to do with no guns? There were plenty of guns in the show.
• Mostly likely a counter to the idea that "no cartoon has guns," although Bruce Timm and the rest had to bend over backwards to get them in (had to set the series some version of the 1930's, so lasers simply wouldn't make sense.)
• This was sort of both joshed and confirmed during the season final. The United Forces ships had cannons that were some kind of "long range firebending" focusers, and WW2 style bombs made an appearance, but nobody had anything resembling a handheld firearm. We will just have to wait for season 2 I guess...
The Show will have some proto Cyber Punk elements
Going with the gangster theory, the show will potentially involve immortals.
Hey, taking place in a 20's-esque setting. Although there is the potential of an overload of awesome.
The play performed by the Ember Island Players has gone on to become an all-time classic, with the original ending substituted for the actual ending of Aang beating Ozai.
It's a national treasure of the Fire Nation and is performed all around the world.
• ... That's just silly enough to work.
• Is there an on-ice version? A few waterbenders and a bunch of ice skates here and there and you're all set.
• No way. Fire Lord Zuko would never allow the play to leave Ember Island, let alone become a "national treasure of the Fire Nation."
• Yeah, but you've seen how many people go to those things, even if just because they're So Bad, It's Good. Besides, I'm sure Toph would have a word with her ol' buddy if he tried to cancel it...
• The troupe could have easily changed the show in order to look better in the eyes of their ruler. In Shakespearean times, playwrights sucked up to the royalty through their scripts all the time.
• Given, however unless Zuko bans it or sets the playwrights on fire they may not realize how irritated he is over the whole thing. I can see him and/or Mai trying to set the record straight via official histories and memoirs if they have the time but....
• It will probably be a silly, campy Rocky Horror style show.
• Annnnd I just imagined Ozai in ladies Lingerie... come to think of it he'd probably be able to carry off the look. Is Iroh the criminologist? Or Dr. Scott?
• I'm guessing there's enough common knowledge of the Gaang now that they've at least made Toph female.
A lot of waterbenders will function as doctors.
And boy, they will cost much. Also, imagine what kind of sickness they could cure if they're using actual medicine instead of water. It worked so well and fast with regular water! They will certainly cost a lot. Maybe Katara opened up a medical school when she was younger?
• In episode 7, Tahno mentioned going to several healers after Amon took his bending away. So that could be taken as evidence that waterbenders set up shop for their healing services.
Silent film now exists in the Avatarverse.
Well, this is apparently set in their equivalent to the twenties, so why not?
• And "The Boy In The Iceberg" with a Revised Ending, will be the most popular picture. Korra and Tenzin will each either love it or hate it.
• Or fall over laughing at the absurdity.
• Confirmed! Bolin's starring in "Nuktuk, Hero of the South.
Pro Bending will become fake
Professional Wrestling started out as a legitimate fighting sport, but gradually became more scripted, until it eventually became the totally fake exhibition performance it is today. Pro bending seems to be going the same way already, what with the Wolfbats' pyrotechnics-laden entrance and heelish antics, the coslaying fans, etc., so it may very well become increasingly staged as time goes on to keep the fans' interest, after all- not every fight can have the Avatar in it
• You should realise that if anything is an analogy to pro wrestling its the Earth Rumble.
One word: Steambenders
Hey, cultural melting-pot city, fantastic, almost unimaginable technological progress...perfect setup for the formation of a new form of bending. A special subform at the very least, or an entirely new "hybrid" discipline at most/worst. Plus, goggles. Gotta have the brass goggles.
• Steam is just evaporated water, so this is pretty likely. Like how "sandbenders" were just earthbenders who had better control of sand than the average earthbender, a steambender would just be a waterbender with better control of steam than the average waterbender.
• That is not a new bending type, they could bend it in the original, it is waterbending.
• Aang and Katara shaped clouds to manipulate the fortuneteller, and Aang harvested a cloud for drinking water.
• But maybe they could be airbenders...
• Katara specifically created steam as a cover on the ship at the beginning of the third season and Korra had no problem doing this in "The Revelation." It was already established in the original series that Waterbenders can bend all states of water though like powering plants with lightning generation it still could/has applications in an urban setting.
• If this is the case, I would be happy if there was one Steambender voiced by Richard Horvitz...
• I will second this if it's a Raz expy.
• There will be a guild of Firebenders and Waterbenders who are bound to create and improve steam-based technology. And their leader will be a red dragon.
Iroh's Jasmine Dragon will be the new Starbucks.
Wouldn't it be funny to see people walking around Republic City drinking tea from Jasmine Dragon labeled paper cups?
• I support this
• ...I would buy from Irohbucks... (As long as this is the logo.)
The Fire Nation will be a rustbelt and declining power.
• All empires and superpowers eventually decline, for one reason or another. By Korra's era, the Fire Nation will no longer be a superpower. Why? Because the newly industrialized Earth Kingdom (and possible Water Tribes) will have a leg up on them when it comes to their infrastructure, being able to apply the best practices learned during the Fire Nation's industrialization to their own countries, as well as producing homegrown innovations in the means of production. The EK and WT also won't be saddled with the legacy of a hundred years of industrial civilization. Over time, this means that other countries will be able to out-compete the Fire Nation when it comes to producing things like textiles, cheap steel, and the other goods of an industrial society. While Zuko and his descendants will attempt to combat their nation's decline, lingering cultural chauvinism will prevent it from adopting 'foreign' ideas. Also, Fire Nation workers simply won't be able to compete with the sheer manpower supply in an industrializing Earth Kingdom; they'll work longer for cheaper because there's ten other Earth Kingdomers in line to take their job.
• This seems probable. The end of the war is most likely going to hit the Fire Nation hard, what with the reparations and recessions that accompany the end of war economies. While it's possible that they can bounce back from this (compare Japan after World War 2 to Japan today), they will have lost several of their advantages, as you said. Also, from what we've heard of the interquel comics, we know that there's another major Fire Nation conflict bad enough for Aang to get involved. Depending on what that conflict is (say, a Civil War against Zuko by Ozai sympathizers), that's most likely going to compound their problems.
• I could see this being the case if the Fire Nation was still The Empire, but seeing as it was Zuko and Aang that started The Republic, this seems a lot less likely. The proliferation of Steampunk technology would have been a collaboration of the FN and the Mechanist's group, at least for the first few years. By the time time the EK could compete with them again, there would no more EK or FN, just the Republic. As for reparations, the leaders of all the nations were at that point on good terms with the Gaang, and seeing as Fire Lord Zuko was a member, I really don't see them going all Treaty of Versailles on the FN's Germany.
Agni Kai will be illegal in Republic City. It will also be seen by many as an anachronism.
Historically, as societies become less feudal and the rule of law becomes more important, judicial combat declines and is eventually outlawed. The agni kai will be treated the same way in Republic City. The popular perception of it will be less "means to avenge wounded honor" and more "excuse for vigilante brutality". They'll still occasionally be fought, mind you, but they'll be relegated to the shadows, like street racing is.
• Of course Mako is eventually going to be challenged to one, because it'll be a good way to milk drama about multicultural families and to illustrate to Korra (and the viewers) how cultural customs are different in Republic City compared to, say, the Fire Nation with how firebenders are expected to behave.
We will see the rise of new spirits.
There are already forest and nature spirits, and so machine and city spirits will arise, the city spirits' rapid expansion will clash with the nature spirits, forcing Korra to become more spiritual to mediate a compromise, meanwhile machine spirits will arise and will be prayed to similarly to the Adeptus Mechnaicus in Warhammer 40,000 as well as delivering fortune to those who properly maintain their machines.
• I kinda want to marry this idea.
• Bonus points if we get to see a literal Spectre of Communism (or Equalism).
Benders in Republic City will be expected by custom or law to wearing something identifying themselves and their element.
With the end of color-coded clothing, and the intermixing of peoples meaning eye/skin color aren't even useful as a rough indicator in Republic City of someone's elemental background, benders will start wearing tokens to show their alignment. This will take two forms. First, something like a colored scarf (a la Mako's neck one and Bolin's waist one). Second, it might be a piece of jewelry, like a sun or moon necklace. But whatever the case, it'll be something worn on top of a regular outfit.
• May be a coincidence, but of the the three bender thugs Korra fights in the trailer and leaked footage two wear an article of clothing with their bending colors (the firebender and the earthbender) while the waterbender doesn't. It may be more of a status symbol than a legal thing, though I wouldn't doubt that benders have to be licensed to bend within city limits like having a driver's license. Korra may have to get three licenses for the bending arts she has mastered. with comic results.
• Let's expand on that further: maybe the bender license thing was introduced as an appeasement to the anti-benders. It sounds like something they'd want-being able to track of every bender in the city. In addition, bending in fights is illegal in certain parts of the city; bending in school gyms or special arenas or non-violent bending (healing with waterbending, building stuff with earthbending, lighting a match with firebending) would be alright but using bending to beat people up, like Korra did, is illegal. Of course, this does more harm than good since the benders are bound to resent it.
There will be a countercultural element in the United Republic that mocks the traditional cultures of the Four Nations.
Alongside the bender/non-bender divide, there will be a conflict between the United Republic of Nations and the other four countries. Among the older generations, like Chief Beifong and Tenzin, the United Republic is a place that can be broken down into "tribes" that fall under the regular Four Nations. They'd see Mako as being a wayward son of the Fire Nation and Bolin as that to the Earth Kingdom. In contrast, the younger generations will simply see Mako and Bolin as citizens of the United Republic, and the fact that they bend is distinguishing in a way that whatever element they bend is not. As a rebellion against the "tribal" framework more traditionalist folks impose on them, Republic City's counterculture will purposefully adopt foreign elements as a way to mock them for being hollow symbols in a 'modern' era. For instance, a firebender might wear his hair in a Water Tribe wolf's tail, or a non-bender might wear clothes cut in the style of the Fire Lord. Some other countercultural types will take it a step further by doing such things as wearing their robes right over left and decorating with intentionally bad feng shui.
The United Republic of Nations has begun taking the Avatar's job.
The Fire Nation started the war during a period when the Avatar was too young and too inexperienced to stop them. As a result, the Republic was given special diplomatic and military powers so that they could act in the Avatar's stead while an Avatar is growing up and training. In keeping with the Romanticism Versus Enlightenment themes of the series, some of them are starting to wonder if the Avatar is now superfluous.
• This very much seems like it's going to be the case. Avatar Korra as a figure doesn't receive nearly the same amount of regard as Aang did, at least in the first episode.
• I think that is White Lotus responsibility. We have only seen Republic city council manage internal problems (With exception of possibly Tenzin who is WL member).
Pacifism will be a popular global philosophy.
Pacifism, once the domain of the Air Nomads, will have become a popular global philosophy owing to Aang's energybending of Ozai and his general behavior in ending the Hundred Years' War. However, the Avatar-verse's definition pacifism will be a bit different from what we think of it, as the go-to model will be Aang. So it'll be more of a militant or technical pacifism. Which isn't to say you won't have different ideological flavors. Killing will always be right out, but there will be disagreements about how far to take non-lethal injuries in a fight. Some will see energybending as an endorsement to cripple or maim (but not kill!) opponents to ensure they are no longer a threat. Others will see violence as only necessary in combat or training for combat, meaning some pacifists will protest against Pro-Bending as idealizing violence. Others will even view Aang's militant pacifism as an unhappy yet necessary concession to the dystopic state of the world at the time of his defrosting, but, now that the Hundred Years' War is long over and the world is largely peaceful, believe that strict pacifism should be practiced lest people slide down that slippery slope of justifying violence with technical pacifism.
The pro-bending championship is fixed.
In crime-ridden Republic City, organized crime just has too much money at stake when it comes to the big pro-bender championship. So the high-end matches are fixed; sometimes outright, sometimes just for the point spread. Except now that the Avatar is involved with a team aiming for the top, asking the Fire Ferrets to play along nicely isn't really an option, so the squeeze is gonna be put on Bolin or Mako to stay silent and comply with the mob's orders lest the other brother get hurt.
• Well, the Wolf Bats were allowed to get way with blatant cheating in episode 6. It's quite possible. However no-one's threatened the Fire Ferrets...yet.
• In Republic City Hustle we see the Triple Threat Triads fixings matchs.
The Boulder is one of the pioneers of pro-bending
• Wow, just seeing that title prompted me to read it out loud in The Boulder-voice.
The Southern Water Tribe primarily uses a barter system.
Hence, why Korra thought she could still get by in Republic City and tries to purchase food without having any money, the logic being that there were plenty of favors she could trade, being the Avatar.
Mixed marriages are not as common as we've been led to believe.
Tenzin, the son of a Air Nomad father and a Water Tribeswoman mother, married a woman of an unknown ethnicity and Mako and Bolin are brothers of mixed heritage. But just because the war is over doesn't mean everyone's all buddy-buddy now. Outside United Republic, mixed marriages are still rare and frowned upon.
• We aren't even sure that Mako and Bolin are the product of a mixed marriage, they could just as easily be half-brothers.
• "Half-brothers" means they still share a mother or share a father, which would still make one of them biracial. I think the word you are looking for is step-brothers. And I disagree because its too much detail for such a trivial point, unless its going to be plot-relevant. Also, Bolin and Mako's biracial heritage represents the cosmopolitan nature of the city. Why make that detail, then erase it later?
• We do know for sure now that Mako and Bolin are the product of a mixed marriage - a Fire Nation mother and an Earth Kingdom father.
• Interracial marriages and families are a pretty big plot point in the graphic novel series that serves to tell some of the story about what happens between the Hundred Year War and the events of the Legend of Korra. The Fire Nation colonists in the Earth Kingdom, established by Sozin (and discussed when Roku's storyline was outlined), were still there at the end of the Hundred Year War. Zuko and Aang attempted to remove them to keep the nations separate, but eventually concluded that it was impossible to do so. One of the things that stopped them was realizing how integrated the Fire Nation colonists had become in the Earth Kingdom, partially because of a earthbending would-be assassin who turned out to be part of a mixed marriage. This is pretty clearly canon, as it spurred the creation of both the United Republic and the Air Acolytes. It's difficult to tell from the background events, but it appears that interracial marriages - while perhaps not exactly common - are still not necessarily a surprising or unorthodox thing, like they would have been during the Hundred Year War.
• In addition to the above, the Air Acolytes probably have to have a lot of interracial marriages, since they have members from all of the nations.
There will be new forms of Bending due to Aang's Energybending
He'll eventually give Ozai's bending to a bender of a different element after being pressured into an experiment. After a huge success wherein the two forms of bending combine (think lavabending if it's an Earthbender for example) instead of being controlled separately (because only the Avatar can do that), other Benders line up to have their powers mixed and matched. Eventually hundreds of Bending forms are spawned and taught around the world, even to nonbenders who are training to receive the ability to bend from Aang (cause you know, he can do that with Energybending). If this happens it'll probably be an attempt at recovering from the [very well done] Ass Pull that is Energybending, but I'll be damned if it won't be awesome all the same.
The glowy light show that Aang pulled off with Energybending? That's just what it looks like from the perspective of the bender and their target.
Witnesses just see it without the light show, akin to what Amon did.
• Seemingly confirmed by "Out of the Past" - when Aang depowered Yakone, there was no light show.
The gangs of the city stem from varying post-war attitudes.
We've got the Agni Kais, the Red Monsoons, and the Triple Threat Triad. To go in reverse order, the Triple Threats are (as we know) made up of allied earth, water, and fire benders. Clearly, then, the founding firebender didn't have any issues with fraternizing with people from other nations, and would have likely been considered a sympathizer by the Fire Nation during the war. The Red Monsoons is a step away, being allies of water and fire benders. The founders, for some reason, didn't like earthbenders. The one with the biggest red flag are the Agni Kais. Just from their name, it's pretty obvious that they're some sort of Fire Nation nationalist or supremacist group.
The other gangs, then, would be varying mixes of earthbenders and waterbenders.
The Equalists will create their own monster.
Ok, there was speculation above that this series is just a set-up for another series that will parallel WWII. However, there's one problem with that: The Equalists seem to represent Communism (an extreme version of "equality" that leaves no room for accomplishment through natural talent), and we weren't fighting Communists in WWII, we were fighting Nazis...but wait! Prior to Hitler's rise, there was a strong Communist presence in Germany...in fact, many people voted for Hitler who otherwise wouldn't have been, because they thought he was better than Communism! In the same way, the Equalists will lead to the rise of a faction dedicated to the extermination of all non-Benders, forcing the sequel series (of which Korra will still be the star, there's no way they'd have time for her to die, and the next Avatar to grow up) to fight a war both for freedom, and for the very survival of non-Benders.
• Tarrlok would be the most likely candidate to launch a fascist takeover. He favors violent methods to stop the Equalists without addressing their underlying grievances, Tenzin says he's greedy for power, and he seems to have the other three Council members in his pocket.
The 36 Levels of Airbending will finally get explained or shown in full
Unlike the other bending arts, Airbending specifically had a series of trials one had to undergo to affirm their mastery. Aang being the brilliant little punk he was, was so good his invention of his signature Air Scooter promoted him to Master one tier early; marking him as the youngest official 'Master' level Airbender in history- and coincidentally, relieves the need to display his native training and focus on the training of the following Arts. Perhaps during Korra's ongoing lessons with Tenzin we will finally see what it is that these 36 Levels are, and what was the last step Aang didn't have to do. Heck, it'd be really cool to see her do as her predecessor and make a distinct technique all her own.
• There have been insinuations that the last step in Airbending mastery is devising a new Airbending technique. Since Aang already fulfilled that...
The "Advanced Airbending" will be Sound
Each of the other elements have a sort of "advanced" version. Water becomes healing and bloodbending, fire becomes blue fire and lightning, and earth becomes metal. Korra, Tenzin, or one of Tenzin's kids will advance Airbending to the point where they can bend sound.
Alternatively, the advanced version will be Vacuumbending
Basically, the ability to create vacuums, which can be used to pull air into a concentrated form to be shot out(air bullets, or even air blades), and it could be used defensively by sucking in attacks thrown by other Benders. It could also be used to suffocate people by creating a vacuum field around the victim which sucks the air away.
• Dunno if it's an advanced form, but it looked like vacuumbending is a modification of Aang's air ball technique.
The Airbender population will not be replenished solely by Tenzin and his family.
Through spiritual enlightenment and practice, airbenders will begin to be borne spontaneously to nonbender Air Acolyte couples.
• I support this theory. While the Fire Nation killed all the Airbenders, it just means they killed all the ACTIVE Airbenders. Doesn't mean there can't be Airbender descendants who don't have the Airbending ability but do carry the genetic potential for it.
• Especially considering that Katara is evidence that two non-benders can have a bender child. We know that Katara and Aang had two other kids who, while not airbenders, do carry the airbender genes. It's highly possible that Kya and Bumi could have airbending children.
• Or there are already born airbenders out in the world, but are unknowing and unable to really control their abilities due to not knowing the methods of airbending. After all, airbending is the 'non-showy' form of bending; how can you prove you are actually airbending to other people, or realize growing up you are able to? -jaymie.
• Confirmed. Harmonic Convergence ends up making a bunch of new airbenders.
Benders will adopt Equalist weapons.
Everyone can have the power of a chi-blocker in the palm of their hand... including benders. Imagine waterbenders electrifying their water whips, or metalbenders with a shootable tazer built into a glove. Not to mention dual-wielders like Zuko who will combine their bending and their shock glove to have varied short- and long-range attacks.
It is illegal to bloodbend in Republic City.
Given Yakone's work bloodbending 42 years ago, it isn't much of a stretch laws were enacted against this form of bending being used due to its massive cruelty potential. That is why Tarrlok asked his secretary if the other members left before dismissing her so nobody would catch him using it in combat against Korra.
• In Harry Potter there were only three curses that resulted in an automatic life sentence: Imperio, which controls people, Crucio, which tortures (and is potentially fatal) and Avada Kedavra, which is an instant death spell. It wouldn't be surprising for the Avatar world to see bloodbending (unless used to save somebody's life) the same way that the Ministry of Magic sees Imperio.
• What makes it disturbing is that bloodbending is able to act as all three of those spells.
• Confirmed in "Out of the Past".
In another hundred years, pro-bending will have four-man teams, with the fourth member either an airbender or a nonbender
If the guess about the air acolytes getting airbender children is right, there will probably be a few hundred airbenders running around in a hundred years. It would be hard for the pro-bending sport to ignore that. However, even with a few hundred airbenders, there likely won't be enough willing to join the competition to require one in every team. Instead, teams can have either an airbender or a non-bender. In order to maintain a bit of balance, non-benders will be allowed to use a shield and a stick with a weighted end. Airbenders will get limited in that they can't spend more than a second off the ground, as well as not being allowed to channel air for more than a second (like waterbenders)
The Kyoshi warriors have or will learn their own unique style of waterbending
Currently, the kyoshi warriors do not appear to have any benders on their island. However, they do live nearby a mystical creature that spews water. Many of the bending arts were originally learned by observing animals. You do the math.
• Likely jossed, as the people of Kyoshi Island were former earth kingdom citizens with Avatar Kyoshi herself representing earth.
Republic City is facing an Evil Versus Evil Scenario
As of Episode 8, we have The Good, the Bad, and the Evil. Korra and co. are the good.
There will be sky pirates.
We've seen that zeppelins are fairly common in and around Republic City. It's probable at least one got into the hands of some less-than-honorable people, who now go gallivanting around the world stealing whatever they want and escape in their zeppelin. As an added bonus, the Steampunk crew will be a mixture of water and fire benders.
There will be tanks, bi-planes, destroyers and bombs
It is the Roaring Twenties. By this time in the real, all these had been invented. We already had a lot of cool tech in ATLA, so we will have
• Bi-planes, destroyers, and bombs were confirmed by the season finale preview. Tanks (unless you count Hiroshi's mechas) weren't, but the Fire Nation had them even in the time of ATLA, so there's no reason they couldn't appear here as well.
Republic City will become the setting for a World War-esque conflict and a Great Depression
It's the best way to give Amon a chance at removing the world of as many benders as he can - get them in one place. So maybe his assault on the City will force the Krew to call for assistance from the 3 nations. Even the Order of the White Lotus will have to join the fight. If he could pull off the impossible and keep winning (for a while at least), he would collect mass POWs and de-bend them all. We have a city in the Roaring Twenties without a war so far so if the Season finale promo is any hint, things are about to get much, much worse. Benders are the backbone of the city's industry, if they lose their bending, the industry will collapse. Not to mention that Sato, the biggest industrialist in the city is on the enemy's side. If he goes, his empire goes with him. Since we don't see a Stock Market in town, this would be the best way to introduce it. Then the criminal gangs will go on mass looting through the city, and the krew will have a major clean up job on their hands, assuming all of them survive with their Bending intact.
The next series will be set After the End
Given the longevity of Avatars and the rapid pace at which technology is advancing in the Avatarverse, by the time Korra's successor is born we'll get either Avatar in Space or Avapunk, which would be stretching things a little too far in my opinion. By the time the next Avatar comes around, a huge cataclysm, be it global war or a meteorite impact, will have reduced most of the world to a smoking wasteland and set back technology decades or even centuries. Alternatively, we'll get a Prequel.
• Sozin's comet is due back in less than thirty years. That could easily spark some kind of cataclysm.
The United Forces is a small army
After the world finally had peace, the former bending nations didn't want any army to become to large to avoid another war. The United Forces was set up to be peace keeping force, just big enough to keep all the nations inline, but small enough to not be a threat against all the other nations on it's own. Sadly, this meant that they don't have that many troops to fight Amon.
Water Tribe noodles are made with alcohol.
How else can anyone get drunk off noodles? Perhaps it is boiled in sake?
The majority of the water benders in the city are decedents of the Swamp water tribes
The majority of the northern and southern water tribes have very dark skin, yet all just about every water bender we see (barring Korra) in Republic city has much lighter skin tone. The only water benders we ever saw that had anywhere close to that light of skin was the Swamp people. It would make sense, since most of the other waterbenders would find the heat of a city so close to the equator discomforting. Korra doesn't mind, since she also is a firebender (who can't firebend in extremely cold places).
• Really? This troper assumed that most of them had light skin because of mixed ancestry.
• It's very possible to get sunburns/tans at the poles thanks to sunlight reflecting off the snow and ice; so Water Tribespeople in Republic City might just be getting less sun exposure, leading to lighter skin. It's true even for darker-skinned people in RL. And mixed ancestry might play a part as well; Tenzin has pretty light skin for someone who's half Water Tribe.
Dragons really are dead now.
With only two members of their species left during the only time we saw them, they're very likely extinct.
• Large animals typically have long lifespans, but even if they are still alive in Korra's time, they'd likely be functionally extinct anyway. (meaning, at least one member of the species is still alive, but there's no hope of having a viable population again) Well, unless dragons are highly resistant to inbreeding depression...
• Book 3 has Zuko on a dragon. Jossed.
The Northern Water Tribe no longer practices arranged marriages.
Back in ATLA, arranged marriages were normal for the NWT, and the marriage/betrothal age was 16. This was a case of Values Dissonance even for Katara and Sokka, who were from the Southern Water Tribe. Arranged marriages didn't seem to be the norm anywhere else in the world, even for prominent families like the Bei Fongs and the Fire Nation royal family. Arranged marriages will be seen as very bizarre and backwards in Republic City. And considering that we'll see Korra's female cousin in season 2, there might be some allusion to the arranged marriages in the NWT and whether or not the cousin will be ready for marriage. Or, it might have something to do with why Korra's father is at the South Pole while his brother is the NWT chief.
• Partly Jossed by The Search, Ozai and Ursa's marriage WAS arranged and they barely got to know each other before their wedding. For everything else, we'll just have to wait and see.
The White Lotus Society is now a public organization.
Look, an army of them took over the Capital City of the Earth Kingdom and saved it from genocide. I think it's fair to assume that they're no longer a secret society.
The spirit world will have a lot of Miyzaki references and inspiration.
The creators of the show are fans of Hayao Miyzaki, most notably evidence by Appa being inspired by the Catbus. Many of Miyzaki's works focus on spirits, so it's the perfect opportunity for the creators of the show to throw in a few homages.
A large portion of the Northern Tribe still have issues acknowledging Korra as the Avatar
Not only she is from the Southern tribe rather than the Northern one, but she is a female and the North was rather sexist towards females in their society until Katara came along. Assuming those attitudes are kept, Korra will receive a rather poor reception when arriving at the Northern Tribe at some point in Book 2.
• Seemingly Jossed in Book 2. Korra's family is from the Northern Tribe originally and her uncle is the leader of it and freely acknowledges her and asks her to accept him as her mentor. None of the other many Northerners seen seem to have an issue with her gender either.
Rules for Airbenders in Pro Bending
Assuming the Airbenders eventually become populous enough to be able to contribute to the Pro Bending scene, how would one make rules to deal with them? Airbending sports do exist. We've heard of Bison Polo and have seen air scooter races and airball, so Airbending is not incompatible with sports. However, how can one include it in the Pro Bending?
• They'd probably make them have to use a visible projectile, because otherwise you can't see what's being thrown. Airball used balls, so having something like that could be in use.
• To avoid cheap shots, you might consider filling the playing floor with small particulates like dust, so if an Airbender tries to push someone off the side with an air blast without a designated projectile, they could be seen and penalized.
There will be a rise in new refining technology
And thus Metalbending will face a new challenge as people develop weapons and tools immune to Metalbending because they have been refined so far the impurities are so small or just not there. And the people who help in this process are Metalbenders.
• Confirmed. Episode 7 shows that platinum is metal so refined that there are little to no particles of earth left in it to bend. Hiroshi Sato takes advantage of this by creating Mini Mechas made out of the stuff for the Equalists, specifically to counter the Metalbending Police.
Tenzin and his family are not the only Airbenders out there.
It's unlikely that the Fire Nation killed all the Air Nomads. Some of them probably escaped into other nations, where they got married, had kids, and assimilated into the local culture. Airbender genetics are likely within a few small communities within the Water Tribes or the Earth Kingdom.
• There's a WMG that Ty Lee has Air Nomad ancestry.
• Confirmed! The Harmonic Convergence ends up making a bunch of new airbenders.
The Avatar universe is completely foundamentaly different from ours
The Earth is made of different minerals (it has no iron in the crust, unlike ours which is fairly dense with it) and is in a different shape and position from the Sun. The sun and comets are made of fire and considered ancient firebenders. Basicly everything down the atoms that creat the matter in their universe is different. That is why there are some things that we do not understand when comparing it to our world.
The Avatar world was born from a post-apocalyptic one—likely the result of nuclear war.
Follow the destruction of most of civilization, the survivors picked up the pieces (retaining vocal and written language from the old world's two biggest superpowers, America and China respectively) and set to work rebuilding from scratch. Meanwhile, however, the suffering and hate from a planetary-scale nuclear war fueled Vaatu in the spirit world to the point he became powerful enough to break the veil between realms. Subsequently, the spirits looked upon the war as proof the humans have lost their right to dominate the earth, so they began moving in to kick them out.
Following the growing establishment of the Spirit Wilds, lion turtles began protecting pockets of humanity on their enormous backs and giving them the power of an element whenever they had to leave for any reason. As the generations went by, humans completely forgot about the old world, even forgetting there are other humans on other lion turtles. And then Wan's story happened, and the rest is history.
• More to the point, or alternatively, the portals, the spirits, the lion turtles, bending, and the funhouse world map that bears some resemblance to ours, are all collectively the result of "ill-advised physics experiments" at some point in our future.
The Lion Turtles weren't really hunted to extinction.
• Historians and archeologists noticed that Lion Turtles were everywhere in ancient artwork, but could not be found in the world. They came to the logical conclusion that these animals had been hunted down. In reality, the Lion Turtles chose to withdraw from a world where they were not needed (until Aang needed one, anyways). We already know Lion Turtles have vast power and even Raava was courteous to one of them. They could have easily entered the Spirit World or another world entirely to discourage humans from trying to find them and rely on them for protection.
• This is supported by one noting that the time of the Lion turtles protection is over. And well, look at the things, they are HUGE. I am pretty sure it would take more than a bit of "power of fire" to take one of those things down.
The Air Acolytes are a cult
• First, let's look at their formation. The original Air Acolytes were a group of Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation teenagers who were motivated to follow Aang through either fascination with Air Nomad culture or hero worship of Aang himself. In short, they were disaffected young people taking on the ways of an ancient, alien culture passed down to them by a messianic figure.
• Second, the Acolytes live apart from other people, either on Air Temple island or the other isolated Air temples. True, that's how the original Air Nomads lived, but for people who aren't technically Air Nomads, it seems less like a temple and more like a compound.
• Third, while most of the living Acolytes were probably born into their culture, the original Acolytes were from other Nations. They had homes and families that they left to join Aang. Did they ever see them again? Did they ever want to? If you join the Acolytes as an adult, do you have to cut yourself off from your old life? What if you want to leave? People born into close-knit religious communities leave occasionally, and in the process often lose everything.
• Fourth, the near-religious obsession the Acolytes have for Airbenders is just disturbing. Some of the original Acolytes were the "Avatar Aang Fan Club", it makes sense that Aang himself would inspire respect and admiration—he saved the world, after all. But the Acolytes seem to worship Tenzin and his children on heritage alone. Hell, the fact they didn't even seem aware of Kya and Bumi's existence is troubling enough. They simply didn't know about Aang's other children because they weren't Airbenders, and therefore irrelevant.
• Even without the cult undertones, there are other issues:
• Benders. All Acolytes so far have been non-benders, but we've seen that benders can be born to non-benders, and it's not entirely clear what determines who's born a bender. What if say, a firebender is born to Air Acolyte parents, would they ever be accepted? Would they be an outcast? Would they be forced to never use their bending if they want to stay?
• The future. The Airbender population needs to grow and Tenzin's kids will need to fulfil that, and it's likely that they'll take partners from the Acolyte population, and so on down the line. Eventually however, the Airbender gene pool will be large and diverse enough to be self-sustaining. Assuming any Acolytes are left, what becomes of them? Essentially what's coming is two groups of people sharing the same culture. One group has mystical powers, and the other has no magic powers and worships the ones who do. It's a Fantastic Caste System waiting to happen.
The Air Nomads will be reborn, but the Acolytes will have nothing to do with it.
Chong and his hippies, true nomads, have spawned a movement of thousands of people, all wandering across the Earth Kingdom in search of freedom and peace. They've detached themselves from homes and material possesions, and they have pretty good senses of humour. Eventually they'll stumble upon a Lion Turtle, who'll grant them the power of airbending.
• At this point, Tenzin and 40% of the Air Acolytes will die of self-inflicted blunt force trauma to the forehead. The rest will suffer only moderate concussions and bruised palms.
• Confirmed. Harmonic Convergence grants airbending to a multitude of people, including Bumi and a few Acolytes. At the end of Book 3, Tenzin declares that the Air Nomads have returned, and will embark on peacekeeping voyages.
The world was much more like our own.
The world of mortals originally had no spirits, no lion turtles, no dragons, or any other such creatures. Humans evolved much as they did here on Earth (supported by the fact Vatu taunted Wan by mentioning "crawling out of mud"). Humans grew in knowledge, going through the stone, bronze, and iron ages, building up civilizations, becoming the dominate species on the planet. However, something caused the worlds to collide. The spirits flooded into the world, most through the portals at the portals, others through many other gaps the Avatar world seems to contain. Raava and Vatu also continued their eternal struggle in the mortal realm. Humans could face the threat, how could they fight monsters that aren't fully solid, faster and more agile than the fastest animal, and stronger than ten men, with iron swords and spears? However, some very ancient and powerful beings, the Lion turtles, decided to help humans. They allowed them to build their cities on their backs, gave protection, and the ability to fight back.
The Fog of Lost Souls is much like the Island where Dreams Come True from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
It seems to play on the fears of its captives, causing them to relive their worst nightmares and/or memories. Kya's worst nightmare somehow involves losing or being abandoned by her family, while Bumi's clearly involves bloodthirsty cannibals. Tenzin is already living a parent's worst nightmare, so the Fog settles for his second worst: Failing the rest of the family and the world.
The physical world and the spirit world are not on different planes, but rather are two separate planets.
We see in a lot of the visuals that the Avatar world is just a run of the mill planet like Earth, in a system much like our own (meaning that maybe it exists out there somewhere in the cosmos? But that's another WMG). So what's to say the spirit world isn't the same? It could easily be that the spirit world is simply another planet in another system joined to the Avatar world by a wormhole (or two, depending if you count each pole as a separate wormhole).
Because of their having evolved so long in the presence of these wormholes, the people of the Avatar world have a psychic connection with the wormhole, and can project themselves through it and manifest themselves in the spirit world thusly. They can also physically travel there. Spirits, being the native sentient population on the other planet, have the same ability.
Iroh got stuck in the Fog of Lost Souls while searching for his son.
It's generally accepted that Iroh's first experience in the spirit world was right after Lu Ten died. And Iroh seems to have some kind of personal experience with the Fog, given the way he warns Tenzin and his siblings about it. Perhaps he, like Tenzin, traveled there intentionally while searching for his kid, was trapped there briefly and was only able to escape after some sort of epiphany.
• That said, it's entirely possible Lu Ten is still trapped in the Fog.
The reason why there's new Airbenders popping out.
Because all the new Airbenders have Air Nomad ancestry, even though Word of God said that all Air Nomads are benders, they didn't say those who are only part.
The Earth Kingdom will now change into the Earth Federation.
The Earth Queen's dead without an heir it seems, so once order does reach Ba Sing Se, a new Democratic Republic will take over.
• Jossed, never mind, there's already an heir named Prince Wu. And he loses his throne to Kuvira, who transforms the kingdom into the Earth Empire, apparently the main antagonists of the final Book.
• HOWEVER, as of the finale, Prince Wu has decided to abdicate the throne and suggests a new, democratic system for his nation. So we may yet see an Earth Federation, assuming there's still fiction after this.
Pro-Bending will be amended to include airbenders.
Now that the entire airbending population isn't 5, they'll be able to amend things to include airbenders. It is going to take a while because the arenas haven't been designed to account for airbending, and rules for how airbending is to be done will take a while to hash out, but since not every airbender didn't choose to be an Air Nomad, there will be plenty of people who will want to try to adapt their new abilities to the sport.
On mixed race bending
Since we're in a setting with increasing numbers of individuals with mixed ancestry, this could lead to new hybrid forms of bending. In the most recent episode, we have Bolin, a mixed Earth/Fire character, discovering his latent lavabending abilities. Lavabending seems to blur the line between earth and fire, (and in the first series, we saw firebenders controlling lava). This may well mean that Mako is also a lavabender.
Other possible hybrid abilities may be:
• Weatherbending (water/air)
• Combustion (fire/air) (we've already seen this, but it's possible that Combustion Man and P'Le both have mixed fire and air heritage from centuries ago)
• (earth/air)
• (fire/water)
• Lavabending (fire/earth)
• (water/earth)
The secret to Lavabending is not Fire, but Water
What is lava/magma? Rock in a different phase of matter. Waterbenders consider altering their element's state one of the most basic techniques. It is those techniques that can be applied to Earth to create and manipulate lava, and change it back to rock. Would-be lavabenders only assumed that Firebending techniques were involved because magma is so hot. When that assumption didn't pan out, it was written off as impossible for non-Avatars and nobody ever questioned the root assumption. That's why it took someone like a member of the Red Lotus, who is devoted to questioning such "common knowledge", to discover the art.
The Earth Kingdom (or at least part of it) will join the United Republic of Nations.
The western parts of the Earth Kingdom (perhaps including Omashu) are close to the United Republic. Some of the local leaders might ask President Raiko to send in the United Forces to help maintain order. Before long, people in those areas will realize democracy's not such a bad idea. This is the change Zaheer was talking about, the one that can't be stopped. The boundaries of the four nations will begin to dissolve as the Republic expands, consuming them all, uniting the world into one people under a democratically elected leader.
Every part of Air Nomad culture becomes apparent when Zaheer's brutality is shown.
Pacifism and Vegetarianism? Intentional restraint. If an airbender wanted something dead it wouldn't have any chance. They could drive entire species extinct if they hunted with regularity. The nomadic and monastic lifestyle is the same- remove any desire for material belongings and land, no airbender has a reason to form an army and conquer. The relative isolation of the temples? Same- other nations never get a chance to test the extent of airbending and see just how scary they are. For over ten thousand years the only reason every other nation hasn't fallen under the airbender's heels is because of culture-wide saintlike restraint.
• Flat-out contradicted by Word of God's claim that bending is only as good as the person using it and one isn't better than the other/.
The next series will take place during the adult life of the next Avatar, and he'll be Out of Focus.
We've seen two young Avatars come of age under very different circumstances, but we've also gotten hints from Aang's kids about how trying it is to grow up in the shadow of the Avatar. We'll get to see the next Avatar's kids struggling to try to live up to their father/mother's legacy. The show will eventually develop into more of an espionage thriller, when it's decided that the Avatar will use his political standing to create distractions, while his kids slip around and do the dirty work.
The Avatar-verse won't get realistic guns but will get Family-Friendly Firearms.
They will include the Flare Gun, the Lightning Gun, and the Grenade Launcher.
• Kuvira's mechs already have flamethrowers and lightning guns. It's only a matter of time before someone makes a portable version.
The next Avatar will be an introverted, bookish nerd.
We've seen a playful Avatar who had to learn resolve, and an angry Avatar who had to learn inner peace. I think a standoffish, shy Avatar, who really wishes the rest of the world would just leave him to his books would be an interesting contrast.
• He'd be a Twilight Sparkle or Orion Pax-like librarian/archivist, who is mentored by an older, surviving character from Korra's era. Said mentor encouraging him to "make some friends!" is optional.
• And eventually he'll get a big dose of Reality Ensues and Not So Above It All. For the first time in the series history he'll square off against a villain who has no interest in dueling him one-on-one, and whose army has a clear line of succession to prevent it from being defeated by his death. This will literally leave the booknerd Avatar with no choice other than to get down in the dirt, and charge at the head of an army of thousands, battling another army of thousands, in a bending free-for-all.
• Sounds a bit cliched imo
Badgermoles hate roaches.
The moment Wu called the Earth Empire soldier a roach, their ears perked up and they promptly circled round and attacked him and his squad.
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WMG: Starbound
Florans don't natively have a concept of names
Instead, they identify each other via plant-like means - the scent of pollen they give off, the color and pattern of their leaves and petals, ect. That's why they call themselves "floran" in their Third-Person Person speech, and why they see floran statue as poor likenesses of themselves: apart from their pride, the statue is also one flat color and doesn't smell of anything, so they can't tell who it's intended to be and project. That said, they have started to grasp the concept from other races, if only so those that aren't xenophobes can identify themselves and other to non-florans.
• The last bit about learning the concept would be an in-universe excuse for being able to name your playable Floran. It's just that they use "Floran" when inspecting things as a self-identification noun.
• Possibly Jossed by Florians shouting a name when one gets killed.
The Hylotl are actually vicious warlords that have been pacified via a drug
The water surrounding Hylotl Cities, and the air inside the air filled parts, are all medicated. A solution of calming and pacifying liquid is either mixed into the water, or vaporized into the breathing air. This would essentially make any citizen reduced to a state of pacifism. People who were born and raised in this environment would not understand, much less feel any aggression, and would have no need for combat. Give a few generations, and the majority of the species is not only pacified, but their culture has experienced a massive shift in morality and behavior. Weaponry is now for looks, combat is an art form and not used for practicality. The City Guards likely are given a modified solution that inducts one into passive nature, but would allow them to suddenly switch into a fully aggressive, combat ready state.
• The Hylotl does not have much trouble digesting food and things that a carnivore or omnivore would be able to digest. The Player is able to keep down an alien meat steak, which shows they at some point evolved to be omnivores. They have the potential to eat life forms from alien worlds, and nearly anything that has meat. Early on in their history, it is quite likely that The Hylotl nearly drove large groups of Marine Life to extinction, if not having driven them to extinction by the time the solution was created and deemed needed. The Vegetarianism can be explained as the species choosing to subsist on vegetation, and adapting to a new lifestyle, instead of having to hunt and kill, or to slaughter for sustenance.
• The Player Character Hylotl, a trained monk, is raised in these ways of pacifism, but likely learned survival and combat as an art form. The second they get off world, they are no longer medicated with the solution. A species with a violent nature, and aggression as natural, would experience a massive shock, which would explain the Player killing wild animals for sport, or exterminating an entire village. However, due to being trained, and selected as a missionary for their peaceful ways, the Player will exhibit restraint, and may even manage pure vegetarianism, and pacifism in comparison to other beings exploring space.
• Was just reading this, but holy fishcakes this actually is feasible! I know it sounds insane, but look through the Hylotl Armors. Just look at them. Why would a race of pacifists even have battle ready armor? They have what seems to be stealth and infantry style armor, along with ones that their ancestors would wear while riding gigantic fish into battle. Even if they had a violent past, that doesn't truly contradict with this. There is armor for deep sea exploration, and for tending to the hatcheries, sure, but the fact still remains a majority of the armor for the species, is violent in nature. There are parts that are still for art, but the armor looks as if it is blood thirsty. Note, this troper originally wrote this bit before writing the above/rest of the WMG Theory. He merely wants you to know he read the one line description of the WMG, and then suddenly realized it fits.
• No wonder everyone's racist towards the hyloltl.
The Races that made the Glitch are...
• Human: Just given the fact that they in a Medieval are like Earth at the Medieval time.
• Apex: They are the most technologically advanced race.
• The same race that give Avian the technology.
• Engi: They conducted these experiments by building separate robots and monitoring how their civilizations evolved.
• Whoever or whatever is placing pixel capsules everywhere.
• The pixels are probably Dust with a different name.
The Avian god is actually the leader of the Apex.
Think about an advanced race gave the Avians star ship tech, which they misinterpreted as a god.This seems to this troper that it would be something Big Ape would plan. Why rule one race when you can rule two and be thought of as a god?
The Big Ape will be one of the bosses.
If not the tier 10 Boss.
The simulations that resulted in The Glitch were conducted by the Engi.
The Glitch can suffocate in airless spaces and so can the Engi. They conducted these experiments by building separate robots and monitoring how their civilizations evolved.
The tentacle monsters are to some extent giant plants
Large tentacle trees drop regular wood when felled on tentacle planets. We know the relatively plant-habitable Earth was tentacle'd. Tentacle juice is just water with the pigment full of baby tentacle monsters.
Theories as to who is leaving all these helpful if unusual 3D printer pixel capsules and effect capsules and lost treasure and seemingly random dungeons around
This WMG entry is to guess wildly en masse as to who is...well, Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Dreadwing? He's clearly not against wildly expensive expenditures for no clear reason. Maybe that's why he's searching distress beacons with UFOs, in search of his lost pixel treasures?
• The companies making these 3D printers. As some form of advertising campaign that got out of hand and was never heard from again.
• A bunch of banking ships. That exploded. Scattering cargo everywhere.
• Whoever is behind the Glitch.
• Everyone.
• The pixels lost on death not used to clone back up you being unneeded ejected into space instead of back into your bank?
• The tentacle monsters. Somehow.
• All the monsters. They're monster nests. Pixels are used by the more robotic monsters to clone manufacture more monsters.
• Lots and lots of pirates' buried treasure.
• No-one and nothing. They form naturally, like ores.
• The cultists of various kinds scattered throughout the galaxy.
• The USCM.
• Kluex.
• Big Ape.
• The developers' in-universe avatars.
• All the pixels from character wipes and permadeaths.
• Several traders who died and whose last acts were stuffing equipment in a box.
• Those people who were caught camping and died outside their campsites, explaining the tents lying around randomly as well.
• Whoever is building the strange giant laboratory-like dungeon structures with the Matter Block item makers and the enslaved robots.
• The Agaran mushroom people who are hinted to be The Virus or at least horrific things.
• The player's missions in the racial backstory.
• Princess Celestia
• Yuyuko Saigyouji
• The Glitch themselves, who die somehow if they are not present on the world in question.
• Any of the other races.
• Nothing and no-one. They're plants.
• You!
• The specific tentacle monsters human players flush out the airlock of their ships in their racial backstory.
• The modinfo files.
The Novakids trolled the Avians in the distant past for the lulz.
This rapidly got extremely out of hand. Kluex took over when the Novakids got bored, and there was a mutual lack of understanding. Things continued from there. This explains why the Sunborn sound a lot like less derpy novakids in certain portrayals.
There's a Five-Bad Band in Starbound... but nobody knows the Big Bad.
The Big Bad is hiding behind the scenes manipulating people to get its will done, forming a band of sorts, but one so well controlled that its own members don't entirely realize it.
• Big Bad: ???
• The Dragon: Big Ape - Controls the most resources and highest technology of the group and collaborates the most with them.
• The Brute: Thornwing - Gets called in to clean up problems and assassinate people.
• Evil Genius: Greenfinger - Reportedly designed the tentacle monster that destroyed Earth, among other things.
• Dark Chick: Dreadwing - The weakest member, killing off basic threats and alerting the others to more dangerous ones.
• They (minus Dreadwing) had a meeting in one of the books.
There was a Sburb session somewhere.
This is why Perfectly Generic Objects appear as Perfectly Generic Items. What impact this may have, if any, is unclear beyond Perfect Armor.
"[Redacted]" from "Minutes of a Meeting" is...
• The Big Bad.
• An evil novakid with an attention span.
• A human criminal.
• A hylotl warlord.
• An evil glitch Outcast knight.
• The creature that ate Earth.
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Webcomic: The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen is a 2010 webcomic by Julie Konopka. It follows the adventures of Dragon Queen, a transvestite superhero in Harbor City. The webcomic suddenly went from dramatic storyline-based to Gag A Day in February 2011 and then vanished off of the web later in the year. Some images are retained on the Tumblr site.
This work exhibits the following tropes:
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YMMV: All You Need Is Kill
• Alternate Character Interpretation: In-Universe. Some consider Keiji New Meat that turned out to be humanity's greatest warrior. Others consider him an unstoppable monster who cares nothing for his allies and a Karma Houdini who gets away with murdering humanity's greatest warrior because the war goes on and he's too valuable to execute.
• The Woobie: Shasta, Rita's partly Native American mechanic, is subjected to some wince-inducing hazing due to her ethnicity.
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YMMV: Windy Tales
Inexact title. See the list below. We don't have an article named YMMV/WindyTales, exactly. We do have:
If you meant one of those, just click and go. If you want to start a YMMV/WindyTales page, just click the edit button above. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes. Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. Use the right namespace for those.
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Rule 1. General provisions.
(a) Scope of rules. These rules shall govern the procedure in the courts of the state of Utah in all actions, suits, and proceedings of a civil nature, whether cognizable at law or in equity, and in all special statutory proceedings, except as governed by other rules promulgated by this court or enacted by the Legislature and except as stated in Rule 81. They shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action.
(b) Effective date. These rules shall take effect on January 1, 1950; and thereafter all laws in conflict therewith shall be of no further force or effect. They govern all proceedings in actions brought after they take effect and also all further proceedings in actions then pending, except to the extent that in the opinion of the court their application in a particular action pending when the rules take effect would not be feasible or would work injustice, in which event the former procedure applies.
Advisory Committee Notes
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Drug compounding: issues affecting safety and efficacy (Proceedings)
Drug compounding: issues affecting safety and efficacy (Proceedings)
The use of compounded products in veterinary medicine is a common practice due to the lack of approved veterinary drugs and convenient, palatable administration forms. There is no regulation of pharmacies that compound drugs for veterinary use. There are no standard formulas available to pharmacies to guide them on the optimum methods for ensuring a quality product. Variation in product potency and stability is rarely, if ever tested. Additionally, the effect of storage conditions on the stability of these drugs in aqueous vehicles or in syrups has not been reported. An understanding of the rules and regulations, as well as the pharmacologic principles surrounding compounding practices, is necessary in order to ensure that the safest, most effective method of treatment is being used.
Why do we worry about compounded preparations?
Compounded drugs have not been evaluated by the FDA approval process for safety, efficacy, stability, potency and consistency of manufacturing. Therefore, you should not assume compounded drugs are consistent from one batch to another, contain the stated amount of drug substance, or are safe and efficacious for the intended use.
Some compounded drug formulations can present problems if the safety and potency of the compounded product have not been considered. Tablets that must be crushed or broken to deliver a smaller dose size to dogs or cats may be unpalatable for oral use in animals. When drugs are administered to cats, either a portion of a tablet must be given, or the drug is reformulated into a capsule. Because ill cats are usually anorectic and because cats generally do not drink water frequently, solid dose forms have become trapped in the esophagus of cats. The latter problem was documented in two studies in which capsules were orally administered to cats. The location of the entrapment of capsules is particularly disturbing because some medications given to cats such as doxycycline, tetracycline, propranolol, iron supplements, and bromide are known to cause esophageal lesions in experimental cats.
The vehicle used for compounding may affect the drug in several ways. In some instances, the only change is a slight alteration of pH. But, according to the USP-NF, "... a pH change of only one unit could decrease drug stability by a factor of ten or greater." This change in stability may be secondary to stearic rearrangement or oxidation of the compound. Compounding often involves tablets being crushed, or capsules being reformulated, to make a more convenient and palatable oral dosage form. During this process, protective coatings are disrupted, which exposes the drug to the pH of the vehicle.
Storage temperature also can affect drug stability in compounded formulations. Package inserts for drug products contain strict recommendations for storage conditions, and the labels for compounded formulations often state specific storage temperatures. Accelerated degradation can be seen when drugs are exposed for short periods of time to temperatures of 40-60°C. These are similar to temperatures that the drugs can be exposed to if they are improperly stored in barns or inside vehicles. Both metronidazole and chloramphenical have shown an accelerated degradation at high temperatures when dissolved in aqueous vehicles. Other drugs, are degraded at lower temperatures (<5°C) or during the process of freezing and thawing. Compounded products stored in barns during the winter months may experience freezing temperatures and undergo daily freeze-thaw cycles during the course of treatment which may also adversely affect the stability of the drugs. Ora-Sweet may precipitate in cold temperatures, which will adversely affect drug solubility.
Drugs formulated as acids—such as the hydrochloride form of basic drugs—are designed to maintain their solubility in aqueous solutions. However, when these formulations are mixed with drugs that are basic, or are added to basic vehicles, drug precipitation may occur.
Several drugs are not soluble in aqueous vehicles. Therefore they are dissolved in organic solvents (propylene or ethylene glycol for example), or alcohols. These are notoriously unpalatable to some animals, particularly cats. However, if these formulations are diluted in aqueous fluids, or aqueous flavorings added, precipitation may occur. When these are stored at home by the pet owner, precipitation of the drug to the bottom of the container results in the dosing of a dilute mixture when the container is sampled from the top and a highly concentrated mixture when the container is sampled from the bottom (assuming that the precipitate at the bottom can be re-suspended). This also may be observed when mixing some drugs in aqueous fluids. For example if diazepam solution (which contains propylene glycol and alcohols) is diluted in saline solution or lactated Ringer's solution, precipitation occurs.
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Movie Reviews
5:03 pm
Thu January 31, 2013
How's 'Koch' Doing? Years Later, Still All Right
Originally published on Fri February 1, 2013 10:35 am
Editor's Note: This review was edited and published before news of Koch's death broke. The headline has been updated to reflect that news, but the text of the review is unchanged.
A little Ed Koch goes a long way — and particularly from 1978 to 1989, as he served his three terms as mayor of New York City, there was more than enough to go around. Neil Barsky's documentary Koch captures the essence of this very big personality — though if the film were even two minutes longer, it might constitute Koch overload. Luckily, Barsky knows when enough is enough, even if his subject doesn't.
That's not to say Koch can't be a charmer, in his own self-aggrandizing, no-baloney way. In Koch, even those who railed against his abrasive and sometimes blinkered policies during his reign — among them the activist minister Calvin O. Butts, just one of the many community leaders and journalists interviewed here — pretty much concede that he was the quintessential New York mayor of their lifetime.
Koch's New York was a broke and broken city at the beginning of his first term, and by the end of his scandal-ridden last, it had begun its climb back toward being a reasonably safe and — for those with enough money — fairly decent place to live. Koch's record may not be perfect, but it sure isn't lacking drama or color.
Barsky, formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, tells the story of Ed Koch — and thus the story of 1980s New York — through a mix of vintage and contemporary footage. In the older clips, we see a spry, balding, overgrown elf striding through the somewhat dilapidated streets of the city, cheerfully asking no one in particular, "How'm I doing?" (even while making it clear he doesn't really care to know the answer). Barsky deploys all the expected visual icons of the era — shots of crowds gathered at Studio 54, subway cars covered with swaths of graffiti — using them in an artful way that captures some of the dangerous energy of the period.
And while Barsky doesn't shy away from some of the bigger blots on Koch's record — including his willful ignorance of problems facing the black community and his slowpoke response to the AIDS crisis — he's a little less clear about Koch's potential involvement in the municipal corruption scandal that broke toward the end of the mayor's third term.
Barsky may be a little dazzled by his subject matter, but admittedly it's hard not to be. Koch could be a borderline-racist crabapple one minute, but the next he'd be taking swift action to build affordable housing, or jovially falling into step with cranky New Yorkers forced to hoof it to work during the painful transit workers strike of 1980.
The Koch of today, as Barsky shows him, is maybe more a brand than a real human being, a winkly-twinkly old coot who still loves the spotlight and who continues to milk it for all it's worth. (Barsky also asks Koch outright about his sexual orientation, and the response is simultaneously cagey and direct.) But overall, the portrait Barsky paints is both affectionate and clear-eyed.
Ed Koch, years after leaving public office, still has a line of goods to sell, and somehow it's hard to resist buying. The man we see in Koch is one who dearly loves New York City, almost as much as he loves himself — but not quite.
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During the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 8-16 July, 18 new sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List. They include two natural sites and the extension of one natural site, which also became a transboundary property. Sixteen cultural sites were inscribed, one of them transboundary and three existing sites were extended. Improvements in the state of conservation of five sites warranted their removal from the List of World Heritage in Danger, while two sites were added to that list, which now numbers 31 sites. Mauritius had its first site added to the List during this session.
For brief descriptions of the new sites, click on the link below:
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Music News
5:38 pm
Fri June 6, 2014
Nobody Panic! It's Only A Pop Song About Sex
Originally published on Sun June 15, 2014 11:36 am
Before 1909, American pop songs could be romantic and even coy about sex. But none were so explicit about adultery as "I Love My Wife — But Oh! You Kid!" about a married man named Jonesy and the young lass who catches his eye.
"It was a pickup line," writer Jody Rosen tells NPR's Robert Siegel. Rosen wrote an entertaining history of the song and its many imitators for Slate. "The phrase — 'Oh, you kid!' — suggested sauciness and adultery."
These songwriters and copycats were roaring 10 years earlier than the Roaring '20s, but they also anticipated the "the transgressiveness and salaciousness of rock 'n' roll and hip-hop."
"In fact, it wasn't just these sorts of songs ... incredibly popular and young people danced to them in the dance halls," Rosen says. "It's the reaction of the social reformers and guardians of public morality to the song that show us the same kinds of moral panics that greeted those later forms of popular music."
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A shocking moment from pop music history, now. It's about a scandalous song that created a wave of imitations that we would call, today, a meme, or we'd say, it went viral. The song was entitled "I Love My Wife But Oh You Kid."
BOB ROBERTS: (Singing) Now, Jonesy was a married man, oh yes, he was. Jonesy stopped and spoke to girly, just as old friends often do. And he said I'm married, but my dear that means you. I love, I love, I love my wife, but oh you kids.
SIEGEL: "I Love My Wife But Oh You Kid." And those clicks you heard were from the wax cylinder it was recorded on on 1909. For this, we are indebted to Jody Rosen, the writer who has posted a long and entertaining multimedia meditation on this song this week on Slate. And he joins us from New York. Welcome to the program.
JUDY ROSEN: Thanks, Robert.
SIEGEL: What's a landmark in pop music represented by "Oh You Kid?"
ROSEN: Well, you know, prior to 1909 and the release of this song, there really weren't any adultery songs. There were many, many sons of romance and songs that discussed, very euphemistically and coyly, of subject of sex. But in this song though, the dramatic situation is clear. There's a guy, named Jonesy. He sees an attractive, comely, young woman on the street and he says, oh I love my wife, but oh you kid, you're something else.
SIEGEL: Oh, you kid. We have to deal with this phrase now. This was a pickup line in 1909, I get it.
ROSEN: It was a pickup line. You know, Tin Pan Alley was a cutthroat environment where people were constantly ripping off each other's songs. There wasn't really copy right law as such back then. So there was a previous song that sort of inspired the song called "Oh, You Kid." It was a minor hit of 1908. Then another pair of songwriters wrote a song called "I Love My Wife But Oh You Kid."
CASEY ABRAMS: (Singing) I mean every word I've ever told you. Kiss me quick or else I'll have to score you, oh you kid.
ROSEN: Which came out 10 days before the song were discussing. And 10 days later, Harry Von Tilzer and Jimmy Lucus were better songwriters and who were obviously sharp entrepreneurs. They said, oh there's something in that phrase. We're going to write our own version. So they wrote a song whose technical title is "I love, I love, I love My Wife But Oh You Kid." In other words, they just added two more I love's to the title, but the phrase, oh, you kid, obviously suggested sauciness and adultery. Prior to this period, when the subjects were discussed, if they were ever discussed in popular music, the subject came up in novelty songs and songs that were written for ethnic impersonators. So mainly for blackface impersonators, that is for people who would get on stage and imitate African-American characters. And the suggestion was that that kind of romance was something that only the other participated in. And the novelty of this song was that, quote-unquote, "normal white Protestant, mainstream Americans lusted after people other than their spouses, too."
SIEGEL: And the story you tell, obviously proves that imitation was the sincerest form of songwriting, at the beginning of the 20th century.
ROSEN: Yes, in fact, the first great hit by Irving Berlin was called "My Wife's Gone to the Country, Hooray, Hooray," which was a spinoff song from "I Love My Wife But Oh You Kid." In fact, it alluded to that song in it's lyrics.
IRVING BERLIN: (Singing) My wife's gone to the country, hooray.
CHORUS: (Singing) Hooray.
BERLIN: (Singing) Hooray.
CHORUS: (Singing) Hooray.
BERLIN: I love my wife. But oh, you kid. My wife's gone away.
SIEGEL: Ultimately perhaps inevitably, the tables were turned by the sexes. Sophie Tucker recorded her version of this kind of song.
SOPHIE TUCKER: (Singing) Oh, my husband's in the city. About a hundred miles away And he only stays 'til Sunday.
CHORUS: (Singing) Hooray, hoorah, hoor-oh.
SIEGEL: For those who've never heard of Sophie Tucker, she was known as the Last of the Red Hot Mamas.
ROSEN: Yeah and you can hear why, right?
SIEGEL: We're talking about 1909 or 1910, whenever these songs were coming out. We think of the roaring '20s. I didn't know that it was roaring so much in those days.
ROSEN: Yeah, that's one of the things that I found interesting about this song. And what I find really interesting about this period, in American popular culture, in general. We have this, sort of, image of - this kind of sepia-toned image of this period and we think of it as quaint. But, in fact, a lot of the transgressiveness and salaciousness, that we associate with rock and roll and hip-hop and all that stuff, happened in this period, in the progressive era. In fact, it wasn't just that these sorts of songs were being written and were incredibly popular. And young people were going to dance to them in dance halls and things like that. It's the reaction of social morality to the same kinds of moral panics that greeted those of the later forms of popular music. The same thing was going on in this period. So, for instance, the song "I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid" was met by thunderous denunciations from pundit-clergy. It was indeed a viral hit. But it was also - it also drove, you know, these guardians of public morality a little crazy 'cause they were concerned about its toxic effect on public morality. And especially on young women.
SIEGEL: Well, Jody Rosen, thanks for talking with us about it.
ROSEN: Thanks for having me.
SIEGEL: Jody Rosen's article in Slate, includes the sound files you've just heard and pictures of sheet music. It's a terrific multimedia story about "Oh, You Kid."
ROBERTS: (Singing) Just think, when I get home tonight, there'll be no wifey there. And right across the table, I will see your vacant chair. I love my wife. I love my wife. I love her more each day. I love my wife. I love my wife.
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The Time-Off Planner (TimeOffPlanner.hta) is a handy HTML Application (HTA) that you can use to help keep track of how much vacation time you have available throughout the year. As you enter the vacation time you're taking off, it automatically deducts those hours from your vacation-hours balance. If you're an on-call staff member, the Time-Off Planner color-codes the weeks you're on-call so that you can avoid scheduling time off during those weeks.
The Time-Off Planner creates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that shows in weekly increments how much vacation time is available. For me, this view makes it easy to evenly spread out my vacation time throughout the year.
Figure 1 shows the Time-Off Planner's UI when it first opens. To use this HTA, you just need to plug in a few values:
• Enter how many vacation hours you currently have available in the first input box. Pay stubs often include this number. Alternatively, you can get it from your HR representative.
• Enter the number of vacation days you earn per year in the second input box. For example, if you get two weeks of vacation, you'd enter 10.
• Enter the date when you'll be on-call next in the third input box. If you’re lucky enough not to be on-call, simply leave this input box empty. If you enter an on-call date, it's automatically adjusted to the Monday of the week that you enter. (This date needs to be a Monday to correlate with the weeks of the year listed in the first column in the spreadsheet.)
• Enter how often your on-call duty rotates in terms of number of weeks in the last input box. For example, if you're on-call once a month, you'd enter 4. If you’re not on-call, leave this input box empty.
Figure 2 shows an example of how you might fill in the input boxes. You can press the F1 key while your cursor is in any of the input boxes for context-sensitive help. For the general help screen, you can click anywhere on the HTA's background and press F1.
After you fill in the appropriate text boxes, you just need to click Create Worksheet. Figure 3 shows an example of what the spreadsheet might look like before you make any vacation entries. Notice that the AvailableVacHrs column automatically calculates the number of vacation hours you'll have available each week. Also notice that the on-call weeks are in blue text in the Week column so you can easily plan your vacation time around those weeks.
After you create and save the spreadsheet, all you need to do is enter the number of vacation hours you plan to take in the RequestedVacHrs column and when you plan to take those hours in the StartingVacHrs column. When you enter a value in the RequestedVacHrs column, the vacation balance is automatically adjusted for the remaining weeks. Figure 4 shows what the spreadsheet might look like after you’ve made some vacation entries.
The Time-Off Planner assumes that your workday is 8 hours long when calculating the number of vacation hours accrued each week. (The length of a workday varies among organizations. If you're uncertain, check with your HR representative.) If your workday is shorter or longer, you can adjust the formula used in this calculation. Simply click the first entry under VacHrsPerWk (cell F2) and change the formula accordingly. For example, if your workday is 7.5 hours, you'd change the formula from (E2*8)/52 to (E2*7.5)/52. As you can see, this worksheet is easy to modify to fit your situation.
You can download the Time-Off Planner by clicking the Download the Code Here button near the top of the Web page. The Time-Off Planner has a lot of interesting VBScript code that you might want to explore, particularly if you're interested in creating .vbs scripts that use Excel for output or in providing context-sensitive help screens within your HTAs. To view the HTA's code, right-click somewhere in the HTA background and select View Source. Alternatively, you can open the HTA in Notepad.
I hope the Time-Off Planner helps you track and spread out your hard-earned days off!
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Scores of companies and institutions, large and small, have discovered how program sponsorship - also known as underwriting - contributes to excellence in public broadcasting. In addition to helping bring intelligent and entertaining programming to South Florida, sponsors also position themselves before a thoughtful and influential audience. It's a very special form of advertising you just can't get anywhere else.
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Informal electronic forums where community members can share their knowledge and experience with others.
The forums are not part of formal IBM support.
Technical Notes
Brief how-to information on installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and usage.
Related Web sites
Except for releases that are no longer supported, PTFs listed in the table may have been superseded by other PTFs (see releases that are no longer supported).
The list of PTFs do not include group PTFs that affect the functionality of Net.Data. Group PTFs are normally released every 1-3 months and contains a group of PTFs that are tested together in a packaged method. You should always load the latest group PTFs for database and HTTP server before going through the list below.
You can search the PTF and APAR databases by going to the technical support page.
Release Last update PTF Component
7.1 2013-12-09 5770DG1-SI46152 Net.Data
6.1 2013-12-09 5761DG1-SI46185 Net.Data
V5R4M0 2011-12-09 5722DG1-SI46192 Net.Data
V5R3M0 2008-02-20 5722DG1-SI26743 Net.Data
V5R2M0 2008-02-20 5722DG1-SI22576 Net.Data
V5R1M0 2005-05-24 5722DG1-SI16913 Net.Data
V4R5M0 2003-02-27 5769DG1-SF67648 Net.Data
V4R4M0 2001-07-27 5769DG1-SF66232 Net.Data
V4R3M0 2001-07-19 5769DG1-SF65063 Net.Data
V4R2M0 2000-07-07 5769TC1-SF63020 Net.Data
V4R1M0 2000-07-07 5769TC1-SF63022 Net.Data
V3R7M0 2000-07-07 5716TC1-SF63021 Net.Data
V3R2M0 2000-07-07 5763TC1-SF63023 Net.Data and HTTP server
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After a period of time the flatfile built-in functions start to fail. Ensure paths in FFI_PATH are all in uppercase.
XML blocks are not supported. Set DTW_PRINT_HEADER to NO and set the content-type appropriately. For example,
%HTML(generateXML.xml) {
Content-type: text/xml
LOBs and datalinks are not supported by the SQL language environment. None.
The dtw_getNextRow() language environment interface routine is not being called by Net.Data. None.
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3 Moves to Sculpt a Solid Core
Many people approach an ab workout looking to target a specific region of their core, without addressing the other areas. This is futile, according to Ben Cohen, a professional strength and conditioning coach who has worked with several championship collegiate teams, including the James Madison University and Louisiana State University football teams. He currently runs Ben Cohen Athletic Advising.
"You don't have lower, middle and upper abs. It's all one muscle," Cohen says. "To effectively target regions of your erectus abdominus, you need to pre-fatigue certain parts of it. With a crunch routine like this one, you'll need to fatigue the top of your abs, then the middle, in order to get to the bottom."
More: 4 Workouts to Sculpt Your Abs
Working the whole range of your abdominals to a level of fatigue will strengthen both your outer and inner core and improve your overall athletic performance, especially the endurance of your torso muscles.
To accomplish this, Cohen recommends the following ab workout:
Bent Knees Starting Position
• While lying on your back, touch the bottoms of your feet together and pull your heels toward your buttocks.
• In this position, allow the knees to drop out and away from each other, but don't force them.
• With your elbows and hands together in a fist, place both thumbs directly under the chin and keep the upper arms and elbows glued to your chest.
This position forces the abdominals, and ONLY the abdominals, to lift the upper body into the crunch position. The hip flexors, quads, shoulder flexors and arms CANNOT assist the abdominals in this position; the abdominals have to do all the work.
With this isolation, you'll feel a tremendous gain from these crunches in a very short period of time.
More: 3 Advanced Core Exercises for Killer Abs
Upper Ab Workout: Double-Crunch Action
• While keeping your spine stiff as a board, lift the upper body as far as possible and hold for one full second.
• Then, holding that same position without letting the upper body rock back even a fraction of an inch, crunch up with one last thrust. (Blow air out when you do this, much like you hear karate ninjas do in the movies.)
You do it this way because it contracts your inner-core muscles like your multifidus and transverse abdominus, which are your intersegmental stabilizers. If done correctly, the second crunch should be almost unnoticeable but will provide maximum contraction.
Frequency: Without ever resting your head on the floor, repeat five times to start, then progress to a maximum of 15 repetitions over several weeks. You should only progress at a pace that doesn't compromise form.
If you do this exercise correctly, the upper portion of the "six-pack" will fatigue. The middle section is now ready for work.
More: Get Six-Pack Abs With These Plank Exercises
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Celebrates Word Processors
By Maryann Yin Comment
Have you ever used a word processor? Author Matthew G. Kirschenbaum will headline a brown bag lunch talk at the New York Public Library called “Stephen King’s Wang: The Literary History of Word Processing.”
Here’s more about the event: “Mark Twain famously prepared the manuscript for Life on the Mississippi with his new Remington typewriter, and today we recognize that typewriting changed the material culture (and the economy) of authorship. But when did literary writers begin using word processors? Who were the early adopters? How did the technology change their relation to their craft? Was the computer just a better typewriter, or was it something more?”
Check it out on Friday, December 16th at 12 p.m. at the NYPL’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Kirschenbaum is an English professor at the University of Maryland and associate director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. In an upcoming book, he will book delve into the history of writers and word processors.
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Publishing in World of Warcraft
By Jason Boog Comment
The addictive online role-playing game World of Warcraft counts 11.5 million subscribers worldwide–unexpectedly building a dedicated group of book-readers as well. During New York City’s Comic Con, we caught up with Chris Metzen, one of the game’s creators and VP of Creative Development for the game’s parent company, Blizzard Entertainment.
Metzen explained how the video game company also created a popular series of novels at Simon & Schuster. This concludes GalleyCat’s prowl of the teeming, costumed crowd of true-believers at Comic Con this year, uncovering some vital intelligence about this flourishing corner of the publishing industry.
To see more video interviews with innovators, follow these links: a Quirk Books editor talked about zombies and Jane Austen; Eric Nylund discussed how to get video gamers to read books; comics legend Danny Fingeroth talked about graphic novel sales in the recession; Ron Fortier unveiled his pulp fiction revival; and multi-tasking author Alex Irvine talked about the 21st Century writing lifestyle.
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My professor says it is a fact that the Bible is full of errors and contradictions. Why should I read such a faulty book?
By Stanley Horton
My Harvard professor said Exodus 37:17-24, which describes sevenfold lamps, was in error because such lamps did not exist in Moses’ time. Later I took part in an archaeological expedition in Dothan in Israel and watched workmen uncover a sevenfold lamp dating from 1400 B.C., right from Moses’ time.
Critics once said the Hittites never existed because the Greeks and Egyptians didn’t mention them. Then a whole Hittite civilization was discovered. The Greeks and Egyptians did mention them but got the name so twisted no one recognized it. The Bible had it right.
That did not satisfy the critics. They said, "That may be true, but the Horites are fiction." Others said Sargon never existed. Some even said King David never existed. But Horites were proved to be the same as Hurrians. Sargon’s palace has been excavated. Recently, an ancient inscription was discovered that mentions David’s name and kingdom.
Again and again the Bible has been proved true. It is the critics who are in error due to their unbelief and insufficient knowledge.
Other supposed errors include chronological difficulties caused because the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used different systems of measuring time or dating. One cause of apparent contradictions is that one passage may use round numbers; another may give the exact figure, depending on the purpose of the writer.
Most of the errors critics talk about are copyists’ errors. Because the books of the Bible were copied by hand it was easy to make spelling mistakes, misread a word, or leave out a word or a line. By comparing the many ancient copies that have been discovered, scholars can determine the original reading in the vast majority of cases. These cases where we can’t be sure are mostly differences in spelling or word order. None of them affect the teachings of the Bible in any way.
Remember also that the Bible uses everyday language because it was written for the common people, not for scientists. Actually, scientific language did not develop until modern times. Most of us still use the language of appearance, just as the Bible does. Who says, "What a beautiful earthset," even though we know that it is the earth’s turning that causes the sunset?
The Bible is a wonderful revelation of God and His plan. It will not lead us astray.
For more on this subject, see Bible Doctrines, by Menzies and Horton.
Stanley Horton, Th.D., is distinguished professor emeritus of Bible and theology, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary; coordinator of the Pentecostal Textbook Project; and general editor of Logion Press, Springfield, Mo.
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Faces From The Past’xiv
Seventy-one years after the murders, doubt persists, and if you were to ask, “Was she guilty?” the chances are a good twenty-to-one that the answer would be affirmative. The law may protect a defendant from double jeopardy, but it cannot prevent the public from passing judgment. What might be called the public’s “case” against the rather plain young woman began long before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts brought her to trial. It commenced, in fact, the day after the bodies of her father and stepmother were found. Rumor and half-truth spread like wildfire, feeding on the smouldering flames of fear, creating almost overnight a legend that has never disappeared. The story, as it began to build during those first hours, went something like this: On the hot, humid morning of August 4, 1892, in an angular frame house on Second Street, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Mrs. Andrew Borden was brutally hacked to death by someone wielding a hatchet or an axe. Somewhat later, in another room of the house, her husband was similarly dispatched. The news that a respectable couple had been murdered in their own home in broad daylight brought the town’s normal activities to a standstill; two hours after the crime was discovered, thousands of hot, angry people were milling about in Second Street, muttering, questioning, venturing opinions, wondering where the mad killer would strike next, who the next victim would be. Before nightfall the town’s newspapers had taken over the case, describing the murder scenes in all their gory detail and hinting broadly at suspects.
Now, almost any news about Andrew Borden would have been enough to make the mill town sit up and take notice; he was a silent, sour man who had made money as an undertaker and as exclusive agent for Crane’s Patent Casket Burial Cases, who was now an extremely well-to-do banker and real estate owner. It was common gossip that neither ol his daughters, Emma or Lizzie, got on well with their stepmother, whom Borden had married twenty-seven years earlier. But Emma, it seemed, was out of town when the murders were committed. Lizzie had found her father’s body on the sitting-room couch and sent the hired girl, Bridget, lor help; a little later Bridget and a neighbor discovered Mrs. Borden in the upstairs guest room, lying face down in a pool of blood. So suspicion soon fastened upon the thirty-two-year-old Liz/ic, a slight, ordinary-looking girl with brown hair and a habit of saying just what was in her mind.
First Lizzie had killed her stepmother, townsfolk said; then, after cleaning her hands and clothes, she had busied herself about the house for an hour and a half, sewing, ironing, reading a magazine, waiting for her father to return from downtown. After he came in, stretched out on the couch, and dozed off, she attacked him with the same weapon she had used on Mrs. Borden. Again she removed the blood from her clothes and from the axe (all within the space of ten minutes, and so effectively that later chemical tests revealed no trace of it), then called for help. Someone said she never shed a tear when the bodies were discovered; the maid Bridget was said to have heard her laugh coldly when her father entered the house; there was talk that she had tried to buy poison the day before the murders; someone said she was seen burninsr a dress afterward.
Five days after the crime an inquest was held; two days later Lizzie Borden was arrested and held without bail pending trial. Meanwhile the wildest theories and rumors gained currency. But most damning of all was the verse—those unforgettable four lines of doggerel, sung to the tune of “Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay,” which condemned her forever in the public mind, no matter what any court might decide:
Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one .
In June, 1893, the trial opened in New Bedford, and for thirteen days the jury heard a great deal of conflicting testimony (much of it highly embarrassing to the prosecution), and witnessed a brilliant performance by the defense attorney. One of the most telling accusations made by the prosecution was that Lizzie had not been in the barn behind the house between 11:00 and 11:15 on the fatal morning, as she claimed—that she had, in fact, been bludgeoning her father to death at that very moment. A sensation of the trial was a surprise witness for the defense, an ice-cream peddler who maintained stoutly and credibly that he had seen a woman, dressed as Lizxie purportedly was, emerging from the barn just when she said she had.
When the trial ended, the jurors were out for a little more than an hour before bringing in a verdict of “Not Guilty.” Spectators in the courtroom applauded, and an editorial writer for the New York S;m summed up the trial: “A chain of circumstantial evidence is strong only if it is strong in every necessary link … The chain tested at New Bedford the past twelve days was proved fragile indeed, not merely at one place, but in almost every link.”
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I remember my first photo class that involved artificial lighting they taught us strobes. I felt I had no control. Later, I got a job assisting a photographer that used hot lights. It was a true revelation for me. Hot lights have a richness that strobes don't have. I use both, but I prefer hot lights. Especially using LF. Way easier to focus than strobe modeling lights.
I feel the same way. I'm a newbie at lighting. In my class too, we were taught strobes and, like you, I felt I had no control over them. When all of you talk about hot lights, are you referring to "continuous" light or the "lamp"-looking thing that cannot be regulated (as far as power is concerned; i.e., quantity of light)? I was shopping for some lights and I wanted to get continuous as opposed to strobe. I don't know if I'm confused. Thanks. (Sorry for jumping on this thread. Didn't mean to take it on a tangent.)
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I think plastic reels might be best for starting out. I have recently decided I like steel reels better, but adjustable plastic reels will let you develop different formats without buying too many extra reels. There is plenty of time to buy extra stuff after you get hooked, and it will happen.
When I started, plastic reels required less thinking, and I thought they were easier. It didn't help that our instructor didn't tell us how to load a steel reel, so I tried to slide the film in as if it were a plastic reel that did not ratchet. That did not end well.
After playing with steel reels, I quickly learned they don't require much thinking either. I sacrificed a roll of expired film to practice loading in the light, and after loading about 5 times felt confident to do it for real in a dark bag. Of course, I practiced in the dark bag before using any film I really intended to develop. I don't develop much film, and have used steel and plastic about an equal number of times, but can now load steel faster than plastic.
Regardless of which reel you use, practice in the light and watch closely to how it works. Learn how to feel in order to tell whether the film is properly started on either reel.
Mistakes are the best way to learn, but you don't want to ruin film (unless your experimenting on the film). So, when you can load the reel well, purposely load it wrong and also learn how to feel for this. By only touching the sides of the film, you should be able to tell by how the film is moving into the reel and whether it is seated correctly. If you can reliably do it wrong, on purpose, you're more likely to avoid that specific accident, and will know how to recover from it if it does happen.
Then practice with your eyes closed. Then in the dark or in a dark bag.
I've some steel 110 reels, though haven't developed 110 yet. They are difficult to get used to, so I just take some expired film and practice while watching TV. I've gotten pretty good at it, and will have no reservations when it's time develop my 110 film.
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I am with Ike in that if I can't make it for this one, I would very much like to make another. I am tentatively available for this date, but am still awaiting scheduling from a contractor doing some work for me in N. Michigan. If I am up at that time I will do my best to swing over to the North Shore.
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Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Shave Your Pet
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 12:00pm
Golden retriever wearing red collar
Julie A Woods
Dogs do not sweat. They pant when hot.
2 of my 4 dogs get shaved down regularly, they see 2 vets, one for holistic and one for traditional treatment, both vets recommend and commend this solution for their comfort in our very hot and humid climate. They are not bald they do not get sunburned and they are 11 and 13 years old.
Stupid people do not take advice. They already know everything. I have heard that dogs and cats' coats keep them insulated. They do not sweat like we do. Wild animals do not get shaved. There must be a reason.
Wild animals do not stay in air-conditioned homes therefore they do not become acclimated to the cooler air-conditioned temperatures like many dogs do. It's hard to compare wild animals to domesticated pets, many of whom are treated like another member of the family. There could be a possibility that today's dog suffers more in the heat because they are use to stable temperatures year round and overheat easier when outside even for short periods of time.
Dogs don't have the ability to sweat.
Dogs don't sweat.
WRONG! Dos DO NOT SWET or perspire sso they can't cool down like we do.
Think: what happens to ice cream if you put it in front of a fan? IT MELTS!
Leave the dogs coats alone! they have survived hundred if not thousand of years with the coat. Have you ever seen a bear or a wolf shaved!!!
Finally..someone with common sense..animals are the way they are for a reason...its called nature
I agree. My dogs do not enjoy the actual shaving, so it takes me about 4 separate events to accomplish the task, but afterwards, they act like puppies again. I do not have air conditioning and when it reaches the high 90s in my house - we are all melting. I wet us down with towels and sit in front of fans (when the power is working). Heat stress is WAY more dangerous than being without fur.
Also dogs don't sweat... *facepalm*
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I live in Tennessee, and sometimes I wonder if I'm the only atheist living in Tennessee. I have few friends here and none of them are atheists, and I am open about my atheism with only one of my friends here. Also I'm a liberal Democrat, and I basically live in both Christian and Republican central (this being Tennessee). That's how I found Atheist Nexus. I was doing a search for Tennessee atheists, hoping I wasn't the only one. Anyone else here live in Tennessee, if it's not too personal to ask ?
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Glad you found nexus. Hang in there! You can go to the groups tab and search on tennessee or Bible Belt. That may help.
Thanks Sentient Biped.
You might try Meetup to find any local groups in your area. That is how we formed our group in Amarillo Tx. Also if there is a university near by you can check if there is a Secular Student Alliance associated with the college.
I can relate. I don't come in contact with any atheists around here.
There are several Atheist groups in Tennessee; I will post
the info. here. Sil
Chattanooga Freethought Association
Knoxville Atheists Meetup
Memphis Atheists Meetup
Memphis Freethought Alliance
Nashville Atheists
Raiders for Rationalism
Rationalists of East Tennessee
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Hello everyone. I’m an atheist interested in counter-apologetics. Are there any Jews or Christians (or ex-Jews or ex-Christians) visiting here who have come across any Biblical contradictions or inconsistencies for which you have not found a satisfying answer to? If so, could you please post them here for discussion?
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One that theologians and Bible experts have had considerable trouble with over the years are the two different genealogies of Jesus, given in Matthew and Luke. They conflict with each other and with the portions that refer to genealogies in First Chronicles. You will find a thorough discussion here:
It has a nice chart that shows all the discrepancies:
And how do those genealogies even matter, if Joseph wasn't Jesus's "real" father?
The genealogies are supposed to establish that Jesus is descended from Adam through the line of King David, but of course they cannot do that if the theology is correct and that itself is another contradiction.
One explanation offered for the discrepancies (and in support of the theology) is that one genealogy is that of Mary, even though it does not explicitly say so. There is a problem with this explanation also: genealogies did not show descent through the female line because there was no understanding of the female contribution to the biology. The understanding of the biology at the time was flawed: it was thought that male planted his seed in the female, who served only as the soil in which it grew.
However there is no way to reconcile these lineages with the one from the Old Testament.
Dr. Clark has it exactly right here, and to this day the christians will tell you that one of these genealogies is that of Mary. How can they do their apologetics and research and even keep a straight face while saying this?
Maybe it is all like the Assumption of Mary. At the end of Mary's life it became a popular belief that she was drawn bodily into heaven while still alive. This belief was pretty solid by 600 AD. In modern times one of the Popes declared that it was true. God had revealed it to him.
Most of the christian world is made up of fables like this, but the Assumption would explain away siteings of Mary through the centuries. I'm still wondering how they knew what she looked like?
I really enjoy the look on my ex pastors face when confronted with this, " So, your saying God told Abraham to sacrifice his one and only son. And then God said "PSYCH! I was just kidding! here's a goat".
Re: Abraham, I'm tempted to ask my brother-in-law, in front of his son, "If YOU heard a voice telling you to kill your son, would you do it?"
If he says of course, if it's what God wants, I would say, "You wouldn't first go to a doctor and get checked for schizophrenia??" Then I'd remind them about the woman who killed her four kids by drowining them in the tub, b/c she was instructed by God to do so. I'm sure that's just one of many examples.
Abraham's story is also a great example of how the bible is hardly a family-friendly book.
I also bring up the story of Noah when Christians say God is infallible ( I think that is how it is spelled). I say God makes mistakes, look at the Noah story. Ooops, I goofed up, better start all over and wipe the slate clean. Is that not what that is, a mistake on His part? Also the Bible says that we need God, He does not need us. If that is true (if it is not true then why is it in the Bible? right?) then I always approach this with an example. When man needs something he makes it. Need shelter? make a house. Need transportation? we make cars trains and airplanes. We make things we need. If God does not need us then why bother making us? Psychotic? Crazy? Idiotic? I find the things He says and does in the old testament detestable and cruel and downright evil. I would not be so against Christians if they were nice and considerate to those around them. I would not dislike them so much if they would just try to understand people rather than judge and hate.
ALL biblical contradictions are answerable. I've posted again about "rapture and the second coming" but no one cared enough to contribute. It's like giving a party and no one comes. Bluh!
Christians all know that Jesus died on Good Friday and rose on Sunday, but in Matthew He says that He will be in the grave for three days and three nights. So let's see . . . Friday night, that's one. Saturday night, that's two. And Sunday night . . . never mind. So was Jesus God? Was He wrong? Was he lying?
Of course the Bible can be read in a variety of ways, but the literalists are dangerous. They will probably never change their minds, but the next contradiction might be the one that does it. I usually turn to the really weird stuff, like the trial by ordeal imposed on the wives of jealous husbands in Numbers 5. It's a hoot.
He was not in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights! There is no way around this one, but you can never convince a christian of this.
Christians claim that Jesus was God, and that he was meek and lowly. The New Testament says that He is the same today, yesterday and forever. So there is no way to reconcile Him with the Old Testament God who was a God of jealousy and wrath.
Zapping that olive tree doesn't sound meek to me.
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Gear Review
5 5
Not the Same as Hi-Fi
What is pictured is actually the RED Hi-Fi II, which has slightly different construction and a slightly different shape. If you are ordering this expecting it to fit like your old Hi-Fi, you are probably going to have to return it. The old one fit me perfectly, this one gives me some pressure points. A helmet that fits like the old RED Hi-Fi is the Giro Shiv. Check it out.
You can tell the difference by the shape, number and style of the vents at the top of the helmet.
Otherwise, it's a light helmet that does the job well.
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Zero 7 Record Review
Compilation. Released 2010.
BBC Review
Zero 7’s wispy emissions reveal charm and interest value; even the occasional surprise.
Chris Roberts 2010
Sleepy, reassuring, perfect for “tasteful” middle-class dinner parties attended by bored couples with any rough-edge individuality long since quashed – Zero 7 can absorb a lot of perfectly fair, pertinent slights and still somehow sound impressive. Perhaps it’s because there’s so little going on at the surface here that the avid music fan is forced to scrutinise, to prod the soporific veneer and see if there any crawly wriggly things underneath.
If you peer hard enough, there are. Subtly, slow-burningly, Zero 7’s wispy, placid emissions reveal charm and interest value; even the occasional surprise. This Best Of (with an extra disc of remixes, some old, some new) is every bit as “chill-out”, or “ambient”, or “very 2001”, as you know it will be. Yet if you’ve always dismissed them as Air without the “we’re-French-and-therefore-innately-arty” card to play, listen carefully. There’s (mildly) inventive, (faintly) challenging stuff going on. Their harmless, scare-no-horses breeze carries a few grits.
It’s difficult to find the mark of the auteur in a duo (Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker) whose identity (or lack of) was defined by shifting, usually female, guest vocalists. A decade and four albums in, from 2001’s Mercury-nominated Simple Things via 2006’s Grammy-nominated The Garden to 2009’s Yeah Ghost, Zero 7 have mastered the genre of vague, personality-swerving, reasonably enchanting, light groove-pop. Big on atmosphere, tiny on character. Zoom in, however, and there’s intrigue in the way Futures eases in like something from Pink Floyd’s Meddle before climaxing in swathes of scratching. The snarled vocal on You’re My Flame is so repressed it’s howling. Even the laid-back, prone Polaris (which could pass as a Moon Safari outtake) breaks midway into fat beats and squawks. Home is droopily mellow until atonal horns and strings slide in from nowhere. Similarly, Distractions builds slowly from generic to weird, turbo-boosted trip hop with shades of Portishead borrowing shades of Isaac Hayes.
The remixes push further, with those by Stereolab and Metronomy the most heated. Yes, this at-heart innocuous music is for relaxing into, with no insolent questions asked. Dare to ask a few though, and it often responds with spry, fluid answers.
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Author and journalist Will Self talks to Matthew Stadlen about being a writer, the pleasure of long walks, his history with drugs and the definition of "everythingitis".
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Comments for the name Jacoba
Comments for JACOBA:
Dutch pronunciation is yah-CO-bah.
-- X-Mar 2/18/2006
Also used and Spanish and is the feminine version of Jacobo (Jacob). Spanish version of the French Jacqueline. Pronounced Jah-koh-bah in Spanish.
-- Anonymous User 5/21/2008
Despite the 'a' at the end, this name doesn't really strike me as any more feminine than Jacob.
-- slight night shiver 6/6/2008
You'd better not be saying it JAY kob uh? Ugh!
-- Anonymous User 6/9/2008
In North America this name would be pronounced Jacob-uh. In my opinion Jacob should not have a girl form.
-- italiannames 12/18/2009
I like this with both the English and Dutch pronunciations. As an American I lean slightly towards "ju-KOH-buh" but "ya-KOH-buh" is nice too. This name leaves me with the impression of a pretty young girl.
-- BellamynSora 1/3/2010
Canadian actress Cobie Smulders has Dutch and British descent.
-- MaggieSimpson 1/8/2010
As mentioned above, Canadian actress Jacoba "Cobie" Smulders.
She appears on How I Met Your Mother, as Robin Scherbatsky, Jr. and was in the Broken Lizard film "the Slammin' Salmon" with April Bowlby and Vivica A. Fox.
-- DaphneSusan 12/15/2010
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2 Kings 18:1-8 CEBA
Hezekiah rules Judah
1 Hezekiah, Ahaz's son, became king of Judah in the third year of Israel's King Hoshea, Elah's son.
References for 2 Kings 18:1
2 He was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi;a she was Zechariah's daughter.
References for 2 Kings 18:2
• 18:2 - Cf 2 Chron 29:1 <i>Abijah</i>
3 Hezekiah did what was right in the LORD's eyes, just as his ancestor David had done.
4 He removed the shrines. He smashed the sacred pillars and cut down the sacred pole.b He crushed the bronze snake that Moses made, because up to that point the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (The snake was named Nehushtan.)
References for 2 Kings 18:4
• 18:4 - Heb <i>asherah</i>, perhaps an object devoted to the goddess Asherah
5 Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, Israel's God. There was no one like him among all of Judah's kings—not before him and not after him.
6 He clung to the LORD and never deviated from him. He kept the commandments that the LORD had commanded Moses.
7 The LORD was with Hezekiah; he succeeded at everything he tried. He rebelled against Assyria's king and wouldn't serve him.
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Matthew 11:27-29 NCV
27 "My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son, except the Father. And no one knows the Father, except the Son and those whom the Son chooses to tell.
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Microarrays, deep sequencing and the true measure of the transcriptome
John H Malone* and Brian Oliver
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BMC Biology 2011, 9:34 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-34
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Published:31 May 2011
© 2011 Malone and Oliver; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
Microarrays first made the analysis of the transcriptome possible, and have produced much important information. Today, however, researchers are increasingly turning to direct high-throughput sequencing - RNA-Seq - which has considerable advantages for examining transcriptome fine structure - for example in the detection of allele-specific expression and splice junctions. In this article, we discuss the relative merits of the two techniques, the inherent biases in each, and whether all of the vast body of array work needs to be revisited using the newer technology. We conclude that microarrays remain useful and accurate tools for measuring expression levels, and RNA-Seq complements and extends microarray measurements.
Transcriptional profiling
The transcriptome, the entire repertoire of transcripts in a species, represents a key link between information encoded in DNA and phenotype. A fully quantitatively described transcriptome is dauntingly large. For example, there are more than 3 billion bases in the human genome, about 1014 cells in the body, each cell has about 300,000 molecules of RNA [1], and the average gene size is about 28 kilobase pairs [2]. Thus, for a full representation of a human, there are about 8.423 (280000 × 300000 × 1014) RNA bases in the full transcriptome. The tools for profiling RNA have been available for years, as Northern blots, reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR), expressed sequence tags (ESTs), and serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE). But the rapid and high-throughput quantification of the transcriptome became a possibility only with the development of gene expression microarrays [3]. With the more recent advent of techniques for direct sequencing of the transcriptional output of the genome, we can now at least begin to think about a complete transcriptional characterization of all the cells of an organism.
Gene expression microarray results have produced much important information about how the transcriptome is deployed in different cell types [4] and tissues [5], how gene expression changes across development states [6,7] and disease phenotypes [8,9], and how it varies within [10] and between species [11]. They have also led to surprising and contentious conclusions on how much of the genome is transcribed into non-coding RNAs.
The starting point for a microarray is a set of short oligonucleotide probes representing genomic DNA. A typical modern microarray consists of patches of such probes complementary to the transcripts whose presence is to be investigated, and immobilized on a solid substrate. In modern arrays, probe design is usually based on genome sequence or on known or predicted open reading frames and usually multiple probes are designed per gene model. Transcripts are extracted from samples of the cell or tissues to be investigated, labeled with fluorescent dyes (either one color or two), hybridized to the arrays, washed, and scanned with a laser. Probes that correspond to transcribed RNA hybridize to their complementary target. Because transcripts are labeled with fluorescent dyes, light intensity can be used as a measure of gene expression.
Expression profiling by microarrays has been very successful. Searching the term 'microarray' in PubMed produces more than 40,000 citations. The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), the repository of transcriptome datasets managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, has more than 520,000 individual experiments archived and around 21,000 project submissions, most produced from microarrays. This impressive body of work has produced a range of mature strategies for data analysis and experimental design [12].
As we have learned more about the design, chemistry and kinetics of array assays, the quality of microarray data has improved dramatically. In the early days, microarrays designed by different companies appeared to produce different results with the same samples [13]. The fluorescent readout of hybridization intensities varied between different laser scanners and there was variation in reproducibility between different labs [14]. Ozone differentially degraded the fluorescent dyes [15]. Recognition of biases and other artifacts by individual labs and organizations, such as the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) consortium, has led to the development of quality control standards that operate to ensure the utility of a well performed microarray experiment [16]. For example, experimental and computational methods have been developed for dealing with systematic variation between laboratories [12,17-19]. As with any measurement tool, it is important to know the biases inherent in the technique. For microarrays, it has taken a decade to understand these biases but for microarrays this has now been achieved and stable analytical solutions have been developed.
Deep sequencing
Meanwhile, a revolution in the analysis of RNA has come about through the development of tools for massively parallel sequencing of DNA molecules. Not very many years ago a graduate student using a slab gel electrophoresis instrument with fluorescent terminator chemistry would be excited to get 500-800 base pairs of high quality sequence data from a single gene after about a week's worth of work. For perspective, Drosophila melanogaster has 120 million bases in its small and compact genome and so a hard-working graduate student would need more than 400 years to complete one genome. In early genome projects, even with an entire team of people spread across both academic and commercial sectors of science it took several years of work to complete the D. melanogaster genome [20]. Today, roughly 10 years later, we have instruments that can sequence multiple fly genomes in a few days to a week [21]. This technology allows a DNA fragment to be repeatedly sequenced in a very short time - a procedure that is known as deep sequencing and delivers greatly increased sensitivity and accuracy. These techniques have most recently been extended to the analysis of the transcriptome by what is known as RNA-Seq [22-28]. Deep sequencing of RNA on Illumina's Genome Analyzer and HiSeq instruments as well as Applied Biosystems' SOLiD instrument are now fast-developing alternatives for profiling the transcriptome.
Instead of using molecular hybridization to 'capture' transcript molecules of interest, RNA-Seq samples transcripts present in the starting material by direct sequencing. Transcript sequences are then mapped back to a reference genome. Reads that map back to the reference are then counted to assess the level of gene expression, the number of mapped reads being the measure of expression level for that gene or genomic region.
There are several things that sequencing RNA can do that microarrays cannot. Because RNA-Seq provides direct access to the sequence, junctions between exons can be assayed without prior knowledge of the gene structure, RNA editing events can be detected, and knowledge of polymorphisms can provide direct measurements of allele-specific expression. Because microarray probes are designed on the basis of inferences from prior genomic sequence data, and light intensity is used as surrogate of gene expression, microarrays will miss exon junctions for novel expressed regions and RNA editing events, and cannot easily detect allele-specific differences in gene expression. Finally, because RNA-Seq provides direct access to the sequence this technique can be used on species for which a full genome sequence is not available, whereas the only option in this case for microarrays is to hybridize RNA to a microarray designed for another species, which has limitations because of sequence divergence.
There are also several general problems with measuring gene expression levels genome-wide that sequencing RNA might make easier. Expressed regions of the genome that correspond to genes not currently identified might be easier to detect with sequencing than with microarrays, because detection depends only on where reads map in the genome and not on whether that region is annotated. That limitation of microarrays can, however, be overcome by what are known as tiling arrays, in which overlapping probes are designed to assay sequences over the entire genome [29-32]. Tiling arrays were the basis for the discovery of genomic 'dark matter' - extensive transcription from non-coding regions of the genome. However it is difficult using tiling arrays to balance the design of probes to achieve full genome coverage while avoiding as far as possible cross-hybridization potential, and this has led to controversy about the extent of the non-coding transcriptome. RNA-Seq does not depend upon hybridization and thus does not suffer from this potential artifact.
Another strength of RNA-Seq is in the quantification of individual transcript isoforms [33,34]. Alternative splicing, the mechanism whereby different isoforms of proteins are generated, is acknowledged to be an important source of functional diversity in eukaryotes, but it has been relatively little studied at the level of the transcriptome, principally because of the difficulty of measuring expression for each isoform. Splicing arrays exist but they require probes designed to be complementary to junctions, and these can therefore be generated only if the genes and the distinct isoforms produced from them are already known [35]. Sequencing by contrast provides direct access to reads that span exon/exon boundaries and in theory makes it possible to study the expression of different isoforms for a gene and to make comparisons of isoform diversity and abundance. Additionally, sequencing appears to be better at detecting exon/exon junctions than arrays [29].
Practical advantages and drawbacks of microarrays and RNA sequencing
So far, we have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of sequencing and arrays that are inherent in the two techniques. But there are also major practical considerations. The greatest current advantage of arrays is their relatively low cost compared with sequencing (in our lab about 10X). Presently, using a 12-plex array from Nimblegen our array costs are less than $100 per sample whereas sequencing is around $1,000 per sample. These costs will decrease as sequencing output increases. Another advantage is knowledge of biases in array data and mature analysis strategies and experimental designs for dealing with them. By comparison, sources of bias in sequence data are still being actively researched, and optimum analytical strategies developed [36]. Meanwhile RNA-Seq continues to evolve, so it will take some time to develop appropriate standards for this tool.
One of the most important concerns about sequencing RNA is the depth of sequencing required to effectively sample the transcriptome. This equates to how many times to sequence a sample. For highly expressed genes, small amounts of sequencing are sufficient, but for the middle and low end of expression levels, it is clear that many reads are needed. In the fly modENCODE samples for example, even after 50 million mapped reads new transcript discovery did not saturate [37]. In our hands, we estimate that 6-8 million mapped reads provide adequate coverage to accurately estimate roughly 80-90% of the head transcriptome in flies. Other tissues are different and this is particularly the case for genes with low levels of expression. The gene doublesex, a transcription factor involved in sexual dimorphism in flies, is not detected by RNA-Seq in the deeply sequenced modENCODE embryo samples [37] where it is known to be expressed in a few cells. This gene and others at similar expression levels missed by sequencing highlight the problem of detecting genes with low expression no matter what the technique, be it arrays or sequencing. This example aside, failure to obtain sufficient coverage and check the representation of this coverage (that is, library complexity) will provide erroneous metrics of gene expression and lead to false inferences even for genes that are detected. Given the current expense of RNA-Seq, and the excitement about the prospects of deep sequencing, this may cause some groups to avoid determining the coverage (that is, the number of reads) necessary to accurately sample the transcriptome of interest. High costs may also tempt some to avoid using biological replicates. These choices can lead to inaccurate estimates of gene expression level and thus false inferences [36]. Another source of bias in sequencing is the heterogeneity of reads across an expressed region - that is, uneven sequencing depth along the length of a transcript. This heterogeneity in coverage will influence expression estimates for transcripts and needs to be corrected [38-40]. Coverage and heterogeneity are not an issue in microarrays because of the fixed nature of probes that capture the transcripts by hybridization.
A final consideration about arrays and sequencing is the quantity and size of the data. In expression microarrays the raw data are composed of image files, typically TIFF files that may be around 30 MB per array. These TIFF files are transformed into text files that contain fluorescence intensities for each gene. The Illumina instrument generates upwards of 600 GB of data files but the sequence files (around 20-30 GB) are typically used as a starting point for analysis. These sequence files are an order of magnitude larger than those from arrays and because of these large file sizes, Python, Perl, Unix command line, and other scripting are necessary to sort and experiment with these files. Using spreadsheet software will not be an option and therefore bioinformatics support is necessary. For biologists unfamiliar with computer languages, there are growing alternatives for working with sequencing data. For example, many of the tools for sequencing data analysis are now available in Galaxy software, a web interface that provides a user friendly graphical interface [41,42].
An example from the fruit fly
As a way to introduce and discuss microarrays and deep sequencing for measuring the transcriptome we will use a fly example from our own laboratory: specifically, experiments designed to profile gene expression in female and male heads of Drosophila pseudoobscura. This is one of several species of fly that we are profiling to validate evolutionarily novel D. melanogaster transcripts in the model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) project [43]. We performed microarray and RNA-Seq experiments on the same samples and then compared expression measurements between microarrays and RNA-Seq.
Figure 1 describes an expression experiment designed to identify genes that are differentially expressed in D. pseudoobscura female and male heads, which were manually dissected from flies over dry ice, after which total RNA was extracted followed by a poly A+ selection. poly A+ selected mRNA was converted to cDNA using end-labeled random nonamers and reverse transcription. During this reaction, a fluorophore is added to the 5' end of each short cDNA. In this case, the cDNA of one sex was labeled with one type of fluorescent dye (cyanine 3 or Cy3) and the cDNA of the other sex was labeled with a different fluorescent dye (cyanine 5 or Cy5) with fluorescence at a different wavelength. We generated replicate samples (N = 4) and samples with dyes swapped between females and males in order to control for technical artifacts due to labeling and dye biases and to measure the inherent variability in gene expression irrespective of the sex of the sample.
thumbnailFigure 1. Data production workflow for microarrays. Microarrays require labeling of target material, hybridization to arrays, washing, and scanning to obtain measures of gene expression. RNA converted to cDNA from the sample will hybridize to the corresponding oligonucleotide targets, so that more highly expressed genes will be reflected in more abundant material hybridized and thus greater fluorescence intensity. In modern arrays, multiple probes are designed for a single gene in order to obtain fluorescence intensities that can be used as an index of gene expression.
As with any assay, replicate samples are critical for statistical analysis. The female and male labeled cDNA samples were mixed and applied to the microarray for hybridization. cDNAs that are complementary to probes on the microarray hybridize on the basis of simple first principles: more highly expressed genes will have more transcripts converted to labeled cDNA, and these more abundant cDNAs will bind more to their target probes than those of less expressed genes. Because we co-hybridized samples labeled with different fluorescent dyes we can take a ratiometric expression score between female and male heads: that is, genes that are more highly expressed in one sex than in the other will hybridize more to the target probe and generate a stronger signal. Genes that are expressed at the same level in both sexes will have equivalent amounts of transcript bound to probes and so the signal will be a combination of both Cy3 and Cy5 signal thereby generating a signal intermediate between the two (yellow fluorescence). The analysis and normalization methods for microarrays are highly developed [12] and thus this experiment should allow the differences in steady-state mRNA levels between female and male head tissue to be reliably measured.
Figure 2 shows the same analysis performed by RNA-Seq, using an Illumina Genome Analyzer and a commonly deployed protocol for preparing libraries [44]. First, the transcriptomes for females and males are fragmented by alkaline hydrolysis, then reverse-transcribed to make double-stranded cDNAs using random hexamer primers. Next, the ends of transcript fragments are prepared to enable oligonucleotide adaptors to be ligated onto the ends. Fragments are then size-selected, amplified by PCR and injected into a flow cell. The flow cell is a glass slide that contains a lawn of oligonucleotides complementary to the adaptors ligated to transcripts and with a series of separate lanes in which sequencing reactions take place.
thumbnailFigure 2. Data production workflow for RNA-Seq. RNA-Seq requires building libraries of fragmented RNA that are then converted to cDNA by reverse transcription, followed by adaptor ligation and size selection. Sequencing libraries are prepared for clustering on an 8 lane flow cell and sequencing-by-synthesis is used to generate tens of millions of sequences per sample that can be mapped to a reference genome. The number of reads that map to a scaled region of genome space are the index of the expression level of the gene.
Once the adaptors on the DNA fragments have hybridized to the complementary oligonucleotides in the flow cell, the fragments are amplified by isothermal bridge amplification to generate clusters of DNA clones. (In isothermal bridge amplification, the templates arch over and bind to adjacent oligonucleotides and then DNA polymerase copies the templates.) Double-stranded DNAs are denatured and the process is repeated to generate clusters of DNA clones. Next, the free 3' OH ends of the linearized clusters are blocked to prevent nonspecific sequencing reactions. Finally, the clusters are denatured and a sequencing primer is hybridized to the linearized and blocked clusters.
Sequencing reactions consist of a series of reactions to image individual bases within each cluster. Bases are imaged by using reversible fluorophore terminator nucleotides. The first base in the cluster is identified by adding four labeled reversible terminators, primers, and polymerase. A laser is used to excite the fluorophores and this allows identification of the first base. The next cycle repeats the incorporation of four reversible terminator nucleotides, primers, and polymerase. A laser again excites the terminators and bases are identified. These cycles of adding reagents, followed by laser excitation, and data capture are repeated to produce a read and typical reads range from 25 to over 75 base pairs in size. At the end of a run (3-7 days or more depending on read length) there are 30-40 million (possibly more) high quality sequences.
The RNA-Seq measure of gene expression is density of reads mapping to a particular transcript. For species with sequenced genomes, a common method is to map reads to a reference genome. Illumina provides a mapper called ELAND but many free open source tools are available. The tools that we have used most extensively for RNA-Seq are the Tuxedo Suite Tools (Bowtie [45], a short read mapper; Tophat [46], a splice junction identifier, and Cufflinks [33], a transcript assembler). Two expression metrics are commonly used which provide a value normalized by overall sequencing depth, FPKM (expected fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped) and RPKM (reads per kilobase per million mapped reads) [23,33,40], which are conceptually similar. In the example given in Figure 2, we estimate expression in units of RPKM by quantifying reads that map with genes predicted from genomic sequence. Therefore, higher RPKM in females would be examples of genes with female-biased expression, higher RPKM for males would be genes with male-biased expression, and equivalent RPKM in both sexes would be examples of non-sex-biased genes.
Do arrays and RNA-Seq tell a consistent story?
A key first question is whether, when used to ask exactly the same question, both techniques give the same answer. Comparing expression metrics from array intensities to RNA-Seq density shows a strong congruence (Figure 3). The relationship is not quite linear, as there appears to be a slight compression in the array data at the high end, but the vast majority of the expression values are similar between the methods. Scatter increases at low expression, which is not surprising, as background correction methods for arrays are complicated when signal levels approach noise levels. Similarly, RNA-Seq is a sampling method and stochastic events become a source of error in the quantification of rare transcripts [47]. There is, however, one consistent difference in our comparisons in Drosophila. There is a large range of expression values at the low end on arrays that that are undetectable by RNA-Seq. We cannot explain this difference, but whatever the cause, it does not affect the measurement of differential expression at expression levels that are detectable by RNA-Seq (Figure 3). In our experiment, we used biological replicate samples for the arrays and applied moderated t-tests to detect those genes that were differentially expressed between females and males. In the analysis in Figure 3, our goal was to compare expression measurements between the platforms. The genes showing sex-biased expression (red and blue dots in Figure 3) are in outstanding agreement between microarrays and RNA-Seq. We have observed similar congruence in the extremely deep RNA-Seq data in modENCODE D. melanogaster female and male samples [37]. Annotated sex-biased genes based on the extensive array-based literature [48] and the deeply sequenced modENCODE samples report the same biology.
thumbnailFigure 3. Comparison of array and RNA-Seq data for measuring differential gene expression in the heads of male and female D. pseudoobscura. (a) Results for female heads; (b) results for male heads. We used custom designed Nimblegen arrays to an early release of the D. pseudoobscura annotation. This array consists of 50-mer probes selected without bias to gene position, and with an average of 10 probes per gene model. A full description of this array platform can be found in the GEO under platform number GPL4631. Robust Multi-array Averaging (RMA) [50] was used to normalize array experiments and normalization improves the correlation between arrays and sequencing results. A full description of the analysis and all sequencing data can be found in [51]. Colored circles are genes identified as differentially expressed between females and males by microarray analysis with four biological replicates. In this case, one of the four biological replicates was prepared for sequencing by fragmenting RNA using alkaline hydrolysis and constructing a cDNA library for sequencing. For these analyses, we generated about 6 million 36 base pair reads from the Illumina GA I platform and the number of reads per kilobase per million mapped reads (RPKM) was calculated by counting the number of unique mapping reads from the default Illumina mapper (ELAND but the same pattern holds for Bowtie) to the same coding sequence models that were used for constructing probes for the microarray. The correlation between fluorescence intensity as a surrogate for gene expression and the RPKM metric as obtained by mRNA-Seq is high (Pearson's r = 0.90-0.91; Spearman's rho = 0.90-0.91) and slightly higher for just the genes identified as differentially expressed by microarrays (Pearson's r = 0.89-0.92; Spearman's rho = 0.90-0.94). In the case of fold change (c) measurements (female/male), the congruence is reasonable for the entire data set (Pearson's r = 0.62; Spearman's rho = 0.54) but high in the case of the fold change measurements for the genes with sex-biased expression (Pearson's r = 0.92; Spearman's rho = 0.89).
The answer is yes
Both sequencing and hybridizing mRNA to arrays are high-throughput ways to profile the transcriptome and for problems that can be addressed by both, they show similar performance and complement each other [29,47,49]. Detecting genes with low expression will remain a problem for both techniques, but there are some applications, such as transcript discovery and isoform identification, where RNA-Seq will be the better choice. Given the substantial agreement between the two methods, the array data in the literature should be durable.
We thank members of the Oliver lab for useful comments and discussion. This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, NIDDK.
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Chung Mong-Joon, (born Oct. 17, 1951Seoul, S.Kor.), South Korean businessman, politician, and sports official who, as vice president of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), was instrumental in securing South Korea’s selection as cohost of the World Cup 2002.
Chung was the son of Chung Ju-Yung, who founded the Hyundai Group. The younger Chung attended the prestigious Seoul National University, where he majored in economics, and then obtained a master of business administration degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in international relations at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. During his youth Chung excelled in soccer, basketball, and skiing. His strong interest in sports led to his becoming president of the Korean Archery Association (1983–85).
Chung’s political career began in 1988 when he ran for the National Assembly from Ulsan, the seat of many Hyundai industries, including automobile, shipbuilding, and steel. On the basis of his research and the practical experience he gained as chairman of Hyundai Heavy Industries in the late 1980s, Chung wrote The Government-Business Relationship of Japan: A Case Study of the Japanese Automobile Industry (1993). Critics agreed that this book made a valuable contribution to an understanding of the role of the government in industrial development not only in Japan but also in other countries, particularly those that were trying to catch up with the more advanced nations.
In 1993 Chung became president of the Korean Football Association, and the following year he was elected vice president of FIFA. With such a background he was able to convince authorities that South Korea should be the host of World Cup 2002; Chung’s father had been largely responsible for bringing the Olympic Games to Seoul in 1988. When FIFA announced in mid-1996 that South Korea and Japan would serve as cohosts of its World Cup 2002, the South Korean people were elated by the news, and Chung was widely praised for his efforts. In 2002 he created the political party National Alliance 21 and was selected as its presidential candidate for the December elections. Although he received high popularity ratings, he withdrew his candidacy later that year.
Chung’s numerous honours included a National Medal of Zaire (1982), Decoration for the Hosting of the Seoul Olympics (1988), and a Silver Monument Medal for Industry (1994). He also served as chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Ulsan and as a board member of Johns Hopkins University.
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...Asia and Australia . Summer monsoons have a dominant westerly component and a strong tendency to converge, rise, and produce rain. Winter monsoons have a dominant easterly component and a strong tendency to diverge, subside, and cause drought. Both are the result of differences in annual temperature trends over land and sea.
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...respective compositions are as follows: hornblende, Ca2(Mg4Al) (Si7Al); tschermakite, Ca2(Mg3Al2)(Si6Al2); edenite, NaCa2(Mg)5(Si7Al); pargasite, NaCa2 (Mg4Al)(Si6Al2). Extensive solid solution occurs, and each end-member has...
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John XI, (born 910?, Rome [Italy]—died December 935/January 936, Rome), pope from 931 to late 935 or early 936.
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...corps there. In 1965 the name pronuncio was given to those ambassadors whose rank in the diplomatic corps depends solely on seniority. An internuncio is a Vatican diplomat with the rank of minister plenipotentiary; he is accredited to a civil government and performs duties corresponding to those of a nuncio.
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The difficulty of Reverdy’s poems limited his audience. He founded a short-lived review, Nord-Sud (1916; “North-South”), to promote Cubism. After turning to Surrealism in the 1920s, he returned to Cubist-inspired poetic techniques. Reverdy published Étoiles peintes (1921; “Painted Stars”), Les Épaves du ciel (1924; “Shipwrecks...
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...recreation, and flood-control project 5 miles (8 km) north of Pierre—has impounded the 231-mile (372-km) Lake Oahe along the Missouri River between Pierre and Bismarck, North Dakota. Fort Pierre, across the river, was the fur-trade capital of the Northwest from 1832 to 1855; a monument there marks the place where Louis-Joseph and François Vérendrye buried a lead...
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Senones, either of two ancient Celtic tribes, or perhaps two divisions of the same people, one living in Gaul, the other in Italy. The Gallic Senones lived in the area that includes the modern French départements of Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, and Yonne. They fought against Julius Caesar in 53–51 bc; in later times these Senones were included in Gallia Lugdunensis. Their chief town was Agendicum (later Senonus, whence Sens).
The other group of Senones crossed the Alps into Italy, perhaps about 400 bc, and settled on the east coast between Ariminum (Rimini) and Ancona, driving out the Umbrians there. In 391 they invaded Etruria and besieged Clusium. Roman intervention, in reply to an appeal from Clusium, led to the Gauls’ capture of Rome in 390. Livy and Diodorus Siculus, but not Polybius, record that the Senones led the Gauls that captured Rome. For the next century the Senones were engaged in hostilities with Rome, but they were finally defeated and expelled by Publius Cornelius Dolabella in 283. Their territory was used either for colonies or for land allotments to individual Roman citizens.
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Jorge Ubico
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Jorge Ubico, byname Tata (Spanish: “Daddy”) (born Nov. 10, 1878, Guatemala City—died June 14, 1946, New Orleans, La., U.S.), soldier and dictator who ruled Guatemala for 13 years (1931–44).
Ubico received a commission in the Guatemalan army in 1897, distinguished himself in several campaigns, and rose to the rank of colonel. In 1907 he was appointed governor of Alta Verapaz and in 1911 governor of Retalhuleu, where he served with efficiency and honesty. In the following years he was made a brigadier general, a member of the National Assembly, and minister of war (1922–26) under President José María Orellana. In 1931, backed by liberals and progressives, he was elected president of Guatemala, an office he held until 1944.
Ubico restored Guatemala’s international credit, built roads and public works, improved public health, and eliminated wholesale corruption. He also replaced Indian slavery with vagrancy laws, which required that indigenous farmers work an assigned number of hours on certain plantations in order to maintain an equal distribution of workers among landowners. Ubico also established Decree 1816, which essentially made it legal to murder an indigenous farmer who refused to comply with the new laws. Ubico cultivated the friendship of the United States, particularly during World War II, and was rewarded with tariff reductions and armaments. At the same time, he also eliminated all political opposition and democratic activity in Guatemala. Unrest developed, and when Ubico suspended freedom of speech and the press on June 22, 1944, he was overthrown by a popular revolt the following day. He fled the country on July 1 and made his home in New Orleans.
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William E. Borah
American politician
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(1865-1940). U.S. public official. During his more than three decades in the United States Senate, William E. Borah became one of the nation’s foremost statesmen. Born on June 29, 1865, in Fairfield, Ill., he moved to Boise, Idaho, in 1891. After practicing law and serving as state prosecutor, he was elected to the Senate in 1907. A Republican of independent views with a reputation as a brilliant debater, he was a foe of monopoly and a defender of prohibition. He opposed the League of Nations, the World Court, and the Versailles Treaty and championed the Conference for Limitation of Armaments as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In addition, he was partly responsible for the creation of the Department of Labor. He remained in the Senate until his death in 1940.
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The Stanley Cup Playoffs have eight survivors. Evan Berofsky breaks down the four series and picks the conference finalists and his early Conn Smythe leaders.
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2. A turtle is moving with a constant acceleration along a straight ditch. He starts a stopwatch as he passes a fence post and notes that it takes 10s to reach a pine tree 10 metres farther along the ditch . As he passes the pine tree, his speed is 1.2m/s. How far was he from the fence post when he started from rest?
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An aluminum wire having a cross-sectional area equal to 5.30 10-6 m2 carries a current of 7.00 A. The density of aluminum is 2.70 g/cm3. Assume each aluminum atom supplies one conduction electron per atom. Find the drift speed of the electrons in the wire.
In the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, an electron in the 5th excited state moves at a speed of 8.76 104 m/s in a circular path of radius 1.32 10-9 m. What is the effective current associated with this orbiting electron?
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Management Science , chapter 2 1) 3A+2B<=18 12A+8B>=480 5A+10B=200 Show a separate graph of constraint lines and solution that satisfy each of the following constraint 2) 0.5A+0.25B>=30 1A+5B>=250 0.25A+0.5B<=50 Identify the feasible region for the following set of constraint 3) MAX 2A+3B S.T 1A+2B<=6 5A+3B<=15 A,B>=0 Find the optimal solution using the graphical solution procedure. What is value of the objective function at optimal solution Thanks
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Two identical loudspeakers are driven in phase by a common oscillator at 800 Hz and face each other at a distance of 1.25m. Locate the points along the line joining the two speakers where relative minima of sound pressure amplitude would be expected. (Use v=343m/s)
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Belly were an alternative rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly and Fred Abong. Donelly had also played in The Breeders. Hailing from Newport, Rhode Island, and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the band included Donelly on vocals and guitar, Abong on bass (replaced after their first album by Gail Greenwood), Tom Gorman on guitar, and his brother Chris Gorman on drums.
Signed to the British label 4AD Records, the band's debut EP, "Slow Dust" (recorded with Pixies producer Gil Norton) topped the British indie charts. Their crossover breakthrough came with their third single, "Feed the Tree," which made the Top 40 in the British charts. The album that followed, Star, was a hit in both the UK and the USA, where it went gold, receiving three Grammy award nominations.
In keeping with the name of the group ("It's both pretty and ugly," according to Donelly), Belly's sound matched enchanting pop melodies, Donelly's ethereal vocals, and Gorman's melodic guitar work to lyrics mixing fairy-tale innocence with dark images. The lyrics to "Full Moon, Empty Heart," for example, came from a st...
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Warlock was a German heavy metal music band from Düsseldorf, originally assembled in late 1982. By the end of the 1980s, singer Doro Pesch was the sole original member whom remained in the band, and thus proceeded to form Doro, a band which was essentially a continuation of Warlock under a different name. The band Doro has several classic songs from Warlock on its repertoire.
The music of Warlock was more heavy metal oriented in the beggining of the 80's, with "Burning the Witches" album, but soon going more to a hard rock style after "Hellbound". Their influences were from the 70's hard/heavy metal, N.W.O.B.H.M. and german bands such as Scorpions and Accept. Similar bands: Ratt, Dokken and Zed Yago.
Warlock spent most of the year of 1983 playing in different German clubs, eventually building a steady fan base. After recording a demo and sending it to record labels, the band ontained a contract with independent Belgian label Mausoleum.
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Peter Szigeti
Rudy Graf
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Making its US debut, Nico Muhly's Two Boys explores the shadowy world of the Internet as a detective investigates the stabbing of one teenage boy by another--and discovers a tangled web of online intrigue. Alice Coote sings the part of the detective, opposite Paul Appleby as Brian, in this striking staging by Bartlett Sher.
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MacFixIt Answers is a feature in which we answer questions e-mailed from our readers. This week we have questions on RAM modules not working in one PowerBook RAM slot, options for viewing alternative region DVDs, and a Windows 7 taskbar "Preview" option in OS X. We continually answer e-mail questions, and though we present a few here, we certainly welcome alternative approaches and views from readers and encourage you to post your suggestions in the comments.
Question: RAM not working in one slot
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G4 Powerbook, 15", 1.67GHz, Early 2005. I have 2x1GB sticks of OWC RAM, both confirmed in sound working order. With either stick in the lower bay of the powerbook, there is *no chime on startup*, System Profiler reports the bay empty (although occasionally it has reported 2GB RAM), and Apple Hardware test gives *Error on startup: post/0/2048 SODIMMO/J25LOWER*.
There is no question that the stick is firmly and correctly seated. On removing the lower stick and booting, the *chime on startup is present*, and there is no error in the Apple Hardware test. I have repeated these procedures and removed and reseated the stick numerous times. Of course the Powerbook is not worth spending money on, particularly since it serves its simple clerical tasks quite satisfactorily with 1GB RAM, but I am intrigued by the lack of the startup chime, and is there anything simple i could do to render the lower bay responsive again?
If you have access to another brand of RAM module you can try installing it to the lower bay to see if it can be recognized, but that kind of testing is the only real way to determine if the lower bay is not working properly (and even then you might have to confirm it with several different RAM makes).
RAM can be a touchy thing sometimes, where in one system it may work but in another system it will not. Even though the RAM chips have been confirmed to work, there may be compatibility issues with your specific computer, or even the slot. I have had perfectly good chips work in one slot and not another on several systems. In your case, it could be a problem with the lower slot being paired to that specific brand, model, or even lot number for the RAM modules.
My suspicion here is that the RAM is not fully compatible with your system based on different manufacturing specifications.
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I want to play some Region 2 DVDs I bought, using my Mac. But I understand there is some setting you have to set, and only can do it 5 times That won't work for me, as I'd like to watch them periodically. Is there a way to get them to MP4's instead? Or is there another option? I'm only trying to watch DVDs I bought.
You will need to "rip" the DVDs to a MP4 file using a "ripping" program, or alternatively purchase a secondary DVD player that you can set to region 2 and leave there. Ripping programs are available for the Mac, but I do not have much experience with them. One popular one is called "HandBreak" but I am not certain that it will read alternative region DVDs. One option with these programs would be to use them with your current DVD burner and change the region once to rip them all to a high quality movie file, and then switch the region back. Keep in mind that this will use up two of the allotted changes (I believe most DVD players have around 5 allowed changes before they lock), and therefore can only be done a couple of times on any given DVD player.
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This is my question and one reason I don't switch to mac: On win 7 you can hover over an icon on the taskbar and show the open windows. How can this be done on a mac?
In Snow Leopard there is a similar function, where if you click and hold the icon in the dock the current windows for that application will be shown in "Expose" view on the screen. You can then select any of them to switch to that application and bring the selected window to the front. It's not identical to the Windows 7 taskbar features, but is quite similar in function. It also makes decent usage of the full display, allowing more of that application's contents to be seen onscreen.
In the next version of OS X (called "Lion") Apple is apparently going to enhance these features and implement a number of additional multitasking options like this, but we must wait and see what will materialize.
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The Good The Nexus 10 has a beautifully sharp screen. It's light, durable, and receives regular OS updates. Photo Sphere is an incredibly cool concept. Google's content ecosystem is only getting better.
The Bad The included charger isn't fast enough to power the battery while playing a game; even while idle, it charges painfully slowly. There's no storage expansion option, and apps that take full advantage of the screen are currently few and far between. Navigating isn't quite as seamless as on the Nexus 7.
7.7 Overall
• Design 8.0
• Features 8.0
• Performance 7.0
Editors' note (December 6, 2013): We've lowered the performance score of the Nexus 10 due to recent releases of more powerful tablets in the marketplace.
It's the first question anyone asks when they're interested in a tablet: "Is it as good as the current iPad? For the Google Nexus 10, the overall answer is "no." The iPad is still the best tablet experience one can have, thanks to its still unmatched performance and robust app and media ecosystem.
That said, if you have no interest in owning an Apple product anyway, but are still in the market for a premium tablet, the Nexus 10 should be at or near the top of your list. The choice isn't as cut and dry as it should be, unfortunately. Your other go-to Android option -- the Transformer Infinity -- still has a better back camera, a brighter screen, expandable storage, and comes with a power adapter that's actually proficient at charging the tablet.
The Nexus 10's stock charger uses its Micro-USB port to charge and -- as it turns out -- that's not the most efficient way to charge a high-end tablet. Overnight charging will be fine, but if you ever need to charge in a hurry, there are currently no other options. Google mentioned a Pogo charger option at release, but has been mum on the subject ever since.
So why is the Nexus 10 potentially the best Android tablet? Its screen is gorgeous and the sharpest around compared with any tablet, and it is the most comfortable 10-inch tablet to hold in your hand with a durability that ensures you won't immediate blow a gasket if your kids drop it. Furthermore, it's the first tablet to run Android 4.2, which brings with it great new features -- Photo Sphere, which lets you capture a three-dimensional model of a real-world space, is one of the coolest I've ever experienced on a tablet.
For most, the iPad is still the tablet of choice, but for those looking for an alternative to Apple's much more constrained OS, Google has delivered one of the best yet. Like the Nexus 7 before it, the Nexus 10 marks a significant step toward a much more competitive tablet market, and its design heralds a new paradigm from which all other tablets should consider cribbing ASAP.
Just for the record, in the 7-inch tablet space, it's the Nexus 7, not the iPad Mini, that currently reigns as the best small tablet.
The Google Nexus 10 is one of the best designed tablets yet. At 1.33 pounds, it's fairly light and has a slightly concave shape, with a subtly beveled back design. Thanks to its light weight and smoothly rounded corners the tablet never digs into your palms when held with two hands. The back is a soft, grippy, almost rubbery plastic that not only feels great to hold, but doubles as protection for the tablet. The aforementioned rounded corners have that same rubbery plastic around them. The whole outer shell feels almost like an exoskeleton accessory, specifically designed to protect the delicate tablet organs inside.
Google Nexus 10 Asus Transformer Tab Infinity TF700 Apple iPad (fourth generation)
Weight in pounds 1.33 1.32 1.44
Width in inches (landscape) 10.4 10.4 7.3
Height in inches 6.9 7.1 9.5
Depth in inches 0.35 0.33 0.37
Side bezel width in inches (landscape) 0.9 0.8 0.8
This feels like a tablet you can get a little rough with and one that won't immediately induce apoplexy when your kid grabs it. Also, there are no scratchy edges and no fine corners. While preparing this review, I mistakenly dropped the tablet a couple of times onto a concrete floor and saw not one scratch or dent. Now, I'm not recommending you go whipping these things around, but I really appreciate how it flies in the face of the iPad's and Transformer Infinity's luxury tablet design. It's actually more appropriate for families willing to share the device, but we'll get to how Google plans to make that easier a bit later.
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Manufactured by Samsung, the all-black tablet bears a passing resemblance to the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and like that tablet, its bezels are wide. The side bezels, thanks to the inclusion of dual, front-facing speaker grilles, are especially so. Though some may prefer thinner bezels, the wider ones here make the tablet easier to hold in two hands. Your hands do cover the speakers if held in landscape mode, but since the speaker grille is also really long -- spanning about 5.5 inches of the tablet's 6.9-inch height -- there's plenty of room for sound to get through. Also, if you're holding it while listening to something, you'll likely have headphones on.
Google keeps things simple for physical features. On the left edge is a headphone jack and Micro-USB charging/data port. In the left corner of the top edge sit the power/sleep button and volume rocker. Alone, on the right edge is a Micro-HDMI port, with a magnetic Pogo Pin charger on the bottom edge.
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Along the top of the tablet's back is a textured strip that feels like a refinement of the Nexus 7's back texture material. Within that strip (which is also removable) is a rear-facing 5-megapixel camera next to an LED flash and microphone. On the front, in the middle of the top bezel, is the tablet's front-facing 1.9-megapixel camera and ambient light sensor. On the back, right in middle, is a large, embossed Nexus logo above a smaller Samsung one.
The Nexus 10 isn't a sexy tablet, but it's the one above all current 10-inch tablets I'd rather hold in my hands.
Hardware features
The Nexus 10 is the first tablet to house Samsung's 1.7GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU. It uses a Mali T-604 as its graphics processor and has 2GB of RAM. The Exynos 5250 was built using the Cortex-A15 process and is one of the first tablet CPUs to truly rival Apple's A5 and A6 family, purely from a specs perspective. It also supports 802.11 b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and MIMO Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, and NFC (near-field communication). There's also a gyroscope, a barometer, an accelerometer, and a digital compass.
Android 4.0, the second
If you've seen Android 4.1 on the Nexus 7, visually you'll have a good idea of what to expect from 4.2. It has the same controlled and focused feel that so far only the Nexus 7 has played host to on the tablet front. It's less intimidating to the uninitiated than the typical Android tablet interface and feels less constrained than its original implementation on the Nexus 7.
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The now-familiar tray on the bottom of the home screen is, by default, filled with Google services apps such as Play, Music, Books, YouTube, and Magazines. There's also a folder housing Chrome as well as Google Maps, Google Plus, Gmail, and other services. Directly in the middle of the tray is the apps button. Swiping up from the home button and across the apps button takes you to Google Now, Google's predictive personalized helper.
Google Now uses voice recognition to field queries and displays information such as the current weather, local bus schedules, and nearby restaurants you may be interested in. The thought is that Google Now will give you information when you need it. If it's 5 p.m. and you're about to leave work, it will conceivably update you with traffic information without you having to fetch it. The information would just appear in Google Now at the right time. In my experience, Google Now rarely feels like a useful feature and only recently does it seem to track my history across devices. I'm still willing to give it a chance, but would love to see its benefits be more clearly outlined in future versions. Right now it feels kind of separate from everything else and would benefit from better integration with the OS.
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The new new
There are quite a few new features in 4.2; some interesting and useful, others just kind of cool. First, the gesture type feature is Google's native OS answer to Swype. I'm not a Swype user, but I was impressed by gesture type's ability to accurately interpret my finger sliding and determine, for the most part, what I wanted to type. It did, however, have trouble with the word "badass," which is kind of unacceptable to me.
Tablet settings can now be accessed much quicker. Simply swipe down from the top-right corner to reveal a tray of shortcuts including brightness, Wi-Fi settings, general settings, battery life, airplane mode, and so on.
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Magnification attempts to take advantage of the screen's high resolution. By enabling it in settings and tapping the screen three times in quick succession, assets on the screen will magnify in the section where you tapped. This is different from zooming, which scales images and text and applies anti-aliasing to smooth things out. Magnify simply makes things bigger. It's a nice feature for those with poor eyesight, but I was disappointed by the lack of anti-aliasing.
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Gmail gets a new design and a new, awesome feature. Awesome to me, at least. When viewing your in-box, you can now swipe messages away to archive them. As a person who gets a lot of spam in his inbox, this well-implemented addition is one of those details that seems small on paper, but makes a huge difference in your experience.
When it was first announced, Miracast was listed as one of the Nexus 10's key features. Since then, Google's pulled back from that support and currently supports Miracast only in its Nexus 4 smartphone. Unfortunately, there has been no word from Google on when or if Miracast support for the Nexus 10 will ever be announced.
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Multi screen
To switch to a new user you're required to enter the lock screen, select the user icon, and then unlock the tablet. This is a less elegant solution than the Nook HD's implementation of profiles which allows you to simply tap the user account at the top of the screen, select your new user, and watch your content change to the new user's content before your eyes.
Lock screen
"More information on lock screens!" is what Android fans have demanded for years. Actually, I don't know if anyone's ever said that, but it's what Google is delivering anyway. Now you can add multiple e-mail in-boxes, calendars, and clocks to the lock screen. You can also add a widget called "What's this song?," which is a song identifier added to Android in 4.0, now quickly available on your lock screen.
The widget will listen to a song (either playing on the device or from another device and within seconds identify said song and conveniently provide you with a link to the Google Play store to purchase it. I can see this being useful at times, but it's definitely a weird choice for the lock screen.
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RCStamp is a flexible command line tool to modify the FILEVERSION entries in a .rc Resource script (source included)
File Version numbers in Windows consist of four positions with 16 bits each, e.g. 6.0.2600.0 is the version of my iexplore.exe. Typically you use the first two positions as "major.minor" version, based on the features of the module, the third position for an incremental build count, and the fourth for special builds. (You already knew all this, didn't you?)
RCStamp grew out of the necessity to manage a rather complex versioning scheme on a dozen of binaries. It can modify the FILEVERSION entry and the "FileVersion" string entry in a VERSIONINFO resource. It uses a format string that can affect the four positions of the version number individually. A typical call looks like this:
rcstamp myproject.rc *.*.+.*
This would increment the third position, and leave all others unmodified. You get a simple automatic build counter when you integrate this as custom build step into your Visual Studio project.
A more complex call:
rcstamp myproject.rc *.+.0.+1000
would increment the second position (minor version), set the third position to 0, and increment the fourth by 1000.
Command line options:
rcstamp file <format> [<options>...]
rcstamp @file [<format>] [<options>...]
Format options:
* leave position as-is
+ increment position by one
n set the position to the number n (decimal)
+n increment position by the number n (decimal)
- decrement position by one (if you ever need it)
-n decrement position by the number n (still decimal, and you have been warned)
Additonal command line options:
-n don't modify the "FileVersion" string value
-rRESID modify only the version resource with the resource id RESID (Default: modify all resources)
-v Verbose (echo the modified values)
-l Process a list file instead of a resource (see below)
List Files
For batch processing, you can specify a text file containing a list of file names, like this:
rcstamp @files.txt *.*.+.*
files.txt could look like this:
You can add a format for an individual file (separated by a '=') to override the format specified at the command line.
-l - the Self-Awareness switch
The -l option allows to modify a list file like the one above, instead of a resource script. This is far from useful, since all special formattings will be rendered as 0, and I suspect a bug there. But it's a perfect example of the useless features you spend late hours with.
Return Values
Since it's intended for batching, there are some errorlevel's to evaluate:
ERRORLEVEL 3 : invalidarguments
ERRORLEVEL 1 : an error occured when processing at least
one file (error message written to stderr)
ERRORLEVEL 0 : everything's fine
The sources are pretty straightforward, it doesn't rely on any library (besides the VC runtime). main() clobbers the command line, and then processes either the specified file, or opens the file list and processes each of the files. ParseArg() will analyze one command line parameter at a time, and store it's findings in global variables. ProcessFile() will process a single file according to the options set. CalcNewVersion() calculates the new file version from a string containing the old one and a format specifier.
The files are read with std::ifstream line-by-line, The modified text is collected in a std::string, and then the entire file is overwritten.
This is a one-nighter (a half-nighter, even) - I didn't test everything (e.g. the '-' format specification, and the -l option), there are some potential buffer overruns and when you run out of memory it will look ugly. The file parsing is homegrown, it doesn't really "understand" the .rc file; it just looks for certain tokens, using of strdup and strtok. it is fairly stable with the .rc files produced by Visual Studio, but it might fail in exotic cases (I didn't even dive into the .rc documentation so I don't know what is allowed).
Oh, and you might already have guessed - you can't decrement the first position, since the leading '-' is interpreted as option. Since this tool is in daily use (I use it now for the daily builds at work, and for preparing releases) I for sure will fix the bugs that appear in the features I need. Beyond that, it's up to you - at least, up to your persuasion skills.
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Comic and electronic publication reader with library management, extended file conversion, and devices support.
With the "success" of the first project and some spare time, I start a completely new version hosted on the same CodePlex project.
I decided to rewrite it to explore a bit more about the MVVM pattern and extend it to other ebook formats. I am also interested in 7 phone development, so I took the idea of dynamic books that I have seen on an iPhone application. The roadmap includes:
• Better user interface and design: Ribbon...
• Multiple format support and conversion: Images, PDF, XPS, CBR/RAR, CBZ/ZIP, ePUB...
• Dynamic books format: CBZD, a complete zip format with additional XML files associated to pages that contain frame descriptions. CBR contains a designer to "edit" books to add frames on the different page zone with order and timing. This allows automatic reading usable on desktop, but mainly for phone application.
• External devices support and a Windows Phone 7 application.
Related publications: CodePlex, "Product" site, Blog
Screenshot: New C.B.R. interface
Project Content
As a developer, what you can find helpful in this project, despite a lot of tricks that are not described here:
• NEW : OPDS feed, function to localize by code, multi-document and toolboxes in MVVM design, re-designed frame editor in mvvm way for dynamic books, new tablet and 7 Phone simulators, 'Any CPU' and compatible with 32 & 64 bit plateforms, Image merger for PDF conversion, etc...
• Two page book view based on Mitsu Futura "book"
• Localization engine that works with resx, xml, bin and that you can extend to your needs...!
• An explorer view with grid, simple and complex thumb view
• A starting home page that display direct actions and "xml news" feeds
• Quite complex MVVM pattern
• Simple explorer like view in MVVM with tree and folder view
• USB device detection with WMI
• PDF image extraction
• SevenZipSharp: extraction, compression, in memory usage
• Office like: Ribbon control usage, backstage design like recent file lists
• Controls: Magnify glass, 5 stars rating, Splitter expander, WaitSpin, ZoomFlyer, Extended ListView
• XPS reading and writing, ePUB parsing and conversion
• Single instance, parameter processing and file type registering
You can find more screenshots on the product web site :
The Code : Schemas and Principles
Has the project becomes a bit more complicated than the original and as it is always in beta stage, I split the article into several "high level" parts: core classes, MVVM pattern classes and coding tips... until the architecture becomes stable to give a more complete description.
Model Core Classes
The model core classes illustrated below contain a Catalog class that represent a library. It is mapped to the ExplorerViewModel and managed by a corresponding CatalogService. All books are represented by a Book entity, that extend (when possible) to Pages. Zone class is dedicated to my new format for dynamic books. When extra data is needed, it is stored in the Tag property of the Book (like for ePUB format).
Diagram: Model core classes
Service Core Classes
Below are the main service classes. FileService and FileExtension manage the data we need to associate a file (based on the extension) to data like the dialog filter, but also the associated model, service and viewmodel. This will be used by the BookServiceFactory to create the corresponding ViewModel that will also create the corresponding service using reflection. BookInfoService is a separated class that only manages the load/save operation on Book binary internal structure. CatalogService is the class that manages the library.
Update... !
Fileservice and FileInfo classes has been replaced by DocumentFactory, DocumentInfo and DocumentType that link to the Core model.
Note: About the internal file structure...C.B.R. does not use any database. It is a single binary file that you can store where you want which centralizes the catalog information (path to the book files). Underneath, in the current application folder, I store book information like rating or cover into a separate bin file, so that they can be shared among several libraries. You can lose you library, if the book binary is there, then nothing lost!
Diagram: Service core classes
Workspace Core Classes
These classes manage all data for the working environment. The singleton class WorkspaceService stores the settings in a WorkspaceInfo class that contains program options (that the user can change in the backstage), two lists of RecentFileInfo for book and library recent file list and the supported device list as a DeviceInfo collection. The settings class is serialized through the program properties. It is loaded a program start and automatically saved on closing.
Update... !
ExtendedInfo contains the data for the extended options. FeedInfo and FeedItemInfo the data for the backstage view FeedInfoView. ProxyInfo class has been added to manage any special internet settings.
Diagram: Workspace core classes
Convert Core Classes
My wish was to not include any "third party" that is not pure WPF... so I had to find a way to convert from unsupported format (like PDF) to the one I choose to support.
Based on the convert panel in the backstage, we have a ContractParameter class that groups all chosen options. It is given to the BookFileConverter class that supports threading through a BackgroundWorker (as it uses a report progress in the user interface). Then the conversion process goes through two interfaces that are based on input and output formats: IReaderContract and IWriterContract. Note that the conversion process does not manage multiple input/output formats.
The BookFileConverter is first calling the reader to extract the useful data that goes through the writer. The package includes ImageFileReader, RARImageReader, PDFImageReader, XPSImageReader for reading images in folder, Rar/Zip, PDF or XPS files (will be soon extended to ePUB). We can write to Image files, a XPS or CBZ/ZIP file through ImageFileWriter, XPSImageWriter and ZIPWriter classes.
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Diagram: Converter core classes
The standard way to transfer data from reader to writer is an array of bytes that represent images, but I take a shortcut for conversion like RAR to images where the reader is extracting images from the RAR directly to a folder without the need of a writer. Below is the transfer table mode used for the conversion:
Source Reader Transfer mode Writer Destination
Images x x x Images
x direct compress folder CBZ/ZIP
extract to mem mem write mem XPS
PDF extract to mem mem write files Images
extract to mem mem write files
compress folder
extract to mem mem write mem XPS
CBR/RAR extract to folder direct x Images
extract to folder to temp compress folder CBZ/ZIP
extract to mem mem write mem XPS
CBZ/ZIP extract to folder direct x Images
x x x CBZ/ZIP
extract to mem mem write mem XPS
XPS extract to mem mem write files Images
extract to mem mem write files
compress folder
x x x XPS
ePUB x x x Images
x x x CBZ/ZIP
extract to mem mem write mem XPS
MVVM Related Application Classes
This is the most complicated part... below are the classes from the application that participate in the pattern. I am not going to describe the helper classes like the ViewModelBase, the Mediator or the Messenger. It is cut in 5 parts. The views: main user interface, the backstage and out of the pattern classes. The viewmodels: main user interface, the backstage and some additional classes. Let's go through them.
Diagram: MVVM application classes
View Layer
The main user interface is composed by a MainView (the whole window), an ExplorerView (the library explorer on the left) and some ribbon content (different book format and device views) that are hosted by a TabConbtrol (with no user interface displayed) binded to a collection of ViewModel.
• InfoView, OptionsView, RecentFileView and DeviceConfigView are panels displayed in the ribbon backstage.
• BookView (for comics), XpsBookView (for XPS documents) and ePUBBookView (for web like viewer) are hosted in a TabControl in the main window part
• USBDeviceView and later PhoneDeviceView are also hosted in a TabControl in the main window part and but displayed in a contextual manner by the ribbon group "Devices"
The ConvertView and SimulateView are actually out of the pattern because of the BackgroundWorder/thread or a beta stage code.
ViewModel Layer
We have exactly the same for the view model layer, plus a BookViewModelBase that centralizes all common book functions and a DeviceViewModelBase that do the same for devices. Note that they are all inherited from ViewModelBase (that host a Model in a Data property) which comes from a BindableObject that implements the INotifyPropertyChanged interface for binding and MVVM support.
On the right side, we also have TreeviewItemViewModel class derivated into SysElementViewModel (that represents a file system element) and becomes specialized with SysDriveViewModel, SysDirectoryViewModel and SysFileViewModel. They are used in the USBDeviceViewModel which contains a treeview and a listview control to display the device content.
Update... !
The model has been completed with new classes like FeedView/Model to display OPDS feeds....
The main changes are due to the AvalonDock integration that brings PaneViewModel derivated into ToolViewModel (that represents documents and toolbox view models).
Exchange: How to Communicate between Layers
I will try to publish a graph about the exchange later. The way is MVVM based: Views call Commands on ViewModel, ViewModel communicate together with Mediator, ViewModel communicate with Views through Messages. I avoid a maximum of control event handling but sometimes it is not possible or too complicated.
Localization engine
This new part is based on the very nice article from CodeProject, WPF Localization using resx - (so I am not going to explain it...). But the solution was not satisfying me, because I don't like resx (too much work for the developer when it comes to update/copy/paste and rebuild new resources) and I consider C.B.R. being too small for having so many locale assemblies...There is also a big need for an editor so that any user can manage localization or open the resource storage to database for example.
Here under are the core classes to support the localization in the XAML. I just made some small changes to existing code, like a singleton pattern on the CultureManager or the LocalizationExtension renamed has got a ResModul property that can identify a resx file or a xml/bin file. To complete the core model represented by the CultureManager (single public class) I have added some management functions like GetAvailableCultures, GetAvailableModules, GetModuleResource, SaveResources or CreateCulture: this will answer the need for an editor. Note that finally, the resx method is very restrictive and cannot cover all this overload...
I also add a CultureItem class that extend the CultureInfo. This will be mapped to a view class to fill the language gallery in the ribbon.
Diagram: Localization core classes
To extend the resx model, I choose to add a provider pattern to the CultureManager. IResourceProvider is implemented directly by the ResxProvider class (existing one that does not manage cultures) and FileProviderBase that derive into BinProvider and XmlProvider (the solution I choose because file are human readable). The data model is very simple and will be serialize or deserialized directly to the resource files. It is composed of LocalizationFile that group all LocalizationDictionnary by culture code, each dictionary contains a collection of LocalizationItem that represent a resource set. See the programming extract to get more details about it's implementation and usage.
Diagram: Localization provider classes
ePUB and OPDS models
I had a complete rework on the previous model (that cannot extend to conversion or writing functionnalities). ePubManager is the parsing class and below are the model classes. This one is much better, even if ePUB has got a lot of specification must fit for nearly all reading. Note that the viewer is based on IE (need to register some key for better emulation mode - done by the setup - you will find them in the solution). In case of bad encoding detection, you can use the view context menu.
OPDS is a special feed format dedicated to electronical publication. CBR include a feed management view and a browser view that allow to navigate the Rss and download books. Below is the model that suit to my needs (not the OPDS specification) and the OpdsManager is the main class that parse the feed to create the objects for View and ViewModels
The Code: Programming Extracts
In the next chapter, I would like to point out the problems that I faced and the solutions as well the nice part of code that seems interesting to share.
Conversion: Extract PDF Images
I dig into a lots of solutions - read and parse PDF, image extraction tools - before hazard brings me to a code file on the internet. From some test file, I found that iTextSharp has a listener that you can plug onto the parser to get dedicated events and data during the parsing. Implement a class with the IRenderListener interface and the method RenderImage will be called on each image so you can get the bytes back.
Give it to the ProcessContent method while processing PDF pages through the PdFReader and PdfReaderContentParser classes. Note you can get text events too.
reader = new PdfReader(inputFileorFolder);
PdfReaderContentParser parser = new PdfReaderContentParser(reader);
listener = new PDFImageListener();
parser.ProcessContent(i, listener);
Update... !
The RenderImage method has been improved with this new code. Before /flat and /lzw were not processed and GetImageAsBytes works better for image type that can be read by ITextSharp.
public void RenderImage(ImageRenderInfo renderInfo)
PdfImageObject image = renderInfo.GetImage();
PdfName filter = (PdfName)image.Get(PdfName.FILTER);
if (PdfName.DCTDECODE.Equals(filter))
_imageNames.Add(string.Format("{0:0000}_{1:0000}.{2}", PageIndex, _imageNames.Count, PdfImageObject.TYPE_JPG));
else if (PdfName.JPXDECODE.Equals(filter))
_imageNames.Add(string.Format("{0:0000}_{1:0000}.{2}", PageIndex, _imageNames.Count, PdfImageObject.TYPE_JP2));
else if (PdfName.LZWDECODE.Equals(filter))
_imageNames.Add(string.Format("{0:0000}_{1:0000}.{2}", PageIndex, _imageNames.Count, PdfImageObject.TYPE_TIF));
else if (PdfName.FLATEDECODE.Equals(filter))
_imageNames.Add(string.Format("{0:0000}_{1:0000}.{2}", PageIndex, _imageNames.Count, PdfImageObject.TYPE_PNG ));
New: Merge images by page (for PDF)
I have noticed in the past with some tests that PDF image extraction sometimes results in hundred of images because each page is cutted in several parts. I don't know where it comes from, but the solution is there. I have added a checkbox option in the conversion panel to merge images in case of a number difference with the page count.
As my conversion engine is based on a reader (or extractor), a pipe with the image bytes, then a writer to finalize the choosen destination format, i put in the middle a ImageJoiner class that combine the original bytes into real pages.
I first modify the ImageListener to be sure that page index is allways included in the image file name. When I detect a difference in the Read method of PDFImageReader class, I give the array to the ImageJoiner class and take his array as the result
if (settings.CheckResult && reader.NumberOfPages != listener.ImageNames.Count)
if (settings.JoinImages)
progress(string.Format("Extracting {0} : {1} images for {2} pages - Try to merge !", inputFileorFolder, listener.ImageNames.Count, reader.NumberOfPages));
ImageJoiner cp = new ImageJoiner();
cp.Merge(listener.ImageBytes, listener.ImageNames);
progress(string.Format("Merge to {0} new images...", cp.NewImageNames.Count));
The ImageJoiner is quite simple and the trick is in the second Merge method : it takes indexes to process as parameters. I first create a list of the corresponding BitmapImage and compute the size of the destination bitmap. Then create a RenderTargetBitmap that match the destination. With a DrawingVisual, I open is context and draw all the bitmap in it. Then I ask the RenderTargetBitmap to draw the visual and after that extract the bytes to the new it is !
public void MergeGroup(List<byte[]> imageBytes, List<string> imageNames, int start, int end, int index)
List<BitmapImage> bmps = new List<BitmapImage>();
double maxWidth = 0, maxHeight = 0, position = 0;
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(imageBytes[i]);
BitmapImage myImage = new BitmapImage();
myImage.StreamSource = ms;
myImage.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.None;
maxWidth = Math.Max(myImage.Width, maxWidth);
maxHeight += myImage.Height;
RenderTargetBitmap temp = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)maxWidth, (int)maxHeight, 96d, 96d, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
DrawingVisual dv = new DrawingVisual();
using (DrawingContext ctx = dv.RenderOpen())
foreach (BitmapImage bi in bmps)
ctx.DrawImage(bi, new System.Windows.Rect(0, position, bi.Width, bi.Height));
position += bi.Height;
NewImageNames.Add(string.Format("{0:0000}.jpg", index));
XPS: Fit Image on Fixed Page
How to fit images on XPS document pages? Seems like quite an easy question, but I had to test a lot before finding my Achilles heel... Do not mix pixel image size and WPF units!
Have a look at the class XPSHelper in CBR.Core. The method WriteDocument has all the mechanics to write the array of images into a fixed document. It calls a WritePageContent method used to write the XAML page structure. Here, I specify the viewbox to fit the image into a A4 formatted page.
private void WritePageContent(System.Xml.XmlWriter xmlWriter,
XpsResource res, double wpfWidth, double wpfHeight)
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("Width", "794");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("Height", "1123");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("xml:lang", "en-US");
if (res is XpsImage)
"M 0,0 L 794,0 794,1123 0,1123 z");
("Viewbox", string.Format("0,0,{0},{1}",
That's why I create a WPF BitmapImage to get the image size in WPF Units...!
//this is just to get the real WPF image size as WPF display units and
//not image pixel size !!
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(images[i]))
BitmapImage myImage = new BitmapImage();
myImage.CacheOption = BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
myImage.StreamSource = ms;
//write the page
WritePageContent(xmlWriter, xpsImage, myImage.Width, myImage.Height);
Dynamic Properties
CBR has no database to store information about the books, so I had to find a way to add properties dynamically to my objects so that they can be extended. Let's says you manage all your books by series... it is not an existing property of my Book model object. So you are not able to define the data, nor to group or to sort them. Another requisite was that they need to be properties to work and take advantage of GroupDescriptions and SortDescription on an ObservableCollection of book. See below in "context menu" chapter.
.NET 4 brings a fantastic but not well known feature: dynamic or Expando objects. First, add a new property to our model like below based on them. What you will add to it will be seen like a property by WPF and reflection, but in code we generally manipulate it like a Dictionary.
private dynamic _dynamics = new ExpandoObject();
public dynamic Dynamics
get { return _dynamics; }
set { _dynamics = value; RaisePropertyChanged("Dynamics"); }
After defining the backstage panel that allows to manage the dynamic property reference list, I am able to use it and refresh the Book model with a synchronized method. I am looping on both dictionaries to update the book properties.
public void SynchronizeProperties(Book bk)
IDictionary<string, object> dict =
(IDictionary<string, object>)bk.Dynamics;
// add the properties from the settings if missing
foreach( string k in WorkspaceService.Instance.Settings.Dynamics )
if (!dict.Keys.Contains(k))
dict.Add(k, string.Empty);
// remove old properties that were removed from settings
foreach (string k in dict.Keys)
if (!WorkspaceService.Instance.Settings.Dynamics.Contains(k))
Filling the backstage file information panel was hard, because WPF sees it as a dictionary when binding as a list of PropertyName/PropertyValue. So I had to convert it to a collection of KeyValueProperty view-model class (derived from BindableObject) that has PropertyChanged event so I can get the value back in the dynamic property.
I let you go through the code in InfoViewModel and KeyValueProperty but also in ExplorerViewModel and PropertyViewModel which uses dynamic to fill the sort and group dropdown button menus.
Context Menu Binding
Everywhere on internet, it is pointed out that the context menu does not share the same logical tree view... and it's easy to get the parent context... But in my case, for the context menus in the explorer, I had extra need:
• Use the commands from the MainViewModel because commands like Read/Bookmark or Delete were already implemented
• Fill sort and group dropdown menus with properties from fixed and dynamic and all calling the same command
Context menus: Sort and book commands
The Book Contextual Menu
As it was not easy to get up in the logical tree view to get the parent main window and to bind to these commands, I choose to implement an intermediary command in my ExplorerViewModel that will forward it to the MainViewModel. Menu items are defined in the XAML like below:
<MenuItem Header="Read" Command="{Binding ForwardCommand}"
It was then easy to implement a command in the ExplorerViewModel that uses the Mediator to inform other views that a command occurs through the CommandContext class that contains the CommandName as a string and the Book item as a parameter.
private ICommand forwardCommand;
public ICommand ForwardCommand
if (forwardCommand == null)
forwardCommand = new DelegateCommand<string>(
delegate(string param)
new CommandContext()
{ CommandName = param,
CommandParameter =
this.Books.CurrentItem } );
delegate(string param)
if (CatalogData != null &&
Books.CurrentItem != null)
return true;
return false;
return forwardCommand;
On the MainViewModel, I have a method that calls the original command by reflection each time the Mediator invokes the registered delegate.
internal void ExecuteDistantCommand(CommandContext context)
if (context != null)
new ReflectionHelper().ExecuteICommand
( this, context.CommandName, context.CommandParameter );
Sort and Group Menus
I faced the same problems with sort and group menu, plus I had to find a way to populate them with Book model class properties, some were dynamic ones. To fill it up, I define two properties in the ExplorerViewModel like below that gives me the menu item lists. I also use reflection to get the properties out of the book... but I quickly found that I need a view model for menu items because I need more than just a property name to continue.
public List<PropertyViewModel> SortProperties
get { return GetSortProperties(); }
PropertyViewModel below contains necessary data to fully identify the properties and a command based on the same model as in previous chapter, that will notify the ExplorerViewModel.
public class PropertyViewModel : ViewModelBase
#region ----------------PROPERTIES----------------
private object CatalogData { get; set; }
public string Prefix { get; set; }
public string ToDisplay { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
#region generic command
private ICommand genericCommand;
public ICommand GenericCommand
if (genericCommand == null)
genericCommand = new DelegateCommand<string>
void ExecCommand(string param)
if (param.Equals("group"))
(ViewModelMessages.ExplorerGroup, this.Name);
if (param.Equals("sort"))
ViewModelMessages.ExplorerSort, this.Name);
Note that in the ExplorerViewModel, we subscribe to both messages and after that, we can modify the SortDescription and GroupDescription on our collection. Group command was a bit special, because it needs to forward the changes to the View to remove the GroupStyle if needed, that's why I call the Messenger.
(Object o) =>
Group( o as string );
internal void Group(string propertyName)
PropertyViewModel prop = GetGroupProperties().Find(p => p.Name == propertyName);
IEnumerable<PropertyGroupDescription> result =
Where(p => p.PropertyName == prop.Prefix + prop.Name);
if (result != null && result.Count() == 1)
Books.GroupDescriptions.Add(new PropertyGroupDescription
(prop.Prefix + prop.Name));
Messenger.Default.Send<MessageBase>( new MessageBase(this) );
In the XAML, mainly have to define the right template for menu items with the display and the command bindings.
<!-- style for menu items in sort/group dropdown buttons -->
<Style x:Key="PropertyViewModel">
<Setter Property="MenuItem.Header" Value="{Binding ToDisplay}"/>
<Setter Property="MenuItem.Command" Value="{Binding GenericCommand}" />
<Setter Property="MenuItem.IsCheckable" Value="true" />
<Style x:Key="GroupMenuItemStyle" BasedOn="{StaticResource PropertyViewModel}" >
<Setter Property="MenuItem.CommandParameter" Value="group" />
<Style x:Key="SortMenuItemStyle" BasedOn="{StaticResource PropertyViewModel}" >
<Setter Property="MenuItem.CommandParameter" Value="sort" />
Update... !
Based on the same principe, i have implemented an automatic property discovering based on an Attribute class that allow me to define which property can be sorted, grouped along with the localize code...below is the schema : The PropertyHelper class provides me directly with the PropertyViewModel collection needed to fill up the menus.
I extend my book model like below to define that this property is not groupable, but sortable and that the localize key is Core.Properties.FilePath. Advantage is that my menus are now automatically updated if i changes properties or the language !
[UserPropertyAttribute(false, true, "Core.Properties.FilePath")]
public string FilePath
Implement Drag and Drop
On the application, from outside
You can drop a comic file or library to the application to open it directly. Easy to implement, add the drop event handler, check if we support the file extension and execute open command in the MainViewModel. Do not forget to allow drop on you main window through the AllowDrop property.
private void RibbonWindow_Drop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop))
MainViewModel mvm = DataContext as MainViewModel;
string[] droppedFilePaths =
e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop, true) as string[];
if (FileService.Instance.FindCatalogFilterByExt
(System.IO.Path.GetExtension(droppedFilePaths[0])) != null)
if (FileService.Instance.FindBookFilterByExt
catch (Exception err)
ExceptionHelper.Manage("MainView:RibbonWindow_Drop", err);
Explorer and Device View
When drag & drop comes from the internal controls, so we have to manage MouseDown, MouseMove events and initiate a drag & drop operation on each possible source control. To make it easier, I develop a DragHelper that you plug on each control that needs to be a source - so you don't care anymore about mouse handling and item preview. The drop destination needs to be managed as usual depending your needs. The DragHelper attaches itself to the control given in the constructor.
public DragHelper( Control attachedView )
_Attached = attachedView;
_Attached.PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown +=
new MouseButtonEventHandler(PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown);
_Attached.PreviewMouseMove += new MouseEventHandler(PreviewMouseMove);
void PreviewMouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
_startPoint = e.GetPosition(null);
void PreviewMouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
if (e.LeftButton == MouseButtonState.Pressed && !IsDragging)
Point position = e.GetPosition(null);
if (Math.Abs(position.X - _startPoint.X) >
SystemParameters.MinimumHorizontalDragDistance ||
Math.Abs(position.Y - _startPoint.Y) >
If we meet the drag distances, we capture the mouse in the application, and send a StartDragEvent to the attached control - so it can prepare data and callback DoDragDrop below. Shortly, it allows drop, attaches itself to the main window DragOver event, creates an adorner that contains the source element preview, and then calls the real DoDragDrop function. When it is released, we clean up all.
public void DoDragDrop( DataObject data, UIElement source )
// Let's define our DragScope .. In this case it is every thing inside
// our main window ..
DragScope = Application.Current.MainWindow.Content as FrameworkElement;
// We enable Drag & Drop in our scope ... We are not implementing Drop,
// so it is OK, but this allows us to get DragOver
bool previousDrop = DragScope.AllowDrop;
DragScope.AllowDrop = true;
// The DragOver event ...
DragEventHandler draghandler = new DragEventHandler(ScopeDragOver);
DragScope.PreviewDragOver += draghandler;
//Here we create our adorner..
_DragAdorner = new DragAdorner(DragScope, source, true, 0.5);
AdornerLayer layer = AdornerLayer.GetAdornerLayer(DragScope as Visual);
DragDropEffects de = DragDrop.DoDragDrop(_Attached, data, DragDropEffects.Move);
// Clean up
DragScope.AllowDrop = previousDrop;
_DragAdorner = null;
DragScope.PreviewDragOver -= draghandler;
IsDragging = false;
How to Use It
To use it is very easy, just instantiate a DragHelper on a control like below:
_drager = new DragHelper(CatalogListBox);
_drager.OnStartDrag += new StartDragEventHandler(drag_OnStartDrag);
Then, create the StartDragEventHandler that will be called by the helper when a drag & drop operation is validated. Find your control item and create the data you need to manage the drop. Call the DragHelper.DoDragDrop function to validate and continue the operation.
void drag_OnStartDrag(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
// Get the dragged ListViewItem
ListBoxItem item = VisualHelper.FindAnchestor<ListBoxItem>
if (item != null)
Book bk = (Book)CatalogListBox.ItemContainerGenerator.
// Find the data behind the item +
// Initialize the drag & drop operation
DataObject dragData = new DataObject("CBR.Book.Path", bk.FilePath);
_drager.DoDragDrop(dragData, item);
In any destination control, handle the _DragOver, _DragLeave and _Drop handler as needed. Check whether the data comes from you, then execute any business code like below to make a file copy.
private void listViewContent_Drop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
if (e.Data.GetDataPresent("CBR.Book.Path"))
string path = e.Data.GetData("CBR.Book.Path") as string;
string destFile = Path.Combine(
(this.FolderTree.SelectedItem as SysElementViewModel).FullPath,
Path.GetFileName(path) );
FileService.Instance.CopyToDevice(path, destFile,
this.cbDiskType.SelectedItem as DeviceInfo);
Implement USB and Device Detection
WMI Event Watcher
WMI as Windows Management Instrumentation is a nice (but complicated feature) that I discover when a friend of mine says "what about dragging my book directly to my reader ?"...ha ha so simple it is? and what about e-book reader supported formats? This drives me to two new features: DeviceConfigView in the backstage that holds devices/manufacturers and supported formats as a referential, and the new USBDeviceView to display USB drives that can be associated to devices.
The idea comes to simply detect USB peripherals for most e-book reader (and later 7 phones). After hours of internet digging and test, no way to get it straight because WMI provides a lot of information but none in the same structure. Here is the solution I implement by writing a helper class that first search for existing devices at the connection time and then watch over usb events.
WMI provides helpful classes and support a query language called WQL: ObjectQuery - to define a query, ManagementObjectSearcher - like an Execute and return collection of ManagementBaseObject - the result that contains asked information.
First, I need two ManagementEventWatcher to get WMI events onto the Win32_USBControllerDevice structure for __InstanceCreationEvent and __InstanceDeletionEvent. Note that the WITHIN clause is like a timer and allow pooling events.
addedWatcher = new ManagementEventWatcher
("SELECT * FROM __InstanceCreationEvent WITHIN 5 WHERE TargetInstance
ISA \"Win32_USBControllerDevice\"");
addedWatcher.EventArrived += new EventArrivedEventHandler(HandleAddedEvent);
// Stop listening for events
if (addedWatcher != null)
Handling the creation event is a bit complicated, because a lot of things are created when plugging a device. First we get that:
Antecedent: \\FR-L25676\root\cimv2:Win32_USBController.DeviceID=
Dependent: \\FR-L25676\root\cimv2:Win32_PnPEntity.DeviceID="USBSTOR\\
I extract from that two pieces of information that allow me to query the Win32_PnPEntity:
• the PNP Device ID that is the Win32_PnPEntity key => USBSTOR\\DISK&VEN_USB&PROD_FLASH_DISK&REV_1100\\AA04012700076941&0
• the Device ID => AA04012700076941&0
and the result is a multirow result set.
I only create an USB drive if "USBSTOR" is founded. Then I parse the line with the service = "disk" to get more information and call GetDiskInformation that is the same as GetExistingDevices.
ManagementBaseObject targetInstance =
e.NewEvent["TargetInstance"] as ManagementBaseObject;
// get the device name in the dependent property Dependent: extract the last part
string PNP_deviceID = Convert.ToString(targetInstance["Dependent"]).
Split('=').Last().Replace("\"", "").Replace("\\", "");
string device_name = Convert.ToString(targetInstance["Dependent"]).
Split('\\').Last().Replace("\"", "");
// query that device entity
ObjectQuery query = new ObjectQuery(string.Format("Select *
from Win32_PnPEntity Where DeviceID like \"%{0}%\"", device_name));
// check if match usb removable disk
using (ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(query))
ManagementObjectCollection entities = searcher.Get();
//first loop to check USBSTOR
foreach (var entity in entities)
string service = Convert.ToString(entity["Service"]);
if (service == "USBSTOR")
device = new USBDiskInfo();
if (device != null)
foreach (var entity in entities)
if (service == "disk")
GetDiskInformation(device, device_name);
if (EventArrived != null)
EventArrived(this, new WMIEventArgs()
{ Disk = device, EventType = WMIActions.Added });
To handle the device removal, I implemented this method: get the instance fired by event, extract the PNP device id and if we remove the device from our collection, fire an internal event targeting the application.
private void HandleRemovedEvent(object sender, EventArrivedEventArgs e)
ManagementBaseObject targetInstance =
e.NewEvent["TargetInstance"] as ManagementBaseObject;
string PNP_deviceID = Convert.ToString(targetInstance
USBDiskInfo device = Devices.Find(x => x.PNPDeviceID == PNP_deviceID);
if( device != null )
Devices.Remove( device );
if (EventArrived != null)
EventArrived(this, new WMIEventArgs()
{ Disk = device, EventType = WMIActions.Removed });
For existing devices, I go from Win32_DiskDrive through Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition through Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition to reach Win32_LogicalDisk. This makes a cascade of query and loop like below:
ObjectQuery diskQuery = new ObjectQuery
("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive where InterfaceType='USB'");
foreach (ManagementObject drive in new ManagementObjectSearcher(diskQuery).Get())
ObjectQuery partQuery = new ObjectQuery(
String.Format("associators of {{Win32_DiskDrive.DeviceID='{0}'}}
where AssocClass = Win32_DiskDriveToDiskPartition", drive["DeviceID"])
foreach (ManagementObject partition in new ManagementObjectSearcher
// associate partitions with logical disks (drive letter volumes)
ObjectQuery logicalQuery = new ObjectQuery(
String.Format("associators of {{Win32_DiskPartition.DeviceID='{0}'}}
where AssocClass = Win32_LogicalDiskToPartition", partition["DeviceID"])
foreach (ManagementObject logical in new ManagementObjectSearcher
USBDiskInfo disk = new USBDiskInfo();
ParseDiskDriveInfo(disk, drive);
ParseDiskLogicalInfo(disk, logical);
Use it in the Application
First, create an instance of the watcher in the MainWindowView, start it and get events with a new handler. Do not forget to manage existing devices that were plugged before the application start.
private WMIEventWatcher wmi = new WMIEventWatcher();
private void RibbonWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
wmi.EventArrived += new WMIEventArrived(wmi_EventArrived);
MainViewModel mvm = DataContext as MainViewModel;
if (mvm != null)
//add all existing disks
foreach (USBDiskInfo disk in wmi.Devices)
In the event handler, as it is called on another thread, we use the application dispatcher to call the commands to add or remove a device. This will update/create the device view. Do not forget to close the watcher in the OnClose event of the main window.
void wmi_EventArrived(object sender, WMIEventArgs e)
(DispatcherPriority.DataBind, (ThreadStart)delegate {
MainViewModel mvm = DataContext as MainViewModel;
if (mvm != null)
if (e.EventType == WMIActions.Added)
if (e.EventType == WMIActions.Removed)
Localization engine
How it works?
To complete the core model explanation, everything happens in the GetValue method of the LocalizationExtension. I extend this existing method to ask the configured provider. ConvertValue is the same, GetObject has been overridden in all provider to search the asked key. More changes occurs in the GetDefaultValue, because the provider will create the file, dictionary and resource item.
/// <summary>
/// Return the value associated with the key from the resource manager
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The value from the resources if possible otherwise the default value</returns>
protected override object GetValue()
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Key))
throw new ArgumentException("Key cannot be null");
object result = null;
IResourceProvider provider = null;
object resource = null;
//allow resource trapping by calling the handler
if (GetResource != null)
resource = GetResource(ResModul, Key, CultureManager.Instance.UICulture);
if (resource == null)
//get the provider
if (provider == null)
provider = CultureManager.Instance.Provider;
//get the localized resource
if (provider != null)
resource = provider.GetObject(this, CultureManager.Instance.UICulture);
//and then convert it to desired type
result = provider.ConvertValue(this, resource);
catch (Exception err)
// if it does not work, we ask the default value
if (result == null)
result = provider.GetDefaultValue(this, CultureManager.Instance.UICulture);
catch (Exception err)
return result;
Use it in the Application
Configure the provider you want through settings LocalizeProvider and LocalizeFolder, then just replace the actual content with something like below: ResModul is the destination file, Key is the unique resource identifier in the file and DefaultValue is the displayed text. There is no need to add an extra namespace because the resource extension is associated with standard XAML namespace.
Text="{LocalizationExtension ResModul=CBR.Backstage, Key=ConvertView.Title, DefaultValue=Convert}"
Note that a localize version will be created and displayed in the designer and the program until you work on it. This helps identifying quickly what you have missed. At the runtime, all resources for the running culture a going to be added automatically to the files, no need to create one!
Implement Language Choice and Editor
I design a dropdown button associated with a Gallery that display the CultureInfoItem provided by the GetAvailableCulture method of CultureManager. They are mapped to a LanguageMenuItemViewModel which derive from MenuItemViewModel that is the generic class for all CBR menus items in the MVVM pattern.
The associated XAML below define it:
<Fluent:Gallery ItemsSource="{Binding Languages}"
GroupBy="Tag" x:Name="languageGallery" MinItemsInRow="1" MaxItemsInRow="2"
Orientation="Horizontal" SelectionChanged="languageGallery_SelectionChanged">
<Image Source="{Binding Icon}" Width="16" Height="16" />
<TextBlock Text="{Binding ToDisplay}" />
<Style TargetType="{x:Type Fluent:GalleryItem}"
BasedOn="{StaticResource {x:Type Fluent:GalleryItem}}">
<Setter Property="Fluent:GalleryItem.IsSelected" Value="{Binding IsChecked}"/>
The editor is a very simple tool window. In the source pane, you choose the language and module you want to work on. Click the Select button to use the language in the application. Note that the window is amodal, so you can continue to use C.B.R. to check your work. The grid display the selected resources: Key, Default is the original text from development, Translated is the one you need to work on and that will be displayed.
In the New pane, you can select a culture that does not exist actually, add an icon file name and then click Create button to add a new language in "memory". Use the Save button to commit your changes to the files.
Update 1... !
This bloomy engine was not thinked for localizing from code ! Before the tabs for multi-document support, i had no resource out of XAML. But when it comes to messages or tab titles like "home" and "devices"...MarkupExtension fails because it is for XAML only ! So i found a turn arround solution. For messages to be displayed in message boxes, just ask the resource. Tabs need to be updated via the ViewModel when the language is changed.
I wrote a new function in CultureManager to ask a localization based on the same principle...GetLocalization(string modul, string key, string defaultValue) will go through the provider to find if an existing LocalizationExtension or LocalizationItem exist. If not it will manage everything like the original engine do.
To put it in a ViewModel like my "Home" tab, I add to subscribe to the CultureManager event when culture change...and unsubscribe in the Dispose method. That it's....hours and hours to find an elegant solution !
public HomeViewModel()
CultureManager.Instance.UICultureChanged += new CultureEventArrived(Instance_UICultureChanged);
DisplayName = CultureManager.Instance.GetLocalization("ByCode", "DocumentTitle.Home", "Home");
void Instance_UICultureChanged(object sender, CultureEventArgs e)
protected override void OnDispose()
CultureManager.Instance.UICultureChanged -= new CultureEventArrived(Instance_UICultureChanged);
Update 2... !
Cultures are now identified by the IETF code from the net class CultureInfo. It combines language and country code like fr-FR : french in FRANCE. fr-CA is french in CANADA. CultureItem class has been removed and the icon is now named based on IETF code too.
Update 3... !
The localize editor has been improved and display now an additionnal column about unused resources...Then it has been completed with WPF spellcheck. Note that you will have to install net language packs ! and by the way, fluent gallery are now displaying correctly with the manage button at the bottom.
Extend the engine
If you want to extend it with a database provider for example, write your model and provider and feel free to provide us feedback ! I need it for another project Smile | <img src= " src="" />
Note that CBR is not fully localized on beta items and tooltips...
3D and 2 pages flip viewer
For a long time, I had a look to Mistu Futura "2 pages book", but I was not sure about the performance of an ItemControl binded to more than 50 bitmap pages...and recently I discover after short tests that binding only occurs when turning the pages! So I decided to go further and adapt this control to my needs. Original code is not very well documented and content is based on "full fit" and xaml user controls, so no scaling I had to found a solution where bitmaps allways fit the pages the best they can. I also need it to be in a scrollview and answers my actual book commands.
How it works ?
First, take all original code into a folder, change the class names to be more clear, group, and transform the user control into a control. This lead us to LinearGradiantHelper, PageParameters, CornerOrigin and PageStatus (no changes) - and TwoPageBook (the new main control) with TripleSheet control that represent the 3 page sides on the right or left part of the book. When animating a page we can see the side in front of us, the one behind (when it rolls the page) and the front side on the page before (or after).
I modify the control to have his default style and wrap it into a scrollviewer like the template below. I remove a few things I do not need like zoom on current page...
<Style x:Key="{x:Type local:TwoPageBook}" TargetType="{x:Type local:TwoPageBook}">
<Setter Property="VerticalAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
<Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Stretch" />
<Setter Property="ClipToBounds" Value="False" />
<Setter Property="Template">
<ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type local:TwoPageBook}">
<ScrollViewer Name="PART_ScrollViewer" Focusable="True"
VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Auto">
<Grid Name="PART_Content">
<ColumnDefinition Width="50*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="50*" />
<local:TripleSheet Grid.Column="0" x:Name="sheet0" HorizontalAlignment="Right"
IsTopRightCornerEnabled="false" IsBottomRightCornerEnabled="false" />
<local:TripleSheet Grid.Column="1" x:Name="sheet1" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
IsTopLeftCornerEnabled="false" IsBottomLeftCornerEnabled="false" />
Then, I complete the class OnApplyTemplate method to grap my parts to be sure _Content will be scaled and the _ScrollContainer will be used later to be able to fit into the document view. I also add Scale, FitMode and a CurrentPageIndex because original code manage a sheet index (index divided by 2). Then I change the TripleSheet template to have the content to fit and colors to fill the gap when bitmap cannot shrink correctly. Note that the Fit method make an entorse to the genericity of the control by using the Page model class...that was the only way to find the content size ! -Frown | <img src= src="" /> /p>
public override void OnApplyTemplate()
_ScrollContainer = (ScrollViewer)GetTemplateChild("PART_ScrollViewer");
_Content = (FrameworkElement)GetTemplateChild("PART_Content");
_scaleTransform.CenterX = 0.5;
_scaleTransform.CenterY = 0.5;
_Content.LayoutTransform = _scaleTransform;
private void Fit()
if (FitMode == DisplayFitMode.Height)
Scale = (this._ScrollContainer.ViewportHeight - FIT_BORDER) / (Items[CurrentSheetIndex] as CBR.Core.Models.Page).Image.Height;
else if (FitMode == DisplayFitMode.Width)
Scale = (this._ScrollContainer.ViewportWidth - FIT_BORDER) / ((Items[CurrentSheetIndex] as CBR.Core.Models.Page).Image.Width * 2);
For performance reasons, I split my book view into two separate classes : simple page view and 2 pages view. OOppps ! I have to manage the swap between the 2 modes and passing parameters ! As the book is loaded, I just need the current page index. The book views communicate through the main view that receive a SwapTwoPageView message and convert the view into the desired one like illustrated below.
(BookViewModelBase o) =>
internal void SwapTwoPageMode(BookViewModelBase o)
BookViewModelBase newModel = null;
BookViewModelBase oldModel = null;
if (o is ComicViewModel)
ComicViewModel comic = o as ComicViewModel;
newModel = new TwoPageViewModel(o.Data, comic.CurrentPage.Index, comic.FitMode, comic.PreviousScale);
TwoPageViewModel comic = o as TwoPageViewModel;
newModel = new ComicViewModel(o.Data, comic.CurrentPageIndex, comic.FitMode, comic.PreviousScale);
oldModel = o;
Note that many of the books I found are not really compliant with this view because of page ratio that are never the same or contains double scan. Don't be surprised, but as I do not process the images and read them in memory, I can't make any adjustments.
Many thanks to SevenZip (which allows me to uncompress in memory), Fluent Ribbon for this excellent control library and also for all the internet contributors I read along this project.
Your feedback
As the last version was pretty long to come out and 0.6 was downloaded around 60 000 times, I think you are perhaps interested to be able to give some more precise feed back, I put all planned features in the "Issue tracker" page of the project. So now you are able to give me feedback about your needs priority by voting or create new items. This will help me to plan next version content.
Deliverables - Installation notes
With version 0.7 and installer, always remove the previous version or some files are not going to be replaced and big troubles will occurs. I will work on a better solution.
There is no more download on CodeProject, because there 4 deliverables of consequent sizes : 9 Mo for installers, 16 Mo of sources and 7Mo of direct binaries. Please visit the link to get the needed one.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do and that you will find your needs in my code or in my software. If you get any better solution for the problems I faced, please forward...
History (simplified...)
• v0.7
• Ribbon tabs and commands have been re-organized
• ePUB : Complete refactoring
• Add a new dedicated feed viewer for opds stream
• Localize Engine improved: add functions to manage resource by code, now based on ietf language/country code, remove image from xml (based on code), remove CultureItem class. Better copy, management view and gallery, spell check
• Dynamic Books: Designer for frames is now MVVM and much better. It is based in ItemControl and templated with a Canvas. Also added 7Phone and Tablet simulators
• Release mode are now "Any CPU" to be compliant with the running plateform. Added 32 and 64 bits versions of 7z.dll. Installer for x32 and x64, registry keys for ie emulation mode for epub/html view
• Multi-Doc: C.B.R. has now an option for multi document display with tabs - Integrate customized AvalonDock 2 library.
• PDF image extraction improved and new image merging conversion option
• New BrowseForControl
• Customized xps viewer to suppress toolbars and bind it to cbr commands
• Add quick start manual and button in the home page, manage internal CBR feed language
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thanks...and happy reading and coding !
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Simple library which aims to simplify late binding calls with C#
This article describes a helper library for performing late binding calls to an instance of a type using the .NET framework. Additionaly as Automation calls (former OLE Automation) are encapsulated under the .NET Framework by the Late Binding system, this library also simplifies interprocess communication using Automation on applications which supports it, e.g: Microsoft Office suite. As the C# language is still far away from the model available for VB.NET, the intention is to provide a simpler model for that language, although the library can be consumed by any .NET language.
With C#4.0 the dynamic keyword will be added so -with time- this library will be deprecated. But C# 4.0 isn't out yet, and even when it comes out, there will be still a lot of projects using previous versions of the C# language which could benefit from this library.
Finally the interface for the library has completly changed. Now it's designed as a fluent interfece, which really improves both usability and code readability. [^]
Late Binding consists in performing the name binding for a method call or field access at runtime instead of at compile time. The later is called -predictably- early binding. An example of early binding could be many of the method calls we can see in C# every day:
System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(".//myFile.txt");
//early binding call
string fileContent= sr.ReadToEnd();
Early binding allows compile-time optimization and type-checks, among other things, but in order to do that, we must provide concrete references to the types used. In the example above, a reference to mscorlib.dll assembly, which contains the data for the type System.IO.StreamReader, must be provided to the C# compiler.
Note that in a strict definition of early binding, a virtual / abstract method is a late binding call, as the resolution of the real method called for a virtual method depends on the type of the object, which is evaluated at runtime. This is called Dynamic Binding [^], and it will not be treated as Late binding in this article.
Late Binding swaps the security and optimization of early binding for a more wild approach: we just take a generic object and command it to perform an operation with a concrete signature. If the object happens to expose an operation which exactly matches the signature then all will be ok and the CLR will perform the operation at runtime.
But, what if the object does not expose that operation? In that case, bad things will happen:
Using the Library
The source includes a Visual Studio 2005 solution (which can safely be converted to a 2008 one) containing three projects:
• A project for the library itself
• A project a simple type for testing
• A project with Unit Test (NUnit based), which also serves as code sample
The external libraries needed to compile the code (NUnit) are also included: just download/checkout and build!
All late binding functionality is based on the interface LateBindingHelper.IOperationInvoker
Acquisition of an IOperationInvoker interface is done using a Factory: LateBindingHelper.BindingFactory which allows creation of an IOperationInvoker binded to an object instance. The factory provides various possibilities for instanciating an IOperationInvoker:
• Using an instance of an object as a "prototype", so the IOperationInvoker instance is binded to that particular object instance
• Using a System.Type to create a new instance of the Type at runtime (optionally arguments for the constructor can be also specified)
• Using a pair of strings defining both the Assembly and the Type of the object we want to instanciate.
• Using a string which defines an specific application ProcID
MyClass myClassInstance = new MyClass();
//Late Binding calls will be dispatched to the myClassInstance object
IOperationInvoker lbf1 = BindingFactory.CreateObjectBinding( myClassInstance );
//Creates a new MyClass object instance where the late binding call will be dispatched
//using the default constructor
IOperationInvoker lbf2 = BindingFactory.CreateObjectBinding( typeof(MyClass) );
int integerArgument = 2008;
//dispatched passing arguments to the constructor
IOperationInvoker lbf3 = BindingFactory.CreateObjectBinding( typeof(MyClass),
integerArgument );
BindingFactory.CreateAutomationBinding() factory makes a binding to an Automation application given its Running Object Table (ROT) name or ProcID:
IOperationInvoker word = BindingFactory.CreateAutomationBinding("word.application");
Once we have an instance of an IOperationInvoker interface, we can send any operation we want to the object using the interface, and the operation will be issued at runtime
Here are some code examples showing the different operations we can perform:
Calling a Method
//Method call without parameters and no return value
myLBInvoker.Method ("Method1" ).Invoke();
//Method call with parameters and no return value (or we don't need the return value)
int arg1 = 1;
double arg2 = 2.3;
myLBInvoker.Method( "Method2" )
//Method call without parameters and a return value of type int
int result;
result = myLBInvoker.Method( "Method3" )
//Or with explicit casting
result = (int)myLBInvoker.Method( "Method3" )
//Method call with parameters and a return value of type int
int result;
int arg1 = 1;
double arg2 = 2.3;
result = myLBInvoker.Method( "Method2" )
//Or with explicit casting
result = (int)myLBInvoker.Method( "Method2" )
Calling a Method with Reference Parameters
int refValue = 10;
double notRefParam1 = 20;
bool notRefParam2 = true;
//Make the call. Args.ByRefIndexs indicates the index number of the arguments
//which are passed as reference
//Recover the new value for the parameter passed by reference
refValue = (int)myLBInvoker.LastCallParameters[2];
Accessing Properties or Fields
//Get property value
bool boolResult;
boolResult = myLBInvoker.Property(("Property1").Get<bool>();
//With explicit cast
boolResult = (bool)myLBInvoker.Property("Property1").Get<object>();
//Get field value
int intResult;
intResult = myLBInvoker.Field("field1").Get<int>();
//With explicit cast
intResult = (int)myLBInvoker.Field("field1").Get<object>();
//Set property value
//Set field value
//Get object at index position
string result;
result = myLBInvoker.Index(5).Get<string>();
//Set value for an index position
//Works with any object as indexer:
result = myLBInvoker.Index("myStringIndexer").Get<string>();
One More Thing: IOperationInvoker as Return Type
You can use IOperationInvoker as a return type for an operation, and if you do so, you'll receive an working instance of an object defining the IOperationInvoker interface. That means that you can concatenate late binding call on different objects:
IOperationInvoker yetAnotherOrdersManager = BindingFactory.CreateBinding(
int firstOrderID = yetAnotherOrdersManager
//Here we return a list of orders
//We access the first order... hoping we have at least one order
//stored so no nasty exception is throw.
//Access orderID field and save it.
Word Automation Example
A test -disabled by default- is included as an example to create a binding to Microsoft Word and control the application with the library using Automation. The code is also listed here:
IOperationInvoker wordApp = BindingFactory.CreateAutomationBinding("Word.Application");
//Get Word objects to interop operations
IOperationInvoker document = wordApp.Property("Documents").Get<IOperationInvoker>();
IOperationInvoker selection = wordApp.Property("Selection").Get<IOperationInvoker>();
string str = "Hello World!";
//Make workd visible
//Activate bold
//Change font size
foreach (char c in str)
//Hide Word
bool visibility = wordApp.Property("Visible").Get<bool>();
visibility = !visibility;
//We need to get the type of the enumeration, that breaks the Late Binding
//approach as we need a way to know a specific type, and it's aseembly
//Type enumType = Assembly
// .LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word")
// .GetType("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveOptions", false);
//word.Call("Quit", Activator.CreateInstance(enumType)));
//But if we know the equivalent int to the enum value it will work
//WdSaveOptions.wdDoNotSaveChanges == 0
Related Articles & Bibliography
• January 2009 -- Updated article to reflect changes in the interface
• September 2008 -- Initial version
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Well Doc Ock's theme is of an Octopus and HYDRA's symbol is of a Octopus-like creature
Besides Doc Ock needs such power in order to be taken seriously nowadays and HYDRA needs a strong, intelligent,ruthless, and sturdy leader for once
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Nah, Doc Ock is more of an AIM type of guy.
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HYDRA's got an abundance of leaders doesn't it? Yeah I'd say AIM too. Work with Monica Rappacinni maybe.
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Acquiring new talent is as thrilling as it is daunting for the content managers who must train them. New talent means new abilities and aptitudes, which a clever content guru could quickly put to work for clients’ agendas. However, proceeding requires caution and expertise in the fine art of training people who already have hefty egos.
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1. Voice
While voice is the most difficult element to pin down, readers most quickly recognize it. Voice is the ineffable quality in writing that is conveyed almost intuitively. If you read an article and presume the writer is a chatty gossip, then it’s because the piece has conveyed that voice to you. Technical writing is often devoid of voice, or personality, but all other forms of writing show hints of the writer’s self.
personalitypurdy2.4Revisit a piece submitted by the new writer (either from their portfolio or early works within the company): reassign this piece from a new perspective. For example, instruct them to write the same piece from the angle of an angry, outraged father or a forlorn widow. Tell them to carefully choose each word, each sentence layout, and each image for the article as though they were this person. This lesson will show them how drastically a piece can be modified by personal perspective.
Good people are locked up in lives that do not deserve them, for they are born unto slavery, chosen by their parents. It is not our choice to live well, for we’re well wallered into graves before we’ve born a first sentient thought.
Angry Father:
Parents pick how their kids will live. But parents can’t be blamed for the societal walls that suffocate their kids, locking them into unsatisfying lives. Good people are trapped in subpar existences.
2. Word Selection
Clever writers are concise. Many of them have huge vocabularies, so they can effortlessly select the precise word to convey a complex meaning. However, some clients may have a word selection style that suits their audience. If a new writer chooses GRE-level words for a sixth-grade audience, the mismatch will be apparent.
Another facet of word choice is fluidity. Alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia, and other methods of sentence fluidity can be used to create a sing-song like reading for the audience. Writers have been known to create flowing, rhythmic paragraphs that end with an abrupt break in style to concentrate readers’ attention on a specific phrase or conclusion.
thesauruspurdy2.4Link the new talent to an online thesaurus and a random student’s writing. Instruct the writer to re-write the piece with very colorful adjectives without losing any meaning. More importantly, remind the writer not to add meaning. While upgrading adjectives is easy, it often leads to new, subtle shades of meaning that aren’t intentional.
Another option is to reassign the writer someone’s newspaper article, specifying that he or she must make it rhyme. Explain that the piece’s meaning must not change. This will stretch the writer to choose new, colorful words or drastically different sentence arrangements.
Donkeys are brown. They live in fields. Their lives are filled with hard work.
Colorful Version:
Every day bay hairs glint from the spines of drudging asses.
3. Sentence Structure
Does a sentence grasp attention immediately and suck you into the paragraph? Does it ramble endlessly and leave the most exciting tidbit for the last phrase? The sentence structure is greatly dependent upon a writer’s predetermination of sentence flow (or lack thereof) and skill level.
sentancestructurepurdy2.4Assign a new writer a piece of writing, explaining that every single sentence must start with a punch. All important meaning should be immediately revealed. Then, reassign the piece with the opposite instructions: tell them to hide the meaning at the ends of sentences and paragraphs.
The girl ran down the street with her hair flowing behind her while she screamed, “Murder!”
“Murder!” a girl screamed, her hair chasing her down the street as she ran.
4. Content Structure
Journalistic writing starts with a bang and gets the point across as quickly as possible. As the piece goes on it spills details and less relevant facts. Technical writing evenly dispenses information to effect focus and learning. However, most clients prefer writing designed to attract readers, which means the writer must masterfully promise a lot upfront, and then carefully deliver in an outlined structure.
contentstructurepurdy2.4If a client consistently uses listicles (like Cracked) or always uses a journalistic structure (like The Wall Street Journal), the a writer should be cognizant of it. Assign a topic twice to a new writer, telling him or her to write it once as a straightforward process paper, and the second time as a thrilling email to a friend.
To make vanilla ice cubes you must first buy an ice cube tray and wash it. Then, you should prepare vanilla flavored water. Carefully pour the mixture into the tray and freeze it. These cubes are delicious in coke, rum or coffee.
Oh my gosh! I drank my Diet Coke with frozen vanilla this morning … Mmmmm! Try it! Just freeze vanilla water in an ice tray. I bet it’s awesome in coffee or rum, y’know?
5. Audience
While the content structure often reveals the audience to the reader or writer-in-training, there are other tell-tale signs. Comments should be studied to gauge the audience interaction level, educational composition and style. Also, the style of the website is often telling of the audience. For example, a chic and trendy layout might hint at educated hipster readers, whereas a dull and straightforward style could point at business professionals.
Give the writer a children’s book and ask him or her to re-write it for scholarly audiences. Explain that it should be written like a speech for a graduate symposium.
Jenny didn’t like baby sister! Mommy loved her more. Jenny pouted.
Regression in children is a common form of sibling rivalry: castigation moves the outward expression into the subconscious, which instigates adult manifestations of anxiety and inappropriate competition. Research indicates that personality is the determining factor in how a child will react to new nuclear family members.
6. Agenda
Is the content pushy and pointed at sales pitches? Does the content barely suggest anything and merely convey stories, funny anecdotes or news? The agenda of the client might be surreptitiously laid out in one link per scarcely-relevant article, or it could be a call to action in every single sentence. Whatever their agenda is, or how loudly it’s touted, the writer-in-training should take note.
targetstrategypurdy2.4Show the writer different examples of Calls to Action and sales-y text, explaining the various levels of push. Tell him or her to re-write a TV infomercial in a subtle, mommy-blog style.
Buy now! This amazing deal won’t last long. With only three easy payments, you can own this life-saving device!
Mommy Blog:
I paid a total of $49 for the device, which saved my baby’s life. If I hadn’t bought it, who knows what my life would be like today. I recommend it for all new moms, especially because it has an easy payment plan.
Completing these exercises will prepare any new writer to research and complement any client. While not every new talent needs help with every single element of writing, everyone would benefit from a refresher. In the end, mastering these style elements will result in happier clients and more clicks from an understood audience.
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MathematicalModeling of Transient Heat Conduction and Analysis of Thermal Stresses in a Thin Circular Plate
K.S. Patil, Sunita Patil, Yogesh Sharma, J.S.V.R. Krinshna Prasad
In this paper, the solution of the problem of transient heat conduction in a thin circular plate subjected to two types of boundary conditions is obtained by employing the integral transform technique in the form of infinite series. It is assumed that the plate is in the plane state of stress and initially the temperature of the plate is kept at zero. The first type of boundary condition is that in which the upper surface is kept at arbitrary temperature, lower surface is kept at zero temperature and circular edge is insulated. In the literature, the origin of coordinates is taken to be the centre of the lower surface of the plate. The second type of boundary condition is that in which a linear combination of temperature and its normal derivatives is prescribed on the circular edge as well as on the plane surfaces of the plate. The true results are given in the form of figure.
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They have prattled on, inventing controversy where none exists, to "create" the political dialogue; with the cooperation of the shiny object obsessed, lack of Fourth Estate awareness, modern Corporate Media, they have succeeded.
Healthcare reform turns into killing grandma, a new President of color becomes a never ending "story" about his citizenship, birthplace, how he got his education, etc.
And the media leading the parade until hacks like Donald Trump, of all people, blow another dog whistle, or political losers like John McCain want some air time and create another "controversy". Thank you for your service sir, but somewhere around Sarah Palin-ville, that card expired.
And the media keeps on playing the game, never mind that Obama has the most politically diverse cabinet in a very long time, actually incorporating the "enemy" into his decisions. That would never get close to happening on a Republican's watch.
That isn't constantly brought up when the watch words were "bi-partisan cooperation". The previous GOP candidate, whose name I care not to ever type again, was making bi-partisanship sound like something he and Karl Rove thought up having drinks with the Koch brothers, rather than Obama's exhausted path of semi- effective action- so much that those of us with Liberal minion status are saying "screw bipartisanship" cram it through and make it stick.
One thing Reagan was right about, it's easier doing it and then apologizing, rather than trying to get consensus and approval beforehand.
Now the GOP and the media- (I include the media in almost every shape and size, they are an unofficial adjunct of the GOP ("it's a horse race, it's a horse race" was no accident)- Fox is just the most glaringly obvious) are lining up with do-nothing, know nothing Republicans as they build the momentum and "create" the story of Benghazi and why Susan Rice isn't qualified. Never mind that in reality anyone that Obama nominates isn't qualified- unless he chooses Paul Ryan, and that's a definite maybe,
There was confusion after Benghazi, but more importantly, it was confusion that primarily result was to NOT aide and assist the enemy.
All we, the American people need to know right then, was that a tragedy had occurred at an American consulate and angry anti-Americans did it. That way, we are not advertising that al-quaedi struck the American Satan or some such. I still remember the Iran hostage crisis and every thing said or done turned into fuel for the extremists and points for screwing the Great American Satan. No one knows how many similar incidents on the anniversary of Nine-Eleven, giving al-quaedi public props, could have incited.
When things settle out, as they did, cooler heads would see that absolute transparency was not in the nation's best interest at the time.
But cooler heads amongst the GOP, -especially with their candidate going down in flames at the same moment, were not to be found.
So the echo-chamber and the McCain start generating the whirlwind that it was the bearer of the new, not the creator of the news, who should bear full responsibility for the "travesty to the American people, blah, blah" Even after the President said he accepted responsibility for the entire thing, the slathering pitch-forkers ignored that.
That Susan Rice, because of this "travesty to the blah, blah" was not qualified to replace Clinton, despite her extreme qualifications. In fact, it was a done deal and they would not vote for any replacement (sound familiar?) until this "travesty" is resolved. The one they made up and turned into chaos, non-jobs distraction, sound bite city with the media happily recording and echoing every statement as though it had merit.
Why the big deal, why this candidate- as the Norquist mandate starts to crumble?
I asked myself that question as I listened to the whole thing unfolding on NPR and BBC, why such a big deal?
So, I web searched it, hoping against hope that my hunch was not accurate, and I saw a picture of Susan Rice, and it confirmed my suspicions, once again.
My hunch was based on their past behavior -Sotomayor, among others, leaps to mind.
In an abbreviated way, that's why I am so sick of Republicans.
At least they aren't requesting Rice's birth certificate; yet.
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The truth comes out about User Account Control
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RE: Zero Click Security?
By Locutus465 on 4/11/2008 1:57:21 PM , Rating: 2
If you've installed any application at all on vista without modifying the default UAC settings then you've seen the prompts. The screen will darken and you'll get various forms of Cancel/Allow or Continue/Cancel dialogs that you have to answer before windows will allow you to do *ANYTHING* else.
I do agree that they are not the constant issue many people make them out to be. I do get promts at least once a day, but only because I have to run VS.Net 2005 in administrator mode to ensure I can properly run the debugger.
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The pair will investigate the use of Radeon GPUs for physics processing
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RE: Huh?
By MonkeyPaw on 6/13/2008 7:14:57 PM , Rating: 2
There could be many reasons that this is happening. One might be because AMD/ATI have open sourced the driver code and show much good will towards using their GPUs for other things. The HD line of cards have lots of power for certain parallel code, like FAH for example. Also consider that just because company A owns company B doesn't mean the 2 agree and collaborate on everything. I know of a few situations where the above scenario holds true. Intel may own Havok because they see potential in the concept and wish to keep it going, merely to capitalize on it later. If no software makers adopt this physics engine, then Intel will never be able to take advantage of it down the road. Intel certainly wants parallelism to grow, and using ATI's balanced HD architecture should help that cause because it's free and available now. nVidia chooses to keep thier technology closer to the hip, so they get left behind, at least for the moment.
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RE: 2012??
By Dianoda on 2/4/2009 12:56:49 PM , Rating: 1
The US is so sneaky. 'Sure, we won't actually test the nuclear weapons, but that doesn't mean we're not going to test the weapons.' Building a computer to test it for you kinda violates the spirit of the treaty, but whatevers.
Now I just want to know, how the heck does it work? Are they simulating atom to atom interactions? On a grand scale? I guess they just build as complex and realistic a model for an atom as possible and replicate it a few billion times into the shape of the blueprint, and tell the computer to make it happen. And while the computer's working on the output, they probably just dick around.
'Suppose the bomb was under assault by a legion of fuzzy bunnies...We should really know exactly what would happen, just in case.' Ah, taxpayer dollars at their finest.
And I'm all for decommissioning old warheads, but as far as making new ones, how many do we really need, tactical or otherwise? It's not like were in a cold war with anyone. I say, just keep a few good eggs and say you got lots, I mean, come on, who would ever be able to call your bluff? Makes security a lot easier. And would be oh so much cheaper, spend that money you saved on some of those sweet looking rail-guns or a really big orbital laser. Or an orbital laser rail-gun. Impossible, completely illogical? Maybe. Awesome? definitely. Wave of the future!
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Acoustic tweezers are useful in biology experiments
One of the biggest challenges in moving tiny objects like single cells is moving them accurately without damaging the living cell. Techniques that work for moving tiny beads or other objects involve optical tweezers, but this method could kill live cells.
Optical tweezers on the other hand are large and expensive devices. Researchers at Penn State, however, have developed acoustic tweezers that are smaller than a dime and can be fabricated onto a chip using standard chip making techniques.
The acoustic tweezers can be used to position many tiny objects like cells simultaneously. The objects are placed equidistant from each other either in parallel lines or on a grid. The most useful method for biological applications would be the grid configuration. The researchers say scientists could use this configuration to place stem cells on a grid for testing or to place skin cells on a grid to grow new skin.
"Current methods for moving individual cells or tiny beads include such devices as optical tweezers, which require a lot of energy and could damage or even kill live cells," said Tony Jun Huang, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics. "Acoustic tweezers are much smaller than optical tweezers and use 500,000 times less energy."
He continued saying, "Acoustic tweezers are not just useful in biology. They can be used in physics, chemistry, and materials science to create patterns of nanoparticles for coatings or to etch surfaces."
The acoustic tweezers work by creating a standing surface acoustic wave. If the two acoustic sound sources are aimed at each other, a series of lines is formed where objects align. If aimed at right angles to each other a line or series of lines are formed creating a checkerboard effect. The tweezers are made by fabricating an interdigital transducer onto a piezoelectric chip surface. These transducers are the source of the sound. The researchers tested the acoustic tweezers using cow red blood cells and a single E. coli bacteria cell.
"The results verify the versatility of our technique as the two groups of cells differ significantly in both shape (spherical beads vs. rod-shaped E. coli) and size," Noted the researchers.
"Most cells or particles patterned in a few seconds," said Huang. "The energy used is very low and the acoustic tweezers should not damage cells at all. Because they have different properties, the acoustic tweezers could also separate live from dead cells, or different types of particles."
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RE: Hooray for jargon!
By MrWho on 9/1/2009 3:09:54 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah, that and the interducer amalgomometer.
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Audi e-tron
Concept has four electric motors and a single battery pack
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RE: <Drool>
By Spuke on 9/15/2009 11:46:54 AM , Rating: 2
3,000 ft-lbs of torque is useless in a sports car. How do you couple it to the road?
With todays tires, you don't. The torque would be severely limited in reality. BTW, I heard rumors of this car for the past two months or so. The rumors were an actual electric R8. But it turns out it's just a concept car with an R8-like body.
RE: <Drool>
By theapparition on 9/15/2009 3:16:32 PM , Rating: 4
Not at all true.
Take an old C5 Corvette, with only approximately 360ft-lbs. Multiply that by 3.06 for first gear and 3.42 for differential gear. That's a torque multiplier of 10.46 which is a total of ~3800ft-lbs at the rear wheels.
Not at all much different. Also explains why 0-60 times are so similar to a C5. A C6 would even be higher in the 4500ft-lbs range.
Quite a bit of difference between engine torque and wheel torque.
RE: <Drool>
By Spuke on 9/16/2009 11:38:06 AM , Rating: 3
Quite a bit of difference between engine torque and wheel torque.
Then what does a Dynojet measure?
RE: <Drool>
By theapparition on 9/16/2009 12:57:10 PM , Rating: 2
Have you ever run a Dynojet?
I have.
You have to enter those parameters in when stating the pull. For automatics, it uses the ODB port to determine which gear you're in.
When an engine is rated for torque and power, per the SAE standard, it is tested on an engine stand, not in a car.
It is a misnomer that when gearheads (like myself) rate cars with rwhp and rwtq, it is really engine hp and torque accounting for drivetrain losses.
RE: <Drool>
By Zoomer on 9/16/2009 6:30:23 PM , Rating: 2
Since the motors are at the wheels with no drivetrain, wouldn't engine torque = wheel torque?
RE: <Drool>
By theapparition on 9/17/2009 7:45:38 AM , Rating: 2
No. The wheel torque in a car with an ICE will be approximately 10x that of the engine itself. (All depends on the gearing in the transmission and differential, but 10x is decent 1st gear average.)
Wheel torque in a car with a motor mounted in the hub will be equal to the torque rating of the motor.
They are making this out to sound like something special, when it's really not. Where it does differ is the motors delivery of torque. Full torque is available at almost 0 RPM, while an ICE reaches max torque at a much higher RPM. That is why it is essential to drop the clutch (or use a high stalled auto) at the RPM where most torque is delivered for the best launch.
RE: <Drool>
By Spuke on 9/17/2009 1:31:20 PM , Rating: 2
Have you ever run a Dynojet?
I have not but that's why I'm asking. When you get a graph from a dyno, the torque rating isn't 4500 lb-ft (or whatever ridiculously high number). Maybe this discussion of torque multiplication is confusing me but I always thought that the actual torque number when a car is dyno'd was the result of the gearbox multiplication. My car would make say 220 lb-ft at the wheels on a Dynojet not 3000 lb-ft.
RE: <Drool>
By theapparition on 9/17/2009 3:58:35 PM , Rating: 2
No. It measures that high number and then back-calculates through input parameters to determine theoretical engine torque.
That's why I stated before the the concept of rwtq is flawed, yet often quoted (hell, even by myself). Yet what is being delivered to the tires is quite different.
In fact, dynojets don't even measure the engine RPM on older cars, rather use the tire diameter and tire RPM to generate those graphs.
For a simple ballpark figure, take the engine power and divide it by tire RPM. Power = Torque * RPM/5252.
So if an engine is developing 300hp at 6000RPM, and there is a 10x reduction through gearing, than the torque being delivered is 300hp*5252*(6000RPM/10) = 2626ft-lbs.
Pretty simple, and also requires that a dynojet knows what size rear differential and what gear the car is being operated in. Otherwise the results are junk......and also how some unscrupulous tuners like to improve thier results.
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2012 Ford Focus BEV (Source: AutoBlog)
And he replied, "I think you're right!"
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RE: Diesel
By Amiga500 on 12/22/2009 10:44:02 AM , Rating: 2
That's a shame, because ultimately the diesel engine is much more efficient and flexible. Euro 6 is certainly a very strict standard -- hopefully Europeans will stay satisfied with that -- unfortunately, I can see a scenario where they push even tougher standards and slowly (and pointlessly) force out diesels in the process. Let's hope that doesn't happen.
I can tell you now there would be a total revolt here if it got to the point that diesels were no longer viable.
People are already sick of Brussels dictating over national policies.
Although, to be honest a turning point has already been reached going from Tier III to Tier IV agri engines... fuel consumption worsened* to keep emissions in check.
*Might have recovered by now, but not as of 2 years ago.
RE: Diesel
By wookie1 on 12/22/2009 10:57:24 AM , Rating: 3
It seems like the EU is on a path to try to eliminate combustion with ever-stricter emssions restrictions and cap and trade on CO2. A revolt is what would be required, since the member states are ceding their control to Brussels and the EU leaders are not subject to public voting.
RE: Diesel
By Fireshade on 12/22/2009 11:11:27 AM , Rating: 2
You forget that the public has a strong voice through the European Parliament.
RE: Diesel
In theory.
RE: Diesel
By Ringold on 12/22/2009 12:43:58 PM , Rating: 2
Was that a joke? Granted, I'm not in Europe, however I read various European newspapers, columns, etc., and all I've ever heard is continent-wide disinterest and typically low turn-out for EP elections, versus much stronger interest and turn out for national elections.
So perhaps the public theoretically has a voice, but they don't seem to regard it as important to use, or perhaps view their national leaders as more effective representatives?
RE: Diesel
By Keeir on 12/22/2009 2:08:54 PM , Rating: 2
I was under the impression that 1 of the several reasons diesels were more popular in Europe is the favorable tax situation.
IE, in Britian a Litre and Normal Petrol and Diesel are taxed at the same rate, yet the Diesel is likely to have 10-15% more energy.
Maybe if they taxes all the oil products based on Energy content or C02 content per liter than Diesel would be slightly less favorable.
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RE: electrolysis...
By Hoser McMoose on 1/2/2010 10:55:18 AM , Rating: 2
Good. More coal for those of us that don't believe that the "science is settled".
The science that coal produces a crapload of air pollution is ABSOLUTELY settled!
I'm not too horribly worried about greenhouse gas emissions but I absolutely think we should phase out coal power plants due to the horrendous quantities of air pollution they produce. (Aside: as I mentioned in another post, us in Ontario will NOT really phase out coal by 2014, let alone by 2007 as was originally promised).
What's most distressing is the sorry state of North America's coal plants. MOST (60-75% of them) don't even have scrubbers! This is 1970's era technology that STILL hasn't been implemented to this day on most of our plants. There's absolutely no excuse for that and we collectively pay BILLIONS in health care costs (either via taxes or raised health insurance premiums) because of it.
Exactly how much is tough to say, but by many estimates we pay as much in health care costs to deal with the pollution from coal power as we do for the power itself. For example, check out the following link:
They estimate the total cost of coal pollution at $64B per year, or 3.2 cents/kWh. That has NOTHING to do with global warming, climate change, etc. etc. This is just straight-up pollution that kills an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people per year in the U.S.
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Microsoft finally seems to be taking advanced web standards seriously
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By porkpie on 3/17/2010 9:50:57 AM , Rating: 2
That must be what hundreds of veteran internet developers are saying
Why not find at least ONE who says that, then, instead of putting your own opinion into the story? Journalistic standards exist for good reason.
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By Fanon on 3/17/2010 10:48:35 AM , Rating: 2
I'm a web developer. Have been for over ten years. I said "Finally" when I read the spec support sheet.
I can speak for the entire web development community when I say "Finally". If you're not a web developer, then you have no idea how Microsoft has ignored key web standards support in their browser.
RE: Journalism
By whiskerwill on 3/17/2010 11:18:01 AM , Rating: 4
I'm a web developer, and Microsoft SET more standards than it ignored. Back when MS had 90%+ of the market, it was sheer stupidity for some random W3 appointees (most who hailed from MS competitors) to come along and set "standards" that in many cases, were no better than the way MS was already doing it, and were just designed to do them one in the eye.
Work in any presentation language other than HTML for a while, and you'll understand what a pathetic ball of band-aid tricks HTML is. And HTML5 really isn't any better.
RE: Journalism
That must be what hundreds of veteran internet developers...
RE: Journalism
By Fanon on 3/17/2010 12:22:10 PM , Rating: 2
I can't argue with your first statement. What we have today is, in large part, due to Microsoft. I also can't argue with what the W3C did was stupid by taking portions from, what was essentially Netscape, and make it standard.
But here's the thing. The W3C did do what it did, and all other browser makers incorporated standards support in their browsers. It wouldn't have been a big deal except a little browser called Firefox started picking up a decent sized market share and paved the way for Browser war 2.0: IE vs everyone else.
The market share size of non-IE browsers is large enough to warrant building websites and apps that work in all major browsers. It has been the Netscape 4 hell all over again, but this time with IE causing the headaches.
So it doesn't really matter what Microsoft did in the past for web standards - what matters is now. And right now, IE is behind the pack.
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Journalistic standards exist for good reason
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Ellen issues a hasty apology to avoid Apple's wrath
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RE: I thought...
By wiz220 on 5/5/2010 6:24:55 PM , Rating: 2
True that it's almost certainly not legally enforceable, but it does give them cover when they won't publish the app in the app store.
RE: I thought...
By Ted Landry on 5/6/2010 12:58:41 PM , Rating: 2
But like any STORE, the owner gets to pick and choose what is stocked on the shelves, so you really can't blame Apple for running a nice clean store, that's their choice, if you don't like it, shop somewhere else.
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Republicans are criticizing the effort, cry for socialized space industry
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By AssBall on 6/7/2010 2:35:00 PM , Rating: 0
Whatever dude. Obama and his sluts have been blaming everything remotely screwed on the previous administration.
Oh, and by everything screwed up, I mean everything they have accomplished and failed to accomplish.
By retrospooty on 6/7/2010 8:01:34 PM , Rating: 2
Well, that kind of easy to do. Inheriting the worst economy in 80 years, 2 wars without exit strategy, or end in sight, becoming the laughing stock of the world.
Blame Bush admin? Correct. The Bush admin pretty much screwed us into a mess that cant be fixed easily, it will take years. SO now reps are blaming Obama for not fixing it fast enough or well enough? STFU
By Reclaimer77 on 6/7/2010 8:12:45 PM , Rating: 2
Umm Bush lost Congress in 2006 when the Democrats gained a majority. Compare Government spending and debt between 2001-2006 against 2006-2010, then come back and tell me who is responsible for this mess.
Not to mention the plan for "fixing" Bush's "mess" is to continue borrowing money, exponentially increasing our debt, and more Government spending. Hello?
By retrospooty on 6/7/2010 8:25:23 PM , Rating: 2
Dont think that I agree with Obama's overspending, I dont. I would personally like to see a far more fiscally conservative approach. But lets not act like Obama broke us, nor did the slight majority the dems had when they took office in early 2007. Bush and the rep congress from 2000 to 2006 screwed us up BADLY, which is WHY the dems have such a majority now, dont forget that.
You want to talk comparisons? Take the even Budget that Clinton left him with after inheriting Reagan and Bush 1's record deficits. At least Obama has a reason of trying to spend his way out of a massive recession and housing market collapse (also happened on Bush's watch).
By Reclaimer77 on 6/7/2010 9:45:08 PM , Rating: 2
Oh please, they mythical "balanced" Clinton budget.
Clinton benefited from a massive reduced military budget due to the cold war ending and sustained peace. Something he had NOTHING to do with. Secondly, we saw massive tax revenue due to the Internet boom bubble. Again, right place right time.
And what did he manage to do with all this Government revenue? He spent it all and called it "balanced".
But lets not act like Obama broke us
Ummm sorry, but let's. Bush left office with a 700+ billion dollar deficit, not great but totally manageable. That's a fact. What are we up to now? 3-4 trillion? And where will we be when Health Care Reform rolls into town?
"Blame Bush" is getting old man. Wake up.
By retrospooty on 6/7/2010 10:13:19 PM , Rating: 2
""Blame Bush" is getting old man. Wake up."
Easy cop out for a Bush supporter.
No, sorry, he doesn't get a pass on this, he was in charge for a full 8 freegin years that led up to this ole we are in, no pass, sorry... The current overspending sucks, but the deficit is largely due to the economy and the reverse of what you alluded to in hte Clinton years, its called massive recession and massively decreased revenue.
Why is it when it benefits your right slanted argument, you understand booming economy and its increased revenue, but when it goes against your argument, you dont understand that massive recesssion = massively decreased revenue??? Oh, thats right, your full of it, thats how.
By Reclaimer77 on 6/7/2010 10:32:36 PM , Rating: 2
And massive spending = massive debt. You can't put our entire situation on Bush's shoulders no matter how much you try. You say you aren't for what's happening, but then keep bringing up Bush. Why? Because you're a liar, that's why.
Every single move Obama has made has done nothing but make the recession worst, and you're still harping on Bush. Even if you believe Bush was personally 100% responsible for the recession, it doesn't change the fact that your guy hasn't done a single thing to fix it. He's just exploited it, making it worst, to ram home his leftist agenda.
Are you an idiot? The Government takes money FROM The economy. How is this level of spending "due to the economy" ? You people who actually think we can spend our way "out" of a recession are completely loony. It doesn't work that way and never has!
By retrospooty on 6/7/2010 10:47:19 PM , Rating: 2
"You people who actually think we can spend our way "out" of a recession are completely loony"
I dont personally think that, although alot of top economists that have spent their entire lives dealing with high finance do. Even Bush and his financial advisors started the first stimulus to do exactly that. Like I said , I dont agree.
If you want to say that Obama is going to make matters worse with his overspending, that is a valid argument, you may well be right. If you say that you don't like where he is taking us, that too is a valid argument... All I am saying is that you cannot blame him for where we are now. The economy was in a tailspin in January 2009 when Obama took office. Bush and the reps got us here.
We went the republican direction for 8 years, most of which they had total control of congress and look what it got us. It got us into the worst economic disaster since the great depression. There is nothing you can say to make that fact disappear.
Blaming Obama for overspending now doesnt change that, neither does changing the subject. You can’t just say “stop blaming Bush”… He and the reps got us here, and time passing doesn’t change facts or history. As a matter of fact, if you want to take it back another step lets talk about the fact that When Obama took office, the reps had the white house for 20 of the previous 28 years and had the congress for 12 of the previous 14. We can’t act like we aren’t dealing with their policies when they have had the majority of power for the past few decades. You just can’t blame all of this on the left, the argument just cant be made.
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Microsoft's Kevin Turner
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RE: Vista?
By noirsoft on 7/14/2010 11:15:26 PM , Rating: 4
But let's not let MS off the hook here and blame the developers
Given that Microsoft told developers before XP came out to stop relying on admin access to things and to fully test their software in a limited user account, and also informed them that in the OS after XP, such limitations would be fully enforced, I believe it is 100% reasonable to blame 3rd party developers for failing to have their software work under Vista properly.
RE: Vista?
By chemist1 on 7/15/2010 12:25:22 AM , Rating: 2
quoting: "I believe it is 100% reasonable to blame 3rd party developers for failing to have their software work under Vista properly."
I agree with you. But I was referring not to the Vista-not-working-with-apps issue (which is of course the app developer's fault if they require admin privs.), but rather the security issue. I was unaware that MS also warned developers not to use admin priv. for XP, so thanks for that info.
So, I'd modify my statement to read as follows: Let's not let MS off the hook for security issues, with its earlier operating systems, resulting from the easy access to admin. priv. by application software---since, historically, until Vista, they allowed that access, which is something they never should have permitted from the start.
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Feds have little respect for your privacy, Constitution
States Mr. German in a recent interview with Network World:
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By dgingeri on 2/8/2011 12:08:09 PM , Rating: 0
you truly are a sad person in a sad, sad state of mind. you've been brainwashed into thinking the government is actually a good thing. it is a necessary evil, and must be watched carefully or else it gets out of control.
It's like the bacteria in your mouth. you have to keep brushing your teeth to keep it in check or it will rot your teeth and infect your gums, but it keeps other, more harmful, bacteria out of your mouth so you can still live.
In a free society, people flourish, but certain elements have to be kept in check or they overwhelm the weak and stifle creativity and freedom. Anarchy is merely slavery to the strong. However, if those same elements are allowed to take over the government, then they seize power a free government becomes a dictatorial government. As all past governments have shown, it will happen. It is just a matter of time. We have to keep a vigilant watch over the government in order to keep that in check.
Recently, we have become complacent in our comfort and allowed certain people to erode the power of the people. It has become more of an aristocracy than ever before in our history, just in the last 10 years. This needs to change.
If you want to know the positions of politicians, don't listen to what they say, look are who are supporting them. The recent Democrats are being supported by former communists and old money families: aristocracy. Look at who supports the Republicans: new money, small business, country folks: people who work for a living.
By The Raven on 2/8/2011 12:20:22 PM , Rating: 2
He went off a bit there, but he is't is a necessary evil. If everyone was perfect, we wouldn't need it. If it was perfect, we wouldn't want it. It is there to protect freedom (the US gov't anyway). When it does more than that, it should be stopped.
If you disagree, I wonder what you think the gov't is for.
By eggman on 2/8/2011 2:39:52 PM , Rating: 2
Who's freedom?
By The Raven on 2/10/2011 11:00:16 AM , Rating: 2
The freedom of it's citizens. What's not to get?
By FITCamaro on 2/8/2011 1:07:42 PM , Rating: 4
Yes because your clear ability to speak and bring forth a well thought out argument just reeks of a well educated person.
By YashBudini on 2/14/2011 11:05:52 PM , Rating: 2
Republicans: new money, small business
Yeah small:
Wall St
all mom and pop shops.
It's hard work to maintain premeditated obliviousness, isn't it?
Pfft, not only does Rupert Murdoch not work he's outspent Soros on his multi-facteted propaganda campaign many times over since the FCC first started giving him bj's.
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But Ubisoft admits its code allows remotely controllable arbitrary executable launches
According to the Ubisoft spokesperson:
The Situation:
[Image Source:]
That said consider the following:
2. The plugin allows privileged access to the host machine.
Corrective Measures:
To update your Uplay client and apply the patch:
Source: Ubisoft
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RE: Still not a Rootkit
By andrewaggb on 7/30/2012 5:34:43 PM , Rating: 5
I agree. This is not a rootkit at all. It is a plugin-based browser exploit.
These are actually very common. quicktime, java, flash etc seem to be full of them.
That's a part of why ios, soon android, and windows 8 metro are ditching plugins. It's unfortunate in that html5 can't do everything a plugin can, but from a security and stability point of view it makes some sense.
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By BladeVenom on 7/30/2012 6:42:06 PM , Rating: 5
So it's a trojan, not a rootkit. That makes me feel so much better.
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By JasonMick (blog) on 7/30/2012 6:46:03 PM , Rating: 5
Feel the love!
(Up) Yours,
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By Samus on 7/30/2012 7:22:45 PM , Rating: 4
Right, it's just a BHO. Many companies, such as EA, use Origin client in addition to BHO's (like Battlefield 3, for example) to interface with their games.
Like anything, it can be exploited if someone really wants to target them, but this is completely blown out of proportion as these aren't "unwanted" BHO's like the Shop Online or OoVoO toolbars, or Coupon Printer BHO.
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By someguy123 on 7/30/2012 8:58:20 PM , Rating: 3
Nobody wants this. Ubisoft's online DRM is one of the reasons why their PC assassin's creed ended up tanking, though they spun it as "reduction in piracy". you MUST go through this DRM in order to play ubisoft games, so it's more like buying some software and being forced to install OoVoO.
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By althaz on 7/30/2012 11:40:25 PM , Rating: 4
Actually, you can just pirate the games and not have to deal with any of Ubisoft's crap. I'm not advocating piracy, but I know for a fact that pirated versions of some of the Assassin's Creed games worked better than the bought versions.
I bought a couple of the games and my buddies pirated them all and they all had a lot less trouble. I ended up applying all the cracks to my version and everything worked just fine after that.
RE: Still not a Rootkit
RE: Still not a Rootkit
By NellyFromMA on 7/31/2012 12:43:32 PM , Rating: 2
What what what!?!?!? Someone replied with common sense? I'm floored.
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Hybrid players due early next year
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RE: oh please
By michal1980 on 10/11/2006 6:48:44 AM , Rating: -1
ur a flaming fan-boi, that needs to grow up, and stop with your stupid blind hate.
You saw one name sony, so you automaticly hate blu-ray.
The reality is, that the blu-ray support/development, came from many more compaines then hd-dvd. In fact. HD-DVD was bascially created by one company TOSHIBA, because they wanted to force there own format, so that everyone would have to pay TOSHIBA cash.
Sony worked with studios and other manufactures. Thats why samsung players are out, lg, pioneer, and sony players are coming for blu-ray.
Yet so far only the Toshiba, and now M$ are putting out HD-DVD.
Yes its evil sony trying to force something they did on there own against everyone elses wishes.
Which is why Blu-ray had/has 90% movie studio backing, Where as HD-DVD has the rest. Maybe thats why even after launching months later, the amount of titles for both scheduled, is the same?
And get your facts straigt. Both HD-DVD have managed copy guidlines.
But its not MANDATORY. Lets see does the toshiba HD-DVD player give me manage copy? ohhh, it DOESN"T.
And blu-ray is 50 GB, go get your self a copy of click.
And if want a cheap blu ray player get a 500 dollar ps3. Same price as a the 'cheap' HD-DVD player. (and if the format dies, you can still play games, where-as if hd-dvd dies, you can fill a landfill)
RE: oh please
By tdream on 10/11/2006 8:57:17 AM , Rating: 2
You could also look at it from HD DVD's point of view and say that the x360 already has a huge gamer base and those people who already bought the 360 only have to pay an extra $199 for HD-DVD usage, so compare that to $500 and your argument is losing strength.
I can see both formats succeeding and eventually all the manufacturers stuck in the middle of the format war will make their drives compatible with both formats, for the sake of profits. No one format will put the other out of business.
RE: oh please
RE: oh please
RE: oh please
It is the R&D power of Sony is so amazing
Sony owns far more patents then TOshiba at least.
RE: oh please
You forgot that Sony also has far more failed proprietary formats.
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Apple's iPhone touts a better battery life and a more durable screen
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RE: speculation
By Oregonian2 on 6/19/2007 7:13:50 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, all phones probably will have "iPods" in them (if most don't all already), but it's not likely that all "iPods" or equivalent will all have phones in them. My KRZR Motorola phone has a java music player interface built in (and 2Gb ($16) of MicroSD flash added). Plays MP4 videos too (albeit at a worse resolution than even the iPod). But bought it as a phone (and because it looks awesome (Cobalt Blue)). Now only if had a processor worth a hoot (that still didn't use any battery power). It runs Linux.
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Review: Nintendo Land
10:00 PM on 11.17.2012 // Jim Sterling
A fairly grounded fairground
The Wii U GamePad is a lot more versatile than it looks. Some potential consumers have not been quite as inspired by the system as they were by the immediate uniqueness of the Wii and its remote controller. After all, tablets and smartphones have gotten us used to gyroscopes and touchscreens -- what could the Wii U give us that's so interesting?
Nintendo Land is the answer to this question. While none of the games included in this glorified tour of the Wii U's capabilities are compelling enough on their own merits, they contribute to an overall package that does an exemplary job of showing why the Wii U has so much promise as a system. This is a game with one job -- to sell you on the merits of a GamePad.
It accomplishes this job.
Nintendo Land (Wii U)
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Release: November 18, 2012
MSRP: $59.99
Nintendo Land is a virtual amusement park boasting a series of attractions based on classic Nintendo properties, from Super Mario to Animal Crossing. Essentially, it's a minigame compilation, but before you roll your eyes in jaded memory of the Wii's minigame-saturated library, bear in mind that the Wii U needs, perhaps more than any other system, this kind of title at launch. The GamePad can be used in many more ways than the Wii Remote, and Nintendo Land does a fine job of demonstrating this.
Each attraction uses the GamePad in a different way, meant to show off a number of intriguing ideas that, while not fully fleshed out on their own, could be evolved later down the line to potentially support any number of full games. There are 12 attractions in all, some of which are solo affairs, and others able to be played with friends using Wii Remotes.
Solo attractions are, as you might expect, for one player using a GamePad. Takamaru's Ninja Castle is a shooting gallery in which the GamePad is gripped on one side and aimed at the television. The player fires shurikens at the screen by swiping the touchscreen, as if they're whipping the throwing stars off of a table. Donkey Kong's Crash Course makes use of the gyroscope to tilt an arena of platforms and navigate a little wheeled contraption to a finish line. F-Zero Racing has players looking at the GamePad screen to get a bird's-eye view of the race course, while the television screen shows the racer from behind. Using these two perspectives, the player can gyroscopically steer the vehicle along a winding path from above, while using the rear perspective to navigate through tunnels.
Team attractions combine one GamePad user with up to four Wii Remote wielders to cooperate in levels inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Metroid. In the Zelda courses, the GamePad user is an archer, aiming with motion controls and firing with the right stick. Wii Remote players are swordsmen, and swing at the opponents while looking at the TV monitor. Metroid is rather similar, with players using spaceships and ground troops for a larger battlefield that isn't as much of an on-rails experience as Zelda. While Metroid is more free, I have to say I enjoy the Zelda attraction much more, especially when played cooperatively. Controls are simple, tight, and very well implemented, while the typical Zelda charm is of course a nice bonus.
Competitive attractions are no less self-explanatory, as these pit the GamePad user against up to four Wii Remote players. By far the standout game is Mario Chase, in which the GamePad user is Mario and the Remote users are Toads, charged with catching him. Mario gets a full view of the arena that only he can see, while the Toads have a limited field of view on the television and only audio cues as to which colored zone their objective is hiding. It's a lot more fun than I expected it to be, and could make a great party game. Luigi's Ghost Mansion is similar, with one player acting as the ghost and using the personalized view of the map to sneak up on opponents before they can blast it with torchlight.
There are a few games using the (already) overlooked stylus, one in which players swipe gusts of wind to direct a balloon-hoisted character across a course of hindrances, and a very intriguing little puzzle game in which a course is drawn on the touchscreen to direct a Yoshi to eat pieces of fruit and reach an exit. The twist is that fruit and obstacles are only visible on the television, so the player has to estimate the approximate position of them on the touchscreen using the visual clues set up by the terrain. It's a clever idea, and can become quite tricky indeed once later stages are reached.
All these attractions are themed around a central hub populated by all manner of twee Nintendo Mii characters. In each game, coins can be earned and spent in a simple ball-and-peg minigame to unlock decorations for the hub, such as items and enemy statues, a jukebox, and a button to change the world's ambiance to daytime, dusk, or night. I do wish this area of the game wasn't as barren as it is.
For all its promise as a virtual amusement park, Nintendo Land as a place isn't all that amusing. Outside of the attractions, there's very little to do, and the "park" is but a small circular arena that lays sterile in its clinical nothingness. The game might as well be a menu from which the games can be selected -- an idea given more credence when, after a few plays, you're given the ability to open a menu from which the games can be selected.
Nothing Nintendo Land does is necessarily enthralling, providing as it does a selection of fairly disposable games that can be picked up or dropped at leisure. They're fun, but they're not going to keep you playing for hours on end. Their job, as I've said, is to showcase the GamePad, and that is what they do. They make an incredibly convincing case that the GamePad is more than just a poor man's iPad, especially when it comes to utilizing the two screens and exploiting the unique properties of one GamePad user versus multiple Wii Remote players. Its competitive modes are more than capable of being used as party pieces, and I have no doubt it can be used to keep kids entertained for quite a while.
Graphically, the game looks pretty damn impressive for a minigame collection. The bold colors look fantastic on an HDTV and do a fine job of showing just how great a Nintendo game can look when it's not tied to a standard resolution.
One major downside of the game, however, comes in the form of a little robot called Monita. She acts as the host of Nintendo Land, and all I can say is that if any real entertainer talked to an audience the way she does, they'd be fired within a week. From her droning, monotonous voice to the fact that everything she says seems like a contemptuous demand rather than a suggestion, Monita is vastly unlikable. It's not as if it's been done on purpose, either -- she has zero personality to justify her hateful tone, it was simply a disastrous attempt to make her sound robotic. What's worse is that she talks ALL THE TIME. She never shuts up, and her constant annoyance really puts a crimp in an otherwise inoffensive little game.
That glaring aggravation aside, Nintendo Land is what it is. It never set out to amaze us by itself, it merely wants us to respect the GamePad, and you can't really expect much more from a title packed into the Wii U's box. Even so, it's worth noting that, unlike so many tech demos, Nintendo Land is still quite fun. It's not forcing the GamePad's touchscreen and gyroscope into gameplay that doesn't support it, and it's not making established genres less convenient to play with hamfisted new input that doesn't belong there. Its game selection isn't compelling to the point of addiction, but it's all pretty good stuff to snack on.
Those unconvinced about what the Wii U can do would benefit from finding themselves a way of trying out Nintendo Land. It manages to do a lot with the system without, I believe, even scratching the surface of what more focused and dedicated videogames could achieve. It's a game meant to excite you more about the system you just purchased, and that is what it does. Well worth checking out, at any rate.
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