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Expert Raises Concerns with Brain Injuries in Young Athletes
A doctor who's seen more than his share of sports injuries, says today's commonly used tools to detect concussions in young athletes across the country are not sophisticated enough to show brain injuries that linger after symptoms subside.
Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli, director of athletic medicine at Penn State, spoke about adolescent concussions Thursday at Pegula Ice Arena as part of a Research Unplugged series.
Sebastianelli and his colleagues have been working on cutting edge concussion research related to adolescents through the Kinesiology Virtual Reality Lab, which he says more accurately diagnoses concussion injuries - and shows young people often suffer from concussions 30 days after symptoms have stopped.
A concussion occurs when a person gets hit causing the brain to bounce around inside the skull creating a physiologic, microbiologic and chemistry problem, Sebastianelli says. It prevents glucose from being metabolized in the brain. The concussion creates a vicious cycle where the brain is unable to process material to feed the brain, "so your brain is literally starving," Sebastianelli says.
Following the concept of kinesiology professor Dr. Sam Slobounov, the Penn State team uses computer analysis to help identify potential problems with balance or problem solving through virtual software. The research, Virtual Reality Assessment of Concussion, takes a baseline of a young athlete's brain and then measures activity again after a head injury.
What the Penn State team has found is that by measuring chemicals in the brain, despite symptoms stopping, in many cases the brain stem has not yet recovered from the injury up to 30 days later. That means if that child returned to sports because the symptoms stopped, they would still be at greater risk for an additional and more severe injury.
The research also shows a nearly 30 percent drop in reaction time for the young athletes who suffer a concussion.
Sebastianelli says the problem is that the less sophisticated testing used today by athletic departments across the country does not detect the damage that the virtual assessment sees, which means there is great likelihood young athletes are being cleared to play well before their brains have healed.
Roughly 250,000 concussions are reported every year in sports, however, due to underreporting, the true number is unknown. Sebastianelli says the injury is underreported because athletes fear honesty about their injury could hinder their play time.
Sebastianelli says no sport is immune to concussions, however, the football, hockey, rugby, soccer and cheerleading squads see the most victims.
Additionally, Sebastianelli says there is a need for more oversight when it comes to preventing and treating concussions for all athletes – small children to adults. The responsibility starts with coaches who instruct elementary school children, Sebastianelli says.
"That's when the bad habits become engrained and things really become out of control," he says.
Sebastianelli says it is critical that coaches from "pee wee" to professional teach good tackling techniques and other athletic skills.
"The head is not a weapon, (but) it's being used as a weapon. It's being recognized now that it's not a weapon," he says.
Changes in football could also help with prevention. Specifically, Sebastianelli says the powers that be should consider changing onside kick rules. Currently, 11 players go after one player.
"Is there a way we can change that play so that one player is not so defenseless?" he asks.
Sebastianelli also dispelled two myths. He says an athlete does not need to get hit in the head in order to suffer from a concussion and he says no helmet can fully prevent concussions.
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(Reuters) — Apple, computing giant Dell, and Kingston Technology are members of a Foxconn-led consortium bidding for Toshiba Corp's chip unit, the CEO of the world's largest electronics manufacturer told Reuters on Monday.
Terry Gou, Foxconn's founder and chief executive, also said Amazon.com was close to joining and that the Taiwanese firm was also in discussions with Google, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems about their participation in the bid.
He declined to comment on the total size of the offer or say how much Apple and other U.S. firms planned to invest in the bid.
"I can tell you Apple is in for sure," Gou said in an interview, adding that its participation had been approved by the Chief Executive Tim Cook and Apple's board of directors.
Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, and its Japanese unit Sharp would have a combined stake of not more than 40 percent, he added.
Representatives for Apple and the other U.S. firms named by Gou could not be immediately reached for comment outside of regular business hours. Sharp declined to comment.
(Reporting by J.R. Wu in Taipei; Additional reporting by Makiko Yamazaki and Taiga Uranaka in Tokyo; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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As GRCC President Bill Pink and Foundation Board Chairperson Larry Murphy write in their letter of thanks, "Everyone, it seems, has a GRCC story." We are eager to celebrate the stories of our students, alumni, and donors in this year's Foundation Annual Report.
We're also eager to hear the stories that are yet to be told. Whether you are a new graduate or longtime alumnus(a), we would love to hear your story about how GRCC or GRJC impacted your life.
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Meet John Collison, who can today be referred to as the World's youngest self-made billionaire, after he dropped out from Havard to focus on his business.
When people look down on you, and think crazy of that bright idea you have got, just keep moving and don't lose hope. The story of this young man is sure to inspire you, and make you realise that you can make it in life regardless of your educational qualification.
John Collison, the cofounder and president of Stripe, is the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 27, and you can do the same, there is no limits to the heights we can attain in life.
John started Stripe, designed to transform the way people make online payments, with his older brother when he was just 19.
Originally from a small town in Ireland, he came to the US to attend Harvard until he dropped out to focus on Stripe in Silicon Valley, and now he has hit Silicon Gold.
John Collison has a net worth of $1.1 billion today, after Stripe's $9 billion valuation in the year 2016. Today, Collison enjoys flying planes, running, and hiking with members of the Stripe team.


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Student Photographer studying at the University of West London. Working towards a BA Hons. Degree in Photography and Digital Imaging. I just love photography and aim to turn it in to my full time profession after finishing studying it full time. Signed up for this website to get to know some models and hopefully further build on my portfolio. I have worked with several different girls so far and am most fond of the portrait side of things. But this said I am willing to give nearly any style a go. I have a small home studio which can also be move to on location (currently the location has to have access to a power outlet for the lights but I am hopefully getting a battery pack so this will no longer be a problem). Thanks for taking the time to look at my profile and please do get in touch if you are at all interested in working with me.
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What brought you here?
Perhaps you're checking out my website because you saw a cute pet portrait I painted and you are looking to get one painted of your furry loved one (or to get one painted for someone you love). I hope that you DO contact me and commission me to paint one!
But beyond the furry portraits and colorful koi art, maybe there is another reason why you and I are connected right now. I believe that in every relationship we have, it is for a reason. Whether we chat with the checker at the market for a minute, the neighbor walking their dog or the Costco gas guy just standing there....
So here's your take away from my site today. I had heard it a hundred times before I understood it. And this just may be your 101st time:
For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:16
May God be real to you today and that you can find Him in the the world around you. Even through our darkest hours, He is near to you.
Let me know how God is working in your life. We are in each other's lives to be an encouragement.


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First of all, there aren't really any mathematics that you have to do. Yeah, there are a few equations in the first chapter, but they're elementary—high school level—and I've solved them all for you. There isn't any test, pop quiz or turning in your papers. Yes, there are a few numbers, but they're no more difficult than remembering your height or age.
So what's the real problem?
As near as I can figure, plenty of people had a hard time with math in grade school, junior high and high school, and they're carrying that forward to the present day, even decades later. Maybe it was a peer pressure thing back in seventh grade. Maybe the teacher was motivationally incompetent, or unsympathetic to questions about any relevance to the life of a twelve year old. Maybe, as a result, a film or veil developed between your mind and triangles, equations, and that most dreaded topic of all: word problems.
But now we're adults. We can realize that there's nothing to fear from π, the number 27 or anything that starts "x =", at least in this book. I admit that in the first chapter, there are a lot of numbers. But nearly all of them are riffs on 27.32, 366, and 18.6. Just three numbers that appear in different guises. So, for example, we find 27.3 days, 273 days, and 27.3%. There are 18.6 miles per second (Earth's orbital speed around the Sun), 186,000 miles per second (the speed of light), and 186,000,000 miles (the diameter of Earth's orbit). I don't ask you to derive any of these numbers from first principles (an impossible job, even for the Einsteins out there), but just to note the patterns they form so we can all think about where these patterns came from.
I thought about revising the book. Make it simpler. Sort of a lowest common denominator thing. I rejected this idea. All the "math"—really just some numbers and a few simple equations—are dead simple. Easy-peasy. Nothing you didn't see early in high school. So try to transcend all your K-12 angst, read calmly in a quiet setting, and all will be well.
On to the astronomy and physics
Okay, there's a little physics, and some of it's pretty advanced. Again, I thought about dumbing it down, making it easier somehow, or just omitting the really offensive parts that insulted a few virgin eyes and ears.
Nope. Ain't gonna do it. None of it's really hard to understand.
I will have more to say on this topic later, but for now I'll say this. As I allude to in the book, the scientific establishment is in great disarray at the present time, although you have to search pretty hard to uncover this fact. There is great dispute over some of the topics I mention, so I thought I'd just sum up a few of them here, because had the scientific community been more honest with us—and I'm specifically calling out the science writers here—we would all understand things a lot better, and the war between science and religion would have eased off tremendously. So here they are:
- The Big Bang never happened. It is a mathematical fiction, a mere theory. What's worse, and what scientists should have told us, is that the theory is untestable and unfalsifiable, hence it's unscientific. But how many popular science writers, and History Channel program producers present it instead as established fact?
- Black holes don't exist. They are theoretical, just as the Big Bang is, so ditto everything from the first point. In addition, a recently discovered error in Einstein's original mathematics in his General Theory of Relativity (where the possibility of black holes started) has actually shown that they can't exist. It's just another fiction, but gosh, it's a swell one! Gigantic black holes to swallow us up. Looky there, a black hole's coming to swaller us up! LOL.
- The universe isn't expanding. Nor is there even the slightest shred of evidence for Dark Matter or Dark Energy—although we're pretty certain Dark Chocolate exists. I certainly have direct knowledge of this last, but that's precisely the problem with the others. There is no direct evidence for either of them; they're speculation, born from a mere theory. An opinion that lots of people repeat. In The Static Universe: Exploding the Myth of Cosmic Expansion Hilton Ratcliffe calls this Ideological Momentum: the repetition of bad ideas.
- The prized theory of evolution, snatched from Darwin and remodeled for modern times by the likes of Dawkins and Dennett, has more holes than Swiss cheese targets at a rifle range. The fact is, there's just no unequivocal evidence for the evolution of one species into another.
- Nobody understands gravity.
- Nobody understands mass. Or electricity, time, energy or light.
But being a scientist is a paid position, so they've got to say something besides just, "Gee, we really don't know."
"Where's the beef?"
The "meat" of any scientific theory is the meaning it brings to our lives. (Which may explain a lot about how people feel about math: no relevance, no 'rithemetic.) Do you believe in science's cold, impersonal universe? Fuggedaboudit. Which opens to door to the fundamentalist crazies, armed to the teeth with their own opinions, drinking mugs of distilled ignorance, and covering their ears lest they let in anything contradictory. "Don't confuse us with the facts, Bub, we've already made up our minds."
There's no more room here to describe the debate between the impersonal God of Science and the all-too-personal God of the Fundamentalists, other than to point out that there are many other possibilities besides these two. Again, we (especially we here in the U.S.A.) have been dumbed down to two, mutually exclusive choices. The Universe Is Fake takes this up in Chapter 3, so I encourage you to read about it and let me know what you think.
But don't put it off because of the "math." The real evolution of our consciousness and our future is at stake.


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In Kalmar, Linnaeus University is located in the city centre. Universitetskajen is entirely newly-built and located just next to the sea. Here you become part of a creative knowledge environment.
The city centre is also where most students live. Everything is available within a ten-minute bicycle ride, regardless of whether you want to take a swim in the sea, study, do some shopping, or work out. Historical buildings and cobblestone streets give charm to the city. When it is sunny, the area next to Kalmar Castle's moat is filled with studying and sunbathing students. Student life is a natural part of Kalmar. This is where your dream of the future begins!


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Dine, dance and view urban landmarks on a Montreal, Quebec, riverboat cruise. Touring companies offer a variety of vessels from which to enjoy a journey down Canada's St. Lawrence River during the fair-weather season. Many riverboat operators provide special cruises to experience summer's month-long International Fireworks Competition. It's the perfect way to witness the spectacular annual shows lighting the sky over Montreal.
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A 90-minute family-pleasing brunch cruise offers a buffet plus entertainment for children and family rates. Stay onboard following the cruise to join the guided sightseeing tour without additional charge. Ninety-minute sightseeing tours travel the St. Lawrence River for 12 miles showcasing Montreal landmarks, including Olympic Stadium. Learn more about the city's past and present by requesting an audio tour that's available in six languages.
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It's smooth sailing past Montreal's hallmark sights onboard the flat-bottom Bateau-Mouche. The vessel accommodates 206 passengers for 60- to 90-minute narrated tours departing from Jacques Cartier Pier. Its glass deck and terrace provide panoramic views on family-friendly late morning and afternoon cruises. There's no charge for children 5 and younger, and secured stroller storage is available. Evening dinner cruises launch at 7 p.m. to celebrate summer on the river. Four- to six-course dinner options offer inventive menus prepared from locally sourced ingredients. Dining cruises coordinate with the fireworks competition schedule. While dinner cruises offer an elegant touch to a riverboat cruise, it's fine to dress casually.
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Experience Montreal sights both by land and water onboard an amphibious vehicle. Sixty-minute excursions by Amphi Tours depart hourly from Old Port Montreal. Amphibious land experiences showcase historic Old Montreal attractions, including the Notre Dame Basilica, the Place d'Armes honoring Montreal's founder and the financial district. The operator's brightly painted converted military vehicle hits the river for viewing Habitat 67's inventive architecture, the Montreal Clock Tower, Jacques Cartier Bridge and the city's impressive skyline. Fireworks excursions depart from Old Montreal.
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October 23, 2008
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent shot killed a man inside an east Arlington apartment complex early Thursday morning during a raid.
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The raid was one of several dozen raids carried out this morning throughout north Texas area.
The raids targeted members of the Texas Syndicate a violent prison gang.
It was unclear Thursday afternoon if the dead man was a member of the gang.
The raid was executed shortly after 6 a.m. at the Arlington Parks apartments in the 3100 block of East Park Row. Agents had warrants allowing them to search for guns and drugs.
Several people, including children, were inside the apartment at the time of the shooting, said Tom Crowley, an ATF spokesman.
Details of the shooting were still under investigation, Crowley added.
Arlington police are investigating the shooting.
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Most people don't know this because the only time they saw him was in Transformers, The Movie, and the following season of the cartoon. Admittedly, he is very cool in that movie, for reasons I'll explain. But he was so much more ruthless and intense in the comic.
Of the movie characters, he was by far the most impressive toy. In fact, I have G1 Galvatron as one of the best Transformers in the original line.
Read on for the evilest of the evil Decepticons, Galvatron!
I'm in full robot mood these days. Some recent re-issues in the delicious Encore line from Takara re-ignited the ever lurking fascination for Transformers. Like I've said before, I'm a passionate fan of the transforming robots, even though I didn't have a big collection as a kid. I was heavily into the comics, the lore, the stories, and I always liked to play with the robots when at friends. But I always felt that the G1 toy representations of the characters I saw in the comics was lacking. They were incredibly cool in the comics (and to a certain extent in the cartoon), but as toys they were clunky, unarticulated and not nearly in scale with each other. Needless to say, I got my toy fix from G.I. Joe.
Of course, I've changed my opinion on this since I was a kid. Now, if I include robots in my collection, it's likely to be G1 Transformers. It's a nostalgia thing, but I also thing they are visually impressive.
That is... some of them are visually impressive.
I still have the original comic as the best medium for the Transformers universe. It's excellent.
But over the last years, I've also picked up a few G1 toys. One of them was the Japanese re-issue of Galvatron.
Who is Galvatron?
Well, Hasbro felt they needed to re-imagine the main characters of the Transformers universe in the late 80s. They did this by letting Sunbow make Transformers The Movie. Sunbow, Marvel and Hasbro disagreed on a lot when it came to the robots, and there seems to have been many conflicts to how the franchise should be treated. Read more on that here.
Conflicts there may have been, but the 1986 long feature animated movie... I don't mind it at all. It's a good movie on its own right, with the story revolving around the battle for the Matrix of Creation. The story they completely messed up with the first live action movie.
The movie starts off with a battle between Autobots and Decepticons in New Autobot City, future earth, where many of the main characters are killed. Yes, we see several robots getting killed, among them Optimus Prime.
The fact that Hasbro actually killed off Optimus Prime was extremely controversial. Kids were shown the graphic death of their greatest hero. Within the first 10 minutes of the movie!
|Kup and Rodimus fell to the might of shiny knee-pads.
From this point on, Galvatron was featured in the following, third season of the cartoon. Along with him several new Transformers characters from the movie, like Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Kup, Blurr, Scourge and Cyclonus. The new characters are easily distinguishable from the old ones by the more sleek and curved, humanoid design. This obviously also makes them harder to translate into toys. Galvatron is where I feel they succeeded the most. Kup and Rodimus Prime for instance, are just not good toys at all.
Galvatron is very similar to Megatron, he transforms not into a hand gun, but to a mobile cannon. He has a helmet, like Megs, and wields a cannon on his right arm in robot mode.
|Galvatron from the third season of the cartoon.
In the American cartoon, Galvatron is shown as very similar to Megatron. Ambitious, but slightly stupid. And he even shows signs of weakness, ceasing the war with the Autobots in the last episode.
In the comic, on the other hand, Galvatron is malicious. He's the absolute evil, and even down to his very last moment, he clings to the goal of claiming the universe for himself, as he taps the power of Cybertron to take on Unicron alone.
It's interesting to see how different the leaders of the Decepticons are in the comic.
Megatron is ambitious and loyal to a case. He's almost proud of being a Decepticon, and next to Starscream and Blaster, he's the Transformer that shows most emotions. He obsesses on his rivalry with Optimus Prime, and it ends up causing him to go mad.
Shockwave is the exact opposite of Megatron. He's cold, emotionless and very calculative. Easily the most machine-like of the Decepticon leaders.
Scorponok obviously has a human (Nebulonian, if you want) side, and shows signs of compassion. He's also very opportunistic, and has no problem siding with the Autobots (or anyone else) if it helps his cause.
Galvatron wants to destroy his enemies and rule the universe.
This may sound like he's the least developed of them, as a character. But I find it amusing. He's evil to the point where it's funny. He thinks of no one but himself. He doesn't really have a cause, other than absolute power. He has no friends, and in his mind probably no equal enemies either.
Make no mistake about this: I may be easily amused, but I'm also able to recognize quality, even within a simple media like the Transformers comic.
And some issues of the G1 comic are extremely good. Sadly, it seems I'm forever destined to be alone with this view. Those that are into Transformers doesn't seem to be bothered with the comic. It's cartoon, live action movie and toys exclusively. The comic is for kids, right?
On the other side, those that are into comics on a more general level will claim that Transformers, that's a kid's thing.
Well, I can tell you this: If you like Transformers, or if you like comics, the G1 comic made by Marvel is worth reading. All 80 issues, plus various mini-series.
There are of course many similarities to Megatron. The most obvious one being the design. But like Megatron, Galvatron also obsesses with his arch nemesis, Rodimus Prime.
This baffles me. G1 Megatron is such a bad toy, it's borderline ridiculous. Yet it's the only Megatron we saw before G2 (where we actually got a stunning Megatron, in a green, camouflaged tank).
But G1 Optimus Prime is a monumental toy, even by the toy standards of today, and didn't really need his Powermaster update. Consider this the second teaser for T&B100.
Back on topic, I guess you can consider Galvatron both an update and a replacement of Megatron, but I just think it would have made more impact to just call him Megatron, or made him slightly more similar to the former leader of the 'Cons.
|Blaster, Galvatron and a contemporary Mirage.
Galvatron is a massive toy, but when you compare it in height with other robots, you'll find he's as tall as Blaster, Powermaster Optimus, Jetfire. All were cheaper than Galvatron by initial release.
This specific Galvatron is a Japanese, Takara re-issue from 2009 or something. There is another re-issue in the cartoon colors, all purple. This one has the comic colors, which you by now should know is far superior. He came in a cool box, with a few more stickers and the lovely accessory, a green Matrix of Creation/Leadership.
Edit: After doing some research, I've found out that this is a recolor Takara made for e-hobby (their online store), made to look like Galvatron like he was in the Marvel comics. It has the new tooling from the first re-issue, the all purple one from 2006, but yeah... made to look like the total bad ass Galvatron from the comic.
Unlike many other Transformers, I feel the toy brings out at least some of the character traits of Galvatron. I like the fact that he seems to be wearing a crown, it suits his ambitions. I think I prefer the horns of the comic/cartoon version, but I also think I prefer the face of the toy, with the thin face and high cheek bones.
Notice that the toy has a slight smirk. Awesome detail.
You can see he's up to no good, his face is more humanoid than most Transformers, and the light-up function makes his eyes glow red.
Yes, this toy has a light-up function. And sounds. The original had a transformation sound and blast sound. This re-issue also has several lines from the Japanese cartoon, and even though I barely understand a single Japanese word, I know this guy is evil! The Japanese cartoon has some great voice actors.
There's a lever on his back with three positions. One for speech, one for transformation and one for blast sound. By pushing the button on his crotch, he will make the sound you want, and his eyes/head will light up in pulses. It's truly amazing that this toy is 25 years (well, not this exact toy, but the original design).
First of all, composition: In robot mode, he doesn't have any articulation worth mentioning. He can move his arms up and down. He's very static. But for some reason, I don't think it matters. He doesn't need to move, he only needs to scare his minions, and fire his cannon on occasion. He has knee joints, but it doesn't give any options for posing him. I guess it adds play value.
When it comes to the sculpt, I've already mentioned the face. There is the usual "robot" styling, particularly on the legs. Other than that, he's rather smooth, and I think it suits the character. His chest is sculpted almost with a window. But you can't see the batteries that's inside his chest.
His cannon is translucent plastic with glitter. It looks a bit more flashy than necessary, but it resembles the source material. I could also see him with a metallic, shiny gold barrel for the cannon. That would have been cool. But that would have hindered the cannon lighting up in tank mode.
He came with tons of stickers. I have barely used half the sticker sheet. Most of them were optional stickers for the same areas, so I kinda had to make a choice how I wanted my Galvatron to look like. I went with the most classic one. Notice the vents near his hip, the blinking lights vertically on his chest, and the smooth red panel with the Decepticon logo on the top of his chest.
To transform Galvatron, I just compress the legs and push them together. Pull his chest up over his face. Fold the arms in and give him his tank threads. It's a smooth transformation, only disrupted by the fact that you have to remove and disassemble his arm cannon. The cannon barrel goes onto the top of his head to form the cannon tube in tank mode.
In tank mode, he still has the light-up/sound function, and this time, the light makes the entire barrel of the cannon light up.
It doesn't really look like a tank, and I think the "disguise" mode is indeed called "space cannon". And I can't argue with that, it's probably what a space cannon looks like. Is this the curse of Transformers with great looking robot modes? That their alternate mode suffers? Most Transformers have better looking disguise than robot mode, but Galvatron is the opposite.
Few Transformers are great looking in both/all modes. There are a few, like G1 Jazz, Jetfire and the always underlooked Snapdragon. Galvatron's space cannon mode is a bit weird.
Good thing he comes with a third mode, the gun.
It just isn't a Decepticon leader without a gun mode, Galvatron is no exception.
I fold the treads up, and extend the handle, and that's pretty much it. The trigger has the same function as the button for the sound and light up. This suddenly goes from a good toy to a great toy.
Is there any reason to be worried with giving kids a toy that transforms into a gun? Well, I had tons of plastic guns as a kid, and I'd like to believe I turned out ok.
|Pew Pew! Take that, stupid humans that I just imagined blasting with my space gun!
I think it's great that they retooled the original toy, gave it some new details and a better sound chip. And to make it even better, we got one on the correct colors.
I also find myself appreciating the character, and the way Hasbro/Marvel/Sunbow felt the need to re-imagine the franchise. Where robots like Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod feels like mediocre attempts at making something new, Galvatron was definitely breaking out of the mold, and I believe he can still hold his own today. Yes, he doesn't have a lot of articulation, but neither did his contemporaries. What no one can deny is that Galvatron - at least when we're talking toys - truly is the leader that Decepticons needed.
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My 2007 Altima Hybrid often will not start up, even with new battery in the key fob. The accessories come on, but the car won't go. What is wrong? Yes, I have my foot on the brake.
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My 2007 Altima Hybrid often will not start up, even with new battery in the key fob. The accessories come on, but the car won't go. What is wrong? Yes, I have my foot on the brake.
We are having the same problems with out 2007 Nissan Altima Hybrid. The car wont turn over. We replaced the battery and even a fuse in the car. The lights, a/c, radio, etc work just fine, but the car wont turn over. Any ideas?
Sometimes the fob buttons get pressed by other things in your pocket, change, ect. Happens to me every once in a while. Wish they made a fob button cover.
The Nissan Altima Hybrid is a midsize sedan that offers 5-passenger all the style, comfort and technology with the gasoline version, but with benefits in fuel economy and reduced emissions. In September 2002, Nissan and Toyota signed a basic agreement in which Nissan will supply components to Toyota Hybrid System (transaxle, inverter, battery and control unit) allowing Nissan to produce 100,000 hybrid vehicles within five years. Nissan will supply gasoline and electric motor means that the Altima hybrid will lead very different from the Toyota Prius.
Do you have a blue tooth device? I am having the same problem and suspect that my blue tooth is interferring with the car starting! been very frustrating!
I had the same problem... It was the "Brake Switch Assy"
We have a 2005 Nissan Murano with the Intelligent Key and the Convenience Door Switches and we have never once come upon the car unlocked when we had locked it. As for the Intelligence Key, its absence is not going to disable the vehicle for safety reasons, but the vehicle will emit a series of loud and rapid beeps, the specific pattern of which seems to change intermittently with every instance.
Im haviing a worse trouble, the key light on my altima its went on like 5 houes ago while driving back from L.A. to Phoenix, when i got home the car wont turn off, its bennn 2 hours since i got home and the car wont turn off... can someboody help me im hoping the gas will tun out or somethingg HELPPP
My 2007 Altima Hybrid has the recurring issue of accessories working, but engine not starting (several times every winter or any time I don't drive it for a week). It happened again last week and then I also got the key warning light. Dealer said both fob batteries were dead. These seem to be multiple symptoms of an underlying cause. I'll ask the dealership about the Brake Switch Assembly. It does seem related to the brake. When I brake, the dash lights go off, unable to start. When I don't brake, accessories come on just fine.
i have 2007 altima with i key and my key is in car, but on the dash is reading ...no key and it will not start...help!!!


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This is a review of a split 7 inch between Oakland, California's Augurs and Deathgrave which will be released by Sentinent Ruin Laboratories on March 17, 2015 and we will start off the review with Augurs a band that plays a mixture of black metal, doom and crust.
Their side of the split starts off with a very dark and heavy sound that starts to speed up a few seconds later and bring s in elements of crust, and black metal screams along with a decent amount of blast beats and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and you can also hear a small amount of doom and post metal in the bands musical style as well as some deep growls, the production sounds very dark and heavy while the lyrics cover depressive themes and towards the end the music gets melodic and also incorporates a brief guitar lead.
In my opinion Augurs are a very great sounding mixture of black metal, doom and crust and if you are a fan of those musical genre, you should check out this band.
Next up is Deathgrave a band that plays a brutal mixture of power violence, crust and grind.
Their side of the split starts out with a very heavy guitar sound and high pitched screams before speeding up and adding in blast beats that also take their music into more of a brutal grindcore direction and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with a small amount of growls being added onto later songs the production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover violent and hateful themes.
In my opinion Deathgrave are a very great sounding mixture of grindcore, crust and power violence and if you are a fan of those musical genres, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Hugged In Half".
In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding split and I would recommend it to fans of black metal, doom, grind, power violence and crust. 8 out of 10.


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As an Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, he provides a comprehensive service including the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of women presenting with both benign and malignant breast diseases. He obtained an MS (Lond), a higher degree by thesis, in research into breast cancer. He continues his research interests having obtained grants enabling him to supervise surgical research fellows studying for MD theses.
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Chong YM, Colston K, Jiang WG, Sharma AK, Mokbel K. The Relationship Between Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 System and Oestrogen Metabolising Enzymes in Breast Cancer Tissue and its Adjacent Non-Cancerous Tissue. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 2006; 99(3): 275-288.
Al Sarakbi W, Chong KY, Williams SL, Sharma AK, Mokbel K. The mRNA expression of IGF-1 and IGF-1R in human breast cancer: Association with clinico-pathological parameters. J. Carcinog. 2006; 5:16.
Ng D, Trivedi PM, Sharma AK, Banerjee D. Current Use of Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Breast Surgery: A Nationwide Survey. The Breast: 2007; 16(1): 68-72.
Chong YM, Subramanian A, Sharma AK, Mokbel K. The potential clinical applications of insulin-like growth factor-1 ligand in human breast cancer. Anticancer Res. 2007; 27(3b): 1617-1624.
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Chong K, Subramanian A, Sharma A, Mokbel K. Measuring IGF-1, ER-α and EGFR expression can predict tamoxifen-resistance in ER-positive breast cancer. Anticancer Res. 2011 Jan 31; (1): 23-32.
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Ok so it's been quite a while since my last blog. It sure as hell hasn't been a result of slacking off. There have been some pretty major changes around the shop. Some changes came via drama, and some the way of renovation and progress.
The progress is the important part of the story. Drama is best kept in the realm of daytime television. As soon as 2 of the 4 tattooists at the shop were gone, all of the tension and self-absorbed attitude got washed away literally and figuratively. It opened up the opportunity to start long planned renovations. I'll post photos when it is all completed but I must tell ya, it really is starting to look like the shop I have wanted for a long time. New floors, new reception area, new windows, new lights, new paint, and a few good friends to help make it all come to life. There's still a bunch of cleaning and finishing to be done, but it really makes coming into the shop a great feeling. It's hard not to be motivated when your surroundings just feel right.
All the while I have been tattooing a ton, and trying to keep on top of drawings and preparations for my appointments. There have been some really serious customers with super intriguing ideas coming in lately. From Halloween themed sleeves, to tiki gods creating the heavens and the seas, I have definitely had some fun ideas to run with. Oh and did I mention zombies, lots and lots of zombies. Burning zombies, flesh eating zombies, and even a pile of zombies being run over by a tank driven by a cigar smoking poodle. So yeah, I've had some fun ideas to play with.
With all that has been going on it's crazy to think of all that is coming up. We are having a dear friend, Turk, return to the shop for a week of guest artist stunts from Sept. 15 through the 20th. He was around in the spring and worked on yours truly as well as Holly and a bunch of friends. I'm not going to spend an entire paragraph praising the guy, but suffice to say I can't wait to have my arm finished. Hopefully while in town we can get out and see the area a bit. There is a ton of history and art around here to be seen, and I rarely take the chance to appreciate it. Visitors really can make you appreciate where you call home.
After the guest spot, Turk and I are off to London for the London Tattoo Convention. We will be in London for a week, and that trip can't get here soon enough. It was a great show last year, and I'm sure it will be at least as much fun this year. I look forward to seeing some friends I really only get to see a few times a year. And beyond that it will be nice to get some quiet time. Last year I had a day walking throughout the city going from pub to pub. That may have to be revisited.
After the convention, we will be planning the 4th Pushing up Pumpkins Halloween art show. It should be a perfect way to kick off the new look at the shop. The opening night will be Sunday October 25th. Just sayin'.
So that is enough update for now. I'll post photos as soon as I get the opportunity. Till then, be well!


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Lost Girl: Season 2, Episode 09, Original Skin
You know the drill. Possible spoilers through 03.13. All reviews here.
At some point, every long-running show has a bottle episode, and every sci-fan show with the remotest hint of camp has a body switching episode. (Heck, Charmed has one every dozen episodes or so.) "Original Skin" kills both birds with one stone.
Bottle Episode Step 1: contrive to get your principles inside the bottle. Kenzi's lurve of drinking, Dyson and Hale being cops, Lauren on an Ash errand.
Bottle Episode Step 2: make sure nobody else is inside the bottle. Bingo night. Check.
Body Switching Step 1: set up the switch before it manifests. Bo and Kenzi need a drink, Trick does his barkeep thing with Lauren, Hale and Dyson are playing pool, Woods needs to show his superiority by snagging someone's pitching and swigging directly from it. Everyone has had some beer.
Bonus Redirect! Though we see Reynard with the syringe before everyone has taken a sip, we assume it's more poison than body-switching potion, and it give us some tension as we wait to see who will drink.
Bonus Subtext! This show likes its syringes and their alternate representation.
Bottle Episode Step 2: keep everyone from leaving. If you're super ballsy you can attempt to pull off an Exterminating Angel, but it's best to give an actual reason. In this case, the bounty hunter has put a force field around the Dal.
Body Switching Step 2: dial it in slowly. Introduce the premise, maybe start with one switch before you go hog wild.
Body Switching Step 3: set up a 'straight man.' Someone needs to help keep everything sorted, for the characters and the audience. In this case, it's Trick, who only drinks the good stuff.
Body Switching Step 4: easy identifiers. If more than two or three people are switching, we're going to need visual cues. Trick just happens to have name tags for bingo night! Thank heavens most people switch between themselves, to keep it easier to follow. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 did seven of Harry, and established various outfits beforehand, then pulled off the change, then used partnered each Harry with another character to help keep it all straight. This bonus feature explains how they did the VFX, which is also handy if you're wondering how Orphan Black does it. Orphan Black, another show which uses wardrobe and visual cues and acting to keep everyone aligned. Of course, you can go more for the nuanced acting when your conceit is stretched over the whole show, rather than 20 minutes where you need everyone to get the idea across quickly. But I'm getting off track.
Body Switching Step 5: If a character is trying to hide something – say, Reynard hiding he's in Bo's body – put that 'outside' or 'shell' character with someone least likely to notice. Here, Ciara has barely met Bo, and she's also distracted by her anger, so she doesn't immediately catch on. The attraction Bo manifested towards Ciara upon meeting and the loathing she feels about Ciara being with Dyson are still in her body. Reynard voices them, which is initially somewhat amusing, but also discomfiting.
Bottle episodes are the perfect time to air all of the awkward. Ciara and Dyson were mid-fight when Dyson went for 'a drink with the boys,' but Ciara walks in on him cheers-ing Bo. Bo wants to actually talk about Last episode's kiss, while dressed as a biker chick. Which Lauren apparently has a secret thing for. (Also, a thing for mechanical bulls.) Everyone starts confessing and sniping, especially once the blood sets in. The underlying reasons for all the awkward are going to come out, and unsurprisingly, most of it is fear and loneliness.
The episode is concerned with identity, interpersonal intimacy, and hidden feelings: from Bo's biker clothing to Ciara's fear she doesn't know Dyson, from Lauren's hidden rage to Kenzi and Hale being forced to put labels on their relationship.
While all that is interesting, I have to admit for me, body switching episodes are enjoyable because the actors get to mimic each other. It starts with Anna Silk's impression of Wood's accent and snowballs from there: K.C. Collins plays prim and proper while Lina Roessler is a not-really-apologetic hounddog about her own body; in a stroke of brilliance, Ksenia Solo's sniffs and snarls and imitates of Dyson's hulk shoulders while Kris Holden-Ried compliments/makes fun of his sexy arms and voice; and Zoie Palmer gets to go all crazy eyes.
Lauren going after Lachlan is the result of not just anger over his inhumane treatment of her, but anger over her five years of servitude to the Fae who tricked her, incapacitated her girlfriend, and are currently keeping her from her home and her, well, other girlfriend. She's stressed over getting Nadia to wake up, she's stressed over what will happen to her life if she succeeds. There's all sorts of work, personal, and sexual stress roiling under the surface, and when the Gorgon blood and Reynard bring it all out, s/he goes straight for the figurehead of all her problems. Dyson-as-Kenzi puts a stop to Reynard, but the effect on Lauren will linger. She's reached her breaking point, and this helps cement it. In two episodes, she'll outright defy Lachlan, and their animosity won't be polite anymore.
The line between where the bodies react and the 'persons' inside them act is a touch blurry. Hale-as-Ciara wants to kiss Kenzi-as-Dyson because of bodies, but also because of the people inside. It opens up all sorts of possibilities. Ciara(-as-Hale) and Bo(-as-Woods) have an honest talk which would have been a long time coming under different circumstances.
Being inside one other's bodies and thoughts gives everyone some perspective, too. Dyson's amazement at Kenzi's strength comes not at discovering her physical abilities, but her limitations. He's so used to using his brawn, his pipes, his wolf, to out-brute his problems, he's overlooked what it takes for someone like Kenzi to be a survivor, and he's impressed. Kenzi understands some of what Dyson is going through. Bo is an outsider, seeing herself and her powers as others see them, and seeing herself attack Ciara is terrifying. So while there's no sex, one kiss, and one chi-suck, there's an incredible amount of intimacy.
It's worth noting nobody gets inside Lauren's head; as a private person who's just learning to trust and has a girlfriend problem not many know about, this is wise. Of course, she and Kenzi being the only humans mean one of them has to be possessed by Reynard, and the other the chaser, but we don't know that until Reynard-as-Lauren is already gone. Not only the people who switch with each other, but the order in which all the information is revealed, has to be painstakingly plotted, yet it feels organic. As organic as anything where people switch essences/souls/selves and then chi-suck, stab, and power-orb each other can be.
I'm guessing there were charts and rewrites galore, but it works well to forward not only relationships but story (mostly, Lachlan's and Lauren's, somewhat Bo's), is funny, and was cheap to produce. Three minor guest characters, no extras whatsover. A couple props, two minor CGI bits, and one green, pixilated filter. One scene in Lachlan's throne room, one in Lauren's lab (potentially shot with another lab scene, though it seems Lost Girl shoots fairly episode-sequential), the rest in the Dal and the Dal's handy storeroom. One color scheme, one main lighting setup for all the group shots, and a couple relights for one-on-ones in various rooms, everything left a little dim and creepy, voila.
Filming these sorts of dynamics isn't necessarily challenging as far as shot setup (a lot of wide, group shots, a lot of two shots where switched characters are together), but the blocking is much more important. In a big group, arrangement is important, but accessibility – so, for example, Kenzi-as-Dyson can jump in front of Kenzi's body when Reynard-as-Lauren attacks her – must be maintained. There will be spots with better light, so anyone you're singling needs to hit their marks exactly. As shots move, things in the background must be visible, so the audience can see Kenzi and Lauren looking funnily at Reynard-as-Bo, or can see the door close back behind all the chaos as Reynard-as-Lauren leaves the Dal.
So while making some logistics like location, transportation, set dressing, extras wrangling, and rigging easier, it's not like a bottle episode is a walk in the park. The filming logistics are still important, but the character interactions are even more so. None of it matters if the people in the room can't keep it interesting for an hour. Throwing multiple body switches on top of that takes some serious chutzpah, but in this case, it pays off.
Stray Observations
– BONUS BODY SWITCHING STEP: use the time to put a character into limbo to learn about the looming Fae extinction, "unless you, Isabo, fulfill your destiny." Bo also forsees stabbing Trick. But it's all conveniently in the Dal.
– "Give back my friendship beer!"
– The Gorgon blood brings up blood and control again. I'm not saying they're specifically foreshadowing "Fae-nted Love," I'm saying the idea of blood being powerful is prevalent in mythology and the series, and especially interesting to me in conjunction with Bo's religious upbringing.
– Of course Lauren wants to do things systematically.
– I know it's a common thing for people and thus characters to do, but TV characters need to stop acting like the word 'murderer' explains the word 'anarchist.'
– Bo as Woods (when Kenzi-as-Dyson is slashing at Woods-as-Bo): "Try to aim for not my face!"
– "As long as everybody keeps their head about them." *Jump cut to Lachlan*
– I know people could take issue with Hale grabbing Ciara's boobs without permission, even if it's kind of his 'vessel' at the time. It would certainly be entirely inappropriate in reality. The same with Kenzi's fondling Dyson's wolf-junk. As part of the camp which this episode is drenched in, as another entry in the long line of body switching episodes, and as a way for the actors to stretch their powers, it's fitting and funny.
Comments5 Responses to "Lost Girl: Season 2, Episode 09, Original Skin"
The question of Identity has always been predominant in almost every episode written by Emily Andras – "Dead Lucky", "ArachnoFaebia", "Mirror, Mirror", "Original Skin", "The Girl Who Fae'd With Fire", "Caged Fae" are all variations on the subject – and with her as showrunner it became the major theme of the show in S3: the quest for the self. We saw Bo, Lauren, Kenzi, Tamsin and Hale searching into themselves and for themselves, no matter how contrived and at times absurdly written they were. Heck, even Vex sometimes seemed lost and wondering, and he ended up going in a personal voyage of self-discovery.
I don't know her work on other shows to assume it is a personal fascination, but in Lost Girl the theme of Identity has clearly been her main driver.
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Thousands of haredi men, women and children gathered at Shabbat Square in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood on Monday afternoon for the second mass protest this summer against the enlistment of yeshiva students into national service programs.In an attempt to underline their opposition to haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men being drafted into the army, hundreds of the young boys at the Eda Haredit-planned rally were handcuffed together "to express loudly the pain of haredi Jews in Israel and abroad."Asked what the purpose of the rally was, one nine-year-old boy said that "it is forbidden to go enlist in the army."Another boy said that there were no security problems for Jews living in Israel before the establishment of the state and that "God will protect the Jewish people, not the army."Haredim from many different hassidic groups were present at the rally, including those from the radical Toldos Aharon, Toldos Avraham Yitzhak and Satmar groups.Children and other protesters held banners declaring the participation and support of the rally from the Dushinsky and Breslov hassidic groups.Senior rabbis from the Eda Haredit were present at the protest, including Rabbi Haim Uri Freund, a member of the rabbinical court of the organization.Prayers were led from the stage, including the recital of psalms and special prayers usually said only on fast days and in the 10 days of penitence between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.A banner strung across the Shabbat Square intersection read: "Our children are more beloved to us than anything, and they will not be the Cantonists of the government," in reference to the forcible drafts imposed on Jewish children in Prussia in the 18th century.A hassidic man from the Toldos Aharon sect, who was ushering a long line of boys down Mea She'arim street toward Shabbat Square, said that the children were brought to the protest to demonstrate for whom the battle against the government is being fought."We've won many victories against the Zionists, but now we're fighting for the next generation," the man said. "It is forbidden to join together or cooperate with a state which goes against the Torah."Another of the banners held by protesters read, "We will die as Jews rather than surrender in order to serve in military or national service." Other signs declared that those associating themselves with the anti-Zionist Eda Haredit organization do not take any money from the state and are therefore exempt from the "decrees" of the government.In response to the protest, the "Camp Sucker" movement, which is calling for equalizing the burden of national service among all groups, condemned the "cynical use of children" and the "campaign against all civic responsibility" for the State of Israel."The very fact that you live in Israel, enjoying the security the state gives you, requires you to take part in the obligations of the state," the group said in a statement to the media.Although extremely vocal, the Eda Haredit represents a small faction of the ultra- Orthodox community and is one of the most hardline, anti-Zionist groupings within the haredi world.In June, the Eda Haredit organized another mass rally, in which many protesters donned sackcloth and sprinkled ashes on themselves to "avert the decree of military and national service enlistment."According to Rabbi Avraham Eizenstien, one of the protest organizers, more than 5,000 children were present at the demonstration."We want this cry to go up to God so he will hear our wailing and save us," Eizenstien said. "We are bound only by the instructions of our rabbis and we received instructions from our rabbis that children should be handcuffed together and this is what we've done."The children at the demonstration wore stickers on their backs and chests, which bore the words "Daddy, save me so that I will not fall into the destruction of military or national service."
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Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in St Peter's Basilica yesterday in memory of the cardinals and bishops who have died in 2011 (video).
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Clocking in at a short, perfect-bound, paperbacked 272 pages, My So-Called Punk flits from Iggy Pop and the Clash to Blink-182 and Sum 41 with incredible speed. In-depth analysis or literary flourish yield to Diehl's suspicion that, indeed, "punx don't read." Instead, he gives them a blended Jamba Juice smoothie chock-full of chunky highlights and insights.
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In related news, rumors continue to swirl that the East Bay's Green Day is back in its home Studio 880 in Oakland recording a follow-up to the Grammy-winning American Idiot, which sold in excess of five million copies. Studio 880 stands tall as one of a handful of endangered recording leviathans in the East Bay. It has survived the comet impact of the digital home studio revolution, partially by also becoming Wal-Mart's recording home.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal reports that Wal-Mart doesn't carry American Idiot because it lacks a "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" sticker; ostensibly for lyrics like Maybe I'm the faggot American/I'm not part of a redneck agenda.
In a sense, Green Day's timeshare with Wal-Mart is part of a redneck agenda, but I don't fault them. Punx may not read, but a lot of truth still exists in books by Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, who posit the theory of "binary oppositions." The theory says that concepts like good versus evil, corporate versus indie, and revolution versus institution need each other to exist. They lean on each other for strength and definition. There is no "Rage" without the "Machine." "Subverting the paradigm" just reinforces the existence of a paradigm to subvert.
And that's Press Play's final beef with My So-Called Punk. Diehl expends acres of dead trees "searching for punk's soul," but he refuses to critique its empty head. Just say it, Diehl: Punks are flunkies. They got played. They failed to understand a power structure that not only needs but eventually co-opts rebellion. Real world-changers tend to ignore the binary oppositions and do their own thing. Think Albert Einstein at the patent office; Larry Page and Sergey Brin with PageRank; Shawn Fanning napping in his dorm.
In 2007, there's nothing more DIY than crafting your own online presence with the help of Rupert Murdoch's MySpace. Diehl's book should be cross-marketed next to those Misfits T-shirts at Hot Topic. Punx don't read, but the posers just might learn something.
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The blame game in the Senate over the second government shutdown of 2018 isn't nearly as complicated as the first time around.
Senators from both parties blasted Sen. Rand Paul for his protest Thursday night that pushed debate over a massive spending deal past midnight and effectively triggered the lapse in funding.
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Rattani, Ajita and Tistarelli, Massimo (2009) Robust multi-modal and multi-unit feature level fusion of face and iris biometrics. In: Advances in biometrics: 3rd International conference, ICB 2009: proceedings, June 2-5, 2009, Alghero, Italy. Berlin - Heidelberg, Springer. p. 960-969. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5558/2009). ISBN 978-3-642-01792-6. Conference or Workshop Item.
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Multi-biometrics has recently emerged as a mean of more robust and efficient personal verification and identification. Exploiting information from multiple sources at various levels i.e., feature, score, rank or decision, the false acceptance and rejection rates can be considerably reduced. Among all, feature level fusion is relatively an understudied problem. This paper addresses the feature level fusion of multi-modal and multi-unit sources of information. For multi-modal fusion the face and iris biometric traits are considered, while the multi-unit fusion is applied to merge the data from the left and right iris images. The proposed approach computes the SIFT features from both biometric sources, either multi-modal or multi-unit. For each source, feature selection on the extracted SIFT features is performed via spatial sampling. Then these selected features are finally concatenated together into a single feature super-vector using serial fusion. This concatenated super feature vector is used to perform classification. Experimental results from face and iris standard biometric databases are presented. The reported results clearly show the performance improvements in classification obtained by applying feature level fusion for both multi-modal and multi-unit biometrics in comparison to uni-modal classification and score level fusion.
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Drawn against a strong outfit in Nottingham Forest (the leaders of the Premier League Northern Division), City upset the odds against their local rivals in a hard fought battle. Forest started the game brightly, but keeper Laura Niblett coped well in the early exchanges. The Foxes started the second half very well and took the lead through Zira Handley, after great work from Rachel Williams. For the rest of the game, the Foxes defence stood firm and managed to keep their concentration, resulting in a momentous day for Leicester.
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