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Deptherapy returns to its Roots – Part 4
Join Richard Cullen from Deptherapy for part 4 of his Blog about the charity's recent expedition to Roots Red Sea, El Quseir, Egypt.
We are all back to the house reef today; the weather is lovely, the sea calm, the tide will soon be slack, so a great day's diving in store.
A few yards away from the beach dive centre, on the Roots' beach is their day time restaurant. It is where we take lunch when diving, and there is a continual supply of tea, coffee and soft drinks, and some marvellous lunches. There are also male and female toilets and a fully accessible toilet for those using wheelchairs.
A few thoughts around working with amputees and those who have paraplegia. Firstly amputees – the part of the limb remaining is known as the 'stump', and we have worked with a substantial number of bilateral leg amputees (both legs), single leg amputees and single arm amputees. The level of amputation can be above or below the knee or elbow, or through the knee. In one case the amputation was transpelvic and in another through the shoulder. Some like Chris Middleton have one leg amputated above the knee and one below the knee. This is rare, but each type of amputation offers a different challenge.
Many people think the amputation is clean and the skin neatly tidied up after surgery. Although that occurs in a few cases, in most the stump is rather rugged. Elasticity of the skin around the stump is often exceptionally poor and can easily be damaged. Some of our beneficiaries, as they were injured as young men, suffered from heterotopic ossification – this is where the bone tries to grow after amputation and often penetrates the skin, resulting in further surgery being required to cut back the bone and of course the stump needs to be restitched. Very often stumps are sealed with skin from elsewhere on the body.
Few divers have never experienced a graze or cut underwater but such an experience for those with amputations can have serious consequences. Stumps are more likely to get cut or grazed as the skin is so tight. We all know that there are lots of infections in seawater and if infected the cut or graze can cause very serious problems for the amputee. Tailored wetsuits are one preventative measure, as are daily stump checks, making sure there is no damage and if there is, applying medication and or protecting the stump.
Those with paraplegia provide an additional challenge, not being able to feel their lower limbs they can easily damage them, so cuts, abrasions, and even sunburn can go unnoticed. Donning a full-length wetsuit can be a challenge as toes can easily be broken and hairs pulled out of legs. On the Deptherapy Education Professionals' Course we show how to fit a wetsuit properly.
In recent discussions between our dive medicine advisor Mark Downs and our VP Richard Castle, who is a consultant psychologist, we have been looking at areas for further medical research in terms of diving for those with disabilities. One area of suggested study is thermoregulation. The theory is that those with amputations and those with paraplegia suffer more with the cold as their body is unable to regulate heat. Certainly, in Corey's case, he feels the cold more quickly than those diving with him. Chris Middleton can feel the cold more quickly than others with amputations but that may well be that Chris is muscle and bone where, to put it nicely, others have a more substantial covering.
Some AMEDs and Dive Referees will not sign off amputees as being fit to dive. That is their professional opinion and although we can show that even triple amputees are more than capable divers, capable of progressing to Rescue Diver standard even, they still refuse to sign them off. Last year Oli and Mark invited us to speak at the UK Annual Hyperbaric Medicine Conference in London where Josh Boggi, the world's first triple amputee Rescue Diver and a Deptherapy beneficiary spoke about how amputees can become safe and successful divers.
For Corey, he wears full leg coverings and diving boots in the water; as he cannot use his legs there is no purpose in wearing fins.
Another point around amputations is that most of the general population make an assumption that a leg amputation is the result of a traumatic incident. That is incorrect; by far the majority of leg amputations in the UK are the result of diabetes. Those whose legs are amputated as a result as diabetes are more likely to have poor healing of the stumps. This also presents an issue of comorbidity that may well result in an AMED or Dive Referee declining to sign them off as 'fit to dive'. If signed off you would need to be very aware of the health of a stump; I certainly would not take someone with an open wound diving and the fact that they will be on medication for the diabetes. You also have to be aware that they may well be on other medication to manage pain etc.
You need to be very clear with those who have paraplegia and other conditions that they must let you know if they start to feel cold.
Managing air – diving just using your arms for propulsion can, for many, be very tiring and a considerable amount of effort is required. This, plus other factors, may result in enhanced air consumption by the diver. This may increase if a current is encountered, even one which most divers who have use of their legs and dive with fins would not cause the least concern.
Within Deptherapy we very much work on the 'rule of thirds' – a third of your air to get you down and to see what you want to see, a third to get you back to the surface and a third in reserve. This in most circumstances will ensure no 'low on air' or 'out of air' situations.
Say if we have 210 bar in a cylinder that means 70 bar out, so turn on 140 bar, 70 bar to return and to the surface so we should have 70 bar reserve at the surface.
We also work our students through SAC rates and looking at the air consumption of others in their team.
Checking the team's air frequently during a dive is stressed to all our Pro team.
Keiron became very engaged with this concept as the result of the online RAID study for his Master Rescue Diver.
On expeditions we normally dive in small teams, a DM/TDM with three programme members. They work as a team and understand each other's air consumption. Of course, they also dive as buddy pairs.
Today offered perfect conditions for diving, and Keiron, Moudi, and this time TDM Oatsie were kitted up and in the water within minutes.
Pause for thought… those with paraplegia will have different toileting arrangements to those who do not have the condition. This also applies to some who have suffered traumatic limb loss. They may use catheters for urination, some may have Stoma bags etc. This all has to be planned into your dive schedule to ensure the safety and comfort of your student. For young people talking about these very personal arrangements may be very difficult. Those with Stoma bags may be embarrassed by people seeing them. This is another part of seeing beyond the injury or condition – it is the person inside that you are dealing with.
So, Corey, Michael and myself were joined by Swars. Swars, although he joined the DM programme at the same time as the other guys, because of work commitments was unable to join us in September 2019 at Roots where we ran a DM introductory programme alongside the crossover of our Pro Team to RAID. Swars has become a really good mate; he is a great diver, with an engaging personality.
Michael and Oatsie were a known quantity to me as they had been on the September 2019 programme and both have travelled to my home dive centre Divecrew in Crowthorne, Berkshire, to work on courses, pre-COVID. During COVID Michael and I, plus a few of the guys from Divecrew, have dived at Wraysbury together.
Just as Roots is our base in Egypt, Divecrew is our base in the UK, and through this relationship, Martin (who owns Divecrew with his wife Sue) is one of our trustees. Together they have established a centre where pretty much 100% of the Pros are Deptherapy Education trained.
I asked Swars straight away to brief a dive for Corey. I gave him the briefing slate, a few tips and then ten minutes later he came back with a perfect briefing… and I mean perfect. So, a great briefing under his belt; now to watch him work with Corey in open water. He looked the Pro, he knew what he should be doing, he understood his role. We assigned Michael as Corey's buddy and said he would lead the dive. I was there to assess the TDMs and supervise very closely Corey's skill demonstrations.
Again, it comes as no surprise that many beneficiaries in Deptherapy can move straight into dive management, as several were NCOs, as was Swars, and they are used to briefing individuals and teams.
We had decided that we would mix up the dives required to complete Corey's OW 20 RAID dives with some general diving as trim and swimming arm action are all important. We also needed to concentrate on spatial awareness.
We agreed a signal for horizontal trim and Swars reinforced the swim stroke that Corey needed to do to get propulsion. Every time Corey moved out of horizontal trim Swars was there reminding him about trim and reminding him of his swim stroke.
The Roots' House Reef is amazing – at a metre you encounter a shoal of black Damselfish, at 3 metres a shoal of Unicornfish, there are Butterflyfish and all manner of other fishes in great profusion. The coral is in great condition. It really is a place of beauty and tranquillity.
Although we had problems getting Corey underwater again, once we got him in skill demonstration mode his anxieties disappeared. We then took him diving. Steve Rattle, the owner of Roots joined us and was taking photos that provide a great record of the week's diving. Steve commented on the quality of Swars and Michael's supervision and control underwater of Corey and gave them feedback on how impressed he was.
Meanwhile on the RAID Master Rescue Course, Oatsie who was in the same Regiment, same Platoon and Section as Keiron in Afghanistan was more than willing to be a very uncooperative victim for his brother-in-arms. I think Keiron gave Oatsie some feedback about this!
For me this was a hard week, combining running the RAID OW 20 for Corey but also the assessment of our three TDMs. A week underwater but no opportunity to dive for myself. People often think Deptherapy Expeditions are holidays for the Dive Team; they are not, it is hard work and I mean hard work.
Tomorrow is Day 4 in the water Day 5 of our trip. We are on the House Reef again, and things are starting to come together. Join us back here on Monday 26th October…
Find out more about the work of Deptherapy and Deptherapy Education at www.deptherapy.co.uk
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Melbourne digital media agency, Online Circle, has released the October Facebook Performance Report and guess who tops the top 20 branded Facebook pages chart in Australia?
If your pick was along the lines of Coca Cola, Neighbours, KFC and McDonald's, you are wrong.
Bananas in Pyjamas (ABC TV) – yes B1 and B2 – has beaten pages across all categories to nab the top spot with more than 1.7 million Facebook fans.
It was well ahead of its closest rival, Bubble O'Bill Ice Creams, with 1.2 million fans. Home and Away and Masterchef got their spot on the list with more than one million fans each.
According to Online Circle, there was popularity for TV shows, which took up seven of the top 20 places on the chart and five out of the top ten.
Other rankings in the top 20 were mainly taken by food products – Pringles Australia (1.07 million), Coca Cola Australia (number 6 with 855,914 fans) and Domino's Pizza (number 7 with 749,013 fans).
Online Circle also claimed that the October 2012 Report showed the continuation of several clear trends including Facebook based promotions, special offers and thematic, fun and often amusing posts and advertising in an effort to engage with fans in an increasingly crowded online platform.
It mentioned that one of the 'new' industries, TV shows, entered the list at number one with 8,524,660 fans, suggesting the integration of TV and social media.
This is more than four million fans ahead of nearest rival industry, FMCG – Snack foods.
The last report's leader, fashion, dropped to third position in this report, proposing a decline in retail fans.
Both TV shows and FMCG snack foods had the highest growth numbers, with 150,000 more Facebook fans than the category with the next highest growth - alcohol brands.
Online Circle said this growth can partly be attributed to brands investing more marketing and advertising dollars in the medium.
The Telecommunications industry also cultivated an engaged Facebook following, recording an engagement rate of 16.6 per cent up from two per cent in July. This rate was driven primarily by Vodafone and Telstra's 24x7 support service, Online Circle said.
The Australian Facebook Performance Report was created to provide businesses with an understanding of the strategies and tactics behind some of Australia's most successful branded Facebook Pages. The bi-monthly report covers the top 20 brands across 12 different industries and what they are doing to engage with their customers on Facebook.
The 12 industries in the October report are: alcohol brands, electronics, automotive, banking & financial, telecommunications, quick serve restaurants, department stores, fashion, grocery, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) beverages, FMCG - snack foods and TV shows.
In the October report, four of the industries were dropped, mainly due to a lack of activity, and replaced with four new industries – quick serve restaurants, alcohol brands and electronics and TV shows.

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Cards general manager Steve Keim joined NFL Media's Adam Schein on SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports Radio on Friday to discuss the only QB the team was "focused on" in the first round.
"We liked Blake Bortles a lot," Keim said. "We thought, when you looked at his size, his athleticism, his ability to improvise. He doesn't have quite the arm strength that Ben Roethlisberger had but he has some of the same skill set."
Bortles was, of course, drafted No. 3 overall by the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the Cardinals selected Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas in the fourth round. Carson Palmer is entrenched -- for now -- as the team's starter under center.
"When you get into the later parts of the draft, whether it is Rounds 4 through 7, then you take chances on guys you think could potentially be the guy. Guys who have all the physical tools that may need some developing," Keim said.
After lofty expectations in college, Thomas was never able to reach his potential as a top-tier QB, but he'll have the luxury of developing under Cardinals coach and QB guru Bruce Arians in Arizona.
It's fair to wonder, however, if Bortles dropped further in the draft, would the Cardinals have tried to trade up for the Jags' new signal-caller?
The latest "Around The League Podcast" breaks down the latest news and predicts the 2014 season for top rookies.


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Beijing, 28 July 2016 - Dream Cruises, the first-ever Asian luxury cruise line, today announced that guests onboard the inaugural cruise ship Genting Dream will be able to indulge their passion for the finer things in life at the world's first JOHNNIE WALKER HOUSE at sea.
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EDITORIAL: Does Angry Birds pose danger during takeoff?
At long last, the Federal Aviation Administration is taking a hard look at the rationale behind restricting the use of personal electronic devices during flights.
We hope this administration, which prides itself on being persuaded by science, cleaves to that principle in this matter.
The truth is, the FAA doesn't have proof that using a laptop or a Kindle interferes with a plane's electronic systems.
Yet it clings to prohibitions on listening to an iPod or watching a video during takeoff and landing.
Of course, flight safety should be the agency's priority. However, rules designed to safeguard passengers and crew must be based on real evidence or they will be undermined.
So you might ask, why not err on the side of being overly cautious? This is why: Because nonsensical rules will only encourage the rebellious to ignore them.
It's happening already.
The New York Times recently published a piece that detailed several incidents in which passengers were arrested for using electronic devices.
Those who have flown even a moderate amount in recent years may have seen such conflicts between passengers and flight attendants. They're pretty common.
Yes, there will always be the obnoxious person on an airplane who is going to push his seat back before it is allowed or sprint to the restroom before the seat belt sign is turned off.
But if the FAA has real science, real evidence that electronic devices interfere with a plane's navigation and communication systems, we suspect there would be fewer conflicts over device usage.
Surveys have shown that significant numbers of people have at one time or another forgotten to set their smartphone to "airplane mode" during a trip and somehow made it off the plane alive. If they're so dangerous, how could that be?
And it was with quite a bit of fanfare that pilots recently got approval to use iPads in the cockpit -- even during takeoff and landing.
How could it be right for them but wrong for everyone else?
Rules prohibiting use of electronic devices during takeoff and landing date to 1991. Since then, the avionics used on planes have become more sophisticated and varied, as have personal electronic devices.
Julius Genachowski, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, in December encouraged the FAA to expand use of tablets, e-readers and other devices during flight so people could be more productive and efficient.
We hope the agency listens. After the FAA collects comments, it plans to appoint a commission in January to study the matter and suggest possible rule changes.
Safety must come first, but rules must be based on evidence and not suspicions or studies that cannot be replicated.
Editorial courtesy of The Denver Post, www.denverpost.com.


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Sometime last year my friend Daniel posted a video of a girl sitting in a car with a crazy system. She appeared to be, well, really enjoying it. I called bullshit. Maybe if it was a Harley I said, but not "just" bass.
Well, this previous summer I had to buy a hamster car…totally stock 2013 Kia Soul, but it has a freaking badass stock system. This song came on my Pandora station and suffice it to say, I was driving down I-84 and had to pull off for a second or 4 minutes.
Straight up.
No joke.
I doubt most computers can pick up the low frequencies in this song, but if you have a way to find it and play it through a good system, it's pretty effing sweet.
Ladies, you are all welcome.
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I run 2 other clients at the same time and they have no problem whatsoever.
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If I go to the trainplace and start it, it starts atacking as per usual, but when he dies and goes back to Alex North, he gets stuck on Starting shopping... forever
Also, as seen in the copypasta above, when I log in and click Start training, that happens.
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* Nellis Air Force Base was named in honor of Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot 1st Lieutenant [[Wikipedia:William Harrell Nellis|William Harrell Nellis]], who was killed in WWII during the famous Battle of the Bulge after flying 70 missions and being shot down twice before.
* Nellis Air Force Base was named in honor of Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot 1st Lieutenant [[Wikipedia:William Harrell Nellis|William Harrell Nellis]], who was killed in WWII during the famous Battle of the Bulge after flying 70 missions and being shot down twice before.
* The real world Nellis Air Force Base, like the in-game version, has a large solar panel array allowing it to be almost completely self-sufficient in terms of electricity.
* The real world Nellis Air Force Base, like the in-game version, has a large solar panel array allowing it to be almost completely self-sufficient in terms of electricity.
* The posters found for Nellis Air Force Base show an
* The posters found for Nellis Air Force Base show an that bears a similarity to World War II bombers such as the B-45 Tornado. This is in keeping with the style of the game.
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Nellis Air Force Base is a location northeast of New Vegas in the Mojave Wasteland. It is a pre-War air force base that was once the United States Air Force Warfare Center and, after the war, became the home of the Boomers, a xenophobic group who were former occupants of Vault 34.
In 2077, during the Great War, Nellis was struck by several atomic warheads,[1] killing all the inhabitants and leaving the base highly radioactive. Over the following decades, wastelanders avoided Nellis because of their fear of the radiation.
In 2231, the Boomers came across Nellis Air Force Base and settled there after sojourning the wastes looking for a new home. Their Pip-Boy Geiger counters indicated that the base was radioactive, but no longer dangerously so, unbeknownst to the wastelanders.[1] Since settling, they have been using the base's remaining defensive structures and their own stockpile of heavy arms, retrieved from Area 2, to keep any strangers from setting foot anywhere nearby.
Nellis' location is discreet and well-defended, most accessible by a cracked and cratered road littered with signs suggesting that entrance in to the area is strictly forbidden to all outsiders. The front gate is vigilantly guarded day and night by a howitzer team. Nellis Air Force Base's main entrance can be approached from two different locations, with the most notable one being via the old road leading east from Fields' shack. When approaching from the old road, the player character will encounter George, who provides the Nellis artillery timing details. The second approach can be accessed by the unmarked train tunnel (with a very hard lock) located east of Raul's Shack which avoids the dangerous artillery range entirely.
Upon entering the base, the most obvious structures are the control tower and the hangars to the west. Two runways stretch parallel to the east, occupying the majority of the bases' territory. The Boomers have made good use of the land between them, converting a parcel into an irrigated farm plot. The pipes are connected to an inaccessible shack, implying they have access to reclamation facilities. North of the farm is the Nellis array, which provides power for the entire facility via solar panels. Along the northeast corner of the fencing is an unlootable graveyard.
One hangar houses the remaining parts of a B-29 bomber, while the other is used to house the VR terminals, used to train pilots. The building also serves as a mess hall and storage area. During the day, several important members of the Boomers can be found gathered here.
Quonset huts and shacks provide living quarters, medical, and educational facilities on the west side of the base. Pearl and Loyal have their own homes, while the rest of the Boomers make do with segregated barracks. Also, the Boomer Museum is located amongst the eastern Quonset huts. Of note is a bio-diesel storage hut near the crane and tracks, showing the Boomers' capabilities, despite their isolation.
- Argyll
- Boomer munitions manager
- Jack
- Lindsay
- Loyal
- Pearl
- Pete
- Raquel
- Mini Boomers
- Boomer teacher
- Boomer chef
- Janet (if the quest Young Hearts is completed)
Notable loot
- Nellis Air Force Base snow globe - inside the Nellis Boomer museum
- Howitzer firing mechanism - in one of the gun cabinets inside the Nellis workshop
- Duck and Cover! inside Pearl's barracks among the books on the hanging bookshelf behind the sofa; must be stolen
- Dean's Electronics inside Loyal's house on the table; must be stolen
- A Fat Man and three mini nukes - can be pick-pocketed from a Boomer while sleeping in one of three tents south-east of the Mess hall & munitions storage hangar. Alternatively, the Boomer can be stealthily killed (without loss of reputation) for the weapon. Two more mini nukes can be found on the bottom floor of the Nellis array on the shelves. Another mini nuke can be stolen from the Boomers' munition store. It is inside a wooden box on the top shelf.
- Thump-Thump - can be found in the Nellis array generator building bottom floor next to a skeleton and to the left of the ant mound, along with 12 rounds of 40mm grenade ammo.
- The base bio-diesel refinery has 102 maize inside. Located north-north-east of the Nellis Boomer museum. Must be stolen.
- Two Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps - found on the south-eastern most table in the mess hall among other bottle caps
- A key to a locked gun case (very hard) in the armory of Vault 34 that can open the gun case for the pulse gun that can be found in a filing cabinet in Pearl's barracks.
- Several suits of combat armor can be stolen from the hangar where Loyal is found during the day. They are in metal boxes marked as armor case.
- There are at least nine skill magazines on the base, including six in the Nellis schoolhouse (three on the teacher's desk and three more in the desk). Copies of ¡La Fantoma!, Patriot's Cookbook, and Tæles of Chivalrie can be found in the Boomer museum.
Related quests
- On the way there (before the bombardment), a man named George will make a wager on the player character getting back alive. His wager is 300 caps. If a Barter check of 40 is passed, he will only need to be given 200 caps. However, passing the Barter check actually nets less caps on the wager (600 vs 400).
- Optionally, upon returning back after the bombardment, if a Speech check of 60 is passed, the Courier may threaten /lie/ to have the Boomers change their target trajectory, forcing George to add an additional 100 caps to the wager.
- If the courier bets 300 caps, returns to George from Nellis, and has a speech check of 60 without the use of a skill magazine, the courier may convince George to front 1000 caps, a profit of 700 caps. If the courier uses Meeting People to increase their speech, the courier will only be able to double their money at whatever they waged earlier.
There are several methods of getting past the artillery:
- The artillery will always fire on the player character, regardless of Sneak skill or Stealth Boys, so run at all times.
- On Hardcore mode, companions are likely to die if they follow the player character. Having them wait outside the perimeter until making it through is the best course of action.
- When getting to Nellis AFB, the ideal way is to closely follow the rock wall on the left after going into the artillery field, and to not stop moving. When approaching the corner where the fence meets the rock wall, the shelling will stop. From there, the fence should be followed to the entrance.
- Turbo can be used as well, in order to move faster than the artillery shells. The downside is that the player character will need to have several hits of Turbo, and of course, there is the risk of addiction.
- Another way to easily get through is to hug the right rock wall while entering from the road, and running as fast as possible towards the locked railroad doors (very hard). Once the railroad doors are reached, turn around and continue hugging the right rock wall up the railroad tracks. This will eventually lead to the fence. Turn left and hug the fence until reaching the main gate.
- The aforementioned railroad doors come from some underground tracks which can be accessed from an entrance south-east of Raul's shack (Lockpick 100).
- Another simpler (yet more expensive) way is possible if one has a high enough DT or HP. This involves stocking up on stimpaks and using the hotkey wheel for easy access. Start by sprinting straight towards the fence upon leaving the small canyon, and use the stimpaks whenever hit. A high-level character can do this without expending many stimpaks.
- Wait out the bombardment method: A recess along the left side wall of rock cannot be hit by the shells. Run straight to it while staying close to the wall, then crouch and wait till the bombardment finishes. (Although the Boomer guard at the gate says he has the courier zeroed in all the time, the shells actually come from the north).
- If Jack is given scrap metal, it will increase fame with Nellis. If the player character gives enough (about fifty units), an instant Idolized status with the Boomers will be gained.
- If the Boomer with the Fat Man is killed, they will eventually respawn, possibly being a source of infinite Fat Men and mini nukes. The respawn sequence takes about 3-5 in-game days.
- There are two Brotherhood of Steel paladins in the ruins of the town, who will have been shelled to death by the time the Courier reaches them. They play a part in Still in the Dark; one of them carries a statement that McNamara wants.
- In the far north east corner of the base is a makeshift graveyard. As with all graves, barely audible whispering can be heard while standing above them without the radio on.
- Although they will not bomb the player character once they have introduced themselves, or anybody wearing a Boomer flight/jumpsuit, Mini Boomers can occasionally be seen leaving or returning to the base while bombs rain down.
- The VR simulators in the second hangar cannot be used.
- With Veronica Santangelo as a companion during Pete's narration of the Boomers' history, she will comment on the similarities between them and the Brotherhood. The Boomers recognize her affiliation to the group.
- If the player character tells the guard that they ran through the artillery field, people will comment on it.
- With Cass as a companion, Boomers will walk up to her and say, "Whatever you're selling, we have plenty of it."
- With ED-E as a companion, both Boomers and the Mister Gutsies in the base will comment "I can take care of your robot problem. Just saying."
- Nellis has by far the most children in the game, with a total of eight.
- There are patrolling Mister Gutsy units around the base.
Nellis Air Force Base appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes
- Nellis Air Force Base was named in honor of Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot 1st Lieutenant William Harrell Nellis, who was killed in WWII during the famous Battle of the Bulge after flying 70 missions and being shot down twice before.
- The real world Nellis Air Force Base, like the in-game version, has a large solar panel array allowing it to be almost completely self-sufficient in terms of electricity.
- The posters found for Nellis Air Force Base show an aircraft that bears a similarity to post World War II bombers such as the B-45 Tornado. This is in keeping with the style of the game.
- PC The guard that opens the gate may stand with his back turned and will not interact with the player character.[verified]
- PC This can be fixed by opening the console (~), selecting the gate by left clicking it and typing unlock into the console. This will unlock the gate and allow the player character to walk in and initiate conversation with the guard, then proceed normally from there.
- PC Shelling may continue when near the Nellis fence and just inside the base.[verified]
- Playstation 3 At times, the textures and layout maps fail to load correctly, leaving any character or robot that wanders into the afflicted area stuck in the ground if it reverts to normal.[verified]
- PC There is a greenhouse that has planks nailed to the main door. It may be activated, but nothing will happen.[verified]
- PC If the gate to the entrance of the air base is left open, some of the Mini-Boomers may walk out and be attacked by the mortars. They will not die or even be affected by the missiles, and will keep walking and never return. When the player character walks with them the mortars do not fire, but if 2-5 steps are taken away from them, the mortars will begin firing again. This can lead to the mortars firing huge distances, potentially all the way to the outer walls of New Vegas and beyond.[verified]
- PC At times, the guards at the front gate or in the guard towers will randomly attack, even at accepted status.[verified]
- Playstation 3 Boomers will pile up just inside the west entrance/exit door of the mess hall & munitions storage, vibrating and stuttering off of each other. Companions will be "lodged" inside the cluster upon entrance, and it takes several minutes for them to work free. Sometimes upon exiting, the Boomers will all "burst free" and exit at the same time as the player character and their companions, to then roam the base normally.[verified]
- Xbox 360 Sometimes, after completing most or all of the quests for the Boomers and then making a trip back to the base, a random infamy gain will be incurred with the Boomers for no reason. None of the Boomers will be hostile, and no evidence or bodies of what could have happened can be found. It could possibly be caused by the completion of Heartache by the Number, and choosing to kill Alice McLafferty, which in turn can turn Janet from the Young Hearts quest (if she was brought to Nellis) hostile and force the Boomers to put her down at the player character's expense.[verified]
- Playstation 3 By going near the base, discovering it, and leaving it without approaching the Boomer who was firing the missiles, Raquel will appear later at some point (usually after fast traveling) and ask the player character to meet Mother Pearl. They will then be forced to go back to the base with her to see Mother Pearl.[verified]
- PC Female Boomers at Nellis may have facial hair, despite being female.[verified]
- Xbox 360 Sometimes, nobody will ever come to the gate, leaving the rail tunnel as the only viable entrance.[verified]
- Xbox 360 There is a howitzer near Raquel that sometimes when jumped on or walked over can send the player character flying into the sky, although it is enough height that when the Courier comes back down they will die.


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Following Dave Gahan's severe bout of gastroenteritis, he has been told to rest under doctors' orders. The show will be rescheduled to a new date, which will be announced shortly.
Dave Gahan sincerely thanks his fans for their support, understanding and patience. Depeche Mode deeply regret any problems or inconveniences the cancellations and postponements may have caused.
It's not been a good week for fans of middle-aged rock stars this week, with Morrissey cancelling the first of three of his shows at the 02 Academy in Brixton.
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Among all the important historical woodworking books out there, Peter Nicholson's "The Mechanic's Companion" does not get enough notice.
Perhaps that's because it wasn't the first English-language book on joinery (Joseph Moxon was the pioneer in this field), or perhaps it's not as well-known because original copies of the book are expensive. I paid $100 for my copy, and I got lucky.
The good news is that as of today, "Mechanic's Companion" is back in print and at a price that hand-tool woodworkers can afford. At my insistence, our store now carries this book, and the price is $26.95.
This reprint was a labor of love by Gary Roberts, who runs the Toolemera Press, a small publishing outfit that specializes in bringing historical texts back to life.
Unlike your typical cheesy reproduction, Roberts takes great pains to scan every single page and tidy them up. The result is that it feels like you are reading an original, but only at a fraction of the cost.
To keep costs down, Roberts uses a domestic print-on-demand service. This is a paperback book and the printing is surprisingly crisp compared to many other print-on-demand books I've seen out there. Roberts knows what he is doing and how to squeeze the most out of the medium.
So why should you buy this book? Because it is one of the classic and most readable texts on joinery from the early 19th century. Unlike other technical writers at the time, Nicholson was an accomplished cabinetmaker, who later became an author and teacher.
So he writes with the authority that "gentlemen scholars" of the time don't have. He was born in the shop – his father was a stone mason – and writes from first-hand experience about everything from sharpening to mouldings to joinery. And he does so with a clarity that surpasses earlier authors.
I first read this book as a terrible scan that I crammed onto my laptop and read on a long overseas flight (and you can reproduce that experience by downloading this public-domain book from GoogleBooks). This Toolemera edition surpasses the digital version in every way. It's easier on the eyes to read and looks better on a shelf.
The book is 363 pages long, though not all of the book is about woodworking. The first two large sections of "The Mechanic's Companion" are on carpentry and joinery. Those are followed by shorter sections on bricklaying, masonry, smithing and turning (among other topics).
I hope that you will help support Roberts and his efforts to bring these early woodworking texts back at a price that all of us can afford. Like Roberts, I still love printed books and I'm thrilled to see this particular one back in print. Click here to get to the book in our store.
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Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Digg, and LiveJournal (among others) are all guilty of "leaking" personally identifiable information (PII) to partners, according to a recent study by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Craig E. Wills and AT&T Labs' Balachander Krishnamurthy. A "leakage," by the study's definition, is the opportunity for a third party to link the information they get from the social networks (either in the form of logs or browser cookies) to someone's PII—your name, phone number, and dog's favorite treat aren't passed on directly, but can easily be pieced together.
How is that possible? Not through your name, but through your profile's unique identifier, which is apparently included in the data given advertisers from most social networks. "We found that when social networking sites pass information to tracking sites about your activities, they often include this unique identifier. So now a tracking site not only has a profile of your Web browsing activities, it can link that profile to the personal information you post on the social networking site," Wills said. "Now your browsing profile is not just of somebody, it is of you."
Through an examination of the 12 social networks they included in the study, Wills and Krishnamurthy found that a personal photo, location, gender, and name were almost always available to those who have a unique profile identifier on hand. Further, a list of friends, activities, other photo sets, age, schools, employers, and location are available by default from most networks. (Just imagine if you had clicked on a number of Cialis and Viagra ads from MySpace, only to have those ad people go back and find out what you look like, where you work, who your friends are, and what you like to do for fun?) Only things like a zip code, phone number, and e-mail address were usually unavailable by default.
The researchers note that there are reasons why this should be a concern—aside from mere embarrassment. Not only can this information, when linked directly to you, constitute an invasion of privacy, it can also affect very real parts of your life. "Tracking sites don't have the ability to know if, for example, a site about cancer was visited out of curiosity, or because the user actually has cancer," Willis warned. "Profiling is worrisome on its own, but inaccurate profiling could potentially lead to issues with employment, health care coverage, or other areas of our personal lives."
This is not to say that third parties are actually doing anything with the unique identifiers they are receiving, but the door is wide open for abuse. We attempted to contact several social networks for comment, but did not hear back by publication time—it seems the only thing users can do to protect themselves right now is lock down as much information as possible. Still, the researchers noted that the easiest way to prevent this kind of data leakage is for the social networks themselves to stop passing on unique identifiers, whether accidental or not.
Update: Facebook spokesperson Simon Axten responded to the paper by reiterating that Facebook has granular privacy controls that allow people to decide how much information is public. "This means that anyone who doesn't match those criteria can't access it, regardless of whether he or she knows the person's identifier. Given this, even if a site could link a URI, referrer, or cookie to a specific user, it would only be able to access information that the person had made public. While we don't believe there's any danger here, we take all reported privacy issues seriously and are investigating further to determine what, if any changes, we can make," Axten told Ars.


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Norris and Wright are arbitration eligible for the first time, and Lowrie for the second time. Lowrie made $1.15 million last year in his first year with Houston, and he could double his salary next season. Norris ($511,000 in '12) and Wright ($512,000) are also in line for substantial raises.
Wright, 27, was 2-2 with a 3.27 a career-high 77 games last year, which led the Astros and ranked tied for sixth in the National League. His .226 batting average allowed ranked fifth in the NL among left-handed relievers.
Norris, 27, went 7-13 with a 4.65 ERA in 29 starts last year, allowing 165 hits and striking out 165 in 168 1/3 innings. He had a 0-12, 6.34 ERA streak in 18 starts in the middle of the season while he battled injuries and inconsistencies. Norris had a 1.71 ERA at home and 6.94 on the road.
Lowrie, 28, set career highs in games (97), at-bats (340), runs (43), hits (83), home runs (16) and walks (43) despite missing 52 games with a sprained right ankle and leg injury. He wound up hitting .244 with 42 RBIs.


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From Wikipedia:
1.An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion
2.Identity trolling
In academic literature, the practice was first documented by Judith Donath (1999), who used several anecdotal examples from various Usenet newsgroups in her discussion. Donath's paper outlines the ambiguity of identity in a disembodied "virtual community":[8]
In the physical world there is an inherent unity to the self, for the body provides a compelling and convenient definition of identity. The norm is: one body, one identity. ... The virtual world is different. It is composed of information rather than matter.
Donath provides a concise overview of identity deception games which trade on the confusion between physical and epistemic community:
Trolling is a game about identity deception, albeit one that is played without the consent of most of the players. The troll attempts to pass as a legitimate participant, sharing the group's common interests and concerns; the newsgroups members, if they are cognizant of trolls and other identity deceptions, attempt to both distinguish real from trolling postings, and upon judging a poster a troll, make the offending poster leave the group. Their success at the former depends on how well they — and the troll — understand identity cues; their success at the latter depends on whether the troll's enjoyment is sufficiently diminished or outweighed by the costs imposed by the group.
Trolls can be costly in several ways. A troll can disrupt the discussion on a newsgroup, disseminate bad advice, and damage the feeling of trust in the newsgroup community. Furthermore, in a group that has become sensitized to trolling — where the rate of deception is high — many honestly naïve questions may be quickly rejected as trollings. This can be quite off-putting to the new user who upon venturing a first posting is immediately bombarded with angry accusations. Even if the accusation is unfounded, being branded a troll is quite damaging to one's online reputation." (Donath, 1999, p. 45)[1]
3. Usage
The term troll is highly subjective. Some readers may characterize a post as trolling, while others may regard the same post as a legitimate contribution to the discussion, even if controversial. The term is often used to discredit an opposing position, or its proponent, by argument fallacy ad hominem.
Often, calling someone a troll makes assumptions about a writer's motives. Regardless of the circumstances, controversial posts may attract a particularly strong response from those unfamiliar with the robust dialogue found in some online, rather than physical, communities. Experienced participants in online forums know that the most effective way to discourage a troll is usually to ignore him or her, because responding tends to encourage trolls to continue disruptive posts — hence the often-seen warning: "Please do not feed the trolls".[9]
Frequently, someone who has been labelled a troll by a group may seek to redeem their reputation by discrediting their opponents, for example by claiming that other members of the group are closed-minded, conspirators, or trolls themselves.
3. Concern troll
A concern troll is a false flag pseudonym created by a user whose point of view is opposed to the one that the user's sockpuppet claims to hold. The concern troll posts in web forums devoted to its declared point of view and attempts to sway the group's actions or opinions while claiming to share their goals, but with professed "concerns". The goal is to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt within the group.[10]
For example, in 2006 a top staffer for then-Congressman Charlie Bass (R-NH) was caught posing as a "concerned" supporter of Bass's opponent, Democrat Paul Hodes, on several liberal New Hampshire blogs, using the pseudonyms "IndieNH" or "IndyNH." "IndyNH" expressed concern that Democrats might just be wasting their time or money on Hodes, because Bass was unbeatable.[11]
A recently declassified World War II manual on sabotage recommends such techniques to derail any effective action: "Advocate 'caution.' Be 'reasonable' and urge your fellow-conferees to be 'reasonable' and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on... Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon." OSS Simple Sabotage Manual, pdf
Although the term "concern troll" originated in discussions of online behavior, it now sees increasing use to describe similar behaviors that take place offline.
For example, James Wolcott in Vanity Fair [12] accused a conservative Daily News columnist of "concern troll" behavior in his efforts to downplay the Mark Foley scandal. Wolcott links what he calls concern trolls to Saul Alinsky's "Do-Nothings," giving a long quote from Alinsky on the Do-Nothing's method and effects:
These Do-Nothings profess a commitment to social change for ideals of justice, equality, and opportunity, and then abstain from and discourage all effective action for change. They are known by their brand, 'I agree with your ends but not your means.'
In a more recent example, The Hill published an op-ed piece titled "Dems: Ignore 'Concern Trolls'." Again, the concern trolls in question were not Internet participants; they were Republicans offering public advice and warnings to the Democrats. The author defines "concern trolling" as "offering a poisoned apple in the form of advice to political opponents that, if taken, would harm the recipient." [13]


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Gastritis is very common in both dogs and cats of all ages and genders. Younger animals, because of their propensity to ingest indiscriminately, tend to be at higher risk.Because gastritis can be symptomatic of other serious problems, it is important to pay attention to the symptoms, and determine if it is acute or chronic. The veterinarian will perform tests in order to accurately diagnose the root cause of the gastritis, and treat accordingly. Acute gastritis and chronic gastritis share symptoms; they only differ in the duration.Acute gastritis is categorized as having symptoms for less than seven days. Anything beyond seven days is considered chronic.
Vomiting is the most common symptom of gastritis. Vomiting differs from regurgitation in that it involves abdominal contractions. These contractions can be very painful for the dog or cat, and the vomit may contain yellow foamy bile, red fresh blood, or coffee-ground-like digested blood. If the vomit contains red or digested blood, veterinary intervention is necessary.Abdominal Pain can range from irritating to severe. Often the animal's demeanor is what signifies pain, so watch your pet's movements.Pytalism is excessive drooling or salivation. This may indicate the animal has ingested toxins.Diarrhea is usually seen along with vomiting. The animal's body is trying to expel whatever toxins, bacteria, or foreign bodies, are present. The diarrhea may also involve stomach cramping and is often painful for the animal.Dehydration is a clinical sign of excessive vomiting or diarrhea, and it is very important to try to keep your animal hydrated. Your veterinarian may insert an IV if your pet will not drink anything to rehydrate.Weakness goes hand in hand with the dehydration. When an animal is dehydrated, they do not have the proper sustenance to maintain muscle strength.Lethargy is common with gastritis, because vomiting and diarrhea expel the food and nutrients necessary to metabolize food into energy.Bloody Stool is often seen with diarrhea, and requires veterinary intervention. Your vet may ask for a sample of the stool when you visit. If you see blood in your pet's stool and vomit both, that may be an indicator of anemia, and you should see your veterinarian right away.Loss of Appetite or anorexia is caused by the inflamed and upset stomach. While it is typical to withhold food for the first one to two days of acute gastritis, after that your dog or cat needs to be able to replenish the nutrients lost during the fast. If the animal is not eating, nutrients may need to be administered intravenously. Weight Loss may be a result of the vomiting, diarrhea, and anorexia. Consult your veterinarian if the weight loss is severe, and discuss proper nutrition in order to help your dog or cat return to their healthy weight.A Dull Coat is a visible indicator that your dog or cat is having digestive problems.
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Hi Madsonic Community!
Well i'm back again, after some weeks long busy at work.
I'll look through the support forum and hopefully can clarify many things.
but I have also good news which have occurred more in the background.
new 5.0 Build 3860
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the new build is already being processed.
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- extend Last.FM API Calls and DB (getTopTrack, get/setLovedTracks, getCharts, getAlbumImage, metaData, ...)
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Enhancing healing via Wnt-protein mediated activation of endogenous stem cells
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- Enhancing healing via Wnt-protein mediated activation of endogenous stem cells
All adult tissues contain stem cells. Some tissues, like bone marrow and skin, harbor more adult stem cells; other tissues, like muscle, have fewer. When a tissue or organ is injured these stem cells possess a remarkable ability to divide and multiply. In the end, the ability of a tissue to repair itself seems to depend on how many stem cells reside in a particular tissue, and the state of those stem cells. For example, stress, disease, and aging all diminish the capacity of adult stem cells to self-renew and to proliferate, which in turn hinders tissue regeneration.
Our strategy is to commandeer the molecular machinery responsible for adult stem cell self-renewal and proliferation and by doing so, stimulate the endogenous program of tissue regeneration. This approach takes advantage of the solution that Nature itself developed for repairing damaged or diseased tissues, and controls adult stem cell proliferation in a localized, highly controlled fashion. This strategy circumvents the immunological, medical, and ethical hurdles that exist when exogenous stem cells are introduced into a human. When utilizing this strategy the goal of reaching clinical trials in human patients within 5 years becomes realistic.
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The disease targets of stroke, bone fractures, heart attacks, and skin wounds and ulcers represent an enormous health care burden now, but this burden is expected to skyrocket because our population is quickly aging. Thus, our proposal addresses a present and ongoing challenge to healthcare for the majority of Californians, with a novel therapeutic strategy that mimics the body's inherent repair mechanisms.
Californians represent 1 in 7 Americans, and make up the single largest healthcare market in the United States. The diseases and injuries that affect Californians affect the rest of the US, and the world. For example, stroke is the third leading cause of death, with more than 700,000 people affected every year. It is a leading cause of serious long-term disability, with an estimated 5.4 million stroke survivors currently alive today. Symptoms of musculoskeletal disease are the number two most cited reasons for visit to a physician. Musculoskeletal disease is the leading cause of work-related and physical disability in the United States, with arthritis being the leading chronic condition reported by the elderly. In adults over the age of 70, 40% suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee and of these nearly 80% have limitation of movement. By 2030, nearly 67 million US adults will be diagnosed with arthritis. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, and is a major cause of disability worldwide. The annual socioeconomic burden posed by cardiovascular disease is estimated to exceed $400 billion annually and remains a major cause of health disparities and rising health care costs. Skin wounds from burns, trauma, or surgery, and chronic wounds associated with diabetes or pressure ulcer, exact a staggering toll on our healthcare system: Burns alone affect 1.25M Americans each year, and the economic global burden of these injuries approaches $50B/yr. In California alone, the annual healthcare expenditures for stroke, skeletal repair, heart attacks, and skin wound healing are staggering and exceed 700,000 cases, 3.5M hospital days, and $34B.
We have developed a novel, protein-based therapeutic platform to accelerate and enhance tissue regeneration through activation of adult stem cells. This technology takes advantage of a powerful stem cell factor that is essential for the development and repair of most of the body's tissues. We have generated the first stable, biologically active recombinant Wnt pathway agonist, and showed that this protein has the ability to activate adult stem cells after tissue injury. Thus, our developmental candidate leverages the body's natural response to injury. We have generated exciting preclinical results in a variety of animals models including stroke, skeletal repair, heart attack, and skin wounding. If successful, this early translational award would have enormous benefits for the citizens of California and beyond.


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The People PrinciplesBy Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Print
Disaster plans used to be all about technology technique: how to restore systems. Now, you have to determine the best ways to back up your people.
Four weeks after the World Trade Center and Pentagon disasters, about 5,500 information technology executives from the Western Hemisphere braved long lines and toughened security to journey to Orlando, Fla., for the Gartner Symposium. This was a conference that manyif not mostthought would be canceled in the wake of the attacks and corporate tragedies of Sept. 11.
On the first night, Monday, Oct. 8, Gartner's top security experts held a "town meeting" to address any concerns or questions the nation's top technology executives might have about how to manage their businesses through the new crises they might face. Their warning: Any company with a global brand could expect at some time in the next decade to face the kind of business interruption that befell American Express, Cantor Fitzgerald, Merrill Lynch, the Defense Department and scores of other technologically dependent businesses in September.
Fewer than 150 attendees showed up.
If you think it's too early to start thinking about how your organization will deal with sudden massive disconnects in how your systems operateor that the likelihood of a similar event befalling you is too remotethink again.
Disaster is no longer an abstraction. It's now a part of the basic equation of how you do business.
Sure, almost every information technology organization of any size has a disaster recovery plan. But 75% of them, according to Gartner, only deal with how to restore hardware, software and networks.
Less than 25% of companies deal in any fashion with restoring the resource that matters most.
And, if anything was learned in the seven weeks that have now passed, it's that planning is no longer just a technical exercise, dealing with the math of bits, bytes and circuits. The biggest challenge is: How do you back up your people?
"It's absolutely the salient difference'' that results from thinking about how to counter man-made disasters, says Jon Scarpelli, vice president and national practice leader for the outsourcing business of Ciber, an Englewood, Colo., hosting and technology consulting firm.
That may sound a bit self-serving. But try telling that to Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost hundreds of traders and executives as well as a 10,000-square-foot data center in Manhattanand got its eSpeed bond-brokering system back up in 47 hours. Or to the disaster recovery specialists, such as SunGard and Comdisco, that held the keys to many trade center tenants' future in their hands.
"There are a lot of businesses that are probably patting themselves on the back right now," says Dave Palermo, vice president at recovery specialist SunGard. "And then there are a lot of businesses that are probably going to go under. I've gotten calls from companies (without recovery plans) that have asked, 'Can you help me?' But that's like running a car into a tree and then calling the insurance company.''
The essence, though, is this: This is not the time for any pats on the back. "Some of these folks who didn't have disaster recovery plans," St. Paul Re Chief Information Officer Andrew Cole says, "they should be fired."
It's now time to think ahead about how you are going to protect the interests of your company if its systems are threatened or destroyed.
And there's no one to run them.
On the following four pages, you'll find not just descriptions of how other companies have dealt with the impact of disaster on their people, but prescriptions for how to minimize the impact on you and how your teams must operate, in the event that disasterssmall or largebefall your organization.
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Activision seemed all set to officially reveal the first details about the inevitable sequel to 2010's Call of Duty: Black Ops in a commercial message during tonight's NBA playoffs. An itchy-trigger finger from the publisher's Web department seems to have stolen some of that thunder, though, as the game's UK teaser site has launched to reveal a November 13 launch date for the game.
Though the game's first official trailer is still hidden behind YouTube privacy settings, the teaser site does reveal that the new title will "propel players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare." A Joystiq tipster also apparently did some light flie-system hacking to unearth some screenshots of the game, showing off gun-mounted quad-copter drones and some sort of camouflaged walking tank fighting in front of smoke-blackened, wrecked cityscapes.
Developer Treyarch will once again be taking the reins for Black Ops 2, after Sledgehammer Games took the lead in developing last year's Modern Warfare 3. The Treyarch-developed Black Ops immediately became one of the best-selling games of all time when it launched in November 2010, selling 8.4 million copies in the US a single month before going on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide.
Black Ops 2's November 13 launch puts it one week after the launch of Microsoft's Halo 4, and well past a slew of anticipated holiday season releases currently set for September and October.


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Two affiliates of SAC Capital, the giant hedge fund, settled insider trading charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for $614 million on Friday, in what the agency said was the biggest ever settlement for such cases.
The settlements spare SAC's founder, the billionaire Steven A. Cohen, who hasn't been charged with wrongdoing. Mr. Cohen, one of the most successful hedge fund managers in the world, has long been considered a target of federal investigators.
But the settlements represent one of the biggest financial coups by the S.E.C. in insider trading cases yet. The amounts paid by SAC surpass the $400 million that Michael Milken paid to settle charges by the agency in 1990.
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One affiliate of SAC, CR Intrinsic, agreed to pay over $600 million over charges tied to one of its employees, who is accused of trading on illicitly obtained confidential information about the drug makers Elan and Wyeth.
That employee, Mathew Martoma, still faces both civil charges from the S.E.C. and criminal charges from the Justice Department.
A lawyer for Mr. Martoma, Charles Stillman of Stillman Friedman, said in a statement: "SAC's business decision to settle with the S.E.C. in no way changes the fact that Mathew Martoma is an innocent man. We will never give up our fight for his vindication."
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The other affiliate, Sigma Capital Management, agreed to pay $14 million to settle charges that it engaged in insider trading in the stocks of Dell and Nvidia.
SAC's management company will pay the settlements, meaning that investors of the hedge fund aren't on the hook.
The settlements, especially that of CR Intrinsic, represent more successes by the federal government in its campaign against insider trading.
"The historic monetary sanctions against CR Intrinsic and its affiliates are sharp warning that the S.E.C. will hold hedge fund advisory firms and their funds accountable when employees break the law to benefit the firm," George S. Canellos, the acting director of the S.E.C.'s enforcement division, said in a statement.
A spokesman for SAC said in a statement, ""We are happy to put the Elan and Dell matters with the S.E.C. behind us. This settlement is a substantial step toward resolving all outstanding regulatory matters and allows the firm to move forward with confidence. We are committed to continuing to maintain a first-rate compliance effort woven into the fabric of the firm."
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A lot of stuff has been heating up our Facebook page this week, here's a peek at what's been hot:
- Syria has been the big news topic all week, and it was the most commented-on topic on our page. Here's the most popular thought: Teresa Kovalick "Stay out of it…..stop trying to be the 'savior' to every country in the world. We need to take of our own country. Get jobs back in the US, help people get housing, take care of the children, elderly and disabled that are neglected here."
- The Bloom Fair lifting the firearms ban was also a big topic, probably the most divisive we had this week. Here's out most popular thought there: Brach William "I am 100% for the right to carry (a big hunter and recreational shooter myself), but sorry to say, the Bloomsburg Fair, or any other fair for that matter, is NOT the place to have a gun. Some crazed nut job who gets angered over a game that they think was rigged or a person that butts in line could potentially pull the gun and end up injuring or killing someone. Congrats to those people who felt the need to make this a massive demonstration just to prove a 'point.' You have made me and a lot more people all the more hesitant to visit the fair this year."
- A squeaker topic, which garnered some interest was the photo of John McCain playing poker during the Syria hearings, with most people saying he was in the wrong. Here's the photo:
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