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Thursday, September 26, 2013 —
Cole Blackburn's life changed in an instant one day late in August, at a moment when he was trying to save another.
Blackburn, who works for the First Health Montgomery EMS, got a call that his wife Nicky was involved in a serious automobile accident in Stanly County. She was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center's main hospital in Charlotte. She's been there ever since, on life-support as her body struggles to heal while doctors and nurses do their best to treat her injuries.
She's on life-support and a ventilator, unable to breathe on her own as her lungs continue to heal and improve. She's got cuts, scratches and other injuries — internally and externally — that make the struggle to return to full health that much more difficult. And there's no telling how much longer she'll be in the hospital.
But by her side every day is her husband. Nicky is Cole's life and, along with their daughter Riley, they are a family that's struggling with what's happened, what is happening and what will happen.
"This guy is out there every day trying to save people's lives and now he needs it, he needs the help," said Buck Fraley, a co-worker with Cole and one of the organizers of a benefit poker run that will happen this Saturday starting at 11 a.m. at Uwharrie Sportsman, 4593 N.C. 24, Mount Gilead.
"He hasn't asked for anything. He's worried about working. We told him his family is first. He's worried about his job but his job will be here.
"He is a great person. And he loves his wife. His wife is his life. If you've ever worked with him and listened to him on the phone, his wife is his life."
Fraley has worked a lot with Cole as EMS paramedics. A special bond has formed not only through the two but through the entire First Health Montgomery EMS. Cole's family lives in Stanly County, and Cole has been struggling with taking care of his daughter, driving to work and then going to Charlotte to be by his wife's side.
That's where Fraley, First Health Montgomery EMS and a motorcycle club called Uwharrie Riders in Montgomery County come in to help.
"We work 24 hour-shifts, so when we're out of work, it uses 24 hours of vacation up. Since he hasn't been with us long, he doesn't have that much vacation time built up," Fraley said.
"So all the employees are donating time to him, donating sick time and vacation time to him. It costs a lot of money to drive back and forth to Charlotte."
Fraley said 100 percent of the money raised through the poker run will go to the Blackburn family. Fraley and others have been busy posting flyers promoting the Ride for Nikki all over North and South Carolina.
The cost is $20 per bike and includes the driver and passenger of each motorcycle. Each person gets a poker hand and prizes will be given out for best and worst hand.
Registration starts at 11 a.m. with kickstands up and the ride beginning at 12:30 p.m. Cards will be drawn at each stop along the way, including the Albemarle VFW, before returning to Uwharrie Sportsman. Two bands will also play after the run, door prizes are available, there will be a 50/50 raffle and food sold on-site.
"He's a good kid. I said 'Let's try to get up a poker run.' I said 'We can get a lot of our friends involved that's got motorcycles and everything.' It took off from there," Fraley said.
"Lowe's in Albemarle is donating stuff, all of the Harley shops, a bunch of eating places, we've even got a paramedic that works for Montgomery EMS, he's in Saudi Arabia now as a paramedic over there, he donated a weekend at the beach for a door prize. Everybody is coming together."
A Facebook page, "Support for Nicky," is up with more than 800 likes that gives information on Nicky's status. In addition to the benefit poker run, donations can also be sent to Cole Blackburn at P.O. Box 563, Rockwell, NC, 28138-0563.
All of the support has been something Cole has been grateful to receive.
"He just kept saying he thanks us, he thanks us, he thanks us. He has been by his wife's side everyday," Fraley said.
"We've asked him if he could come that day, to make an appearance. If he can't be there but five minutes … we've asked if he could come that day.
"We spend 24 hours a day with our partner. You become close. You take 24 hours a day … some weeks we work 72 hours. That's three shifts. We're spending almost five months with that person.
"So we're family. We're showing our family love for our family member."
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Cell Biology International (1994) 18, 159164 (Printed in Great Britain)
Tumor necrosis factor alpha, a cytokine coregulating sugar uptake by cultured human synovial cells.
Alain Hernvann, Catherine Souliac‑Marc, Christian Aussel and Ohvanesse Ekindjian
Laboratoire de Biochimie Cellulaire de l'Inflammation, Tour D4, Université Paris XI, 5 rue J.B. Clément, 92 296 Chatenay-Malabry Cedex, FRANCE.
Abstract Confluent cultures of osteoarthritic and rheumatoid human synovial cells were treated with human recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) The cytokine increased uptake of 2-deoxy-D-[1-3H]glucose (2-DOG) in a time- and concentrations-dependent manner. In synovial cells obtained from osteoarthritic patients (OA cells), the stimulation of 2-DOG uptake occurred 3 hours following addition of TNF-α (1 ng/ml) and was maximal by 24 hours Rheumatoid synovial cells (RA cells) appeared less sensitive to the cytokine: 2-DOG uptake stimulation was only significant after 6 hours of incubation. In both OA and RA cells, the effect was protein synthesis-dependent, and was not secondary to prostaglandin E2 synthesis or cell growth. Interteukin-1β was more efficient than TNF-α for 2-DOG uptake stimulation The two cytokines seemed to act in an additive manner. doi:10.1006/cbir.1994.1056 |
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CD4 cell counts in people without HIV
A normal CD4 cell count in an HIV-negative man is between 400 and 1600 per cubic millimetre of blood (but doctors normally just give a figure, e.g. 500). CD4 cell counts in HIV-negative women tend to be a little higher, between 500 and 1700.
Even if you don't have HIV, many factors can affect your CD4 cell count. For example it's known that:
- Women have higher CD4 cell counts than men (by about 100).
- Women's CD4 cell counts go up and down during the menstrual cycle.
- Oral contraceptives can lower a woman's CD4 cell count.
- Smokers tend to have higher CD4 cell counts (by about 140).
- CD4 cell counts fall after rest – by as much as 40%.
- A good night's sleep can mean that you have a lower CD4 cell count the following morning, but a higher CD4 cell count the next afternoon.
None of these factors seems to make any difference to how able your immune system is to fight infections.
Only a small portion of your body's CD4 cells are in the blood. The rest are in the lymph nodes and tissue, and the fluctuations noted above might be due to the movement of CD4 cells between blood and tissue.
CD4 cell counts in people with HIV
Soon after infection with HIV, your CD4 cell count probably dropped sharply, before stabilising at around 500 to 600. It seems that people who experience a greater initial drop in CD4 cell count and a lower stabilisation in their CD4 cell count may be at risk of faster disease progression. Even while you are well and have no obvious symptoms of HIV, millions of CD4 cells are infected by HIV and lost every day, and millions more are produced to replace them.
It's estimated, however, that without treatment, an HIV-positive person's CD4 cell count drops by about 45 cells every six months, with greater falls experienced by people with higher CD4 cell counts.
A CD4 cell count between 200 and 500 indicates that some damage to your immune system has occurred.
Steeper falls in CD4 cell counts are experienced in the year before AIDS develops, which is why you are recommended to have your CD4 cell count monitored with increased frequency (every three months or so) once it goes below 350.
Looking at your CD4 cell count can also provide a guide for decisions about your need to start taking HIV treatment as well as other medicines to prevent some AIDS-defining illnesses. It is recommended that everybody with a CD4 cell count of 350 cells or below should start HIV treatment (this recommendation was changed in 2008 - previously the recommendation was to start treatment once the CD4 count fell to 200, but better results and less illness are seen in people who start treatment at CD4 cell counts of around 350). What's more if your CD4 cell count is below 200, you are recommended to take antibiotics to prevent you getting PCP pneumonia.
Your CD4 cell count can naturally fluctuate, so don't put too much emphasis on a single test result. Rather, look at the trend in a number of recent CD4 cell counts.
If your CD4 cell count is high, you have no symptoms, and are not taking anti-HIV medication, then it probably only needs monitoring every few months or so.
However, if it's falling rapidly, you are unwell, are taking part in a clinical trial, or are taking anti-HIV drugs, then it should be monitored more often.
CD4 cell percentages
Sometimes, as well as counting the number of CD4 cells, doctors will also assess what percentage of all your white blood cells are CD4 cells. This is called the CD4 cell percentage. A normal result in a person with an intact immune system is about 40%, and a CD4 cell percentage below 20% indicates the same risk of becoming ill with an AIDS-defining illness as a CD4 cell count of about 200.
CD4 cell counts and HIV treatment
Your CD4 cell count can be used to help decide when you need to start HIV treatment, and as an indication of how successful these treatments are.
British HIV treatment guidelines issued in 2008 recommend the following:
Once your CD4 cell count falls below 350, you should start taking HIV treatment as soon as you are ready.
If your CD4 cell count is below 250, you should start HIV treatment straight away. A CD4 cell count of below 200 indicates that you are at a real risk of becoming ill with an AIDS-defining illness.
Previous treatment guidelines recommended starting treatment when the CD4 count fell to 200. However, it seems that if you start treatment when your CD4 count is around 350, you are more likely to respond well to HIV treatment. What's more, starting treatment at the 350 level reduces the long-term risk of some serious, non-HIV-related illnesses like heart, liver and kidney disease. It is now thought that newer anti-HIV drugs are sufficiently powerful and safe to make it advisable to start HIV treatment at this time.
Once you start HIV treatment, your CD4 cell count should start to slowly increase. If you experience a fall in your CD4 cell count over a number of tests, this should alert your doctor that there may be something wrong with your HIV treatment.


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In porn I find my sensual fantasy of my 'beloved other'. The one I long to be with, to physically, emotionally, and spiritually intertwine with.
This is, for me, a critical key to producing the SuperO.
For my purposes I am talking specifically about still images of women. They can be alone or with someone. It is better if their eyes are looking directly at the camera (...at me). It can be magazine images or internet.
Sometimes I create a conversation, a dialogue, with her. Sometimes I create an entire scenario of our meeting.
The specifics don't matter in so far as they are critical components to *my* fantasy. Yours may very well be totally different.
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Porn can be distracting. So I have to be observant of this. But it is no worse than a sudden recollection that the refrigerator needs repair interrupting a session.
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Some posters argue against using porn. I totally respect that. Afterall, it is *your* experience.
I'm just saying, I'm (currently) for the use of porn, and see a dramatic benefit. When my experience changes, I will be happy to talk about that too. The Aneros experience is ever evolving, so what 'floats my boat' today may not tomorrow.
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I think when most talk about porn they are referring to hard core, which leaves nothing to the imagination. What you are doing is completely different. You are using it to activate your mind, not desensitize it.
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I use porn to help get aroused too. I find something, an image, a face, a vocalization, a situation, etc. that triggers an erotic fantasy. I don't always know in advance what the trigger will be but I'm learning. Sometimes the porn just gets in the way of feeling what's going on in my body. Then it's
counter-productive and I put my attention on something else
. What's the difference between a remembered fantasy, say a wet dream, and hard core porn if they get one to where one needs to go. Unfortunately porn is very ejaculation and penis centered which can get me going in the wrong direction. Of course this is coming from someone who hasn't had a dry orgasm yet so maybe I'm wrong.
As for addiction, there's all kinds of addictions. Couldn't frequent use of the device be classified as an addiction for some? Sometimes, when I'm getting really intense p-waves, I'm reminded of "the game", a Star Trek Next Generation episode where aliens get the crew hooked on this video game that is directly connected to their nervous systems and gives them a jolt of pleasure whenever they they reach a new level of the game. Pretty soon the whole crew is playing except Data. The jolts of p-waves going directly to my pleasure centers remind me of "the game."
Can one be said to be addicted to a new kind of pleasure with prostate massage? Of course it is part of our body's potential but it does seem to take up a lot of my time. Just asking.
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I generally avoid porn while trying to get aroused. I used to be addicted until it became a problem for me performance wise with real people. Once I was off of it for several months, it became a lot easier, but there are still issues.
It's different for everyone, but for me, I stay away from porn before a session or before sex.
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Using data on China's provincial economies for the period 1978-2005, we decomposed the causes and factors that have contributed to inter-regional per capita income disparity. Variance in capital per employee and variance in capital elasticity are found to be the two main sources of income disparity while the employment-labour force ratio is shown to be an important factor in containing the rise of income disparity. An analysis on inter-regional factor reallocation effects reveals their relatively small and insignificant contributions to overall growth performance. It is also discovered that capital has in most years flowed in the right direction to pursue higher marginal productivity across provincial economies. Inter-provincial labour movement, on the other hand, had not displayed significant equilibrating effects until institutional reforms started to allow freer inter-regional labour mobility in later years. Generally, we conclude that market-oriented factor mobility has played a crucial role in equalizing factor returns as well as enhancing growth efficiency across regions. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author Journal compilation (c) 2008 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development .Download Info
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http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/...in_la.htmlState Sen. Teresa Ruiz's original bill (S1455), introduced earlier this year, set out to change this practice, which can force districts to fire some of their most promising young educators, but could not muster enough support from lawmakers to do so. On Monday, Ruiz will introduce amendments to her tenure reform bill that will eliminate sections of the legislation dealing with seniority rights. Though the legislation will link teacher tenure to regular evaluations for the first time, the fact that the bill with not deal with the seniority issue has some education advocates calling the amended bill "a disappointment." "There is a significant piece here that really overhauls a century-old policy," said Ruiz, defending the amendments. "Something I wanted had to be taken off the table so I could put forth a bill that would get passed and a bill that would get signed." http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/...t_sig.html Christie should kick this bill back and get a real union smashing bill. LIFO is of course heavily unpopular with the public. |
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You'll excuse me for damning a game with faint praise, but The Amazing Spider-Man is pretty good for a superhero movie tie-in. This is also the best Spider-Man game to roll off Activision's sturdy assembly line in years, even though that isn't saying very much.This is a perfectly pleasant title, but if you stack The Amazing Spider-Man up against the rest of its genre - such as inFamous, Prototype and Batman: Arkham City - the webslinger's latest outing starts to feel rather thin. Rocksteady's 10/10 scoring smash hit is a particularly great reference point as it's the game The Amazing Spider-Man cribs from the most.Like the caped crusader, Spidey's approach to taking down New York's criminal elements is divided up between confronting them head-on or stealthily subduing them. A combat system that's been lifted wholesale from the Arkham games feels immediately familiar when you go toe-to-toe with your enemies, but what's missing are decent animations and any sense of heft. When Spider-Man attacks a villain he looks like a jerky lucha libre wrestler, and his punches and kicks feel so lightweight you'll be genuinely surprised when his opponents fall down.
Judging by their short but sweet track record, Beenox has done an impressive job with the Spider-Man franchise since taking it over from Treyarch. They've only produced three games thus far, but they've really outdone themselves with each one. Their debut effort, Shattered Dimensions, not only introduced great combat and beautiful environments, but also four characters compared to just the usual ol' Spidey. The second release, Edge of Time, didn't fare as well since it cut the roster in half, but still fascinated with an interesting time travel storyline and plenty of creative web-slinging moments. But it's with the third, The Amazing Spider-Man, that you can tell the studio has truly arrived. That's because Beenox takes everything that it's learned from the previous games and applies it into a formula that fans have been wanting for years, ever since the release of Spider-Man 2 – to be able to swing through New York with the kind of exhilarating freedom that Peter Parker has come to appreciate. And though the game isn't without its objectives to be met, it's really up to you how all of this is played, whether you just want to collect comic book pages across mid-town or teach baddies like Rhino and Vermin a thing or two.
When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, his publisher had so little faith in him that it shoved the initial 15-page story into a comic book anthology on the verge of cancellation. The character proved resilient, spawning an endless series of comics, television shows, toys, and movies. More than 40 years later, Activision introduced Spider-Man to the open world video game genre. Spider-Man 2 captured the imagination of fans and critics, and it spawned a series of like-minded sequels that were met with mixed success. Sometimes, good ideas grow stale. I had high hopes that Amazing Spider-Man would make the wall-crawler a respectable gaming hero once again. Spider-Man has already proven he's a great fit for the open world formula, and developer Beenox showed some early promise with Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. Sadly, not only does Amazing Spider-Man fail to deliver, it may also diminish my enjoyment of this summer's film. The game serves as a sequel to the film, but Activision has released it before the movie premiere. This was a mistake.
The Amazing Spider-Man isn't a great game. Its villains are b-listers, its side missions are repetitive, and its combat/reversal/stealth system is pulled from Arkham City but without the sharp, fluid animations. But here's the most important thing: The Amazing Spider-Man is a fun game. Set as an epilogue to the movie with the same name, The Amazing Spider-Man game will begin ruining plot points for the unreleased film pretty much as soon as you start it up. You find out which main characters lived and died, and a tale centered around the virus that made Curt Connors the Lizard getting released in New York takes off. \" The Amazing Spider-Man isn't a great game, but it can be a great time. Through more than 20 missions involving Rhino and the Iguana, you web and wail on bad guys. The movie's actors didn't lend their voices to this game, but the cast that is here is solid and actually delivers some cool moments for fans. Sadly, most of the plot points are ho-hum -- with the exception of a truly fascinating run-in with Felicia Hardy -- and it's all about the action, which rewards you with XP for spider-upgrades. Much like the Arkham series of Batman games, Spidey can confront enemies head on or attack from the shadows.
In The Amazing Spider-Man, the webslinger dispenses quick wit almost as fast as he dispenses justice. More importantly, he gets room to show off his high-flying acrobatics with a freedom his last two outings were lacking. This time, Spidey has the whole of Manhattan as his playground. As you fling yourself above the city, swinging past skyscrapers and vaulting from towers, you get a dizzying sense of what it would be like to slip into the famous red and blue costume. It's a joy when The Amazing Spider-Man thrusts you into this wide-open world. By holding down a single trigger, you propel webbing from your wrists, swinging in whichever direction you choose. Expectedly, you don't necessarily see the webbing attach to anything nearby, which is fine: the joyous locomotion is all in the name of fun. Yet the game does a great job of providing the illusion that the laws of physics still vaguely apply. When you swish through a park that isn't near tall buildings, you stay near the ground, practically brushing the grass underneath you. When surrounded by stately superstructures, you rise toward the heavens, from where you can look upon the entire city and admire its vibrancy.
Aside from the obvious answer of "to make money," it's tough to say why Sony chose to reboot the Spider-Man franchise a mere decade after Sam Raimi's trilogy launched. Regardless, credit has to be given to the powers that be for taking the series in a new direction by choosing helmer Marc Webb, whose only feature film is the amazing, but decidedly not action-packed, 500 Days of Summer. With this decision, Sony has proven that the reboot will focus on the social aspect of the hero just as much as the spectacle. Sadly, a similar penchant for risk-taking seemed to be ignored by Beenox with The Amazing Spider-Man, their third outing with the franchise. After playing through this wholly derivative game, I vowed to conduct a full investigation in order to understand the ten hours that I had just experienced. I didn't want this to be a witch hunt, but I was genuinely curious as to why this game is the way it is. You see, ASM isn't a complete travesty, but rather that kind of bland, uninspired slog that's almost worse than an utter mess. There's a lot of blame to go around when it comes to ASM's poor quality, with the first dose being directed at the industry's continued mandate to rush out licensed games to coincide with the release of their cinematic counterparts.
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President Barack Obama is being taken to task for falsely suggesting Thursday that President Rutherford B. Hayes had no interest in technology. In fact, as Politico pointed out, Hayes put the first phone in the White House.
The Washington Post awarded the president four Pinocchios for his comments about Hayes, in part due to a snarky add-on suggesting that Hayes' practice of looking backward is responsible for his absence from Mt. Rushmore.
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Contrary to Obama's assertion, Hayes was interested enough in the advance of technology that he invited Thomas Edison to the White House, the Washington Post reported. Edison showed the president how the phonograph worked. Hayes was also the first president to bring a typewriter into the White House, the Rutherford B. Hayes presidential center notes.
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Although Hayes was a Republican, back when he was president, 1876 to 1880, the two major political parties differed only slightly. When it came to social policy, Hayes took positions that not only mirror the Democratic tradition but show forward thinking. He used troops to protect freed slaves; he negotiated with Southern leaders for civil rights protections for black citizens; and he authorized the first woman lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court.
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* Obama made his first historical mistake as president in his inaugural address when he referred to himself as the 44th president to take the oath of office. He was actually the 43rd due to Grover Cleveland serving two non-contiguous terms, Real Clear Politics noted.
* Obama once referred to American troops liberating Auschwitz, which was in fact liberated by the Soviets.
* One of Obama's more notorious historical errors was referring to the Transcontinental Railroad as the Intercontinental Railroad, erroneously indicating it spanned multiple continents.
* In 2008, Obama told Oregon supporters he'd been to 57 states, had one left to go, and hadn't been to Alaska and Hawaii, on the campaign trail.
* It's not just national history, but his personal history that sometimes confounds Obama. He said in one speech cited by WGST the Selma, Ala., march enabled his parents to marry and bring him into the world despite their racial difference. Obama was born four years before the Selma march.
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A Face Lift For The MPL
As Phyllis Diller would attest, a face lift isn't necessarily a bad thing. Most things — legalese included — can use a good going over from time to time, and that's just what the good people at Mozilla will be doing this year.
The face being lifted, as it were, is the well-known Mozilla Public License, the legal agreement that covers use of the organization's many software projects. The original MPL, version 1.0, was released some twelve years ago, the result of what Mozilla Foundation Chair Mitchell Baker describes as "frantic drafting." A second version (1.1) followed, and continues to be the license in force for Mozilla users everywhere.
Now, more than ten years later, 1.1's number is up — or at least will be going up. According to Baker, 2010 will be the year of the revision, with Mozilla seeking public comment from community members on what the next version of the widely-used license should say. She notes that Mozilla has received a great deal of input on the license in the past decade, and will utilize it, along with preliminary comments from the community, to create a working draft from which further comment will stem.
Baker announced the decision in a post to her "Lizard Wrangling" blog, saying:
It's time to look at updating the MPL. It's time to see if we can make the MPL easier to use and incorporate a decade's worth of experience. In particular I'm hoping to modernize and simplify the license while still keeping the things that have made it and the Mozilla project such a success.
A provisional group has been formed to lead the project, including Gerv Markham, Luis Villa, Harvey Anderson, and Baker — her post indicates that the group is expected to expand as the project moves forward. Public comment will be solicited in several ways, including a "comment tool" for discussion of the license's language and drafting, a mailing list for non-language/drafting commentary, and a special licensing section of the Mozilla website. All members of the community are encouraged to join in the discussion.
Mozilla hopes to complete the project by the end of 2010.
Justin Ryan is a Contributing Editor for Linux Journal.
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Hi Justin,
Something similar to new google policies for Chrome extensions.
A few more items i can't remember right away regarding export policies for secure socket routines featured by MPL 1.1 which address specific builds for the libnss.so regarding location ban. Actually some of us remember MPL 1.0 quite good.
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This is interesting. First off I didn't even know mozilla had been around for 12 years! But why do they really need to revise the documents?
Actually some of us remember MPL 1.0 quite good. Something to take on count by the rest of the OS community like the zero liability to upgrade or maintain the code which is entirely left in hands of the firefox community.
MPL 1.1 included something like the non disclosure of newer bugs and the ability to accept extensions without any Mozilla labs testing. Something similar to new google policies for Chrome extensions.
A few more items i can't remember right away regarding export policies for secure socket routines featured by MPL 1.1 which address specific builds for the libnss.so regarding location ban.
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How to check availabe updates for apps in iTunes 11.0 (Windows)?
In ITunes Store there is a Library Button in the upper right hand corner. Left Click on the down arrow on this button and a drop down menu will appear. Click on the Apps Button which will open your Apps page. On the bottom right hand corner is a button labeled check for updates. Left click on the button.
In your account there is an ITunes Store Button in the upper right hand corner. Left Click on this button to toggle to the Library Button, then follow the instructions above.
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try . from view menu > show sidebar ( Ctrl + S ) you will get it at the left hand side , then you will find a list of your library , store and device . in library list you will find Apps and next to it the no. of apps need update , click it and you will find the list of apps and " download all free updates " botton , click it
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Hi 1st.BOSS,
This is what you wrote that helped me: "from view menu > show sidebar ( Ctrl + S)".
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Oracle PeopleSoft and JDEdwards Suite contains an unspecified flaw related to the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component that may allow a remote authenticated attacker to affect integrity. No further details have been provided.
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Giacomo Casanova is one of the most famous personalities of Venice. He was a man of great culture. His interests ranged from love affairs and gambling to writing and alchemy. Born in a family of theater actors in 1725, he grew up surrounded by high society. He became an important personality in his own right, starting with his adolescence. This tour will show you places of great significance in the life of Casanova.
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2) Calle Vallaresso
Calle Vallaresso is a street next to the Piazza San Marco where for centuries were situated gambling houses. Casanova was famous for his passion for money. He loved to spend money, and gambling was an easy way to get some. Gambling was for him a way of socializing, flirting and making new connections. Also, here, you will find the Ridotto theater that used to be a major gambling house during Casanova's time.
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3) La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice ("The Phoenix") is an opera house in Venice. It is one of the most famous theatres in Europe, the site of many famous operatic premieres. Its name reflects its role in permitting an opera company to "rise from the ashes" despite losing the use of two theatres. Since opening and being named La Fenice, it has twice burned and been rebuilt. La Fenice was rebuilt in 19th-century style on the basis of a design by architect Aldo Rossi and using still photographs from the opening scenes of Luchino Visconti's 1954 film Senso, which was filmed in the house, in order to obtain details of its design. It reopened on 14 December 2003 with an inaugural concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Stravinsky. The first opera production was La traviata in November 2004.
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4) Palazzo Bellavite
Palazzo Bellavite is a 16th century palace located in Campo San Maurizio. Once it was a prestigious residence. Now it is a study center and an office complex. The place was home to the Venetian poet Giorgio Baffo. He was a good friend of the young Casanova and also a lover of Casanova's mother, Giovanna Farussi.
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5) Palazzo Malipiero
Giacomo Casanova was born, in 1725, in a building adjacent to Palazzo Malipiero. From 1740 onwards, he lived in the Palazzo and became a confidant of Senator Alvise II Gasparo Malipiero. Here he started his first love affairs and had the opportunity to establish relations with Italy's most important people. After being caught, in flagrante delicto, with a mistress of Alvise II, he was expelled from Venice.
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6) Chiesa San Samuele
Chiesa San Samuele was built around 1000 by the Boldù and Soranzo families. This is the church where Giacomo Casanova was baptized. As a child Casanova attended the church services held here. Outside you can admire the structure of the porch, on top of which, in 1952, was built a loggia.
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7) Ponte delle Tette
Ponte delle Tette, Bridge of Female Breasts, is located in the heart of the former red-light district of San Cassiano. Prostitutes used to parade topless here in an attempt to attract clients and convert suspected homosexuals. The procedure was encouraged by Venetian officers in order to eliminate this new social problem. The red-light district in Venice was legalized at the beginning of the 16th century. Casanova was a frequent visitor of this district, hunting his next victim.
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I suppose none of you played Lineage 2 before Hellbound expansion xD No wonder WoW was such a success |
I do not like instancing of any kind. I miss open worlds, open dungeons, and open PvP dungeons. MMORPGs should not have instances and are not designed for casual gamers. Never was intended to be for casuals but we got what we got today and not a game in years has actually been a MMORPG and the ones that do come out never even get listed on this site. My question is why today I can't play the asian version of games and I am stuck playing dumbed down N/A version of games? The one game I probably won't play on N/A release is ArchAge even though it is a awesome game as it stands in Asia. |
Epitomy of lazy development. Doing them as a side progession thing is fine, as EQ did with LDoN for people that didn't have time that night to raid or just wanted a quick group. It had its own rewards that could augment your regular gear, yet it didn't create a bottleneck of the same instanced dungeon 'everyone' needed for their level 20 gear/quest/whatever that games do now. The way instancing is now caters to the lowest common denominator player that does the exact same instance over and over, to get the exact same gear as everyone else to progress in the exact same manner everyone else is, or will be doing. It's the everyone gets the same trophy mentality and its sheer laziness and a lack of insightfulness. It's sadening that a game from 10+ years ago figured out how to stage a world for an MMO, and the way games have gone since then couldn't have strayed more off coarse if you had done it on purpose. |
Originally posted by yangdude* *snip* Does anyone out there actually like it - and if so why? Is instancing a result of developers trying to cramb so much into each small area that it cant be done in an open world format? Instancing is something I can't stand, but I can see why it was developed. The first instances I ever saw was in Everquest 1, with the Lost Dungeons of Norrath expansion. And it had a pretty significant impact on the game and the world. It literally made most of the zones people would hunt/camp in ghost towns because they could just take the group through these instances over and over and gain better exp and get actual gear/rewards from the adventure league guys who gave the quests. I hated this invention because of that. I liked traveling the world, going to different zones on different continents for the adventure of fighting new mobs with a group in new lands. And these LDoN instances completely destroyed all of that. Now we were just grinding the same instanced dungeons over and over and over till kingdom come. Then WoW followed the same method EQ1 developed and it just got worse and worse with each game afterwards till we are at where we are now. But I can see why they did it, no more camps in open dungeons with people waiting in line or aruging who got there first, or training the crap out of each other to clear the groups out. No more kill stealing, ninjaing, over crowding, etc. All gone with nice little neat instanced copies. Easy to manage and much easier for gamers to mindlessly grind. But the sad side effect was the death of the actual living world and the eb and flow of community all moving and shaking through the same stomping grounds. I still have hope in my jaded heart that someday mmo's will move away from instances and reembrace the original fantastic ability to hunt and play in the same open world together. Playing: Smite |
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Originally posted by Ramones274 It's not an ideology, it's a mechanic that can serve a range of purposes from technical to narrative. |
Originally posted by Loktofeit Plus, it works. Shooting was there as a mechanics since the dawn of video games .. you don't see it going anywhere. Good ideas stick around. |
Originally posted by Loktofeit This. Instancing allows zones to consume more resources, sometimes these resources help make the game play smoother, sometimes they are directed at better graphics or resolving more players on a screen at a given time. List goes on. So many people in this thread act like instancing is all about taking their fun away when it's just a tool that developers use so that they can introduce other things that they might not have otherwise been able to. You like fantasy books? See if you like what I'm writing and help fund its publication. https://www.inkshares.com/projects/cordova-the-dusk-warden |
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Instanced games are much much cheaper to create. Millions of players have accepted it, and millions have not. Add my name to the latter.
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Originally posted by Arclan Cheaper development. Easier to control the experience .. for example, add a difficulty option. Can script events to change the "world" within the instances ... good for story telling, and multi-stage quests. Lots of advantages. no wonder it is so popular. |
next gen instancing. public world area : Forest of the green Acid Blob channel 1 for players item lvl 10-20 channel 2 for players iLevel 21-30 etc.. it wont be only matchmaking at PvP anymore,it will be matchmaking everywhere. no more "there was that XXxsuperkillerxXX camping my mobs or gathering my resources faster than light etc. no no no,nice plastic world lies ahead. |
Originally posted by ForumPvP Yeah the use of channel for seamless matching will be great. I think Destiny (they call it share world shooter) will be using something like that. |
Originally posted by nariusseldon Yes there is obviously a huge market for that kind of ideas,no doubt about that. |
Originally posted by nariusseldon I have not problem with some games going this route. But there's obviously a population of folks like myself , who don't care a white about "story" , or private instances , and would very much like an open world , non instanced anything setting. Whether we will get it or not , I'm at least glad to see some developers seeing that "story" and voice acting , isnt everything its cracked up to be in a mmorpg. |
For all the good instancing can do, it has done one thing to my MMO experience which I find unforgivable: breaking immersion. As soon as I'm in a copy of a world/dungeon, the experience deteriorates because of the lack of a persistant, singular world. I would have to guess this doesn't bother other people as much as it bothers me because I find it very disruptive to gameplay. Enter a whole new realm of challenge and adventure. |
Originally posted by NaughtyP Obvious it does not bother people. In fact, this "immerision" is not important to me at all. It is not like i don't know i am playing a game. When i play other games (like SP or even online games), it is not like i don't know there are millions others doing the same. Fun is much more important. Given the popularity of LoL, WoT, D3 (all instanced) ... i bet it is not a huge issues for most gamers. BTW, i think it is the opoosite. Instanced is much LESS disruptive to gameplay. You go in there, and you are not disrupted by the need to travel, or talk to people .. and you can focus on adventure and combat. |
Originally posted by Loktofeit I wonder what your opinion on Instancing is Loktofeit.... |
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Originally posted by MMOExposed IMO, it's a tool like any other. Can be used poorly and can be used to really enhance game features or gameplay experience. |
Originally posted by nariusseldon For some of us it DOES bother. Immersion IS important to more than you believe. And that god awful "talking to people" , well some of us actually like to socialize in a mmorpg. Shocking isnt it ? |
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Originally posted by Dahkoht Immersion is different depending on who you talk to, though. For you, it seems immersion is greatly affected by the loading screens and the separation from others. There seems to be a lot of people that feel that way. For others, immersion is greatly affected by having to compete with 20 other newbs for the same 5 rats, or by reaching the evil villain's lair at the end of a dungeon to find stalwart adventurers standing in line for their turn to kill him. In most cases, there are pros and cons to immersion on both sides of the instancing fence. |


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Noxie138 5pts Waking up to the swat team searching everyone's cars the morning this fcking a-hole killed Officer Briggs was the scariest morning I've ever encountered. I moved from D.C. Back to N.H so I didn't have to hear about this scumbag sh_t going on around me, all these fcking people coming to the most beautiful state in the country and they are going to ruin it for our children. Stay in massachussetts! or even better GO TO L.A. and kill their cops... I
SMW74 5pts sonnyd120: It doesn't matter if they are making fun of him or not. It is out of respect to the family, friends and co workers of the fallen officer.
daled0 5pts this n1g_g3r shot and killed a cop last year in my town... and i doubt you knew that when this got posted but maybe you should take it down... out of respect for officer briggs and his family.
sonnyd120 5pts ummm, the guy that submitted this thinks the soon-to-be-dead douche bag is a retard for keeping a hair cut like that. What don't you under stand, its not like Addison is gonna get any royalties! THEY"RE MAKING FUN OF HIM.
1000hurricane 5pts hey f-sticks u better remove this pic of a cop-killer. His name is Addison from NH. The cop he killed is Briggs. You better not pay who submitted this pic. I sure hope that you do your research in the future. If it is not off by tomorrow I will forward it to everyone in NH and MA. Hope Briggs' two kids and wife don't see this pic.


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