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The remainder are mopped up easily enough while the Riddler's little buddy, still conscious, fl aps about desperately looking for a place to run. We walk over like there's all the time in the world and lift him up by the throat. He spills the beans (though unfortunately not to a shout of "Swear to me!" as Kevin Conroy, the voice actor reprising the gaming role, is a less histrionic vigilante than Christian Bale).
Three locations of Riddler interest are marked on the minimap - it's a much slicker affair this time around, with the ability to set waypoints. The way these are shown is one of Arkham City's delights. Returning after setting a marker on the map, you scan the horizon and fi nd a Bat Signal beaming up into the clouds as a marker.
The interrogation of hoods, though not player-controlled, indicates a wider change in Arkham City. Asylum didn't do a flawless job with the investigative side of Batman, and the detective mode - which, as well as showing points of interest, gave a 3D wireframe overlay of locations showing all hostiles - felt a little bit more like cheating than sleuthing. In Arkham City the environments stay solid (rather than turning into outlines as in the original), while the enemies turn into the familiar X-ray skeletons and their weapons are highlighted: yellow for melee tools like bottles and bats, red for guns.
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After we find three Trophies, the Riddler gets in touch with the same sneering, condescending tone as always and, sure enough, a boast about where a hostage is being held. We go there to find a seemingly solid wall - but tapping X sees Batman check its solidity before bashing through with manly shoulders to find a door. Inside, it's a dingy hallway, and after your first few steps a projection of the Riddler appears. Mocking, laughing, high-pitched... we really hope we get our gauntlets on him soon.
After he's done you enter a huge room that's been converted into a deathtrap. An innocent is trussed up like a turkey and dangling above the electrified floor, while a gigantic set of blades spins around the room. Triggering switches turns off sections of the floor for ten to fifteen seconds, letting the Bat-homme run from safe spot to safe spot, but the timing always has to take into account those blades on the way. Tricky. Gradually traversing the giant puzzle, ducking under blades and sprinting at the right moments takes us to... another wall.
Detective mode shows it's unsound. A quick covering of explosive bat-gel in a bat-shape and it bat-explodes. A remote-controlled Batarang loops over the uncovered fence and hits the final switch, opening a corridor to nothing that runs parallel to the main room. It offers little but a sheer drop onto another floor crackling with electricity. We don't know what to do. The hostage cries for help. What happens next, more than anything else, completely sold us on Arkham City.
Remember the line launcher? You could aim it at a wall, shoot a wire and have Batman glide along its length. In Arkham City you can re-launch while on the wire, as many times as you want - when doing so, the game moves into a slick slow-mo aiming mode and re-focuses as soon as you fire. Back in our corridor-to-nothing we do a line launch of faith. Turns out that halfway along there's a gap in the wall you can't see from the first launching point - triggering the aim, we just squeeze the reticule over the gap at the last second, and line-launch right back into the centre of the spinning blade room. Straight at the hostage.


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After a blazing middle of summer, late summer was a crapper. September was cold and with the excpetion of one afternoon I've had all of my zone 9-11 palms inside. Lots of lows in the low 40s and a frost warning. today however they are calling for 78 so I dragged them all out this morning. High of 50 by Sunday though. I'm hoping for one last stretch of 70s but I don't think it's coming. And this after reading on the weather channel website that October was supposed to be warmer than normal for the great lakes region. |
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Early Changes in Incretin Secretion After Laparoscopic Duodenal–Jejunal Bypass Surgery in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
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A stomach-preserving duodenal–jejunal bypass (DJB) has been used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) since Rubino et al. first reported a prospective trial. However, there has been no report on changes in incretin secretion after DJB. We aimed to investigate whether DJB changes incretin secretion in nonmorbidly obese type 2 diabetic patients.
The inclusion criteria in this prospective study were: patient age of 20–65 years, body mass index of <30 kg/m2, a history of type 2 DM for ≤10 years, and fasting C-peptide ≥0.3 nmol/l. Six patients with type 2 DM without morbid obesity underwent DJB. Fasting plasma glucose and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) were measured. An oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was performed with measurement of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP), insulin, C-peptide, and glucagon. The study subjects were followed up for 6 months.
The body weight of patients declined after surgery. The area under the curve (AUC) of glucose, peak glucose levels during OGTT, and HbA1c also declined until 3 months postoperatively. The AUC of C-peptide and insulin tended to increase postoperatively. The AUC of glucagon had a significant increase at 6 months postoperatively. The AUC of active GLP-1 increased at 1 month and at 6 months postoperatively. There was no change in the AUC of total GIP.
Our data suggest that DJB increases GLP-1 secretion in nonmorbidly obese type 2 diabetic patients. However, long-term data are needed to confirm this finding.
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- Title
- Early Changes in Incretin Secretion After Laparoscopic Duodenal–Jejunal Bypass Surgery in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
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Obesity Surgery
Volume 20, Issue 11 , pp 1530-1535
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- 2010-11-01
- 10.1007/s11695-010-0248-2
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- 0960-8923
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- 1708-0428
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Duodenal–jejunal bypass
- Metabolic surgery
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Incretin
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- Hong Chan Lee (1)
- Mee Kyoung Kim (2)
- Hyuk Sang Kwon (2)
- Eungkook Kim (1)
- Ki-Ho Song (2)
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- 1. Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
- 2. Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Yeouido St. Mary's Hospital, 62 Yeouido-dong, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 150-713, Korea


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These are two good examples of legitimate needs that require someone else change something so that your (legitimate) need can be met.
Sometimes you can meet your own need – but other times you need someone else to change something so your need can be met.
Once you have identified that it is up to another person, you'll need to ask that person to make that change. This isn't always easy – especially if you think that the other person may be resistant to making that change; or may think you are controlling or over-bearing even thinking to ask them to make a change.
By living an authentic and fulfilled life you identify and honor your needs. Honoring your needs means you respect them and ensure that they are met. As I said earlier, you'll find that you can meet some of your needs yourself; however, you cannot necessarily meet all of them. Some of your needs can, and must, be met by others. This means that you must have people around you who are able to meet your needs and whom you trust to do just that.
What about values?
Have you ever done something you didn't want to do, just because someone else that you cared about wanted you to?
Think about what happened and how it made you feel afterward. What thoughts did you have? Do you remember having any body sensations? Maybe you felt a pain in your gut, your neck hurt or you felt plain sad?
It's surprising how someone that you care about can influence you to do things that "go against the grain." Initially, you may do things to make that person happy, because you care, but if you find yourself taking actions that are opposed to your values, you will eventually begin to resent this. I'm sure you can imagine what effect this will have on your relationship.
Values in contrast to needs are almost always internally related. Values cannot be met, so to speak, by another person or by external environments or events changing. This is an important distinction between needs and values.
When you commit to a value and act according to that value, you take on a new energy, which, in turn, attracts great success, achievement and personal happiness. You live by your values. Values drive behavior. Values drive all your choices and all your decision-making.
Every time you fail to do what you know is right for you, that which you hold as a value, you lessen your own certainty and ability to create meaningful relationships. You will also find it hard to do work that engages your spirit and your heart. This will, therefore, make it much harder for you live a happy life.
Each time you compromise to be agreeable you give up some of your freedom and you lose some of your vitality.
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Some results seem more legitimate while they still keep on being scammed by automated link exchange networks, at the same time they keep on penalizing legitimate site.
IMO it is a little better overall, still there are bugs in this algo that do not reflect 1/4 billion dollar investment for sure.
TBH there is not much to see.
If you optimize for plural, it doesn't guarantee you the ranking for singular....
I thought they used the same algo.
There's something about Yahoo's serps, a random factor, that screws it up, giving out some oddball results after position five in certain searches. In other searches that I monitor I'm seeing the exact same core mistakes.
With tremendous respect for the hardworking people at Yahoo, and I know they work hard at this and are very passionate about what they do, but I'm not seeing the breakthrough in relevance that people are waiting for.
The other thing that bothers me, and this may seem cosmetic but it's not, is the way they display snippets from the pages. It looks unappealing to have four to five random lines of text from a web page. The serps look like badly translated text. It would appear more coherent and make more sense to the user if Yahoo used the meta description tag. That's what the description tag is for, right? To describe what the page is about. Would look cleaner.
It looks like they are giving weight to news sites or sites that are news related.
Ie a search on blue widgets may produce site pages with news streams containing the words rather than sites with pages specific to those words.
Also they have moved back towards showing top level domain pages rather than the page with the content on.
Previously i noticed that they did master delivering the pages that were the most specific on your site to the keyword search. This is now lost. Whilst the previous serps were not 100% at least they delivered the most specific site pages even if they had missed some perhaps more relevent sites from the serps.
IMO they should switch it back and focus on the previous algo rather than roll out this drastic change which frankly has not improved the serps one bit imo!
Saying "well, it's better than MSN" may not be saying much, but I don't think relevancy is their problem so much as speed.
Perhaps, but they could do themselves a world of good by connecting with the webmaster community. Don�t see them posting around here much, proving information or asking for feedback.
I can tell because I've been in the top ten for my primary keywords for 6 months and now nowhere to be found. Oh well.....
On page is almost a complete-non factor with y now...looks like recips are back in favor after a long fallout...i think they are TRYING to place weight on the authority of the domain itself, but it's pretty hard to tell as it's not real good yet :)
This is for ALL search engines, but Yahoo is caught up badly in it. If a page, or site is down for a long time, please remove it from the index. I mean, man, even the title will say something like page removed, or deleted blog or whatever. Surely, if a page has nothing on it but account suspended or closed, you can get rid of it no?
Never any useful information on their search blog.
They rolled out another adjustment last night and the serps look very much improved again as at now - well more focus back on revelency again anyway. I hope the current set sticks!.
To be fair to them they have obviously rolled out the first set of results, adjusted them, rolled them out again and have adjusted them again. So they must be taking revelency seriously imo.
Also in some of the commercial sectors im watching the results are absolutely spot on - i do wonder if they are working off more hand editing or taking into account Yahoo directory. Either way in some areas they have managed to get all of the authority sites you would expect in the top 20 of the search which i think is very good and puts them ahead of google for quality.
They do lose ground however on the three/four/five keyword search results compared to google but overall, this is a step forwards again for now
Mind you, knowing Yahoo they will mess them up again tomorrow!
Maybe the update is only showing on some regional datacenters.
what is the conclusion of the update i have seen some changes in my clients site SERP's
does Yahoo has given more important to Back link....? or Meta tags,ALt Tags.....
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Godfrey has performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and recently starred in his own one-hour special for Comedy Central, "Godfrey: Black By Accident." Godfrey is currently recurring on FX's Louie and also recently shot the lead in a pilot for that network called Bronx Warrants. Godfrey's feature credits include Zoolander, Soul Plane, and the upcoming indie Three Days in Vegas opposite Nic Cage.


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It is an incredibly exciting time for photography as I'm sure you would agree. You know the digital revolution has infused so much creativity, so much passion, and so much innovation into photography, yet there is a problem. With all of this innovation, there is a bit of confusion. How do I make sense of all of these different things? How do I put together a workflow that's actually efficient? And in dealing with this conundrum, I think it's kind of helpful to step back and talk a little bit about our workflow.
And here we have some graphics, which visualize the workflow from input all the way over here on the left to output on the right. And typically what we do is we capture our photographs. We then transfer them via a media card to our computer. We have our main hard drive, some backup hard drives. And we definitely need some kind of RAID device or something that's really reliable. And then finally we output our images whether online or onscreen or in print format. Now the three applications that are typically used in regards to this overall workflow are Lightroom, Bridge and Photoshop.
And I get a lot of questions about these three applications. And a lot of these questions are, you know, should I use one versus another? Should I use Lightroom versus Photoshop or is it Lightroom versus Bridge? Well, I don't think it's an either/or question. Rather, I like to think of these three applications as part of the same family. Now they're all very distinct. Yet they were designed and built to work together. Well, you then may be thinking, okay, well, should I just use them all equally? Well, not necessarily.
Here is what my workflow looks like, and I think this is mirrored and shared by a lot of other photographers as well. In my own workflow, I use Bridge only in real functional situations. And I don't use it that frequently. On the other hand as you can see by way of these graphics, Lightroom, that's the bad boy. That's my mainstay. That's the application that I'm using most frequently. And as you can see here this is bigger than the other two applications. Well, what then about Photoshop? Do you not use that as much? Well, I still use Photoshop a ton, because there are certain things that you can only do in Photoshop.
In certain areas Photoshop is still king. So again, if you want to create a good overall workflow, at least in my opinion, you want to use these three applications. All right, so then you may be thinking, okay, well, if Lightroom is this program that's really significant, that you're using on a regular basis, well, tell me a little bit more why use this. Well, let's go ahead and dig into that question in the next movie.
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Learning how to make a large bow, also called a long bow, sounds deceptively easy. In truth, it is a long and complicated process that involves finding the right piece of wood to carefully shaping and curing the wood. The result is worth the effort once you have mastered how to make a large bow (long bow).
Items needed:
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- Choose your wood. The traditional wood is yew, but for beginners, the easiest wood to work with is lemonwood.
- Cut stave from tree. A diameter of at least three inches is needed and a length of sixty to seventy-two inches is needed to make a large bow (the long bow). This can be obtained from cutting down a sapling or a thick limb that is free of knots.
- Peel off bark carefully. You do not want to cut into the outer growth ring.
- The wood should be ready for tillering. Only the belly (not the bark side) of the wood is tillered. This is the step where the wood is rasped and sanded to a uniform width (about an inch thick or so) and flexibility everywhere except the handle on the side that used to be the inside of the tree. There is no set way to achieve this, it is different for everyone. Rasp a little, flex the bow, check for uniformity, and rasp/sand some more moving to the finer grain sandpaper as you approach the proper width.
- Allow to cure rasped side down tied to a pipe with weights (or bricks) for at least two weeks in a warm dry space. Coat the ends where cut with glue to prevent wood splitting during curing.
- Draw a straight line down the center of the sap wood (where the bark was).This is the back of your bow. Allowing the center line to be center, draw an outline which has a beginning width of one and a quarter inch at the handle and extends for a distance of a foot above and a foot below the center. Let this outline taper in a gentle curve to the extremities of the bow, where it diminishes to three-quarters of an inch.
- Seal wood with a good moisture resistant sealer. Lard was what was used originally for this, but Tung oil and Boiled Linseed oil work just as well and tend to store better.
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An offensive shootout for three quarters turned into a defensive battle in the fourth. In the end, Notre Dame Prep made just enough plays to eke out a 35-34 victory over Paradise Valley at Scottsdale Community College on Friday night.
For three quarters, the Saints (6-3) and Trojans (5-4) traded points and touchdown drives. It was an offensive shootout that figured to come down to who had the ball last. That all changed in the fourth quarter, as the defenses stepped up to shut down the offenses.
As neither team's offense could separate from each other, the game was ultimately decided in the special teams department. Paradise Valley kicker Devin Moon missed a 33-yard field goal attempt with just 1:16 left in the game that would have given the Trojans the lead and possibly the win. This missed kick, along with a missed extra point attempt on Paradise Valley's first touchdown, proved to be the undoing for the Trojans.
"We've been resilient all year long," Notre Dame coach Gary Gregory said. "We keep finding a way to win. It's not pretty I know, but I'm just so proud of the kids. They just keep hanging in there and fighting and fighting when things look so bleak. This is about our third or fourth win this way this year. We keep finding a way to win. That's the key."
The game featured an interesting clash in styles as Notre Dame's grind-it-out rushing attack matched up against Paradise Valley's no huddle aerial attack. In the first half, both styles seemed to be working as both offenses seemed to be able to move the ball and score at will.
The Trojans scored on four of their six first half drives. Quarterback Daniel Bridge-Gadd had a huge first half completing 21 of 29 passes for 245 yards and four touchdowns with an interception. For the game, Bridge-Gadd finished 28 of 41 for 367 yards with five touchdowns and one interception.
The Saints piled up three first-half touchdowns on their own, piling up 142 yards on the ground. For the game, Notre Dame gained 310 rushing yards, dominating the time of possession battle and controlling the clock. The Saints had the ball for over 17 minutes in the second half. Running back Connor Graham was the star of the night, rushing for 229 yards and two touchdowns on 39 carries.
"We started off a little slow, but we got it together there in the second half," Graham said. "Our running game was there the whole night. The o-line was doing great. I have to give credit to them. They blocked perfectly and I just happened to find the holes."
The third quarter was a continuation of the first half, as Notre Dame scored on both of their drives while Paradise Valley needed only two plays to score on their lone drive of the quarter. Once the fourth quarter started, it was the defenses that stepped up though. On the first play of the quarter, the Trojans went for it on a 4th and 9 on their own 49 yard line and failed to convert.
Set up with great field position, the Saints took over, but they too turned it over on downs. Paradise Valley then took over and were able to move the ball to midfield before being unable to convert on a 4th and 6. Notre Dame took over and looked to be on the verge of putting the game away with another score, but Graham fumbled on the Trojan 19.
Able to build off the momentum of the turnover, Paradise Valley was able to move the ball to the Saints 8. But a delay of game penalty and a negative run by Bridge-Gadd stalled the drive and brought out Moon for the field goal attempt. His attempt was wide right and Notre Dame was able to hold on for the win.
"We went in there at halftime and made some big adjustments," Gregory said. "Then sure enough they went right over the top of that adjustment and hit us for a 70-yard touchdown. To be honest with you, we came back with the same game plan and let 22 (Jordan Schlueter) roam right over the top. We went right back to the defense we worked on all week long. We ended up just moving our guys around instead of being just stagnant. Our defense did a better job of mixing it up and we had a couple kids make just enough plays to win."
Notre Dame Prep 35, Paradise Valley 34
First Downs: Notre Dame 28, Paradise Valley 20
Rushing: Notre Dame 52-310, Paradise Valley 18-96
Passing (comp.-att.-TD-INT): Notre Dame 12-20-145-1-2, Paradise Valley 28-41-367-5-1
Fumbles-Lost: Notre Dame 1-1, Paradise Valley 0-0
Penalties-yards: Notre Dame 6-54, Paradise Valley 7-55
Notre Dame Prep 7 14 14 0 - 35
Paradise Valley 6 21 7 0 - 34
Paradise Valley: Jacob Brown 23 pass from Bridge-Gadd (kick failed)
Notre Dame: Rodriguez 8 pass from Lehman (Naquin kick)
Paradise Valley: Jordan Brown 54 pass from Bridge-Gadd (Moon kick)
Notre Dame: Cole 1 run (Naquin kick)
Paradise Valley: Best 15 pass from Bridge-Gadd (Moon kick)
Paradise Valley: Jordan Brown 8 pass from Bridge-Gadd (Moon kick)
Notre Dame: Schlueter 8 run (Naquin kick)
Notre Dame: Graham 5 run (Naquin kick)
Paradise Valley: Jordan Brown 72 pass from Bridge-Gadd (Moon kick)
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Sorry, Oso Blanco? Evan Gattis is a good story so far but I'm not sure he can keep it up. I really hope he does but at the moment pitchers don't know him and will adjust to him. If he continues to hit well mid-season then he is probably the real deal. Like I said, I really hope he proves himself so we can let McCann go after his contract is up. Although I love him, there are too many questions health wise with McCann right now to pay him what he will ask.
Z is a great player and gator. How about a shout to the other gators who are playing in the milb? Tuck, Toledo, Maddox, Johnson, Fontana, Adams, Chapman? Some of these guys are putting up some stellar numbers, too! Gator pride!
I've been meaning to look up where former Gators are in the majors & minors, but haven't had the time. If anyone does so and wants to share here, that would be awesome.
Funny story I heard about Zunino on Monday. My son was playing a middle school high school game and the dad was sitting beside me and he brought it up about the SC run of 2 nc's in baseball and that he was there with his kid and they actually me Z at a gift store. The story goes that they were familiar with Z and recognized him and asked the lady that worked there if she would mind taking a picture of him and his son with Z. Now both the dad and the son were completely decked out in Gamecock clothes. He told me that Z looked at him when the dad asked and said "Do I really have to? Just kidding..." The dad told me that Z stayed a while and talked to his son for about 15 minutes about baseball. He thought that was awesome.
Zunino is a stud I can not wait for him to get his shot in the pros. Even when the changed the bats in college baseball he was still hitting over .300, hitting 60-80 RBI and leading in homeruns. It tells you something about him, wish the rays would get him for catcher. His future is endless if he does it right.


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From Moscow's ornate GUM retail mall to the incredible Central Market of Irkutsk, Russia can be a shopper's delight. Not necessarily because of the goods on offer, but it's more about the real life experiences of buying food from beaming babushkas, drawing smiles from stall holders when you try to speak Russian and as Intrepid's Tara Kennaway discovered, taking time out to watch traders in Khabarovsk going about their business…
"We've travelled over 8500 kilometres (5280 miles) from Moscow and yet we are still in Russia! Travelling across the country on the world-renowned Trans-Siberian railway you certainly believe that this is the biggest country on the planet. And today we have arrived in the Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk. While the Cyrillic writing all around us as we stroll through the city lets us know we are still on Russian soil, there is most definitely a different and very multicultural feel to this far flung city.
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The writers have so much fun with the artist bios.
I think Woot ran out of space for the list of shirts in the reckoning; Ramy has 5 in there currently.
He didn't take into account the small inner circle!
That looks like Dark Helmet.
williehsu wrote:He didn't take into account the small inner circle!
Or subtract the womp rat sized exhaust port.
I like it, but can't accept it. The Death Star's volume is overestimated as the divet-like focusing cone detracts from the calculated volume.
If this was a real substitute teacher, he wouldn't have made it that far through his lesson plan. In fact, I bet that's why things like that small air shaft allowed Luke to destroy the deathstar in the first place.
You start with the basics, A, B, C, and than by the end of the day you're teaching about deathstar circumference, blaster shields and the proper ratio of bathrooms to star destroyer length.
How odd. ABCs and then vector calculus in the same room... Definitely a substitute who has no idea what the kids are actually learning and is trying to show off.
I think this is a "Spaceballs" shirt more than a "Star Wars" shirt. My evidence: 1. The oversize helmet and glasses suggest Helmet over Vader. And Helmet wore a tie. 2. The chalkboard shows a pie chart. A pizza pie chart. Pizza the Hut! 3. The formula on the chalkboard is obviously a representation of Ludicrous Speed. 4. The "A-B-C-D-E" is clearly a veiled reference to the access code of the shield surrounding Planet Druidia (and President Scroob's luggage). 5. The desk is full of merchandise advertising the sequel - "Spaceballs II - The Search for More Money".
Stay on target! Stay on target!
Who gets to explain the math first?
The circle is now complete; when he left school, he was but the learner, now he is the master. Actually, there are a lot of lines this works with. "Luke, you do not realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength...you can ace your SATs and get into Harvard!"
Before you die, there is something you must know about us, Lone Starr. I am you father's, brother's, nephew's, cousin's former room mate. Best movie evar. Just sayin'. Now you see that evil will always triumph... because good is dumb.
mayh658 wrote:I think this is a "Spaceballs" shirt more than a "Star Wars" shirt. My evidence: 1. The oversize helmet and glasses suggest Helmet over Vader. And Helmet wore a tie. 2. The chalkboard shows a pie chart. A pizza pie chart. Pizza the Hut! 3. The formula on the chalkboard is obviously a representation of Ludicrous Speed. 4. The "A-B-C-D-E" is clearly a veiled reference to the access code of the shield surrounding Planet Druidia (and President Scroob's luggage). 5. The desk is full of merchandise advertising the sequel - "Spaceballs II - The Search for More Money".
you win...
Vader's cape fell all the way to the ground and was epic. The cape in this design lacks the awesome. -:/ I can't find anything I like about the design. And the sad cape makes me sad. ;-; That's all.
equazcion wrote:Who gets to explain the math first?
Method of Discs.
It is the derivation of the formula for the volume of a sphere by taking the area of a circle and rotating it 360 degrees about the x-axis. It utilizes differential calculus.
Not bad, but Mr. Chalkboard label is missing.
Somehow, using the powers of the almighty M. C. Escher, his cape is in front of the table, while his foot is behind it. I wish I had a cape like that.
I love Star Wars, but I already got my fix with the vastly superior bantha shirt. I feel like if anyone but Ramyb made this it wouldn't be here today. Not one of his stronger works.
It looks like that pie chart is fully operational.
chrisprender wrote:It looks like that pie chart is fully operational.
To paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi, "That's no pie chart."
Some men just want to watch the world learn.
Assassin15 wrote:Somehow, using the powers of the almighty M. C. Escher, his cape is in front of the table, while his foot is behind it. I wish I had a cape like that.
I've seen that kind of cape...it's the kind that wraps around your body. Like a cloak. Or any other bit of cloth -_-
its not that odd, actually. the cape edge is a 3D arc, and it looks like it might be caught on the table corner. plus, he has THE FORCE. i'll belay my scorn as any Escher reference is a good reference, even the bad ones.
"Now I am the Master."
Maybe, but the pie chart is a deathstar soooo.....fail
finalhour wrote:Maybe, but the pie chart is a deathstar soooo.....fail
5 points vs 1 point with a misused ellipsis; you = fail.
He's teaching everyone that good is dumb.
To everyone who so arrogantly, and often ignorantly, criticized the creator of this shirt...look who just won top 3! It is so ridiculous how many out there think so highly of their "critique of art" when they apparently don't understand true art at all. Since when was art ever in perfect and life-like proportions and perspective? If anything, THAT'S EXACTLY what makes art! Otherwise we'd just take real-life pictures and put them on a shirt. Hey Ramyb, good job dealing with the criticism, and even taking some into consideration. Because now, this shirt represents not only an awesome Star Wars reference, but the ability of an artist to stick by what he felt like designing, because that is the beauty of art, whether for woot shirt derbies or Sistene chapels.
as a maths teacher who has a collection of nerdy t-shirts so as I can get away with wearing t-shirts to school I just have to buy this!
Its the volume of a sphere!
love it!+2
I really wish I had been around during the pre-vote, design development discussion. MAYBE it's not too late to make the change. MAYBE it was intentional (and that's why Vader lost out). However, the bottom line is wrong. The volume of a sphere is: 4/3 x pi x r^3 ... not r^2 The area of a sphere is 4 x pi x r^2 Generally, r is length, r^2 is area, r^3 is volume. If the shirts have not yet been printed, maybe it's not too late to fix this. (Think Geek once fixed a missing double bond on a chemical structure of capsaicin.)
... just noticed that in the original post, the "enlarged" part above the actual design has r^3. (But did not see discussion of the error in the last line in the actual design.)
sporeman wrote:you win...
Use the Schwartz Lonestar
hyde244 wrote:"Now I am the Master."
Now, I am the Mathter. /lisp
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This is not an assumption, the resources are out there to know this.You're assuming that the SV channels are surely on the same (or 100% overlapping) spot beam as the LIL channels and I don't think that's a reasonable assumption.
We have transponder maps that show where the locals are located (along with indicators that show the virtual remaps for areas where SV channels are carried, they don't reuplink them, they just remap the existing LIL feed):
The significantly viewed list is on the FCC site to know which counties and/or towns neighboring stations can be carried:
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Not quite as clear cut as that. Depends on your teeth which depends on your genes and environment. I love coffee but can't stomach more than one cup a day as the caffeine does me in. This puts me in a different pool of people than frequent coffee drinkers which is apparently at a higher risk of cancer. This isn't the same as saying drink more coffee and have less cancer.


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Google likes to have a laugh from time to time, even though sometimes the jokes are too geeky for non-programmers to grasp. Still, the teapot error page is fun even if you don't get the reference. Go to google.com/teapot and feel free to pour it out. It works best on a phone or tablet.
For the last several days, an unknown number of Android users have been getting inconsistent results when using the built-in Google Search app on their phones and tablets. And by "inconsistent," I mean that they aren't getting any at all, instead being greeted by the enigmatic message "can't load search results" whenever they try to use it. While none of the Android Police staff have experienced this, threads on Google Code, Google Groups, and Reddit continue to receive replies.
Everyone makes mistakes, but most of us aren't producing marketing material for giant retail chains that sell technology to the general public. That's the kind of mistake we all get to laugh about. So let's have a chuckle at today's mistaken parties.
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Documento - Death Penalty: Media Briefing: Amnesty International's death penalty statistics 2008 – Case Studies
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Amnesty International's death penalty statistics 2008 – Case Studies
Yacoub (23) was arrested in May 2008 for complicity in murder and brought to the police station in Nouakchott, the capital, where he was tortured for 13 days. He confessed and was sentenced to death in November 2008. He explained to Amnesty International researchers: "They tied my feet and handcuffed me. They suspended me by the feet to the ceiling with a rope and beat me. They did that every night for 13 days asking me to confess. I finally said I did it".
When he was 14, Solomon was arrested as a suspect in a murder committed in November 2001. He was brought before a Magistrates Court and, pending police investigation, was remanded to prison. He has still not been tried.
Even the prison staff does not know what to do for him, saying: "This boy, he has no lawyer, he never goes to court." He shares a cell with more than 70 adult men – all awaiting trial – and is only allowed outside his cell once a week and never receives visitors. "My family does not know I am in prison; they might think I am dead."
Troy Davis has been on death row for 17 years for a crime he maintains he did not commit.
He was scheduled to be put to death on 27 October 2008 but on 24 October, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted him a provisional stay of execution.
Troy Davis was convicted in 1991 for the murder of 27-year-old police officer Mark Allen MacPhail -- who was shot and killed in the car park of a Burger King restaurant in Savannah, Georgia on 19 August 1989. Troy was also convicted of assaulting Larry Young, a homeless man, who was accosted immediately before Officer MacPhail was shot. At the trial, Troy Davis admitted that he had been at the scene of the shooting, but claimed he had neither assaulted Larry Young nor shot Officer MacPhail. There was no physical evidence identifying him as the gunman and the weapon used in the crime was never found. The case against him consisted of witness testimony. In affidavits signed over the years since the trial, a majority of the state's witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony. In addition, there is post-trial testimony implicating another man as the gunman.
In March 2008, the Georgia Supreme Court denied Troy Davis a new trial or a court hearing in which post-conviction evidence could be presented. The Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, joined by two other Justices, dissented from this decision, arguing that "In this case, nearly every witness who identified Davis as the shooter at trial has now disclaimed his or her ability to do so reliably. Three persons have stated that Sylvester Coles confessed to being the shooter. Two witnesses have stated that Sylvester Coles, contrary to his trial testimony, possessed a handgun immediately after the murder. Another witness has provided a description of the crimes that might indicate that Sylvester Coles was the shooter." The Chief Justice stated that "the collective effect of all of Davis's new testimony, if it were to be found credible by the trial court in a hearing, would show the probability that a new jury would find reasonable doubt of Davis's guilt or a least sufficient residual doubt to decline to impose the death penalty."
The 11th Circuit has not yet ruled on the case.
Businesswoman Du Yimin was sentenced to death in March 2008. Her appeal was rejected on 13 January, and her sentence will now be reviewed by the Supreme People's Court. If it upholds her sentence, she could be executed within days.
She was convicted of "fraudulent raising of public funds." According to the verdict, she had illegally raised approximately 700 million Yuan (US$102 million) from hundreds of people investing in her beauty parlours.
According to her lawyer, Du Yimin should have been convicted of the lesser offence of "illegally collecting public deposits," which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 Yuan (US$73,000). Du Yimin argued that she had had no intention of keeping the money, but had rather put it into her companies, and obtained it without using fraudulent means.
Du Yimin's death sentence has caused a debate about consistency in the application of the death penalty. The day before she was sentenced to death, an official who used 15.8 billion Yuan of public funds to cover his personal spending was sentenced to a fixed term of imprisonment.
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Hakamada Iwao has been on death row since 1968. He was convicted after an unfair trial forthe 1966 murder of the boss of the factory where he worked, the man's wife and two children.
Hakamada confessed to the crime after 20 days of interrogation by police without a lawyer present. Under the daiyo kangoku(substitute prison) system, suspects can be detained for up to 23 days of questioning. There is no limit on the length of interrogation sessions, during which the detainees' lawyers have only restricted access to them. He retracted his confession and testified during his trial that police had beaten and threatened him to force him to sign a confession. Hakamada claimed that police pulled his hair and slapped him during interrogations that lasted more than 12 hours every day. Nonetheless he was found guilty and sentenced to death in 1968. His appeals were rejected by the Tokyo High Court in 1976 and the Supreme High Court in 1980. He went on to petition for a retrial: he was rejected by the Shizuoka District Court in 1994 and the Tokyo High Court in 2004. The Supreme Court rejected his petition for a third time on 24 March 2008; his lawyers submitted a second appeal the following month to the Shizouka District Court.
One of the judges who convicted Hakamada, Kumamoto Norimichi, stated publicly in 2007 that he believed Hakamada was innocent. He said that during the trial he had argued with the other two judges that they should find Hakamada not guilty, but was outvoted.
A key part of the evidence against Hakamada was a set of clothing, stained with the victims' blood, which was found abandoned in a tank at the factory. They were too small for Hakamada, but the prosecution claimed they had shrunk while in the tank. According to his lawyer, the knife Hakamada was supposed to have used was too small to make the fatal wounds, and the door by which he was supposed to have entered and left the victims' house had been locked.
Hakamada is one of Japan's longest-serving death row inmates. Death row inmates are banned from talking to other prisoners and they are not allowed to watch television or engage in personal interests or hobbies. He is suffering from mental illness from spending over 28 years in solitary confinement. He is at constant risk of being executed at any time, unless he is pardoned by the Minister of Justice, or granted a retrial.
Student and journalist Perwiz Kambakhsh was sentenced to death for blasphemy in January 2008. The sentence was quashed on 21 October 2008 by a court of appeal in Kabul and replaced with a 20-year prison term. He was convicted under a law that provides for a sentence of no more than five years imprisonment.
Perwiz Kambakhsh had been arrested on 27 October 2007, and was sentenced to death three months later by a Primary court in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. There were no legal grounds for either his conviction or his sentence. According to the prosecution, he had downloaded an article from the internet that questioned the condition of women in Islam, added some commentary and distributed it at Balkh University, where he was studying. He denied this, saying that he had been "coerced" into confessing. Despite this, he was convicted of breaching Article 347 of the Penal Code (disturbing or stopping a religious ritual or process or damaging a place of worship). This offence carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment, but the court claimed there was a gap in the law, meaning that Sharia could be applied, under Article 130 of Afghanistan's Constitution.
The trial proceedings at the primary and appeal hearings were grossly unfair. At the primary level hearing, which only lasted four-minutes, Perwiz Kambakhsh had no legal representation and no opportunity to effectively defend himself. The appeal court failed to determine beyond reasonable doubt that Kambakhsh's confession had not been coerced. According to Afghanistan's Criminal Procedure Code, he should have been released when his appeal had lasted more than two months without reaching a result, but he was not released even though his appeal lasted five months.
Ihar Danchenka was sentenced to death on 1 December 2006 for murder. He was accused of participating in a series of murders committed by a criminal gang that allegedly took place between 1990 and 2004 in the Homyel region. He was tried along with 46 other people including five police officers. The trial was held in the remand prison where the suspects were detained for security reasons and relatives and members of the public were not permitted to attend. When Ihar Danchenka's 12-year-old son found out from watching television that his father and his godfather, Syarhey Marozaw, had both been sentenced to death he asked his mother: "Mama, why are they taking away both my Dads at the same time?"
Ihar Danchenka was probably executed on 12 January 2008 by a shot to the back of the head. Neither he nor his family was told the date in advance and his widow received a notification by post only at the end of January. His lawyers can only guess at the exact date the execution was carried out. The family does not know where his body is buried and relatives have not been able to organize a funeral. Ihar Danchenka was tried and convicted in the Supreme Court as a court of first instance and therefore he could not appeal to a higher court.
He had applied to the President for clemency. His lawyer told Amnesty International that he did not agree with the punishment, and felt that Ihar Danchenka had been sentenced to the death penalty because he had a criminal record. "In effect we [sic] were punished for the past …for crimes for which he had already served a sentence. Strictly speaking you can be punished for crimes that you have committed today, but to punish you for having always been a bad boy, that is not right."
Juvenile offender Mohammad Feda'i, convicted in 2005 of a murder in 2004 when he was only 17, wrote in a letter from prison in June 2008 of his experiences of torture to extract a false confession, and when he was nearly executed in April 2008.
"They asked me to write my will the night I was going to be hanged. I didn't know what a 'will' was. When they put the noose around my neck, I closed my eyes and asked my God for help. Just few seconds before hanging, it was halted, because they found out that my lawyers were fake. When I was coming down from the stairs, once again I saw hope and felt I am going back to the school again!"
Mohammad Feda'i remains on death row in prison.
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Suliamon Olyfemi, a Nigerian national, has been sentenced to death after facing unfair trial in 2004-5 in connection with the killing of a policeman in 2002. He continues to maintain his innocence. According to reports, on 28 September 2002, a group of men, among them one policeman, arrived in an area where many African nationals worked as car cleaners. An argument escalated into a fight and the policeman was killed. The following day, security forces carried out mass arrests in the area.
Suliamon Olyfemi and 12 other Nigerian men were tried in connection with the policeman's death. They did not have legal representation and apparently were not provided with adequate translation assistance during interrogation and trial, which was conducted in Arabic.
During interrogation, they were reportedly instructed by the police to sign with their fingerprints statements that they could not read and whose contents were not clear to them. There is concern that these statements contained "admissions" that were then used as evidence against them in their trial. Some of the men have allegedly been tortured in detention. All 13 were convicted: Suliamon Olyfemi was sentenced to death and the others were sentenced to prison terms and flogging. He is now at risk of imminent execution as he has exhausted all levels of appeal.