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Hip Dislocation
(Dislocated Hip; Dislocation, Hip)
A hip dislocation occurs when the ball of the thighbone moves out of place within the socket of the pelvic bone. This ball and socket form the hip joint.
The Hip Joint
Hip dislocations are relatively rare and severe injuries. They are often associated with femur or pelvic fractures. A normal hip joint is stable and strong. A hip dislocation can only occur when a strong force is applied to the hip joint.
- Severe falls, especially from heights
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Sports injuries, especially from football, rugby, skiing, and snowboarding
Risk Factors
Factors that can increase your chance of developing this condition include:
- Prior hip replacement surgery
- Abnormal hip joint
- Severe falls, especially from heights
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Sports injuries, especially from football, rugby, skiing, and snowboarding
- High risk behaviors, such as excessive alcohol use
- Poor muscle control or weakness leading to falls
Symptoms include:
- Severe pain in the hip, especially when attempting to move the leg
- Pain that spreads to the legs, knees, and back
- Leg on the affected side appears shorter than the other leg
- Hip joint appears deformed
- Pain or numbness along the back of thighs if injury presses on the sciatic nerve
- Being unable to walk
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and how the injury occurred. An exam of your your hip and leg will be done.
Images may be taken of your bones. This can be done with:
- X-ray
- Computed tomography (CT) scan —to look for loose bodies and fragments impeding reduction, and acetabular fractures
- MRI—to evaluate ligament, cartilage and other soft-tissue injury
Treatments include:
Closed Reduction
The doctor will manipulate the thigh and leg. This is to try to put the ball of the femur back into the hip socket. You may be given medications to relax, such as:
- Pain medication
- Sedation
- Muscle relaxants
- General or spinal anesthesia
There are no guidelines for preventing hip dislocation. Most come from car accidents or sports injuries. To reduce your risk, take the following steps:
- Wear your seat belt in the car.
- Obey speed limits and other traffic laws.
- Do not drink and drive.
- Wear proper safety equipment for sports.
- Use safety precautions to prevent falls when working at heights.
- Follow your doctors directions to manage chronic conditions that involve the joints.
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine
Canadian Orthopaedic Association
Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation
Canale ST, Campbell WC. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. 9th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc; 1998.
Roberts JR, Hedges JR, Bell MH. Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: WB Saunders Company; 1998.
Rosen P, et al. Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 4th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Year Book, Inc; 1998.
Last reviewed February 2014 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.


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By now you've heard. The third quarter of last night's game between the Pacers and Magic seems to have been the series turning point for Indiana. Down a bucket at the half, the Pacers came out in the third and cold-cocked the Magic to the tune of a 30-13 quarter that provided the final margin of victory.
The question going forward is exactly what to make of that run. Was it an outlier or a harbinger? Was it a case of regression — the Pacers just starting to perform how we figured they always would — or was it a case of the Pacers playing exceptionally?
To my eye, there were four reasons the Pacers came alive in the third: 1.) they mauled the Magic on the glass, 2.) they converted at the line, 3.) they snuffed out most of Orlando's initial actions on pick-and-rolls, and 4.) George Hill began once more to resemble a professional basketball player. Of these, we'll ignore Hill's resurfacing, for the simple reason that I have no idea whether he will again net 16 points on 8 shots, as he had at the end of last night's third quarter.
I'll focus first on the fouls and the rebounding, because they're really two sides of the same coin. I hate to point this out, but the Pacers only shot 28 free throws last night, which is a totally reasonable figure for a team playing with the sort of interior advantage the Pacers have. Even though, at times, during the third quarter it seemed there was a whistle on every play, the Magic really can't argue with a 28-19 free throw disparity in favor of Indiana given the stylistic and personnel differences. The rebounding? Stay with me, because this is where things get grim.
Look, the Pacers are going to outrebound the Magic. Even in Game 1, Indiana was +5 on the boards. The Pacers are a strong rebounding outfit no matter how you slice it — a top-five team in raw per-game rebounding and in offensive rebound percentage. However, they simply bludgeoned Orlando on the offensive glass last night, corralling 37.5 percent of their own misses. While this seems like a shocking figure, nearly 8 percentage points above Indiana's season average, when you consider the fact that Indiana's offensive rebound percentage in the Magic's Game 1 win was 30.6 percent, it's hard to come to the conclusion the Magic will remedy this situation.
So it's easy to say that the Pacer's 15-1 rebound run in the third quarter is an outlier, but in all likelihood, it was just a pretty fast regression to what we're likely to see for this series.
Well, okay, fine. I mean, nobody misses Dwight Howard and expects to outrebound a tough team. So the offensive execution, right? Surely the Magic's anemic offense during last night's third quarter can be fixed?
Well, yes and no. Re-watching on Synergy this morning, it's clear that the Magic are capable of generating some good looks, but I'm not sure whether we can expect Orlando to be able to cash in on them given the Magic's personnel and a few Pacers adjustments.
Early in the quarter, the Magic ran a successful set that had Jason Richardson curling off of a double screen, one on the baseline and one at the elbow. After the second screen, Richardson makes a hard dive to the rim and Turkoglu finds him from the opposite wing. Richardson layup. Smooth basketball. It works because the Pacers' starting bigs, for all the shot-blocking and muscle that Hibbert and West combine to provide, aren't that laterally quick. Two quick screens and a pass coming from the opposite side of the court can buy a decent finisher some space. After that, though, the Magic went away from these sets and started running a succession of screen-and-rolls that the Pacers had dead to rights.
Of course you can say that the Magic were always going to struggle against the Pacers perimeter defenders because they're so long and active. In Game 1, the Magic sidestepped this problem a little bit by allowing Glen Davis to get the ball early after the screen and use his mobility to take advantage of Roy Hibbert. In Game 2, though, the Pacers' hedges were quicker and the primary help defender did a great job of snuffing out the easy outlet pass. This became doubly true when Tyler Hansbrough entered the game. Hansbrough finished with four points and zero rebounds in a little over 18 minutes, but his foot speed on pick-and-roll recoveries suffocated the Magic offense.
And this is where the crucial issue comes up. The Magic succeeded in Game 1 by beating the Pacers' help defenders to space. Orlando couldn't do that at all in the second half last night.
Of course, Glen Davis averaged 23 minutes a game in the regular season and he's averaging around 39 in this series. Davis, at his best, does not beat fleet-footed post defenders. Davis playing 39 minutes a night is not Davis at his best. He simply does not have the conditioning for it. Thus the screen-and-rolls that sometimes created promising space last night — primarily 2/5 pick-and-rolls with J.J. Redick as the primary handler — often ended in Davis dispiritingly attempting a runner over two defenders.
What's troubling about this is that even when Redick remedied some of the earlier problems the Magic were having — more decisive turns off of the screen, crisper passes — the Pacers had no trouble recovering. The Magic just don't have a viable screener who can beat the post defender in a pick-and-roll and there is no additional post presence to keep help in the lane so that a weak-side shooter can spot up. It's a little bleak.
You never want to be Chicken Little about one game, but the Pacers exposed a huge problem last night in the Magic's ability to generate offense. Stan Van Gundy needs strong pick-and-roll actions to make his offense work; not even the aforementioned double screens could work without something to keep the defense honest. And the Magic's one potential screener, who lacks conditioning on his best nights, is playing a heavier load than he has all season.
So I guess the lesson from last night's third quarter is this: the Magic do have some hope, so long as their reserve big man can get in the best shape of his life by tomorrow and figure out how to be an effective starting center.


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Timberline Steve - 12/02/2008
A great enjoyable dance to catchy music. Some original steps, and easy to dance and have a good time with. Can only get step sheet to come up on Linedancer by typing in the choreographer's name (Bev Carpenter) rather than the name of the dance! There's a lively performance of it on Watch and Learn too!


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Buckers Bridge will sidestep Thursday's Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles in preference for an alternative target at Leopardstown later this month.
The eight-year-old showed some smart form as a novice over fences last season, but failed to make an impact in the Galway Plate during the summer and was also well held in the Powers Irish Whiskey Chase at Down Royal in November.
He looked much more like his old self when winning a conditions event at Gowran Park on his latest appearance, but with some highly-rated horses in contention for Thursday's Grade Two, Buckers Bridge is set to revert to handicap company.
Trainer Henry de Bromhead said: "I wouldn't have thought he'll run (at Thurles). I think we'll probably wait and run him in the Leopardstown Handicap Chase.
"He doesn't look favoured by the weights in the Kinloch Brae and I'm keen to give him some experience in handicap company, so I think we'll wait for Leopardstown."


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Classic Tier
Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa County /
Sonoma County
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Pinot Noir
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Limited Release Wines
ur Chardonnay vineyards span the entire cool climate Carneros region. Temperatures are moderated by the adjoining San Pablo Bay, cool afternoon breezes and persistent morning fog. This climate yields grapes that have both enough cool hang time and sunshine to develop great depth of flavor with great natural acid. In response to our late wet spring, we made an extra vineyard pass, hand removing excess fruit zone leaves. This assured that our fruit would get full benefit of both our plentiful sun and wind, drying the grapes quickly and hastening full ripening.
Gently hand harvested, the grapes were whole cluster pressed. This wine was two-thirds barrel fermented with sur lees stirring and aging and partially stainless steel fermented to achieve a nuanced balance of fruit and barrel character. Half of this wine has undergone a secondary malolactic fermentation to enhance its buttery creaminess.
Tasting Notes
Lemon blossoms, green apple and honeydew melon are front and center in this Chardonnay. This crisp fruitiness is combined with nuances of creme brule, vanilla, toasted macadamia and humidor cedar making this wine both easy to enjoy and seductively complex. Supple and silky yet crisp enough for food, a great accompaniment for food and friends.
Alcohol content, 14.3% by volume
22,000 cases produced
Wine Spectator
"Serves up a tasty core of spice, floral and anise-laced pear and nectarine flavors. Offers depth and richness, but also firm acidity."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A compact and seriously oaky chardonnay with toast, vanilla, lime, peach and lemon zest flavors that are distinctly Burgundian." 3 ˝ stars. Highly recommended.
Wine Enthusiast
"Classic Carneros Chard. Aromas of apples and peaches veering into tropical fruit lead to bright, well-etched fruity flavors in the mouth. Spices, too, and smoky vanilla from oak. Malolactic fermentation and lees aging create a round, creamy feel, and the finish is spicy and smooth."
Restaurant Wine
"These are extremely good Chardonnays... The Carneros version is also full bodied and moderately intense in flavor, with hints of toast, oak, roasted nut, and grapefruit. Very long finish." 4 ˝ stars.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.'s The Wine Advocate
"There are three (Artesa) Chardonnays, all of them at least excellent. More smoky, leesy and complex, the Carneros (is) Burgundian-like, rich, full-bodied with notes of roasted nuts, good underlying acidity, and well-concealed spicy oak... (a) beautifully-knit effort." 90 score
California Grapevine
"...Attractive, toasty, nutty, ripe peach and green apple aroma with notes of butterscotch and chared oak; medium-full body; big, forward, rich, buttery, crisp green apple flavors with overtones of toasty oak." Highly recommended.
Wine & Spirits
"Large in scale, this fleshy and fat chardonnay comes forward in a completely different style from Artesa's Napa Valley bottling. The flavors are big and creamy, largely influenced by oak, the wine itself heady and completely appealing."


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when it comes to hot weather and clothing, i'm one of those finicky sorts. i blame it on my mother [hi mom]. my sisters and i melt like delicate flowers in the sun... hence why i'm quite particular when it comes to my summer wardrobe. breezy, but not chilly. and pieces that have a bit of extra breathing room.
yesterday i opted for the "almost" sheer tank from sugarlips and my go-to dungarees. even wore this to work [aka. on my laptop at a local coffee shop] and downtown for our annual festival of the arts. wardrobe perfection for casual friday! ;)
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The Endoplasmic Reticulum
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a series of interconnected membranous sacs and tubules that collectively modifies proteins and synthesizes lipids. However, these two functions are performed in separate areas of the ER: the rough ER and the smooth ER. The hollow portion of the ER tubules is called the lumen or cisternal space. The membrane of the ER, which is a phospholipid bilayer embedded with proteins, is continuous with the nuclear envelope.
Rough ER
The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) is so named because the ribosomes attached to its cytoplasmic surface give it a studded appearance when viewed through an electron microscope . Ribosomes transfer their newly synthesized proteins into the lumen of the RER where they undergo structural modifications, such as folding or the acquisition of side chains. These modified proteins will be incorporated into cellular membranes—the membrane of the ER or those of other organelles—or secreted from the cell (such as protein hormones, enzymes). The RER also makes phospholipids for cellular membranes. If the phospholipids or modified proteins are not destined to stay in the RER, they will reach their destinations via transport vesicles that bud from the RER's membrane. Since the RER is engaged in modifying proteins (such as enzymes, for example) that will be secreted from the cell, the RER is abundant in cells that secrete proteins. This is the case with cells of the liver, for example.
Smooth ER
The smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) is continuous with the RER but has few or no ribosomes on its cytoplasmic surface. Functions of the SER include synthesis of carbohydrates, lipids, and steroid hormones; detoxification of medications and poisons; and storage of calcium ions. In muscle cells, a specialized SER called the sarcoplasmic reticulum is responsible for storage of the calcium ions that are needed to trigger the coordinated contractions of the muscle cells.


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Gingerbread Gangnam, LeBron, Honey Boo Boo and More: How Sweet Was 2012!
2012 has been a wild ride. It was good, it was bad - it was horrific. And like every year, we were utterly enthralled by various celebrities (human and animal) and often absurd antics. How much work productivity this year was lost on Googling Grumpy Cat memes and watching Gangnam Style parodies?
So to commemorate the last 352 days, Short Order put our grade school craft skills to work and recreated five of 2012's pop culture personalities ... in gingerbread. Here's hoping they leave a better taste in our mouth than spaghetti with ketchup. (Thanks for the memories, Honey Boo Boo.)
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If there's one pop culture phenomenon we'd be hard pressed to forget, it's Gangnam Style. The macarena of the 00's, this so-catchy-it-makes-us-sick dance hit shot Psy into superstardom, and spawned 297,908 spin-off versions (Working Farmer Style *might* just be our favorite).
This year saw the rise of everyone's favorite go-go juice swilling beauty queen, Honey Boo Boo. We had to "redneckognize" her inarguable influence on the year's pop culture landscape ... for better or worse.
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A Conversation with Cindy McCain
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RE: You told the New York Times that, in the days when you were coping with your back problem, you said, "I should have told him [John]. He never knew it. I wanted to be the perfect woman in those days." Who do you want to be today?
CM: I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman. And I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be now is just a good person someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.
RE: As a woman and as a mom, what are the campaign issues that you care about the most?
CM: Certainly the war. Because I worry, you know. My own sons have been and are active in the military and many, many thousands of other young men and women around the world are involved in it. Also, the economy...the economy-slash-education; I put them together. Because as a mother, I like everyone else have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes. And with that comes the opportunity for education. John and I had a wonderful opportunity to be able to send our children to the schools of our choice. Not everybody has that. We want everybody to have that. I think it's a right that every American parent should have choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.
RE: Please finish this sentence: I'll know I've done a good job raising my kids and step-kids if...
CM: If they are happy and are doing the things they want to do.
RE: Spoken like a true parent. OK, changing gears: Do you think that this election has changed how we think about race? And if you do, how?
CM: I don't think it's changed how Americans think of race, no. I think it's a phenomenal age of politics because there are many firsts in this race. But I don't think it has changed nor should it change the way people look at race. I think Americans are good-hearted, open-minded people and race doesn't enter into this at all. I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.
RE: You think that race is not a factor in the presidential race at all?
CM: No, I really don't believe it is. Yes, you know, Mr. Obama is an African-American man and yes, we're Irish. And isn't that wonderful? It's a wonderful thing for America. So I really don't think race plays a part.
RE: Are there popular perceptions of Cindy McCain or for that matter, of Michelle Obama that you think are inaccurate? What are the perceptions about you that you think are wrong?
CM: I saw written someplace that people thought that I was kind of like a Stepford wife, and that couldn't be further from the truth. I think my husband would say that, too. I'm anything but that. I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less overt out on the campaign [trail] doesn't mean I'm anything less than very opinionated and very intelligent.
RE: What do you think the misperceptions about Michelle Obama are?
CM: I don't know her, but just from being a mother myself, I know she's a good mother. I know she loves her husband, believes in him and believes in this country. And I've seen things written to the difference and I don't believe that in any way, shape, or form.
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DES MOINES, IA – A bill that would legalize the medical use of marijuana in Iowa was approved by a Senate subcommittee Monday, but is unlikely to advance further this year.
Senator Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said that his bill, Senate File 79, lacks support in the full Human Resources Committee, where the bill has been assigned.
The bill was approved by a three person subcommittee on Monday following testimony from citizens suffering from multiple sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder, who told the subcommittee that marijuana was a better alternative to synthetic prescription drugs.
Sen. Bolkom's bill would exempt patients in Iowa suffering from cancer, HIV/AIDS, ALS, severe pain and nausea, and other ailments from arrest and prosecution for using marijuana under their physicians' recommendations.
Patients or their caregivers would be able to grow their medicine or they could obtain it from a nonprofit dispensary.
Republican subcommittee member Sen. Joni Ernst opposed the bill, saying it would be difficult to ensure dispensaries wouldn't sell marijuana to people without a recommendation.
A companion bill in the House, HF 22, has already been killed by the House Public Safety Committee after a brief hearing in January. Committee chairman, Rep. Clel Baulder (R-Greenfield), a retired Iowa State Patrol officer, made it clear from the beginning of the meeting that the bill had no chance at advancing, calling medical marijuana bill "asinine."
A February 2010 Seltzer & Co. poll found that 64% of Iowans think the state should enact a law allowing seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it. That same month, the Iowa Board of Pharmacy voted unanimously to recognize marijuana's medical value.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow patients with qualifying conditions to use medical marijuana with recommendations from their physicians. At least 10 more states are expected to consider similar legislation this year, and such bills have already been introduced in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Oklahoma.
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Boundary Issues and Multiple Relationships in Genetic Counseling Supervision: Supervisor, Non-supervisor, and Student Perspectives
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- Patricia McCarthy Veach,
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Boundary issues and multiple relationships potentially affect all supervision interactions. Boundary crossings are departures from the strictest professional role and may or may not benefit supervisees. Boundary violations are outside common practice and may place supervisees at significant risk. Multiple relationships occur when supervisors concurrently or consecutively hold two or more roles with supervisees. Studies in other fields indicate supervisors and supervisees may be uncertain about professional conduct regarding these issues. In this study, genetic counselor supervisors (n = 126), non-supervisors (n = 72), and genetic counseling students (n = 129) completed an anonymous survey investigating four major questions: 1) Are various boundary issues and multiple relationships perceived as differentially appropriate? 2) Do supervisor, non-supervisor, and student perceptions differ? 3) What challenging situations have respondents experienced? and 4) What management strategies did they use? There was general agreement among groups in their appropriateness ratings of 56 hypothetical supervisor behaviors, although supervisor ratings tended to reflect stricter boundaries regarding the appropriateness of interactions than student ratings. A majority rated unavoidable boundary crossings and supervisor multiple relationships involving an academic relationship as most appropriate, and romantic/sexual multiple relationships and/or boundary violations as least appropriate. Analysis of respondents' actual challenging situations revealed many involved boundary violations, placed students at risk of harm, and often resulted in student compliance.
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Estimated cost: $20,000,000
Oh God yes, a Matrix video game! You were blown away by its state-of-the-art visual trickery and mind-bending story of spirituality when it opened at the cinema, and now you get to take control of nouveau-Superman Neo as he nonchalantly brain-slams a bunch of well dressed henchmen and stops bullets in midair with only his well manicured hand. Oh, you don't get to play as Neo? Well, who do you play as? Will Smith's wife..? I'm out.
OK, OK, maybe that's not fair. She was a feisty enough supporting character, and I bet those slow motion karate ballets are fun as Hell to execute. What's that? The animations look like malfunctioning Jim Henson puppets? The official soundtrack tunes have names like "Kick Jab Stab" and "Smelly Sewer"? It was so severely drab and repetitive that you'd be hard pressed to even call it an 'action' game? Seems like maybe I should have gone with the blissful ignorance of illusion and swallowed that blue pill instead.
Beyond: Two Souls – 2013
Estimated cost: $27,000,000
I would imagine that a large portion of this vast, vast amount of money went on Ellen Page's salary. And then, whatever David Cage had left over he gave to Willem Dafoe – because surely no money was spent on actually writing this turgid abomination. I've written before – at some length – for my hatred for this game, and finding out that Sony gave Cage nearly 30 million dollars with which to fuel his ridiculous mind-wank has done little to quell my rage.
To recap, you play Ellen Page, who plays some other girl, and she has some kind of pet ghost (called Aiden) who floats around watching her take showers and objecting to her dating. Dafoe looks after her for a while, and he works for the preposterously titled US Department of Paranormal Activity. Then she joins the CIA. Then she's homeless. Then she's in war-torn Somalia. Then she's a clichéd goth teen again. Then she goes on holiday to the Bahamas and Aiden rides a jet-ski.
Fine, that last one isn't true – but might as well be, for all the muddled nonsensical barf that Cage insists on covering you in. And you know what else they must have saved a lot of money on? Mapping actions to the controller. In fact, I'm 90% sure that if you threw your pad out the window it'd be about 3 or 4 hours before you needed to go fetch it again to press another button. Dammit, wait, this is the bit where I can take Ellen's bra off! Where did I throw it this time?? OH GOD A RACCOON IS RUNNING OFF WITH IT.
L.A. Noire – 2011
Estimated cost: $50,000,000
I would be blown away if $49,999,999 of this didn't go into those facial animations. I mean, look at them. LOOK AT THEIR FACES. Jesus, they're so real. This game's three yeas old now, and on a last-gen console, and it's still outshining every single other game that dares try and have characters with faces in it. Even famous Hollywood characters with actual faces like Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe. Cough.
L.A. Noire was impossibly well presented, and a perfectly captured slice of the the dark underbelly of '40s California. What it was not, on the other hand, was that good of a game. It hurts me to say it, even today, but there's no escaping the fact that it was simplistic, disjointed, and dare I say it, a bit dull.
Rising through the ranks of the L.A. Police Department – as well as having free roam of the city itself – sounds like a virtual dream come true, but in practice it was little more than an on-rails point and click adventure. It was Grand Theft Auto with the stabilizers on. Arguably that gameplay choice was within context – to begin with at least – but that context quickly dissolves when you're running around candlelit sewers looking for a schizophrenic with a flamethrower by the end of the game. If rumours are to be believed, this technology is coming back in a big way for next gen, with formerly broke developer Team Bondi's spiritual sequel Whore of the Orient.
APB: All Points Bulletin – 2010
Estimated cost: $50,000,000
APB had the same budget as L.A. Noire. Scottish developer Realtime Worlds burned through it to make this game, and it ended very badly for them. The worst part is, it's almost impossible to see why. Whereas L.A. Noire clearly used their credits to develop cutting edge technologies, APB just kind of… doesn't.
Imagine, if you can be bothered, a Grand Theft Auto Online rip off, that's somehow even more boring. A sparse, empty sandbox of a game, populated by a few other players aimlessly running about. Just running, not even deathmatching. Yes, despite being able to draw and fire guns, being outside of a "mission" will mean that the bullets pass right through you enemy. The worst you can do to the opposition in this instance is type out some "your momma" jokes.
Worst of all, for jaded hacks like me at least, Realtime Worlds set an embargo on the review that was not lifted until a week after the game had been released. That, quite obviously, meant only one thing – the game was mind-bendingly average, and they knew it.
Too Human – 2008
Estimated cost: $60,000,000
If I asked you to pick a game, any game, at random that you thought would have cost over 60 million dollars to produce, I wonder how many games you would list before you got to Too Human. My guess is too many. The reason it did cost so much is probably pretty simple to identify, however. Redesigning the cover art so many times.
You see, first announced way back in 1999 for the original PlayStation, Too Human spent an astronomical 10 years in development. It saw the PlayStations 1, 2 and 3 come and go before finally finding a home on the Xbox 360. And that's a lot of cover art redesign. Think of all that printer ink they used! The more I dwell on it, the more 60 million dollars actually sounds about right.
The game itself was a distinctly mediocre experience, comparable to a cybernetic version of Diablo, if Diablo were terrible. You run around, hacking and shooting, looking for loot drops with which to upgrade your hacking and shooting equipment. And then… umm… no, that's it.
Crysis 3 – 2013
Estimated cost: $66,000,000
When it first entered the fray – with its tech requirements so high that only people with an IBM loyalty card could run it - Crysis was instantly divisive. Sure, it looked like nothing you'd ever even dared to dream about before, but was it actually that good of a game? Were graphics everything? Were they not remotely important? Either way, the benchmark had been set, and "can it run Crysis?" entered the lexicon for everyone measuring the power of their computer.
Then, shock of all horrors, it came to the console market with its sequels. Could the Xbox 360 run Crysis 3? Well, as it turned out, not really. It was buggy and more than rough around the edges, and the PC master race were furious that their game had to be dumbed down for the casual console crew.
Still, millionaire PC owners could max out the graphical settings if they so desired (which they absolutely did) and only then did that 66 million dollars worth of creation start to reveal itself. The overrun, I Am Legend-style New York looked sensational, and it probably would have fared better if it had simply remained nothing more than a kind of virtual art installation. The idiotic aliens ruined it, as is so often the case in life.
Disney Infinity – 2013
Estimated cost: $100,000,000
Disney Infinity opens like a multi-million dollar game. It's really quite beautiful to behold, and captures that "magic" of Disney perfectly. I mean, if you're into that kind of thing. It's not long before it peters out though, and you're left with nothing but an interactive pat on the back for the people that made the original films.
What do you do then? Well, you inhabit various characters from teeth-shatteringly cute Disney/Pixar films, and just go around admiring all the references to the films. That really is it – and I, for one, can't get enough! I hope they monetize it by releasing DLC packs for future film releases!
In some respects it's utterly baffling to see how this game cost 100 million dollars (!), because it's just some run-of-the-mill platformer, no different to Spyro The Dragon or some other fluffy kids dross. Maybe developer Avalance Software had to buy the characters from Pixar individually, for like 5 million each. And if you're sitting there thinking "Pixar?? How could they create something that's terrible? They're geniuses!", then all I have to say to you in return is Cars 2.


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30 year I/O question -Dave?
OK, I am refinancing a 1st and 2nd into a single 30 year fixed rate. I am debating between the 30 year fixed, and the 30 year fixed interest only. I like the flexibility of paying either just interest, or interest plus principle that the I/O gives you. The reset payment of the I/O @ the 10 year mark (where the loan becomes a conventional 20 year @ the same fixed rate) is the same as what we are paying now, which we can afford. My question is this: will that reset payment be lower if I make additional priciple payments, or will it be the amount calculated when the note begins with fewer payments?
Hi stinkbone,
When I first read your message, I thought, "Oh, no ... running a mortgage for 10 years without agreeing formally to pay off a penny of the principal?"!
Dave doesn't mind people running a fairly substantial mortgage without their getting their shirt-tails tied into knots to pay them off ... if one uses the freed-up money to invest into worth-while assets.
But ... when one considers that a mortgage is an agreement to pay off a (usually large) loan making level rates of payment from the first month to the last, one knows that in the early years, when the loan is large, the amount of interest payable annually is large ... meaning that one pays peanuts on the basic principal during the whole of that first year.
In the later years, a very large component of the regular payment goes to pay off principal, as the amount of interest payable on that residual amount owing is quite small - but the borrower has been paying the same amount each time.
We've often been told that if one can make one extra payment annually (specifying that it's to be used totally to pay down principal) it'll probably make a larger payment of the principal that the total amount paid off on principal through all the rest of the year (or close to it). That will result in the loan being paid off much earlier than according to the original plan.
If you make that official plan, I hope that you'll make a deal with yourself to make that extra payment annually, or more if possible, even if it's not required. If you get someone to run down the effect that'll make in the date that your mortgage'll be paid off, you'll be surprised, I'm sure ... and substantially motivated to carry it out, if at all possible.
The people who pay bi-weekly are actually making that 13th month payment in each year, contractually.
What plans do you have in place to deal with an emergency? Unexpected illness, if not covered by medical insurance (and few offer coverage of the entire amount, and certainly not up-front ... but medical people like to get paid now, not in half a year ... with you recovering the amount from your insurance company, later). Blowing the engine or tranny of your car? Replacing a furnace ... it may make you sweat (sorry ... "perspire") to do without an air conditioner for a while until you can afford a repair or a replacement ... but you'd get more uncomfortable than that, doing without a furnace (without regard to tearing holes in walls to replace split parts of water pipes after freezing).
Will you be able to get a HELOC from your financial institution? For sure? I'll bet not ... if you've been put on lay-off (especially if permanent). And at what rate?
I suggest that, even if it means cutting expenses to just the bare essentials for a couple of years (or more), that you make a strong effort to set aside the value of a fourteenth month of mortgage payment each year, to invest as a safety net for use in emergency.
I've recommended to many that they try to have 3 - 6 mos. worth of income in case theirs stops, for whatever reason, so that they'd still be able to manage financially.
I've told a number of people, as they became more familiar with the ins and outs of capable financial management, that often I don't have such myself.
But I have a fairly guaranteed income, being as I'm on three pensions plus required annual withdrawal from a tax-deferred retirement plan, and live on less than that income ... automatic, until I depart this earth.
Even if I didn't, I have some equity and mutual fund assets and have had certificates issued ($35 - 50. per asset in stocks, usually fee-free for mutual funds) that I have lodged as collateral backing a Letter of Credit at my bank (which sits unused, most of the time, with no inactivity fee levied) which I can draw on in case of an emergency.
So I use credit card to pay for the emergency needs, then draw on the LOC in time to pay off the total owing on the credit card ... as I dislike paying their high interest rates ... I'd rather pay at a lower rate on the amount borrowed on the Line of Credit. Then, as I have surplus income (and I cut expenses to the bone, in such cases) to pay that loan off in full, as quickly as possible, partly due to interest not being deductible. After that, to put the amount that I was paying interest into my pocket. Where I'd keep it for a short while, then use it to buy more assets.
I agree with Dave somewhat, however ... in that I will, however use a different Letter of Credit (due to the interest being deductible) to use to buy assets, sometimes agreeing to pay interest only, and some principal if and when it suits me.
As I believed, back when I would have to pay 6.25% interest, that I could borrow to invest at nearly nil net cost ...
... so it should be true in spades, now that I can borrow for 4.75%.
What's better than putting your money into the bank?
Long term ... it's buying a piece of the bank!
For reasons that I've outlined elsewhere in these fora.
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I didnt know there were 30 year fixed I/O loans available. however i would discourage against this. by only paying interest for 10 years you are banking on the house value increasing to offset the lack of principal payments. This is a risk that is unecessary. the differences is probably no more than $300-500 (depending on the mortgage amount).
what is your plan for that difference?? do you plan on saving or investing it religiously? do you have a 3-6 month emergency fund??
take the 30 year fixed and put the risk on the bank with payback using cheaper and cheaper dollars.
if you dont have any savings i would still recommend use the traditional 30 year fixed and build up your savings.
Hi Stinkbone,
My question is this: will that reset payment be lower if I make additional priciple payments, or will it be the amount calculated when the note begins with fewer payments?
As you realized, at the 10 year mark (if you are one of the less than 1 in 20 remaining in that loan,) your new payment will be determined by the then-remaining balance of the loan.
Further, you literally have full control over what that payment's affordability will be if you aggressively fund your safe growth accounts (instead of sending additional principal to the mortgage bankers) as you can literally withdraw your growth funds the week prior to your reset and make a lump-sum principal paydown to whatever balance makes sense for you at that time... which you can determine by the calculations of what your ultimate payments will be.
It is, however, extremely unlikely that you would choose to do so... and here is why;
A) Less than 1 in 20 mortgage loans (30 year term) survive to see their 10th consecutive year without refi or sale payoff,
B) The AVERAGE North American ownership residency is 3-5 years, and employment mobility is a trend on the rise, to boot,
C) Inflation is at the foot of a hockeystick-chart explosion, and "inflation rolls down hill" which means that inflation ALWAYS trickles down to the ground (literally... the real estate of the country.) Housing turnover sales have slowed primarily due to a temporary credit collapse, but the "Lion over the hill" of impending inflation will have all real estate owners increasing their leases and rents (as is already observable in many markets.) This, in turn, will spur another extension of the real estate appreciation wave.
As your real estate appreciates (at roughly the rate of longterm inflation, plus the rate of national population increase,) your personal mortgage debt will remain unchanged, but the amount of your net worth entrapped in your real estate will grow significantly.
While the increase of net worth is a good thing (and you'll be able to thank yourself that you held real estate during inflationary times, for that,) the fact that you'll then be likely singificantly overbalanced in real estate as a PORTION of your net worth will become a dangerous thing... for risk reasons I have detailed here previously.
When you observe your "pie slice" of net worth tied in real estate equity growing beyond safe and preferable measures, you would be wisely advised to re-balance your equity among other asset classes more appropriate to your at-that-time personal financial profile and family goals.
As a real estate owner, this will not be an "if" but rather a "when." You can fairly simply and accurately forecast this on a spreadsheet by taking your current conservatively estimated home value, and compound it by a CONSERVATIVE estimate of future inflation plus national population growth. Forget the speculation cycles... regardless of temporary ups & downs, the real estate markets will (as they always always have) conform to inflation+population growth.
Take a look... it won't take longer than 4-7 years, very realistically, before you will be in a position where your personal portfolio balance sheet is overweighted in unleveraged, market-risk vulnerable real estate equity... and prudence at that time will be to rebalance for both protection, and to regain safe growth (unleveraged real estate gives you zero growth.)
Hope that all makes sense!
LASTLY... just to add a critical concept;
"Rates Are Relative."
That is to say; when interest rates are low for borrowing, the credited rates in growth accounts are in the same vicinity.
When interest rates are higher for borrowing, the credited rates in growth accounts are ALSO higher, in the same vicinity.
The KEY to longterm safe success is the careful BALANCING of your leverage with your growth strategies.
If you keep your eye on balancing, annually (at minimum,) you will have the greatest, safest, earliest results of financial independence.
All the best!
Dave Donhoff
Leverage Planner
Thanks for the advice all. We're covering the other stuff (retirement, college, emergency, term life), and the house is at 80 loan to value.
Dave, am I reading you right by saying one should "cash out" equity occasionally, or move, to redistribute net worth, and an I/O would be your choice since my $350 savings monthly could go to other investment options?
Hi Stinkbone,
Dave, am I reading you right by saying one should "cash out" equity occasionally, or move, to redistribute net worth, and an I/O would be your choice since my $350 savings monthly could go to other investment options?
Yes... assuming that your equity has become imbalanced to the point where you are losing protection and growth to a degree that the costs of the rebalancing are justified.
Dave Donhoff
Leverage Planner
WHO HOO STINKBONE you are UGH a "RENTER"
You are RENTING the money from the bank and paying a lot more then a landlord would charge you....and now you get to mow the lawn, pay for all the repairs, taxes, insurance,and even paint it your own colors....great idea huh?
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Overlooking the reflecting pool from the Lincoln Memorial that hot Wednesday in August 1963, Martin Luther King spoke to a crowd of 200,000 and announced to the world he had a dream.
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The Presidential Administration of Barack H. Obama always looks out for the little guy. They strike him center of mass. They then back up the yuppified SUV and run him over several more times. You gotta' get the job done right to succeed in DC these days.
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Kajongg: True Mahjong at last
Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog
For as long as I've owned a computer, I've been looking for Mahjong game. Not a decent Mahjong game, but any at all. Years ago, I found a monochrome shareware game for DOS, and later I found a Windows game, but both were soon rendered unusable by developments in hardware and software. Nor did I ever find a Mahjong game that ran natively in GNU/Linux -- not, that is, until KDE released Kajongg a couple of versions ago.
I am not talking, you understand, about the matching game that masquerades as Mahjong. That is a game sometimes called Shanghai that uses Mahjong tiles, but has more in common with solitaire or patience than true Mahjong.
You can find versions of the tile-matching game in GNOME as mahjongg and in KDE as kmahjongg. However, the Mahjong that Kajongg offers is a game for four players that resembles gin rummy, with tiles in place of cards. The goal is to collect sets of tiles, usually three or four of a kind, but also rarer, more complicated sets. When all a player's tiles are in a set, the player wins. The result is a game that involves luck but also a strategic awareness of which tiles have been played, a combination that makes the game ideal for gambling.
Played for centuries around the world, Mahjong has a number of variations, most of them involving the exact number of tiles and the sets that players can make. Currently, Kajongg offers only Classical Chinese scoring rules, although it will also allow different rule sets to be added if anybody ever writes them. Similarly, in theory you could play Kajongg on a game server, but for now the only option is for a local game in which the computer plays three players.
Aside from an incongruous default Egyptian-themed wallpaper (which I quickly changed to a Chinese painting), Kajongg closely reproduces a real life game of Mahjong, with players' tiles arranged in a square and discards placed randomly in the middle. The possible moves that you can make at any time are displayed on buttons down the right side of the screen. There is even an option for exchanging comments with other players, although obviously that has no purpose in a local game against the computer.
Since KDE has long had a tile-matching game, four designs are available. However, no matter which one you choose, probably you will want to play Kajongg full-screen, since some of the tiles can be hard to read in a smaller window.
Smoothing Game Play
In general, Kajongg's game-play is reasonable, but Mahjong does have several disadvantages that neither Kajongg or any other implementation can do much to overcome. Now that I think of them, these disadvantages may explain why true Mahjong has never really caught on as a computer game.
To start with, a single hand of Mahjong is not a quick diversion while you're waiting for a friend on IRC to return to the keyboard. You need to keep alert in case you can pick up a discard, and to guess what sets other players might be trying to compete. Although you can pause the game indefinitely when your turn comes around, in general Kajongg is not a game that you can easily leave and come back to. Nor will you want to as you get into the strategy. Consequently, a complete game may take 40-80 minutes to play, depending on the luck of the tiles and how carefully you think before acting.
Not much can be done about the time Mahjong takes, but Kajongg is generally effective in speeding things up. For example, while Kajongg's artificial intelligence seems to be reasonably speedy, although each computer player can take as long as twenty seconds to make a choice, especially later in the game when the tactical options increase. The time will be even longer due to the time you have after a discard to think about picking it up -- at least, until you notice that clicking the No Claim button ends this waiting period.
Even more importantly, although some sets are easy to see, others are more obscure. As a result, you need to know the rule book unless you want to spend several minutes mulling over each move. At least for the first few games, you may want to have the online help open -- or, better yet, printed so that you can view it quickly while keeping one eye on the screen.
You might also want to heavy use of the various dialogs that explain scoring in the View menu, both during play and at the end of each hand. This information will not only help you to make your moves, but also help you to learn the sets you can build during play.
A long-awaited game
If this description sounds like Kajongg is not for everyone -- then you're right. Mahjong has an involved set of rules, and takes far longer to learn that games like Gweled or KBreakout.
However, like all of the games in the KDE 4 series, Kajongg features gorgeous visuals. Even more importantly, it does everything possible to speed game play and to help you to learn the rules.
Kajongg may not be as enjoyable as having friends over for Mahjong and drinks. Personally, too, I would enjoy it more with Hong Kong scoring, partly because those are the rules I prefer and partly because Hong Kong scoring includes more complex tile sets. Still, I confess that Kajongg has wasted more hours for me than I care to admit, and for that I am as grateful as I am guilty.
Thank you
for writing about Kajongg!
I'd wish to have know about your article sooner... (I am the author of Kajongg)
Just a few remarks:
the server option is fully implemented, this is not only theory. The only thing needed is that somebody starts the server (kajonggserver) on his computer and makes its port accessible from outside. So if you want to play against a combination of 2 robot players and myself - just tell me!
there is no option to exchange comments with other players, it is not even planned, There are so many excellent chat programs. However if you record voice files as described in the manual, the other players will hear your claims and your discards just like in a real game. This also makes it nicer to play against the computer. Preinstalling voices is planned but I would need at least 3 english speaking people to record them (hint...) (a mix of male/female would be optimal). I am native german but if needed I would speak the 4th voice.
the delay of 20 seconds for thinking is configurable - not in the general options but in the ruleset (options) because each player should use the same value within one game for fairness.
I am not sure which version you tested - I changed the default background from egyptian to light wood in September 2010
xmj (mentioned by David) has one advantage: its robot players are much more intelligent. xmj is written in C or C++ (don't remember), but Kajongg is fully written in Python - and it is not that easy to implement good AI in a slow scripting language.
Wolfgang -
KDE KMahjong
I downloaded KDE games like I do with every distro and the game there is KMahjong not the one you are talking about.
How do you install Kajongg?
Where you find it?
its not in the repos.
if its part of the KDE games, why isnt it available to download?
If you build it, they will come... BUT ONLY if you give them directions on how to find it.
Interesting article but totally useless for a semi-newbie. (I can do the kpackagekit thing and copy-paste sudo commands) -
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Whoops! Thanks for catching this. I've corrected it now. -
Mahjongg in Gnome Games
Kahlil Moonwalker Mar 02, 2011 12:18am GMT
Mahjonng is included in the Gnome Games package....
No, that's the tile-matching game that goes by the same name, not the four-person game I'm talking about. Thanks, though. -
Mahjonng is included in the Gnome Games package.... -
You could have tried xmj. Its a server and client mahjongg game which I have ben using for a couple of years now. It's included in Linux Mints repositories and can also be found here: http://mahjong.julianbradfield.org/
Hope that helps
Dave Le Huray
Guernsey -
hey, I think you lost part of a sentence at the end of the 2nd paragraph.
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The House of Spam on the Hill
But by last Friday, the trouble that started with a message sent by one Hill staffer to thousands of House of Representatives addresses had mushroomed, clogging inboxes, drawing angry accusations, and prompting mass email replies by anti-spam advocates that made the problem even worse.
"IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO LOSE WEIGHT PERMANENTLY AND YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO SEEE AN EXPERT HERE'S THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY. MY FRIEND LOSS 40 LBS. READ THIS! [sic]" wrote Cher Castillo, an aide to Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), in the original message.
But many recipients directed their complaints to all the other recipients when they hit Reply All. This further jammed the already-taxed House mail servers, creating widespread annoyance, and preventing some House offices from receiving any email at all.
One response that was particularly ill-received came from Steve Maviglio, chief of staff for Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), who -- perhaps inadvertently -- replied to everyone, lecturing them on the evils of spam and requesting that they support his boss' anti-spam legislation.
"When I first got it [the spam], I immediately reported it to House Information Resources," he said.
Then Maviglio wrote, "How would you like to receive thousands of these each day??? Our constituents do -- costing them money and invading their privacy. Stop Spam!!!!"
And then? "I hit Reply All," he said.
Maviglio said that Microsoft Exchange showed only a few dozen recipients.
Some of the recipients -- there are about 20,000 Hill email addresses, though not all were copied -- thought that Maviglio had orchestrated the original diet pill spam to promote the so-called Can Spam Act that his office is co-sponsoring.
He denies it. "All I know is that my name showed up as the first one in many emails so people thought we did it. We're creative but not that creative. Besides, it's against House rules," he said.
A sampling of the hundreds of replies he received: "Undeliverable mail." "I hate you." "Take me off your list." "Die."
Some irked Hill staffers who saw their inboxes swell last Friday with "get-me-off-this-list" replies say that a new law isn't the answer.
"People are trying to blame other people to solve problems they caused themselves," said one aide, who asked not to be identified. "They should be disciplined."
Some Congressmen joined the fray, writing that Castillo had violated House rules, and other recipients warned that the diet pills suggested in the original message should not be used to lose weight.
Ironically, if the Can Spam Act had become law -- currently no hearings are scheduled -- Maviglio could be liable for a US$25,000 fine, or "the actual monetary loss suffered by the provider as a result of the violation," whichever is larger.
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The Mutant Season #41: Trevor Valle from the La Brea Tar Pits
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Paleontologist Trevor Valle from the La Brea Tar Pits comes on the show to talk about finding fossils and bones, what the tar pits exactly are, and some really cool prehistoric animals!
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Thanks a lot for inviting me, Gil! I had a great time!
Sweet intro song, Gil! So glad you finally have one. For me It's a large part of the ritual of listening to these podcasts. The music totally transports you into the Nerdist Zone or something. (What a ridiculous thing to get this excited about- Right?!)
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