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Junior Seau's relatives to reject proposed settlement between NFL...
Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve FainaruRelatives of the former linebacker Junior Seau will reject a proposed settlement between the league and thousands of former players, a lawyer representing the family told "Outside the Lines" on Tuesday.
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New book, "League of Denial," says NFL used its resources and pow...
Don Van Natta Jr.The NFL conducted a two-decade campaign to deny a growing body of scientific research that showed a link between playing football and brain damage, according to an excerpt from a new book co-authored by a pair of ESPN investigative reporters.
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Central figure in NFL's concussion crisis appointed years ago to ...
Steve Fainaru and John BarrFor years, Dr. Elliot Pellman has been a central figure in the NFL's concussion crisis.
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Concussion probe includes Greene
Rich CiminiAn ESPN "Outside the Lines" investigation, reported by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru, provides new information on the hot-button concussion issue. It reveals how the NFL tracks, manages and describes head injuries. Jets RB Shonn Greene is me...
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NFL concussion program marked by inconsistencies, making it diffi...
Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve FainaruThree years after Congress pressured the NFL to overhaul its concussion program, the league effort remains marked by inconsistencies in how it tracks, treats and even describes serious head injuries.
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NFL taking note that for many fans, watching games on TV beats go...
Darren RovellFor an untold number of fans, the experience of watching NFL games on TV just might be better than going to games at a stadium.
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Neuropsychological testing for concussions might not be panacea
Peter KeatingImPACT sells tests and training to pro teams, colleges, high schools and sports medicine centers, but some question whether the program actually works.
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Sources: New Orleans Saints' Mickey Loomis could eavesdrop on opp...
John BarrThe U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisiana was told Friday that New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis had an electronic device in his Superdome suite re-wired to enable him to eavesdrop on visiting coaching staffs for nearly three NFL seasons.
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North Carolina prep school sells football players on second chanc...
Mike FishAn "Outside the Lines" investigation this fall has found North Carolina Tech Preparatory Christian Academy to be a unique arrangement on the post-high school athletics scene -- and one playing by its own rules.
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Video: 'Outside the Lines' on Jets' season
Tim Graham"Outside the Lines" examines the 2010 New York Jets and whether a campaign that featured such off-field turmoil yet went deep into the postseason before falling short of the Super Bowl should be viewed as acceptable. There are two three-minute vid...
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Remembering the NFL game broadcast 30 years ago without announcer...
Greg GarberWhy the Jets-Dolphins game was broadcast 30 years ago without announcers.
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Video: Jets have liability in Favre mess
Tim GrahamESPN legal analyst Lester Munson appeared on "Outside the Lines" to give his expert opinion about the ramifications facing Brett Favre and the New York Jets amid allegations surrounding the legendary quarterback and inappropriate behavior with Jets e...
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Chower rankings: Pats best, Fins worst
Tim GrahamWhen it comes to stadium food, the AFC East offers the best and the worst of it in terms of health-code violations. ESPN's "Outside the Lines" delivered an unsettling report about the food and beverages we ingest at the game. "Outside the Lines" o...
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Do New York and New Jersey sports fans eat at their own risk?
Ian BegleyOTL report on 2009 health-department inspections shows varying results for local arenas and stadiums.
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Vendor inspection reports
Paula Lavigne and Lindsay RovegnoThe complete list of stadium health inspection summaries, sorted by state
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Goodell to meet with Sen. Specter about Spygate
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., plans to call NFL commissioner Roger Goodell promptly to discuss the Spygate controversy and suggested Sunday that Senate hearings could result from his investigation.
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THE BOOKWORM SEZ: Science fiction meets romance in coming-out-of-the-ice novel
When you look back on your life, you notice that much has changed.
You've grown, matured in mind and body, formed opinions, taken knocks, bounced back and endured. You've seen the advent of the Internet, cellphones, social media and a whole new century, maybe more.
It's a world your great-grandmother barely would have recognized — and as you'll see in the new book "The Curiosity" by Stephen P. Kiernan.
Dr. Kate Philo was in over her head.
She wasn't qualified to lead the Carthage Institute's latest Arctic expedition, but she needed to work and Erastus Carthage needed a body with a Ph.D. Still, it was a relatively easy job: her team — 19 scientists, 12 crew members and one hack journalist — was searching for "candidate bergs" large enough to allow for reanimation experiments on krill and shrimp.
Then they found it: the biggest iceberg yet. Massive, it would yield thousands of feet of experimental surface. It would supply organisms for hundreds of studies.
It would contain a surprise: a human man.
Erastus Carthage had been seeking immortality for decades. From this frozen human that Philo's crew found, a man whom Carthage dubbed Subject One, he could learn how to suspend life and re-animate it at will. Everyone would clamor to know about Carthage's Lazarus Project. The whole world would want the information for which he alone had proprietary ownership.
His name was Jeremiah Rice, and he was a judge.
As he warmed and awoke, he remembered a girl with fiery hair and a woman he took for granted. He remembered that he was born on Christmas Day, 1868, and that 38 — or was it 39? — holidays had passed.
He remembered his work, and leaving home to be a ship's witness on cold waters. He recalled life and death at sea: being swept overboard, the fear, knowledge that he would never again see his wife or his daughter, the cold.
And this new world? It held wonders that a man from 1907 could only imagine. Boxes of light, flying people, speeding vehicles. Yes, life was certainly faster now.
And after awhile, so was Jeremiah.
From my description, you might think that "The Curiosity" is a work of science fiction. You might, then, be surprised to know that his page-turner is more of a gentle romance-drama than anything.
And yet, there is a lot of fictional science here, which makes it seem as though what happens in this book really could happen.
Without taking a futuristic route with his characters, Kiernan serves up plenty of believability, including a misogynistic has-been and a Mr. Burns-ish benefactor.
That makes this book a perfect read just as it is; I think, in fact, that a hard H.G. Wells treatment would've ruined what's truly a well-done Iceboy-meets-girl.
This obviously isn't your grandma's romance — it's better, and I think you'll enjoy it.
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Title: Sharpe's Birds of Paradise
Publisher: Folio Society
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover - Slipcase
Book Condition: Very Good
This book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and in-tact, and the binding tight. There is no writing and/or highlighting in the book. The slipcase and covers have no visible wear. This is a beautiful, large book with 79 vibrantly colored plates. This edition of Sharpe's Birds of Paradise has been reproduced from a copy of the first edition at The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, with digital photography by James Robinson and reprographics by Dot Gradation, Wickford, Essex. It has been printed by Appl, Wemding, Germany, on Modigliani paper. The binding by Beltz fine books, Bad Langensalza, Germany, is in Nigerian goatskin leather and canvas sides blocked with a design by Neil Gower. The edition is limited to one thousand numbered copies. This is copy number 579. Bookseller Inventory #
Book Description: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Oversize-international may require extra postage. Birds of Paradise: Monograph of the Paradiseidae or Birds of Paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-Birds. Seventy-nine color plates, Quarter-bound in goatskin leather, decorated canvas cover. 21. Bookseller Inventory # 13899


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Choosing a Conscious Vegetarian Lifestyle
Although vegetarians need to put a little more effort into cooking and meal planning, the process doesn't have to be difficult. These tips will help you get started.
- Read up on reasons why other people choose a vegetarian lifestyle.
- Research modern, Western farming practices; they may change your mind about meat.
- Here's some recipe ideas to get you cooking meatless, Whole Wheat Ravioli with Garlic Sautéed Vegetables and Tortellini Stir-Fry.
- Make a gradual change. If you like to cook, but aren't too sure about incorporating the vegetarian lifestyle, shift toward familiar foods, like tomatoes and mushrooms, then branch out.
- Ask yourself what you enjoy eating. Consider various non-meat ways of getting protein in your diet (dairy; beans; tofu, gluten and seitan; and so on). Concentrate on a balance between protein-rich and other foods, and build meals that celebrate that balance.
- Discover tofu. It can be prepared in a number of appetizing ways - grilled, sautéed, smoked, marinated.
- Remember, it's okay to have people over for a vegetarian dinner party. Jimmy Carter did it. Host a non-meat meal.
- Cook with variety in mind, but don't worry about constant variation. Your meal need not be wild and adventurous - just simple and inclusive of comfortable vegetables.
- Remember it takes a little more effort to cook vegetarian: while it's easy to broil a steak and call it dinner, it's more difficult to broil carrots and do the same. Take the time to discover the spices, combinations of ingredients, and cooking methods that will make your meals satisfying to you.
- Take the efforts from one preparation and translate them into another. Plan out what to do with leftovers. If you've grilled a variety of vegetables, consider how they could be incorporated into a stew, sandwich or salad the next day.
- Pick up gardening! A window box of herbs is a great start and yields amazing results.
- Create a compost pile. Give back to the soil; recognize and celebrate the cycle.
- Buy as much organic produce as possible. It may be expensive, but it's worth it. You are guaranteed freshness and are supporting environmentally friendly farming procedures.
- Take pleasure in shopping for ingredients. Bask in the beauty of produce even if you don't buy it.
- Vegetarian dishes tend to take a fair amount of chopping. Be organized. Avoid frustration by doing prep work ahead of time.


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Tigers Owls draw a blank
Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday shared the spoils after a goalless draw at Hillsborough. The draw maintains Hull's unbeaten start in their pre-season fixtures so far this summer. Caleb Folan missed a good opening for Hull on 26 minutes when unmarked inside the box he headed Craig Fagan's cross wide. The best chance of the half fell to Wednesday when Leon Clarke ran clear onto Marcus Tudgay's flick-on, but Hull keeper Matt Duke kept out the striker. Both sides had chances to win it late on when Kamil Zayatte cleared Akpo Sodje's deflected shot from under his own crossbar. Hull substitute Will Atkinson saw his effort kicked off the line in the closing stages as both sides had to settle for a draw.
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Forward Mo Bangura has left Celtic for Elfsborg on loan ahead of the 2013 Swedish season.
The Sierra Leone international came to Scotland in 2011 for about £2m from AIK in August 2011 but he has not featured regularly for Neil Lennon's team and has failed to score in 13 competitive appearances .
He returned to AIK on loan last year and enjoyed some success in the Allsvenskan but failed to force his way into Celtic's starting line-up when he came back last month, despite finding the net against Steaua Bucharest in a friendly.
He will now join one of AIK's rivals ahead of the start of the Swedish season, which gets underway in March.
The 23-year-old told Elfsborg's official website that he first heard of a possible transfer on Wednesday, but that the clubs involved had been in contact before that.


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There is a great divide in the United States. Land in the East is mostly privately owned, while nearly half of the land in the West is owned by the federal government. As several states consider a lands transfer, a new PERC Public Lands Report compares state and federal land management in the West...
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The Park Service wants another large buffalo herd in the Great Plains, which would advance the Department of the Interior's Bison Conservation Initiative. In what may be a huge opportunity for the Oglala Sioux, a Tribal National Park is emerging in South Dakota—the first of its kind.
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PERC's new Policy Perspective explains how the government keeps tribes from developing their natural resources.
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With less than a foot of rainfall each year, the Mojave Desert is not an obvious place to look for water. Reed Watson explores an innovative proposal to pump groundwater from the Mojave and move it to nearby Southern California municipalities.
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In this case study, Reed Watson explores what the Scott River Water Trust is, how it works, and why others should be taking notice.
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The Endangered Species Act is expensive and ineffective in its reactive approach to conservation. Laura Huggins explores an alternative system of incentives for environmental stewardship prior to regulatory listing.
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Park agencies are partnering with private companies to keep parks open, well maintained, and generate a return for taxpayers.
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In this PERC Case Study, Sierra Crane-Murdoch explores the challenges facing a tribe atop the nation's biggest oil play. While mineral owners off the reservation have earned thousands of dollars for each acre leased, most allottees within have earned only a few hundred.
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Exact Sciences' Scientific Poster Presented At American Association For Cancer Research Meeting
Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) this afternoon presented a scientific poster at the International Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. A copy of the poster, titled "An Optimized Molecular Stool Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening: Evaluation of an Automated Analytic Platform and Logistic Algorithm," can be found at investor.exactsciences.com.
The study that generated the data presented today included 1,003 patients at 36 study centers. Among the study population, there were 93 cases of colorectal cancer, 114 cases of advanced pre-cancers and 796 controls.
"We are very pleased with the performance of our noninvasive, stool DNA-based colorectal cancer screening test in this latest validation study," said Kevin T. Conroy, president and chief executive of Exact Sciences. "At a nominal specificity of 90 percent, the test achieved sensitivity of 98 percent in the detection of cancer and 83 percent in the detection of high-grade dysplasia cases, the majority of which progress to cancer. The test demonstrated 57 percent sensitivity in the detection of advanced pre-cancers equal to or larger than 1 centimeter. The test's sensitivity increased with the pre-cancers' size, rising to 83 percent for pre-cancers larger than 3 centimeters. The study was conducted using the automation platform that will be used in the DeeP-C pivotal study and will be part of our FDA submission."
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Exact Sciences Corp. is a molecular diagnostics company focused on colorectal cancer. The company has developed a proprietary, multi-target, stool-DNA colorectal cancer screening test that runs on an automated testing platform. It is conducting a clinical trial called the DeeP-C study that has enrolled more than 10,000 patients and includes both the test and the automation platform. Stool-based DNA technology is included in the colorectal cancer screening guidelines of the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.exactsciences.com. Certain statements made in this news release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are intended to be covered by the "safe harbor" created by those sections. Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe our future plans, strategies and expectations, can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terms such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "should," "could," "seek," "intend," "plan," "estimate," "anticipate" or other comparable terms. Forward-looking statements in this news release may address the following subjects among others: statements regarding the sufficiency of our capital resources, expected operating losses, anticipated results of our pivotal clinical trial, expectations concerning our ability to secure FDA approval of our Cologuard test, expected license fee revenues, expected research and development expenses, expected general and administrative expenses and our expectations concerning our business strategy. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, as a result of various factors including those risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We urge you to consider those risks and uncertainties in evaluating our forward-looking statements. We caution readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, we disclaim any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained herein (or elsewhere) to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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I've been delaying posting in this thread because of time constraints and wanting to make a decent post about it. My thoughts on an ammo system for Xerath: I'm actually quite afraid of moving Xerath's ult to an ammo system. In order to balance out the fact that Xerath can pop you with an ult charge almost whenever he wants, you would need to reduce something it does now, ie range/damage/number of max charges. One thing I do like that the ammo system solves is Xerath feeling like a limp noodle whenever his ult is on cooldown. It would allow you to get an EQR combo off and harass your opponents more than once every 60 seconds (which to be fair is super short). In regards to giving Xerath more poke via ammo system: I actually don't think he's deficient at poking right now. Once you get your Q/W leveled up you can rattle off long range poke constantly. I think the usability of his W and passive need to be addressed before his ultimate. Disclaimer: These are my personal thoughts.
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Seems legit.
But wouldn't you agree that Xerath is on the weak side of champs right now? Why would you want to scale back something? That constant threat would make him very strong in this meta. Constant long range threat has amazing possibilities.
Yeah free armor is great, but on a champion who shouldn't get in close it doesn't make sense.
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Xerath ult needs to be made into what Kog's ult is. A long range poke with a ramping mana cost. His entire kit is supposed to be about artillery bombardment, and yet, his ultimate ability catches none of that feeling.
Xerath is very underwhelming right now. I agree that his passive is horrible for a caster.


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Latest Bad Rap Zaps WAP.
WAP doesn't work, says Nielsen NormanAfter a year of lawsuits, updates, and upgrades to the much-vaunted Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) standard, a new research report paints a starkly depressing picture of the specification's usability, reliability, and technological sophistication. Its conclusion, that WAP will not be a viable technology in the wireless market anytime soon, should sound a clear warning to computer professionals thinking about developing or implementing products based on the WAP standard.
The report, "WAP Usability Deja Vu: 1994 All Over Again" was written in December by Marc Ramsay and Jakob Nielsen of influential industry research firm Nielsen Norman Group. It is particularly startling because it studied WAP not in the United States, where WAP phones and service are just beginning to be deployed, but in London, where mobile WAP services have been in development and deployed for a year. This is also one of the first reports on WAP testing "in the field". The opening page of the research report makes plain its conclusion: WAP doesn't work.
The authors state that in terms of the most basic usability, WAP is a failure. Even the simplest tasks, such as retrieving a world news headline from a built-in WAP-based portal, take much too long (more than a minute and sometimes nearly two) to be satisfactory. (The authors surveyed a number of Internet experts--before showing them the data--which stated that a wait of 30 seconds was a reasonable amount of time to obtain such information). The time lag is especially irritating because most users of WAP service pay by the minute. It should be said that per-minute plants would probably eventually be eliminated as service providers move to include WAP airtime minutes, but such plans are limited to non-existent today.
A separate issue the authors tackle is the design of WAP-based Web sites themselves. Their conclusion: Web sites that are supposedly designed to be displayed on WAP phones are virtually useless. The usability of WAP services, the authors say, is "severely reduced because of a misguided use of design principles from previous media, especially principles of Web design."
The title of the report, "Deja Vu: 1994 All Over Again", refers to the state of the regular Internet in 1994, when the authors did a usability study of the early Web. They find that many of the same problems with WAP-enabled phones plagued the early World Wide Web: inability to connect to services, service outages and software crashes, incomprehensible error messages, poor wording and menu choices, and jargon-filled "newspeak" that confused users. Some (though by no means all) of these problems were ironed out a few years after the Web was introduced; the authors hope that this will be the case with WAP.
But one of their conclusions leads a reader to believe that WAP in 2001 may be very different from the Web in 1994, and in a disturbing way: the report states that the learning curve for WAP technology is nearly flat. That is to say, unlike virtually every successful new technology that has been introduced, users of WAP technology do not show a marked improvement in their ability to use the service over time. This lack of progress is highly unusual, and deserves examination.
WAP Facts
WAP is a protocol that is designed to display Web-based information (primarily text, at least today) on wireless devices; today it is used mainly on mobile phones. WAP supports a programming language called Wireless Markup Language (WML), which is based on HTML. As such, WAP and WML are designed to be optimized for phones in a number of ways: low bandwidth, low power consumption, support for small screen size, low latency (more on this below), and universal connectivity (multiple locations). WAP and WML are also designed to be easily personalized, since users don't have the time, battery power, or screen real estate to view information that is not pertinent to them specifically. WAP phones themselves are designed to be simple and easy to use. They use microbrowsers (in the study's case, both were WAP 1.1 compliant) to view and manipulate content.
Interestingly, the report states that the two most widely used WAP phones, which were the phones used in the study (the Ericsson R320s and the Nokia 7110e), are well designed and had little to do with WAP's deficiencies. The authors note that this is good news for phone makers but not for WAP developers; it means that WAP problems cannot be solved simply with a phone redesign. In a depressingly comic aside that says much about WAP as a mobile phone-based technology, the report says that "the main problem with the WAP phones was not their design but the very fact that they are telephones."
The report goes on to note what many observers (including this one) have been saying for some time: WAP is simply unsuited to mobile phones, with their miniscule screen size and lack of direct manipulation of data choices (such as with a stylus). WAP on a PDA is likely to offer a somewhat more rewarding experience.
WAP Service Usability
The vast majority of users in the study had a very negative impression of WAP. The most disliked feature of WAP, not surprisingly, was the slow throughput of data (Figure 1). Users also complained about the lack of depth and the uneven quality of the data itself. Even when reporting on the feature that most liked best--the ability to get news headlines--users were still unhappy with the quality of the data they got. In addition, users noticed very little differentiation of services; that is, information from very different sources looked and sounded the same. The report noted that this is probably due to the constraints on data size in WAP--headlines tend to sound the same when a limited number of works can be used. The phenomenon is completely contrary to the Web, where the same information can be packaged in any number of unique and interesting ways.
In addition to poor throughput, the report states that users consistently experienced an inability to connect to sites, and experienced numerous, repeated dropped connections. Even when users were able to complete a specific task, it often took multiple tries, which resulted in significant frustration. Users also encountered server errors, time-outs while waiting for downloads, and long delays while information loaded, only to then result in zero data. Figure 2 illustrates the various tasks users were asked to perform and their success rates and times. Because WAP is a circuit-switched technology, it is not always on. When a different site is requested, the phone must reconnect each time (the phone dials a phone number that brings up the site.) Nielsen likens the painfully slow connection process to a modem that has to dial and re-negotiate every time a new Web site is requested.
The report also makes clear that WAP has a long, long way to go to replicate many of the most basic tasks that Web suffers take for granted. For instance, using a browser's "back" button is second nature for most people, and is a critical Web browsing function, since it's easy to go down the wrong path in search of information. Ramsey and Nielsen found that the "back" command on WAP phones was a disaster. Often, previous page information was not cached, as it is on a PC, so users had to take the time to re-connect to a WAP server to retrace their steps (and connecting, as noted, was unreliable). In other cases, because of memory limitations, users could only go back a few pages before their page history was lost, forcing them to start over.
Users also had major trouble searching; many even had trouble locating a search engine at all, though six WAP-enabled search engines were on the Web when the report was written. Search results were difficult to navigate, and often even the most common of terms came back with virtually zero hits. (One user searched for "cat" and got one hit.) But again, more sites and better search engines are likely to be available as WAP catches on. The real problem was the time it took for searches to be completed: many minutes, sometimes with dropped connections. Weather forecasts presented a similar problem. Even after a week of using the WAP phones, only 30 percent of users were able to get reports of the evening weather in their areas. Travel information, theoretically a potential goldmine for both WAP users and service providers, brought yet another failure. The majority of users (65 percent) were unable to find any travel information at all. Five out of twenty users found some travel-related information, but it took' three to four minutes on average to find it.
Much has been written about WAP's ability to enable financial transactions on wireless devices. Ramsey and Nielsen asked their users to perform some very basic finance-related operations. Predictably, users failed miserably. Forget about buying and selling stocks; users were often unable to reliably get even a single stock quote, much less any in-depth financial information. One user spent more than two minutes trying to get a single quote, even though he had already bookmarked the page and had been using the WAP phone for four days. Another was repeatedly foiled by server errors. (Keep in mind also that all users were paying per-minute charges for the use of WAP services.)
Hardware Problems
While users surveyed in the study had few major complaints about the phones they were given, one question brought telling responses. When asked if "the phone's limited screen size would prevent you from using WAP in the future?" the vast majority of users either agreed or strongly agreed. These responses lead one to question the potential for success of any WAP telephone at all, since screen sizes are severely limited and not likely to get much larger--at least in a mobile phone form factor. This suggests that developers might be better off concentrating their energies on PDAs and other devices with larger footprints and screens.
Unfortunately, the survey offers little when it comes to explaining the reasons behind the low levels of satisfaction with WAP in Britain. For example, we do not know if dropped connections were due to gateway server failures or interference, or to poorly configured WML data or WML servers on the Internet. We also don't know if the lack of page caching was due to lack of phone memory, bad phone design, lack of capability of the gateway server (where data is suppose to be cached) or some combination. Ramsey and Nielsen studied only two WAP service providers in the U.K., BT Cellnet and Orange. Vodaphone, the biggest network operator, was re-organizing at the time. One would have liked to see statistics from users of Vodaphone and other services.
When asked why WAP was so difficult for his research subjects to use, Nielsen is blunt: "I don't know the technical reasons, but the problems with WAP are pervasive and fundamental," he says. "Getting information using a WAP phone is so difficult to do, everyone who does it fails." Nielsen believes that WAP is an example of a "placeholder" technology, but one that has taken so long to develop that its usefulness is sorely limited. "WAP was designed to access content on impoverished devices. But with much more advanced devices now arriving, it is too little too late," Nielsen offers. "WAP may work in two years, but by then, we will have .better systems and services in place."
WAP Or i-mode?
The report concludes: with a credible warning to those who believe that WAP is the future of wireless data access in the U.S. That warning comes in the form of i-mode, a wireless data network operated by Japan's (government-owned) telephone giant NTT DoCoMo. i-mode boasts nearly ten million users, fatter bandwidth, and a much more highly developed wireless infrastructure, including a broader range of content, better content navigation, and more reliable data delivery. But more to the point, DoCoMo is seeking to expand i-mode service, and its sights are set on Europe and the United States, markets whose potential user bases dwarf Japan's.
It should be noted that i-mode is a proprietary service, and it uses a proprietary programming language called compact HTML, or cHTML. i-mode may have difficulty succeeding in the U.S., where the market is generally unfavorable to proprietary technologies. But DoCoMo is undaunted: The company has made strategic investments and signed joint venture, agreements with several European phone companies, and it recently purchased ISP Verio Communications in the United States. DoCoMo also recently signed a deal with AT&T Wireless to take a l0-20 percent stake in that company's mobile operations. DoCoMo is also negotiating a potential investment in Cingular, a wireless joint venture between BellSouth and SBC Communications.
Nielsen believes that i-mode is simply a much better wireless technology; one good reason is that it's packet-switched. And, once i-mode is deployed by a major U.S. carrier--probably AT&T--WAP will be a sitting duck. "i-mode has very low latency, and it is simple to use," Nielson notes. "I think AT&T will use it to gain marketshare. i-mode is far superior to WAP in terms of usability."
When attempting to determine the chances of WAP's success in the U.S. market, it's crucial to remember that the standard has been deployed in the U.K. for a year, and it still doesn't work as promised. This means that, in all likelihood, it will be early 2002--if not later--before the technology is viable here. Part of the problem, and an issue that the Nielsen Norman report touches on, is that the WAP Forum and its member companies have marketed WAP as the Internet made wireless. Nielsen and Ramsey believe this has been (and continues to be) a serious strategic error. WAP, in fact, is nothing like the Internet. It is more akin to alphanumeric paging and Short Messaging Service--except significantly less reliable.
Nevertheless, it's clear that with almost 500 companies behind it, there's just no stopping WAP now. But thus far, most of WAP's praises have been sung by these companies, not by users. As the Nielsen Norman report indicates, WAP has a long way to go before service levels rise to meet the high expectations created by its marketing machine.
Fig 2 Successful Minimum Maximum TASK users (% of time time total users) (secs) (secs) Time taken to find world headlines 20 (100%) 36.00 189.00 from home portal Time taken to find world headlines 17 (85%) 25.00 158.00 from home portal one week later Time taken to find world headlines 19 (95%) 30.00 126.00 from different portal Time taken to find world headlines 18 (90%) 35.00 280.00 from different portal one week later Time taken to find headlines from 19 (95%) 26.0 96.0 Guardian Time taken to find headlines from 19 (95%) 24.0 177.0 Guardian one week later Time taken to find local evening 18 (90%) 54.0 299.0 weather forecast Time taken to find local evening 14 (70%) 49.0 270.0 weather forecast one week later Time taken to find a TV program 20 (100%) 82.0 242.0 Time taken to find a TV program 17 (85%) 51.0 186.0 one week later Looking for a local restaurant 16 (80%) 68.0 278.0 Looking for local travel information 7 (35%) 39.0 262.0 Looking for a sports result 17 (85%) 30.0 230.0 Mean TASK time (secs) Time taken to find world headlines 76.3 from home portal Time taken to find world headlines 63.5 from home portal one week later Time taken to find world headlines 65.2 from different portal Time taken to find world headlines 113.9 from different portal one week later Time taken to find headlines from 52.8 Guardian Time taken to find headlines from 46.5 Guardian one week later Time taken to find local evening 164.3 weather forecast Time taken to find local evening 114.9 weather forecast one week later Time taken to find a TV program 158.6 Time taken to find a TV program 97.1 one week later Looking for a local restaurant 137.9 Looking for local travel information 152.3 Looking for a sports result 106.5 Various tasks and their completion times using WAP-enabled phones Source: Nielsen Norman Group
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CAO Criollo Pato
"everyday favorite"
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The C.A.O. Criollo is now my everyday go to cigar. Crisp tobacco flavor and a creamy mildly sweet spice that keeps me smacking my lips. This cigar never lets you down. Consistent from stick to stick.... a real winner. The Famous price is unbeatable so if you haven't tried them now is the time. Enjoy.
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This cigar was an absolute winner! I enjoyed this cigar with a glass of Dona Antonia Reserva port after a T-Bone steak dinner. This Criollo was my first CAO cigar and it did not dissapoint. I cannot wait to sample the the other cigars in the CAO lineup. The Criollo is a very close cousin to some of the better Cubans that I have enjoyed (being Canadian I can do so regularly) and if you gave me my choice I would take the Criollo all week long and twice on Sunday:)
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Good draw, looks and feels good too. The burn was okay had to relight in order to get a consistent burn. Also didn't leave a bad aftertaste. Good flavor. Definitely leave on my list of favorites.
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CAO Criollo Pato
Another great cigar from CAO.It had a nice burn from start to end w/o requiring a touch up.Complex flavor with almost a woodsy, leather overtones. I loved it !!
Quaker in Reading, Pa January 23, 2010
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CAO Criollo Mancha
The Pato was a very pleasant stogie for a relative beginner like myself. The draw and burn were a little tough, but the flavor and construction were very nice. Kind of a nutty, chocolate taste, very smooth. Looks pretty slick in the humidor too.
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CAO Criollo Pampas (5)
Well this is definately not the cigar Id hoped it would be as it was soft, the draw was mediocre, and the flavor was weak at best. I figured that this cigar would be bold and robust as the description leads you to believe but Its flavor was vaguely cedary. For the price, Id suggest Hoyo De Monteray's Dark Sumatra over this anyday.
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CAO Criollo Pato
After ordering these cigars, I love the peppery spicy taste the smoke has a good smell. When I order stogies in the mail I keep them in the humidor for some time, the draw on my second one was little too easy and felt like I was sucking a straw.The burn was little uneven, has a nice white ash. But for me just starting in cigar smoking it was good. I would recommend to my friend about these.
Phil in Hobbs NM June 29, 2009
CAO Criollo Conquistador
WOW!! I had the torpedo shaped criollo and it was so hard to smoke I didn't enjoy it. I decided to try a different shape. These sticks are great. Wonderfull flavor, great amount of smoke, solid construction, and a great burn. I found a close out deal on them at JR and bought the last two boxes they had for 40$ each. Felt like I was stealing. You can't go wrong with CAO. I plant to try the rest of the Crillo line to see if the other cigars smoke as well. I would like to find one thats a bit longer so i can enjoy a longer smoke.
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CAO Criollo Conquistador
I bought a 5 pack of these to try. I don't really know how they tasted. I had to work so hard to smoke them i didnt get to enjoy them. I don't know if it was just the box they were from or what. They did not feel overly hard. Each stick was an extremely hard draw and hard to keep lit. I am going to try a 5 of a different shape and hope they are better
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I've had 5 of these from the same shop. 2 of them were perfect. In fact, some of the best smokes I've ever had. Sadly, 3 of them were terrible. Wrapper started peeling off right away, flavor was foul, and wouldn't burn right. Makes it hard to rate this cigar, because the 2 good ones were GREAT. One thing is for sure: I'll never gamble on buying an entire box of these.
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TakaraTomy tweets Encore Twincast, Nightstalker, Stripes Photo
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:22 AM
Twincast has a tampographed Autobot symbol on his chest and some red stickers/paint underneath the upper thigh stickers he usually has. This makes me wonder if they used the Blaster door or smoothed away the techno-details on Twincast's chest to place the symbol (or just painted over it like with Encore Convoy)? It looks completely smooth (so either it's Blaster's or they changed the mold on Twincast).
Nightstalker looks as originally depicted but Stripes is very much a normal orange and not the dark orange you get when Photoshopping black into orange.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:01 AM
I wonder how well he'll sell, considering the e-Hobby release never seemed to sell for much on the secondary market (last I checked anyways).
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:31 AM
Obviously the big draw is Nightstalker and Stripes, so naturally it's Stripes we don't get a good look at here. Still, tapes tapes tapes.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:46 AM
I have a hard time figuring out why I've never been fond of the Twincast deco. It's weird for me because I love Blaster and Blue and grey are usually two of my favorite colors on TFs. I think it's something about how the bright yellow and red don't fit with blue and grey well. He makes me think of McDonalds for some reason. I don't know...
-ZacWilliam, an well, he makes a nice accessory for Nightstalker and Stripes I guess, who are the real reason to want the set...
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 01:50 PM
Posted 22 February 2012 - 02:09 PM
I'm just waiting for a better image of Stripes. He's pretty much the main reason I have this set on order
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 12:42 AM
This modified art is the one used on the character card shown on Encore Twincast's TakaraTomy page when it first went up. I'm surprised you didn't pick up this detail, Randy.
And sorry to disappoint, but Encore Soundblaster still got the red chest. But hey, the toy photos on the boxes show that both Twincast and Soundblaster have anime-accurate faces:
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 01:09 AM
Does anyone know if anybody repro's the weapons on these buggers? I know that chrome won't last forever...I'd like to have some back up weapons, but that's expensive to go the real route.
edit - Damn! Was really hoping for the purple chest on Soundblaster...just looks sharper. Oh well, I understand the decision since the cassettes still have those stickers. Glad to see Wingthing got painted eyes and they didn't over-homage the Action Master. The faces are a nice touch tho...
Not sure on Twincast. Trying to resist!!!!!!
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When does a puppies full adult coat color come in? Berlin is still getting more red as time goes on ( he's about 7 months). I guess for the west German show lines, when do they stop getting more red? (Not that I have a problem with it!) he also is mostly black on his back still. Will it stay that way? Will his mask on his face darken?
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Prickly pear cactus fruits yield than just a colorful margarita mixer -- they're nutritious and have a unique taste. Both the pads and fruit of these cacti are a Sonoran Desert staple so popular they have been exported worldwide. Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the place to learn about desert plants and their useful properties -- be here Valentines Day Saturday February 14 to learn more from our special guest tourguide: David Morris.
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The Bodog betting website posted Grey Cup odds on Nov. 19, four days before the CFL division finals, and the Calgary Stampeders were the heavy favourites. The odds of the Stampeders winning the Cup were 1-1, followed by the Edmonton Eskimos (7-2), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (9-2) and the Alouettes, who were at 4-1 odds. The Alouettes have […]
"I've lost two crucial games to Hamilton. For me, it's personal," the Alouettes receiver says. "I want to beat them. I don't like them. They're stopping me from going where I need to go."
The Als' swarming defence taught QB Kevin Glenn and the Lions a lesson in the division semifinal, putting a 50-17 spanking on the visitors before a season-low crowd of 15,107.
Monday, Oct. 20 A new temporary Nuns' Island bridge opens to traffic. Home daycare workers throughout the province go on a one-day strike. Hearings begin on Quebec's controversial health care reform bill. The Quebec government inaugurates a new segment of Highway 5 in the Gatineau region. Westmount's Eugenie Bouchard is one of the Top 8 […]
The Alouettes aren't out of the woods yet. While they've won six of their last seven games and technically sit first in the East Division, they've yet to secure a playoff berth.
There are not enough words, it seems, enough adjectives and superlatives to describe the Alouettes' defence of late.
This season has been all about the Alouettes' defence. So why would it have been any different in Montreal's most-important game of the year?
For everyone on the outside wondering why Chad Johnson continues starting for the Alouettes despite his lack of production — and why Kenny Stafford has not — they're about to get their wish.
Are you a Vidéotron subscriber who was frustrated because you couldn't find the 49ers-Rams game on Monday Night Football?
It will live there, some would say in infamy, on the ninth page of this season's Alouettes media guide — the full-page colour photo of a very serious-looking Troy Smith, clutching a football, dressed in full uniform, standing on the 30-yard line.
The Alouettes — much like Toronto and Hamilton — must win three of their remaining four games.
Fans are trying to find out where they can be found on TV
The Alouettes were losing the battle of field position and their offence appeared stagnant. Anthony Allen had 79 yards rushing after only one quarter and Saskatchewan was nursing a 7-0 lead.
How might history been altered, fates changed and careers defined had the Saskatchewan Roughriders not had 13 men on the field for what should have been the final play of the 2009 Grey Cup?
There was no way the Alouettes were going to lose on the day devoted to Anthony Calvillo.
As much as every professional athlete wants to play, he'll claim opportunity shouldn't come at the expense of another who has been injured. Otherwise, he comes across as being selfish, and not a team player.
Certainly it'll come as no surprise to learn Anthony Calvillo still has the Midas touch. Who else but the Alouettes' former legendary quarterback — professional football's career passing leader — could nab a parking spot in downtown Montreal one recent morning mere steps from the organization's business office for an appointment?
Something's not right with the Alouettes' veteran slotback S.J. Green.
Slightly more than a week ago, Marc-Olivier Brouillette said he felt old at age 28. But now, following a bye week in the schedule, the Alouettes' safety said he feels young and rejuvenated again.
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For the past decade, the company's critical challenge has been providing cellular coverage to places that lack even the most basic services, such as running water and electricity. Running power to rural cell towers was expensive and cable theft was rampant. To reach the rural customer, Vodafone planted generator-supported towers throughout the African countryside. The new tower sites reduced grid dependency, but also increased operational costs to ensure the reliability.
Around 2009, the concerns over energy security were also met with concerns over environmental degradation, or dramatically changing climates. Gasoline prices increased and soon Vodafone faced rapidly increasing costs to support reliability to its least paying customers, rural villagers. Additionally, Vodafone was under fire for excessive CO2 emissions from the gasoline generators powering those rural towers.
Vodafone was forced to "design for real needs". Hybrid green sites have emerged as the solution. The project was taken on internally by the Cost Reduction team; the "Green Technology Program" aims to implement diesel hybrid sites, solar power, fuel cell technology, along with new methods of cooling and storing battery power. The results will reduce operational costs, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and further improve service reliability. Today, the hybrid powered sites stand in Kenya, the DRC, Mozambique, Lesotho, Tanzania, and South Africa. There are only a handful of towers operational, but the results are promising.


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Marvel Entertainment has released (via IGN) a new batch of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. videos with a look behind the scenes and clips from the pilot. Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. stars Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Brett Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, J. August Richards and Cobie Smulders.
Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent Phil Coulson from Marvel's feature films as he assembles a small, highly select group of Agents from the worldwide law-enforcement organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D. Together they investigate the new, the strange, and the unknown across the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary. Coulson's team consists of Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage, Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) expert pilot and martial artist, Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker); brilliant engineer and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge) genius bio-chemist. Joining them on their journey into mystery is new recruit and computer hacker Skye (Chloe Bennet). Release: September 24th, 2013 (ABC)
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Reid: Valedictorian, soccer scholarship, corn-fed but still a size zero. I think that you might've been a mean girl.
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Reid: Guys like me? I'll have you know that my social standing started improving once I started winning at basketball.
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Two days ago, I wrote of a countdown appearing on the elementary OS website. Tonight, the countdown ended, and we finally got to know what it was all about. As many of us, including myself, were suspecting, we were counting down to the release of elementary OS Luna.
"Why is this special?", you might ask. Well, as opposed to some other distributions, this single release took several years to complete, because the developers wouldn't settle for anything less than perfection. No six month release cycle where the ISO's have to be released no matter how unstable they are. Whenever you'd ask the elementary developers when Luna would be released, you'd always get the same answer: "When it's ready."
And the waiting has paid off, in my opinion.
elementary OS is an extremely polished and well-optimised experience. Rather than shipping whichever applications are the most popular at the time, instead they chose to develop their core applications themselves. As a result, they perfectly match the look and feel of the rest of the operating system, and are equally well-optimised.
For the full story on how elementary OS Luna came into existence, head over to their blog. Or if you'd rather just download the ISO and try it out for yourself, it can be found on their home page. I suggest you consider throwing a few coins their way. In my opinion it's the only Linux distribution that has differentiated itself enough, yet without giving up its core philosophy in the process, to justify asking for money. But, by all means, judge for yourself. Because as always, it's beautiful, speedy, open and free.
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First of all - Thanks to everyone that added Snow Leopard to their favourites and thanks to all of my new watchers (as of writing this journal and since uploading Snow Leopard, there have been 281 of you!)
I've had quite a few questions lately as to how I do my photomanipulations. I'm self-taught and my methods have been developed completely out of trial and error. They may not be the best or most efficient ways to get to the end result, but they've served me well so far. I don't really have a proper tutorial, but here's a super quick and nasty ten step guide I chucked together of how I create my photomanips (I use Adobe Photoshop CS5.5):
Step 1:
Get a photo of someone you want to manipulate and once you have that, start looking through the stock photos and photography sections for a photo of an animal, but make sure that the lighting conditions and angle that the photo is taken at are similar in both photos. You may need to use more than one photo and take elements of each for different areas of the face/body. Always make sure you read the rules for the stock photos or get permission if the photo isn't stock photography and ALWAYS give credit to your sources.
Step 2:
Copy the animal's face onto the model's face and lower the opacity of the layer
Step 3:
Use 'Free Transform' tool to resize and rotate the animal's face to fit the model's face better and use the liquify tool to make finer adjustments.
Step 4:
At this point you may want to duplicate the layer of the model and smooth out their face (essentially make her face flat as if they don't have a nose). The patch tool is handy for this, but simply using the eyedropper and painting in the face works just as well. I sometimes smooth out the upper lip too. This is also a good place to start when applying shading for a muzzle if you plan on putting a muzzle on the model.
Step 5:
If the fur of the animal looks blurry, try running the sharpness tool over it, then use the smudge tool using a size approximately the same width as the larger strands/clumps of fur and smudge out the sharpness a bit. Play around with the strength of the smudge tool (I find 50-70% to be good).
Step 6:
Change the blending option for the layer that has the animal face. You may want to use multiply to darken the face. You may find it useful to duplicate the animal layer and play around with different combinations of opacity and blending options (for example, in the Snow Leopard manip, I duplicated the snow leopard photo. The first one used 'Multiply' at 66% opacity and the second used 'Soft Light' at 39% opacity)
Step 7:
Tidy up the picture, use the eraser tool to clean up any left over backgrounds from the animal photo. Use the dodge and burn tools to lighten and darken areas as required. Pay attention to lighting and add shadows and highlights as required.
Step 8:
You may need to paint in fur to make the image more consistent. I don't think I've had a single photomanip where I haven't had to paint in some fur. Start off with a base colour, and then add darker and lighter layers. I personally like to use different layers for each colour of fur that I add. To draw the fur, I just use the dune grass brush, though there are far better ones around if you just do a search here in dA. You may find it useful to set the brush to paint in the direction/angle of the mouse strokes (you can set this in the brush settings).
Step 9:
Paint the lips/eyes/ears/teeth on separate layers as required
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If the colour/saturation in any part of your photomanipulation doesn't quite match up with other areas, use adjustment layers to get them blending in better with the other layers. This is usually necessary if you're working with several different photos. I like to use the Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to modify the colours. If you add the clipping mask to the previous layer, it will apply the adjustments to that layer only. If you don't add the clipping mask, the adjustment will affect all the layers.
I also recommend checking out these helpful tutorials:
hitsuji16 - fav.me/d52bwhv
pythos-cheetah - pythos-cheetah.deviantart.com/…
Toledo-the-Horse - khedvu.deviantart.com/art/Mani… (includes a full video)
shakealicious - shakealicious.deviantart.com/a… (Part 1) and shakealicious.deviantart.com/a… (Part 2)
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Howdy! A friend of mine asked me about iPhone's camera capability, and to which extent the camera can be used manually.
There are many differences between the different iPhone models, especially if we start considering them from, let's say, the 4th gen onwards. Of course camera got better and better with time, and Apple wisely stayed away from the Megapixels war.
As this post is for amateur/pro photographers, I won't explain why the megapixels in a camera are important up to a point, and why the sensor is much more important; I will instead focus on what manual features software (Apps) can enable on iPhones.
If you have an iPhone which supports iOS8 (so, from the 4S onwards), then there is already a AE/AF lock, and a manual slider to adjust exposure. Here are the infos to do so:
1. Launch the Camera app like you normally would to take a photo.
2. Press and hold on your focal point until you see an AE/AF Lock banner appear at the top of the screen. The image will stay locked to that particular point you've selected.
3. If you slide (anywhere on screen) your finger up/down, you will be able to adjust exposure.
And that's it! Simple as that. Now, to obtain a more manual experience, you will need a dedicated App. Oh, and before you go looking for it; iPhone lenses are fixed-aperture by design and do not have an adjustable iris (yet!).
Personally, I like those two apps:
Manual - This is a paid app, around 2 bucks. This will give you the ability to control the following:
• Shutter
• White Balance
• Focus
• Exposure Compensation
It also has a few perks, like:
• Live monitor automatic exposure values
• Live Histogram
• Photos save directly to Camera Roll
• Fill Flash (Flashlight) Mode
• Grid Overlays (Rule of Thirds, Square)
• Light & Dark Themes
• EXIF viewer
VSCO Cam - This is a free app. It gives probably less manual options, but you will still be able to control: Focus, Exposure, White Balance, shutter speed. It also has some nice presets which will make your Instagram pics look much better.
There are other Apps, like Camera+ or PROCam, but honestly the stock camera App in the iPhone is powerful enough for my point-and-shoot needs, with great image editing features, and Manual takes care of my more artistic needs when I don't have my DSLR with me.
And as a lot of photographers know, the best camera is the one you have with you.


text: 1Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Postfach 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany 2Institut für Wasserchemie, Technische Universität München, München, Germany 3Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Abstract. A sensitivity study of the treatment of isoprene and related parameters in 3D atmospheric models was conducted using the global model of tropospheric chemistry MATCH-MPIC. A total of twelve sensitivity scenarios which can be grouped into four thematic categories were performed. These four categories consist of simulations with different chemical mechanisms, different assumptions concerning the deposition characteristics of intermediate products, assumptions concerning the nitrates from the oxidation of isoprene and variations of the source strengths. The largest differences in ozone compared to the reference simulation occured when a different isoprene oxidation scheme was used (up to 30-60% or about 10 nmol/mol). The largest differences in the abundance of peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) were found when the isoprene emission strength was reduced by 50% and in tests with increased or decreased efficiency of the deposition of intermediates. The deposition assumptions were also found to have a significant effect on the upper tropospheric HOx production. Different implicit assumptions about the loss of intermediate products were identified as a major reason for the deviations among the tested isoprene oxidation schemes. The total tropospheric burden of O3 calculated in the sensitivity runs is increased compared to the background methane chemistry by 26±9 Tg( O3) from 273 to an average from the sensitivity runs of 299 Tg(O3). % revised Thus, there is a spread of ± 35% of the overall effect of isoprene in the model among the tested scenarios. This range of uncertainty and the much larger local deviations found in the test runs suggest that the treatment of isoprene in global models can only be seen as a first order estimate at present, and points towards specific processes in need of focused future work. Citation: von Kuhlmann, R., Lawrence, M. G., Pöschl, U., and Crutzen, P. J.: Sensitivities in global scale modeling of isoprene, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 4, 1-17, doi:10.5194/acp-4-1-2004, 2004. |


text: I just thought I'd share some pics of my other carry revolver my S&W 42 lemon squeezer. I think these snubbies just have a certain kinda coolness about them,a panache if you will. I think guns like this say something about the men who carry them. I think guns are very business like in their appearance if you will. So anyone here prefer the old school snubbies?


text: Dominic, check out Gobo Linux <URL:http://www.gobolinux.org/">. They have already done the sort of thing you are suggesting. Dominic L Hilsbos wrote: > Put all system files under /Linux/, I'd prefer "/linux/". Real hackers spurn caps! Actual, real hackers spurn vowels too[1], so it should really be "/lnx". :-) Joking aside, putting the OS in a non-root directory is a good idea. Windows got this right. > Put all non-system programs in their own folder under /Programs/ Aren't we already going that way with "/opt"? > The thing is, I'd prefere to keep program specific libraries in a > subdirectory of the programs directory (i.e. /Programs/*/lib/) how > would I setup ln to access these libraries, yet not compromise > seurity? > > Also how would I setup the path to allow ussers to use the programs > in /Programs/*/? The proper way IMHO to do this is for all utilities that use search paths (shells etc.) to interpret path values like "/usr/bin:/opt/*/bin:${HOME}/mystuff/**/bin" (or some similar syntax) to mean "look in /usr/bin , all directories called bin in an immediate subdirectory of /opt , and all directories called bin anywhere in the directory tree rooted at mystuff in my home directory". Security would then work the way it already does: sensitive accounts would exclude insecure directories from their paths, and really paranoid programs would ignore the environment's paths altogether and use a hard-wired path. Cheers, Jeremy Henty [1] Except for the bizarre exception of "umount", where they kept all the vowels and deleted a consonant instead. Sigh! I guess they didn't want the consonants to get complacent and think they were safe.


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Forests cover nearly half of the land area in Louisiana and forestry as an industry has close to a 3 billion dollar economic impact on the state each year. In recent years the industry has been challenged as demand for lumber slumped as new home construction slowed in a struggling economy.
Local foresters say the outlook is improving at the 30th ArkLaTex forestry forum held in Shreveport Thursday.
Executive Director of the Louisiana Forestry Association, Buck Vandersteen, says he is encouraged by the reopening of a major sawmill in Coushatta.
"Our traditional industries of lumber, plywood, paper are all showing great signs of improvement," says Vandersteen, adding that the majority of local forestry land is owned privately and not by large corporations. Several new biomass and biofuel plants worldwide are now using wood pellets to produce electricity boosting the demand for forestry products. "Landowners that are planting trees today have a lot of confidence in the future, this is a very optimistic group of poeple," says Vandersteen.
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Football Opens 2015 Spring Practice On Wednesday Morning
Green Wave take the field as a complete unit for the first time since concluding the 2014 campaign
Football Trio Garners Freshman All-America Honors
Nickerson headlines threesome, earning recognition from USA Today, Athlon Sports and College Sports Madness
Football Spooked By Cincinnati On Halloween Night, 38-14
Hilliard runs for a season-high 123 yards, Lee ties school freshman touchdown pass record in the loss
Tulane Falls at UCF in Defensive Battle, 20-13
Second half comeback cut short in final minutes
Defense Lifts Football To 12-3 American Win Over UConn
Green Wave tally 4.0 sacks among 10.0 tackles for loss, three turnovers and a safety in the victory
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2013: Did not play as a true freshman and redshirted the season...also a member of Tulane track and field team where he competed in the 100 meter, 4x100 meter relay and 4x400 meter relay...helped the 4x100 meter relay team finish eighth at the Conference USA Outdoor Championship...notched the 10th-fastest time in school history in the 100 meter dash with a 10.72 at the Tulaen Team Challenge.
High School: Four-year letterman at John Curtis Christian School where he played running back, linebacker and defensive back for coach J.T. Curtis...named a three-star recruit by ESPN.com, Rivals.com and 247Sports.com while garnering two-star status from Scout.com...tabbed No. 17 all-purpose running back in the nation by 247Sports.com, the No. 132 running back in the country by ESPN.com and the No. 137 back by Scout.com...received an 87 rating and listed as the No. 32 recruit in the state by 247Sports.com while claiming a 71 Scout Grade and the No. 47 prospect in the state by ESPN.com...also listed as the No. 20 recruit in the state in the Times Picayune Nifty 50...helped lead the Patriots to a combined 53-3 record, an unblemished 25-0 mark in District 10-2A play, four consecutive district titles, four straight appearances in the state championship game, state titles in his final two prep seasons and a national championship as a senior...for his career, ran 171 times for 2,146 yards (12.5 avg.) and 37 touchdowns, caught 12 passes for 330 yards (27.5 avg.) and two scores on offense, tallied 75 tackles, two pass break-ups, one interception, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery on defense, and returned six kickoffs for 188 yards (31.3 avg.) and a touchdown on special teams...scored 244 career points, including a pair of two-point conversions...claimed first-team all-state, all-metro and all-district honors as both a junior and senior and was named District Offensive Player of the Year both seasons...as a senior, ran for 814 yards and 16 touchdowns on 69 carries (11.8 avg.), caught nine passes for 292 yards (32.4 avg.) and two scores...as a junior, tallied 1,239 yards and 19 touchdowns on 87 totes (14.2 avg.), hauled in three passes for 38 yards (12.7 avg.), totaled five tackles and returned two kickoffs for 34 yards (17.0 avg.)...played mostly defense as a sophomore when he tallied 70 tackles, while returning four kickoffs for 154 yards (38.5 avg.) - including a 75-yard touchdown - and carried twice for 34 yards (17.0 avg.)...ran 13 times for 57 yards (4.4 avg.) and two scores as a freshman...also lettered in track and field where he was a member of three outdoor and two indoor state championship teams, the Division II 4x200 relay champions as a sophomore and junior, and posted a Top-100 indoor national time in the 55-yard dash (6.48) as a junior.
Personal: Born Sherman Edgar Badie on Jan. 3, 1995, in New Orleans, La...son of Shandrica Badie...undecided on major.


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- Pump Features: AdjustableSpeed; ContinuousDuty; ExplosionProof; ThermalOverload
- Discharge Pressure: 150.0
- Liquid Flow: 0.017
- Maximum RPM: 37
from Price Pump Company
End Bell Gasket Design - Isolates cast iron motor bracket from liquid flow. Configuration - Compact, close coupled design. Motor shaft - Threaded [See More]
- Pump Features: AdjustableSpeed (optional feature); CloseCoupled; ContinuousDuty; EndSuction; ExplosionProof (optional feature); FrameMounted (optional feature); Horizontal; ThermalOverload (optional feature); Washdown Duty (optional feature)
- Discharge Pressure: 68.0
- Liquid Flow: 70.000
- Maximum RPM: 3600
from Simer Pumps
Oil cooled motor, high efficiency, vent relief prevents air lock, 8' cord [See More]
- Pump Features: Corrosion Resistant; EndSuction; PlugIn; Portable; ThermalOverload; Vertical Orientation
- Power Source: 115Single
- Liquid Flow: 21.000
- Media: GroundWater; Liquids
from Xylem Applied Water Systems
Model No.: LF Series. Compact Design Measuring 6.4" (162 mm) in Length. Fully Automatic Demand Pump. Self-priming and Can Operate Dry Without Damage. Built-in Thermal Protector. Sealed Pressure Switch and Motor. Flow Rates to 1.0 GPM (3.8 L/min.) and Operating Pressures to 25 PSI (1.7 bar). Compact... [See More]
- Pump Features: Horizontal; RunDry; SelfPriming; ThermalOverload; Low Amp For Battery Power
- Discharge Pressure: 35.0
- Liquid Flow: 1.000
- Media Temperature: 109