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10 second freezes in-game
I know this has been asked before but I couldn't find any threads that discussed it, so I'm sorry in advance.
But anyway, it's been happening every now and then where the game just freezes for like 10 seconds, annoyingly looping a section of a noise or something the whole time, and then after the 10 seconds or so, the game is fine again. It usually doesn't happen more than once while playing, but every now and then I get it twice.
Anyone know what the issue is? I thought it was maybe because my card is OCed, so I set it back to stock, but it still does it.
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Actually, I think I discovered the problem: AIM.
Everytime someone signs off, the game freaks out for a bit.
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i m having the same problem.....how it can be fixed?
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you mean you actually run doom 3 with AIM running? I'd say that's definately the problem.
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I play with AIM running, and it's never given me problems.
Try putting up an away message, and check the two boxes: Hide windows and Disable Sounds. That works for me.
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If it continues, disable Fastwrites with RivaTuner if you have a Nvidia Card. That solved my freezing problem.
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Usually that is related to having Fastwrites on, or your card running too hot. What happens is the card downclocks, and freezes the game for 10 seconds or so.
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I think Fastwrites are off and I do put up away messages with the boxes checked.
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Bought myself a 1200GS the other day and I am Alaska bound in a few weeks. I have kind of a silly question but I think it bears (no pun intended:rofl) asking-since I will be riding through Canada, where defensive sprays and guns are prohibited, what kind of alternative is out there? I know, I know, a lot of defenses are worthless against a charging grizzly, but I would like to have SOME type of defense that is legal to have, if anything just to make me feel better. I think I heard someone say somewhere through Ferris Buellers third cousin once removed that those canisters to take out wasp nests are a good alternative. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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I thought bear spray was legal up there? It's pepper spray that is illegal. I was looking into it because I wanted to cross up to start mt CDR ride in Banff.
eblack, we cross into Canada and also back into the states on the return with the large can of "Bear Spray", no problem. My choice was to purchase in Canada and I got Spike Professional Bear Deterret in the large can.
The border guards will ask I tell them I have the large can of Bear Spray. They seem to be looking for the small 'personal protection pepper type' but the large bear spray as above has been ok going up and back for at least the last 8 years in my trips, usually one per year to Canada or AK.
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Last year my friend and I trekked up to the arctic circle. My friend was concerned about bears so he bought some "bear spray" at a sporting goods store in Canada. It must work pretty good cause we didn't see ANY bears! Maybe it was the area we travelled, but we didn't feel we needed it. My friend probably slept better at night.:snore
Thanks for the input, I would rather HAVE food for thought than BE food for the bears. I have crossed the Canadian border many times, they always ask if I have a defensive spray, I thought that included bear sprays as well as mace and such, seems I have misunderstood. I will look into it further.
Better to have it and not need it than not have it and need it.
I'm not thinking personal protection sprays would be effective against bears. Most standard caliber handguns aren't effective as well and the Alaskan State Police carry shot guns with slugs for defense against charging bears. A slow and timid friend would probably be your best bet. My son and his buddies got a hold of a can of bear spray I kept on my road bike for unfriendly dogs. I assumed they were a bit more intelligent than spraying one another with an aerosol bear spray. I would be happy to forward his number for a first hand product evaluation.
Seriously, bear spray is just gonna piss 'em off. By the time you get it out of it's holster, a griz will be all over you. Your best defense is to have no food or smell of food in your camp. Any type of mace is illegal but pepper sprays are OK as long as they are not designed for use on humans. I have one I carry for dogs when I'm out walking.
Guns are OK under certain circumstances. A shotgun with slugs might make you sleep better, but no handguns or M16 type weapons. Here's the info...
Maybe you should consider some place where the wildlife are friendlier. You could go to New Orleans..... as long as you avoid certain areas.
In 2006, my daughter and I crossed the border into Canada just east of Glacier National Park. I carried true bear spray and she had the human personal defense type spray. I passed thru fine after showing them the canister but she had to sign paperwork and turn her spray over to the crossing people.
Bear spray is a more potent spray than personal defense spray and would certainly work well for her intended use.
This reminds me of when I went through Army Basic Combat Training in 1968; we were going through bayonet training and it occurred to me that if I was close enough to need a bayonet, I was too damn close.
we camp and hike through heavy populated bear country here and have found bear bangers to be most effective...we carry bear spray as well, but that's the last resort:evil
I'm familiar with bear bells. A bear banger is.....?
As long as it is labeled as bear spray you will have no problem taking it across the border. My buddy and I both had a can on our Artic Circle trip last year.
If you live in Grizzly country you can buy it at many different places. If you don't live in Grizz country then you can get it a Cabellas or any other big box outdoor store.
I feel that in addition to bear protection it would also work to deter two legged jackoffs.
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For more than 20 years, NBC owned Thursday nights. No matter what else was ailing the Peacock, the network could count on an orderly transfer of power from "The Cosby Show" to "Cheers," from "Seinfeld" to "Friends," from "L.A. Law" to "ER."
Now, Thursdays are just one more problem in an ever-mounting pile of them, with the network consistently coming in fourth on a night it used to dominate, and many weeks finishing in a dead heat with Univision — which may explain why the night is an afterthought in the fall schedule that NBC entertainment president Robert Greenblatt announced on Sunday afternoon.
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As of now, the order is only for 13 episodes -- which is the same amount that "30 Rock" (definitively entering its final season) and "Community" (long-term future up in the air) got yesterday -- but I'm hearing that "Parks" will be on NBC's fall schedule, which means there's still very much a chance that the show could get a back 9 order, continue, etc.
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Though the renewal came a day later than several of NBC's other decisions, I hadn't worried too much about the future of "Parks" being in doubt. NBC owns the show, and as modest as the numbers have been, it's done better than several other shows, and it's a known quantity in terms of what its floor is. NBC has ordered a lot of new comedies, but it's entirely possible those shows will do worse than Leslie Knope, Ron Effing Swanson and friends.
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Two professors have warned that people should expect Ferguson, Missouri to be like Los Angeles in 1992 after police were acquitted in the Rodney King beating.
Indiana University law professor Jeannine Bell said "The individuals who are protesting now have suggested in speaking to the press given the ongoing protests in Ferguson that that could happen."
Bell, who is a criminal procedure expert and has written about police crimes and hate crimes, explained that the situation in Ferguson between the community and law enforcement suggests a number of things about problematic inequalities.
"This situation has brought to light the differences between police and residents which suggest that there were preexisting inequalities in Ferguson," Bell said. "This situation is a marker for what is happening in other local cities across the country.
In the days following Brown's death, a number of local business were looted, Ferguson police officers approached protesters in military-style gear and equipment creating what some called a threatening presence in the city, and a few members of the media were pepper-sprayed and arrested by officers. Bell stated that all of those incidents and others that have occurred in Ferguson suggest something bigger.
"Now there have been a wide variety of situations in which troubling events have happened since Brown's death," Bell explained. "And they suggest a perfect storm could happen if the system in Ferguson, meaning the prosecutor's office, does what it needs to do to run interference in preventing a huger situation. There is not much to suggest that behind the scenes, the system is doing that."
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A stream of packets is started at a slow rate to enable competing streams to achieve transmission rate equilibrium. The transmission window is initialized to a size smaller than an acceptable window advertised by the receiving client. Upon receipt of an acknowledgement from the client that a packet has been successfully transmitted, the size of the transmission window is increased by the size of the acknowledged packet. This increase continues until a threshold is reached, at which time further increases are constrained by the maximum permitted segment size.
1. A computer-implemented method for real time transmission of information content from a sender to a receiver over a network, comprising the following steps:
defining an initial size for a congestion window that establishes a number of successive packets of information that can be transmitted by said sender without acknowledgment from the receiver;
transmitting the number of packets established by the congestion window;
upon detecting acknowledgment of a packet from the receiver, increasing the size of the congestion window by the size of the acknowledged packet; and
continuing to increase the size of the congestion window by the size of an acknowledged packet for each detected acknowledgment until an established threshold is reached.
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6. A computer-readable medium containing a computer program stored thereon for execution by a processor that executes the following steps:
defining an initial size for a congestion window that establishes a number of successive packets of information that can be transmitted by said sender without acknowledgment from the receiver;
transmitting the number of packets established by the congestion window;
upon detecting acknowledgment of a packet from the receiver, increasing the size of the congestion window by the size of the acknowledged packet; and
continuing to increase the size of the congestion window by the size of an acknowledged packet for each detected acknowledgment until an established threshold is reached.
7. The computer-readable medium of
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9. The computer-readable medium of
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11. A computer server that transmits real time of information content to a client over a network, and that performs the following functions:
transmitting a number of packets of information that are defined by a congestion window that establishes a number of successive packets of information that can be transmitted without acknowledgment from the client;
upon detecting acknowledgment of a packet from the client, increasing the size of the congestion window by the size of the acknowledged packet; and
continuing to increase the size of the congestion window by the size of an acknowledged packet for each detected acknowledgment until an established threshold is reached.
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This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 09/680,990, filed Oct. 6, 2000 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,013,346.
The present invention relates generally to protocols for the transmission of packets over a computer network, and more particularly, to an improved connectionless protocol.
In a computer network in which a plurality of clients communicate with one or more servers, a protocol is necessary to establish the rules by which the information is transmitted to effect such communication. Generally, the information is sent from the server in successive packets of information, with each of the packets transversing their own paths through the network, until such time as the packets are reassembled at the destination client. To establish the communication, each packet contains, in addition to a data segment of the total information to be sent, the source address of the server in the network and the destination address of the client in the network.
A commonly used protocol used to establish these connections is the Transmission Control Protocol ("TCP"). TCP is used along with the Internet Protocol ("IP") to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet. While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.
For example, when an HTML file is sent from a web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into one or more packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the IP program layer. Although each packet has the same destination IP address, each packet may get routed differently through the network. At the client, TCP reassembles the individual packets and waits until they have arrived to display the re-assembled HTML file.
TCP is also known as a connection-oriented protocol, which means that a connection is established and maintained until such time as the message or messages to be exchanged by the application programs at each end of the connection have been exchanged. TCP is responsible for ensuring that a message is divided into the packets that IP manages and for reassembling the packets back into the complete message at the other end.
Another protocol to transmit information is the User Datagram Protocol ("UDP"). UDP is a communications method that offers a limited amount of service when messages are exchanged between computers in a network that uses IP. UDP is an alternative to TCP and, together with IP, is sometimes referred to as UDP/IP. Like TCP, UDP uses the IP to actually get a data unit, or datagram, from one computer to another.
Unlike TCP, however, UDP does not provide the service of dividing a message into packets or datagrams, and reassembling them at the other end. Specifically, UDP does not provide sequencing of the packets that the data arrives in. Accordingly, the application program that uses UDP must be able to ascertain that the entire message has arrived and is in the right order. Network applications that want to save processing time because they have very small data units to exchange (and therefore very little message reassembling to do) may usually use UDP instead of TCP. UDP does provide two services not provided by the IP layer. It provides a port number to help distinguish different user requests and, optionally, a checksum capability to verify that the data arrived intact.
For streaming applications over a computer network, both UDP and TCP have significant disadvantages and limitations. For example, since TCP requires that all packets are received prior to reassembly at the client, any missing packets could cause the streaming application running at the client to be paused due to the lack of data. UDP also requires that all of the packets are received and also received in the right order, since there is no sequencing of the packets. For a large number of packets in a streaming application, the packets may arrive out of order, resulting in degradation of the output of the streaming application.
Other features of TCP further disadvantageously limit the ability to deliver packets for streaming applications in a timely manner. For example, TCP requires that each packet sent in the stream must be received and each packet delivered to the client in the order sent. This requirement of TCP is especially limiting and disadvantageous for a streaming application. If the server sends four sequential packets, and packet 1 is lost, the client running the streaming application cannot receive the remaining three packets from the TCP protocol stack until it receives the first packet. If the client receives the first packet sufficiently late, all the previously received packets may be useless due to the tardy reception. In any event, the output of the streaming application will be degraded or possibly halted.
There is therefore needed a connectionless protocol which overcomes one or more disadvantages and limitations of the prior art herein above enumerated.
It is an object of the present invention to overcome one or more disadvantages and limitations of the prior art herein above enumerated.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a conectionless protocol which does not require receipt of all packets by the client, nor require receipt of packets in order of transmission.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for real time transmission of information content between a network server and a network client comprises the steps of transmitting successive packets of the content from the server to a retransmit module, assigning at the retransmit module to each of the packets a sequence number and a first timer, transmitting further each of the packets from the retransmit module to the network client, transmitting from the network client to the retransmit module an acknowledgment for each of the packets received at the network client, retransmitting from the retransmit module any of the packets upon expiration of the first timer assigned thereto prior to an acknowledgment for the any one of the packets being received, and removing from the retransmit module any of the packets upon an event determination prior to an acknowledgement for such anyone of the packets being received.
In a second aspect of the present invention, a method for acknowledging receipt of packets sent from a network server to a network client comprises steps of transmitting successively packets from the server, receiving at the client several of the packets, placing into a coalesced acknowledgment an ID of a first one of the several of the packets received at the client, adding to the coalesced acknowledgment a bit map identifying selected other ones of the several of the packets received at the client, and transmitting to the server the coalesced acknowledgment.
Features of the present invention are flow control, congestion avoidance and packet recovery without any necessity for guaranteed or in order delivery. Flow control is achieved by limiting the amount of unacknowledged data to a given window size. When the window is full, further transmission is delayed until packets are acknowledge or expired. A slow start algorithm is also provided to adapt the rate of packet transmission to the client. Congestion is avoided by using the TCP exponential back off. Robust packet recovery is obtained by using Karn's algorithm for round trip estimation. The order of packet deliver is not required nor guaranteed. Acknowledgments are sent on a packet by packet basis. In another embodiment of the invention, acknowledgments may be coalesced.
These and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art from a study of the following Description of the Exemplary Preferred Embodiments when read in conjunction with the attached Drawing and appended Claims.
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In accordance with the present invention, the packets are first sent from the server to the retransmit module 16 as seen at 30, 32 in
When the packets 18 a, 18 b are sent to the retransmit module, they are retained therein, as well as transmitted through the network 10 as seen at 34 in
Although it has been described above that, if an acknowledgment is not received for such packet 18 a, 18 b prior to the expiration of the second timer for the time to live, the packet will be removed from the retransmit module 16, several other methods or procedures may be utilized. For example, the packet 18 a, 18 b may be removed from the retransmit module upon the occurance of a predetermined event prior to receipt of any acknowledgement therefor as indicated at 42. Such event may be a preselected number of retransmits for such packet 18 a, 18 b, or the subsequent transmission of another packet containing more critical information, as discussed herein below. If an acknowledgment is received prior to the expiration of either timer, the packet will also be removed from the retransmit module 16, as indicated at 44.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first timer and the second timer may be assigned on the basis of the criticality of the information contained in the packet. For example in a streaming video application, certain packets may be designated as frame packets necessary for reconstructing an entire video frame at the client 14. Successive packets following the frame packets may then be designated as differential packets, which contain only information which has changed within the frame. Differential packets may then be given shorter time to live than frame packets which contain more valuable information for the streaming application. By allowing packets to expire, the stream of packets keeps moving forward. Rather than retransmit a stale packet, a fresher and potentially more important packet is transmitted in its place. The expiration of the stale packet could be based either on the time to live associated with the second timer, or alternatively, on the event of a subsequent frame packet being transmitted, for example.
In another aspect of the present invention, the stream of packets 18 a, 18 b, is regulated, or slowly started, to increase the allowable window size so that competing streams can find equilibrium in their transit rate when they are first starting up, and also when a retransmit occurs. This slow start is effective to minimize the number of lost packets by keeping total bandwidth demand within the bandwidth constraints along the path between the server 12 and the client 14.
While a stream is sending, the window size is constrained to the lesser of a "Congestion Window", or CWND and client window sizes. The client window must be advertised using RTSP during protocol negotiation. The size must be no greater than the size of the UDP socket input buffer at the client 14. CWND is initialized to the maximum segment size (MSS).
For each packet 18 a, 18 b acknowledged by the client, CWND is increased by the sized of the acknowledged packet 18 a, 18 b. CWND is continually increased for each acknowledgment until the CWND is greater than or equal to a predetermined slow start threshold (SSTH). Once the SSTH is reached, the CWND is increased by the MSS for each window of ACK's.
CWND may be constrained by the MSS at the minimum and the client window size at the maximum. SSTH is maintained by an exponential back off algorithm. It denotes the window size that is last known to be error free. An exemplary code listing for the slow start algorithm is set forth herein in Table 1.
The timer for retransmit time (RTO) is calculated as a modified version of Karn's algorithm used in TCP. The round trip time for each acknowledged packet 18 a, 18 b is input into an estimator to produce a smoothed round trip time (SRTT) and a running standard deviation (RTTVAR). The retransmit formula is the sum of the smoothed round trip time and four times the standard deviation, or RTO=SRTT+4*RTTVAR. In addition, one and one half times the RTO as a sample of the first retransmit of any given packet may be initially used to prevent spurious retransmits of any packets when the actual round trip time is increasing rapidly. furthermore, acknowledgments for packets that have been retransmitted are usually not used for packets that have been retransmitted. A listing of exemplary code useful for this aspect of the present invention is set forth in Table 2.
An inverse to the above described slow start, is back off to quickly slow and find a new equilibrium when a retransmit of any packet occurs. After a retransmit, SSTH is set to a maximum of one half the current CWND or MSS. After adjusting the SSTH, CWND is set to the MSS. When a stream begins retransmitting, it will not readjust the CWND or SSTH because of subsequent retransmits until either a new packet is sent, or packets are acknowledged. Accordingly, the back off prevents a burst of retransmits from closing the windows to unnecessarily low levels.
The client 14 acknowledges each packet successfully received using an RTCP app packet. A PTCP app packet useful for practicing the above described methods and procedures is exemplary set forth in Table 3.
Acknowledgments need not be sent for each packet 18 a, 18 b received at the client 14, but may be combined into a coalesced acknowledgment. In one embodiment a coalesced acknowledgment may be a four bit bitmap following the sequence number of the first acknowledge packet, such that the coalesced acknowledgment could acknowledge up to 33 packets. A coalesced acknowledgment has the advantage of reducing demand for bandwidth in the client 14 to server 12 direction, and reduce processing load at the server 14.
Coalesced acknowledgments will be sent whenever the bitmap is full, the sequence numbers "wrap" (restarting at the first sequence number) or whenever a selected time, such as 200 ms, have elapse since the previous acknowledgment and the client 14 has unacknowledged packets. This keeps the round-trip time from becoming artificially large, which may result in unneeded retransmits or lower throughput. Furthermore, the client 14 should send an acknowledgment whenever a packet is received out of sequence.
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There has been described herein above exemplary preferred embodiments of an improved connectionless protocol. Those skilled in the art may now make numerous uses of and departures from the above described embodiments without departing from the inventive concepts disclosed therein. Accordingly, the present invention is to be defined solely by the scope of the appended Claims.
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In the four months since U.S. President George W. Bush triumphantly declared the end of "major hostilities" in Iraq, the occupation has become ever more untenable and no less illegal by the day. Where are the members of the global antiwar movement?
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The Bush team has pursed its agenda despite a growing belief by elected officials, and much of the public, that the administration has gone off the deep end--and is taking us with it.
President George W. Bush's nationally broadcast speech Sunday evening once again was designed to mislead Congress and the American public into supporting his administration's policies in Iraq.
The current proposal under consideration calls for the creation of a UN-endorsed multilateral military force to join the U.S. occupation force in Iraq.
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The elaborate scheme involved improving fake cardholders' credit scores, allowing the scammers to borrow more money that they never repaid, investigators said.
"In many respects the accused availed themselves of a virtual cafeteria of sophisticated frauds and schemes, whose main menu items were greed and deceit," said David Velazquez, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark field office.
Paul Fishman, the US attorney in Newark, described an intricate Jersey City-based con that began in 2007, operated in at least 28 states and wired money to Pakistan, India, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Romania, China and Japan.
The group used at least 7,000 fake identities to obtain more than 25,000 credit cards, Fishman said. He said $200 million in documented losses could rise.
Participants set up more than 1,800 mailing addresses, creating fake utility bills and other documents to provide credit card companies with what appeared to be legitimate addresses. Once participants obtained the cards, they started making small charges and paying off the cards to raise their credit limits.
They then sent fake reports to credit-rating agencies, making it appear that cardholders had paid off debts, setting the stage for sterling credit ratings and high credit limits.
Fishman said once the credit limits were raised, members would take out a loan or max out the credit card and not repay the debts.
The group also created at least 80 sham businesses that accepted credit card payments, Fishman said. The group would run the fraudulently obtained credit cards through the machines, keeping the money.
The scheme funded a lavish lifestyle for the accused, including spa treatments, electronics and millions of dollars of gold, Fishman said. In one raid, authorities found $78,000 stashed in an oven.
Three jewelry stores in Jersey City were closed Tuesday and their inventory seized, Fishman said.
Thirteen defendants were arrested Tuesday. Four were arrested previously; of them three have pleaded guilty. Others have not yet been charged and the investigation was ongoing, Fishman said.
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Habs Game Report: Pacioretty lifts Canadiens over AvalancheMax Pacioretty scored his 12th goal of the season at 13:54 of the third period to snap a 3-3 tie and give the Canadiens a 4-3 win over the Colorado Avalanche Monday night at the Pepsi Center.
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Canadiens vs. Avalanche previewThe Avalanche was a surprise last season under rookie coach Patrick Roy, but a string of injuries contributed to a slow start this year.
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Subban electrifies fans but criticizes himself after Habs winCanadiens defenceman P.K. Subban scored an electrifying, highlight-reel goal Saturday, coming out of the Bell Centre penalty box, but was less joyful about the goal than he was upset at himself for being in the box in the first place in the Habs' 3-2 victory over Colorado.


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David Moyes has not ruled out bringing Joleon Lescott back to Everton if Manchester City decide to sell. The England centre-half has been sidelined at City in recent weeks by the emergence of Serbia youngster Matija Nastasic. And despite the acrimonious nature of his move from Goodison Park to the Etihad Stadium three years ago, Lescott would be welcomed back by his former manager. Moyes said: "If Joleon wanted to come back - if I thought we needed him - I'd be delighted to have him back. "If he was available he'd be someone I'd maybe show an interest in." The Scot was angered by Lescott's attitude while his ?22million transfer was going through, but he said: "I can understand why the player wanted to go. "When Joleon left, Everton were in a different place to where we are now. Everton look more likely now to be at the top end than they do now."
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Fight takes place in a open field. Fight to the Death. Who wins?
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I'm gonna say war machine.
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War Machine curbstomps,
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I'm gonna say war machine.
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War Machine curbstomps,
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War Machine curbstomps,
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War Machine
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No pocket nuke? no doors? mhm.....whateves
Midnighter stomps with Doors.
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Is this pre new fifty two Midnighter? It makes a pretty big difference.
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Is this pre new fifty two Midnighter? It makes a pretty big difference.
General rule of thumb is to go with the most current unless otherwise stated.
That being said, pre-52 would probably take it due to doors. Post-52, if he doesn't have doors, then I would tentatively give it to Warmachine until proven otherwise.
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War machine can fly, which gives him a pretty much unstoppable advantage. Middy doesn't have the damage output to get through the suit, anyway. Eventually War Machine can deal enough damage to put Midnighter down.
Hellstrike thought flight and ranged attacks gave him an unstoppable advantage too, but Midnighter still beat him even with his combat computer off.
@Wyldsong: I'd be one to sometimes choose the more established version of a character. But that's just me.
No he did not, though given the relative newness of the current Midnighter and his vague abilities, I assume the Wildstorm Midnighter in threads where it's not stated otherwise and he would be allowed Doors. (Though the newer Midnighter might suss out a weakness he could take advantage of from a distance.)
And I'll just cover the typical response now. Midnighter doesn't need that exact situation to be happening to distract someone. Given the range of weapons and explosives he carries, distracting someone doesn't require nearby softcore porn. Also, War Machine's armor is durable, but again Midnighter carries serious explosives and is not a stranger to punching out of his weight class. Also also, just to be clear, my comment was less "Midnighter wins" and more "Flight is not an unstoppable advantage like people think it is."
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Steve Stuart, the lone Democrat on the Board of Clark County Commissioners, hasn't spoken much lately about his political future.
In fact, while sitting on a board that has spent most of the year locked into a rancorous game of partisan political warfare, Stuart has made it a point to avoid the will-he-or-won't-he discussion surrounding his decision on whether to run for re-election in 2014.
But that doesn't mean he's not thinking about it.
"I'll be thinking about it a lot here," Stuart said last week. "I have been thinking about it a lot. I'll take the holidays to evaluate it and I will make my decision in January."
And that is where Stuart leaves the discussion. He won't go on the record about what will factor in to that decision, or if he's leaning one way or the other.
But even as he avoids the talk, he still has found himself in the thick of a campaign against the policies of his fellow commissioners led by freshman Republican David Madore.
That battle may be a sign that Clark County politics is at a tipping point.
Madore's choice
Madore says Harris running in 2014
State Rep Paul Harris to run against Steve Stuart for Clark County Commissioner and respect election results on CRC. ⁰http://t.co/L2LEMMnM— David Madore (@DavidMadore) January 6, 2013
The politicking began just days into 2013 when Madore publicly announced on Facebook that state Rep. Paul Harris, R-Vancouver, would run to replace Stuart come the 2014 election.
And while Madore apparently forgot to tell Harris about his plan -- Harris said at that time it was far too soon to discuss such a matter -- the seeds of discontent had been planted.
Madore and fellow Republican Commissioner Tom Mielke then moved quickly to posture themselves against the Columbia River Crossing by passing a nonbinding resolution stating their displeasure with the project, and breaking a contract with a local economic organization that supports it.
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Stuart, the lone Democrat on the board of three, stated his concerns over his fellow commissioner's actions to no avail. The reality of Stuart's new political life is that county voters elected in 2012 to move the direction of the board sharply to the right with Madore and the re-election of Mielke.
Any power Stuart had became isolated, and he was facing a grim reality that he was one of the final publicly elected Democrats in a county that was now a strong bastion for Republicans.
But then Stuart did something that changed the landscape: He stood up and swore.
Stuart storms out
Madore, Mielke recommend Benton in board time
In a move he later called "embarrassing" and for which he apologized, Stuart became outraged at a May 1 meeting when Madore announced his desire to hire his friend, state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, as county environmental services director, without following the usual process.
When Mielke agreed with the appointment, Stuart erupted, declared the two guilty of political cronyism and stormed out of the meeting, yelling "bullshit" back at the two Republicans.
After the meeting, Stuart told The Columbian he had nothing more to say, but that he did "look forward to hearing what the people who I serve have to say."
From there on out, commenters at public meetings overwhelmingly rallied behind Stuart for his brazen response. A coalition of them began a months-long public scolding of the Republicans.
Madore and Stuart also began trading barbs on their public Facebook accounts as Madore blamed the anger over the Benton hire on county staff for not updating a job description to one Madore found more fitting for Benton's qualifications.
Madore would later claim in another Facebook post, which is no longer visible on his page, that he believed Stuart would not run for re-election. Stuart's response at that time was that Madore "doesn't know what he's talking about."
Further, the two have taken each other to task verbally in public as Madore introduced resolutions and policies that lay out his new vision for Clark County.
The tenets of Madore's election promises -- eliminating parking fees at county parks and slashing development fees for businesses -- each passed with a second vote from Mielke and a strong condemnation from Stuart.
Madore's nonbinding resolutions -- one an anti-Columbia River Crossing resolution and another a rambling resolution defining the word "integrity" and requiring more than 100 reference materials -- both passed while drawing Stuart's ire.
Stuart stated that he believed the integrity resolution was simply Madore's way of publicly criticizing elected officials who had voted in favor of a light-rail funding plan, on a separate board where Madore wasn't in the majority.
"You want your pound of flesh," Stuart told him.
Stuart to Madore: 'You want your pound of flesh.'
And that's just what's taken place in the most visible public meetings.
Stuart: 'I love the look in your eyes.'
During one board time meeting, a work session that typically sees low public turnout, Madore threatened that he could remove Stuart from his position as chairman of the board. The chairman is typically appointed on a rotating basis between the three districts, not on the political whims of individuals.
After Madore's claim, Stuart smiled back at him, saying, "I love the look in your eyes, too, as you're saying it. Some anger in there."
Two opponents
The anger being verbally dished out by the two may be another signal that Clark County politics is at a tipping point. And come the November 2014 election, voters must decide what the seesaw is going to look like.
On the one side, they can choose Madore and his new deal for the county, which is hopefully focused around rapid business expansion to build a broader tax base.
Or they can shun that direction as misguided and re-elect Stuart as the lone commissioner in dissent of Madore's policies.
But make no mistake about it. If Stuart runs for re-election, he will be running against two candidates: both the individual listed on the ballot and David Madore.
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Carolyn Long, a political science professor at Washington State University Vancouver whose expertise includes local politics and elections, said it appears Stuart has a chance to win re-election based on the recent results of the nonpartisan Vancouver city council elections.
"I would suggest that the results from the odd year election in November, that were four or five points in favor of (Mayor Tim) Leavitt, is an indication the county is moving in a different direction," Long said.
In last month's election, it was Leavitt who stood as a symbol against the policies of Madore and Mielke as he ran for re-election against Councilor Bill Turlay, who was supported by Madore.
And while that was a vote of just city residents, and not inclusive of the steadfastly conservative rural lands of the county, Long believes the results say something about which camp is currently enjoying a groundswell of support.
"I would interpret those results carefully," Long said. "But I would use that as a data point to see if the county is at a crossroads. And I really do think we still are. It wasn't a round rebuke of Madore and Mielke, but it was a significant enough margin that people may wonder what is going on here."
Long isn't presuming to know how an election campaign will turn out. But she does note there are several factors in play that could alter such an election.
Key among them is the current county freeholder board, which is working to draft a county charter. Among the issues the freeholders are discussing are splitting county legislative and executive powers, expanding the three-member board of commissioners and potentially eliminating partisan offices. When they are finished, their charter will be submitted to voters for approval.
Voter turnout -- typically extremely low in Clark County -- could be bolstered by such a charter vote.
Still another angle to consider is what does it mean to have a board of commissioners entirely of the same party? For many voters, the idea of a balanced government remains appealing, Long said.
"He's been the strong minority voice," Long said of Stuart. "People have become more apprehensive of the level of authority that two commissioners wield, and they'll keep that in mind when they go to the ballot box."
And Long said if Stuart runs and wins, he'll find himself in a position with a mandate to be that minority voice. That means if he's been pulling any punches, that tactic ends.
"He hasn't been a lame duck waiting for reelection," Long said. "He has been vociferous in his opposition, so if he wins, he may become an even stronger voice. He may not win those battles, but he can get louder."
Steve Stuart resume
- Age: 42
- Party: Democrat
- Jobs before commissioner: Founded Urban Reserve, a wetland conservation firm; former executive director of Friends of Clark County; former state policy director for 1000 Friends of Washington.
- Education: Law degree, University of Oregon, 2000; bachelor's degree in business and sociology, Linfield College, 1994; Prairie High School, 1989.
- Background: Despite being the youngest member on the board of Clark County commissioners, Stuart is the longest tenured member.
- Political experience: Appointed in 2004 to fill the position vacated by Democrat Craig Pridemore, Stuart won his first election in 2005 against a now familiar face in Commissioner Tom Mielke. That election was to confirm the appointment and fill out the end of Pridemore's term. In 2006, Stuart won election to his first full term in office against Republican Bruce Hagensen with 54.4 percent of the vote. In 2010, Stuart won 51.2 percent of the vote against Republican Alan Svehaug. The 2010 victory was intriguing in that he squeaked out a victory against a candidate who barely ran a campaign in a time where the county was seeing power swing from the Democrats to the Republicans. Other than Stuart, the only remaining Democrats in elected county positions are Doug Lasher, the county treasurer, and Tony Golik, the prosecuting attorney.


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Tote your little dog around in style with this Legally Adorable Doggy Tote from Erika Lindquist. Similar to the bag made famous in the movie, Legally Blonde, this fun and funky dog craft is a great way to travel with your BFF.
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First, I cut out an oval shape on paper to be traced onto the side of the bag with chalk.
Then I cute it out with some sturdy shears.
I covered the raw edges with double fold bias tape and then stitched a straight line on my sewing machine to attach it to the tote. (I'm sure there's many other methods of doing this part!)
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How about a full size pattern of the oval shape? How did u determine what size it should be? I assume you would need a pretty sturdy tote, was the one in pictures lined canvas or something similar?
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@HRHCraftQueenie For the oval shape, you can measure the width of your dog's chest to get a good idea of how wide it needs to be. And depending on the size of the dog, yes, a sturdy tote is best :) Hope that helps!
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Rejecting the allegations levelled against JSW Steel in the Karnataka Lokayukta report, the Sajjan Jindal-led firm on Thursday said it was "appalled and concerned with the untenable conclusions" drawn in the report.
Giving its rebuttal on allegations of seeking favours to get iron ore mining leases and other illegal actions made in the report, the company claimed itself as an aggrieved party that had not been allotted a single captive mine despite being the biggest investor in the State.
"However, it is not looking at taking legal recourse for now but it may do so in future, JSW Steel's Joint Managing Director M.V.S. Seshagiri Rao told journalists here.
He, however, evaded direct answers to questions on his firm's transactions with former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa's sons, son-in-law and other family members.
When asked about the accusations of paying excess money to former Mr. Yeddyurappa's sons for buying an acre of land, eventually which triggered resignation of the BJP leader, Mr. Rao claimed that the company paid market price and was willing to make its sale deed agreement public.
The company was accused in the Lokayukta report of paying excess money to the tune of Rs. 20 crore to Mr. Yeddyurappa's sons against the prevailing market price of Rs. 1.24 crore.
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Five of the best: High-tech hammers
By Loz Blain
April 28, 2014
People have been banging nails into things for nearly five and a half thousand years, if archaeologists are correct. And wood is such a versatile and abundant building material that we're sure to be banging spiky bits of metal into it for thousands of years to come. But how similar is the hammer going to look at that stage? What is the state of the art in hammer technology? Are they still just flat-ended bits of metal on the end of sticks? Let's take a look at five hammers that aim to push one of mankind's (other) oldest professions forward.
1 – Picard's Carpenter's Roofing Hammer
The ultimate in thumb protection, this hammer holds the nail for you on the first stroke so you can use it one-handed. The nail sits neatly in a groove on top of the head and is held in by a small magnet. Probably not the greatest in terms of precision, but very nifty when you're hanging onto a ladder, for example, if you're a carpenter, and you're doing some roofing.
Plus, any product that can be successfully demonstrated in a 20-second video is a winner in my books.
Product page: Picard's Carpenter's Roofing Hammer
2 – The Craftsman NEXTEC Rotating-Head Autohammer
Outstanding when your target surface is awkwardly positioned or hard to get to, the Autohammer bangs nails in without needing to be swung. You just position the nail against the magnetic head, stick it on the wood, pull the trigger, and press down as the battery-powered hammer action thumps the top of the nail at a rate of 2,000 impacts per minute.
It's got a rotating head to open up more hammering options than previous models, and it's got LEDs to light up the area you're about to stick a nail into. Very nifty.
Product page: Craftsman NEXTEC Rotating-Head Autohammer
3 – Stiletto's TiBone TBII-15 Titanium Hammer
If you whack in a lot of nails, US$263 might not seem like a bad deal for this blinged-out beauty. The TiBone series is a titanium body with a rubber grip and a replaceable steel striking head. Stiletto says this 15 oz (425 g) beauty "drives like a 28 oz steel hammer" and communicates 10 times less shock to your hand per strike. Its sideways mounted nail puller delivers extra leverage when pulling nails as well.
Product page: TiBone TBII-15
4 – ATOMdesign's S2 Framing Hammer
The work of an Arizona design company, the S2 mounts a steel head on a wooden handle, but adds a shock absorption layer to make it easier on one's delicate hands. The heads are replaceable with an allen wrench, there's a 2-stage nail pulling system and, like the Picard, it holds the nail for you on the first strike. Very nifty, although at this stage it's just a prototype, and I'm not sure I'd back the shock resistant insert to stand the test of time.
Source: ATOMdesign
5 – The Cole-Bar Hammer
The Cole-Bar doesn't seem satisfied just banging nails in. Instead, it acts like a Swiss Army hammer and opens out 180 degrees and uses the nail puller end as a pry bar. On the way to 180 degrees, it clicks in every 15 degrees to provide a set square and crude angle guide with a ruler up the side.
You can pull it apart, leaving you with a demolition tool – you bang the hammer end on the pry bar end to split wood – and the pivot point itself is a standard 0.25 in socket driver. That's a whole lot of features for a single hammer, although as it still hasn't hit the market, it remains to be seen exactly how well it'll do any one of its many jobs.
Source: Cole-Bar
Not to sure if i agree with trees being in use in thousands of years. Trees or wood proably have about a hundred or so years left in them . 3d printed wood instead of plastics might evolve when the feed tray allows such substances. But it would mostly be an artifical substances to look like wood rather then actual wood ,Real wood could still be used but it would be an exculsive thing and maybe not in the expensive way you and i think in terms of current exculsive. The main thing is that in the feild of construction there will be far more cost effective and supirior man made products availble to us which again can simulate any wood varity we wish for at a fiction of current prices. Sorry i cant find anything to comment on the hammers ,you just keep on banging i guess.Richardf
Dude, wood is one of the most sustainable building materials out there. Have you heard of the reasons to build entire skyscrapers out of the stuff? http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_why_we_should_build_wooden_skyscrapersJoel Detrow
I think hammers and nails are pretty much out of date, since the 1970s. In Canada, they have been almost completely replaced by Robertson head screws. If you go around any Canadian construction site, the only banging you're likely to hear is from an air nailer for shingles or for trim.Grunchy
Hmmm, how about a hammer that is able to: 1. Bang nails of ANY size and mass; 2. Bang nails of any size and mass in ANY direction; 3. Bang nails of any size and mass in any direction inside ANYTHING (provided the nail is strong enough); 4. Do all of the above in ANY environment regardless of gas/fluid temperature, pressure, pivoting point, space, light... Yes, it has been invented, patented...Volodya Kotsev
Loz, As a biker I always love to read your motorcycle related articles but, as a carpenter I have to advice you to stay away from writing nonsense about hammers, like above. You obvious don't have a clue how a professional uses his/her hammer in the real world. I have had my Stiletto for almost five years now and I love it. The super light weight of the hammer got rid of the chronic pain in my forearm from swinging full steel Estwings for years. The Picard is "just" a hammer and not a Roofing hammer, there is no roofer, or carpenter, out there that will use the hammer's magnetic option for every nail they put in. You make it sound like that the little magnet in the hammer's head is special but, it's not, there are lots of hammers out there with the same feature. I've used it on my Stiletto maybe a handful of times over the years that I have owned the hammer. The Craftsman and Cole-Bar hammer is homeowner stuff, no professional, that uses a hammer on a daily base, likes to fiddle around with something like a Cole-Bar. Your choice of hammers don't belong together in the same "Five of the best: High-tech hammers" article.LegalAlien
@ Grunchy, You gave it away by starting with "I think". Let me tell you, you think wrong. I don't know which part of Canada you're talking about, but I'm a Carpenter in Canada and I don't recognize what you are saying at all. Yes, the Robertson screw head is great, superior to Philips or slotted screw heads. But there are different applications for screws and nails. On "Canadian construction sites" 99% of the walls and sheathing are still being nailed (stapled), either by nail gun or hand, and not screwed.LegalAlien
@ Joel - Where is the full disclosure on the idea you support? Mr. Green denigrates standard buildings because they have emmisions of X tons of carbon dioxide while he places an equivilant structure made of wood on a pedestal for sequestering 3X tons of carbon dioxide.
What's the full story? What is the carbon cost of harvesting the wood? What is the cabon cost of making a tree into an engineered component that can be used in a 40 storey structure? What is the environmental cost of treating these engineered members (since they can't be readily maintained once the structure is built) against any and all vectors that would otherwise act to cause the destruction/decomposition of the wood? If this process is to be implemented, where are new trees going to be planted (how much more land will it take to support this uptick in lumber usage)? How long will it take for a newly planted tree to perform (in the act of carbon sequestration) at the same level as the tree it replaces? What is the environmental cost of constantly building and detroying an ecosystem to support building these wooden skyscrapers? How long will a wooden skyscraper last when compared to its equivilant made in the traditional methods? What is the lifetime maintenance cost when compared to a traditional structure?
The link you posted is nothing more than the same propaganda used by any individual or organization trying to sell their idea. Much like those who tout the electric car as the end all, be all; the only information presented is that which shows the idea in a positive light while everything else is left in the dark. If you want an idea to gain traction and support then, at the very least, have enough faith in your idea that it can stand on its own against full disclosure.Rt1583


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