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2008 reissue of their 1970 album, Question of Balance. The album was an attempt by the group to strip down their well-known lush, psychedelic sound in order to be able to better perform the songs in concert. For the first time, The Moody Blues used political strife as a basis for songwriting with the UK number two hit in May 1970, "Question", which dealt with the controversy resulting from the ongoing Vietnam War. The album reached #1 in the UK and #3 in the U.S. In 2008, Moody Blues reissues its first seven album releases, each with bonus content and each release in this set of their first seven evolutionary albums includes a varying number of special mixes or versions of songs that are also represented in their final form on the respective albums from their highly spectacular career. 10 original tracks plus six bonus.
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Golden Dawn is located in Shippensburg, PA and we raise Nigerian Dwarf Goats for show and pets. Size and temperment is a great selling point for us. Nigerians are the size of a labrador and because they are the size of a dog many use dog houses as shelters, no special sheds or barn needed.They are also small enough that children can handle them without problem which was a plus for us with 5 kids. With them being small they also use less food and less space making them accessible to more people with less space.
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Color, color, color, many people including us love the colors being red, gold, chocolate, white, black and even blue. These colors can be solid or many differnt patterns. Even there eyes can be colored blue or brown.
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Via the Bad Astronomer, some eery pictures from the surface of Mars that look straight out of a sci-fi flick. The images were taken by the HiRise camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Another brilliant recent addition to the HiRise image archive is this one:
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Cute Pic of the Day: Allie Gonino Cuddles With a Furry Friend
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Chandrakeshwar Prasad — Chanda Babu to everyone in his native Siwan — and his wife Kalawati Devi had named their four sons Rajiv Roshan, Girish Raj, Satish Raj and Nitish Raj. They were particularly proud of the connotations of brightness and royalty in the names they chose for their boys.
Today, Rajiv, Girish and Satish are dead. Nitish, 24, has been an invalid since he was a child. 67-year-old Chanda Babu's once flourishing wholesale provisions business has been reduced to a small, struggling shop. Kalawati Devi hardly ever speaks any more. Chanda Babu tries to ensure she does not come across pictures of their dead sons in the house.
For the fate his family has suffered, Chanda Babu blames "Shahabuddin raj". The rule of Mohammad Shahabuddin, four-time RJD MP and uncrowned king of Siwan, and possibly India's most infamous criminal-politician. He had stood up to Shahabuddin, Chanda Babu says, and the don had responded by ordering a terrible retribution visit the family.
On June 16, Rajiv, the couple's eldest son, was shot dead by killers on a motorbike who drew up alongside as he rode home after collecting dues from retailers in his business of mobile phone spare parts.
From some distance away, Chanda Babu saw his son fall off his bike and die from a single bullet that entered his temple and exited through his mouth. Rajiv, 35, had been married for only 20 days.
In his FIR, Chanda Babu accused Osama, Shahabuddin's 20-year-old son, of Rajiv's murder. Osama was at the time in Siwan on vacation from Noida, where he is studying for a law degree. Chanda Babu also named Shahabuddin, accusing him of criminal conspiracy.
On June 19, three days from the day he was murdered, Rajiv Roshan was to record his statement as eyewitness to the macabre killings of his brothers Girish, 23, and Satish, 20, in August 2004. Girish and Satish were allegedly drenched in acid before being shot. Rajiv too had been abducted, but he had managed to escape his brothers' fate. The bodies of Girish and Satish were never found.
Shahabuddin is the only one among the accused in the 'acid murders' who did not get bail. The ex-MP is currently in prison, serving
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Chanda Babu says he can recognise Rajiv's assailants if he sees them. "I have not seen much of Osama, but I believe it was him. If the police bring them before me, I can surely recognise them," he said.
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I absolutely love the Joanna Newsom album cover as much as I love the album. Andy Samburg is one lucky guy.
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Alex Prager, the Los Angeles based photographer just revealed her newest series Week-End with back to back openings, the first at Yancey Richardson in New York on January 14, 2010 followed by an opening at M+B in Los Angeles on January 30, 2010. This series Week-End acted as a seamless continuation of her last two series Polyester and Big Valley, perhaps pushing the boundaries of normality or lack there of a bit more. The work is some of the best color photography out there and has a great cinematic quality to it. Compared to photographers like Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston and Guy Bourdin, one could only be so lucky to be placed among these heavy weights. Growing up in Los Angeles, Prager's surroundings are clearly a strong influence in her work. The highly stylized photographs focus on young women dressed in 60's styled retro clothing, disguised in wigs, in somewhat of damsel in distress situations, straddle fashion editorial and fine art photography. Definitely go check out the exhibits, worth seeing.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles appointed Jeffrey Deitch, the well-known gallerist and art dealer, as its new director. Deitch, known for his non-traditional exhibitions and outside of the box forward thinking has a lot to offer. Thank god there is finally something exciting happening on west coast in the art-world (nice move MOCA). There are mixed feelings about this choice circulating around, but there is no doubt that this is going to change the Los Angeles art scene and in my opinion for the better. This is definitely a loss for New York and we'll just have to wait and see what happens to Deitch Projects.


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This class is designed to foster an interaction with literature and composition while developing an awareness of America's literary heritage and the influence of that literature on American life.
During Part A of this two-part class, students are involved in both formal and informal writing activities, the study of literary techniques and devices, and the reading of a variety of poetry, essays, short stories, and novels particular to the American Experience. Attention has been called to the times, styles, beliefs, ideas and experiences that have shaped the thinking and writing of some of America's major authors. The class covers the writings of the Colonial & Puritan Period, the Revolutionary and Early National Period, and the Romantic and Transcendentalist Periods of literature. Some of the authors we have or will read and discuss are Captain John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatly, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.


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I'm new to having a local copy of a website with MAMP and uploading any changes to the production site (using Coda).
I'm struggling on how I prevent specific local settings (DB, local path etc.) in my PHP files overwriting the production server settings and crashing it?
I'd rather not have to publish a config file to the production site, then go have to update all the settings again for the production environment, but can only guess I have to do it?
Use relative paths everywhere would be my suggestion. I avoid absolute paths as much as possible, so instead of pointing to an image like this:
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If you don't use any of that anywhere (when calling your CSS, Javascripts, etc.) the both local and production won't get in eachother's way:
When pointing to the database, always point to "localhost", so no matter what environment you're working on, it will always use the database on the same server where your files are.
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Thanks. Yes I had been using the relative paths for the images, which was lucky but I've found that I have some problems with the $_SERVER, that I use to reference some resources outside of the web root, being unavoidably very different on both locations.
It was hardcoded when I worked only remotely on the site, but now I find I need to set it for the development site in my config file, then upload to production, then re-edit remotely to fix it for the new server.
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No, bespoke sites.
Personally I keep all of my global domain variables in a separate file called site.config. This holds all of the PHP constants that change between local server and my hosting.
Then you just don't upload it.
Great, thanks guys. I like to keep my sites as 'portable' as possible, so as they could be picked up from one host and dropped onto another with very little fuss/downtime etc. I've spent years just working on them 'live', but trying to take a more considered approach now with development/production stages. :D
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Sean Young stars, alongside an amazing break-out performance from Lauren Ashley Carter. The film also stars Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden and Daniel Manche.
The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother's child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not Sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does. Running Time: 81 minutes. Not yet rated.
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Baker Grateful to be in Hall of Fame
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Bob Huggins thinks Warren Baker could have been an excellent power forward on some his best basketball teams at Cincinnati and West Virginia through the years. Baker, a teammate of Huggins' at West Virginia, was recently inducted into West Virginia University's Sports Hall of Fame.
"Bake could jump, now," Huggins said. "He played above the rim."
"Wonderful" Warren Baker played on Greenbrier East's state championship team and was one of the most sought-after players in the country in 1972, earning mention on the Basketball News High School All-America basketball team with players such as John Drew, Robert Parish, Alvin Adams and Walter Davis.
Baker, a 6-7 center, averaged 29 points and 19.5 rebounds per game to earn state player of the year honors in '72 during a time when the state was still producing many high-major basketball players.
During a 10-year period from 1967-77, the Mountaineers were able to land 12 players from the state; Marshall two, Virginia Tech two and several other D-I programs one each, including Charleston's Mike Jones, who went to Cincinnati, and Sam Brooks, who ended up at Louisville.
"You could have taken the whole starting five from Charleston High at one time and made a nice college team," said Baker.
Charleston High was also very good to WVU, giving the Mountaineers such players as Curt Price, Deacon Harris and Levi Phillips. But the two biggest names in the state during that time were Baker and Welch forward Maurice Robinson, who would also follow Baker's path to West Virginia and become the Mountaineers' starting center.
Baker thought there were other players who might have been good enough to play at WVU during that era but did not get the opportunity for one reason or another.
"From time to time there were guys who people felt were good enough in the state to play at the University but were just not recruited or given that opportunity," he recalled. "The desire to play for your home state school may have been enough to override a lack of talent some of them might have had."
Baker specifically mentioned the small town of Mullens, which produced WVU teammate Jerome Anderson, Marshall's Mike D'Antoni and Greg White, and then later West Virginia guard Herbie Brooks when the ball fields in Mullens were still full of players.
"You go through Mullens now and the whole town looks like it is just boarded up," he said.
Baker also came from a small West Virginia town, White Sulphur Springs, where he became one of the state's most well-known players. During his senior year Baker narrowed his long list of suitors down to seven: Duke, Clemson, Michigan State, Marshall, Ohio, Virginia Tech and WVU.
"Believe it or not, I initially thought about going to a school that had colors of green," he laughed. "That's why Michigan State, Marshall and Ohio U. were in the picture. There was just something about me being in a green uniform, and I really think that a couple of those trips I took dealt with the color green."
Baker also took a trip to Duke at the same time All-American guard John Lucas was visiting the campus, and the two had to cover their heads during a game to protect themselves from debris raining down on Duke coach Bucky Waters from the student section. Baker also recalled getting booed by Duke students for standing up during the national anthem.
"That was right after John Carlos and those guys made their demonstration at the Olympics, so blacks at that point in time were not recognizing the national anthem," Baker said. "Of course me being a country boy, and John not being aware of it either, we stood up, and there was just a chorus of boos from the blacks."
It was a close friendship Baker had developed with Jerome Anderson in high school that helped steer him to West Virginia University.
"When Jerome went up there that was a pretty big factor in me choosing West Virginia," Baker explained.
Baker was expected to give West Virginia front line depth on a team that would have returned Harris and Phillips, but the '72 car accident that claimed the life of Harris and the playing career of Sam Oglesby, along with the academic suspension of Phillips, left Sonny Moran's Mountaineer program reeling.
Baker's first season in 1973 was also the first year the NCAA permitted freshmen to play on the varsity team, and Baker and Dave McCardle became starters that year.
"If my memory serves me correct, I think it was the second-youngest team in the country that year," Baker said. "We had three sophomores and two freshmen playing and I think either Arizona or Arizona State had four freshmen and a sophomore it the lineup."
Baker scored 12 points in his WVU debut coming off the bench against Massachusetts, and he was in the starting lineup by the third game of the year against Air Force. He finished the season leading the team in scoring with an average of 16.6 points per game and rebounding with an average of 11.2 boards per game.
Baker scored 29 in a win against Lehigh, added 29 in a loss to Virginia and contributed 24 points and 11 rebounds in a 59-58 win over Pitt at the Coliseum to wrap up an outstanding freshman campaign – still ranking among the best freshman seasons in school history.
He had his best statistical year as a sophomore in 1974 when he averaged 17.7 points and 13.1 rebounds per game. Twelve times that season he topped 20 points in a game, including a high of 31 points scored in a double-overtime win against Manhattan.
Baker posted career highs of 39 points against Boston University as a junior in 1975 and 22 rebounds against Richmond as a sophomore in 1974. He played well for new coach Joedy Gardner in 1975, but slumped during his senior season in 1976 when his numbers declined to 9.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.
"He led the team in rebounding that year and look up how many minutes he played," said Huggins. "It was amazing."
Baker remains the only player in school history to lead the Mountaineers in rebounding all four seasons he played at WVU, and he is also one of only two (Jerry West being the other) to have scored more than 1,500 points and grabbed more than 1,000 rebounds during their careers.
"Bake was a big jumper – a quick jumper – who really used his quickness," said Huggins. "He could really play."
"My whole thing was just to try and go and get the ball," Baker explained. "Looking back on it now, yeah, (being the only player to lead the team in rebounding four straight years) is something you can be very, very proud of. It didn't take the ability to score or a whole lot of talent to do that – you just had to want to try and do it."
Baker never really developed much of a perimeter game, preferring instead to spend most of his time playing with his back to the basket. Remember though that he played during an era when defenders were not permitted to put their hands on offensive players and that's one reason why players could get away with using only one hand or relying on one particular move to be successful.
"I never really developed my ball handling skills other than putting it on the deck once or twice with my back to the basket," said Baker. "And it was evident any time I tried to dribble."
Had Baker's teams been a little more successful his WVU legacy would have likely been even more prominent, Huggins believes. The four teams Baker played on at West Virginia finished seven games under .500, although each season the Mountaineers knocked off some very good teams only to lose other games to bad ones.
"I can't put my finger on why those things happened because talent-wise we were there," Baker recalled.
Still, Baker's induction into the WVU Sports Hall of Fame solidifies his name among the all-time greats in school history. Baker, today an assistant professor at Fairmont State and a women's basketball analyst for the Mountaineer Sports Network, is grateful his name finally came up on the ballot.
"It's a great honor when you look at all of the people that have played here," Baker said. "I just feel very lucky that someone thought that I was deserving."
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"The Next Level of Training"
J. Randolph Babbitt, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
November 14, 2011
Gulf Aviation Training Event
Good morning and thank you, Ed (Davidson, conference director) for that kind introduction.
It's a pleasure to be here today at this first annual training event at the Dubai Air Show. We all share a passion for aviation. And we are all working towards the next level of safety.
I was impressed with the air show yesterday and I would like to wish the citizens of the United Arab Emirates a hearty congratulations on your 40th anniversary.
Air traffic in the Gulf is some of the busiest and fastest growing in the world. Airlines here are rapidly expanding global routes. And they will be using new Boeing 777s and Airbus A-380s to transport those passengers globally.
Dubai International Airport is now 13th in the world in terms of passenger volume. In 2006, the airport was not in the top 30 worldwide. This airport has seen a 65 percent increase in just five years. That is truly impressive.
Safely managing rapid growth is a challenging balancing act. But it can be accomplished with the right tools and procedures.
Today I want to talk with you about flight crew training and enhancing safety by better addressing human factors.
I would like to share with you some of the steps we are taking in the United Statesto enhance safety for every air traveler.
The FAA is proposing to improve training requirements for commercial pilots and crews.
These new rules will require pilots to demonstrate their skills in real world scenarios – situations that they might encounter in the cockpit, instead of practicing maneuvers in a vacuum.
Crew training is undoubtedly one of the most important issues facing aviation safety professionals and regulators today. It is also one of the most challenging.
Advances in technology and today's meticulous investigation of accidents have given us the means and the data we need to change aircraft design so that we remove many of yesterday's mechanical malfunctions from the safety equation.
However it is a much more complex undertaking to decrease the errors that people make.
But there are certainly things we can do. A key role for aviation regulators is to design policies, procedures, and regulations that will prevent as many errors as possible, and mitigate the impact of those errors that do occur.
And, of course, we have to design and implement effective ways of training flight crews on all those procedures and regulations.
The best procedures in the world are not worth much unless they are understood and implemented by flight crews. So we have to constantly be alert to how we can improve procedures and training methods.
Our proposed new rule for pilot and crew training represents the most significant overhaul of crew training in the last 20 years.
This is a major effort to strengthen the performance of pilots, flight attendants and dispatchers through better and enhanced training.
We want to give pilots more training and better training on how to recognize and recover from stalls and aircraft upsets.
But the difference is, rather than have a pilot execute a recovery or another kind of skill in isolation, the new training will require a more realistic and coordinated effort by the crew – as if they were actually on a flight.
And they will be given a scenario or emergency as it would unfold in real life and then be trained on how to use the proper response and techniques. It will be more life-like.
This rule requires enhanced training and evaluation in flight simulators.
We want pilots and crews to have more training in the kinds of rare emergency events that will test their skills.
We believe this real-life scenario training will enhance safety for the kind of emergencies that are extremely rare. But if they do ever happen, we want pilots to have the full knowledge, confidence and training experience so they can appropriately handle the situation.
Flight attendants would be required to complete hands-on emergency drills every 12 months.
We also want to standardize and improve the training for the people who train and test the flight attendants and dispatchers.
Today's operating environment is incredibly complex and we must ensure training and knowledge are being applied to real life situations.
Our new approach also represents a change in philosophy. We don't just want the flight crews to show us they have mastered individual skills. We want them to demonstrate that they can apply those skills in real world scenarios.
We want to make certain that all members of a flight crew are fully trained for the mission they are expected to fly.
As I remember very well from my days as an airline pilot, there is no limit to the benefits from using simulation technology to train for events that we could never safely perform in the aircraft.
We support ICAO's suggestions for flight simulation training. These principles and standards will lead to significant improvement in simulator training worldwide. The FAA is working to adopt them.
The timeframe for adoption is the challenge. The magnitude of the changes recommended by ICAO in its manual for simulation training is significant. Many will require rulemaking.
As you may know, a number of training and safety requirements were mandated by Congress in the Airline Safety and FAA Extension Act of 2010, and we are working on those.
Since a number of these requirements are directly related to flight crew training and safety, let me offer a brief summary of our progress on some of our initiatives.
We are working diligently to change and improve our rules on pilot flight duty and rest. I've been pushing for this since I was president of the Air Line Pilots Association in the 1990s. Our proposed rule establishes a new method for measuring a pilot's rest period, based on fatigue science.
We have analyzed the numerous public comments we received, and the rule is now in its final stages of executive review. We are working aggressively to get it out as soon as possible. And we are committed to ensuring that airline pilots are fit and rested when they report for duty.
In addition, we are also working on a rule that increases the amount of experience required to become an air carrier first officer.
And lastly, we formed an industry group to make recommendations to improve training for pilots for stall avoidance and adverse weather. We are using these recommendations to create better guidance for pilots.
Safety is the FAA's top priority.
Addressing the human element in the chain of events that leads to an accident is one of the reasons I have focused so sharply on professionalism since Day One as FAA Administrator. But I'll say it again: however much I wish it were possible, I cannot mandate professionalism.
There are some life lessons that are universal truths for all of us when it comes to bringing our best to the mission at hand, whether aboard the airplane or in every job or task that touches this vital industry. Incorporating the wisdom of these lessons and going back to basics will improve professionalism across the industry. It will do more than regulations alone can do.
One of the most basic things we can do, and what we're talking about here today, is to train well. It's essential when you're in a critical moment that you are prepared, vigilant, and disciplined.
Secondly, we need to remember to work together. Teamwork is about listening, sharing your knowledge, and knowing when to lead and when to follow. Consider the teamwork last November when the pilots on a Qantas A380 had an uncontained engine failure and subsequent multiple system failures. They landed safely at Singapore with no injuries.
Thirdly, leadership is important. We all know the story of US Airways Flight 1549, which people have called the "Miracle on the Hudson." It's the flight where Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and his team landed a planeload of 150 passengers safely in the Hudson Riverafter losing both engines due to bird strikes. Captain Sully has been celebrated for his performance, his character and his swift, decisive leadership.
But I think using the term "miracle" to describe that event is actually incorrect. That remarkable incident had a successful outcome because it involved well-trained flight crews, cabin crews and air traffic controllers, as well as an aircraft that was designed with numerous safety features so it could withstand ditching in the river.
The business of flying can seem repetitive and routine, but at any moment—as those Qantas pilots and US Airways pilots learned—the humdrum can quickly become the most challenging obstacle course, calling on every tool in your professional toolkit.
Today's safety challenges include integrating automation, fighting complacency, and managing distractions.
Training, teamwork and leadership are still our best bets when responding to old or new safety threats. Nothing is more important to maintaining professionalism than working side-by-side with professionals who model the right attitudes.
So to conclude, it's really up to all of us. Mentor those who are following you. We are the most powerful teachers. Model professionalism through training, teamwork and leadership. Pass it forward.
There's a great saying: "Each one, teach one."
That can be our legacy. And, by each one of us—all of us collectively –doing this, we can become a passionate force for aviation safety to future generations of aviation professionals.
Thank you again for inviting me today, and I look forward to seeing many important ideas and recommendations come forward as a result of this Gulf Aviation Training Event.


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The Home-Run Wars
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the St. Louis Cardinals are currently owned by Anheuser-Busch.
1. Power Comes from the Barrel of a Bat
"Chicks dig the long ball."--Nike commercial
Like its nation, the national pastime often turns to brute force in a crisis.
The 1919 World Series gambling fix that came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal shook America's belief in baseball, but Babe Ruth brought it back with the home run. The very next year, his first with the Yankees, he hit 54 homers. Until the Babe, fifteen or so dingers would usually lead the Major Leagues.
In saving the game, the Babe also transformed it, ditching the cunning tactics of "small ball"--the sacrifice bunt, the steal, the hit-and-run play--for a reliance on the big bang. In the Bambino, America found its prototype male athlete: the arrogant, self-absorbed rowdy whose excesses, commercial greed, and tunnel vision were justified by winning. The cock-jock has since become a business, entertainment, and political role model.
In the Bambino's home run, America found a thrilling symbol of American power--on the diamond and in the world. Boom! Hitting a home run became a synonym for having done the best job possible, for nailing the deal, or the case, or the diagnosis. As it happens, the home run should also have become the symbol for the quick fix that may not hold, the brass ring that diverts us from the pleasure of the process, the big club created to intimidate opponents into submission that so often turns them into resentful insurgents.
The 1994 Major League players' strike led to the cancellation of the World Series. Again, as in 1919, fears arose that fans had lost faith in the game, and again the home run brought them back. The 1998 Summer of Swat featured the collegial rivalry of St. Louis' Mark McGwire and Chicago's Sammy Sosa, ending in a seasonal home-run record of 70. Roger Maris' 61 and the Babe's 60 were left in the dust, but this, too, came at a cost; it became obvious that baseball players, like football players and Olympic athletes, were going for the big bang by enhancing their performance with steroids.
That summer also made Barry Bonds angry and sad. Arguably the best all-around player in the game, on track for the Hall of Fame, Bonds at 34 was having a terrific thirteenth season for the San Francisco Giants. All-star, Golden Glove, he hit .303 with 37 homers and 28 stolen bases. Yet no one seemed to be paying attention. McGwire's booming homers filled the air.
One can imagine Bonds fuming at this white meatball, this freckled phony, who surely was on steroids. (Actually, McGwire's use of the over-the-counter nutritional supplement Andro, which can act like a steroid and was banned in other sports, was no secret in 1998, although the story was not vigorously pursued.) Why wouldn't the prideful Bonds decide to take steroids--those weapons of mass construction--and also start hitting monster home runs without end?
Jump a decade. In this mean season for the nation and its pastime, the home run itself is at the core of the crisis. Sometime soon, Bonds will hit the 756th home run of his major league career, surpassing the record set by Hank Aaron, a decent, low-key, dependable star most fans never cared much about until, in 1973, he began approaching the Babe's iconic, never-to-be-broken record of 714 homers. As a youngster, Aaron had been inspired by Jackie Robinson and he swept past his contemporary, the golden Mickey Mantle, the consensus Chosen One to beat the Babe, who retired after the 1968 season with 536 homers.


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INDEPENDENCE, Missouri - The nationally recognized Russell Stover Tier 1 AAA Hockey Program has agreed to partner with the Jr. Mavs Hockey Organization for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Russell Stover will change their name and become the "Kansas City Mavs Elite". KC Mavs Elite will continue to compete in the Tier I Elite League nationally and offer teams at the 18U and 16U midget levels along with offering birth year teams at bantam and pee wee levels.
"Russell Stover has a tradition of being one of the top Tier 1 AAA programs in the country. We are excited about this partnership and believe our organizational resources will provide additional opportunities to attract, and retain the best players throughout the Midwest and nationally," states Dennis King, Jr. Mavs Vice President of Hockey Operations.
"Heading into our 10th season of Tier I hockey in Kansas City, I am excited about our partnership with the Missouri Mavericks and Jr. Mavs organizations," said Don Burns, Russell Stover Hockey Director. "It was c ear in our talks we shared the same philosophies to move the program forward for future seasons."
Additional details of the partnership are still being finalized and will be released over the next couple of weeks. Russell Stover coaches Mike Kempkes, Matt Buss, & Scott Krueger will return this season to handle coaching duties at the bantam and pee wee levels.
Tryouts for these teams will be held on May 24-26, 2013 at Independence Events Center. More information about these tryouts, along with registration and costs, will be released shortly and may be found under the Tier 1 page at the Jr. Mavs Hockey website, www.jrmavshockey.com.
The Jr. Mavs Hockey Organization operates under the Mid America Hockey Association (MAHA, www.midamericahockey.org) as its governing body and is incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation.


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About Us
Application Process and Timeline
Education Requirement
Master's degree in Health/Hospital Administration, Business Administration, or similar degree from a CAHME-accredited graduate program or equivalent prior to the start date. Strong academic performance is a must. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical skills, drive, written and verbal communication skills, and a self-starting attitude. Previous relevant experience (1-3 years) in healthcare or health industry area will be positively considered. The candidate must be proficient in computer software applications such as Microsoft Office. Interest in academic medical centers also will be positively considered.
Application Process
Applicants must apply online at https://jobs.uiowa.edu/pands/view/64752 (Requisition #64752, Administrative Services Specialist) AND submit the following items through mail (one envelope), to be received by Monday, September 22, 2014:
- Current resume and cover letter
- One-page Career Goals and Objectives statement specifying interest in: a health administration career, UIHC Fellowship, and desired areas to explore in the fellowship
- Official graduate transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation: one from a graduate program faculty member, one professional (must be sealed and enclosed in application packet)
Final application materials should be addressed to:
Kenneth P. Kates
Associate Vice President and CEO-UIHC
The University of Iowa
Hospitals and Clinics
c/o Traci Kinnick
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
Questions regarding the Administrative Fellowship should be directed to:
Tessa Quintero or Brooke Vagts
Administrative Fellows
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
Phone: (319) 353-7047
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
A selection committee with leaders from UI Hospitals and Clinics will review all applications. Late or incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
- Monday, September 22: Deadline for completed applications to be received
- Late September: Telephone interviews for qualified applicants
- Friday, October 10 or Monday, October 13: On-site interviews for selected applicants
- Mid-Late October: Selection announcement date
- July: Start of Administrative Fellowship
The University of Iowa is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.


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Call 1300 30 1300 from 8am-10pm, 7 days a week.
*Parentline operates in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Mobile phone charges apply. If you live in other areas of Australia, find out contact details of Parentline in your state.


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"Yuck. Totally scuzzy."
"I can't help it when you go all ninja and f*** everything up."
Colorful comic book panels featuring dialogue like this flipped past on a computer screen again and again at this week's Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z presentation at GDC in San Francisco. As this limited amount of art endlessly repeated itself, Team Ninja's Yosuke Hayashi and Comcept's Keiji Inafune walked a roomful of games press through their plans for this Ninja Gaiden spin-off. And those plans involve graphic violence presented in a comic book style, and painted with broad humorous strokes that hark back to Inafune's Dead Rising games.
"We think that's really cool" said Inafune via a translator, and indeed, there's something striking about the way Ninja Gaiden Z looks. He stated that the panels were created from in-game assets, even though they had a vibrant hand-drawn style, the shadows and blood splatters looking as if they were brushed onto a page rather than rendered by a computer. If nothing else, Ninja Gaiden Z looks attractive when displayed in still images, though its artistic flair is in no way reminiscent of any other game in the series. Nor, for that matter, is any other element of the game.
"The character is more important than the combat system." These words from Inafune made it clear that whatever hope you may have had that Ninja Gaiden Z would signal a return to the series' challenging, combo-driven roots should be reserved for later, if not downright abandoned. The character in question is the titular Yaiba, the game's star. Yaiba is rival to series mainstay Ryu Hyabusa and is, in Hayashi's words, "crazy" and "not typical Japanese." The game has been created to fit the character, whose name means "blade"--and who sports a mechanical arm and a cybernetic eye. And his main adversaries aren't powerful ninjas, but rather, zombies--thus the "Z" in "Ninja Gaiden Z."
Just what that arm and that eye will bring to the gameplay isn't yet clear, though the team described Ninja Gaiden Z as a hack-and-slash game with cybernetic abilities. What is clear, however, is that Hayashi and company are approaching the game with tongues planted firmly in cheeks. In Inafune's words, "I think that zombie games need that sort of [comical] atmosphere." The gameplay will reflect the humorous bent by allowing you to (for example) yank limbs off of zombies and use them as nunchuks.
Presumably, then, dialogue like "My name's Yaiba, and I'm having a bad day" is meant to be campy, but it's so far removed from what we've come to expect from Ninja Gaiden that it's hard not to question the series' direction. Ninja Gaiden 3 felt like Team Ninja's meek attempt to make an action game with broad appeal, and Ninja Gaiden Z seems no different. Team Ninja and Comcept have enlisted the help of American developer Spark Unlimited, the developer leading the charge on the upcoming Lost Planet 3--and the developer that brought us less-than-stellar games like Legendary and Turning Point: Liberty. Why enlist the assistance of an American developer at all? Says Inafune, "If we really wanted a genuine ninja game, this would be a fully Japanese game." But he thinks that while the Japanese know their ninjas, Americans "get" zombies better, and so the collaboration was sensible.
And from these ideas has been spawned a campy, cel-shaded game that prioritizes character over combat, and features a lead character expressing his glee with lines like "No such thing as half ninja, baby." It may be a spin-off, but aside from Ryu's presence, and ninjas in general, it's unclear what else, if anything, ties Ninja Gaiden Z to the rest of the series.
Most of this information was communicated through Inafune and Hayashi's presentation, with the assistance of the onscreen comic and concept art that was passed around the room. The event concluded with a gameplay sizzle reel that showed a flurry of cel-shaded action, including side-scrolling sequences suggestive of the series' NES days. In motion, the game didn't look as impressive as it did in still shots: animations looked awkward, and the gameplay choppy. In fact, given the comic art style, uneven animations, its use of limbs as weapons, and side-scrolling cutaways, Ninja Gaiden Z seemed remarkably similar to 2010's Splatterhouse--not a comparison that works in this game's favor.
Team Ninja will provide more information about the game--as well as its protagonist and his relationship with Ryu--at this year's E3. It's hard to say at this stage what Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is; it's easier to say what it isn't. And this spin-off isn't anything at all like the Ninja Gaiden you used to know.'


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Secret Service determines monies not counterfeit in Westborough case
Westborough – The Westborough Police Department has released information about an incident over alleged counterfeit money:
On 1/28/13, at approximately 10:58 AM, a 43 year old Fisher St. resident came to the Westborough Police station to report that the Citizen's Bank at 32 Lyman St. Westborough had confiscated 14 one hundred dollar bills as potential counterfeit. Four other one hundred dollar bills were not suspect.
The resident reported that he cashed his payroll check at Sovereign Bank at 70 E. Main St. and was depositing it into his own bank in Julio's Plaza.
The Westborough Police contacted the Secret Service and an investigator determined that the 14 hundred dollars bills were not counterfeit. They were an older denomination which made the bank teller question them.
The Secret Service is returning the money to the resident.
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KCNA Commentary Flays Japan's Dangerous Moves for Reinvasion
| Pyongyang, January 18 (KCNA) -- Japan is persistently trying to turn itself into a military giant and realize its wild ambition for reinvasion.
When the United States made public a new strategy for national defense, Japan welcomed it before anyone else and is scheming to set up within the government a "national security council" similar to the former's.
The new defense strategy of the U.S. is for aggression against the Asia-Pacific region and its National Security Council is a notorious body for realizing its domination over the world.
This notwithstanding, Japan shows sympathy with this strategy and seeks to establish Japan's version of the "National Security Council". That is aimed to fully gratify Japan's ambition to emerge a military giant and launch reinvasion with the help of its American master.
Japan has already done its utmost to make human and material and legal preparations to put such design into practice.
Japan provided such legal groundwork for military action of its aggression forces as "law on overseas dispatch of troops" and "law on the situation in surrounding areas" and upgraded the Defense Agency into a ministry.
It is also concentrating efforts on raising the striking and mobile capability of the "Self-Defense Forces". It is proven by the present "defense programme guidelines" which stresses the need to build warships and change prototype fighters. 90 percent of military hardware for SDF is home-made.
Japan seeks to acquire the latest weapon technology through the joint development of weapons with the U.S.
Japan has staged military exercises in military bases across Japan and its waters off them and air all the year round in an effort to bolster the cooperation capability of the SDF and the U.S. forces.
What remains to be done by Japan at present is to establish a well regulated system capable of satisfactorily operating and using the existing material and institutional mechanisms for reinvasion.
Japan's bid to set up "the national security council" of Japanese version is nothing but an attempt to hold military supremacy in Northeast Asia and round off a state mechanism for launching reinvasion with the U.S backing.
Japan's dangerous moves for reinvasion are being pushed forward at a final phase.
Japan's primary target of reinvasion is the Korean Peninsula.
It is clearly evidenced by the fact that Japan allowed six civilian ports in Honshu area close to the East Sea of Korea and Kyushu area to be used as logistic and sortie bases of the U.S. navy under the simulated conditions of "contingency" on the Korean Peninsula.
All the archipelagoes of Japan have become sortie and logistic bases for reinvasion.
It is the plan of the Japanese militarists to put the Korean Peninsula under control and, furthermore, realize their old dream of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
But, this is no more than a daydream.
The world is watching with vigilance the black-hearted intention of Japan to emerge a leader of Asia, backed by the U.S., and the service personnel and people of the DPRK are highly alerted.
If Japan persists in its moves to become a military giant and launch reinvasion, far from drawing a lesson from the blood-stained past history, it will face only a disgraceful defeat and self-destruction.
Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.


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Postorgasmic illness syndrome
Post orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) is a rare condition characterized by debilitating symptoms following orgasm that last for a few hours to several days.[1][2][3] The phenomenon was first described in 2002.[4]
Symptoms usually appear within half an hour of orgasm and resolve after a few days.[3][4] The person may experience a combination of mental and physical symptoms. Common mental symptoms include cognitive dysfunction, intense discomfort, irritability, anxiety, craving for relief, susceptibility to nervous system stresses (e.g. common cold), depressed mood, and difficulty communicating, remembering words, reading and retaining information, concentrating, and socialising.[1][3][4][5] Physical symptoms include severe fatigue, mild to severe headache, and flu-like and allergy-like symptoms, such as sneezing, itchy eyes, nasal irritation, and muscle pain.[3][4] Affected individuals may also experience intense warmth or cold.[1][2]
Waldinger says this condition is prone to being erroneously ascribed to psychological factors or hypochondria.[2] In a 2010 British Medical Journal case study, Dexter links a form of coital headache with POIS, and references a science forum in which thousands of sufferers (a number which is rapidly growing) have detailed their condition.[3][5] Dexter's patient was found to have low progesterone.[3]
Affected individuals typically avoid sexual activity,[2] especially orgasm, or schedule it for times when they can rest and recover for several days afterwards.[4]
Two people have been treated using hyposensitation techniques for semen allergies.[6] One person, who had been symptomatic for 27 years, was treated with norethisterone, half an hour before, and in the minutes just after orgasm.[3]
Most recently, in early 2011, Professor Waldinger and collaborators further characterized POIS, proposed a specific immunological mechanism, and empirically supported their hypothesis on 45 Dutch Caucasian males. This study concluded that both Type-1 and Type-4 allergy to a male's own semen contribute to symptoms of the illness.[1]
Dexter speculates that POIS could be caused by a lack of progesterone, a powerful neurosteroid, or a defect in neurosteroid precursor synthesis. In the latter case, the same treatment may not be effective for different sufferers. Different sufferers may have different missing precursors, ultimately leading to a deficiency of the same particular neurosteroid, causing similar symptoms.
An array of more subtle, lingering symptoms after orgasm, which would not constitute POIS, may contribute to habituation between mates. They may show up as restlessness, irritability, increased sexual frustration, apathy, sluggishness, neediness, dissatisfaction with a mate, or weepiness [7] over the days or weeks after intense sexual stimulation. Such phenomena may be part of human mating physiology itself. Habituation to a mate can drive the search for novel mates (the Coolidge effect).
One researcher suggests that the symptoms may be produced by an autoimmune reaction against any of various hormones or other substances secreted during and after sex.[8] Another suggests that chemical imbalances in the brain may cause the symptoms.[9]
It is difficult to demonstrate a causal relationship based on patient reports.[10]
Sexual activity for the first time may set the stage for an associated asthmatic attack or may aggravate pre-existing asthma. Intense emotional stimuli during sexual intercourse can lead to autonomic imbalance with parasympathetic over reactivity, thereby causing release of mast cell mediators that can provoke postcoital asthma and/or rhinitis in these patients'.[11]
List of possible factors[edit]
- Manifestation of an auto-immune reaction to the man's own semen
- Allergic reaction to sperm or seminal fluid
- Allergic reaction to neurotransmitter or similar
- Ejaculatory duct obstruction
- Sudden and prolonged dopamine reuptake
- Gluten sensitivity
- Malnutrition or vitamin deficiency
- Poisoning of copper, mercury, lead, flour, silicone or other substance
- Psychosomatic reaction linked to trauma/PTSD that overwhelms the nervous system
- Virus, bacteria or parasite infection
- Ongoing leakage of sperm causing exhaustion
- Overactive thyroid
- Malfunction of adrenal glands
- Lack of progesterone
- Sexual addiction
- Pornography addiction
- Depression
- Vegetative-vascular dystonia, POTS
- A microadenoma to the epididym
- Histamine intolerance
- Prostatitis
- Asthma attack
- Alzheimer's
- Diabetes
In the United States of America, POIS is recognized as a rare disorder by the National Institutes for Health (NIH), Office of Rare Diseases Research.[12] It is also listed in the organizational database of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).[13]
See also[edit]
|Look up POIS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ a b c d Waldinger MD, Meinardi M, Zwinderman A, Schweitzer, D. (April 2011). "Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS) in 45 Dutch Caucasian Males: Clinical Characteristics and Evidence for an Immunogenic Pathogenesis (Part 1)". The Journal of Sexual Medicine. doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02166.x.
- ^ a b c d Waldinger MD, Schweitzer DH (2002). "Postorgasmic illness syndrome: two cases". J Sex Marital Ther 28 (3): 251–5. doi:10.1080/009262302760328280. PMID 11995603.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dexter S (2010). "Benign coital headache relieved by partner's pregnancies with implications for future treatment". British Medical Journal.
- ^ a b c d e Richard Balon, R. Taylor Segraves (2005). Handbook of sexual dysfunction. Informa Health Care. ISBN 978-0-8247-5826-4. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
- ^ a b "The Naked Scientists". 2010.
- ^ Waldinger MD, Meinardi M, Zwinderman A, Schweitzer, D. (April 2011). "Hyposensitization Therapy with Autologous Semen in Two Dutch Caucasian Males: Beneficial Effects in Postorgasmic Illness Syndrome (POIS; Part 2)". The Journal of Sexual Medicine. doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.02167.x.
- ^ Burri AV, Spector TD. (June 2011). "An epidemiological survey of post-coital psychological symptoms in a UK population sample of female twins". Twin Res Hum Genet.
- ^ "Dutch Doctor Identifies Post-Orgasmic Syndrome". Amsterdam. Reuters. 12 April 2002.
- ^ Friedman, Richard A. (19 January 2009). "In the Brain, if Not the Mind". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
- ^ Berger, Joanne M. (1 June 2002). "Allergic to sex? (Indications)". International Medical News Group.
- ^ Ashok Shah (2001). "Asthma and sex" (PDF). Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci (medind.nic.in) 43: 135–137.
- ^ "Postorgasmic illness syndrome | Disease | Overview". Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR-NCATS). Retrieved 2014-02-23.
- ^ Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome (P.O.I.S.) Forum National Organization for Rare Disorders
External links[edit]
- Post ejaculation sickness (All Experts, Dec 10, 2014)
- Semen allergy suspected in rare post-orgasm illness (Reuters, January 17, 2011)
- Naked Scientist Forum (POIS in men topic)
- Naked Scientist Forum (POIS in women topic)


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- Willamette
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Gale Lucas
Lucas Honored by American Psychological Association
Gale Lucas, a sophomore majoring in psychology at Willamette University, has been selected by the American Psychological Association to be one of this year's Summer Science Institute fellows. From the 400 plus applications it receives from across the nation, the APA selects 32 sophomores to participate in a nine-day intensive research experience in the field. Students are selected on the basis of college GPA, SAT scores, experience in psychology and dedication to the science of psychology. Lucas is the third Willamette University psychology major to apply for and be accepted to the program.
Lucas, whose parents Scott and Linda Lucas are both physicians, has always been interested in science and thought she'd pursue a career as a doctor or a veterinarian. "In high school, I explored biology, chemistry and physics," says Lucas. "At Willamette, I took my first class in psychology and knew I'd found my passion. In psychology, I can mix my love of the scientific method while exploring the human mind."
This year, Lucas and other SSI fellows will gather June 14-22 at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Students must review a thick packet of materials before they arrive for the Summer Institute.
"At SSI, I will learn from some of the top professors in several areas of psychology," says Lucas, who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology after she graduates from Willamette University. "I'm really excited to dive into this opportunity."


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11 tornadoes confirmed in the D.C. area from April 27-28 (List)
Here is a look at the list of the 11 confirmed tornadoes in the D.C. area with estimated wind speeds, path widths and lengths.
There were 11 tornadoes confirmed in the D.C. area last Wednesday and Thursday the 27th and 28th. This was all part of the same system that wreaked havoc across the south with 312 tornadoes reported and 344 people killed so far, making it the deadliest tornado outbreak since 1936. Tornadoes were rated on the EF Scale. Here is the list of the tornadoes through our area:
1) EF-2 Tornado in Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties – April 28, 2:12am to 2:35am.
Wind Speed: 130 m.p.h. Path Width: 400 yards Length: 33.2 miles
2) EF-1 Tornado near Staunton, VA in Augusta County – April 28, 2:31am to 2:36am.
Wind Speed: 100 m.p.h. Path Width: 150 yards Length: 4.0 miles
3) EF-1 Tornado just north of Harrisonburg, VA – April 28, 3:01am to 3:02am.
Wind Speed: 90 m.p.h. Path Width: 50 yards Length: 0.9 miles
4) EF-1 Tornado just south of Harrisonburg, VA – April 28, 3:55am to 3:58am.
Wind Speed: 90 m.p.h. Path Width: 150 yards Length: 2.7 miles
5) EF-1 Tornado in Nokesville and Bristow, VA – April 27, 10:47pm to 11:01pm.
Wind Speed: 90 m.p.h. Path Width: 125 yards Length: 5.2 miles
6) EF-1 Tornado in Breton Bay, MD – April 28, 11:20am to 11:23am.
Wind Speed: 90 m.p.h. Path Width: 50 yards Length: 3.3 miles
7) EF-0 Tornado in Reston, VA – April 27, 11:25pm to 11:28pm.
Wind Speed: 80 m.p.h. Path Width: 75 yards Length: 1.1 miles
8) EF-0 Tornado near Middletown, VA – April 28, 3:45am to 3:49am.
Wind Speed: 70 m.p.h. Path Width: 175 yards Length: 4.3 miles
9) EF-0 Tornado near Camp Springs, MD – April 27, 7:16pm to 7:17pm.
Wind Speed: 70 m.p.h. Path Width: 100 yards Length: 0.8 miles
10) EF-0 Tornado in Westminster, MD – April 28, 7:46am to 7:47am.
Wind Speed: 65 m.p.h. Path Width: 50 yards Length: 0.6 miles
11) EF-0 Tornado near Hampstead, MD – April 28, 8:09am to 8:11am.
Wind Speed: 65 m.p.h. Path Width: 50 yards Length: 1.1 miles
It was interesting to note that many of these tornadoes occurred in the morning hours on April 28th, showing just how strong this system was as that is typically the time of day when there is the least amount of instability in the atmosphere. The strongest tornado was the EF-2 that was on the ground for 33.2 miles from Rockingham County to Shenandoah County.
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After getting 19:35 on the iQue (2nd fastest any% time) I see some people are discussing the age-old issue of version differences. I see so much misinformation being thrown around and I kind of laugh as I see arguments about it from people who don't play OoT on various websites like YouTube (comments), reddit (/r/speedrun), and 4chan (/srg/). For some reason people who don't play OoT seem to get the most heavily invested in winning these arguments, despite having no idea what they're talking about. This post is to explain how version differences work with regards to Ocarina of Time running.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was released on 4 platforms.
It was originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998. The N64 has many different version of OoT. There's NTSC-J 1.0, 1.1, 1.2. There's also NTSC-U 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. Finally, there is also the PAL release, which is 1.2. (edit: apparently there are 2 PAL N64 versions. Not super relevant though because PAL is 5/6th speed so it's not a very useful version).
NTSC-J runs the game in Japanese. The Japanese text saves significant time over the English text. As this was realized, more and more people switched over to the Japanese version, as it was faster during cutscenes and various bits of text in the run.
NTSC-U runs the game in English, which as stated before, is slower than Japanese.
The PAL release has English, German, and French. I believe it was found out that English is the fastest among those, although the PAL version runs at 5/6th speed. This gives PAL a huge disadvantage. PAL also has the oddity of shortened roll invincibility, which ruins megaflipping and supersliding in many instances. Overall, PAL is heavily disadvantaged.
The 1.0 and 1.1 versions have some glitches that were not fixed until 1.2. For speedrunning this is relevant because you can not do the "Eyeball Frog early" glitch on 1.2. This gives N64 an advantage for speedrunning 100%, as it is the only platform with 1.0.
In 2002/2003, the GameCube version was officially released across these 3 regions as well.
The GameCube version is 1.2. Depending on which version you got, it also could come with Master Quest! The MQ version is only available for GameCube and OoT3D.
The GameCube version features a difference in lag/loading. It also saves the game differently. It saves to the memory card (which btw can vary in timing depending on what type of memory card it is). When you reset the game, it goes back to the game selection screen, and slowly loads the entire game off the disc. This means savewarping is very slow on the GameCube version. It can be faster in some cases to save, continue, kill yourself with bombchus, die, do not save, do not continue, and reload your file that way to achieve a savewarp, instead of hitting reset.
On the GameCube PAL version, the game runs at full framerate instead of 5/6th speed! This was nice for European players who wanted to play on console and didn't want to import.
Due do the extremely slow savewarping, nobody runs the GameCube version very seriously. However, the GameCube version does feature a unique glitch regarding Out-of-Bounds bombchus.
Normally, when a bombchu is released in midair, it explodes. If it is released above a void, the game crashes. On the GameCube version, instead of crashing, it creates a massive explosion that can be shielded during Kokiri Boots backflip hovers. This means the GameCube version can achieve some OoB tricks that are not viable on any other version, such as hovering from the truth spinner room to the boss room of the Shadow Temple using 50 bombchus. These tricks are at best gimmicks though and the GameCube doesn't gain strong advantages with it.
In addition to not crashing for OoB chus, it also does not crash when you use a Deku Stick as adult Link. This means you can do things like light torches and get ISG using Deku Stick on B as adult. This opens a couple fun routing possibilities, but again these are more gimmicks and not too useful for main categories.
The GameCube version has a higher resolution. The shoulder buttons do not have to be pressed all the way down to be triggered. It supports rumble. The control stick sensitivity is a bit different from N64, which makes the ESS glitch harder. This also affects movement somewhat. The C-Stick for Ocarina songs is unforgiving and considered more difficult than C-buttons.
Also in 2003, Ocarina of Time was officially released for the iQue Player. This version has some unique features as well.
The iQue is version 1.2, however it is fully translated into Chinese. The Chinese text is even faster than Japanese! It is not as big as the different between Japanese and English, but it does provide a small advantage.
The iQue version has a very slow savewarp as well. It is faster than the GameCube version, but slower than all other versions. This is because the iQue goes back to the game-selection screen (the games are stored on a flash cart which plugs into the iQue).
The iQue version has less gameplay lag than every other version. This is most relevant during the first room of the tower collapse, and the collapse cutscene.
For some reason (perhaps having all of the Chinese characters loaded at once), the rare "Hyrule Field" glitch is more pervasive, which can get in the way of collecting the Big Poes. It can also happen in the Spirit Temple.
The iQue looks identical to N64, down to the resolution, particle effects, etc. The iQue crashes in the same places as N64 (no Stick-B or OoB chus). The control stick sensitivity is similar to N64.
Some misconceptions regarding iQue:
Some think that iQue is faster for all categories. As any% only has one savewarp, it is probably best used for any%. It is worthless for 100% due to being version 1.2. The Hyrule Field glitch would probably get in the way as well. For other categories it would be questionable. Due to the huge unpause lag, pause buffering is made a lot more difficult. There are more savewarps in other categories, which means big time losses every time this happens. The left/right are difficult to hit accurately, which maybe could be overcome but is still a factor in playing well (so much so, that Runnerguy gave up trying to play on the iQue for any%).
Some think the iQue is pirated Chinese romhack. It was actually officially released by Nintendo. The reason it has a special name and controller is because China had a console-ban, so it had to be a plug-n-play device. This is why the iQue's hardware is built into the controller.
Finally, a third argument is that it is difficult to obtain, and should therefore be banned. Compare this to other versions. The run on the Wii-VC NTSC-J version, you need to either import a Wii from Japan, or buy an NTSC-U Wii, an SD card, load homebrew software on it, and then get a wad-manager and install a WAD, region free the WAD, or region-change the hardware. Obtaining the N64 NTSC-J 1.0 version may be harder than finding an iQue, but it necessary for 100% WR attempts. Either way accessibility is a poor argument.
In 2007, Ocarina of Time was officially available for download on the Wii Virtual Console. Wii VC had 3 releases, NTSC-J, NTSC-U, and PAL.
Unlike the GameCube release, the PAL version is 5/6th speed again, so the Wii VC PAL version is heavily disadvantaged.
Wii VC is version 1.2. There are graphical differences from the N64 version, including a couple glitched textures. The particle effects are different. It has double the resolution.
The VC version has the fastest load time, a pretty fast savewarp (slightly slower than N64 due to the Classic Controller message). It has reduced lag. It can use Deku Sticks as adult. It doesn't crash from OoB chu explosions, but they are normal-sized and not huge like GameCube. The shoulder buttons have to be fully pressed, and there is no rumble. The control stick deadzone/max input range are large, so the sensitivity is high. As such, precise aiming is difficult and the ESS glitch is much harder.
In 2011, Ocarina of Time 3D was released in several regions.
Due to the bugfixes, altered scenes, redone animations, new textures, new framerate, new game modes, added tutorials, etc. This is considered a different game than Ocarina of Time and speedruns are not to be compared.
During all this time, different unofficial N64 emulators were in development.
Progress was slow. For a long time there were many issues such as extreme pause delay. Finally, the emulation got decent enough with Project 64 1.6 that some people started running on it. This was mainly convenient for Europeans, whose choices were to play the GameCube version and deal with the slow resets, or hack their Wii to play a non-PAL version. The iQue was not well-known back then so people did not consider it.
PJ64 1.6 runs OoT fairly well, although there are some problems. PJ64 1.6 has less lag than the N64 version. Most people didn't care about this because of things like Wii-VC being faster, which is a valid point. However, as version 1.0 is only available on N64, this means that if you are doing an OoT speedrun using tactics only available on ver1.0, you must use an actual N64 because there's no emulator that has been proven equal/slower to actual N64. This is mostly relevant for 100% speedruns, where Eyeball Frog early is an important glitch.
Additional problems with PJ64 1.6 is that the Forest Trial could randomly crash, destroying MST runs. Some people running on PJ64 1.6 would enable a cheat code in the emulator right before they entered the Forest Trial, and disable it when they dispelled the Forest barrier. This was pretty ridiculous solution, and would probably be banned nowadays as it is modifying the game.
Entering the Kakariko Bazaar often crashed the game on emulator. Stick-B could crash the game depending on which plugins were used. Using the Sun's Song in Kakariko could crash the game.
Project 64 1.7 is slightly better about some of these issues. At this point, the people running OoT seriously on emulator use 1.7 with the Japanese version (for faster text).
A ROM of the Chinese version has not yet been ripped. Even if it was, it would be disallowed on emulator because the emulator would not have the iQue menu for savewarps.
Project 64 2.0 and 2.1 were released. Both of these versions have the same fundamental flaws for speedrunning.
PJ64 2.x on default settings runs the game at an unstable framerate. This framerate tends to make OoT run at approx 21fps during gameplay (normal OoT framerate during gameplay is 20fps). Over time, PJ64 2.x saves loads of time due to this. During pauses, the framerate shoots through the roof, to open the pause menu much faster. This is another issue as no official version of the game does this. PJ64 2.x has no gameplay lag.
One flawed argument some people make is that PJ64 2.x is simply running the game more efficiently. The truth is that it's simply running the game faster than the base framerate. It is the same as running the emulator at 200% speed. The only difference is that the framerate boost isn't so obvious to the average person.
You cannot allow an unofficial emulator to run the game faster than the base framerate on a leaderboard of times. Why? Because the long-term result of this is all the runs being done at 2000% speed, played awfully but much faster because of the framerate increase.
OoT on all of these emulators also runs different depending on the plugins used, and the settings, such as the VI refresh rate, counter factor, sync to audio, frame limit, etc. These settings can all be edited freely and will change the speed of the game.
There are other N64 emulators, which are generally agreed to be of lower accuracy than PJ64 1.6/1.7, and haven't been proven as fair. There are also GameCube/Wii emulators that do not seem to run OoT all that well. There is no iQue emulator.
As the Wii has been hacked, you can inject a ROM into a WAD and run it on the Wii. This means it is possible to run ver1.0 on the Wii VC. It is also possible to run Master Quest on VC. These WADs are banned for being unofficial emulation that is faster than official hardware.
I hope this was educational and clears up some misunderstanding!
In summary, Ocarina of Time is available officially as:
- GCN, NTSC-J Collector's Edition
- GCN, NTSC-J MQ disc
- GCN, NTSC-U Collector's Edition
- GCN, NTSC-U MQ disc
- GCN, PAL Collector's Edition
- GCN, PAL MQ disc
- iQue Player
- Wii VC, NTSC-J
- Wii VC, NTSC-U
- Wii VC, PAL
These are all considered valid, official platforms to run Ocarina of Time on for speedruns.
Ocarina of Time is also allowed on ZSR using some unofficial emulation:
- Project 64 1.6, NTSC-J 1.2 (default settings)
- Project 64 1.6, NTSC-U 1.2 (default settings)
- Project 64 1.6, PAL (default settings)
- Project 64 1.7, NTSC-J 1.2 (default settings)
- Project 64 1.7, NTSC-U 1.2 (default settings)
- Project 64 1.7, PAL (default settings)
While not preferable, these are still allowed as they have been proven to not carry significant advantage over the official releases.
The following are explicitly banned for Ocarina of Time speedruns:
- Project 64 2.0
- Project 64 2.1
- Using ver1.0 or ver1.1 on non-N64 for time-gain
These are unfair to use when comparing with actual hardware.
The following are considered entirely separate games:
- Ocarina of Time: Master Quest
- Ocarina of Time 3D
These are tracked entirely separately from vanilla Ocarina of Time.


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