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By robbiefreeling | REVERSEBLOG: the reverse shot blog October 29, 2007 at 5:56AM
Here's something strange: a not-quite-supernatural, almost-horror, killing-free, absolutely terrifying late Eighties British film. Still not available on DVD in the U.S., Paperhouse, from Bernard Rose (who went on to make 1992's unsettling, if ultimately excessive racial alle-gory Candyman), is one of those movies that largely takes place in the literal world of nightmares. This sort of narrative framework usually gives filmmakers carte blanche to go to any lengths necessary to achieve their effects, atmosphere, scares, etc--to abandon logic in the face of dream space and temporality. The results can be predictable, lazy, or unrestrained; outside of David Lynch's sui generis oeuvre, the dream world is difficult to capture yet easy to exploit. Even the slasher granddaddy of dream films, A Nightmare on Elm Street, quickly degenerated into a random assemblage of creepy pops and jolts; and (with the exception of the ridiculously coherent gay metaphor in Part 2: Freddy's Revenge) the sequels aren't even worth writing about.
The film-as-dream, horror-as-nightmare metaphors and attendant psychoanalytic theories are too tidy to bring up here, and too easily deployed to buoy lazy filmmaking; yet Rose's Paperhouse earns the distinction it so clearly invites. While much of the film plays like a full-moon fever dream, it's mostly grounded in a specific reality: that of childhood. Anna, a sullen, pre-teen adolescent girl with divorced parents, haphazardly doodles a rough drawing of a house during a school lesson. Soon enough, Anna is diagnosed with glandular fever, which sends her off into states of delirium and odd fantasies in which she enters the world of the drawing: the crummy pen-on-paper stick house becomes in her alternate dream reality a stark, foreboding house desolated on a grey moor. As she falls further into sickness and her own delusions, she begins to realize that she can adjust her dream world to her whim: therefore she sketches a boy's face in the upstairs window, peering out a sad, downturned frown. When she sleeps, the boy appears; yet he has his own reality to contend with.
Thus, Paperhouse's major difference from other films about dream states is that Anna can, seemingly, control her own subconscious; rather than fearing sleep, she embraces it, at first, as an alternate world she can command. What's even more magical then, is that the film, aided in no small measure by a wonderfully low budget, never takes Anna away from this single, washed-out setting; it never opens up into an elaborate "world of fantasy," and its eventual terrors come from utterly surprising, and thoroughly upsetting directions. For most of its running time, Paperhouse plays like one of those children-retreating-into-fantasy-world films, although what sets it apart is that it doesn't paint in broad, black-and-white strokes: Anna isn't escaping abuse or real-world terrors so much as normal preadolescent anxieties and parental distrust, and her unspoken fears and hopes play out in abstracted form where no one can see, or hear, or abort them. Unlike the more literal Heavenly Creatures or the deplorably simplistic Pan's Labyrinth, this film doesn't posit the dreamworld as a viable opposition to "real" fears.Rose is careful to never spell out her neuroses, allowing the dreams to fill in the character's blanks. The film respects the odd, insoluble dictates of childhood: often it feels more like the great children's book The Velveteen Rabbit than any film, with its wish fulfillment turned insidious, enacted within the boundaries of a feverish child's bedroom.
Despite these comparisons, when Paperhouse gets scary, it gets scary: in ways both motivationally sound and horribly inexplicable. Imagine this: a silhouette of a man, off in the distance, perched against a darkening night-time sky, his hand clutching an elongated hammer, bellowing "I'm blind!" To describe who he is, how he got there, or where he's going would ruin the experience. Once the images, sounds, and moods from Paperhouse get into your head, they're lodged there permanently--sort of like, it must be said, nightmares from your childhood you never forget.


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The median age here is 35. There are 4,799 men and 5,342 women. The median age for men is 33 while for women the median age is 38.
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Jammu and Kashmir, state of India, located in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent in the vicinity of the Karakoram and westernmost Himalayan mountain ranges. The state is part of the larger region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947.
Jammu and Kashmir, formerly one of the largest princely states of India, is bounded to the northeast by the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang (China), to the east by the Tibet Autonomous Region (China) and the Chinese-administered portions of Kashmir, to the south by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, to the southwest by Pakistan, and to the northwest by the Pakistani-administered portion of Kashmir. The administrative capitals are Srinagar in summer and Jammu in winter. Area 39,146 square miles (101,387 square km). Pop. (2011) 12,541,302.
The vast majority of the state's territory is mountainous, and the physiography is divided into seven zones that are closely associated with the structural components of the western Himalayas. From southwest to northeast those zones consist of the plains, the foothills, the Pir Panjal Range, the Vale of Kashmir, the Great Himalayas zone, the upper Indus River valley, and the Karakoram Range. The climate varies from alpine in the northeast to subtropical in the southwest. In the alpine area, average annual precipitation is about 3 inches (75 mm), but in the subtropical zone (around Jammu) rainfall amounts to about 45 inches (1,150 mm) per year. The entire region is prone to violent seismic activity, and light to moderate tremors are common. A strong earthquake centred in neighbouring Pakistani-administered Kashmir killed hundreds in Jammu and Kashmir state in 2005.
The plains
The narrow zone of plains landscape in the Jammu region is characterized by interlocking sandy alluvial fans that have been deposited by streams discharging from the foothills and by a much-dissected pediment (eroded bedrock surface) covered by loams and loess (wind-deposited silt) of Pleistocene age (about 11,700 to 2,600,000 years old). Precipitation is low, amounting to about 15 to 20 inches (380 to 500 mm) per year, and it occurs mainly in the form of heavy but infrequent rain showers during the summer monsoon (June to September). The countryside has been almost entirely denuded of trees, and thorn scrub and coarse grass are the dominant forms of vegetation.
The foothills
The foothills of the Himalayas, rising from about 2,000 to 7,000 feet (600 to 2,100 metres), form outer and inner zones. The outer zone consists of sandstones, clays, silts, and conglomerates, influenced by Himalayan folding movements and eroded to form long ridges and valleys called duns. The inner zone consists of more-massive sedimentary rock, including red sandstones of Miocene age (roughly 5.3 to 23 million years old), that has been folded, fractured, and eroded to form steep spurs and plateau remnants. River valleys are deeply incised and terraced, and faulting has produced a number of alluvium-filled basins, such as those surrounding Udhampur and Punch. Precipitation increases with elevation, and the lower scrubland gives way to pine forests higher up.
The Pir Panjal Range
The Pir Panjal Range constitutes the first (southernmost) mountain rampart associated with the Himalayas in the state and is the westernmost of the Lesser Himalayas. It has an average crest line of 12,500 feet (3,800 metres), with individual peaks rising to some 15,000 feet (4,600 metres). Consisting of an ancient rock core of granites, gneisses, quartz rocks, and slates, it has been subject to considerable uplift and fracturing and was heavily glaciated during the Pleistocene Epoch. The range receives heavy precipitation in the forms of winter snowfall and summer rain and has extensive areas of pasture above the tree line. It is drained principally by the Jhelum, Punch, and Chenab rivers.
The Vale of Kashmir
The Vale of Kashmir is a deep asymmetrical basin lying between the Pir Panjal Range and the western end of the Great Himalayas at an average elevation of 5,300 feet (1,620 metres). During Pleistocene times it was occupied at times by a body of water known as Lake Karewa; it is now filled by lacustrine (still water) sediments as well as alluvium deposited by the upper Jhelum River. Soil and water conditions vary across the valley. The climate is characterized by annual precipitation of about 30 inches (750 mm), derived partially from the summer monsoon and partially from storms associated with winter low-pressure systems. Snowfall often is accompanied by rain and sleet. Temperatures vary considerably by elevation; at Srinagar the average minimum temperature is in the upper 20s F (about −2 °C) in January, and the average maximum is in the upper 80s F (about 31 °C) in July.
Up to about 7,000 feet (2,100 metres), woodlands of deodar cedar, blue pine, walnut, willow, elm, and poplar occur. From 7,000 to 10,500 feet (3,200 metres), coniferous forests with fir, pine, and spruce are found. From 10,500 to 12,000 feet (3,700 metres), birch is dominant, and above 12,000 feet there are meadows with rhododendrons and dwarf willows as well as honeysuckle.
The Great Himalayas zone
Geologically complex and topographically immense, the Great Himalayas contain ranges with numerous peaks reaching elevations of 20,000 feet (6,100 metres) or higher, between which lie deeply entrenched remote valleys. The region was heavily glaciated during the Pleistocene Epoch, and remnant glaciers and snowfields are still present. The zone receives some rain from the southwest monsoon in the summer months—and the lower slopes are forested—but the mountains constitute a climatic divide, representing a transition from the monsoon climate of the Indian subcontinent to the dry continental climate of Central Asia.


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CORPUS CHRISTI - Subdivision: Rancho Vista
Address: 7545 Rancho Vista Blvd.
Bedrooms/baths/garage: 4/2.5/2
Year built: 2010
Square feet: 2,585
Architectural style: Texas vernacular
Imagine the cool space of a four-bedroom home with two living areas and a large kitchen. Now imagine the electric bill for the nearly 2,600 square feet of space costing $71 a month. That's the guarantee from Braselton Homes, which has three of 10 homes on the upcoming weekend's Green Tour of Homes. The home sits across from a park in the master-planned community of Rancho Vista and offers energy saving features as natural gas cooking, a tankless water heater, Icynene sprayed foam attic and a 14 Seer heat pump air conditioning unit. This home uses limited natural resources more efficiently, having less of an impact on the environment.
Why would a new homeowner love this home: The home is not only elegant it is also very livable and super energy efficient. The Victoria (model) is decorated with a slight contemporary flair and has all the rooms needed: four bedrooms, a formal dining, two living areas, as well as two outdoor living areas. And, since it is an eco-home, is comes with a HERS rating of 65, so it's 35 percent more efficient than code. It also has a guaranteed air conditioning bill of $71 per month.
What feature do you like most: A huge kitchen with a skylight that is open to the family room and the breakfast room.
I got inspiration for this house by: Touring 5,000-square-foot homes. I wanted to put the best features of large, custom homes into 2,600-square-foot homes.
Something no one knows about this home: The attic never gets more than six degrees hotter than the home because of the icynene insulation. So instead of a 130 degree attic, your attic is 84 degrees, so you can get a usable storage attic, or a free 200-square-foot storage unit.
Which is the home's best room and why: The master suite. a huge master bedroom with an open master bathroom with his and hers vanities and closets and a 4-by-6 foot shower with two shower heads.
Three words that describe this home: Elegant, livable, highly energy efficient
If these kitchen walls could talk: They would tell you about the incredible double island kitchen, featuring stainless steel appliances and granite countertops.
What is this home's most complimented feature: The family room with its openness to the kitchen, breakfast room and outdoor living room.
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There are no animations as all leds change on there own as they are automatic colour changing led.
As these leds have cheap timing circuits inside them aren't precisally acurate and all go out of time, that is what gives it the random pattern, because it is random!
Step 1: Parts List: Bill Of Materials
For this instructable you will need:
- 100 pcs of fast flash 5mm RGB leds found here on ebay: CLICK HERE -------£8 >>> $14 ish
- 3mm Acrylic sheet A3 (clear, duh), can be found on ebay: TRY HERE ----------£6 >>> $11 ish
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- Scrap wood to make the jig --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free
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- 3.3Ohm 2W resistor----------------------------------------------------------- dunno, look for your self, lazy
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Step 2: Research: Auto Fading LED's
If we take a look at just one of these special leds, we can see it does this:
- Fades from red to green to blue
- Then flashes, red, green, blue, turqois, purple, orange.
This means it has three leds in one; a red LED, a green LED and a blue LED. The timer built into the led is not perfect so there fore the leds never flash completely in sync with one another. That is what gives it the random pattern, because it is random! See the tagged photo. This led only needs 2 pins as all colour fading happens in the chip ( the black dot ) so you only need to supply power.
Looks like a great project, just a question before I start - I can't seem to find a 3.3ohm, 2W resistor, and just want to check that I shouldn't be looking for a 3.3kohm, or 330 ohm resistor instead?
try here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-3-Ohm-2W-Metal-Film-Power-Resistor-2-Watt-3R3-W-2x-/120626455638?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Components_Supplies_ET&hash=item1c15e5a456
ok thanks
ON Ebay
Should we change something if you use 10mm blue LED? All I want is that light up and nothing else. I do not care that "anime". Does the USB port can power many leds?
Should I use a different value of resistance? Is the resistance where it is placed?
Excuse my ignorance but I do not know electronics. :-)
Thank you very much!
This is a translation of google.
I am using the same RGB Leds as mentioned, the same value resistor, and a Nokia cellphone usb cord; but when I plugged the cube into the computer the resistor got so hot that it melted the shrink wrap that I had placed around it. I am not that familiar with electronics, and was wondering if this indicates that I have done something wrong.
just waiting to supply power. everything else is ready :O
Its very good, much simpler than mine and produces a faded outline of the led grid from the inside.
Also great use of the jig in the foreground :P
and what did u use to cut it ?
I used a laser cutter from (college). You might by able to use a band saw or a score and snap method but im not really sure.
(ie, follow that track of legs back along, till the leg of the middle led can reach)
this guy is heating up some and I put one of the resistors on that came with the LEDs. I put it on the negative and the supplier said that the resistors for rated for 12Vs. Is this too small?


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Lo, Dic and Zhang, Yu (2011) 'Centrally planned economy.' In: Fine, Ben and Milonakis, Dimitri, (eds.), Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Edward Elgar. (In Press)
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Wintersday 2014
Can we put the page Wintersday 2014 on the front page instead of the A Very Merry Wintersday Redux. This would make it easier to list new items etc.
regards to the last sync
I am not sure we got a consensuses on the changes to the main page I for one dont really like the changes but I cant pinpoint what exactly it is I don't like. but if i had to take a guess the removal of the feature project, and more news (was going to start updating the page), along with the combination of pve and pvp these are different game modes and should be treated as such imho. - Zesbeer 21:10, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
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Under the living world section for the April 2014 Feature Pack it reads "which streamlines the trasmutation process" Can't edit main page, and it offends my ocd when I login :D Magua (talk) 17:59, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- @ Magua, the featured article bit (which is what you were talking about) can be edited from Template:Main Page/featured. Good spot though, and Jon has updated it. -Chieftain Alex 20:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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Is there room to include the world boss timer? That's among the most requested links, be great if there was a link to (or even the compact version of) the table on the main page. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 23:38, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
I need help with a wiki like this one.
I'm making a wiki for my own personal stuff and I want a main page design similar to this one. I'll have a featured article section, and about 4 other sections (instead of the 8 i see here) How do I go about that? I'm using wikidot for my host/designer.15:03, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Random thought about "Featured Articles"
Unlike gww, I know we're following the Release schedules now. But it came to mind: The Family Business is something I would really have liked to see in _preparations_ for the upcoming Halloween patch.
The wonderful short stories released by ANet has received a lot of criticism for not being accessible enough. Is there anything we could do to bring the short stories (and books/documents) more to the front?
E.g.: Trek of the Zephyrites in connection with the annual Bazaar (if it gets repeated), Shadowbox for SAB, etc. Maybe it would even be possible to create a (very narrow) second collumn or row next to the release-feature and use this space to link to a "related backstory" (if applicable).
There's just a lot of wonderful content that a lot of players have never seen, and if we could do anything to improve on that I'd say we should. :) Food for thought? Titus The Third 19:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
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Premature ventricular contractions are detected by separately rectifying the high and low frequency components of the QRS portion of an ECG waveform, integrating the rectified high frequency signal and using such integral to control the gain of an AGC input circuit, and comparing such integral with the rectified low frequency signal to provide an output signal indicating the occurrence of a PVC.
1. A method of detecting the presence of premature ventricular contractions by monitoring an ECG signal from a patient comprising the steps of
passing said ECG signal through an automatic gain control circuit,
passing the output of said automatic gain control circuit through a high frequency bandpass filter which passes frequencies in the range of about 10 to 17 Hz, and through a low frequency bandpass filter which passes frequencies from about 1.5 to 6Hz,
rectifying the outputs from each of said filters,
producing a gating signal during the QRS interval in response to the rectified high frequency signal,
integrating the rectified high frequency signal during the occurrence of said gating signal,
controlling the gain of said automatic gain control circuit in response to the integrated high frequency signal, and
comparing the rectified low frequency signal with the integral of said rectified high frequency signal during occurrence of said gating signal to provide a PVC output signal whenever the rectified low frequency signal exceeds the value of said integral.
2. A method according to claim 1, comprising
initiating said gating signal at the beginning of the R wave segment of the QRS complex.
3. A method according to claim 2 wherein
said gating signal has a duration of about 120 milliseconds.
4. A method according to claim 1 wherein said automatic gain control circuit comprises
a light-emitting diode,
passing through said diode a current having a value dependent on the value of the integral of said rectified high frequency signal during the occurrence of said gating signal, and
varying the gain of said automatic gain control circuit in inverse relationship to the intensity of the light emitted by said diode.
5. A method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of
passing said ECG signal through a limiter to reduce the occurrence of PVC output signals in response to high level movement or muscle artifact.
6. A method according to claim 5 comprising the step of
adjusting the level of the signal applied to said low frequency bandpass filter so that PVC output signals do not occur in response to normal QRS intervals in the ECG waveform.
7. A system for detecting the occurrence of PVCs in an ECG wave, comprising
a first filter passing frequencies of about 10 Hz and above,
a second filter passing frequencies of about 6 Hz and below,
means coupling said ECG wave to said first and second filters,
first and second full-wave rectifiers respectively coupled to the outputs of said first and second filters,
gating pulse generating means responsive to an output from said first rectifier for providing a gating pulse of predetermined duration,
integrating means coupled to the output of said first rectifier and to which said gating pulse is applied for integrating the output from said first rectifier during the occurrence of said gating pulse, and
comparator means for comparing the voltage level of the outputs from said integrating means and from second rectifier to provide an output signal when one of said outputs exceeds the other by virtue of a PVC in the ECG wave.
8. A system according to claim 7 comprising
a limiter having an input to which said ECG wave is adapted to be applied and an output
an automatic gain control circuit, and
the output of said limiter being coupled to the signal input of said automatic gain control circuit.
9. A system according to claim 7 comprising
hold-off triggering means for preventing the initiation of a gating pulse for a period of between 80 and 100 milliseconds after initiation of each gating pulse.
The present invention relates in general to the art of monitoring the muscular action of the heart, and it relates more particularly to a method and instrument for monitoring an ECG waveform from a patient to detect the presence of cardiac arrhythmias.
In order to observe the muscular action of the heart it is well known to attach electrodes to the body of a patient so as to obtain a continuous electric signal representing the muscular activity of the heart. When this signal is plotted or displayed relative to a linear time base there is provided an ECG waveform having certain characteristic points identified as P, Q, R, S and T. The Q, R, S portion of the ECG waveform is known as the QRS complex and its shape is indicative of normal or abnormal cardiac behavior.
Certain types of abnormal cardiac behavior indicate an imminent threat to the life of the patient and include premature ventricular contraction, commonly known as PVC. PVCs are made manifest by an irregularity in the QRS complex. The frequency at which PVCs occur is important since, for example, while one or two irregular PVC beats per minute may not present any immediate danger, five or more per minute indicates that the heart is likely to go into fibrillation at any time. While it is possible to visually observe an ECG waveform and detect the presence of PVCs, personnel having the necessary training and skill are not generally available. Moreover, constant personal observation of the waveform is both tedious and expensive.
There is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,828,768 a system for differentiating between a QRS complex corresponding to normal heart action and a QRS complex corresponding to abnormal heart action of the types indicating an immediate threat to the life of the patient. In the system disclosed in the said patent, the ECG signal from the patient is applied to high and low bandpass filters to separate the high and low frequency components of the signal. For a period of time including the QRS interval, the output from the low pass filter is gated to an integrator from which the integral is coupled to a comparator for comparison thereof with a manually set reference standard. An alarm is triggered and a PVC recorded each time the integral of the low frequency components of the QRS complex exceeds the reference standard.
While that patented system functions satisfactorily under certain controlled conditions, it is sensitive to extraneous muscular activities and movements of the patient which cause irregularities in the ECG waveform of the type generally known as artifacts. Also, the manner in which the length of the gating signal is determined permits improper triggering of the integrator. Consequently, false PVC detections are common with the system disclosed in the said patent.
Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an improved method and system for detecting cardiac arrhythmias, which system is relatively insentive to artifacts in the ECG waveform of a patient.
Briefly, in accordance with the teachings of the present invention there is provided an ECG wave monitor which integrates the rectified high frequency components of the QRS complex to provide a feedback signal for a novel AGC circuit through which the ECG signal initially passes thereby to render the circuit substantially insensitive to overall changes in the amplitude of the ECG wave. The AGC circuit also functions to limit the amplitude of the ECG wave applied to the sensing circuits thereby rendering the instrument relatively insensitive to amplitude bursts of the type associated with patient movement and muscular artifacts. PVCs are sensed by comparing the amplitudes of the rectified high and low frequency components of the ECG wave only during occurrence of the QRS complex by means of a novel timing circuit which helps prevent false triggering of the gating circuit.
Further objects and advantages and a better understanding of the present invention can be had by reference to the following detailed description, wherein:
FIG. 1s is a normal ECG waveform;
FIG. 1b is an ECG waveform including a PVC:
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an ECG monitor embodying the present invention; and
FIG. 3 is a schematic circuit diagram of the monitor of FIG. 2.
Referring now to the drawings and particularly to FIGS. 1a and 1b, there is shown in FIG. 1a that portion of an ECG waveform including a normal QRS complex while in FIG. 1b there is shown the same portion of an ECG waveform including an abnormal QRS complex of the type commonly known as a PVC. It may be seen from inspection of these two waveforms that when a PVC occurs the R peak is substantially greater than normal, and the S portion of the waveform is of considerably longer duration than normal. While all PVCs are not of the same shape, they differ from normal heartbeats and their presence is characterized by R peaks of usually greater than normal amplitude and QRS segments of greater than normal duration. The purpose of the present invention is to accurately and automatically detect each and every PVC without giving false indications when PVCs are not present.
Referring to FIG. 2 wherein the PVC detector of the present invention is shown in block diagram form, the signal from the patient is amplified in a preamplifier 10 and coupled to an AGC and limiter circuit 12 whose gain is controlled by a feedback voltage applied thereto through a conductor 14. The output of the AGC circuit is an EGC waveform of relatively constant average voltage from which spurious artifacts have been removed by the limiter. This output is coupled to a high frequency band-pass filter 16 and also coupled through a variable resistor 18 to a low frequency band-pass filter 20. The high frequency signal passed by the filter 16 is referred to herein as the QRS wave and the low frequency signal passed by the filter 20 is referred to herein as the LTA wave.
The QRS band-pass filter 16 has a passband of about 10 Hz to 17 Hz while the LTA band-pass filter 20 has a passband of about 1.5 to 6 Hz. These two filters have a gain of about -6dB at the high and low ends of the respective bands and peak about midway in the bands.
The QRS wave from the filter 16 is applied to a full wave rectifier 22 whose output drives an integrator 24. The integrator functions to integrate only the QRS portion of the ECG wave during each heartbeat, wherefor a timing or gating pulse is supplied to the integrator 24 via a conductor 26. As more fully described hereinafter, the gating pulse is produced by a QRS trigger circuit 28 which responds to an output from the QRS rectifier 22. The QRS trigger pulse causes the integrator to integrate for a period of approximately 120 msec commencing with the initiation of the R peak. To help prevent false triggering on subsequent peaks in an irregular heartbeat, a time delay circuit is provided to keep the circuit 28 from again triggering for a period of approximately 80 to 100 msec after it initially triggers.
The output of the integrator 24 is a dc signal and is passed through a ripple filter 30 before being coupled to one input of a comparator 32. The output of the integrator 24 is also coupled via the feedback conductor 14 to the AGC circuit 12 to control the gain thereof in inverse relationship with the amplitude of the QRS wave.
The LTA wave from the low frequency bandpass filter 20 is rectified in a full wave rectifier 34 and coupled to the second input of the comparator 32. The rectifier 34 is triggered by the gating pulse from the QRS trigger circuit 28 so as to provide an input for the comparator 32 only during the QRS interval.
When the rectified LTA signal exceeds the rectified and integrated QRS signal an output appears on conductor 36 which feeds an LTA generator 38. LTA generator 38 then produces a pulse on an output conductor 40, which pulse indicates the presence of a PVC. The conductor 40 is connected to a driver and logic circuit 42 which may provide a visual and/or audible indication of the detection of a PVC and it may also make a record of the number of PVCs occurring within a predetermined period of, say, one minute. For this latter purpose, the gating pulse from the QRS trigger may be coupled to the driver and logic circuit 42 for indicating the occurrence of every QRS interval irrespective of a PVC.
For a more detailed illustration of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, reference is made to FIG. 3. As there shown, the preamplified ECG wave from the patient is applied to the input of the AGC and limiter circuit 12. Preferably this input signal has a level of between 1 and 2 volts but may be in the range of 0.3 volts to 8 volts.
This preamplified signal is introduced to the AGC circuit through a capacitor C1M, and a resistor R1A. This RC combination provides a high-pass pole, with the -3dB breakpoint at slightly less than 1 Hz. The signal then passes through an inverting amplifier, IClA, whose feedback path is composed of a variable resistance (linear from approximately 15K to 800 Kohms), that is obtained from the output of an optical-electric device. This device consists of a light-emitting diode LED coupled to a photoresistor PR. As the current through the LED increases, the output resistance decreases, and visa versa. The control voltage that supplies current to the LED is developed by the QRS circuits, which will be described later.
The output of amplifier IClA then passes through a resistor R2A and into another inverting amplifier, IC2A. A plurality of diodes D1A-D4A limit the output of amplifier IClA to the range of -1.5v to +1.5v, with anything outside these limits being slipped. This feature provides reduced sensitivity to high level bursts of movement or muscle artifact from the patient. The output of the amplifier IC2A is fed into the input of the QRS circuits, and via an attenuation potentiometer P5 to the input of the LTA circuits.
The network composed of a capacitor ClA, a resistor R8A, and a resistor R9A, at the inverting input of an amplifier IC3A, provides for ripple-filtering of the control voltage from the QRS circuits. This control voltage shows up as a positive value at the output of the amplifier IC3A and is used to provide current to the LED in the optical-electric device. A diode D5A allows only positive voltages to pass and provides protection against the LED becoming reverse-biased. Resistors R5A-R7A, along with potentiometer P1 act as a voltage divider, and supply an "idling current" to the LED through amplifier IC3A to keep the output of the photoresistor in its operational region.
The output of the amplifier IC2A is applied to the QRS circuits at the inverting input of an integrated circuit IClQ, which is a multiple-pole low-pass active filter with poles provided by capacitors ClQ and C2Q and the associated equivalent resistances seen by them. The output of IClQ is fed to a multiple-pole high-pass active filter IC2Q with poles provided by capacitors C3Q-C5Q, and associated equivalent resistances. The output of the filter IC2Q is then applied to the active bandpass filter IC3Q with a low-pass pole provided by a capacitor C7Q and a resistor R9Q and a high-pass pole provided by a capacitor C6Q and a resistor R8Q. The overall frequency response of these three filters is of an asymmetrically-shaped, bandpass configuration, with the center frequency at around 14 Hz, and -6dB breakpoints at approximately 10 Hz and 17 Hz.
This filter signal, which will be referred to as the QRS signal, is then full-wave rectified by the network composed of resistors R10Q-R13Q, diodes D1Q and D2Q, and integrated circuit IC4Q. This is done in order to avoid any polarity considerations of the ECG signal coming from the patient.
A trigger pulse that goes from +10v to -10v is supplied by the network that includes IC5Q, IC6Q, and transistor T1Q. A voltage divider composed of resistors R14Q and R15Q provides a small voltage to the inverting input of IC5Q and keeps the trigger circuit stable, even if no signal from the patient is present. The output of IC40, the full-wave rectified QRS signal, is applied to the noninverting input of IC5Q, and the control voltage developed through IC8Q is applied to the inverting input of IC5Q. When the level of the output of IC4Q exceeds the signal level at the inverting input of IC5Q, a negative pulse is developed, which passes through D3Q and IC6Q, turning transistor T1Q off, allowing the output of IC6Q to go to -10v, and is held there by capacitor C8Q until this capacitor loses its charge. The output of IC6Q then returns to +10v. The rate of discharge of capacitor C8Q, and therefore the trigger pulse duration, is determined by the discharge path through a resistor R17Q and a potentiometer P2 to ground. Potentiometer P2, or a variable resistance switch in its place, is used as an adjustment for setting the duration of the gating pulse. Diode D3Q serves to keep the gating pulse from repeating for a period of approximately 80 to 100 msec. The length of the gating pulse is usually set at around 120 msec for a typical patient.
This gating pulse is applied to the gate of transistor T2Q through R23Q and turns T2Q off every time the pulse arrives. This allows C9Q to pass current, and IC7Q intergrates the signal that is supplied by the output of IC4Q, which is the full-wave rectified QRS signal.
This integral is then ripple-filtered by the network composed of R24Q, R25Q and C10Q, with the control voltage previously mentioned being generated at the output of IC8Q.
From the output of IC2A, the signal is fed through a potentiometer P5 to the input of a multiple-pole bandbass filter IC1L. The purpose of potentiometer P5 is to act as a gain control for the LTA signal. The bandpass filter IC1L is asymmetrically tailored to give a frequency response that is peaked at about 3.5 - 4.0 Hz and has -6dB points at -1.5 Hz and 6 Hz.
Resistors R4L and R5L and potentiometer P3 act as a voltage divider to provide dc offset compensation for the filter IC1L.
The signal is then full-wave rectified by IC2L and LC3L. It should be noted that transistor T1L, an N-channel depletion mode FET in the feedback loop of IC3L, keeps the output of IC3L at zero until a grating pulse arrives from the output of IC6Q. When this happens, transistor T1L goes from its usual ON-state to its OFF-state, allowing the full-wave LTA signal to be seen at the output of IC3L.
Potentiometer P4 and resistor R12L act as a voltage divider to provide dc offset compensation for the full-wave rectifier.
The signal is then fed into a comparator, IC4L, along with the integrated reference voltage developed at the output of IC8Q. When the level of the full-wave rectified LTA signal exceeds the level of the reference voltage, a short duration pulse is seen at the output of IC4L.
This pulse is then differentiated by capacitor C4L and resistor R17L, passes through diode D4L, which allows only positive values to pass, and acts as a trigger pulse for the LTA pulse generator IC5L.
This pulse generator is a one-shot multivibrator and provides a negative-to-positive going pulse of a duration of about 250 msec, this value being adjusted by the time constant of the circuit comprising resistor R16L and capacitor C5L.
From the output of IC5L, the LTA pulse is fed into a suitable driver and logic network for indicating and preferably recording each occurrence of a PVC.
While the present invention has been described in connection with a particular embodiment thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that many changes and modifications may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such changes and modifications which come within the true spirit and scope of this invention.
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Opened June 25, 1965, this steak and seafood restaurant supposedly serves 53,000 pounds of Alaskan king crab per year—more than any other restaurant in the U.S. It prides itself on consistent quality and hearty portions. The bar is one of the few that still use the "Super Well," meaning that if you order gin, you get Bombay, and if you order vodka, you get Absolut. 16812 Pacific Coast Hwy., Sunset Beach, (562) 592-2514. $$
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Fullerton, CA 92833-4406
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The Golden Steer is what a family restaurant used to be—not just inexpensive enough to feed a family, but tasty and wholesome enough to feed it well. It also harks back to the time when a family meal meant meat, meat, meat. The place is crowded, but good acoustics keep it from sounding like a mess hall and incredible service keeps that growl in your stomach from turning into a bad mood. 11052 Beach Blvd., Stanton, (714) 894-1208; www.goldensteer.com. $$
Noodles. Lots of 'em. Thin. Thick. Stir-fried. In soup. Yellow. White. Thai. Vietnamese. Japanese. Welcome to Noodle Avenue, a hectic fast-food Tustin eatery that fuses various Asian noodle traditions into heaps and heaps of long, luscious strands. 13816 Red Hill Ave., Tustin, (714) 505-9070. $$
Though smaller than the monsters hawked at Jon's Philly Grille in Anaheim or Costa Mesa's Frank's Philadelphia, Philly's Famous' cheesesteak surpasses the two in the most crucial cheesesteak factor: the cheese. It overwhelms your senses like a good cheese should, like the best quesadillas: sharp, comforting, gooey. The cheesy cheese choice marries Cheez Whiz, American white and provolone into a tasty, wonderful triad, each fromage strong and distinct. And despite the dairy onslaught, the beef's savor doesn't wilt, remaining juicy like the finest shawermas. 648 E. First St., Tustin, (714) 505-6067. $
Go for the employee sampler, which features four different pizzas: the barbecue chicken, the zesty Italian, the Villa Park special with fresh basil and garlic, and the combo with pepperoni and sausage. 17853 Santiago Blvd., Ste. 101, Villa Park, (714) 998-2961. $
The jellyfish salad is quite tasty, and if you think of it as Chinese pasta, you won't squirm. The family dinners are fabulous with interesting choices, including an entire steamed fish. 8566 Westminster Ave., Westminster, (714) 893-3020. $$
When fate or a bad date takes you to Little Saigon in the early morning, stop by this 24-hour dive to feast on steaming, massive bowls of pho. The touted pho hoa is great, not the best you'll ever taste, but with the largest, softest steak slices, massive cuts almost as big as poker cards and chopped just as thin. 9211 Bolsa Ave., Ste. 101, Westminster, (714) 899-4886; www.phohoa.com. $
The place has an interior seemingly boxed up and mailed from fin-de-siècle Paris. The distinctly cosmopolitan appearance of the restaurant carries over into the song selections (we hear English-, Spanish- and Vietnamese-language tunes) and menu (escargot, flan and Vietnamese offerings). 15470 Magnolia St., Westminster, (714) 895-2120. $$
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Many Greek restaurants offer French fries on their menus, but few treat them with the care you find at both Athens West locations. They fry long, skinny potato strips until golden and firm, and then dust them heroically with—is it parsley I taste? Or oregano? The feta cheese on top is melted slightly, just enough to lend creaminess without producing a gooey disaster. Put some of Athens West's kebabs on top, and you have impromptu Greek chili billies. 7101 Yorktown Ave., Ste. 106, Huntington Beach, (714) 536-6112; 303 Main St., Seal Beach, (562) 431-6500. $
This chain of two near-closets in Garden Grove and Santa Ana offers most of their dishes—fragrant com tam, slippery bún and satisfying drinks—in 27 different fashions. But Hông Mai's ultimate specialty isn't numerology, but rather the studious preparation of the rice roll delicacy known as bánh cuôn: silky, light, furtively filling, a good sponge for the accompanying fish sauce. The rice paper itself is a bit bland, but that neutral flavor somehow amplifies a bánh cuôn's innards tenfold. 10912 Westminster Ave., Garden Grove, (714) 534-4526; 5425 W. First St., Santa Ana, (714) 554-9190. ¢
Claro's is a fourth-generation family business with a passion for food as big as the 600-pound loaves of provolone it's known to display during winter. Besides a huge selection of imported groceries, Claro's houses a stellar deli and bakery. 1095 E. Main St., Tustin, (714) 832-3081; 101 W. Whittier Blvd., La Habra, (562) 690-2844. $
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English football's two representatives will compete over two legs for the right to face either Tyreso of Sweden or Austria's Neulengbach in the semi-finals.
Arsenal reached the quarter-finals with a 6-2 aggregate victory over Glasgow City, while Birmingham bear Russians FK Zorkiy 7-2 over two legs.
Birmingham boss David Parker told Sky Sports News: "We've achieved beyond all expectations - and reaching the quarter-finals is the icing on the cake.
"I think there's a little bit of disappointment on both sides - being in the last eight you want to go abroad and experience different levels of football - and we've played Arsenal numerous times over the last couple of years.
"It would have been better in the semi-final so we could have guaranteed an English club in the final."
Arsenal boss Shelley Kerr said: "I think we'd rather have met Birmingham further on in the competition - but it's fewer miles to travel! In the previous round we had to travel to Kazakhstan, so it's a bit closer now.
"The women's game has evolved so much and at this level the teams are so tough to play against - we're delighted to be in the last eight so we'll just have to wait and see what happens."
Elsewhere the draw pitted holders Wolfsburg with Barcelona, and the winners of that tie will meet either Italian side Torres or Germany's Turbine Potsdam in the last four.
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All of this in response to a lot of people saying that they don't want to raid -- all of this so thoroughly missing the point of that statement.
This is one of those hurdles a lot of designers can't seem to conceptually get over. World of Warcraft's design team has had years of people saying this, and every response from the team has been missing the point so completely that it's almost absurd. I don't want to raid, at all, ever. End of discussion.
I'm picking on World of Warcraft here because it has the longest history of doing this. But there are a lot of other games making the same mistakes. Star Wars: The Old Republic, to my mind, was crippled out of the launch gate because its only endgame option was raiding... and in the wake of tepid player response, the game launched more raids. It's like opening another restaurant five feet away from McDonald's with the same menu and food quality but different decor. This does not work.
While exact numbers are hard to come by, there's an (admittedly) slightly outdated analysis over on MMO Champion that points out amidst analysis of data that the current endgame model is aimed at almost no one. This is in a game where raiding has been made easier and easier and easier. Raiding in World of Warcraft right now by the strictest definition solely requires you to get into the LFR queue and wait.
As it turns out, most of the people opted for that, and they opted for that because they did not like the old model. Hitting brick walls in content isn't fun. Setting up raid nights weeks in advance, tuning your performance, mastering a skill rotation -- all of these are fun for an extremely small percentage of players. The current model doesn't cater to anyone except the most minute portion of the total playerbase.
And this is with millions of subscribers. One percent of 8 million still shakes out to 80,000 players. Whom are you catering to if your game has half a million subscribers?
This isn't a fault of needing something to do at endgame; this is the fault of people making conscious decisions. Despite the fact that it may be treated as such, there is no equation governing physics that requires big group content to be the most difficult part of a game. There's not even a requirement for it to be present. Raids are not the hardest part of the game because they have to be; they are the hardest and only real endgame system because designers sat down and decided that should be the case.
Why? Well, in short, it worked really well for a long while as a business model. It kept players in the game. Keep progress slow enough and players stick around for the longer term. But as time goes by, people aren't as willing to bang their heads against content they don't enjoy and overcome a challenge that is mainly challenging because it's a huge social commitment.
And an awful lot of games seem to be trying to lure me in with the promise that "their raids are different, really" instead of with the promise that I will not be asked to do something I don't find fun. I've mentioned several times in my column about WildStar that the game's increasing emphasis on raiding as the endpoint is worrisome because that's the same old thing on a different day. Having options for what to do at the level cap isn't worth a hill of beans if there's only one option considered a realistic endpoint.
"Oh, but what else can be done for an endgame?" Oh, I don't know...
Have a very loose advancement system focused on objectives over content. City of Heroes did this well with the Incarnate system, Merits, and the Invention system. Star Trek Online similarly offers you some points of advancement that can be worked toward in a more casual fashion. Both strongly emphasize options over straight power most of the time, and there's a real sense that you advance by doing the stuff you had fun doing for the rest of the game anyway.
Create an endgame that allows you to pick and choose pieces of it as your focus. Final Fantasy XI had an amazingly broad endgame at its old level cap of 75, with everything from raids and stories to small-group fights being viable as an advancement technique. Final Fantasy XIV borrows from that by giving players several different things to do while including a currency system that encourages playing the content you want and leaving the rest to one side. The big raid-style content in that game is the Binding Coil of Bahamut, which I've never run, but I've always had plenty to do without it.
Keep the endgame as a fundamental extension of the existing game. Guild Wars 2, by and large, never really steps away from the leveling game. Sure, you aren't going up in levels any longer past a certain point, but you're still gaining experience, filling out achievements, and getting stuff. You can be as involved or uninvolved in instances as you'd like from level 1-80 and beyond. Guild Wars does much the same thing with a very limited power ceiling. I understand it's changed a bit since then, but when I played The Secret World, there was a very real sense that leveling was just something that happened rather than something with a defined endpoint.
All of this isn't even getting into games like EVE Online, which have very different structures from the beginning. They're not really relevant to the discussion at hand, but even so, they're worth pointing out as evidence that the raiding endgame is not the only possible system in place.
If you want to make a game that caters to the small percentage of people who like this raiding environment, by all means, do so. Just like making a game that caters to people who really enjoy full-loot open-world PvP, you're making a niche title, but if the niche can support you, great.
But if you're not making that, stop trying to get me to raid. Just stop. Stop offering me bigger rewards, stop shoving me further off to one side with each content update, stop trying to make it easier for me to raid until I start liking it. I don't. I've done it. No matter how large you make the carrot or the stick, I'm not going to enjoy raiding.
I don't want to raid. I'm not the only one. Trying to tell me I like it just makes me less inclined to bother with your game.
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PORTLAND - Michael Celeste of Falmouth, 2009 board chair of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Maine, was elected to the national board of directors of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America is governed by an all-volunteer board of directors comprised of corporate and civic leaders from across the country. Each of the 65 Make-A-Wish chapters across the country annually elect a delegate to the nationwide leadership council, which serves in an advisory capacity to the national board of directors.
Celeste, a senior business development officer at Bath Savings Institution, has been on the Make-A-Wish board of directors in Maine since 2003.
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BATH – Habitat of Humanity / 7 Rivers Maine weatherized its 100th home recently, marking a milestone for the new program.
The weatherization program trained volunteers and visited 100 low-income families in Sagadahoc, Lincoln, and Cumberland Counties to seal air leaks in the homes and install interior storm windows to increase home energy efficiency.
The program was developed by energy expert Charlie Wing and initiated by the United Way of Mid Coast Maine.
Habitat for Humanity hopes to continue and expand the program next fall. For more information about Habitat programs or to volunteer, please call 386-5081.
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FALMOUTH - Ricetta's Brick Oven Pizzeria recently announced the winner of its next best pizza contest.
The winning pizza, "Tre Amici," was created by Susan Higgins of Yarmouth. She received a $500 prize and her pizza will be featured in the restaurant's 2010 menu.
The restaurant has selected the Good Shepherd Food Bank as the beneficiary of its pizza contest. For every large Tre Amici pizza purchased in 2010 at the pizzeria's Falmouth or South Portland location, Ricetta's will donate $1 to the Good Shepherd Food Bank.
This is the second year the pizzeria has donated proceeds from the purchase of the winning pizza to the Good Shepherd Food Bank. Last year's sales of the winning pizza, "The Philomena," resulted in $1,200 donated to the food bank.
Preti Flaherty attorney Sigmund D. Schutz of Falmouth was named a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society.
Radio consultant Bud Stiker of Portland was recently awarded the RadioMedia Award by RadioMedia Finland, a marketing and advocacy organization in the radio industry in recognition of his achievements during his 40-year career in radio sales and management.
Joan Jagolinzer of Scarborough received Maine's 2009 AARP Andrus Award for Community Service in recognition of her nearly 20 years of volunteer work with the AARP Tax-Aide program.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine has awarded Russell "Russ" Pierce, of Portland-based law firm Norman, Hanson and DeTroy, a 2009 Environmental Award for his ongoing efforts in the protection of Moosehead Lake. The NRCM presented Evelyn Dunphy of West Bath with the 2009 People's Choice Award for her work protecting Maine's wilderness areas, particularly Katahdin Lake.
Horace "Hoddy" A. Hildreth, Jr., businessman, former legislator and philanthropist, received the Environmental Leadership Award from the Maine League of Conservation Voters for his dedicated work over many years designing and championing some of Maine's strongest environmental protections, including the Department of Environmental Protection's Site Location Law, the Wetlands Control Law, the Bottle Bill and the law that created Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission.
KG Partners, a Portland-based advertising, public relations and interactive agency, earned a Gold award for commercial Web site design at the 2009 Ad Club of Maine Broderson Awards for Night & Day Pictures' film "Ball Don't Lie."
Professor Charles Scontras of Cape Elizabeth, historian and research associate with the University of Maine's Bureau of Labor Education, received the President's Award from the AFL-CIO at its 27th biennial convention in recognition for his lifetime of documenting Maine's labor history.
Portland-based Shipyard Brewing Company received a Silver award for its XXXX IPA at the Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival, one of Europe's largest trade and consumer shows. Shipyard was one of ten U.S. breweries to receive an award.
VNA Home Health & Hospice of South Portland was named one of the top 500 home health agencies in the United States for 2009 by HomeCare Elite. VNA Home Health & Hospice was one of 5 agencies in Maine to be included in the listing.
Portland filmmaker Joseph Brunett was the 2009 recipient of the Jane Morrison Film Fellowship, awarded by the Maine Community Foundation.
Portland-based brewing company Gritty McDuff's Best Brown Ale was selected by Sante magazine as one of five Best New England Beers.
Laboratory and ocean research instrumentation manufacturer Fluid Imaging Technologies in Yarmouth hosted a 10th anniversary gala celebrating the company's first decade in operation.
The Front Room Restaurant & Bar celebrated four years of business in Portland's Munjoy Hill area.
Donna Aucoin of Topsham, KeyBank relationship manager, and Cathy Barter of Brunswick, vice president, Key Private Bank relationship manager, recently celebrated 25 years each of employment with KeyBank in Brunswick. Karen Lemont of South Portland, senior relationship associate for Key Private Bank in Portland, celebrated 30 years of employment at KeyBank in Portland. Darlene Williams of Portland, KeyBank senior relationship associate in the commercial loan department, celebrated her 20th year anniversary of employment at KeyBank in Portland.


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This whiny-looking photo of Henrik Sedin (Whinerik?) was taken just moments after the Canucks' captain was felled by an Andrew Ference crosscheck to the ribs. The Sedins, as you might know, spend a lot of time with their backs to defenders, and as a result, their spines have evolved into diamond nanorods. Their fronts, however, are crosschecked much less often, and therefore retain the sensitivity of normal people. This hurt.
A lot of people accused Henrik Sedin of trying to sell a call here, but that's not what I see in this photo. I see a sensitive soul singing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" from a place of raw emotion. I also see a lot of other things.
Here are 20 things Henrik Sedin might be saying in this photo.
Edit: Bonus 21st! Courtesy of @peeseegee: "Wanna see my impression of a 'little fake artist'?
I'm no hero. By all means, suggest other, better, funnier captions in the comments.Tags: Blogs are for lists, Canucks, captioning photos is the lifeblood of the internet, Henrik, Questionable Comedic Content, that milton quote was from memory bitches, whinerik
You know I'd have a bigger problem with the Nucks diving if it werent for the fact that they can get crosscheckd 9 times without a call in the span of about 3 seconds. Maybe if the Refs made the right calls rather than the ticky tacky stuff they end up calling players wouldnt feel the need to flop and snap their heads back.
I hate the diving across the league. And PITB, to my mind, wrote the best blog post on this during the Predators series (among other things, reminding us that the Preds were accused of diving by Anaheim's GM just one series prior). But, if the Bruins are going to try and take extra shots at the Sedins after the play is blown dead–you know, because supposedly they are wimpy and you can shut them down by taking the body hard, a.k.a., slowly injuring them–then the Sedins are within their rights to dive.
This is different than diving to draw a call when the game is on, and there's a hockey play against the player. That I cannot defend.
Ha. I'm a Monster! is one of my favourite Buster moments. Love when he rips down the banner and the "You're killing me, Buster" banner shows up behind it.
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Smartphones. Smart watches. Smart cars. With everything from wearable gadgets to automobiles becoming smarter and connected, the market is slowly becoming crowded. But Samsung has found an area that hasn't been saturated yet and it is something that environmentally conscious and safety focused people would appreciate: the Smart Bike.


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