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Tue, 27 March 2012
Assembling for the second ever Shotcast are these reprobates:
Alec Meer (mumbly)
Adam Smith (Northern)
Jim Rossignol (bored)
Kieron Gillen (not Northern)
Discussed: tea, Mass Effect 3's bugs, Half-Life, the problem with bosses, Perpetuum Online, Darksiders 2, games journalists singing Metallica, tower defence, Notch's space game and Assassin's Creed III.
Audio quality: Still poor. We're working on it. We need to get hold of some expensive microphones, soundcards, headphones and replacement larynxes, basically.
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Wed, 21 March 2012
The Electronic Wireless Show is dead. Long live the Shotcast.
Discussed - videogames, mostly. This week, Jim, John and Alec are your talking-all-over-each-other hosts.
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Wed, 23 November 2011
In this latest episode of The RPS Electronic Wireless Show, we reflect over the events of the week since we last recorded. What games have we been playing for that week? How brilliant is Tim Stone? Why is Jim so racist against cat people?
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Mon, 7 February 2011
John takes to the stage at World of Love to talk to Zombie Cow, Oddbob and Charlie's Games about independent development and genitals. They make a game. They say rude words. They say awfully nice things about RPS. It's a good time.
But the sound quality's pretty lousy because it was recorded by Alec waving a little dictaphone around. You've been warned.
Direct download: The_RPS_Electronic_Wireless_Show_49.mp3
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Fri, 14 January 2011
Jim and John blow the dust off the RPS studio to record once more.
Direct download: 48_The_RPS_Electronic_Wireless_Show.mp3
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Tue, 26 October 2010
Well, Rage-y. id's Tim Willits faces a panel of RPS readers (the same ones who fired teeny quiz missiles at Splash Damage's Ed Stern last week) to talk Rage.
And only Rage. Honestly, when I set this up I presumed those guys would want to ask a bunch of stuff about Doom and Quake and Wolfenstein and Commander Keen. But nooooooooooooooo, they only wanted to know about the shiny new thing. FINE. You know what? FINE.
Here you are. Here's your podcast. Due to me being essentially incompetent it starts about 30 seconds into proceedings - really sorry about that. Wireless Show business as usual (i.e. introductions and muttery British games journalists) will return whenever the next episode is.
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Thu, 21 October 2010
Special guest show! Many special guests! Primarily, Splash Damage's Senior Game Designer Ed Stern, who's behind most of the words and a whole lot of other things in Brink. Secondarily but no less importantly, a cartel of RPS readers who attended the recent Eurogamer Expo, at which this chat was held. They had questions. They asked them. Ed answered. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. Many Bothans died. RPS' Alec Meer, Quintin Smith and Karen Gillan or someone were also in attendance, chiming in with matters relevant or just plain rude.
Special guest show! Many special guests! Primarily, Splash Damage's Senior Game Designer Ed Stern, who's behind most of the words and a whole lot of other things in Brink.
Secondarily but no less importantly, a cartel of RPS readers who attended the recent Eurogamer Expo, at which this chat was held. They had questions. They asked them. Ed answered. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. Many Bothans died.
RPS' Alec Meer, Quintin Smith and Karen Gillan or someone were also in attendance, chiming in with matters relevant or just plain rude.
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Tue, 10 August 2010
Don't call it a comeback. Okay, do. With Quinns' recent move to London, Kieron and he decided to gather in an office and mumble at one another. And then record it. And then share it.
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Mon, 17 May 2010
Can it really have been so long? It seems so. Jim and John gather once more to discuss matters of gaming, philosophy, and quite how tired everyone is. We're all so tired. Enjoy John's croaky voice, Jim's pretty hair, and thoughts on shooters, Macs and the lack of gossiping murderer-based games.
So we casually chat about the events of the past, the games we've been playing, and our plans for a national RPS holiday.
Naturally this means we discuss local alcoholics, uses for Lara Croft's legs, and the magic of free things. There's Max Payne nonsense, our interest in the new Tomb Raider, and questions on whether Portal was designed to look like a Mac. Then John reveals his balanced, reasoned position on Mac users.
We consider Mass Effect 2, now Jim's playing it, which naturally takes us on to the nature of how philosophy is written. We wonder in which direction the FPS could head next. Then say goodbye to half our listeners.
Bob Came In Pieces DLC and the excellent new Sam & Max episode are spoken of. Then Jim outlines plans for more RPS community games. We wonder at how little corruption we perform, what our favourite fascist superheroes would be like, and why Tidying Up Games are the best of all games. And why Terry Wogan should be a voice actor in every game.
Direct download: 41_The_RPS_Electronic_Wireless_Show.mp3
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Tue, 23 March 2010
Jim and John gather once more to discuss the Observer, Alan Titchmarsh, and tasty drugs.
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This painting reveals the horror of Christian persecution during the times of the Roman Empire. Lions and other wild animals would tear the Christians apart limb from limb, entertainment for the crowd.
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Paul said, "all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." Jesus said, "no servant is greater than his master, if they hated me they will hate you also." He also said, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake."
Persecution is something that every Christian must welcome, there is no Christian who is not persecuted in some way. In fact the very word "witness" comes from a Greek word which is translated in English "martyr". When Christianity was born on the day of Pentecost, 50 days after the resurrection of Christ, the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem were the first to persecuted Christians. Later it was the Roman Empire who heavily persecuted Christianity.
"Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of Christ." - Ignatius
According to tradition there were 10 great persecutions upon the Christian church by the Roman Empire. The most famous Roman Emperor who was a persecutor of the Christians was the Emperor Nero who subjected the Christian church to severe persecution in Rome in 64 A.D. and also in 65 A.D. and that is when the apostle Paul and the apostle Peter both perished. The author of the book of Revelation claims that he was in exile for the Christian faith on the island of Patmos near the end of the first century A.D. It is assumed that this persecution took place under the Emperor Domitian. Later Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, was martyred in 107 A.D. during the reign of Trajan. There was a conversation recorded in history of the Emperor Trajan and Pliny in 112 A.D. which makes clear that there was a growing persecution of Christians in Asia minor. Also in 177 A.D. there was a major persecution of Christians at Lyons under the reign of Marcus Aurelius. During the beginning of the third century A.D. the Roman Empire attempted to prevent any conversions to Christianity and during this time came about the sad story of the martyrdom of Perpetua and her companions at Carthage. Later there was the persecution of Decius who required that every citizen of Rome sacrifice to the Emperor, which actually led to many apostasies within the church. The last major persecution within the Roman Empire was under the reign of Diocletian, and this was probably the most severe. In 303 A.D. Diocletian persecuted the Christians so intensely that he ordered the destruction of many churches, and many sacred books. In 313 A.D. the Emperor Constantine terminated persecutions with the Edict of Milan which granted toleration of the Christian church.
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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2007 When employees at the Wings and Rotors Museum in Murrieta, Calif., noticed the 1965 Cessna Skyhawk sitting on the tarmac, it had seen better days.
"After many inquiries, we found that this aircraft belonged to career Marine (Master) Gunnery Sergeant Mike Tyndale, who had been in the combat zone in Iraq," David Barron, a U.S. Army Air Cavalry veteran and volunteer at the museum, said. "The cabin leaked and the sun had damaged the aircraft as it sat. The birds had made a home of it."
Barron and other veterans associated with the Wings and Rotors Museum created a project to bring the plane back to life -- an endeavor estimated at $7,000. The museum started a project, "Operation Semper Fly," to handle the restoration of the Cessna.
The operation's name plays off the Marine Corps motto, "Semper Fidelis," which means "Always Faithful" and often is shortened to "Semper Fi."
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"We have moved into the cabin restoration and finally will finish it all off with new exterior paint with the Marine Corps colors as an accent," Barron said. "This is being done at no cost to him as a token of our support for all of our veterans. As veterans ourselves, we could no just turn our back on him."
Materials needed to bring the Cessna back to its former glory have been donated by local suppliers in amounts greater than the estimated repair costs, he said. In fact, a flight instructor has donated his time to fly with Tyndale to get the Marine current on his flight requirements and help get him through his biennial flight review.
"I am proud to say that the aviation community has embraced our efforts to bring this aircraft back to life," Barron said. "The aircraft will be returned to … Tyndale on June 9 at the French Valley Airport's 'Air Faire.'"
The Air Faire event is an annual open house at the airport featuring static military and civilian displays and a community safety fair.
Tyndale, who has served 26 years in the Marine Corps, knew his "cherished" aircraft had suffered from his nearly three-year absence. He said he is thrilled that it's nearly ready to soar into the wild blue again, and incredibly grateful to those who made that possible.
"I have a lump in my throat trying to express my gratitude at this undertaking," he said. "There is no greater sense of community support for military members … than to come home and be told 'thanks" and get the hearty handshakes.
"However the Wings and Rotors Air Museum has done more than that," Tyndale continued. "Thanks to their members, my plane will recover from my long absence and will fly again."
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Also note that the crossbow should be made over a span of 2 days, the second day can be spent assessing the crossbow, tweaking it and adding features.
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Note: if you do not have this you will be sore from cutting the wood out with your hands, so yeah, this tool helps.
-Coping saw (any saw will do)
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Note: I have gone into detail, just in case some idiot complains about it.
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Note: Wooden blinds can be substituted for bamboo, I will go into more detail in step 3.
Step 2: Marking and chopping wood.
Chop the wood with the Ratchet, make sure that the wood is in the vice or you will be missing a few fingers after this step.
The chunk taken out of the body should be kept unless you have scrap wood lying around.
The chunk of wood that has been chopped off you should now put into your vice look at picture 6 to see where the screws go, drill them in slightly so the're in there but not completely through the wood, now remove it from the vice and clamp the base there, then fully screw in the chunk as shown in picture 5. This is the stock.
A crossbow with no trigger is pretty much worthless.
Using the converter on my phone, 100 metres comes out at a fraction over 328 feet (328.083984 feet, if you want to be pedantic ;-) - and if you really want to be geekily pedantic, that '0.083984' of a foot is 1.007760 inch ;-$).
Besides, laminate a piece of bamboo and you've got something new to play with! I remember my old homemade crossbow sitting in a box. I can't even cock it; the bow is just two pieces of bamboo laminated together. Sounds like another instructable heading my way...
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Police and county council staff carried out a traffic census in Blaby yesterday.
Traffic on Enderby Road between Blaby and Enderby was stopped by officers and asked questions by council staff to gather data for future road improvements.
The 12-hour census caused delays for motorists.
Martin Crosbie took a photo of the queues and tweeted it, saying: "Talk about waste of taxpayers' money. Road side census causing chaos."


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Sep 29th 2010Bull MooseObama & University of Wisconsin
The President of the United States appeared at my alma mater yesterday. As usual, for the straight dope on what is going on at UW-Madison's campus outside of the athletic department, I turn to UW Law School Professor, and Obama voter, Ann Althouse.
(And for the record, if I was a student now, I would have made an effort to go see the president. Because he's, you know, the President of the United States and all.)
Instapundit's observation of Ann Althouse's photos of the attendees of the Obama rally at UW-Madison is golden. Althouse's commenters same observation is… er… goldener. (If you don't want to click-through, it's observations about how much whiter the crowd is than a Tea Party crowd and someone wondering if UW-Madison would Photoshop in some diversity like they used to in the good ol' days.)
I also enjoy the video Althouse posted:
What does it take for Obama to get booed at the overwhelmingly left-leaning humanities side of the UW-Madison campus? Why, talking shit about the Packers being beat by the Bears, of course. (Which faux-Chicago sports fan Obama thinks happens on Sunday, not Monday.)
Ever see the horror movie cliche where the protagonist's best friend/mate/sibling has been turned into a zombie/vampire/some monster and is about to kill the protagonist, but just in time the monster's last memory of humanity comes through and he hesitates just long enough for the protagonist to escape? That's what's happening there.
A bunch of white, liberal college Obama zombies sitting on a hill thinking: "Hope… Change… Hope… Change… Wait a minute… Did he just talk shit about the Packers? In Wisconsin?" The difference from the cliche being that the Obama Zombies momentary humanity didn't do anyone any good.
And I also agree with Althouse that his line about swinging up from Chicago to party in Madison is bullshit. Mostly because he looks like too much of a lightweight to survive a party that revolves around beer, schnapps, and whiskey rather than blow. But, Althouse's commenter has a good counterpoint on this:Â "Eh, I believe it. It has the air of a guy driving all night to hook up with a girl."
I encourage you to go look at the rest of Althouse's coverage, it's pretty enlightening.


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CHARLESTON — A workers' compensation auditor and four coal company contractors were charged Tuesday in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Arville Sargent, 52, of Chapmanville, was charged with mail fraud and tax evasion for allowing companies to underreport their payroll in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash bribes and other items, including an all-terrain vehicle, according to a release from U.S.
Attorney Booth Goodwin. Sargent was an auditor for BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company, the state's largest workers' compensation insurance provider. Goodwin said the fraud cheated BrickStreet out of millions of dollars in insurance premiums it was owed.
The companies involved in the scheme are Aracoma Contracting LLC, Christian Contracting, Newhall Contracting and T&W Services. Each provided labor on a contract basis to coal companies in southern West Virginia.
Two principals for Aracoma — Jerome Eddie Russell, 50, of Williamson; and Frelin Workman, 58, of Belfry, Ky. — admitted paying a significant number of their employees in cash as part of a tax evasion scheme to avoid the associated payroll taxes, Goodwin said.
Randy Workman, 36, of Belfry, Ky., also used cash payments to evade payroll taxes, the prosecutor said. Arthur White Jr., 60, of Lenore, paid a portion of the payroll for T&W Services LLC through a shell company to avoid paying taxes.
Sargent, Russell, Frelin Workman and Randy Workman each face up to 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
White faces up to ten years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
It wasn't immediately clear whether they had attorneys.
Goodwin said in a release that the charges, filed as an information to indicate the defendants' cooperation, show that his office takes mine safety seriously.
"Employers in the coal mining industry who cheat the workers' compensation insurance system are really only cheating the hard-working miners who risk injury to perform dangerous jobs to provide for their families," he said.
He said failing to report employment exposed the coal miners to "devastating financial misfortune" if there had gotten injured on the job.
"These charges are even more disturbing because these crooked operators were able to compromise the one person entrusted to make sure the employees are properly accounted for: the insurance company's auditor," he said. "This type of corruption has long plagued the coal industry in southern West Virginia and must be stopped."
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Learn how to install a PCI Card in a Desktop PC so you can connect new hardware or devices to your computer's central processors, all by yourself.See Transcript
Transcript:Install a PCI CardHi, I'm Don Schechter for About.com Computing.
Before You Install a PCI CardBefore you begin, make sure that you read your manual to see if you have to install any hardware drivers before installing your new PCI card.
First, turn off the computer and unplug the power cord.
Next, open the computer. Some computers have a button that you press to open the box. Some have screws on the rear of the case which must be removed. I just need to remove the screws on the back of the case.
Slide the casing back. Now you have access to the inside of your computer.
Locate Slot to Install a PCI CardDesktop PCs have several PCI slots for you to use. Sometimes these can be hidden below wires, so you may need to gently push those aside.
Depending on how your computer was put together, there might already be cards in a few of the PCI slots.
Find an open one which gives you plenty of space above and below to insert your new PCI card.
Installing a PCI CardRemove the card slot cover. Some computers have easy lift off slot covers while most have screws. I'm just going to remove the screw and pull off the cover.
Next, align the PCI card directly over the slot in the motherboard. Once this is in place, gently press down on both the front and back of the card until it is snug.
Once the card is seated in the slot, screw or fasten down the card to the case at the PC card slot.
Close up your computer and plug in all of your cables.
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Is there a girl in the room who didn't want to be Anna Chlumsky in the early nineties present? If so, I'm calling you out right now: you're either a liar, or you have no idea who she is. And if you have no idea who she is, that's no excuse, either. We live in a modern society of instant f-cking gratification. Get your ass to Blockbuster or Red Box or Netflix or something and FIND My Girl. You'll get to relive your pre-adolescence all over again, and what's better than that, huh?
I'll tell you what's better: seeing Anna Chlumsky after all of these years, totally looking how Vada Sultenfuss would look if she were a real person. It's just too bad, now, that Macaulay Culkin is such a drug-addled, porn-star-crack-sniffing freakshow – a pair-up would be pure bliss otherwise.


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Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel backed Joe Sestak in 2010, and co-chairs President Obama's intelligence advisory board, so it's no surprise that he came out and endorsed Democrat Bob Kerrey's losing campaign today. But according to Senator Mike Johanns, a friend of Hagel's, the endorsement is part of an effort to position himself for a cabinet position in a second Obama term:
Democrat Bob Kerrey is receiving an endorsement from former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel on Thursday, a potential boost in his effort to pull ahead in Nebraska's tight race for an open Senate seat. Republicans supporting GOP hopeful Deb Fischer scoffed and suggested Hagel was sniffing around for a cabinet seat in the Obama administration.
"His interest was more at the international level than it was Nebraska," said Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, a personal friend of Hagel's who pointed out that the former senator angered the GOP with criticism of former President George W. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq.
"I think at the end of the day, people are going to look at this endorsement and see it for what it is," Johanns added. I think it's a step in his path to try to build those bone fides that he is truly an Obama person and deserves a place in his cabinet."
National Journal recently named Hagel as a possible defense secretary replacement down the road. Back when Dennis Blair stepped down, Hagel was also floated as a possible candidate for director of national intelligence, but there probably won't be an opening there anytime soon. Hagel was a strong opponent of the war in Iraq, and he's no friend of Israel (which the National Jewish Democratic Committee pointed out back before he became an advisor to President Obama).
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SURGIONSVILLE, Tenn. - An East Tennessee couple accused of forcing the man's 5-year-old daughter to drink more than 2 liters of grape soda and water, causing her brain to swell and rupture, was arraigned Friday on charges of murder, abuse and neglect.
Randall Vaughn and his wife Mary will face trial in October. A judge ordered Friday that Mary Vaughn be represented by a public defender. Randall Vaughn will seek a private attorney. The couple did not enter a plea. They are jailed on $500,000 bond each.
According to the Hawkins County Sheriff's Office and the autopsy report, Alexa Linboom was brought in to the emergency room on Jan. 1, 2012, by the Vaughns.
The girl was blue and unresponsive with "an abnormal body posture that indicates severe brain damage," according to the autopsy, which was completed in July 2013.
The Vaughns were arrested on Wednesday.
An investigation revealed the girl had been forced to drink approximately 2.4 liters of water and soda over one to two hours as punishment. The massive intake of fluid caused her brain to swell and herniate.
According to the autopsy, when she was forced to drink all that liquid, she began vomiting, urinated on herself and asked to take a bath.
"Outside of the bathtub, she tried to eat oatmeal with assistance then started clenching her hands." She arrived at the hospital about 2 to 3 hours later.
"Caretakers told hospital staff that during the ride to the hospital, she sat up in the vehicle and played patty cake," according to the autopsy.
She was transported by air to a regional hospital where she was pronounced brain dead two days later.
The autopsy states that the girl had moved to Tennessee to live with her father about three months before her death. The move was prompted by allegations of neglect at her previous home.
A pediatric check-up about three months before her death had shown no significant problems. She was taken to an outpatient clinic about a month before her death for excessive thirst, urination and eating, but nothing was found to be wrong with her.
According to the autopsy, "Other adults who had regular contact with the child before and after her move to Tennessee describe her as a normal, healthy child and did not notice any unusual eating, drinking habits and that she did not wet her pants at school."
An obituary for the child said, "Some of the things that brought enjoyment to her life was coloring, playing with her Barbie dolls, her love of animals, but her most joy came when playing with her brothers and sisters."
Tennessee Department of Children's Services spokesman Rob Johnson confirmed that Alexa had lived in the home with five other children, some of whom were siblings and some of whom were half-siblings. The other children were removed from the house in Feb. 2013 and remain in DCS custody.
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The New York Times reports that gun-control advocates are not dissuaded by their recent failure to get first a gun ban and then a background checks bill passed. They are pressing on with attempts to further regulate gun ownership. As I noted and as the Washington Post explained, Americans basically came to see the Toomey-Manchin bill as representative of the fight to restrict gun ownership, and the attempts by the government to impose such restrictions unnerved them. This bothers supporters of gun control for cultural reasons, and I think it's worth explaining where gun-rights supporters are coming from.
In February, Timothy Noah wrote a perceptive column about how liberals were no longer always talking about liberal policies in "non-liberal language." But gun control was an exception. "Hunters are understood to be part of an authentic American majority in a way liberals who don't shoot guns are not," Noah wrote. "But this ingrained assumption is no longer true. Busily genuflecting before hunters, liberals have somehow failed to realize that they are a new silent majority."
Noah's column was headlined "How Liberals Became 'Real Americans'," and the example of gun ownership as the outlier–gun owners are the real "real Americans" no matter how many, or how few, of them there actually are–is instructive. As anyone who has been told by gun control supporters that tyranny is not on the agenda and therefore the Founders' concern for the right to bear arms is just a bit dated can attest, concern about the slippery slope argument on guns is downright puzzling to the left. But it's actually much easier to understand than it seems.
Exactly 60 years ago, in the April 1953 issue of COMMENTARY, Daniel J. Boorstin wrote an eloquent essay that sheds light on this issue without actually discussing gun rights. The piece was titled "Our Unspoken National Faith: Why Americans Need No Ideology," and it was adapted from his then-forthcoming book The Genius of American Politics. The purpose of Boorstin's essay, as indicated in the title, is to explain why Americans have developed such successful political institutions without a tradition of impressive modern political theorizing. Americans are, Boorstin noted, surprisingly uninterested in political philosophy for a country that has experienced such magnificent political achievement.
Boorstin's aim is to explain what he calls "givenness," briefly defined as "the belief that values in America are in some way or other automatically defined: given by certain facts of geography or history peculiar to us." There are three aspects to American "givenness," according to Boorstin. First, that our values are a gift from the past; second, that we continue to receive our values as a gift from the present; and third, a belief in the continuity of American history, which helps explain how his first and second parts of "givenness" can coexist. "Our feeling of continuity in our history makes it easy for us to see the Founding Fathers as our contemporaries. It induces us to draw heavily on the materials of our history, but always in a distinctly non-historical frame of mind," he writes.
We haven't felt the need to invent mythical American prophets because that's how we see our Founders. And we haven't felt the need to develop a uniting political theory because we believe the nation was founded on an already complete theory that we happily accepted. One major reason for this is the recency of our founding. Boorstin calls us "primitivistic" in comparison to Europeans, who–for obvious reasons–don't see themselves in their earliest settlers.
This explains the left-right divide over constitutional interpretation. Both liberals and conservatives have taken to claiming their constitutional righteousness in terms of its "originalism." Neither side's leading judicial theorists, however, tend to argue that it doesn't matter what the Founders thought at the time. "We are haunted by a fear that capricious changes in theory might imperil our institutions," Boorstin writes. "This is our kind of conservatism." Later, he adds: "What need has either party for an explicit political theory where both must be spokesmen of the original American doctrine on which the nation was founded?"
Boorstin admits that the second facet of "givenness" is vague, but it boils down to accepting that our founding value system is being constantly upheld and reinvigorated by the simple experience of American life. And here he quotes Frederick Jackson Turner writing about the idealized American frontierland and how we translate that into our value system. Turner's quote, in turn, provides some perspective on Noah's remark about "real Americans":
The result is that to the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness, that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom—these are traits of the frontier, or called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier.
Indeed, Boorstin notes that we admire not extraordinary men but men "who possessed the commonplace virtues to an extraordinary degree." The third facet of "givenness," continuity between the first two, is both a goal and a fact of life–though this, too, has much to do with America's youth and is probably far from a given if the United States reaches in the future the age that Europe is now. American political convention has an authenticity, Boorstin writes, guided by "the axiom that institutions are not and should not be the grand creations of men toward large ends and outspoken values; rather they are organisms which grow out of the soil in which they are rooted and out of the tradition from which they have sprung." He concludes:
Our history has fitted us, even against our will, to understand the meaning of conservatism. We have become the exemplars of the continuity of history and of the fruits which came from cultivating institutions suited to a time and place, in continuity with the past.
How this applies, precisely 60 years later, to the gun debate is twofold. First, liberals have been frustrated by the fact that lower population states, in conservative and gun-friendly regions of the country, hold disproportionate sway in the Senate thanks to each state having the same number of senators, and thus votes. But they should also keep in mind that this doesn't bother others nearly as much because these states, as we see from Turner's description of the frontier in American consciousness, hold disproportionate sway over much of America's national and cultural identity. Guns are only part of this, but a recognizable part.
Second, unlike many other policy fights, gun rights have special resonance because the right to bear arms is written explicitly. We can, and do, argue over whose right that is and what arms they may bear, but few rights were so clearly declared to exist or jealously guarded by the Founders as this one. And that helps explain how Americans can simultaneously support universal background checks in theory yet seem to suddenly get cold feet when it is time for Congress to vote. They don't take it lightly when their rights are on the table. That may be frustrating for lawmakers, but it's part of the genius of American politics.


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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.17.6
yas tvaḿ kṛṣṇe gate dūraḿ
śocyo 'sy aśocyān rahasi
praharan vadham arhasi
yaḥ — on account of; tvam — you rogue; kṛṣṇe — Lord Kṛṣṇa; gate — having gone away; dūram — out of sight; saha — along with; gāṇḍīva — the bow named Gāṇḍīva; dhanvanā — the carrier, Arjuna; śocyaḥ — culprit; asi — you are considered; aśocyān — innocent; rahasi — in a secluded place; praharan — beating; vadham — to be killed; arhasi — deserve.
You rogue, do you dare beat an innocent cow because Lord Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, the carrier of the Gāṇḍīva bow, are out of sight? Since you are beating the innocent in a secluded place, you are considered a culprit and therefore deserve to be killed.
In a civilization where God is conspicuously banished, and there is no devotee warrior like Arjuna, the associates of the age of Kali take advantage of this lawless kingdom and arrange to kill innocent animals like the cow in secluded slaughterhouses. Such murderers of animals stand to be condemned to death by the order of a pious king like Mahārāja Parīkṣit. For a pious king, the culprit who kills an animal in a secluded place is punishable by the death penalty, exactly like a murderer who kills an innocent child in a secluded place.
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Graelyn Gladine Bohn was still-born at 39 weeks, and has been united with our Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven. Graelyn was the daughter of Ryan and Kelly (Hall) Bohn.
She is survived by her parents; three siblings, Grace, Grady and Gabriella Bohn; maternal grandparents, Steve and Janet Hall; paternal grandparents, Jeff and Christine Bohn; maternal great grandmother, June Hall; paternal great-grandparents, Jack and Virginia Bohn and Cec and Sheila Duffett; uncles and aunts, Steve and Kathy Hall and Christopher and Amanda Bohn; and cousins, Grant, Alyssa and Ella Hall and Lilly Bohn.
Graelyn was preceded in death by her maternal great-grandparents, Norman Hall, Robert Montgomery and James and Gladine Schwochow.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at Castalia Cemetery. The Rev. Kathleen Suggitt will officiate.
Memorials may be made in Graelyn's honor to Grace Lutheran Church, Renovation Fund, 203 S. Washington St,. Castalia, OH 44824, and to Grace's Table Food Pantry, 203 S. Washington St., Castalia.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Ronald W. Baker, 34, of Cabot, Ark., died October 13th in Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained on October 7th in Taji, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle. Baker was assigned to the 39th Support Battalion, Arkansas National Guard, Lonoke, Ark.
For further information related to this release, contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.


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An apparatus and method for guiding a needle in conjunction with a biopsy using a medical imaging device, where an open-ended needle guide with an adjustable slidable multi-gauge needle stop is used to guide a needle during insertion and during a tilting of the needle with respect to the medical imaging device.
1. A system for guiding a needle comprising:
a medical imaging transceiver, configured to generate signals representative of an internal portion of a human body;
a first needle stop having a first needle engagement surface;
a slidable needle stop having a leading edge opposing said needle engagement surface so as to form a needle gap therebetween;
said slidable needle stop being slidable so as to provide said needle gap with a variable gap width;
said first needle stop and said slidable needle stop being configured to form an open ended slot which permits a needle disposed in said needle gap to be removed from said needle gap when said needle is pivoted; and
an elongated flexible strap being elastic along a longitudinal axis, further being conformable so as to wrap around at least a portion of the medical imaging transceivers, where a shape characteristic of the medical imaging transceiver is one of a variety of shapes;
WHEREBY said first needle stop and said slidable needle stop are configured to cooperate to provide needle engaging forces upon a needle when said needle is disposed in said needle gap and simultaneously configured to permit removal of said needle from said needle gap by pivoting said needle in a direction orthogonal to a needle axis, and the first needle stop and the slidable needle stop are held in place adjacent to the medical imaging transceiver by at least the elongated flexible strap.
2. A system of
3. A system of
4. A system of
5. A system of
6. A system of
7. A needle guide comprising:
a medical imaging transceiver;
a first needle stop, having a first needle engagement surface;
a second needle stop having a second needle engagement surface;
a needle receiving gap formed by said first needle receiving surface and said second needle receiving surface;
said needle receiving gap having an open end, such that a needle, having a longitudinal axis, disposed therein can be tilted in tilt direction orthogonal to the longitudinal axis and can be tilted beyond a limit of one of said first needle stop and said second needle stop; so that the needle can be displaced from said needle receiving gap;
said first needle stop and said second needle stop being configured to permit relative movement therebetween, so as to provide adjustment of forces being applied to said needle; and
an elastic belt configured to wrap around a portion of the medical imaging transceiver and to hold the first needle stop at a fixed location with respect to the medical imaging transceiver.
8. A needle guide of
9. A method of imaging comprising the steps of:
providing a medical imaging transceiver;
disposing a needle, having a longitudinal axis, in a needle guide which has an adjustable needle gap width;
the needle guide being coupled to the medical imaging transceiver having a vertical axis, via an elongated elastic belt which wraps around and conforms to an exterior surface of the medical imaging transceiver;
causing said needle to enter a human body at a first angle with respect to said vertical axis;
applying a tilting force between said needle and said needle guide to overcome a frictional force; and,
said tilting force causing a relative tilting of said needle with respect to said first angle.
The present application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/682,367 entitled "Method and apparatus for guiding needles", filed by the same inventor on Aug. 24, 2001, and now U.S. Pat. No. 6,612,990, and which application itself was a continuation-in-part application of an application entitled "Needle guide for attachment to ultrasound transducer probe" by the same inventor, the application having Ser. No. 09/526,048 which was filed on Mar. 15, 2000, and issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,296,614 on Oct. 2, 2001, which itself was a continuation-in-part of application 29/103,098, also entitled "Needle guide for attachment to ultrasound transducer probe" filed on Apr. 8, 1999, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. Des. 424,693 on May 9, 2000. The above-referenced application, Patent and U.S. Design Patent are incorporated herein in their entirety by these references.
In recent years, handheld medical imaging transceivers, such as ultrasound and gamma ray transceivers, have been used extensively for various medical imaging situations. In certain procedures, such as biopsies, it may be desired to tilt a needle with respect to a needle guide or vice versa.
In the past, the physician or medical professional may be required to detach a biopsy needle from a needle guide prior to changing the angle of the needle with respect to the needle guide and transceiver. Other prior art needle guides have included a pair of spaced-apart fixed parallel plates. The medical professional could place the needle between the parallel plates, and it would be free in a plane parallel with the plates, but restricted from large movements outside that plane.
Other prior art needle guides have been used which include a resilient tube coupled to a transducer where the tube has a longitudinal slit through which the needle can be pulled when relative tilting is required.
While these needle guides have been used extensively in the past, they do have some drawbacks. First of all, any model of fixed parallel plate needle guide is limited in the size of needle that can be guided therein. If the needle is too big, it will not fit between the fixed parallel plates. If the plates are too far apart, there is less support being provided in the desired direction. Also, these parallel plate needle guides only provide support in one direction. They provide no support or resistance from motion within the plane of the parallel gap between the fixed plates. This increases the attention required by the medical professional.
Secondly, the resilient slit tube type of needle guide does provide some resistance to motion in the desired plane of motion, but it is limited to only the first portion of that movement or motion. Once the needle is tilted out of the tube, there is no support or resistance to motion in any direction. Additionally, these types of needle guides will work only with specific gauges of needles. They will not work well when a narrow gauge needle is used in a needle guide primarily designed for a larger needle. The narrower needle may fall through the slit. Conversely, a larger needle may not fit in the tube, or it may be difficult to pull through the slit. Consequently, numerous sized slit tube needle guides would be needed to fulfill the needs of a medical professional who uses needles of varying sizes. Additionally, these slit tube type of needle guides may be viewed as unstable in the direction of relative motion. For example, the force required to be applied to the needle to move the needle in the tilted direction decreases as the amount of tilting occurs. To assure that excess tilting does not occur, the medical professional needs to give more attention to the force being applied when the required force decreases with angular displacement.
Consequently, there exists a need for improved methods and apparatus for guiding needles in an efficient manner.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and method for guiding a tiltable needle in an efficient manner.
It is a feature of the present invention to utilize a multi-gauge adjustable needle guide.
It is another feature of the present invention to include a slidable needle stop.
It is another feature of the present invention to include a slide-ably adjustable needle guide stop with a bias force for closing the needle guide.
It is another feature of the present invention to include needle stops having contours for engaging needles.
It is an advantage of the present invention to achieve improved efficiency in guiding needles.
The present invention is an apparatus and method for guiding needles designed to satisfy the aforementioned needs, provide the previously stated objects, include the above-listed features, and achieve the already articulated advantages. The present invention is carried out in a "physician burden-less" manner in a sense that the burden on a physician or other medical professional in guiding needles during the process of tilting has been greatly reduced.
Accordingly, the present invention is an apparatus and method including a slidable needle stop in a multi-gauge adjustable needle guide.
The invention may be more fully understood by reading the following description of the preferred embodiments of the invention, in conjunction with the appended drawings wherein:
Now referring to the drawings wherein like numerals refer to like matter throughout, and more specifically referring to
The medical imaging device 103 has a transmitting end 105, which may be a planar face with a vertical axis 107 extending orthogonally therefrom.
The term "vertical axis 107" is used herein to convey that the axis is orthogonal to the transmitting surface end 105. Depending on the orientation of the medical imaging device 103, the vertical axis 107 may be pointed in any direction with respect to the patient or an earth reference. In normal operation, the medical imaging device 103 is often held, at least at first, with the transmitting end 105 in a substantially horizontal (earth reference) arrangement. This arrangement results in the vertical axis 107 being orientated in a vertical (earth reference) direction.
Needle guide 102 has a slidable needle stop 120 which may be contoured on its top side to facilitate engagement with a human finger or thumb. Slidable needle stop 120 is preferably slidable along needle guide main body 106 which contains a first needle stop 110. However, other arrangements between the slidable needle stop 120 and first needle stop 110 could be substituted. First needle stop 110 may be vertical and have a planar needle engagement surface 112 as shown, but other arrangements could be employed as well.
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In operation, the apparatus and method of the present invention as described and shown in
Needle guide 102 is attached to medical imaging device 103 via medical imaging device retaining strap 104. The needle guide 102 is readied for receipt of the needle 101 by sliding slidable needle stop 120 to create a gap sufficiently large to accommodate the particular biopsy needle used. The biopsy needle, such as needle 101, is inserted into needle gap 130 and slidable needle stop 120 is released, thereby holding needle 101. The needle 101 is then inserted into the patient. Medical imaging device 103 is used to create a first image of a portion of a human body. The medical imaging device 103 and needle guide 102 are then tilted with respect to the needle 101. This provides a different angle of view of the end 1011 of the needle 101. A second image is then created by the medical imaging device 103. The needle may be held stationary and the medical imaging device 103 and needle guide 102 tilted, or vice versa.
The tilting of the needle 101 or needle guide 102 is done by applying a force between the two. As the angle of separation between the vertical axis 107 and the longitudinal axis of the needle 101 increases, the amount of contact between the needle 101 and planar needle engagement surface 112 and top leading edge 220 increases. This increases the friction on the needle 101, thereby increasing the force needed to move the needle 101 to larger angular separations with respect to the needle guide 102.
Throughout this description, reference is made to a medical imaging system, because it is believed that the beneficial aspects of the present invention would be most readily apparent when used in connection with medical imaging; however, it should be understood that the present invention is not intended to be limited to imaging, and should be hereby construed to include other medical tools, equipment and methodologies as well, where it is desirable to guide a needle.
Throughout this document, references are made to "vertical" and "horizontal". These terms are intended to mean "substantially vertical" and "substantially horizontal". Minor deviations from vertical and minor deviations from horizontal are intended to be included therein. Also see the above definition on vertical axis 107.
It is thought that the method and apparatus of the present invention will be understood from the foregoing description and that it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construct steps, and arrangement of the parts and steps thereof, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing all of their material advantages. The form herein described is merely a preferred exemplary embodiment thereof.
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Trying to choose chips that are healthy can be a real challenge at the grocery store. Whether it's corn tortilla chips or potato chips, there are dozens of chips to choose from.
We put two kinds of chips – potato and tortilla – head to head to find out, which is healthier: this or that?
Winner: It's a draw.
Surprising as it was to many shoppers we surveyed, tortilla chips do not win here, as Joyce Hendley originally reported for EatingWell.
In fact, neither variety of chip should be thought of as a health food. But when you stack them up against each other there are some small nutritional differences.
Both potato chips and tortilla chips come in endless variations that make other nutrition comparisons practically impossible.
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Growing up, having fried rice for dinner was synonymous with "fridge clean-out day," meaning that any leftover vegetables and/or proteins from the night—or week—before were on their way to the wok. Those leftovers might be pieces of Chinese roast pork, bits of leftover chicken and baby bok choy, gai lan (Chinese broccoli) and corn—but when mixed with eggs and oyster sauce, they made a quick dinner that was ready in minutes.
The fried rice recipes in a recent issue of EatingWell aren't the smorgasbord fried rice of my childhood. And they're not the greasy fried rice from your local Chinese takeout either. They're healthier and much more balanced. You basically get the best of both worlds, home cooking and high on flavor.
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Classic shapes, silhouettes, and styles, with an updated twist that emphasizes the details: That's Tyler Thoreson's aesthetic. Whether the Gilt editorial VP's jetting to back-to-back office meetings, heading to events downtown, or enjoying weekends with the kids, the common denominator is subtly stated style that's never fussy or superfluous. For the latest installation of our "Gilt Influencer Picks" series, Thoreson raided the Gilt coffers and picked some men's fashion and home decor, which he either has, or has on his wish list; all speak of his fashion and design sense. We asked him about his inspirations and more:
Describe your personal style (fashion-wise). "Classics with a twist" may be the most annoying phrase in the history of menswear. It's also an incredibly apt description of the way I dress.
You always pull such a good office look together… what do you wear on Saturday with the kids? I guess you could call it suburban dad, minus the dad jeans. A Hamilton button-down and denim from Baldwin or Imogene + Willie are pretty typical. The whole cargo pant comeback of the past few years has been a boon for me. I've been known to stow a couple diapers in the cargo pockets of my Mark McNairy's.
Describe your design style. A mashup of boho and midcentury, with a growing strain of Scandinavian. Very World of Interiors is how our art director Lisa Strassberg described it, and I'll take that. As in all things, my taste vastly exceeds my budget, which is, of course, why I love shopping Gilt Home.
How do you achieve that design aesthetic with three little ones — and a pug — running around the house? I tend to think that nice things look better with a little wear on them, which could be a legitimate aesthetic position, or it could just be a rationalization for the fact that there's crayon on virtually everything in our house that's within reach of a 2-year-old.
We're coveting a lot of the men's styles you chose for this sale, from Paul Smith denim shoes to a LV briefcase that's got us thinking about busting into our 401(k). Why did you choose what you did, and what are some of your favorites? Great tailoring, perfect-fitting denim, well made shoes — these are things every guy needs, and you'll find plenty of that here. It may be a while before I can afford the gold Rolex Submariner, or that LV briefcase, but, hey, you need something to aspire to.
And what about the decor you picked? We noticed there's some art there that looks like what you've got in the office… it's all very you. Take us through a few must-haves. Obviously, coffee table books are as much decor as literature, but everything here is something I have read or would read. I love the modern lines of our exclusive Hewson collection, especially combined with a kilim pillow or vintage inspired rug. As for the wardrobe, I'd like to think that nothing here is going to be out of style in five years — yet everything looks current in 2014.
Say a hapless dude walks up to you in the elevator needing help with both style and home decor. What could/would you say in 30 seconds or less? Fit is king. And don't bring anything into your home that you wouldn't want there 10 or 15 years from now.
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The Roy Williams Uproar
On Monday night against the New York Giants, new Chicago Bears wide receiver Roy Williams seemingly caught a 16-yard pass, then jumped up to perform his signature, obnoxious first down signal. Seconds later, I thought of a good friend of mine that hated Williams in both Detroit and Dallas when the replay showed Williams clearly dropped the ball. Thing is, he KNEW he dropped the ball, yet he still performed his tired old antics.
As I have so many times before when the Bears have acquired players that failed elsewhere, I was hoping that Williams just had problems, whatever they were, at his other stops, and would work them out in Chicago.
But criticism for Williams is quickly mounting. And if you listen to Dan McNeil, it's already a circus.
What do you think? Are you done with Williams already or think he might still have a chance to make a positive impact on the Bears?
One thing is good, at least the Bears didn't give up a first round draft pick plus more to acquire him.


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Megaupload is shut down by the feds, and its executives arrested.
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megaupload was a good site, one of the originals
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sony/warner/etc need to restructure themselves, lay off all the useless bean counters and get some people in who will make them some proper money
SOPA is the best thing that has happened in years, because now everyone is telling the US government to piss off, and the US government will, because they don't want to create a situation like syria do they. some people get really angry about stuff like this, when companies (the us government) try to take away their freedom. then there will be riots, and bloodshed. and there should be. the internet is the greatest invention of all time (disregarding the original electricity, circuit boards etc)
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The final Big East Tournament began for the St. John's Red Storm as they took on the Villanova Wildcats on the courts of Madison Square Garden. Sir'Dom Pointer would be available for the Storm after missing the last game due to his suspension. Chris Obekpa began the game on the offensive side of the ball, Full Story


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Google has made searching that little bit safer for those who are signed in with a Google account, takes next step in trying to build-up online defences for everyday users
If you have a Google account and use Google whilst being signed in you may discover being redirected to https://www.google.com (notice the 's'), what this difference means is that your search will then have SSL protection.
Google announced the feature on their blog pointing out the ongoing steps that the company will be taking to make using the internet safer: "We've worked hard over the past few years to increase our services' use of an encryption protocol called SSL, as well as encouraging the industry to adopt stronger security standards."
The idea is to protect users against completely open networks such as those found in internet cafe's or coffee shops, with Google's main focus being to protect users against increasingly personal search functions such as including locations:
"As search becomes an increasingly customized experience, we recognize the growing importance of protecting the personalized search results we deliver. As a result, we're enhancing our default search experience for signed-in users."
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I thought I'd take the time to write
To say I love you so…
I've miss you very much my love,
I thought I'd let you know
Times I thought I'd die from you
When tears were some release
Even though I cried all night
The pain would never cease
They say that distance heals;
Time will change our song
It's been more than a lifetime…
Guess I proved them wrong
Still I'm glad you came into my life,
I'm glad you spent some time
Even though you're gone my love
You've never left my mind
Forgive me for the pain I brought
For all your tears and woe
But with all the loving that we did
I couldn't let you go
One day when you find your love
One day…not far away
You'll still be in my heart my love
Just like you are today