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Beer Bad
|"Beer Bad"
|Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
|Episode no.
|Season 4
Episode 5
|Directed by
|David Solomon
|Written by
|Tracey Forbes
|Production code
|Original air date
|November 2, 1999
|Guest appearance(s)
"Beer Bad" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is written by Tracey Forbes and directed by David Solomon. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling in a Series.[1]
Plot synopsis[edit]
Buffy is still hurting because Parker dumped her after a night together. In a daydream during one of Professor Walsh's classes (pointedly, about the role of the id in Freudian psychology) she saves Parker's life and he swears to do anything to get her back. A dialogue with Willow later shows how much Buffy is not over him yet.
In the real world, Xander gets a job as a bartender with a fake ID, and has to endure the insults from students. He gets to test his empathy skills with none other than Buffy who then proceeds to get drunk on "Black Frost" beer with four college boys. Oz and Willow are in The Bronze together, but he feels a strange connection to the pretty singer Veruca when she gets on the stage with her band Shy.
The next morning, Willow not only has to cope with Veruca having called her a "groupie", but also with Buffy, who seems to be suffering from "Black Frost." That evening when Buffy drinks herself further and further, it is soon revealed why: somebody has a chemical lab set up and is putting more into the beer than just malt. Xander finally sends Buffy home. When her four drinking buddies turn into violent Neanderthals, he finds out that the owner of the pub has been brewing the beer as revenge for 20 years of college kids taunting him. While the boys escape to the streets of Sunnydale, Xander gets Giles to help. They find Buffy drawing cave paintings on her dorm wall saying "Parker bad." Giles and Xander are unable to keep Buffy in her room when she gets a craving for more beer.
Meanwhile, Willow confronts Parker with what she says he has done to Buffy. When he turns his charm on her, she reveals she has been playing along with a rant about how primitive men are, just when the four Neanderthal students burst into the room. They knock Willow and Parker unconscious and start a fire that rapidly burns out of control. Xander catches up with Buffy and when they see smoke from the Neanderthals' fire, they rush to help. Though afraid of the flames and unable to figure out how to use an extinguisher, Buffy saves Willow and Parker. In the end, Parker thanks Buffy for saving his life, and apologizes just the way she had dreamt — just to get knocked unconscious by Buffy's club. The neanderthal students become subsequently locked in a random van.
Writing and acting[edit]
Willow proves again that she can't be sweet-talked, something first shown in "The Pack".
"Beer Bad" is written with a classic frame structure — Buffy's dream — that emphasizes her development; hitting Parker with a stick qualifies as poetic justice. Producer Doug Petrie says, despite the intensely negative reaction of the fans to seeing Buffy being "battered about by the forces of college" and being treated so callously by Parker, they had to "ride that out" until this episode because "we didn't want her to find her strength immediately in this new setting".[2]
However, the most striking feature of "Beer Bad" is the twin moral: Beer and casual sex are bad. In a BBC interview, Petrie states: "Well, very young people get unlimited access to alcohol and become horrible! We all do it — or most of us do it — and live to regret it, and we wanted to explore that."[2]
Cultural references[edit]
- Xander calls Giles "Mister I spent the 60s in an electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove," reminding him his own uses of narcotics during his Ripper days. It's a reference to Tom Wolfe's 1967 The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, a book dealing with drug-taking hippies. Although Giles disdainfully rectifies the date, actually the early 70's, he does not contradict the facts.
- Once the effects of the beer have taken hold, Buffy begins resembling Daryl Hanna's character Ayla from the film The Clan of the Cave Bear.
- "Beer Bad" is the episode where Buffy gets over Parker: At the beginning, she is pining for him, at the end, she is hitting him over the head with a branch, thus clearing the way for Riley.
- Oz's attraction to Veruca is built up further, setting the stage for the following episode "Wild at Heart".
- Buffy's statement of "fire bad" is reminiscent of her statements at the end of the third season, "fire bad, tree pretty".
- The shot of the university immediately after the opening credits is re-used from "The Freshman" as Buffy can be seen walking among the crowd in her outfit from that episode.
Reception and reviews[edit]
A BBC reviewer complained about its "American puritanism"[3] and Slayage criticized writer Tracey Forbes for delivering a trite and obvious message in a series containing "such an abundant feminist subtext".[4] However, Todd Hertz of Christianity Today used this episode of an example of the show's honest portrayal of consequences.[5][6]
This plot was written with the plan to take advantage of funds from the Office of National Drug Control Policy available to shows that promoted an anti-drug message.[7] Funding was rejected for the episode because "[d]rugs were an issue, but ... [it] was otherworldly nonsense, very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. Viewers wouldn't make the link to [the ONDCP's] message."[8]
- ^ "Past Winners Database: 1999-2000 52nd Emmy Awards". The Envelope: The Ultimate Awards Site. Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- ^ a b Petrie, Doug (n.d.). "Beer Bad". Buffy Producer's Inside Guide. BBC. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ "Stephen" (n.d.). "Buffy Episode Guide: Beer Bad: Review".
- ^ Erenberg, Daniel (March 1, 2003). "The Top 10 Worst Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Slayage. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ Dalfonzo, Gina R. (2003). "Buffy Fades to Black". Boundless.org. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ Hertz, Todd (1 September 2002). "Don't Let Your Kids Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer (But You Can Tape It and Watch After They Go to Bed)". ChristianityToday.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ Edwards, Jim (April 6, 2000). "ESPN Using News for Anti-Drug Propaganda". APBnews.com. WordPress.com. Archived from the original on 2002-02-07. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ Forbes, Daniel (January 13, 2000). "Prime-time Propaganda: How the White House Secretly Hooked Network TV on Its Anti-drug Message". Salon. CommercialAlert.org. Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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In the most imaginative of the channel's Going Home music specials, Loggins, who is from Everett, Wash., visits the Grand Canyon to perform his pretty pop catalog.
He ranges over his entire career, from a Loggins-Messina medley to such '80s hits as "This Is It" to selections from his recent Leap of Faith album, including a sweet song to his son, Cody, and his environmentalist "Conviction of the Heart." He delivers them all with what is still one of pop music's most lilting voices. Handsome music and beautiful nature photography make this a most enjoyable TV hour.
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WOODBRIDGE — A Newark woman whose car was hit by a tire that flew off another vehicle has died, according to a report on MyCentralJersey.com.
Claudine Pierre-Louis, 22, was traveling north on the Garden State Parkway at 1:40 p.m. Saturday when a tire flew off a passing car, struck her windshield and sent her Toyota Camry spinning into a concrete retaining wall in Woodbridge.
The tire came off a southbound 1996 Dodge Dakota being driven by a 31-year-old man, careened into the northbound lanes and created a chain reaction of braking vehicles, including a Ford Escape, which Pierre-Louis' Camry hit as the tire bounced up and hit her windshield. The Camry then struck a Honda Odyssey and veered into the wall around milepost 130.8, according to the accident report.
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Last year, in its fifth annual go-around, the Whidbey Island Triathlon filled up early.
This year, the popular little race promises to be packed out even earlier. On August 3, a field of 250 people will dive into Lone Lake to begin an entire morning of swimming, biking and running just to earn the title of triathlete.
Most of those people will do the half mile of swimming, 20 miles of biking and nearly four miles of running by themselves. A few others will enlist two of their most athletic buddies to help them a team effort.
Either way, its going to be tough.
Unlike many triathlons, the Whidbey Island Triathlon is a truly local event. This year, two-time defending champion, Langleys Peter Oakley, will be back with three or four other South Whidbey athletes who have a shot at taking the title. But most of the people who participate will be there just to finish, just to be able to say I did it.
People like to come because its a sprint, not a big long race, said Linda Kast, officer manager for the South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District. It has a reputation for being a good race to start with if someone has not competed in a triathlon before. A lot of people think we have a great setting here and that its well organized. Its a positive atmosphere,
For those who dont know, triathlon is a sport that combines three other sports in one race: swimming, biking and running. Some consider this type of race to be the true test of an endurance athlete.
The Whidbey Island Triathlon begins with an 800-yard swim race in Langleys Lone Lake, after which competitors bike 19.6 hilly miles along Lone Lake, Saratoga, Brooks Hill and Andreason roads. Last, they move into the running segment at the South Whidbey Community Park. The foot race covers 3.8 trail and road miles, finishing in the park.
For most, the event takes about two hours time to complete. Afterwards, at the awards ceremony, custom-designed medals especially for the Whidbey Island Triathlon will be presented to the races top three participants in each of the three racing divisions: men, women, and the Orca division, which is for larger men and women.
The race has quite a loyal following, Kast said. Registration filled up one week before the event last year. Participants come from as far away as British Columbia, England and San Francisco. Most participants are from Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Snohomish, and Whidbey Island.
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Blackwell declined an interview with The Post and Courier, because she said her attorney advised her against speaking publicly about the letter.
Cooper did not respond to a call for comment. University attorney Edwin Givens, in a prepared statement said, "S.C. State University vice presidents contractually agree that they will serve at the pleasure of the president. It is completely within the president's authority to remove a vice president from his or her post for any reason or no reason at all, if he deems in his judgment, it is in the best interest of the university."
Board Chairman Jonathan Pinson did not return a call or an email for comment.
Blackwell last week told the newspaper that she didn't know why Cooper removed her, but she suspected it had something to do with the process by which some low-performing academic programs were being eliminated, actions on which Cooper was involved or informed, she said.
She also said she was certain that her removal had nothing to do with her performance.
In the letter to the board, Blackwell said that just four days before she was demoted, Cooper had asked her to serve as acting president while he attended a conference in Florida.
And she claims Cooper demonstrated a "disturbing pattern of abuse of authority and discriminatory treatment" toward her, including:
Blackwell told board members in her letter that if the matter was not resolved internally before winter break, "I will have no option but to seek legal recourse."
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Patricia Clarkson also appears in the series, which is based on Bowie's Blackstar.By Jackson McHenry
Find out more about their early days in our "Beginnings" feature.By The Cut
With great taste in clothes and unfortunate taste in men.By Allison P. Davis
Plus: Oprah, Kate Moss, Drew Barrymore, and more from this week's round-up.By Stephanie Eckardt
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After the street-style photographer called her a savant.By Véronique Hyland
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As the chair of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2013, Indonesia will use the goals made by members almost two decades ago, the 1994 Bogor Declaration, as guidelines toward a more integrated regional economy by 2020.
Foreign Affairs senior official to APEC Yuri O. Thamrin said on Thursday in Jakarta that under the Bogor framework, APEC members would be expected to further strengthen free trade and investment by reducing barriers to ease the flows of goods, services and capital in the region. In addition to this, Indonesia would highlight the achievement of sustainable growth with equity as a goal set for APEC economies, he added.
Bogor Declaration, forged under the Soeharto regime, has been considered as a milestone for APEC to its free-trade mission.
"[Sustainable growth with equity] will generate positive impacts on inclusivity in the region," Yuri said in his opening remarks during a symposium attended by senior officials from APEC members.
Set up in 1989, APEC now comprises 21 economies in the Asia-Pacific region, accounting for 40 percent of the world's population, 54 percent of the world's gross domestic product and 44 percent of global trade.
During its chairmanship, Indonesia will host a number of senior officials, ministerial-level meetings in several major cities such as Jakarta, Medan, Manado and Surabaya, throughout next year, to peak at the APEC annual summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Oct. 7-8 next year.
Rizal Affandi Lukman, a deputy to the coordinating economic minister for international economic and financial cooperation, said that APEC countries had attained tremendous progress as envisioned in the Bogor Declaration.
This included the declining tariffs between members who have agreed on opening trade with each other, called most favored nations, from 17 percent in 2002 to 5.8 percent in 2010. Between 2007 and 2010, APEC members managed to reduce transaction costs by 5 percent, or a saving of US$58.7 billion for business, he added.
For years, critics have questioned the role of APEC, because it has no clear and measurable targets. During the APEC Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September, leaders embraced a deal to include 54 environmental goods on a list of products subject to import duty reduction by 2015.
This has raised a debate whether it should design a blueprint to guide its integration process until 2020, as seen in ASEAN with its goal of shaping a single economic community, marked by a single market and production base, by 2015.
Trade Ministry's international trade cooperation Iman Pambagyo opined that while such a blueprint could be helpful, it should still recognize the nature of APEC as a voluntary and non-binding forum.
Instead of focusing on liberalization, members should pay attention to trade and investment facilitation to ensure the benefits went to all stakeholders.


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Neumann girls win, then mourn softball coach
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text: Bill, you are right...but the part that leaves me boggled at the moment is making this whole thing user friendly; making the user drag/drop a doc 5 times across 5 apps isn't quite good enough (and if we have an app that does the drag/drops for us automatically, that piping app has a lot of power). In particular, for user-friendliness the part that does the encrypting should also be doing the addressing, since the address and the public key should both be derived from a single specification of the recipient. An interesting problem, to work on another day. --marcs ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Frantz <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: Marc Stiegler <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <email@example.com> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:24 PM Subject: Least Privilege Mail Client, was Re: [E-Lang] defense in depth > At 02:50 PM 1/25/01 -0700, Marc Stiegler wrote: > >I talked about refactoring Web servers so that smaller components have fewer > >powers, and Web servers as an example seem pretty clean. But I don't > >currently see how to refactor the components in a mail manager while still > >presenting a smooth user interface. > > Well, there is a bunch of stuff you still have to trust, but I think we can > break things up to gain some safety. Here is one approach: > > Mail reader: Uses POP/etc. to read mail and create a "Letter" object for > each piece. (Can not read plaintext of encrypted mail.) > > Letter object: Encapsulates text of mail. Provides methods to access > headers. Requires an unsealer to read text. > > Filter: Reads headers to sort mail into mailboxes. Passes Letter object a > "no hole" factory for filtering on mail text. (Response from factory > object is true, goes into the associated mail box, or false, continue > filtering.) > > Mailbox: A collection of Letter objects. Lets you do usual UI things like > sorting, changing mailbox, and opening. > > Mail Viewer: Has Letter unsealer, and is used to view the text of mail. > Used the Decrypter to decypher encrypted mail. > > Decrypter: Gets passphrase from user and decrypts encrypted mail for the > Mail Viewer. > > Encrypter: Gets public key of recipients and encrypts mail for the Composer. > > Composer: Used to edit new mail. Has Letter unsealer for quoting. Uses > Encrypter and Signer when requested by user. > > Signer: Reads passphrase from user. (User knows when mail is being > signed.) Only available to composer. > > AddressBook: Can send to, cc, bcc etc. headers to Composer. > > Is this approach a reasonable start? > > >


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What is Event Display?
Event Display lets you define lua functions for different events in game. You can respond to many different things exactly the way you want.
How to create a frame
The first step is to open the configuration screen by typing /ed In the options, you need to create a frame first, by setting a frame name, clicking OK and clicking Add. The frame now appears on the list and you can configure it as you want. Third step is to add events to your window, which can be done in the events tab. It's possible to define any ingame events, combat log related events (by just typing in the combat event name) and also an OnUpdate event. There is also an OnInitialize event for every frame, which can be defined directly in the frame details.
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text: Phenomenologists generally agree that the body's mobility participates actively in the constitution of perceptual reality. The body is not only our point of view on the world, but it also constitutes our point of departure to explore it in its various aspects. By analysing the body's skillful coping with its environment, Edmund Husserl and more recently Alva Noë have tried to provide an answer to the problem of perceptual presence. This problem refers to the fact that there is a gap between our perceptual experience of objects and what we actually perceive, or, say, between the sensed content (which is always limited) and our awareness of objects. That is, perception furnishes us with a full object-consciousness, even though only part of the perceived object is intuitively given. In this paper, I argue that whereas Noë is absolutely right to insist on the fundamental importance of understanding the varying patterns of sensorimotor dependence holding between the perceiver and the world, his account nevertheless falls too short, as the more passive features of our perceptual experience also need to be accounted for. I will make my point by drawing on Husserl's phenomenology.


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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - Though the Sacramento Monarchs' regular season felt like a mess, their first two playoff games have been works of art.
Yolanda Griffith scored 17 points, Rebekkah Brunson added 14, and the Monarchs advanced to the WNBA Western Conference finals with a relentless 92-64 victory over the Houston Comets on Saturday in Game 2 of their first-round series.
Ticha Penicheiro had seven assists and hit two 3-pointers for the defending-champion Monarchs, who easily won Game 1 of the best-of-three series in Houston before rolling into the conference finals for the fourth straight season.
Monarchs 92, Comets 64
Houston is eliminated from the WNBA playoffs. Sacramento advances to the Western Conference Finals.
Key Stat: Houston manages just 29 points in the second half on 11-of-29 shooting, never getting within 10 points of the Monarchs.
Even notoriously picky coach John Whisenant could only applaud his starters when they left their second straight blowout win in the closing seconds. Defense, accurate shooting, heady rebounding, tenacity - Sacramento had it all, and not even Houston's veteran club could compete.
"We have that confidence," Griffith said. "We have that little swagger that we did last year. ... Right now, we're playing the best basketball we can possibly play. We don't have a (playoff) switch in the locker room. We just know we can play the game."
The Comets managed just 29 points in the second half, never getting within 10 points of the Monarchs in a 28-point loss - nearly double the four-time champions' previous largest margin of defeat in a playoff game, a 75-60 loss to Los Angeles in 1999. Houston allowed 90 points just four times in 34 regular-season games, but Sacramento reached the mark in both postseason games.
"The way Sacramento is playing, I don't think there's a team that can beat them," said Comets guard Dawn Staley, who played her final WNBA game.
The regular season was a drag in Sacramento - from Griffith's knee injuries to DeMya Walker's return from pregnancy, from Kara Lawson's preseason illness to the death of Whisenant's mother.
Sacramento still finished with the West's second-best record, and none of the problems mattered during the Monarchs' two-game postseason warning shot to the rest of the league.
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After this morning's practice, Alain Vigneault reported that Derek Stepan is unlikely to play in tomorrow night's Game 4 after having a plate inserted into his jaw to help stabilize the fracture.
Stepan is currently still in the hospital recovering.
…earlier in the playoffs Ryan Getzlaf didn't miss a game after breaking his jaw, but that doesn't look like it's going to be the case here. In the past, players have missed 6-8 weeks after jaw surgery. Let's just hope Stepan is a quick healer.
…one thing Rangers fans can hang their hat on is that Stepan was able to play through the pain in Game 3 and didn't seem hampered by the injury, so I wouldn't completely rule him out just yet.
So what do the Canadiens think about Stepan's availability tomorrow?…
Habs' Gallagher says he 100% expects Stepan to play. Says he's seen some broken jaws and Stepan was yapping after the hit
— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) May 24, 2014
In some much better news, Derrick Brassard declared himself 100% healed from the shoulder injury he sustained in Game 1 and will be back in the line-up tomorrow night…
…obviously with Stepan's availability up in the air, Brassard's return is huge. Not sure the Rangers would be able to grind out a win without their top two centers.
Chris Kreider was given a maintenance day today, but will play in Game 4.
During today's practice, the lines were completely jumbled so I wouldn't put too much stock into them…
Hagelin-Richards-St. Louis
Fast-D. Moore-Nash
…obviously, that's not what the bottom two lines are going to look like tomorrow. With Kreider back in the line-up, I wouldn't mind seeing Miller in between him and Nash with Moore back on the fourth line. AV would be taking a chance defensively with the Nash line, but I think they'd bring a lot offensively.
Meanwhile, Andrew Gross at the Bergen Record reports that there's no definitive word on whether Dan Carcillo will appeal his 10-day suspension.


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Performance Issues
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Disabling Sound Downloads for Source Games
First, if you do not have an autoexec.cfg file you will need to create one.
1. Open Notepad, Start > Programs > Accessories > Notepad
2. Enter "cl_downloadfilter nosounds" without the quotes in your Notepad file
3. Select Save As, from the File menu, choose All Files, and name the file autoexec.cfg
4. Save this file to your CFG folder, in the gamefolder of the game you are using
This will disable all sound downloads in Source based games.
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Installing a Custom Spray for Source Games
First you need a valid image file. This can be either a .jpg, .bmp, .tga, or .vtf file.
Once you have your image saved somewhere, go to Options > Multiplayer. Then look under "Spraypaint image", and push the "Import Spray..." button. Browse to where your image is located and hit open.
You should now see your custom spray in the window, which means it's ready to be used.
Setting a spray only takes affect when you join a server, so if you change a spray while in game, you will have to disconnect and rejoin for your new spray to be used.
Sprays are not available in single-player games.
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Right-handed and Left-handed Models
Team Fortress 2
- Launch Team Fortress 2.
- Go to Options and then to the Multiplayer tab
- Click Advanced
- Check the box next to "Flip viewmodels"
Gold Source games (Counter-Strike, Half-Life)
If you cannot switch your weapon to the right-hand, please go to your advanced video options and change the renderer to either OpenGL or Direct3D. The software renderer does not support right-handed models.
You can select left or right-handed models by typing the following command into the Console:
- To use your left-hand: cl_righthand 0
- To use your right-hand: cl_righthand 1
To permanently use left-handed models, you may create a userconfig.cfg file with the cl_righthand 0 command. Please follow these instructions to create a userconfig.cfg file:
- Locate the subfolder in your game folder that holds the config.cfg file
For example, you can find the config.cfg file for Counter-Strike at [Steam installation directory]\steamapps\[your Steam account name]\counter-strike\cstrike\config.cfg
- Create a new text file in that directory called userconfig.cfg
- Open the file with Notepad and enter cl_righthand 1 (to use the right-handed model) or cl_righthand 0 (to use the left-handed model)
- Save the file
- Launch the game to test the userconfig.cfg settings
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Setting Client Rates
Client rate settings are useful in troubleshooting lag and poor multiplayer performance. Please see the Troubleshooting Lag topic for further recommendations.
Steam Download Speed
If you notice connection problems during Steam downloads, or want to limit how much bandwidth steam can use, go to the Limit downloads to the following bandwidth drop-down menu in the Download tab in your Steam client's settings pane. You can find it in Steam's File > Settings menu.
Note that the rates listed here are in kilobytes and megabytes a second, while most Internet connections are rated in bits per second.
Game Server Browser Ping Rate
If you have connection problems when you open the Steam server browser, try turning the Game server browser: max pings / minute setting to the minimum, then re-test the issue. If that resolves the problem you are seeing, try testing at higher rates until you find the highest rate that doesn't cause a problem.
In-game Rate
Most connections work well with the default rate, cl_updaterate, and cl_cmdrate settings. Most servers prevent changing your in-game rate settings.
Default Settings vary between games, but the following is a safe baseline for most broadband connections:
- rate 30000
- cl_updaterate 20
- cl_cmdrate 30
Test Script
You may try this test rate settings script to see what different settings do, but the default settings are the best for most internet connection types.
Download this rate.cfg file and put it in your game folder, then add the line exec rate.cfg to your userconfig.cfg file:
56K modems are usually best set to a rate between 3500 to 5000 - you may need to edit some of the rate settings to find the best range for performance.
Once you have loaded the rate.cfg test script you can execute the following commands in the developer's console to determine which rate offers the best performance:
- rates - see all the current settings
- dslow - only useful for minimal testing, probably not playable
- vslow
- slow
- norm - default settings
- fast
- vfast
- lfast - LAN and high-speed connections only
You may also use the F2 key to cycle around to all the settings.
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Setting Game Launch Options
Game launch options can be used to change game settings before running the game. Launch options allow the user to supercede internal settings of the game. This is an effective means to recover from incompatible video settings and well as troubleshooting a wide range of issues.
This topic covers setting game launch options from Steam's Library. Launch options may also be set by creating a game shortcut and Setting Steam Launch Options for the shortcut.
Set Launch Options
- Right-click on the game title under the Library in Steam and select Properties.
- Under the General tab click the Set launch options... button.
- Enter the launch options you wish to apply (be sure to separate each code with a space) and click OK.
- Close the game's Properties window and launch the game.
Common Launch Options
These launch options apply to Goldsrc and Source engine games only. They do not apply to most third party games.
Please refer to this list of Valve titles for titles that support these launch options
Many Console Commands can function as a launch option by adding a "+" in front of the console command, but some cannot be used in this fashion. The most common launch options are listed below.
- -autoconfig - Restores video and performance settings to default for the current hardware detected. Ignores settings inside any .cfg files until this parameter is removed.
- -dev - Enables developer mode. Also disables the automatic loading of menu background maps and stops the quit dialog from appearing on exit.
- -condebug - Logs all console output into the console.log text file.
- -console - Starts the game with the developer console enabled.
- -toconsole - Starts the engine directly in the console, unless a map is specified with +map.
- -dxlevel <level> - Forces a specific DirectX version when launching the game. This is useful if your graphics hardware is older, and gets significantly better performance in an earlier version of DirectX. Below are the most common modes used:
- -dxlevel 80
- -dxlevel 81
- -dxlevel 90
- -dxlevel 95
- -dxlevel 98
Our games no longer support DirectX 7 as a launch option. Using this can cause crashes. If you are using -dxlevel 70 make sure to remove it from your launch options.
- -fullscreen - Forces the engine to start in fullscreen mode.
- -windowed or -sw - Forces the engine to start in windowed mode.
- -16bpp or -32bpp - Forces the selected color mode (bit depth). GoldSource only
- -w <width> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <width>.
- -h <height> - Forces the engine to start with resolution set to <height>. This launch option does not need to be set in the presence of -w. The width value with determine the height automatically.
- -refresh <rate> - Force a specific refresh rate.
- -heapsize <kilobytes> - Specifies the heapsize (in kilobytes) which the game will use.
- -nocrashdialog - Suppresses some memory could not be read unhandled errors.
- -novid or -novideo - When loading a game with this parameter, the intro Valve video will not play.
- -lv Enables some low violence options in Left 4 Dead.
- -sillygibs Enables low violence for Team Fortress 2
Launch Options to Adjust Detail Levels and Graphic Rendering
- +r_rootlod # - Adjusts Model Detail where # is 0 for high, 1 is medium, and 2 for low
- +mat_picmip # - Adjusts Texture Detail where # is 0 for high, 1 is medium, and 2 for low
- +mat_reducefillrate # - Adjusts Shader Detail where # is 0 for high and 1 for low
- +r_waterforceexpensive # - Adjusts Water Detail where # is 0 for low and 1 for high
- +r_waterforcereflectentities # - Adjusts Water Reflectiveness where # is 0 for low and 1 for high
- +r_shadowrendertotexture # - Adjusts Shadow Detail where # is 0 for low and 1 for high
- +mat_colorcorrection # - Adjusts Color Correction where # is 0 for low and 1 for high
- Filtering Modes:
- +mat_trilinear 0 - Use Bilinear Mode (least system-intensive)
- +mat_trilinear 1 - Use Trilinear Mode (more system-intensive)
- +mat_forceaniso # - Use Trilinear Mode (where # is 2, 4, 8, or 16 - higher levels of filtering require more system resources)
- +mat_hdr_level # - Adjusts High Dynamic Range lighting effects where # is 0 for "off" (requires least resources) and 2 for "full"
Launch Options for RAGE
- +r_swapInterval # - Forces V-Sync to be on or off, # is 0 for off and 1 for on
- +vt_maxPPF # - Adjusts GPU Transcode to improve texture streaming performance where # is 8 for processors with 2 or 4 cores, 16 is processors with 6 or more cores
- +vt_pageImageSizeUnique 8192 - Increases texture data stored in video memory
- +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly 8192 - Increases texture data stored in video memory
- +vt_pageImageSizeUniqueDiffuseOnly2 8192 - Increases texture data stored in video memory
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Sound skips or stutters
If you are encountering very long loading times in addition to sound skipping or stuttering, the issue may be related to game cache file fragmentation (if your cache files are split up over different locations on your hard drive, loading sounds and maps will take significantly longer than it would if the data were stored in the same place).
Please see the Defragmenting Game Cache Files topic if you are encountering long loading times and sound skipping or stuttering.
Stuttering or skipping audio may be caused by a variety of issues including:
- Your system has outdated video drivers
- Running graphics detail levels beyond what your hardware can support
- Fragmented game cache files
- Your system has outdated audio drivers
- There is a corrupted installation of DirectX on your system
Updating Drivers
Confirm that your sound and video drivers are updated - see the FAQ linked below for full instructions:
Optimize Video Settings
From the startup splash screen for the game, select Options or Settings then Video and click on Advanced Settings.
- Lower or disable your Anti-aliasing setting (Many cards should default to no Anti-aliasing)
- Lower your Video Resolution one level
- Lower your Texture one setting
- Set the Shadow and Shader Detail to Low
- Turn on Vertical Sync.
If these recommendations do not improve performance, please see the Reset Video Settings and Force a Video Mode topic for extended troubleshooting and optimization recommendations.
Reinstall DirectX
If the issue cannot be resolved by lowering your video detail and texture settings, please see the Checking DirectX Settings topic for a link to download and reinstall DirectX.
Advanced Settings
Changing system resources can result in your computer not functioning properly. It is very important to record your original settings in the event that you must restore them. If you do not feel comfortable editing settings in the system BIOS, please contact your system manufacturer for assistance.
PCI Latency Timings
In some rare cases, the PCI Latency is a setting that can affect your system in such a way that you may experience "stuttering" or a looping sound crash while playing the game. There are various ways to go about adjusting your PCI latency timings to troubleshoot the issue. Please follow the directions included in the example below:
PCI Latency Tool provided by Guru3d.com.
Enable HPET
If the issue still cannot be resolved, you may be able to resolve the issue by going into your BIOS and enabling HPET (High Precision Event Timer).
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Don Fontenot and group play Liberty Sept. 13
Mon, 09/08/2008 - 3:00pm
Don Fontenot, pictured, & les Amis de la Louisianne are scheduled to perform Saturday, September 13, at 6:00 p.m. at the Liberty Theatre in Eunice on the weekly "Rendez-vous des Cajuns" Cajun Music Radio & TV Show.
Tickets are general admission, $5, and can be purchased at the Liberty Theater before the show. For more information contact Eunice Mayor's Office at 337-457-7389


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With his boyish good looks and soulful singing, Mario Vazquez had established himself as an early favorite among the 12 American Idol finalists. So it was a shock when Vazquez, citing undisclosed personal reasons, abruptly announced March 11 that he was quitting the show. "It's a little disturbing to all of us," says Idol judge Paula Abdul.
Not only did Vazquez's move reshuffle the lineup of finalists (see story on page 123, which went to press before Vazquez's announcement), it also prompted intense speculation about why he left. Most common were rumors that the 27-year-old Bronx native had signed another recording contract. Vazquez refuses to confirm or deny another deal, saying only that his decision "was something I contemplated throughout the whole competition. There were personal areas in my life I needed to focus on that I would like to keep private."
Vazquez's pal Hanna Shin says he simply needed a breather. "He wants to make sure his mental and physical state are both in the same place," says Shin, "and to take a step back and revisit his reasons [for being a singer]." For his part, Vazquez vows that his musical career will continue. "My intuition really told me that it wasn't the right time," he says. "But I've been doing this since I was 13, and I'll keep pushing on."
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On March 12, just over two days after getting booted from Idol—and two hours after a night out with pals in St. Louis—Nikko Smith awoke to a 2:30 a.m. call telling him to hop on a 7 a.m. plane back to L.A. Mario Vazquez's withdrawal gave Smith, 22, son of baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith, the last Top 12 spot. (Nikko had received more votes than fellow reject Travis Tucker.)
Quick, Guess Who
She might have taken a career break, but Britney Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are certainly keeping their stylists busy. While the singer ditched her blonde locks for a new—yet familiar—brunette look, the man marked "the Pimp" at their wedding is once again dressed (and cornrowed) for the part in a fashion-magazine shoot by celebrity photographer Steven Klein. The couple who coif together stay together.
Kirstie Alley faces criticism from eating-disorder groups and Rosie O'Donnell
Not everyone thinks Kirstie Alley's new Showtime comedy Fat Actress is funny. The National Eating Disorders Association is unhappy with a scene from the March 7 episode in which a diet coach suggests that Alley induce vomiting to help lose weight. Says the organization's president, Doug Bunnell: "The show reinforces the myth that eating disorders are faddish behaviors rather than serious illnesses." Alley hasn't responded, but a Showtime rep says the show "is fictitious. It is in no way intended to ridicule those who suffer from eating disorders."
As if that weren't enough, Alley has some celebrity detractors as well. In a poem posted online, Rosie O'Donnell openly scoffs at Alley's claim that she topped out at just over 200 lbs. The former talk show host challenges Alley to come clean about her true weight, but Alley would not comment about O'Donnell's allegation.
"Earlier this evening Kirstie Alley told Matt Lauer that her fattest was 201
I almost choked on my yodel
I am 220
fess up Kirstie—201 my ass I started to fume
—Rosie O'Donnell, from her poem "Fat Celebs," which is posted on her blog (onceadored.blogspot.com/2005/02/fat-celebs.html)
Want to know what Chris Rock left out of his monologue during his hosting gig at the Oscars last month? At a March 10 sneak preview of his upcoming animated comedy Madagascar in L.A., Rock gave the audience a taste of what it had missed—more jabs at Hollywood's finest. "Morgan Freeman hadn't won his Oscar yet, so I was going, to say, 'Morgan hasn't won, but Ben Affleck has one [for writing Good Will Hunting]?' " Rock told the preview crowd." And Martin Scorsese doesn't have an Oscar, but Kevin Costner has two [for directing and producing Dances with Wolves]?' " According to a witness, the crowd ate it up.
Martha's Must-Have Poncho
The country's hottest fashion item? Martha Stewart's "Coming Home" poncho, the gray garment that she proudly wore as she walked out of West Virginia's Alderson Federal Prison Camp on March 4.The original was crocheted for Stewart by inmate Xiomaro Hernandez, 45, who is serving time for a drug-related conviction, but yarn company Lion Brand Yarn recreated the pattern from photos and posted it on their Web site for free a week after her release. The company's design director Nancy J. Thomas says more than 167,000 patterns were downloaded in the first four days. Said Stewart of the hot poncho: "It looked very chic, and everyone was surprised at how graceful it appeared."
Martha Stewart Chat Line
On March 14, Stewart praised the poncho and fielded fans' questions during a live Web chat on marthastewart.com. Some highlights:
My daughter, of course, but she was able to visit often.... I really did not miss material things—maybe fresh lemons—but certainly not wine or ice cream.
The rigid, rubber and wire band is approximately 1-in. wide; the transmitter is somewhat uncomfortable and irritating. It also makes exercise difficult.... I hope none of you ever have to wear one.
It wasn't pierogi [one of her mother's special dishes], I'm sad to say. Instead I cooked up a batch of scrambled eggs and cottage cheese for my doggies.
Separate Ways for Oh and Payne
They'll always have the Oscars. Just two weeks after director Alexander Payne won a Best Screenplay Academy Award for Sideways, he and his actress wife, Sandra Oh, who costarred in the comedy, told PEOPLE they're separating. While the couple, who wed in 2003, were together at the Oscars, a friend of both says that Payne and Oh attended many of the other awards season events separately, "or she would bring a friend, not him. It was weird." A rep calls the decision mutual, adding that the Canadian actress and the director, whose films include 2002's About Schmidt, "will remain friends."
Andre 3000
Back in the day, the band Tower of Power posed the musical question: What Is Hip? Still tirelessly searching for answers, Scoop spoke with OutKast's Andre 3000 (a.k.a. Andre Benjamin), 29, currently onscreen in Be Cool and working on four other film projects. His take:
Was Be Cool cool?
Yeah, but I was terrified. It's my first big movie role, and you have John Travolta and Uma Thurman, and all I tried to do was not make any mistakes. I had to learn a lot.
What was not cool?
I hated my wardrobe. Well, I should say, Andre Benjamin hated it. It felt crazy to have my pants sagging down to my knees. I did that in high school, but it worked for my character, and I had to keep telling myself that. It's not my style, but it's the right style for [my character] Dabu.
If you were still Andre 3000 in the year 3000, what would he the coolest thing about life in the future?
I think by then the coolest thing is we wouldn't have to talk anymore. We would all be able to communicate over signals, like computer signals. You could just send messages to people through two-ways.
Would it be cool to live in that time?
No, I think I would rather live in the Victorian era, or maybe in the 1930s.
Why so?
Because the people and the culture during that time seemed so defined by respect and by honor.
Are you cool?
I don't think I'm that cool. I think TV makes me look cool. I was never in the in crowd in high school or anything like that. I sat in the back of class, drawing most of the time. That's the power of entertainment. Anyone can be cool.
Who's the coolest person you know?
The least cool?
I couldn't tell you that. It wouldn't be cool.
What's the coolest thing coming up for you?
I'm starting a clothing label. It'll be clothes for people who love clothes. But nothing too crazy.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Westminster College is pleased to host the 18th Annual New American Colleges and Universities (NACU) Summer Institute from June 20-22, 2012.
NACU is a national consortium of 19 selective, small to mid-size independent colleges and universities dedicated to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement. The Summer Institute brings together faculty and administrators from member colleges and universities across the nation to discuss issues facing their schools and also provides a venue for professional development and networking.
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Westminster marketing student, Chris Ciancone, has always dreamed of climbing Mount Kilmanjaro, but asthma has kept the 24 year old from seriously considering the nearly 20,000-foot ascent—until now. Ciancone and his teammates from the University of Utah recently took top honors in the University of Utah's Bench to Bedside Medical Device Competition winning the grand prize of $15,000 for "Best Overall Device," as well as a $5,000 award for "Best Business." The team designed a novel inhaler device, called LIYEN, that dramatically improves delivery of Albuterol to the lungs of asthma patients.
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Ashley Seitz Kramer has poems forthcoming in Quarterly West, Cimarron Review, and Anti-.
Mike Keene recently served as a member of the selection committee for the 10th Annual Utah Innovation Awards; Chair of the Scientific Review Committee for the Salt Lake Valley Regional Science & Engineering Fair; and a member of the selection committee for the State of Utah's Technology Commercialization & Innovation Program grants.
Annalisa Holcome was recently elected Chair of the Sugar House Merchants Association. She is also serving on the steering committee of Salt Lake City's Neighborhood Business Conference. Her proposal entitled "Town/Gown - The Path to Successful Campus/Comunity Relations" was also accepted for the International Town Gown Association Annual Conference in June.
Douglas K. Peterson recently received acceptance of his paper "The Colbert Bump and the Facebook Follow Through for Generation Snark: A Test and Extension of the Ajzen's Tehroy of Planned Behavior for 2012." He also chaired a session for the social sciences on issues surrounding government, religion, and LGBT issues.
Diane Forster-Burke completed a year-long course by the Great Basin Public Health Leadership Institute and is now a graduate scholar of the program.
Georgi Donavin has been invited to participate in The Medieval Academy of America's Committee for Professional Development. Additionally, she has organized two sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May, and will also present a paper entitled "Time, Law, and the Word in 'Rex Celi Deus.'"
Jan Saeed and student Karla Mendez attended the 'Better Together" Conference in Atlanta earlier this year. The conference sponsor, the Interfaith Youth Core, recently came out to film Westminster's "The Drop" as an example of an exceptional youth event.
Kim Zarkin made two presentations at the Broadcast Education Association conference in Las Vegas in April in the 2012 Telecom Update Panel, "State of the First Amendment": and in the Graduate Education in Mass Media: Balancing Theory and Application, "Nice Article List, But Can You Teach a 4-4?: How Graduate Schools Should (and Shouldn't) Prepare Students for Life at a Teaching Institution."
Helen Hu attended SIGCSE (The ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science) in March where she ran a special session, "Promoting Student-Centered Learning with POGIL" and presented a poster, "Using POGIL to Teach Students to be Better Problem Solvers."
Fatima Mujcinovic delivered a keynote speech at the interdisciplinary arts and sciences conference, Confutati 2012, held at the University of Utah in April. Responding to the conference theme "Mapping Effaced Identities," Mujcinovic discussed the potential role of minority literature in expressing oppositional forms of identity, cultural practices, and political positioning. Her talk was entitled "US Latino/a Literature: Writing on the Margins, Mapping New Identities."
Natasha Saje accompanied five Ellipsis editors to the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Chicago over spring break. They distributed 400 back issues and spread the word about the magazine and Westminster College to 10,000 attendees, as well as listened to readings and panel discussions.
Sean Desilets delivered a paper called "Pretty Pow: Femininity, Waste, and Reading in Kiss Me Deadly" at the Popular Culture Association Conference in Boston in April.
Giancarlo Panagia was a discussant at the Public Interest Environmental conference meeting held in Eugene, Oregon last March. He is also presenting his paper "Theoretical Foundations of Federal Land Exchanges" at the Southwestern Social Science Conference in San Diego and the Utah Academy of Arts and Sciences in Logan.
Bill Bynum and Sean Raleigh attended a National Center for Academic Transformation course redesign workshop in Dallas, Texas in March.
Laura Bennett-Murphy gave an invited address for the Center for Victims of Torture National Community Building meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, entitled "Traumatic Separations, Attachment, and Healing Among Refugee Torture Survivors and Their Families." She will also present a paper with Dr. Tovah Klein of Barnard College at the Interational Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology entitled "Separation, Attachment, and Loss" in July.
Deyanira Ariza-Velasco was selected by the Latino newspaper El Observador to be among the Latino heroes of the year for 2011.
Kristjane Nordmeyer and Mark Rubinfeld presented papers at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference in Boston in April. They also served as session chairs for an undergraduate panel at the conference, which featured paper presentations by Westminster sociology students.
Luis I. Pradanos (Iñaki) has a forthcoming article "Ecocriticism and Subaltern Epistemology in Eduardo Galeano" in the peer-reviewed journal Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 36.2.
Shamby Polychronis and Rebecca Richard received Annual Utah Campus Compact Awards. Shamby received the "Engaged Scholar" award and Rebecca received the "Civically Engaged Staff Member" award.
Vicki Whiting and her son Kevin made a presentation entitled "In Pain We Trust: How Patient Advocacy Can Save Lives" at the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy Conference, American Hospital Association, in Austin, Texas, on April 17.
Emily Johnson, Learning Designer in the Division of New Learning, has accepted a year-long teaching position in Piura, Peru at the Universidad de Piura in the Centro de Idiomas. Johnson will teach English to high school and college students, as well as business professionals.
Jennifer Harrison and Ronald Mano's paper
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Richard Parsons and Ronald Mano gave a presentation entitled "An Unpopular Proposal is now Popular; A Case for a National Sales Tax" at the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters at Utah State University.
5/12 Westminster Woman's Board Hosts 96th Annual Silver Tea
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The gamertag is: I use Lancer. I've had my account for about 5 years now, and I haven't really known my password seeing as my friend had helped me and he put the password in 5 years ago. He also put the security question and and answer which I do not know. I've tried to get help with my password multiple times but I have never succeeded. I give you the info I believe is correctly on my account, but I always get the response, "We cannot verify you are the owner of the account." So what I was thinking was what if I messaged someone that could help me get my password on Xbox Live on my account that I need the password for. Like I could go get on my xbox and send you a message from my account that I need the password for. Wouldn't that show ownership? Like could I message you saying, "Could I please be told my password for this Windows Live ID?" Isn't that ownership? I really just want my password so I can get stuff from Xbox Live Rewards. I can also tell how much microsoft points are on my account, there is no credit card(I could probably put one on though if it helped), the name, number, address, state, city, my download history. I just really want my password. Thanks.
Only phone support would be able to verify ownership, but they don't keep passwords on file. The only thing you can do is reset the password, but if you don't know the information I'm not sure if you'll be able to do that.
I have to have the info to reset it. I mean, I'm on my account on my xbox, why do I need to put in my password to change it when I'm already on my account? It sucks!
No one can give you your 5-yr-old password...not even MS. It would be stupid to allow thousands of support people access to your "secret" password. I can't really make sense of your post...did you pass the account verification? If so, you can simply reset the password to something you can remember....and don't let anyone else do it for you since you have already found out that was a bad idea. If you did not, you just have to keep trying...it took me some 6 months and several tries before I passed the test. You will not get the password from anyone...you will just have to change it if you can gain access to your account.
Being on an account does not prove ownership. Would you want a friend to be able to sign in to your account on your Xbox and change your password without requiring the password to do that?
As far as the account is concerned, if you can't prove account ownership, Xbox support won't be able to assist you. You can try doing a password reset on login.live.com. If they can't assist you then you're out of luck unfortunately.
What I don't understand is how did you get past the winter dashboard update THAT REQUIRED YOU TO PUT YOUR PASSWORD IN to proceed? In order to agree to the updated terms of use you needed your password, so while you claim you forgot it since it had been 5 years, you also mention messaging other people which requires being online to do that. Something here isn't adding up to me.
I need my password
Hey there LimpSet,This thread is back from January.Please create your own thread and explain your support issue and we'll be happy to assist you.
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This app is pretty self explanatory -- created by me from ground-up, and has been in development for a while now. To use, connect your drive (if using a drive), press File>Open>Open Drive Selector>Select your drive. If you're not using a drive, load your file by going to File>Open>Open Dump.
Features so far...
- Backing up of drive
- Extracting files
- Reading files
- Reading backups/files that are a single FATX partition (such as the xlaunch.fdf file found in devkats)
- USB support added 1/13/2010
- Adding support for memory units
Backing up security sector, josh sector-- Done.
- Writing to individual sectors/clusters
- Reading fromm individual sectors/clusters
STFS implimentation (so you can see the game name/file name of an STFS package)-- Done. Maybe undeletion...-- Done.
- Anything else that people would want
- Package creation
Instead of keeping this closed-source, and having licensing and all that junk, I've decided I'll just make it open-source. I figured it would be too annoying for Cheater912 for me to ask him every time I need to update for him to obfuscate the executable, and then to have to create a licensing system would be annoying as hell.
Quick note if you peek at the source code...
The code in just about every single one of the forms is really messy. Please excuse that. Also, if you use the dev build, you're doing so at your own risk... I wrote a lot of the code in the writing quickly, and have barely tested any of it. So if you're using a hard drive, or anything else you don't want to get messed up on accident, please use enable beta mode by changing the bool at line 16 of the main form to true.
EXE (will auto-update):
http://clkxu5.com/dr..... Explorer.exe
If you want to donate, do so hurr (I'm not trying to be one of those guys who's like you donate or else I'll stop developing, I'm just sayin, it'd be cool if you did): https://www.paypal.c.....gif:NonHosted
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Implementing an MVVM MessageBus with XAML
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Using a Messag Bus to communicate between ViewModels is a very common activity when building an application based on MVVM. In this video, I show how you can build a Message Bus that can be created on a per-page basis and easily connected to the ViewModels on a page using XAML.
For a deeper written explanation of this approach, and to download the source code for the project seen in the video, check out my blog post on Slickthought.net.
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Just so everyone is not having to change the xaml in Blend. When you add a object data source it asks you for the key of the object at the top of the dialog window.
Any reason you are not using event aggregators provided by prism?
@Ganesh: Not really. This was more of an effort to illustrate different ways to incorporate XAML and design-time support rather than deal with event routing /messaging per se. PRISM is great, but for a lot of apps it is also overkill so this was just a nice, simple way to get some of the goodness provided by things like Event Aggregator without having to dive into PRISM.
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Well, yesterday pretty much sucked. Son #2 became angry son, both before the extraction and for much of the day afterwards. Of course, he's very sore, and swollen, and bored, but angry that he went ahead with it, because of how he feels and what he can't do for a few days. Sigh. When he finally settled down in the evening, I told him he's been one of the worst patients I've had the 'pleasure' of looking after, and at least got a little laugh out of him. He woke me close to 630 this morning, being sore and unable to sleep or get comfortable, despite being very tired. I spent close to half an hour sorting him out, then took a long time to fall back asleep, but I did eventually, and slept in rather late. So maybe a bit over 9 hours sleep overall.
Once up, I felt rather sluggish much of the day once my errands were done, with a mild headache the whole while. Almost like a small hangover, which obviously is not the case. Believe me, I really felt like a glass (or bottle) of wine last night, after the long tiring day, but held out. I have to be better than that. It's too easy to grab a drink when feeling frazzled, worn out and frustrated.
Haven't eaten anything off plan, though I didn't have lunch yesterday amid all the dealing with the kid. Only 2 meals today as well, from the sleep in and late dinner. W30 calls for 3 meals daily, but if a few days don't quite work that way, I figure it's better than grabbing stuff I am avoiding.
Friday's eats:
B: coffee, burger pattie with guacamole
oolong tea
some raw cashews
a coconut oil/cashew butter mix thing
D: 3 local lamb chops, roasted sweet potato cubes in coconut oil, cinnamon & cayenne, broccoli with ghee & garlic
B: black coffee, 4 eggs cooked in ghee
a peach, a very few cashews, one spoon of cashew butter
half bottle of kombucha
D: sirloin steak, mushrooms, peppers
strawberries with coconut milk & shredded coconut.
And the scale seems to be continuing the downward trend, after bouncing up earlier in the week. Belly is flatter, too.


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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is acquiring MicroDose Therapeutx, a pharma and drug delivery firm focused on inhalation technologies and products for lung diseases like asthma and COPD, as well as respiratory viruses and infections.
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