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I would of liked 70 as a buffer, but we'll have to make do with 65....
No sweat, Raph. I just figured that any team that could can 117 against any other team would have a chance at this total, buddy...
Right on the number, so no 2nd Half total. Too close on the side, too. We'll just go for the ride now. Go, Muskies!
Ever so tempted to take the 8.5 with the Shockers, but.........something must be rotten....
Wichita State +4½ (-105) 1st Half $75 ~ Couldn't pull the trigger on the gameline as the 5 point swing is too much to wrap my head around.
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After dropping a couple of cells to the bottom board of my mating nucs on my first batch of cells I thought I might try these on my next mating nuc day (Sunday). I seem to recall someone (Mike Palmer??) saying that the orange cell protectors were not good for some reason but I forget exactly why. Perhaps the workers can't thin the end down enough and the queen doesn't emerge as predictably as one would like??
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A brain is an organ of connectivity. Neural fibers that are only microns wide—but sometimes meters long—connect its highly specialized regions. The anatomy of those connections is largely unknown, especially in humans. That doesn't mean it is complex; it may be simple. But we haven't had a means to observe it. Diffusion spectrum magnetic resonance imaging (DSI) technology may change that. Van Wedeen, an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School who is based at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, is developing and testing that tool. He explained its promise to American Scientist associate editor Catherine Clabby.
A.S. What is diffusion spectrum imaging?
V.W. Diffusion MRI refers to a body of methods that map, noninvasively, the fiber architecture of a living organism's brain. All these methods use the three-dimensional patterns of the random diffusion of water to trace microscopic tissue structure. The first, diffusion tensor imaging, looked promising but did not record crossing pathways. The brain has extensive systems of crossing fibers, which are essential for efficient circuits. To address this, we invented several more methods 10 years ago, including diffusion spectrum MRI (DSI). DSI acquires a detailed image of the three-dimensional pattern of water diffusion by measuring diffusion in dozens to hundreds of directions. This yields a six-dimensional image of the brain: three dimensions of anatomical location and an additional three dimensions for the distribution of water flux at each location. Just as they do in high-energy physics, extra dimensions can make a problem simpler. We're now assessing the methods and what they reveal about brain structure and design.
A.S. With colleagues, you used DSI to explore this connectivity in a cat, 10 days and then three months after its birth. Why?
V.W. Cats are very unusual. They have large complicated brains that, like the brains of primates, including humans, have extensive folding, or gyri, to increase the surface area of the cortex. They have an especially large visual cortex. But unlike primates, cats are born with extremely simple, non-folded, immature brains. Most of their brain development occurs postnatally. This makes cats an ideal model to study brain development, especially development of the cerebral cortex. Ellen Grant and Emi Takahashi, my colleagues at Boston Childrens' Hospital, are using such studies to explore how development goes wrong in children and how that may produce diseases such as epilepsy.
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V.W. Diffusion MRI has two steps. First we perform a diffusion MRI scan in which we obtain images of the rate of diffusion in hundreds of directions. That is the six-dimensional data set. Second, we compute the simplest or most probable model of fiber pathways consistent with the measurements. The problem of the relative certainty about the results of these methods is very real. In rhesus monkeys, we can compare the DSI results with results of invasive tract-tracer studies that inject dyes directly into their brains. There, we've found the MRI to be reasonably accurate. We can't verify the human studies in this way, so uncertainty remains a problem. Over the past year or so, I've come to the view that the true structure of the brain may be highly constrained, so much so that the difference between accurate and inaccurate data reconstructions should be evident within each study.
A.S. Have these images changed the way you think about brain structure?
V.W. Diffusion MRI studies suggest that the brain is far more orderly—better organized in three dimensions—than others methods have suggested. Often, this order can't be explained. For example, in every mammalian species we've looked at—in rats, cats, humans or New and Old World monkeys—the fibers pathways of the hippocampus form sheets of counter-rotating spirals in two layers. This seems far too well conserved, and too beautiful, to be accidental. If you ask an engineer why a bird wing, an eye or a heart ventricle has its specific structure, you get a fairly good explanation. In the case of the brain, we have little idea. But MRI may lay bare the logic of brain structure.
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|I agree with what jake mentioned.
That means you're on the low end of low light, which isn't a bad thing.
You should avoid Dwarf Hair Grass. You're going to have to mess with the substrate too much while planting. If you want to keep shrimp, you'll need to take it easy when it comes to messing with the tank.
I understand that there are bits of moss here and there but you'll need plenty of it for shrimp. Not just hiding places but room for them to move around within the moss, to feed, to generally exist. Especially if you're set on keeping fish that aren't good tank mates.
|Adam Kentucky
|I am using a marineland double bright 24-36" and no CO2.
|adam, what type of light do you have and are you doing co2?
|Adam Kentucky
Ok. You make some excellent points! One of my WCMMs is a real jerk. He is always "herding" my tetra and WCMM. It might have been that fish that pestered the shrimp. Though I've never seen him bother shrimp, I have seen his sneaky fish self rooting around in the java moss.
The decoration in the middle is hollow and filled with hornwort and the roots of my java fern so fish cannot get in there. When the shrimp arent in the java moss, they hide there. Also, there is more java moss than i show in my pics. There is a bit behind the driftwood on the right side of my tank. Maybe I can add some dwarf hairgrass in front of the driftwood on both side of my tank to make the those areas more shrimp safe?
I really need my plants to fill in more to create a better space in my tank. Hopefully the flourish comprehensive that I have started dosing will help with that.
The shrimp could have died for a number of reasons. Stress from the previously present Ammonia and Nitrite, stirring up things when planting and replanting, general stress. It's tough to say.
Since you have Tetras and very few places for shrimp to hide, I'm betting it was pestered to death. Would be a good idea to add more moss.
Your GH and KH are perfect for Cherries. No real need to worry about calcium in your tank.
|Adam Kentucky
All of my other plants and fish seem to be doing fine. The plants are all growing new leaves, even the jungle val which had the holes in its older leaves. The neon tetras are bright and colorful and they are swimming in a loose group. And, last but not least, the surviving WCMM has regained its color and is eating well during feeding time. It seems that giving it another WCMM friend really helped it to recover.
Trading plants sounds great! I'll be looking forward to that once my plants become more established.
BTW, I bought the API KH & GH test kit and the calcium test kit. My tap and tank water is testing GH 12 dH (~210 ppm) and KH 6 dH (~105 ppm). Calcium was ~80 mg/L. So, I'm still not quite sure why that shrimp died.
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Do healthy shrimp sometimes fail to molt?
How are your plants and other livestocks doing?
Once you get your plants to grow, we can probably trade or something. I know you don't have much for now, maybe I can ROAK you some in the near future. Its nice to share plants so we have different species available at all times.
on a related note, don't bury the anubias rhizome.
|Adam Kentucky
Thanks for the advice Keith! I will check into the plants you suggested. I will probably wait until I am ready to plant the 10 gal before I purchase anymore though.
In regards to the shrimp mystery, I think it might have been a failed molt and that is why I question the level of nutrients in my tank. See the pic below.
That's not just a white exoskeleton that's nearly whole shrimp that turned white. When I pulled it out of the tank the other side of it still had its red color. Also, I have been testing my water for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate every other day. I have not seen anything other than about 20 ppm nitrate.
Do healthy shrimp sometimes fail to molt?
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Thanks Keith! What kind of stems/carpet do you recommend? I already have the water wisteria in there. I think I have six or so. If you had the chance to replant/rearrange everything that is already in my tank what layout would you do?
TBH I have just been experimenting. I buy plants and just throw them in. I really have no clue about laying out plants, especially in a tank with a 3d background.
If I were you, I would also do what you're doing now, which is experiment first. What I would probably do it see if things would grow under your current light, ferts regime and etc. Once you get things to grow, then I would think about better aquascaping. Personally, I think your background would look good with java fern, anubias nana or bolbitis. These are low light plants but would do well in high light and co2 conditions too. As for stems, I would go a little minimal look. A. Reineckii would be a good choice for low light. Carpet that with maybe gloss/marsilea minuta or S. Repens. But that's just me.
I think your tank may still be going through the cycling process .... where you see spikes in amonia every now and then. That would be my guess. Have you tested your water lately?
Nutrients should not affect your shrimp.
About curling leaves, give it some more time before making changes. But adding ferts should be ok. It may be as simple as plants trying to adapt to new environment/light/water conditions.
Hopefully, Jake could chime in more about cycling and why the leaves are curling. Right Jake ?
|Adam Kentucky
I have a couple of questions today. I noticed that the leaves of my plants were starting to curl, so I did some research and determined that this was probably due to nutrient deficiencies. Maybe it's a calcium deficiency, but I doubt it. The background in my tank is made from cement which contains loads of CaCO3. Also, I have fluorite substrate. So, I purchased a bottle of Seachem flourish comprehensive. Yesterday I added only half a dose ~1 ml. Tomorrow I plan to add another half-dose and then do a water change on Friday. I'm trying to avoid any sudden changes in water chemistry. Next week I will start adding full doses.
My question is how long should it take for the plant leaves to start uncurling? Also, my jungle val has been laying over rather than standing up and it had small holes/tears on some of its leaves. Will the flourish comp help with this as well? I trimmed off the parts with holes and the leaves that were laying over badly. Was this the right thing to do?
Another question. I had a dead shrimp in my tank this morning. What could have done this? Low nutrient levels that are also affecting the plants?
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My tank run from 74 F to 77 F.
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate ~20 ppm
I add half of an algae wafer (Hikari brand) at night and remove it in the morning. Usually not much of it is eaten. Sometimes there will be one shrimp on it.
Curling leaves on my wisteria
Crypts leaves are curling, but there is also a ton of new growth.
Another pic of the crypt growth and curling. BTW does anyone else's anubias push itself WAY out of the substrate?
|Adam Kentucky
Thanks Keith! What kind of stems/carpet do you recommend? I already have the water wisteria in there. I think I have six or so. If you had the chance to replant/rearrange everything that is already in my tank what layout would you do?
TBH I have just been experimenting. I buy plants and just throw them in. I really have no clue about laying out plants, especially in a tank with a 3d background.
|looking good adam. Have you considered foreground carpet or mid to background stems? Having 2 or 3 layers of plants make scape looks a lot more pleasant.
|Adam Kentucky
I added 6 neon tetra and 1 WCMM.
Bad artsy shot
Last but not least. I have started a 10 gallon tank. Just derimmed it and resealed it with black silicone.
|Adam Kentucky
On the right side of the tank, I added Cryptocoryne wendtii green and water wisteria.
On the left side of the tank I added java moss to the driftwood and planted MORE Crypts and wisteria.
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An unfulfilled dream of computer science is the one true programming language, equally suited to all programs, all programmers and all computers. In years past committees and coalitions have tried to create or legislate such a language. Algol-60 was one of the first attempts; its greatest success, ironically, was in spawning dozens of new languages. A few years later PL/1 had the powerful backing of IBM. And the language called Ada had an even more imposing sponsor—the U.S. Department of Defense. And yet these languages too failed to conquer all.
The latest candidate for a computer Ursprache is a language called Java. This one is not the creation of a committee or an international standards board. Its origins are wonderfully humble. Java began as a language for programming "set-top boxes," the gadgets that are supposed to make TV interactive. So far, set-top boxes haven't made much of a splash, but Java has become an extraordinary marketing phenomenon, with the kind of promotion and product tie-ins you might expect of a newly released Star Wars movie.
Do I exaggerate? Well, maybe McDonald's will never give away Java trinkets, but Starbucks might. Barely two years after the language was introduced, there are Java magazines, Java conferences, Java videos. Usenet has a dozen Java newsgroups, with hundreds of messages every day. Java books have become an industry in their own right. (I review a few of them in this issue of American Scientist). Java businesses are springing up everywhere—startups and spinoffs and new divisions of established companies. And as far as I know, Java is the only programming language ever to have its own venture-capital fund (initial capitalization: $100 million).
Java's ambitions extend beyond becoming the one and only programming language. Java is being proposed as a new "computing platform," which could supplant the various alliances of hardware and operating-system software that now dominate the world of desktop computing. In this vision Java would elbow aside not only C, Pascal, Lisp and other programming languages but would also replace Windows and Unix and the Macintosh operating system. It would even be built into the "embedded" computers in cellular telephones and home thermostats (not to mention set-top boxes).
Before presenting my thoughts on the Java phenomenon, I have a couple of disclaimers to put on the record. In the first place, I have a favorite programming language of my own, and it is not Java. I prefer to code in a dialect of Lisp called Scheme. Anyone who has followed the computer-language wars of recent decades will immediately know that I come from an enemy camp. To make matters worse, I don't drink coffee! I am therefore unmoved by all the subtle appeals to caffeine craving that turn up in the names of Java products: Roaster, JavaBeans, C@fé, Mocha, etc. I will try to keep my prejudices in check, but the reader should bear in mind that the following comments come from someone who doesn't know his latte from his cappuccino, and who sometimes dreads the prospect of a world overrun by undrinkable beverages and unthinkable languages.
The key to Java's widespread appeal is its promise of "platform-neutral" computing. As the Java ads put it (in a trademarked slogan): "Write Once, Run Anywhere."
The issue of adapting software to multiple computing platforms is a difficult and important one. Today, a program intended to reach a broad audience needs versions for the Macintosh, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, OS/2, at least a few varieties of Unix, and perhaps other systems as well. For the programmer, it's a logistic nightmare.
And it's not just a programmer's problem. For the ordinary consumer, too, the multiplicity of platforms has costs and risks. It means the software you buy today may have to be replaced if you switch platforms next year. Files you create on one system may not be readable on another. And, inevitably, some programs are simply not available for all platforms.
The compatibility quandary has been with us from the beginning of computing—or at least from the moment the second computer was booted up. But lately the problem has come to be seen as more urgent. The reason is the Internet and the client-server model of computing.
If you are browsing the World Wide Web, it takes only a click of the mouse to transfer a page of text from a remote machine (the server) to your own computer (the client). Downloading an image is equally easy, or a sound file, an animation, a video clip. So why not click on a link to have the browser download and run a program? After all, the machines at both ends of the communications channel are computers. Running programs is what they do best. If you can read words, look at pictures, listen to music and watch TV over the Internet, surely you should be able to run programs too.
It's important to be clear about the nature of the transaction proposed here. Many common events on the Web cause a program to be run—but it runs on the server. For example, searching for a topic on AltaVista or one of the other Web index sites initiates a database query on the server machine. Sometimes it would be better to execute a program on the client computer. Running an interactive game or simulation on the server might overtax both the server itself and the communications channel. Downloading the program code and running it locally could make the software much more efficient and responsive.
The problem, of course, is figuring out what program code to download. Every client platform requires an entirely different instruction format; code for an Intel Pentium processor is nonsense to a PowerPC. Even if multiple versions of the software were kept on hand—like spare parts for various makes of automobiles—the server might not be able to identify the client, and so wouldn't know which version to send.
Another potential problem with downloading executable software is security. A program on a malicious Web site might offer to make you a millionaire but actually clean out your bank account. Prudent computers don't accept programs from strangers these days.
Java addresses both of these issues. Whereas programs in most other languages are compiled into instructions for a specific processor, Java programs are translated into platform-independent "byte codes." The byte codes are then interpreted by a "virtual machine," which generally takes the form of software running on a conventional computer. The same sequence of byte codes can run on any computer for which there is a virtual machine.
The safety of a Java program is assured in two ways. First, the virtual machine is constructed as a kind of padded room, isolated from the rest of the system, where even a program run amok cannot do much harm. Second, the incoming byte codes are examined by a "verifier" before they are executed, and any program found to break the rules is rejected.
Java was a programming language long before the World Wide Web was world wide, or even a web. The project that became Java began in 1990, when a group at Sun Microsystems, the leading maker of Unix workstations, set out to explore ways the company might enter the consumer-electronics market. A key member of this group was James Gosling, now a Sun vice president, who was probably best known at the time as the author of a version of the Emacs text editor. Gosling quickly put together the first version of a programming language meant for networked electronic appliances, such as set-top boxes or video games. The language was initially called Oak; the name was later changed to avoid a trademark conflict.
The consumer-electronics group at Sun had some hard years, which is not surprising since the market they aimed to serve is still inchoate. Then the Web came along, and suddenly their solution had found its problem. In 1994 two Sun engineers wrote a Web browser in Java, a predecessor of the HotJava browser available today. Then in May of 1995 Sun publicly released Java as a language for the Internet.
I don't mean to give the impression that Sun stumbled into the Java bonanza by blind luck. The company has a tradition of visionary thinking in computer networking. Indeed, Sun's corporate slogan was "The network is the computer" at a time when I for one didn't have a clue what that was supposed to mean.
Java is a descendant of the C programming language, which itself rose to celebrity from modest origins. C was developed in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories. At the outset it was closely associated with the Unix operating system; Unix was written in C, and the first C compilers ran under Unix. Soon the language spread to other systems. By now it has become so much a part of the mainstream that few remember just how idiosyncratic C once seemed. It is a language with a strict type system—the programmer must declare in advance what kind of data each variable can hold—and yet it allows many operations that other languages prohibit as reckless stunts. A prime example is the direct manipulation of "pointers," which represent the addresses of data items.
C has a distinctive, terse syntax, heavy on punctuation marks and symbols from the top row of the typewriter keyboard. Figure 2 gives an annotated example of what a very small C program looks like.
The main successor of C is C++, a language created in the 1980s by Bjarne Stroustrup, also of Bell Laboratories. The name is meant to suggest "C incremented," or "a little more than C." In fact it's a lot more—not just C+1 but maybe C x 2. The major addition is a facility for object-oriented programming, a technique first explored years earlier in some very different programming languages, such as Simula and Smalltalk.
Two main ideas lie behind object-oriented programming. First, programs are assembled not from separate data structures and procedures but from software "objects" that encapsulate both data and procedures. For example, a triangle object might include as data the coordinates of its three vertices and as procedures the methods for finding the triangle's center, area and altitude. The second idea is inheritance: Classes of objects are organized into a hierarchy extending from the general to the specific. The triangle might be a member of the class of polygons, from which it would inherit properties common to all polygons. At the same time the triangle class could be further specialized in subclasses for right triangles, equilateral triangles and so on.
On the surface, a C++ program looks just like one in C. But this similarity is deceptive; at the semantic level, algorithms in C++ require a thorough rethinking. Going from C to Java is similarly tricky. On the surface, again, Java also looks like the same old C, but underneath all is changed.
Like C++, Java is an object-oriented language. Indeed, the object methodology is enforced in Java, whereas the C++ programmer can fall back into standard C. On the other hand, Java is not a "pure" object language in the way that Smalltalk is. In Smalltalk, everything is an object, but in Java certain elementary data types, such as numbers and characters, do not have object status—they are not members of a class hierarchy.
Perhaps the most important change in going from C or C++ to Java is the abolition of pointers. A C program steps through the elements of an array by taking a pointer to the first element—the pointer is effectively the array's address in memory—and repeatedly incrementing it. Java has a special form for accessing array elements without pointer arithmetic. Linked data structures in C also rely on pointers; in a list structure, for example, each item in the list includes a pointer to the next item, so that a program can step through the list by following the chain of pointers. Java provides for linked object references without exposing the machinery of pointers or addresses to the programmer.
Another major innovation in Java is automatic storage reclamation, otherwise known as garbage collection. If a C program allocates memory to a data structure, it had better remember to release the space once the structure is no longer needed, or all of the computer's memory could be clogged with waste. Java programs automatically clean up after themselves. If an object is no longer needed, the garbage collector sweeps it up. (I speak of this mechanism as an innovation because it is new to the world of C-like languages, but Lisp systems have had garbage collection since about 1960.)
Two more notable features of Java are exceptions and threads. Exceptions are a means for gracefully handling run-time errors and other unexpected events. In many languages a simple routine for reading a disk file can become incomprehensible because the normal outcome (where the file is read successfully) is hidden in a thicket of statements needed to check for possible errors. (What if the file doesn't exist? What if it can't be opened? What if it ends prematurely?) Java programs clear up the clutter by "throwing" an exception to another routine, which "catches" it. (Just for the record, "catch" and "throw" are also Lisp concepts.)
Threads are a mechanism for dividing a program into multiple concurrent processes. For example, a program searching through a large database might start several threads, each one looking for a different key. Of course the threads will truly run at the same time only on a computer with multiple processors, but the Java virtual machine's scheduling algorithm simulates concurrency even on a single processor. Java's implementation of threads is admirably lucid.
A few cosmetic improvements in Java are also commendable. Java programs are not limited to the ASCII character set but are written in Unicode, which accommodates a broader selection of the world's (human) languages. Hence a constant can be named π instead of pi. Also, comments documenting Java programs can employ the tags of Hypertext Markup Language, so that the programs are easily formatted for readability with a Web browser.
Figure 3 gives the Java equivalent of the C program in Figure 2. It still has the same algorithmic core, but now that core is wrapped in a thick blanket of object-oriented fur.
All in all, Java seems a distinct improvement over C, and yet it is not the programming language I would choose to be stranded on a desert island with. Its strengths are directed to the needs of the professional software engineer; it is not so well adapted to the kind of exploratory or experimental programming whose aim is not to build a software product but merely to answer a question or calculate a value. (I suspect that a lot of computing in the sciences is of this nature.) Java also seems to me less than ideal as a medium for reasoning about algorithms, and for teaching some of the fundamental ideas of computer science. Not that it can't be used for these purposes; it simply would not be my first choice.
A world where Java is the only programming language is therefore not a vision I greet warmly. But the prospect is not one that keeps me awake nights. One reason is that even if Java achieves its most grandiose ambitions—if it becomes the universal language of computing—it holds within itself the seed of a new confusion of tongues. That seed is the Java virtual machine.
The idea of a virtual machine is hardly new to Java. It goes back to the very origins of computer science and is one of the many ingenious inventions of Alan M. Turing. The idea is that any sufficiently powerful computer can emulate, or mimic, any other computer. Such emulation is not just a theoretical toy. Practical emulators allow a Macintosh or a Unix box to dream it is a PC. Likewise, an emulator allows just about any computer to act as a Java virtual machine.
The virtual-machine strategy has a simple combinatorial advantage. Writing N programs for M platforms calls for an amount of labor proportional to N x M. With a virtual machine the work needed is N + M. The N operations are needed to write one version of each program; the M operations consist of building the virtual machine for each platform. In the 1970s this approach to software portability was tried in the P-code system, developed at the University of California at San Diego. P-code was intended to be a universal intermediate language. Compilers for many high-level languages could generate P-code, which would be run by interpreters on various computers.
In the case of Java, the intermediate language consists of byte codes, which make up the instruction set of the virtual machine. Because there are just 256 eight-bit bytes, the machine's repertory of actions is limited to no more than 256 instructions. The architecture of the virtual machine is centered on a "pushdown stack," where values are stored while operations are pending. Consider the sequence of three instructions iload0, iload1 and iadd, which Java happens to encode in the bytes whose decimal values are 26, 27 and 96. The two iload instructions push two local variables onto the top of the stack. Then iadd pops the two numbers off the stack, adds them and pushes the sum on the stack in their place. The i prefixed to each instruction indicates that the operands must be integers; there are equivalent instructions for other data types, such as floating-point numbers.
When a Java program is compiled, the output, called a class file, is not just a stream of byte codes. The file format includes several additional fields, structures and markers. For example, every valid class file must begin with a magic number, 3405691582. (The number seems less arbitrary when it is written in hexadecimal notation, where the 16 digits run from 0 to 9 and A to F. Converted to base 16, the magic number is CAFEBABE.)
The byte-code verifier ensures that a class file has the right format, and it also runs many checks on the byte codes themselves. In analyzing the three-byte program fragment given above, the verifier would make sure that both of the operands are integers, and it would prove that the stack cannot overflow or underflow. These checks enhance the reliability of Java programs, since type mismatches and stack failures are errors that would likely cause the program to crash. The same checks are also the main line of defense against malicious software. (Java's armor against hostile programs has been found to have a few chinks, but so far most of them have been flaws of implementation, not design.)
Interestingly, one thing the byte-code verifier cannot verify is that a class file was actually generated by a Java compiler, rather than coming from some other source. Since the format of the class file has been spelled out in complete detail, a compiler for another language can emit byte codes that will be executed by the Java virtual machine just as if they were authentic Java. Note that these cuckoo-egg byte codes are subject to the same defenses against malicious programs, since the ersatz class file has to pass through the verifier. In effect, the Java language and the Java virtual machine are completely decoupled. Programs written in any language can be compiled into byte codes and run on the Java virtual machine; they thus gain the benefits of platform independence. Conversely, Java programs could be compiled for platforms other than the virtual machine.
Hijacking the Java virtual machine in this way is not just a hypothetical possibility. Per Bothner of Cygnus Solutions has written a compiler called Kawa that translates Scheme—my own pet language—into Java byte codes. Furthermore, the Kawa compiler is itself written in Java, so that it will run on any platform that has a Java virtual machine. Other languages, including Ada, are being grafted into Java in the same way.
The one nagging doubt about this ruse for fooling the virtual machine has to do with efficiency. The architecture of the virtual machine was designed to be a good match for typical Java programs; it is probably less than optimal for very different languages such as Scheme. But efficiency is a troublesome issue even for the "100% Pure Java" that Sun advocates. Compiling a program into byte codes, rather than into the "native code" of a specific processor, interposes a layer of interpretation that inevitably slows execution. This penalty may be acceptable for the occasional Java "applet" downloaded from a Web site and run once or twice; it will be intolerable if the major applications that people work with every day are rewritten in Java. (Corel Corporation has announced plans to publish Corel Office for Java, a suite of Java programs including a word processor and a spreadsheet.)
Sun's answer to the efficiency problem is the JavaChip—a microprocessor whose native instruction set consists of Java byte codes. Thus the virtual machine becomes real, and the overhead of interpretation is eliminated. But with this vision Java has come full circle. It is no longer a bridge between platforms but a new platform competing with all the others.
Meanwhile, Java has not quite reached the promised land of platform-independence even among the existing platforms. The small Java program of Figure 3 is one of the first examples given in The Java Tutorial, by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath. The source code is the same for all platforms, but the tutorial's instructions for running the program are different for Unix, Windows and Macintosh computers. What's worse, the program also produces different results for each platform! (The source of these differences is that the program counts characters typed at the keyboard, and line-ends are encoded differently by the three operating systems.)
Talk of a universal language inevitably brings to mind that unfortunate incident of the tower. We tend to read the Babel story as a myth about hubris: The tower builders were out of their depth in trying to erect a structure as high as the heavens; they had undertaken a project beyond their abilities. But the wording of Genesis chapter 11 allows a different interpretation: "And Yahweh said, 'If this is how they have started to act, while they are one people with a single language for all, then nothing that they may presume to do will be out of their reach. Let me, then, go down and confound their speech there, so that they shall not understand one another's talk.'" In other words, the problem was not that the architects were incapable of raising such a tower; on the contrary, they had to be stopped precisely because they would have succeeded, and then doubtless gone on to even greater glories. Thus the story seems to be about the hidden dangers of good engineering practice. I'm not sure what that portends for the future of Java.
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Here's my animated clone and the stage I'm at , at the moment
Just primered the armor, as I like my armor to be without any kind of glossyness, I've decided to let the primer be the basic white. Apart from the abdom piece and the underlegs, i've made every part a one-piece part.I just used Industrial Velcro as much as possible, but on most parts I used snaps to harnass the armor, mini-snaps inside the shoulder bells so they would fit confortably/snugg fit enough around the shoulders.
The ARF helmet and Vizor I reinforced at some parts to make it more firm/stronger, as glue doesn't stick so easy to the helmet I had to use polymer.
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Curzio di Giovanni was originally from Lodi, in the Milan region of Italy. After several stays in a psychiatric environment, he was admitted to a hospital near Pavia in 1979. For a long time he displayed a propensity for drawing. Since he began attending the establishment's painting workshop, in 2001, he has been working on a vast body of graphic pieces.
His drawings are inspired by photographic reproductions of animals and characters, of which he retains the elements that seem important to him. He executes his compositions with a well-defined line, compartmentalising shapes according to the mosaic principle, then colouring them with coloured pencils. This results in deformation of the facial features and certain parts of the body. The compositions stand out against the support, the ground of which invariably remains blank, and are characterised by the principle of distortion.
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Hi all :)
It's been a while since I've had any "active" projects. I'm getting ready to do a helmet paintjob for a member and since we have a long weekend,
I was thinking I'd do a tutorial of sorts to show how I do my helmet painting templates.
There are some amazing .pdf files on the site from Count Dookie that cover almost all of the ESB helmet, and if you use those,
you could adapt some of the steps I'll explain to make them fit your helmet.
OK, on with the show!
So you've got your nice, shiny new Boba bucket and you want to do a killer paint job, but you're just not sure where to start.
You puzzle about it till your puzzler is sore! (apologies to Dr. Seuss :p)
A lot of us want to do an accurate paint job. In other words, get your helmet as close as you can to what was seen on screen, or in the exhibits.
So you might wonder how you can go about it.
Or you may just be wondering:
I'll try to help out with the answer to one of those two questions! :thumbsup Read on.
What you'll need is a method to place the details and damage from the real helmet as accurately as possible onto your helmet.
Since 99.9999999999999% of us don't have access to the LFL archives, we'll have to make do with reference pictures.
There's a free resource right here on TDH with millions of reference pictures of all sorts of different parts of the Boba Fett costumes, with some incredible shots of the different helmets. OK, maybe not millions, but there are at least 3 or 4 oodles. :) If you're not familiar with the TDH Reference Archive, go to:
User ID is: tdhmember
Password is: ilovetdh
It really is an unbelievably rich resource, provided most graciously by this very site which we all know and love!
I've been using these pics for years. In fact, I've got a large portion of them saved to my 'puter and use them all the time when I'm doing painting projects.
Don't believe me???? Well here's proof!
Next, I'll explain how to make your very own painting templates!
NOTE: You must have a helmet in hand to use this technique! There are several different helmet makers out there, and each of their helmets have slightly different measurements.
In this tutorial, I'm using my FPH helmet as an example. The helmet I'm about to paint is also an FPH.
First things first: supplies. Nothing high tech here, folks, just some standard tracing paper, a ruler, and a pencil.
A bit later in our program, a small paintbrush will come into play as well.
You want to use a ruler that has very small gradations. I prefer to work in millimeters when I measure my pictures.
I can just get more accuracy that way than working with 1/16ths of inches.
But hey! Whatever floats your sail barge! :p
What you'll want to do is take a measurement of a certain part of your helmet. I work in small sections and make many templates when painting.
I'll use the rear keyslot area as an example here.
I measure the width of the keyslots on my FPH helmet:
Next, I'll find a picture in the reference archive that shows the most direct angle of the keyslot area. That's important!
You're basically transferring a 2-dimensional image (reference picture) onto a 3-dimensional object (your helmet.) So to avoid distortion, find the most oblique image you can find. It will make the shapes and proportions of your details better.
Once you pick your reference image, simply scale it on your monitor till it matches the measurement of your helmet.
I've scaled this picture of the keyslots until the width is the same as my FPH helmet:
The next step involves some steady hands and some patience! Hold a piece of tracing paper up to your monitor and trace the shapes of the details.
When I do this, I usually trace the outlines of the silver and gray damage only.
Once I paint these onto my helmet, they give me enough "landmarks" to add the darker maroon by eye.
After you've traced the damage areas, here's what you'll wind up with:
So now you have a traced outline that's scaled exactly for your helmet!
But. . . what do you do now??? How do you actually use this template???
Hmm. . . there has to be a way. . . umm. . . magic??. . . no, not magic. Let's see. . . if I find a lamp with a Genie inside it. . .
nah, that would take too long. . . A-HAAA!
What I do next is pretty crazy. So crazy it just might work! :D
I flip the tracing paper over and trace over all the outlines on the back side. This gives me a mirror image of the template.
After you've traced onto the back of the paper, it's a simple process of holding the template (right side out again) against the helmet and rubbing it onto the surface. I just use the back of a skinny paint brush to transfer my pencil lines.
Here I'm transferring the pattern onto a sheet of paper.
What you'll wind up with looks like this:
Once your template is transferred to the helmet, you can use it as a guide when painting on the damage. I still keep the reference pictures handy while painting. The templates give me a great guide for shapes and proportions, but it's practically impossible to transfer every tiny detail. So the good ol' eyeball is still tremendously important!
Well, hope that gives people some good ideas about learning new painting techniques and improving accuracy! If you'd care to comment I'd love to hear from you guys. :cheers
No comments about me being a huge goofball. . . I'm well aware of that already! ;)
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EST is 1985
In KC on a bus ride
From the 56th side
Not too many knew that it was alive
But they spread it so now they tied to Technicians worldwide
[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]
Trying to recruit is the mission
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The best thing is for you to
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Cause we all are energetic and eager
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[Hook: Tech N9ne]
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Put your ammunition
And your hands up in the sky
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Most of 'em want to diss
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They know what I'm drinking
The ladies looking right
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The babies even hype
The oldies be geekin'
The red, the black, and white
The soldiers beef seekin'
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Tech and the bidness
Are gonna equal fear
Cuz I'm 'bout to bubble
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Out of my life I never wanna see you
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You don't know the pledge
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Disrespect that Tech trick get done
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What is the main message that you hope kids will take away from One and Zero?
My book One is about acceptance, tolerance and differences, but I hope kids remember it's also about choice. The choice we all have to stand up, make a difference and count. Zero is about self-esteem and finding our own unique value in ourselves while appreciating what others can bring to the table.
One has been praised for being a powerful anti-bullying tool. What do you think makes the book most effective? Why do you think the picture book appeals to and resonates with readers of all ages?
I actually think it's because the main characters are simple blobs of color. Blue is a quiet color. Red is fiery and bold, but he's also a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Instead of getting caught up in physical differences, we can get to the heart of the matter, which is how we actually feel about these different characters and personalities. One is also about our need to want to label others. For example, is Red a bad color? Is Blue a good color? In my story, the colors are neither good nor bad. It's about how we sometimes feel: angry, sad, lonely. Or sometimes happy and outgoing. The story is also about transformation. We all change at different times. Blue doesn't change as fast as the other colors do. Why? Because he's been picked on more. And Red? Well, truthfully, we don't know why Red is mad right now. He just is. Just like we might not know why someone is bullying another. But we do know Red is making poor choices. And it takes him even longer to change, because he's been angry for so long.
How often do you visit schools to present your book and lead anti-bullying workshops?
I do regular school visits throughout the country. One of the things I like to do is to perform skits with the kids when I visit. At the end of the workshop, we'll do a play for the audience. It's interactive. We get the kids engaged. But most of all, we have a lot of fun.
Do you have any other advice for kids?
Stretch and be open to change. It's not easy. Believe me, I know. But do your best to be open to new people and new cultures. Try not to judge anyone based on their outward appearance. Make it part of your own set of values to not make fun of others. And if you hear people saying bad things about another person, you can start by shrugging and simply saying, "I'm not going there." It's not easy to stand up for others, but after a while, it gets easier and easier. And then, one day, you realize it's no longer a stretch. You are that brave person. You've become who you wanted to be.


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I had many more cichlids than my 29 gallon setup could handle, and I could not keep up with the water changes / cleanings.
The light and heater are 20y old. Literally.
The filter is a Aqueon quiet something 30 purchased 2y ago.
Last night I sold my cichlids and we impulse purchased some substrate and grass and another red leafed plant. (Sorry I don't know what they are I'll post pics.) and 6 ghost shrimp.
Then to make things more complicated when we were cleaning out the tank we found 4 fry. Less than one quarter inch long
I know the basics of keeping a fish tank but nothing about aquatic plants.
The tank is a little cloudy now. Could that be from the sand or is it a problem with the water chemistry?
Does anyone know what plants I have and what sort of care they need?
Give us a few more specifics about your set up.
Is your light a flourescent tube, or incandescent? - are you just using sand for substrate?
If you don't have any root tabs, or a soil layer, you are probably going to need to add something, or avoid plants that like rich substrates (I believe most stem plants are fine pulling directly from the water column, but things like amazon swords and sagittaria do better with their roots in a rich substrate).
You might want to look into some floaters to help pick up extra nutrients until your plants get established, otherwise algae might get a bit of a head start.
Glad to hear you are giving plants a try, I think they can add a lot, both aesthetically and in terms of water quality, to a tank. Just prepared for a few failures/disappointments, it's part of the learning curve.
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Sorry for the long delay I was being prevented from posting while on my phone for some reason.
The light is a GE 20 watt Cool White Florescent tube
The substrate is laterite partially covered in sand.
The cloudiness has cleared up but the red leafy plants seem to be dying. I am going to try to get a new light this Friday. Any suggestions, I'd like to keep this as simple as I can.
I'm almost positive the green plant is Dwarf Hair Grass. It looks like it is growing,or maybe its just not so squished together from the packaging, not sure. However it looks like it is growing algae on the tips. As long as it's not going to kill the plant this does not bother me too much. My old tank was covered in algae due to the crazy bio load from the 50 inches of cichlids (that's why I sold them.)
If anyone has any suggestions for types of plants or fish for a low tech, low light tank feel free. I'm open to anything right now.
The grass does look like dwarf hair grass (Eleocharis Parvula). The red "leggy" plant looks like alternanthera reineckii most likely 'cardinalis' or 'rosaefolia'.
The hair grass prefers high light and lots of CO2. I have my doubts whether it will do well in your setup. The alternanthera reinecki does well in medium to high light. Although I have found it does better towards the bottom of my own tank. Maybe it prefers more light in the blue spectrum dunno. Once established it will grow like a weed. In fact I just trimmed mine and tossed a good half gallon away lol.
This section has a sticky for low light plants here. Those may be your best bet. How are you dosing (fertilizing) your tank?
Feb 7 '13 is day 3. the water is crystal clear. It really shows my toddlers finger prints on the outside of the tank lol!
I don't have any / haven't added any fertilizer. I'm not against it, it just was not part of my impulse buy that got this started.
I was checking out my light and its a GE F20T12 CW. The internet says "20 watt 24" T12 Medium Bi-Pin (G13) Base 4,100K Cool White Ecolux Fluorescent GE Light Bulb"
It looks like fish tank "Plant lights" are mostly T8 or T5. Again the internet (This guy seems to know everything!) says T8 use the same G13 base as a T12 however they use different ballasts.
For light requirements will a 20 Watt Fluorescent tube be enough to grow anything in a 29 Gallon tank? I'm not sure how the wattage relates to photo period. Is running my 20 Watt light for 10 hours similar to running a better T8 for 6 hours?
So much to learn and I'm running out of nap-time to do research lol.
The simple answer whether a single 20W T12 will be sufficient is no. You may be able to get by with low light plants but adding more is better. If you decide to only use one bulb then you should replace what you have with one in the 6500K range. I'm using 3 Philips Daylight Deluxe, Color temp. is 6500K, 1950 lumens, CRI of 79I and picked them up at home depot for about $5. I also use one in the 4500 range that I got there as well.
Lighting can be confusing to say the least. The red plants you have prefer more towards the 4500 range where the grass needs more of the 6500 (and a lot of it). When discussing lighting one needs to understand PAR (photosynthetically active radiation). Here is a sticky that explains it pretty well.
I understand you impulse bought a few things but if you want your plants to do well a couple of things do need to happen. They need light and food. The lighting needs augmentation for the plants you have and the substrate won't provide sufficient nutrients. In fact laterite takes time before iron is released properly. Check out the section in the forum regarding fertilizing to better understand the basics. I initially started using only a all in one plant food with CO2 booster. My plants existed but never thrived. With an inert substrate we have to introduce the nutrients either into the water or substrate.
Just a quick check-in.
Thanks a bunch Zorfox! I snuck a few peaks at that PAR lighting sticky while my kiddo played.
It looks like I'm going to have to convert my hood from a t12 to a t8 or maybe a t5 just to get up to a low light PAR. I'm going to see what my options are for that on Friday. I'd like to keep my current hood if I can.
Now to research fertilizers. Is it possible to get the right balance of fish and plants to not need ferts? Or are the people not using ferts getting away with it due to the substrate they started with being high in nutrients?
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I'm very technically minded. I skimmed the PAR sticky and it made a lot of sense.
Upgrading my hood will be no problem assuming the new electronic ballast will fit in there with a 24" light. My stand, tank trim and hood all match. If it were up to me, I'd get a diamond plate fixture from Home Depot and make a flush fit top out of acrylic but the tank is in the living room and my wife would not be happy about that. :icon_roll
If you use separate dry fertilizers how do you know what your tank needs? Are there tests or do you know from experience?
I'd rather test and only add what is needed as opposed to dosing generic bottles of micro and macro ferts and hoping it all works out.
I found a sorta local pet store that has several planted display tanks that are not running CO2. Not sure if I can get out in this storm but I'm going to try to check out their setup.
It sure would be convenient if they had a tank that my wife liked the aesthetics. I could copy their equipment, plant, and fish setup and trial and error it from there.
The water is not crystal clear today. You can clearly see small particles floating around. Also the algae growing on the tips of the grass and red plant is substantial enough that I can get a picture of it. Any idea what that stuff is? There doesn't appear to be any growing on the glass yet. What would be the best way to deal with that crud.
Mental note need a timer for the light. My wife likes to run the light as a night light as along as she is up. Not good lol.
I don't think you would need to switch to a completely different lams setup. If you aren't getting enough light with your current setup, maybe just try adding another tube. (may not work with your hood).
If you go low-tech (I think it's a good place to start, especially if you are new, as it requires a bit less maintenance), you won't need as much light. I don't know how much, but there should be plenty of info from other peoples set ups as to what sort of lights would get you in the right area (I want to guess that 2 flourescent bulbs should work, but I'm not certain)
A couple options I can think of right now (may not apply to your tank/hood/equipment/etc.)
get a twin bulb light strip to replace your current one
If there is spare glass that you can use, just get another light strip (I think you can get some pretty small/inexpensive 24" flourescent strip lights at Lowes/Home Depot), and put it over the available glass.
Set up something using compact fluorescent bulbs- If you're handy, you might be able to make a replacement for your light strip with 3-4 sockets, and with a reflector of some sort, could probably give you more then enough light (be wary of overheating though)
A simple solution I did once was to use vinyl gutter material with end caps covered with vinyl contact paper. The paper comes in every color, wood grain prints etc. I mounted the ballasts under the tank. It was cheap easy and home depot or Lowes carries everything you need. I had six t12s over a saltwater tank using that technique. The same method could house more T5s but again not familiar with the heat aspect.
So the snow storm kept me from going out. No new fish stuff for me.
I checked out the link on algae. I have blue green algae growing on all my Plants and a nickel size spot on the sand. With the tank being in the livingroom I'm not sure she'll be happy with it being covered. Not entirely sure how I'm going to get rid if it.
DIY lighting makes my head hurt. My local Home Depo doesn't have all the parts I need to convert my hood.
BGA is dead. I used a tooth brush to strip the BGA from the grass and turned off my lights for a few days. My tank gets no direct sun so lights out was enough of a blackout to killing off the BGA.
When I turned my lights back on, I noticed one of my Ghost Shrimp was carrying a load of eggs! New adventures all the time!
Can I cover my filter intake with a sponge or will that not be enough to save the baby shrimp?
I would think that would work. I tend to like putting a sponge prefilter on my intake tubes, just to cut down on the amount of dirt/grit/etc. going through the impeller, and also to keep little critters out.
I was in a Petsmart recently, and found a Fluval Edge prefilter that was pretty inexpensive, and the center hole doesn't go the entire way through the sponge.
Congrats on the shrimp.
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- 2 medium ripe bananas
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Just found out today, that the materials for the SMFE at security tube is online.
It is not packaged in a DVD but you can download it here:
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It's just amazing how much effort he puts into these videos.
I watched the Megaprimer Metasploit (the SMFE ones are slightly different from first glance) and they are just great for getting into Metasploit.
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No NBA or Hockey today
Pittsburgh/ Cincinnati Over 123: (Added) Sure both teams play excellent defense, but I also se this as a physical game that could lead to allot FT's, plus it should be a close game, which should also lead to hat late game FT battle. Hell we may even see OT. The Pitt offense has picked it up of late, averaging 68.6 ppg in their last 5 games and they average 63.4 ppg on the road, so I do expect them to hit 60+ in this one, even though Cincy allows 57.8 ppg at home. The Bearcats offense has had no troubles scoring at home, where they average 74.6 ppg and I also expect them to hit the 60's as well even though Pitt allows just 57.6 ppg on the road. Both teams are in the middle of the pack in terms of Tempo in Big East games, so I don't expect an all out slow down pace here. I feel the offenses will have a good showing and that will will get plenty of FT's throughout, which should give us around the 132 points that Cincy home games have averaged this year.
Kansas -3.5 over OKLAHOMA: When a coach comes out and says that this is the worst team they have ever put on the court, you can expect the players to respond with a good showing in this one. This is really a nice spot for them to get back on track as the Sooners haven't beaten them since 2005, with Kansas winning each of the last 9 in this series by at least 9 points. Oklahoma had a nice start to their big 12 season, but have faltered of late losing 4 of their last 6 conference games, including the last 2. Kansas is still one of the best teams in the country and they will figure this out. They have dominated this series and are playing a Sooner squad that may be running out of gas. Perfect spot for Kansas to get back on track with a big double digit win here.
North Carolina +7.5 over MIAMI: Sure Miami has a 10-0 home mark and they won by 27 over Duke on this floor, but the Heels are starting to figure things out and they have revenge on their minds for an earlier home loss to the Canes. The Heels are in high gear on offense right now as they have averaged 80.6 ppg in their last 5 games. I feel it will be that offense that will keep it close here. Miami has averaged 77 ppg in their last 5 games, but they are really not an explosive team and won't come up with enough points to win all that easily. The Heels have been at or near the top of the ACC for many years and are just not ready to pass the torch. They will find a way to keep it close, or maybe even pull the upset.
Texas/ Oklahoma State Over 125: The Longhorns have had their problems scoring this year, but they still average 65.5 ppg at home and they will be facing an OSU squad that has allowed 75 ppg on the road this year, including 73.5 ppg in their Big 12 road games. The Longhorns should have a good showing offensively in this one. On defense Texas has been solid at home, where they have allowed 52.9 ppg. but the Cowboys do average 69 ppg on the road and they have put up 73.2 ppg in their last 5 games overall. The Cowboys did put up 85 on a very good Kansas defense and should be good for at least the mid 60's in this one, which is also about how much I expect from the Longhorns. Neither team really slows the pace as Texas is 150th in tempo, while OSU is 120th and that has me easily expecting at least 130 points out of these teams.
Texas A&M/ Georgia Over 115: (Added) Georgia home games have averaged 121.3 ppg on the year and i expect us to get at least that in this one. The Bulldogs average 61.8 ppg at home, while the Aggies have scored 62.2 ppg on the road this year. Pretty good defensive teams, but Still the Aggies have allowed 61.2 ppg in their last 5 games, while Georgia has allowed 59.5 ppg at home. Yes both teams play a slow down pace, but the offense's seem to be paying better of late and that should give ups 120+ points in this one.
Creighton/ Illinois State Under 149: (Added) The Bluejays are known for their offense, but this is a good defensive team that allows just 62.3 ppg in their home floor. Illinois State's offense is rolling right now, but playing Drake's, Southern Illinois' and Bradley's defense in their last 3 games can make a teams offense look good. Illinois state averaged 88 ppg in those three games, while putting up just 64.2 ppg in their previous 7 games. The Redbirds have struggled some on defense in those three games (72 ppg), but in their prior 7 games they had allowed 66.3 ppg. Creighton does average 81.4 ppg at home, but they are not a true uptempo as they are 175th in tempo on the year. They just shoot the ball really well, but ISU allows just 42.9% shooting on the year, including just 40.9% in their last 5 games. I look for this one to put up 140 at the most.
3 TEAM 8 POINT TEASER--- Texas +11.5, Detroit +6.5 & West Virginia +1
3 TEAM 8 POINT TEASER--- New Mexico +13.5, Creighton -1 & St Mary's -3 (Added)
Michigan -2.5 over WISCONSIN
Buffalo/ Northern Illinois Over 119
Utah +13 over OREGON (Added)
Idaho/ Denver Over 119 (Added)
Missouri/ Ole Miss Over 154
Detroit -1.5 over GREEN BAY
West Virginia/ TCU Over 115.5 (Added)
"Negative people will always try and drag you down to their level. Love them, but always rise above them."There may be people that have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.
BOL today jeff.
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Love Kansas and Ole Miss/Mizzou over play! Good luck!
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Thanks guys. I hope everyone on east coast is safe. BOL to you all as well today.
Good luck today Jeff. Hope that power stays on. KU hopefully rolls today.
BOL Jeff, I like Mich and UNC as well
BOL Jeff & GET MONEY!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Johnny, 40Min and Griff. Great day to stay in and watch BBall. BOL to you guys today.
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