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I gotta get myself a rod brake one still thems nice bikes
Got this one a few weeks back. posted in fresh finds but here is in the right spot.
Real nice Sprite, original Raleigh Racer tires, Sturmey Archer rims, Rampar light.. assumign the Huret speedo was added, but open to comments. ( might take it off for my Higgins ).
Nice bike, still have not taken time to fix a bad tube and take for a spin... soon......
That be a nice shiney raleighI like the green ones, but when you find the more rare colors in good condition like my blue one it's like a piece of art lol that ones in nice condition.
My 65 Hercules resto-mod, now sporting a nexus 3 speed with drum brakes and a dynamo front hub
Nice build!
Here are all of my old British bikes, all rod brake except for 2. Though you can't really see them all on this pic. I think there's about 8 :lol:
They looks lovely, I gotta get one with rod brakes
Here's a better pic of my main ride.
Thats a really neat looking bike, any more pics?
The rare Raleigh Bentley Edition. 5 speed/28x1&1/2 raleigh size alum rims& tires/V brakes/dyno hub and Tea Cup light.
Hey guys i've just joined RatRodBikes..this is my ratty Raleigh.
In 1997 I bought this Raleigh, as an ATB with a Shiman Nexus-7. I bought it just for some parts to take to Cuba to complete a cruiser for use in Havana. The frame and other parts though, remained in Holland. It already wasn't a 'vintage' when I bought it and I did not try to bring it back to original.
Nice rides, That there bently is pretty neat. never seen a newer raleigh like that before.
Rusty raleigh i must make one. I have the perfect naturaly rusted frame but it's a ladys frame
Need any rim for those Spokes Reckless? Lol
1969 Sports. All original. Missing air pump.
Thats a very nice cycle creamcycle.
Just finished my latest project, though it's not a Raleigh but similar style.. It's a Universal, which was covered in crappy 80's stickers, so I took them off, gave it all a polish and changed the seat/tyres/handlebars and added the light. Decided to leave the sticker on the front forks because they didn't look to bad and suited the rest of the bike well. Kinda like a lightning bolt.
From the side on the handle bars are parallel to the frame giving it a speedway look
What's the extra bit of chrome frame on the front forks similar to on most american cruisers and where can I get hold of some???!
I've wanted a Raleigh Sport or Superbe for years and look what I scored yesterday
Mmmm That brown sports is in pretty good condition. I scored a Raleigh lenton sports, i'll post it here when i finish cleaning it up
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"GIF" is the 2012 word of the year. In it's simplest form, it's a digital graphics format that allows people to create looping animations. But to web artists the world around, they've become a unique new methods for expression. Annie Werner, AOL Artists Guest Curator and Tumblr's Arts Evangelist, understands the power of GIFs, seeing many of them on her site each day.
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The Field of Cloth of Gold was a tournament at which more than 150 French and English courtiers including Henry VIII, King of England and Francis I, King of France, jousted, tourneyed and fought on foot.
It took place over two weeks in June 1520. The palaces, pavilions of cloth of gold and the tournament lists (arenas) were erected especially for the event and removed afterwards. Even today it is a byword for chivalry and extravagance.
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Just finished my build today. It's an XL and it came in at about 30 lbs.
It's a suicide-shift 2 speed. Basically a single speed but when I need it I can kick down (literally) from 36-19 to 22-19 to power up the big hills we have around here). I've run this set-up on my commuter for a year now and love it.
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Artists frequently salvage society's forgotten objects, images, and memories. They reorder these humble elements, finding the redeemable within the abject. To create his enigmatic sculptural ensembles, Nari Ward gleans our remnants, acting as a modern-day archaeologist unearthing the dreams and nightmares that undergird our daily lives. In his hands, everyday items—oven pans, baby strollers, plastic beads, shopping carts—are transformed, imbued with poetry, emotion, and spirit before being re-presented in unexpected ways. He considers his artistic interventions to be an "activation" of the objects and the memories they carry.
Born in Jamaica, Ward moved with his family to New York City at the age of twelve. For more than two decades, the neighborhood of Harlem—for generations a hotbed of artistic, cultural, and intellectual pursuits—has served as incubator for his creative impulses. He gathers materials and ideas in the least likely places, and is more often "interested in the things that don't fall into place, that fall outside the guidelines you are supposed to follow."1 He purchased the carpet used in the Walker Art Center's sculpture Den (1999) from a street salesman who was demonstrating the quality of his vacuum cleaner. The sculpture was later completed with the addition of a twisted tree trunk onto which Ward added carved lion-claws legs from an old chair. Ward has remarked that Den carries a specific reference to Daniel in the Lion's Den (1865) by African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, whose painterly homage to the Old Testament tale of a prophet trapped in a den of timid lions has often been read by critics as a meditation on slavery, persecution, and martyrdom.2 Ward adds a touch of the surreal in this psychologically explosive commingling of the majestic and the ordinary, the synthetic and the organic, the spiritual and the profane. The work is a series of transformations as the fence cuts into the tree, which in turn seems to morph into a declawed and splayed animal. It is a dark and moody piece, but the artist offers a ray of light in the small, cleaned corner of the carpet that seems to suggest a glimmer of redemption, of hope. By shining a light on the darker corners of our existence, Ward creates work that is, inescapably, a part of us.


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NEW ORLEANS — It's been a fast-track rise for San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, who 10 years ago was an ex-player without a full-time coaching job. But Sunday, in his third head coaching job, he will coach in the Super Bowl in just his second year as an NFL head coach.
So far his life is pretty much on track.
"I wanted to be a football player, then a football coach, then die," he said this week.
Along the way there was a brief brush with Louisiana and long-term bond with LSU head coach Les Miles.
Harbaugh, of course, will be coaching against his brother, Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh, and the family reunion will also include their father Jack, a longtime coach himself, trying to stay neutral in the stands.
They are close. Jim Harbaugh's coaching career actually began on his father's staff at Western Kentucky with an unpaid position helping the offense.
McNeese fans might remember that Hilltopper team.
The elder Harbaugh completed his coaching career at the top, retiring as head coach after winning the 2002 Division I-AA championship — with a 34-14 victory over the McNeese Cowboys in Chattanooga, Tenn.
"I remember that team well," Harbaugh said of Western Kentucky. "They showed me what a great team were.
"They show it now, 10 years later, because I know the kind of men that they've become, the kind of fathers they've become."
The I-AA championship game was an almost complete turn-around from McNeese's 38-13 rout of the Harbaughs in an earlier regular season game that year in Lake Charles.
"The things I remember about (that year) the most was the process," Harbaugh said, sounding a tad like Alabama coach Nick Saban. "That team worked and got better and better as the year went on,"
The next year Harbaugh's father was out of coaching, Jim landed a gig as quarterback coach of the Oakland Raiders for a season before becoming head coach at the University of San Diego, then Stanford (2007) and the 49ers (2011).
The coaching is West Coast-heavy, but he also once interviewed for the head coaching job at Tulane — "It was a very good experience," he said of that New Orleans visit — and remains a certified Michigan Man.
Sort of like Miles.
Jack Harbaugh was a Michigan assistant coach when Miles played there in the early 1970s, and Miles coaching career was just getting started on legendary Wolverine coach Bo Schembechler's staff when Jim quarterbacked the team.
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In a state often fraught with regulatory burdens, New York's political entity has finally seen the need to work with and not against agriculture in upstate. The current boom in the state's yogurt industry is the driving force behind this turnaround.
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans at the state's first Yogurt Summit yesterday that would allow dairies to grow beyond 200 cows without facing a stringent set of regulations. Currently any dairy operation in the state with more than 200 cows must obtain a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) permit. If regulations are eased as anticipated, this limit will be raised to 300 cows.
According to the Department of Environmental Conservation, 501 farms in New York hold a CAFO permit. Each of these permits comes at a cost to the producer ranging between $50,000 and $150,000 according the New York Farm Bureau.
For a majority of smaller dairies sitting at 199 cows or less, the expensive permitting process has not only hindered growth but in many cases made it an unappealing option. This change will provide these farms with a chance to add up to 50 percent more cows without obtaining a CAFO permit. Many producers have seen this requirement as a hindrance to meeting the needs of the yogurt industry.
At current production levels, despite being the fourth largest state for milk volume, New York does not anticipate it will be able to meet the demands of its expanding processing industry. Within the state, there are 29 yogurt plants. Fage and Chobani have already expanded production in rural counties. PepsiCo too, has made a move to get in on the action, launching a joint venture with a German company to open a plant in Batavia, N.Y.
The state has already seen the impact lower than necessary production has. Earlier this year, Chobani announced that it would expand its operation in Idaho instead of growing its Chenango County based facility. Idaho's more readily available milk supply drove this decision, in part.
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headset recommendations... again......
A friend of mine is looking for something robust and really meaty. so meaty in fact that it needs to be "man enough" to survive a rather large head fall asleep with them on.
Other than that it is a text box case. They must be at least 5.1 surround sound a price range between £50-100, 100 being the MIGHTY cut off and preferably USB.
I did recommend my Roccat kave because to me it feels quite "beefy" with the size it is, but he wasn't sure about having to use all the plugs/pins in the back.
So please RPS, what are your thoughts?
Do not get a surround sound headset (5.x, 7.x) because the audio source is right by your ear anyway - it's a gimmick.
Whilst many may recommend a good set of headphones and a clip-on mic, I find that the cheap clip-on mics are extremely poor quality as they're not directional and move around a lot. Desk mics are atrocious for picking up keyboard noise.
Do not get a Steelseries 7H, they have a design flaw despite being awesomely modular. Don't buy a headset with bulbous can enclosures, because they will amplify e.g. cables scraping over deskts/shirts/etc. People seem to love the Siberia series, though.
Headsets with detachable cables are basically non-existant. Detachable mic booms are more common.
I did not notice a sound quality difference between a Fatal1ty (hey it was cheap) headset and my current Senn 350s, so I'd go for another £30 pair of those next time.
If he's really going to be sleeping in them, he'll probably want pleather (easier to clean; extended headset usage will cause a lot of ear infections!) and wireless.Mumble :: Thread :: Click to Join
Steel series Siberia series are expensive but long lasting and robust. I've had my current headset for about 2 years now and it's still going strong, which given the amount of ab/use it's suffered during that time is pretty remarkable. Most headsets I've had upto now have generally lasted a few months to a year at best.
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I bought some for 20 euros a month or so ago, they are fantastic. Seriously, great. I cant remember the name, but they have "GAMING" written over them. They have a built in microphone, which can be "hidden" in the side of the headphones. All in all, fantastic headphones. They are built to isolate sounds so you dont hear outside, but inside. And are noisy when turned up for "outsiders". All things which I do not care for! Huzzah!
Bought them on amazon. EDIT: Found them!- Tom De Roeck.
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I bought Corsair HS1 USB Gaming Headset about 6months ago, and they are nothing short of awesome.
They feel well built, solid big and chunky, and could no doubt take a head bashing. The cans cover your ears entirely and swallow your head, unlike some of the other headphones I've tried which just rest on your ears.
The sound from them is great, I use them for both music and gaming. The surround sound I was sceptical of the speakers being strapped to my ears but it works terrifyingly well.
Above all they are damned comfy on my globie-dome, which is apparently larger than average! :D
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I have the Speedlink Medusa 5.1 USB. I think they sound pretty good, though the inline volume control is a bit naff, the best part is that they are super-comfortable. Easily the most comfy headset I've ever had, I can wear them for ages.
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Might be a bit late for advice but anyone else reading this might not make the horrid mistake of buying a gaming headset, they are all almost universally crap - and those that are not garbage are vastly overpriced.
But a good set of audio headphones for half the price and then a mic separately - your ears will thank you.
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I'll expand on that half post posted by accident and forgotten about...
First 5.1 or any kind of "surround" headsets are a con - humans only have stereo hearing - the brain calculates sound direction based on the audio differences it hears between the left and right ears. Which is why surround sound speakers work, the speakers are actually physically spaced around the listener. Headphones are not spaced, and thus it makes no difference at all.
Stereo headphones however are fully capable of doing 360 degree sound, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA for an example of this. It's done using simple spacial recording (2 microphones set up at about the same space as human ears and then recorded around that), games have been badly simulating this for years.
Second, almost every single gaming headset is just plain bad, do your self a favour and just don't.
Buy a good set of Audiophile headphones, you can even get some pretty awesoem sets for really low prices.
For example the Superlux HD 681's cost almost nothing (£20) and are superior to every single gaming headset I've ever trialed (and with a really easy filter mod can be made excellent).
Superlux HD668's (£35) are a slightly more expensive set but are excellent out of the box.
You probably need to spend an extra £20 to get some better earpads for them (or make them yourself like I did) but you'll be getting a pair of headphones that are on par with £100 sets from big names like Sennheiser.
Anyway more general advice:
You want to buy open backed circumaural (full size) headphones.
Closed headphones are ONLY required if noise isolation is required (if you game in a noisy environment or if any leakage is an issue) - open backed headphones sound more natural, more open and just plain better.
They don't leak that much, and not enough to cause feedback on a mic, unless you have them at deafness causing volume.
I use open backed at noisy LANs, and don't have an issue with it - but if you LAN a lot and you like to drown out the crowd noises (I kind of like it) then you might want to get closed headphones.
Closed headphones are basically for DJ's and sound booths where they need isolation from outside noice, or need to prevent leakage from the headphones themselves.
How granted the reason most people want a "headset" is to have a mic too - but you can get a good clip-on, deskmic separately - and then have the added advantage of no heavy breathing sound going down the mic.
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Oh as for a clip-on mic, I've heard the Zalman's are decent enough:
Personally I prefer a decent desk mic, you don't get any movement or cable rustle, and a decent desktop mic is only about £20, hell I've used poundland desktops to pretty good results before.
If you spend $100 on a headset, you're getting a $50 pair of headphones, $5 for a mic, and $45 for the convenience of having it on your head. I've been using Logitech boom mics for years and I've never had a problem with them. (Should be easy enough to find online; I don't think Newegg ships internationally)
As far as headphones go, as others have said, 5.1 headsets are a gimmick. Again, I'm in the states, so I'm not sure what the pricing is like overseas, but typically the thing you want to shoot for with gaming headphones is soundscape; that is, the headphones' ability to reproduce the in-game environment. Generally, the bigger the soundscape, the better, and with really high-end headphones you should get to the point where you can pinpoint where an enemy is based on where a shot was fired relative to your position. To this end, I'm going to recommend two brands: Beyer Dynamic and Ultrasone. I can attest that both have excellent imaging capabilities.
Here's my personal pick:
Ultrasone HFI-2400
The Beyer DT990 Pro is another great choice, but its 250 ohm impedance renders it somewhat hard to drive if your soundcard doesn't have a dedicated headphone amp. (my Xonar DG was about $20 and it has one) If those are out of your price range, both Ultrasone and Beyer's lineups are scalar to price so you can't really go wrong. Hope this helps!
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That is one of the reasons I recommend the Superlux to gamers, the HD681's are only 32 Ohm, and the HD688B's are 56 Ohm - which makes them really easy to drive off anything, no amp required - hell even an Ipod can drive them to decent volume.
And they seriously compete with top brand audiophile headphones that cost 5 times as much (including the Bayer DT990's which I own a pair of and actually prefer the 668B's [with velour pad])- google some reviews on them on head-fi.org.
I had actually never heard of Superlux until just now, I might actually buy a pair when Christmas stops hitting me so hard just to try them. There's definitely been some upstarts in the last year that challenge the balance of power in terms of price points - the AIAIAI TM-1 being another.
Can you give me a quick comparison of the 688B and 681? Personally I hate the Audio Technica-style band on the latter, does it really sound that much better?
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Better is subjective as is pretty much true for any headphone discussion (and lets face it some audiophiles take subjective to faith based religion complete with epic myths and legends);
Still I can give you my utterly subjective opinions on em - the 668B's are studio monitor phones, they've got a very balanced, neutral sound, ideal for EQ'ing and general use but not very exciting - that said it's easy enough to jack the bass in software EQ and get all the clubby bass in your ear you could want.
In fact they are designed to produce basically the same frequency response as the DT990's so if you like that sound, the 688B's get really close. Check: http://www.superlux.com.tw/upload/fu...8B_view_en.pdf
The 681's are a little bit brighter on the treble, and a bit heavier on the bass, some people find the treble a bit too bright and fatiguing to listen too - there is a filter mod (really easy to do and costs like 50p in components in components) which will passively reduce the offending frequency spike (or you can do it in software/hardware EQ if you like, Drop 7.25 kHz by about 5-6 dB).
The 681's with the filter make a really damn good club and dance music pair of phones - but I prefer the 688B for general use, movie watching and such - So much so that my 5 times the price HD 518's mainly gather dust.
The default fake leather can make your ears sweat, so it is worth buying the AKG k-240 velour earpads, or making your own (which I did).
I can tell the/a difference between the 688B's and the DT990, but it's small (990's are slightly crisper, and slightly punchier) but for a price of £30 ($50) compared to £130, getting as close as they do is a feat.
Oh and there is a new range of superlux which are apparently better all-rounders, but I don't own any (yet).
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So... everyone just skipped over the recommendation I made, or what? Which is both a gaming headset, and good?- Tom De Roeck.
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"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it." - The Conclave
Apparently Superlux has a huge line that Amazon and their website just wasn't showing me; I'll have to do some more research at a later date. Working up my headphone lust on an empty wallet is never a good idea.
@QuantaCat: It's really a matter of perspective. Personally, after hearing a high-quality pair of headphones, it's impossible to go back, and therefore really difficult to recommend low-end pairs to other people. But honestly? If you're happy where you are, hold on to it for all it's worth (and that's potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars, when it comes to audio equipment.) And I'm not trying to discount the set you recommended; I've never heard them, I've never heard of them. I just have a hard time believing that they would stand up to a mainstay, dedicated pair of headphones in the same price range like the JVC RA-X700 or Koss Portapros paired with a cheapo microphone.
(God, that still sounds terribly elitist. Oh well.)
Yes. Ive had expensive headphones. Ive had macbook pro with all the trimmings. I dont care for them anymore. I dare you to seriously check out headphones, without looking at statistics or whatever, and compare the cheap ones to the expensive ones. I know you could hear the difference, but seriously, feature wise? There is not so much difference between the sets. That and youre not making fucking music here, or designing the sounds of some new hollywood production or whatever. Youre listening to sometimes horrible sounds coming out of a standard PC audio jack of a mediocre game. Youre not even really listening to music, youre listening to "some kind of sound design".
That and, for 20€..- Tom De Roeck.
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Those of us that do spend £100+ ARE using them for music production though, or other sound design, audio engineering uses.
Still as i pointed out you can get solid headphones at a fraction of the cost that will blow any crappy gaming headset out of the water audio quality wise - so there is really no excuse.
Feature wise? Seriously? It's a sodding speaker next to your ear, a moving coil transducer - there are no features, only statistics.
Unless you mean features like 5.1 surround - which isn't a feature, it is a lie - there is no such thing in headphones. Having 2 or more little speakers in a headphone will probably always be worse than having 1 higher quality larger one (there is a reason no top and headphones do it).
But hey, if you want to get angry go ahead - but the fact is at any price-range a pair of music headphones from one of the quality manufactureres will ALWAYS be better than a gaming headset.
You find a good £20 gaming headset and I'll find you a £3 microphone and a £17 headphone which would offer better quality.
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@Starky: Have you heard of the Samson SR850? Apparently it's a rebranded 688b with a better headband. I've decided that it's definitely going to be my next headphone.


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Nolan adds former state Rep. Al Doty to congressional staff
Former State Rep. Al Doty has joined U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan's staff, the 8th District Minnesota Congressman announced.
Doty, a native of Royalton, served as state representative from District 12B from 2007-10. A former Royalton City Council member and teacher/head wrestling coach at Pierz Healy High School, he was vice chair of the Minnesota House Agriculture, Rural Economics and Veterans Policy Committee.
In his new capacity, Doty will work closely with Nolan on a wide range of agriculture, rural development, small business and veterans' issues and projects throughout Crow Wing, Wadena, Hubbard, Cass and Morrison counties.
"Al Doty's experience in local and state government and education, as well as his lifelong involvement in nonprofit and volunteer organizations and wildlife conservation, will be invaluable in our efforts to build and rebuild our small towns, farms and locally owned businesses in this area," Nolan said. "We will benefit greatly from his wise counsel and advice, and I am so proud to have him on our Congressional staff team."


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RFID's Security Problem - Are New Passports and Drivers Licenses Secure?
Are U.S. passport cards and new state driver's licenses with RFID truly secure?
Starting this summer, Americans will need passports to travel to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean--unless they have passport cards or one of the enhanced driver's licenses that the states of Washington and New York have begun to issue.
Valid only for trips by land and sea, these new forms of identification are a convenient, inexpensive option for people who don't need to travel by plane. U.S. passport cards, which were introduced in July, cost about half as much as a full passport, and the extra cost of getting an enhanced driver's license rather than a regular one is even lower. Enhanced licenses have been available in Washington since January 2008 and in New York since September; other border states, including Michigan, Vermont, and Arizona, intend to offer them as well.
But not everyone is convinced that the new IDs are a good idea. The passport card and the enhanced licenses contain radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which are microchips fitted with antennas. An RFID reader can radio a query to the tag, causing it to return the data it contains--in this case, an identification number that lets customs agents retrieve information about the cardholder from a government database. The idea is that instant access to biographical data, a photo, and the results of terrorist and criminal background checks will help agents move people through the border efficiently. RFID technology, however, has been raising privacy concerns since it was introduced in product labels in the early 2000s.
Meanwhile, although experts say that some RFID technologies are quite secure, a University of Virginia security researcher's analysis of the NXP Mifare Classic (see Hack, November/December 2008), an RFID chip used in fare cards for the public-transit systems of Boston, London, and other cities, has shown that the security of smart cards can't be taken for granted. "I think we are in the growing-pains phase," says Johns Hopkins University computer science professor Avi Rubin, a security and privacy researcher. "This happens with a lot of technologies when they are first developed."
Borderline Security
The first of the new ID cards to be introduced, the federal passport cards and the Washington driver's licenses use similar technology, which has been reviewed and approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The cards' RFID devices, called electronic product code (EPC) tags, are much like bar codes. The tags are inexpensive and can, in ideal conditions, be read from about 150 feet away--an unusually long range for RFID, says Ari Juels, director and chief scientist at RSA Laboratories in Bedford, MA, which collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to evaluate both cards.
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Asking for help
Asking for help has never been easy for me. Perhaps it's because I'm a northern Minnesota male with Scandinavian heritage, but more likely it is probably due to human nature, stubbornness and pride. (Wow! That was a hard sentence to write!)
If you are like me, you can think of multiple times that you spent more money, received more injuries and got more frustrated than needed, all because you didn't ask for help.
I recall the time I was working on my truck and needed to take the front axle apart. I worked and struggled for more than two hours before I swallowed my pride and called a friend for help. He came over and used a special "hub socket" to disassemble my axle in about 30 seconds.
On another occasion, I was welding some pipes at a Potlatch plant and accidentally started a fire. The proper procedure to follow in a case like this is to sound the fire alarm so trained personnel would come and help extinguish the flames.
But, the fire was small, so I grabbed the fire hose and had it under control in no time. The problem was, after the fire was out, I couldn't close the valve at the end of the 3-inch hose. After about 15 minutes, and several hundred gallons of water, an employee walked by and rendered assistance by closing the main valve.
As I get older, I am slowly learning two lessons.
First, we all need each other. The Bible says that we are all members of one body, and none of us is designed to function very well alone.
The second lesson is that God is very interested in helping us through every situation that we might face. When Jesus was asked "What is the greatest commandment?," He responded, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
The only way we will ever be able to love God and love our neighbors is if we allow them to have a part in our lives. God already desires to have a relationship with us. All He is waiting for is for us to accept His offer to forgive our sins and have a personal relationship with Him.
Once we have a personal relationship with Jesus, we start to inherit His love for others and He directs us to share His love with those around us.
Most people are happy to lend a hand to someone who asks, and God is thrilled when we call on Him for any reason. This week, try developing new relationships both with God and with your neighbors.
It will save you pain, frustration and money. It might even lead to new lifelong friendships.
Steve Bergerson is the pastor at Blind Lake Tabernacle.


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Giving Back
Giving Back
Back when I was in high school, I met my best friend during senior year. We happened to meet only because we were both transferees to the same school for our final year, which isn't very common. We got along immediately because of our shared past time, which was of course, playing video games.
This was very late in the PS2's lifecycle so we had a ton of games to talk about. Coincidentally, we enjoyed mostly the same genres as well. For the genres we didn't share the same interest in, we both served as gateways for each other to trying more games of different kinds. He absolutely dominated people in the arcades when playing fighting games and I knew why because I had seen him practicing all his moves on the console. I was really into rhythm games of all kinds, from Guitar Hero to quirky little Japanese games that nobody knew existed. Because of this, we'd be playing all sorts of games and it was great.
I know meeting a friend who also likes video games isn't exactly unique. But it was that combined with all his other characteristics that made us get along so well. Unfortunately for me, my old group of friends and I drifted away from each other during high school because they decided to get into things that I didn't want to be a part of. Every weekend would be spent partying, getting drunk and sometimes doing drugs. They were my friends for a very long time and it wasn't easy to say goodbye but I knew that I couldn't hang out with them anymore. My best friend, however, would rather stay at home and marathon a video game. We'd still go out to party from time to time but playing games was our favorite thing to do.
I could also tell he loved video games because he had to do all his gaming on an extremely tight budget. His family wasn't in a very good position financially. There were times that I would treat him out to play at the arcade because I knew he wanted to play but just couldn't spare the cash. He was also afraid he'd miss out on the next generation of consoles. Luckily for us, my dad decided to get me a PS3 for Christmas! We basically shared the console like brothers. He had his own controller and his own profile on my system and he'd even pitch in to buy a game when he could. Everything was looking good gaming-wise.
A year later, I would find out that he and his family would be migrating to another country. This was heartbreaking to me. I had finally found an awesome friend that loved my hobby just as much as I did and he was going away. But we wouldn't give up, and we were somehow comforted by the fact that online console gaming was really starting to take off. We could play with each other online instead! It would be just like old times, but on a headset. So with his first part-time job, he saved for months and bought a new PS3. We were set! And then my PS3 died on me. Because I was still studying at the time, I didn't know when I'd be able to get a new one again. Our plan was ruined.
2 months later, my friend called and told me that he had something delivered to my house and asked if I got it. I asked my parents if anything for me arrived and they pointed to a table with a box. It was unmistakable, it was a brand new slim PS3. I was ecstatic but guilty at the same time because a gift like this isn't exactly cheap. I asked him if it was really okay and he said of course. And that it was time for him to give back. Thanks to my best friend, I have my current and favorite console. And thanks to Sony, we still hang out every week. But not in a school. But in a battlefield, a dungeon and who knows where we're headed next.
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LOL nice story I know exactly how it feels on the other side but trust me I know when I bought my friend his. It was the best choice I have ever made seriously shown in the story I wrote called Degenerated Harmony so I so understand and kudos to that


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2013: Author Elmore Leonard, best known for his westerns and crime novels, several of which have been turned into movies and TV shows, dies at age 87 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, of complications from a stroke suffered three weeks earlier. Among his most well-known books are "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight," "3:10 to Yuma," "Rum Punch" (the basis for Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown") and "Pronto," which introduced the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the central figure in the FX television series "Justified." [ + - ]
2012: Comedian/actress Phyllis Diller dies at the age of 95 in Los Angeles. Diller's career as a stand-up comic, which she started at age 37, skyrocketed in the 1960s, partly because of her many appearances with Bob Hope on his television specials, USO tours and three movies. She became a pop culture icon for her disparaging jokes about her looks, her cooking and her fictitious husband "Fang." She wore a blonde fright wig, held a long cigarette holder as a prop and laughed with a loud cackle. [ + - ]
2008: Gene Upshaw, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the executive director of the National Football League Players' Association, dies of pancreatic cancer at age 63 in Lake Tahoe, California. Upshaw, who won two Super Bowl titles in his 15 seasons as a guard for the Oakland Raiders, had served as executive director of the NFLPA since 1983. During his tenure, he oversaw a player strike, several antitrust lawsuits, and the collective bargaining agreement of 1993. [ + - ]
2007: Leona Helmsley dies from congestive heart failure at age 87 in Greenwich, Connecticut. The hotel operator and real estate investor was known for her flamboyant personality and tyrannical behavior -- earning her the nickname "Queen of Mean" -- and was convicted of federal income tax evasion in 1989. [ + - ]
1998: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan (pictured) in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. [ + - ]
1992: Actress and singer Demi Lovato, whose hit songs include "Here We Go Again," "Skyscraper," "Give Your Heart a Break" and "Heart Attack," is born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [ + - ]
1988: Firefighting continues in Yellowstone National Park, with the wildfires burning so much ground and producing such thick black smoke that the day is labeled "Black Saturday." The fires were part of a series of nearly 250 wildfires that burned through the park starting in June. On Sept. 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history. [ + - ]
1986: In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 of his co-workers, killing 14 of them, and then commits suicide. The incident is credited with inspiring the American phrase "going postal." Pictured here is a memorial at the site of the shooting. [ + - ]
1979: Bob Dylan releases the album "Slow Train Coming," his first since becoming a born-again Christian. While the religious-themed album divided his fans, it sold sell, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, and generated the Grammy-winning single "Gotta Serve Somebody," Dylan's first hit in three years. [ + - ]
1977: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. [ + - ]
1975: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. It eventually became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission, and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of six years and 116 days until that record was broken by the Opportunity Rover on May 19, 2010. [ + - ]
1974: Actress Amy Adams, best known for movies like "Enchanted," "The Fighter," "The Muppets," "Man of Steel" and "American Hustle," is born in Vicenza, Italy. Adams has earned Oscar nominations for her roles in "Junebug," "Doubt," "The Fighter," "The Master" and "American Hustle," and won Golden Globes for her performances in "American Hustle" and "Big Eyes." [ + - ]
1973: The Rolling Stones release "Angie." The song would go right to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and reach No. 5 on the UK singles chart. [ + - ]
1970: Fred Durst, best known as the singer-songwriter for heavy metal band Limp Bizkit, is born in Gastonia, North Carolina. He's also worked as a film director, first in 2007 with the independent film "The Education of Charlie Banks" and again in 2008 with the Ice Cube-starring "The Longshots." [ + - ]
1958: Film director and screenwriter David O. Russell, best known for movies such as "Three Kings," "I Heart Huckabees," "The Fighter," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle," is born in New York City. Russell received Academy Award nominations for directing "The Fighter," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle" and was also nominated for Oscars for the latter two's screenplays. [ + - ]
1956: Actress Joan Allen, best known for movies such as "Nixon," "The Ice Storm," "Pleasantville" and "The Bourne Supremacy," is born in Rochelle, Illinois. Allen has earned Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for "Nixon" and "The Crucible," and for Best Actress for "The Contender" (pictured). [ + - ]
1954: Weatherman, actor and author Al Roker, best known for being the weather anchor on NBC's "Today" show, is born in Queens, New York. [ + - ]
1948: Actor John Noble, best known for playing Dr. Walter Bishop on the TV series "Fringe," is born in Port Pirie, Australia. [ + - ]
1948: Robert Plant, best known as the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, is born in West Bromwich, England. [ + - ]
1946: Connie Chung, the journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN and MSNBC, is born in Washington, D.C. [ + - ]
1945: Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers becomes the youngest player to hit a home run in a major-league baseball game. Brown was 17 years, eight months and 14 days old at the time. [ + - ]
1942: Singer-songwriter and actor Isaac Hayes ("Theme from Shaft," "South Park") is born in Covington, Tennessee. Hayes is seen here performing at the International Amphitheater in Chicago at the 1973 PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) Black Expo. He died from a stroke at age 65 on Aug. 10, 2008. [ + - ]
1940: In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Spanish-born Soviet agent Ramón Mercader on the orders of Joseph Stalin. He would die the next day. [ + - ]
1940: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." [ + - ]
1938: Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees hits his 23rd career grand slam, setting a major-leage baseball record that still stands today. However, fellow Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez tied the mark on June 12, 2012. [ + - ]
1931: Boxing promoter Don King is born in Cleveland, Ohio. [ + - ]
1923: Country singer Jim Reeves is born in Galloway, Texas. Some of Reeves' best known hits include "Four Walls," "He'll Have to Go," "Billy Bayou" and "Welcome to My World." He died on July 31, 1964, at age 40 when his single-engine Beechcraft airplane crashed near Nashville, Tennessee. [ + - ]
1920: The National Football League is founded at a car dealership in Canton, Ohio. It was originally called the American Professional Football Conference and featured teams from the Ohio League. [ + - ]
1914: Pope Pius X, the head of the Catholic Church since Aug. 4, 1903, dies of a heart attack at age 79 in Vatican City. Born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto in Riese, Italy (then the Austrian Empire), Pius was known for promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology, rejecting more modern interpretations of Catholic doctrine. He also was the first to publish the Code of Canon Law, which collected the laws of the church into one volume for the first time. After his death, he became the first pope since Pius V, who was pope in the mid-1500s, to be canonized as a saint. [ + - ]
1912: William Booth, the preacher who founded The Salvation Army in 1865, dies at age 83 in London, England. [ + - ]
1890: H. P. Lovecraft, the author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction, is born in Providence, Rhode Island. Lovecraft, seen here in 1915, is best known for his "Cthulhu Mythos" story cycle and the "Necronomicon," a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore. [ + - ]
1882: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow. The song is best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire, ringing chimes, and brass fanfare finale. [ + - ]
1866: President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. The fighting had stopped months earlier. [ + - ]
1858: Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. [ + - ]
1833: Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, is born in North Bend, Ohio. [ + - ]


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Orlando Bloom Gossip
Orlando Bloom gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
So what you're saying is he's a loser
Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci celebrated his 40th birthday the other night in Ibiza. Justin Bieber was there. And when he found out Orlando Bloom was on the way, he had his people tell event organisers to turn him away. Orly ended up leaving. Full Story
Three Whisker Taunting
Justin Bieber has been famous since he was 14 years old. At 20, he's rich, spoiled, uncontrollable, and protected. JB makes money for a lot of people. Why would they ever shut him down? How could they ever step to him to tell him the truth? So it surprises no one that he behaves like a c-nt. Full Story
Boy Sh-t: A 3 Whisker Throwdown
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Three Whiskers has been my nickname for Orlando Bloom for years. Do a search for "Three Whiskers" on this site. It'll pull up dozens of articles dating back as far as 2006. He's just never been able to grow any substantial facial hair. The other day, I saw this shot Full Story
Meanwhile Nina…
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While it's unclear if Nina Dobrev knew about Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed making out at the Entertainment Weekly party, she was definitely there, and changed into flip-flops when she left… With Ben McKenzie. They were hugging each other at one point, in clear view of the paps. Full Story
Ethan Hawke > Orlando Bloom
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Not really into men with bobs. Orlando Bloom is wearing his hair bobbed. And when he has to wear the bob fancy, he gets it all gel wet and pushes it back. Doesn't work for me. He hasn't worked for me in a long, long time. I'm not actually sure he really works for anyone. The reason why they think he still works is because they see him from memory. Full Story
Selena & Orlando
They were seen together at the Chelsea Handler performance this weekend. So now everyone is calling it "revenge sex". After all, Justin Bieber allegedly hooked up with Miranda Kerr when she was still officially with Orlando Bloom. A couple of days and twenty years difference? Ahem. If JB is sh-tting over this…good. Full Story
Gwyneth's past …and future?
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There was some kind of art event – I think – at Paramount Studios yesterday in Hollywood. Brad Pitt was there wearing his favourite outfit. His only outfit? It's the only thing he ever wears! And the thinking used to be that if you wear the same thing, the paps won't want to pap you – so believed Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. Full Story
Career Prospectus: Orlando Bloom
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(For previous installments of Sarah's Career Prospectus Series, please click here.) Ever since we started this series, we've received repeated requests for Orlando Bloom. He's been mentioned several times in other people's prospectuses, but has somehow escaped having one of his own. Full Story
Miranda Kerr & Tom Cruise's ex BFF
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They've confirmed that it's over. According the official statement it's been over for a few months. But they didn't want the announcement to overshadow his Romeo & Juliet on Broadway. Now that the play has opened, it seems a good time to let it out, even though he was just on Kelly & Michael this morning and they made a point of NOT talking about it which just made the entire interview a complete bore. Full Story
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Better clench up Legolas! If you've been reading this blog for at least a year, you know I love The Avengers. I've seen it probably 20 times. So this is exciting for me. Not only because these are new photos of Robert Downey Jr – and that's never sh-t – but because it's RDJ with Legolas Orlando Bloom. Full Story


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Jayde Nicole: How To Find And Keep Your Motivation
Welcome to Workout Wednesdays, the new Playboy.com fitness blog by Jayde Nicole.
Welcome to Workout Wednesdays, the new Playboy.com fitness blog by Jayde Nicole—personal trainer, fitness nutritionist, health nut, TV personality and, last but not least, Playboy's 2008 Playmate of the Year. Check back each week for Jayde's latest tips, and be sure to visit her all-new fitness website JaydeNicole.com.
Jayde took a time out from her fitness regime to have a little fun on New Year's Eve. See all the photos in her latest gallery.
This Week: How To Find & Keep Your Motivation!
So, we are in week two of all of our new year's resolutions. How are you doing? Finding yourself a little less motivated then you were during your hangover on New Year's day? Motivation is what drives us toward our goals, gets us out of bed and into the gym in the morning, and pushes us when we think we can't go any further. But why is it that we can never hold on to it?
- Go Public!
You can always make excuses to yourself but try doing it with all your friends and family watching! Post your goals on your Facebook or Twitter or send out an email asking your network to support you on your journey towards a healthier lifestyle. Saying it out loud will make your decision for change real and gaining the support of your peers is crucial. There have been countless studies that show people who share their goals with a partner and have the support of the people around them are much more likely to succeed. No one wants to look bad in front of their friends or let down their family. This will help you push through your plateaus and keep right on track! So share your progress, your healthy meals and photos of your sexy new muscles!
- Start Small!
I am a huge fan of making "mini goals" and rewarding yourself for reaching them. They can be as easy as "I will drink 8 glasses of water today" or "I will take the stairs all day instead of the elevator." Or as big as "I will run 5 miles today" or "I will do 100 push-ups." At the end of each day when you have reached your goal, celebrate! Congratulate yourself and at the end of the week if you have reached all your mini goals, buy yourself a new pair of running shoes or something fitness related you've been wanting! If you give yourself little things to look forward to and you are constantly celebrating your achievements you will stay positive and motivated to keep going.
- Find your Inspiration!
My clients always ask me, "You're always motivated, what is it that motivates you?" and I always tell them it is different for every person. What gets me off the couch, probably won't work for you and vice versa. You need to take some time and really think about what in your life inspires you to get fit and healthy. Getting sexy for a hot new girlfriend, working on your heart health for you kids and family, a new job, a bigger house!? Whatever it may be, it has to be specific to your life and what you want out of it! Don't be afraid to write these down, nothing is off limits or "dumb." If it inspires you then it works!!
- Write it Down!
You know those moments when you just feel amazing? So full of energy, positivity and motivation? Well, the next time you have that feeling, write it all down! Put everything that you are feeling and thinking on a piece of paper. Then post it where you will see it every day. This way you will never forget why you are making these life changes and how great they make you feel! On a cold or rainy day, it is easy to just make an excuse or be lazy. Reading over your own personal positive words will really help!
- My Personal Tricks!
Ok, so over the years I have come up with some of my own unique and somewhat embarrassing ways of getting over the laziness hump and kicking myself back into the gym. One is to put on a super tight pair of jeans, button them up, and head to a full length mirror. Then I turn sideways and touch my toes. It seems silly but no matter how fit I think I am the tight jeans toe touch test never lies!! Try this and I guarantee you will run straight to the gym!! I also like to keep photos that inspire me as my cellphone wallpaper. There is nothing I see more then the back drop on my cell. On average I think I click on it about 1000 times a day. I switch it up as soon as I get used to it so that it is always fresh and effective. Another great one is keeping photos of yourself at your best! Make yourself jealous of you! Last summer at the beach when you were looking super ripped? Post that right on your fridge and don't ever forget it!
Feeling motivated!!? I know I am! Use these new tools to keep yourself on track with your New Years resolution all year long! No one said it was easy but if you're determined, focused and more importantly, motivated, you can reach those goals and look better then you ever had!
Have questions or suggestions for an upcoming Workout Wednesday? Message me on Twitter (@Jayde_Nicole) or in the Locker Room at JaydeNicole.com.


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Meet Nandan Garg
Trine University - Allen School of Engineering
260.665.4192 | email
"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought." – William Hazlitt
Electrical & Computer Engineering; B.C.A. – Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India; M.C.A. – Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal, India; Ph.D. – Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
After completing my doctorate in computer science from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., I joined the faculty of Trine University this year. My interest in computers goes back to 1992, when I first got an opportunity to play with a computer. Since then, I pursued computer science and computer applications as my career. Influenced by my parents′ life as academicians, I chose to be an educator.
Within the field of computer science, my interests are in distributed systems, computer networks, information and network security. In my research, I applied game theory – a branch of applied mathematics – into different aspects of computer science. I love to teach programming.
Born and raised in India, I developed an attraction for its culture and tradition. That attraction grew to new heights after some pristine personalities. Along with teaching as my profession, my life revolves around practicing bhakti yoga and meditation.


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Okay. True u were in the last two AFC championship games. We didn't make the playoffs in that time span and choked bad to Philly last season to keep us out.. But overall Rex u have to know deep down that the giants are and always will be the Kings of NY.
Let's just look at the last 4 times our teams played in championship games.....
Okay Jets made AFC title games in 82,98,09 and 10. Lost them all!!! Lol
Giants made NFC title games in 86,90,00 & 07. Won them all and followed it up with 3/4 SB Titles!!!
Enough said!!!
And by the way... It was announced this week that OC shotty will be fired after their final game against the Dolphins, thanks to the Gmen a Jets coach gets the AX. Lol
Have a nice nice time watching the playoffs from home this season Rex.
You will get to watch the team that has still finished first in AFC East all three years you have been jets coach. The Pats. A team we beat for you to help y'all out but looks like u won't take advantage of it.
You talk major smack every year yet have won less games every year with jets. Going from 11 wins to 10 and now down to 8 or 9.
Looks, like your big mouth will leave you out of a job soon.
And oh, by the way. We will end the season for your brother next week like we did for Philly and u last week. Oh wait,u say u are still alive and backing into the playoffs is your speciality?
Ok so you have to win and cinn and tenn have to lose. Also Oakland or Denver has to lose to... Lol. Good luck with that and


text: This is My review about Clive Barker's Jericho for the xbox 360. First The Story is like this you are leader in your squad. you get kill by a monster. Then you can go in to your teams and use there weapons. The Story is not bad because you get in go in yours squad and The camping is short. Secound The Graphics are good because the faces look real. Third The Gameplay is great because your squad has powers like fire monster that out of a hand in your squad and the guns are powers but reload slowly. The Gameplay is great. Four is Replay vaule is very bad because when you beat the game on hard there no other end to the game like a game called Shadow the hedgehog. Five Sound and music: Sound great because there famous voice in the game he's called Steven Jay Blum as the leader of the squad and other actors. Music: very bad because there one song in the game. Good Thinks and Bad Thinks: Good Thinks 1. Great sound and great voice actors. 2. The game has Steven Jay Blum in the game. 3. you can't die went you squad this live. Bad Thinks: 1. The ending of the end is not great 2. Why do you go in time like 1941 to 30 AD and one more place in time? 3. cheat is very bad Six Ending of review and Final Score. Ending of review the game good but need lots of work and I like that the game has Steven Jay Blum. Final Score B-. Thank you for read this review about Clive Barker's Jericho for the xbox 360. Goodbye My next review will be Mario party 2 for the N64.


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A male wapanese who likes Visual-kei/ Oshare-kei and listens to the music only because he thinks the members are hot and also tries to pull of the style but fails.
Stan: I love An Cafe, Ayabie, Alice Nine, Aicle, Girugämesh, Himeyuri, Hime Ichigo and Ichigo69.
Tom: What a wapfag!
Tom: What a wapfag!
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Richard Wiggins
TOUCHING A NERVE: The Self as Brain. Patricia S. Churchland. 304 pp. W. W. Norton, 2013. $26.95.
We are what we are because our brains are what they are. That connection between self and brain—obvious yet endlessly elusive—lies at the foundation of some of life's most profound questions. What part of our body thinks our thoughts and binds us to morals? Is there a soul? An afterlife? How do we know what is real? Addressing such matters requires taking an outside view of an organ that we are all forced to experience from the inside. Making headway toward answers requires thinking simultaneously like a philosopher and a neuroscientist.
Fortunately, Patricia Churchland is both: a philosopher turned neuroscientist, who once taught a course called neurophilosophy to undergraduates at the University of California, San Diego. She begins her new book by walking the reader through her three-point organizational logic. This section is not a page-turner, but it sets the foundation for all that follows. Point one: Integrating reality into our state of mind allows us to avoid danger (for example, by preventing disease) and improve our world (by finding cures). Two: Wishful fantasy may be enjoyable, but it is temporary. Conversely, knowledge of what is true and real may be repugnant, but facts will triumph, as Churchland illustrates through the case of Galileo and the Catholic Church. Third: We can control how we use science. An excess of knowledge does not hurtle us to Armageddon.
Touching a Nerve is not a neuroscience textbook; it is accurate, without the burden of excessive scientific detail. Instead, Churchland crafts a big-picture discussion of how the brain engineers human consciousness, thought, and behavior, presenting the underlying science in a conversational tone that's lively and engaging. She aims to make science relevant, exciting, accessible.
When Churchland explores the origins of moral behavior, she lays out the thesis that the mammalian brain is wired for self-care and the care of others. And yet, as she notes, the people we love often provoke us to anger. Paradoxically, an individual can shift from a state of mind we call love to one that allows him or her to commit an "honor killing."
Churchland devotes another chapter to aggression and sex, digging deeply as she engages some enduring mysteries. What is the lure of hatred and aggression? Why are we so predisposed to frame interactions as "us versus them"? Churchland outlines her intriguing belief that hate and aggression are linked to the brain's sensation of pleasure. (Why else would gossip be so enjoyable?) This chapter is an interesting sausage of overlapping topics that could easily fill many more pages. Here the author mixes her personal experience with science, an effective approach for such potent subject matter. The reader almost feels part of the conversation.
I was initially apprehensive when I got to the part of the book where Churchland takes on the contentious topic of "testosterone poisoning." The term suggests that iconic masculine behavior may be ridiculed as a hangover from prehistory. Would Churchland be condescending here, I wondered, presenting feminine traits as more progressive and enlightened, even a new unisex norm? No. Instead, she gives a balanced view of why so much of human behavior extends from the deep biological roots of distinctly different female-brain and male-brain behaviors.
Churchland explains that the brain makes mating and survival in a hostile world possible, and doing so requires it to be energized and cunning. A state of aggression is exciting, and it reinforces the collective strength of bonding within the social group or pack. Deep roots of aggression can be found in today's gang violence and is ritualized in team sports. Yet baiting and gossip are forms of aggression, too. Whether violence is physical or verbal, our brains do link it to pleasure.
As this section of the book delves into the brain anatomy and chemistry underlying sex and aggression it becomes a real page-turner. Here Churchland explores charged issues such as how the balance between estrogen and progesterone in females modulates whether the brain will be feminized or masculinized, and how levels of testosterone influence male-brain sex and aggression. The chemistry is not simple, but the author highlights the impact of an assortment of key factors, such as different ratios of testosterone and stress hormones (cortisol, for example) and variable expressions of neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, including serotonin, dopamine, nitric oxide, and vasopressin.
Churchland also brings plainspoken reason to what is often called gender identity, which decades of science have not been particularly effective in illuminating for large segments of society. Simply put, gender is not as simple as XX and XY. Chemicals such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone can cause a disconnect between a person's gonadal gender and brain gender—hence, men who feel trapped in a woman's body and women who feel trapped in a man's. Normal is a far more elusive concept than once thought.
In the final chapters of Touching a Nerve, Churchland returns to more philosophical territory. After taking on mating, aggression, and sexual identity, perhaps it is logical that she progresses to a discussion of genocide and war, exploring the claim that humans are genetically predisposed to war. Ultimately she exposes it as a fallacy, viewing the argument as an excuse for bad behavior. Self-control is necessary for making good decisions, she argues, and neuroscience provides a general, if not yet well-resolved, understanding of how connectivity between different brain structures underlies self-control.
Churchland moves on to address free will, crime, intent, and punishment. The interpretation of a person's intent and state of mind lies at the core of determining if someone is criminally responsible for a socially harmful act. She discusses the attempted murder of President Reagan as a product of John Hinckley's obsession with Jodi Foster, explaining how that fixation produced a collision between common sense, the legal matter of volition, and the weight of scientific evidence.
Toward the end, Churchland explores hidden cognition and the unconscious self and wraps up this very entertaining book with a discussion of the conscious life. Her closing discussions of warfare, criminal law, justice, and free will may stray beyond the boundaries of rigorous science, but Churchland's brand of neurophilosophy serves a great need: It provides a framework for objective reflection on matters of real importance in today's world.
Richard Wiggins is editor of Ingenuity: Journal of Student Engineering and Science Research, a Sigma Xi online publication currently under development. He previously served as the anatomy department chair at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and director of the neurotoxicology division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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|2012-05-28, 05:30
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
How's about if the compromise happens during the distribution phase? During some steps of that Diablo 3 grand "15th May launch"? Is it possible, because i heard the key was distributed separately from the physical game copy?
If that the case, then it explains why some knew no one getting accounts compromised, while others hit 50% rate (as all your friends tend to go for the same distributor)
|2012-05-28, 06:37
|Link #2103
Join Date: Nov 2003
Act 3 Inferno is so very annoying... Very close to beating it, but some of these mobs with the base teleport and massive attack power is extremely annoying. Farming Siegebreaker for now, got some amazing 160Dex/80Vit/60Res/Mov Speed boots. Hoping that'll fetch a good penny.
|2012-05-28, 08:12
|Link #2104
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
the key has nothing to do with the hacking i think. the keys are 1 time use only. and its to register the game to an account. if the keys were stolen, it wont result to hacked account (as the guy wont be able to play D3 without his key in the first place). he would have to pay another $60 for a new key though.
battle.net account is created completely separate from the diablo 3 key. what ever games you buy, you input the game key to your battle.net account to be able to play that game.
|2012-05-28, 08:47
|Link #2105
Ass connoisseur
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 30
Sup, my ticket was replied to and my account supposedly restored, but now my new thirteen digit password will no longer log me in. I sware this happened simultaneously with my account being restored. I was biding my time running around Tristram naked when I received an email notification. To my excitement, it was a reply from blizzard...To my dismay, I was disconnected from the game shortly after and unable to reconnect. And this time, password recovery doesn't even work anymore, so I'm unable to log back in. Period.
So frustrated...
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|2012-05-28, 09:51
|Link #2106
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
|2012-05-28, 10:51
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Ass connoisseur
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Age: 30
Problem resolved...The person who answered my ticket and restored my account, apparently suspended it as well. Whether it was accidental or not...Called Blizzard up (Their expected 7minute wait time, ended up being a little over an hour) and they fixed the problem.
|2012-05-28, 11:50
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
Personally what I don't understand is what is there to gain from hacking one's account. Of course the victim has plenty to lose, however how does one profit from it? You would essentially have to log in with another account and trade the items and I'm sure that's being logged so if any item transaction like that happens you have a nice breadcrum trail to the culprit.
It's all very pointless from my perspective. Sure you can have the account but what's the point of going though the person's stuff. I'd expect it, like most viruses etc, to sit in the background and do shady things when you're not looking for as long as it can. From what I've read nothing of tangible value was stolen.
If this mass hacking is true, then either (a) someone was extremely bored and pissed off at blizzard, (b) someone really really wants to keep the RMAH away, or (c) another company is doing it so blizzard loses face, and customers. Something like a corporate version of stuxnet... sabotage is certainly cheaper then advertising (if that's true though, everyone bitching is certainly what the hackers wanted). Of course I might be overthinking it; it usually is something very simple and stupid... like say a popular site lost one of it's backups and those backups had plaintext passwords in them.
Personally I find the account passwords extremely shamefully implemented. There is NO, and mean ZERO, reason your passwords needs to be 16 or whatever characters maximum. The only reason passwords were ever limited in length was for compatibility with decaying infrastructure... Basically when your passwords are limited it usually means they are storing your password on the database; same of when you get your password via email from a site or when they have recovery systems that send you the actual password instead of a random one.
I hope blizzard didn't hire a complete bunch of security retards, because something like that (storing actual passwords) is unacceptable these days.
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|2012-05-28, 12:24
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Age: 31
^ WoW accounts have been "hacked" for years and years. My WoW account was "stolen" twice I believe, once long after I stopped playing.
Diablo 3 uses the same log in info as all battle.net games. I assume people have been amassing account info long before release, waited a few days for people to amass wealth, and started stealing gold and items. Probably for selling gold and such on 3rd party site(s).
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Location: Singapore
Age: 34
|2012-05-28, 13:50
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Edinburgh
Age: 35
Is there a list with animesuki players?
Spoiler for my battletag:
I play on the NA and EU servers. But I do get high latency on the NA server (160-1080ms) depending on time, so not really suitable for hardcore mode.
|2012-05-28, 14:11
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Anime Snark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 34
Some trivia from Blizzard.
Game Design Update.
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|2012-05-28, 16:32
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Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
Just finished act1 inferno, glad I made it with 5 nephalem stacks, it was less than 2 minutes or so.
Some time ago I read that bosses on inferno had some kind of enrage timers. On some of my earlier butcher trys towards the end of the fight all of the floor tiles were ignited for at least 5 seconds leaving no way to survive. Was that the enrage or just bad luck?
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: event horizon
|2012-05-28, 16:37
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Stüldt Håjt!
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: On the corner
Age: 27
Soft enrage: stay there long enough and the whole room is on fire.
Servers have been unstable for me (and many others) ever since launch. Error 3007 and disconnect after 15-20 minutes during prime time. I'm glad I can play during off hours at the moment.
I found a 800 DPS crossbow with no dex for 100k in the AH, so using that to farm some cash/gear in Inferno Act I for my DH before moving to get one-shotted by invisible nagas in Act II. Actually, Act I in Inferno is pretty entertaining at the moment. Late Acts don't really interest me until the... "spike damage" is adjusted.
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Beastly Bits #93
What's this? A normal installation of the bits?
I woke up super early since I'm bouncing out of the office early again today, to go do THIS. So for my early alarm efforts, I'm bothering you to all say thanks by tuning in. It's not hard...you're probably already going to be at your computer today at 4pm, so it's like, a simple click and you've entered the radness.
Holy crap, Breakbot's Baby I'm Yours video is amazing. Over 2000 watercolors went into producing it. link
Video of The Strokes, er Venison (?), playing Last Nite at their London gig two nights ago. link
Check out a behind the scenes clip for KillaQueenz new video clip, Break The Rules, produced by Spruce Lee. link
Pre-sale tickets for the NYC Rock the Bells Festival go up today at noon. Open ticketing tomorrow. link
Some old, new and instant favorites for you to download below. Just 'cause.
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AAPL: It Can Rally After Pullback, Says Hickey
Barron's Roundtable tech luminary Fred Hickey , editor of the High Tech Strategist newsletter, was kind enough today to share his thoughts on Apple (AAPL) stock with me by telephone in the course of a conversation about several things in Techland.
While Hickey still doesn't want to own AAPL for the long term — his only tech holding at the moment is Microsoft (MSFT) — he thinks it is "good for a trade" after the stock's near 10% correction in the past few weeks, culminating in yesterday's bullish recommendation by Jim Cramer.
"Apple should rally from here," says Hickey, adding "Cramer has turned it, though I thought it would go a little lower." Cramer was slightly premature in his recommendation, argues Hickey.
Hickey has long-term concerns about Apple. The company's "moats" to competition are not what they once were, he argues, as competition gets better. Apple no longer has the advantage in apps over Google's (GOOG) Android.
Samsung Electronics's (005930KS) Q3 numbers, previewed by the company on Friday, were "blowout," he observes, helped by the "Galaxy S III" smartphone, which "is the best" among smartphones, better than Apple's iPhone, he asserts, based on things such as price and performance. CEO Tim Cook was "supposed to be their supply chain guru, but I'm not so sure."
Hickey thinks issues raised by Seabreeze Partners's Doug Kass are the right ones to be raising about Apple, especially the issue of Apple's margins declining over time. "I'm not a believer in a hardware maker holding their margins," he says.
But "Kass is making a now sort of case, and its not now," he says of the eventual decline.
Rather, "It's going to take years for this to play out," says Hickey. "It's a great one to buy, but I don't know that I'd hold it. At $700 it was not attractive. But after this correction, you can play for a trade. I'll rent Apple."
I disagree with Fred's view on Apple, both as regards the relative merits of products — iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III — and the broader concerns about Apple, as I wrote in my column in Barron's print magazine over the weekend.
Previously: AAPL: Margins To Decline, Says Nomura; Tempest, Teapot, Says Sterne Agee, October 9th, 2012.


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HealthWatch: Support for Single Fathers Due to Cancer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - When a mother loses her battle to cancer, fathers are often left unprepared to raise their families.
Not only must they deal with their own grief and their children's, but without a lot of resources in the community, they must face the challenges of parenthood alone.
Bruce Ham knows all about the questions, the struggles, and the regrets of losing a wife to cancer.
"Lisa was the foundation," Ham told Ivanhoe. "She was the glue that held us all together."
At 39, the mother-of-three died after a six-month battle with colon cancer.
"We spent so much time trying to be positive and trying to fight the disease that we did not spend as much time talking about what life would be like when she was gone," Ham explained.
Dr. Justin Yopp says it's one of the most important conversations a couple in this situation can have.
"It's so difficult and there are so many obstacles to making that happen, that we see it now as an area that's really ripe for intervention," Justin Yopp, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor, UNC Cancer Center, told Ivanhoe.
That led Dr. Yopp and Dr. Donald Rosenstein to start a first-of-its-kind support group for widowed fathers.
"These men all describe a sense of being lost at sea initially," Donald Rosenstein, MD, Director of UNC Comprehensive Cancer Support Program, Dept. of Psychiatry and Medicine, UNC Cancer Center, told Ivanhoe. "They feel so badly for their kids after they've lost their mothers that they relax a lot of rules in the house."
From navigating the challenges of parenting to moving forward, singlefathersduetocancer.org is a lifeline for dads.
"You're going to make mistakes," Dr. Yopp explained. "Your kids are resilient [and] you're resilient, [so] you can get through those mistakes."
Three years after joining the group, Ham is doing the best he can.
"Life can be beautiful again," Ham said.
The group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is working to get similar support groups set up at major cancer centers across the country.
As for Ham, he's gone on to write a book about his experience called, "Laughter, Braids and Tears."
You can learn more about the book and the support group at www.singlefathersduetocancer.org .
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Round 1
Johnthan Banks CB Mississippi- For a guy that won the Thorpe award for best CB in the nation he's not even regarded as the best CB in this draft behind Dee Milliner and by combine time will probably fall behind Xavier Rhodes. Banks is a off zone CB that fits Fewell's system perfectly. He has the textbook size and tackling ability that the Giants covet in their DBs and fits the bill of the big name prospect that somehow fall in our lap.
Round 2
Alex Okafor DE Texas- Great pass rusher notching 5.5 sacks in his bowl game. Very good at setting the edge and is stout versus the run. He reminds me a lot of Tuck in build and ability.
Round 3
Khaseem Greene LB Rutgers- Local guy with good sideline to sideline speed that can get in the backfield and cause havoc. Great in pass coverage and can give us more speed to keep up with RG3.
Round 4
Kyle Long OT Oregon- Long is the latest of the Long family players to enter the NFL. A long lean 6"7 312, Long is both big and very athletic able to handle speed rushers with relative ease while keeping bull rusher out of his frame with his long arms. Long is still a bit raw in his technique and has relied more on his natural ability than skill but with a little coaching he could be a star.
Round 5
Michael Dyer RB Arkansas State- Talented back that has fallen because of off the field issues. Has the ability to be a star whereever he goes if he can straighten up. I remember watching this guy in amazement when he played in the Underarmor All-American game. He has size and speed and could really be a gem.
Round 6
Cory Grissom DT USF- We have a football factory in USF and Grissom with his agility on the interior would be a great project pick.
Round 7
Brandon McGee CB Florida- Nice size and plays zone well. Depth pick