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Multiplayer matchmaking
I'm suggesting some sort of filter, that prevents players 20 (or so) levels higher than you from joining your match. It should of course be possible to turn this filter on or off if one doesn't want to use it.
Why you may ask?
Because I'm really tired of going against players who are so skillful that I'm dead 90% of the time. How am I supposed to ever get better at this if I'm mowed down by superskilled crackshots.
In short: the multiplayer is immensely inaccessible and unfriendly for new players.
Does anyone else have similar feelings?
— Victor Sullivan
Re: Multiplayer matchmaking
You can't learn by dying within 10 seconds of spawning 10+ times a game. You can't learn to kill these quick scoping t-bolt masters if you're using an AK because you have nothing else and you barely know the maps. It might not solve the problem totally for new players, but it would be a fair shot at it.
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— Victor Sullivan
Re: Multiplayer matchmaking
Great suggestion. Gotta say a ladder would be even better than the filter I suggested.
In the meantime, I'll just use UC2's multiplayer as practice. The players there are closer to my skills, since I perform a lot better in that one. I actually manage to get kills
It seems most vets have already left that game alone.
— Victor Sullivan
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I just started playing UC3 multiplayer about 2 or 3 months ago. I wasn't very good at first. I would die a lot more often than I would kill. But I got some friends, and continued trying. It wad tough for me, too. Because, before ever playing competitive mode, I ended up level 75 3rd legacy by playing co-op. So I ended up against high level players the first time I ever tried any competitive modes.
A couple months later, my kill/death ratio is positive. Not by a ton, but I've killed more than I've been killed. It just takes some time. You'll figure things out too. And if you're not familiar with the maps, play custom games by yourself and get used to them.


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East Lyme - Developers said Thursday they need to revise the master development plan for Gateway Commons, a proposed commercial and residential village, in order to move forward with plans to bring a big-box store to the area.
The developers' representatives said they will seek approval next month to relocate the planned entrance into the retail component 300 feet south of the original location.
During an informal, nonbinding discussion with the Zoning Commission Thursday, the representatives told the commission that they haven't been able to acquire the land they need for the access road at a reasonable cost. The developers, Simon Konover Co. of West Hartford and KGI Properties of Providence, have not yet submitted a formal plan for the commercial component of the project.
In 2008, the town approved a master plan for the development, proposed on roughly 200 acres between Interstate 95's Exits 73 and 74, but the project stalled during the economic downturn. The developers are now building 280 rental apartments near Exit 73, after receiving final site plan approval from the town for the residential phase.
The master plan for the retail phase calls for building an entrance off Flanders Road near Exit 74. The access road would stretch from its intersection at Flanders Road through the retail area, which would include one big-box store and up to five junior anchor stores.
On Thursday, Theodore Harris, attorney for the developers, said they have been unable to reach an economically feasible agreement to purchase a parcel of land off Flanders Road for the proposed access road. The parcel holds the East Lyme Driving Range and the former location of The Shack restaurant, Harris said. Town records show a 28-acre parcel in that vicinity is owned by 296 Flanders LLC, a Stonington-based company.
Developers are now proposing building the entrance farther down the road, closer to Interstate 95's Exit 74 ramps. That road would allow construction of the anchor store at Gateway Commons - developers are negotiating a lease with Costco and have a letter of intent from the wholesale store - but its proximity to the highway ramps could restrict how many junior stores the state Department of Transportation allows in the commercial development.
Large developments near highways require DOT approval because of impact to traffic and roadways.
DOT could mandate construction of a new access road farther away from the highway ramps in order to alleviate any congestion from the junior stores.
The developers are also trying to convince the DOT, which is already planning to reconstruct the Exit 74 overpass, to at the same time widen the overpass to six lanes, said John Mancini of BL Companies, the project's engineering firm. The widened overpass could alleviate some traffic concerns and eliminate the potential need to relocate the access road.
The developers need to move the approval process for the commercial phase forward "at some speed" for the Costco lease to go through, Harris said.
Construction of the anchor store, which would take about two years, is also critical, he said, because the anchor store would not only attract smaller stores to the retail area but also generate revenue for the project's roadway improvements.
The Zoning Commission will continue to review the issue at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 at Town Hall.
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Yes. I have been grabbing .22 Mag ammo each trip out.
For my rifle and pistol..
Not that expensive and it is a tough little round.
The Mafia use it too wack people.
So if they endorse it, it has too be good.
the illogical approach to the ammo situation.
i remember during the panic of 08 the ammo flying off the shelves.
the first thing wally-world ran out of was all the popular rounds like 7.62x39, 223, 9mm, 308, 30-06, 30-30, 45acp, 40sw, 38spc, 270, 243 and such ran out in a few weeks. with the top picks going out of stock in a couple days.
but they had a pick-up load of 22-250 that just sat there through the whole panic-- in fact i think they still got some of it today!--LOL!
i have noticed a trend where people try to consolidate around one or two specific rounds generally 9mm and either 5.56 or 7.62x39
admittedly these "hot" sellers will be the first ones back AFTER the panic.
a few 'oddball" irons might come in handy as if your late and the panic has hit those oddball sized rounds may be all that is left to get--
Yes. I have been grabbing .22 Mag ammo each trip out.
For my rifle and pistol..
Not that expensive and it is a tough little round.
The Mafia use it too wack people.
So if they endorse it, it has too be good.
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
That's cool, cause I picked up a 22-250 last year and I love it. I do happen to need some more ammo for it as well.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
i got some 357sig the sane way--lol!
you might find some other odd-ball rounds even after the panic , some i am thinking of might be-- 41 mag, 32HR mag-327federal , i don't know about 7.62x25 or 5.45x39 as there mail-order only around here.
haven't had any problems getting any ammo yet--other than the price keeps going up.
could be a panic brewing --but all i have been seeing lately is just typical "inflation" you have to remember EVERYTING is going up 20%+ a year now and that includes ammo.
i don't think were ever gonna see those 1989 prices again. the truth be told were luck we got what we got--
i am thinking there is gonna be ammo to buy it is just going to be more expensive.
Time to make an ak in .300 savage or .35 rem.
Semper Fortis, Paratus Et Potens, Non Sibi, Sed Patriae.
Not Illogical At All
I noticed that some vendors are already warning of higher prices and depleting inventories. Not sure if it's the start of the election-year feeding frenzy or if it's just the bad economy or some combination. Still plenty of steel-cased around including Russian commercial. I bought more Yugo M67 and see that the price has gone up $20 a case in the last week. The milsurp 7.72x51 MEN and Radway Green seems to have vanished although Portuguese and Malaysian are still around as is some Belgian M60 linked ammo. The Federal 5.56 has been flying out the doors at brick and morter shops (Walmart and Sportsmans Warehouse) but most Walmarts I have been to lately have sold out and are not sure when they are getting more or at what price.
When we see news articles in the MSM that talk of gun and ammo shortages we might want to take notice and get what we need for the next few months until the situation cools down. Prices may recover and they may not - it just may depend on a number of factors. Commodity Inflation stands out as the biggest culprit followed by perceptions of the coming elections in November. On the otherhand, as the wars in the Middle East and conflicts around the world wind down there will probably be a lot of cheap ammo looking for a market.
That said, in the short to intermediate term we may see problems finding decent priced milsurp as we head into summer and some vendors already are warning of price increases and limited availability. Some "preorders" are filled quickly now at some vendors. It just may be best to have some variety in calibres for some rifles. I have stocked up on my "orphan calibres" like 6.55x55 Swede and Argentine 7.65 (as well as 9mm Largo). If you are concerned about more common calibres for hunting we should be okay with commercial 30.06 for example.
I have been filling in some gaps in my long term storage. I recently bought a few cases of Federal 5.56, Yugo M67, a couple cases of Yugo M75, and a few cases of Portuguese 7.62x51. I will add as supply and pricing allows. But I am not about to chase higher prices because I have run low on certain calibres. If you have some less common calibre then that may be the way to go as the masses tend to flock to more common calibres. Actually I see plenty of Russian 5.45x39 around and prices have not changed much and this could be a decent alternative (even tho it's virtually all steel-cased). Who knows how all this will play out this year. We may just "dodge a bullet" (sorry for the pun). The economy is bad enough and real unemployment is high that there may not be as much of a feeding frenzy this time. Keep you fingers crossed.
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I may be wrong. Hell I most always am.
But I kind of go with j4 on this one.
The economy is just so bad, dont think people really have the cash flow, this time round.
I think the run will be on weapons.
Weapons the Govt. does not like.
Just prior too the last election down here in Florida.
People were bringing junk AKs too the fun shows and customers were fist fighting over them.
I own one gun and a box of ammo.
Hell that is all I need.
My main worry is the damn beer prices have been rising.
Whas up with that??
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
around these parts in the Obummer O-conomy the question is--
do i spend my feeble pay-day on the power bill, put some gas in my SUV OR buy groceries?
ammo and firearms are WAY down the list.
everybody is cash poor, under paid, drawing UNEMPLOYMENT or facing a workforce cut back.
and locally the governments reaction is to raise taxes--
very few have the resources to stock up on anything --their just barely paying their bills.
4th,Too much achol. going into gasoline, running outa corn, Oh NO BEER SHORTAGE!!!! Sad day.


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Fewer 'holdover' fires seen: Calm between storms?
Another abandoned campfire doused south of Redmond
SISTERS, Ore. - Initial-attack crews continue to tackle small new fires popping up around Central Oregon, most holdovers from recent lightning, as a threat of more thunderstorms returns in a few days -- but some of the fires being found, even at the height of fire season, are abandoned campfires, officials said Tuesday.
For the first time in a week, just one new fire was reported Tuesday to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center in Prineville, officials said late in the day.
That suspected lightning strike "holdover" was in the Pole Creek area, south of the Maury Mountains, and was reported late Tuesday afternoon. An engine crew was sent to respond.
Meanwhile, the Redmond tanker base delivered loads of retardant all day to the Government Flat Complex of wildfires threatening homes near The Dalles.
Another abandoned campfire was spotted just south of Redmond around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Responding firefighters had it controlled by about 10 p.m.
COIDC noted Wednesday that such campfires -- built in spite of an area public-lands burn ban -- "can increase firefighter response time to other new fires that might occur."
Sunday night, four fires were staffed overnight with smokejumpers and rappellers. Two were in the Three Sisters Wilderness, Area one just east of the Waldo Lake Wilderness and one by Windigo Lake, all within the Deschutes National Forest.
Local initial-attack forces continue checking on all the recent fires to ensure they are out and responding to holdover fires from the lightning storms of last week, COIDC said.
A ban is still in effect on open fires, including charcoal fires on the Prineville District of the Bureau of Land Management, the Deschutes National Forest and the Crooked River National Grassland of the Ochoco National Forest.
Campfires are prohibited except in hosted and developed campgrounds. A list is available on either of these two web sites http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/fire/ or http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/prineville/index.php. These restrictions do not apply to affected Wilderness areas on the Deschutes National Forest.
Clearer skies also allowed residents to see -- and worry about -- two new smoke columns Sunday and Monday -- the first Sunday's wide, white layer of smoke from a small fire near Hand Lake, south of Mt. Washington, and Monday's dark smoke plume near Smith Rock a Jefferson County agricultural field burn.
In La Pine, crews from several agencies responded to a brushfire off West Drive and Faun Lane Monday afternoon that was stopped at about a half-acre within 20 minutes of the first reports from fire lookouts, officials said. The cause of the fire was under investigation.
Other fires were in mop-up stages, including one in the Service Creek area that was mapped at 29 acres.
Late Sunday afternoon, four smokejumpers were dispatched to Incident 634, a quarter-acre fire near Lemish Lake, four miles west of Crane Prairie Reservoir.
Also, four rappelers were dispatched to Incident 632, another quarter-acre fire near Windigo Lake, five miles south of Crescent Lake.
The National Weather Service issued a new fire weather watch for Central Oregon and other regions east of the Cascades, warning of more thunderstorms from Thursday morning through Friday evening.
Winds from the north to northeast at 5-10 mph are in the forecast for afternoons through Wednesday. But southwest winds are due to return by Thursday evening, possibly bringing a return of the smoke from Southern Oregon fires that the High Desert had been seeing.
Shifting winds Sunday cleared the smoke that had been blowing north into Central Oregon from Southern Oregon wildfires in recent days, bringing back mountain views – and just in time for High Desert residents to spot a swath of white smoke from a new wildfire near McKenzie Pass that authorities said was far smaller than it appeared.
The fire near Hand Lake grew to nine acres Sunday afternoon, and crews have kept it from growing larger, the Willamette National Forest reported Tuesday. By late Tuesday, it was 80 percent contained.
First spotted by the Coffin Mountain lookout, its location was reported to dispatch by Sand Mountain Lookout Blake Driver.
"We had a storm come through last Sunday, August 10th and we saw strikes hit right there in the Hand Lake area. It was just a matter of time and hot and dry weather before it came back to life," said Driver.
The fire is straddling the Mt Washington Wilderness boundary. It has been staffed by three 20-person crews, two helicopters and two tree fallers.
"We have staffed this fire and are fully suppressing it," said McKenzie River District Ranger Terry Baker. "Sometimes we may choose other management options, but for this fire, on this day, with the hot and dry weather expected mid-week, we're going to work to put this one to rest."
Visitors are asked to avoid using the Hand Lake trails 4344 and 3513 as firefighting helicopters are in use and there are snags burning along the trails.
On Sunday, the relatively small fire's smoke had been visible over a wide area, from Highway 126 in the McKenzie River Corridor to the McKenzie Pass Highway, as well as Central Oregon communities from Sisters to Bend and Redmond.
Meanwhile, more crews are being released from the Geneva 14 Fire that broke out Friday on state Department of Forestry-protected land about 15 miles northeast of Sisters and a mile south of Fly Lake off Forest Service Road 2055. It burned just over 150 acres.
The area forest closure is still in effect within the Green Ridge Fire boundary near Camp Sherman, and roads within the fire perimeter remain closed to public travel. Details and updates about this closure are posted on the Deschutes National Forest web site http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/centraloregon/alerts-notices.
Breezy westerly winds, 5 to 10 mph, are in the forecast for the afternoons through Wednesday. Relative humidity will decrease a little more each day as temperatures remain in the high 80s. The potential for thunderstorms returns to the region on Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings.


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Some players who pre-ordered Alien: Isolation are reporting that DLC codes that came with their copies are not not working, developer Creative Assembly is on the case.
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You can pre-download Alien: Isolation on Xbox One from today
Those planning on purchasing Alien: Isolation on Xbox One can now pre-download and pre-order the horror title from The Creative Assembly.
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Bioware, Turtle Rock, The Creative Assembly and other developer sessions have been announced for EGX London.
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Triumph TR-657 Corvette61 Chrysler 300GThose are in no particular order.The Chrysler would be used to take the family out on the town. The Corvette would be for my wife who is a Corvette fanatic. And the Triumph would be my canyon-carver.
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As a joke...1989 Dodge Dakota ConvertibleHonda Gold wing with the roof optionUpcoming Nissan Murano ConvertibleI got the two seater in the 'motorcycle', something to haul the furniture in with the Dakota, and the family vert with the future Murano.Oh yeah...I think I threw up a little in my mouth.
____________________________Edgy, Controversial, Dangerous...
1. My own:2. My future one:3. One I've always admired but can't see me owning:
___________________Current:1971 MGB 4-speed2003 Mitsubishi Lancer O-Z 5-speed2014 Subaru Forester XTBritish cars don't leak oil; they mark their territory!
My three favorites are:Current Jeep Wrangler Unlimited2011 Ford Mustang GT1976 Cadillac Eldorado
------------------2014 Nissan Juke SL2012 RAM 1500 Express 4x4 Reg Cab2011 Ram 1500 Big Horn Crew Cab2008 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
How could you go wrong with a Miata?
= = = = = = = = = ='14 CT200h F-Sport-Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
How has no one mentioned this:
As a lover of roadsters, I'd have to say:1)Mazda Miata2)Saturn Sky3)BMW Z4And if concept cars could be included, I would like to add the demon.
______________________________Acura's motor got upstaged by Ford.And now that Buick is owned by Ford, I think it's safe to say that the Buick has a better motor than the TL?
1.2011 Ford Shelby GT500 vert.2.2004 Ford SVT Cobra vert3. 2002 Chevy Camaro SS vert4.2010 Chevy Corvette Vert.But i think my new fav convertible will be the 2011 Chevy Camaro conv. SS
2005 Chevrolet Tahoe LT 4x21985 Chevrolet S-10 V6 Reg. Cab Long Bed 4x2" Cash only transactions only, and please no receipts the feds like to explore those, they can't order it if they don't know I bought it , been doin this for years homey thoroughly I thought it"-Drake, Going in For Life
I generally don't like convertibles, I much prefer a coupe, but in some instances I think the convertible looks better.Currently:1.) Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Spider2.) BMW Z43.) Volvo C70
I just like the idea of taking them through the mountains or down the coast with the top down, a jacket on, and just reveling in the buffeting trumpet of the engines while shifting.Well, except this one, but it'd just be awesome to haveSome others coming to mind a little late.
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Four Points by Sheraton Philadelphia City Center offers a restaurant with a bar. A business center is on site; wireless Internet access is complimentary. The hotel is smoke-free and has a fitness center. Dry cleaning is available, and a gift shop is on site. Self parking is available at a nearby lot for a surcharge.
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The fitness center at Four Points by Sheraton Philadelphia City Center offers treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bicycles, and free weights.
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Netflix: Pac Crest Ups Target to $225 on 2015, 2021 Targets
As I mentioned this morning, Pacific Crest's Andy Hargreaves today reiterated an Outperform rating on shares of Netflix (NFLX), while raising his price target to $225 from $160, arguing that the company can expand its subscriber base in the U.S. and abroad more than he thought previously, and at a better profit margin than he'd modeled.
Netflix shares today are one of the biggest point gainers, rising $10.35, or almost 6%, to $191.14, and as high as $192.64 at one point.
Hargreaves doesn't mention competitors much in the report, although during this morning's segment on CNBC he compared Netflix favorably with HBO, and of course Amazon.com's (AMZN) "Prime" instant video service is an obvious competitor as well.
Hargreaves leaves unchanged an estimate for this year of $4.27 billion in revenue and $2 per share in adjusted EPS. What he changed were his 2015 and 2021 numbers.
By 2015, he now sees Netflix hitting 46 million "peak" domestic streaming subscribers, up from 36 million expected this year, and higher than a prior estimate for 43 million.
Writes Hargreaves,
We consider our new price target to be relatively firm as the data that would be necessary to support upside to our target are likely to take more than a year to develop. As we look at the long-term assumptions in our model, we believe strong international subscriber growth or margin expansion have the most potential to drive upside, although we see some opportunity for Netflix to exceed our domestic subscriber estimates if the traditional cable bundle becomes more disaggregated.
For 2015, he now sees the company having 17 million international subscribers, up fro a prior 16.3 million estimate, and a "contribution margin" of 11.3% versus 10.1% modeled previously. That's on top of 36 million domestic streaming subscribers, unchanged.
For 2021, he sees the company reaching 40.8 million international subs, which is unchanged, but at a contribution margin of 26.5%, up from 19.6% previously.
Hargreaves argues Netflix is doing a better job than others of mining its database of information to shape content choices, and is delivering "real consumer value":
Netflix's massive database of viewing history should allow it to drive strong returns on incremental content spending in the form of further subscriber growth. We believe Netflix has more data on viewing behavior than any other premium video service. Strategically, we expect Netflix to use its information advantage to invest in high-quality original content where it will have the highest impact on users' perception of the service, while exploiting opportunities in third-party and niche content that can broaden the total addressable market. In this way, we believe Netflix will be able to improve the perceived quality of its offering as well as expand its consumer reach, which should allow it draw a much wider audience than any current premium video service [...] We believe Netflix's current usage trends support our view that the long-term addressable market is significantly larger than for other premium services. We estimate the average U.S. Netflix streaming subscriber currently watches around an hour and a half of Netflix per day. At this level of viewership, Netflix costs the average subscriber less than $0.20 per viewing hour, which compares extremely well with cable, which we estimate costs the average U.S. subscriber over $0.50 per viewing hour. This large and growing advantage in entertainment value is likely to draw more consumers over time.


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The state of being rebellious to knowledge. Intellectual deviance is most apparant today through the general teenagers' habit of mocking intelligence. "Nerd", "geek", "bookworm", etc. are certain slang-terms used by the populace to describe the intelligent. It is a subcontious fear of being surpassed by those more knowledgeable that causes this mass, ego-induced hysteria. If the knowledgable surpass one man, that man will soon become inferior, and therefore, no longer feel needed. (Feeling needed is the very definition of ego)
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by Superstarov, Aug 7, 2006.
I almost forgot! Sheesh!
wheres the draft order?
You've got to click on the "enter live draft" tab.
Anyone else not getting onto the yahoo site? Its saying the server isn't found. I've been having that problem lately, but only with Yahoo for some reason. I can access every other site on the planet, but every so often, Yahoo isn't available. Only 20 minutes til draft time and I can't get to the site!
Everyone getting in there? (You suck Micro - Dynamo Moscow... pffft)
I'm in and waiting. No idea what is goin on with your connection Jammer. Try loading Yahoo! and navigating from there. Maybe you are following a bad link...
All your wodka are belong to me!
I cant see anyone else in there. Does the order go according to your flag placement at the top?
I don't know either. I'm in now though. It just happens every once in a while and it only affects Yahoo? I can still get on every other site. I always access it from the Yahoo Fantasy homepage. I have a team for hockey, football, basketball and baseball, so I always start from there and check each of my leagues that way.
Yes it does. And yeah, you can't tell who's in there, which sucks.
ALRIGHTY THEN. The draft is complete. Make sure your line-ups are set. The first week of match-up is the 4th - the 8th. I thought it wouldn't start scoring until the first full week of the season, but I just double checked, and I was wrong. Scoring starts OCT 4th. So make sure your lines are set before the puck-drop on the 4th.
This years draft was a bit dissapointing, as the Linwood Avenue Chiefs were not able to aquire Satan, who they feel would bring a certain villainous swagger to their team.
I had a great time @ the draft! Thanks for inviting us Sup.
Thanks for participating all. Remember to set your line-ups in the next couple of days.
How do I "set my lineup"??
ok, so do we set our lineup daily, like basketball, or do we set it for the whole week and can't change guys? I'm confused.
The draft was fun, and now it going to be fun going head-to-head.
Go to here, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Hockey click on MY TEAM (menu; league, my team, players etc...) And set your lineup (your top 12 players based upon the positions required to be filled) Daily if you want. I'm gunna set mine weekly.
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Juan Pujadas is the Vice Chairman, Global Leader of Advisory services for PwC, an appointment he took up on 1 July 2008. Juan has spent much of his career in financial services and is experienced in many markets around the world.
Prior to taking over the leadership of the Global Advisory Practice, Juan led the US firm's Advisory Practice for six years. He has also held a number of senior management positions in the US firm, including leading the Global Risk Management Solutions (GRMS) practice for the Americas, the Financial Services GRMS practice, and the global Financial Risk Management Group. In all of these roles he was responsible for providing advice on risk management and shareholder value as well as financial risk management, advisory, and information technology services to financial institutions.
From 1995 to 1998 Juan was the Chief Risk Officer of Santander Investment, the investment banking arm of the Santander Group. He was a member of the Executive Committee of Santander Investment and the Management Committee of the commercial banking division of Banco Santander. Juan also served as a director of a number of the Group's international subsidiaries.
Before joining Santander, Juan was a partner in the Capital Markets and Treasury Group of Price Waterhouse's US firm's Financial Services Industry Practice, specialising in the development and application of financial and information technology to balance sheet risk management and capital markets and treasury activities. He was the US firm's leading professional in the area of market risk management and derivative products.
Juan was a director of the International Swaps and Derivative Association (ISDA), where he remains actively involved in a number of its industry committees. He was a founding director of FpML.org, an industry group responsible for setting data standards for the exchange of derivatives and risk management information online, now part of ISDA. He is a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council in the United States and is a frequent speaker at industry conference and panels.
Juan holds a B.S., Economics, Finance from The Wharton School of Commerce and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S., Applied Science, Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania.


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Fenella Saunders
Although DNA is best known for its capacity to store genetic information, the double helix has many other remarkable abilities. It can be woven together to build precisely formed physical structures. It can be used to create chemical sensors for environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and targeted drug delivery. It can even encrypt messages. Yi Lu is using the material in all of these ways. Lu (right), a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois and a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, recently sat down with American Scientist managing editor Fenella Saunders to discuss his innovative blend of genetics, sensing, and cryptography. An excerpt of the conversation follows; a video of the full interview is below, and also available at Sigma Xi's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/sigmaxisociety
How did you start using DNA for sensing purposes?
In fact, that was not our initial goal. It was discovered in 1994 that DNA not only can be a regular genetic storage material like we all know, it can also bind metal ions to catalyze reactions. That immediately drew my attention, because as an inorganic chemist I am interested in metal sites in biological systems. So my lab began selecting DNA for a wide variety of different metal ions. Then it dawned on us: Can we utilize this not only for fundamental research, but also for detecting or sensing different metal ions? There are a lot of toxic heavy metals.
What is the link between chemistry and biology in your work?
That's the core of our research. We can utilize DNA sensors to start asking fundamental questions. Why is iron so good for organisms? How do calcium and magnesium perform their cellular functions? Why is lead so toxic? There is very little information about where lead goes in the body. We don't know how toxic metals—not only lead but mercury, cadmium, and others—change the function of cells.
How might DNA sensors be used to measure health risks?
One area that we're interested in is tuning the dynamic range of detection. A good example is lead detection. Detecting lead in water is one threshold, but lead in paint has a completely different threshold. In fact, lead in paint for the wall is one threshold, but lead in paint for a toy is another. Therefore, having a lead sensor is not good enough. We need to vary that dynamic range of detection. We have been able to use different sequences we modified to change the dynamic range.
What about your efforts to improve magnetic resonance imaging?
MRI works beautifully when you have tissue damage or tumors, but when tumors become visible, that's too late for many people. The new state of the art is detecting biomarkers for cancer before tumors develop. To do that you need MRI contrast differences between the presence and absence of the biomarkers. That's what we're developing right now, moving toward noninvasive three-dimensional detection.
You are also designing molecules for drug delivery?
We encapsulate a drug into a liposome, a lipid bilayer, and on the surface of the liposome we put a nucleic acid that is capable of binding to biomarkers for different diseases. The drug will be safer and less toxic, because it is encapsulated, but then when the liposome reaches the target, it can selectively bind to the diseased cell and not the normal healthy cells, and dump its drug in there.
You also use DNA as a building material. How does that work?
The key word of DNA is programmable. Not only can it form a double helix, it can form a triple helix, or even three-dimensional shapes. An exciting field is DNA origami: We can program the DNA sequences to fold into whatever shape you want. Multiple strands of DNA can form cubes, cylinders, faces, maps, flags, curved surfaces, corners, and different angles. It's really exciting. DNA gives you shape control that is difficult to do with other methodologies.
Why are you so excited about being able to un-build structures as well?
There has been very limited research in reversible assembly—how to take parts out and put them back in, in a reversible way. But if you look at biological systems, DNA and proteins do this all the time with transcription and translation. One component goes in, it goes and does a job, then when it finishes the work it goes back and a second component comes in. Inspired by the biology, we can learn how to do that. In fact we use a lot of the fundamental parts of the biological system. We use [the enzyme cofactor] biotin and its derivative desthiobiotin; they have slightly different affinities for [the protein] streptavidin, which allows us to do nanoscale assembly in a reversible way.
What is the connection between reversible assembly and data privacy?
One application of reversible assembly is encrypted messages. In the spy game, you send somebody a piece of paper with no messages, or random messages, then they add invisible ink to it and the real message appears. This is what we were able to demonstrate, but it's a nanoscale spy game now. Embedded in a nanometer-size square of DNA origami is the message N-A-N-O, using Morse code. We cover that with another type of material so when you receive it you will have no message. When you add an enzyme to it, it can replace the weaker binders and act as the invisible ink. The ones that remain, the strong binders, are coded for N-A-N-O. But you need a microscope to see that message. [See the video below for narrated images of this research.]
Where do you see this technology going in the future?
One major focus for us is to make the DNA metal sensor into a cellular detector so we can really start telling people why lead is so toxic, where does it go, what are its effects. Calcium's the same thing: In the different stages of development, why does calcium work in different places? The second thing we're interested in is more fundamental. Why is this particular DNA sequence so selective for lead? Once we know more about the features responsible for binding these metal ions, we can design smaller and more effective sensors. Another area of research is to expand the scope of the detection. Every year there's a new type of flu. Can we use this methodology to quickly select different DNA to target different ones? So far most of our work has been using regular nucleic acid. Why not combine an amino acid with a nucleic acid? Then you can have the functionality of both, and the ability to bind to a target better, tighter, and more selectively.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/first-person-building-with-dna/1
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