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Eastern Michigan University Library
Personal Control: Library Users Speak Up
Mary Meernik
Assessment Librarian
The 2003 LibQUAL survey consisted of a core group of 25 questions designed to measure users' perceptions and expectations of library service quality in the following four areas or dimensions: Access to information, Personal control, Affect of service, and Library as place. Respondents were asked to rate on a scale of 1-9 (with 9 being the most favorable) not only their current perceptions of library service quality but to also indicate the minimum levels of service they are willing to accept and the desired levels of service they want to receive. By subtracting the minimum score from the perceived score on any given question, we obtain the service adequacy gap. A positive adequacy gap score indicates that users' perceptions of our service quality exceed their minimum expectations while a negative score means that users consider our service to be less than acceptable. The service superiority gap is calculated by subtracting the desired score from the perceived score. Again, a positive number reflects very well on our service quality while a negative number reveals how large the gap is between the service users feel they are receiving and the service they desire. In the last article, we examined how library users judged us on the Access to Information dimension. This article will explore the six questions in the closely related Personal Control dimension, which seeks to discover how easily and independently users can access library resources both within the building itself and remotely from home or office. The LibQUAL survey developers, recognizing the overlap among the eleven questions in these two dimensions, have now combined and condensed both into the Information Control dimension, which has eight questions. As in the previous article, the differences in library service needs among EMU user groups and among the different disciplines will be discussed. (Note: In order to accommodate all types of institutions, the LibQUAL survey used general subject categories which do not correspond uniformly to specific EMU academic departments.)
How successful is the library in providing the following:
Easy-to-use access tools that allow me to find things on my own (872 respondents- 533 undergraduates, 120 graduate students, 158 faculty, 9 library staff, 49 university staff) Chart 1
University staff respondents are the only user group to report that our service here exceeds their minimum expectations and that is only by the narrow margin of +.10. Undergraduates as a whole give us an adequacy gap of -.11, although freshmen and sophomores feel that the quality of the library's access tools does exceed their minimum expectations by +.35 and +.22 respectively. We lose ground with juniors and seniors; in fact, seniors, with an adequacy gap score of -.47 are more critical than graduate students who give us a score of -.16. Faculty give us the poorest marks in this area with an adequacy gap score of -.61 and a superiority gap of -2.15. Interestingly, library staff, with an adequacy gap of -.56 and a superiority gap of -2.00, are not far behind in their negative assessment of our access tools. This is the only question in both the Access to Information and Personal Control dimensions to receive negative adequacy and superiority gap scores from library staff. In fact, the library staff also give this question their highest desired mean score (8.78) among all 25 survey questions. Looking at the other user groups, the desired mean score for this question ranges from 8.14 from undergraduates up to 8.34 from faculty, indicating that library staff place more importance on access tools or finding aids than other user groups do.
In nine disciplines, there were at least twenty respondents, allowing us to gauge whether opinions about access tools vary by academic department. Business and Education respondents report that the quality of library access tools exceeds their minimum expectations. Communication/Journalism, Engineering/Computer Science, Health Sciences, Humanities, Performing and Fine Arts, Science/Math, and Social Sciences/Psychology respondents all have negative opinions of our finding aids, with the harshest scores from Engineering/Computer Science with an adequacy gap of -.94 and a superiority gap of -2.13 followed by Humanities and Performing and Fine Arts both with adequacy gaps of -.63 and superiority gaps of -2.37 and -2.19 respectively.
Convenient access to library collections (853 respondents - 516 undergraduates, 119 graduate students, 159 faculty, 9 library staff, 47 university staff) Chart 2
Undergraduates, library staff and university staff all report that the library exceeds their minimum expectations in this area. As is usual among the undergraduate population, the library receives higher marks from freshmen and sophomores than from juniors and seniors. Graduate students perceive our service in this area to be only slightly less than their minimum standards, with an adequacy gap of -.08. Faculty perceive that their access to library collections falls below acceptable standards by -.58 and also report the largest superiority gap (-1.96) among the user groups.
Business, Communication/Journalism and Education respondents consider the service in this area to exceed their minimum expectations by +.52, +.47 and +.14 respectively. The remaining six departments do not find this to be the case, with Humanities reporting the largest negative adequacy gap (-.90) and the largest negative superiority gap (-2.56).
A library Web site enabling me to locate information on my own (851 respondents - 515 undergraduates, 120 graduate students, 156 faculty, 9 library staff, 48 university staff) Chart 3
Note: The 2003 LibQUAL survey was conducted prior to the revamping of the library's Web site during the summer of 2003. The following opinions are based on the site as it appeared in February and March of 2003.
Undergraduates, library staff and university staff found the quality of the Web site to exceed their minimum expectations by +.23, +.11 and +.06 respectively. The library actually received positive adequacy gap scores from all four undergraduate classes, although we went from a high of +.41 from sophomores and juniors down to only +.02 from seniors. As in the previous question, the library did not fare too badly among graduate students who gave our Web site an adequacy gap score of only -.13. Faculty were the most critical of the Web site, giving it an adequacy gap score of -.63.
The library's Web pages exceeded the minimum expectations of Business, Communication/Journalism and Education respondents, who reported positive adequacy gaps of +.30, +.87 and +.22 respectively. Engineering/Computer Science respondents were by far the most critical, judging the Web site to fall below their minimum standards by -1.04 and below their desired expectations by -2.26. The remaining departments had negative adequacy gaps ranging from -.10 from Science/Math down to -.34 from Performing and Fine Arts.
Modern equipment lets me easily access needed information (862 respondents - 524 undergraduates, 120 graduate students, 159 faculty, 9 library staff, 47 university staff) Chart 4
With the exception of graduate students, every user group gives the library positive scores for its provision of modern equipment. Perceptions of our service here exceed minimum standards, with adequacy gaps ranging from +.08 from faculty up to +.78 from library staff. Although undergraduate students on average give us high marks, the adequacy gap scores decline from a high of +.60 for freshmen down to +.17 for juniors and by their senior year, students find our technology equipment to fall below their minimum expectations by -.13. Graduate students find the quality of our technology equipment to be slightly below acceptable standards with an adequacy gap of -.11.
Looking at the ratings across disciplines, Business, Communication/Journalism, Education, Health Sciences and Social Sciences/Psychology respondents all find the quality of our technology equipment to exceed their minimum standards. For those disciplines where we fail to meet minimum standards, the library receives negative adequacy gap scores ranging from -.08 from Performing and Fine Arts down to -.55 from Engineering/Computer Science.
Making information easily accessible for independent use (858 respondents - 520 undergraduates, 120 graduate students, 157 faculty, 9 library staff, 49 university staff) Chart 5
Here we receive our only solid positive ratings from library staff. Even though undergraduates overall find that the library meets their minimum expectations with an adequacy gap of +.01, these students' perceptions of the library's capabilities in this area decline with each class. We go from positive adequacy gaps of +.46 from freshmen down to a negative score of -.29 from seniors. Graduate students find the library's facilitation of independent use to fall below their minimum standards by only -.06. Faculty are the most critical, perceiving that library service in this area falls below acceptable standards by -.32.
The library receives positive marks from Business, Communication/Journalism and Education with adequacy gaps of +.37, +.41 and +.05 respectively. The most interesting results come from Engineering/Computer Science respondents who find that the library's service here actually meets their minimum expectations. The most negative scores come from Humanities respondents who give us an adequacy gap score of -.60 and a superiority gap score of -1.98.
Making electronic resources accessible from home or office (812 respondents - 483 undergraduates, 119 graduate students, 155 faculty, 8 library staff, 44 university staff) Chart 5
Undergraduates, library staff and university staff report that remote access to library resources exceeds their minimum expectations. Library staff and freshmen not only give our service in this area adequacy gap scores of +.88 and +.72 respectively but also find the least disparity between their perceptions and their desired level of service. The library's remote provision of electronic resources impresses the rest of the undergraduate population as well, although our perceived scores among juniors and seniors are only slightly above their minimum expectations. Graduate students and faculty find us deficient in meeting their minimum standards by -.21 and -.62 respectively. Among all user groups, except library staff, remote access to library resources receives the highest desired level of service in the Personal Control dimension.
As has typically been the case in this dimension, Business, Communication/Journalism and Education respondents feel the library exceeds their minimum expectations, with adequacy gaps of +.18, +.46 and +.14 respectively. The library fails to meet the minimum standards of respondents in the remaining disciplines with adequacy gap scores ranging from -.14 from Social Sciences/Psychology down to -.52 for Health Sciences and -.53 for Engineering/Computer Science.
The library received the most negative gap scores in this dimension as well as in the closely related Access to Information category, which was examined in the last article. However, since many of the questions in these two dimensions are open to varying interpretations, we are attempting to use your written survey comments for clarification. In the 2004 winter term, the library will also be holding focus groups with graduate students to learn more about their specific concerns.


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Anyone have thoughts or opinions about this game? The game itself, not the iOS port. Thanks.
The problem with doing a combined parody / homage in a game is that you must still make the player go through that which you are parodying. That, to me, is the Bard's Tale's greatest weakness.
My summary would be - if you are looking for a serious role playing experience, look elsewhere; if you are looking for some light fun, Bard's Tale might be for you; and if you have $30 to spend on a game … find a better game. I'd give the combat and RPG aspects 2.5 stars, the humor and pacing 4 stars, and the overall game 3.5 stars.


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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – An injunction banning No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron Corp and its drilling contractor Transocean Ltd from operating in Brazil while charges over a November oil spill are considered was upheld by a panel of three federal judges on Tuesday.
The judges voted 3-0 to reject arguments by Chevron, Transocean and the ANP, Brazil's oil regulator, saying that the ANP, and not the courts, has the statutory right to decide who operates in Brazil's oil industry.
Normally the ANP's statutory power would prevail over the courts, the judges said. The ANP's failures as a regulator, though, contributed to the 3,600 barrel November spill. Prosecutors argue the ban is needed to guarantee up to $20 billion in damages being sought in the courts.
As a result, the ban, issued August 1 by another federal judge, was a reasonable judicial remedy to prevent new accidents while the courts consider the merits of civil and criminal charges against Chevron, Transocean and 17 of their employees.
Citing an ANP report on the spill saying Chevron had "an insufficient culture of safety" judge Ricardo Perlingeiro of Brazil's 2nd Regional Federal Tribunal said from the bench that the ANP "contributed to the accident by failing to do its job as a regulator."
Expected to take effect in less than a month, the Brazil ban could cost Chevron and Transocean hundreds of millions of dollars in lost business.
It will also disrupt the operations of companies such as Petrobras, Brazil's state-led oil giant, which leases Transocean rigs to explore one of the world's most promising oil frontiers. Transocean, the world's largest offshore rig operator, has 10 rigs operating in Brazil, seven leased to Petrobras, according to the company's latest fleet report.
While the decision will have little immediate effect on Chevron, which shut its only field in Brazil in March after new oil was found leaking in the area, the ANP will not decide on its application to restart operations until the ban is lifted, ANP officials with knowledge of the case told Reuters.
The ban was requested by independent federal prosecutors who are seeking nearly $20 billion in damages for the spill and have charged 17 Chevron and Transocean executives with crimes that carry jail terms of up to 31 years.
"Until the ban was granted, I really thought this case was not going to go anywhere," said Eduardo Santos de Oliveira the prosecutor who launched the civil and criminal cases and asked for the ban. "We need to make sure these companies understand that we are very serious about preventing spills."
De Olveira spoke to Reuters in an interview on Monday.
The ANP has been informed of the decision to uphold the ban and is considering its legal options, a press office spokesman said.
Chevron and Transocean have parallel appeals of the ban under review by judges in the federal courts. They can also appeal Tuesday's ruling to the main Federal Appeals Court in the capital Brasilia.
Transocean said it will continue its legal battle against the ban as well as against the criminal and civil suits. The August 1 ban, which carries fines of 500 million reais ($245 million) a day, is supposed to take effect 30 days after formal notification of the companies.
Formal notification, which usually means publication in a legal announcement or serving of the ruling on the parties, has not taken place according to people with knowledge of the Chevron and Transocean cases. That means the companies could have nearly a month to appeal the ban before it takes effect.
Many federal court employees have been on strike this month for higher wages, which could have delayed publication of the notification, federal court press officials said.
Chevron and Transocean deny criminal wrongdoing and say the proposed damages are excessive.
"This case is without merit, and Transocean crews acted responsibly and quickly, following the highest industry standards. We have a very strong case and we will use every legal means necessary to prove it," Guy Cantwell, the director of corporate communications said in an email.
He said Transocean rigs continued to operate in Brazil.
Chevron owns 52 percent of Frade and is the operator. Petrobras owns 30 percent and Frade Japao, a group made up of Japan's Inpex Corp and Sojitz Corp, owns 18 percent.
Neither Petrobras, Frade Japao, Sojitz or Inpex have been named in any of the lawsuits.
(Additional reporting by Leila Coimbra; Writing by Caroline Stauffer; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Bernard Orr)


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Man, I hope this is it. I'm having a contraction right now - definitely feels very pinchy and low in my cervix. I might break out the breast pump...
I've never had a daytime baby - how strange it would be! But I feel like I had some decent sleep and really, everything is ready. I think I'll go eat some breakfast, clean the bathroom, take a shower and see what happens....
I guess the S&S, RRL, DTD and BoB did *something* yesterday...
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I'm hoping this is it for you!
Woohoo! I hope this is the real thing, Erin - Let us know when you can!
Fingers crossed!
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Fingers crossed for you, Erin!!
I am hoping this is it for you! I love hearing about bloody show and dilated cervixes! Funny where your mind goes when you are pregnant!
Good luck! Can't wait to hear what happens!
Keep us posted, Meta!
MW and her assistant came over earlier & mw checked me. I was a stretchy and very soft 4 cm with continual bloody show. She offered to break my water but I declined and then she offered an herbal tincture to bring on labor called Immortal (sp? - it has a French sound to it.) So I took that I think around 11:45 (I wrote everything down upstairs.) Then we hung out for a while and chatted, I've had some contractions that feel very low, crampy/pinchy and continue to have a lot of mucous/bloody show. The mws went out for a bit (nearby) so I could have some alone time, so I just finished cleaning the bathroom and took some belly pics.
All I've eaten today has been a plain burger but my anticipation isn't leaving me with much of an appetite. I've gone #2 at least twice, so I guess I'm clearing out. It's so hard to tell what's just tension from nerves and what's weird contracty feelings, kwim?
Okay, I'm going to go upstairs and either wash dishes, vacuum or cook.
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Oh, and how strange to see everything set up! The birthing stool, all of the tools, oxygen tank, trash bags, towels, etc. I've never been prepared before! I wonder if I should just hop in the shower to try to relax - it might speed things up. I'm sort of convinced that my babies refuse to come out in the daytime...
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Yes, you should try and relax...sounds like you've got some work ahead of you later today/tonight!!
Yay! I can't wait to hear all about your baby, Erin!!!!!
He's here!! Sebastian was born at 9:21pm on Thursday 11/18/10. He weighed 8 lbs even and was 20". I'll type up the birth story soon but for now - my body wouldn't start labor in the daytime (it just never has.) So I went to my bedroom alone at 6:50pm to read a bit. I nodded off almost immediately and woke up at 7:10pm with a *massive* contraction that felt like it was surely going to rupture my bag and dilated my cervix at least to an 8 (I was 6cm at 3:40pm.) I knew we were in business then! I just needed to "turn my brain off" by sleeping for just a few minutes. After that they were intense. I got in the shower around quarter after 8pm - checked my cervix as I progressed which was SO amazing! Squatted during the last two contrax in the shower & felt his head move waaay down with my fingers so I got out. Walked out of the bathroom & past the mws at 9:19pm & said "there's a baby head." Went in the bedroom, my water broke with the next contraction and his head started coming out. I lowered myself to the floor and pushed his head out & said "Can somebody get DP?" (he was downstairs, lol) DP came running in and sat behind me to support my back & I pushed the baby out at 9:21pm~ Just 2 minutes after getting out of the shower & just 2 hrs, 10 mins after that first "real" contraction! Sebastian weighed 8 lbs even and was 20" long. He nurses like a *champ*!
I think if I hadn't had my membranes stripped the day before, I wouldn't have had the bloody show Thursday morning & would have gone about my day as if nothing was going on (because it didn't feel like anything.) Then I would have gone to bed and woken up in labor the way I did with all of my others.
39 week belly shot! 11/18/10 - 1:45pm
1/2 hour old & nursing like a champ!
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He's gorgeous! Thanks for telling us the story. :)
He is soo beautiful! Thanks for sharing :)
HeatherB ~ mama to 3 wonderful boys: 03/02; 09/04; 09/07 - and Eliana, 11/13/10!
Founder of Houston Birth Alternatives: Be Informed, Encouraged, Supported birth support group and aspiring midwife.
Man, I hope to have a labour as quick and decisive as yours, Erin! He is lovely - congratulations!
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Aw, congrats! He's a cutie :)
He's so handsome! Congrats!!
Congratulations!! Thanks for sharing your story!
he is just gorgeous!!! congrats!!!
ariana, mama to beautiful redheaded girls (oct 07) and (nov 10)
congrats!!! He is perfection! I just love all that hair!
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How nice that you didn't have to give birth in your minivan, huh? That's another great story for the books! Congratulations!!!
Here's a link to my blog post of Sebastian's birth story!
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Backup goaltender Manny Fernandez skated before the game but still felt discomfort in his back, so he was not going to be able to play Saturday afternoon against the Rangers. Tim Thomas has played an awful lot lately, and at the risk of being overextended, Claude Julien sat his goaltender against the Rangers. So, who was left to start?
In comes Tuukka Rask from Providence to play in net for the first time since Dec. 6, 2007 (I've had two birthdays since then). He has shown some signs over the last two seasons, and will probably become a capable goaltender one day. He looked more than capable against the Rangers Saturday afternoon, stopping 35 shots in a 1-0 Bruins win for his first NHL shutout in just his fourth career start.
Rask was remarkable in net, but the shutout wouldn't have been possible were it not for the effort of Marc Savard. The All-Star knocked in a slap shot from Dennis Wideman with just 22.2 seconds left in the second period. Rask then turned it up a notch and turned away 15 New York shots in the third period.
With the win, the Bruins improved to 6-0-3 against the Atlantic Division and 29-5-5 against the Eastern Conference overall. Pretty damn good.
The Bruins next play Sunday afternoon against the archrival Canadiens.
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This amazing electric car which was built by two German inventors, was fitted wit a small wind turbine mounted atop a bamboo pole and was also fitted with a kite (from a kite board) for extra propulsion. The EV achieved a top speed of 55mph on its journey and set a number of world records including; The first wind-powered vehicle to cross a continent. The longest distance covered by a wind powered ground-based vehicle; and the furthest distance covered by a wind powered vehicle in 36 hours.
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In the decades since its 1976 premiere, Einstein on the Beach, an experimental opera by composer Philip Glass and conceptualist-director Robert Wilson, has been more widely discussed than witnessed. A watershed creation comprising five continuous hours of abstract declamation, song and gesture, including exuberant choreography by Lucinda Childs, Einstein has been restaged only rarely. BAM produced the work in 1984; Princeton hosted a 1992 revival that also played there.
Now Einstein is circling the globe in a new staging by its originators that sets sail in March. Reviewing the London premiere in May, the Guardian critic Andrew Clements said that the undertaking was "like watching the theatrical equivalent of a period performance." Wilson, he suggested, might have modernized the staging to lessen the anachronistic creaks that Clements perceived during a performance beset by technical gremlins.
Actually, scraps of video on the Web indicate that Wilson has subtly tweaked certain elements to invoke his mature Weimar-Kabuki style. But to pine for updates or revisions by other directors (inevitable and desirable as that prospect is) reduces Einstein to the dimensions of historic opera—something it patently is not.
True, Einstein is a product of its time. Bands of light slice through dark planes with the witness-bearing intensity of Barnett Newman's "zip" paintings. The music's hypnotic stasis and whirling-mandala rhythms recall a hippie-era quest for transcendence. Wilson's gestures are an apotheosis of the mundane. But add it up, and you have a communitarian realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk, with disparate parts combining to reveal the sublimity latent in our everyday milieu. You will almost certainly never again encounter another Einstein that's supervised by its creators; miss it at your peril.—Steve Smith
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let's just say for argument's sake that if you only had a .22lr caliber rifle for home defense (kind of a reach..but if) which ammunition would you choose to conscript into an emergency last ditch better than being unarmed home defense weapon ?
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let's just say for argument's sake that if you only had a .22lr caliber rifle for home defense (kind of a reach..but if) which ammunition would you choose to conscript into an emergency last ditch better than being unarmed home defense weapon ?
Solid point easily, and aim for the face. Normally adequate penetration is not a concern in a human but that's when we're discussing centerfire cartridges.
For a 22lr i would think Solids would be better
A .22 will need all the help it can get.
A HP will creat a nasty wound and the bullet often breaks up and creats other wound channels.
The added pentetration from being shot out of a rifle ought to help...
Actually, if a .22 rifle was all that I had, I'd mix CCI Mini-Mag HP's with solids. Get the maximum advantage of both.
If in my home, I'd empty the magazine into both body and head.
I'd go for solid, but I'd almost rather use the rifle as a club. More "knockdown" power that way.:dead:
CCI Mini-Mags. I think they stand the best chance of doing maximum damage as any .22 round out there.
I think actually I would stick with HP's - while a marginally lighter bullet, and of coarse more quickly deformed, I still favor the slight expansion and possible fragmentation. Bone will be a problem for both in some areas - frontal bone is a good example.
I accept penetration will not be stellar all the time but am thinking we would be probably loosing off more than several!! Other reason for HP's is the IMO more obvious impact effect - I found this on rabbits - much greater immediate effect - whereas solids were slow to do anything by comparison.
I know we can't compare that small of a critter to a two legged one but - I'll still take the HP's anyways!
Mine are loaded with the "Quick Shot" pre-frag stuff, if you go with the HP, go the extra mile and make sure you clean out the grease in the nose.. Best solid to use would be some thing along the line og the CCI game getters
i would definately vote for hp. although i wouldnt depend on a .22 for self defense, if i had to im not to concerned with penetration using mini-mags.
If I had onlyy a .22lr for home defence. I would use a baseball bat.
But for argument's sake, I would use CCI Velocitors. Wich is HP.
10-22, 30 rnd mag, use all 30, don't think it really matters
If all I had was a 22 for home defense, I'd wonder who ripped me off and how many trips it took to take it all away.
like I said in the original post..it's a reach:9:
Well our HP .22cal are generally 40 gr and the HP design is not exactly a super secret design, I think they just drilled a hole into the top and called HP. I was using HV .22cal HP as the HV stuff is the only thing that reliable works in a semi. Lately I have been using Winchester dynapoints from Walmart, but they discontinued them and now looking for another round. Bought about 8 different types to try out, but our local range is closed over a dispute with the regional district, hopefully to open soon.
I tried the Remington "thunderbolts", lots of misfire even with a good primer strike. I have a clone of the woodsman, would make a good defensive gun for my wife at home.


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Problems with Excel formula? (semi-related to previous questions)
i've got a problem with a formula in my excel spreadsheet that i'm using to get the scores for NFL teams 1978 - Current
i have the data ok but the problem is with matching the the specific games.
i've CONCATENATED the data to provide unique data points also it's in two columns (Home & Visitor) in the format of
YearTeamW/L/DScore eg. 2012TitansW35
in the VERY unlikely event (and i've check a random selection) that the team has 2 wins at home with the same score this could cause an error.
here is the formula i'm using: (version ~8000zzzzz lol) (all one formula, just added a line break to make it fit)
Here's a link to the folder with the spreadsheet. (NFL Stuf (test).xlsx)
Sheet: Past Season Summary - what is says. eventually where the formula is going.
Sheet: nfl2011lines - 92 - the data (actually 1978 - 2012 but i named it before i added all the data)
Sheet: TESTING - my "sandbox" so i don't [Censored] the main sheets
Semi-Related Question1
Semi-Related Question2
does every team play every team each season?
i got it mostly working.
i've made another column that concatenates the visitor and home in the format of 1978BengalsL12@197849ersW28
my only problem/ limitation/ issue is that for some years there are blank spots.
i understand that some teams (Cleveland Browns, Tennessee Oilers, Houston Texans) either didn't exist or had franchise problems and didn't play that year.
BUT there are LAGRE gaps or no data (i can't believe that there hasn't been a Vikings @ Patriots for 35 years)
i will post an updated copy to the google drive folder in the original post.
for the Sheet:Home+Away win loss Matrix. Black squares = 0.
NFL Scheduling Current formula
but it doesn't explain the Vikings @ Patriots 35 year "dead zone"
Cardinals @ 49ers will give me
2012Arizona CardinalsL13 2012San Francisco 49ersW27
but the only game it's working for is
rams @ 49ers on 11/11/2012 (the first draw in 8 years)


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But that pinch hitter, Daryle Ward, had had five of his 16 previous runs batted in against the Cardinals. Make that eight of 19, as he cleared the bases with a double and the Cubs withstood ninth-inning home runs by center fielder Jim Edmonds and left fielder Ryan Ludwick and then three singles before finally closing out the game.
The Cardinals had their first decent start in a week as right-hander Adam Wainwright gave up two runs in seven innings. But the second run was a solo homer by right fielder Cliff Floyd, breaking a 1-1 tie in the seventh after Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols had evened the score with a home run in the sixth.
"Extremely disappointing," said Wainwright of that turn of events. "I gave them the run right back." At 69-76, the Cardinals are farther under .500 than they've been since Aug. 10, when they were also seven games under.
"Give the pinch hitter (Ward) credit," said manager Tony La Russa. "I certainly don't blame Izzy because we got beat."
CHICAGO 5, CARDINALS 3: The Cardinals out-homered the Chicago Cubs, 3-1, but all the Cardinals' homers were solo blasts -- by Albert Pujols, Jim Edmonds and Ryan Ludwick. Through eight innings, the Cardinals had only four hits and one run off Chicago's Carlos Zambrano, who has won his last seven decisions against the Cardinals.
--INF-OF Scott Spiezio went right into the starting lineup after coming off the restricted list Friday night. Spiezio, who had been treated for substance abuse, went nothing for two with a walk.
"The biggest thing was me admitting I had a problem," Spiezio said.
--1B Albert Pujols' 31st homer in the sixth snapped a homerless streak at 20 games and 75 at-bats.
--The Cardinals' last loss when they hit three home runs had come on Aug. 18 at Chicago. That score, too, was 5-3.
--RHP Adam Wainwright had gone 25 2/3 innings without giving up a homer before Cubs RF Cliff Floyd homered in the seventh.
--The Cardinals' last eight-game losing streak lasted from July 27-Aug. 4 last year.
BY THE NUMBERS: 12 -- The number of games under .500 (33-45) the Cardinals are against non-division opponents with three games remaining against Philadelphia and one against New York.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We've won with this cast of characters. We can win again." -- Manager Tony La Russa, after the Cardinals' losing streak had reached seven, longest of the season.


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I just want to say thank you to all of the members and officers putting in so much time on Kincaid for the state championships. If I could get into town and had free time I would be there to help you all. I know how much work it can take to make these things happen and really appreciate everyone putting in the effort to make states what it is!
See you all Friday!
It's our pleasure Tre. I can't wait for everyone to see how nice it is out there. Keep up your hard work in the valley!
I'm with Tre, thank you to everyone who pitched in!


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Colombo: Sri Lankan immigration authorities have reportedly detained an Australian activist on a charge of working without visa after they raided a meeting of journalists in Colombo.
The Free Media Movement says International Federation of Journalists representative Jacqui Park, was taken into custody by immigration officials.
They say Ms Park is in Colombo on holiday and was not there for work purposes.
''She was meeting with us at a hotel in Colombo while on holiday,'' said FMM spokesman Sunil Jayasekera.
''She was not engaging in any work as such, but was meeting with friends she had made over the years.''
A post on a Twitter feed apparently belonging to Ms Park confirmed she had been questioned but said she was planning to leave Sri Lanka later today.
"thanks for concern. Long questioning but now planning to depart SL Thursday," the tweet said.
There was no immediate comment from immigration officials or from the Brussels-based IFJ which has supported Sri Lanka's media activists for years.
Sri Lanka is known to have blacklisted many foreign journalists over their reports on the country's human rights record and alleged war crimes in the final stages of the ethnic war in 2009.
Local journalists have also been the victims of crimes and many say they practise self-censorship.An anti-establishment editor fled the country in August, less than a month after armed men held her at knifepoint.
In 2009 the Sunday Leader newspaper's editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, a staunch critic of the government, was shot dead near his office just outside the capital.


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CORRECTED-Japan's first passenger plane in 50 yrs makes maiden flight
(Corrects identity of top buyer to SkyWest from Trans States, changes wording in first paragraph)
TOKYO Nov 11 (Reuters) - Japan's first commercial aircraft in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country's long-held ambition to establish an aircraft industry that can compete with some of the major players in global aviation.
The Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) took off on a one-hour return flight from Nagoya Airport to test Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp's ability to bring the 100-seat class plane into service after three years of delays.
The unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built the World War Two-era Zero fighter, is hoping the $47-million regional jet will help it oust Canada's Bombardier Inc as the world's second-biggest maker of smaller passenger jets behind Brazil's Embraer SA.
The MRJ is Japan's first commercial passenger aircraft since the 64-seat YS-11 entered service 50 years ago.
The first MRJ is slated for delivery in June 2017 to Japan's biggest carrier, ANA Holdings. Mitsubishi aims eventually to sell more than 2,000 aircraft in the competitive market segment.
So far it has secured 223 firm orders, most recently in January when Japan Airlines asked for 32 planes. The biggest single order, for up to 200 aircraft, was from U.S. regional airline group SkyWest Inc.
Mitsubishi says the MRJ burns a fifth less fuel than aircraft of similar size, thanks to new-generation engines from Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp .
Japan's last attempt to establish itself as a commercial aircraft maker ended in failure. Production of the YS-11, built by a consortium that included Mitsubishi Heavy, finished after only 182 planes were built. Continued...


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Archive for the 'Kill Switch' tag
Weather Modification – A Covert Weapon of Mass Destruction
Between 1962 and 1983, the United States Navy, the U.S. Weather Bureau and the National Science Foundation carried out an experimental research program that was yielding some success in moderating hurricanes. Project Stormfury was suspended, however, and eventually terminated for specious reasons. Commenting on an overview of The Stormfury Era by the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Dick Eastman, MS, MA, noted that the privatization of weather-related government agencies was a factor in the termination of this project:
"Project Stormfury was discontinued just as new planes for doing the interventions were made available.
It seems that we had a deliberate effort to stifle success at the very time that the national weather bureau and other weather-related government agencies were being privatized (the National Weather Service, like the Federal Reserve Bank, the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation are privately owned and controlled organizations — each operating in their respective fields in totally unregulated and largely unsupervised environments, with the public thinking that each is part of the government…
"Storm Fury demonstrated — regardless of the sophistry — that hurricane winds can be reduced from 130 mph to 75 or 80 mph — a difference that means the a difference of billions in damages and of doubtless many lives.
"But we are not only seeing the deliberate decision to let disaster happen when it could be prevented — we are seeing something much worse — the deliberate use of this technology developed by minds that sought to help mankind as a means of destroying our homes and killing our people for the sake of 'disaster-industry' profit and 'national-emergency' power."
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929-2002) was an associate director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA, a member of President Lyndon Johnson's Science Advisory Committee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In his 1968 book, Unless Peace Comes: A Scientific Forecast Of New Weapons, MacDonald wrote a chapter titled "How to Wreck the Environment" (read below) in which he revealed that weather modification was in the experimental stages. MacDonald predicted that it would only be a matter of time before man would be able to manipulate the weather for use as a weapon:
"Among future means of obtaining national objectives by force, one possibility hinges on man's ability to control and manipulate the environment of his planet. When achieved, this power over his environment will provide man with a new force capable of doing great and indiscriminate damage. Our present primitive understanding of deliberate environmental change makes it difficult to imagine a world in which geophysical warfare is practised. Such a world might be one in which nuclear weapons were effectively banned and the weapons of mass destruction were those of environmental catastrophe. As I will argue, these weapons are peculiarly suited for covert or secret wars…
"As economic competition among many advanced nations heightens, it may be to a country's advantage to ensure a peaceful natural environment for itself and adisturbed environment for its competitors. Operations producing such conditions might be carried out covertly, since nature's great irregularity permits storms, floods, droughts, earthquakes and tidal waves to be viewed as unusual but not unexpected. Such a 'secret war' need never be declared or even known by the affected populations. It could go on for years with only the security forces involved being aware of it. The years of drought and storm would be attributed to unkindly nature and only after a nation were thoroughly drained would an armed take-over be attempted.
"In addition to their covert nature, a feature common to several modification schemes is their ability to affect the Earth as a whole. The environment knows no political boundaries; it is independent of the institutions based on geography and the effects of modification can be projected from any one point to any other on the Earth. Because environmental modification may be a dominant feature of future world decades, there is concern that this incipient technology is in total conflict with many of the traditional geographical and political units and concepts.
"Political, legal, economic and sociological consequences of deliberate environmental modification, even for peaceful purposes, will be of such complexity that perhaps all our present involvements in nuclear affairs will seem simple."
In his 1970 book, Between Two Ages, former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brezezinski (CFR/TC/B) mentioned "weather control" as a "new weapon" for the U.S. military and a "key element of strategy."
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised… Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
Also in 1970, the U.S. Weather Bureau was renamed the National Weather Service and the privatization of the weather-related government agencies began, a process that was expedited under President Bill Clinton.
"In accordance with the Administration's FY 1996 Proposed Budget and the Administration's Reinventing Government initiatives issued in early 1995, the National Weather Service (NWS) initiated a transition program to transfer NWS Agricultural Weather Services and non-federal non-wildfire weather support to private meteorological firms willing to assume these responsibilities…
"The transition of agricultural weather services to the private sector is dynamic. Both the NWS and the private meteorological sector will need to continue to work together to provide maximum service to the nation's growers. Privatization efforts are not new to the NWS. Over the years, the NWS has transferred services such as direct commercial radio and television broadcasts, newspaper weather page preparation, and weather by phone successfully to the private sector." (National Weather Service)
In 1977, the Geneva Convention proposed an international treaty prohibiting the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques. The Convention opened for signature on May 18, 1977 in Geneva and the treaty was enforced on October 5, 1978. Eighty-seven (87) nations signed this treaty:
Signed in Geneva May 18, 1977
Entered into force October 5, 1978
Ratification by U.S. President December 13, 1979
U.S. ratification deposited at New York January 17, 1980
The States Parties to this Convention,
Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
Determined to continue negotiations with a view to achieving effective progress towards further measures in the field of disarmament,
Recognizing that scientific and technical advances may open new possibilities with respect to modification of the environment,
Recalling the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972,
Realizing that the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes could improve the interrelationship of man and nature and contribute to the preservation and improvement of the environment for the benefit of present and future generations,
Recognizing, however, that military or any other hostile use of such techniques could have effects extremely harmful to human welfare,
Desiring to prohibit effectively military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques in order to eliminate the dangers to mankind from such use, and affirming their willingness to work towards the achievement of this objective,
Desiring also to contribute to the strengthening of trust among nations and to the further improvement of the international situation in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Have agreed as follows:
Article I1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party.
2. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group of States or international organization to engage in activities contrary to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article. (continued)
In 1996, the U.S. Air Force published a research paper produced in the Department of Defense titled, "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025." Disregarding the Geneva Convention Treaty on Weather Modification, the stated purpose of the paper was "to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives…"
"2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future. Presented on 17 June 1996, this report was produced in the Department of Defense school environment of academic freedom and in the interest of advancing concepts related to national defense. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the United States government…
"In 2025, US aerospace forces can 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.
"A high-risk, high-reward endeavor, weather-modification offers a dilemma not unlike the splitting of the atom. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary…"
Another piece of evidence to support the existence of the these weapon systems.
Weather Modification – A Covert Weapon Of Mass Destruction
Committee Passes Plan for Internet 'Kill Switch' in U.S.
PC Magazine's Dan Costa warned Friday that the United States must learn from Egypt's "state-sponsored denial of service attack" on its citizens. "The surprising thing isn't that a corrupt, authoritarian regime would launch this kind of state-sponsored denial off service attack on its own citizens. Nor that it is willing to jeopardize its economy by cutting its businesses off from world markets.
The legislation was first introduced last summer by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), and the former has promised to bring it to the floor again in 2011. It isn't called anything as obvious as the Internet Kill Switch, of course. It is called the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. Who could be against that? Anyone who's watching the news on TV today, that's who.
The proposal calls for the Department of Homeland Security to establish and maintain a list of systems or assets that constitute critical cyber-infrastructure. The President would be able to be able to control those systems. He or she would have ability to turn them off. The kicker: none of this would be subject to judicial review. This is just a proposal, mind you, but it certainly warrants concern. Particularly given the heavy-handed example being provided by Egypt.
The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Joe Liebermann, I-Conn., previously sailed through the Homeland Security Committee just before the 111th Congress ended, and will have to be reconsidered in the new 112th Congress.
Intended to protect the country against significant cyber threats, Sen. Collins says the bill would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency.
It would give our nation the best tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat, she added.
Wired.com reports:
An aide to the Homeland Security committee described the bill as one that does not mandate the shuttering of the entire internet. Instead, it would authorize the president to demand turning off access to so-called "critical infrastructure" where necessary.
An example, the aide said, would require infrastructure connected to "the system that controls the floodgates to the Hoover dam" to cut its connection to the net if the government detected an imminent cyber attack.
What's unclear, however, is how the government would have any idea when a cyber attack was imminent or why the operator wouldn't shutter itself if it detected a looming attack.
About two dozen groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Democracy & Technology, were skeptical enough to file an open letter opposing the idea. They are concerned that the measure, if it became law, might be used to censor the internet.
"It is imperative that cyber-security legislation not erode our rights," (.pdf) the groups wrote last year to Congress.
On Friday, executives with London-based Vodofone came under scrutiny after admitting they had complied with the Egyptian government's request to shut down internet and mobile phone access in Egypt. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Vodofone Group CEO Vittorio Cola expressed concern with the state-ordered blackout, but the company determined that the request was legitimate under Egyptian law, and therefore complied with the request.
In addition, Al Jazeera reported that protesters on Friday destroyed Vodafone stores in Cairo, among other locations tied to the ruling regime.
In the meantime, Costa insists that such a kill switch initiative could be devastating for the United States — not just because of the real impact on individual liberties, but also because of widespread economic ramifications:
The U.S. telecommunication industry is much more complex and far more decentralized [than Egypt's]. To do something similar in the U.S. would require a lot more than four phone calls. There are simply too many connections inside the nation already for them to be silenced. Also, since our economy is more dependent on the Internet obstructing the free flow of information would be disastrous. Still, the push for a U.S. Internet Kill Switch is here, but no one understands the consequences.
The fact is, no one in the U.S. should ever have the right or the ability to take the Internet offline. As an editor of a purely online publication (we made the switch from print a few years ago), it's very clear to me that freedom of the press relies more than ever on the Internet. No one in the U.S.—or anywhere—should have the right to shut it down.
Full article here:
[Committee Passes Plan for Internet 'Kill Switch' in U.S.]


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Alcoholism Facts
For many people, the facts about alcoholism are not clear. What is alcoholism, exactly? How does it differ from alcohol abuse? When should a person seek help for a problem related to his or her drinking? The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has prepared this booklet to help individuals and families answer these and other common questions about alcohol problems. The following information explains both alcoholism and alcohol abuse, the symptoms of each, when and where to seek help, treatment choices, and additional helpful resources.
For most people who drink, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities. Moderate alcohol use-up to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women and older people-is not harmful for most adults. (A standard drink is one 12-ounce bottle or can of either beer or wine cooler, one 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits.) Nonetheless, a large number of people get into serious trouble because of their drinking. Currently, nearly 14 million Americans-1 in every 13 adults-abuse alcohol or are alcoholic. Several million more adults engage in risky drinking that could lead to alcohol problems. These patterns include binge drinking and heavy drinking on a regular basis. In addition, 53 percent of men and women in the United States report that one or more of their close relatives have a drinking problem.


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London's second smallest museum can be found above this Notting Hill bar. The museum has included a vintage copper still, Prohibition-era bottles of the stuff and antiquarian cocktail books. It also contains the Ginstitute, where Mr Jake F Burger holds well-researched classes on the subject.
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Massachusetts Campus Compact has partnered with the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation to present three $1,000 awards recognizing the most innovative and promising use of the grant to establish or significantly further a partnership between the student (and his or her school) and a community non-profit organization. This grant is sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and seeks to foster academic-service learning at American colleges and universities.
Spring 2009 Winner
Amanda Royce Tolland, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Advisors: Professor Deirdra Murphy, Physical Therapy; Sheila Och, Lowell Community Health Center
Lowell Community on the Move
Over half of Massachusetts adults, and one third of middle and high school students are overweight or obese. Lowell Community Health Center has created and implemented wellness initiatives for over a year understanding the health implications of obesity with the goal of improving physical activity initiatives for individuals in the community. Graduate physical therapy students will collaborate with the LCHC, LCHC Community Health Educators and an UML faculty advisor to develop an hour curriculum, "Physical Activity in the Community", that will focus on improving physical activity and nutrition in daily lives.
The physical therapy students and the LCHC Community Educators will pilot this interactive program that participants can take home and integrate into their daily activities. The grant will support curriculum development, training time for Community Health Educators, documentation, piloting the curriculum with the physical therapy students, and data collection. LCHC is currently providing caring, quality, and culturally appropriate wellness programs to the people of Greater Lowell, regardless of their financial status. The grant provides support to expand the current programs through best practices of engaging students, community partners and creating strong strategic alliances that maximize the health and well-being to all Greater-Lowell residents.
Spring 2010 Winner
Hyewon Lee, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Advisors: Nadeem Karimbux, Assistant Dean, Dental Education; David Okuji, Cambridge Health Alliance, A.C.T.I.O.N Project – A New Model for Students & Community Clinic Collaboration
This monthly pediatric clinic is run only with volunteer dental students and the supervision of attending volunteer dentists and Dr. Okuji, a pediatric dentist at the Windsor clinic. Harvard dental student volunteers get on-site experience in pediatric dentistry under Dr. Okuji's supervision, and the low-income residents come to the monthly clinic for their children's oral health care. The clinic would like to expand, recruit more volunteers, and will spend the grant funds on activities such as:
- Family group diet/nutrition counseling in the waiting area
- Pamphlets for pediatric oral health issues and translate existing pamphlets
- Waiting room fun activities for oral health
- Visits to Harvard Dental School for young kids from low income families
As a long term goal, this Saturday pediatric program will be incorporated into the regular curriculum so that the dental students at Harvard can be exposed to a community dental clinic and public health issues with hands-on skills in pediatric dentistry. This new model of a community clinic will join an academic institution and community organization while excelling the quality of future dental professionals who cares for patients in need in our community.


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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
DocStoc Raises $3.25M
Beverly Hills-based DocStoc, the Web 2.0 startup focused on sharing professional documents, said Tuesday that it has raised $3.25M in a venture capital round from Rustic Canyon Partners. DocStoc maintains a service which allows anyone to upload and share legal, business, and other documents. The company has previously raised angel funding from Scott Walchek, Matt Coffin (LowermyBills), Brett Brewer (Intermix/MySpace), Robin Richards (MP3.com), and Crosscut Ventures. More information »


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As you probably know (thos who doesn't now you will) I played Albion for quite some time and I quite enjoyed it. There were great PvP battles, big dungeon runs, drunk guild members and so on. As I said great time.
But in last weeks major patch comed along and gived us new dungeons. There are great not the less but sometimes there is just that little something what is missing. And if you wanted to do some fame progression on big tier and wanted to go to portal in 5 you 99% time met groups twice big as yours so you lost ower and ower again. It was fun for first week fighting this groups but lot of ppl left cause of this and also lack of content drived ppl off. And when you lose 100 ppl from guild cause they don't play anymore then it suck and you no longer enjoys to play the game. Last final blow was that devs confirmed 2 wipes and said that they dont know when they are going to be so we lost last ppl which played game and that was also final blow for me. When you as officier log in to game and there is just 1 man online it just don't feel right.
I know this is beta but it kind of feel like some alpha sorry to say. This game have big potential but it needs lot of work...
Player community is ... well in some parts full of trolls and idiots but in other part there are nice ppl... But let's be fair I've said this so many times and I gonna say it again - Silence is bad .. Devs needs to learn how to properly communicate with community and just not say random shit in global chat ingame. Foru / site is place where stuff should be written to eliminate as much trolls as possible. For example @Korn writed forum that there would be wipe .. silence went forward and devastating WIPE HYPE was created. I know it is gona sound hars but it is true. There are community manager but they are NOT doing work what they should do > Eliminate those trolls and don'T give them chance they should answer community questions and so on. There are moderators but they can't do some stuff.
I know that this thread is going to be moved to rants section and that you guys will try to hide and maybe I will get negative feedback on this but what ever you do keep in mind that sometimes constructive criticism is in fact good think.
So now to main topic - Dev silence in last week
This is now issue that should be worked on. Dew should give players some feedback what they are working on and what they are going to bring because silence is only going to give flustration and thinking that devs abandoned this "ship".
Don't take this ad bad thing this game is great but there needs to be some enjoyment in it. Fame grind is just ... well messed shit right now and I know that there is going to be fame overhaul but from player perspective is just too repetitive and also there are lot of issues.
Keep working on this great game and don't kill it before it even goes live.
With that said I'm going to take break from playing and will see you guys in future hopefully.
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The Boston Celtics have lost three straight contests after the win against the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night. Overall, the Celtics went 1-4 over the past nine days and it does not look like they will be in the playoff picture anytime soon. The 15-32 record has them tied for last in the Atlantic Division and tied for the third worst record in the Eastern Conference.
Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett honored in return
The Brooklyn Nets may have won 85-79 against the Celtics in Kevin Garnett's and Paul Pierce's return to TD Garden on Sunday night, but the real winner was their legacies as both future Hall-of-Famers were shown on the jumbotron in tribute videos. Both were emotional all night long and each scored six points and were really non factors; most likely because of all the emotions playing for the Celtics and returning to their home floor for the first time in the 2013-14 season.
Chris Johnson signs another 10-day contract
With 10.4 points per game since his signing back before the Los Angeles Lakers game back on January 17, Chris Johnson has played in five games with 25.8 minutes per contest. This earned him another 10-day deal, which started last night with with four three-point shots going down and 12 points on the night in the 114-88 loss to the New York Knicks.
Johnson has shown great shooting and ball-handling off the bench and should be a great asset moving forward for the Celtics. The second-year player is a valuable player to come off the bench and Brad Stevens has shown faith in the 23-year-old.
Moving Forward
The Celtics play twice over the next seven days against the Philadelphia 76ers and the Orlando Magic at home. It will be the first time the Celtics will face the 76ers in the regular season this year.
Both the Magic and the 76ers are under .500, so both games are winnable. The Celtics will head their three-game slide and will win both these games at home.
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Hardness of a surface containing uniformly spaced pyramidal asperities
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- Bobji, M. & Biswas, S. Tribology Letters (1999) 7: 51. doi:10.1023/A:1019192514107
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Pyramidal asperities of different apical angle were machined on a flat copper surface. Hardness was estimated from the load–displacement graphs obtained by pressing a spherical rigid indenter onto the asperities. The variation of hardness with apical angle and pitch was recorded with a view to contributing to the development of a general framework for relating measured hardness to the surface roughness.
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(1/26/2009) Significant Arrests, Firearms Seizures Accomplished Over Three Day Period
NEW HAVEN- During a three day period spanning from January 23-25, New Haven Police seized several guns and made arrests in neighborhoods that have recently experience repeated episodes of violent crime. The following are four amongst numerous incidents that were successfully responded to by New Haven Police.
On Sunday afternoon, officers responded to a residence on Ward Street on a domestic complaint where a female victim and a baby were in danger in the rear of their home. The male subject, armed with a knife and intoxicated, was attempting to access to the woman�s bedroom. Officers arrived and arrested 38-year-old Antonio Mendoza for threatening in the 2nd degree, carrying a dangerous weapon, breach of peace in the 2nd degree, risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment in the 2nd degree.
On Saturday morning, shortly before 11am, responded to the area of Chapel and Orchard Streets on a complaint of possible narcotics sales taking place out of a vehicle at that location. Officers arrived on the scene and detained the driver, 33-year-old Ralph Fontanez and seized a sawed-off, loaded shotgun he had in the vehicle. Fontanez was charged with possession of a sawed-off shotgun, carrying a weapon in a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Late Friday evening, officers responded to the sound of gunfire in the Jose Marti Court area of the Church Street South Housing Complex. Officers approached 28-year-old Edward Garcia who was seen attempting to quickly leave the area where the gunshot sounds came from. Mr. Garcia failed to comply with multiple requests from officers to stop walking and remove his hands from his jacket pockets. Fearing for his safety, an officer unholstered his department issued firearm directing it toward Garcia and requiring that he obey police orders. When Garcia finally complied, officers searched the subject and recovered a handgun, a firearm magazine and ammunition. Garcia was arrested for unlawful discharge and interfering with police officers.
Also on Friday, officers were patrolling the area of Shephard Street toward Huntington Street where gunfire had been confirmed a day earlier. Officers observed four suspicious individuals in a store located at 453 Huntington Street. Officers interviewed the four subjects who attempted to exit the store when officers arrived. Officers examined the area where the group was standing and found a loaded revolver. The firearm was found to have been stolen during a burglary in Bethany. Officers recovered the firearm and expect arrests to be forthcoming.
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"Why is gradual institutional change in contemporary capitalism not random but patterned, proceeding toward liberalization rather than in no particular or some other direction?" This question, posed by Wolfgang Streeck in 2009, marks a shift in focus toward the dynamics of change within capitalist systems and away from the static cross-country comparisons that still dominate contemporary political economy. By focusing on political responses, this project complements Streeck's emphasis on specific behavioral characteristics of capitalist social actors that drive forward market expansion. The project examines parliamentary debates in Britain, France, Germany, and the US from the 1950s onward to document a gradual decline of political resistance to contested takeovers. Concepts from evolutionary biology are used to identify generalizable mechanisms whereby political incentives change as markets expand. These self-reinforcing mechanisms help explain why decades often pass before unprecedented marketization provokes re-regulatory action. Project duration: January 2012 to April 2017.
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54W T5*2 for a 300L (80 us G, 65 uk G) low tech aquarium
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i bought the rio 300 of juwel last week, and i noticed it comes with two 54W T5.
WPG makes it only about 1.35, while i saw online that for low tech planted aquariums i need at least 1.5~2 WPG.
some places online say that the WPG rule does not apply to T5, and that 108W would be enough for a 80G tank, and some places say the opposite.
im confused :icon_redf
Ignore WPG completely.
At 50cm depth I'd say it may be slightly too high for a low tech. If I had that amount of light I'd be thinking about raising it 80-90cm above the substrate.
Everything with T5 lights depends on the ballast and reflectors. There are some very low powered ballasts used on T5HO lights, and some very poor reflectors used on them too. But, there are also many very good ballasts, full powered, and very good reflectors. Can you take a photo of the reflector/bulb area of the light and let us see what we think of it? That won't tell us if the ballast is good or not, but it at least removes one of the unknowns.
i would love to take a photo of it, but im still waiting for it to arrive from germany...
the aquarium is rio 300 by juwel, i guess you've heard about those already :)
i called the store yesterday and asked them about that issue.
they told me that my aquarium has 4*54W and not 2*54W, and that juwel doesnt make 2*54W hoods anymore.
this is kinda weird because both me and my wife can swear that they told us 2*54W when we ordered it last week...
we'll go there on saturday and check it out ourselves.
Hey, check out this website to see it can help you out http://www.theaquatools.com/aquasketcher
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Help! Armstrong "luxury" vinyl tile installation
I am tiling a small room that right now is a concrete floor (basement) the room is only 7x12, but thought this would be a nice cheap way to cover the concrete... I bought 12x12 vinyl tile that is grout-able, I guess they call this their Luxury line of tile... it looks like slate almost, and has rounded edges... well the back has the peal off paper, but the instructions say nothing about that and talk about gluing it down... anyone work with this stuff before? I thought it was peal and stick since it has glue on it already... also anyone ever grout this stuff? if so how hard is it compared to normal tile? says to use 1/8 or 1/16" spacers... thanks!
consult with the manufacturer of the tile. they should carry a thin spread adhesive that is similar to VCT glue. the kind i have used is blue in the container but turns clear when it is ready (flashed) for tile installation. t. i think congoleum makes one for the duraceramic product i have used
well I gave in and put the floor down... the tiles are "self stick pressure adhesive" but when you peeled the paper off it was dry as it could be and I thought even if its pressure sensitive to sticking, I am going to help it with a laid down adhesive... went out got the glue for it that Armstrong recommended, did it in 4 sections... put the glue in the farthest corner, let it sit for 30 minutes like it said until tacky but no glue lift... laid the tile like it was ceramic or stone... pushed it down with a rubber mallet to help it along, then rolled it some to push out the bubbles and help the glue to stick... did the whole floor, grouted it with the suggested sand based acrylic "luxury vinyl tile floor grout" and when you look at it you cannot tell it isn't a slate tile that is until you step on it and realize its not stone because it is of course softer and warmer then stone... but for the cost defiantly would recommend these premium tiles from Armstrong, might take longer then rolling out a linoleum sheet, but defiantly worth it for appearance if you add the extra glue in the mix
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This graph displays murder victims in the United States by weapon used in 2015. In 2015, around 7 people were poisoned to death.
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America's most popular murder weapons
Handguns were by far the most popular murder weapon used in the US in 2014. That year 5,562 people were murdered with handguns. Knives or cutting instruments were the second most popular weapon used, with 1,562 murders committed with a knife. In 2013, in most cases, the circumstances under which murders were committed in the U.S. were either unknown or unclear: 4,440 murders were committed due to unknown circumstances and 2,889 murders were committed due to unspecified arguments or disagreements. Robberies accounted for 686 murders in 2013. 30 children were killed by babysitters. Ninety-five lives were ended due to a romantic triangle.
Despite these macabre statistics, murder and non-negligent manslaughter accounted for only about 14,600 deaths in 2011. Murder was not within the top fifteen causes of death in the U.S. in 2010. Heart disease and cancer accounted for many more deaths that year. In 2010, about 174 deaths per 100,000 population were caused by heart disease alone. In 2010, 24.9 percent of deaths among men were caused by heart disease. Though rates of heart disease death among women were similar that year, a much smaller share of women died of unintentional injuries than men, only 3.5 percent of women's deaths to 6.4 percent of men's deaths. Suicide accounted for 2.3 percent of men's deaths, while suicide was not within the top ten causes of death for women. About 2 percent more women died of stroke than men.
Though the death rate in America has dropped only slightly since 1990 from 8.6 deaths per 1,000 population to 8.07 deaths per 1,000 population in 2011 (195948), the cost of a funeral has risen dramatically since the 1960's. As of 2006, a funeral cost, on average, 6,195 U.S. dollars. In 1960, the average funeral cost was 708 U.S. dollars.


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Tabetha Jones Henley and Phoenix Fire publishing are a scam, fraudlulent publishing company. They contract writers, demanding money up front - the first sure sign that a publisher is bogus. They take money up front for services that an author can do for themselves for free, like creating accounts on Lightningsource and/or Createspace, then either refust to publish the book, or falsify sales reports so as not to have to pay royalties to an author.
Formerly Mystic Press, this company changes names whenever they're reported to the authorities and the heat level gets too high. They change the name on the website and the accounts associated with it and carry on with business as usual under a new name.
Mystic Press, Phoenix Fire Publishing, Tabetha Jones Henley also doesn't pay employees. There are artists and editors that haven't been paid in nearly two years or more for services rendered, as well as Mystic Press authors that haven't been paid since the company switched over to Phoenix Fire.
Tabetha Jones Henley also represents her company fraudulently, creating multiple alias IDs which she presents as authors and other associates to make her company seem more prolific or impressive than it really is.
A check with the chamber of commerce in her area shows that this business is not registered in any legal form, so may not even exist as a legal business entity. It is also possible that the money swindled from authors and employees is not properly reported to the IRS, but rather filtered into alternate accounts (like a child's account) to avoid paying taxes on them.
Run, don't walk, away from this one.
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The person who reported this had covered for a plagiarist named Robert L. Baupader as her co-horts went for my SSN; so she might be responsible for ending careers of those who have very little to begin with. I have to go on record I was offerin to teach Jones how to run a publishing outfit like Lake Fossil Press when it came to Janrae Frank who had pulled this before. I had been accused of being a fraud but when you are doing everything and very little funding; that's not grounds for a fraud.
J.T. Larsen and her circle twist half-truths about another company and how the anthology was a rip from my first science fiction work. So if she wants to ruin somene ruin those who had plagiarized and went after someone's XXX-XX-XXXX then fabricated a letter to have a novella removed when it came to fabrciated sights in the title.
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It has been a while since I have updated this thing, but here's some quick stuff: I am now 3 and know everything I need to know about the world. Yep, I am a grownup... Of course, with this age comes responsibility. Mom and dad expect me to keep small critters out of the yard, and scare away strangers, and to not let that boxer down the street anywhere near my front porch!
I suffered a recent economic downfall when daddy chopped down my two apple trees in the backyard. I was really counting on some additional income by selling those apples to neighbors. Well.. at least I still have the pear tree..
Recently, I find myself entertaining more new friends that come by the house to play. I am always welcome to this, but nobody can fill the hole left by my favorite friend in the world, KULA. She moved away last August. Mom and Dad I think mentioned that she might be moving back later this year. I miss her SOOO much.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot, my mom and dad got married last September!! So we are now a legit family! My mom looked REALLY pretty in the photo I saw of the wedding, I just wish I could have gone to Hawaii with them. I could have cleaned all the shells off the beach (mmm..) But they did take me to the beach just before Christmas so I would forgive them for not inviting me.
Any whoot, it's almost bed time, and I need to sneak upstairs and stake my spot on the bed.
Well this was a huge weekend!
Saturday, my dad and I drove out to this park that was hosting some sort of gala (from my new word a day calender) to celebrate the park opening. I got TONS of free stuff, including a BIG HUGE BAG OF FOOD! It was not just any food, but some of the really expensive stuff that Mom and Dad usually only get small portions for me of.
I was also made official treat taster for the afternoon... Atleast thats what I was lead to believe (maybe now that I think about it, it wasn't that special of a title..oh well.)
Oh and also, I met another Saint who looked like me, but he was shorter and weighed a whole lot more! He may have had girth but I could still out run him and most of his Great Dane pals! Those silly Westside dogs got nothin' on us Eastside Pups, Toss it up for No-Po (that's North Portland.)
Yesterday was fun too! Mom and Dad took me for another long walk to this little Mexican eating place. It was full of smells and "samples" of people food. There were also some other pups there, but I got nipped at for sniffing some chicks butt. What? I thought you were kinda cute, and might want to be part of my harem (another Word-a-day.)
Now the evening was kinda odd though... I thought I heard my girlfriend next door, but she didn't come running when I called for her. So I just went back inside where dad was burning a perfectly fine pizza. But before I could steal a piece when he wasn't looking, Kula came dashing in! I had to try and knock the piece out of dad's hand before she could steal it. This didn't work, because Kula let out this blood-curdling cry!
"HHHHEEEEEELLLLPPP!" she yelled,"my tail HURTS!"
I saw her trying to wag her tail, but it looked bent. She was in a ton of pain, and kept trying to wag it, but it hurt her too much. Mom was trying to feel if it was broken, but Kula would let her touch it. Kula ran back home, and Dad ran next door to tell her Mom and Dad. Her Mom and Dad rushed her over to the emergency care. Several hours later, Mom got a call from Kula's mom, and the doctor said it was something called "Swimmer's Tail." Apparently, she was swimming all weekend and got like a cramp or something and it got irritated. So they put her on a bunch of drugs to kill the pain and knock her out. I often wonder if they are the same drugs dad takes on the weekend (you know, liquid form, in a brown bottle) because he gets just as loopy as she does!
So Kula is OK, My dad drank too much, I have a big huge bag of Dog Food, and life is good! I am just plain worn out, back to sleep....
Last night was rough for everyone.
My big sister Xena "The Warrior Cat" passed away. I miss her already.
While we didn't always get along so well, we were really starting to find a nice happy medium (though I still really wanted her to play chase with me!)
Mom and Xena were really close, and sometimes, if I behaved myself, Xena would tell me stories about when they were both single woman living on their own, which seems pretty amazing because I don't think I could survive on my own (and while I love Dad, I don't think he could either!)
Today, the house seems not right. Lonely. I head downstairs and I can still smell her, but I know she is not there. It's going to take some time to wash that out of my mind.
All I can hope is that she is in a better place, where she can lay in the sun all day long..
Goodbye sis.
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