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What's better than 12 of our most popular truffles and caramels in one box? How about two of our 12 most popular truffles and caramels in one box? This collection features 2 each of the following 12 truffles and caramels:
Extra-Bittersweet Truffle:
A decadent dark chocolate experience. An extra-bittersweet dark chocolate ganache, featuring a hint of sweetness, followed by very slight bitter tones, enrobed in even more dark chocolate and hand-decorated with dark chocolate stripes.
Milk Chocolate Gift Truffle:
A gift for your taste buds! Our signature creamy milk chocolate ganache, enrobed in milk chocolate and finished with a hand-painted dark chocolate ribbon.
Honey Vanilla Caramel:
Soft caramel that is slow cooked in an open kettle and flavored with hints of honey and pure Madagascar vanilla, then enrobed in milk chocolate and hand-decorated with dark chocolate stripes.
Baileys Irish Cream Truffle:
Featured on O, the Oprah Magazine's O List. A creamy milk chocolate ganache infused with Bailey's Irish Cream, enrobed in milk chocolate, then hand-decorated with dark chocolate.
French Silk Chocolate Mousse:
A silky whipped dark chocolate mousse enrobed in dark chocolate and finished with a hand-painted milk chocolate design.
Mayan Truffle:
One of our most complex and exotic truffles. A ganache of milk chocolate, cinnamon and crushed roasted almonds, hand dipped in milk chocolate and rolled in sugar and cinnamon.
Ocumarian Truffle:
A single origin truffle with a kick! A ganache of dark chocolate derived from rare and exotic criollo cocoa beans from the Ocumare Valley of Venezuela, infused with ancho and chipotle chiles, resulting in a hint finishing spice, inside a dark chocolate shell bearing Moonstruck Chocolatier's famous crescent moon.
Conquistador Hazelnut Praline:
Small batch copper kettle-cooked caramelized hazelnuts from Oregon's Willamette Valley sit atop dark chocolate Oregon hazelnut praline, all enrobed in dark chocolate and topped with a milk chocolate drizzle.
Pure Gold Truffle:
An intense dark chocolate ganache infused with Drambuie Scottish liqueur and honey, enrobed in dark chocolate.
Vanilla Sea Salt Caramel:
Chewy, tender caramel, slow cooked in an open copper kettle with imported premium Maldonƒ pure flaky sea salt crystals, honey, and Madagascar vanilla, enrobed in milk chocolate and topped with sea salt flakes.
Italia Espresso Truffle:
A bittersweet dark chocolate ganache infused with Italian espresso inside a dark chocolate pyramid that's topped with an ivory chocolate tip.
Clear Creek Pear Brandy Truffle:
A creamy milk chocolate ganache infused with Oregon pear brandy from Portland's Clear Creek Distillery, inside a dark chocolate pear-shaped shell.
Milk Chocolate (sugar, milk, cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, soy lecithin [an emulsifier], vanilla extract), Dark Chocolate (unsweetened chocolate, sugar, cocoa butter, soy lecithin [an emulsifier], vanilla extract), Cream (milk), Corn Syrup, Sugar, Ivory Chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk, soy lecithin [an emulsifier], natural vanilla), Evaporated Milk, Sugar (infused cinnamon), Hazelnut Praline Paste (hazelnuts, sugar, sunflower oil), Caramelized Hazelnuts (hazelnuts, sugar, water, butter [milk], vanilla extract), Butter (milk), Glycerin, Unsweetened Chocolate, Invert Sugar, Clarified Butter (milk fat), Almonds (roasted in vegetable oil [sunflower, coconut, and/or canola oil], salt), Marshmallow Crème (corn syrup, sugar, water, egg albumen, potato starch, vanilla, enzymes), Clear Creek Pear Brandy (reduction), Stabilizer (palm oil, soya lecithin), Water, Natural Flavor (Irish cream [milk]), Non Fat Milk, Sea Salt, Honey, Sorbitol Solution (sorbitol/water), Natural Flavor (espresso paste [coffee bean, canola oil, sugar, natural coffee extractives, soy lecithin]), Vanilla Extract, Enzymes, Dextrose, Natural Flavors (sweet scotch extract, honey, pear brandy extract, whiskey extract), Soy Lecithin (soybean), Cinnamon, Chipotle Pepper, Ancho Pepper, Salt.
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Perfect Mother's Day Gift!
May 20, 2017 | By Nancy OConnell
I sent my 35 year old mother of an active toddler, a box of her favorite chocolates. Moonstruck Chocolates have become my go-to gift for a stressed out Mommy!
hit the spot
Apr 22, 2017 | By dave
important birthday for my spouse and soul mate. ding, ding, ding...winner winner
So Good!
Mar 14, 2017 | By Melissa P
I got these chocolates for hostess gifts for the women throwing me a baby shower. I was so impressed with the presentation, and then I tried the chocolates... they were absolutely perfect. The flavors were well developed and unexpected. I am so pleased I got these as gifts, couldn't have turned out better!
Feb 27, 2017 | By Cindy Disalvo
Wonderful the only chocolate I eat. Yummy
24 Piece truffles
Feb 24, 2017 | By Joe Redinger
Jan 3, 2017 | By Jenny
These chocolates are the absolute best. Makes a great gift!
24 pc. Truffle Collection
Dec 20, 2016 | By Linda Quest
I really like Moonstruck Chocolate, however, I find myself disappointed regarding the value. I spent $60 (with standard shipping) and it just wasn't worth that amount. It was maybe $30 good, but not $60. To be clear, I'm speaking value, rather than quality of the product. The quality is excellent -- it just doesn't seem worth the price.
Moonstruck a "10"
Aug 28, 2016 | By barbara-lee orloff
best chocolates to gift to family and friends.
Truffles = TEN
Aug 27, 2016 | By barbara-lee orloff
All family parties welcomed Moonstruck Truffles and rated them TEN.
Aug 26, 2016 | By Andrea Porterfield
Moonstruck chocolate is one of my absolute favorites! I have shared it with friends and they agree. Thank you.
Loved It.
Jul 28, 2016 | By Steve Brune
Sent as a gift. She loved it. Tell Dan Hossley "HI" for me.
Jun 27, 2016 | By Carol Duncan
I am always amazed by how wonderful and tasty your chocolates are!
Jun 5, 2016 | By Shelley Koutnik
We always select Moonstruck for a perfect cholcolate treat or gift
Absolutely Wonderful
May 26, 2016 | By Kathryn Hood
LOVED them but PLEASE, MILK CHOCOLATE. I had difficulty eating all the dark chocolate.
May 20, 2016 | By Mary Arden
Sent to a friend in Chicago for her 92nd birthday. Told us not to wait until her 93rd to send more!
Apr 24, 2016 | By Sue
Moonstruck is the absolute best chocolate !!
Apr 14, 2016 | By Bob Rich
I was very pleased. You kept me informed about my order and took excellent care in making sure the candy arrived at a warm climate in a solid state. The recipient of the candy said it was wonderful. Thanks. I am a very happy customer.
Mar 30, 2016 | By Ben Day
They're all gone!!! Hey, the top rating is one star. I'd reverse the star field (gravitational waves!).
Always Splendid
Feb 11, 2016 | By Christie Anderson
Love them all. You can't go wrong with this assortment. I also love the packaging for gift giving. Beautiful inside and out.
Loving chocolate
Nov 17, 2015 | By Jan Hankins
Order was gladly received by my brother on the occasion of his recovery from surgery. Chocolate will definitely help!
Best Chocolate EVER!
Oct 22, 2015 | By Dyneen
Buy for all my thank you, birthday & sympathy gifts!!
Deliciously received!
Oct 20, 2015 | By Deborah A Pinkerton
I ordered this as a gift and my sister loves your truffles!
May 20, 2015 | By Terry Jess
These chocolates were ordered for my mother in honor of Mother's Day: well received and delicious to all with whom she shared her bounty.
The perfect gift for my sister's birthday!
May 14, 2015 | By Jennifer
My sister moved out of state and I wasn't able to see her in person for her birthday, but wanted to do something special for her. She absolutely loved this box of chocolates! They shipped quickly, were perfectly packaged arrived safely, and beautifully wrapped. She was thrilled and loved her box of Moonstruck. Thank you for a great product and wonderful service!
Feb 18, 2015 | By Lynda
OMG, this company makes the best chocolates I have ever had in my whole life. Do not hesitate getting any candy from this company - every piece is a dream and each hand decorated candy is like a perfect gift all in itself! YUM.
Dec 31, 2014 | By ej
The chocolates were exquisite! They were gorgeous to look at, and delicious--not too sweet. We received a box from a client and we were delighted. In fact, we turned right around and ordered several boxes to give as gifts to our other clients.
Dec 30, 2014 | By john cobb
great chocolate. Our friend thought it was the best she ever had. Good work.
Struck by Moonstruck!
Oct 1, 2014 | By Julie Clement
I recently discovered "Moonstruck," hand crafted chocolates while visiting Portland. They were so delectible, I immediately order another box for my husband to celebrate our wedding anniversary!! The packaging is as beautiful as its contents.
Job promotion
Sep 26, 2014 | By Cheri
I sent Moonstruck Chocolates to my daughter's office to congratulate her on a big project she managed. She shared her gift. Just heard she got a promotion. Could the chocolates have helped? I'm sure they did!!!
Best gift to give!
Sep 18, 2014 | By Barbara Berry-Bailey
This was a gift for the staff at the hosptial at which I recently stayed. They love it and they love me even more, now!
Aug 13, 2014 | By Beverly Schwartz
Recipient very pleased with candy and with delivery. Will order again.
Jun 22, 2014 | By H
I ordered this as a gift; it was delivered on the day I requested, and the recipient very much enjoyed the chocolates. I was satisfied with the service, thanks!
Great Corporate Thank You Gift
May 15, 2014 | By Nancy Boyd
Easy website, fast delivery and always a hit with the recipient!
Thank you
Mar 15, 2014 | By Dan
Incredible customer service
customer service
Feb 7, 2014 | By Josh
I have waited over a week for delivery, when I call I wait on hold forever with one caller in front of me, then it's two callers. I ship items for a living and an item this size should ship faster than 7 days fir a reasonable price. I paid 50 for 24 pieces of chocolate, I think the service should match the quality of chocolate, which I know from experience it's excellent. This is a special product I order only for my wife's birthday which was 2 days ago. This is my last order.
Office Manager
Jan 30, 2014 | By Julie Harden
Moonstruck is our new favorite client gift! We shipped gift boxes to over 40 clients at Christmas and recently sent a large box to a client as a thank you gift. Our clients were thrilled...as are we! It is easy to order online and the staff we have encountered were top notch. Thank you!
High Quality Chocolate
Jan 26, 2014 | By Diane
Moonstruck chocolate has a variety of delicious flavors and all are wonderful. I always send a box to a dear friend who is a chocolate snob and LOVES Moonstruck. I do wish I could order a customized box with my choice of chocolates. I would like to have more than 2 of some flavors
Dec 29, 2013 | By Kristin
These chocolate truffles were a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law who is out of state. I have not seen or tasted the truffles first hand, but they must be awesome, because she has hidden them from the rest of the family ;)
First Order
Dec 28, 2013 | By Robert Todd
Chocolates were as delicious as the photos looked. Recipients loved the beautiful packaging as well as the contents. I will be looking for other reasons to send from here!
Arrived Perfectly
Dec 15, 2013 | By Terry
Great gift
Good comments
Dec 3, 2013 | By Lori
I sent these as a gift and the person receiving them emailed to let me know how yummy they were. I didn't taste them so that's as close to knowing what they tasted like!!
chocolate lover
Oct 30, 2013 | By lucy
This is absolutely the best chocolate in the world. I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves chocolate.
Nothing but the Best
Oct 28, 2013 | By Virginia Albano
Moonstruck chocolates are the best! They are my favorite hands down. I used to buy Godiva but not any more.
truffle collection
Oct 17, 2013 | By antonio
Best on the market, best service and best product, we are repeat customers for over 5 years and love the product
Sweet Gift
Oct 6, 2013 | By Kate Renouard
I sent this box as a condolence gift. My friend loved them SO much, Moonstrucks her new comfort food.


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Late goals from Emond Protain and Bilal Butt saw Cockfosters move into the third round of the London Senior Cup after recording victory at Barkingside.
The visitors controlled the majority of the opening period with Adem Ali bringing a smart save from the home keeper.
Bryan Mooney also came close as Cockfosters dominated the majority of the half with Barkingside restricted to long hopeful passes forward.
In the second period the Fosters continued to be frustrated but 19 minutes before full time the deadlock was broken.
Good build up work from Ali and Protain saw the latter find space to fire home.
The hosts didn't look like getting into the game after going behind and Cockfosters sealed the win in the final minute as a flowing move saw Butt finish well.
The win sees Cockfosters travel to Corinthian Casuals in the next round.
On Saturday, the Reds eased into the second round proper of the FA Vase after securing a 3-0 away victory against Clapton.
The visitors started strongly and went ahead in the 19th minute as Butt put Alan Bolger through on goal and he coolly lifted the ball over the onrushing keeper.
Cockfosters continued to control the contest and nearly doubled their lead before the interval as Conor Staples saw a shot pushed onto the crossbar.
After the restart, Fosters did find the second goal as Butt found space in the area to convert Jack Cooks' cross.
The scoring was rounded off with 15 minutes remaining as Butt fired home to see the Reds into the second round.


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Word on the street is that YouTube will soon launch a streaming music service. Many people, apparently, already use YouTube to listen to music, particularly teenagers, as that Fortune piece points out. My ITworld colleague Pete Smith rightfully scratched his head and wondered why anybody would currently be using YouTube as a music service, given its unreliable performance and the existence of so many good streaming music services such as Pandora and Spotify.
Well, it turns out that at least one person who's pretty far removed from his teenaged years (about 23 years removed, give or take) also uses YouTube pretty heavily as a music streaming service: me. YouTube, truth be told, has become my primary source of music listening whenever I'm sitting at my laptop, which is just about all day long during the week. The basic reasons are because it offers an amazing amount of hard-to-find performances and recordings, all on demand, and some nice (and unique) features for managing playlists.
I'm your basic classic rock fan. While my own digital library of music already contains the vast majority of studio albums put out by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, et. al., YouTube gives me a seemingless supply of live concerts, TV performances and alternative or in-progress versions of songs, all of which I love. If I want to listen to the studio version of Tommy, I'll pull it up on iTunes. But if I want to hear the Who performing it live in 1970, YouTube it is.
Also, despite the generally crummy YouTube user interface, their playlists do offer some nice functionality. I recently discovered a handy feature that allows me to specify the starting and ending play times within each video in a playlist. For example, if I've found 10 different bootleg recording of a band in concert, and I want a playlist of performances of a single song within each of those concerts, I can create that playlist. A bit of a niche feature, sure, but I've been really enjoying it.
Of course, there are still a whole lot of drawbacks to using YouTube as a music service. The audio quality can be bad (particularly when you're listening to concert bootlegs). Content you save in a playlist can often disappear due to copyright violations (Bob Dylan's music regularly disappears - until someone else uploads it again). YouTube is also particularly bad, in my experience, for mobile listening. I never use it when I'm out and about; instead I dip into my own library or turn on Pandora.
Maybe YouTube's new music streaming service will make it more viable for mobile listening. If so, it may really become my primary music source. Who knows? In the meantime, when I'm at my computer, I'll continue to use it to get lost in vintage Pink Floyd bootlegs.
What are you favorite ways to listen to music these days? What streaming service do you use most? Is YouTube one of them? Don't be shy; share it in the comments.
Read more of Phil Johnson's #Tech blog and follow the latest IT news at ITworld. Follow Phil on Twitter at @itwphiljohnson. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.


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NEW WATERFORD — A 45-year-old New Waterford man will appear in Sydney provincial court this morning to face drug-related charges, after the Cape Breton Regional Police street crime unit searched his home Tuesday.
Hugh Alexander MacKenzie is charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking in hydromorphone.
Police executed a search warrant under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, seizing a quantity of hydromorphone and arresting the man. He was later remanded to the Cape Breton Correctional Centre until his scheduled court appearance.


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Concert Ensembles
The concert ensembles within the ASU Band Program provide both music and non-music majors the opportunity to perform a broad spectrum of the finest repertoire for our medium. Course credit is available for all of the concert ensembles. Please click on each of the links below to learn more about each ensemble.
Wind Ensemble
The ASU Wind Ensemble is comprised of approximately 50 of the finest graduate and undergraduate student musicians at Arkansas State University. The configuration of the wind ensemble is unique in that one or sometimes two musicians play each individual part written by the composer. This defining characteristic makes the ensemble quite flexible and ideal for exploring a wide variety of instrumental combinations and musical styles. While the majority of participants are music majors, non-music majors compete equally for positions within the ensemble. The Wind Ensemble performs two to three concerts on-campus each semester. Auditions are held the first week of classes in August for the Fall semester and the last week of November for the Spring semester.
Timothy Oliver conducts the Wind Ensemble, which meets on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the Fall Semester and Monday through Friday during the Spring Semester.
Symphonic Band
The ASU Symphonic Band is comprised of accomplished wind and percussion players including music majors and non-majors from throughout the university. The band, which performs one concert in the fall and two concerts during the spring semester, performs traditional and contemporary repertoire that uses full instrumentation. Auditions for the ASU Symphonic Band are held during the first week of each semester.
Sarah Labovitz conducts the Symphonic Band, which meets:
Fall Semester - Mondays
Spring Semester - Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
Jazz Studies
The Jazz Band is one of the University's many strong and diverse ensembles. The band performs the full gamut of jazz literature from dance hits of the 1920s to World Music and Jazz fusion written by today's most cutting edge composers the strength of the Jazz Band always shows in performance.
Although today's ASU Jazz band is offered for credit, it is still the students' love of jazz that forms the blueprint for the ensemble. The band even continues to play some of the music that was a part of early ensembles. Currently under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Carroll the band takes advantage of its rich heritage while moving forward and offering courses in jazz education. Students interested in jazz at ASU have the opportunity to become members of one of two jazz ensembles, as well as small groups that perform throughout the region. In addition students have the opportunity to study jazz improvisation in private lessons. These lessons cover jazz ear training as well as piano techniques. Students interested in jazz can also take ASU's Jazz History course and advanced music students can also study jazz at the graduate level.
For information please contact Dr. Kenneth Carroll.
The ASU Concert Orchestra performs the highest quality orchestral literature possible. Music is taken from the symphonic repertoire of Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Sibelius, Elgar, Bizet, Dvorak, Copland, Rimsky-Korsakov and others.
The 50-member ensemble includes solo wind players on each individual part. String players from the community and area high schools also participate. The orchestra performs one formal concert each semester, a Christmas concert in the Fall and an opera in the Spring.
Fall: Monday 3:30-5:00, Thursday 6:00-7:30; Spring: Monday 4:00-5:30, Thursday 6:00-7:30
Open to all students by invitation
For more information, contact Dr. Neale Bartee.
Other Ensembles
In addition to the more traditional large ensembles, our students also take advantage of the performance opportunities listed below. Some of these ensemble are coached faculty and some are led by students.
Trombone Choir
Brass Choir
Brass Quintet
Guitar Orchestra
Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble


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Homemade Blinky Christmas Ornaments
Last year I decided to jazz up our family Christmas cards with LED power, inspired by this article. While I was totally happy with the cards I sent out, I was wanting something a bit more this year so I've decided to take it one step further and create Christmas ornaments for our family that will be sent with this year's Christmas cards.
I had a few criteria that drove my design for the ornament not to mention I had a very short timeframe so simplicity was important:
1. Have the same shape as a typical Christmas ornament (it is an ornament after all).
2. Lots of LEDs, folks in my family love LED blinky things.
3. Battery powered and last as long as possible on battery.
4. Hackable. I wanted the board to be easily hacked by family and friends that were so inclined.
5. Maximize the visual appearance of the front of the board (no through-hole components), I was also going to put a Christmas message on the front in silkscreen.
After a few hours piecing together the schematic, I was pretty happy with the reChristmasOrnamentsults. Ironically when I went to start the board design I ran into a simple but problematic issue of how to evenly place the LEDs on the round board, being the true geek that I am, I wrote a C# app which you can see in the ZIP file attached to this post. It gave me the x and y coordinates for each LED given the radius, origin and degree. Being late at night when I finally got around to laying out the board, this was a true life saver!
Once I had the LEDs placed, I decided to go back and add some blue and white LEDs on the neck of the board to enhance the "blinky" factor. Skip ahead 4 more hours and I had finished the board layout. I always give myself a day or two after the board is done before I come back to it and QA the layout, saves me tons of time staring at a problem and not seeing it! My QA found several issues and once resolved I sent it off to the boys over at BatchPCB.com for fabrication.
Fabrication typically takes three weeks or more but I was nicely surprised when my boards shipped after only 7 days and being the OCD type I am, I had to assembly one of the boards as soon as they came in the mail. It took me about 3 hours to assemble the first board, I was being overly cautious and deliberate in each solder and relearning how to use my hot air rework station. The total time for the first board included soldering up my homemade ATMega TQFP programming board which I used to burn the Arduino Uno boot loader onto the ATMega chips I had leftover from a previous project. I'll post about it in more detail later, I have a few minor tweaks to make to the design before I think I'll be totally happy with it, but it served me well for this project.
With the boot loader loaded, the final test would be attempting to load a sketch on it using my FTDI cable. To my total elation, it loaded the sketch without issue and my blinky utopia began! I was absolutely filled with joy when those LEDs started blinking away, who knew something so trivial could be so satisfying. I learned a lot with this project and I gained some important confidence in my design and layout skills which should serve me well with my next project.
As for battery life, I've adjusted some of the animations so that I could eliminate having all the LEDs on for extended periods of time and found that I was able to leave the ornament on constantly and the batteries died (the board actually froze) after about 40 hours. I thought about putting in a sleep mode after 6 hours of use or something but I think I'll pass and allow the user to just remember to shut them off, heck those inclined could do it themselves!
Well, I'm giving out the ornaments on Thursday (Thanksgiving) so that friends and family can enjoy them on their trees this holiday season, I sure do hope they enjoy them as much as I enjoyed building and designing them! Check out a video of them in action below!
Arduino Clone Powered RGB Keyboard Light
I recently remodeled my office as I'll be working from home full-time starting in March, it's amazing what you can do with $1k dollars at Ikea! Anyhow, love my office setup, especially my desk but I had one nagging issue, I couldn't see the keys of my keyboard easily when the office was dark. My wife subltly suggested I get some sort of light to put underneath my desk to illuminate the keyboard. Ah, how I love my wife and her fantastic ideas...
Obviously, I wouldn't settle for some store bought device, I'm a self-declared "Maker" after all! After several days of tossing around ideas in my head, I decided it'd be super neato to have an RGB LED board under my desk and have it connected and powered by my computer. I'd then have some software sit in my system tray so I could control the board (colors and etc). Yeah, that's exactly what I needed!
So, yesterday I decided I'd set out to build it with only the parts I had on hand, I'm having a baby and thusly on a very restricted hobby budget!
Since I'd be etching the board myself, I knew I'd use through hole components to make life easier and I centered the project around an ATMega328 since I wanted to use serial communication with my PC and the quickest path was to use Arduino programming language (using a FTDI cable). I also wanted to utilize some 5mm common annode RGB leds I had on hand from a previous project but I wanted at least 5 to make sure I had good illumination on the keyboard and I wanted to use PWM to allow color mixing...well, a few 2907A transistors and a dozen or more resistors later I had a schematic I could be proud of.
The layout of the board was easy, I had a 3"x4" single sided copper photoetch board, so I laid all my components out to fit the whole board (I didn't want to cut it). I also learned the hard way that small traces are a pain in the butt when etching your own boards so I set my traces to 24mil, genrously large enough to not create issues during the etch. I didn't get any pictures of the board before it was mounted, sorry. You can always refer to the board image in the zip file attached to this post.
Once I had soldered all my components on the board, I threw in an ATMega328 micro that already had the Arduino bootloaded burned. Hooked up my FTDI cable and my test sketch worked flawlessly. Whew, nothing like going from concept to finished board with no testing to get the nerves going!
With the board testing out good, I set about coding up a C# app to control it. I had previously worked with serial comunications using C# and an Arduino which I talked about in this post so the C# code was really more about figuring out how to get a sys-tray app working as I wanted than worrying with the serial communications. I think it took me about 2 hours from start to finish to get things to a point I was happy with (nice and quick not nice and neat). I'm a developer by trade so I knew all along this would be the easiest part for me.
Well, a very quick project for me, one I'm quite proud of actually. As always I've attached high resolution pictures, eagle schematics, Arduino sketch and this time the Visual Studio solution in the zip below.
Drop me a note if you have any questions about this project, I think it's a fun and easy project for folks to test out thier etching and coding skillz!
Check out the videos below to see the software and board in action!


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BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Singles by sophomore third baseman Brittany Bruce (Lumberton, N.C.) and junior second baseman Shaela Churchill (Winterville, N.C.) placed the potential game-winning run at second base with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but South Carolina was able to escape Amanda Littlejohn Stadium with a 2-1 victory on Tuesday evening on a hard grounder picked up by the first baseman.
Campbell (17-9) put the first run on the scoreboard in the third with a solo homer by freshman Courtney Klingler (Alvin, Texas). The eighth home run of the season for the Alvin, Texas, native tied the team-lead in home runs with junior first baseman Raven Lee (Battleboro, N.C.).
Senior Brittany Arnn (Danville, Va.) tossed a complete-game seven hitter for the Camels with one strikeout against South Carolina (17-9). Both runs the Gamecocks scored in the fifth were unearned.
A triple in the fifth by Alaynie Page in the fifth plated the game-winning run for the Gamecocks as leadoff hitter Sammie Garcie came around to touch the plate. The first run for South Carolina scored by Codee Yeske happened the batter before on a passed ball.
The Gamecocks were paced offensively by catcher Shelby Gonzales with a pair of singles. Audrey Broyles (6-2) notched the victory for South Carolina with four hits in five innings, while Katie Marks registered her first save of the season, allowing two hits in the finale two frames.
The Camels were able to end a bases loaded South Carolina rally in the fourth with a double-play ball that was hit to Churchill at second and turned by sophomore shortstop Ericka Nesbitt (Salisbury, N.C.). Campbell just missed a second opportunity in the sixth on a similar play, but the batter beat the ball to first by a half-step.
A total of 14 assists, a season-high, were logged by Campbell with Nebitt pacing the team with four, while Arnn, Churchill and Bruce each tallied three.
Campbell returns to the Big South slate on Friday with a 2 p.m. doubleheader at preseason-favorite Coastal Carolina.


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Oakton (OKN)
The information technology consultancy gained 4.4 per cent to $2.14 in early trade. It's too early to say if the stock has found a near-term bottom, though. Given its underperformance over the past year, it is a candidate for tax loss selling.
Uncertainty about its outlook has prompted some brokers to lower their earnings forecast. Merrill Lynch knocked off 3¢ from its earnings per share (EPS) forecast to 13¢ for the current financial year due to higher than expected legal costs relating to the Tenix court case, following an update from Oakton.
LINWAR Securities trimmed its EPS estimates for 2010-11 after revising expected legal expenses to $3 million from $2.1 million for the six months to June 30 this year as the arbitration process is dragging on longer than anticipated.
The dispute stems from Tenix terminating a subcontract for the provision of services by Oakton and suing for damages early last year. Oakton is countersuing Tenix for wrongfully repudiating the subcontract.
This is not the only issue dogging the stock. Oakton issued a shock profit warning in November last year due to poor demand for its services in Victoria that was partly blamed on the state election. Its stock fell by more than 15 per cent on that day.
It's continued to trend lower since but the silver lining is that Oakton is starting to look oversold even though both issues have yet to totally wash through.
Its management tried to reassure investors that conditions are gradually improving and brokers are anticipating a material uplift in earnings for 2011-12. But investors are unlikely to give management the benefit of the doubt until it posts concrete evidence that the worst is behind it.
It also doesn't help confidence that the earnings growth estimates for the next financial year varies greatly between brokers, with some predicting an EPS growth of over 50 per cent for the period, while Macquarie Equities Research has only pencilled in a 12 per cent uplift for the period. The average broker growth estimate is 20 per cent.
Brokers polled on Bloomberg are evenly divided between a "buy" and "hold" recommendation on the stock with a an average price target of $2.58 a share.
InvoCare (IVC)
Another stock that has enjoyed a bounce today is funeral service company
Value investors have started taking a second look at InvoCare as the stock pulled back from last December's record high of $7.66 that is partly driven by worries that the competition watchdog would knock back its proposal to buy over New Zealand's largest funeral services company Bledisloe Group.
Funeral services is a fragmented industry and InvoCare is Australia's largest in the sector with a market share that is well ahead of the competition.
But there are reasons to think the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission may not take a hard line against the deal, as InvoCare is not immune from competitive pressures despite its market dominance.
The company's cemeteries and crematoria volumes have fallen around 1 per cent in the past four months to end April due to increased competition in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
It should also bring comfort to investors to note that Credit Suisse believes InvoCare is still good value even if the Bledisloe deal falls through, as the earnings contribution from the acquisition is not reflected in its target price of $8.10 on InvoCare.
"Of course, should the ACCC decision go against InvoCare, market disappointment could see further weakness regardless of our view," said the broker. "[But] such an outcome would represent a buying opportunity."
Credit Suisse has upgrade the stock to "outperform" from "neutral". InvoCare added 10¢ this morning to $6.70 and is up close to 3 per cent since it closed at a more-than-six-month low of $6.53 last Wednesday.
The Australian Financial Review


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Authorities have reopened a Southern California freeway, nearly 12 hours after two fiery crashes that killed one person and injured nine others.
The California Highway Patrol reopened all eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 in Pomona Tuesday morning.
The crashes involved a big-rig truck and nine cars shut down the lanes shortly after 8 p.m.
Officials say one crash involved a big-rig loaded with furniture and four cars, while a separate crash involved four other vehicles, although details remain unclear.
A car trapped under the truck exploded in flames. The truck also spilled about 100 gallons of diesel fuel.
One person died. Authorities say four others remained in critical condition Tuesday, while five received minor to moderate injuries.


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Abe, have you ever heard of HU? Horton Hears a HU? WHO are you, HU HU?
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"At 6:26pm July 3rd 14000BCE the Sun set in the West. Exactly twelve hours later at 6:26am July 4th 14000BCE the Sun rose in the East! Exactly twelve hours after that, at 6:26pm July 4th 14000BCE, the Sun set in the West. The cycle was broken at sunrise the following morning at 6:25am; eleven hours and fifty nine minutes following sunset the previous evening.
The crucial dates are July 3rd and July 4th 14000BCE. (Remember that these dates are using the Gregorian Calendar.)
Furthermore, at the Giza Plateau around 11:57pm to midnight on July 3rd 14000BCE the Celestial Sphinx could again be observed sitting on the horizon gazing towards the East where his final Act of Creation would be born the following Dawn."
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July 3 and 4 were the dates of the battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln's famous address and death of the rebellion against the "Union".
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formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually stee
It resonates at a specific constant pitch when set vibrating by striking it against a surface or with an object
, and emits a pure musical tone after waiting a moment to allow some high overtones to die out.
The pitch that a particular tuning fork generates depends on the length of the two prongs
. Its main use is as a standard of pitch to tune other musical instruments.
Wikipedia Gateway Arch
Both the width and height of the arch are 630 feet (192 m).[9][57] The arch is the tallest memorial in the United States and the tallest stainless steel monument in the world.[65]
The cross-sections of the arch's legs are equilateral triangles, narrowing from 54 feet (16 m) per side at the bases to 17 feet (5.2 m) per side at the top.[66] Each wall consists of a
stainless steel skin
covering a sandwich of two carbon-steel walls with reinforced concrete in the middle from ground level to 300 feet (91 m), with
carbon steel to the peak
The arch is hollow
to accommodate a unique tram system that takes visitors to an observation deck at the top.[6]
In January 1970, amid frigid temperatures, the arch shrank 3 inches (7.6 cm). Jefferson National Expansion Memorial superintendent Harry Pfanz said the contraction was normal in cold weather and that safety was not at risk.[68]
The structural load is supported by a stressed-skin design.[69] Each leg is embedded in 25,980 short tons (23,570 t) of concrete 44 feet (13 m) thick[57] and 60 feet (18 m) deep.[70] Twenty feet of the foundation is in bedrock.[70]
The arch is resistant to earthquakes
[71] and is designed to sway up to 9 inches (23 cm) in either direction while withstanding winds up to 150 miles per hour (240 km/h).[72] The structure weighs 42,878 short tons (38,898 t), of which concrete comprises 25,980 short tons (23,570 t); structural steel interior, 2,157 short tons (1,957 t); and the
stainless steel panels that cover the exterior of the arch, 886 short tons
(804 t).[60] This amount of stainless steel is the most used in any one project in history.[65][72] The base of each leg at ground level had to have an engineering tolerance of 1⁄64 inches (0.40 mm) or the two legs would not meet at the top.[9]
[edit]Mathematical elements
The arch is a weighted catenary—its legs are wider than its upper section.
The geometric form of the structure was set by mathematical equations provided to Saarinen by Hannskarl Bandel. Bruce Detmers and other architects expressed the geometric form in blueprints with this equation
where fc = 625.0925 ft (191 m) is the maximum height of centroid, Qb = 1,262.6651 sq ft (117 m2) is the maximum cross sectional area of arch at base, Qt= 125.1406 sq ft (12 m2) is the minimum cross sectional area of arch at top, and L = 299.2239 ft (91 m) is the half width of centroid at the base.
This hyperbolic cosine function describes the shape of a catenary. A chain that supports only its own weight forms a catenary; in this configuration, the chain is strictly in tension.[74][75] An inverted catenary arch that supports only its own weight is strictly in compression, with no shear. The catenary arch is the stablest of all other arches since "the thrust passes down through the legs and is absorbed in the foundations, whereas in other arches, the pressure tends to force the legs apart."[15]
The Gateway Arch itself is not a common catenary, but a more general curve of the form y=Acosh(Bx).[76] This makes it an inverted weighted catenary—the arch is thicker at its two bases than at its vertex.[
43][77] Saarinen chose a weighted catenary over a normal catenary curve because it looked less pointed and less steep. In 1959, he caused some confusion about the actual shape of the arch when he wrote, "
This arch is not a true parabola, as is often stated. Instead it is a catenary curve—the curve of a hanging chain—a curve in which the forces of thrust are continuously kept within the center of the legs of the arch.
" William V. Thayer, a professor of mathematics at St. Louis Community College, later wrote to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch calling attention to the fact that the structure was a weighted catenary
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With the new seasons of "Game of Thrones" and "Orphan Black" arriving too late to be eligible for this year's Emmys, there are seven spots opening in the drama acting categories just between those two shows. Add in last year's supporting actress winner Maggie Smith from the dearly departed "Downton Abbey," and you have a forced mandate for change this year.
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Over the past few days, I've done some writing expressing concern regarding some revelations that Jeff Sharlet will be discussing extensively in his new book "The Family"--including information regarding apparently widespread and systemic use of pyramid-scheme-esque "cell church" groups, of which Hillary Clinton would appear to have been inducted through at least one, possibly two, levels of indoctrination within at least two separate cells within the group. There's also some real concern that some of the same "bad habits" of this particular type of religious pyramid scheme may be showing up in "The Family's" cells as well--one of which we'll discuss today.
The news re cell-church groups in "The Family" is probably not going to be the only bombshell released by Sharlet's upcoming book. My question is, what has "The Family" so spooked that they've apparently sealed all recent records about the group even to their own members?
What has "The Family" so spooked?
Up until 2003, "The Family" did have an archive where people could look up the history of the org at Wheaton College, a private Christian liberal-arts college in Illinois. Specifically, the archives of "The Family" were open to anyone who cared to visit the archives of the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College's school of evangelism.
This changed rather suddenly when one of the first articles Sharlet wrote regarding "The Family" saw print--specifically, "Jesus Plus Nothing" (which was, incidentially, in large part the article that broke the "private face" of "The Family" to the world) was published by Harper's Magazine back in March 2003.
"Jesus Plus Nothing" was the first article to extensively document "The Family" and its political connections--and it suddenly had the group running scared.
All of seven months after the article had seen print, "The Family" locked down its archives to an unprecedented extent--in fact, to an extent that even the Scientologists haven't taken:
Collection 459
[November 7, 2007]
Fellowship Foundation; 1935-
Records; 1937-1988; n.d.
592 boxes (592 DC; 240 cubic feet); Audio Tapes, Films, Negatives, Photographs
In November 2003, after consultation with the board of the Fellowship Foundation, the Archives placed the following restriction on the use of this collection:
All folders with paper records less than twenty-five years old are closed to users until January 1st of the year following the 25th anniversary of the creation of the youngest document in that file, except to those users with the written permission of the President of the Fellowship Foundation. This restriction applies to everyone, including Foundation staff and associates.
Example: A folder containing material dated no later 1977 would be open January 1, 2003.
Researchers use this collection by the box instead of by the folder. Restricted folders will be removed from boxes before they are given to researchers.
Yes, you are reading this right--not even known members and elites of "The Family" have access to their archives after 1983 at present without written permission of the (figurehead) President of the Fellowship Foundation--archives which include practically all recent political activity, and permission which is unlikely to be granted except to people writing favourably about the group.
The group literally has locked down their records to even prevent their own from looking into the archives and discovering potential skunkworks; "The Family" locked things down in part to prevent anyone from confirming Sharlet's research--or doing research on their own.
Our question is--just what has Sharlet written that has "The Family" so panicked as to put restrictions on their own archives akin to what the US government uses for information they want to keep even more restricted than "top secret"? Why hide the info even from their own membership?
The list of information that is now inaccessible includes many of the audio reels of the National Prayer Breakfast, as well as--interestingly (and possibly one reason the archives were sealed) the records regarding the sale of the apartment complex "The Family" rented out for its "member" elite:
1994 Fellowship House in Washington, DC, sold. The organizational center (although that is perhaps too formal a designation for a very low key presence) for the movement was at The Cedars on 24th Street in Arlington, which the Foundation had owned for several years. Wallace Haines retired and returned to the United States, although he remained active in the organization's work.
Another reason they may be wishing to "hide the archives" is because of some very interesting info on "members", "associates", and apparently a core cadre of "The Family" that gives info about its cell-group structure:
The headquarters of the fellowship was known as Fellowship House. This was not so much an office building as a place for seminars, dinners, Bible studies, and informal meetings of all types. This section contains several folders of information on the administration and activities of Fellowship House.
There are several folders on Core, which is the name given to the group of fellowship leaders that got together regularly to pray and plan the fellowship's activities. Similarly, several files with "Group" or "Groups" in the title are brought together under "G," these contain information on the early days of the fellowship and the formation of prayer groups around the country. Except for Vereide, Halverson and Douglas Coe (for each of whom, there is a series) all the people involved prominently in the fellowship at one time or another, such as James Bell, Frank Carlson, Chuck Colson, Billy Graham, Wallace Haines, Mark Hatfield, Fred Heyn, Karlis Leyasmeyer, Albert Quie, and Paul Temple have one or more folders of material in this section.
(Halverson was the leader of "The Fellowship" in between Vereide and Coe.)
The list of names is interesting--we've discussed Chuck Colson before in regards to promotion of "faith-based coercion" with literal captive audiences, and Billy Graham's name is not a surprise to see there. Some of the names are more obscure, but have some particularly telling links--Karlis Leyasmeyer, for instance, used to give "stomp the commies for Christ" talks and openly promoted his links to "The Family Foundation" under its previous d/b/a "International Christian Leadership" as well as a Campus Crusade-esque group called "Youth For Christ" (essentially YFC was Billy Graham's answer to Campus Crusade).
One bit that I'm surprised they weren't able to squelch was information regarding a possible steeplejack attempt on the Jaycees:
For much of its history, particularly in the 1960s and '70s, the fellowship had a close relationship with the Junior Chamber of Commerce or Jaycees, both the United States and the International branches. The groups planned various joint events together and supplied speakers for each other's conferences. Material on this relationship is scattered throughout the collection, but a great deal is in boxes 415-419.
One thing that they almost undoubtedly were trying to squelch was info on Douglas Coe:
VII. Douglas Coe. Boxes 512-540. Among the materials in this section are correspondence on most aspects of the Foundation's work; minutes of the boards of various fellowship organizations; briefing letters sent to Core members about fellowship activities; Core planning materials; file on the formal organization of Prison Fellowship; materials on retreats Coe participated in; files on the various international trips he took, plans for a worldwide call to prayer including among other Presidents Jimmy Carter and Daniel Moi and Pope John Paul II.
For that matter, they may well have been trying to hide info on the "Core" members:
VIII. Board Materials. Boxes 541-568. These files contain minutes, bylaw, executive committee materials, and reports for the various overlapping organizations that, in one sense, made of the fellowship. This includes ICL, ICCL, Fellowship Foundation, Fellowship Council, Leadership Council, and Fellowship House. There is also a great deal of information on the history of the fellowship as well as Core materials, a policy handbook, from the French ICL a mimeographed manuscript by Pierre Tillard de Chardin entitled "Le Coeur de la Matiere", and some tax records.
Of course, one can understand just why "The Family" might be running scared. After Sharlet's initial article "Jesus Plus Nothing" came out, Lara Lakes Jordan found the tax records for "Fellowship House" and outed the six Congressmen living there (this is part of why "C Street Foundation" was, likely, organised as a ministry--to take advantage of the "church form 990 loophole" to avoid further embarrassing revelations).
What we do know so far is that in 1972, the group reorganised under a largely cell-based "decentralised" structure--in order to make it harder to shut down (this has been compared by Sharlet to the cells used by Communist groups; I myself compare it to the "leaderless resistance" tactic used by "Christian Patriot" militia groups, and both the militias and "The Family" likely borrowed it from neopentecostal dominionists and their initial use of cell-church pyramids to set up "cuckoo congregations" in mainstream churches) and harder to trace where all the money is going. Researchers have noted that by 1985 "The Fellowship Foundation" had over 150 ministries either receiving funds from it or as active "Family" frontgroups proper; part of why "The Family" may have sealed its records is in an attempt to prevent people from following their documentation to see what groups got which funding and which groups are overt fronts.
At any rate...I'm already very, very interested in just WHAT Sharlet has written that has "The Family" so very worried.
More worries regarding possible coercive tactics?
One thing that has generally been regarded as a danger sign by experts in coercive religious groups is the use of compartmentalised info--that is, only certain levels within the group are privy to certain info about it. It's considered a danger sign for two reasons--one, you can't do a full evaluation on whether you want to be in the group unless you're already in it; secondly, it makes things easy to hide from newer recruits (including some of the potentially more harmful stuff).
In fact, one of the more extensive tests of "coerciveness" of groups--Steven Hassan's BITE Model--has an entire section on this, the "Information Control" axis, that in two separate sections describes how groups using a "cell church" structure can be intrinsically abusive:
II. Information Control
1. Use of deception
a. Deliberately holding back information
b. Distorting information to make it acceptable
c. Outright lying
. . .
3. Compartmentalization of information; Outsider vs. Insider doctrines
a. Information is not freely accessible
b. Information varies at different levels and missions within pyramid
c. Leadership decides who "needs to know" what
Since 2003, "The Family" has met both of these criteria--largely in reaction to the writing of Jeff Sharlet. Not only do members typically deny the existence of the organisation outright (or at least did, until recently); not only does the group have documented use of cell groups and restriction of even reading of their own Bibles; not only does the group have documented and extensive links with other promoters of highly coercive tactics--but now we must add "restriction of info even to its own members" to the list of potential coercive tactics.
More and more, evidence is pointing to not only political manipulation by "The Family"--but there are more and more signs of potential abuse of its own members. This is something I desperately hope is wrong--but the more I read, and the more I dig, the more I do become concerned. (The fact that even other members of "The Family" are not allowed access to the archives is especially damning to me--if the group is worried about researchers, they could lock down the archives to non-"Family" members, but this points to the group being very afraid that someone in the group might hear something unsavory and do some digging themselves.)
Again, we wonder--just what has "The Family" so shook up about the fact that even their own "friends" are now feared as wanting to look behind the curtain?
And to you, Mr. Sharlet--thank you, again, for proving that The Truth Will Out. You've apparently done some good work, if they're *that* scared.


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Just got XBMC on my iMac and so far I love it. I'm using Aeon Nox at the moment, I installed Aeon MQ2 as well but I much prefer Nox. It has one problem though, in showcase, my preferred view the film covers take a while to load. As you scroll through the covers they flicker before settling on the right one, this doesn't happen in MQ2 I've seen this problem happen to others while searching it but it's hard to search for the right thing. When scrolling fast through the movies (holding down the button) the whole thing messes up completely, both Nox and MQ2.
Is this a fixable problem or just a normal glitch? my computer isn't that slow so i wouldn't have thought that would be the problem. Cheers for any help, if i can fix this then XBMC is pretty much perfect.
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The loading can be considered normal, that is to say, I know why it happens. To prevent the videolibrary hanging 10 sec on opening the window the thumbs are loaded in background. So there is a change that everything on screen is already loaded but the thumbs in showcase are not.
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Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Felix Hernandez's perfect game is that it's missing that one play – the memorable defensive effort that saved his shot at history.
So, that begs the question of how dominant the Mariners ace was and -- has it really come to this with perfect games – where his ranks with the other 22 in baseball history.
Hernandez struck out 12, just two off the record set by Sandy Koufax in 1965 and tied by San Francisco's Matt Cain this year for strikeouts in a perfect game. Randy Johnson whiffed 13 in his 2004 game for the Diamondbacks. Hernandez is the only one with 12.
Baseball-Reference uses Game Score, developed by Bill James, to attach a number to every player's performance in every game. It assigns points for batters retired, innings completed and strikeouts; deletes points for hits, runs and walks. It's a nice tool for most games, but when a pitcher is perfect, the only variable is strikeouts.
And, yes, we need to pause and wonder at the mere fact we're doing this, that we've seen enough perfect games recently to try breaking them down. Consider: Only five perfect games were pitched from the first one in 1880 until Don Larsen for the sixth during the 1956 World Series. Through 1990, the total was 12.
So, when the next one comes – and with an unprecedented three this season, why stop now? – half of history's perfect games will have been pitched since 1991. That's 21 seasons for the more recent half, 110 years for the others.
Hernandez's game had more firsts beyond the three in a season:
Hernandez's game is the third perfect game against Tampa Bay in 37 months, the fourth no-hitter against the Rays over the same period. No other franchise has had three regular-season perfect games thrown against them – in history – though the Dodgers get to three when you count Larsen's. In fact, the Twins are the only other team with two against them.
The Rays were there for Dallas Braden's 2010 game for Oakland and for Mark Buehrle's for the White Sox in 2009. Buehrle's is one of the more memorable of the recent rash because of DeWayne Wise's leaping catch in the ninth inning to preserve it.
Rays players who've been through all three said Hernandez was the most impressive.
So, can we really rank them? Can we put King Felix in some pecking order of perfection? Is he truly King in this realm or just another honored prince?
For the record, Game Score puts Hernandez at 99. With one more strikeout, Johnson got 100 for his. Cain and Koufax top the list at 101.
Four others have 98 – the 11-strikeout perfect games of Roy Halladay in 2010, David Wells in 1998, Len Barker in 1981 and Catfish Hunter in 1968. Note, too, than Jonathan Sanchez got a 98 for his 2009 no-hitter, in which the only runner reached on an error.
The record game score for a pitcher in nine innings is 105 by Kerry Wood in his 20-strikeout one-hitter for the Cubs in 1998. Six other times 100 has been reached without a perfect game, three in no-hitters (Nolan Ryan twice and Warren Spahn), three in one-hitters (Ryan, Curt Schilling, Brandon Morrow).
But, can we go deeper into the perfect games? Yes, but only the more recent ones, for which we have ball-strike and batted-ball data.
Hernandez threw 68.1% of his pitches for strikes Wednesday. The other outs were split between eight ground balls and nine fly balls. Breaking those down further, two of the fly balls were recorded (and, yes, there's some subjectivity here) as line drives, none as pop-ups.
We have data for six of the eight perfect games with at least 11 strikeouts. Barker and Hunter came before that information was routinely collected. Koufax did too, but the information was recorded by those at the game.
Hernandez's ball-strike ratio is pretty much in the middle of a range from Halladay's 62.6% strikes to Johnson's 74.4%. Cain and Koufax both were between 68-70%. For comparison, so was Wood in the 20-strikeout game. Remember, that ball-strike is pitch result, so a pitch out of the zone that's swung at counts as a strike. If a pitcher's stuff is that good, getting hitters to chase is part of the process.
One other game is worth noting from a ball-strike perspective. David Cone's 1999 perfect game with 10 strikeouts included a remarkable 77.3% strike rate.
Cone also had one of the highest fly-ball ratios among the high-strikeout perfect games. His 13 outs in the air and four on the ground were right there with Koufax's 10 and three. All the others on our list were close to even, certainly under a 2-1 ratio either way.
Are fly balls less of an indication of dominance? Watch Wise climb the wall in Chicago one more time.
Not necessarily. Cone, for instance, always got far more outs in the air than on the ground. And, he's credited with inducing four pop-ups in his perfect game – hardly balls that were squared up. Only Wells, with five, had more pop-ups in the games we're comparing. Hernandez had none according to Baseball Reference's game recap.
Besides, a strong case can be made that ground balls are a bigger threat to any no-hitter, let alone a perfect game. A slow roller, a chopper, a grounder of any speed placed just right can ruin the perfection, probably more often than a bloop fly ball.
The only hit Wood gave up was Ricky Gutierrez's grounder into the hole between shortstop and third base in the third inning. Had the ball been hit a few feet to either side and Wood's claim to greatest nine-inning game ever pitched would be stronger. But he still wouldn't be in the perfect game discussion because he also hit Craig Biggio with a pitch in the sixth.
That greatest-game label leads to one other special one – Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings in 1959 before losing in the 13th. He had eight strikeouts in a game often referred to as the greatest ever pitched. His game score was 107.
The all-time highest game scores for pitchers, by the way, are 153 and 140 – by Joe Oeschger and Leon Cadore, respectively. They're the pair who tossed complete games in 1920's all-time longest game, a 26-inning, 1-1 tie between Boston and Brooklyn. You'll understand why we limited our discussion to nine-inning games – and why 1920 was pretty much the end of baseball's Dead-Ball Era.
At least until these perfect-game guys began changing the landscape.
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I'm a massage therapist and just wanted to ask anyone who has epilepsy if they ever receive massage and whether or not they find it beneficial or if it is contraindicated
Re: massage therapy
Massage therapy provides relief in chronic pains and disorders. It also helps in overcoming depression, stress and anxiety. I used to take massage once in a week. It relaxes my body and mind and makes me feel fresh and energetic. So, I recommend you all to have a massage once in a month. It will be benefecial for you.
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Massage therapy will be helpful also for people who have epilepsy.I have an aunt with that and my mom and cousin used to massage her everyday so that the muscles will be relax and will prevent seizures as well. And right now my cousin have her massage therapy diploma and she is working now as a physical therapist.
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Massages are the best. Thanks for the tips about the oils though. I had no idea. I guess the aroma therapy massage is out on my next cruise.
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Massage therapy is the scientific treatment of the soft tissues of the
body for the purpose of normalizing tissues;it includes applying fixed
or movable pressure the body. Massage is known to change the
circulation of blood and the flow of blood and lymph, reduce muscular
tension, affect the nervous system through stimulation or sedation, and
enhance tissue healing. Massage therapy is a kind of system, practice,
or performance by which one can strength one's own muscles. This cannot
be achieved in couple of day's time. In fact it requires a regular
performance. You may also call it – body treatment. Many massage
therapy or body treatment schools teach body mechanics, in which you
learn the proper ways to stand lean and use your hands when doing the
work. If you are prepared, educated and careful, you can avoid physical
injury when practicing massage.
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I used to be a massage therapist. I would be careful with the oils, just as others have said...even though I have not noticed that any give me a seizure that doesn't mean it wouldn't trigger one in someone else. Plain oils, or something the client uses himself/herself should be fine. (I can not STAND pachoulli, though. I want to run from the smell.) Who is wearing that pachoulli? Take a bath! LOL
Most people with Epilepsy can do the same things as other people. I have never felt I could not get a massage because I have Epilepsy. Just as with other health problems, a client's physician should make the decision if a person's problem is very severe (daily seizures, etc.). Of course, it goes without saying that a person shouldn't receive a massage during a seizure. If there is great concern about this, a family member should be present. Most likely, if a person drives, you have nothing to be concerned about.
Some meds make it easier for a personal to receive a bruise. Also, that falling off the table thing...don't use a table...use the floor if that is going to be a possibility. Know what to do if a person has a seizure.
Stress lowers seizure thresholds. Massage should help in that regard.
Oh! I want a massage right now.
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400 classroom hours are generally accepted standard for training. Training should include physiology, pathology, massage theory and body treatment. As well to start your new career in massage therapy you may go in for Diploma course in Therapeutic Massage, which includes the core courses, you'll need to gain the skills and knowledge required for entry-level employment in the massage therapy. Other program that is Associate of Science in Therapeutic Massage – This program includes the same core courses as the diploma and adds the general education courses required for a college associate degree, giving the graduate greater opportunity for career advancement. Sensual massage London
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Know what to do if a person has a seizure. is THE best advice to offer someone that lives/works or is just just a friend to some one who suffers.
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I REALLY want to go to school to become a massage therapist. I don't want to be a "f;uff and buffer" but a therapist working with deep tissue.
At this point in my life, I don't have the resources for it. I go to look for grants and because I have a bachelors in nursing, they all think I'm going for a masters. I just want to go for an associates.
I have also put off school because my seizures have seemed to increase in the past couple of years. I have not had much challenge in my brain, so I feel like my learning skills have truly decreased. Brain's like a muscle, if you don't use it, it weakens.
Are any of you struggling with seizures and still work as a massage therapist?
Thank you!
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Yes I receive massages, and I find it very relaxing and help with my seizures. I have done the Reiki too. That is very helpful.
take care
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Hi, i'm new here.
I'm at college studying aromatherapy,where i'm learning lots about the benefits and theapeutic properties of essential oils (from the plant, eg flowers leaves, etc)and the undisputed benefits of massage. I really suffer with anxiety and I seem to be in a permanent state of worry plus my memory is diabolical! Not good when you're trying to learn massage sequences. I've got this horrible tremor from sodium valporate and lamotrigine combination. ahhhhh! I'm convinced everybody thinks i'm nervous because of the tremor in my hands - I just see them looking. I KNOW they're looking and my shaky confidence crashes once again. Anyway, I just had to vent , I've never been able to before. It's wonderful to have found this site- really wonderful.
Lisa, I just wanted to say (finally!) aromatherapy can help with epilepsy. Neroli and melissa oils are wonderful sedatives, brilliant for anxiety, at least in theory. I'm testing them out on myself today before my first client arrives. Hope it won't turn me into a zombie! I'd love to hear about other people's experiences with tremor and anxiety, etc.
Take care all.
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I am a little cautious when it comes to the oils.
Here is a list of some to be cautious about.
take care
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Been on Dilantin for 30 years. I am the anxiety queen, I take Lexapro which is an antidepressant, made for anxiety. I cannot imagine being without it. I also have Valium on hand. My left hand has a mind of its own, and takes off in either direction at times. Just a side effect I accept. Better than the alternative of all hell braking loose in my brain! Good luck with your career -
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Lexapro is wonderful stuff. I've been on Dilantin and Lexapro for a little while now. It helps more than anything I've ever taken, and it doesn't make me feel like I've taken anything, that's what I like best about it. I hardly see how you could be the anxiety queen though, since I actually hold the crown :)
J/K, good luck with things,
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Hi cheryl
Re aromatherapy essential oils. Rosemary and basil should be used with extreme caution. Ditto with fennel. I can't think of any more off the top of my head, but I must urge anyone thinking of this kind of massage to check the qualifications of the aromatherapist. Bad combinations of harmful oils - for us - can potentially lead to some nasty experiences. I'm talking seizures here.
Please be careful all and take care.
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Not much input on the oils, but a good old Sweedish massage never hurts!
I will say that one time I was at a mall and these guys had massage chairs set up, my mind can not remember the name of the type of massage. Anyway, I took the bait and this guy beat on my back and neck for 20 minutes. It felt good, but that night I had Auras delux! Not sure what the connection there was. Just thought I would add that to discussion if you have any knowledge on that.
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Have you guys tried to use ultrasonic massager device to treat skin? Home use, hand-hold design, ultrasonic and ion,even photonic.
Check this out:http://beautifior.com/product/lks017-facial-massager/
and http://beautifior.com/product/lkf012-ultrasonic-facelift-massager/
I bet people will all use these devices in 3 years
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I will be trying reflexology in the next week or so.
But with no oils just aloe to be on the safe side.
take care
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Massages have been an amazing help for me. My seizures are not caused by, but can be triggered by extreme stress, so going for a massage has proved beneficial to helping me relax.
Plus, it doesn't feel to bad either :)
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Epilepsy is a condition that can be hard to judge with massage, and some care needs to be taken. For someone who has it controlled with medication, they can recieve massage just like anyone else (as long as there are no considerations with the meds). Someone with severe, uncontrolled seizures should not receive massage, as they might injure themselves or you during one in a massage, and probably need to be under medical supervision. They could fall off of the table, or accidentally hit the therapist. For those that are in between, it gets more difficult. Specifically, a lot of this depends on the type of seizures they have.
Massage would not be much help to a client who is having tonic seizures, since the rigidity of the muscles is caused by the vervous system and the brain, not tension, and care would need to be taken to not stretch contracted muscles to the point where injury would take place. Atonic seizures might be okay, since the muscles are limp. A client with occasional epileptic episodes really should work to find a therapist that is experienced enough to handle a seizure and care for a client if they have an episode. The therapist doing massage therapy would need to know exactly how to handle their condition. And the client should always contact their doctor if they are unsure if massage is for them.
I hope it clears the situation.
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Massage therapist's uses to treat paining, stress, achy and sore muscles using Manual manipulation and some specialized massaging tools and tips. They also promote the general health and a good living life style of their clients.
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I would have to agree with Lisa about taking care with the oils, I have been prone to have seizures around strong smells. Enjoy your massages!


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Cisco IOS MPLS
Virtual Private LAN Service
Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) is generating considerable interest with enterprises and service providers as it offers multipoint Ethernet LAN services, often referred to as transparent LAN service (TLS), over MPLS networks. In operation a VPLS offers the same connectivity experienced if a device were attached to an Ethernet switch. The IETF VPLS documents describe an architecture that links virtual switch instances (VSIs) using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) pseudowires to form an "emulated" Ethernet switch. Please refer to Figure 1 for a schematic representation of VPLS components.
Figure 1
VPLS Components
VPLS enables service providers with MPLS networks to offer geographically dispersed Ethernet Multipoint Service (EMS), aka Ethernet Private LAN Service as defined by Metropolitan Ethernet Forum (MEF). These services are becoming attractive as many Enterprise applications, such as IP Telephony, utilize peer-to-peer operation that benefit from any-to-any connectivity, which is one of the key attributes of EMS in that each customer edge device or node communicates directly with all other customer edge nodes associated with the EMS. By contrast, a hub-and-spoke network service such as Frame Relay typically requires the end user to designate one customer edge node to be the "hub" to which all "spoke" sites are connected. If a "spoke" site needs to communicate with another "spoke" site, the sites communicate through the "hub," which can introduce additional transmission delay.
EMS services are "plug and play" in nature meaning that the inherent broadcast nature of Ethernet is used to discover other members connected to the EMS. As EMS is based upon Ethernet bridging techniques and is not IP based, the service is often referred to as Transparent LAN service. As many new applications use Layer 2 "heartbeat" mechanisms that cannot be routed, an EMS allows these applications to be deployed in geographically dispersed locations, which provides enhanced business continuance and availability.
It can be seen that VPLS addresses an important emerging market opportunity for service providers to offer Layer 2 multipoint VPN that connect multiple sites within a specific metropolitan geographical area. This market requirement is frequently referred to as a metropolitan-area network (MAN). The following types of services may be supported using an EMS:
- Service providers can offer geographically dispersed virtual NAP across a high-speed MPLS backbone. Using the Cisco® VPLS solution, ISPs can create a Layer 2 virtual switch over the MPLS infrastructure to create a distributed Network Access Point (NAP). This allows service providers to offer transparent private peering between multiple Internet service providers (ISPs) across an MPLS infrastructure.
- Enterprise customers have requirements to connect multiple corporate sites within a specific metro region at Layer 2. EMS services using Cisco VPLS solution enable applications that require Layer 2 connectivity between sites, such as server cluster heartbeats, to be geographically distributed, enhancing business continuity.
- Many small and midsize businesses have non-IP applications such as Microsoft Windows for Workgroups that do use NetBEUI for communications. An EMS delivered using Cisco VPLS enables these customers to interconnect multiple sites without changing their operating system configurations.
- Enterprises that desire any-to-any connectivity between sites, but do not wish to use Layer 3 VPN, may use EMS delivered via a Cisco VPLS solution.
The applications that EMS' may be used for vary. However, other mechanisms such as those described within the IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges can be used to offer EMS services using minimally modified Ethernet switches that are compatible with IETF hierarchical VPLS architectures. Cisco was the first to describe the concept of a hierarchical VPLS architecture that combined Ethernet switches with an MPLS core that provides cost-effective, feature-rich multipoint Ethernet services.
VPLS Architecture
The VPLS architecture has been described within various IETF documents and describes how virtual Ethernet bridges (referred to as VSI) can be interconnected using MPLS pseudowires. The current VPLS working group documents describe two basic architectures—a non-hierarchical, flat architecture, as depicted in Figure 2, and a hierarchical architecture, as depicted in Figure 3.
Figure 2
Nonhierarchical VPLS
The differences between VPLS and H-VPLS are related to the scaling attributes of each solution. VPLS is a relatively simple architecture that is suitable for small-scale VPLS deployments. It requires that the edge device is MPLS-capable and it needs to participate in routing protocols and Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). This complicates the overall network operation and the edge device, which needs to hold VPLS forwarding tables, routing tables, and others. Additionally, all broadcast and multicast replication is performed at the edge device, which can decrease the efficiency of the network.
By contrast, H-VPLS partitions the network into several edge domains that are interconnected using an MPLS core. The considerations for the edge devices are now simplified, as they need only learn of their local n-PE devices and therefore do not need large routing table support. Alternatively, the edge domain can be built using Ethernet switches and techniques such as VLAN Tag Stacking, aka Q-in-Q, described within the IEEE 802.1ad Provider Bridges draft. Using Ethernet as the edge technology simplifies the operation of the edge domain and reduces the cost of the edge devices dramatically. Cisco was one of the first vendors to realize the scaling limitations imposed by having a nonhierarchical architecture, and developed the concept of a hierarchical VPLS architecture using standard Ethernet bridges at the edge and MPLS within the core.
Figure 3
Hierarchical VPLS—Ethernet Edge and MPLS Core
The H-VPLS architecture provides an extremely flexible architectural model that enables Ethernet multipoint and point-to-point Layer 2 VPN services, as well as Ethernet access to Layer 3 VPN services, enabling service providers to offer multiple services across a single high-speed architecture.
Frame Forwarding
Although VPLS and Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS) offer differing scaling attributes, the frame forwarding mechanism is the same for both—VPLS forwards Ethernet frames using Layer 2 MAC addresses. The operation of VPLS is exactly the same as that found within IEEE 802.1 bridges in that the VSI self-learns the source MAC address to port associations and forwards frames based on the destination MAC address. If the destination address is unknown, or is a broadcast or multicast address, the frame is flooded to all ports associated with the virtual bridge.
This operation is unique to Ethernet, as the Ethernet frame has a source and destination MAC address, whereas traditional WAN protocols such as Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) lack an address field or have a destination address only (ATM and Frame Relay).
Auto-Discovery and Signaling
An important aspect of VPN technologies, including VPLS, is the ability of network devices to automatically discover and signal to other devices an association with a particular VPN, often referred to as discovery and signaling mechanisms. Within the context of VPLS this includes discovery of other peers associated with a particular EMS, signaling of pseudowires to link VSIs, and MAC withdrawal. Although a lot of attention is focused on these mechanisms, but it should be remembered that robust network management systems (NMS) and operational support systems (OSS) are critical elements in the deployment and management of VPNs, whether at Layer 2 or Layer 3.
Figure 4
VPLS Discovery and Signaling Mechanisms
Discovery mechanisms can be broadly characterized as distributed mechanisms that reside within the network devices, or centralized services that the network devices query to learn VPN associations. Distributed mechanisms such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and LDP require each network device to be configured with VPN associations that the discovery mechanism then advertises to other network devices. Although distributed mechanisms are desirable, they can be prone to configuration errors and to security issues such as injection of false information or denial of service (DOS) attacks. Centralized mechanisms such as Domain Name System (DNS), RADIUS, and Directory Enabled Networking (DEN) require the network devices to poll the centralized servers to learn VPN associations. These mechanisms allow more robust security to be applied and a single point of configuration, but add additional management elements to the overall network.
One additional discovery mechanism is the use of NMS/OSS that distribute VPN membership as the VPNs are created by the service management software. This provides desirable features such as service integrity and syntax checking and also provides system security as only the network devices that need to be associated with VPN are configured.
Each discovery mechanism has advantages and disadvantages that may be applicable to a particular service provider. To allow a service provider the most flexibility in choosing a discovery mechanism, the VPLS working group document, draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-01.txt, does not describe any particular discovery mechanism.
Signaling of pseudowires between provider edge devices, described in draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-00, uses targeted LDP sessions to exchange label values and attributes. As the attributes of a pseudowire connecting VSIs are point-to-point in nature (bandwidth profiles, sequence number negotiation, etc.), LDP is an efficient mechanism for signaling pseudowire status for Ethernet point-to-point and multipoint services.
VPLS provides an architecture that provides Ethernet Multipoint Services across geographically dispersed locations using MPLS as a transport. EMSs are attractive—they offer a solution to problems that many enterprise customers and service providers are seeking to address (high-speed, secure, any-to-any forwarding at Layer 2). The requirement to forward frames at Layer 2 is important, as many new applications and services dictate that the service be transparent to upper-layer protocols (IP) or may lack network layer addressing altogether (NetBEUI).
VPLS as a standard is now a working group document within the IETF; draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-ldp-01.txt is the most widely adopted VPLS implementation, with demonstrable multivendor interoperability. A variant of VPLS, H-VPLS provides a solution to delivering Ethernet multipoint services over MPLS using either MPLS- or Ethernet-based IEEE 802.1ad provider bridges. The use of Ethernet switches at the edge offers significant technical and economic advantages compared to VPLS- or MPLS-based H-VPLS. It should be noted that H-VPLS also allows Ethernet point-to-point and multipoint Layer 2 VPN services, as well as Ethernet access to high-speed Internet and IP VPN services.


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I'm afraid there's no way of doing this, it's something I've been asking for for the last couple of year. What I would like is a master citation list which is similar to the master source list, so that you only fill out the CD once and then attach that to the source. That way if you a citation many times you don't need to fill out the details time and time again, and also if you make a mistake or change your mind what information is in the CD you only need change it one.
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