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Derflinger was a pretty awesome sword. …
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Derflinger was a pretty awesome sword.
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That's true. I loved Fate/Stay Night and Saber, but her sword was a sword. Derflinger was a comedian, had wisdom and could watch your back. Too bad it didn't have any more lines in the anime though. I always liked hearing what came out of his mouth.
Recent comments by rumblingsauce:
- 12-Year-Old Girl in Suicide: "I Hadn't Finished My Homework":
Sex and bad news. That's all this site shows. It's Japan through the USA's mainstream news shows. Japan isn't all suicide and pedophiles like this site shows.
- Stabber Murders Nitroplus Man:
I hate when people blame Capitalism for problems. That's like saying "Communism is why China has hardly any human rights." No, the economic idea's of a country are not to blame. Socialism didn't bring down the USSR. Socialism isn't the cause for North Korea to be so backwards. The people who don't say anything and the leaders who know they can just push people over without resistance, are the reasons why. Yugoslavia was Socialist and did damn good. Here in America, you mention socialist and you …
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Actually, if you read what he said: "I can see how its an issue in Japan due to the low birth rate". That means he can see how it's a problem because Japan is facing a low birth rate in their country. Homosexuality isn't the cause. The poster is saying he can see how it's a problem BECAUSE of the low birth rate.
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Treating the woman as a whole? So we have to get to know each and every cosplayer to fully understand them. I agree with both of your points, but neither of you are the reasons for censorship laws. Cosplayers dress up to make themselves the character they want (or just get paid to do it). They go to these places to have others look at them. Whether it's to show off how great their costume looks or for the personal feeling of being "in character". Either way, they put themselves out there, …
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I agree. I enjoyed Fate/Stay Night as well. However, looking back after watching Fate/Zero, I can see why it's looked down upon. Fate/Zero is, at least in my opinion, markedly superior to FSN. There's just not enough Saber in F/Z, that's my only problem with it.


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i need some suggestions because ive never done that before. Our home-office does have a simple pc which has only one disk and runs the forefront tmg through windows server 2008. But i am afraid that the disk can crash and when the tmg dies the whole internet will be gone and thats terrible. A friend of mine whos not here anymore made that for us and i know that its possible to add more disks so that when one disk dies the otherone runs imediately and the server will stay on.
Can anyone who did that suggest me whats the best thing to do it? How can we configure or add disks and how to set it up.
That would help us so much.
thanks alot
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Mar 2, 2013 at 6:25 UTC
What should happen is you should have a separate Router/Appliance to provide internet access, and they your server should have multiple hard drives.
If you do not have it setup in a RAID format presently you can create a "software raid" from Microsoft which is HORRIBLE to even recommend. but is an option.
The best answer is to get a HARDWARE RAID 1 or 10 and re-install windows on it and restore your configs from TMG that way if there is a failure you can just swap the failed hard drive
Mar 2, 2013 at 11:41 UTC
hey thanks for your help mn. I think all i can do now is doing a software raid can you show me how to do that because ive bought some new drives and would like to add one more and use both so if one crashes the otherone will stay awake and run so that noone feells the problem.
The same thing i think its with our domain server. let me attach a printscreen if the Server2008 which is used as Forefront tmg and the win2003 domain server which is our domain f and also very important. can u suggest me for both of them what to do please?
Mar 3, 2013 at 12:08 UTC
See also my domin controller server 2003 looks like some disks died how can i replace them and add disks to sty as mirrored when the operating system crashes
Mar 3, 2013 at 1:49 UTC
This is what I suggest:
1-) If you have a spare box turn it into a virtual host - freeware ESXi.
2-) Install ESXi on a USB boot up the host.
3-) Use vmware converter to convert your TMG and DC to VM and migrate them to the host.
4-) Regularly make a backup of VMs. In case of a drive(s) die shove in new drives boot up USB and copy across VMs.
Rest what you asking in your question seems to me a lot of work there.
For your DC, just replace the same type and size drives (SAS, SATA, SSD etc). Then RAID controller will do the job for you.
Hope this helps!
Mar 3, 2013 at 9:13 UTC
Thanks alot mate. your answer was really clear .
Butnthe other thing i wantnto know is how do i know if this servers operating system is mirrored or cloned can i just clonenit or mirror it because i dnt know how do i know whichonenis secured
the other thingnis those failed disks howndo i know whichonenare those on the server?
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:19 UTC
What brand are your servers: IBM, HP, Dell, Fujitsu etc?
1-) All servers have some kind of management tool HP has Smart Start, Fujitsu has Server View, IBM has IBM Director or something. Install that on the server that has drives faulty. This tool would tell you about RAID Controller, Drives, RAID type, firmware version, drives failed, drives slot, each drives capacity etc...
2-) All servers I have seen when a drive died orange/amber led lights up on the drive at the front panel. Because the drive is dead and not doing anything pull it out and should have details on the drive about manufacturer, size, type, and may be your company's asset sticker.
3-) So far drives I have seen on servers or SANS their caddy have soem information like SAS 74k 1Tb or rather. Unless using a caddy for different type of drive this is another issue.
4-)Where as for your cloning and secure answer, I'd say standard practise is RAID and people use cloning so server fails another server different specs can be bring to production. I've never used cloning just straight RAID. Unless someone has a definition of cloning and RAID are same.
Hope this helps!
Mar 3, 2013 at 10:52 UTC
Thanks alot for all this clear informations.
It helps me alot to know more and search more and more to find a solution.
Im going to install smart start because its not installed into my HP Proliant G3 server and its a pretty old server so im gonna take a look into that. But i want to know what raid i have installed into that server so i can replace some disks and can proabably secure the operating system from failing disks
Mar 3, 2013 at 11:23 UTC
For RAID it could be: RAID 0 and/or RAID 5. It depends on the server role. If your server is data, database, application server then more likely it has 2 or more sets of HDDs.
One set could be RAID 0 for OS and others could be RAID5 for data, database, application etc. Unless your server is attached to a SAN and local disks are for OS only.
Mar 4, 2013 at 10:48 UTC
SO the server is a HP Proliant ML150 G3 and got windows server 2003 but when i went to the HP Smart Array Utility i get this error:
Welcome to ACU, the Array Configuration Utility
ACU did not detect any supported controllers in your system.
You may click on the Rescan link above to re-examine the system. If no controllers are detected after a rescan, please make sure the devices are installed correctly.
I did the rescan and it didnt show me anything
Mar 5, 2013 at 2:09 UTC
Hallelujah! Sounds like we are in more trouble - Just kidding!
In your situation this is what I would do now:
1-) Is there a doco left by your predecessor how this server was built?
2-) Does your manager know? Any doco?
3-) Is the server is under warranty? Talk to HP
4-) Is the iLO confiugred on the server? iLO I think (not too sure) would be able to give specification of the server?
5-) Can you try installing HP System Management, HP Insight Diagnostics, HP Proliant Integrated Management Log viewer, and HP Lights-Out Online Configuration Utility..any of these or all?
6-) Check Computer Management > Device Manager > SCSI and RAID Controllers? Should be able to see something there?
7-) Last virtualise it!!! Use a freeware ESXi and later buy the license for goodies!
Hope this helps!
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Hiking in the Aletsch Glacier area. I took the cable car from Fiesch up to the Fiescheralp and hiked than towards the Bettmerhorn. This is the view of the Aletsch Glacier from near the top station of the cable car Bettmerhorn on the hiking trail to the Märjelen lake.
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MUSHROOMHEAD! at the Haven 3-3-13
Somebody please tell me why we must endure this silly time change thing every six months! Get home at 3:00am and it"s really 4:00am, think you"re waking up early at 9:00am and it"s already 10:00 am.. blah! For an entity that"s notoriously late for everything anyway, this spring forward crap really screws us up. Okay, now that we"ve had a chance to vent; let"s move forward… or backward… or whichever…
When Stuart Ross asked Rose her opinion of last Sunday night's Mushroomhead show at The Haven, and all we could think to say was "it was one sickfukn amazingly maniacal show". If you were there, you know exactly what we mean.
THIS is what you get when SickfuknRoss Productions, Maniacal Mojo, and Sick World Radio combine forces at the one and only HAVEN Lounge.
The show opened with FIELDS OF GLASS, marking this as the first without Fenris up front. But, as with all things in life, there are cycles and seasons, forever shifting, changing and growing; so it is with Fields of Glass. And while one warrior moves on to answer another calling, the army will remain steadfast and continue the battle. We wish Fenris many victories and much peace along his journey, meanwhile we anticipate awesome new adventures in the future for Fields of Glass.
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MUSHROOMHEAD….For two decades this band had donned their masks and driven their metal into the hearts and brains of their followers. With something like 11 albums, thousands of shows, and millions of fans, they are as brilliantly insane as ever. What else is there to say? This is Mushroomhead, and it doesn"t get much sicker than this.
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Brian McCann returns from the disabled list Monday, just in time for the series opener between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark.
The Braves come refreshed from an unexpected day off on Saturday and a win on Sunday, while the Reds are winners of three straight and sit in second place in the National League Central.
McCann's return meant the demotion of Tyler Pastornicky, but it also means that Justin Upton will get his first night off this season with Evan Gattis starting in left field on Monday.
Making things interesting for the Reds is the collision between Shin-Soo Choo and Brandon Phillips during Sunday's game with the Chicago Cubs. Choo came away with a fat lip, but Phillips was taken out later with vision problems. He told reds.com that he'd play Monday, but don't be surprised if he misses some time.
The next win for the Reds will give manager Dusty Baker 1,600 career wins, moving him into sole possession of the 18th most all-time, just ahead of Tommy Lasorda.
The Reds took five out of six games from the Braves last season, including all four at Great American Ballpark.
Monday, 7:10 on SportSouth and ESPN: Braves LH Paul Maholm (3-3, 3.08 ERA) vs RH Bronson Arroyo (2-3, 3.95 ERA)
Tuesday, 7:10 on SportSouth and MLB Network: RH Kris Medlen (1-4, 3.38 ERA) vs RH Homer Bailey (1-3, 3.38 ERA)
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I'm not sure how C.W. Griffin ("Capitalism thrives under socialists," AFN, July 28) makes the connection that our current income tax policy redistributes wealth from the rich to the poor when you look at the U.S. treasury "take" of taxes. The top 5 percent of wage earners pay 54 percent of total income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent consistently pay less and less of the total. So if there's wealth redistribution, it's going from the rich to the poor, not the other way around.
To be worried about the top .01 percent earners over the $13 million mark reeks of class envy. Who cares what wealthy people pay, it makes no difference to my individual tax rate? And why should anyone pay a higher rate? What's fair about that? Wouldn't the ultimate fairest tax policy be that everyone pays the same amount and are allowed to keep what they earn beyond that?
The progressive tax pinches harder and harder the more you earn. And if pinching those high earners could assure steady GDP growth, wouldn't we just do that as policy and never have a shrinking economy or recessions? Government revenues have tripled since 1965, so they are getting their "share" regardless of rates.
Also, could Mr. Griffin write a piece without mentioning Rush Limbaugh or Joseph Goebbels?
Mark Burckhard
We've got to come to our senses
Dear Editor:
I have lived in Arizona for more than 40 years and am really heart broken over the division and the hatred that has spread throughout Arizona in regards to SB1070 and the immigration issue. I would like to thank Randal J. Jacoby for "Put Things In Perspective" (AFN, July 30).
As I see things unfolding before my eyes I cannot believe how quickly half-truths are accepted as facts. How fear and hatred are spreading like a wild fire. People that I had once considered intelligent and level-headed are running around believing that "those immigrants" are the cause of all the terror, drugs-trafficking and all their misfortunes. Now I can clearly see how Hitler was able to do all that he did, and he did it legally I must add.
Thank you for publishing his letter. I love Arizona, but we've got to come to our senses.
Mary L Pinon
Now and in the future
Dear Editor:
It is now legal for corrupt foreign governments to join our own federal government to sue a state for trying to uphold federal laws.
Our own state department wants the U.N. to control U.S. citizens with laws drafted by governments that hate us.
We now have the best rulers that corruption and money can buy.
In the very near future, those of us old enough to remember what this country used to be like can do the following:
• We can take our grandchildren and great grandchildren to museums to view what used to be our Constitution and our obsolete American flag with its 50 stars.
• We can tell them about a time when the majority of Americans believed in FREEDOM and the rule of law. A time when thousands of fine young men and women in the military gave their lives to protect that freedom and have died in vain. A time when this country was a proud and powerful nation always ready to fight against fascism and socialism instead of embracing it.
A time when people stood proud and worked to make their lives better instead of whining for handouts. A time when many politicians believed in our Constitution and had some ethics. A time when most people believed us to be a Christian nation.
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To the Editor:
The letter to the editor in support of the Iraq War (KDH, April 14) disregards the facts pertaining to the legality of that war.
Numerous legal experts, including those of the UK, U.S, and many other countries declared the war to be illegal. Also, it violated the U.N. Charter as it wasn't approved by the U.N.
Even a member of the Bush administration stated the war was illegal but justified.
A retired CIA official stated on TV that the Bush administration was informed before the invasion of Iraq that they had proof there were no weapons of mass destruction there, and was informed a regime change was decided on.
A pre-emptive war is against international law and against the United Nations. And U.N. inspectors in Iraq were given complete access to search anywhere in Iraq for WMDs. Also, many retired U.S. generals and diplomats came out publicly against the Iraq War.
The U.S. has made the same mistakes that other countries have made down through history, becoming involved in quagmire wars in Korea, South Vietnam after France withdrew, and in Iraq and Afghanistan after the British and the Soviet Union withdrew. Costly wars in lives and trillions of dollars.
World War II ended in less than four years of U.S. fighting.
The war in Korea still hasn't officially ended, and we still have forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At the rate our country is progressing, it will not be great a fraction of the period the Roman Empire lasted.
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Sega and Nintendo's recently announced collaboration Sonic Lost World has shown off its first gameplay in its debut trailer below.
Exclusive to IGN, this first look at Sonic's upcoming adventure bears more than a passing resemblance to the Super Mario Galaxy series - with its stages comprised of rotating spheres, cylinders, and side-on platforming - but given that those are two of the most highly acclaimed 3D platformers out there, that's not exactly a bad thing.
It doesn't look like a complete clone, however, as Sonic's speedy moveset is different enough to grant it its own uniquely Sega flavour. Plus, we get a look at Sonic's six new adversaries. How much do you want to bet that Doctor Robotnik is behind them?


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- Bill Heffernan brandishes 'pipe bomb' to make his point on security
- The Pulse Live with Judith Ireland
Two weeks later and it's safe to say the budget has not been what pundits might call ''well received''. A better descriptor might be ''shunned by polite society'', or perhaps: ''Put it this way, if it was a person walking past you on the street, you would totally cross the road to avoid looking into its deathly pale eyes.''
Pensioners are shaking their fists in outrage and Gen-Y university students, a notoriously self-interested bunch, have taken to the streets to complain about the effect it has on them. The protests have, incidentally, given Education Minister Christopher Pyne more joy than anything else that has happened since last year's John Howard Debating Cup final.
But not until Monday did we see just how truly pernicious the effects of budget cuts can be. Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, a man whose tendency towards erratic behaviour places him low on the list of people to whom you would give free access to explosives, smuggled a pipe bomb into Parliament.
To explain: the Department of Parliamentary Services, which looks after the big house on Capital Hill and all its security arrangements, has long been the subject of an efficiency dividend which forces it to cut costs year on year. Under the most recent cost-cutting, MPs, senators and staff are no longer scanned by metal detectors and are not subject to bag checks.
And so it came to pass that Heffernan, during a Senate estimates committee hearing on Monday, reached into a plastic Coles bag he had with him - the type favoured by homeless people of fragile mental health to transport their belongings - and pulled out a home-made pipe bomb.
''Up until this point, most people working in this building know that it's safe. I don't think it any longer is,'' he told Australian Federal Police chief Tony Negus, and unveiled with a flourish his handiwork, which appeared to be a mock version of two sticks of dynamite taped together in a MacGyver-meets-Unabomber style.
In case anyone was left in doubt of the serious damage such explosives could cause to democracy's great house, the Heff went on to explain.
''When I was a kid we used to blow stumps out on the farm, 50 years ago. We'd get some Nitropril, a quart of distillate, a plug of jelly and a detonator, light the bloody thing and [it would] go to buggery!'' he told the committee hearing. ''It could blow a tree the size of this building out of the ground.''
It is worth noting the security cost-cutting pre-dates the current government and its unloved budget, which, in any case, looks increasingly like it might get blown to buggery in the Senate.


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Recently, the Vernier effect has been proved to be very efficient for significantly improving the sensitivity and the limit of detection (LOD) of chemical, biochemical and gas photonic sensors. In this paper a review of compact and efficient photonic sensors based on the Vernier effect is presented. The most relevant results of several theoretical and experimental works are reported, and the theoretical model of the typical Vernier effect-based sensor is discussed as well. In particular, sensitivity up to 460 μm/RIU has been experimentally reported, while ultra-high sensitivity of 2,500 μm/RIU and ultra-low LOD of 8.79 × 10−8 RIU have been theoretically demonstrated, employing a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI) as sensing device instead of an add drop ring resonator.
The huge demand for precise and accurate detection of harmful gases, biochemical analytes and other several kinds of substances has led to great efforts both by industrial and academic researchers in proposing a large variety of innovative sensors. Several physical phenomena have been employed in order to achieve even better performance, both in terms of sensitivity and limit of detection (LOD). For example, conventional methane gas sensors are typically based on catalytic combustion, involving high working temperatures, low thermal stability and reduced measurement range. In [
In this work we review the most recent advances concerning Vernier effect-based sensors, starting from the working principle and the mathematical model, highlighting also the most relevant figures of merit commonly used to describe sensor performance. In addition, we describe some optimization techniques recently proposed in order to fulfill predefined specifications in a particular sensor design. Finally, we investigate a sensor platform based on the Vernier effect and constituted by a MZI architecture suitable for a wavelength-based readout scheme. Numerical results resulting from the mathematical modeling of the aforementioned MZI-Enhanced Vernier Effect are also discussed, focusing on relevant design guidelines.
In the last few years, the Vernier effect has been demonstrated to be a high performance solution for photonic sensing purposes, allowing enhanced sensitivity and lower limits of detection, compared to more conventional sensing architectures [
Biochemical optical sensors are typically based on the variation of waveguide optical properties due to the presence of a specific analyte close to the sensor surface. A common sensing mechanism exploited for this specific application is the variation of the waveguide effective index, as a function of the concentration of the chemical species to be detected. There are two most relevant sensing mechanisms responsible of the effective refractive index variation: homogeneous and surface sensing [
Homogeneous sensing can be exploited for the detection of a specific gas or analyte due to a homogeneous variation of the cladding refractive index. A typical example of this sensing principle could be the detection of a gas. In particular, when the photonic sensor works at rest,
The integration domain indices,
The other sensing mechanism is the so called surface sensing. In this case, the molecule detection is obtained through the immobilization of receptor molecules on the functionalized waveguide surface. When these molecules are captured, a very thin ad-layer grows on the waveguide surface. Since the effective refractive index of the propagating mode is strongly linked to the waveguide geometry, the thicker the adsorbed layer (ad-layer) thickness, the higher the effective index change Δ
Photonic sensors based on ring resonators (RRs) exhibit several interesting advantages compared to other photonic sensors. In particular, the add-drop ring resonator (ADRR) has been selected as the fundamental building block to create more complex architectures based on cascaded multiple ring resonators to exploit the Vernier effect. The conventional planar ADRR working in linear regime is sketched in
In its basic architecture, an ADRR is formed by two optical waveguides, called bus waveguides, serving as input and output ports of the device. These waveguides are designed in order to reach a proper coupling ratio with the ring or racetrack resonator, placed between the two bus waveguides. The resonant condition for the RR takes place when the ring resonator optical length equals integer multiples of the circulating light wavelength, that is:
The amplitude coupling coefficients can be easily calculated from the power coefficient as [
According to
The full-width at half-maximum (
Since the resonant condition depends on the cavity effective index, as in
Although the overall sensitivity gives us significant information concerning the sensor performance, it is still not enough complete to tell us what is the minimum detectable concentration that we are able to measure with that sensor. Such an information is provided by another fundamental FOM, which is the sensor LOD, measured in Refractive Index Unit (RIU) as:
There are two main and important reasons to study the nonlinear effects occurring in a SOI microcavity resonator. Firstly, the high values of the enhancement factor occurring in small microcavities induce a reduction of the threshold for the nonlinear effects. In this condition, the nonlinearity could still manifest for relatively low input powers. The second reason is that the presence of the nonlinear effects can induce particular features in the resonant spectra, opening the possibility to improve the performance with respect to the sensor based on resonators operating in linear regime.
Without any lack of generality, it is assumed that the electric field inside the microcavity is predominantly a single transverse mode,
The term
In the simulations the operative wavelength
Nowadays, the Vernier effect is commonly employed in signal processing and telecommunication systems to design optical filters [
As for optical filters, the Vernier effect is mainly exploited in multichannel WDM systems to select a single wavelength in a broad spectral range (
However, in the last few years, several authors have proposed very efficient optical sensors based on the Vernier architecture, demonstrating the possibility to achieve limit of detection even lower than 10−6 RIU [
The sensor is basically composed by two cascaded ADRRs with different physical lengths, the first one acting as a filter and the second one acting as a sensor. The optical chip is completely covered by a proper cladding medium, except for the windowed sensing region where the cladding is etched in order to expose the sensing ADRR to the substance to be detected. Assuming
As a consequence of their different sizes, the two ADRRs exhibit different FSR and
The simple
The overall transmittance can be calculated according to the following expression, equivalent to
On the contrary, the second regime occurs if:
Generally, the first regime is not suitable for sensing applications because the behavior of the spectral response of the whole system cannot be easily related to any change in the analyte concentration. On the other hand, the second regime is very appropriate for high performance sensing. In fact, in this case the Vernier effect can be compared to the well known phenomenon of signal under-sampling. In fact, when the sampling of a sinusoidal signal is performed with a sampling frequency not fulfilling the Nyquist criterion, the signal after the reconstruction filter will be again a sinusoidal wave but with a lower frequency compared to that of the original signal. The filter transmittance acts as a sampling comb, while the sensor transmittance can be thought as the signal to be sampled.
In the second operative regime the overall transmittance exhibits a much larger free spectral range
Such an enlargement of the transmittance spectrum involves higher sensitivity and lower LOD. This peculiar feature of Vernier effect based sensors makes them particularly attractive for a number of applications, overcoming the need of high resolution OSAs, quite expensive and not yet suitable for integration on the same sensor chip. Moreover, a wider FSR implies the possibility to achieve a larger dynamic range without drastically decreasing the ring optical length. The overall wavelength shift of the Vernier effect based sensor, Δ
In case of Vernier effect-based sensors, particular attention deserves the definition of LOD. In fact, differently from conventional ring resonator based sensors, sensors based on the Vernier effect have an intrinsic digital response [
The first theoretical work concerning the possibility to apply the Vernier effect for sensing purpose has been proposed in literature by Dai in 2009 [
Such a result implies the possibility to measure very low concentrations of the detecting substance also using an integrated OSA (eventually with a relatively low resolution), which is a promising solution to realize low-cost, integrated and highly-sensitive, optical sensors on a single chip.
Starting from the theoretical work of Dai [
According to
In particular, it has been theoretically demonstrated that, if both filter and sensor resonators have the same full-width at half-maximum (FWHM), the peaks of the overall transfer function can be fitted by an envelope curve
Such a consideration is again well understandable referring to the example of a signal under-sampling, as previously discussed. By this way, the authors suggest to measure the overall transmittance shift by means of a best fitting technique between the experimentally measured transmittance peaks and the envelope curve of
In the first step, the authors propose to fit a number of the highest peaks of the measured spectrum with a Lorentzian curve, in order to define all the parameters involved in the envelope curve, apart from λc. Each of these curves analytically describes one of the highest peaks of the overall transmittance. Once these curves have been calculated,
To measure the sensor sensitivity, the sensing region has been firstly exposed to de-ionized water and then to three aqueous solutions with different NaCl concentrations. The refractive index of each of these solutions was calculated as in [
Another sensor employing Vernier effect has been fabricated and presented by Jin
According to
More recently, another interesting work concerning a Vernier effect-based sensor has been proposed by Hu and Dai [
The suspended photonic wires are then obtained by means of hydrofluoric acid (HF) wet etching. The authors employed a broadband laser as light source of the proposed device, while a low resolution OSA (εOSA = 100) was adopted as receiver. The input light polarization was tuned by a polarization controller to excite only the TM mode in the optical waveguides, while the light coupling in and from the optical chip was achieved by means of grating couplers. The fabricated chip was tested with four different NaCl concentrations in aqueous solution, while the sensor at rest was exposed only to de-ionized water. The calculated sensitivity of the proposed device was calculated as
In a very recent paper [
In order to fulfill the specifications required by a particular application field, the design of a Vernier based sensor should be optimized to achieve best performances on the base of specific physical constraints related to the context. For example, the design of a photonic gas sensor should take into account the Lower Explosion Limit (LEL) and the Upper Explosion Limit (UEL),
Several simulations have been performed to validate the method, considering both homogeneous sensing and optical absorption for methane detection and only homogeneous sensing for ethane detection. A common feature characterizing the response of all photonic sensors based on Vernier effect second regime is observable from
In this context, a novel silicon-on-insulator rib-slot photonic sensor based on the Vernier effect and operating at the operative wavelength
As evident from the works which have been discussed so far, the Vernier effect provides a large improvement in photonic sensor performance, concerning both sensitivity and LOD. However, it can be seen from
A wavelength interrogated MZI sensor is obtained by covering all the device with a proper cladding layer, apart from the sensing region placed on one of the two interferometer arms. The sensing arm at rest is often exposed to air, for gas sensing purpose, or to aqueous solution for typical biochemical applications.
When the analyte concentration varies, the typical sinusoidal transmittance of the MZI experiences a wavelength shift (positive or negative, depending on the refractive index difference between the claddings of the two arms). The authors demonstrate that the wavelength shift Δλ
It is worth noting that
According to
A typical spectral response of the proposed sensor is reported in
The calculated limit of detection for this sensor is as low as
In [
The review on Vernier-effect based photonic sensors, is now completed by briefly introducing some other few examples of innovative architectures. An ultrahigh-sensitivity silicon double-ring sensors has been presented [
In [
Moreover, a novel architecture has been proposed in [
The present review explains features, performance and advantages of a particular class of photonic integrated sensors exploiting the Vernier effect, with specific reference to the silicon technology platform. In order to introduce this issue, a summary overview of photonic sensors technology based on ring resonators and its application fields is proposed.
Firstly, a detailed theoretical model of their working principle is given, starting from two general sensing mechanisms, homogeneous and superficial one, on which a wide spectrum of photonic devices are based. Then, the main equations describing the behavior of a ring resonator are clarified and the definition of its most important parameters and figures of merit is given. At that point, the Vernier sensor architecture, involving two ring resonators, is illustrated and a comparison with a single ring resonator device is developed in order to highlight the important advantages introduced by this effect.
Finally, some highly accurate sensors based on Vernier effect, chosen from the most intriguing ones recently proposed in literature, are presented in order to show the complete state-of-the-art of this class of devices.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Schematic architecture of a typical Vernier effect-based sensor.
Vernier architecture signal flow graph in the Z-transform domain.
Transmittance spectrum of the proposed Vernier sensor for increasing values of Δ
Vernier spectra of the sensor at rest calculated as a function of increasing values of ΔFSR.
Scheme of the photonic sensor proposed in [
Operative functions of Vernier-based sensors for ethane and methane detection in mid-IR.
Sketch of a MZI-Enhanced Vernier effect-based sensor.
Design Specification for CO2 detection.
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To herald the arrival of their new manager, Crystal Palace shared a video that featured a succession of stats pertaining to Frank de Boer's illustrious playing career.
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Beyonce Knowles' visual album, "Beyonce", has become a big target of piracy. The 14-song and 17-music video set was illegally downloaded for 240,000 times in its first week. Available for $15.99, the album could have grossed another $3.8 million in sales.
Music data analyst Musicmetric said that as of December 18, Beyonce's entire music catalog was shared more than 2 million times through file sharing site BitTorrent. Around 240,000 of those were shares of her new self-titled album.
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Feker spreads the love to the lower East Side
Chef Michael Feker loves food. Really. Talkative and personable, his enthusiasm for his profession (though it's really more of a vocation) is unmistakable in every conversation.
Sitting at a booth in his new Il Mito East location at 1028 E. Juneau Ave. during a lull after lunch, the passion with which he describes his new summer menu and Sunday brunch options is no less than that of a proud father showing off a new baby.
"I look at menu items like a movie," he said. "Every dish is like a movie to me. I have the main actor, and then I have the supporting cast. And the supporting cast need to complement that main actor and vice versa, otherwise it isn't an enjoyable movie to watch, no matter how much you pay that main actor."
Milwaukee has never been a city that readily accepts pretension, especially not where restaurants are concerned. Our food has to fit into our lives – not the other way around. Feker understands this, and has molded the mission statement of both Il Mito locations (the other located at 6913 W. North Ave. in Wauwatosa) to cater to the individual need of every diner – be they the busy worker, the ladies who lunch, the health nut or the "foodie."
"We are not a pretentious group of people. What we care about are those specific backbones in life. Flavor and food are one of them," he said. "We are blessed enough to love what we do so we pass that on. People call me and say, 'What is your dress code?' I don't have a dress code. When I say this is your home away from home, I mean it. I love what I do, and love doesn't understand whether you're wearing jeans or a fur coat. Love is love!"
You have probably heard of Feker before – perhaps on a radio spot for one of his restaurants, or maybe you have eaten at one yourself. You may have seen him on FOX6's "Real Milwaukee," "WakeUp" or "Feker's Kitchen," or maybe you follow him on Facebook. He is the head of a one-man crusade to dispel the misconceptions ("Il mito" is Italian for "the myth") about fine dining in the Milwaukee area.
"Since the day that I opened my own restaurant, and learning from the knowledge of other great chefs ... my approach was to debunk a myth that we have out there that great food, great service and great atmosphere costs an arm and a leg," he said.
"That's a myth that is out there and very rarely do you get one of those components within one operation. I try to approach my operations to bring all of those three together – and add value. That way I know I'm not going to be your 'once in a while place.' Truly, I want to be your home away from home.
"When you're hungry, I want you to think of Feker and Il Mito. And you're hungry three times a day usually! Too bad I'm not open for breakfast, right?"
Too many Milwaukeeans, claims Feker, think that fine dining means a hefty price tag, a small plate serving and a dress code. With his distinctly European blend of elegance and warmth, he will not tolerate any kind of affectation in his staff. He wants instead to cultivate an atmosphere of openness, joy and fellowship – punctuated, of course, by delicious, lick-your-plate-clean food.
Though Il Mito East has an unmistakably genteel flair, contemporary decor and a patio that borders the picturesque Juneau Avenue, Feker wants customers to think of it as their own dining room. Located in the Knickerbocker Hotel in the former home of Osteria del Mondo, this location has been open since February and represents a homecoming for Feker, who opened the first Il Mito in Walker's Point (considerably east of Tosa) in 1997.
"I analyzed the market (before opening Il Mito East). I figured out what the East Side is looking for and what they need. They need great food but they need it for an amazing value," he said. "And happy hour is important on this side of town. I've created something that I don't like to call happy hour because I expect all of my customers to be happy all the time. But this one, I call it 'the mix and match.' You sit at the bar and mix and match any of our drinks and any wines featured with any of the appetizers off the menu, for $10, for all of it.
"The whole idea – people say, 'What are you, crazy?' I always explain to them, 'Look, I'm a pusher of food. You have different pushers in life. I push food and flavor. To get you addicted I'll go to any length.'"
Il Mito East also offers the "four for 30" option with a glass of wine and three-course meal for $30 (Il Mito Trattoria e Enoteca offers the same deal but without wine). It's just another manifestation of Feker's belief that great service should never have great cost.
"We have people here that are true servers," he said. "They're not plate-carriers."
He is especially proud of Il Mito East's patio, which reminds him of a street cafe in Italy, and loves being close to the excitement of Downtown Milwaukee while still being removed enough for a little peace and quiet. Even when he moved his business to Wauwatosa, the current home of Il Mito Trattoria e Enoteca, in 2006, he always planned to return to the East Side. It is, he says, a "soul-soothing, soul-feeding experience."
"I love the fact that I am in the Downtown area and I'm not in the middle of downtown. I love the fact that I'm right at the start border of the East Side. Because the east siders are really what I – I love their energy for life. The east siders have a specific – tang we call it when we drink wine – there's a tang. The east siders have an amazing taste for life. They love great food. They love service. They love gathering together. They love experiencing and celebrating life. They have a beautiful approach to life."
Now that the stress of the first few months are over with (a time during which Feker intentionally avoided directly marketing Il Mito East), he has begun to offer seasonal menus inspired by "refreshing, robust flavors that everyone can relate to."
"I want my plate not only to taste great but I want it to have a great story," he said. "I call them (the ingredients) the three W's – (I care about) where they came from, what's in them, and why I'm putting them in my body."
He claims that choosing a favorite dish from the summer menu would be like choosing a favorite child, but he has a special fondness for his small plate selection (which range in price from $4.95 to $5.95) and his "old-school" chicken vesuvio.
"Sicilian immigrants from the village of Vesuvio brought this chicken recipe with them to Chicago," he said. "It's a whole chicken cooked with lemon, potato, onions, everything in one dish. I do it a little bit different. I take local organic fingerling potatoes, saute them with rosemary, set them aside. I take the chicken and take the entire bone out, and half of it is cut per portion, so half a chicken cooked to order with a skin as crispy as potato chips. While that is cooking I warm up your sauce – with fingerling potatoes, rosemary, lemon juice, white wine and portobello mushrooms and basil pesto pasta next to it and your chicken on top. It is so simple yet sophisticated. I love that dish."
A "global" Sunday brunch is offered at Il Mito Trattoria e Enoteca on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at the same time at Il Mito East.
"We all speak food. We just speak food with different accents and dialects. My global brunch – there is a dish from the Orient, a dish from Tuscany, a dish from Spain, a dish from the Middle East, and on and on and on. But they're all egg, brunch-based," he said.
He also reports that he plans to do grilling classes, wine tastings, beer tastings and more at the new location. Il Mito's events page can be viewed here and here.
Feker's mission of hospitality can best be summed up in an exchange that occurs toward the end of our interview. A group of women departed from their table and began to move toward the exit. "See you again soon!" one called over to him.
"Bye-bye, ladies, sounds good, I look forward to it. I need to be fed, so come back and feed my soul, will you?" he asked.
"We've got the spread the word about this place!" she said.
"Spread the love," he replied, blowing a kiss.
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A man who sent a woman a picture of his genitals during a year-long campaign of harrassment has been issued with a restraining order.
Daniel Ryan, of Regent Street in Colchester, was given the order in conjunction with an 18-month supervision order and told he must carry out 120 hours unpaid work and pay £620 costs.
Ryan is no longer allowed to contact his victims directly or visit their addresses in Epping.
the 22-year-old carried out the harassment between November 2012 and December 2013.
He sent one woman an image of his genitals, as well as other messages of a sexual nature via facebook and online dating site PlentyofFish.
He repeatedly called and texted one woman and followed another on the street causing her to hide.
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With oil refineries and fuel depots being targeted by demonstrators, the RAC urged UK motorists to ensure they had sufficient fuel to complete their journeys.
The Foreign Office said the protests were continuing to disrupt road, rail and air travel in France, with wildcat strikes causing "substantial and unpredictable disruption across the country".
To make matters worse for travellers hoping to stay in France all next week, the leaders of the main French unions have nominated next Thursday as a day of action.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is hoping to force through a parliamentary vote on the pension and retirement-age changes. But it is not known if this will have any effect on the continuing protests.
The RAC said: "We are advising motorists travelling to France to be aware of the current industrial action that is causing disruption across the country.
"Ongoing industrial action at oil refineries and fuel depots across France is creating a shortage of fuel with one in three petrol stations experiencing little or no fuel. News reports also suggest there is panic buying of fuel and 'go slow' protests are also affecting some motorways."
RAC motoring strategist Adrian Tink said: "Motorists should ensure they have sufficient fuel to complete their journey and to top up their tank as and when they can rather than allowing fuel to get to a critically low level."
The Foreign Office also warned UK motorists about possible fuel shortages and advised travellers to France to monitor local and UK media reports for updates about protests.
Channel Tunnel high-speed train company Eurostar, which runs services between London and Paris as well as to Brussels, said its Paris trains were unaffected. But it warned passengers connecting to other services that French domestic rail travel was likely to be disrupted.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – The Francis Marion University baseball team dropped two spots to 16th in the latest Collegiate Baseball Magazine NCAA Division II Top 30 poll released Monday (Feb. 9).
The 3-1 FMU squad lost its only game last week, 6-0 at Newberry College.
Francis Marion returns to action on Thursday when the Patriots travel to Clinton to take on Presbyterian College in a 2:30 p.m. start. FMU will then open Peach Belt Conference play by hosting a three-game weekend series with fourth-ranked Georgia College & State University. The two squads will play a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m. and a single game on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Patriots were ranked 15th in the 2004 preseason poll and 14th last week.
Defending Division II national champion Central Missouri State University is ranked No. 1 in the latest poll, and in addition to the Patriots, six other Peach Belt Conference members appear in the Top 30.


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Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This
There are moments that smash you across the face with their power.Read more on Blood Red Shoes Listen to Blood Red Shoes on Spotify
'Fire Like This' is the follow up to Brighton based duo Blood Red Shoes' debut 'Box Of Secrets'; a frantic blast of boy/girl vocals, terrorised drum kits and serrated guitar noise. Only some felt that despite the bands prior embrace of the DIY ethic, the constraints of a major label had impacted on the slightly surprising polish of their first full length offering. However hardcore fans will be pleased that 'FLT' possesses all the energy of before while the production is more fitting, at once more able to bludgeon at full force and also step back and let songs breathe when necessary.
Opening track 'Don't Ask' starts things off at a furious pace and the pair conjure no little venom. The tandem vocals of Laura-Mary Carter and Steven Ansell are present and correct once more and after the thrilling conclusion you may feel like you've received a comprehensive lesson in rock dynamics.
There seems to have been a conscious effort to keep the sound raw here, throughout the record owes little to overdubs. Maybe now the band are confident enough to let the songs stand on energy and chemistry alone. So aside from the production what's changed? Well, despite the frequency of moments that smash you across the face with their power there are more also times here that things drop away and there is space to contemplation. 'Light It Up' features a more low key verse but when the jeering chorus kicks in those Nirvana comparisons are more pertinent than ever.
Despite the change in tact regarding production and a smattering of quieter moments these are minor tweaks rather than a complete overhaul of their sound and in fact nothing on display on 'Fire Like This' would sound out of place on the debut. Once again this isn't an album that is particularly challenging lyrically and although the energy doesn't drop the constant crash bang wallop of the tracks does mean that the middle section of the album melds into a bit of a sludge.
Laura-Mary Carter is on fine vocal fettle here, although the brattishness recognisable from the debut is still present her voice has thickened and now sounds audibly stronger, she's particularly effective on the sultry verse of 'It Is Happening Again'. Meanwhile 'Follow The Lines' benefits from resisting the urge to explode and 'One More Empty Chair' shows an added guile and results in a strong end to the record after a lull in the middle.
All in all this is a strong follow up to a debut that had it's moments but probably wasn't given too many repeat listens six months after release. The broadening of the sonic palette and improved songwriting means that 'Fire Like This' is likely to be a more satisfying listen for longer and establishes the band as made of sterner material than those that fall away after early promise.


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Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Personnel - Marietta L. Harrison
Specialization: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
EducationB.A. - 1970 - University of New Hampshire
Ph.D. - 1980 - University of Wyoming
Postdoc - 1980-82 - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
Research: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Our group studies the signaling molecule Lck. Lck is a member of the Src-family of protein tyrosine kinases. Lck is required for the activation of T-lymphocytes (T-cells) and individuals lacking functional T-cells fail to develop immune responses. In addition to protecting the body from the invasion of foreign pathogens, the immune system is thought to impact the development of cancer. In the case of cancer vaccine development, the immune system actually impedes the therapy of cancer and harnessing the immune system to aid in the prevention and treatment of tumors has been an ongoing strategy in the war against cancer. The recent discovery that subsets of T cells protect against the development of skin cancer lends powerful support to the original hypothesis that the immune system provides surveillance against developing malignancies. In addition to its requisite role in T cell development and activation, Lck is itself an oncogene and the forced expression of a constitutively active form in mice leads to the development of thymic tumors. Lck is thus an important player in the field of cancer immunology and a critical player in the overall immune response.
We study all aspects of the regulation and function of Lck and the signaling pathways its activation initiates. Recently, we have concentrated on its cellular localization and its modification by serine phosphorylation, which occurs following the binding of antigen to the T-lymphocyte receptor (TCR) as well as during mitosis. Lck is localized to the inner surface of the plasma membrane and is distributed equally between special domains within the plasma membrane (membrane lipid rafts) and the non-raft regions of the membrane. We are interested in determining both the mechanism through which Lck is differentially localized as well as whether the intramembrane localization of Lck influences its ability to initiate signaling through the TCR. Our group additionally is involved in collaborative projects with both the Gibbs and Post laboratories. With the Gibbs lab, we focus on designing and synthesizing chemical analogs of palmitic acid that will prevent Lck from entering lipid rafts. With the Post lab, we focus on determining the three dimensional structure of serine phosphorylated Lck.
Representative Publications
Li, M., Ong, S., Bartek, R., Thieu, V.T., Geahlen, R.L., and Harrison, M.L. (2008) "The SH3 Domain of Lck Modulates TCR-dependent Activation of Erk through Activation of Raf-1" Mol. Cell. Biol. 28, 630-641..
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Pictures of Kate Moss and Jefferson Hack at the Launch of KM3D-1
Kate Moss Kicks Off London Fashion Week With Her 3D Piece
Kate Moss was the lady of the night yesterday as her ex Jefferson Hack hosted an event in her honor at Haunch of Venison in London. She teamed up with director Baillie Walsh to create a video project commissioned by Jefferson's publication, AnOther magazine, in which Kate was documented in 3D — the piece, called KM3D-1, sees Kate take on the role of Hindu goddess Kali. After the bash, Kate took off her heels and sensibly slipped into flats to leave the bash on the arm of another guy pal. The event also doubled as an unofficial launch party for London Fashion Week, which kicked off today. The action wrapped up at NYFW last night with Gwen Stefani's family-filled show. Now, stay tuned to PopSugar UK and FabSugar UK for the latest from England!
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Marionette Lines + Lower Face Lift Q&A
Improving Marionette Lines with Lower Facelift?
How much improvement can I expect from a Lower facelift with fairly significant marionette lines? When I hold my face where approximately I think it... READ MORE
Young Patient with Deep Marionette Lines with No Other Wrinkles
I am 45 years old with pronounced marionette lines but with virtually no other wrinkles. I am substantially over-weight and have a thick neck and... READ MORE
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I am 45, and a few years ago I noticed marionette lines and now they are getting more noticeable. I have had Artefill injected a few years ago and... READ MORE
Would a Lower Lift Help with Sagging in the Marionette Area?
Due to 30lb weight loss I have sagging in the marionette line area. Its not too bad but it bothers me that I look sad. I talked to a plastic surgeon... READ MORE
Does a lower facelift stretch the mouth out from side to side?
I am 45. I have marionette lines that filler did not help much and I am starting to get jowls. I am going to get a lower facelift, but I have concerns... READ MORE
Does a lower facelift change the natural smile and dimples? Does it fix marionette lines?
I am 45. I am trying to decide on what procedure I will be having for jowls, marionette lines and loose skin on my neck, under the chin. I would like... READ MORE
Could I Have Short Incision in Front the Ear Vs. Inside the Ear Incision? (photo)
I want to know what is a better solution to reduce jowls, marionette and nasolabial folds - for minimal scarring: Short incision IN FRONT of the year... READ MORE
Am I Stuck with This Crease? (photo)
Lower facelift with fat injections in June 2012. Marionette lines still visible on right side of face, doctor did revision, resulting in deep crease... READ MORE
I had some fillers in my marionette lines put in just a month ago should I wait for them to diminish before having a face lift?
Options to reduce Nasolabial and Marionette folds creating appearance of jowls in twenties? (Photo)
I have extremely pronounced nasolabial folds and marionette lines that create a downward pull of my face and give me the appearance of Jowls. I am in... READ MORE
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Marionette lines are developing on my face. They became noticeable about 3 years ago. I've been getting regular botox on the 11's for 7 years and... READ MORE
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Sagging face at 24. Jowls and marionette/nasolabial lines. What can I do? (Photos)
I feel my face has been starting to sag about a year ago. I used to have a very defined and pretty jow line, but now my cheeks are starting to sag.... READ MORE
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I've built a Wordpress site up with thousands of posts where I've inserted images using the traditional method into the post content itself.
I'm now moved to a different theme, and have made the first image for each post the featured image (which I want to keep), but I now would like to remove the first image from the_content.
I have found that I can remove the first image (with or without captions) on the fly by instead of using the_content(), doing this:
echo preg_replace("/\\[caption .+?\\[\\/caption\\]|\\< *[img][^\\>]*[.]*\\>/i","",get_the_content(),1);
Is there some way I can run this command on the database to actually remove those images?
Thanks for any pointers
there's nothing like that in mysql, you'll have to do it with php
I thought as much - thanks for the reply!


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Register Now for WBKR Zombie Run [Video]
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will run the Earth. And this Fall, they're going to be running after YOU!! WBKR's Zombie Run returns Friday, September 27th and registrations are underway NOW. Plus, we filmed an awesome movie trailer for the event. If you haven't see it, check it out. Jaclyn gets mowed down by zombies on the Greenbelt!


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Aliens: Colonial Marines Announced Too Soon
Speaking to NowGamer at a Duke Nukem event earlier this week, Pitchford talked about team logistics at Gewarbox after taking on the project of completing Duke Nukem. "Gearbox has over 200 people and we also, at any given moment, have another 100 or 200 people outside of the studio who work with us."
"Duke Nukem Forever is consuming about 70 staff, so there's still a huge amount of push power behind our other projects," said Pitchford. "We're very, very committed to Aliens: Colonial Marines and we're very excited about that project."
In it's excitement Sega jumped the gun a little with the announcment of Aliens: Colonial Marines, said Pitchford. "I know it's been 'radio silent' for long and we know that must be frustrating for some people, but the game was announced too soon."
"There was so much excitement and I know a lot has changed at Sega, but they were very excited, they did the deal with Fox and before the ink was even dry they issued a press release announcing it."
"At the time we hadn't written a single line of code yet. It takes time to build games, but it's going great and I'm very excited about it. It won't be long before we break radio silence and we're able to show it."
Follow the link to check out our full interview with Randy Pitchford.


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Starkey: Reed release made sense
Jeff Reed might have been the worst kicker in the NFL this season.
As such, it really doesn't matter if his silly postgame comments Sunday got him fired. Doesn't matter how much his off-field antics might have prompted the move. His lousy on-field performance justified it — and the situation appeared to be going from bad to hideous.
No doubt, the man affectionately known as "Skippy" could regain his form of the previous three seasons — when he was the NFL's most accurate kicker — with a new team. He also might have returned to form in a Steelers uniform next season, had he re-signed.
But how, exactly, would that have helped Steelers coach Mike Tomlin this Sunday, in a critical conference game against the Oakland Raiders?
Tomlin needed the old Reed right now, a prospect that seemed highly unlikely.
The coach wouldn't say precisely why Reed was fired. We don't know how much director of football operations Kevin Colbert and/or team president Art Rooney II might have pushed for the change. We know this much, though: Steelers management believed that whatever risk they took in signing new kicker Shaun Suisham — and there is plenty — did not compare to the risk of keeping Reed and hoping he would suddenly rise from rock bottom.
Consider the facts, and keep in mind that kickers, like closers in baseball, sometimes fall off the cliff for a season.
Reed was in mid-freefall. He was ranked 32nd in field-goal percentage, which would be fine in a 64-team league; not so much in a 32-team league. He was 0 for 4 from 40-49 yards, while the rest of the NFL's kickers are connecting from that range at a rate of 73.6 percent (106 for 144).
Reed's malfunctions easily could have contributed to the Steelers sitting at 4-5 instead of 6-3. He missed a potential game-winning, 40-yarder with 38 seconds left in regulation of the season-opener before the Steelers bailed him out in overtime. He missed two field goals (49 and 45 yards) in a three-point loss to division rival Baltimore. He missed a 46-yarder two weeks ago that could have clinched the Bengals game but instead forced the Steelers to hold on with a late defensive stand.
And Sunday night against the Patriots, Reed, who had been perfect from inside 40 yards, botched a 26-yard attempt.
One defense of Reed is that most of his misses were from 45 yards or longer. Well, guess what• Kickers are making those fairly regularly these days. Shoot, they're hitting from beyond 50 yards at a rate of nearly 55 percent this season. Reed's kickoffs, while slightly improved, didn't help his case.
Meanwhile, his bitter postgame comments Sunday, a virtual flash flood of excuses, did not exactly hint of a man ready to reverse his troubles. If anything, the outburst gave Steelers brass another reason to wonder if Reed was mentally salvageable this season.
It's too bad, really, because Reed was a great kicker for most of his career here. He always struck me as a decent person, as well. Suisham attested to that Wednesday, remembering how well Reed treated him at Steelers training camp in 2005.
"I hold Jeff in very high regard," Suisham said.
Two weeks ago, Reed admitted he was struggling to cope with his misses.
"I'm trying to bring a more positive attitude, because I get really down on myself," he said. "These guys help me with it. Tomlin does, too. Nobody's like, 'Oh, Jeff's going out there, he's going to miss.' "
Used to be Reed hardly ever missed. That changed, dramatically, this season. We'll see if Suisham provides an upgrade.
The hard truth is that he couldn't do much worse.


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Yesterday as my partner turned 13 weeks pregnant she noticed a small amount of spotting (described to me as a teaspoons worth) after urinating.
She became alarmed and claimed she had tummy pains. She was sent home from work and the bleeding subsided. She has had no bleeding for about 18 hours now, however is complaining of "period pains".
Can you let me know if we have a real reason to worry?
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Cloudyn is adding some new features to its Amazon Web Services monitoring and optimization service and offering some potentially neat insight into AWS' customer base.
First, the new features. Cloudyn has a biggie that could shine a spotlight on a cloud sore spot. Cloud storage is one area that is well known for being quite expensive, oftentimes more expensive than doing storage in-house. Cloudyn is promising to give customers much better insight than they have today into their AWS storage spend.
Let's start with the problem. "Usually people treat storage in the cloud like most devs say, as a garbage collector," Sharon Wagner, Cloudyn's CEO, said. "They keep all their data there without having a clue how the cloud storage is organized, the lifecycle of storage objects, what can be removed and what can be archived."
Cloudyn decided to try to tackle this problem. When it dug into how AWS's S3 storage service works, it found something curious with the way that AWS handles file versioning. According to Cloudyn, in customer management consoles, AWS doesn't show the objects where old versions of files are stored. "We have identified an interesting discrepancy between what you see in your AWS management console and what you're billed for," Wagner said.
It's not that AWS is overcharging users. It's that it doesn't count objects that represent older versions of files when displaying used objects to users. Without that visibility, users will struggle to rein in unnecessary storage spending.
The fact that customers haven't noticed this discrepancy shows how difficult it is for users to monitor their storage spend, Wagner said.
Cloudyn now offers what it calls a shadow version detector. The feature presents to AWS customers the true storage objects they're using in S3, allowing them to determine if some of them can be eliminated.
Wagner said that on the average AWS bill, 30 percent goes to storage, including S3, Glacier or other AWS storage products. That means AWS users have the potential to cut significant costs off their monthly bill if they can more efficiently use their AWS storage.
This isn't the first time Cloudyn has pointed out an AWS billing gotcha.
Cloudyn is also offering more general storage optimization features. Its S3 Tracker offers users details like which are the least and most used files and when was the last time a folder was accessed. It then shows customers where there are inefficiencies, suggesting which files can be safely removed or moved to another service like Glacier.
Cloudyn is also adding new optimization features for EC2, including one that will suggest when users ought to reallocate EC2 instances between regions and availability zones. The company also added some new features for optimizing RDS.
On to the customer stats. Based on the number and size of its customers, Cloudyn estimates – and there's no real way of knowing – that its customers are representative of AWS customers in general.
Cloudyn has 400 customers using its service with AWS. Those customers spend on average $250,000 with AWS, representing between 200 and 300 concurrently running servers, Wagner said.
Around 70 percent of Cloudyn customers – and by extension, possibly AWS customers – are in North America with 10 percent in Latin America and 20 percent split between Europe and Asia.
The most curious stat is that 20 percent of Cloudyn's customers are public companies with the rest being private companies. That's particularly interesting if that stat is also indicative of AWS' customer base. Since some kinds of public companies have to comply with strict data retention and security policies, it could mean that the vast majority of public companies still can't figure out how to use public clouds while staying in compliance.
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