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Source Engine: Counterstrike Beta Hits The Streetby Derek Wilson on 8/26/2004 5:22 AM EST
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Ballistics - Sunday, September 05, 2004 - linkI guess I was just expecting more from Anandtech, thats all.
Tired of buyer guides that are biased towards certain manufacturers (ie) the FX5900XT was released in December 2003 and has proven itself to be an awesome price/performance card. It was a sub $200 card that ran with the +$300 + cards of the time. Yet ATI, ATI, ATI was all that was touted. How come nobody picked up on that little powerhouse of a card that finally gave nVidia fans something to get excited about? There weren't even any good articles on that card until february!?!
I used to come to anandtech with confidence that what I was reading was the newest "unbiased" hardware analysis. I can't do that anymore. Thats all.
AtaStrumf - Saturday, August 28, 2004 - linkFalse alarm :( Reply
suryad - Saturday, August 28, 2004 - linkHey guys, forgive my lack of knowledge but does anyone know if the final product, Half Life 2 when released that is, will have the capability to use SSE/3DNow! instructios in the CPU? Would it also take advantage of Hyperthreading? That would probably lead to higher framerates wouldn't it? I raise this question because I read at the S.T.A.L.K.E.R game website that the X-Ray engine is supposedly capable of taking advantage of not only the GPU (Duhh) but rather the type of CPU the computer has as well. Any comments? Thanks guys. As for the article, I am kind of leaning towards people who say that the games should be benhced on high end, middle end and lower end spec machines. I agree completely so it would give a better idea to most people. But since this is just a beta and I am sure that most people are interested in knowing about HL2 instead of CS IMHO I cant really blame AT for not making the article the way people want it. I am sure when they get the final released copy of HL2 all our questions will be answered. Thanks everyone. Reply
AtaStrumf - Saturday, August 28, 2004 - linkIt appears that Gabe said that HL2 will be going gold on Monday, August 30th.
robbase29a - Saturday, August 28, 2004 - linkOne more thing, if I may... Some of you guys have it all wrong. Yes, AT is a hardware site... that's a given. But something that (some of) you people aren't getting is that hardware just doesn't stand alone. People don't just buy the newest nvidia card because of it's awesome architecture. Nor do people buy $800 dollar cpus because of their sweet pipelines, right? Hardware is used to run software.... duh.
So.. what i'm getting at: AT is using this game to glean information about all the available hardware there is. CPUs, Graphics cards, and maybe RAM too. You need to know how your current card measures up before you upgrade right?... That is why AT is going to write a comprehensive review of ALL (or it may be safer to say most) of the graphics cards out there (CPUs too). Not just the new ones. So let's stop this silly griping and wait for them to do their thing. Go AT! - Message posted with good intentions, not to hurt anyone's feelings. Reply
Tobyus - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkOk, thanks Derek. That probably explains the difference. I am just amazed that my $170 processor can outperform an overclocked $800 processor. I guess the optimizations really make a big difference. Reply
Phiro - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkJalf said it all :) Reply
Jalf - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkWell, as someone said earlier, AT happens to be a hardware site, not a gaming site. It's a lot more relevant for them to benchmark new cards in an interesting game, than 3 year old ones.
Presumably they're more interested in which of the new cards actually performs best, than in how old harware HL2 can handle.
Makes sense to me, and doesn't bother me the least. I read AT to learn about new hardware, and to know what I should upgrade to, not to find out whether my current system can run games. I use actual game reviews for that. Reply
Gugax - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkWe all need to chill out a little bit. I am shure AT will do a complete review as soon as they have a final HL2 copy to benchmark.
My suggetion goes to havinga bang for the buck report. Better if including both Doom3/Hl2 results combined.
Most people prefers one of the games. But everybody sooner or later will use both engine based games to play on. And if they are using this benchmarks to help them decide the best way to go, this shoul help them.
And yes, not everybody is lucky to have a 800$ CPU... (altough you used it to take the cpu out of the equation, I know). :) Reply
robbase29a - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkI think everybody needs to chill about AT not including the midrange video cards. I would also liked to have seen them, but we have to keep in mind that this is NOT a real game. This is just a preliminary test of a test world. I'm sure AT will come out with a full blown (midrange included) review when the real thing comes out. If everyone just exercised a little bit of patience, we wouldn't have such hot heads floating around. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, August 27, 2004 - linkwe run with default configuration -- trilin opt on aniso opt off ... this probably accounts for the issues.
there isn't a config that you can set to make nv and ati do the exact same thing. unfortunately. also, most people run default settings when it comes to opts (AFAIK). Reply
Tobyus - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkDerek, I may have missed it in the article, but did you say whether or not you enabled Trilinear and Anistropic Optimizations? Also, I didn't see whether you ran with vsync off, but I am guessing you did since that causes about a 10 fps performance loss on my system.
I ran the benchmarks with this system (yes, they are beta drivers, and I had Anistropic and Trilinear optimizations enabled, but I also ran the test with 61.77 drivers and at 1600x1200 with 4xAA, 8xAF and the Highest detail settings including Water: Reflect all, I was getting 52 fps)
Athlon 64 3000+
Geforce 6800 GT
Windows XP Pro SP1
Forceware 65.62
My tests were all run with the highest settings in the advanced options, except reflect world/reflect all which I will specify in each individual benchmark. These tests were also run with 4xAA and 8xAF.
Reflect World: 126.88
Reflect All: 114.45
Reflect World: 113.25
Reflect All: 102.98
Reflect World: 88.95
Reflect All: 83.25
Reflect World: 55.61
Reflect All: 53.21
Reflect World: 31.30
Reflect All: 29.98
I don't understand why I had better performance than your system Derek. I have nothing overclocked, and the only settings I can think of that I have enabled that you may not have are the optimizations. Is it true that ATI cards default to running with optimizations and they cannot be disabled? If that is true, I would think that it would be fair to enable optimizations on the nvidia cards and that may show a nice improvement and a closer race between the two brands of cards. Reply
SirDude - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link"As a student at North Carolina State University, Derek Wilson [B]double majored[/B] in both [B]Electrical and Computer Engineering[/B]. After graduating, Derek brought his extensive Engineering background to work with the AnandTech team. Derek's specializations include [B]compiler theory and design[/B], giving him [B]a unique understanding of microprocessor architecture and optimization[/B]. He has also done [B]extensive work[/B] in the [B]3D field[/B], having [B]designed and implemented[/B] his own [B]3D rendering engine[/B] as well as having done much [B]programming for modern console platforms[/B]. Derek's hands-on experience in the realm of 3D graphics gives him a unique eye in his coverage of the PC graphics industry."
#35 you know better then this guy I suppose? Here's an idea for ya', why don't you shut up and go away you [B][U][I]Troll[/I][/U][/B] Reply
thelanx - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkJust read the rest of the article, after reading between the typos and reading the conclusion, it appears even with the console commands, the FX series is still running the DX 8.0/8.1 path, even if you try to force the dx 9 path. Thus AT is justified in not including the fx 5950 in their review.
#35, Looks like you could benefit from some homework too, perhaps reading that article you posted more carefully. ;) Next time, give constructive criticism but try not to be so harsh. You aren't the only one guilty of harshness, intellectual discussion and debate is great, but many of the discussions on the net would be better with more cool heads. :) Reply
thelanx - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#35 As I recall, and as the article you posted confirms, the 6800 series do not automatically run the benchmark in dx8, it is only the fx series and below. Reply
Ballistics - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkIf you guys would have done your homework before posting this article you would have been informed. Having done that you could have accurstely informed us.
Don't know a good way to benchmark CS Source? Don't know how to force the hardware to use DX 9.0 ? Don't mention that all nVidia cards are forced to use DX 8.1 while ATI trudges away at DX 9.0 and coincidentally falls behind?
Here's a link to the article: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/half_life_2_fx...
Educate yourselves. Reply
yanon - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkIn the future, Anandtech should do at least two benchmarks--one for the extreme gamer and one for the average gamer.
Right now, the extreme gamers probably have AMD FX-53, the Raptor Drive, 2 Gbytes worth of elite super overclocked ram, and Geforce 6800GT/Ultra.
The average gamers probably have something close to AMD XP 2500+, any 7200rpm harddrive with 8Mbytes of cache, 512 MB to 1 GB worth of value DDR ram, Geforce 5700/ATI 96000/ ATI 9800. Reply
yanon - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkThe sentiment is clear. People want to see a benchmark score for a setup that includes AMD XP 2500+, ATI 9800 Pro, and 512 Mbytes of DDR 3200 ram. Reply
flashbacck - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkCan you guys post results for more midrange hardware? Not everyone has a Geforce 6800 XT, Radeon X800 SuperMegaUltraProPlatinumSpecialLimitedEdition or Athlon 64 50000+. Reply
Cygni - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkI like the way people are bitching about typos on a site thats offering FREE articles to the public. Jeeze.
And oh, I dont really care what OTHER sites are getting on these tests. If you have been around the net, you know the likelyhood of Anandtech being wrong is pretty close to nil. This aint Toms. Reply
T8000 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkWhen you look at the CPU scaling, I think you have no need to worry about that, unless your CPU runs below 2 Ghz, like the Athlon 2200+ mentioned above.
Besides, Geforce 6800 cards scale pretty predictable, so a $200 Geforce 6800LE should still get above 50 fps where a 6800GT has 80. (1280x960/4xAA/8xAF) Reply
saiku - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkummm, can we have a few more mid-range cards in there? How about always benchmarking the cards in anandtech's mid-range and value buyer's guides? How about hot sellers such as the 9800 Pro.
Most people who read these, IMHO, dont have $500 cards. Reply
FuryVII - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#9, Running at that resolution is definitely in the minority. Just as #25 mentioned a $800 CPU isnt too common, so goes people running CS at that resolution. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkbigpow: Again, same as #15. If you wnat to see the source engine limited on CPU, then we could stick an Athlon XP 2200+ in there and all of the cards would get 23FPS. That would not accurately show which card performs better. We are in the business of benchmarking hardware, not video games.
Kristopher Reply
KristopherKubicki - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#15 this is true of any video benchmarking, whether from AnandTech or not. The idea is to eliminate bottlenecks to show video card performance.
Kristopher Reply
bigpow - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkI'm getting sick of reading reviews that rely on 800$ CPU (FX53)
How many percentage of the readers do you think have Athlon-64 FX53
IMO, I'd read, remember & enjoy these reviews more when they're more real. Reply
saechaka - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkhey araczynski maybe you didn't like cs cause u sucked. hehe Reply
klah - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkAny chance we can see some preliminary benchmarks using the beta 66.00 Forceware?
Early results show a 10-15% bump in VST scores.
araczynski - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link...hmmm, am i the only one in the world who doesn't give (and never did) a sh*t about CS?
I love HL and probably will love HL2, but i think i had more fun playing 3D pac man then CS.
BF1942(ForgottenHope) is a thing of beauty however. Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link/me notes the irony of having a typo in a comment about correcting typos ...
We should work on getting editable comments :-) Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#18 If there are any typos, please point them out any typos and they will be corrected. We have already fixed the problem our first commenter pointed out.
#19 We have Extreme cards from a couple different manufactures. We also have Platinum cards from a couple different manufactures. We wouldn't still be testing these cards if all we had were NV and ATI reference samples. Reply
Drayvn - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkUmm, i dont know why, but there are no official Ultra Extremes only overclocked ones, nVidia has stated that they told the Add on manufacturers they can indeed overclock their cards, but they cannot call it the Ultra Extreme, so i dont know why u have that card in there as there are none, if u would have called it an Ultra OC then that would have been fine, because it seems there will never be an Ultra Extreme. Reply
esun - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkRegardless of the quality of the article and benchmarks and whatnot, it seems like there are a lot of typos in this article (just takes away from its credibility and professionalism IMO). Reply
DerekWilson - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#15
Sorry, the video stress test does not run with any sound. It actually does (as much as possible) what it says -- it focuses on video performance. Reply
Jalf - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkShame about the X800 pro. Would be interesting to be able to compare it to the GT at high-res. Would be interesting to see how much the GT benefits from having all 16 pipelines at the high-res scenario... (Or how much it loses)
In either case, I disagree with #5.
It doesn't show clearly that NVidia isn't performance leader.
On the other hand it shows that NVidia isn't clearly the performance leader. :P
Performance-wise, I'd call it a tie for now. They're both damn fast as far as I'm concerned. ATI are working on improving their Doom 3 performance, and I have a hunch NVidia are going to put some more effort into their HL2 performance now.
Anyway, to those wanting to see a mid-range card, you've got the 4400. You should be able to extrapolate from that. Reply
ir0nw0lf - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkWas the sound turned on or off during these tests? There is no mention that I could find of that, perhaps I missed it being mentioned? Reply
thelanx - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkGranted these are real game benchmarks, but we can extrapolate and estimate like the article said. HL2 will probably be more cpu intesive and less graphically intensive. These benchmarks will cheer up many people I think. Those with high end cards will be happy that whatever they chose to buy, it will run HL2 great, and mid-range card owners will be happy that their cards should run HL2 very well. The real game will probably be less graphically demanding but more cpu intenstive, so my 9700pro with my 2.5GHz A64 will probably run the game better than the graphics stress test, especially at 10x7, my lcd's native resolution. Reply
Zephyr106 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkI agree completely with #2. Benchmark it on some of the midrange cards. And a $400 6800GT isn't midrange. Specifically because Valve has said they hope the game will be scalable for slower hardware, and alot of those 9600 Pro/XT owners have HL2 vouchers, and I'm sure not all have upgraded. Reply
Avalon - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkCan't exactly call ATI the performance winner here. the X800 XT PE is often only a few frames better than the 6800 UE, and the GT is often a few frames better than the X800 pro. Seems almost more closer to a tie than one side actually performing better. Regardless, by using a little observation, it seems like my 9700 pro will be able to run the game just fine at 10x7, and I might even have room for a bit of eye candy :) Reply
PsharkJF - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkWhy would you even need to run HL2 at 20x15? lol.
10x7 or 12x10 is fine for me, and it looks like my old GF4Ti4200 can run it well enough. Reply
Connoisseur - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkI'm glad to see that they used the 4.8 catalyst drivers. I was wondering whether you guys can run Doom 3 benchies with the 4.8's as well. With my laptop (M6805 R9600), I saw an incredible performance gain (between 15-30%) in resolutions up to 1024x768 going from 4.7 to 4.8. I was wondering if this wasy typical. Reply
blckgrffn - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkHave you ever played a game at 20*15? If you have, you know it is awesome. Why would I plop $600 on my Sony 21" if I didn't want to use the higher resolutions? Battlefield looks really good :-) I fully support seeing these resolutions in the future, I was really happy when we finally saw the shift away from 1024*768 on review sites. Reply
deathwalker - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#7..I can't necessarily disagree with you...I own a 6800gt (replaced my 9700pro)..my point was to mearly point out that you can't crown a graphics card line king based soley on its performance in one game. They could do these comparisons all day long and the results will flip flop back and forth depending on the tool you are using to measure performance. Reply
Bumrush99 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkThese numbers are screwed up. The HL2 video stress test IS NOT ACCURATE, nearly every review site has very different results. Don't use this review as your only source of information. On my 6800GT overclocked to ultra and my AMD 64 @ 2310 i'm getting way lower results. Funny thing is the first few times I ran the benchmark my results were in line with Anandtech's review... Reply
FuryVII - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#5, I don't think it clearly shows that. For what its worth I have owned both nVidia and ATI (ATI Currently) and I have no problem buying the best card in price/performance ratio. I'd have to say that nVidia seems to be my choice for a new card. Also the gap in the benchmarks doesn't show ATI having that great of a lead. Its damned close.
Also this was rather disappointing. Those resolutions are just ridiculous. Reply
deathwalker - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkThis test clearly demonstrates that Nvidia is "not" the performance leader when it comes to gaming. Mearly being on top of the heap in one game "Doom3" doesn't crown you the king. Especially when that game uses a graphis engine (opengl) that is clearly not the engine of choice over the long haul in graphics engines for future game developement...that being said..the new line of 6800 cards from Nvidia are products that they should be proud of. Reply
AtaStrumf - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkI wish you would include R9800Pro (very good buy right now), since it is not the same as 9800XT. Just look at xbit labs article and you will see a surprisingly big difference. Not all 9800Pros take kindly to OC-ig to 9800XT levels, and many people just don't bother!
And those of you who want to see how other, lower end cards, perform under Source, may want to check it out as well.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/cou... Reply
mlittl3 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - link#2
The GF4 4400 is not last generation hardware. It is two generations old. We now have GF 6xxx and before that was GF FX 5xxx. If anyone is still using a GF4 to play current games, I think they know they will be running at resolutions at 800x600 with no AF or AA. No one needs a benchmark test to prove that. Besides anyone who can't afford a last generation or this generation video card, probably don't have an Athlon 64 FX in their rig. So looking at a GF 4 4400 with this processor will tell you nothing about how your GF4 with probably a 1st generation P4 or Athlon XP will run on this game.
I'm sure when the actual game comes out we will see exactly what we saw with Doom 3 at Anandtech. A huge CPU and GPU roundup with exhaustive tests. So you will get your chance to see the 9600 in action. Reply
DefconFunk - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkThis review was kind of dissapointing.
I would have found it much mor useful if they'd included at least some ATI cards other than the top range. A 9600 would have been very much appreciated. Same with an FX5700. That way we could have some idea how the less financially able gamer (read: those of us with finicial obligations outside our computer) will be able to play CS:Source / HL2.
I did however appreciate the inclusion of the GF4 4400. Knowing how last gen products run on current games is important when thinking about purchasing either a new card or the new game in question. Reply
mikecel79 - Thursday, August 26, 2004 - linkGreat article. Found one little mistake:
"Kicking a box or rolling an oil down a hill are fun enough to distract players from the game at hand"
Shouldn't that be oil drum. Reply


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The book is about Tunisia, a small arabic nation located between Libya and Algeria. It was called 'Africa' by the Romans and 'Ifrikya' by the first Arabs. More particularly it's about the three years I lived there. This is what makes it different. There have been many photographic books on Tunisia portraying its beautiful Saharan and Mediterranean landscapes, its rich Carthaginian, Roman, Arabic and French Colonial ruins and architecture and its veilled women and markets. I include these images but am more interested in the everyday people and places in all of their diversity. I hope that my photos capture in part Tunisia's unique and very beautiful light and atmosphere; its magical and exotic mixture of tradition and modernity; its quirkiness, individuality and spirituality.
True, originally I photographed mainly camels and blue and white doors but then by 'being there, living there' began to notice other details and colours and really feel the countries special charm. Sometimes I've named people in the titles because they're friends. Often I've written the title in Arabic (albeit with roman letters) because of the intimacy and aptness of these words. The desire always being to show my affection for Tunisia and its people.
At the same time I hope to show the Arab-Muslim world in a broader light and I suppose in my own very small way contribute to closing the enormous gap of comprehension between the Arab and Western worlds. Not that many westerners actually live in Arab-Muslim countries. In my time in Tunisia I encountered only one other Australian living there and another just passing through. Consequently perceptions are very limited. A friend was surprised at my photo of a fashionable young girl sitting in a cafe, a family member of the snow (and no camels) in the image of Ain Draham in the North East. They sigh at the sameness of the young children learning to count and the young boy dressed in red cheering the football and marvel at the differences in clothing and architecture and the peaceful prayerfulness of the lady seated in the doorway.
The title 'Ici et La' (Here and There) reflects the juxtaposition of photos in an errant manner; an intention not to fix ideas and to wander with an open mind. A certain aesthetic order however is sought by the grouping of photos by colour.
About the Creator
After literature and architecture studies, James Leggate, a Solomon island born Australian, traveled around the world. He arrived in Tunisia in 2002 thinking to stay 6 months. He stayed for more than 3 years.....He now lives in China.
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A bill that would help ensure reasonable fees for public records requests advanced in the Nebraska Unicameral Monday on a 35-1 vote.
Sen. Scott Price gave the example of a person in his hometown of Bellevue being charged more than $600 for 14 pieces of paper because of the legal costs that the entity said would be required for the record retrieval.
People already pay for these public services, Price said.
We the people are paying for our public servants, just like ourselves, to do their job, he said. If in the course of your job, you do your job, you shouldnt be able to bill it again. In a way thats like a double billing. I dont believe thats what were in the business of in public service.
Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha said the issue was a matter of principle in that it would be wrong to keep from the public records that entities are entrusted to hold.
One of the worst places where public officials offend is when they hold information from the public, he said.
Under the bill, a requestor would be charged only if the time it took to research, retrieve and copy the records took more than six hours.
Because of the six-hour allowance, some senators were concerned that rural offices with small staffs would be stretched thin trying to do other duties while meeting public records request demands.
Some of these counties only have one person in the office, Sen Tyson Larson of ONeill said.
This concern prompted Larson to offer an amendment, which he later withdrew, that would require offices to spend only one hour obtaining public records for free.
Avery said that the six-hour time did not have to be allotted to staff in one day and the hours could be divided among staff members.
Avery compromised and offered an amendment to reduce the time to four hours, which was approved..
Chambers, who supported the bill, said Avery didnt need to compromise to accommodate the convenience of a few counties offices before the publics right to records.
Im not in favor of giving the big wrongdoers a pass to protect some smaller counties, he said.
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Human activity is destroying the Antarctic ic pack! No, wait, I mean it's SUSTAINING it!
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Those of us who are unequivocally willing to follow the data, there appears to be virtually no chance that humans have affected global climate.
In its most concerned and strongly worded press release to date, the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) today issued the following grim assessment of the impact of the planned Obama administration climate change policies on the citizens of the US and the world. From the Center Director, John L. Casey.
"This is an ingenious experiment that worked for Dr. Williscroft's own son. I genuinely hope that it works for your child, too, and that each new story in this series will enrich your child as much as they did his son. In fact, I sincerely hope that this experiment will prove to be very successful for all children!"
Dr. Frank Drake
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
SETI Institute, Mountain View, California
In the American Physical Society forum, Christopher Monkton provides a comprehensive summary of the failures of the anthropogenic climate change movement to come to grips with reality.
If you have kids (and even if you don't, now that I think about it), this weekend will offer an interesting stargazing opportunity: Saturn, Mars, and the Moon will appear in very close alignment with the bright navigational star Regulus in the constellation Leo, low in the western sky right after sunset. This is naked-eye astronomy at its best!
The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) issues a formal declaration: global warming has ended – the next climate change to a pronounced cold era has begun.
New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr. Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago. The cause? Global warming, of course!
What if lawyers had to pay for frivolous and stupid lawsuits...
They want to protect space from radioactive contamination...
Dr. Douglass of the Daily Dose offers his take on a liberal-sponsored medical study that found... WAIT for it... that America sucks compared to France!
Whether or not Mars once had life is not so important as how soon it will have life again.
These guys listened and improved their initial stance significantly.
Spend enough time on this planet of ours and you'll have to learn to live with disappointment. This is one of those times.


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Andrew decorated 20 biscuits to take to a party. He lined them up and put icing on every second biscuit and different decorations on other biscuits. How many biscuits weren't decorated?
You can make a calculator count for you by any number you choose.
You can count by ones to reach 24. You can count by twos to reach
24. What else can you count by to reach 24?
Find the squares that Froggie skips onto to get to the pumpkin patch. She starts on 3 and finishes on 30, but she lands only on a square that has a number 3 more than the square she skips from.
On Tuesdays Green Class sometimes do baking.
One Tuesday Miss King said that William's group were going to make biscuits. There were four children in the group besides William. They are Ali, Jess, Karni and Danny.
William, Jess, and Karni were going to work together to make biscuits with chocolate chips in them.
Ali and Danny were going to make ginger cookies.
When Miss King took Ali and Danny's tray of biscuits from the oven they looked like this:
How many biscuits did they make?
"Let's share them out!" cried Danny, "There are lots of biscuits! We'll get lots each, won't we?"
If they shared them between just Ali and Danny, how many would they get each?
"What about Will, Jess, and Karni?" objected Ali, "They should get some too."
Just then Miss King took the other tray of biscuits from the oven. They looked like this:
How many biscuits did the three of them make?
"Ooh! They smell good!" exclaimed William.
"Can we eat them now?" asked Karni.
"We will have to cut some of them up, if we are going to divide them between us fairly," said Jess thoughtfully.
If they shared them between the three of them, how many would they get each?
Ali looked at both trays. He counted all the biscuits. How many were there altogether?
They decided to share all the biscuits between all five of them. How many did they get each?
"What about Miss King?" Danny asked suddenly. "She might like some biscuits too."
Can they share all the biscuits equally between the five children and Miss King?
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Individually Designed Major in Engineering
From Undergraduate Engineering Handbook
INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED MAJOR IN ENGINEERING (IDMEN-BS or BSH)
- Overseen by Prof Brad Osgood (Senior Associate Dean)
- Student Services: Darlene Lazar, 135 Huang -- email@example.com
Note: Students proposing to pursue an IDMEN must have at least four quarters of undergraduate work remaining at Stanford after the quarter in which their proposals are submitted. The IDMEN may not be a student's secondary major.
About the IDMEN Degree
Individually Designed Majors in Engineering (IDMENs) are intended for undergraduates interested in studying engineering in areas not covered by departmental majors or the pre-approved School of Engineering sub-plans. Each IDMEN curriculum is designed by the student in consultation with at least two faculty advisors. Each student's primary academic advisor must be a member of the Stanford Academic Council, which means that Lecturers and Visiting Professors cannot fill this role. Students must also have a secondary advisor; this faculty member can be a member of a Stanford School other than Engineering and need not necessarily be a member of the Stanford Academic Council. The purpose of requiring a second advisor is to ensure that the student receives sufficient guidance about aspects of the proposed course of study that may lie outside the field of expertise of the primary advisor. The IDMEN degree is designated as a "Bachelor of Science in an Individually Designed Major in Engineering: Approved Title." This degree program is not accredited by ABET (see section in UGHB on Accreditation for more information).For information on the IDMEN-BSH (Honors option), see the Honors page of this site.
To pursue an IDMEN, a student must submit a written proposal to the IDMEN Subcommittee of the Undergraduate Council detailing her or his proposed course of study; you may bring your proposal to 135 Huang. IDMEN programs must meet the general minimum requirements established for School of Engineering majors:
Exploring/Proposing an IDMEN-BS
Investigate: Start by investigating existing majors and gathering information from other students and faculty. Visit 135 Huang: Darlene Lazar can answer general questions and point you to a binder filled with proposals/plans from previously approved IDMENs (see list at end of page for sampling).
Find Advisors: Each IDMEN curriculum is designed in consultation with at least two faculty advisors. Serious applicants should schedule an appointment with Senior Associate Dean Brad Osgood to solicit feedback (email or see Darlene Lazar firstname.lastname@example.com to set this up).
Solidify a Plan: Draw up a tentative major proposal with the help of your advisors, detailing your proposed course of study. IDMEN programs must meet the general minimum requirements established for School of Engineering majors:
- 21 units of mathematics (see SoE Approved Courses page)
- 17 units of science (see SoE Approved Courses page)
- One course on Technology in Society(see SoE Approved Courses page)
- 40 units of School of Engineering courses, at least three of which must be Engineering Fundamentals courses (see SoE Approved Courses page) and of which at least 31 units must be Engineering Depth courses
- Additional courses to bring the total to at least 90 but not more than 107 units
Each proposal must contain the following four elements:
- Rationale. The proposal should begin with a carefully crafted statement that describes the major, characterizes the proposer's motivation for pursuing it, justifies it intellectually, indicates the proposer's ultimate goal and how the major relates to it, shows how the courses comprising its curriculum make sense given its purpose, and tells why this plan of study cannot be pursued in any existing School of Engineering major program. A proposed title for the major, the accepted version of which will be shown on the student's diploma and transcript, should be included. Sample proposals are available for review in the Office of Student Affairs, 135 Huang.
- IDMEN program sheet. This form should be filled out completely including an indication of which course the student intends to take to fulfill the university's Writing in the Major (WIM) requirement. The bottom of the second page of the IDMEN program sheet must be signed by two faculty members: the student's primary advisor, who must be an Academic Council member of the School of Engineering faculty, and a secondary advisor. These signatures certify that the advisors endorse the major as described in the proposal and agree to serve as permanent advisors.
- Four-year plan. This blank form is a useful tool for organizing your plan and is needed as part of your proposal. The courses listed as part of the plan should comprise a well-coordinated sequence that fosters mastery of the important principles and techniques in a well-defined field.
- Letter of support. A letter of support from the student's primary advisor appraising the academic value and viability of the proposed major and the student's ability to successfully complete it must accompany the Proposal.
Submit: Submit your written proposal and other documents (both electronically and in hard copy) to Darlene in 135 Huang, email@example.com While proposals are rarely turned down, the committee may ask you to make revisions to your course list before granting approval.
Timing: You must have at least four quarters of undergraduate work remaining at Stanford after the quarter in which your proposal is submitted. Deadlines for proposal submission are below; proposals are reviewed three times per year:
Deadlines for proposal submission this year are:
Autumn Quarter: October 24, 2014
Winter Quarter: February 6, 2015
Spring Quarter: May 1, 2015
Declaring: Once your program has been accepted by the IDMEN subcommittee, the School of Engineering will notify you via email. Download and fill out the Declaration or Change of Undergraduate Major, Minor, Honors form, available on the Registrar website at http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/registrar/files/change_UG_program.pdf. If you have questions about preparing a proposal or about other parts of the process, you can talk to Darlene in the Office of Student Affairs.Once an IDMEN program is approved, any changes must be petitioned, receiving endorsement from both faculty advisors and by the IDMEN Subcommittee.
Further information and assistance in preparing proposals are available from the Office of Student Affairs, 135 Huang. Students are strongly encouraged to read "School of Engineering/Individually Designed Majors," a handout prepared by the Undergraduate Council for students interested in the IDMEN alternative. This handout is available from the Office of Student Affairs.
Samples of Proposal Topics from Past and Current IDMENs:
- Art & Architecture in Engineering
- Energy & Infrastructure Engineering
- Biochemical Engineering
- Engineering for Sustainability
- Biomedical Informatics
- Energy Engineering & Business
- Computer Graphics & Simulation
- Interactive Design Engineering
- Computer interaction Design
- Management Science & Design Engineering
- Energy & Environmental Design
- Neural Cybernetics & Engineering
All of these and more can be viewed and copied in 135 Huang, Office of Student Affairs.


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The second add-on pack for Fallout: New Vegas, Honest Hearts, is now available on PC and Xbox 360.
PC players can grab Honest Hearts on the Steam store, while 360 owners can head to Xbox.com and queue up the download.
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My sister, in her 40s, was recently diagnosed with Klatskins. We have been told that if resection is attempted, but unsuccesful, liver transplatation is no longer an option, and that therefore it is important to think about transplatation before undergoing resection surgery. Have others confronted this issue? Is anyone familiar with the requirements for becoming a transplant patient at Mayo clinic or elsewhere? Any information is appreciated.


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Bill Ladson
Nats' streak to seven after another walk-off win
LaRoche's homer sends club to third straight victory in last at-bat
WASHINGTON -- The game between the Nationals and D-backs went back and forth Monday night. Adam LaRoche hit a solo homer, giving the Nats a 5-4, walk-off win in 11 innings at Nationals Park.
The win was the third straight walk-off victory for Washington, the first time that has happened in Nationals history. Manager Matt Williams went through three walk-off home runs as a player with the D-backs. To Williams, it's rare to see walk-off victories in three consecutive games.
"They don't come very often, that's for sure," Williams said. "They just keep fighting, which is a great trait to have. It's a fantastic trait to have ... [to] never give up."
The Nationals remained six games ahead of the Braves in the National League East race. Atlanta beat the Pirates, 7-3, at PNC Park.
Washington has won seven straight games and improved to 70-53. It became the third team in the NL to reach the 70-win plateau.
Williams talked about doing a Babe Ruth impersonation if the club went on a 10-game winning streak. As a member of the Giants, Williams did a similar Ruth impersonation at Candlestick Park in 1991.
"I didn't necessarily want to bring that up. [The Ruth impersonation] is still available," Williams joked.
The score was tied at 4 when LaRoche hit a 3-1 pitch from right-hander Will Harris for a mammoth home run over the right-field wall. It was the first walk-off home run of LaRoche's career.
"I got every bit of that one," LaRoche said. "I don't know how we got these walk-off situations the last few days, but we have. I managed to get my first one. It took me long enough. So it's a good feeling."
For LaRoche, this current streak reminds him of 2012, when the Nats won their last division title.
"A little bit, and not just right now. Even earlier in the year, we had some injuries and still kept fighting and winning ballgames without three or four of our starters at a time," LaRoche said. "Young guys coming up filling the holes for us, pitching like they do consistently. So yeah, there is definitely a 2012 feel."
Earlier in the game, it looked like Wilson Ramos was going to be the hero. The Nationals were down, 1-0, when they took the lead against Vidal Nuno in the bottom of the seventh inning. With Ian Desmond on first, Ramos hit a 1-2 pitch over the center-field wall for a two-run homer.
Nuno pitched seven innings, allowing the two runs on five hits.
Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann pitched seven-plus innings and allowed three runs on four hits, but he allowed Arizona to take the lead in the eighth inning.
Didi Gregorius spoiled the party for a brief moment. The Nationals had a 2-1 lead going into the inning, but Zimmermann couldn't hold on to the margin. After walking Jake Lamb, Gregorius hit a 3-2 pitch for a two-run homer over the right-field wall to give Arizona a one-run lead.
"One pitch, and it looked a little worse than what it is. In that situation, I want to throw a strike," Zimmermann said. "Everyone knows I don't want to walk another guy. [Gregorius] was ready for it and got the bat on the ball."
The Nationals scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning off right-hander Brad Ziegler to regain the lead. After Denard Span doubled with one out, Anthony Rendon followed and tripled down the right-field line, scoring Span.
Jayson Werth was the next hitter and hit a sacrifice fly, scoring Rendon.
Tyler Clippard came in to pitch the ninth inning, and he blew the save, allowing a home run to David Peralta to tie the game at 4.
But the Nationals showed their resilience in the top of the 11th inning. The D-backs had the bases loaded with no outs, but Craig Stammen managed to get out of the inning without a run scored. It helped that his sinker was working. He managed to get two strikeouts in the inning.
"I started making good pitches," Stammen said. "I made good pitches and they didn't hit them. I got lucky. … You have to believe in yourself. Obviously, it was stacked against me and there was a certain way I was going to get out of it. Luckily, that's the way it went."
Stammen's performance motivated the Nationals to win the game in the bottom of the inning.
"It feels like every break is going our way," Stammen said. "You don't get out of a bases-loaded jam very often. It's a 1-in-25 thing. Walk-off home run, two outs in the 11th inning. Coming back when we're down and all that stuff. And giving up home runs and then coming back and scoring more runs, it's just resiliency."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Merton residents were subject to an unusual invasion as a family of seven-foot tall NHS 'yellow giants' descended on Wimbledon and Mitcham.
The eye-catching figures were on hand to help launch a campaign by NHS Merton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Not Always A&E - asking people to only use accident and emergency in life-threatening situations this week.
The campaign also aims to highlight what it says are quicker and easier alternatives to accident and emergency services where people can get advice and treatment.
Dr Howard Freeman, GP and chairman of NHS Merton CCG, said: "Our Accident and Emergency department is overrun by people experiencing long waits for treatment of conditions that could be handled by many other Merton health services."
The 'yellow giants' are also appearing across Merton on billboards, in health centres and other public buildings.
For more information on local services, visit the website on www.notalwaysAandE.co.uk and enter the symptoms and postcode.


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LG Chocolate 3 360-Degrees View
LG Chocolate 3 is a clamshell. Although it has the same model name, it is not slider as the first two generations (VX8500 and 8550). It is still a music-centric device with large control keys on the front, when closed. It also features a 2-megapixel camera and two color displays, as well as microSD slot for memory.


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COUNCILLORS have admitted they might not be able to stop Wyre Forest's boundaries being carved up "nonsensically" by an independent body.
There was anger from all sides of Wyre Forest District Council's chamber during its annual meeting on Wednesday last week at recommendations from the Independent Boundary Review Commission for England to slash the number of district wards from 17 to 11 - to accommodate a cut in councillors from 42 to 33 next year.
The review was sparked after the policy was given the go-ahead by councillors last year after being spearheaded by the ruling Conservatives, who have been accused of "inviting the commission in and not knowing how to stop it".
Councillors from all parties were angry the commission had put forward suggestions for controversial ward proposals such as bundling part of Stourport with Wribbenhall and Kidderminster Foreign in a Severn Valley ward and a Wyre Forest Rural "super ward" which would see Wolverley, Cookley, Blakedown and Chaddesley Corbett banded together.
As the body is independent, Wyre Forest councillors and residents can only make suggestions to the boundary commission but the final decision lies with them and the commission is must meet a ratio of one councillor per every 2,500 voters.
UK Independence Party (UKIP) councillor Michael Wrench said his group supported the reduction in councillor number but admitted the proposals were "way off the mark". "We should use the current Worcestershire County Council boundaries," he said. "The public needs to understand the changes."
An amendment by Labour to demand an answer from the commission as to why the recommendations were "so far off the mark" was turned down after the majority of councillors did not think it would help.
Independent councillor Helen Dyke said: "We can put forward what we think but whether they listen or not is up to them. It breaks up communities and roads, it is nonsensical."
Labour's Nigel Knowles said the problem went back to the Conservatives plans to save money by cutting the number of councillors rather than members allowances. "The Tories have let the commission in, now they don't know how to stop them," he added.
Conservative councillor John Campion, however, said: "We are going to have 33 councillors whether people like it or not." He added: "We cannot endorse the recommendations, we must note them and give our response to the report."


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HOUSTON - A woman has been charged in connection with a crash that killed another driver.
Jennifer Nicole Molina, 21, has been charged with intoxication manslaughter and accident involving injury or death.
Houston police said Molina was driving a Nissan Versa on the northbound service road of the 10100 block of the North Freeway about 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Detectives said Molina rear-ended a Honda Civic. The impact of the crash forced the Civic to hit a large concrete pillar, police said.
The 34-year-old female driver of the Civic was taken to a hospital, where she died. Her name has not been released.
Molina ended up crashing through a chain-link fence and called a relative, police said. That relative picked her up and drove her away from the scene, investigators said.
Detectives said the relative convinced Molina to return to the scene about an hour later. She was then arrested.
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We have observed and also received feedbacks from the users (whoever dared to do it) that setting up input trays has been quite a complex task. After designing the form, one needs to add the medium names used in the form to the xdc file
This blog post aims at simplifying this task and also clarify the steps that one needs to follow in order to set-up the input trays.
Input tray selection.
Basically, the input tray set-up problem can be defined as selection of paper from different input trays of the printer while printing the document. Without loss of generality, let's take up the case of selection of two different trays (T1 and T2) for a template which has two different master pages (M1 and M2) and the user wants to select paper from tray T1 for master page M1 and similarly for master page M2, the user wants to select paper from tray T2.
We can categorize this requirement into two main sub-categories based on the paper sizes used in the master page. Before going ahead, I should mention that master page is basically a logical page which serves as a template for a set of pages in the xdp. The designer user can specify the page properties like page size at the master page level.
M1 and M2 represent two different page sizes.
In this case,
- Make sure that the medium name used in M1 and M2 is present in the printer xdc file.
- Configure printer trays T1 and T2 for paper sizes of M1 and M2 respectively.
M1 and M2 represent same paper size.
This is a bit tricky case and one has to make a heck of changes in printer XDC file. The sequence of steps can be as following:
- Add the mediums present in M1 and M2 to printer xdc file. To do this one may need the following information.
medium name (copy from template), short edge size, long edge size and in case of PCL one also need to give pcl sequence for this medium.
Please note that one has copy the medium names from template as the designer shows different UI name for any medium. For example it shows "Letter Plain" for "letterPlain" medium.
- Specify the tray sequences for T1 and T2 to map it to corresponding mediums M1 and M2. Please note that one has to specify tray sequence for a tray every single time whenever one maps a medium to this tray. This is because the UI table representing xdc schema is not properly normalized.
Basic Idea
One would have realized that input tray set-up is not an easy task esp. for second category use cases. There are lot of duplicate information one asks from user that can be easily determined from previous values given in the xdc file. And also there is no sync between the UI strings shown by designer and XDC Editor.
Separate Medium and Input Tray tables
Currently the medium table allows one to add and modify both mediums and the input trays they are mapped to. This table will be separated into two tables for medium and input trays. By giving a separate table to input trays, redundancy in input tray data can be avoided and better visibility is given to the user into what input trays are available.
Add a separate mapping tale
The mapping information is currently embedding in the medium table. Once medium and input tray tables are separated, a mapping table can better manage the mapping of mediums to trays.
Changes in UI
- The tab page 'Medium and Trays' will be split into two pages, 'Trays' and 'Mediums', in order of appearance.
- 'Trays' page will have the Input, Output trays specifications and input-tray-medium mapping tables. User will mostly be dealing with 'Trays' page.
- 'Mediums' page will only have a Medium table with buttons to add/modify/delete mediums. Mediums page will be the last page as user will add/delete mediums rarely.
- Sample screenshots are shown below.
Input Trays table
The current input trays table is merged with the medium table and looks like as follows:
The new input tray table will not have any mention of medium, and will look like as follows:
Please note that 'Tray type' column will be shown only for Postscript.
All columns in the table have unique values individually. An input tray cannot share its tray name, number or type with another input tray.
Addition of a new tray
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The new 'Add new medium' dialog looks like,
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Companies these days are increasingly reliant on open source software. Whether it is external open source, or the planned release of internal technology under an open-source license, companies need to understand the rewards and risks involved. However, developers seldom like to follow intricate detailed checklist for quantifying risk within open source usage, or determining the needs for open source release. Therefore, a company needs to establish some basic structures or processes that help guide the decision-making process to a satisfactory conclusion, and as light a weight manner as possible.
Over the past six years, Adobe has developed and refined a process that strives to align within the company's interest as well as meet the needs of our internal developer communities. Obviously, such a process walks quite a tight rope between the business of generating profits and the benefits of open source involvement. While our activities are both outbound and inbound, the decisions made in order to release technology under an open-source license and to an open source community are far more intriguing.
It is clear that most companies operate under some basic fundamental principles. Most companies are in the business of creating profit. Most companies consider the code developed by their engineers to be owned by the company. As companies grow larger and expand product offerings, multiple groups may be impacted by the release of such proprietary software as open source. And while it often appears that releasing code as open-source software is on a case-to-case basis, such decisions are best reached within the framework of an overall corporate strategy.
So let's start with some basic rules for considering the release of technology as open source.
- Does anyone care that the technology is being released as open source?
- Do you have fundamental business and technology reasons for the open source release?
- Who owns the project? Does the project remain active within the company?
- Who pays for the project? (Open source isn't free.)
- What shape is the code in?
- What makes this technology unique? Do competing open-source projects exist?
- What about the legal issues?
Most of these items are actually common sense, and not unique to a specific company. However, we often find that these common sense items are not considered or not taken seriously enough. Open source proposals often arise from product strategic needs, such as the ability to expand and create platforms for others to innovate upon. Additionally, the open source community often innovates, improves, and corrects the base release itself. Such activities can provide financial incentives for the release of technology into open source, however it is important to note that building a community and maintaining continuity is an ongoing effort and that integration itself can be costly.
Over the past years Adobe has created and improved its processes for release of technology or working with existing open source projects. While our process may not meet all needs, we believe that the basis of our decision criteria, approval aspects, legal, and community are useful for us in considering the impact of such technology releases as open source.
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Can We Please settle this discussion once and for all? Cerez said this in retaliation to all of the constant talk page battles on this wiki, on this topic:
|[...]there's this fixation for seeing things in a character's infobox that they've never actually used but because they have x we do y. If you want the double standards and what not to stop then here's the thing: don't just sit back and cry foul for the characters you obsess about every other day, create a forum and see if you can get some action of creation a standard/guidelines for when and how characters are listed as users of a technique. That helps the wikia in a much bigger way.
Well, while im not mad at the comment, I totally agree with him. Fully. 100%. SO it's time to end this. At the beginning of the discussion (which can be found in the Six Paths Technique's talk page: It's about Time, I said this to kick off the discussion:
| It's about time we stop with the inconsistency and double-standard pit falls. Obito and Madara should be listed as the users of each and every path, like the Sage of the Six Paths. Before anyone chews my head off, lets review why.
So, I'm not getting the issue here. As far as I'm concerned, a character is listed as a user of a technique, if he has been shown to do it, be mentioned to have done it, or has said themselves that they can do it. Doesn't what Madara said, fit at least one of these criteria? Please, someone explain why they shouldn't be listed as users? Otherwise, it's about time we add them, and put an end to many discussions wars.
—Koto Senju
So, what do the rest of you think? KotoSenju (OldUser:JaZZBaND)-Talk-Contributions 15:39, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
- On my part i'll only be repeating myself but i'll say it again. It's called Six Paths Technique...meaning it's the full package of the Paths...Obito mentioned to be capable of using different Paths than Madara, and Madara was the one who taught him that. I argue that Rinnegan users should have all the Paths listed as part of the dojutsu. In terms of the derived technique i oppose as some may have been developed by specific characters, but the Paths should be listed as part of the Six Paths Technique. Darksusanoo (talk) 16:00, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
- The paths, I'm ok with, derived techniques, only if shown, mentioned, or reliably reasoned as a user. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 18:27, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
- Agreed with Omnibender. I'm fine with the Paths, since that much is pretty much obvious. The derived techniques, on the other hand, not until their shown. ~ Ten Tailed Fox 19:33, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
Exactly my point. Thats the reason I started this discussion. It shouldn't have been debatable. I too agree. KotoSenju (OldUser:JaZZBaND)-Talk-Contributions 19:34, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
Yay!! Now we're getting somewhere! I have no issues here. Jishaku Otoko (talk) 19:54, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
- Anyone who get the Rinnegan could use the Rikudō Jutsu with all its derived techniques, so I'd agree with Omni and TTF for the debut. http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a553/anaspet06/Shakhmootssign_zps2a261e68.png(Contact) 20:01, July 28, 2013 (UTC)
Kakashi has a sharingan but he is not an uchiha but he can use the abilities granted by the sharingan. Madara has the rinnegan but he is no sage of six paths. But he can use the Justus granted by the rinnegan. Same with obito. The whole point of the naruto series has been about power hungry ninjas trying to obtain the same strength as the sage of six paths and resurrecting the ten tails. so in a way it can be confirmed that six paths power and techniques are all obtainable and for the sake of good information six path users should be listed as well as with other Justus and techniques. Madara told Kabuto. That Kabuto did not create the six paths power and dropped two meteorites on the battlefield.
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There are likely many of us in the house
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Captains who encounter a string of bad luck
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Byron Hawk, hit by auto, dies in CGH
In serious condition since he was struck by an automibile Wednesday evening, Byron M. Hawk, 67, of 1037 Kenneth Ave., New Kensington, died at 12:46 yesterday (Jan. 15, 1970) in Citizens General Hospital, New Kensington.
The elderly pedestrian was struck by an auto in Locust Street near Kenneth Avenue, New Kensington and suffered a broken pelvis, a compound fracture of the left leg and possible concussion. He was in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
Mr. Hawk was born Feb. 21, 1902, in Rimersburg to the late Frank and Margaret Burford Hawk.
A resident of New Kensington for the past 50 years, Mr. Hawk was a retired employee of General Electric Co. (now Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.), New Kensington where he had 42 years of service.
He was a member of Loyal Order of Moose 53 and Fraternal Order of Eagles 533, both in New Kensington.
Mr. Hawk leaves a daughter, Miss Patricia Hawk, at home, a sister, Mrs. Vae Carey of New Kensington, and one grandson. His wife, Margaret H. Hawk, died March 20, 1959, and a son, Byron F. Hawk, died March 9, 1965.
Friends may call after 7 p.m. today in the Ross G. Walker Funeral Home, 217 Freeport Road, New Kensington, where a service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Arnold Slagle, former associate pastor at United Methodist Church of New Kensington will officiate. Burial will be in Lakewood Memorial Gardens, Dorseyville.
All Members and retirees of IUE Local 602 of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. will assemble in the Walker Funeral Home at 7 p.m. today to pay respects.
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At 8 AM, groundward driving of the first piling began for the tourist mecca's new boardwalk, replacing what was destroyed in the superstorm.
"It's like Christmas," Mayor Bill Akers enthuses. "It's a new beginning for the borough of Seaside Heights….we're going to start with about 60 a day for the first two weeks, and after that we're going to amp it up to 100-150 pilings a day."
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Peralta helps Brewers get ahead, but Cubs rally to win
CHICAGO -- So much for using John Axford in low-leverage innings. Brewers manager Ron Roenicke argued he had no choice but to shelve that plan given the circumstances Tuesday, and the result was another loss for a closer and a team off to a discouraging start.
Just like two days earlier against the D-backs, Roenicke went to Axford for a second inning and got burned. After stranding the potential go-ahead runner at second base in an uplifting seventh, Axford surrendered a double and two walks in the eighth and watched all three runners score, sending the Brewers to a 6-3 loss to the Cubs at frigid Wrigley Field.
Add those runs to Axford's ugly start: He has recorded 10 outs this season and allowed nine earned runs on nine hits, with as many home runs (four) as strikeouts. In four outings, he has two losses and a blown save. He owns a 24.30 ERA.
"I've given up enough runs already to hurt a first half, probably even a full season," Axford said. "Hopefully I can just hold on, carry on a decent year from here."
The Brewers are 2-6 and facing the same relief woes that dug such a deep hole in 2012, when they tied the A's for baseball's best record after Aug. 20 yet still missed the playoffs.
Tuesday's letdown wasted a solid start from 23-year-old right-hander Wily Peralta, who allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits in 6 2/3 innings. Peralta touched 96 mph on a night so cold that many Brewers hitters wore ski masks. He struck out five batters and walked two.
Peralta was matched for most of the night by Cubs left-hander Travis Wood, who pitched into the seventh inning and held the Brewers scoreless aside from a three-run outburst in the second. The Brewers missed chances to put away Wood early. They had runners at second and third with one out in the first but did not score. They had the bases loaded with one out in the second inning and three runs already across when catcher Jonathan Lucroy grounded into a double play.
Lucroy was 1-for-5. In the four full games since the Brewers lost Aramis Ramirez to a knee injury, their cleanup hitters are 1-for-18 with eight strikeouts.
"We score three runs early, and we don't score again," Roenicke said. "We've got to put the pressure on and score some more runs."
The Cubs scored their first run in the fifth on Anthony Rizzo's groundout and got another in the seventh to knock Peralta out of the game in favor of left-hander Michael Gonzalez, who was called upon to face Rizzo with two outs and the tying runner at second base.
The Brewers acquired Gonzalez via free agency for just such matchups -- this one against a left-handed-hitting Rizzo who was 0-for-6 against southpaws entering the at-bat. But Gonzalez missed badly with his first two pitches, then threw a slider on the outside corner that Rizzo ripped for a double to right and a 3-3 tie.
Roenicke then called for Axford to face Alfonso Soriano, who hit an inning-ending flyout to center field. It was just the sort of uplifting outcome that Axford, Roenicke and the rest of the Brewers were looking for.
It was short-lived. After a terrific play by Cubs shortstop Starlin Castro robbed the Brewers of a run in the top of the eighth, Axford headed out for a second inning of work.
"You start looking at what you need to do, what you plan to do, and the game changes, and it doesn't allow you to do what you want to do," Roenicke said. "If we come out and get the people out that we're supposed to get out, it runs a lot smoother.
"Our choices for the late innings, it's the same thing. When [Jim] Henderson is down, then where do you go to?"
Henderson, Axford's temporary replacement at closer, was unavailable after throwing 30 pitches Monday. Left-hander Tom Gorzelanny was unavailable after pitching five times in the Brewers' first seven games, throwing 32 pitches over the previous two days. Burke Badenhop was being held for a save in the ninth.
That left four right-handed options: Alfredo Figaro, who spent the past two years starting in Japan and had thrown 56 pitches in two shaky innings against the D-backs on Saturday; Brandon Kintzler, who faced three Cubs hitters Monday and retired none of them; Mike Fiers, a starting pitcher with no experience in close-and-late situations; or Axford.
Roenicke stuck with Axford. He surrendered a leadoff double to Nate Schierholtz on a 1-0 pitch, and Schierholtz advanced on a sacrifice bunt. Axford walked Luis Valbuena intentionally and pinch-hitter Dioner Navarro unintentionally, loading the bases.
Now, Roenicke went to Figaro, who surrendered a go-ahead sacrifice fly to another pinch-hitter, Scott Hairston, and a two-run single to David DeJesus.
Was Axford surprised when he was sent out for the second inning?
"I was told pretty much right away that I was going right back out," Axford said. "I guess [I was] maybe more surprised by the situation. It was a tie ballgame and I was out there again. I don't know."
So was he surprised to be called upon in a tie game in the first place?
"Yes and no," Axford said. "Based on what I heard, maybe more non-pressure situations. Obviously, that didn't happen tonight. Either way, I should be getting the job done no matter what situation I'm in out there. I'm not saying it's an excuse. It's definitely not an excuse. I'm just saying -- I don't know. Just another tough spot for me to be in right now."
Roenicke was asked where he goes from here.
"We'll just keep doing the same thing and hopefully we'll have him where we can use him just clean innings in the sixth or the seventh inning, somewhere in there. Once in a while, it may be the eighth, depending on what happens with the game."
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Quit Executive Director Fiona Sharkie said although parliamentarians from both sides of politics had committed to supporting the bill, it was obvious the tobacco companies weren't going to give in without a fight.
"Cigarette packaging is the single most important advertising tool the tobacco companies have, and they will fight tooth and nail to keep it. I'd urge all Members of Parliament to stick to their guns and continue to support this important reform that will make tobacco less attractive to young people."
"Although the tobacco industry is threatening legal action over this bill, we cannot let our eyes be taken off the final goal: to implement a policy that will strip cigarettes of their desirability and go towards saving some of the 15 thousand lives lost to tobacco every year."
Ms Sharkie said the importance of packaging in attracting new smokers couldn't be underestimated.
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"Our legal advice on plain packaging echoes that of the federal government's: That plain packaging is on very solid ground."
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