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Never underestimate man's willingness to lie for a good cause.
Stephen Jay Gould mismeasured skulls in racial records dispute
By Dan Vergano
9 June 2011
The late scientific icon, Stephen Jay Gould, botched and perhaps faked his critique of a racist 19th-Century scientist's skull collection, suggests a second look at his efforts.
In a 1978 Science paper, Gould (1941 - 2002) , reported that the Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), "a prominent Philadelphia physician," had mis-measured the cranial capacities of his 1,000-skull "American Golgotha" collection gathered from around the world, to suit his racist beliefs. The finding led to one of Gould's best-known books, The Mismeasure of Man, a critique of scientific racism.
"Morton is now viewed as a canonical example of scientific misconduct. But did Morton really fudge his data?," asks a PLoS Biology study led by anthropologist Jason Lewis of Stanford University. "Are studies of human variation inevitably biased, as per Gould, or are objective accounts attainable, as Morton attempted?"
So, the study team remeasured the skulls collected by Morton, now owned largely by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.
Overall, they find, Morton did make mistakes in measuring skull capacity (he first stuffed them with seeds, and later lead shot to measure their brain size). But the mistakes were random. The random mistakes didn't favor any racial theory of larger brain sizes for white people over others.
"Given how long Gould's work has been criticized in this arena, I'm a little surprised that it took this long for the work to be done to write this article," says the University of Texas's David Prindle, author of Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution. "People who dislike Gould's work will likely go on disliking him even more after this article. People who are fans of his writing will likely go on supporting his views."
Today, researchers know that larger average skull size is largely a function of cold weather:
In reevaluating Morton and Gould, we do not dispute that racist views were unfortunately common in 19th-century science or that bias has inappropriately influenced research in some cases. Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or ''racial,'' and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations. In particular, cranial capacity variation in human populations appears to be largely a function of climate, so, for example, the full range of average capacities is seen in Native American groups, as they historically occupied the full range of latitudes, say the study authors.
Yes! Head size is correlated with cold weather...but then so is IQ.
From Lynn, Race Differences in Behavior
The article continues:
Morton neither manipulated his skull samples, unfairly selected which data to report, skewed results by gender, or ignored his mistakes to favor racist interpretations of his skulls, the PLoS Biology study authors conclude -- all charges made by Gould against the long-dead physician.
What's more, the researchers found Gould made some mistakes in his re-analysis of Morton. "Our analysis of Gould's claims reveals that most of Gould's criticisms are poorly supported or falsified," they conclude:
Samuel George Morton, in the hands of Stephen Jay Gould, has served for 30 years as a textbook example of scientific misconduct. The Morton case was used by Gould as the main support for his contention that ''unconscious or dimly perceived finagling is probably endemic in science, since scientists are human beings rooted in cultural contexts, not automatons directed toward external truth''. This view has since achieved substantial popularity in ''science studies''. But our results falsify Gould's hypothesis that Morton manipulated his data to conform with his a priori views. The data on cranial capacity gathered by Morton are generally reliable, and he reported them fully. Overall, we find that Morton's initial reputation as the objectivist of his era was well-deserved.
This is hardly the first time an anthropologist has lied in the name of equality:
Franz Boas – Liberal Icon, Scientific Fraud
By Sam Francis
14 October 2002
Two of the major superstitions of our time are the notion that man is merely a blank slate whose behavior is merely the product of the social environment and its sister, that race doesn't exist. Yet one by one, the pseudo-scientific sources of these myths are being discredited by serious scientists, and last week, one of the biggest sources of all took a nose dive.
Franz Boas, often called the grandfather of modern anthropology and a pioneer pusher of the idea that race is not a very meaningful concept, merely a "social construct" not found in nature, probably ranks with Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud as one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. As a Columbia professor from 1899 to 1942, he virtually created modern anthropology, and the students he trained—among them, Margaret Mead and some of the most famous names in the field—dominated the discipline until only a few years ago.
One of Boas' favorite targets was so-called "scientific racism," and much of his own writing was intended to combat what he saw—sometimes rightly—as unscientific or simply false thinking about race.
But it now turns out that Boas himself was guilty of no small degree of unscientific blunder—and maybe even fraud.
In 1912, Boas published what became a classic study that claimed to show that the skull shapes ("cranial forms") of the descendants of European immigrants to the United States altered from those of the original immigrants. Boas offered no explanation for why the changes took place, but if they were real, his finding pretty much wiped out the idea that different racial and ethnic types differ in fixed physical characteristics.
Boas's study, write Abram Kardiner and Edward Preble in their popular history of anthropology, They Studied Man, [pay archive]
"did much to establish the notion in human genetics that what are transmitted in the germ plasm are not fixed characters but potentialities ... dependent upon the environment for the particular form they will assume. The 'nature-nurture' controversy was largely obviated by this alternative."
In political terms, if human beings have few or no "fixed characters" and are shaped by the social environment, then what we know as modern liberalism is in business. So is communism, which also assumes that human beings can be transformed by manipulating the social environment.
It's no accident that Boas was a lifelong sympathizer of Marxism.
Unfortunately, for the social and human engineers, the study has now been shown to be invalid. Last week in the New York Times Science section, science reporter Nicholas Wade reported on an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by anthropologists Corey Sparks and Richard L. Jantz that took another look at Boas's study and methods. The effects of the new environment on the skulls of the immigrants' descendants, they found, are "insignificant," and the difference between the European and American born children were "negligible in comparison to the differentiation betweenethnic groups." ["A New Look at Old Data May Discredit a Theory on Race" By Nicholas Wade, NYT.Oct 8, 2002]
Moreover, as Dr. Jantz told the Times, Boas
"was intent on showing that the scientific racism of the day had no basis, but he did have to shade his data some to make it come out that way."
In other words, Boas decided what his conclusions would be before he finished the research and then "shaded"—i.e., cheated on—the data to make them support the conclusion he wanted.
This is not science; it's fraud -- and modern liberalism is founded on it.


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In the late 90s, while I was still in college and holding a steady job, I was taken to a psychiatric institute to be medically tortured through a process I've recently begun to understand as gaslighting. I can only assume it was for being profiled as an anarchist.
I need help with this, still. After all these years I'm still trapped inside that prison. Most of that time spent burying it inside, trying to survive in its shadow. I want, I need, to tell this story and come to terms with it. If only for myself so I can move on.
Until such time, nothing I do does more than just add to this torment. My situation is only getting worse, and the pain of isolation and exclusion only furthers it, fueling a hatred for those who'd have me get involved with their lip service solidarity while only being dismissive, associating me with this group that cause or some other in insistent refusal, dismissal, silence, turning a blind eye and deaf ears to my own cries for help. This system is run by incompetent fools and fascist liars.
I'm always someone else's problem, until it's time to call the cops in
and let the shrink experts deal with it.
I need verbal communication. I need a human voice, a conscience talking back to me and echoing me back to myself, to sort this out. Machine communication and words on a screen…
( Spending 99% and more of your time inside this barely 350sq foot apartment, without any meaningful relationship or social interaction, isn't all as cracked up to be or as fun as it sounds, at all. )
I do not find this entertaining. I want to disassociate myself from this. Your culture of fear, terror, war and violence. I'm fucking sick of these politics, these games, the sordid circus of our fascist for profit existence …
I'll turn 40 years old next year.
Along with recently surviving a battle with cancer and several other injuries and conditions which recommend treatment -and severely limit my abilities, I also survived being tortured in the late 1990s by medical personnel at a so called psychiatric ward, my legal guardian at the time having been convinced by an ultra-religious uncle that I was using hard drugs, and that this was the best course of action to deal with it. Hard drugs like atheism, and anarchism, with the occasional reefer.
I was pressured into admitting suffering from what amounts to lies and fabrications, and into agreeing with false narratives about my person and events which had happened to me already. At times, I was restrained and given hallucinogens against my will, and called a liar when I refused to admit suffering from hallucinations, insisting the injections were to help me stop having them. Never before or again in my life. (Even as recently as 2015 I was dog whistled by a pain doctor claiming some cancer treatment options were closed to me because of these "hallucinations". I was forced to delay chemo because of it, refusing to proceed until that asshole was barred from all access to me, which they only partially complied with.) At times I was told to confess to having lost contact with reality and told to never read sci-fi novels or bibles again, bibles I repeatedly insisted having never opened for the life of me outside of my pre-teen years at Sunday school. Locked in the little interrogation room to think about it, the counselors checking on in passing if I'd reconsidered and was ready to be more rational on the subject and agreed to consider their "advice". Though I hardly ever read anything, they disagreed, and aggressively insisted it was what was fucking up my mind. That's where all the conspiracies and ideas about people out to get me that I didn't even know about or believed in, though they insisted caused my paranoia, came from they'd say. Getting the "good cop bad cop" routines from nurses and therapists with bloodied knuckles. Threatened with further treatment if I refused to sign consent to receive further treatment, and to submit to whatever their recommendations for my condition would be, whatever they decided it was. And more insane scenarios and all around weird shit (including other patients…) for several weeks.
All throughout being repeated that all was for my own good and safety.
Everyone is just doing their jobs.
Could've been worse.
From time to time after they decided it had been enough w/e, even as I refused to cooperate with them or to agree with their assessments of the situation, they would give me some loose, sometimes just a little. Once I was even allowed to leave by one doctor only for another to have me brought back for escaping. After the long weeks spent strapped to tables or locked up in padded rooms with only a plastic jug, after all the psychological abuse and the pain of restraints or confinement, the forced injections, the violent coercions, straight up torture all nice and light –nothing more than scrapes and bruises, I still followed through with some threats and attacked first best chance I got. Seized the opening no matter how small the opportunity, testing their limits. I escaped several times, I guess. Police were never far behind to bring me back either way, whether I fled or was let go. As bad as it was, I follow the news, I think it'd be easy to name other mistreated prisoners. I would definitely not want to diminish their suffering by comparison. A handful of months is nothing compared to years or even decades of similar and more intense abuses.
I was eventually sent to jail for attempting on the life of the person I was to ask permission to leave to. For several weeks then, I was moved to a different cage. This current nurse in charge had refused by claiming I was a danger to myself, that I still hadn't signed the release and agreed to the medications, and my answer to that was kind of an angry "you mean I'm a danger to you." Two of the medical personnel involved were granted restraining orders against me. I was found not guilty of whatever I was there for and ordered never to go near that place again, given no recourse or compensation, no possibility for justice. No one wants to hear about this, that's the story: it didn't happen, it can't be real, I need help, I need meds, I need to get over it, no one wants to hear about this. In any case, it just follows the same "there's nothing to be done about it" from referral to referral and back again to some different uncivil servant only interested in which box to check and where to stamp the rubber.
Because I always rejected their diagnosis and medications, and still do. Even in prison they had to force them on me, with their delicate violence gently shoving it down my throat once they realized I could fake it and just spit the pills back in the toilet later. I do now however keep some morphine in the cabinet for rainy days, which they started offering after the cancer treatments, refills whenever I can, just in case.
The story goes on. Working class life. Never managed to save more than a couple grand at once, which went on computers. The list is long: from factories to community centers to offices to construction and demolition work to kitchens and generic retail stores, warehouses, various trades and apprenticeships. This is a fast forward to a couple of decades -and several violent altercations later- past the years spent basically being a hostage to street gangs, defrauded, beaten, under constant harassment by both law enforcement and thugs, skipping over ordeals I'd rather not go into right now, and the mundane employments, the injuries and illnesses, accidents and personal conflicts, to the cancer that signalled my definite retirement from the "job" market.
I am since unable to maintain any sort of stable occupation, again. I live on the credit cards which I managed to obtain while being a student at university in the mid 00's, with these days a deficit of around 500$ each month being as low as I can manage. My medical diagnosis barely allows me beyond basic welfare support, which by itself doesn't even cover food, shelter and utilities. Without that credit, if and once they take it away, the streets, with everything that entails, is soon to be the next stop. Either jail or the morgue follows, it's practically unavoidable. A total of an extra 1300$ a month would be required to cover all the prescribed therapies, treatments, and minimum living expenses.
All that would mean starting up a yearly gofundme type campaign of roughly 15 600$ a year, plus some other amount to cover for what would then get cut from the welfare checks in retaliation.
Donations of 15$ or more would get you a hand-bound notebook if you so desired, blank or with your suggested content printed inside, simply email firstname.lastname@example.com with your details first. Once the initial production models are used up however, I plan to raise the minimum to 25$. A few of the newer books, made of new paper (blank on both sides for double the usable pages) and natural wool, are already available.
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(what follows isn't directly related, from several year later, after several moves and from a different city. Another one of those anonymous pings, the great reaction judging social cyber experiment at work, another fuck you answer…)
C'est important. Ça raconte d'où je viens et où je m'en vais.
Je sais pas par où partir pour une traduction, ça m'est venu en anglais. Je reçois jamais de feedback, c'est pas une blague que j'en demande.
Ça contient des choses qui hors contexte je ne répéterai pas.
Sur ce qui est des violences, des menaces et des injures de la gens internet, pour ceux qui voudraient m'en prévenir et me sermonner, d'un côté comme de l'autre, voici ce que j'en pense:
J'ai été témoins de meurtres à sang froid. Tout bonnement, sans artifice et délibérément, avec intentions déclarées, tout filmé, on ramasse un pauvre rien à la rue. On est sympathique avec lui et on l'invite au gym. Là-bas, son crâne est aussitôt défoncé en étant brutalement frappé à maintes reprise sur le dur planché par l'élève qui passe son examen, puis on traine le cadavre encore chaud pour le garrocher dans un conteneur à vidanges pas loin dans la ruelle.
Rite d'initiation et avertissement. C'est ça les black ops. On en a même fait une vidéo qui fut publié en ligne. Les peu de mentions du crime dans les médias cependant laissent entendre au mystère, et les déclarations de la police ne font que rajouter à la terreur. Les informations de tout le monde étaient pourtant là, et les enregistrements indéniables. Le tracé de sang lui-même aurait difficilement pu être moins subtile. Le message était clair.
Les tops commentaires sur le clip à ma dernière connaissance? "Un n* qui en tue un autre. Who the fuck cares!" genre.
Ces gens sont toujours libres et vivant.
Ça ne fera même pas bientôt une dizaine d'année de celle-là.
Les p'tit pitous qui grognent sur internet pis qui sifflent dans la rue, trop peureux de se dire sans se cacher, j'en ai rien à chier de leurs menaces. Mais vraiment rien.


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- "The Mojave is nothing like I would have ever imagined"
- ―Ethan Marshalls, describing the Wasteland
|Ethan Marshalls
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|October 16th, 2257
|Date of death:
|161 lbs.
|Mercenary for the Mojave Privateers
Ethan Marshalls is a mercenary working for the Mojave Privateers in 2281.
Childhood and Growing Up
Ethan was born in the year 2257 to Edith and Connor Marshalls in the small town of Abile in the fine region of the Oilfields , one of the few tame region of the entire state of Texas. Growing up he watched as his father went off to work each day, refining oil and coming home covered in the black gold he worked hard to refine. His father on more than one occasion took him with him to work showing him the kind of backbreaking work he went through every day and always telling his son to do better, get somewhere and do better. Like every good father Connor wanted the best for his son and wanted him to live a better life than his own but that seemed to be a tunnel dream in Texas, the only "hopeful" place in the whole state was the Permian Basin now dominated by the Midessa Compact . Yet unluckily for young Ethan his father never got see his young son grow up as he was killed in a fire at the refinery. The death of his father affected Ethan forever as he now became the family breadwinner, he soon got a job at the same refinery as his father when he was only twelve. He worked hard and earned him and his mother enough to keep food on the table, yet when one day he returned home late one night to find his home had been broken into and his mother murdered. At fourteen he lost his mother, now and orphan he wandered the wastes without a purpose and developing a rather poor attitude, he quickly ran out of money and the only way he did the only thing he knew how to do, he got a gun and became a bandit.
As began his roadway stickups he worked his west to the Permian Basin and soon became quite a nuisance for the Midessa Compact and soon bounty hunters were hired by the towns of the compact to hunt down the highwaymen that continued to attack the caravans going in between the towns. Yet these bounty hunters came to naught as they all ended up as stiffs along the side of the road, to be eaten by the scavenging animals of the area. For Ethan his signature weapon was an old five shot revolver his father had made a trade for he called it a Seqouia or something like that, either way, the rounds could put one hell of a hole in anybody who thought that being a hero was a good idea. Eventually, a small army of mercenaries, bounty hunters, and hired guns had been sent after Ethan. This all came to a head when he attempted to hold up a caravan that turned out to be an ambush, the mercs surrounded the wounded Ethan in an old building with orders to shoot him on sight and bring the body for the reward. Well an argument began between the mercs, someone started pulling guns, next thing you know their killing one another, so Ethan made a break for it shooting like a mad man with his revolver, he shot his was out of the ambush and promptly left the Midessa Compact and the Permian Basin for good. After this, he promptly made his way to the Corpse Coast.
The Corpse Coast
When Ethan arrived in the Corpse Coast he was met by a familiar scene a land of total and constant warfare. This was the land that needed mercenaries, whatever non-aligned towns there were in the Corpse were always under attack, he figured he would be one hell of a merc yet he got caught up with another group the Geist Korps, he was working his way through some ruins (he was scavenging) when gunfire erupted from one of the streets, as he watched a group of Korpsmen traded fire with a group of strange looking raiders, they performed in a rather robotic fashion, showing no emotion or even reaction when one of their own was felled by gunfire, they quickly flanked and gunned down the raiders. they then collected their fallen comrade's corpse and moved on. Ethan decided to follow them and figure out who they were, he followed them back to their camp and discovered they were the Geist Korps an elite band of mercenaries and warriors in the Corpse. He made his presence known and asked to join, the commander only had him sign a sheet and the training began, with what seemed basic a set of push-ups only ten the commander said. As he did them he was kicked, beaten and clubbed like no other. This became a pattern as he went through his training, ruthless beatings from his fellow Korpsmen, midnight sock parties except in place of dry soap bars they put nuts and bolts in their socks. Yet Ethan came out on top an emotionless, ideological killer and his Korpsmen welcomed him for it. He was given a suit of their signature armor and yet under that armor Ethan still managed to keep a shrivel of himself alive and thus had somewhat of a rogue personality going on within him.
While in the Korp he met another hard-bitten merc, Ike Arts the two became friends in the loosest sense of the word and often fought together when in combat, yet when Ike left the Korps it left Ethan rather pissed off that his friend would just up and abandon the Korps, so when Oberst Brandt ordered him to be killed on sight he sent Ethan after him. Ethan caught up with his old friend Ike in the town of Petroleum and promptly had a gun battle with him, Ike got a well aimed 12 gauge slug put into Ethan's armor, it knocked the wind out of him, a second and a third slug hit him in his shoulder and stomach. Ethan went down, a pool of blood forming around him Ike left, having realized he had just gunned down his assassin not knowing it was his old friend. The people of Petroleum took him in and nursed him back to health at which point Ethan left, headed back to the Corpse with news of his failure to the Korps. Yet upon his return, the news of his failure to kill his old friend was not taken well by Oberst Brandt who promptly attempted to kill Ethan himself with his pistol, after shooting his way out of the camp full of his former friends and comrades.
The Mojave
It was after getting almost killed by men he had once considered his friend that Ethan decided that maybe the good state of Texas could do without him for awhile. He left the lone star state and headed west, going from town to town, occasionally doing the odd job for the local townsfolk, fighting off raiders and bandits alike he eventually ended up in the Mojave Wasteland. It was here that he mosied on into the small town of Goodsprings, he sat down at the small saloon in the town and had himself a drink. He figured he'd try his hand at the strip and maybe look for a place to settle down in one of the small unaligned towns in the region. So after trying his hand at the strip (and losing all of his money) he again stumbled back into Goodsprings, stinking of whiskey, and for whatever reason cheap perfume and decided to have another drink to help wash down his woes. It was while he was in Goodsprings in that small bar that he met a rather peculiar person, he or possibly she was a Super Mutant who was going on and on about how there wasn't anywhere he could grab enough ammo for his mini-gun. Ethan half hung over,struck up a conversation and the mutant and Ethan became fast friends. The mutant said he had no name, wandering the wastes looking for the mutant she heard on her radio named Rhonda, however, the signal had become rather spotty to the point where he had lost contact with the radio signal and moved into Goodsprings without much of a purpose. He helped out round up Brahmin, repair homes, and naturally, deal with an threats to the town, which he did rather effectively. Ethan asked in his hungover state if the mutant wanted to hang around with him, and the mutant accepted.
It wasn't long before the duo was out causing trouble, mostly for the powder gangers. A group of Powder Gangers tired of the trouble started by the two sent a hit team after them. The team ambushed Ethan and the mutant by throwing dynamite at them and then opening fire with their variety of guns. While Ethan fired away with his pistol at the Powder Gangers, the mutant fired what ammo he had left for his mini-gun left then went around bludgeoning the remainder with his mini-gun, literally beating them to a pulp. Watching him Ethan remarked, "That's one fucked up fucker" thus earning the mutant his name, One Fuked up Fucker. The two promptly returned to Goodsprings where stories of the fight had already trickled in, earning the two several drinks from Trudy and claps on the back from the others at the bar. Soon they began to get job offers from people to help clear out groups of Powder Gangers they quickly became notorious with the Gangers to the point that Eddy put a bounty on the twos head. Meanwhile, others heard their across the Mojave people locked to meet with them. One named Tommy Spinelli even offered to join them, an old ghoul who claims to have been born before the war and having crossed the wastes from his home in a place called New York City. Either way, he was a cracking shot and thus Ethan allowed him to tag along. The three formed the Mojave Privateers a group of fearsome mercenaries who work for the highest bidder. They operate in the Mojave, even today.
AER12 Laser Rifle "Police Special"
This unique Laser rifle was taken off a dead mercenary Ethan found while wondering the Corpse, When he first found it, it was badly damaged and required quite a bit of repair work. Yet when he got the rifle up and running it proved to be rather effective at killing his enemies, on the same token a non-lethal function had been added to allow the user to stun his target and thus allow him to capture or put down a target without harming them.
Newberry .357 Magnum
Hailing from an armory out east the Newberry revolver is about as reliable as any revolver is gonna get. It fires six powerful .357 pistol rounds, it has stopping power like no other, and its rather low maintenance so thus Ethan only has to worry about cleaning it about once a month.
Kurtz's Klub
While traveling from Texas to the Mojave Ethan ran across a group of tribals in Utah, calling themselves the Warhounds after doing a few odd jobs for them, they rewarded him with a large sum of caps and a special machete he likes to call Kurtz's Klub after having it given to him by Kurtz himself.
- "You know I used to be friends with one of those Geist Korps freaks, then I was ordered to kill him, then he tried to kill me...lets just say were not on speaking terms"
- ―Ethan Marshalls on his old friend Ike Arts.
- "First the Korps, now the Bastards. What's next, you're going to fuck my wife and read my daughter bedtime stories?"
- ―Ike Arts on seeing Ethan everywhere he goes.
- "There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war."
- ―Rolento Hawke spoke only briefly to some members of the Bastards, he could only hope his words were helpful.
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Location: Günzburg, Schloss Reisensburg
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Location: Vigo, Spanien
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Location: Wien, Österreich
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Location: Oldenburg
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Event: Summer School "Resource-aware Machine Learning" at the University od Dortmund
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Encounter game loading problem after launching a game on Windows computer? Can't run or launch a game after the installation? Always get the error message of the missing .Net Framework or .dll files? If you get stuck on such issues when you're going to play PC game or offline game on a Windows 10, 8.1, 7, etc. computer, it is necessary for you to go on the reading for more solutions of how to fix game loading issue.
It is the missing game components that often result in game loading failure on your computer. When there ain't some crucial parts for programs running on Windows platforms, you can't launch the programs properly. For example, .Net Framework provides a comprehensive programming model for building most of the games on Windows, and if you haven't installed the appropriate one or if you uninstall the file by accident, the game you're going to play won't be loaded properly.
This post will show you top 3 methods to fix the game loading failure on Windows. Microsoft DirectX, Microsoft .Net Framework and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable are the main game components that need to have your attention. Now let's begin.
Microsoft DirectX is an application programming interfaces (API) for enhancing the multimedia capabilities of the computer. It can act as the intermediate for creating and managing graphic images and multimedia effects in programs on Microsoft platforms, such as games, videos, and active web pages.
Some players install higher versions of DirectX on their Windows PC and ignore old versions like DirectX 9 or DirectX 9.0c because they consider that their computer is in high configuration and it is not that necessary to install such old versions of DirectX. Thus they fail to load popular PC games such as F.E.A.R. 3, Far Cry, Battlefield, Portal 2, etc. Though many games do support DirectX 10 or DirectX 11, in fact, most of the PC games are still with DirectX 9 support. So if you want the game loading successful, it is vital to install proper DirectX on your Windows computer.
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Microsoft .Net Framework is important in building games on Windows OS. .Net Framework 4.6.2 is the latest version. Similar to that of DirectX, you still need to install other versions like .Net Framework 3.5 or 4.0 besides the new version, since some classic games will fail to load without the old version of Microsoft .Net Framework.
If you have the computer installed with .Net Framework 4.5.1, then you don't need to install the version 4.0 or 4.5 manually. If you've installed the file before, but when it comes to the game loading, you still receive .Net Framework missing error message, then you should go to the Windows Features to manually enable .Net Framework.
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Microsoft Visual C++, aka MSVC or VC++, is an integrated development environment (IDE) tool for creating applications in the C, C++, and C++/CLI programming languages. Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is a library of components whose framework is required when you run certain applications developed with Microsoft Visual C++. You may find a lot of Microsoft Visual C++ 20xx Redistributable as you check the Programs and Features. If you remove or delete any one of the Visual C++ Redistributable packages, then the games dependent on that specific version of the components will stop loading or launching. And you may receive error messages like "The program can't start because MSVCR***.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." (*** stand for numbers like 100, 120, 140, etc. For example, you get the MSVCR120.dll missing error.)
Some old version games may support Visual C++ 2005 or 2008, and some new ones support Visual C++ 2013. And now we also have Visual C++ 2015. If you have a computer of Windows 64-bit, you still need to install the 32-bit Visual C++ (usually marked with x86) when you want to run some classic games on the computer. Actually, the packages don't take much disk space.
To have your game loading smoothly and to have a good experience of games on your Windows PC (64-bit) after you reinstall the Windows OS, it is recommended to install the following .Net Framework and Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable packages:
Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5.2
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x64)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.6161
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x64 Redistributable – 10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable – 10.0.30319
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x64) – 11.0.61030
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x86) – 11.0.61030
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) – 12.0.21005
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x86) – 12.0.21005
Go on the reading to get the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package downloads.
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Step 3. Click Install after the download completes. It will install the file automatically. Then restart the computer to make the changes take effects.
Besides, if you have other game-related issues, you can also go to the Toolbox menu for PC Repair.
All of the above are the possible best solution for fixing failure game loading issue. If you find this useful, please share it with your friends or go to our forum for discussion! Hope you load your games successfully after installing appropriate game components.
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- The IT Management Station, powered by Mandriva Pulse, provides a flexible service for managing multi-OS and multi-site IT assets for businesses of all sizes. By installing the IT Management Station, you can centrally manage multiple IT resources with numerous business applications including comprehensive inventory, centralized software deployment and updates, imaging, remote management and support, and backup and restore with flexibility and productivity.
- Comprehensive Surveillance Solution
- Surveillance Station is professional network surveillance Video Management System (VMS) that offers a user-friendly management interface, over 2,700 compatible IP camera models, and expandable IP camera channel licenses. It supports real-time monitoring, video and audio recording, and playback with a wide range of customizable settings. You can also install the Vmobile mobile app on your iOS or Android devices to manage the monitored channels anytime and anywhere to safeguard your office environment, or install the Vcam mobile app to turn your device into a network camera.
- Signage Station
- With the Signage Station, it is easy to create content for a wide range of materials such as menu boards, advertisements, posters, and business profiles. The Signage Station is a suitable tool to invigorate your advertisements or animated materials for promoting your services, and to update contents in a timely manner. The iArtist lite application, with editing tools, helps you to create these signs with simple drag and drop tools.
- NAS Functionality
- A built-in App Center provides various install-on-demand apps developed by QNAP and third-party developers, including tools for backup/sync, business, content management, communications, download, and entertainment. It is also a centralized location for managing and updating installed apps. In addition, Qnap's development platform embraces the open-source spirit to enable developers to create their own apps.
- Energy-Saving
- It utilizes a 22nm CPU and DDR3L RAM which feature low voltage requirements and low power consumption, whilst maintaining high performance in system operations. Other eco-friendly designs include scheduled power on/off, hard disk standby mode, and Wake-on-LAN.
- FTP Server
- The Turbo NAS supports FTP server to share large size files, coming with user-defined settings, including bandwidth limitation, number of connections, and write-only permission.
- Web Server
- The Turbo NAS supports Web server, which allows numerous websites, built on the same server conveniently. Administrators can manage up to 32 websites on the single one Turbo NAS with reduced IT cost.
- RADIUS Server
- The Turbo NAS supports RADIUS server, which provides centralized authorization management for computers to connect and use a network service.
- VPN Server
- The Turbo NAS supports VPN server, which provides an easy way for IT administrators to build up a secure private network and allows the staff to log on from outside the office and access business resources securely such as files and Internet connections.
- Printer Server
- The Turbo NAS supports printer server to send remote printing requests over the Internet (maximum 3 USB printers), and supports IPP (Internet Printing Protocol), Samba, print job management, and Bonjour printing for Mac OS X.
- Surveillance Station
- The Turbo NAS supports surveillance station to connect and manage multiple IP cameras remotely, including real-time monitoring, video-recording, playback, and event notifications.
|Intel Celeron Quad-core 2.0 GHz (up to 2.41 GHz)
| Installed: 4 GB DDR3L SDRAM (1 x 4GB)
Slots: 2 x SODIMM (8 GB maximum)
Flash: 512 MB
|Internal Drive
| 8 x 3.5"/2.5" SATA 6 Gb/s, SATA 3 Gb/s hard drive or SSD
Note: The HDD is not included
|Hard Drive Trays Supported
|8 x hot-swappable and lockable trays
| 4 x RJ-45 gigabit Ethernet
4 x USB 3.0
1 x HDMI
1 x Console (system maintenance)
|LED Indicators
| Status
System Warning: Alarm buzzer
|Power, reset
| 2 x 2.8" (70.0 mm)
|Form Factor
|2U, rack-mountable
|Operating system
|QTS 4.1 (embedded Linux)
|Supported Clients
| Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows 8 (32/64-bit), Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012
Apple Mac OS X
Linux & UNIX
|Supported Browsers
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 10+
Mozilla Firefox 8+
Apple Safari 4+
Google Chrome
|Multilingual Support
|Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish
|File System
| Internal Hard Drive: EXT4
External Hard Drive: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+
| TCP/IP: IPv4 & IPv6
Gigabit NICs with jumbo frame (failover, multi-IP settings, port trunking/NIC teaming )
Service binding based on Network interfaces
Proxy client, proxy server
DHCP client, DHCP server
NTP server
Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS (v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC
UPnP & Bonjour Discovery
USB Wi-Fi Adapter Support
| Network access protection with auto-blocking: SSH, Telnet, HTTP(S), FTP, CIFS/SMB, AFP
CIFS host access control for shared folders
FIPS 140-2 validated AES 256-bit volume-based data encryption*
AES 256-bit external drive encryption*
Importable SSL certi?cate
Instant alert via E-mail, SMS, and beep
Note: *the data encryption functions may not be available in accordance to the legislative restrictions of some countries (ex. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.)
|Storage Management
| Online Volume Expansion
RAID types: Single Disk, JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 5 + hot spare
Global hot spare
Online RAID capacity expansion
Online RAID level migration
Storage expansion via QNAP UX-500P / UX-800P expansion unit (Maximum: 1 unit)
Bad block scan and hard drive S.M.A.R.T.
Bad block recovery
RAID recovery
Bitmap support
|Power Management
| Wake on LAN
Internal hard drive standby mode
Scheduled power on/off
Automatic power on after power recovery
USB and network UPS support with SNMP management
|Access Right Management
| Batch user creation
Import/export users
User quota management
Local user access control for CIFS, AFP, FTP, and WebDAV
Application access control for Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station, and Multimedia Station
Subfolder permissions support for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station
|Domain Authentication Integration
| Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Domain controller support
LDAP server, LDAP client
Domain users login via CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP, and File Station
|myQNAPcloud Service
| Private cloud storage and sharing with myQNAPcloud id (QID)
Free host name registration (DDNS)
Auto router (via UPnP) con?guration
Web-based file manager with HTTPS 2048-bit encryption
Cloudlink for remote access without complicated router setup
myQNAPcloud connect for easy VPN connection (Windows VPN utility)
| Syncs files among multiple devices with SSL support
Selective synchronization for syncing specific folders only
Share team folder as a file center for team collaboration (maximum sync tasks: 32)
Shares files by links via e-mail
Policy settings for conflicted files and file type filter support
Version control: up to 64 versions
Incremental synchronization for HDD space saving
Supports Windows and Mac OS
|Web Administration
| Smart toolbar and dashboard for system status
Smart fan control
Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
SNMP (v2 and v3)
Resource monitors
Network recycle bin for file deletion via CIFS/SMB, AFP and File Station
Automatic cleanup and File type filter
Comprehensive logs (events & connection)
Syslog client/server
System settings backup and restore
Restore to factory default
Mobile app: Qmanager for remote system monitoring and management
|All-in-One Server
|File Server
| File Sharing across Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX
Windows ACL
Advanced folder permission for CIFS/SMB, AFP, FTP
Shared Folder Aggregation (CIFS/SMB)
|FTP Server
| FTP over SSL/TLS (Explicit)
FXP supported
Passive FTP port range control
|File Station
| Supports ISO Mounting (Up to 256 ISO Files)
Support thumbnail display of multimedia files
Support share download link and upload link
Drag-n-drop Files via Chrome and Firefox Browsers
Photo, music, and video preview and playback with hardware accelerated transcoding
File Compression and decompression (ZIP and 7z)
Creation of and sending download links for sharing public files with expiration time and password protection
Support for displaying subtitles (*.SRT, UTF-8 format)
Video seeking support for video playback during on-the-fly transcoding
Support slideshow playback in media viewer
Mobile App: Qfile for file browsing and management
|Transcode Management
| Transcode video files to 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p resolutions
Automatic video transcoding for watched folders
Hardware-accelerated transcoding support
Embed subtitles with videos in background transcoding
|Backup Station
| Remote replication server (over rsync)
Real-time remote replication (RTRR) to another QNAP NAS or FTP server
Works as both RTRR server & client with bandwidth control
Real-time & scheduled backup
Encryption, compression, file filter, and transfer rate limitation
Encrypted replication between QNAP NAS servers
Desktop backup with QNAP NetBak Replicator for Windows
Apple Time Machine backup support
Data backup to multiple external storage devices
Third party backup software support: Veeam backup & replication, Acronis True Image, Arcserve backup, EMC retrospect, Symantec Backup Exec
|Cloud Storage Backup
| Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
WebDAV-based cloud storage
Microsoft Azure
Open Stack
|Print Server
| Maximum 3 printers
Support for Internet Printing Protocol
Print job display and management
IP-based and domain name-based privilege control
|App Center
| Over 100 official and community software add-ons (including Dropbox, Google Drive Sync, McAfee, WordPress, HappyGet II, and more)
Photo Station, Music Station, Video Station, Download Station, Notes Station, Signage Station, Digital TV Station (DVB-T only)
|HD (HybridDesk) Station
| Playback videos, music, photos on your TV with XBMC via HDMI output
Watch various online contents such as YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Shoutcast, and more
Web browser (Chrome, Firefox)
Supports USB U.S. keyboard and mouse
Supports QNAP Qremote app and the official XBMC remote app
Supports user login permissions
Note : *the playback and quality of some video ?les may be affected due to the CPU and GPU decoding abilities.
|Storage Plug and Connect
| Creating and mapping shared folders using QNAP Windows Qfinder
Creation of and connection to iSCSI targets/LUN
|iSCSI (IP SAN)
| iSCSI Target Multi-LUNs per Target (Up to 256 Targets/LUNs Combined)
Supports LUN Mapping & Masking
Online LUN Capacity Expansion
Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation, MPIO, MC/S
iSCSI LUN Backup, One-time Snapshot, and Restore
iSCSI Connection and Management by QNAP Finder (Windows)
Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator)
Stack chaining master
Maximum 8 Virtual Disk Drives
|Surveillance Station
| Supports over 2,700 IP cameras
Includes 2 free camera licenses, up to 24 camera channels via additional license purchase
Instant playback to check the recent event
Online editing to edit cameras when live view
Visual aid by e-map
Playback and speed control by shuttle bar
Video preview on playback timeline
Intelligent video analytics (iva) for advanced video search
Surveillance client for Mac
Mobile surveillance app: vmobile (iOS and Android)
Mobile recording app: vcam (iOS and Android)
|VPN Server
| Secure remote access: PPTP & OpenVPN VPN services
Max number of clients: 30
|VPN Client
| Supported VPN protocols: PPTP and OpenVPN services
PPTP Authentication: PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, MS-CHAPv2
PPTP Encryption: None, AES 40/128 bit, AES 256 bit
OpenVPN Encryption: None, AES 40/128 bit, AES 256 bit
Transmission package monitor
OpenVPN port control
OpenVPN link compression
|DLNA Server
| Supports DLNA/UPnP TVs and Players such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
Supported audio formats: AIFF, APE, DSD (DSF, DFF), FLAC, M4A, M4A Apple Lossless (ALAC), MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV (PCM, LPCM), WMA, WMA PRO, WMA VBR*
Support CUE indexing files for APE, FLAC audio format
Video and audio on-the-?y transcoding
Note: DRM-protected files are not supported
|Power Consumption
| HDD Standby: 43.09 W
Operational: 98.53 W (with 8 x 2 TB HDD installed)
|Power Supply
| Input: 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz
Output: 250 W (redundant)
|32 to 104°F (0 to 40°C)
|Relative Humidity
|0 to 95%
|Dimensions (W x H x D)
|18.9 x 3.5 x 21.0" (482.0 x 89.0 x 534.0 mm)
|24.29 lb (11.02 kg)
|Packaging Info
|Package Weight
|33.0 lb
|Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
|28.1 x 22.2 x 10.4"
- 2 x Ethernet Cables
- 32 x Flat-Head Screws (for 3.5" HDD)
- 24 x Flat-head Screws (for 2.5" HDD)
- Power Cord
- Hard Disk Tray Key
- Limited 2-Year Warranty
| Tanotis uses Payumoney as a payment gateway, We receive the amount paid by customer only when we deliver the product.
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Bach or holiday home | Whangamata | #36593
Bright and modern 3 bedroom family bach. Great central location with a short (5 min) walk to main surf club part of beach and town. Additional sleepout with a set of bunk beds. Fully fenced section great for kids with a large deck that gets all day sun. Fully equipped kitchen with all modern appliances. Master bedroom has en-suite with its own shower. Family bathroom includes shower and bath. Super kid friendly with toys, bikes, boardgames available for use. Internal single garage with off-street parking for two further vehicles in the driveway. Double gates in the front fence allow for parking of a boat, vehicle or motorhome within the security of the section. All beds come with duvet, pillows and blankets.
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Bedroom 2
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21-Aug-17 to 31-Dec-17
|For up to 6 people. Extra occupants: Adults: $25/night; Children: $15/night;
|5 night minimum stay
Holiday Tariff
01-Jan-18 to 26-Mar-18
|For up to 6 people. Extra occupants: Adults: $20/night; Children: $10/night;
|3 night minimum stay
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|For up to 6 people. Extra occupants: Adults: $25/night; Children: $15/night;
|5 night minimum stay
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Some called it the "short-mester" or the "mini-mester," but Ohio State's seven-week summer semester has come to a close, leaving some with apprehension about the semester to come.
After three years of conversion meetings, semester planning and email updates, the semester system returned to OSU for the first time since the 1920s, but not without mixed feelings. There has been concern about the effect on students with combining former quarter classes into new semester ones.
Summer 2012 enrollment was down 26.1 percent compared to summer 2011 following a record number of degrees conferred in June at Spring Commencement. Lower enrollment meant smaller classes, but a shorter term was more challenging for many.
Mary Faure taught a summer engineering class and said the shortened semester was a challenge for both her and the students. She said students had to do more readings and assignments outside of class.
"The students are not used to this approach," Faure said. "Some of them had to learn to be more responsible and more attentive to the class calendar."
Cara Jarrett, a fourth-year in fashion design, took a summer magazine writing class and said she wished she had more time to develop the skills learned.
"In writing it's difficult to develop all that in such a short amount of time," Jarrett said.
Mark Suszek, a third-year in aeronautical engineering, said the semester was "a bit short' but that students and faculty were making it work for the summer.
"We had to cut some of the useless sections out which makes the class more manageable," Suszek said. "But all in all, (it's) still kind of rushed."
Some quarter classes have been merged into one semester class and have caused some students to wonder how they will fit 20 weeks of learning into 14.
"Starting off I think it'll be good, but the biggest thing I'm nervous about is what all they're fitting into courses," Jarrett said. "I know they're cramming some stuff together."
Jay Johnson, assistant provost at OSU, said that the combined courses still have the same learning objectives.
"Many departments did a curriculum map with the University Center for the Advancement of Teaching to look at their curriculum and make sure that students were being exposed to the right contents at the right time," Johnson said.
Alan Kalish, director of UCAT, worked with the curriculum mapping and said a program called Course Design Institute helped faculty, graduate teaching associates and teaching staff to redesign courses in a structured way.
"The point is not to do absolutely everything that you did before," Kalish said. "It's to think about what was the point of the class, what skills and knowledge were people supposed to come away with in sort of a general way."
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry combined five 100-level courses under quarters into two new courses in semesters, a change that worries Chase Starrett, a third-year in mechanical engineering.
"If they combine the chemistries, then I'm going to have to retake chemistry, which is one of my concerns about the switch over," Starrett said. "I'm just praying for those kids already. It's going to be tough."
Summer semester doesn't quell conversion worries
Some called it the "short-mester" or the "mini-mester," but Ohio State's seven-week summer semester has come to a close, leaving some with apprehension about the semester to come.


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POLICE hunting a hit-and-run driver who left a mother for dead have questioned motorists at the spot where she was knocked down.
On the evening of Saturday, January 26, Rosina Seabright was left fighting for her life when she was hit by a car and left lying in the road at Colburn, near Catterick in North Yorkshire.
A witness reported seeing a car speeding in the residential area, before hearing a loud bang and shortly afterwards finding Ms Seabright lying at the side of the road, barely breathing.
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It is believed the mother-of-two suffered fractures to her ribs, pelvis and jaw.
A week on from the incident (February 2), police stationed themselves on Forest Drive, where the accident happened, and carried out stop checks on all the vehicles passing through between 9.30pm and 11.30pm.
Traffic Constable Tony Leonard, who supervised the road checks, said: "The checks were carried out in a bid to jog the memories of anyone who may have been passing though the area on the night of the collision.
"The victim remains in a serious condition in hospital and it is vital that we find out who was responsible and anyone with information is urged to contact us as a matter of urgency.
"I am also appealing to anyone who knows who is responsible and may be covering up for them, please do the right thing and contact the police. It is only a matter of time before we catch up with them."
Ms Seabright was taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, where she remains in a serious, but stable condition.
Police are appealing for the driver of the small dark-coloured car and anyone else who was in the area at the time of the incident to contact them urgently. They are also trying to find the driver of a light-coloured car which was seen to swerve to avoid the woman lying in the road.
Officers are also appealing to any garages who have been asked to repair a small dark-coloured car with collision damage that might have been caused by hitting a pedestrian.
Officers are also using social media to assist the enquiry with a series of tweets and a Facebook appeal.
Earlier in the week, police delivered leaflets to 300 homes in the Colburn area to try and find information.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact North Yorkshire Police on 101.
Information can also be passed anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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