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This marks the return of Bernie on the Scene for the 2013 season.
I'll begin by providing my position rankings in the next few weeks. They will be complete by the last week of spring training or before. Pitchers will be the last position ranked. I will do that so I can monitor injuries during spring training.
Every fantasy player has his/her own means to rank players. Who is to say that one person's rankings are better or more accurate than another? Below I explain what I consider in my rankings.
I also include the categories I believe the player can offer. They are in no particular order of strength. A category about which I am particularly bullish is in bold.
I certainly welcome your comments and agreements or disagreements.
1. Buster Posey - average, home runs, RBI, runs
2. Joe Mauer - average, RBI, runs, some SB
3. Victor Martinez - average, RBI, runs, some home runs
4. Yadier Molina - average, RBI, power, runs, stolen bases
5. Wilin Rosario - home runs, RBI, runs, stolen bases, average
6. Salvador Perez - average, runs, RBI, home runs
7. Carlos Santana - home runs, RBI, runs
8. Mike Napoli - home runs, RBI, runs
9. A.J. Pierzynski - home runs, runs, RBI, average
10. Jonathan Lucroy - average, home runs, runs, RBI
11. Miguel Montero - average, runs, RBI, home runs
12. Matt Wieters - home runs, runs, RBI, a few stolen bases
13. Ryan Doumit - RBI, runs, home runs, average
14. Jesus Montero - RBI, home runs, runs, improving average
15. John Jaso - RBI, runs, home runs, a few stolen bases
16. Brian McCann - (injured) home runs, RBI, runs (caution)
17. Alex Avila - runs, RBI, a few home runs (rebound candidate)
18. Russell Martin - runs, RBI, home runs, stolen bases
19. J.P. Arencibia - home runs, RBI, runs
20. Jarrod Saltalamacchia - home runs, RBI, runs
21. Kurt Suzuki - a few home runs, runs, RBI
22. Geovany Soto - home runs, RBI, runs
23. A.J. Ellis - average, runs
Carlos Coporan
Travis d' Arnaud
Yasmani Grandal
Carlos Ruiz
*Both would be ranked in my Top 15 if they were not suspended and missing games. You may want to draft them, stash them and have them ready to come off your bench.
When I rank specific positions, I weigh several factors.
I look at a player's long-term history, his last year, his age, his home park, division's pitching, protection and makeup of his lineup and his attitude. I want guys that step up with a runner on base. I want a complete player both offensively and defensively. Why? I want him playing, not watching from the bench. And I do not want a liability to his club on the field or in the clubhouse.
For example, these are guys I will grab whenever I can:
Buster Posey
Joe Mauer
Victor Martinez
Wilin Rosario
Salvador Perez
Some guys that I have ranked highly I don't want on my team. I'll keep that short list to myself.
- I have a slight concern about how far back V-Mart can come after having missed a season. However, he has the heart of a lion. I'll go with him and take my chances. I've watched him since he was in the low minor leagues. He's a battler. And historically, he's been a tremendous hitter; especially with men on base. There certainly will be men on base for him in Detroit.
- I have a real concern about Brian McCann. To begin, I think his skills have begun to erode. Most importantly, he is coming off surgery and I don't think he'll be ready to start the season. That costs at-bats and counting numbers. I'll pass, thanks.
- I think we have only begun to see what Salvador Perez can do. Those of you that have read my work know how bullish I have been from the first time I saw him play. The man can hit. And his power is coming. Don't sleep on him. The team will be better and he'll benefit. That's why he's so high in my ranking.
- The same can be said for Wilin Rosario. I have been very high on him, like Perez, since the moment I first saw him. He hasn't disappointed me, or those that follow my recommendations. He has power to spare and he plays half his games in Coors. I worry about his defense possibly causing him playing time at catcher, but I'll take the risk. His bat is too loud for the Rockies to keep him out of the lineup.
- I haven't quite purchased stock in the Yadier Molina Fantasy Fan Club. Yes, he had a phenomenal season and earned his high ranking, but my jury is divided. I can't convince one half of myself to buy in. That always troubles me. The other half of me really likes him.
- Jesus Montero is a defensive liability behind the plate. Period. If he starts causing pitcher's trouble or even games, he'll have to DH or play first base. And man, the Mariners are loaded with those guys. So, the bottom line is that I'm concerned that Montero will lose some at-bats and pout. I have him in one keeper league, but that's it for me until he proves he can hit like his press clippings have indicated. I haven't seen it yet.
- Yasmani Grandal and Carlos Ruiz are both better than anyone in my list below McCann. I think they are both good offensive catchers. How many games do you want to waste without them? I won't predict any category strength for them because I don't know what shape they'll be in when they return.
- Who's the real Mike Napoli? Yes, I have concerns about the hip. So do the Red Sox. I also have concerns about his batting average. I do think the Green Monster could help him drive in runs. Or, it could kill him if he thinks he has to poke every pitch over the wall.
- My message to Matt Wieters: Show me. Prove me wrong. I don't see any clutch in Matt's hitting machine. I think he should be better than he has shown so far. Good player. Not much more. Power can be real and he could break out.
- I absolutely love what Joe Mauer does for a fantasy team. His batting average at catcher allows me to take a hitter with less batting average as a balance. I also like his consistency.
- Park factors makes me bullish on Jonathan Lucroy. I've always liked him. If he stays healthy, he should hit with big time power. If he stays healthy. Could be a big surprise. I'll take him if I get the chance.
- I've seen enough of Carlos Santana to last me a lifetime. He hits some home runs, true, but he leaves men on base in droves. He's easily fooled at the plate. Until he gets better pitch recognition and plate discipline he will be limiting his offense. He came alive in the second half when the pressure was off.
Scribbles from my Notebook:
I believe Justin Upton will be under more pressure this season than any other player. He will be followed in that category by his brother B.J. Why? Too many people expect too much. I don't think either can live up to expectations. They're good, not great.
I don't understand why the Cubs invited Javier Baez to spring training. He isn't close to being ready as a major league player. Maybe it's to motivate him about what he's working towards.
I still like the future of the Mariners and the Padres. I really like the Joe Saunders signing for Seattle in that park. They made up for the loss of Jason Vargas and got Kendrys Morales in the process.
Keep a close watch on the Cardinals' Oscar Taveras. If any of the big bat Cards collapse or get hurt, Taveras is only a phone call away.
The Diamondbacks have solidified third base and second base for years to come by signing Martin Prado and Aaron Hill long term. Both are grinders and fit the D-Backs' mold. Cliff Pennington signed now for two years sends a confusing message to me about what they'll do with Didi Gregorius, who is now recovering from a UCL injury.
Willie Bloomquist probably sticks, but what about John McDonald? That's a lot of infielders in Arizona.
The Felix Hernandez issues with his elbow/arm give me pause. Could be trouble ahead? I'm not paying premium auction dollars or a high draft pick for him. It could be nothing, but maybe not.
I will be commenting on Twitter at every spring training game beginning February 22nd.
I've also started a new Twitter feature - B's Comment For The Day. Hope you give it a look.
Follow me on Twitter @BerniePleskoff and at MLB.com in the Voices section.


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To Love & Die
To Love & Die is a drama television movie that was first released in 2008. The series follows a beautiful woman who has been very successful in life, but has always found that there is something missing. Things change for her when the woman runs across her father who abandoned her when she was young. She learns that her father left because he is an assassin, and had to do so for the safety of his family. The father asks the young lady to join him in his business, and it soon becomes apparent that the woman is meant to be an assassin.
- Tuesday 8:00 PM et/pt on USA
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- December 30, 2008
- Drama, Comedy
- Cast: Shiri Appleby, Ivan Sergei, Kristin Dattilo, Christine Adams
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Hildy Young has intimacy issues and blames her father who she never met for it. To solve it, she tracks him down and discovers that she has more in common with him than she ever dreamed of.


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MANHATTAN — In the latest twist in a two-year battle, the New Jersey Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians filed a suit in a New Jersey court claiming it owns Manhattan, as well as the Hudson New Jersey, Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania.
While the lawsuit may seem unrealistic, tribe spokesperson Laura Zucker said they are confident in their case.
"Oh no, they're going to win, there's no question about it," she said. "They do have a really good case, and they know it. They're in it to win it."
The suit claims that the tribe's land was stolen from them through a series of fraudulent treaties that violated international treaty laws. They are seeking the "return [of] all land, water, trees, etc. encompassing the fraudulent 'Manhattan' purchase, damages, and punitive damages," according to court documents.
This isn't the tribe's first attempt at getting ownership of the Big Apple. They originally filed suit in April 2009, suing officials in New Jersey, including the governor, secretary of state and attorney general with violation of human rights, genocide and breaking of treaties.
That suit was dismissed in 2009.
Chief Ronald Holloway also appeared in front of the United Nations earlier this year asking for help in reclaiming damages from the state. According to Zucker, the United Nations is still reviewing the case.


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It was on this day in 1977 that Jackson Browne recorded "Stay" and "Running On Empty" live, in concert, in Columbia Maryland.
In many ways, Jackson Browne was the quintessential sensitive Californian singer/songwriter of the early '70s. While the majority of his classic '70s work was personal, it nevertheless provided a touchstone for a generation of baby boomers coming to terms with adulthood. Not only did his lyrics strike a nerve, but his laid-back folk-rock set the template for much of the music to come out of California during the '70s.
During the late '70s and early '80s, he was at the height of his popularity, as each of his albums charted in the Top Ten. Midway through the '80s, Jackson made a series of political protest records that caused his audience to shrink, but when he returned to introspective songwriting in the 90's, he made a modest comeback.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Penn State's media day might be over, but there's still plenty to reflect on.
Here's a look at five lessons learned from a day spent talking to coaches and players:
1. Tyler Ferguson currently boasts the early edge at quarterback. That wasn't a huge surprise, considering Christian Hackenberg enrolled over the summer while Ferguson started school in January. But Hackenberg has picked up things quickly, and there's no telling where the race might be in another week or two.
But, as luck would have it, that's exactly when Bill O'Brien hopes -- hopes -- to name the starter. The head coach isn't a fan of waiting until the night before the season opener because he wants the starter to get more reps with the first team. At this juncture, most of the media believes Hackenberg will start ... but O'Brien said that Ferguson holds the slight lead right now.
2. Linebacker is the biggest concern when it comes to depth. Penn State might be known as Linebacker U, but it's not very big on quantity this season. When asked about depth on defense -- since the DTs don't have the greatest numbers either -- O'Brien didn't hesitate in expressing his concern over the linebacker unit.
Nyeem Wartman will start as a redshirt freshman and the top backup, Ben Kline, is still coming off a shoulder injury and didn't participate in Thursday's practice. One more injury at this spot could spell doom for this defense. Safeties such as Adrian Amos and Stephen Obeng-Agyapong could come in relief of Wartman on passing downs, but there's only so many tweaks this staff can make to shore up the depth here.
3. Special teams are a point of focus. The Nittany Lions finished among the bottom of the country in just about every special teams category last season -- No. 103 in net punting, No. 90 in punt returns, No. 112 in kick returns, etc. O'Brien said the team is working hard on improving those numbers.
Sam Ficken remains the starting kicker, but he should be pushed by preferred walk-on Chris Gulla. That true freshman has also practiced punting a lot, so he should also compete with Alex Butterworth. And, as far as kick returners, those duties remain between eight candidates -- including Richy Anderson, Alex Kenney, Bill Belton, Trevor Williams, Akeel Lynch and Eugene Lewis.
4. Newest injuries don't affect depth that much. True freshman wideout DaeSean Hamilton, a four-star wideout from Virginia, is out for the season with a wrist injury suffered from high school. But Hamilton was a redshirt candidate before the announcement, and the corps there is pretty deep. PSU shouldn't miss a beat at wideout.
Redshirt freshman Brent Wilkerson also suffered a back injury and is "out for a while," although O'Brien declined to elaborate. Regardless, tight end is the deepest position on the roster -- and there are at least four other tight ends who could see time here. Kyle Carter and Jesse James remain the starters, but Matt Lehman is a solid backup and Adam Breneman could see time as a true freshman.
5. WR Allen Robinson is just getting started. Robinson broke the longstanding school-record for receptions last season, but assistant coach Stan Hixon said Robinson has just scratched the surface of his potential. The All-Big Ten wideout improved his strength, speed and hounded teammates over the summer for some extra 7-on-7 drills.
Robinson acknowledged he might not top last year's numbers -- 77 catches, 1,013 yards, 11 TDs -- but that doesn't mean he's not a better wideout. He has been timed at 4.6 seconds in the 40-yard dash, and he has worked hard on winning more one-on-one battles this offseason. He's a good basketball player with a strong vertical leap, and he could be the big-play threat this offense desperately needs. He's the best player on this offense -- and he has gotten better. Much better.


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The checksum validation needs to be moved to the reduce before we can use FileChannel::transferTo.
Attaching a sample servlet that demonstrates serving portions of a file using RandomAccessFileBuffer
Thanks, David; the example servlet you attached was exceedingly helpful. I applied it to 188.8.131.52 and am trying to work it into our use case.
There are a few issues to resolve. Among them, the Buffer interface assumes ints, where our use case calls for longs. We can't work around this one, unfortunately. I'm trying to add an HttpContent type that wraps RandomAccessFileBuffer (as in David's example), but letting RandomAccessFileBuffer simply implement Buffer (rather than extend AbstractBuffer), and use longs internally.
Unfortunately, simply letting this use ints doesn't work in testing, either. There's a bug that shows up on Linux, where EAGAIN in sendfile isn't handled correctly. The bug fix, like others in transferTo, may not be fixed in 1.6 (while the openjdk source seems to have resolved the specific issue I'm hitting in in solaris/native/sun/nio/ch/FileChannelImpl.c in the 6-b05 "bundle", I couldn't find a mention of this issue or a transferTo fix in any of the Java SE 6 release notes). It looks like most are fixed in JDK7. Even if we resort to blocking I/O- which would require more surgery to Jetty- it doesn't look like we can take meaningful advantage of this feature right now. I'll spend some more time with it, but this looks like it may be a dead end.
Given 6253145 (also fixed in JDK7), we'll need a workaround for large files anyway.
The Buffer mechanism of jetty would need major surgery to convert to longs from ints. So this is not likely to happen.
So we would need to come up with some other to send such large content.
Please comment on http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-748 when you are interested in looking at this again and we
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Thanks for updating us, Greg. Per my last comment, this issue seems dead for now, at least as long as we keep the transfer in the servlet. Our measurements don't suggest that we're bottlenecked here at the moment, but we'll be sure to check back when we revisit this. Thanks for your help.


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In this article we will focus on mental health nursing jobs in acute settings. An acute setting is defined by the short-term nature of the treatment provided to a patient in that particular instance. A mental health acute setting will usually provide inpatient care and treatment to help stabilize a patient's condition before the normal course of therapy can resume, or in the case of a first time admission they will formulate and implement an on-going care plan. Treatment in an acute mental health environment will usually be coordinated with the community mental health team and ongoing care plan that a patient has in place.
What is a mental health nurse?
A Mental Health Nurse or RMN is a degree or diploma qualified nurse who studied the mental health branch of nursing for either two or three years according to their course requirements. The mental health nursing course differs from the adult nursing course not only in academic content, but also in the placements available to mental health student nurses. Either route leads to the RMN qualification, rather than the RGN qualification from the adult nursing route, and once registration with the NMC has been confirmed that person can begin working as a qualified nurse.
A mental health nurse can work with any group in society from children to the elderly. The NHS predicts that as many as 1 in 3 people suffer a mental health problem at some point in their life, and the need for qualified mental health nurses is as strong as ever. There are different opportunities available for mental health nurses in both the private and public sectors, and each sector offers its own benefits.
The key skills of an RMN Nurse differ from a RGN Nurse, not that either one is more or less qualified, but the skill base of an RMN is much more focussed on interpersonal and communication skills. Quite often the mental health nurse will be one of the first healthcare practitioners to come in contact with a distressed or disorientated patient, and a calm approach is essential to establish a positive relationship. Listening skills are a key part of an RMN's skillset and sometimes the ability to interpret what a patient is trying to say is equally as important as listening to what they are actually saying.
Whether you end up working in the public or private healthcare sector, a mental health nurse is likely to spend more time with a patient than the consultant psychiatrist and is therefore in a better position to accurately monitor the patient's condition. In particular, where a patient has been sectioned and is in a secure setting it can feel very intimidating for them and be a barrier to effective treatment. A mental health nurse can help to alleviate any feelings of anxiety or negativity using their communication skills in order to help the patient work towards their recovery.
What career opportunities are there for RMN Nurses in acute settings?
There are many different career paths for RMN Nurses, and the acute settings that RMNs can work in vary from a medical ward for the elderly to a secure psychiatric intensive care unit. A acute mental health service can cater for all ranges of mental health condition, and an inpatient unit provides a safe environment for assessment and treatment of patients who need in-depth assistance. Patients that need to be stabilised through therapy or medication benefit from an inpatient environment because they can receive a higher level of attention than being treated in the community, and this can help the original cause of the episode to pass.
The NHS offers a wide variety of career paths for mental health nurses, and there is a range of settings you could work in. Prison nursing is often very appealing for RMNs because there is the opportunity to offer care to individuals who otherwise may chose not to access the support they are entitled to. In many parts of the country prison nurses are employed by the local NHS trusts and seconded to prisons accordingly, and it can be regarded in some areas as an acute setting.
Working with patients who have dementia is also a challenging area of mental health nursing. Dementia is most common in elderly patients, but can affect people in mid-life as well. As an RMN working with a patient who has dementia, you will be required to assess and monitor the condition as well as provide support for immediate family members who usually act as the primary carers. An experienced RMN nurse can also provide education to local healthcare teams that may be involved in managing the care of the patient and help them to understand that patient as an individual.
Treating patients with a substance misuse problem is another rewarding area for an RMN to specialise in. Alcohol or drug dependency can be an influencing factor on a patient's condition, and can either be the cause or result of a mental health problem. Working with a psychiatrist, a mental health nurse can help a patient to recover from their substance misuse problems and enable the original mental health problem to be treated and potentially resolved.
How do I become a mental health nurse?
First you need to apply to a university for a mental health nursing course. The 2 year diploma option is being phased out, so the most common option offered is the 3 year degree course, which can lead to either a BN or BSc Bachelor of Nursing / Mental Health. The course consists of academic work and practical placement experience, which together fulfills the requirement for the NMC to give your professional registration as a practising nurse. This is called your NMC pin number, and every nurse and midwife practising in the UK has to have this in order to maintain their employment.
Getting onto a mental health nursing course can be difficult if you don't have a strong CV and personal statement, but if you're committed and determined you can definitely succeed. It's a good idea to only apply to mental health branch on your UCAS application, otherwise it could appear to an admissions officer that you aren't 100% sure about a career as a mental health nurse.
How can I find mental health nursing jobs?
Nurses.co.uk offers a wide range of mental health nursing jobs in acute settings. You can search for your ideal RMN Job by location or employers currently advertising. Some employers advertise directly and others contract a recruitment agency to handle their recruitment. Either way, you can be assured of a wide range of mental health nursing jobs.
St Austell, Cornwall, England
Prior HR Health Recruitment Ltd
Newton Mearns, Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Scotland
Care UK
Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England
St Austell, Cornwall, England
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
SYK Recruitment
Torrington, Devon, England
Prior HR Health Recruitment Ltd
York, North Yorkshire, England
Health Recruit Network
Deal, Kent, England
Domus Recruitment
Callington, Cornwall, England
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Hamilton Cross Nottingham
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
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Surbiton, Greater London, England
Health Recruit Network
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TXM Healthcare
Winchester, Hampshire, England
Sterling Cross
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Independent Assessment Services
Chertsey, Surrey, England
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Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
Hamilton Cross Manchester
Ashorne, Warwick, Warwickshire, England
SM Recruitment
Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, England
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Yeah i skipped last years game, so looking forward to the new one. I enjoyed using kers and drs in the demo. Also in the new game we will get the new track in texas:D
Asda direct have the game on pre order for £30, i was going to wait until it was sub £20, but thought why not:)
Yeah i skipped last years game, so looking forward to the new one. I enjoyed using kers and drs in the demo. Also in the new game we will get the new track in texas:D
Asda direct have the game on pre order for £30, i was going to wait until it was sub £20, but thought why not:)
Yeah I had a little play on it and am impressed by the 2012 version. Just looked at the link for the PS3 version, same price so thats good0
got the ps3 demo & ive got a driving force gt steering wheel & in terms of force feedback, on straghts there is no resistance, no feedback, nothing & this makes it tricky to drive. i've put all the ffb settings to 100% & nothing fixes this.
also getting very little feeling for grip level changes, whole ffb system feels really dumbed down & i cant drive like that, i need to feel the car underneath me.
i'll try the pc version later where i'll have more steering settings to play with via logitech profiler.
something else i dislike so far is how its next to impossible to get any oversteer, there's tons of understeer but no oversteer. even picking the car setup that says 'mild oversteer' gets me tons of understeer & no oversteer.
also had some odd penalty's. i got a penalty for an illegal overtake when i didn't actually overtake anyone. i got a penalty for contact when there was nobody around me, got a penalty for cutting a corner that i didn't cut & got a penalty for ignoring yellows when the yellow was behind me.
so far based off ps3 demo, not impressed.0
Agree with you regarding understeer & a general lack of feel for the car.
I've found a lack of feedback on the turn-in, which would help to find that sweet spot between a reactive car gripping in neutral balance and massive, unexpected understeer. The problem is that it's hard to feel it when the car has grip and in a way I'm feeling like I have to drive as the game wants, not as I'd anticipate/feel out. It's very early days and I need a bit more time to have a close look/feel.
Steve Hood of Codemasters on Twitter:The feel/understeer will be improved but not on Day 1
Sensitivity will be tweaked, agree it feels a little twitchy on initial input at the moment.
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Reading through the codemasters forums as well as others it seems the overwhelming consensus is that the demo is fine when playing with a gamepad but not so good if your trying to play with a wheel, especially on the ps3.
when playing with a wheel the cars are over-sensitive, understeer, have no feel, braking problems & impossible to get them to slide unless you open drs in a corner.0
The F1 games from codemasters are absolutely atrocious. Why do people play this garbage? Live for Speed can be bought for the half the price on the PC and is superior in every way that matters and it came out 10 years ago. I say this and i've been a huge F1 fan all my life.
Hand on heart i wouldn't pick up F12012 if it was free.0
The demo thats out now is it going to be improved upon before the actual game is released on 21st? a couple of times I felt I had to literally hustle the car round the corners of the Yas Marina when doing the driver test other than that I feel its a good game, bear in mind the last time I played an F1 game was in 2006 on the PS2 when I believe Studio Liverpool were still around? so this is probably why I may have missed a few things in the demo, for me the game seems fine but playing certain bits on there more and more I agree with a few things that needs to be tweaked if it can before release.0
blitzben85 Posts: 2,992Forum Member✭✭✭Downloading it now, if i can't see any improvement from 2011 then it's a no go from me.0
stefmeister Posts: 6,430Forum Member✭Played the demo on PS3 & PC, THe PC version definately seems better in terms of using a steering wheel.
I've also noticed the understeer mentioned above (And elsewhere) & also noticed that the brakes seem inconsistent. I touch the brakes a bit & the car doesn't slow down, Touch them a tiny bit more & everything locks up, Having to brake ridiculously early on many corners because of this.
Also on the young driver test it seems there's some sort of steering assist as at times the wheel seems to try & pull me round corners. Its especially noticeable down the 2nd straght with the kinks in it as I don't even have to actually turn the wheel through there, It turns itself?
With the exception of the understeer & braking issues im having the rest of the game feels fairly similar to 2011. As it stands Im not going to be buying this version.0
blitzben85 Posts: 2,992Forum Member✭✭✭Finally got around to playing it and i will not be picking this game up. Feels like the car is driving on ice, you slide in the direction you want to go. You dont gradually move over, just slide. That's the only way i can explain it. Visually not much has changed, it looks polished but nothing stands out and says this is a brand new game and is great.0
2dshmuplover Posts: 8,271Forum MemberNot really into F1 and not played any of the other F1 games but I really enjoyed this demo. The graphics were fantastic too.0
gillyallan Posts: 29,752Forum Member✭✭✭They probably could have patched 2011 to make 2012, but guess no self respecting money making machine is going to do that these days.0
allthingsuk Posts: 5,985Forum Member✭stefmeister wrote: »Played the demo on PS3 & PC, THe PC version definately seems better in terms of using a steering wheel.
I've also noticed the understeer mentioned above (And elsewhere) & also noticed that the brakes seem inconsistent. I touch the brakes a bit & the car doesn't slow down, Touch them a tiny bit more & everything locks up, Having to brake ridiculously early on many corners because of this.
Also on the young driver test it seems there's some sort of steering assist as at times the wheel seems to try & pull me round corners. Its especially noticeable down the 2nd straght with the kinks in it as I don't even have to actually turn the wheel through there, It turns itself?
With the exception of the understeer & braking issues im having the rest of the game feels fairly similar to 2011. As it stands Im not going to be buying this version.
It's good but it feels weird - there's no feeling coming through my controller, and I can't feel how much grip there is - in 2011, I could feel the grip of the car and when I was losing grip - in the demo, it's impossible to know. The car is twitchy on the straights and hard to control and it feels so light and floaty, as if there's no downforce. I'm spinning out with traction control on (only assist I play), the brakes are variable, the understeer I can live with. The cars seem a lot harder to drive than in 2011. It seems a lot more realistic compared to 2012 but the only issue that needs solving is the twitchiness.0
Not found the physics to be floaty at all when playing with the game pad. With the understeer, it's about what I would expect with the brakes on full going into corners and also with too much slip angle in some cases.
It could just be that the aero model needs tweaking, but you have to remember that they're probably trying to simulate the DF levels and tires for this year. So unless the car has good mechanical grip, the steering will be pretty hairy below certain speeds.
Have only tried the McLaren so far....will have to see if the RBR *spit* feels differently.
I only spun once, and that was totally my own fault for laying down the power to early. Going to try it with my GT Driving Force at some point today.0
After playing a few races, I really can't say anything against the physics. The only problem seems to be the deadzone on the wheel.
I can't work out if the deadzone is too small, so it registers small movements too soon, or so big that the player overcompensates with small movements.
Maybe it's the lack of forcefeedback with small slip angles that's the problem. The car might not feel so floaty to others if it kicked in a bit sooner with small steering inputs.
One thing that made me laugh was that Codies seem to be simulating the inconsistent stewarding to a tee.0
So glad I spent £5.99 simply upgrading to Gold on Xbox in order to download the demo rather than shall out 6x that on the actual game. It is awful! Apparently the new thing this year was to cover the tracks in ice, pity noone ever mentioned it. The steering is terrible, the long straights at Monza were virtually impossible, you only had tweak the steering whilst on a straight and you'd go sliding into the barriers. The car is in no way underneath you, cornering is terrible, and that's with me having tried all the bog standard set ups. It's just ugly.
Graphics wise, nothing's changed from '11. Getting into the car pre qualifying/race is EXACTLY the same, as are the celebrations if you land pole; being greeted in the paddock by those who finished 2nd and 3rd etc, it's exactly the same air punching celebration as seen in '11.
Overall a HUGE disappointment, they do say the originals are the best, that's why I still play '10 and still love it.0
I downloaded the F1 2012 demo on The XBOX 360 and personally I have to diss agree with most on this thread.
I really enjoyed the demo. The graphics.and animation are superb and presentation is excellent.
I did find that the F1 cars do under steer a bit but nothing like as bad as what most of you on this thread are saying.
And I feel that the demo and there for the game has a very Sky Sports F1 feel about it with the uses of David Croft and Anthony Davidson which is fine by me.
And the first F1 car that you get to drive in the young driver test is Jenson Buttons number 3 McLAREN which is great.
As a huge Formula 1 fan I will deffenatly be buying this game at work on Friday for the XBOX 360 and I will get it for a very good price as I have Tesco club card vouchers.
And with WRC 3, F1 Race Stars, Forza and the new Need For Speed game being released during October and November us racing/driving game fans have never had it so good.0
Elissa Richards Posts: 3,901Forum Member✭✭✭Not happy with this demo...
For a start the drivers actually attending the real 'Young Drivers Test' were not driving up and down in straight lines and learning to brake.....they were out there putting the laps down. This game should stop trying to be a bit of everything and stick to either sim or arcade....as for 'sim' that's pretty laughable considering the physics engine used for the cars hasn't been updated in years, many titles have much better responsive/realistic feedback.
There's been plenty of comments in the sim racing communities that this game has all but finished off playing with a wheel, I'm inclined to agree. With a pad the game felt ok but with a wheel it was noticably worse than last year.
For me a racing game is all about 'feel', the graphics and layout of a game is of little concern to me if the core aspect of the game is lacking. F1 2012 surely lives up to the previous versions in that style if massively favoured over substance.
The handling of the car was attrocious with a wheel, really laggy and unresponsive. Even with FFB turned up to 100% it felt the feedback was more set along pre programmed parameters rather than being organically generated from your own driving. The car had very little feel and subtle naunces in the handling were lacking, a very much on/off feel to it. Even driving down the straight you'd expect to feel the slight difference in grip across the car. Upon turn in the initial off throttle understeer is trying to replicate what happens in real life but coupled with the stupid way the car pitches and leans into the corners it ends up looking and feeling slow and laggy.
Personally I found the cars not that enjoyable to drive and it all felt a bit childish to me, there's subtle aids working away in the background correcting the steering which wound me up no end, I like being given 100% control, not 95% control with a slight helping hand if I run wide (subtle steering aids are usually built in to help pad users due to their limited 30 degrees of turning stick motion).
Codemasters have done nothing to dispell the endless comments about each year being a touch up of the previous. If you haven't got any of the newer F1 games then I'd recommend renting/borrowing this before you part with the cash for it properly. For those not well versed in racing games (and not stuff like DIRT and Crash) then F1 2012 will seem excellent, try out more of the sim based games and you'll see 2012 short comings.
One last thing...any redemming qualities were lost when you're given JB's #3 car to start with....I may of crashed it on purpose a few times0
So I downloaded the Demo on PS3, first impressions are that the game is well presented, decent graphics. Now comes the problem, I have a DFGT and playing the game was bearable at first, after getting a few laps in and putting the steering linearity up to 25% and leaving all the others at 0% it felt ok, far from perfect but ok. I then loaded up F1 2011 and in comparison the handling, feedback felt perfect, the car handled very well. I then loaded up the F1 2012 demo again and I simply could not play it as I could barely keep the car heading in a straight line as when i applied the slightest steering input the car veered to the other side of the track, I also got massive under steer at a couple of corners at Yas Marina and Lesmos1/2. Also going into the first chicane the car refused to stop even when I broke from before the 150m marker. I even watched the replays and noticed that the front right locked up on occasion, but not every time, this meant that I very rarely hit the apex.
All I can say is this better be sorted before launch as I just can't comprehend how the steering can go from near perfect in 2011 to terrible in 2012, I mean they could just use the same coding couldn't they?0
Asda direct are excellent. My £30 copy just arrived, installing it now. Think i will go straight into career mode, 10 years please.
Dont think i will bother too much with it online. I saw on the codemasters forum some guy was doing 1m 21s in the demo around monza. I was doing 1m 27.5s.0
So i have just redone the youg drivers test, day 1 again, got 3 achievements and 60 points, and also first race on career, got another achevo 5pts.
I chose ma russia, straight into qualy, finished 24th. Changed tyre strategy to prime first till lap 9, then soft till end of race, 15 laps. Think 25% race distance was the shortest i could choose. After first lap was upto 16th with bruno senna all over me till he made his pit stop. I was as high as 4th before mine, came back out at 16th. My fastest lap came on the soft tyres only 1.2 secs of hamiltons best. Was catching the drivers in front of me while dropping of senna off, just not enough laps. Not sure of the difficulty, but it was fun.0
Mr. Brightside Posts: 5,726Forum Memberyou think any supermarkets will be selling it today? im working all weekend and forgot to preorder . dont wanna wait till monday :-/0
I will be buying F1 2012 for the XBOX 360 on my first brake at work and I will have a go on it during my lunch brake.
But I on XBOX Live there is a F1 212 VIP Pass which costs 800 points.
The description for this is as followes.
Download the VIP Pass (There is a small star at the end of Pass above the last s) to unlock all F1 2012s extensive multiplayer modes, including: o 2player Co-Op career mode o 16 player GRAND PRIX races (There Is a small star at the end of races above the last s) Purchase is not required if you already have a VIP Pass code.
Should I buy the F1 2012 VIP Pass?
I need to know tonight so that if I do need the F1 2012 VIP Pass then I can buy a Microsoft XBOX 360 points card tomorrow at work when I buy F1 2012.0


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Most people in Wisconsin are praising the statewide indoor smoking ban that could be passed as soon as this week.
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For the most part, a smoking ban will be a welcome addition for people who don't want to be bothered by the stench of smoke when they go out to dinner or for a drink. But many of those who oppose a ban want to be able to do those same things while enjoying a cigarette.
In the end, the majority ruled. And that is usually a good thing.
Under a compromise between the state and the state's Tavern League, the businesses will have until July 2010 to adjust.
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It's not just patrons who are exposed to second-hand smoke - it's the many workers in establishments that allow smoking who are forced to inhale second-hand smoke every day. The ban should help reduce lost worker productivity and sick days that cost businesses an estimated $1.64 billion annually.
The American Lung Association's Wisconsin chapter says that state taxpayers pay nearly $500 million in annual Medicaid costs tied directly to smoking. Indirect costs are probably much, much higher.
Twenty-five states, including neighboring Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, have passed smoking bans. Wisconsin's law starts 90 days after Gov. James Doyle signs it; taverns have more than a year to adjust. The ban will not involve cigar/tobacco shops and Indian casinos.
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DERRY, N.H. (AP) � Police in Derry say two teenage girls are in the hospital after being struck by separate vehicles on Route 28, or Manchester Road.
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The two vehicles were operated by 63-year-old George Draper of Bow and 58-year-old Anne Bartlett of Manchester. Police say Manchester Road was closed to traffic for about five hours while police investigated the accident.
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Angry over the killing of an engineering student, hundreds of students of the Aligarh Muslim University went on a rampage at the university campus on Monday morning. The angry students ransacked the teachers' staff room and even set the vice-chancellor's residence on fire.
The police said Vice-Chancellor P K Abdul Aziz was not present at his residence at the time of the incident.
The protestors later attacked the AMU staff club and the proctor's office, causing heavy damage to property.
According to sources, Mazhar Naeem, a BSc engineering student and resident of Aftab hostel, was shot dead near his hostel by unidentified assailants late on Sunday night.
Naeem, hailing from Parikshatgarh of Meerut district, was rushed to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical college, where he was declared brought dead, sources said.
AMU spokesperson Dr Rahat Abrar said that the motive behind the killing of the student has not yet been ascertained. The police are investigating the case.
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HarborOne Credit Union, Brockton, Mass., announced the appointment of Terry Sobolewski to branch officer of the Mansfield office.
Vermont Federal Credit Union, Burlington, Vt., announced that Trish Porter joined the credit union as the director of business services.
Kermit the Frog may have lamented that it's not easy being green, but it is certainly worth the time and effort for credit unions.
Crescent Credit Union, Brockton, Mass., announced that after eight years as chairman of the credit union's board of directors, Herbert S. Nagle is passing the gavel to newly elected Chairman William Rosa.
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I bought and 15" macbook pro with an intel i7 processor. My desktop pc was in desperate need of reinstalling the operating system. It was running very slow and I had trouble using pro audio software on it. However I didnt have space anywhere to back up the data. This and the fact that I needed something more portable prompted me to by and high spec macbook. However since buying 8 months agao its been wrought with problems. The screen keeps going blank and prompting me to reboot perhaps once every 3 weeks. Internet connection keeps dropping out (although pc's on same network not having this problem) and now, after I've returned it (again), The keyboard and trackpad keep losing response. Forcing me to reboot. I've sent it back 3 times now and the same errors keep happening. Its really good that they have the apple stores where you can take it rather then have send it away to be fixed but its still faulty. The apple price for this macbook is £1,838.00 I could have bought a top end windows laptop half that and not had these problems! I do think i have been very unlucky but think its only fair to share my experiences. I'm sure when its fixed I will be happy its just frustrating in the meantime.


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I have not written anything about the bombings at the Boston marathon. My experience is that in the immediate aftermath of such events the ratio of uninformed, unfounded, and even dangerous speculation to actual fact is extremely high so why add to it? My impulse is to try and ignore as much of the chatter as possible until we actually know something.
But it is hard to ignore all of it because it hits you from all sides and two things struck me.
One is a familiar one from previous events of this kind, the sense that some are waiting to see who is found to be responsible and are hoping that it will fit into their preconceived narrative. You have the sense of breaths being held as they wait for 'good' or 'bad' news, the category depending on what kind of group they hope will be found responsible so that they can use it to advance their agenda or defend it. Of course, others are not waiting for any facts at all and simply assume they know and are already off to the races. It seems like every pundit suddenly becomes some kind of forensic expert, arriving at sweeping conclusions based on meager, and often wrong, information. I have given up hope that the media will ignore such people.
The other is that after the initial shock that accompanies such horrific crimes that target people at random, we are at the stage of hearing heartbreaking accounts of the grief that accompanies the loss of loved ones and the trauma that the survivors are experiencing, and feeling the anger that naturally accompanies such stories.
It is perfectly natural for the strength of our emotions to decrease the further outward we go in our circle of compassion: from immediate loved ones to friends to acquaintances to those from our neighborhoods to our cities and our nations.
But one would hope that in experiencing such feelings that we also realize, at least on an intellectual level if not an emotional one, that others who are not in our inner circles of compassion also have their own similar circles and experience similar grief and heartbreak and anger when their loved ones are lost. That may help us to realize that we need to find ways to reduce the cycle of violence and not lash out blindly and thereby perpetuate it.


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RWD: Several Americans ran really well at that Stanford race. They clearly felt the need to get the "A" standard for the World Championships because they couldn't know if they'd get it at the USA Championships. McGregor and Rhines had their "A" standards before USAs.
BR: Yeah, to run the standard there would have taken tons of pressure off, but it would have made it a totally different race at nationals. I didn't have the standard, and Sylvia (Mosqueda) didn't have it. We both knew we had to go after it. It was still one of the fastest 10ks in (American) history for the top three women, so I'm glad that my training was coming around and we were really able to perform at nationals.
RWD: Since Mosqueda was in the same situation as you, did you have any discussion with her before the race?
BR: I talk to her on e-mail every now and then. We were both at Steamboat, and after the race, she came up to me and said "we've got to work together" and I was like "sounds like a plan to me." That was the goal. We knew we were going to run 5:04s as long as we could.
RWD: Were the splits maintained like you wanted them to be pretty much throughout the race?
BR: I think so. We were really steady, a few 75s (per lap) strung together, and then we were really clicking off 76s. I think Katie (McGregor) might have taken over with about five laps to go. That really helped keep the pace going. It just felt so much easier when she took over.
RWD: There was a lead pack of six for quite awhile in that race. Were you surprised by any of the faces up there?
BR: I think Laura O'Neill had a great race. I knew she was right up there. I was kind of watching the Jumbotron every time I'd come around, and thinking "I'm a sitting duck out here." I was just trying to push the pace and hope that people kept falling off. Luckily, it worked this time.
RWD: It was only in the last couple of weeks before the USAs that people thought that Deena Kastor (the American 10,000 recordholder, who'd been injured) might show up. They didn't know what kind of shape she'd be in, but they knew how formidable she was. When you suspected she might be there, how did that affect you?
BR: I try and get in the habit of not focusing on other people as much, because I knew that I was still going to have to run a PR for myself and run as hard as I could. So there wasn't anything I could do about it except focus on my own race and just hope that if I ran as fast as I needed to run, it was going to be good enough.
RWD: You have your sights set even higher, but it has to be incredibly rewarding for you and the people close to you that you've acquitted yourself in a manner that's been seemingly within your capabilities for three or four years.
BR: I feel like the marathon last year was a pretty big breakthrough for me. And running cross country, I ran a little bit better than I thought I would, and I realized I can run at the international level. It's a pretty good feeling to rise to the occasion--and it's fun! I feel really really strong and healthy, so hopefully my body's going to be able to hold up through all this training.
RWD: You've gotten your iron deficiency problems under control, but can you quantify or explain what's gone better in your training in the last few months?
BR: I think it's probably just a lot of consistency. I did jump up my mileage a little bit for the marathon, and my body responded pretty well. For about four years, when I was working full-time (as a physical therapist), I couldn't fit in more than 70 or 75 miles a week. I had to force myself to run a little bit more for the marathon. Since January, I've just been running full-time, which has been so luxurious, something I never really thought I'd be able to do. That makes a difference, not as much in the day-to-day, but I knew that if I did make the World team, I'd be able to take the time off to go, as opposed to having a job.
RWD: What World teams had you had to turn down?
BR: I guess the biggest disappointment was when I made the 4k cross country team while I was in PT (physical therapy) school. I didn't think I could take that much time off. That's one of those races I always like to get to.
RWD: What level has your weekly mileage gotten up to?
BR: I'm staying around 90 to 100. Anything over 100, and I start aching all over.
RWD: Are you going to stay in the Monterey area up until leaving for Helsinki?
BR: It's a bit crazy. I planned months ago that we're going on a family cruise to parts of the Caribbean. The good thing is I've been on a cruise before and I know all the stops. And then my best friend from college is getting married in New York. I'd like to be able to go to Europe (early), but it's not going to work out. They want us there five days before, so I can get there on a Monday and race on Saturday.
RWD: So will there be any racing before the Worlds?
BR: Nothing at all. And then when I get back, it'll be putting my head down and training for the Chicago Marathon.


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In the following video of the dredge fractal, you can see me apply a food buff at ~2:20 of the video.
With no edits, at ~6:50 of the video, only 4min and 30sec later when we jump over the pipe to lose agro from the dredge, both my food buff and my party mates food buff dissappear.
I haven't analyzed my other fractal vids yet, but I've noticed food dissapearing randomly within the dungeon even when not zoning to different fractals. Sometimes the food also persists while zoning, and other times it doesnt.
It does seem like its a bug with this dungeon since it doesn't happen with dungeons outside of FotM. Hopefully this helps devs fix the bug because it's highly annoying to lose level 80 4s food buffs after a few minutes which are vital for certain builds.


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OLA claims Div. 8-3A title with 6-0 shutout over Resurrection
The Our Lady Academy Crescents (14-3-2, 5-0) blanked Resurrection 6-0 on Friday, Jan.13 to claim their 14th consecutive division title.
Rocks down Vancleave, Bay routs Greene Cty.
The St. Stanislaus Rock-a-chaws basketball team (6-14, 2-3) received a late fourth quarter surge to dispatch the Vancleave Bulldogs 53-44 in Division 8-4A action Friday, Jan.13.
OLA's 'field of dreams' finally a reality
Our Lady Academy is the most successful girls high school soccer team in Mississippi history.
MIssissippi Surge improving at mid-way point of season
MIssissippi Surge Head Coach Jeff Bes
The Mississippi Surge wrapped up the first half of the 2011-2012 SPHL hockey season Friday in style with an exciting 4-2 come-from-behind victory against the top-ranked Augusta River Hawks.
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Bay splits with FCAHS, Gulfport sweeps Hancock, Pass sweeps St. Pat's, SSC falls
The area basketball teams were all in action over the past week. On Tuesday, the Bay High Tigers split a pair of varsity games with the Forrest County AHS Aggies.
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VERNAL — One by one, Tyler Mansfield and Aaron Dockins loaded cobble rocks into the backpack Diesel Garcia was wearing.
The slight, quiet third-grader's shoulders sagged a little more as each rock settled into the bag.
"How does that feel?" Mansfield, a senior at Uintah High School, asked.
The older boys weren't bullying the much younger boy. Instead they were using the stones, the backpack and the Larry Hiller poem "Pocket Full of Rocks" to teach Garcia and his classmates at Ashley Elementary School a lesson about the harm that comes from harboring hard feelings toward others.
"Would you want to walk around all day with that?" Mansfield asked Garcia, before unloading the backpack while talking about the benefits of forgiving one's self and others.
The lesson is just part of the Be a Buddy, Not a Bully curriculum developed by Mansfield and fellow Uintah High DECA Club members Gabe Mayberry and Casey McClellan.
"The main focus is to learn how to be kind to people," said Mayberry, who serves as DECA Club president.
"If we teach the kids the appropriate ways to act, the kind of behavior that they should have, that will, in turn, make it so they don't feel the need to bully," Mayberry said.
The trio researched the issue and found bullying becomes more prevalent once kids reach fourth grade, McClellan said. So the 52 members of the DECA Club who teach the program gear their message toward third-graders.
"We can hit them right before they start to think they're too cool to listen to older kids," McClellan said.
The younger kids learn the difference between tattling and reporting a bully. They're also taught a process dubbed "Stop, Walk and Talk" that encourages them to tell a bully to stop harassing them, to walk away if that doesn't work and to talk to an adult about what happened.
The program also focuses on honoring acts of kindness by others, with students writing those acts down on pieces of paper that are linked into chains.
"To see those grow is really, really cool," Mansfield said, "to see how one little chain link can start a ripple effect."
The program began in November as a pilot project at Ashley Elementary. It's been so successful, it's now being taught to every third-grade class in the Uintah School District's seven elementary schools.11 comments on this story
"The first impression that I got was how hard the (high school) kids have worked," said Kevin Graham, whose third-grade class was among the first to take part in the five-month program.
"I've seen (my students) get better with their interaction with one another, trying to find alternatives rather than fighting, and really being tuned in to how the other one feels," Graham said.
The Uintah High students said the response they get from the kids makes the work they've done worthwhile.
"They're really sweet, and they really try to take the lessons to heart," McClellan said. "They really try to do what we teach them and tell them, so that's been a good part of the program for me."
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Macroscopic relations of urban traffic variables: Bifurcations, multivaluedness and instability
Recent experimental work has shown that the average flow and average density within certain urban networks are related by a unique, reproducible curve known as the Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD). For networks consisting of a single route this MFD can be predicted analytically; but when the networks consist of multiple overlapping routes experience shows that the flows observed in congestion for a given density are less than those one would predict if the routes were homogeneously congested and did not overlap. These types of networks also tend to jam at densities that are only a fraction of their routes' average jam density. This paper provides an explanation for these phenomena. It shows that, even for perfectly homogeneous networks with spatially uniform travel patterns, symmetric equilibrium patterns with equal flows and densities across all links are unstable if the average network density is sufficiently high. Instead, the stable equilibrium patterns are asymmetric. For this reason the networks jam at lower densities and exhibit lower flows than one would predict if traffic was evenly distributed. Analysis of small idealized networks that can be treated as simple dynamical systems shows that these networks undergo a bifurcation at a network-specific critical density such that for lower densities the MFDs have predictably high flows and are univalued, and for higher densities the order breaks down. Microsimulations show that this bifurcation also manifests itself in large symmetric networks. In this case though, the bifurcation is more pernicious: once the network density exceeds the critical value, the stable state is one of complete gridlock with zero flow. It is therefore important to ensure in real-world applications that a network's density never be allowed to approach this critical value. Fortunately, analysis shows that the bifurcation's critical density increases considerably if some of the drivers choose their routes adaptively in response to traffic conditions. So far, for networks with adaptive drivers, bifurcations have only been observed in simulations, but not (yet) in real life. This could be because real drivers are more adaptive than simulated drivers and/or because the observed real networks were not sufficiently congested.
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26 U.S. Code § 223 - Health savings accounts
In the case of an individual who is an eligible individual for any month during the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a deduction for the taxable year an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during such taxable year by or on behalf of such individual to a health savings account of such individual.
The amount allowable as a deduction under subsection (a) to an individual for the taxable year shall not exceed the sum of the monthly limitations for months during such taxable year that the individual is an eligible individual.
In the case of an individual who has attained age 55 before the close of the taxable year, the applicable limitation under subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (2) shall be increased by the additional contribution amount.
For purposes of this section, the additional contribution amount is the amount determined in accordance with the following table:
For taxable years beginning in:
The additional contribution amount is:
2009 and thereafter
No deduction shall be allowed under this section to any individual with respect to whom a deduction under section 151 is allowable to another taxpayer for a taxable year beginning in the calendar year in which such individual's taxable year begins.
The limitation under this subsection for any month with respect to an individual shall be zero for the first month such individual is entitled to benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act and for each month thereafter.
Subclauses (I) and (II) of clause (i) shall not apply if the individual ceased to be an eligible individual by reason of the death of the individual or the individual becoming disabled (within the meaning of section 72(m)(7)).
An individual shall not fail to be treated as an eligible individual for any period merely because the individual receives hospital care or medical services under any law administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for a service-connected disability (within the meaning of section 101(16) of title 38, United States Code).
Such term does not include a health plan if substantially all of its coverage is coverage described in paragraph (1)(B).
A plan shall not fail to be treated as a high deductible health plan by reason of failing to have a deductible for preventive care (within the meaning of section 1871 of the Social Security Act, except as otherwise provided by the Secretary).
Such plan shall not fail to be treated as a high deductible health plan by reason of having an out-of-pocket limitation for services provided outside of such network which exceeds the applicable limitation under subparagraph (A)(ii).
The term "qualified medical expenses" means, with respect to an account beneficiary, amounts paid by such beneficiary for medical care (as defined in section 213(d) [1] for such individual, the spouse of such individual, and any dependent (as defined in section 152, determined without regard to subsections (b)(1), (b)(2), and (d)(1)(B) thereof) of such individual, but only to the extent such amounts are not compensated for by insurance or otherwise. Such term shall include an amount paid for medicine or a drug only if such medicine or drug is a prescribed drug (determined without regard to whether such drug is available without a prescription) or is insulin.
Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to any payment for insurance.
The term "account beneficiary" means the individual on whose behalf the health savings account was established.
A health savings account is exempt from taxation under this subtitle unless such account has ceased to be a health savings account. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any such account is subject to the taxes imposed by section 511 (relating to imposition of tax on unrelated business income of charitable, etc. organizations).
Any amount paid or distributed out of a health savings account which is used exclusively to pay qualified medical expenses of any account beneficiary shall not be includible in gross income.
Any amount paid or distributed out of a health savings account which is not used exclusively to pay the qualified medical expenses of the account beneficiary shall be included in the gross income of such beneficiary.
The tax imposed by this chapter on the account beneficiary for any taxable year in which there is a payment or distribution from a health savings account of such beneficiary which is includible in gross income under paragraph (2) shall be increased by 20 percent of the amount which is so includible.
Subparagraph (A) shall not apply if the payment or distribution is made after the account beneficiary becomes disabled within the meaning of section 72(m)(7) or dies.
Paragraph (2) shall not apply to any amount paid or distributed from a health savings account to the account beneficiary to the extent the amount received is paid into a health savings account for the benefit of such beneficiary not later than the 60th day after the day on which the beneficiary receives the payment or distribution.
This paragraph shall not apply to any amount described in subparagraph (A) received by an individual from a health savings account if, at any time during the 1-year period ending on the day of such receipt, such individual received any other amount described in subparagraph (A) from a health savings account which was not includible in the individual's gross income because of the application of this paragraph.
For purposes of determining the amount of the deduction under section 213, any payment or distribution out of a health savings account for qualified medical expenses shall not be treated as an expense paid for medical care.
The transfer of an individual's interest in a health savings account to an individual's spouse or former spouse under a divorce or separation instrument described in subparagraph (A) of section 71(b)(2) shall not be considered a taxable transfer made by such individual notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle, and such interest shall, after such transfer, be treated as a health savings account with respect to which such spouse is the account beneficiary.
If the account beneficiary's surviving spouse acquires such beneficiary's interest in a health savings account by reason of being the designated beneficiary of such account at the death of the account beneficiary, such health savings account shall be treated as if the spouse were the account beneficiary.
The amount includible in gross income under clause (i) by any person (other than the estate) shall be reduced by the amount of qualified medical expenses which were incurred by the decedent before the date of the decedent's death and paid by such person within 1 year after such date.
[1] So in original. Probably should be followed by a second closing parenthesis.
For inflation adjustment of certain items in this section, see Revenue Procedures listed in a table below and under section 1 of this title.
The Social Security Act, referred to in subsecs. (b)(7), (c)(2)(C), (d)(2)(C)(iv), (f)(4)(C), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, as amended. Title XVIII of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XVIII (§ 1395 et seq.) of chapter 7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Sections 1811, 1871, and 1882 of the Act are classified to sections 1395c, 1395hh, and 1395ss, respectively, of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.
A prior section 223 was renumbered section 224 of this title.
2015—Subsec. (c)(1)(C). Pub. L. 114–41 added subpar. (C).
2010—Subsec. (d)(2)(A). Pub. L. 111–148, § 9003(a), inserted at end "Such term shall include an amount paid for medicine or a drug only if such medicine or drug is a prescribed drug (determined without regard to whether such drug is available without a prescription) or is insulin."
Subsec. (f)(4)(A). Pub. L. 111–148, § 9004(a), substituted "20 percent" for "10 percent".
2006—Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 109–432, § 303(a)(1), substituted "$2,250." for "the lesser of—
"(i) the annual deductible under such coverage, or
"(ii) $2,250, or".
Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 109–432, § 303(a)(2), substituted "$4,500." for "the lesser of—
"(i) the annual deductible under such coverage, or
"(ii) $4,500."
Subsec. (b)(4)(C). Pub. L. 109–432, § 307(b), added subpar. (C).
Subsec. (b)(8). Pub. L. 109–432, § 305(a), added par. (8).
Subsec. (c)(1)(B)(iii). Pub. L. 109–432, § 302(b), added cl. (iii).
Subsec. (d)(1)(A)(ii)(I). Pub. L. 109–432, § 303(b), substituted "subsection (b)(2)(B)" for "subsection (b)(2)(B)(ii)".
Subsec. (g)(1). Pub. L. 109–432, § 304, inserted concluding provisions.
2005—Subsec. (d)(2)(A). Pub. L. 109–135 inserted ", determined without regard to subsections (b)(1), (b)(2), and (d)(1)(B) thereof" after "section 152".
Pub. L. 114–41, title IV, § 4007(b)(2), July 31, 2015, 129 Stat. 466, provided that:
Amendment by section 9003(a) of Pub. L. 111–148 applicable to amounts paid with respect to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2010, see section 9003(d)(1) of Pub. L. 111–148, set out as a note under section 220 of this title.
Amendment by section 9004(a) of Pub. L. 111–148 applicable to distributions made after Dec. 31, 2010, see section 9004(c) of Pub. L. 111–148, set out as a note under section 220 of this title.
Pub. L. 109–432, div. A, title III, § 302(c)(2), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2949, provided that:
Pub. L. 109–432, div. A, title III, § 303(c), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2950, provided that:
Pub. L. 109–432, div. A, title III, § 305(b), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2951, provided that:
Pub. L. 109–432, div. A, title III, § 307(c), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 2953, provided that:
Amendment by Pub. L. 109–135 effective as if included in the provisions of the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004, Pub. L. 108–311, to which such amendment relates, see section 404(d) of Pub. L. 109–135, set out as a note under section 21 of this title.
Section applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2003, see section 1201(k) of Pub. L. 108–173, set out as an Effective Date of 2003 Amendment note under section 62 of this title.
Provisions relating to inflation adjustment of items in this section for certain years were contained in the following:
2016—Revenue Procedure 2015–30.
2015—Revenue Procedure 2014–30.
2014—Revenue Procedure 2013–25.
2013—Revenue Procedure 2012–26.
2012—Revenue Procedure 2011–32.
2011—Revenue Procedure 2010–22.
2010—Revenue Procedure 2009–29.
2009—Revenue Procedure 2008–29.
2008—Revenue Procedure 2007–36.
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Happy Feet
Has beautiful animation, great dancing and an OK story
Go to showtimes
Published 6:30 am, Friday, November 17, 2006
"Wait a minute — happy feet can't cause a famine!"
Such wisdom and pluck are the mark of a hero, and a hero it is who inspires the masses in Happy Feet. To be sure, he is a flightless bird, but whoever said a leading man needs grace? Or looks? Or functional wings? All he needs is two clawed feet and a feel for Stevie Wonder.
Audiences who awwwed and ahhhed at March of the Penguins would do well to forget about it, because this bustling animated feature is far removed from the documentarian pathos of last year's sleeper hit. It crosses some of the same Antarctic breeding grounds and aquatic terrors (those leopard seals), but only to spur things along for its happy-footed rebel, Mumble (Elijah Wood).
The film's main racket is making Mumble tap like Savion Glover, if you can picture Savion Glover as 3 feet tall and feathered. (You needn't. Glover's dance routines were computer-morphed into Mumble's).
Mumble is an emperor penguin with an inborn deficiency: He can't sing and can't, therefore, lure a mate. His dancing doesn't much impress his fellow penguins, who look askance at funky soft-shoe and suspect — this is where the fearmongering comes in — said activity might have angered the all-hallowed penguin goddess in charge of (among other things) fish. "It just ain't penguin, OK?" says Mumble's pa, voiced by Hugh Jackman with a not-too-shabby Southern accent.
But Mumble's got rhythm. Mumble's got to dance. Mumble suspects the real culprits are large "aliens" with "front-facing eyes" and weirdo appendages, in whose pursuit he heads across the brilliant polar icescape.
This pursuit involves a few Robin Williams characters, including a Barry White-loving penguin with a mystical sideline and an Adelie penguin with a ridiculous Latino accent and four cocky friends.
Happy Feet was directed by George Miller of Mad Max fame, in his first feature effort since 1998's Babe: Pig in the City — and it is wise, while watching it, not to dwell too much on plot. It twists off in one or two or maybe three too many directions, incorporating one or two or maybe three too many ideas and moods. It's a comedy; a romance; a noble quest; a rebuke of religious fundamentalism; an embrace of independent thinking; an eco-minded warning on avian habitats.
Incongruously, human actors appear near the movie's close, part of a whimsical environmental message that equates salvation with hoofing it: If only wildlife could tap dance, we might preserve their habitats.
But Happy Feet is not devoid of downy magic. The animation dazzles. The baby birds are fluffy darlings. The script has its moments, the dance bits are a blast, and Mumble's love interest, Gloria (Brittany Murphy), gets to belt out a verse or two of Queen.
The all-star voice cast also features Nicole Kidman doing a spot-on Marilyn Monroe impression as Mumble's breathy mum, Norma Jean.
Besides, any film that pitches dance as a metaphor for redemption has inherent social value. I, for one, rest easy knowing the food supply is safe.


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Hi Allie
Your text was:
Anna sat in her garden and watched the marvelous hummingbirds bout each other for a sip of the nectar. Her attention turned as Paul approached saying, "'Danger is here, follow me, Anna."
Think of your last sentence this way:
Her attention turned(1) as Paul approached(2) (and was) saying(3) ...
1 = the past simple (turned)
2 = the past simple (approached)
3 = the past progressive -- also known as 'the past continuous' (was saying)
Participles are used in various ways. Here is an example in which a present participle is used as a gerund (noun) and so there is nothing even remotely similar to a "tense" connected with the word 'seeing'. The sentence is simply in the past tense -- as determined by the only verb in the sentence, which is 'frightened':
Seeing a ghost frightened him badly.
In the next sentence, a present participle is used, but the meaning is past. The past meaning is determined by the context (in this case, the word 'barged'):
Ignoring the "Do not disturb" sign, he barged into the room.
The sentence above means 'He ignored the sign and barged into the room.'
I can easily add a further present participle to the same sentence:
Ignoring the "Do not disturb" sign hanging on the doorknob, he barged into the room.
In this sentence, some words have been elided: "... sign that was hanging on the doorknob..." So, in this sentence, 'hanging' means 'was hanging'.
Does that help?