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Do you know what an "IP Code" is?
At LDI this year, I heard a lot of talk about IP ratings and IP code, with such numbers being thrown around as "IP 65" and "oh, that fixture's awesome, it's got an IP 68 rating."
Do you know what that means? Do you know how to interpret IP Code?
A fixture's IP (International Protection) rating has to do with how well it is protected against the elements and people sticking stuff inside of it, to be frank. IP ratings cover two scenarios – "it classifies the degrees of protection provided against the intrusion of solid objects (including body parts like hands and fingers), dust, accidental contact, and water in electrical enclosures," to quote Wikipedia's entry on IP ratings.
So – the rating system is based off of two numbers and their meaning – the first against things stuck in the enclosure, and the second against water entering the enclosure. This is basically a more efficient and detailed method of saying something is "waterproof," as many things do. There are many levels of "waterproof," as we all probably know.
The rating system:Â FIRST NUMBER
No protection against contact and ingress of objects
>50Â mm
Any large surface of the body, such as the back of a hand, but no protection against deliberate contact with a body part
>12.5Â mm
Fingers or similar objects
>2.5Â mm
Tools, thick wires, etc.
>1Â mm
Most wires, screws, etc.
dust protected
Ingress of dust is not entirely prevented, but it must not enter in sufficient quantity to interfere with the satisfactory operation of the equipment; complete protection against contact
dust tight
No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact
The rating system:Â SECOND NUMBER
not protected   –
dripping water
Dripping water (vertically falling drops) shall have no harmful effect.
dripping water when tilted up to 15°
Vertically dripping water shall have no harmful effect when the enclosure is tilted at an angle up to 15° from its normal position.
spraying water
Water falling as a spray at any angle up to 60° from the vertical shall have no harmful effect.
splashing water
Water splashing against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effect.
water jets
Water projected by a nozzle against enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects.
powerful water jets
Water projected in powerful jets against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects.
immersion up to 1 m
Ingress of water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion).
immersion beyond 1 m
The equipment is suitable for continuous immersion in water under conditions which shall be specified by the manufacturer.
NOTE: Normally, this will mean that the equipment is hermetically sealed. However, with certain types of equipment, it can mean that water can enter but only in such a manner that produces no harmful effects.
If you have a "X" in your IP rating, it means that device has no rating for that number. For example, you might see IP2X on some of the indoor electrical items you have in your house, such as wall outlets. That means it is protected against fingers going into the socket, and not rated for water.
Now you know how to read IP ratings. How does it feel to be "in the know?"


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Read These 3 Unpublished JD Salinger Stories That Just Leaked Online
Later today, you'll be full of turkey and bored with talking to your family. Fact. So why not settle down with a nice story? In fact, how about these three unpublished works by JD Salinger, that have just been leaked online?

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Use the "down", "stay", or "sit" command while performing this exercise.
- Find a table or a bench (higher = easier, lower = more difficult).
- Place hands on the table or bench with hands wide.
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Playing the Oodnadatta spoons
Paul "Quinny" Quin is apparently the best spoon player in the Oodnadatta district.
He treated Bush Tele to an "whole body" spoon performance, bouncing the cutlery off his shoulders, elbows and knees, along to some Slim Dusty.
"I'm self taught, I've been to a lot of country music shows, seen a lot of other people play them, but really it's just improvised. "
You can hear him play and attempt to teach Nikolai Beilharz the art.
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i have this problem. i have 14" laptop and it doesnt have numpad ! how to hell i supposed to play the missions cesar vialpando and lifes a beach. i have gta sa on the ps2 and xbox (original), and i recently bought gta san andreas from steam. would somebody post a savegame with those completed? or any tips? please help me!
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An Examination of Uncovered Interest Rate Parity in Segmented International Commodity Markets
The authors examine the effect of segmented commodity markets on the relation between forward future spot exchange rates in a dynamic economy. They calculate the slope coefficient in their theoretical economy from regressing exchange rate changes on forward premia. With reasonable parameter values, the slope coefficient is less than unity. However, even for extreme parameters the slope is not less than zero, as found in the data. A negative slope coefficient in a nominal version of the model requires the covariance between monetary shocks and relative output shocks to be significantly negative, in contrast to the covariance in the data. Copyright 1997 by American Finance Association.
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Rule Changes for 2007 Season
The backcourt rule change coincides with some positive modifications we made to our game last season, said WNBA Chief of Basketball Operations and Player Relations Renee Brown. The adjustment to an eight-second backcourt rule continues the trend of speeding up the game and increasing the number of possessions. This leads to higher scoring games, which we saw last year when we implemented the 24-second shot clock and the four-quarter format. Teams across the league posted scoring increases, and fans enjoyed the up-tempo style of the game.
The highlights of the rule change for 2007 are as follows:
- The backcourt rule will require offensive teams to bring the ball across the midcourt line within eight seconds rather than 10 seconds.
- The timeout rule will require officials to grant requests for a timeout (full or twenty-second) by a player in the game or the head coach. Previously, only players in the game were allowed to call timeouts.
- Teams will now designate 11 active players and up to two inactive players on playoff rosters, with the ability to activate any inactive players on a game-by-game basis. This is the same process as is employed during the regular season.
- Two free throw attempts and possession of the ball shall be awarded on the sideline nearest the spot where play was interrupted if an offensive player, or a teammate, is fouled while having a clear-path-to-the-basket. In previous seasons, the penalty for clear-path-to-the-basket fouls was one free throw and possession of the ball.


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The Egyptian Television Network has refused to give permission for the Ramadan drama series "Raya and Iskeena," to be aired on it local channels, stressing that it contains too much violence, profanity, and inappropriate scenes for the average viewer.
Although, director Jamal Abdul Hameed has denied rumors that the reason behind the Egyptian television network's refusal to air the drama was due to the provocative nature of certain scenes.
"Raya and Iskeena," stars Egyptian actors Summaya Al Khashab and Abla Kamel, and is based on a true story of two sisters who murdered innocent women, and then proceeded to rob them of their most valuable processions. The series covers seventeen different murder cases, some of which actually took place.
The drama was filmed at the Egyptian 'Media Production City,' and was scheduled to be aired during the holy month of Ramadan on the satellite channel MBC, when the number of viewers is the highest.
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(Editor's Note: Thompson dropped out of the presidential race for the Republican nomination on Jan. 22, 2008, after coming in a distant third in the South Carolina Republican primary on Jan. 19, 2008. See a statement on his campaign Web site.)
He is opposed to any form of amnesty for illegal immigrants. Arrest and deportation is not a reasonable solution either. Self-deportation can be achieved by enforcing the laws against unauthorized alien workers and their employers. Without illegal job opportunities, fewer aliens will try to enter and those here illegally now will likely return home. The borders can be made more secure by doubling the immigration agents, by increasing the border patrol to at least 25,000 agents and by increasing the number of detention facilities to hold illegal aliens that have been arrested. We should also increase funding to prosecute alien smugglers, to prosecute illegal alien gangs and bolster border security.
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The dented helmet
Newest project - 1/6 Boba Fett Mythos Custom.
I wanted to sell my old Sideshow Boba Fett figure, but since there's been quite a few better 1/6 Fett figures released lately, I decided to make mine stand out from the crowd by customising it, with Sideshow's Mythos statue as inspiration.
It's not going to be an exact recreation of the Mythos design, rather a figure made with the same idea behind it. Meaning - that of a Boba Fett "beyond the movies", shown during some undescribed mission from the character's past. With slightly different gear than his movie loadout, and armour shown with a different stage of weathering.
First up is the helmet. The visor still needs some cleaning and glossing up, but other than that it's pretty much finished. Not having to be a slave to the exact pattern of scratches and damage seen on the movie armour, I could really go to town with weathering for a realistic finish. And though the Dentedhelmet.com purists will instantly notice a "non-canon" mosaic of patterns, the overall look and feel still fits very well with movie Boba. And it makes total sense, since it's unreasonable to think Fett's armour would look exactly the same during all of his deployments.
I plan to repaint all of his gear and armour this way (with some bits having complete colour scheme changes), give him more weapons and some additional fabric elements to his costume.
Note: bear in mind that the following photos have their colour filtering slightly too much on the red side, so it's not 100% representative of the colours in hand.
Here's the original Sideshow helmet for comparison:
A little blast from the past.
Tyranid Tervigon, that I've painted a few years back. Reuploaded for my new CMON profile.
It was meant to be a training excercise for a different Tyranid project. I wanted to paint a Hive Tyrant in the most organic, realistic way possible and this Tervigon was meant as a test for some techniques and texture work. That was several years ago, I've never got around to making that Hive Tyrant, but I did get beter at painting fleshy surfaces since then, so I might revisit that project soon.
As preparation before painting the model, I've gather quite a hefty collection of research images meant as inspiration and reference material. The collection had everything, from photos of the most disgusting bugs, wounds sported by people fighting in warzones, most horrific diseases and hospital oddities imaginable, right down to pictures of rotting animal carcasses. One day someone found that collection on my laptop, and I had some embarassing explaining to do.
I think I would have prefered for them to find my porn. At least they wouldn't secretly fear that I was a psychopath, who's going to murder them in their sleep one day.
Speeezz Marineeez....in pink.
Alternative photos of the Luna Wolf Legionary (click for close-up pop ups), this time on a lighter background. Specificaly light pink background, couse that's all I had at the moment. Usually I stay away from light photo backgrounds, since I think darker ones are more atmospheric and make the figure stand out more, but I wanted to shake things up a bit.
It came out good. Next time I think I am gonna print me some of those popular blue backgrounds that fade into white. You know, put some razzle-dazzle and high-end production value into this show.
Click on individual photos, for close-ups.
Unknown Legionary of the Luna Wolves Legiones Astartes second company.
Pictured above, fighting on the fields of Ullanor during the final battle of the planet, in which the Emperor himself, along with his favourite son Horus, personally led the forces of the XVI Legion in a speartip assault against the fortress of Ork Warlord Urrlak Urruk, effectively cutting the heart out of the biggest Ork empire in recorded history. It was a seminal victory of the Great Crusade. One that solidified humanity's place as rulers of the galaxy and one which ended in Horus being given the mantle of the Warmaster.
- Left hand blown off during combat
- Numerical on the left shoulder pad (partially obscured by blood), identifies the Legionary as a member of the second company's third tactical squad.
This was originaly supposed to be a super quick project, meant to be done in a day or two. I was really excited by GW release of plastic MK IV marines in their Betrayal at Catlh set, which I thought looked great (better proportioned than FW versions, with no "chicken leg syndrome", sleeker helmet design, better casts) and I wanted to get my hands on them. I was hovewer swarmed with projects at that time, so I decided to whet my appetite by finishing a quick, single model from the set, before I could get more ambitious with the models. However as I started to put detail on the figure, I just sort of couldn't stop and started being more and more precise and in the end I finished him as a display piece.
Lot's of attention was given to textures and weathering. Really wanted to give it that walking tank vibe. I got some questions regarding my technique for finishing armour, unfortunately there is no special, specific method to be described here. Over the years I simply develpod good enough brush control and an eye for weathering surfaces, that allowed me to apply fine details. There was no sponge technique or chipping medium involved (both of these are not precise enough for this scale anayway), every scratch and line was applied by hand. If that's sounds like a tedious pain in the ass, that's becouse it was.
Overally really happy with this one. I just wished I knew from the start what way this project would eventually go, since there are still some small elements of the figure that are a bit sub-par, becouse I painted them when I still approached the model with a "quickie project" attitude.
The minis is now available for sale. If interested, let me know at firstname.lastname@example.com
Once upon a time I used to collect Hot Toys figures.
I stopped when I realised that:
So I sold most of the 1/6 pieces I own, save for a couple of personal favourites, featuring characters close to my heart. Chief amongst them was Hot Toy's DX09 figure of Michael Keaton's 1989 BATMAN. Not to turn this into yet another internet Nolan-Burton debate (I have place in my heart for both), Michael Keaton's rendition of Batman is amongst my favourite popculture performances of all time.
People more eloquent than me, allready penned numerous articles on why his interpetation of the character was so powerful and evocative, despite being (seemingly) simple in comparison to all the painfuly genre-aware, deconstructive movie supeheroes of today, so I won't be getting into that. What's important is that I decided to keep my Hot Toys rendition of the 1989 version as my One Ultimate Keaton Batman Collectible, couse I simply love me some Keaton Bats.
Especially BATMAN RETURNS Keaton Bats which is a movie whose quirks, melancholy and twisted romanticism I fell in love with as a kid. Plus, that fucking cowl man. Say what you will about the design changes made to the rest of the suit, I won't defend them, but BATMAN RETURNS cowl coupled with Keaton's face resulted in the most badass looking rendition of Batman in any medium. Period.
I mean look at this fucker.
So why am I talking about BATMAN RETURNS? Well, some time ago Hot Toys released their RETURNS version of Batman, which you can see here. It immediately became my newest One Ultimate Keaton Batman Collectible, and is currently on my "to buy list", despite me moving away from collecting 1/6 figures..
It meant that my old DX09 1989 HT Bats was dethroned and destined to be sold to a different collector, since there is room for only one rubber-clad, S&M gargoyle figure in this house. But not before I had the chance to apply some...modifications of my own.
Allright, so the general idea behind this custom was to take the "fresh out of a superhero factory" look of the original figure - which showed Batman at his most presentable - and modify him to look the way he did in the final act of the first film, during the Cathedral sequence of the movie.
With customs like this there will always be an element of improvisation when it comes to accuracy, due to poor documentation of the movie. I scoured the net looking for high quality pictures of the suit used in that scene, as stills from the movie proved to be of little help, mostly due to poor lighting conditions and camera focusing mostly on the cowl and not the rest of the body. Fortunately I found high res photos of the suit, taken at some Hollywood prop auction, which documented every inch of it. Even that didn't fully remove the element of guesswork, since when looking at 20 years-old rubber custumes like this, it's sometimes hard to tell what is intentional "movie damage" and what is just natural degradation of the suit due to passage of time. But I think it did help to better my placement of the damage on the suit. It's not 100% accurate, some of the burn marks on the cowl are a little bit too heavy, but I think the overall feel of the scene was captured.
The damage on the suit was done by doing exactly what it was meant to represent. I burned the rubber and texturised it with hot tools. Btw. the rubber used by HT in this figure is really solid. A far cry from their previous rubber suits which were infamous for quick self-degradation and just generally being shit. In addition to burning, cutting and scratching, I also made sure that there was a glossy, smooth sheen visible on some of the damage, which was meant to represent the glass-smooth surface of liquidised rubber. You can clearly see such glossy patches showing through the patina of dust on the original costume.
The effects of dust and dirt (which I think look a bit better in hand than they do on the photos) were done using modelling pigments, which were later affixed using matt spray varnish. The matte varnish not only helped seal the pigments in place, but also contributed to the dusty, dirty look of the figure, by flatting the surface of the suit, making it a bit greyer, dustier, as it appeared in the movie. However, since modelling pigments never really look 100% dry when covered with varnish, I also applied a second layer of pigments with no protection. Though there was risk that pigments could be eventually misplaced/removed by too much handling, I knew that re-applying them as needed, would be super easy and would only take minutes, so it didn't worry me.
I also painted my own blood effects on the face. Firstly, becouse I wanted this figure to sport the neutral face plate instead of the open one (the figure came with three different facial expression plates, only one of which - the open mouth one - came with blood). And secondly - becouse HT factory painted blood looked really poor and inaccurate, more like an accidental splotch of ketchup.
I also added some fine scratch marks to the belt. Though the pictures you're looking at. show the cleaner version of the belt, before I added futher dirt effects, since after looking at the photographs I decided that the belt looks to pristine and high-contrast in relation to the rest of the figure.
The cape of the figure was de-lined to make it just a bit more flexible and less stiff. Despite the overal engineering excellence of HT products, they are infamous for not beig able to properly produce something as seemingly simple as a cape, which results in their super-realistic, 250$ figures, looking like they're wearing table cloth. It does drape around Bat's shoulders a little bit better now. Unfortunately, by de-lining it I uncovered it's inner surface which is grey and made from a different material than the black, faux-leather exterior. You can see it clearly here.
Fortunately, when the figure is posed in a simple, standing position (which is where he looks best after all), it's not really visible.
There were also some subtle modifications done to the ears.
When DX09 was first showcased, people went crazy for it's fantastic sculpt of Keaton's face and the cowl. My only small gripe with the sculpt is that it's so good, it's almost a little bit too good. What I mean is that HT has done an idealised version of the cowl. The original movie costume was very crude. It was a simple, low-tech ruber cast with lot's of imperfections, bumps and asymetrical lines. The HT sculpt on the other hand was perfectly symmetrical. One of those asymmetries in the movie costume was a certain subtle but noticable curvature to the ears that made them slightly stick out from the cowl. It's especially visible in the cathedral scene.
Here's the curvature that I am talking about, compared to HT's perfectly smooth lines:
I am not sure if this curve was especially noticable during the catheral scene becouse they've used a different suit for that particular sequence (those low-tech, rubber casts always sported some small differences between them, even if made from the same mold). Or was it part of the weathering that the prop department put the suit through for that sequence. Either way, I decided to replicate that effect, by sculpting subtle curves on the sides of both ears and then give it some texture so that it matched the surface of the rest of the cowl.
The important thing here was subtlety. This kind of effect can be easily overdone, so I tried to keep it subtle enough that most collectors wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't directly pointed out. But I do think it slightly betters the accuracy of the suit and adds some of that assymetry visible in the original costume. Here's the final effect:
And lastly, I've modified the base so that it represented the old, moldy, dusty planks of the Cathedral floor, riddled bit cracked bits of dark brown masonry. The planks were made from Algida sticks. Perfect excuse to stuff your face full of icecream.
Anyway, I hope you'll like it.
Here's an obligatory Elfman theme, to cap things off:
By way of painful introduction.
Greetings traveller,
I was planning on writing a serious, proper introduction to the site, a mission statement if you will, channeling the spirit of all the bloggers who try to legitimize their hobbies by attributing them with deeper meaning and pretentiously throwing around the word 'art' way too much. But then I thought it would be best not to blow this thing out of proportion and just show it for what it really is.
A blog with various stuff, eliciting responses ranging from "neat" to "huh".
Stuff mostly of a modeling nature. No, not the cool, sexy, socialy hip modelling. The other kind. The one that deals with plastic, resin and paints. We don't have as many attractive people here, but we do have miniatures of laser guns and swords in space.
Stuff combining my love of assembling and painting small stuff to look like other, bigger stuff, with my love of imaginary worlds and the creative side of popculture.
So stuff not limited to any specifc type of modeling, meaning you're as likely to stumble upon posts with armies of tabletop miniatures, as you are of finding pictures of movie sculptures or scale models of military aircraft.
The kind of stuff that might trigger the same part of your brain that lights up and wakes up your inner kid everytime you see an awesome LEGO set, despite the fact that you're an engaged adult who pays taxes and has a mortgage.
Stuff that hopefully becomes a useful routine for my procrastinating, ADHD riddled brain to focus on.
That, plus the occasional post about random bullshit mixed with some popcultural ramblings and my oh so very important thoughts on why "superhero movie X" sucks/rocks.
That's it I guess. I haven't abused the word "art" and yet still managed to end up with an introduction that tries a bit too hard and is somewhat pretentious in it's own way becouse of it.
Anyway. Hope you're here to stay,
Purveyor of Stuff.
PS. As I am not a native english speaker, you can probably expect to see some record-scratching grammatical errors in this place, with some regularity. However, being a Poland-born, half-Vietnamese guy (go figure), who learned english mostly from religiously consuming 80's flicks on VHS during his formative years, and later translating Games Workshop armybooks in his teens, I would kindly ask you to be considerate with any prospective grammar natzi-ing done in relation to the shit posted here. In this regard, graciously be more of a grammatical Stauffenberg, and less of a Himmler.
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Hear that? It's the sound of no ropey funk-rock jam workouts. Lovely, isn't it? And best of all, it's a noise you'll be hearing a lot from now on.
That's because Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced that they're splitting up. We know, we were distraught too – what were the Red Hot Chili Peppers if not The Beatles of bad funk-rock that all sounds identical?
But, hey, relax – it's only a temporary split! According to Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, the group is disbanding for 'a minimum of one year' so that they can focus on other things for a while. So, although there won't be a new Red Hot Chili Peppers album any time soon, at least you'll be able to console yourself with the upcoming Flea Makes A Directionless Bim-Bom-Bim-Bom Noise Up And Down The Neck Of His Bass For More Than A Day 32-CD solo boxset.
It's been almost exactly two years since Red Hot Chili Peppers released their last album, entitled Stadium Lampshadium – and that means that if you're a die-hard Red Hot Chili Peppers fan it's been almost exactly one year, 11 months, two weeks and four days since you got about three tracks into it, realised that it contained nothing but shallow retreads of other stuff they've already done before and promptly forgot that it even existed.
But don't you be expecting a new Red Hot Chili Peppers album any time soon – there won't be one soon. There might not even be one ever. Red Hot Chili Peppers are on a trial separation, you see, because playing two hours of music a night to tens of thousands of adoring fans like you've dreamed of doing ever since you were a little boy can make you sooo tired. According to The Mirror:
California-referencing rock-funk veterans Red Hot Singer Chili Peppers have announced they are disbanding for the next 12 months after becoming exhausted with their hectic schedule. Frontman Anthony Kiedis told US rock mag Rolling Stone: "We didn't really stop until the tour ended last year. We were all emotionally and mentally zapped at the end of that run. The discussion was, 'Let's not do anything Red Hot Chili Peppers-related for a minimum of one year, and just live and breathe and eat and learn new things.'"
Wow, yes, OK, we take it back – if you haven't even had time to eat or even to perform your body's basic automatic respiratory function since 1999 like you're claiming, Red Hot Chili Peppers, then by all means take a break. Take as long as you need! You've earnt it! Heck, take forever off if you need to! No, really. Take forever off. We insist.
As Kiedis says, though, this will be an important year for the various members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers because they're all going to try new things. Kiedis is going to raise a son, the drummer has joined a jazz band, John Frusciante is working on solo stuff and Flea is going to try not to burn any more houses down.
However, there's always the chance that, after their year off, the various Red Hot Chili Peppers will have got used to living at home in comfort and they'll decide to make the split permanent.
And you know what that means – it means that there'll be a TV show called Californication but no band performing a song called Californication. In other words, it means that Duchovny has won! That's terrible! We don't know which scenario is worse – a world where the Red Hot Chili Peppers still exist or a world where Duchovny gets to ramp up his cloying smugness a couple of notches. We lose either way. It's just like being a child with two abusive parents. Um, we'd imagine.
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ATLANTA -- Matt Ryan found Mohamed Sanu five times for 50 yards as the Atlanta Falcons tried to rally late against the Green Bay Packers, and one of those passes ended up in the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
Sanu caught an 11-yard pass from Ryan to tie the game, and kicker Matt Bryant kicked the extra point to give the Atlanta Falcons a 33-32 lead with roughly 30 seconds left in the game.
The Packers (4-3), led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, tried to put together a quick drive to put the team in field goal range-- much like they had successfully accomplished before halftime-- but Rodgers threw an incomplete pass on 4th-and-3 and allowed the Falcons (5-3) to win in victory formation.
The Falcons ended a two-game losing skid and a four-game losing streak against the Packers.
Ryan completed 28 passes on 35 attempts for 288 yards and three touchdowns.
Sanu had a team-high nine catches for 84 yards. Taylor Gabriel and Devonta Freeman each had touchdown receptions for the Falcons. Freeman also rushed for one touchdown, finishing with 35 yards on the ground.
Rodgers completed 28 passes on 38 attempts for the Packers, and all of his team's touchdowns came courtesy of his arm. He also had 60 yards rushing on the ground, a season-high.


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With 180 performances and counting scheduled to take place Saturday and Sunday on 26 stages along two miles of Adams Avenue, the first Adams Avenue Unplugged festival is poised to make a big splash.
The lineup includes an array of San Diego's top performers, from blues patriarch Tomcat Courtney and country troubadour Sara petite to singer-songwriters Jack Tempchin, Gregory Page, Jeff Berkley and dozens more. Film star John C. Reilly will also perform, not as an actor but as a guitar-strumming folkie.
Who's playing when? Good question!
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Discussion in 'Tier Lists' started by Hero101, Oct 6, 2006.
What makes Baraka so good in MKT?
He can crash the game whenever he wants to. Now THAT's a powerful special move.
+1! But i think it only works near or in corners.
Funny lol
But seriously, what makes him so good?
Yeah I'm pretty sure the crashes are corner only.
It's been a long time since I played MKT but I think a big part of Baraka's threat is that his blade spin has very little startup, very little recovery, it lifts them off the ground so you can do two consecutive spins midscreen for a big chunk of damage, and then get another hit afterwards (standing HK? Uppercut maybe?).
And even if you flub the timing of the spin, he can move around so quickly while spinning that he can still avoid counter attacks.
EDIT: And the range! The spin has so much range even just a few frames after startup.
The Blade Spin is like combining Gief's movable Lariat with Kung Lao's spin on some level. It's pretty ridiculous that he can move around while doing it and it stops pretty quickly. The MKII damage, plus the fact that he has an easy 60% combo off one Blade Spin, be it an anti air, ground counter, punisher, what have you. Plus he's got his MKII normals, so a bastardly JP and JK, fast sweep, wicked Roundhouse, the no block release needed Blade Swipe, which also works from down+back+block and cancels jabs.
He's inarguably top 10, I would say most people familiar with MKT would say he's very well top 5. His ground combos are weak, it's sort of like Kitana where she only has the low damage 4 hitters, but Baraka can add some damage with his sweep after the HK, HK, B+HP, F+HP combo, which is most useful for zoning and I believe he can do it to anyone except Shang. It's a good range landing so if they jump back it's a Blade Spark, if they jump forward it's a Blade Spin, or Blade Fury if you're old school!
Of course he has the corner infinite which is easy as pie to attempt after a Blade Spin but not as easy to complete. I would go as far as to ban using two Blade Spins in the corner in tournaments because it's a game breaking glitch an easy to reproduce, but I wouldn't ban Baraka over it because it's corner only and it's 100% possible to prevent from doing by accident. I think it only happens if second Blade Spin connects when the opponent is as high as they can be in the air. The higher they are, the easier it is to get at least 100% out of his inf before the chance to lose them.
In the corner: Blade Spin, Blade Spin, aaHP, Blade Swipe, aaHP, Blade Swipe, Blade Fury = 100%.
Free Blade Fury after corner combos = perfect push back for Blade Spin aa counters. It's a nightmare of zoning fear vs Baraka and his mega easy damage.
Mid Screen: grounded Blade Spin, Blade Spin, JK = 54%, or RH = 59% 3 hits vs Human Smoke's 10 hits to achieve the same damage, so an aaBlade Spin = huge damage even mid screen with aaBS, BS, aaHP, RH for 66%, or simple BS BS uppercut for 62%. Basically anywhere on screen a blocked teleport punch vs Baraka = virtually game over with a fairly easy 67% punisher and with a little effort 72% for aaBS, BS, Run in aaHPHP, RH
Ouch, thank you Shock for elaborating.
I will have to play around with him.
Yeah he is a beast to use. I don't understand how the blade spin ended up being that fast and that powerful. Combined with MK2 level damage it's just ridiculous.
It seems like a move begging to 1 hit limit and damage protection.
Damn, that's insane. Last night night I was playing MKT for N64 w/ AC1984 and nodoubt, but none of us really know Raiden, Johnny Cage and Baraka too well. Is the PSX and N64 versions of those characters much different? Do we have character profiles for those 3 w/ move lists, juggles, - the whole 9? That's one thing I failed to really find ...aside from the post Shock just made, very in depth character forum of the lesser-known/used additions like you guys have for UMK3. Can I have some help, Fellaz?
I seem to be pretty decent w/ Raiden (N64), but I would really like to learn him 100% as much as possible, and then also screw around w/ some of this Baraka stuff aforementioned.
I had planned on making some kind of MKT guides for character based on what I know and then add things in from other players. Perhaps I will this weekend if I have time.
Some downsides to Baraka, at times the no block Blade Swipe can actually be a nuisance even though it is useful inherently, and also it's actually possible to easily miss the Blade Spin on counters because the timing of the start up doesn't coincide with the actual animation. It's actually possible to jump in and out of the Blade Spin somehow and even possible to combo Baraka in the middle of the Blade Spin animation because the collision alternates both sides very quickly as you tap block. The Blade Spark has a very fast knock down to it and little recovery for your opponent so the move itself can be a risk even to hit. I'll list some more stuff later and maybe work on a comprehensive MKT Baraka strategy guide tomorrow. In N64 MKT btw, Baraka has a 5 hit combo, HK, HK, HP, B+HP, F+HP, which for some reason he doesn't have on PSX and so far as I can tell he cannot combo sweeps or much of anything after it.
You should just do what you did to UMK3 tier list to PSX and N64. Just make a consenus about the way people rated on who top who mid tier or who bottom tier.


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A sub-menu contains additional functions. In PC usage, the colour temperature can only be changed to two levels ("6500K", "9300K") and in video mode, it can be adjusted to three levels ("Cold", "Medium", "Warm"). Fortunately, there are three RGB- contrast regulators (in many devices, these are referred to as RGB Gain regulators or are simply labelled "Red", "Green" and "Blue"), which allow the user to set the values. The screen gamma can be set to one of three levels ("Low", "Medium", "High"). Other functions only affect video signals. We will look at these in more detail in the "Video signal processing" section.
Here, the user can access a rudimentary equaliser, establish the output format for the toslink output (Dolby Digital and PCM) and mute the integrated speakers.
The integrated clock can be set via this menu option. In addition, the user can define on and off times and activate a short-term sleep timer.
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It's been nearly two years since Nancy Ann Howard was shot in the face at her Carrollton home. Now, the man police believe was linked to her attempted murder faces trial this week.
Jury selection is set to begin Monday for John Franklin Howard on a charge of attempted capital murder. The Ponder man is accused of planning his wife's death over the course of at least three years while shelling out thousands of dollars to hire a hit man, according to Carrollton police investigators.
First Assistant District Attorney Jamie Beck, one of three lead prosecutors in the case, said the Denton County district attorney's office will be going forward with only this one indictment so his sentences can be stacked instead of served concurrently if found guilty.
John Howard, formerly a Carrollton-based accountant, was charged in connection with the shooting with six counts of solicitation to commit capital murder by terroristic threat, one count of attempt to commit capital murder and one count of conspiracy to commit capital murder.
On Aug. 18, 2012, Carrollton police were dispatched to the 1500 block of Bluebonnet Way after Nancy Howard was shot in the face in her garage, a Carrollton police arrest affidavit states.
Nancy Howard told police she was confronted by a white man in his early 20s in the garage of the Howards' Carrollton home, police documents show. She said he put a silver-colored handgun to her head and demanded her purse. She gave the man her purse and then was shot in the face, according to police records.
Police say Nancy Howard, John Howard's wife of nearly 30 years, suffered serious injuries as a result of the gunshot wound, including the loss of her left eye.
John Howard was expected to face trial in March, but 362nd District Court Judge Bruce McFarling granted a 90-day continuance after John B. Minor, a communications consultant for the defense, requested additional time to review digital forensic evidence that will be introduced during the trial.
Defense attorney Jerry Cobb said in an interview Friday that the defense has had time to review all 104 discs given to them by the state. He said he expects a hearing before jury selection Monday morning on some of the obtained phone records.
"If the records are ruled inadmissible, it will not affect our ability to move forward," Cobb said. "It will be up to the state if they want to move forward."
Cobb said that he had been involved in the case since early on and that it had been time consuming.
"We are looking forward to our day in court," he said.
Prosecutor Beck said the state has 70 witnesses to call. The trial is expected to last about three weeks, she said.
"It has been almost two years to the date of Nancy Howard's shooting," she said. "We look forward to getting a jury seated."


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It only happens with cs files. I installed the Language Css package, maybe a bug in that?
Do you mean CSS files? Or CSharp files?
CSharp files (.cs extension).
For some reason the editor will autodetect spaces/tabs in each file, and that overrides the preference setting. It will switch to inserting spaces for a file where any line begins with any number of spaces. This happened to me with a file that contained multiline comments with lines beginning with a space and asterisk. It is very annoying.
I agree.
I find it unacceptable, and have had to stop using atom until I can turn it off.
If you want to force it to use your soft tabs setting, you can make a change in /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/text-buffer/lib/text-buffer.js.In TextBuffer.prototype.usesSoftTabs on line 825, just add a return false; at the start of the function.
return false;
Unfortunately this will break when Atom updates.
I filed an issue here:
Perhaps you could submit a pull request for the Text Buffer package?
Rather than just returning false, we should probably look to see the if the user is using softTabs. As a result I think the following would be a more appropriate fix than simply returning false.
TextBuffer.prototype.usesSoftTabs = function() {
if (!atom.config.get('editor.softTabs')) { return false; }
var match, row, _i, _ref1;
or in CoffeeScript
return false unless atom.config.get("editor.softTabs")
Updated: Pull Request at https://github.com/atom/text-buffer/pull/12
This also seems to be the case in javascript files. Related?
Happens in PHP, HTML, as well as mixed HTML/PHP. It probably happens in most syntax modes to be quite honest. It's a maddening bug.
So is there a work around or solution to this? Maybe something in the config.cson or init.coffee?
@GameGamer43couldn't we put this in the init.coffee file?
@middle8media I haven't tested this at all, but if you wanted to do this in the init.coffee file, you would add the following:
editor = atom.workspace.getActiveEditor()
editor.buffer.usesSoftTabs = ->
return false unless atom.config.get("editor.softTabs")
for row in [0..@getLastRow()]
if match = @lineForRow(row).match(/^\s/)
return match[0][0] != '\t'
Regarding the pull request that was denied due to use of the atom global - couldn't the issue therefore be solved in one of two ways:
The 'uses soft tabs' setting is passed to TextBuffer as a constructor parameter or a setter-like method. This way we don't rely on the atom global, only the fact that TextBuffer should care about soft tabs or not.
The code that actually calls TextBuffer::usesSoftTabs() needs to have the code from the PR so the reliance on the atom global is no longer in TextBuffer but in whatever calls it. If whatever calls it is also in the atom/text-buffer package, then maybe whatever calls that and so on up the chain till it's the atom/atom package. Obviously it could be the case that that won't work as it's all done in atom/text-buffer but if that's the case then surely it needs to know about the soft tabs preference anyway so has it stored somewhere passed in from atom's core. Anyway, I'm not sure how easy it is to tell what actually calls TextBuffer::usesSoftTabs() (I tried setting a breakpoint and then opening a file and it didn't stop so I'm out of ideas) so can't tell how viable this solution is.
Just a couple of ideas, anyway.
Just putting in another vote here that a fix for this is needed. As far as I'm concerned, it's a bug that makes disabling the "soft tabs" option a bit of a farce.
Please, another vote to fix this. It's an incredible pain point when editing C# files here.
I'm pretty sure this was fixed: https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/2045
It works perfectly for me now.
I'm using the latest public released version am seeing the behavior still (and the usesSoftTabs hack isn't working now).
The new work around involves editing:
and hacking Editor.prototype.usesSoftTabs = function() {
to return false.
Could we get a "Really never use soft tab option?"


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NEW YORK — No. 1 Auburn will have an All-American anchoring each side of the ball when the Tigers play for the national championship.
Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton and defensive tackle Nick Fairley were voted to The Associated Press All-America team along with Oregon running back LaMichael James, who will face Auburn in the BCS title game in Glendale, Ariz., Jan. 10.
Auburn is one of five teams with two players on the first team.
Wisconsin had two players from its excellent offensive line: Outland Trophy winning tackle Gabe Carimi and guard John Moffitt.
Oklahoma State, with the nation's No. 1 offense, placed wide receiver Justin Blackmon and running back Kendall Hunter on the first team. Rival Oklahoma, which edged out the Cowboys for the Big 12 South title, had receiver Ryan Broyles and safety Quinton Carter on the team.
But no team had two more dominant players this season than Auburn.
Newton, in his first season with the Tigers after transferring from junior college, became the first quarterback in Southeastern Conference history to reach 2,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing in the same season. He also accounted for 49 touchdowns (28 passing, 20 rushing and one receiving).
"We knew and understood he was talented, but we didn't realize he could do things on his own that a defense just can't account for,'' Auburn coach Gene Chizik said.
Newton was practically unstoppable and Fairley was nearly unblockable.
The 295-pound junior led Auburn with 10 1/2 sacks and 21 tackles for loss, blossoming into one of the best defensive tackles into the country after starting just two games in 2009.
No. 2 Oregon was represented on the first team by James, who led the nation in rushing at 153 yards per game and finished third in the Heisman voting.
Heisman runner-up Andrew Luck of Stanford was the second-team quarterback, finishing behind Newton again. Kellen Moore of Boise State, the other Heisman finalist, was the third-team quarterback for the second straight year.


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Psy Performs 'Gangnam Style' In Gangnam For The First Time To Celebrate World Cup 2014Psy has performed "Gangnam Style" all over the world. Well, everywhere except South Korea's Gangnam district, which was the inspiration for the track. That is until today (June 18).
'Gangnam Style' Tops 2 Billion Views as Psy Plots Snoop Dogg-Assisted Return"Gangnam Style" is the first music video to hit the 2 billion mark on YouTube.
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Ivy Bridge-E: Intel Core i7-4960X Processor Review
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CineBench 11.5
This rendering benchmark based off of the Cinema 4D engine is a terrific indicator for multi-threaded processing.
POV-Ray 3.7
POV-Ray has long been the poster child for multi-threaded processing and rendering.
POV-Ray continues the exhibition of multi-threaded performance advantages for the 6-core Core i7-4960X, showing an 18% advantage over the top Haswell SKU.
Euler 3D Fluid Dynamics
This fluid dynamics simulation is very CPU and memory intensive. From the benchmark source website:
The benchmark testcase is the AGARD 445.6 aeroelastic test wing. The wing uses a NACA 65A004 airfoil section and has a panel aspect ratio of 1.65, a taper ratio of 0.66, and a 45 degree quarter-chord sweep angle. This AGARD wing was tested at the NASA Langley Research Center in the 16-foot Transonic Dynamics Tunnel and is a standard aeroelastic test case used for validation of unsteady, compressible CFD codes. Figure 1 shows the CFD predicted Mach contours for a freestream Mach number of 0.960.
The benchmark CFD grid contains 1.23 million tetrahedral elements and 223 thousand nodes. The benchmark executable advances the Mach 0.50 AGARD flow solution. Our benchmark score is reported as a CFD cycle frequency in Hertz.
"...a set of three of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITANs. At $999 MSRP, the TITAN is the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market and running three of them in SLI gives us a total of 18GB of graphics memory (!!)."
No it doesn't. VRAM is mirrored in SLI/CF. Therefore, three Titans still effectively have 6GB of VRAM.
IF your a average gamer ....don't bother.
Love one but just cannot get over the price.
Not to be fanboy ish but shouldn't gamers be moving to 8 core
AMD. I know intel is faster, but two years down the road into xBONE and PS4 life cycle it might just be an advantage.
8 Core is great, but from what I've heard, most games aren't well optimized for 8 cores.
Hence why most gamers used to recommend the 2 core CPU (Duo/Dual). Now, 4 cores is preferred. Eventually, most games will be optimized for 8 cores. I do recall seeing some new games that when it detect additional cores, it will utilize them.
However, note that more cores means lower clock-speed (Ghz) per core. So if you can't use those additional cores, performance is decreased.
As for other usages such as high computing task, 8 cores are recommended (e.i. Adobe software).
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I'm sure none of the reviewers have wanted to do this, for obvious reasons, and we probably won't know till more are in the wild, but I'd love to know if these have soldered IHSs or if I need to continue my tradition of de-lidding these things. It will influence my decision to a reasonable degree. I haven't seen mention of this on any of the reviews so far.
I've seen it somewhere.. Ivy-E is soldered to the IHS.
Any plans to test PCI Express 2.0 vs 3.0 on the "E" platforms?
There just isn't the single threaded IPC gains that we need for anybody to justify an upgrade from Sandy Bridge onwards. There's also no gains in overclocking headroom either, which makes the processor a pretty lackluster offering over the last generation from Intel.
What's up with the slow memory latency of the 4960X? Does having 4 memory channels affect the latency?
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Here's the top-level Daily Chart with key level highlighted:
Cutting straight to the point, the Key Inflection Level is 1,410 which reflects the confluence of the following:
- Falling 50d EMA (1,408)
- Price Polarity Level (Highlighted near 1,410)
- 50% Fibonacci Retracement (1,409)
There are of course other factors that align at the 1,410 index level but we'll focus on these three.
In trends, the 50 EMA tends to be a "Line in the Sand" that holds as price retraces to this level. Breakthroughs beyond the 50 EMA tend to signal potential trend reversals, not continuation. GET A FREE TREND ANALYSIS FOR ANY STOCK HERE!
For reference, the Short-Term (Daily) Trend is DOWN as evidenced by the series of lower highs/lower lows and the bearish moving average orientation (20 under the 50).
When referring to "Price Polarity," it refers to the longstanding charting principle:
"Prior Support Often becomes Future Resistance."
The highlighted line reflects the "Polarity" of both Support and Resistance at 1,410 where price trades now.
Finally, we have the 50% Fibonacci Retracement as drawn on the Hourly Chart:
From the September high of 1,474 to the recent November low at 1,434, we observe the 50% half-way point intersects at 1,409.
This post is intended to be a quick overview of three factors that highlight the importance of the 1,410 level.
Logic would suggest that price retrace lower from this level but as traders, we must be able to adapt in real time IF instead buyers continue to push the market above 1,410 on this upward swing. GET A FREE TREND ANALYSIS FOR ANY STOCK HERE!
An inflection point gives us a roadmap for planning our short-term strategies according to what actually happens in real time.
A "logical" expectation would be for price to stall and trade lower from here (bearish intraday/swing trades if so toward 1,390 at least).
An "alternate" outcome would be that price instead breaks firmly above the 1,410 inflection/pivot level which would likely result in a new wave of buying pressure (especially from short-sellers who entered short into this level and are forced to buy-back to cover).
A breakthrough above 1,410 would not just trigger buy-to-cover orders from the bears; in addition, sidelined bulls could step back into the market with fresh breakout buy orders along with other traders adding to existing positions for a breakout opportunity.
Continue watching this level throughout the day and the remainder of the week and adapt accordingly.
Related: Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI), S&P 500 Index (INDEXSP:.INX), SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:SPY), Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEARCA:DIA).
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That's cool - I've gotten the same thing with my mixed print diachroic glass pendant and bracelet. Admittedly, I've been wearing my jewelry with solids and jeans, but still - the compliments are quite nice.Originally Posted by Babbred;4094361;
There is something new and trendy coming out with the mixed prints thing - Mondo has started a new trend I think, even if it's not necessarily his clothes line, but just the idea of using mixed prints and solids to get a lovely set of clothes.
I've yet to see - at least my neck of the woods, anyone who's following Gretchen's style, and I live where southwest and western attire is the norm.


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Dukes of
Earls of
from the Clinton/Fiennes family
Part 1
John de Clinton, summoned 1299 as Lord Clinton (d.1310), m.ca 1290 Ida d'Odingsells, and had issue:
1a) John, 2nd Lord Clinton (ca 1300-ca 1335); m.Margery Corbet
1b) John, 3rd Lord Clinton (d.6 Sep 1398); m.1st ca 1350 Idoine de Say; m.2nd NN; m.3rd Joan, Lady Limbury; m.4th Elizabeth, widowed Lady Grey and Lady Bermingham, née de la Plaunche (d.1423)
1c) [by 1st m.] Sir William (d.25 Oct 1383); m.Elizabeth Deincourt
1d) William, 4th Lord Clinton (d.1431); m.1st Anne Trivett [who was granddaghter of Joan, 3rd wife of the 3rd Lord by an earlier marriage]; m.2nd 1409 Alice FitzWarin, née Botreaux (d.17 Oct 1420); m.3rd Mary, Lady Retford (d.2 Feb 1459)
1e) [by 1st m.] Sir William
2e) John, 5th Lord Clinton (1410-24 Sep 1464); m.1st NN; m.2nd Margaret St.Leger (d.1 Feb 1496)
1f) John, 6th Lord
1g) John, sometimes surnamed Fiennes, 7th Lord Clinton (d.4 Jun 1514); m.1st Elizabeth Morgan; m.2nd Anne N
1h) [by 1st m.] Thomas, 8th Lord Clinton (d.7 Aug 1517); m.Joan Poynings
1i) Edward, 9th Lord Clinton, cr 1572 Earl of Lincoln (1512-London 16 Jan 1585); m.1st ca 1531 Elizabeth, Lady Tailboys, née Blount, mistress to King Henry VIII; m.2nd Ursula Stourton (d.4 Sep 1551); m.3rd Sempringham 1552 Lady Elizabeth Browne, née Fitzgerald (Maynooth ca 1528-Mar 1590); he had at least two daughters by 1st m. and one by 2nd m. besides the ones listed below
1j) [by 1st
m.] Catherine (d.1621); m.William
Burgh, 4th Lord Burgh (d.Lambeth
2j) [by 2nd
3j) [by 2nd
m.] Henry, 2nd Earl of
2c) [by 2nd m.] Sir Thomas
1d) Anne; m.Sir Robert Frauncys
3c) [by 2nd m.] Edward
2a) William, summoned 1330 as Lord Clinton, cr 1337 Earl of Huntingdon (d.25 Aug 1354); m.Juliane, Lady Blount, and also widowed Lady Hastings, née Leyburne (d.1367)
Part 2
Henry Clinton [or, Fiennes], 2nd Earl of
Lincoln and 10th Lord Clinton (d.Sempringham
1a) [by 1st m.]
Thomas, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, etc (d.Tattershall
1b) Theophilus,
4th Earl of
1c) Edward, Lord Clinton (1624-London 1657); m.by 1652 Lady Anne Holles (d.London Oct 1707)
1d) Edward, 5th Earl
2c) Katherine (d.1643); m.30
Nov 1639 George Booth [later, Lord Delamere] (
3c) Arabella; m.Robert Rolle, of Heanton Satchville (d.1663)
1d) Samuel Rolle, of Heanton (1646-Oct 1719); m.Margaret Tuckfield
1e) Margaret Rolle, sole
heir after
1f) George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, 16th Lord Clinton (
2d) Bridget Rolle (d.28 Aug 1721); m.23 Jul 1672 Francis Trefusis, of Trefusis (d.Nov 1680); their great-greatgrandson succeeded as 17th Lord Clinton in 1791
4c) Margaret (d.1688); m.Hugh Boscawen, of Tregothnan (d.1701)
1d) Bridget Boscawen; m.Hugh Fortescue (d.1719)
1e) Hugh Fortescue, for whom the abeyance was terminated in 1721, 14th Lord Clinton, cr 1749 Earl Clinton (d.2 May 1751)
2e) Margaret Fortescue (d.14 Nov 1760)
3b) Arabella
4b) Susan; m.John
Humphrey; they emigrated to
5b) Dorcas
6b) Sara
2a) [by 1st m.] Sir Edward; m.Mary Dighton
1b) Francis; m.Priscilla Hill
1c) Francis, 6th
Earl of
1d) Francis (d.young)
2d) Henry, 7th Earl
1e) George, 8th Earl
2e) HENRY Fiennes, changed
surname to Pelham-Clinton, 9th Earl of
1f) George, styled
[incorrectly?] Lord Clinton (
2f) Henry Fiennes, Earl of
1g) Catherine (
2g) Henry, Earl of
3f) THOMAS, 3rd Duke
1g) HENRY Pelham, 4th
Duke of
1h) HENRY Pelham, 5th
Duke of
1i) HENRY Pelham Alexander, 6th
Duke of Newcastle, 13th Earl of Lincoln, etc (
1j) Beatrice Adeline (London 12
Feb 1862-16 Jun 1935); m.London
2j) Emily Augusta Mary (
3j) HENRY Pelham Archibald
Douglas, 7th Duke of Newcastle, 14th Earl of Lincoln, etc
(London 28 Sep 1864- London 30 May 1928); m.London
4j) Henry FRANCIS Hope, changed surname to Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 8th Duke of Newcastle, 15th Earl of Lincoln, etc (Clumber Park 3 Feb 1866-Clumber Park 20 Apr 1941); m.1st London 27 Nov 1894 (div 1902) Mary Augusta Yohé (6 Apr 1869-Boston, Massachusetts 27 Aug 1938); m.2nd Melbourne, Australia 27 Feb 1904 Olive Muriel Thompson (Melbourne 18__-Montreux 30 Aug 1912)
1k) HENRY Edward Hugh, 9th Duke of Newcastle, 16th Earl of Lincoln, etc (London 8 Apr 1907-4 Nov 1988); m.1st New York 23 Mar 1931 (div 1940) Jean van Vorhees Banks (d.2 Sep 1968); m.2nd Caxton Hall Register Office, London 30 Nov 1946 (div 1959) Lady Mary Diana Montagu-Stuart-Wortley (2 Jun 1920-Cortington Manor, Warminster, Wilts 19 Sep 1997); m.3rd Runaway Bay, Jamaica 23 Oct 1959 Mrs Sally Ann Hope, née Anstice (d.9 Jul 2015)
1l) Patricia (b.Salisbury,
2l) Kathleen Marie Gabrielle
(London 1 Jan 1951-Adare, Limerick 1 May 2016); m.1st
2k) Doria
Louis (London 17 Jun 1908-Windsor 26 Sep 1942); m.1st
3k) Mary (London 4 Jul 1910-27
Jun 1982); m.1st
2i) Sir Edward William (
3i) Susan Charlotte Catherine
(1839-6 Sep 1875); m.23 Apr 1860 Lord Adolphus
Vane-Tempest (
4i) Arthur (
5i) Albert Sidney (
2h) Charles Pelham (London 3
Dec 1813-Moor Court, Stroud 15 Dec 1894); m.London
1i) Emily Dora (d.30 Sep 1921);
m.9 Feb 1881 Sir George William Hervey (
2i) Adela
Harriett (d.21 May 1915); m.1st
3i) Edith Elizabeth (d.11 May 1859)
4i) Charles Stapleton (Aynho, Northants 23 Jul
1857-Woodrow High House 22 Oct 1911); m.New
5i) Henry William (Brussels 21
Oct 1860-London 18 Dec 1927); m.London
1j) Kathleen Lettica Mary (London 15 Aug 1887-London 19 Apr 1946)
2j) Henry Charles Frederick
(London 6 Sep 1892-8 Jun 1968); m.London
1k) Ethne
Mary (b.London
3j) Guy Edward (London 11 Apr
1894-18 Dec 1934); m.London
1k) EDWARD Charles, 10th
Duke of
2k) Alastair Henry (London 29 Mar 1923-k.a.24 May 1943)
6i) Hubert Edward (London 30
Mar 1862-Rolleston 29 Aug 1913); m.1st
1j) Marjorie (1910-2005); m.1940 Edward Date Long (d.1982)
2j) Georgiana
3h) Thomas (
4h) Caroline (
5h) Robert (
6h) Henrietta (d.19 Aug 1890); m.1 Mar 1859 Adm Edwin Clayton D'Eyncourt (d.4 Jan 1903)
2g) Thomas (d.8 Oct 1804)
3g) Anna Maria (
4f) John (d.1781)
3e) Lucy (1721-1763)
3d) George (d.10 Jul 1761); m.Anne Carle (d.5 Aug 1761)
1e) Sir Henry (d.13 Dec 1795); m.Feb 1767 Harriet Carter (d.29 Aug 1772)
1f) Sir William Henry (
1g) Henry (
1h) Henry (
1h) Henry Renebald (23 Mar 1841-1916)
2h) Lucy Dorothy Clinton (1843- ); m.9 Jul 1872 George Selwyn Marryat (d.1896)
3h) Walter Francis (
4h) William Osbert
1i) Frances Eleanor (
2i) Walter Laurence (
3g) Anna Maria (d.6 Nov 1880); m.28 Apr 1855 Robert Pigot (d.9 Jan 1873)
2f) Sir Henry (d.11 Dec 1829); m.23 Dec 1799 Hon Susan Charteris (d.17 Aug 1816)
4f) Harriet; m.Harry
2e) Mary; m.Sir Francis Willes
3e) Lucy Mary (d.1750); m.Robert Roddam
4d) Susannah; m.Robert Booth
2c) Priscilla; m.Sir Willoughby D'Ewes, of Stowlangtoft Hall, 2nd Bt. (d.13 Jun 1685)
4a) [by 2nd m.]
Sir Henry (1587-1641); m.1st Eleanor Harrington; m.2nd
1b) Henry
1c) Catherine; m.1674 Daniel Disney (d.29 Aug 1734)
2b) Harrington
3b) Norreys "Fynes" (d.1693); m.Margaret Raines
1c) Norreys (1651-1736); m.1685 Elizabeth Kendall
1e) Norreys (1720-1764); m.1741 Martha Thompson
1f) Rev. Charles "Fynes-Clinton" (1748-13 Nov 1827); m.15 Jul 1779 Emma Brough (d.15 Aug 1881)
1g) Henry (
1h) Anne Emma Katherine (d.2
May 1894); m.4 Oct 1838 William Robert Baker, of Bayfordbury
2h) Anna Maria Isabella (d.11
Mar 1848); m.13 Aug 1839 Thomas Gambier-Parry, of
3h) Louisa Emma Mary (d.11 Jan 1865); m.23 Aug 1853 Rev T W Weare (d.24 Feb 1871)
4h) Margaretta (d.2 May 1893); m.14 Apr 1852 Rev J R P Hoste
5h) Agnes (d.6 Mar 1872); m.26
Nov 1846 Hon Richard Godolphin Henry Hastings (
6h) Ida; m.1st
1h) Henry (
1i) Eleanor Katherine; m.15 Oct 1872 Rev Seymour Bentley (d.1918)
2i) Henry Glynne
3i) Charles Edward (24 Jul 1855-11 Jan 1888); m.5 Apr 1885 Alice Gertrude Waring (d.1917)
1j) Edward Henry (
1k) Edward Horace, 18th
Earl of
1l) Patricia Ruth (b.1 Feb 1941); m.27 Jan 1959 (div 1970) Alexander George Stuart Elrick (d.1979)
2l) Edward Gordon (7 Feb 1943-1999); m.12 Dec 1970 Julia Eleanor Howson
1m) ROBERT Edward, 19th
Earl of
2m) Marian Dawn (b.3 Jul 1973); m.1998 Brendan Kenneth Carruthers
3m) William Roy, took name William James Howson (b.1980); m.1999 Rebecca Danielle Hazell
1n) Jordan Ryder (b.11 Oct 2004)
2k) Gilbert Henry (b.21 May 1914)
4i) Clement Walter (
1j) Henry (1885-19__); m.26 Sep 1924 Catherine Thomason
1k) Henry Bernard (
1l) Gregory Edward (b.1970); m.1994 Sharon Quammie
1m) Kayleigh Roxanne (b.2003)
2l) Richard James (b.1972)
2j) Lucy Eleanor Clement (1886-19__)
5i) Ida Mary (d.Dec 1932); m.31 Dec 1878 Anthony Swainson Allen (d.13 Feb 1923)
7i) Susan Charlotte Catherine (d.26 Feb 1936); m.7 Aug 1884 Alfred Temple Roberts (d.1911)
8i) Madeline Isabella (d.10 May 1952); m.20 Aug 1889 Cecil Warburton Knox
9i) Adela Rahcel (d.1942); m.23 Jul 1891 Henry Mitchell Hull (d.3 Oct 1946)
2h) Mary Katherine (d.15 Dec 1873); m.12 Dec 1855 Thomas Knox (d.29 Oct 1878)
3g) Charles John (
1h) Dormer (
2h) Caroline (d.27 Sep 1919); m.15 Sep 1859 James Wilson Holme (d.1920)
3h) Anna Rosa (d.1855)
4h) Charles Henry (
1i) [by 1st m.] Idonea (d.3 Dec 1881)
2i) Henry Joy (
3i) Charles Pelham (
4i) Mary Gordon (d.4 Feb 1953)
5i) Ida Norah Katherine; m.1st
5h) Osbert
1i) Charles Edward (
1j) Mary (
2j) Quenilda Margaret (b.12 Oct 1905)
3j) Eleanor Lloyd (b.4 Aug 1907)
4j) Charles John (b.13 Oct 1909); m.Mar 1943 Martha Mannes
5j) Hugh Arthur (
1k) Rozanne Jean (b.5 Oct 1946)
2k) Oliver John (b.2 Aug 1948); m.1978 Christine Elizabeth Brittaine
1l) Francis Bernard Peter (1979-2000)
2l) Laura Emily (b.1984)
2i) Osbert
Hendry (
1j) David Osbert
1k) Michael Peter (b.25 May 1949); m.1st 1973 (div 1978) Paula Valerie Neuss (d.1988); m.2nd 1989 Annette Barbara Pugh-Williams
3i) Edith (d.ca 1940); m.7 Nov 1899 Charles Frederick Brenan (d.8 Mar 1927)
4i) Ethel Rosa (d.29 Jan 1951); m.14 Sep 1899 Frederick Alsop Eyre (d.30 Jan 1939)
5i) Mabel (d.22 Jun 1918); m.3 Jun 1897 John Frederick Binyon (d.4 Feb 1936)
6i) Arthur (25 Feb 1878-21 May 1961); m.14 Jan 1913 Louisa Caroline Hughes (d.1961)
7i) Robert (7 Oct 1879-28 Mar 1962); m.27 Jun 1907 Margaret Emma Phillips (d.1949)
1j) Pelham (
1k) Margaret Julia (b.25 May 1949); m.1st 1982 (div 1984) Michael Howell Evans; m.2nd 1993 (div 1999) James Robert Catto
8i) Hilda Mary (d.1 Sep 1932); m.23 Sep 1908 Arthur David Phillips (d.18 Aug 1932)
9i) Muriel Agnes; m.26 Jul 1938 Herbert Septimus Phillips (d.23 Mar 1961)
6h) John (
1i) Rose Eleanor (d.1921); m.Frank Swan
7h) Eustace (4 Jul1845-11 Jan 1928); m.1 Jan 1879 Louisa Richenda Cunningham (d.9 Jul 1933)
1i) Margaret Alice (d.4 Jan 1970); m.9 Nov 1907 Ernest Norman Travers Cummins (d.1953)
2i) Eleanor Mabel
3i) Katharine
4i) Rosalind Mary (28 Jul 1890-23 Aug 1989)
8h) Geoffrey (
1i) Bertha (d.1966)
2i) Rosalind Margaret; m.1906 Samuel Tarratt Nevill, Primate of New Zealand (d.29 Oct 1921)
3i) Geoffrey de Berdt Granger (
1j) Geoffrey Noel (
2j) Philip Neville (22 Jun 1908-25 Jan 1996); m.24 Dec 1931 Isobel Maud Wilks (d.1995)
1k) Geoffrey William Norreys (
1l) Stephen Philip (b.1960); m.1994 Sarah Burgess
2l) Matthew James (b.1963); m.1988 Jane Williams
1m) Alexander Geoffrey (b.1991)
2m) Kate Margaret (b.1992)
3m) Amelia Jane (b.1994)
3l) Timothy Pelham (b.1965); m.1998 Alison Sheppard
1m) Simon Vincent Pelham (b.2000)
2m) Phillip Timothy Francis (b.2002)
4l) Emma Mary (b.1968)
2k) Arthur Nevill (b.21 Jul 1934); m.1956 Jacqueline Baker
1l) Jamie (b.1957); m.1987 Elizabeth Jean Morgan
1m) Ben Thomas (b.1988)
2m) Tegan Jane (b.1990)
2l) Alan (b.1958); m.2003 Jeanne Jenkinson
3l) Neil (b.1962); m.1992 Janeece Wilson
1m) Sophie Frances (b.1994)
2m) Marissa Kate (b.1997)
3j) Pelham Osbert
Granger (
4i) Maud Marion (1880-1947)
5i) Mabel Fanny (1881-19__);
m.1905 Alfred Hillier
6i) Irene; m.19 Jul 1911 Herbert Charles Stevens (d.1957)
9h) Emma (d.9 Mar 1926); m.31 Jan 1871 Herbert Alfred Holme (d.1920)
10h) Bertha (d.20 Apr 1927); m.14 Jun 1865 Trueman Tully Falkner (d.1876)
11h) Arthur Norreys
12h) Rosabela Paulina (d.16 Sep 1918)
4g) Caroline Frances; m.13 Sep 1814 James Webber, Dean of Ripon (d.3 Sep 1847)
4b) Elizabeth; m.Sir Michael Livesey, Bt. (d.165_)
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Starting with the importation of Turk, Barb, and Arab, also known as Oriental stallions in the mid 17th century, we can begin to track the origins of the modern Thoroughbred racehorse. English nobles wished to increase the endurance of their swift Hobby, known to be very fast upwards of 600 yards. Cross breeding some 100 Oriental stallions to Hobby mares produced horses that could carry unusually high amounts of speed over long distances. The desire for such a horse can be rooted to Charles II who created the King's Plate, a 4-mile race restricted to 6 year old horses, in the year 1665.
This new cross of Oriental stallion and Hobby mare created
the first known thoroughbreds. The best performing
of these offspring were then inbred to each other creating its own distinct
breed, or as we know it, the Thoroughbred.
To track this new breed and the success of the bloodlines the General
Stub Book (1791) was created.
Thoroughbred. Thorough bred.
Thoroughly bred. The sheer name
of the breed suggests nobility. The sons
and daughters were planned with the intent to carry on a lineage that will
better the breed. This morning, I landed
from a business trip to find that I'll Have Another, the winner of this year's
Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, was sold to a Japanese stud. Like some of his predecessors, Sunday Silence, Charismatic, and Empire Maker, the Japanese breeders had a larger
desire to carry their bloodlines than those of the champions' birthplace.
As disappointing as this is to a US racing fan, it is
something that we have been doing with this breed for hundreds of years. Now Japan is just trying to find new Stallions
to mix with their mares, just like their English counterparts did nearly 400
years ago. But in today's racing age, does
this put the Japanese ahead of, or behind the respective "breeding curve?"
Some people will say the USA lost a potential great
stallion. Some will say the Japanese
took a huge financial risk on an unproven stallion. I will say that the Japanese are just
looking to create a "new breed." How
often do international horse racing debates begin with "the US Thoroughbred" is
not designed to compete in the types of races run in Europe? Or we could equally argue the inverse in that
"the European Thoroughbred" cannot compete well in US style races (I'm referring
to dirt). I look at both of these
arguments and say they are both right, and both wrong. Thinking on it, we have just created 2
different breeds of horse. One is bred
for breathtaking speed on dirt and to excel as a juvenile. The other desires to have greater endurance, an
explosive turn of foot, and a love for deep, heavy turf.
So where do the Japanese fit into this? They import classy European mares, and swift
US stallions. The result, aside from a grumpy population of racing fans confused why owners
are "selling out" their superstars for top dollar, are fantastic Japanese racehorses. I believe the Japanese are either inadvertently or intentionally doing what the whole world should be doing.
They are looking ahead, trying to better the breed, and create a horse
worthy of their ancestors that are, in fact, thoroughly bred.
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Maybe I'm an incurable optimist, but I see a silver lining in the recently stormy financial markets — the jolt might just wake up elected officials to the actual risks they are taking with public money in San Diego County's pension fund.
In 2010, the board responsible for the county's $9.4 billion fund gave its new investment adviser a green light to pursue a relatively new investment strategy known in the hedge fund industry as "risk parity."
Advocates say the strategy is the closest thing yet to an investing free lunch: Using leverage and sophisticated mathematics, you can make higher returns with lower risk than traditional portfolios.
If risk parity sounds too good to be true, that's because it is, according to a host of prominent critics.
"This is all bull," said Zvi Bodie, a Boston University economist and finance professor who is a frequent critic of the financial services industry. "It is scary, and it's very scary that anyone would believe it."
"Nonsense," is how Warren Buffett, the world's most successful investor, describes Modern Portfolio Theory, the intellectual basis for risk-parity strategy. "Asinine," is the term preferred by his business partner, Charlie Munger.
MPT holds that an investor can infer the risk of a security by calculating how far its price swings up and down in the markets over time. Risk parity involves loading up on supposedly low-risk investments to boost returns.
Buffett points out that price swings tell you nothing about a company's true risk — that it might go bankrupt and default on its bonds. Indeed, if you find a well-managed company and wait to buy its stock until after the price crashes, you've actually reduced the risk of losing money on that investment. Volatility is not the same as risk.
Indeed, market volatility has hammered risk-parity hedge funds recently, just as San Diego County has increased its bets on the strategy. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that such funds have lost up to 8 percent so far this year, and lag roughly 13 percent behind funds that replicate the traditional pension portfolio of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds.
What scares me most is the amount of leverage they use. Under Lee Partridge, the outside adviser who controls the fund's investments, San Diego County uses derivatives to generate $1.35 in market exposure for each $1 it really has.
There are other reasons to worry. When the pension fund hired Partridge in late 2009, the county was his only client. A bond trader by experience, this was his first time directing the investments of an entire pension fund.
And he was recommended by Hewitt Ennisknupp, the county's consulting firm that is supposed to provide independent advice on whether a manager is steering the fund off a cliff. Not surprisingly, the firm endorsed Partridge's venture into leveraged risk parity.
The pension board recently corrected that shortcoming by replacing Ennisknupp, but the new firm hasn't given its views on the county's investment policy.
According to the fund's 2012 annual report, Partridge has used the fund's 35 percent leverage level to bet heavily on bonds, mostly U.S. Treasuries.
Treasuries have delivered above-average returns for 30 years, but replicating that feat over the next decade is nearly a mathematical impossibility.
Sudden moves in bond values have rocked markets since May 22, when Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke outlined the central bank's strategy to eventually halt its massive bond-market intervention and raise interest rates. A similar Fed surprise in 1994 led to brutal losses for bond traders caught with "long" positions.
To be clear, I can't tell you that the county pension fund has lost a pile of money this month. Partridge has refused to talk to me for months. Fund officials declined to comment last week, saying they will release their next quarterly report Aug. 15.
In a March interview, Partridge told me that his use of highly liquid futures contracts would allow him to quickly unwind the county's trading positions in a crisis, based on his 20 years of bond-trading experience. Maybe he did.
My latest information comes from the fund's report for the quarter that ended March 31, before the latest turmoil in stock and bond markets. The fund posted a 3.5 percent overall return, beating its preferred benchmark.
Then, in a case of horrible timing, Partridge in April gave an "educational" presentation at the pension board's retreat that extolled the virtues of raising the county's leverage to a whopping 137.5 percent.
His idea would make the county's $9 billion earn like a $21 billion diversified portfolio – supposedly with less risk – by reducing the proportion of investments in blue-chip U.S. stocks and instead betting billions on Treasuries, foreign bonds, commodities, real estate, hedge funds and private equity managers.
I nearly fell out of my chair. The proposal rattled even Mike Sebastian, an Ennisknupp consultant who wrote a paper advocating alternative investments titled "Go Big or Go Home: The Case for an Evolution of Risk Taking."
Under questioning from County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, Sebastian said the idea involved too much risk-taking to chase too little extra returns. It's like "using a sledgehammer to kill a fly," he said.
This idea of taking on more leverage has Jacob, who endorsed Partridge and his strategy in 2010, "deeply concerned," she said last week. She's asked for a review of the county's investment policy. Other officials stress that the board has no formal plan to consider expanding its leverage.
I'll point out here that two months, or even the three-plus years that Partridge has run the fund, is not enough time to judge the performance of an investment manager.
His record has been good: officials say the fund averaged an 11.4 percent annual return in the first 39 months of Partridge's contract. The S&P 500 averaged 10.3 percent during the same period, including reinvestment of dividends.
Of course, managers may simply be lucky in the short run. Sustained success requires two ingredients: A sound strategy, and a skilled practitioner. The latter is why everyone can't just read an investment book and then perform like Buffett, who's earned his investors 20 percent a year over five decades or so.
The pension board has no idea whether Partridge is skilled, and it won't for years. But it should know by now that his strategy carries a great deal of risk.


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Noam Murro's "300: Rise of an Empire" would have been cooler if they called it "301." I mean, sure, it would be kind of confusing, but cool. Well they didn't take my advice and ended up calling it "300: Rise of an Empire," which is weird, because it's about the fall of the Persian empire, isn't it? So which empire is "rising" here? See, "301," kids. That was the smart way to go.
Anyhoo. Check out a new 4-minute behind-the-scenes featurette for the sequel to Zack Snyder's breakthrough hit. I remember when the film first came out and it blew me away. The fact that they pretty much kept all the aesthetics of the Snyder film for the sequel was really smart on the producer's part. If you didn't know any better, you would just assumed Snyder directed this one, too.
Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield—on the sea—as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. "300: Rise of an Empire" pits Themistokles against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes, and Artemesia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, David Wenham, and Rodrigo Santoro.
It's war this March 7, 2014.


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Link Roundup for week ending 22/10/2010
By : Thejaswi Puthraya
- How DOM events work? Fantastic article by Jeremy Kahn of JupiterJS.
- django gets class based views. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Check the doc for more details and the migration guide.
- Search Engine Foo: Use DuckDuckGo to search the django and python docs from within your browser. Just use !django <search query> or a !python <search query> to search the docs. Check a django example search and python example search. DuckDuckGo has a lot of other goodies too.
- Wilson is a node.js web framework whose goal is to bring along the parts of django without tightly coupling them. Plate is a javascript template library compatible with the django templating language. Both projects are the brain child of Chris Dickson.
- With the inclusion of django-staticfiles in contrib, there's been a good debate on the decision behind adding apps to contrib. Jacob talks about how he wouldn't have a contrib if he was to rewrite django from scratch and the decision behind not including some popular apps like Django Debug Toolbar, South and django-registration into contrib. Do read and chime in your thoughts.
- Build cross-device javascript applications for smartphones with the jQuery Mobile Framework.
- Starting from November 1, Amazon plans to offer a micro EC2 instance free for an year for new customers. Check the page for more details.
- The results of the Git Survey 2010 are out. Not very different compared to the last year's results (from a quick glance).
- Continuous integration with django and hudson is a blog post by Michael Foord. He also has a related post on his personal blog.
- Merchant, the django app that provides a uniform API and pluggable interface for various payment processors now has 'some' docs. Let us know how we can improve the project further.
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