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Linear Algebra
An Introduction to Mathematical Discourse
|This book requires that you are familiar with calculus. This subject is covered by the wikibook Calculus.
The book was designed specifically for students who had not previously been exposed to mathematics as mathematicians view it. That is, as a subject whose goal is to rigorously prove theorems starting from clear consistent definitions. This book attempts to build students up from a background where mathematics is simply a tool that provides useful calculations to the point where the students have a grasp of the clear and precise nature of mathematics. A more detailed discussion of the prerequisites and goal of this book is given in the introduction.
Table of Contents
This book is part of a series on Algebra:
Linear Systems
- Solving Linear Systems
- Linear Geometry of n-Space
- Reduced Echelon Form
- Topic: Computer Algebra Systems
- Topic: Input-Output Analysis
- Input-Output Analysis M File
- Topic: Accuracy of Computations
- Topic: Analyzing Networks
- Topic: Speed of Gauss' Method
Vector Spaces
- Definition of Vector Space
- Linear Independence
- Basis and Dimension
- Topic: Fields
- Topic: Crystals
- Topic: Voting Paradoxes
- Topic: Dimensional Analysis
Maps Between Spaces
- Isomorphisms
- Homomorphisms
- Computing Linear Maps
- Matrix Operations
- Change of Basis
- Projection
- Topic: Line of Best Fit
- Topic: Geometry of Linear Maps
- Topic: Markov Chains
- Topic: Orthonormal Matrices
- Definition
- Geometry of Determinants
- Other Formulas for Determinants
- Topic: Cramer's Rule
- Topic: Speed of Calculating Determinants
- Topic: Projective Geometry
- Complex Vector Spaces
- Similarity
- Nilpotence
- Jordan Form
- Topic: Geometry of Eigenvalues
- Topic: The Method of Powers
- Topic: Stable Populations
- Topic: Linear Recurrences
Unitary Transformations
Resources and Licensing
- Licensing And History
- Resources
- Bibliography (see individual pages for references)
- Index


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(Pocket-lint) - Heavy Rain is everything Quantic Dream promised that it would be: a powerful, emotional, ground-breaking experience with stunning visuals and believable virtual actors. Gripping, moving, intelligent and visionary, it's the richest synthesis of game and film/TV thriller we've seen yet.
And some of you are going to hate it.
Why? The answer lies in the game's description of itself as an "interactive drama". There's no question about Heavy Rain's "drama" credentials; while there are some aspects that don't always click, as a whole it's a compelling piece of fiction. The "interactive" bit, however? Well, we'll come to that later.
Stuart covered the basics of the game's technology and how it works in his First Look, so I won't go overboard on details here. In short, Heavy Rain is a thriller in the mould of Seven or Manhunter/Red Dragon, following four characters - a bereaved dad, a plucky journalist, an FBI agent and a gone-to-seed private eye - who get caught-up in the hunt for a serial killer who is abducting and drowning young boys.
The game is split into a multitude of scenes, and your actions in one scene affect the flow of what comes after, eventually leading the game to one of 20 different conclusions. There's a real sense that the choices you make affect the way the tale progresses (though there are times when the game effectively forces you back into line), and - most importantly - it's entirely possible for one or more of your protagonists to die and the story to carry on without him or her. While you can always go back and replay the game beginning from a certain chapter, there are no saves or checkpoints as such, meaning the death of FBI agent Norman Jayden, for instance, will close off whole scenes, plotlines and outcomes later on.
The strength of the game lies in its storyline, its compelling atmosphere and its amazing motion captured performances. Quantic Dream has lavished a staggering amount of detail on its gritty urban world and human models, creating something that - particularly in stills - could pass for TV footage, not CGI. Meanwhile, the combination of rich textures, superb lighting, advanced sub-surface shaders and some Hollywood standard motion capture techniques, ensures that Heavy Rain's virtual actors can deliver a similar calibre of performance to what you'd expect from a decent TV show. The effect frequently breaks down due to a weird animation or the odd flat line of dialogue, but when it works it's incredibly convincing.
As a director, Quantic Dream's David Cage also knows his stuff. The game is composed like a film or TV show, with Cage making generous use of every Hollywood editing, lighting and camera technique you can think of to keep you on edge and locked in the scene. Combine this with one of the strongest, most haunting scores I've ever come across in a video game, and Heavy Rain has the drama element locked down.
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But what about the "interactive" bit? Well, there's no getting away from the fact that Heavy Rain goes large - nay, XXXL - on quick-time events. For the majority of the game you wander around the locations, and when you come across something you can interact with, you simply watch and follow the on-screen prompts. Get involved in a conversation, and you choose the appropriate button for your response as the options rotate in a ring around your character's face.
It's actually more sophisticated than it sounds, as prompts are specifically designed to mimic the physical activities of the protagonist on screen. In fact, the game makes excellent use of psychological effects, deliberately blurring, shaking or moving prompts at times of severe anxiety, and even making it hard to read which button to press during tense dialogue scenes.
When the action speeds up - in a chase sequence or fight-scene - so do the prompts, though the game is reasonably generous about letting you make up for missed prompts during the action. Most cleverly, there are times when Heavy Rain forces you to press and hold uncomfortable button combinations while your protagonist is doing something difficult or dangerous. Twisting your way through live electric cables? Better limber up your fingers, or you and your hero will be in for a shock.
The problem is that, for huge swathes of the game, you can feel like you're simply following a trail of prompts rather than finding and deciphering clues or thinking for yourself. Sure, there are specific moments when you're aware that making one choice will push the story one way, and another choice another, but there are also whole sequences where you seem to be just following the prompts to their logical conclusion. Even the sequences with the FBI agent, tracking clues using a pair of augmented reality glasses, have this sense about them. Are you really investigating, or simply collecting enough evidence for the game to drag you through to the next scene?
Don't worry - we're a long way from Dragon's Lair territory - but this does mean that you can't really look at Heavy Rain as a game in the traditional sense. It's not a test of your skill or intelligence, and if you view it as such you'll probably go away disappointed. Instead, the controls seem designed to bolster an almost physical empathy between you and your protagonists, and this is where the game doesn't just redeem itself, but triumph.
By pushing you closer and closer to the characters as they indulge in simple domestic pleasures, investigate a fanatic's seedy apartment, struggle with a screaming baby or try to escape a psychopath's power tools, the game really heightens the whole experience as a drama. Heavy Rain goes into places where other games don't dare, giving you glimpses of panic, hope, fear, horror and despair that will stay with you long after the buzz of another Modern Warfare skirmish has faded. It's not always perfect, and some major plot twists don't quite ring true, but the overall experience is unlike anything you'll have had from a game before.
In a way, Heavy Rain paves the way for a future fusion of cinema and video game, but the way it does so isn't totally satisfactory. While you can make different choices and watch the storyline evolve to match, there's always a feeling that you're merely directing the action down preset paths rather than controlling the protagonists yourself. The payback, however, lies in the compelling story and the emotional states it pushes you through. Heavy Rain is far from flawless, but if you take gaming seriously, you really need to experience it for yourself.

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Active Phase Switching, APS, technology is an intelligent design that helps to save energy on MSI's motherboards. The underlying idea is to switch off the power supply as soon as no electricity is needed, and when the system needs more resources again, APS will automatically adjust electricity supply accordingly. APS will automatically detect your processor's loading at any given time and save energy accordingly. This is only possible by means of a very advanced power controlling technology. Other than software-based solutions, APS technology stands out from MSI's own research. The specially developed IC chip can operate automatically depending on the demands of the power supply, which is to reduce the total power usage.
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Mobile consumer appliances are getting more and more attention in current day fast moving life style, with smart phones and tablets almost becoming a fashion accessory. However, many ordinary personal computers cannot charge some of these devices, making it difficult to stay connected. The MSI Super Charger is a Windows resident program capable of revising the power supply mode of your USB port to become more powerful. Once your phone or tablet is connected to your USB port, the Super Charger sends a signal to initiate its charging circuit, making it a really smart and convenient charging solution for mobile computing needs.
Note: Only front red USB ports support charger function after system off
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MSI Live Update 5 is a powerful and useful application for updating the latest BIOS and Drivers, saving you time and lowers the risk of updating. End-users can install and run the Live Update 5 software on their computers with the companion CD or downloading the app from the MSI website.
- Automatically Detect the BIOS/Driver/VGA/Utility Update
- Support Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 32/64bit
Compared to common motherboard which need extra BIOS chips, MSI's M-Flash has a double advantage which doesn't need extra components and secondly, all your BIOS data will be saved in the USB drive. The stored data does not only have backup and upgrade function, moreover it can also be seen as a portable BIOS chip which is actually able to boot up your PC.
- Backup/Restore Your BIOS to/from Any USB Flash Disk
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- Earn more BIOS Lifespan by Reducing Unnecessary Rewriting Process
Solid Capacitors on PWM
Capacitors are the most important component for electronic product's power supply. The quality of the capacitors can impact the stability of the entire system and risk of product failure. Currently there are two types of capacitors, electrolytic capacitors and solid capacitors. Compared to electrolytic capacitors, solid capacitors have a longer lifespan, and provide a more stable power under high temperatures. More importantly, solid capacitors do not have any liquid materials inside, and thus will not suffer a leak which would infringe upon the product's stability. With such benefits is it no wonder that solid capacitors are very important for product quality's improvement,
AMD Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology reduces heat and noise so you can experience amazing performance without distraction. Combined with core enhancements, included in the AMD processors, that can improve overall power savings, deliver better multitasking and energy efficiency. Cool'n'Quiet technology can automatically adjust processor ratio to throttle CPU speed with four modes.
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Partners for child passenger safety: a unique child-specific crash surveillance system." Accid Anal Prev. 2001;33(3):407-12."
Actions without consequences: injury-related messages in children's programs." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154(4):366-9."
Patterns of Inappropriate Restraint for Children in Crashes. Barcelona, Spain: Professional Engineering Publications Ltd.; 1999.
Patterns of inappropriate restraint for children in crashes.. London, England: Professional Engineering Publishing Limited; 1999.


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Sacked Employees To Provide Fox with Ratings -- Everyone Wins!
Coming to Fox: a reality series in which actual companies that are struggling to stay afloat in this lousy economy agree -- presumably in exchange for money -- to let their staffs decide which among them is going to get pink-slipped to save money.
To populate its new "Lord of the Flies"-esque series, "Someone's Gotta Go," Fox has lined up actual companies -- smaller, Dunder Mifflin-esque-sized (15-20 employees) ones -- having financial difficulties.
In each case, the company's boss or owner will call all the employees together and tell them someone's going to get laid off. But rather than the boss/owner making the decision, he or she will instead give the employees all the available information about one another -- salaries, job evaluations, etc. -- and let the employees decide who will get pink-slipped.
Fox -- or at least its genius/madman head of reality-TV Mike Darnell, whom no one over there seems willing or able to reign in -- thinks people will flock to this show. Because it is about -- wait for it -- wish fulfillment. Because we've all been there when someone -- we'll call them Mister A -- once again cons their way out of getting shown the door at our place of employment, while poor old hard-working slob -- Mister B -- gets the old heave ho, and wished we were in charge so it hadn't played out that way.
We called Darnell to ask how, among other things, Fox is handling the legal quagmire when it comes to revealing details of employees' personal evaluations, etc. on national TV. He declined to comment.
Fox's latest effort in the art of television programming was developed, and is being sold internationally, by Dutch-based production company Endemol, who also brings us CBS's "Big Brother," which used to seem mean-spirited and skanky, but which suddenly looks quaint and charming.
An Endemol spokeman told a Reuters reporter in Amsterdam the new show "will be an interesting experiment." The reporter, in turn, likened "Someone's Gotta Go" to NBC's "The Apprentice" -- to which this new show bears virtually no resemblance, in that the "employees" of The Donald are fake, and when he shouts "You're fired!" they're not losing their actual jobs, they're only losing a made-for-TV competition. We vote that Reuters reporter off the island.
Lisa de Moraes
April 7, 2009; 4:59 PM ET
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Hey, here's an idea- how about a dance marathon where the last couple on their feet get a prize? Oh wait, they already did that in the last Depression, never mind.
Posted by: hairguy01 | April 7, 2009 5:26 PM
Sick. Just plain sick. Fox has hit a new low. No wonder the right wing loves them so.
Posted by: Blue_Moose | April 7, 2009 5:29 PM
The Faux network, once again scraping THE BOTTOM OF THE BUCKET.
Posted by: gce1356 | April 7, 2009 5:30 PM
Wow. Usually when a tv show is wrong it has some redeeming qualities. This one has none and its immorality dwarfs all others.
I'm sure the voted off person will get some kind of surprise severance or new job on the finale, but that doesn't excuse the show's premise.
Posted by: Booyah5000 | April 7, 2009 5:31 PM
I'm sure it won't be long before we see FOX airing a reality show where depressives get to compete to see who will commit suicide in real time on national TV. If it weren't for the Simpsons, Family Guy and American Dad, I'd block reception of the network.
Posted by: stephenlouis | April 7, 2009 5:34 PM
Just the latest example that the media in general, and Fox in particular, continue on a seemingly irreversible race to the bottom. Unfortunately, they are just giving us what we want and I imagine it will be a big hit....
Posted by: lovinliberty | April 7, 2009 5:37 PM
After this, they can run a sequel called "Going Postal", where the laid off employee returns to kill fellow co-workers.
Posted by: blindspeed | April 7, 2009 5:44 PM
How about this one- the contestants all throw darts at a map and the one that's closest to the next recession-driven mass shooting spree wins a prize!
Posted by: hairguy01 | April 7, 2009 5:59 PM
Just when you thought that MMA was as low as television could go.
Posted by: mightykevbo | April 7, 2009 6:00 PM
What a SAD country we have become!
This is why foreigner should not own certain things in this country.
Posted by: shamken | April 7, 2009 6:03 PM
The executives behind the series should be made to take part in one episode themselves.
Posted by: offgridnick | April 7, 2009 6:05 PM
wow, just wow. I'm wondering if these people are more along the lines of vultures or sadists?
You'd think Fox television would have hired at least one person with a soul to alert them whenever their suggestio for a new show veers off from cheesy, cheap, and campy territory into territory that is downright immoral and sick.
This is one of the cruelest things I have ever heard a network suggest. I would absolutely refuse to watch it and would go out of my way to ensure that everyone I know wouldn't.
If this goes through let me just say that I sincrely hope that something really, really bad happens to everyone involved.
Posted by: cjpotter19 | April 7, 2009 6:09 PM
I would love to be on the receiving end of this show, so I could pursue a massive multi-million dollar lawsuit against my former employer and Fox for violating employment privacy laws.
Posted by: swmuva | April 7, 2009 6:19 PM
I share the sentiments of most of the posters on the board. What a horrible idea.
I predict a lawsuit.
Posted by: birdaa | April 7, 2009 6:21 PM
The dirtball network, staffed by dirtballs, pandering to dirtballs.
This show should play well within Fox's core demographic areas -- trailer parks everywhere, Appalachian mountains, Wasilla, AK, and in Dick Cheney's bunker.
Posted by: JBGJRESQ | April 7, 2009 6:23 PM
What a sick and mean spirited idea. Why not substitute a reality show in which the laid off workers chose which executives at their former place of employment are selected to pay back their bonuses?
Posted by: n01cat | April 7, 2009 6:29 PM
No surprise here, folks. This is the same TV network that was going to show OJ's "If I Did It..." (well, almost).
Posted by: linux_fan | April 7, 2009 6:30 PM
That is a wonderful idea! Seriously, why not let the CEOs humiliate themselves for once?
Posted by: birdaa | April 7, 2009 6:31 PM
I wonder if the employees can sack the boss/owner. Never mind that, let 'em sack the network.
Posted by: gratefolks | April 7, 2009 6:32 PM
Instead of struggling companies, how about doing it with FOX employees?
Posted by: rdy4all2000 | April 7, 2009 6:44 PM
All it will take is ONE employee to refuse to sign the waiver. If all the employees are not involved, it won't work. And they can't put the info out there or even talk about the person without the waiver.
Posted by: epjd | April 7, 2009 6:47 PM
Fox is pathetic
Posted by: mjwies11 | April 7, 2009 6:47 PM
If you don't like the idea or Fox, just don't watch it. They put forth this crap, because people watch it and therefore there is money to be made.
I don't own a tv, but if I did, I wouldn't watch any reality tv shows. Why? Because it's crap. I'm trying to "be the change you want to see in the world".
So quit judging and complaining. Dump your tvs or just don't watch that crap. Lead by example.
Posted by: hdawnivy | April 7, 2009 7:11 PM
This is just about the most unprofessional thing I've ever heard of.
But I have no doubt that it will get good ratings, based exclusively on schadenfreude.
Posted by: AhhWoo | April 7, 2009 7:13 PM
It will never make it on the air.....too many legal issues.
Posted by: rkmfcca | April 7, 2009 7:14 PM
From the title, it sounded like Fox was sacking their own employees on a reality program to try and boost their numbers. That would have been far more entertaining. The program that they are actually working on sounds awful.
Posted by: jackrussell252521 | April 7, 2009 7:34 PM
So Rupert Murdoch, Fox News owner and one of America's elite Top 1%, is going to get richer by exploiting the victims of an economic disaster that he helped create.
Gives a whole new meaning to "the rich get richer while the poor get poorer".
Posted by: DEFJAX | April 7, 2009 7:34 PM
Wow. If this show is a hit, just the last month of the Obammy depression will yield 10,000 YEARS of first run TV shows.
Posted by: Fiftycaltx | April 7, 2009 7:41 PM
Hey, how about a show where we viewers can vote FOX executives and on-screen personalities out of their jobs?
Posted by: dottie_b | April 7, 2009 7:42 PM
This a tasteless mockery of our painful reality, verging on cruel, but I am not an expert on how these things work, but wouldn't all the "Actors" get paid?
Posted by: yarbrougharts | April 7, 2009 7:43 PM
Or how about a show where one hundred people are chosen randomly from around the US and they get to vote on Fox News' claim that they are "fair and balanced." If more people than not vote that's a blatant lie, then Fox News goes dark forever and Limbaugh's inbred cousins in their line-up including Hannity, O'Reilly, Reed, North, Rove, Liddy, Huckabee et. al. moving to Paraguay with Old Chimpie and are banned from writing more right-wing hate columns for Fred Hiatt?
Posted by: coloradodog | April 7, 2009 8:11 PM
I'm more worried about the millions that will make the show a hit than a handful of creative people that came up with the idea.
I don't believe I'll ever understand what makes professional wrestling a top spot but I know it is. ...
Posted by: James10 | April 7, 2009 8:35 PM
Isn't Mike Darnell the fellow who gave us "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire"?
Posted by: mattintx | April 7, 2009 8:37 PM
Wow. Is this somebody's totally twisted way of trying to get more productivity our of their employees?
Sick. Just sick.
Posted by: Tootsumi | April 7, 2009 9:01 PM
I would boycott the companies that want to take part in this Quasimodo spectacle. Seriously.
Posted by: wturecki | April 7, 2009 9:04 PM
did anyone notice that they referred to Dunder Mifflin as a "Small" employer. In "reality", DM is a midsize corporation with HQ in NYC and about a dozen branches, like the one in Scranton. http://www.dundermifflin.com/
Meanwhile, this ranks right up there with "Who wants to marry a multimillionare".
Posted by: gso-chris | April 7, 2009 9:09 PM
hannity,oreilly,rove gingerich,this could be fun lay them all off. but it is a sick thought.i believe this would be the only network to consider it.probably be a hit. i they watch oreilly and hannity.these watchers are afraid .and these guys keep up the scare tactic. i know they get a large audience.but i know noone in the 30-50 age group that admits watching these guys.i believe their group is 70-dead
Posted by: donaldtucker | April 7, 2009 9:35 PM
The most pathetic thing is the number of low-brow viewers who will actually line up to watch this debacle. Never underestimate the depravity of the public! After all, look at all of the morons watching Idol and Apprentice!
Posted by: curious606 | April 7, 2009 9:43 PM
The Faux network, once again scraping THE BOTTOM OF THE BUCKET.
All the while laughing on the way to the bank with higher ratings than nearly all the other networks combined. LMAO
Posted by: Straightline | April 7, 2009 10:06 PM
"rein in" not "reign in"
Time for a vocabulary refresher.
Posted by: madinnj | April 7, 2009 10:08 PM
Sounds like a great Ethical show! It won't be long before Fox is asking for a bail out.
Posted by: lucasrichardson | April 7, 2009 10:17 PM
FOX and other outlets like FOX are ugly manifestations of what is terrible wrong with society, and scums like Murdoch want to profit from it.
Posted by: kevin1231 | April 7, 2009 10:20 PM
How quintessentially Fox. I guess that is one of the several reasons I eschew the broadcast networks.
Posted by: perfgeek | April 7, 2009 10:20 PM
Ugly. Hideous. To Fox, human misery and suffering are just things to be exploited for profit.
My hope is that someday we can witness the collapse of the Fox media empire. Should this happen, I might tune in to watch.
Posted by: BwanaDik | April 7, 2009 10:26 PM
I have an idea, let's start our own show about which zionist P.O.S. gets tortured on live camera...heck that one would be a hit on PPV.
Posted by: unojklhh1 | April 8, 2009 10:10 AM
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(Pocket-lint) - Setting yourself apart for the mass of compact cameras on the market can be something of a challenge. The Pentax Optio RS1500 looks to solve this problem with the option for customising the faceplate to make it unique. But does this compact point and shoot camera from Pentax impress, or is it simply a gimmick?
Design and Chameleon skins
Priced to be affordable, the Pentax Optio RS1500 is finished in plastics, our review model featuring a matte black back and silver front. The front is where the customisation comes into play, a clear plastic face can be removed, allowing you to insert a printed skin behind, lying over the ridged silver front.
The system is simple. The lens surround pops off, letting you remove the clear face. We had a range of skins to choose from, with Pentax throwing in the DC Comics edition covers, including the likes of Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, along with their regular selection. Included blank Chameleon skins mean you can print your own designs via their website, making a truly customisable result with a little fiddling around.
The result of this customisable front is that the RS1500 is a little boxy in its design, to allow for the recess on the front in which the skin fits. There is little in the way of grip as there is no contouring in the design, so it's simply a case of gripping the thing firmly. It's a light camera, weighing in at 127g and measuring 56 x 92 x 22.5mm, so perfectly pocketable, even if there are more sophisticated cameras out there with slimmer dimensions.
The bottom the camera sees the normal tripod screw thread and a flap into which the battery and SD card slot, the former offering you around 210 shots.
Controls and features
The top plate offers the power and shutter buttons, with all the other controls lying on the back of the camera, to the right of the 3-inch display. The display isn't anything to get excited about. The resolution is rather low at 230k-dots and the viewing angles are poor, so if you're not square on viewing the screen it will darken dramatically; that said, the image it gives isn't that good even when viewing at the best angle.
Zoom is controlled via the thumb rocker on the back, powering the 4x optical zoom, which offers 27.5-110mm (in 35mm terms), which is fairly average on this type of camera. The usual menu and playback buttons can be found here, the menu button used to change settings, with shooting options adjusted using the Mode shortcut on the four-way controller.
Other options for shortcuts on this four-way controller include flash control, self timer and macro toggle, with a central OK button to confirm selections (which also changes the information displayed on the screen). Elsewhere face detection gets its own button, so you can switch between smile shutter, face detection, or simply "off", although the toggle options depend on the shooting mode selected. A green button can be customised to your liking with the option of movie mode, exposure compensation, ISO or resolution.
As mentioned, shooting modes are determined through the appropriate button, which brings up a graphical grid on the display, so you can thumb through and select the appropriate preset. All the usual suspects are in there, from food to pets, with a catch-all Auto being the default shooting mode and a P (program) mode being the closest you'll get to wrestling control away from automatic.
Given the lack of other controls, changing settings can be a little fiddly once you step out of simple point and shoot functionality, but on this level of camera, we doubt that users will be looking for high degrees of manual control. The green button does alleviate this position slightly, but given that you'd otherwise have to select movie mode via the "Mode" button before capturing a movie, we imagine that most people will use the green button toggle movie mode.
There are a number of digital filters that can be applied to shots (as well as some in-camera editing options), but unlike more expensive rivals, these digital effects can only be applied after the shot is taken. When viewing the image back you can opt to edit and apply these effects, with the likes of a toy camera vignette, various colours and antique effects.
The lens shows obvious signs of barrel distortion at the wide angle, especially noticeable as the subject nears the camera. This affects the macro mode so it's worth zooming in to minimise this distortion; in macro mode the zoom is restricted to half the normal range too, which is just about right for dealing with the problem at the far end.
Focusing is a little suspect, the defaulting face detection mode finding faces in the most obscure places, so it's worth switching off for general scene shooting if it raises problems. In low light and on close-up focusing can be a little slow and inaccurate, often settling for nothing in focus and letting you take the shot. This isn't helped by the display, which isn't really sharp enough to determine accurate focus anyway, often looking softer when composing the shot than when you've taken it.
The ISO range (under the "sensitivity" setting) runs up to an ambitious ISO 6400 through manual selection, although noise is very obvious from ISO 800 upwards so is probably best avoided. In Auto mode, the flash will swing in well before you reach these sorts of levels though.
Overall, in terms of image quality, the results are average, but that's not unexpected on a camera at this price point and we suspect that those attracted by the fun customisable exterior won't expect top class shots from it as well. One characteristic we noticed was over-saturation, especially in reds, which does add some punch, but can result in images that don't look completely natural. It doesn't deal with high contrast scenes especially well and highlights often blow out and lose detail, but that's not uncommon on this level of camera.
Movie shooting offers up a maximum 1280 x 720 resolution, at 30fps, with various lower resolutions and shutter speeds on offer. As mentioned, in the absence of an instant capture button in movie modes, it will take a couple of button presses before movie capture can be started.
Focus is determined when movie capture starts and is then fixed and you can't use the zoom whilst filming, so it isn't hugely accommodating, but gives acceptable results.
With a wealth of compact cameras to choose from, and some great performers for your money, the real appeal of the Pentax Optio RS1500 has to be the customisation option. It manages to escape being simply a novelty camera by virtue of its reasonable performance, but if performance is important to you, then perhaps forgoing the changeable covers for something more conventional would better suit your needs.
The Pentax Optio RS1500 is likely to appeal to those who want to stand out, eschewing the typical black or silver camera body for something all the more personal. One thing is undeniable though: putting a DC superhero on the face of your camera will make people look at it, especially kids.


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Quite often, I hear from my clients that he got plan of his house prepared by an Engineer/Architect as if it is the best he can get to invest in his house to be constructed with almost major portion of his earnings of life
Very few people understand the fact that plan of the house is the most important, most critical part of designing and building a house. Almost all think that for a particular plot for needs expressed by him for the house, plan that can be made by any Engineer/Architect will be the same. This assumption about plan of house is wrong.
There are two factors in design of a plan of house. One is skill to draw a plan possibly in Auto CAD.A technically trained person in the field of Architectural design will have that skill. Any one coming out of a technical institute/Engineering college with subject of study, Civil Engineering or Architecture does not automatically become a good designer of house. Ability to draw an Auto CAD drawing do not mean that the person has acquired enough expertise in designing a house for you to save your money in construction and to provide you better facilities with proper utilisation of space and money.
Design of house requires a lot of common sense. This common sense is what makes a good designer. House design is always a great effort in accommodating needs of client, budget constraints, space constraints, building rules, Vasthu considerations and limitations of plot. Only an experienced expert with lots of exposure to house design and construction can design plan of your house to get you better facilities at lesser cost
Most important limitation for you as a customer is that unlike a good designer, you cannot visualise well implications of those lines drawn in a plan. Most of the people realize flaws and deficiencies in the plan only when building completes structure work. Then it will be too late to do anything to correct defects and insufficient space utilisation or even wastage of space. Several clients have called me to check their building after completion of structure work to suggest ways to correct mistakes in design. But at that stage not much can be done
I have directly designed and constructed more than 200 houses in different parts of Kerala and even outside state. I have designed many more buildings of different purpose. Each of these works taught me a lot on building design and construction which no Engineering college can teach. When I design plan of your house, these rich inputs of experience work for you to give you a plan of house which can not only save your money but also provide you better space utilisation of every built up space with better facilities at lesser cost
Now, tell me, why should you waste your money getting a plan from any one? Go for experienced expertise.
Quite a lot of people think that anyone can make a good plan of house but not good Elevation for the house. Drawing a good looking Elevation is not that difficult for a technically trained person. But you can finalise an Elevation only after checking capabilities of the contractor who will actually work at site. There is no point in drawing an impressive looking Elevation if your contractor cannot do it at site. For the same plan of house you can have different Elevation. But if the plan of house is not designed in a manner to get good Elevation; you may not get a good Elevation. So, even a good Elevation of the house starts with a good plan of the house. Just any plan cannot get an impressive looking Elevation
I can also check on plan made by any one on following aspects:
1. Architectural
2. Structural Engineering
3. Vasthu aspects
4. Kerala Building Rules
5. Optimum use of built up space
6. Cost reduction
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Server progression
Server progression is ranked by the number of bosses killed followed by the date of the downing. For more complex ranking systems visit... OUTDATED: Please view bullet(1).
Limited to the "top 10" guilds on the server.
Guild list
Detheroc PvP
Grand Marshal: Intrepid, Merckfrost, Tinglebunny, Swordance, Chungli, Buhay, Cricket, Linkolas, Omniplague, Silvarra, Authoritah, Nesi, Vixi
High Warlord: Papamomex, Queball, Toushiro, Maloso, Dredg, Hollypride, Jackdaniel, Holyshock, Luchador, Spanger, Busai, Oleph, Cheveyo, Jabby, and AFKShenn
Gladiator Season 1: Deltons, Venruki, Towner, Sativuss, Udeadd, Buena, Moolissa, Mouth, Turacon, Fatalist
Would like to have information on people who achieved gladiator ranks while on Detheroc seasons two through nine.
Detheroc is noted by many for its diverse population of forum trolls. Different from most servers due to the "troll on your main" mentality of the players, these trolls are not afraid to reveal their in game identity or irl identity, posting contact information and pictures of what they look like.
Most noted trolling is done by the Troll Force, a congregation of trolls that are usually seen all in the same thread. Members include Boomhauer (Detheroc's most adorable nub), Buffalodan(Almost as slow to hit 60 as Boomhauer), Shamanatrix (Founder of Valen, Winner of the Staghelm/Detheroc forum war), Mortaak (The only homosexual Male Night Elf), Towner (Extreme Poster Extraordinaire), Doublecross (A legend of making unsuspecting players walk into doors) and most recently, Pyromaniac (Now known as Pyrowned, the master of sucking up to Sham). Not alone, many other trolls are to be found along side of these characters;:Team Hunter, Peebo the Gnome, Ghando, Kren (also known as Decibus), Listentome, Maevara, Solitear, Reese, and Buffalina.
These trolls know no faction aside from the pride of their sever, taking wars to other realm boards and trolling their threads. Much to the enjoyment of onlookers, the level 1 alts of other boards are never a match for these players, and eventually the trolls of Detheroc leave the server, much like a drunken college student runs out of the room of a fat chick the following morning. Knowing no bounds, these trolls jump to General Boards and Class Boards to take their skills farther. Being banned several times across several accounts, a few of these trolls find it hilarious to grab a new account and fight.
--- Peebo wuz here.
Every month, this army of fine trolls keeps their psyche combat-ready with a large-scale forum invasion of the lesser-realm Staghelm.
As of recently though, the forum troll army of the past has diminished. There are few that remain from the days before TBC. The trolls these days to watch out for: Twentythree - Known for his witty humor and stupidity all in the same sentence; Dangitsmcg - Quite possibly the most annoying troll Detheroc has known, posting random babble on threads; Nicrosrogue - Known for his friendly chatter; Mortaak - A surviving legend; Angmew - The master of showing you up; Kandin - Everyone loves him, everyone hates him; Towner - Another legend; Sham - The one and only, a god among forum trolls. Lunchboxx- Always has something to say about anything, at times makes no sense but funny none the less Fritoss-One of the newer trolls to Detheroc. Tibeticus - Been trolling the forums for way too long now -_- No doubt you will see at least one of these names on your post.
Detheroc-Staghelm War II
The first Detheroc-Staghelm War was a landslide. The day was won when Shamanatrix, Boomhauer, Pyromaniac and many others saved the Detheroc Forums from the taint that is Staghelm. Than, it began again.
This time, Detheroc struck first. With a massive invasion, which was the brainchild of Fyodora, many pure-bred Detherocian Forum Trolls attacked the Staghelm forums, and, eventually, claimed it as their own. The War was fierce, and the invasion was massive. Trolls from all over the server of Detheroc took up arms, and keyboards, to attack the Staghelm message boards. In the end, Staghelm began to bend, and the only way they drove the Detherocians away from the forums was to ally with the dreaded Game Masters. Detheroc prevailed in the end, when it was finally two to one, and the mighty Gods of the Forums were forced to magically drive the immense army away from the Staghelm forums.
The following Forum Trolls of Detheroc receive recognition for leading the assault upon the Staghelm Forums. They have taken up the arms in the absence of the other old-school trolls.: Fyodora, for creating the idea of the second coming of the Staghelm invasion. Shamanatrix, for using his wit and humor to bring Staghelm to his knees, and for rolling pugs with ease. Peebo, for leading his Gnomes into the battle. Decibus, for his valiant posts against the Staghelm server, and for teaching me to make cheese.
Lo to any of the other server forums that shall be struck by Detheroc's Mighty Troll's, for they shall strike hard and fast.
After the Staghelm forces were pushed back past their own fortifications, they called in their ally, Coreiel, the single female Blizz Poster (Mr. Blue), to save them from eminent doom. Coreiel, being vested with far more powers than she can comprehend, gave a first and final warning to all of Detheroc, giving two minutes to leave the forums. Detheroc, due to its stubbornness, decided to try and overtake their ally as well, only to have Coreiel accidentally use powers that even she did not know what could happen. Many a troll alike had their accounts temporarily suspended, their post removed and email's sent warning of further implications.
Detheroc-Staghelm War III
An entry from the journal of Fyodora
After inadvertently starting the second Detheroc-Staghelm war, I had thought that my rise to fame on the forums had seen its climax. It seems that fate had other plans for the future of my trolling, and the Detherocian forums.
Around January 20th, it was announced that rent would be collected from the Staghelmites on the first. I thought this to be a novel idea, but figured it would fade into forum obscurity.
I'm beginning to notice my foresight needs to be checked.
The eve before the battle was as normal as any. After a bit too much drinking, I had forgot of all my obligations to the cause. But fate, that cruel mistress, decided to send me to the forums, at precisely 00:03. Instantly my memory was jogged, and I donned my armor and rode forth.
The war raged on for about twelve hours, into the early morning, when blizzard employees must have finally arrived at the office. Opening their inbox's and seeing virtually thousands of reports about spamming on Staghelm, they quickly took mouse in hand and deleted all of the posts.
Disheartened, I began to sink my head and return to Detheroc. But, lo, the soldiers kept fighting! Raging on for another 5 hours, the Detherocian trolls continued posting! The forum mods had thought they had won, but their censorship's only fueled the fires in the hearts of the trolls. In a most epic moment, the trolls began posting faster than the posts could be deleted. In the meantime, a small faction of Staghelmites had attempted resistance attacks.
Becoming quickly frustrated with the persistent trolls, the mod squad sent down their banstick-wielding agent, Coreiel. Sensing a bluff, many trolls continued to fight, resulting in many temporary bans.
Let us honor here all involved in this epic battle:
Crown the self proclaimed Detheroc Interrogator made many many posts all with a sinister and malicious tone. At one point, he dropped a small boy dead in the street with an ice pick to the Face.
Decibus was totally uninvolved in this epic event in all ways, shapes and forms. True story.
Ghando went AFK to find his red hot jeans.
Mynian melted many brains, with his posting in the confusing style of many spam-emails, posting what looked to be Random nonsense, but actually had a serious thought behind each one.
Peebo led the symbolic first strike, and rallied the armies of trollregen.
Pyro took small but well placed attacks at weakened parts of the Staghelm defense, in the later stages of the assault. His slow ass was late to the front lines.
Reese took up mighty arms, and clashed wits with Coreiel herself.
Shamanatrix was striking with meticulously paced flurry of unique and "creative" posts.
Towner laid ruin to trolls of both sides, with his unreasonably long forum signature.
The March 2007 Staghelm Invasion
At the strike of midnight EST on March 1st, 2007, in true Detheroc fashion, the Staghelm forums were again invaded. Call to arms were sounded by both Maevara and Pyro, and the front lines began to charge. Large threads were created, explaining various phenomena ranging from Detheroc superiority to the godliness of KMFDM. Random posts were copied and pasted from Detheroc boards into the battlefield at Staghelm, and even more random spam threads were created. The flood began quickly, catching all of Staghelm off-guard, as within an hour, the only posters on the realm were of Detheroc origins.
Leading the fight was Pyro, Shamanatrix, Reese, Maevara, Peebo, Gadar and many others.
Reaction was swift, and by 2:20 am that morning, the blue's had responded by deleting all new posts created by Detherocians.
IN the fallout of the invasion, many bans were doled out, even to trolls who did not spam or pick fights on the forums, but who only posted on a Detheroc toon on the Staghelm forums. Among the banned: Pyro/Towner(Permanent: Spamming and Trolling) Shamanatrix (Permanent: Spamming and Trolling) who would later verbally threaten Blizzard Customer Support for days until his account came back. Dargot/Gadar (Permanent: Spamming and Harrasment) Maevara (Temporary: Spamming and Trolling[72 hours]) more when news becomes available.
Clearly, another resounding victory for Detheroc as all these trolls have found new homes/new accounts to dominate from.
Major Classic Guilds
Initially the PvE war raged between Redemption [A] and Valen [H] for server firsts, while Offense [A], JSG [H], and BEP BOP [H] stuck to PvP. Valen claimed almost every PvE sever first until Offense downed Ragnaros a week quicker than Valen, and their PvE accomplishments continued from there. All these guilds, save Vae Victim, Suffer, and Cthulhu Dawn disbanded and many players either quit or rerolled.
Detheroc was opened to transfers from Sargeras, and many of these larger guilds transfered over. This created a Native vs. Transfer debate that still goes on, but not with the fury from the initial time. The major pre-transfer guilds include Cthulhu Dawn, Brazen, Offense, Redemption, JSG, Suffer, Vae Victum and Valen.
There are currently 20 guilds that have cleared all of Molten Core and Blackwing Lair. On the Alliance side, the guilds are Imperial Order, Phoenix, High Guarde, Armed and Dangerous, Templar, Order of Thrones, Hell and Back, Empíre, Lucidity, New Generation, Noctis Invictus, and Enigma. The Horde guilds are T K T, End Guys, Cthulhu Dawn, Plagued, Suffer, S E V E N, Vae Victum and A S Y L U M. Many of these guilds were formed or transferred from Sargeras.
Obvious Assassin was a large horde guild that was beginning to make progress in Naxx, however they broke up soon following a merge with another large horde guild, Dust to Dust.
Besides the guilds that are farming Blackwing Lair There are several other raiding guilds that have accomplished much in Molten Core, Onyxia, and most of Blackwing's Lair.
Sargeras to Detheroc
Back on Sargeras, a young gnome named Sadadar decided that he wanted to beat World of Warcraft. He enlisted the aid of several basement gangstas in his quest for power. This group formed into the now infamous guild, Divine Vigilance. They had a fierce rivalry with Boreas the Jew and his Horde guild, Obvious Assassins. Every week, the two guilds would boast about a new boss kill in Molten Core until finally, DV downed Ragnaros and gained recognition as the most elite guild on Sargeras. When Ecir, the GM of Imperial Order, heard about this, he quickly mass recruited and formed a giant zerg to overtake DV.
Drama escalated between Divine Vigilance and Imperial Order. In a mad bid to suppress this surge of epeen, Boreas summoned the mighty god, Raptor Jesus. Groggy and hungover during his awakening, Raptor Jesus screwed up while trying to stop the epeen madness and instead created a giant rift in the time/space continuum. A large part of the population was slowly sucked into this vortex and arrived in the mysterious pseudo-alternate realm known as Detheroc. Sadly, Divine Vigilance was not affected by this storm and is still on Sargeras. The few people who witnessed all the drama still honor DV, because without DV, Detheroc would not exist.
Clash of Identities
There was a paradox during the transfer from Sargeras to Detheroc. A being couldn't exist twice at the same time in the same dimension. Thus, many people were reborn with a new moniker. Homer became Homey, Trystan became Trystin. Robishush became Robnaros. Ecir became Rice. Vier became Reiv. Cession became Unsurreal. Lenlalron became Bloodslaughter... for about four hours. Incidentally, the Turgy of this realm is a woman.
The Natives and the Transfer
The rift of the Raptor Jesus allowing Sargeras members to move to the new realm Detheroc caused much turmoil with the Native Detherocians. Much hatred was spewed at the new members as they changed the ways of life for the Natives. Luckily with leaders such as Boreas, the new comers were able to resist these taunts of hatred with their Epic Lewt. The Sargeras new comers established a new order. With a sight of Ahn'Qiraj, the Natives looked to these new found gods for insight, sadly they themselves looked to Imperial Order for guidance.
Team Hunter
The natives of Detheroc are unaware, but heroes walk among them. These heroes strive endlessly, day and night, to bring about justice and fairness, all for the sake of such. These heroes are the ones known as... Team Hunter.
The Rise of Team Hunter
No one knows much about Team Hunter, or its enigmatic leader, Lenlalron, also known as the Silver Tiger. But those who oppose Team Hunter quickly find out their first and only lesson: That when you wrong Team Hunter, Team Hunter Ashjre'thuls you in the face. And it hurts.
Enemies know who to fear: They fear Gilandune, the Blazing Mustang. Gryf, the Waddling Duck, strikes terror into their hearts. Morale sinks when Rhius, the Razor Viper, arrives. Opponents cower in fear as Mojrn, the Rabid Elk rides into battle. And last of all, Perk, the Eager Hawk, has a very intimidating roar of bestial fury!
And, to make matters worse, there are two mysterious foes, waiting in the shadows lest they be needed: Maravilla, the Deadly Flower, and Crescent, the Black Lightning.
But worst of all, is Chyrus, the Impervious Armadillo. No enemy can best him, for he is unbestable. There have been no recorded defeats of Team Hunter, nor will there ever be.
How will Team Hunter (Phoenix Division) affect the race for Ahn'Qiraj? What cards do the Hunters have in this epic battle? Will Dragonstalker's Leggings ever drop for Phoenix?
DISCLAIMER: Team Hunter is a rogue unit and Phoenix holds no responsibilities for their actions. They are only allowed on raids because there is much pity for Lenlaron's mental handicap.
Pally Rangers
There is only one force that stands in the way of Team Hunter...the Mighty Hearthin' Pally Rangers! Led by Garnett, the vicious spitter of ultimate reckoning, they strive to make life miserable for Team Hunter. Robnaros poses a great threat with his big orange hammer, Sulfuras. Brokenfacee and Haaris prove deadly with high spell power and their Lok'amirs. Murtox and Aemaeth round out the team with divine conviction. Their cheerleader, Satheron, supports them from the sidelines with her zesty charms and high spirits. When the Pally Rangers and Team Hunter clash...whose side will you be on?
Also worth mentioning is the now-defunct Shalebot. While the Shalebot was a formidable Hunter in his prime, he was best known for "Hi, I'm Shalebot" and using only melee abilities and Blind against opponents. (Blind would be later identified as Scatter-Shot) There was supposedly some consensus that Shalebot was never worthy of Team Hunter due to his melee tendencies. Whatever the case, Shalebot imparted his wisdom and legacy to his fellow Hunters and faded into the mists of time.
Team Hunter's Biography
Team Hunter is the brainchild of a hunter named Lenlalron. Team Hunter is dedicated to the power of the hunter and to all things awesome.
The power of team hunter lies in the forming up. When called for, all hunters present shout their team hunter moniker, then the caller shouts something dramatic and gives the command to roll out, where we do whatever is needed to be totally awesome.
Recruitment is open, but it is by invite only. You do not need to be a hunter, but you must be dedicated to the ways of the hunter.
The Fall of Team Hunter
With patch 2.0.6, and Blizzard having temporarily quelled in-game problems, it was time to turn their single, fiery eye to the forums.
In one fell swoop, they updated all avatars, but also cast a powerful spell, preventing level one alts, specifically Herb Mains, from posting. The silver tiger, Lenlalron, would not take this lying down, and as we speak is amassing his own Burning Crusade, to fight this injustice.
Will he prevail? Or will he, and the rest of Team Hunter, simply fall into forum mediocrity?
The Return of Team Hunter
After the destruction of The Fourth Seal, Lenlalron the Silver Tiger was left stripped of his guild and the majoity of his comrades, but he was not defeated. No, when the Leader of Team Hunter is knocked down, he gets right back up again! Along with Rhius the Razor Viper, and Aidie the Proud Moose, Lenlalron joined NI.
It was there that he made new comrades, and sought to rebuild Team Hunter. New to the ranks are Darios, the Steel Jaguar (and also, it was decided, Lenlalron from the past, or else Lenlalron is Darios from the future, the point is moot because some temporal paradox has deposited a past and future version of the same person into NI), and Teien, the Growling Tigress! Together, they face all their obstacles.
Team Hunter Roster
Current Team Hunter Members............Old Members
---Phoenix Division---
Lenlalron: Silver Tiger (And leader)...........Crescent: Black Lightning (Discharged dishonorably)
Rius: Razor Viper...................................Maravilla: Deadly Flower (Retired Honorably)
Cochice: Shadow Fox.............................Anainthehizz: Blue Drake (Retired Honorably)
Perk: Eager Hawk..................................Gryf: Waddling Duck (Retired Honorably)
Nivkk: Angry Dog...................................Beezy: Flaming Ferret (Retired Honorably)
Aidie: Proud Moose................................Gilandune: Blazing Mustang (Retired Honorably)
Conx: Lazy Lion.....................................Chyrus: Impervious Armadillo (Retired Honorably)
Darkdreamer: Sly Owl.............................Mojrn: Rabid Elk (Retired Honorably)
Nu: Señor Squirrel..................................Darklocke: Cloaked Cobra (Retired Honorably)
---Imperial Order Division---
Cios: Elder Bear
Turg the Chosen One
A young nightelf hero named Turgy attempted to unite the factions of Azeroth and gather several ancient artifacts to prevent Judgement Day. He murdered Sadadar during his travels and when DV heard of this, they sent a group of assassins to get revenge. This caused many difficulties for Turgy and during one epic battle, his good friend and guild leader Trystan was killed. The wave of anger and grief that resulted overwhelmed Turgy and he miraculously reached the coveted level 61. Turgy is the only known WoW player to have ever reached this level.
The Race to Ahn'Qiraj
An alliance guild, the Imperial Order, were the first to create the Sceptor of the Shifting Sands, held by their Champion Nimic on February 18th, 2006. In an amazing show of Detheroc's trolls, problems occurred when a (later admitted joke) post by Unsurreal (an IO member) emerged on the Detheroc official forums stating that Imperial Order was holding the sceptor hostage and refused to open the gates unless the realm paid 5000 gold. The thread was deleted after reaching over 50 pages with dozens of posts both in support and in disgust of IO. A second thread was later created admitting it was all a scheme and the gates would open when IO originally scheduled it. The gates were finally opened February 21st, 2006 at around 3:45 pm ET
The Ahn'Qiraj Sceptor Original Ransom Note by Unsurreal
It's obvious that the responsibility of opening these gates lies soley on us, Imperial Order. We are not ignorant to the notion that without our champion Nimic ringing the gong, it would take a lot longer than anyone had intended for the gate to open.
How much longer remains to be seen, maybe as long as TKT or Phoenix grind carapaces? I don't know their plans, so it may be even longer than that.
So why not now? This is a common and valid question. The gates CAN be opened now, but we're not going to.
Why not? The most natural and unhelpful answer is that we choose not to. It won't happen today, it won't happen tomorrow, after maitenence, and it probably won't happen the day after that.
So when? We can't answer that, for the answer lies within all of you. We do want to see this new content, but we also have many other plans in mind. Like any guild, we like being notorious, remembered.
No one remembers the fair and quietly intelligent people they meet in their daily lives, but everyone remembers those who ruin their day.
We have plenty of time to conquer this new content, but for now we see endless novelty in holding it hostage. And this is what we will continue to do: Hold it hostage.
So now the gates truly lie in your hands. In order to open the gate, we are demanding 5,000 gold. Please send it to Aqransom, one of our banks, and we will tally up the money. Once we gain this money we will open the gates.
If you are horde, use the neutral bank to transfer your money. We don't want to have to pay the bank cut.
We would apologize for this great injustice on the server, but I personally feel it would fall on deaf ears.
So get farming. The next step in this new content is purely up to you.
The Fourth Seal experiment
At the onset of the expansion, The Burning Crusade, Nu from Phoenix merged his guild with Imperial Order to create a super guild, first named Punch and Pie, then soon after re-named The Fourth Seal. The goal of TFS was to dominate Alliance PvE progression and achieve (perhaps) world firsts. Unfortunately, the best that TFS was able to accomplish before disbanding was the server first kill of Hydross the Unstable. TFS is a memory now, and often the butt of many unkind jokes, especially from Detheroc Horde guilds. Incidentally, many of the players in TFS quit the game or transferred servers. This is why TFS takes the original blame for Detheroc Alliance progression being slower than the Horde side.
The Fall of Vier
Shennin: Vier, Did you get my package?
Vier: ...Yea.
Shennin: Well good.
Ghando: Shennin?
Zkar: Whoever it is, hes not reading like a Paladin.
Shennin: Surprised to see me?
Vier: No.
Shennin: Then your aware of it?
Vier: Of what?
Shennin: Our...connection. I dont fully understand how it happened, perhaps some part of you chain stunned me, something feared or poly'd. It is at this point irrelevant. What matters is that whatever happened, happened for a reason.
Vier: And what reason is that?
Shennin: I Hammer of Wrath'd you Vier, I watched you die, with a certain satisfaction I might add. And then something happened. Something that I knew was impossible but it happened anyway. You PVP'd me Vier. Afterwords I knew the rules, understood what I was supposed to do but I didnt. I couldn't. I was compelled to stay, compelled to camp your corpse all day. And now here I stand because of you Vier. Because of you im no longer an officer of DV, because of you I've changed, im unplugged! A new man so to speak, like you apparently free.
Vier: Congratulations.
Shennin: Thank you. But as you well know, appearances can be decieving which brings me back to the reason why we're here. Were not here because were free, we are here because we are not free. There is no escaping reason, no denying PVP, because as you well know without PVP, we would not exist.
Shennin #2: It is PVP that created us.
Shennin #3: It is PVP that connects us.
Shennin #4: It is PVP that pulls us.
Shennin #5: It is PVP that guides us.
Shennin #6: It is PVP that drives us.
Shennin #7: It is PVP that defines us.
Shennin #8: It is PVP that binds us.
Shennin: We are here because of you Vier, we are here to take from you what you tried to take from us. PVP.


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Gwyneth Paltrow is People magazine's 2013 Most Beautiful Woman.
I can tell you that the Salma Hayek fan club isn't pleased this morning.
The list also includes Kerry Washington, Amanda Seyfried, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lawrence, Kelly Rowland, Halle Berry, Drew Barrymore, Pink. The entire list will be published in the new People magazine, which hits newsstands Friday.
People.com published the usual fawning story about how Paltrow just feels like a normal girl ... you know, if normal girls name their kids Apple and Moses, marry British rock stars and conduct press conferences in flawless French.
Anyway, back to the fawning. Paltrow said her kids, Apple, 8, and Moses, 7, don't see her as anything but mom.
"Around the house, I'm in jeans and a T-shirt. I don't really wear makeup. That's what they're used to," she said. Talking about her husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Paltrow said "He'll make a joke about it. If I've gotten fully dressed up, he'll be like, 'Oh, wow! You're Gwyneth Paltrow!' Because he's used to seeing me in like baggy shorts and frizzy hair."
How terribly normal of her. Paltrow is obviously a busy most beautiful woman. Her second cookbook "It's All Good," debuting at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list and her next film, "Iron Man 3," hits theaters on May 3, Paltrow credits her workout routine for keeping her looking youthful and less tired.
"It makes me look younger and feel strong," said Paltrow, who allegedly does something called the Tracy Anderson Method five days a week. "When I first started, I thought, 'I'll never be good at this. This is a nightmare!' But now it's like brushing my teeth, I just do it."
Right. Like it's the most normal thing in the world.
Paltrow said she wants to instill a good body image in both her kids, especially now that her daughter is starting to become interested in things like makeup. "When we're home sometimes, she'll put on mascara. And sometimes I'll let her wear something out to dinner - but just a little dab," she said.
"Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she'll feel."


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Autograph Alley Schedule @ Dodger Stadium. (By the Center Field entrance) Meet these former Dodgers before the game. Thanks to Ray of the Dodgers for the info!
April 13 Tim Leary
April 14 Kenny Landreaux
April 15 Derrel Thomas
Friday, April 6, 2012
Autograph Alley Schedule: April 13, 14, 15
1 comment:
- Gen said...
So glad I found your blog! So glad to see the Dodgers are still doing Autograph Alley.
Go Dodgers!
- April 13, 2012 at 6:49 PM
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Robert Rodgriguez was all set to direct his science fiction thriller, Nerverackers, this year, but the movie's unnamed star wasn't available. So he's directing Machete instead, but he still plans to make the future-crime epic.
Rodriguez calls Nerverackers his "'Blade Runner,' set in Mexico in 2085," in an interview with Empire Magazine. he also says:
But I hate to pit all my energy into a project and then find out an actor's not available and have to start over. 'Nervewrackers' was all ready to go, down to the costumes - I'm actually wearing the hero's jacket right now - but the [actor] I had in mind got booked so we're waiting for him. And in the meantime, I've got ideas on how to improve it. We try to hit every project a little bit every day.
Here's the synopsis we had before for Nerverackers:
Nerverackers is set in the year 2085 and centers on the character Joe Tezca, part of an elite unit who is sent in to stop a crime wave amongst a perfect futuristic society. In the process, he discovers that "Nerverackers" are on a rampage for control of the city. Tezca consequently sets forth on a mission to reveal the cover up by the ruling class and stop the "Nerverackers" before time runs out.
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Many Dancing with the Stars fans expected Bristol Palin (and maybe even Kirstie Alley) to fall victim to this week's All Stars double elimination – did you? Were you shocked when Drew Lachey and Helio Castroneves, two former champions, were eliminated instead? If so, you're not alone.
However, nobody is more shocked than Drew himself, and he isn't being shy about it. While Drew says he appreciates the "unpredictability" of Dancing with the Stars, he also believes his exit from All Stars is a little "odd." Drew explains, "I take pride in being a performer, and to me it's ironic that the two Broadway performers – me and Joey [Fatone] – are gone already. It's a little odd to me."
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Maker Faire 2012
- 1 Noisebridge booth
- 2 Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!
- 3 Members with Booths at Maker Faire
Noisebridge booth
[1] is May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you'd like to help set up/run the booth this year, please add your contact info below. NB should be getting several free passes for volunteers who work at least a 4-hour shift. First come, first served!
Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth
Project: Kombucha
Lead Contact: Rameen
Description: Kombucha samples were a big hit last year; people spent hours asking me about it and listening to descriptions and brewing instructions etc. Maybe we could make a more visually appealing version of that. Also, people loved seeing our distiller. Having something tangible to give to give or to do is most memorable, I think.
I think we should put some focus into our set-up and make our booth look really amazing this year!
Project: Spacebridge
Lead Contact: Christopher
Description: Spacebridge will be displaying their payload items (radio, tracking devices, flight computer, camera, etc) and payload buses. Above our booth, we will have a 30 foot weather balloon filled with helium to demonstrate how we loft our payloads. Tethered to the weather balloon will be a video camera and radio transmitter broadcasting a top view of the display floor. We will also have a projector displaying images from our flight and the live video feed from our camera attacked to the balloon.
Requirements: We will need 1 table to display the items, power outlets to run a laptop, a projector, the the radio receiver. We will also need the booth to be placed in an indoor location that has a ceiling above 30 feed (any of the main halls will be fine).
Project: Bio Hacking
Lead Contact: Rolf/Otute/Alan
Description: Last year we had a bio-themed table that was quite popular. We basically want to do this again, but with a few new things to show.
Otute and I hope to have a new version of the BioBoard to show off. This time it should actually be doing something. We want microscopes.
In addition, we would like to have a "dark" tent nearby where people can come in to see bioluminescent mushrooms.
Definitely some overlap with what Rameen is describing above and maybe the two could be combined. Serving Kombucha last year was really popular.
Requirements: We need 1 table to display the items, and the usual of power outlets and chairs. Of course, it must be indoors.
For the dark tent, we would have to design and build a small structure to hold up some black fabric, and where a few people at a time
can walk in.
Other Items to Bring
- NB flyers
- NB stickers
- NB t-shirts?
Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!
After adding your name and time slot, please email me (cclinco AT gmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials"
(as they're calling the passes for volunteers). 2) When you want to start working your 4 hour shift.
Folks who want to help staff the booth:
Setup Friday May 18th
Setup times for the venue: 10am-8pm
(Note: this is tentative... because of Education Day on Friday morning, we may have to do some setup on Thurs evening)
1) Christopher Lincoln
Set-up Saturday May 19th
Set-up times: Saturday, May 19 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
1) Christopher Lincoln
6) Danny (I can get down before 10AM, but not at 7.30am!)
Event Saturday May 19th
1) Christopher Lincoln
Event Sunday May 20th
1) Christopher Lincoln
Take down Sunday May 20th
If you have a car that can transport projects, please state so
1) Christopher Lincoln
Members with Booths at Maker Faire
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I've come to the very sensible conclusion that Tuesday is by far and away the most unpleasant day of the week. Even a Monday can be saved by the fading dreams of a fine weekend and the, albeit few and infrequent, Bank Holiday, but a Tuesday sits there for the sole purpose of listlessly extending the time between one and 5pm Friday. It suffers from its being mundane, indifferent, inconsequential, it's not the start of the week nor the middle of it, it's nothing but a 24 hour bastard. Fuck Tuesday.
As usual the day at work was a trudge from start to finish, it was cold, rainy and the office was removed of its vaguely cheery gritty character. I even watched Budd Dwyer blowing his brains out again just to allow the juddering chill of horror to change the direction of the bland passing of office time. I'd resigned myself to have a night off the pop, it's not as if I've been particularly bad over the past few weeks but I'd not had a night off since late October which I justified via the season and darkness and temperature… I intended to spend the night in front of the TV eating sausages, early night, that sort of thing.
Then late pm I get a call from Harry. Within seconds I had plans to go out to the local pub, suddenly Tuesday didn't seem so awful. He and I met at a little after 7 and we remained there until 11.30. Drinking a fine drop of Adnams Explorer we chatted away in a heated tent in the beer garden covering all manner of topics in a most congenial fashion. On the way home we grabbed pizza from Tesco, we were too late to purchase wine and Myfwt and I had rid ourselves of the weekly stock at home through sheer conviviality, but I had beers in the fridge.
On entering chez Piqued Cunts door opened and a naughty little face popped out to obsequiously ask if 'it was too loud'. He was clearly off his face, the prick. I informed him I'd not a clue, having just walked in etc., (how grimly unintelligent) but at least Harry was able to actually see in action the manifestation of horror that is Cunt. Now he knows. Indeed Cunt treated us to more delights, for the first time I can recall he had a friend over (rare anyway) who actually stayed there for more than an hour. Naturally such a person must share a similar view of the world, you know, ————-, and this was reflected in their conversation which consisted of making yourself heard by shouting like a fucking docker and laughing maniacally as if ones frontal cortex was being macerated by a knitting needle. I just hope that when they did move onto the flinging their own faeces about the place they showered after.
Still Harry didn't seem too fussed as we enjoyed Dead Ringers (the film, not that fucking amazingly shit TV show with that bloke who, like Mike Yarwood back in the 70's, hasn't realised that a wig does not an impersonation make) and after a night cap we hit the sack at about 2-ish, in separate rooms obviously, whilst I've nothing against them I'm not one to push Maltesers north.
So, there you have it, Tuesday saved right at the end. Yes, I have a mild hangover but it's the middle of the week and it's a gorgeous lovely sunny day Ducks.
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Family Relationships Quarterly No. 15
Articles include shariah law and marriage in Australia, working with families after traumatic events, a whole-of-agency public health approach
The Australian Institute of Family Studies acknowledges the traditional country throughout Australia on which we gather, live, work and stand.
We acknowledge all traditional custodians, their Elders past, present and emerging, and we pay our respects to their continuing connection to their culture, community, land, sea and rivers.


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My 96 year old Grandma, Grace Tuttle, went home to be with her Lord for Christmas.
She passed on Saturday, December 21.
Photo from October of 2011
We decided to drive to Pennsylvania on Thursday, December 26.
The Internment was for family only on Friday afternoon. We had a sweet time of singing all around her casket at the funeral home and then we proceeded to the burial.
That evening we all gathered at Ben & Sara's home for fellowship & a meal.
Saturday morning, December 28, was the Memorial Service at Calvary Baptist Church in Landsale, PA. Most of the ladies in the family wore a piece of Grandma's jewelry. We girls wore one of her pins. Grandma always had a pin on her sweater or lapel.
Group/Family photos before the Memorial Service:
What a blessing to ALL be together!
My Dad & his 5 siblings with spouses.
17 out of 19 of her grandchildren
The Tuttle Clan
78 were in attendance; 18 were unable to attend
We enjoyed meeting the newer family members, or just ones we hadn't seen in years.
Here I am with my niece, Charlie Grace.
The three Meg's of the family.
There was a lot of cousins and second cousins playing.
My Grandma was loved and she will be missed. She loved the Lord. She loved each of us individually. She let us share our burdens. She was a prayer warrior. We knew she would pray for us and not tell anything that was shared in confidence. What a legacy she and Grandpa left and what a gift family is!
Proverbs 31:28-30
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.


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Back in ancient times, people discovered that magnetite crystals attract or repel each other depending on their orientation. This physical phenomenon is referred to as magnetism. The words magnetite and magnesium are both derived from Magnesia, the name of an area in the Thessaly region of Greece where magnetic stone can be found in abundance.
It is the iron in the rock that is responsible for the magnetic properties of magnetite. Many iron alloys possess magnetic properties. In addition to iron, we find magnetic properties in nickel, cobalt and gadolinium as well.
Although ferromagnetic (and ferrimagnetic) materials are the only kinds with strong enough magnetic properties to be drawn to a magnet (which is why they are called 'magnetic'), all other substances also respond weakly to a magnetic field, via one or more other types of magnetism.
Ferromagnetic materials can be divided into magnetically 'soft' materials, such as annealed iron, which can be magnetized but usually do not retain the magnetization indefinitely, and magnetically 'hard' materials that do remain magnetized. Permanent magnets are made of 'hard' ferromagnetic materials such as Alnico and ferrite, which undergo special processing in a powerful magnetic field during production to 'align' their internal microcrystalline structure, making them very resistant to demagnetization.
Objects which strongly exhibit this behaviour are called magnets. There are natural and man-made magnets (e.g. Alnico, Fernico, ferrites). All magnets have two poles, which are referred to as the north pole and the south pole. The north pole of a magnet repels the north pole of other magnets and attracts the south pole of other magnets. Two south poles also repel.
Because the earth has a magnetic field as well, with its magnetic south pole close to the geographic north pole and its magnetic north pole close to the geographic south pole, a free-spinning magnet will always take on a north-south orientation. The names of the poles of a magnet are derived from this phenomenon. For the sake of convenience, but nevertheless slightly confusing, the south pole of "the 'earth magnet' is called the magnetic north pole and the north pole of the 'earth magnet' is called the magnetic south pole.
A related phenomenon is electromagnetism, which is magnetism generated by an electric current. In essence, all magnetism is caused by either rotating or revolving electrical charges in eddy currents.
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Same situation here - Amazon & eBay capture the budget while delivering poor quality traffic that doesn't convert.
Google needs to rethink how they integrate these types of sites into Google Search Partners. Essentially, Google needs to give us transparency into what sites are in Search Partners, and then Google needs to give us greater control so we can pick & choose which Search Partner sites we want our ads to appear on.
Understandably, Google's integration of Target, Walmart, Amazon, eBay, et al into Search Partners drives hundreds of millions of dollars annually, so they probably protect this gold mine fiercely. But we're the ones sending them millions of dollars each year, and both we and our clients demand that Google step forward offering greater accountability.


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Qualcomm Inc. showed a double-digit increase in sales this year that will make it the world's third-largest chip maker in 2012, according to analytics firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 semiconductor suppliers declined.
Only two years ago, Qualcomm was in ninth place among worldwide chip makers. This is the first time that Qualcomm has ranked as high as third in the chip market, behind Intel, in the top spot, with Samsung second.
"This year has been terrible for most semiconductor application markets, with the sole exception of the wireless segment, which is expected to generate robust revenue growth this year," said Dale Ford, a senior director at iSuppli. "Consumers are continuing to buy more smartphones and media tablets, even as sales of other once-hot products like PCs and flat-panel TVs decelerate or decline."
Qualcomm's rise in the chip maker rankings reflects the growth in importance of the mobile market. The company's revenue is expected to jump to $12.9 billion in 2012, compared with $10.1 billion in 2011.
Intel, the top chip maker, is expected to show $47.5 billion in revenue for 2012, a 2.4% drop from nearly $49 billion in 2011. Second-place Samsung, meanwhile, is expected to have 6.7% revenue growth in 2012, increasing to a $30.4 billion this year, compared with $28.5 billion last year.
"With its chips at the heart of countless cellphones, including Apple Inc.'s marquee iPhone 5, Qualcomm has discovered an oasis of growth in the desert that is the semiconductor market in 2012," added Ford.
Tuesday's announcement about Qualcomm's rise comes on the heels of iSuppli's report Monday downgrading the chip market for the third time since August.
The analyst firm now expects worldwide chip sales to decline 2.3% in 2012, from $310 billion in 2011 to $303 billion this year. It would be the first annual decline for the global chip industry since 2009.
While the wireless market still is predicted to continue to grow in 2012, iSuppli noted that five of the six major markets for semiconductors, including the key computer segment, are expected to decline this year.
"It's not a surprise that Qualcomm has moved up in the ranks of chip producers when you consider the sheer volume of chips that are being produced to go into mobile devices worldwide," said Dan Olds, an analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group.
One question is how the growth in mobile and the decline in traditional PCs will affect top semiconductor players like Intel and AMD. Intel has been taking major steps to branch out into the mobile market.
According to Patrick Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, Intel's effort could help the chip maker retain its top position.
"Wireless and mobility is a very hot market and will continue to be for the foreseeable future," Moorhead said. "Intel will benefit, too, as they shift their guns on mobility... Intel is four times larger than Qualcomm today, but they must turn the corner on wireless and mobility. Intel made a good start but they must get into business mode and make that business relevant."
While Intel works to holds its top position, iSuppli noted that seven companies among the top 20 semiconductor suppliers are expected to suffer double-digit percentage declines in revenue in 2012. Those companies include AMD, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, Elpida Memory and Renesas Electronics. These companies are expected to have revenue drops ranging from 11.4% to 17.7%.
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The author publishes a text by Andreas Trapezuntius, a private secretary to Pope Sixtus IV, which describes the Sistine Chapel as completed in every way (omni ex parte). Andreas speaks of the "pictura of both Laws rendered by matching figures", the painted draperies on the wall, the tessellated floor, and the Cancellata. The author dates the text to April - May 1432, and argues that Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, and Luca Signorelli all finished working in the Chapel in the spring of 1482. The inauguration of the Chapel was delayed until August 1483 because of the military situation at Rome on the feast of the Assumption, 15 August, in 1482.
Veronese's Cycle of Love in the National Gallery, London primarily depicts the progress of courtship through vicissitudes common in the Petrarchan tradition (illustrated in the first three paintings) to a successful outcome in marriage (celebrated in the fourth). Veronese's subject matter and narrative imagery are analogous to topoi and coventions of love and courtship in Renaissance amatory poetry, music, and epithalamia. He portrays such poetic topoi as 1) Love guiding an awe-struck suitor to view his sleeping mistress, 2) love's possessiveness, 3) the disdainful Petrarchan mistress who directs Cupid to inflict torture upon her passionate ad-mirer, and 4) Fortuna Conjugalis bestowing a crown of bounty and glory on the married couple.
Once More a Stranger: Jacopo Tintoretto
The publishing of a comprehensive two volume compendium of the works of Jacopo Tintoretto (Opere sacre e profane, Venice 1982) by Rodolfo Pallucchini (Introduction, development, state of research) and Paola Rossi (registers, critical catalogue, bibliography) offers the occasion to question critically the validity of this type of art divulgation as a working cate-gory. The example of this long-awaited Tintoretto monograph brings out certain virtues (the art history contextualization and location, arrangement into tables, chronology, exhaustive documentation of pictures, bibliography etc.) and shortcomings (reproduction, technical de-tails, iconography, participation of collaborators, meanings etc.) of this ambitious undertaking, but also allow us to realize how much there is still to know for an overall picture of Mannerist Venice and especially for the still unsatisfactorily understood figure of Tintoretto.
Adriaen de Vries and his School in Prague. His Contribution to Spreading Florentine Academic Art in Europe at the End of the 16th and the Beginning of the 17th Centuries
The subject of this study is a very little known bas-relief by Adrian de Vries, executed in 1614 for Franciscus Ursinus bishop of Wrocław, representing the Martyrdom of St. Vincent. The main question posed by the author is: how has the sculptor carried out in this work the aims of the Counterreform (this sculpture was ordered by an alumnus of the Collegium Germanicum in Rome), and what are the signs of Florentine academic training (keeping in mind Sandrart's information on de Vries' academic training during his stay in Florence). The con-lusion the author comes to is: the Martyrdom of St. Vincent in Wrocław is a very important example of Florentine academic art principles spread to central Europe.
The Meaning of Light in Caravaggio and Gianlorenzo Bernini
Developing a proposal made by Maurizio Calvesi, the light in the works of the 1600's by Caravaggio is here considered as the metaphor of Grace in the Aristotelian-Scholastic sense of light, and from the analogies established by Domingo Banes, and then carried on by Felice Passero. As for the relationship that Gianlorenzo Bernini intended to establish between his sculpture and light, the distinction is made between radiating light and illumination; the brev-ity of the radiating time is considered here in connection with Maffeo Barberini's meditations on the passing away of earthly things. Art, though fiction, is exhalted as described in the Filosofia morale by Emanuele Tesauro.
This iconographic study, by focusing upon Van Dyck's mounted representations of King Charles V – including the singular "dismounted equestrian-portrait" erroneously called Le Roi a la ciasse, generally interprets the Baroque equestrian-portrait as an essentially symbolic, specifically political, document, thereby refuting the currently accepted "genre-narrative" in-terpretations of this distinctive category of the 17th century State-Portrait. Specifically, this study interprets all the portraits of Charles I, Equestrian by Van Dyck as being representations of the "Christian Knight" theme (Miles Christianus). According to this author, this royal equestrian series drew upon both pictorial and textual sources. Among the latter, most promi-nent are Erasmus' Enchiridion Militis Christiani (1503) and Olivier de la Marche's Le Chevalier delibere (1488); and, among the former, most important are Dürer's print of Der Reuter (1513) and Titian's Portrait of Charles V on Horseback at the Battle of Muhlberg (1548). As shown here, Titian's highly influential Imperial-equestrian was deliberately planned as a reborn Miles christianus, as is made clear by reference to the published explanation (1559) for the re-appearance of the same motif upon Charles V's tumulus.
This study of the Cappella Sagredo in San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, seeks to relate the Chapel and its works of art to the political fortune of the Venetian family that commissioned them. Military disgraces and political achievements are examined as background to a Chapel that honors three distinguished members of the Sagredo family. Gerolamo Pellegrini, a Roman painter, executed frescoes around 1671 glorifying San Gherardo Sagredo, and the Virgin Mary. An ambitious altar tabernacle, again showing both San Gherardo and Mary, was sculpted c.1685 by Niccolo Sagredo (1606–1676) and Patriarch Alvise Sagredo (1617–1688) were executed c.1745 by Giovanni Gai, and a series of frescoes was painted in grisaille by Giambattista Tiepolo that show Allegorical Virtues and the Four Evangelists. It is concluded here that the Chapel stands as testimony to the intimate connections in the Serenissima linking patrician pride to artistic commitment and patriotic service.
Reflections on a Still Life Painting by Pieter Boel (and Some Suggestions on the Earl of Arundel and W. Hollar)
Pieter Boel's StiII Life with a Cat and Dead Birds in the Picture Gallery of Kromeriz Castle (Czechoslovakia), painted in, or shortly before 1650, is revealed as having been conceived within the tradition of nature morte moralise, established by P. Aertsen, J. Beuckelaer, and their followers. In Boel's painting, the dark side of the human soul, symbolized by the covet-ous cat, was counterbalanced by the sound force of reason, alluded to by the fragment of an antique frieze represented in the lower right-hand corner. This relief is further identified as the Arundel "Scipio" marble now in the Museum of London. It is likely that the painter was acquainted with it through a now lost or so far unidentified drawing by Wenceslaus Hollar.
In order to lead up to the complex character of this work, we outline the history of paint-ings of people suffering from the convulsions of war. This history begins with Goya, who in his Desastres de la guerra pointed out various ways to express this concept; 1) the eyewitness report, 2) the ennobling of suffering by recalling the passion of Christ, as well as, 3) allegorical or symbolic expression. All three ways were made use of in the 19th century, at times combinations of them. The most important was the eyewitness report, a form which with the hell of World War I reached metaphysical heights especially with German artists – Beckmann, Grosz, Dix, and others. The way Picasso marked off snatches of real history with symbols, recalls furthermore the collage technique, which made John Heartfield's commentaries on the Spanish Civil War so forceful. However Guernica cannot be interpreted quite so straightforwardly. The horse, for example, may well represent the suffering Spanish people. However it also bursts with aggression. The oppressed victims upsurge oppressing each other.


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T.J. Haws will have a new running mate in the backcourt in the 2013-14 season.
Frank Jackson, a freshman guard for Lehi who put up 30 points on the vaunted Lone Peak Knights during their national championship season in February, has transferred to Lone Peak, according to Knights' coach Quincy Lewis.
Lewis said Jackson registered at Lone Peak in April, adding the family moved into their new place of residence the first week of May, making Jackson eligible for the upcoming basketball season in late 2013.
"There's no question he's a highly-regarded player," Lewis said. "With the kids we have coming back, with having an excellent JV year and three kids who played quite a big role on varsity, we have a good team coming back and we'll see how he can complement those guys."
In Lone Peak's 90-71 win over the Pioneers on Feb. 15 in Lehi, Jackson did not cower when he faced the daunting task of taking on the likes of Nick Emery, Haws and Zach Frampton, scoring more points against the Knights than any other player all season.
In fact, Jackson's 30 points eclipsed two outputs against the Knights this season Riverton scored 27 points against Lone Peak on Feb. 1 and Brighton scored 27 points in the Class 5A semifinal on March 1.
When asked if he thought Jackson gave more fits defensively than anyone else in the state, Lewis said, "You can certainly make a case for that."
Jackson averaged 10 points as a freshman at Lehi and also had scoring games of 27 and 21 against Pleasant Grove last season.
"Obviously the kid has some talent, but for such a young player to have that kind of poise that he had was maybe what stood out to me," Lewis said.
While Jackson's move to Lone Peak will somewhat smoothen the rough transition after losing several star players to graduation, he's been slowed this summer due to an ankle injury and has been in a walking boot for three weeks. Once the boot comes off and he's cleared to play, Lewis expects Jackson to partake in team workouts.
"I'm hoping that we can start doing that within the next week or two," he said.
Lewis said Jackson has yet to workout with the team because of his move into the Lone Peak boundaries as well as the ankle injury and said he doesn't know where he plans on playing Jackson in the future.
"Obviously I know what I have coming back," he said, "but I don't know where he'll go yet."
After dodging the major injury bug on last year's historic championship team, Lewis said ankles have slowed a number of players this summer, including Jackson, Frampton and big man Spencer Curtis. The Knights head to Oregon next week for a team camp.
"Hopefully I can field a team," Lewis said. "It's just been a crazy deal."
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I've thought better of my question; can I delete it?
Why and how are some questions deleted?
What should I do if no one answers my question?
How do I ask a good question?
What are tags, and how should I use them?
Why is the system asking me to wait a day or more before asking another question?
Why do I see a message that my question does not meet quality standards?
What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?
What should I do when someone answers my question?
How to Ask Questions in Private Beta