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Close there is an addon though through usb which is like a gun and it shoots you when you get shot in game. Quite realistic but it missed me and killed my cat
My only problem with true Sim FPS is that they can become linear. Remember this is just a game and not a recruitment tool for joining the armed forces . So folk are interested in a game that offers best of both worlds, realism along with games style that's entertaining and fun to play. Looking at both forums OPF: DR appears to have more activity then Arma II if that has any meaning well see when the demo is out. OPF: DR forum BI forums I am sure there are other forums out there and, in the end the proof of which is better will boil down to preference and game style IMO.
isn't America's Army exactly just that; a recruitment tool that gamers play instead of getting recruited...? that's ironic
Well you may have chance to crap your self thats if your not dead after being shot once lol. You can be badly wounded though. On foot it's a sim the planes helli's and such are not sim like at all. It is a simulator.. It is VBS1 but highly modifide version of it which used to be used by a few army's around the globe which they use VBS 2 now and last time i looked will set you back a hefty $1200 for it which uses a USB key to work against fake copys which i think would be good for all games hahah but i guess it's a cost issue...
I saw a tactical vest that has little air impacting things in it. It lets you know when and where you are getting shot. Pretty cool. I saw it in one of my PC Gamer mags. I'm almost tempted to try it out... www.tngames.com http://www.fpsvest.com/?gclid=CJD539jTw5kCFQ6jagodyV_Stg
Nope; but it takes actual skill compared to say oh...Call of Duty. There's no "perks" in ArmA, game over? Now if only someone could realease a nice piece of headgear, with high resolution support...
Reminds me of a multiplayer game I played on arma. At our base we got pinned down by a sniper and the game rules were we couldn't respawn to make it realistic and this guy was a good shot so I said to the team I'd run to the next bit of cover and you try and either shoot him of flank him. So I ran out and I must have just left the safety of a building and he got me before the team even reacted
Games like BF2, COD2, COD4 and even COD:WAW are popular because those games are fun to play. That's why I said that a FPS game has to be both realistic and fun to play. The perception of how others interpret any particular game can set the image of what expected from it. But lets look at the main page of AA now lets look at the main page of OPF: DR and Arma II. As you can see from their front pages OPF: DR and Arma II are promoted and presented much differently then AA. Therefore, the irony isn't that people play AA instead of getting recruited. The irony is that there are more people interested in playing a game that is unrealistic to real world miltary tactic (which they consider fun) vs a game that you perceived as a recruitment tool that gamers play instead of getting recruited.
The only problem there East, is that they assume it's 'fun' because it's not difficult. That's a really poor definition. There's tons of things I can do that are extremely difficult, but they are satisfying and enjoyable, and that equates into fun. We should agree to disagree, that while the hand-eye coordination of eight year olds in today's world is sick compared to say eighty years ago; we have to recognize that their attention span is near zero. In the end, development goes where the money is; and just because it looks and sounds 'realistic,' doesn't mean it is. Crysis should be a sufficient example.
Indeed it's very hard to say whats fun and whats not it totally depends on the person. Fun to me changes a lot day to day how i feel all though i find Arma harder than COD \ MOH \ Crysis and the rest of them and challenges me. Other game's don't my thinking thoughts are blocked by most due to limited ways in completing some thing. Were as with Arma ( try the dam demo already ) you need to think on a large scale even larger if you set a server up on the hardest possible settings. But balance the settings to find were the fun starts. For example 1. friendly markers enemy markers show on map or not all though you might like the friendly ones but not the enemy's. And if you turn the friendly ones off you need to be able read a map lol. Example 2. Iron sights on or off which having them on would mean you would need to be more aware of were your weapon is pointing. Example 3. 1st \3rd person, i enjoy 1st person much more than 3rd person but time to time i use it when driving which is about 2% of the game if that. Example 4. The dam map is 50KM you can use loads of different weapons depending on how the mission maker has made the mission you can decide whats best for you. Like you can check the whole area out before attacking which depends on your play style. Example 5. I play the game with a average of 3000m viewing distance and take advantage of a situation. Depends on your mood to do you give in easy and what you like. Examples i can make 100 of them as arma has 100 + things that other games don't but if any thing i like more than any thing is FREEDOM and to knew that my team mates will back me up and i will adjust to there requirements if it's to cover or watch over or just collect intell. Tell ya what there's not many games you can use a 107 from 500-1300m away from your target lol.
I believe you misunderstood my post. I was referencing realistic vs unrealistic not about what's difficult or not. Difficulty in most FPS games can be adjusted. So, I honestly don't see the relation.
Someone doesn't like getting PWND in CoD. You sound like the guys who says Quake takes no skill yet cant place first on a map to save their lives.
Leaked ingame footage of OFP: Dragon Rising! Looks really really really good to me haha Enjoy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hKg...rum/topic.php?id=4957&feature=player_embedded
I missed part of this last time, it can be but thats to do with the mission designer and not the game. And http://www.armaholic.com/ have some new Arma 2 vids posted too .
Here are a few comparisons between the two. However keep in mind that it's Alpha OFP2 vs ARMA2 Edit: The main difference maybe Ambient Occlusion
They both look great.. But which is more arcady do you think? I liked OpFlash A LOT, never played arma before tho.
Looks like the OFP: DR has better AO on player models and scenery. However, the vehicles look the same. And, IMO some of the OFP: DR players looks pre-rendered. Only the last one looks like in game photo to me.
Both different game engines so expect a lot of difference. To me Arma II looks much better. Dam check out that spotting distance lol. Although i am hoping OFP 2 is good and is more like GR HAHAHA... Here's a vid although it's more about TIR5 which was released a few days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wXx3vMy_AQ&fmt=22 More likely OFP 2 will be but that has to be even seen what that games like. With Arma i know what i am buying but is showing some xbox ish looks about it from the pics i have seen all though if enough don't like the changes some one will make a new interface for it .
I'll get them both if their realistic which i know Arma 2 will be and if it's not the public will make it so anyways. If OFP 2 is not FC2 BS or like any thing like that with good spawning realistic hit damage i'll get it. Only other thing could get me get OFP 2 if not so realistic ( within reason ) is if it has a good plot \ story as me and my wife will play it.
Arma support 64 players i don't see why Arma to would not.. EDIT: You checked out the Arma 2 website ?. http://www.arma2.com/ Forum http://forums.bistudio.com/forumdisplay.php?f=9 You might find some thing on the wiki too. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_2 I know some who would know for sure but it's catching him around.


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This thread will be used for Question&Answer sessions with me. It is simple; you ask a game related question by replying to this thread that you want to learn or simply get some tips/tricks and I will reply to it on the same day.
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I am a champion. Furthermore, I have been a very active player, both in competitive and in public scene. Im currently sitting on 1900 MMR, but please note that i haven't played a single game in almost 2 months, was one of the earlier players who hit the 1900 in EU. Been leader of Clan Oxygen which is later sponsored by RushRush Gaming for almost 2 years, and then been a player for HoNPortal competing in DreamHoN SemiFinals and many other 1day tournaments / small cups. My main roles are semi support / suicide lane. I believe I'm capable of playing any role, these are the ones I'm best at so i play them in competitive games. You can ask me anything about any class.
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--> It is a nice thing that you can keep up the pace of the game, its important that you suit a more skilled team - however that can be no excuse to what your rating is now. I'm not going to talk about your stats right now, because some people take that as an offense, I'll just go ahead and speak about general things.Originally Posted by CyberStein
The possibility of you having less-skilled players in your team is less than the possibility of you facing them. In the worst scenario, you should maintain a higher win percentage than 50%, which means overall your MMR is increasing, slowly but surely.
If you really think your skill-level is what it takes to be in the 1700 bracket, I can tell you what I do to boost my sub accounts. I just pick a mid hero and stomp my way up to the desired bracket. When it starts to get harder and you can no longer win alone, you'll understand that you are where you are supposed to be. However, since you have 50% win with fairly "okay" stats I think you don't have what it takes at the moment. Rather than watching streams, I recommend to watch your classes' experts. For example, if you are a carry, go download dozen replays of Trixi or Era and try to understand his gameplay.
Another thing you can do is to find a casual team to TMM with. If you have some luck and meet the right people, and can maintain team synergy it will be so easy to get out of 1500/1600s with 2/3men queues.
Since you asked a general question, I cannot give you any key facts or some tips, because every single individual have different ways of gaining MMR, some only solo Q, some only team up. This is something you got to try yourself and find out. The current MM system is not the best, and I agree it doesnt show everything about your skill, but gives some idea at least. If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask
--> Hi, and welcome Well, in HoNPortal, from time to time, during our casual fun scrims, we have played with or against DR - so he is picked rarely, but just not in any important matches. This can be caused by few things in my opinion,
1) He is an int carry which needs to be solo. He needs that early levels and the farm advantage to be efficient. Now since this is the case, he has to go mid. He cannot afford to go to a lane and lose/ or even do OK on it. Opponent can easily shut down DR mid with a dual lane mid setup or even a constant roamer.
2) The current metagame focuses on either tanky setup with push or mid game potential, or a harcarry setup. Either way, doctor is just not good enough to compete vs these setups, and DR's team will be forced to push earlier to try finish before. At that time, DR will be far away from his peak and there will be absolutely no point of picking him.
3) Shrunken is the best and most picked up big item in this game, and completely counters DR. Why not pick hag, polly, witch or any other mid dominant hero who is much better (and more useful to team) early/mid game than DR and useless late game like DR?
This is what comes to my mind when I think of why, I'm sure I can come up with more if I do some thinking over it, but DR just does not seem like a good pick at this moment, there are much much better picks which can go with the same strategy.
--> Your first question is answered on Fj's Black Code. Your second question, I can't say if you're trolling or serious. There is no exact date when HoN became "competitive", competitive means that there is a competition between teams in terms of scrimming and some actual tournaments with or without prizes or any exact boundaries as in top players. The third question, I am sorry to say that I am not going to explain something again which is already greatly explained all around the forums and different websites. You can search for that
--> This is actually a nice question. To start with, I only played normal games (PSR) with my team, so throughout the scrims I found myself on that point bracket, its not really something special. About Match Making, its a bit harder. Yes, I've found myself stuck in some brackets for a long while, 99% of the time I solo Q'd, so I guess it's something normal. Remember, you get 4 random players, your opponent gets 5. The odds of the "feeder" be in your team is less, you should almost always maintain more win % than 50. If you can do that, do not worry. You will reach the higher MMR brackets, slowly but surely while improving your skills.
I believe I improved the most when I started scrimming 2 years ago. In casual TMM matches, even if you try hard, if your team does not, you cannot achieve a lot. With an organized and ambitious team, you will see yourself concentrating much more and improving a lot faster before you can even realize how high your skill became.
I believe there are 3 factors to improving. Dedication, self-confidence and concentration.
Dedication, I remember times playing 10 hours non stop a day, you need to dedicate a lot of your time if you want to compete with the best. HoN has relatively small competitive scene comparing the money it. Always remember your goal, and decide if dedicating your time is worth the reward. Never spend time with thinking how bad you played in the last game, or flaming the feeder/griefer. Always look forward, I cannot stress this enough, DO NOT WASTE TIME. Sometimes I find myself sitting on a chat, talking with people, wanting to play but never got the chance for hours. Always play and practice.
Self-confidence is an important factor, just as over-confidence is a dangerous habit. As you become higher in the MMR brackets, you will start to see how easy it is to dispatch some of the so-called top players, do not underestimate yourself. If you are playing against someone, it is because you have beaten the same guys, and you deserve to be in that bracket just as much as he does. Try to give your best. If you are having cold-hands, or shaking, you should understand something is wrong. Go take a small walk, breathe and give your best.
Concentration, I think this is one of the most frequent mistakes I find myself doing. Remember though, this is something personal, I will just give examples of myself. Sometimes I play while listening to music, or without game sounds, or even while TV is on in the background. At these times I find my game has decreased a lot. If you are doing something, do it right and give your best. The chance of winning the game while chatting with someone on Facebook or on a casual chat with a friend on Skype is very low for me. Even, if something is on your mind, or bugging you at that point, trust me, your performance will be lowered a lot.
It is up to you to take these into consideration or not, and I am not promising you anything, but if you consider and use these principles there is a big possibility your skill and game play will increase greatly. Still, the MMR has a luck factor. It does not reflect your skill level 100%, but gives an opinion about it. Try to TMM with friends, if you want to become better and higher, do not play for fun, play TO WIN. You might use boring strategies, broken heroes, or same lineups for hours - every high clan/player has done that at some point. Play to win, live to win
--> Well, it is tricky really. I cannot give you facts, I'll tell you what has worked for me. Until 1700s, you can almost guarantee to win alone unless your team is not horribly bad or feeding with a snowball hero, any hero is capable of this however I will tell you those who I think are the easiest: Deadwood, pebbles, succubus, hag, silhoutte, engineer, flux, tundra, aluna and heroes alike..
After 1800ish, (since you match up with 1900 guys too) teams start to get a bit better, players start to have knowledge, positioning and ultimately wards around the map. I found that it is the easiest to support your way up at this point. What I did was play Ophelia 24/7, help all my lanes dominate and force opponent to concede. There is a truth, everyone can carry in pubs until very high brackets, but not everyone can or will support. So support, be a ward whore if you have to, make sure to help all of your lanes, be everywhere and maintain pressure early on. On public games, players don't really want to or know how to turtle, thus if you dominate them early, there is a high chance you are forcing a concede vote.
--> Hi! There wasn't really a moment in my playing history where I thought "Oh, I should start playing inhouses now!". When you get into a competitively active high clan, you will automatically get invited to the inhouses, since its point is to compete with the players who you would normally play against in a tournament. So, don't worry about it just yet, when you find a successful clan who's scrimming a lot, you will find yourself playing in inhouses. At that point, you would be at your peak so there wouldn't be much room to improve anyway.
About your second question, ready above. I've talked about 3 personal abilities I try to maintain while gaming - I think those have improved me a lot. And of course, brophelia <3
Your final one, I believe that: unless you're getting crushed; you're not learning anything. Get stomped, download the replay, analyze your lane, opponents - from its hardsupport harassing and ward spots to its hard carry's farming capabilities. You will feel the difference next game! Hope it was useful
--> Interesting question haven't thought much about this. Of course it differs from game to game, and depends on if you are asking about pubs or scrims. I am not trying hard in public games since I already have an overwhelming job and play TMM to have fun. I'm going to give a general answer including what I do in both.
Usually, game starts with what we call "theorycrafting" in the picking phase. From the lanes they can use, to what items they can counter us with - of course this includes the bloodlust kill and the strategies to gank the lanes. However, when the game starts everything can change - so it is useful to have a backbone plane, but also you should be able to adapt them to the current situation. To be honest, players who are able to judge the game and do this successfully are the top players.
To improve this particular skill, I would say you should take some time and think about your game. Download scrims between top clans, analyze their strategies. Also you should note that, you cannot just say "I'll gank top lane", team coordination and communication is the most important thing in this game. Do not expect to achieve this too well in public, especially if you are solo queue.
--> Well, this is a very generic question, I can only answer this with my own experience while smurfing. I feel like the biggest handicap lower brackets have that they all die for picking carries, thinking that playing carries make them look better or something then have to lane a dual carry dual melee lane and fail. No one wants to play hard support/semi support in these games because they are just not as fun with a team who does not know how to control the lane and roam around. Its really a dead end, if you pick supports/roamers its not gonna be as effective and you will be bored, if you do not pick it then you will probably lose.
Other important thing is the positioning, the term "throwing" is really what these players tend to do as game progresses. I do not know if it is because of pure lack of knowledge or slacky play but as the game progresses, and the wards get countered, players tend to go out and farm a lane for 5 minutes without expecting a gank, the team who pub trains and pick off the solo misplaced players will most likely win the game.
--> I feel like you both will share the same answer, so I will answer you both in once if you guys don't mind. FIrst of all, KDR is important and you should care about it. Does not matter if you play a hard support or a hard carry, no one will want a guy who has 0.2 kdr in his team, you cannot go 0-10 as glacius and expect it to be okay. If you follow the current competitive scene, and from my own experience in HoNPortal (hint hint) I can safely say a feeding hard support easily costed us the game, because early kill or two to the enemy carry changes A LOT.
However, stats or KDR in this case is not everything. How come do majority of players find so important? I cannot answer that, the majority of players do not understand this game then. As you go up in the MMR ladder you will see players will stop caring too much about your stats. But if you are a mid player or a hard carry only and a kind of player who refuse to ward/play support, your stats should be perfect. Creeps average, KD, APM, GPM, Denies everything. The second part of your question, "Why do people refuse to play supports?" is what I just answered to someone above, I'll just copy paste if you do not mind:
I feel like the biggest handicap lower brackets have that they all die for picking carries, thinking that playing carries make them look better or something then have to lane a dual carry dual melee lane and fail. No one wants to play hard support/semi support in these games because they are just not as fun with a team who does not know how to control the lane and roam around. Its really a dead end, if you pick supports/roamers its not gonna be as effective and you will be bored, if you do not pick it then you will probably lose. But again, this is only in lower games, as you go higher and higher you will see that even TMM games will become more like scrims, where people use in game VOIP more, and actually have primary roles to play. Hope this clears things up a bit.
--> There is no rule book on this. People used to host a lot more inhouses, especially before TMM was introduced, players would get to know each other there and if you're lucky you can get invited to few scrims and so on. But now, with Nova's great initiative there is QsQ. I think it is the best way to bring your game to the next level, you get to meet a lot of great players who have the talent but haven't yet made a name. So you might find yourself creating a clan with those people and work your way up!
--> 10. Definitely. It is very important to be nice. By acting in a mature way and making constructive comments you can make them step their games up. If you find that your team is worse than you are, simply act as the ingame leader and tell them what to do. A good team leader in TMM games where people are mostly unorganized can change a lot!
--> That's something comes with experience and time. You can only get better in item choices by playing. Also, I'm sure watching casts like HoNCast or other good players' casts on Twitch.tv gives a lot of feedback and insight on item choices. To start with, try to understand why competitive players make certain choices in scrims, then once you get the idea, you should be coming up with your own ideas!
--> The key here is to organize your team. There are 2 ways to counter if the enemy team is locking down your key hero. First one is, getting a lane ward, and by telling your support to put up some defensive ward, you should be safely farming your lane and back when you see them coming to you. Once they understand you have wards, a) they will either leave you alone (which is freefarm and for a hero like CD its really dangerous) or b) they will pubtrain and push your lane, in this case you counter push another lane or try to defend your tower, it should give you some space to farm - fallen towers give you more space to farm if you get lane wards. Second choice, is to make your team push some towers or at least make some pressure by ganking their forest/playing aggressively which will attract gauntlet/bubbles attention off of you which should give you enough time to farm your core item to actually be useful in teamfights. I hope this was satisfying enough.
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A post written by a Turkish member was just deleted, so I went ahead and translated it to English
Hi, I would like to congratulate you on what you are doing now, and have a question: I've been playing for 2 years now but I'm still around 1550-1600, I had gotten to 1700 once with friends but afterwards they switched to LoL and I've slided back to 1550 playing solo. When I play a carry I average 300^gpm, when I play support the map is fully warded, I do play bad but that's very rare. I believe I've progressed a lot this last year, I've been watching streams. But still it's not enough and we lose the game. I personally like to play brown/orange because then I know that the other players are better than me. But when I get blue/pink the team gets filled with noobs. I've entered the 1700-1800 games with friends and I can keep up the pace of the game, but I'm stuck at this bracket. What should I do?
Happy to find this thread ! Heres one for you.
How come Doctor Repulsor isnt picked in competitive?
You said that rather than watching pro streams we(actually he,but whatever) should download replays of good carry players.Can you provide a list/other good players for all the roles?As i don't really know how competitive hon works i don't really know a lot of those pro players out there and what they do.Can you also tell when did hon became competitive and how players affirmed themselves as top players?And the third question,i want to learn how to draft in lock pick since it seems a pretty well-thought mode.Any pointers/ideas?What heroes to blindban/lock/ban and why?What to choose and why?Anything.(i have been watching a few lock picks but i can't understand why they do what they do)
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indeed i remembered it is in fj's code.I wasn't trolling,i was asking when were the first tournaments made.i think the main tournament is called dreamhack?was it the first hon tournament ever?because i doubt the first hon competition was exactly in the day it was launched.for the third,i searched through the forums but couldn't find advanced tips(only how the mode actually works,which i already know,but no tips on what heroes to pick/ban etc.)
Well, I cannot tell you when was the first tournament made, I don't anyone can answer that since there were a lot of tournaments being hosted without prizes back then. About the lockpick, I cannot tell you what to pick/ban, there are hundreds of strategies and different combinations of picking/banning, it also depends on the enemy. This something you got to learn yourself by playing and practicing. It's the same logic how one cannot learn how to cycle by just reading or listening, you need to try yourself.
Glad you are doing dis.
How did you progress through the mmr and psr system? Did you ever find yourself stuck for a long while, and what made the big difference for you in terms of improving?
Alright thanks! I've been stuck at the 1650-1700 for quite a while so hopefully it will help a bit.
I like answers being long and in-depth so no worries ^^
Only the question can be too long.
What heroes do you use when you solo queue? Do you pick certain heroes in certain brackets only? For instance, my favorite heroes are Hag and Bubbles, but I feel like they are weaker than other heroes in the 1500s due to less teamplay, overall, but they tend to stomp the 1600s and up. Vice versa, BH seems to be pretty strong in the 1500s, but gets weaker and weaker as you go up.
What do you look for, personally, when you pick for solo?
At which rating did you start playing inhouses and when would you consider a player to benefit more from IH's than tmm with a mate?
Which personal ability would you count most important on your way to 1900?
Do you think a player benefits more from playing with people 100 rating above hinmself, or will it let him stand in the shade with no time to shine? - even in a support role?
Thanks in advance
How do you manage your game? I mean, do you just take a hero and do your thing, or youre like "okay, i will gang with parasite at lvl 2, then take a big creep and head over to the bot lane which is pushed. Since top lane has a tendency to get pushed i will go there after 2 lvls..." and so and so. Do you do things like killing the carry or pushing naturally - or do you observe things like the minutes or the carries items, and by that you decide about a specific course of action?
In short - do you tend to strategize alot, when most of your ingame actions(like ganking or pushing) are a direct result of pre planning(unlike most players when theyre all "oh, im near top lane - lets gang", or you just let the game flow? If it is the former - do you have any methods in which i can develop such skills?
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First I would like to thank you for the answers, and if you are starving for more you can answer these whenever you feel
- What is the background of your name?
- What is your preference to APM, I tend to have around 80 APM. I dont know if it is because i am supporting, but in comparison it seems kinda low. Any inputs?
- When you played/play with your clan in high scrims, did you have an agreement about letting the faction get the tower lasthit? (Ofc with no deny risks). Or did you for instance let magmus get the lashit so he would get closer to his pkey?
- "oj" means the lowest rated player, but what does it specifically mean?
- Last, why is Panda not seen more in this tanky meta?
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When you go through the MMR Ratings, do you notice something like
-1500 - they lack map control, and are bad at last hitting
-1600 - (I don't know what they are lacking, etc)
Like, what's the difference between a 1500 player to a 1600 to a 1700 to a 1800? Is it just generally worse in all areas, or are there special features these players are worse with?


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Value Added, Bargain Basement - part 3
1This is the third and final part of the Bargain Basement QAL which is part of the Value Added quilt series. I've really enjoyed being part of the value series along with Rachel, Leila and Jolene. I hope you enjoyed you value lessons and have learned a bit more about how value influences you quilts. If you missed the earlier posts about using value, you'll find all the links in the flickr group discussion. You'll also find more examples of value quilts in the group. We'd like to keep the growing rolling as a place to show all of our quilts influenced by value. So please keep adding to it!
In Part 1 of the Bargain Basement quilt along, I explained the general construction of the bargain basement quilt.
In Part 2; I talked about the background fabric, templates for traditional and foundation piecing, and general construction of the quilt. In Part 3, our final installment, I'll explain how to assemble the quilt top. I've added basic colors to the blocks to help illustrate value choices for this post.
Let's break this quilt into smaller pieces. You'll see the basic square unit that we made in part 2. We can also see the special cases along the edges.
The pink, purple and grey triangles show the special cases which occur because the quilt is set at an angle. The units at the very edges of the quilt have a 3 triangle quadrilateral layout instead of 4 triangle square layout. The omitted triangle depends on which edge it is set on. The top and bottom rows omit the background fabric. The left edge omits the light value triangle. the right edge omits the dark value triangle.
I made everything as squares and then unpicked the edges after deciding on layout, but you may want to plan for these edges in advance. The background fabric is used to fill in the edges. templates for special cases are available for foundation piecing. For traditional piecing, the exact same triangle is used repeatedly (aka a one-patch design).
To assemble the quilt, we join the squares first into rows along the diagonal as shown:
Hopefully that makes sense. If not, just ask away!
I hope you enjoyed our value series.
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I am seeking to be president of the World Bank because I believe that with a good strategy, the bank can help solve many of the world's biggest challenges, including violent conflicts in impoverished regions, sustainable food and energy supplies and economic growth and jobs in both poor and rich countries. Let me explain why this little understood institution can be so useful — if properly led. TAGGED: World Bank RECOMMENDED ARTICLES


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Depending on the size, number and location of your fibroids, your surgeon may choose one of three surgical approaches to myomectomy.
Abdominal myomectomy
In abdominal myomectomy (laparotomy), your surgeon makes an open abdominal incision to access your uterus and remove fibroids. Your surgeon enters the pelvic cavity through one of two incisions:
- A horizontal bikini-line incision that runs about an inch (about 2.5 centimeters) above your pubic bone. This incision follows your natural skin lines, so it usually results in a thinner scar and causes less pain than a vertical incision does. It may be only 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 centimeters), but may be much longer. Because it limits the surgeon's access to your pelvic cavity, a bikini-line incision may not be appropriate if you have a large fibroid.
- A vertical incision that starts in the middle of your abdomen and extends from just below your navel to just above your pubic bone. This gives your surgeon greater access to your uterus than a horizontal incision does and it reduces bleeding. It's rarely used, unless your uterus is so big that it extends up past your navel.
Laparoscopic or robotic myomectomy
In laparoscopic or robotic myomectomy, minimally invasive procedures, your surgeon accesses and removes fibroids through several small abdominal incisions.
During laparoscopic myomectomy, your surgeon makes a small incision in or near your bellybutton. Then he or she inserts a laparoscope — a narrow tube fitted with a camera — into your abdomen. Your surgeon performs the surgery with instruments inserted through other small incisions in your abdominal wall. During robotic myomectomy, instruments are inserted through similar small incisions, and the surgeon controls movement of instruments from a separate console.
The fibroid is cut into smaller pieces and removed through these small incisions in the abdominal wall or, rarely, through an incision in your vagina (colpotomy).
Laparoscopic and robotic surgery use smaller incisions than a laparotomy does. This means you may have less pain, lose less blood and return to normal activities more quickly than with a laparotomy. Uterine size and fibroid number and location are factors in determining when laparoscopic surgery is appropriate.
Hysteroscopic myomectomy
To treat fibroids that bulge significantly into your uterine cavity (submucosal fibroids), your surgeon may suggest a hysteroscopic myomectomy. Your surgeon accesses and removes fibroids using instruments inserted through your vagina and cervix into your uterus.
Your surgeon inserts a small, lighted instrument — called a resectoscope because it cuts (resects) tissue using electricity or a laser beam — through your vagina and cervix and into your uterus. A clear liquid, usually a sterile salt solution, is inserted into your uterus to expand your uterine cavity and allow examination of the uterine walls. Using the resectoscope, your surgeon then shaves pieces from the fibroid until it aligns with the surface of your uterine cavity. The removed tissue washes out with the clear liquid that's used to expand your uterus during the procedure.
Rarely, surgeons also use a laparoscope inserted through a small incision in your abdomen to view the pelvic organs and monitor the outside of the uterus during a complicated hysteroscopic myomectomy.
When you go home
At discharge from the hospital, your doctor prescribes oral pain medication, tells you how to care for yourself, and discusses restrictions on your diet and activities.
You may have to avoid certain activities, such as driving, lifting heavy objects, climbing stairs or exercising vigorously until you recover. Also, your doctor may advise that you not use tampons or have sexual intercourse during recovery. You can expect some vaginal spotting or staining for a few days up to six weeks, depending on the type of procedure you've had.
- Abdominal myomectomy recovery typically takes four to six weeks.
- Laparoscopic or robotic myomectomy recovery typically takes two to three weeks.
- Hysteroscopic myomectomy recovery typically takes less than a week.
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Practice Bulletins — Gynecology. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 96. Alternatives to hysterectomy in the management of leiomyomas. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2008;112:387.
- Laughlin SK, et al. Uterine leiomyomas: Individualizing the approach to a heterogenous condition. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2011;117:396.
- Frequently asked questions. Gynecologic problems FAQ074. Uterine fibroids. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. http://www.acog.org/~/media/For%20Patients/faq074.pdf?dmc=1&ts=20130423T1546469165. Accessed April 23, 2013.
- Parker WH. Abdominal myomectomy. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed April 23, 2013.
- Parker WH. Laparoscopic myomectomy and other laparoscopic treatments for uterine leiomyomas (fibroids). http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed April 23, 2013.
- Bradley LD. Hysteroscopic myomectomy. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed April 23, 2013.
- Brady PC, et al. Uterine fibroids and subfertility: An update on the role of myomectomy. Current Opinion on Obstetrics and Gynecology. In press. Accessed April 23, 2013.
- Parker WH. Techniques to reduce blood loss during abdominal or laparoscopic myomectomy. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed April 23, 2013.
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- Stewart EA (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. April 29, 2013.
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if someone wants to test a bufo board (
www.bufo.com) there will be a test center at the surf relief contest at watergate bay on sat 26 july
its an interesting new technology...
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Martin Vaughn-James' THE CAGE
But mysteriously there's enough recognizable and even semi-linear as narrative here to keep a halfway intelligent or imaginative person interested all the way through.
But mysteriously there's enough recognizable and even semi-linear as narrative here to keep a halfway intelligent or imaginative person interested all the way through.
Sarah Vowell's ASSASSINATION VACATION is an unusual book.
I've always been fascinated by "big science" projects and how they were managed. Often there's a confluence of private and public sector, academia, and military; the nuclear arms race as presented here is certainly not an exception.
This book describes what it was like to bomb Japanese cities via B-29 raids conducted by the U.S. during 1944 and 1945. Most of the action is from the American perspective and takes place on the air-base islands off Japan from which most raids were launched (chiefly Tinian and Saipan), in the air while over water, or over Japan itself
I read a lot of history books where you get caught up in the sweep of big ideas, big movements, and larger-than-life historical figures. In THUNDER BELOW we have a captain, his crew, and the ship, doing their job while trying to stay alive. It's a keeper.
If you're interested in history and how languages evolve, this book is for you. Bragg treats English like an evolving organism that absorbs and transforms itself as it grows.
The scale and scope of the operation are huge. Hundreds of crew are sent in deep sleep while a smaller "first shift" prepares the massive ball of ancient ice for human habitation. The authors think through the physics and the logistics of such a massive operation and make you believe — almost — that something like this might really work.
Having always been a fan of aerospace history this book is one of the first I've read that actually attempts to answer in some depth the question, "What was it like to be part of the Apollo program?" We hear from the different participants from astronaut on down. It's highly educational and even surprising in parts.
You have to be interested in engineering and technology to appreciate this book and its detail. So many aircraft books emphasize operational or military applications while skimping on the details that allow an appreciation of the huge number of challenges involved in aircraft development. This one really delivers the goods.
Forester's message is pretty transparent, though: high class are low, educated or not, smalltown or urban, young or old — all have parts to play in the well oiled war machine that cares less about class than about performance.
Copyright © 2002-2013 by Dennis D. McDonald. "We keep you alive to serve this ship, 41."


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The Thunder's B Team just hasn't been very good, and definitely not nearly what it was last year.
The Thunder has changed and its bench must now evolve.
Brooks is in the process of plotting that transformation, and he has a plan that could work. It's an adjustment that has the potential to bring more balance to the bench unit while establishing additional harmony in the star-studded first string.
The idea is to sub out Kevin Durant earlier.
By sitting Durant earlier, the Thunder can accomplish three things: most importantly a more sensible rotation that relies less on only Eric Maynor and Kevin Martin to create, secondly, an opportunity for (Russell) Westbrook to run as wild as his heart desires for longer stretches and, lastly, more rest for Durant.
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Monsignor convicted in coverup
- Officers arrest 16 on drug and gun charges related to Short North Posse
- Arrest made in Grandview guitar thefts
- Voters to decide future of city's purchase contract of arena
- Fire leaves Franklinton family homeless
- Permit fees might fund help with Short North parking
- Plenty of snow has fallen before winter even begins
- Ohio State, foundation join to offer full-ride scholarships
- Family dogs kill baby on West Side
- Photo: Child not so sure sledding is fun
- BMV center on Hilltop, last run by state, to close
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In the first conviction of a high-level Catholic church official in the nationwide priest sexual-abuse scandal, a monsignor in the Philadelphia archdiocese was found guilty yesterday of child endangerment for covering up allegations of abuse of children.
Monsignor William Lynn, who supervised priests for the archdiocese, was accused of reassigning pedophile priests in an attempt to protect the church's reputation and avoid lawsuits. A jury acquitted him, however, of conspiracy and another endangerment charge.
Also on trial in the landmark case was the Rev. James J. Brennan, accused of rape and child endangerment. The jury of seven men and five women deadlocked on those charges, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial on those counts. Prosecutors could decide to retry Brennan.
By assigning pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes, prosecutors said, Lynn exposed more children to potential abuse while putting the church's interests ahead of protecting children. Prosecutors produced a list that Lynn compiled in 1994 naming 37 priests in the archdiocese who had been identified as pedophiles or were suspected of sexually abusing children.
Lynn faces up to seven years in prison on the endangerment conviction. He was denied bail and will remain in custody while awaiting a sentencing hearing on Aug. 13.
Yesterday's verdicts came on the 13th day of jury deliberations in the two-month trial in Philadelphia's Common Pleas court.
The trial was noteworthy because Lynn was not accused of sexual misconduct, but of covering it up. More than a dozen witnesses testified that they were sexually abused by priests who had been allowed to serve in their parishes even after being suspected or accused of abuse.
Among Lynn's responsibilities as secretary for clergy for the 1.5 million-member archdiocese from 1992 to 2004 was supervising more than 800 priests and investigating allegations of sexual abuse. He was accused of recommending that Brennan and another priest suspected of abusing children, Edward Avery, continue to serve in parishes in the nation's sixth-largest archdiocese.
Brennan, 48, was accused of raping a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Avery pleaded guilty before trial of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old altar boy in 1999 and is serving a 21/2-to-five-year prison sentence.
Prosecutors said Lynn lied to parents about pedophile priests in an attempt to protect the archdiocese, and that he and other church officials were lax in responding to credible reports of abuse. In some instances, prosecutors said, Lynn suggested to accused priests that their young alleged victims had enticed them into sexual contact.
In testimony that lasted three days, Lynn told jurors that he compiled the list of pedophile priests in order to address allegations of sexual abuse. Before the trial, archdiocese lawyers gave prosecutors a handwritten church memo that suggested Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua had ordered the list destroyed.
Before the trial, a judge ordered Bevilacqua to submit to questioning at a closed-door hearing in November. Jurors did not see his seven hours of testimony.
Lynn testified that only Bevilacqua, who died in January at age 88, had the authority to remove
pedophile priests.
"I did my best with what I could do," Lynn testified.
Lynn said he tried to persuade some accused priests to leave their posts and undergo treatment. And he testified that medical experts had advised him not to contact alleged victims because they would be unwilling to discuss details of sexual abuse.
While arguing for bail for Lynn yesterday, defense attorney Jeffrey M. Lindy told Judge M. Teresa Sarmina: "You can't seriously think that Monsignor Lynn, after being investigated after 10 years, is going to flee," The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington countered by telling the judge: "This is a case that is going to call for a tough jail sentence."
Blessington added: "Let's start today. Today, to jail. That's justice."


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Thanks to strong sales of the Honda Insight and other fuel efficient vehicles, such as the Fit, Honda has been able to stay in the black while other automakers have suffered during this economic crisis. Nonetheless, Honda envisions huge changes in the automotive landscape.
"Even without the economic shock, cars have to change dramatically with the rise in environmental consciousness," Honda President Takanobu Ito told the Japanese Times.
Thus, Honda expects to make "huge resource investments" into clean technologies, such as hybrid cars.
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In February, the State Department named architectural firm KieranTimberlake as the project's designer. The Philadelphia-based firm's proposed design meets the goal of creating a modern, welcoming, and energy efficient embassy that is expected to achieve LEED Platinum certification and a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method rating of Outstanding — a top environmental rating in Europe. KieranTimberlake competed against 37 architectural firms to win the design competition.
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Slated for a site in Greater London's Nine Elms district, construction is scheduled to begin in 2013, with the goal of a 2017 completion date. The building will be located near several major pedestrian paths and public transportation stops. Inside, interior gardens will be scattered throughout.
Designers at KieranTimberlake aimed for a carbon-neutral structure with a self-sufficient water system that can exceed local and regional planning requirements and energy policies.
The embassy's crystal-like ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (a corrosion-resistant plastic) scrim will be optimized to shade interiors from sunlight while admitting daylighting and offering expansive views. Thin film photovoltaics in the ETFE foils will convert sunlight to energy. The multilayered ETFE scrim will use pressurized air pocket to further insulate the glazing from thermal transfer.
On top of the building, a crystalline photovoltaic array will cover the entire roof, screening mechanical equipment from view. Approximately 89,000 square feet of crystalline and thin-fill photovoltaic cells will cover the building, providing 345,000-kilowatt hours of energy.
The embassy's highly transparent façade will maximize natural day-lighting, working in conjunction with light shelves, optimized reflectors, and fiber optic collectors, which will bring daylight into the interior of the building. Electric lighting will use occupancy and daylight sensors.
A biomass-fueled cogeneration plant will meet the embassy's heating and electricity needs, as well as that of some of the surrounding community. Absorption chillers that use waste heat from the cogeneration plant will generate cooling for the building, while a ground-level pond will be used for heat ejection instead of cooling towers. An under-floor air distribution system, along with passive chillers and perimeter thin film radiators, will meet peak heating and cooling needs.
For water consumption, the embassy will utilize an onsite deep-well aquifer and an on-site wastewater treatment plan, the latter of which will collect grey-water from faucets and wastewater from toilets and treat it so that it can be reused for flush fixtures. Roof rainwater and property storm water runoff will be collected for irrigation and cooling systems use.
Once building is completed, the State Department plans to sell its current London Embassy, located in London's Mayfair area.
The State Department currently has three LEED-certified embassies in Panama City, Panama; Sofia, Bulgaria; and Johannesburg, South Africa.


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Ticket #6975 (closed bug: worksforme)
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Component: | event | Version: | 1.4.2 |
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When $(document).ready() is defined in the body, it's is called a 2nd time after nextUntil() is used in combination with wrap() or wrapAll().
When $(document).ready() is defined in the head or nextUntill() or wrap() is not used, $(document).ready() is only called once.
Take the attachment for example: in the beginning of the script one can choose to:
- use $(document).ready(documentReady) or window.onload=documentReady
- set $(document).ready(documentReady) or window.onload=documentReady in head or in body element
When you change either one of these variables, the script behaves as expected.
Tested in all major updated browsers.
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comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by dmethvin
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Damn, you had me going there for a moment.
There are two <h1> elements in your document, so this line:
$('h1').nextUntil('h1').wrap("<div style='background: red; ' />");
Selects both h1 elements and all the elements up until the next h1. That is basically the entire body! Since that includes the script in the body, the script is executed again in the process of wrapping the second h1 and its following content.
Whether .wrap() should re-execute script content that it wraps is another bug (I don't think it should and several related bugs are already open in the ajax component), but in the presence of that bug this code is working as intended.
Please follow the bug reporting guidlines and use jsFiddle when providing test cases and demonstrations instead of pasting the code in the ticket.


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Q: Robert, I am in the middle of a short sale and was told that there is a government program that offers you $30,000 for short sale assistance. Is this true? And if so, how can I apply for this?
– Sara, Las Vegas, NV
Short A: "Yes."
Long A: The long answer — Sara, many lenders are privately offering what is either called "cash for keys" — they give you up to $3,000 to help defray your moving expenses after you complete a short sale or trustee sale.
Short sale - A short sale occurs when the bank allows the sale of a home for less than the existing mortgage balance, typically, provided there's a qualified buyer in the wings. Home owners likely to seek short sales are often those floundering "underwater" with mortgage balances larger than the value of their home.
Trustee sale - When a foreclosed property is sold by a trustee at an auction it is known as a trustee sale.
A federal government plan, "Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (HAFA)" likewise gives sellers $3,000 for relocation assistance at a short sale transaction's closing. The HAFA program is a great program because, in addition to the $3,000 assistance, any participating cannot come of after you for the difference between the sales price and loan amount balance.
In California, it doesn't have to be a HAFA deal to keep lenders at bay for the difference. It is unlawful for lenders to come after a seller for any deficiency after a short sale. Certainly, as in all mortgage rescue, relief and bail out deals, certain rules and restrictions apply.
Let's make a $30,000 deal. The $30,000 deal is rare. I have heard rumblings of other lenders offering the deal, but I know of only one lender who has granted it on a short sale — Chase Bank. Not all Chase short sales can land the $30,000 payout. You can't ask the bank for the deal. There is no magic contact to tap. The individual Chase investor, who holds the note on your loan, has to make the offer to you. If you are qualified for the $30,000 offer, you will be notified in a "don't-call-me-I'll-call-you," approach.
By the way, if you do get the $30,000 Chase deal, and if you are qualified for HAFA, you can get both and walk away from a short sale with a grand total of $33,000 in your pocket.
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Dear Jon – There's a lot of confusion out there with regard to the Affordable Care Act, making it hard for Americans to know just what's true or false. I received a question from a concerned senior about Medicare and the ACA. He asks, 'Dear Jon, I keep getting told when I turn 76, that on the Affordable Care Act, I will be kicked off of Medicare. Is this true or false?"
The answer to the question is false. My expert source on insurance says once you're on Medicare, your benefits remain in force. The Affordable Care Act has little if any affect on the Medicare Beneficiaries and their benefits. So no worries, once you're on Medicare that is your primary health insurance vehicle.
It's unfortunate that there are those use scare tactics to confuse the facts about the affordable care act. The ACA is designed to insure those who otherwise don't have access to health coverage through state exchanges or to employees of businesses that fall below minimum standards.
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I wholehearted support and respect the rights of private citizens to assemble and organize themselves in an effort to collectively improve their working conditions.
However, I have a serious ethical problem with government employees organizing against their employers...the citizens. Under traditional union/business negotiations, the workers' union is bargaining with (against) a private company. Each side has the right to accept or decline the contract terms. This is basic economics and civil liberties. But when a government union goes to the bargaining table, they are demanding contractual terms not from another private citizen or entity, but from all taxpayers collectively. Where the ethics come in is simple: those charged with contracting with the employees (the union's opposition) are elected representatives of the people...the very same elected representatives that receive campaign contributions from the very unions that sit across the bargaining table from them. I don't care if you are a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Socialist, or whatever...this is corrupt.
I will freely support the rights of government employees to collectively bargain when the terms of the contract are brought to a public vote. After all, the taxpaying citizens are the ones that they are legally contracting with.
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As our nation and our community continue to study the impact of health care reform legislation, I would like to take this opportunity to share my thoughts about the need to ensure that behavioral health care is central to these conversations.
As Vice President of Business Development at Poudre Valley Hospital and a Board Member of Larimer Center for Mental Health (LCMH), I am well-acquainted with the costs and results of untreated mental health and addictive disorders in our community. Consider this:
As reform expands coverage to the estimated 46 million uninsured Americans, we all can agree that we must, at the same time, seek to control costs. This can not be accomplished without addressing behavioral health. Prevention, early intervention, and treatment for mental health and substance use disorders work, and need to be central to our conversations about reform.
Among the many issues central to health care reform, I ask that you take this opportunity to consider the true costs of untreated behavioral health disorders. If the lives that can be saved are not enough to convince you, please consider the financial impact that will result when we treat individuals as whole people. Diseases of the mind can not, and should not, be addressed separately from diseases of the body.
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