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Since 2008, we have been working to create a more equitable and just food system in the Piedmont. We started with two seasons of Ground Up, a program on food and food justice for high school-age youth. This program taught young people how to grow and prepare food, analyze their role as consumers, create their own media and build community.
Being immersed in Ground Up with supportive leaders, the youth truly seemed to grasp the importance of being surrounded with "growing foods" as a way to improve the lifestyle and health of their families and communities. Since Ground Up, the youth have wanted to return to The Stone House with their families to show them where they had their transformative experience.
~Santos Flores, SEEDS
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San Andreas is 7 years old and Skyrim is less than a year old. If the 'trends' are to be believed, then San Andreas would have a minimal population (even with 22 million units sold), and Skyrim's population would dwarf it (even with only 11 million units sold in a year). For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
Originally posted by Metentso Eve would be an interesting one to add in. |
Some single player games and some co-op games would be interesting to see as well. What would really be interesting is if XFire released long term information that people could play with in spreadsheets. For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
Originally posted by lizardbones http://www.xfire.com/cms/stats/# Unfortunately the stats go only up to 2009, after that XFire stopped releasing info. |
Originally posted by RefMinor Lol, Xfire, are people still using it? I thought it had been replaced by Raptr by now Anyway, when I did some checking up on EVE in the beginning of the year iirc EVE had something like 1250-1300 players in the weekend online and I think something like 5.5k hours. Don't know how it is for the past month though. I do know that xfire numbers for EVE and WoW were a whole lot higher a year or 2 ago, but would have to do a search to find out in what order of magnitude. |
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Originally posted by FrodoFragins This is just a sample of player activity being measured by XFire. While SWTOR probably still has more active subscriptions, it's not being played all that much, relative to the number of running subs. Hopefully for them server transfers will help them salvage what is still there, or not, no skin of my teeth. Remember that Aion is Free to Play in Europe, I could imagine that it might even have more active EU players than SWTOR does. Just like EA/BW handing out free subscriptions doesn't mean that everyone who got them is even remotely interested in playing the game, let alone pay for it. |
Freefall is one way of desecribing what the XFire number of players suggests has happened - just over 1500 now. The other word is 'single player game'. OK three words but people play a single player game, complete it maybe and then stop. You don't call a single player game good or bad because you have finished it - you simply put it away. If there is a sequel and it was 'good enough' you might buy that. And that is what sums up SWTOR so I suspect the SWTOR number will go down even more. From their own comments it seems doubtful that EA will recover their costs; and it doesn't look like SWTOR is going to be above the 500k break even point either. No way of proving that at this point in time but the XFire number is close to being 1/10 of the maximum. It suggests that it is very bad indeed. Can't see SWTOR being a top 10 product for EA next quarter; can't see them mentioning it in their prepared comments to be honest. And introducing mega-servers. It won't, imo, help the game because the instancing will still be there but it will make it very hard to compare the 'old' server stats to the new. Almost certainly impossible. The old discussion about the server cap being increased. "SWTOR only has 1 server so it has lost zillions of player" .... "no, no its a mega server it can hold as many as they ever had". Sure. SWTOR. OK single player, poor mmo, poor business model. As for WoW it doesn't matter. Going forward there are now WoW+D3 subscribers. Clever move by Blizzard as it was when SoE introduced their all access pass. |
Originally posted by gervaise1 ? I can be wrong because I'm not following it, but I think that D3 subscribers aren't paying an average 10-14 dollars/month for the game like players do for WoW. Suppose that 2 million WoW players less are playing WoW - figures suggest a decrease of 50% but I don't trust Xfire since all games in it are trending downwards, even the ones that're supposed to be stable - then that's 30 million dollar less revenues a month. I'm sceptic whether that's covered by D3 sub revenues. |
Originally posted by cutthecrap Only Blizzard have the exact figures of course but what they have done is moved to address the 'apparent' decline in WoW subs - more accurately the decline in WoW subscription revenue. Everybody knows that WoW subs are in decline yes - but are they? What Blizzard have said is that people are burning through content faster and therefore playing less. Taking Blizzard at face value this means that - using noddy numbers: If WoW had 24 million customers and each if these used to subscribe for an average of 6 months then the headline sub number would be 12 million and Blizzard would earn 12 million x 12 x $15 less discounts for multi-months. Today however those 24 million customers are ripping through content faster and as a result they only subscribe for, say, 5 months. The headline sub number will then be 10M and Blizzard would earn 10M x $15 less discounts. Now there will be people coming and going all the time so it won't be this simple but what this example shows is that WoW could have exactly the same number of customers but Blizzard's revenue from them has gone down. With the annual pass offer what Blizzard have done is charged an annual 12 month sub of $150 for which subscribers also got a $60 copy of D3; if they wanted an upgraded edition they could etc. $150 - $60 = $90 which means that these annual subscribers are paying $7.50 a month. Sounds bad until you realise that Blizzard get this for 12 months. Using the noddy example it essentially means that someone who was paying for 6 months on average ($90) but dropped off to 5 months ($75) is now paying the same as they were previously ($90). And Blizzard sold them a copy of D3 to boot - probably reasoning that some people who bought D3 would drop their WoW sub anyway so $7.50 is better than $0. And if people can access WoW they are more likely to resub downstream. Wonder what renewal offer Bliz will make? Now as I said this doesn't mean that Blizzard are getting as much revenue. It doesn't mean that WoW 'customers' are not declining - clearly people drop in and out of WoW. It does mean that it is a lot more complex and that you now have the WoW+D3 subscriber. And its the $7.50 is better than $0 that makes it really clever. (And your comment about all games in XFire trending down could eaily be due to XFire numbers going down - people have said it is and with the growth of e.g. Steam it could well be. Over a few month period though - the short period that SWTOR has been tracked in this thread for example it will be stable enough. Trying to use it to compare WoW subs today to 2005 to take an extreme example would be bad; the longer the time period the worse it will be. A few months however in which there has been no bright shiny product like Steam chat say it will be OK. |
Ah, you mean the annual subscribers that got D3 for free in the process. Yeah, I thought that was a damn ingenious thing of Blizzard to do for several reasons. |
Here goes the graph for last week. Added EVE as suggested by RefMinor. |
Originally posted by Metentso I don't think going F2P would get them back to the 4000 or 5000 player mark at this point. The game is defintiely not as bad as those numbers, but it's also not what people expect in modern MMOs. You really get one chance. 2.4 million people gave it a chance and they are likely down below 1 million subscribers after the free month expires. |
There is no way to correlate the XFire numbers and subscriber numbers. Looking at trends for multiple games just makes it apparent. It also shows that all the games follow the same trends*. They all go up, they all go down. The only difference is right after a game launches. If you added some recent single player games, you would see some of the same trends. I would be willing to bet those games rise and fall with the MMORPG as well. It's just a horrible tool. It's an advertising platform. * This is yet another assumption, but why not? This whole discussion is full of them. For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
The only thing horrible about xFire is that we don't know how many active daily users there are... We could figure this out - if we we added each game's total daily users... then displayed the # of users playing each game as a %. For now, we assume that overall # of users of xFire - at least on a day to day and week to week basis is pretty similar - so... YES... you can make comparisons between games and get a pretty solid data on the trends in play activity. Can we use that to tell us the exact # of subscribers? Not exactly. That would require more info about player behavior... but again, aI think most of us feel pretty safe to say that less activity on a game does translate into less subscribers. And lastly... xFire data is just ONE indicator out of several that give us an idea what is going on with TOR... and they are all pointing in the same direction. |
Having the number of XFire users isn't any better than the number of XFire played hours. There's no way to get from "XFire Stat" to "Game Stat" without making assumptions. You're saying "for now" you're assuming "made up stuff". There is never going to be a time when you're not assuming "made up stuff". You will never be able to get from XFire numbers to real numbers. XFire numbers are just garbage data. They say the same thing about every single game on the site. When it releases it'll have a lot of players. After awhile it will have less players than when it started. Finally, it'll reach a steady state where the number of played hours and number of players rises and falls on a weekly basis in the same pattern as nearly every other game on the website. It's garbage data. XFire is an advertising medium. It is not in there best interest to give anyone other than their advertisers actionable data. The information is garbage and it will always be garbage because it's in their best interest to keep it that way. For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
To those bashing the XFire data, it seems we're not the only ones using it. The guy running MMOData.net seems to think they're pretty useful too. "What it does show me is that the Xfire numbers are a good indication to base estimates off, purely based on Xfire I would have estimated 1,2m". |
He's wrong. ** edit ** About XFire. I have no idea about the rest of what he's doing. For every large, complex problem, there is a simple, clear solution that also happens to be absolutely wrong. |
I have been playing MMO's since about 2001. I have never used xfire. I have been in countless guilds in the past 11 years.... I have never been asked to use xfire or talked about xfire in guild. I know I'm just one person, but I'm just saying, most players I know or have played with... do not use xfire. There's only ever about 300 people on this website at any given time. That's almost as small of a sample as the groups I play with...lol |
Originally posted by Praetalus Statistic 101: Sample needs to be random and large enough, but it doesn't need to be significant compared to whole population. Same sample size gives same accuracy whether you're trying to trying to find out statistics about Milkwaukee's population or China's population (assuming the sample size is significantly smaller than Milwaukee's population). You don't need to have used X-Fire, none of your friends need to have used it. If there are two million players and one in a thousand uses it that'll allready give X-Fire sample of 2 000 and statistical margin of error of only a few procents. But if the game is very small, let's say Mortal online, the statistical margin of error would be large even if 50% of Mortal Online's players used X-Fire. |

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Larcan Hi Band SSPA conversion to 222 MHz as presented at the 2013 CSVHF conference in Chicago
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T MATCH TUNING NOTES A discussion of the finer points of T Match adjusting.
EFFECT of COAXIAL CABLES at HIGHER FREQUENCIES Tips on interpreting VSWR curves at microwaves.
WATERPROOFING ANTENNAS AND CABLES Good information to know. All about keeping water out of your feedlines and connectors. This is an ongoing project.
HOW TO PLAN THE INSTALLATION OF MULTIPLE VHF ANTENNAS ON ONE MAST Brand new Application note! Plan your next multi-band setup!
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50 MHz 4 Yagi Contesting Array 2007 This is a presentation at the Northeast and Southeast VHF Conferences in April, 2008. An update of an older design! (see below)
50 MHz 4 Yagi Antenna Stack, 1989 Packrats VHF Conference presentation outlining details of the first switchable 50 MHz stack system.
This is a conference presentation given at a Pack Rats VHF Conference in 1989. The material is a little old, but there are some good ideas on assembling a multiple yagi array with switching combination diagrams, and a discussion of the benefits of a multiple antenna stack on 50 MHz. The basic idea is the same as is used today in our 50 MHz contest station. The antennas have changed, but the basic switching idea remains.
MAGNETOMETER FOR AURORAL DETECTION (1.2 MB file) This is not antenna related, but is a great way to detect auroras! It is a PDF file.
We had this magnetometer set up in the shipping area of the shop. It worked very well, with the sensor buried out in the garden. The UPS guy thought we were nuts! Everyday he would come in, look at the running chart that was set up in the shipping area, with the Earth's magnetic field displayed, then look at me and shake his head. I'll bet he told stories (at our expense) over at Skip's Bar, on Friday nights!! This is a great project for all you propeller heads who want to detect auroras and then work DX on VHF!!
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The world gained another multimillionaire late last year and by multi, we mean $13 million. If that doesn't seem newsworthy, it might seem a little more extraordinary to know that this multimillionaire is a cat. Tommaso is a stray cat found on the streets of Rome and adopted by millionaire real estate tycoon Maria Assunta who died at the age of 94.
Assunta, who had no kids, originally wanted a donation made to an animal welfare association that would commit to taking care of Tommaso, but later decided to leave her fortune to her cat, who is represented by a trustee.
If this story sounds like something that you'll only read about once in your lifetime, that may not be true. Tommaso is rich, but she is only the third richest pet in the world. In fact, one animal, a chimp named Kalu was supposed to inherit $80 million, but reports indicate that the money was stolen before Kalu's owner died. And even if this chimp did get the money, Kalu would have only been No. 2 on the list of the richest animals.
Gunther IV
Countess Karlotta Libenstein of Germany left German Shepherd Gunther III, Gunther IV's father, $106 million. Trustees took the money and invested it and by the time Gunther IV was born, the gift had grown to $372 million. This is a dog with expensive tastes. Gunther IV reportedly purchased a villa from Madonna for more than $3 million and a rare white truffle for $1,500.
Toby Rimes
Toby Rimes is another millionaire that made her money the old fashioned way: She inherited it. Toby Rimes is a descendant of a poodle owned by millionaire Ella Wendel who, in 1931, left her dog $20 million. Today, the gift is worth $80 million, making Toby Rimes the second richest animal in the world.
Trouble, the Maltese companion of the late Leona Helmsley, passed away in 2010 at the age of 64 (in human years - she was actually 12 years old). Trouble was worth $12 million when she died in Sarasota, Fla. This animal was a symbol of excess, and led the same life that made Helmsley somebody that the public loved to hate. Trouble was hand fed crab cakes, cream cheese and steamed vegetables until she moved to Sarasota where she lived out her life modestly eating canned Alpo.
If you thought that rich animals only came from old money, that's not always the case. Flossie, who passed away in 2010, was a dog that Drew Barrymore adopted from an animal shelter. Flossie alerted Barrymore and then boyfriend Tom Green that their home was on fire. Barrymore credits Flossie with saving their lives and in return, added to her will that her $3 million home would be left to her beloved dog, Flossie.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 3-year-old girl comforted herself with her favorite toy and ate cheese, leftover lasagna and milk for two days after her mother died unexpectedly in their New Zealand home.
The girl's uncle, Pete Silbery, told The Associated Press on Friday that Shylah Silbery managed to open the fridge and comfort herself with a teddy bear named "Possum" after Lauren Silbery, 28, died.
The family last spoke to Lauren Silbery on Oct. 19, he said. Two days later, they were worried enough to call a friend who lived near her Wellington home. The friend could see the girl inside the home, but not the mother, prompting the family to call police, Pete Silbery said.
Police coaxed Shylah to drag a coffee table to the door so she could reach the lock and unlock the door, before she told them, "Mummy won't wake up," Silbery said.
"I can only imagine her in there for that long, trying to wake Mum up as well," he said.
Shylah spent several days in a hospital recovering from dehydration and diaper rash.
"She's doing OK now. She's still bubbly," he said. "When we lowered the coffin into the grave at the cemetery, though, she pointed at it and said 'Mummy's in there.' It was pretty heartbreaking."
Authorities are awaiting the results of an autopsy but don't believe Lauren Silbery's death was suspicious, Wellington police spokesman Victoria Davis said.
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Health authorities in south China said Friday they were investigating a hospital medical team for mistakenly diagnosing a stillbirth and disposing of a baby that was alive.
The probe is taking place at the Nanhai Red Cross Hospital in the Guangdong provincial city of Foshan where the incident occurred on October 26, the Nanhai district health bureau said in a statement faxed to AFP.
According to the statement, Liu Dongmei -- eight months pregnant -- had been rushed to the hospital with internal bleeding and stomach cramps.
She later had an emergency birth, but the baby was neither breathing nor crying after leaving the womb and its skin had turned purple, it said.
Believing it was dead, the medical team disposed of the child but did not follow proper hospital procedures, the statement added.
The Foshan News, a local website, reported that when Liu's sister-in-law asked to see the body around 30 minutes after birth, she was handed a yellow plastic bag containing the infant and found it was still alive.
"I opened the plastic bag and saw the baby's hands and feet moving, the stomach was going up and down and air bubbles were coming out of his mouth," the paper quoted her as saying.
She was further shocked when she saw the baby was a boy -- not a girl as the family had been told, it said.
According to the Foshan News, nurses had told the family the child was a girl in an effort to blunt the blow of its death.
In China, baby boys are often viewed as more precious than girls, as many families can have only one child as part of the nation's population policy and desire a male heir.
Following the discovery, the newborn was rushed to intensive care where he remains in a stable condition.
Officials at the hospital refused to comment on the incident when contacted by AFP.
China's healthcare system -- once widely praised for improving the health of millions -- is now panned as costly, underfunded and providing shoddy treatment, especially in poorer regions.
Liu and her husband are seeking to sue the hospital for 300,000 yuan ($45,000), the Beijing News said.
The head of the maternity ward, a doctor and two nurses have been suspended pending the results of the investigation, it added.
source: yahoo.com Your Cheating Heart: iPhone App Finds Wife With Another Man
By NED POTTER | ABC News
Your Cheating Heart: iPhone App Finds Wife With Another Man (ABC News)
When Apple released its new iOS 5 operating system to go with itsiPhone 4S, it touted a new app called "Find My Friends" as a great way to track and meet up with friends. If they agree, you can see their locations on a map on your screen.
But the app's enterprising customers are apparently already finding other uses. If the online posts appearing on a chat forum atMacRumors.com are for real, "Find My Friends" may have already claimed its first marriage.
Saturday night on MacRumors, a man saying he lived in New York City posted this:
"Divorcing wife. Thanks iPhone 4s and Find My Friends.
"I got my wife a new 4s and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I've had suspicions about her meeting this guy who live uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there.
"I just texted her asking where she was and the dumb b---- said she was on 10th Street!! Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots [sic] going to play well when I meet her ... at the lawyer's office in a few weeks.
"thankfully, she's the rich one."
It has not been determined whether the story posted on MacRumors was, in fact, authentic, and the man did not immediately reply to a request from ABC News for comment. But more than 100,000 people have viewed the posts, according to MacRumors. More than 300 of them replied with expressions of sympathy, skepticism and -- this being the Internet -- a few less-than-savory jokes.
Arnold Kim, the editorial director of MacRumors, said it was "definitely a busy thread." MacRumors did not try to verify the man's story (if, in fact, it was a man), but said everyone who registers for its forums has to validate their email when they register.
"Find My Friends" uses the iPhone or iPad's built-in Global Positioning System to see your friends' locations on a map on the screen of your device. GPS can be accurate to within a few feet for civilian uses.
Apple says "The Find My Friends app is a great way to share your location with people who are important to you" -- whether you're trying to meet friends at a crowded concert or make sure your kids get safely home from school.
The man was back with a new post less than an hour later, including a couple of screen grabs showing the location of his wife was on East 65th St., though she sent him a text message saying, "Was hard to find stupid cab hate meat packing...."
The husband again: "She said she is in meat packing district which is on 12th street. I DONT THINK SO. Appreicate [sic] the support. not my finest hour here but going to get better soon."
The new iPhone 4S and operating system have been off-the-charts successes for Apple, which said this morning that it sold more than four million iPhone 4S in three days, and that 25 million people are now using iOS 5.
Technology watchers are particularly struck by Siri -- the voice-recognition "personal assistant" built into the new software that accepts spoken commands, answers questions, and is eerily intelligent in its responses.
There was a memorial service Sunday night for Steve Jobs on the campus of Stanford University, near Apple's corporate headquarters in California, amid widespread stories that he was deeply involved in the next iPhone -- the replacement for the iPhone 4S.
The presumably-jilted husband put up one last post Saturday night: "what really chaps my a-- is not the cheating but the fact that they were probably admiring and laughing over the new phone I BOUGHT. haha. well someone about to get the last laugh tonight."
And that was the last from him. The whole thing may have been a joke, or a domestic tragedy. Ben Crompton, who writes the Pocket Lint blog, said there have certainly been other apps before, such as Google Latitude, that let you track people through GPS signals, but Apple will make it trendy.
"The burning issue seems to be that it is a very powerful tool to have," he wrote, "bringing with it huge amounts of info to the user as well as delivering plenty of info about the user to others. For some this power will outdo the user's knowledge of how to use it properly."
"Still, on the up side," he concluded, "maybe Siri will be able to offer some marriage guidance advice."
source: gma.yahoo.com Facebook Privacy: Lawsuit Charges Facebook Tracked Users Even After they Logged Off
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Facebook Privacy: Lawsuit Charges Facebook Tracked Users Even After they Logged Off …
A Mississippi woman has sued Facebook in federal court, accusing it of violating federal wiretap laws to track her online activity, even when she wasn't logged onto the site.
Facebook denies the allegations, but it has conceded in the past that it inadvertently tracked users through so-called cookies -- small files a website sends to your computer when you visit. It has said it fixed the problem before the Mississippi suit was filed.
"Leading up to September 23, 2011, Facebook tracked, collected, and stored its users' wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to portions of their Internet browsing history even when the users were not logged-in to Facebook," reads the complaint by Brooke Rutledge of Lafayette County, Miss. "Plaintiff did not give consent or otherwise authorize Facebook to intercept, track, collect, and store her wire or electronic communications, including but not limited to her Internet browsing history when not logged-in to Facebook."
It is not the first lawsuit of its kind (there are suits in Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana), and Facebook is not the only large company to be accused of violating visitors' privacy. But the issue has spread since Faceook's Mark Zuckerberg introduced the site's new Timeline and Ticker features in September. "All your stories, all your apps, a new way to express who you are," he said at the introduction.
Facebook sent ABC News a one-line statement in response to the suit: "We believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it vigorously"
Facebook has been promoting what it calls "frictionless sharing," so that members can opt to let their friends know automatically what music they like or films they've seen. If you choose, Facebook will tell your contacts through a regular feed of information.
But do people want Facebook to know where they go online to other sites? Two congressmen and 10 public advocacy groups have urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate.
Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Texas, co-chairmen of the Bipartisan Privacy Caucus,wrote to the FTC: "We believe that tracking users without their knowledge or consent raises serious privacy concerns. When users log out of Facebook, they are under the impression that Facebook is no longer monitoring their activities. We believe this impression should be the reality."
Facebook said the issue was overblown. The social networking site did concede, though, that it found that three of its "cookies" -- small files a website leaves in your computer when you visit -- "inadvertently included unique identifiers when the user had logged out of Facebook," according to Andrew Noyes, Facebook's manager of public policy communications in Washington. "However, we did not store these identifiers for logged out users," he said in an email to ABC News.
EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, has said Facebook was using "supercookies" -- more troublesome than the regular cookies used by most commercial websites.
EPIC said Facebook did not take any action until an Australian blogger, Nik Cubrilovic, posted about the tracking after a year of questioning the company about it. And it said the new Timeline and Ticker -- which Facebook hopes will allow "frictionless" sharing with friends -- may cause users accidental embarrassment, even if the company means well.
"It is difficult for users to keep up with Facebook's frequent changes and adjust their privacy settings accordingly," said David Jacobs of EPIC, "and the company has not clearly explained what it plans to do with the wealth of new user information that will be collected as a result of the new applications."
All this has become a war of words. On the one hand, there have now been countless cases in which people inadvertently shared things on social media sites that they later regretted. Would you want some future employer to see pictures from that party you went to Saturday? Do you know what settings would prevent that?
On the other hand, what's the harm to most people if a website knows your interests? That they'll show you ads tailored to your preferences?
"Some groups believe people shouldn't have the option to easily share the songs they are listening to or other content with their friends," said Facebook's Noyes. "We couldn't disagree more and have built a system that people can choose to use, and we hope people will give it a try."
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However, being an America citizen is not quite the same thing as being an actual American. To fit in among other Americans, you must get at least two answers correct in the following test. The test is multiple-choice. So you need not understand the answer in order to get it right. That is the first hint at how most actual Americans operate.
1. What does the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantee?
a) The right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury.
b) Low-income financing on a car or motorboat.
c) I dont know.
(The correct answer is C. If youre really an American, you have no idea what the Sixth Amendment is.)
2. If its seven weeks into the baseball season and the Phillies have a record of 19 and 16, can they still win the National League East?
a) Hell YEAH they can win! Theyre only one game behind the Marlins. They may not have a lot of flash, but the Phillies have the best team ERA in baseball.
b) I believe that these gentlemen can, indeed, triumph in this contest of which you speak, as long as they pray to Allah.
c) Who cares? Well all be dead someday.
(The real answer is C. But if you give an answer out loud, best stick with A.)
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b) O say kan U C ...
c) Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife.
(None of the answers is correct. The words of our national anthem, in its entirety, are, The light is green, you idiot!)
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b) Wherever it damn well wants to be!
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NBA Trade Rumors: Will the Suns Trade Steve Nash to the Magic?
Rumors have surfaced today from Jarrod Rudolph of RealGM.com about the Orlando Magic making a run at Steve Nash. While Phoenix management has long said they will not trade Nash, Nash came out and said he would understand if he was traded.
Eric Ball wrote an article from the Orlando perspective of trading for Nash, which makes a lot of sense for Orlando. But Phoenix definitely has to be considered here since they would lose the face of the franchise in Steve Nash.
As a Phoenix Suns fan, the main question I have is regarding the return for Nash. Looking up and down the Orlando roster, a couple names jump out as possibilities.
First, Jameer Nelson. Nelson would almost certainly have to be included in any deal for Nash because Nash would take over his minutes and the Suns are bound to want a point guard in return.
Second, Ryan Anderson. Anderson is leading the NBA in 3PM and 3PA and in the middle of a breakout year. The Suns might want Anderson in any deal for Nash but the Magic should be reluctant to part with their much-improved stretch four.
And lastly, J.J. Redick. Redick is also having a career year and his game seems tailor made for the Phoenix offense. The Suns could use Redick as their backup shooting guard and possible starter next season.
The Suns are going to want a decent amount in return for the NBA assists leader and this trade might be enough to get the deal done:
Phoenix trades: Nash, Josh Childress and Hakim Warrick
Orlando trades: Jameer Nelson, Ryan Anderson, J.J. Redick, Daniel Orton and Brandon Bass trade exception (to cover the cost of Hakim Warrick)
Here is the trade on ESPN Trade Machine.
Personally, I think the Suns will not and should not trade Nash. But, the team has to look out for the betterment of the team and Nash is 38 years old. Feel free to comment with your thoughts on this trade and other possible trades if you have any.
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NMH is very lucky today and yesterday to have had oceanographer, deep sea explorer, scientist, conservationist, and Genius fellowship recipient Edith Widder on campus.
Edith spoke on Tuesday evening about her "favorite" subject Bioluminescence. She explained her deep sea adventures and dives on "submersibles", (small man-operated submarine suits). She also showed clips of bioluminescent fish that when touched squirted blobs of bright blue fluid that lit-up the whole fish tank. She successfully employed the wow-factor of these biologically astounding animals and their functions to draw the audiences attention to conservation efforts.
Her Ocean research and conservation non-profit is called ORCA, and has been doing significant things since 2005. Most noted, they discovered an entire new family of deep sea squid in the gulf of Mexico. Now they are focused on a way to make water pollution visible by chemical-gradient tracking systems and measuring devices called "Kilroys". This work is incredibly innovative and will be imperative to the efforts of The Clean Water Act.
Today, Wednesday, Widder spoke to the entire school assembly about The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. She had used the gulf as a habitual research site until the spill. She also served on the ONLY government clean-up panel that was not under complete BP control. She mentioned the continual damage from the spill today, and the dispersant called "Corexit" that BP sprayed to disperse some of the oil. This dispersant, another chemical has worsened the ecological situation. Friends of Widders- a group of divers exposed to the "Corexit" are in critical medical condition.
Widder was down-to-earth and shared her passions for the sea and its glowing beings with candor.
Check her out:
ORCA: http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/home.cfm
Widder gives a TEDx talk in part of their Mission Blue Voyage series: http://www.ted.com/speakers/edith_widder.html
NMH should do something like this for Earth Day!
Can the Ecoleaders organize ourselves and our Network of friends fast enough before tmrw (EARTHDAY!) comes?
At 7:00 pm every Wednesday The NMH Ecoleaders gather in the Basement of the Cutler Science Building to review our work for the past week, discuss sustainable current events on campus and off within the league of 8 preparatory schools, and organize ourselves for next week's work.
This evening Becca Leslie (head of Ecoleaders and NMH's Sustainability Coordinator) told Kyra, Sam, and Sierra about the 30-acre solar panel field that Lawrenceville in New Jersey is about to construct.
Hughes Pack stopped in to admire Sam's plan for a walking tour of "Sustainable NMH".
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Total list of Green companies that filed for Bankruptcy that we know of so far.
• Evergreen Solar
• SpectraWatt
• Solyndra (received $535 million)
• Beacon Power (received $43 million)
• AES' subsidiary Eastern Energy
• Nevada Geothermal (received $98.5 million)
• SunPower (received $1.5 billion)
• First Solar (received $1.46 billion)
• Babcock & Brown (an Australian company which received $178 million)
• Ener1 (subsidiary EnerDel received $118.5 million)
• Amonix (received 5.9 million)
• The National Renewable Energy Lab
• Fisker Automotive
• Abound Solar (received $400 million)
• Chevy Volt (taxpayers basically own GM)
• Solar Trust of America
• A123 Systems (received $279 million)
• Willard & Kelsey Solar Group (received $6 million)
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For sure it's not the "green product" it's people like him that borrow money-Go Bankrupt- & want the citizens of the ISA to pay for his mistakes.
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#10 - Undead Structure Deck "Fix"
- November 18, 2005 06:33 AM (GMT)
As I promise, I would write an article on polishing the Undead structure.
As the Vampire week going to close really soon (it's fast...), let's just go back a little bit on the structure deck. Yes...the old one, right??
Let's get on topic now, first of all, I would put the card list reference (out of order in some way) in each of the sections that I would talk about.
But first, let's see some combos involve in this deck??
1. High Level Undeads + Genesis + Genesis's effect/Book of Life = Heavy Reborning
2. Turtle + Book of Life --> Heavy Summoning
3. Special Summon + Reward of Rebirth
4. FEM + High Level to discard for Genesis
As you see, this deck could REALLY be around [Vampire - Genesis]. But as I said in the card review, Vampire Genesis is not even that good of a card. However, for the sake of changing the deck...I would KEEP it, and really, EXPAND on it.
Let's look at how to change the deck up, now. I would do this separating sections by sections.
For the ratio for this deck, it is VERY BAD. It have a 7-10-16-7 (17-23) ratio, or, a very imbalance between the Tributes and the Non-Tributes monsters. (You will see later) The usual ratio, you may ask?? It is about a 4-13 or 5-12 for an Undead deck (since really, for the ease of Undead to be special summon, a little bit more High Tribute have no problem).
Monster (Trib) - 7
Vampire - Genesis x1
Vampire Lord x1
Sand Spector x1
Dragon Bone Orge x2
Despair from Darkness x2
First of all, since I said I want to stay with Vampire Genesis, that state. However, we see a Spirit Undead monster that CANNOT be special summon, so, that is one big OUT.
-1 Sand Specter
We then look down, and see 2x Despair + 2x Dragon Bone Orge, Despair is a GREAT comboing card with Genesis, but, 2 is overkill. DBO is 6 star, and it is special summonable by Turtle, so...
-2 Despair
What to add??
Well...since I want to keep down the cost of this deck, so, I would not choose [Curse of Vampire], since it is kind of expensive to get one.
With the ratio down to 4, since there're not much other good high level Undead monster, I would just leave it like this:
Monster (Trib) - 4
Vampire - Genesis x1
Vampire Lord x1
Dragon Bone Orge x2
Monster (NT) - 10
Master Kyonsee x1
Pyramid Turtle x3
Soul-Banishing Spirit x1
Spirit Draining Tower x1
Vampire Lady x1
Double Coston x1
Revived Mummy x2
As I said earlier, we need MORE Lower levels Undead monsters in order to balance the deck.
First of all, I would start to throw stuff out...
And...the first victim is ALWAYS a Yellow monster (non-effect monster), they serve no purpose what so ever, and the attack strength is not even that good...
-1 Master Kyonsee
Then, we also see some monster that have no use at all without any more 2 tributes: Double Coston. It would get out of this deck also.
-1 Double Coston
Now, it's time to tweat up the number of non-tribute monster.
First, as always, we want some staple monsters, so...
+1 Magic Warrior - Breaker (303/EE1)
+1 Initiate Troops (SC/DL5/SJ2/BE2)
Then, we want to expand on the what's call "Undead"...yes, this card, right??
+1 Soul Banishing Spirit (301/EE1)
Also, with Genesis and millions of special summon, we can also do:
+1 Spirit Inhaling Tower (308/EE2)
Also, we want some Vampire taste, right??
+1 Vampire Lady (308/EE2)
So, that's not enough, we NEED some kind of beatstick, so...
+2 Fear from Darkness (304/EE1) OR Royal Bodyguard (PH/DL5/BE2)
So, in final words, the deck is power up by more low tribute, yet (somehow) useful Undead monsters. As always, you may do this differently, but, I'm choosing all cards that are Commons. This Undead monsters provide enough stick to boost up the High Tribute Undead, which have GREAT power.
In conclusion, let's look at the list:
Monster (NT) - 13
Fear from Darkness/Royal Bodyguard x2
Pyramid Turtle x3
Soul-Banishing Spirit x2
Spirit Draining Tower x2
Vampire Lady x2
Revived Mummy x2
Well, finally the most important part in the deck: Magic cards. With the right choices of Magic cards, a deck could be more powerful.
So, let's look at how to dump and add the cards.
Magic - 16
Theft x1
Cyclone x1
Hurricane x1
Apostle of Obliteration x1
Jar of Greed x1
Reward of Rebirth x1
Tempest x1
Book of Life - Forbidden Magic - x2
Cry of Mummy x3
Reload x2
Forced Transfer x2
First of all, let's look at the current "staple" Magic list: (not really have to be EXACT...)
1. Jar of Greed
2. Cyclone
3. Change of Heart (lack)
4. Theft
5. Early Burial (lack)
6. Tempest
As you see, we lack 2 of the staples, so...first of EVERYTHING:
+1 Early Burial (CA/YU/KA/SJ2/DL1/BE1/SD1/SD3)
+1 Change of Heart (RB/DL2/YU/PE)
Then, let's dump out some trash cards.
With the combo on reborning, there's one [Reward of Rebirth] in this deck. One, however, cannot affect the game much at all. Even with all the special summoning involve in this deck, we see a very situational card here.
-1 Reward of Rebirth
Looking down the list, we see 3x Cry of Mummy.
3x?? [Cry of Mummy] is a CONTINUOUS MAGIC, and with the lack of M/T removal in the game right now, it's better not to top deck this card so much since it's use is very limit.
-2 Cry of Mummy
At last, we see 2x Reload. Reload, however, is not that useful of a card. With you want to swamp the field, not your hand, and pretty much you would use your hand up quickly. And as I lower the chance of this deck having bad top decking, this card really is not need.
-2 Reload
After down 3 cards, let's add back some...
Undead is all about Special Summoning, and...2x Book of Life certainly is not enough. You may say 3x Book of Life would top deck, but, in late game swamping, that is definitly needed.
+1 Book of Life - Forbidden Curse - (PH/DL5/BE2)
Now, what if your opponent have a monster that you WANT to kill??
+1 Earth Crush (307/EE2)/Lightning Vortex (FET)
To further the removal, with the combo [Book of Moon] + [Apostle]
+1 Book of Moon (PH/DL5/BE2)
At last, what's the best way to get special summoning from your grave?? Dump the cards, right??
+1 Distressful Choice (MR/DL1/BE1)
In conclusion, Magic cards are added to either they're just "staples" (or just...great cards that MAJORITY of the decks could use), or they would support what you're doing. Let's look at the final list for the Magics:
Magic - 16
Theft x1
Cyclone x1
Hurricane x1
Apostle of Obliteration x1
Jar of Greed x1
Distressful Choice x1
Tempest x1
Book of Life - Forbidden Magic - x3
Cry of Mummy x1
Earth Crush/Lightning Vortex x1
Forced Transfer x2
Change of Heart x1
Early Burial x1
Book of Moon x1
Trap - 7
Sand Torando x1
Tidal Wave x1
Magic Jammer x1
Careless Avarice x1
Forced Ejection Machine x3
Now, for the last part, the Traps.
First, let's look at the staple list for Traps (I call it "Staple 3")
1. Destruction Ring
2. Cry of the Living Dead
3. Tidal Wave
This deck lacks two of them, so...
+1 D-Ring (KA/SK2)
+1 Living Dead (CA/JY/DL1/BE1)
Now, once added card, I need to take some out, right??
First victim is...Careless Avarice. You NEED draw power in this deck, but not a card where you can use in any deck. Careless is when you want to just KILL opponent and know the cards you want is coming. We don't have this kind of situation in this type of deck...
-1 Careless Avarice
Then, we look down and see [Magic Jammer].
If you don't know me, I always say this kind of counter Traps are bad cards....
WHY? It have too limit of a use, limiting only to Magic cards??
-1 Magic Jammer
We look down the list more and see 3x Forced Ejection Machine.
Again, Konami get crazy and try to fill up the spaces. I cannot think of much of combos with Forced Ejection Machine. Bouncing a big monster you have to hand so you can discard it for Genesis?? Bouncing opponent's card so they waste a summon??
Maybe...but 3x and definitely too much...
-1 Forced Ejection Machine
As I said, what would be a better counting card??
Of course, the old powerful [God's Declaration].
+1 God's Declaration (BE1)
Now, let's look at the Trap lineup:
Sand Tornado x1
Tidal Wave x1
Cry of the Living Dead x1
Destruction Ring x1
Forced Ejection Machine x2
God's Declaration x1
Of course, the deck is finish. However, you can always do something. Like the Trap lineup may change if you HATE bouncing and like killing more, like
-1 FEM to add a Thunder Break (301/BE1) or Earth Crush
If you just want drawing, you can always put:
1. [Mirage of Nightmare] (PH/DL5/BE2) + [Emergency Ration] (SC/DL5/BE2)
2. 3x [Goblin Managment Expert] (FET) (not recommand since there're just not enough spaces)
And last but not least, some cards you WANT to add into this deck if you can find them (ALL of the following are either Promos or from PP/LE packs):
1. Sixth Sense (VB6)
2. Curse of Vampire (LE7)
3. Dead Spirit - Zoma (MG1)
Last comment: Undead deck is not even close to easy to use. A player must try and test out the deck a lot in order to grib the deck. Also, my changes are just a sample of how to improve a deck, it does NOT necessary mean telling you to swap out those cards and add in those cards. My changes may NOT always work, and sometimes it comes down to my own preference on building a deck. You can copy this deck all you want, I don't care, but most likely, you would not learn anything from it since you didn't test it out to change the cards yourself. The point of this article is just to show you all some of the best way to tune up the deck so it would be better, and you guys can say it is as a "guide" on improving the deck.
- Baron (Still unaffect by Vampire), 1/21/05
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GradShare 360 - Student to Teacher
Julia Mortyakova recently wrote an article for Inside Higher Ed detailing the transition from "Grad Student to Professor," which she has experienced first hand. In the past Julia served as president of NAGPS, and she now serves on their advisory board. For those of you unfamiliar with NAGPS, it's the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students, an umbrella group for the GSA's on many campuses around the country. GradShare has had the opportunity to work with NAGPS over the past couple of years, and the group is filled with a number of diverse and interesting student leaders. Take Julia for instance, in addition to her role with NAGPS, she has written a book, and she is a highly accomplished pianist; check out her bio on her website where you can listen to her music and learn more. Let's check out some grad school news:
- A grad student has committed to a hunger strike in protest against the University of Alberta. He claims they discriminated against him and refused to provide him with a Ph.D. supervisor.
- Here is an interesting article explaining why the United States should ease the path to citizenship for international grad students. What are your thoughts?
- Take a look at the 2012 graduate school rankings according to US News & World Report.
Be sure to check back for more grad school news, and don't forget to follow GradShare on Twitter & Facebook!
GradShare 360 - Fireworks
Time to go buy hamburgers and hot dogs, and don't forget to pick up extra ice for the cooler. As the sun sets this July 4th the skies all across the United States will be illuminated, and onlookers will marvel at thunderous explosions of fireworks, all in the name of celebrating American independence. Fireworks displays have become synonymous with July 4th, but where do we get all those fireworks? According to a census website from the US government we spend an average of $190.7 million each year to import fireworks from China. Now get this, nearly 10,000 people in America go to the emergency room each year due to fireworks related accidents. Coincidence? Let the conspiracy theories start. You could say I just lit the proverbial fuse. Alright, all my bad jokes aside, let's check out some graduate school news:
- Students often wonder if they are qualified for grad school, but did you ever consider that you may be overqualified?
- Here is a list of reasons why you should go to grad school, as well as some money advice for parents that will be paying for grad school.
- Are you studying astrology or just staring at stars? Either way, Amandeep Gill gives you the run down on why she chose grad school to study astrology.
Have a fun and safe July 4th, and dont forget to check out GradShare on Facebook & Twitter!