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Don't do Ultrashape, get Coolsculpting Instead - Ontario, Canada
- staceylee spent $4,000 in SW Ontario, canada
- Updated 2 years ago
I have had both Ultrashape and Coolsculpting done on different parts of my body so I thought it would be valuable to let you know about my experience with each one. First I had Coolsculpting performed on my lower abdomen about 3 weeks ago. I don't have a lot of fat there but there... Read more
Visible Result After 1 Treatment - Melbourne, AU
- melbourneshopper spent $900 in Melbourne, AU
- Updated 1 year ago
I had a treatment on my abdomen. The treatment started off very comfortable but was quite prickly towards the end; some of the pulses were as painful as laser hair removal. Pros: Stomach feels firmer and looks less jelly-like almost straight away (think Homer Simpson jelly test...) Good... Read more
loving it - Miami, FL
- jennifer224 spent $850 in Miami
- Created 1 year ago
Its just been one week and a day i had my first section on the 11th of this month and in 2 sections i had my back arms and tummy done in 2 days i saw a little differents but this weekend when i put on my bathing suit i was like wowwwww im loving the results i believe this is sooo worth it im not... Read more
Ultrashape on Outer Thighs - Did Not Work at All! - Australia
- ozzik8 spent $1,150 in Australia
- Created 2 years ago
I am 25, fit & healthy, 170cm tall & 62kg. I have stubborn pouches of fat on my outer thighs that stick out. I had ultrashape 3 sessions on both thighs. I experienced a hot pricking sensation during the treatment (similar to laser hair removal) but it was quite bearable and I had no side... Read more
Amazing - Panama
- LizzyH spent $1,200 in Panama
- Created 2 years ago
It really works! It is important that the technician use a tecnique where the fat is taped into a mound. I lost 3 cms in the stomach each time and 2 in the thighs immediately. It is important to eat no carbs for 5 days afterwards. Read more
2 Sessions in - Limited Results So Far - Brisbane, Australia
- Koozan spent $680 in Brisbane, Australia
- Created 2 years ago
A bit about me: I am not overweight and don't have too much excess fat, mainly my lower stomach where by the end of the day I look bloated. I have paid AU$680 for 5 sessions. I have had 2 sessions so far and have not noticed much change. The technician told me that many people dont... Read more
Good, but Not Fabulous - Mexico
- t spent $1,500 in Mexico
- Created 3 years ago
The pros - it's completely painless, and provides results very quickly. It looks natural with no bruising or down time. Cons - I used "not sure" because I did have good results right away, but I'm not sure if it has really lasted. I'm of normal/ healthy weight, but... Read more
Pain with Ultrashape (Stubborn Fat on Outer Thighs, BMI is 24)
- JJRock spent $1,500 in Calgary, AB
- Updated 4 years ago
I hope it works, very painful, I had a lot of zaps (number of treatment spots),medium area treated; thighs. BMI is 24, but stubborn fat on my outer thighs, and was considering lipo. I have to eat a reduced fat diet and 1/2 calories for 10 days until it dissapates, to see results.I had my first... Read more
ULTRASHAPE is a WASTE of Money-Should Have Done Lypo!!!
- noraa spent $2,000 in Canada
- Updated 4 years ago
I was told when I went for the consultation that I was a perfect candidate that this procedure was made for people like me that exercise a lot and eat well and still have an area where the fat just doesn't want to go away!I did everything by the book, I exercised even more than I already did... Read more
Zero Results with 3 Sessions of Ultra Shape and $2100.
- 46fab spent $2,100 in Canada
- Updated 4 years ago
Had 3 sessions spaced 8 weeks apart. I go to the gym 5 days a week at Curves. I and am only barely overweight. My BMI is 24. My final appt review resulted in zero improvment anywhere....They measured me everywhere and they made the confirmation. They did not offer any additional sessions for... Read more
Ultracontour Lipo
- ULTRACONTOUR spent $500 in Athens, Greece
- Updated 4 years ago
There is also another body contouring machine available for treatment in Ultrasounds focalised therapy, which is in Europe, France name is Ultracontour. This French system gives fantastic results; about 2 cm per session on abdomen and legs, also arms can be treated since the transducer which... Read more
Ultrashape Worked Without Surgery
- Beach me spent $2,100 in Tijuana, Mexico
- Updated 4 years ago
Hola, Well I did not want surgery, but did WANT RESULTS and to lose my stomach stubborn fat. So I wanted to lose inches off my waist. I had painless Ultrashape and was SO happy with my results So for me, Ultrashape worked with NO surgery. And yes I did eat, quite often,... Read more
It Worked
- xxx spent $2,200 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Updated 4 years ago
Got treatment. Noticed results in a day or so. I cannot speak for the others, but it worked for me. It is not for overweight people and I can see why it is an incremental solution not a total solution ( as lipo can be). I have had really good results and it has only been my first treatment. I... Read more
I Gained Weight During Ultrashape
- valleyofrain spent $3,800 in Private
- Updated 4 years ago
I went out of the country for Ultrashape since it is not FDA approved in the States. Travel was minimal and I got a few vacations out of it. Make no mistake, I guarantee you this was the best part of it. I have the common "pooch" in my tummy. I've never had children, it is... Read more
Ultrashape Didn't Work - Victoria
- kriscraft spent $3,600 in Victoria, British Columbia
- Updated 4 years ago
Did three treatments, didn't notice any change. I did eat healthy and workout Maybe it depends on where you decide on doing your treatment. I wish I would of just spent my money on a good pilates coach or have liposuction done. I think I would been happier. Save your money. Read more
Ultrashape Does Work if You Don't Go Here
- tsmith spent $9,475 in Calgary, Alberta Canada
- Updated 4 years ago
Ultrashape does work if you don't go here and you know what to look for to maximize treatment. I had Ultrashape performed. A series of 3 treatments on my thighs, buttocks and abdomen. I only lost 1 cm per treatment which was quite perplexing for me as, other than these stubborn spots, I am... Read more
Waste of Money. Might As Well Have Gotten Lipo
- MarinaScott spent $3,000 in Toronto, Canada
- Updated 5 years ago
I spent $3000 on 3 ultrashape treatments. I'm 5'2 and 120 lbs. Even when I was only 100 lbs. I always hated my tummy in proportion to my other curves. So to keep the breasts and bum that I have at 120 lbs and still feel thin I thought I'd try ultrashape. Don't go it is a waste of... Read more
My Treated Areas Didnt Change at All!!
- Albonita spent $3,000 in Canada
- Updated 5 years ago
Ive always been a very fit person but in the last two yrs from not working out as much ive accumulated some fat in my flaks, inner/outer thighs. So originally I wanted to try Lipodisolve on the areas mentioned above but during the consultation my Dr conviced me to go with Ultrashape, he said... Read more
Ultrashape: Not Worth It
- happygolucky spent $4,000 in Hong Kong
- Updated 5 years ago
I have 5 sessions of ultrashape treatment with a medical practitioner here in HK. I have sticked to the requirement of vigorous exercise and normal sensible diet. Yet hardly half an inch was lost. It is not worth the time and money I spent on it and I certainly won't recommend it to my friends. Read more
Got Burned
- Spent $3,000 in Netherlands
- Updated 5 years ago
I had ultra shape treatment by {edited} in the Netherlands. The ultra shape machine handle where the pulse signal come out became so hot that I got a 2nd degree burn on my waist of about 5 inch. Forget going to the Beach with a dark spot on your waist. Editor note: you must be... Read more
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Entropy and epistasis
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008For our journal club tomorrow we are reading yet another paper on gene-gene interaction in association mapping. This time, a rather short and easy paper:
Exploration of gene-gene interaction effects using entropy-based methods
Dong et al.
European Journal of Human Genetics (2008) 16, 229–235; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201921Abstract
Gene–gene interaction may play important roles in complex disease studies, in which interaction effects coupled with single-gene effects are active. Many interaction models have been proposed since the beginning of the last century. However, the existing approaches including statistical and data mining methods rarely consider genetic interaction models, which make the interaction results lack biological or genetic meaning. In this study, we developed an entropy-based method integrating two-locus genetic models to explore such interaction effects. We performed our method to simulated and real data for evaluation. Simulation results show that this method is effective to detect gene–gene interaction and, furthermore, it is able to identify the best-fit model from various interaction models. Moreover, our method, when applied to malaria data, successfully revealed negative epistatic effect between sickle cell anemia and α+-thalassemia against malaria.
In this paper they use (information theoretic) entropy measures to detect pairwise gene-gene interaction in disease association. In information theory, entropy is a measure of uncertainty. The less certain you are of the outcome of an experiment, the higher the entropy of the experiment. If you are flipping an unbiased coin, the chances of head or tail are 50/50 and you have maximal entropy, but if the coin is biased, you expect, say, heads to come up more often than tail, and you have less entropy. In the extreme case where you are guaranteed, say, head, the outcome is certain and the entropy is minimal. Zero, in fact.
Mathematically, if the probability of head is p, then the entropy of the coin flipping is H = p log p + (1-p)log(1-p).
If you sample an individual from the population and test if he has a certain disease, he might have that with a probability p. This isn't that different from flipping a coin (although it would probably be a pretty biased coin for most diseases). So again you can talk about the entropy, and the formula is, of course, the same as above.
Now comes the interesting part. If you know the genotype of the individual, does that then influence the entropy of the event? Do you gain any information about disease status from knowing the genotype?
If we take the entropy for the disease fraction, but for each genotype in isolation (so we get a risk pAA for genotype AA, a risk pAa for genotype Aa, and a risk paa for genotype aa and can calculate the entropy for each of these using the formula above) and we then take the weighted average of entropies, weighted with the genotype frequencies, then we get the entropy conditional on the genotype. Comparing this entropy with the entropy when we do not know the genotype will tell us if we gain anything from knowing the genotype. If we do, then we have a genotype/phenotype association.
If we have two genotypes, we can compare the entropy when we know the combined genotype against the entropy when we know either one alone. If the combined genotype has more information than the most informative marginal genotype (i.e. less entropy than the marginal with less entropy), then there must be some interaction.
It is as simple as that. I am a bit surprised someone hasn't done this ages ago.
Of course, there are some serious limitations with the method that might explain this.
First of all, there is the problem with distinguishing between random signals and true signals. Even with no interaction, there is not exactly zero information gain in knowing the pairwise genotypes. By chance, there will be different values, and you need to know when the information gain is significant. To figure this out, they use a permutation test. They resample from their data and that way figure out the distribution of information gain when there is no real association, and from that they can figure out how significant the information gain is.
The problem with this is that it can be very slow. The more significant an event needs to be before you trust it, the more you have to sample. If you need an event to happen less than 1 in 100, you need to sample at least 100 times without seeing it to conclude that. If we need the event to occur less than once in 10,000 we must sample 10,000 times.
Still, the method is fine for detecting interaction for two given markers, but the typical situation is, of course, that you have a lot of markers and you want to figure out which are interacting. To figure that out, we need to test them all, at least unless we can rule some pairs out somehow. With N markers, there are N(N-1)/2 pairs. If you are looking genome wide, N would be around 500,000 which would give you 124,999,750,000 pairs. That is a lot of pairs.
It is probably a problem for all methods to test that many pairs -- at least I cannot think of any method that wouldn't choke on it -- so to be fair let us assume that we have reduced it to just one million pairs. Then you are performing one million tests. Now we run into the multiple testing problem. If an event happens once in ten thousand by chance, it will happen about a hundred times in a million tests.
Now we see the problem with determining significance using a permutation test. We need to correct for multiple tests, and a lot of multiple tests, so we need the events we consider significant to be very rare indeed. This means that we need to sample very many times to determine that an event is significant. This can be a very serious limitation with this method.
It might be possible to determine significance some other way, in which case the interaction test in this paper could be useful for finding gene-gene interaction, but I am sceptical as long as it relies on a permutation test...
Dong, C., Chu, X., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Jin, L., Shi, T., Huang, W., Li, Y. (2008). Exploration of gene-gene interaction effects using entropy-based methods. European Journal of Human Genetics, 16(2), 229-235. DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201921


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Are there other examples in other languages?
About 9 years ago I read about some published work about brain scans of native speakers of Chinese, and how their brains didn't seem to react to R and L sounds the same way English speakers' brains do. It was probably this, or something like it:
The infant's innate neural circuitry allows her brain to be able to recognise any phoneme. However, after less than a year in a certain linguistic environment, the child becomes increasingly able to differentiate only those phonemes she typically hears in her language and begins to lose the ability to perceive other phonemes.3,4 For example, individuals who have spent their first decade hearing Asian languages in which the phonemes r and L are interchangeable, are unable to differentiate those sounds.5 Positron emission tomography (PET) scans have shown that the r and L sounds are decoded in separate parts of the brain of an English speaking person, but these sounds are processed in the same part of the brain of someone in whose native language these phonemes are not differentiated.6
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WSC Men's Nordic Team Wins 3x5k Relay at Nationals; Bryant represents alpine team at Nationals and Hughes comes in third for freeride in Snowmass
Mar. 10, 2010 -- Western State College alpine and Noridc skiers travelled to Maine last week to compete in the United State Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships and they came home with some impressive results.
(L-R) WSC Nordic skiers Tom Sunderland, Scott Krankkala, and Chris Lange. The trio won the 3x5k relay, edging out rivals University of Wyoming.
Additionally, the WSC freeride team continued their season on the freeskiing circuit, with Kaytlin Hughes making a third-place finish in the Snowmass Colorado Freeride Championships.
The WSC Nordic team proved they are among the best in the nation with several podium finishes and a men's national title in the 3x5k relay. The races took place in Black Mountain, Maine.
According to Coach Duncan Callahan, the trio of Scott Krankkala, Tom Sunderland and Chris Lange skied perfectly to win the 3x5k relay (:40:05.1). They edged out rivals University of Wyoming by a mere eight seconds to secure the national title for the event.
"The race was a tremendous accomplishment for these skiers and for Western State College," Callahan said.
Krankkala also skied to the top individual results for the team with a third- place finish in the 8.5k skate race (:23:42.4). Sunderland placed eighth in the same race (:23:54.0).
The women's team showed some impressive results as well. Jamie Woelk skied to two sixth-place finishes in the 8.5k skate (:27:57.7) and the 15k classic (:53:14.2). Brittney Perkins, the lone senior skiing at Nationals, skied well in the 8.5k skate with an eight place finish (:28:09.4). Perkins was fresh off skiing in her first 50k race of her career just days before with the American Birkebeiner in Wisconsin, the biggest Nordic ski marathon in the United States.
Combined, the men's team finished fourth in the nation and the women finished seventh.
Callahan reported that Ali Gulick rounded out the scoring for the WSC women by skiing smoothly in several of the events. He also shared that Sage Smith proved he could ski at the national level by producing several significant results of his own.
Six of the seven Nordic skiers will be returning to ski for the team next year.
"We are optimistic about next season," Callahan said. "We've shown we are a force on the national stage and our future is looking very bright."
Dylan Bryant was the lone skier for the WSC alpine team that qualified and competed at Nationals this year and he did his best to represent Western well with a ninth-place overall finish. The alpine competitions took place in Sunday River, Maine.
"I was happy with my results and very impressed with the high level of competition," Bryant said.
Bryant took sixth place in the slalom and twelfth in the giant slalom. Bryant was the second top American skier in his field. Most of the top skiers he competed against were Europeans who are attending American universities.
Alpine Coach Eric Grand is proud of Bryant and his results.
"Dylan did really well at Nationals, and we are happy that he represented Western State College in Maine," Grand said.
Bryant skied on Western's NCAA team for two years, until the program was cut for financial reasons in 2008. He left to continue skiing at the NCAA level at the University of Nevada, Reno, for one year, but returned to Western for his final year of collegiate skiing--a decision he is happy about.
"I love Western and it was great to finish out my collegiate career here."
The freeride ski team is in their inaugural year and had their most impressive individual result of the season at the Colorado Freeride Championships in Snowmass with Kaytlin Hughes coming in third place for the women.
"She had a great day and had some really solid runs," Coach Eric Freson said. "It was certainly the most exciting news from our team for the event."
Several other WSC freeride skiers participated in the event with two skiers, Jason Holton and Jeremy Johndrow, advancing to the second day of competition.
Holton shares coaching duties with Freson, and also helped found the team.
The team will travel to Taos, New Mexico over March 10 -13 to compete in the Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships.
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He says they've received complaints from residents and were able to make drug buys from the suspects. Turner says they've bought prescription pills, cocaine, crack and marijuana from the suspected dealers.
Officers raided homes on Wells Street, Carolina Drive and Oakwood Drive.
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Cheraw Police Department helped in the operation and provided a K-9 team to sniff out drugs.
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Hey guys! My name is Julian Wilson and I am a huge fan of Linkin Park, and have been ever since I was a child. I am 17 turning 18 and I actually am starting work on an album myself. I have a song out already that I recorded with a couple of friends and it's called "Don't Run." It's on YouTube so you guys are free to check it out if you so wish! My life time dream is to meet and by a miracle collaborate with LP on a song lol. Far-fetched to the max but I am not afraid to admit it! :D It's nice to meet all of you. :D
HI, I'm new here. Have always liked Linkin Park but never joined a fan forum before 'til I entered the Indaba remix competition. It's great to be here and I'm off to have a look around the site and see what's happening. I generally like spening all my time remixing other peoples songs. I made a dance electronic remix of Lost In The Echo. I asked in my song description whether Linkin Park fans like this style of music and stated that I'd like to find out. So if any of you have the time to listen to my remix then feedaback of any kind would be more than appreciated, best regards, Duncan (Gridkeeper). Link to my remix of Lost In The Echo http://awe.sm/o5Ba3
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I am new here, seems i got time enough these days ;-)
I am from the Netherlands and discovered Linkin Park in, i think it whas in 2000 when in the end came out here. I whas 36 then. Always whas a late bloomer... anywho, i am a proud mother and i came here because on facebook there are a lot of fake LP add's. And i like to stay genuin. Sorry iff my english is not that good anymore..i am just beïng me lolll. Thanks for the warm welcome and for sharing all the awsome things over here ;-) Bye for now ♥
Hi, I`m Mary. I`m 19 and I`m from Ukraine, have no idea if there`s somebody from around here in the group, are you?? It all started from Crawling, in 2006, yes, rather late, sorry but my mum didn`t want me to listen to the good music like that, I heard it for the first time and it sucked me into the rest of the songs. Totally adore LP since then.
Hi guys! I'm a Brazilian soldier (my english is kinda bad) I'm a fan of Linkin Park since I was 8 years they met in 2008 when my colleague lent me the album Hybrid Theory him ai liked listening to me and then wanted to know more Linkin Park songs and researched more such. =)
hi yes i have 1 quston is linkin park going to be on tour in the uk next year
Hi, I'm Emma. I'm one of those weird people who listened to Linkin Park's new stuff first and fell in love with that and then grew to love their old stuff. Linkin Park is my muse and my savior. This is the first time I really want to be a part of a community online.
My name is Leia Elly Sniper. I'm from Sabah, Malaysia. Linkin Park had been my most love band since I was 12.. I love the way they singing. I think I'm possibly just like them. Many friends and family said I'm a crazy as they in the video, either in concert.. My dressing, my hair style similiar to Chester.. Who said girl must be a ladylike, must not follow the trend of LP. I made it, and people tag me as black-metal bad girl..
Hhh.. Well, I join to this site hopefully can make friends just like me just like LP. I want to be a part of this Community. I wanna say I LOVE You, LINKIN PARK. I support you guys from hair to toes, from skin to bone, ashe to dust, steel to rust...
hi, my name is vika from Indonesia. i'm a new fan of LP :D
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i was not really their fan until i came to their concert in Jakarta 2011. i came because i was curious how their live performance is...
the concert was awesome !!! really!! i got a chill when i heard chester screamed live!! after that, i officially became LP's fan.... now, i am not just love their songs... but i am crazy about them !!! crazy about chester especially~ :D
ok, that's my story :)
hello,I'm Meklit and I'm 19 years old. I'm from Ethiopia.
I started listening to linkin park five years ago. My first song was In The End and I never stopped listening to Linkin Park after that. They are the best band in my rock world.
I've never seen Linkin Park perform live because they never performed in Ethiopia. but some day i wish that they would come here.
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12:00pm Tuesday 24th September 2013 in News By Bill Jacobs, Local government reporter
BLACKBURN MP Jack Straw is celebrating becoming a grandad - twice in two days.
The 67-year-old's doctor daughter Charlotte gave birth on Thursday afternoon to a son, Jarvis John, at Wythenshawe Hospital, forcing the politician to miss the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School prizegiving.
And on Saturday, son Will's wife Claire delivered a second grandson, Matthew William, on her husband's 33rd birthday.
Mr Straw and his 64-year-old wife, Alice are delighted at the double birth - if a little exhausted and stunned.
After Charlotte, 31, who works in a Manchester hosp- ital, gave birth, her newborn son was rushed to the special care unit, giving her father, who lost his first child Rachel after five days in 1976, anxious moments.
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Will Straw, the recently adopted Labour candidate for Rossendale and Darwen, said: "Matthew's arrival was the perfect birthday present. Claire and I could not be happier.
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Mine are 28-27-27 right now. As long as it's over 25 it really makes little difference to me. 30-30-30 was fine too. Just haven't altered it since fiddling.
Mine are 28-27-27 right now. As long as it's over 25 it really makes little difference to me. 30-30-30 was fine too. Just haven't altered it since fiddling.
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Atm, 30 seems a little too fast right now. I think I'm going to turn it down a notch. I can never make my mind up with sensitivity .. forever changing it
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18-14-14 on the alternative scheme works great for me. Although i sometime get stuck on the walls when i try to turn and run but 19 feels too much.
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Thank u for the reccomendations. Im a older generation player and I consider myself more of a support player then anything. Guess my reaction time is a lil slower than the people that play now. I'll keep working on it, Im sure I'll improve over time.....
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Yo arctyc I just got gears about 8 days ago and I've been using alternate controls/your sensitivity settings. I haven't gone online since I wanna be really good with the conrtrols so I'll be sticking to killing bots unyil I get some people to play with.
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What works best for me after many changes is 28-26-22.
That way i can quickly aim after evading or wallbouncing. It also makes me feel like i have more control over my rifles and blindfiring.
Hey Arctyc, i see the sensitivity settings and all of that but could u test out the auto aim and auto center. Thing that is located through the guide under action . O yea, what sensitivity do u use which is located in the guide button under general. LOW,Medium, or High. If you could help it would be much appreciated.
I been here since day one, stuck through the worst of times.
25-20-15, i switched from 25-17-13. i noticed i sweep a lot more accurately upping the sensitivity a bit.
this helped alot. watched it a few times and i feel unbeatable, until i get BSed but thats ok because "thats gear" as you said in one of your videos xD
Currently, my sensitivity is 26-24-22. It was set higher (28-26-24,) but my shots were barely veering off one to many times. With this setting, I get a good amount of speed and plenty of control. Probably will keep this setting until Judgement drops, unless EPIC brings back the 30-30-30 sensitivity limit.
Control scheme is staying default. Played on Alternate once for a few days. Never again will I attempt to fix what isn't broken, lol
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Arctyc, you provide a great service with this guide. I'm sure you've really helped many player (myself included) to be more competitive.
After playing around with my settings as outlined in your guide, my reaction time for example was greatly improved. In close quarters especially, I'm more confident in my ability to evade a shotgun blast and take some damage and still turn around and get a shot off before my opponent can get another shot off. However, I usually encounter players who seem to be that much faster than me. Is it safe to assume that they are using much higher settings than me? How is that other players seem to have a good balance between control and speed at what seems like crazy high settings?
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Practice. That's it. Once you hit those higher setting you're not used to it will take a few nights of feeling out of control in order to gain control. It all slows down after that. It will come. Eventually you'll want faster. LOL. Maybe not, but you'll feel better about it and your skills.
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I've got my sensitivity pretty much right where I want it but does anyone know what sensitivities are closest to gears 1/2 'HIGH' sensitivity?
I have my setting on
Does these seem ok been using them like that for the past week.
Same here. I recently kranked them up! Was sick of getting out paced in cqc when up against multiple opponents. It still taking some careful getting used to but I find Max settings are best for CQC and so long as your thumbs are steady and controller ok you can target at rage well with practice. Good for getting quick snipes in the move.
Does anybody use staggered settings? Like 15-20-25
probably nevere going to play all 30s to crazy for me
Thanks a lot to IceManC86 for the Jungle Tai code
Thx for the tips, i see my game improving
I play on all 30s and I get really good scores in KOTH
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Survey's results of that new investor retirement optimism index by Wells Fargo and Gallup.
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VP and director he joins us now on so.
Basically you -- looking an investor optimism it seems that with the election coming up in November and investors are getting more and more nervous.
About the future is -- you fat.
We did investor optimism is really declining in Philly points and some often many.
24 points since February so.
Consumer investor confidence is -- lagging and it's really concerning around the presidential elections three out of four Americans.
Have told us that they feel the outcome of these elections will have an impact on their financial network so it's really hitting home.
With 43% of investors saying it's gonna have a major impact on and -- As their percentage of people.
In one political camp vs another in other words are people telling you in this survey from -- winds they feel they be better off vs Obama.
Now it's really driven around just her overall confidence a level of uncertainty.
You know this is we do this survey every quarter and in addition to the election Somalia certain she's driven around the fiscal cliff.
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You're looking at your cap gains or dividends that's gonna jump and then if -- small business owner as well you've got the answer via taxation and -- yet the health care mandate coming down the law.
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And 50% of the people in the survey admitted to guessing at that number so it was very concerning there's a lot of uncertainty they don't know how to plan.
You know you're an expert helping people plan for their retirement so how are you helping them navigate through these tough waters that's what we do -- first and foremost have a plan it's really important is that -- give me a little bit of the details double we talk about.
First saving you know -- -- 41 K plan get and save as much as you can you need to -- your way to retirement it's for interest and today people are saving enough money.
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I. Policy
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Terraria Star wars, empire at war Borderlands Command and conquer Generals Runescape Halflife episode 2, doing the little rocket man achievement, pain in the ass IMO, but my proudest one and spped run on modern warfare
Jes some random comparison of RE4 on 2 Emulators (Wii/GC and PS2) Both are in 3X internal render resolution PCSX2 Dolphin PCSX2 Dolphin Will prolly post moar soon
PC version is inferior to Wii/GC version due to the fact that its ported from the inferior PS2 version, lacking lighting effects, geometry and shading. It only gets a bit better with mods and runs in hi res (except Dolphin can also run it in high res), but still has some missing effects and the cutscenes are not realtime (very ugly). Wii/GameCube is the best version (not counting the HD ones that came out sometime ago) And oh, the RE4 on Dolphin can also be "modded" to be able to use HD textures Here is the unpatched PC version: patched version (pixel shader 1.1/1.4 active) patched version (pixel shader 2.o active) Compare this to all the other shots and you will notice the Wii/GC version is the best looking (geometry/tree branches/trees and better fog, the PS2 version has no fog at all)