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heaven dx10 submit Xykronius|x1 Sapphire 5970 4gb|925/1200|3193|AMD X6 email@example.com Disabled turbo and core unlocker.Manually enabled 6 cores and OCed. System works alot better and faster now. Barely had to touch my gpuz. Might be able to get another 100 points if necessary. I think i'll try again for #1 on Heaven DX11. I had to start from scratch to overcome a 10 pt defecit but ended up with a much smoother and faster system in the long run. Thats what this threads all about. Thanks
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Heaven dx11 updated Heaven dx11 Xykronius|x1 Sapphire 5970 4gb|950/1350|1841|AMD X6 email@example.com The new cpu and memory oc was only good for an additional hard earned 29 pts. So much for 1st place. I am still very happy with my results though. 2 gpus on one card means I can focus the full crossfire on the eyefinity array. Noticed cpu overheat while stress testing. Added corsair H50 water cooler and push pull radiator fan configuration. Now 60'c at full load.
Hey Binge I thought we had to use Heaven 2.0 only as you state on the first page, I see some people are posting scores with Heaven 2.1; are you ok with that?
It's fine. I can't monitor this as closely as I used to, but I do see it as well. If people are getting better scores with 2.1 then people should re-bench with 2.1 and get up on the list. I'd be happy to add the scores! **EDIT** In addition I am extremely happy to see your overclock and score. Such speeds with such a hot and hungry card! You, my friend, are what most aspire to be. OC!
Thanks for your reply Binge. Well I don't consider myself an extreme overclocker; but this card is that good. The only thing holding me is my power supply, I get 910 on the core with 1.125 voltage, anything more (1.138 is the max on afterburner) and it will trigger the OCP on my unit and the computer shuts down (but it's good to know is active and working). I reckon with a more powerful PSU I can get 950; temps are 83 with the fan at full blast.
a_ump|HIS HD email@example.com blah, i thought forsure i'd take the top single HD 5770 score with my memory oc'd higher . dam erocker, must be bc my 3gb(3x1gb) single channel ram. might work some magic n post again. gotta beat his score! lol
Hi a ump, memory overclock yields to almost no performance gains, heck maybe you get 1fps; however they increase heat holding you from going higher with your core clock. I've experienced this with all my cards from ATI and Nvidia. Why don't you try and reduce your memory clocks and see if you can go higher on the core. P.D: Don't worry about your 3gb ram, that's ok.
a_ump|HIS HD email@example.com SOB!!! lol 1ghz on core and i still can't beat it 1ghz is at 1.25v also. gonna have to take it up more if i can then XD EDIT: i tried as much as i felt like for now. went all the way to 1.3v to get 1050mhz core stable, didn't happen and don't feel like pushing higher. i ran furmark and anytime the temps got to 62/63 is when it crashed. Don't get how he scored higher when my core clock is 50mhz higher as well as 100mhz higher mem.
blah, i don't get it. and i don't see how dropping my CPU speed would help.... my 12v rail is perfeclty fine at 72amps and 12.29v(last i checked a week or 2 ago) so i don't see how CPU speed getting lowered would help. explain? lol
Hmm.. why in the heck can't I find my post for the 5770? I know I was using W7 32 bit if that makes any difference.
WOOT! I AM THE CHAMPION!!!! lol i went to get cigs n figured wth, put 1.287v on and ran it at 1026mhz while i was gone. finally beat ya n only needed 76mhz on core and 100mhz on memory to do it haha. a_ump|HIS HD email@example.com gonna keep pushing it tonite to see how high i can take the mhz. Might push to 1.35v just to see how high i can go core wise. EDIT: i'm still pushing, got to 644. so don't update with this score. i'll let ya know when i'm done EDIT2: well dam in my eagerness to push my score higher i didn't take a screenshot of everything, just saved the score. i believe it was at 1046/1401. gonna try to run it again for authentication. EDIT3: well i re-ran it and only got 642 but here's the verification a_ump|HIS HD email@example.com Decided to do a dx10 run as well a_ump|HIS HD firstname.lastname@example.com
ump - If you want to really pwn drop that overclock on the cpu for this bench. What have you to lose but a minute in bios? (Nobody listens to me anymore )
okay, i'm fine with tryin that, but i won't take the time to do so n test until u tell me why lol. I can't comprehend why a lower CPU clock would improve my score...
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2012-07-17, 05:50 | Link #1301 | |
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Now, stuff did happen in ALO. But it wasn't important to Aincrad. Suguha suddenly existed, and had her own character arc. But her character arc was irrelevant and unless you're particular romantic frankly it's hard to care about her when you really just want to see Asuna finally wake up like you thought she should've 2 volumes ago. And then there's this bit about accepting VRMMOs as not inherently evil because they're fun to play. Which is... somewhat undermined by the fact that the owner of ALO was also an insane villain. All this new stuff simply dilutes the story. Frankly, I think you could even cut Fairy Dance out entirely, 100% don't even mention it, and the rest of the stories would still make sense. You might be confused as to why they're playing a new MMO and why his sister plays too, but other than that it has no long term effects on any of the characters, other than solving the problems it itself introduced. I'm not saying this would happen, because it definitely won't, but Fairy Dance simply doesn't fit in at all, and it doesn't stand on its own either like the other sequels. It's halfway in between and ends up with the worst of both sides. |
2012-07-17, 06:03 | Link #1302 | |
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Call me weird, but I loved the Fairy Dance Arc. Perhaps it's because I'm a fast reader, so I didn't feel it draggy, and it deliciously destroyed the Imouto-First Cousin romance angle, and it actually makes much more sense after noticing that quite alot of the Pre-Asuna stories are dedicated to Kirito's Imouto complex (and he has a huge, huge one to overcome, just read First Day) The thing is, Sugaha existed in a "spiritual" sense of sorts, throughout much of the Aincard arc. Almost half of Kirito's time in SAO, for a period stretching from his joining of the Black Cats to probably shortly before Murder is a product of his strange relationship with his Sister-Cousin. She didn't come out of no-where- Sugaha is probably why Kirito had a Dulcinea effect filtered for younger Imouto like figures in distress. Ultimately though, we'd have to wait for Progressivi to see the full details of this. The thing I didn't enjoy about the Aincard arc was it's fragmentary nature. That being said, the Aincard arc indeed is the longest arc, in terms of implied materials, and the most critical arc of all. Indeed, I think you can see the Aincard arc taking place in several phases. Pre-Aria, Pre-Black Cats, Black Cats, Red Nose Reindeer, Black Swordsman, Murder to Main plot, and the bulk of Volume 1 itself. Each have a rather different paradigm - I think that Kirito's troubled relations with his Sister took prominence in various phases - asserting that Sugaha is irrelevant only holds true if you look at SAO from the prism of the Volume 1 Arc, where Kirito's social needs were being fulfilled on a completely different paradigm via Asuna. But the Kiri-Asu Paradigm was not the predominant one Kirito held until the last six months in Aincrad. If you take the whole Aincard arc together though, then Fairy Dance makes quite alot more sense. Since Sugaha has always been with Kirito's consciousness in "spirit", it underlies his decision making processes, and character in the Black Cat, RNR and Black Swordsman Phase, and even Warmth of the Heart - Fairy Dance concluded that Imouto Complex bird for good, while developing the Asuna-factor of Kirito's psyche further in place of that Imouto Complex. So, I won't be that quick to dismiss Sugaha's relevance, especially after the Volume 8 Side stories. GGO would have been seen as something utterly new, though still set in the SAO Universe. The whole feel is different from SAO - that's not to say it's worst than the Aincrad arc, it's just in a different genre altogether, with a different, not inherently worse premise. Last edited by novalysis; 2012-07-17 at 06:53. |
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As has been said, Asuna character in SAO is mainly "the one that saves Kirito", and not in the sense that Kirito is a damsel in distress, but he needs her around him to fix his issues. So continuing to have Asuna around him after SAO all the time does not prove anything toward Kirito's character development. Him doing the right things things and not taking the easy way out in Asuna's absence proves how far he's come. So for the continuition we need Kirito back in an VRMMO risking his life (or something else that matters on the line), there needs to be a reason for Asuna's absence. Additionally, retroactively after Volumes 2 and 8 it becomes apparent that a lot of Kirito's problems stem from his relationship with his sister.
So to that extent Fairy Dance seems essentail enough to me. I agree that turning Asuna into the fair maiden the evil king trapped at the top of the tower is an outright parody of the damsel in distress and no matter how you look at it, it just doesn't allow for Asuna to do a whole lot for her own character. It certainly took the easy way out, hence Volume 7. |
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It's interesting really, that contrary to the picture in Volume 1, Asuna did not merely represented a straight up romance, but a complete Mind-set shift and re-framing of the parameters of Kirito's on problems. I think when set against Kirito's Imouto issues dominating his state of mind across most of SAO, Asuna presented an "Outside Context" Intervention, in a good way - a female who was neither an Imouto Substitute, like Sachi or Silica. nor significantly older. It'll be interesting to see whether Progressive will explore how Kirito-Asuna intersects with that Imouto angle of Kirito's issues, or whether KiritoX Asuna broke that paradigm. And of course, once that Paradigm was broken, Su-chan stood no chance. I still wonder whether Asuna realized how big an Imouto-Complex Kirito was struggling through. The thing is, we don't really see much of how Kirito managed that part of him in between RNR, Black Swordsman and Murder, though certainly, his encounter with Silica probably helped quite a bit. Though I think Mother's Rosario is one of the strongest volumes out there in the SAO canon. Really, Asuna is an awesome standalone heroine on her on, after Aincrad. |
2012-07-17, 10:42 | Link #1310 | |
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In other words an unhappy princess. |
2012-07-17, 10:44 | Link #1311 | |
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The description Durarara gave is also pretty accurate
2012-07-17, 10:50 | Link #1312 |
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And she's also very suicidal after being trapped in Aincrad.
Spoiler for Asuna's first comments to Kirito, per Aria sidestory:
She's spoiled, yes, but spoiled sweet and had high expectations that she worked hard to live up to. EDIT: Garh, ninja'ed! This goddamn flu is slowing me down -__- |
2012-07-17, 10:52 | Link #1313 |
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That is in good part a reaction to the unique circumstances of SAO, as a result of her basic, original character. An obedient, polite daughter following the path her family, especially her mother laid down for her. Inside of course laid a warm and impressive woman of great internal fortitude will-power, command and presence, that was forged in Aincrad.
But the initial Asuna was suicidal in part because of that sudden over-turning of her entire prior world-view. Kirito gave her a reason to live, to bring her out of that suicidal state. I think it's interesting to note that Aria, Rondo and Monochrome have a completely different vibe to them from RNR and Black Swordsman, and even Warmth of the Heart. Again, the concept of a relationship between equals- which is why I think Kirito's relationship with Asuna operated on a different paradigm than the Pesudo-Onii Chan Relationship he had with the far more dependent and less mature Sachi or Silica. I guess that's why it's very difficult to see how the author plans from getting from Monochrome to the Black Cats. I think the theme of Life Purpose also runs very strongly in SAO. Not only with Asuna and Kirito, but even other protagonists like Sinon, and even Alicization focuses heavily on that. |
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Putting the arguments aside, I have finished the Phantom Bullet arc. Actually I finished it last night at about 3:30 AM, so I went to bed rather than comment on it right away. Anyway. I found Sinon's story and situations to be very powerful. The author must be quite impressive to have this level of emotional impact carry across through translations. I could feel Sinon's fear when she thought Death Gun was actually going to kill her, when she had a relapse, when she realized there was probably someone standing in her room at that moment, ready to kill her body in real life as soon as she was shot in the game. I was afraid for her when I suddenly realized that the friend she had trusted was insane, and had come there to either rape her or kill her. I was touched at the end when the woman came to thank Sinon for saving her and her unborn daughter five years ago, and I teared up when the daughter gave Sinon the handmade card, thanking her for saving them both.
This is a separate story, and I agree the anime has no need to so far as to try adapting it, but it is still very good. It hits the right notes, introducing a new character and then really making me care about her. I liked this a lot. |
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My laptop monitor just would not start up today. I have tried to start it quite a few times today. I stayed up till 2 today to do a project and when I woke up, everything except the monitor would start up. There would be nothing on display, it would just be blank. Mine is a G-73 Sw. I am pretty frustrated as it has been less than six months since I bought it and I feel like it is a waste. It did not come cheap with a $1300 price tag, especially considering I am still a student. I am really bummed. Can anyone help me out here?
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The main purpose of the toolkit is to accelerate the creation and development of MVVM applications in WPF, Silverlight and in the Windows Phone.
Like other MVVM implementations, the toolkit helps you to separate your View from your Model which creates applications that are cleaner and easier to maintain and extend. It also creates testable applications and allows you to have a much thinner user interface layer (which is more difficult to test automatically).
This toolkit puts a special emphasis on the "blendability" of the created application (i.e. the ability to open and edit the user interface into Expression Blend), including the creation of design-time data to enable the Blend users to "see something" when they work with data controls.
Much has been written about MVVM as a pattern. I recommend starting with the following:
The MVVM Light Toolkit installation procedure is described here.
To create a new MVVM Light application, check this article (for Visual Studio) and this one (for Expression Blend).
This toolkit gathers libraries and helper components for Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and for Windows Phone 7.:
The source code for the libraries is available on the Codeplex site for the MVVM Light Toolkit. This is also a good place to post suggestions/remarks/questions/discussions about the toolkit.
We encourage the use of StackOverflow for questions regarding MVVM Light Toolkit. StackOverflow is an awesome site for questions related to programming. There is a huge community of developers answering questions there. Please use the tag mvvm-light to tag your questions.
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Documentation about specific components:
If you are so enclined, you can donate to MVVM Light Toolkit. Or, if you prefer, you can pay me a beer next time we're in the same vicinity. Really, it is OK too :)
The creation of this toolkit would not have been possible without the following people:
Josh Smith created the RelayCommand and gracefully allowed me to integrate it with very minor changes inside the toolkit and to distribute it. He is also my "go to guy" when I have issues (with my code, I mean).
Marlon Grech started mentioning using a mediator pattern to communicate between ViewModels. This discussion led me to create the Messenger class.
Jaime Rodriguez had numerous discussions with me regarding the creation of ViewModels and gave me food for thoughts...
Glenn Block helped me finalize some thoughts and sparked a lot of new ones. He also gave me great motivation to write this toolkit, and is an early tester and reviewer of the toolkit.
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Laurent Kempé was often here to keep me company in the wee morning hours, to talk about the direction and features of the toolkit, and gave me very valuable feeback. His team at Innoveo is using the MVVM Light Toolkit in their new WPF application, and very supportive when it comes to improving and testing the latest versions!
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Jul 20, 2012
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-- joining me now are two people who wore in the movie theater during the shooting massacre -- gamer and a boyfriend Kevin.
He known as and Britney -- the fire alarm as she was running out of that theater.
Thank you both for being with us and I'm very sorry about -- both -- you have to go through as well Brittany tell us that story.
Conway where at that top -- and the theater so yeah that pop and suddenly I saw things kind of being flown to and and then explosions and then cash out of hand -- marriage from the back right and left there and shots started happening.
We hit the far as fast as we head -- -- thought of dying on.
They could see people.
Running towards that accepts the laughs and fun sweep I was -- a bunch vasser heading towards the top accent where ever pulled the fire alarm.
-- -- don't trust -- really you know under that type of stress and pressure.
The fact you don't think you know like that and a lot of other people to call 911 and people in other theaters helping.
You know you hear all the stories of people that really went out of -- way.
To help under very difficult circumstances.
Where -- where we sitting Britney.
We're in the top right about five rows from the top player on that right hand of the -- case.
Where there's only like two seats you know and I kept so we have like -- directory of where that camera -- her -- I'm excusing -- shooter was standing.
Thank -- the one of the original reports that I saw was in fact that the first shots actually went to those back rows where you word do you remember it that way.
I don't remember that way but I do remember hearing constant -- -- we were actually on the ground so we can't see anything real.
That did it did -- with either one of you would get at any point did you think that this maybe this was part of the movie does lot of hype obviously to the new Batman movie.
-- did you know all the immediate you did think it was.
He is so there was a period we thought oh man this is something.
But you didn't expect that was part of the movie X.
I think there was canisters and fairly assumed somebody was just messing around but eventually -- -- got really foggy we mortar you know.
We realize it wasn't wasn't joke.
Cam we've -- often and I -- before lots -- -- there's lots of fans and I'll put on shows before hand so it's like okay.
Some people are getting and -- that once people started screaming and gunshots started firing.
And it was no longer.
The question and -- -- that and it was rail and the thing about what's happening.
Only two real sadly.
To brittney how long did it take -- get out of the the theater and how chaotic was it.
I'm as part of how -- where we -- we're on the ground her couple.
Seconds ten minutes send them.
We ran up the stairs so it's really hard to tell but it -- seem like it was longer than a compliment Lance.
There and Kevin the rapid fire.
How long it seemed to go on and did it seem to just not stopped.
The gunshots went off.
For about thirty to 45 seconds.
And eventually did -- stopped.
Did did got -- did you at any point lookup button and nowhere he was -- was it just too -- to -- at that point.
I -- -- side him thank emerging from the -- when you first started shooting after that we're down on the ground and then facing that exit door.
I didn't want to look -- -- well I'm I'm glad you guys got out safely.
Thanks for you did Britney to to help others there in and been able to think and feel like that but I'm sure that helped a lot.
-- and our thoughts and prayers go out to the community thank you both for being with us.
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Joey Beltran might not be sure who would play him, but he definitely feels like he's in a movie all of a sudden.
And now, he says, "I've just got to go out and get that storybook ending."
Beltran (14-7 MMA, 3-4 UFC) was cut by the UFC after a January loss to Lavar Johnson. But after just one fight away, he's back and with the kind of changes he hopes will rejuvenate his career.
After a 1-4 run at heavyweight that included losses to Matt Mitrione, Pat Barry, Stipe Miocic and Johnson, who handed him the first knockout loss of his career, Beltran decided to make the drop to light heavyweight and the move paid instant dividends, not just physically, but in the quick return to the UFC.
"I love it. I feel way better, just in my day-to-day life. Less pain in the joints, I'm way more nimble, I move a lot better, I move a lot faster. I'm excited," Beltran recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "My come-forward warrior spirit is always going to be there. That's never going to change. But I'm definitely going to be able to pull out a couple of new tricks on July 11."
In April, Beltran picked up a win in his light heavyweight debut, outpointing Anton Talamante for C3 Fights. And that earned him a quick return call from the UFC, who wanted him to replace Brandon Vera against James Te Huna (14-5 MMA, 3-1 UFC) at UFC on FUEL TV 4.
And even crazier, Beltran said, he'll return to the UFC in the co-main event of a free TV card. His fight against Johnson at UFC on FOX 2 was near curtain-jerker status the second fight on Facebook, and not even in a guaranteed TV spot.
"Joey Beltran snuck in the back door and is the co-main event that's the most hilarious part of this story to me," Beltran said. "So we're going to go out there (and) we're going to put on a show. There's definitely going to be fireworks. It's made for the movies right now."
The "put on a show" part, Beltran is certain about. "The Mexecutioner" said Te Huna is the kind of fighter he'd be a fan of if he wasn't fighting him.
Te Huna, a New Zealander who lives in Australia, has back-to-back first-round knockouts of Ricardo Romero and Aaron Rosa, the latter of which took place in Sydney this past March. He's been on Beltran's radar, but he'll put any possible fandom to the side next week.
"He's actually got a pretty fan-friendly style, so I would imagine it's going to be a pretty crazy fight," Beltran said. "If I wasn't fighting him, I would watch him fight. If he was on a pay-per-view, I would want to watch him fight. That's the plan (to have a Te Huna fan beat up Te Huna)."
UFC on FUEL TV 4 takes place July 11 at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. The card is headlined by a middleweight contenders bout between Mark Munoz and Chris Weidman. Beltran-Te Huna serves as the co-main event. Main-card bouts air live on FUEL TV, while prelims are expected for a Facebook stream.


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Leg cramps during pregnancy: Preventable?
By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/leg-cramps-during-pregnancy/AN02132
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"Nothing helps people stay healthy more than the power of real knowledge about health." — Dr. Roger Harms
As medical director of content, Dr. Roger Harms is excited about the potential for Mayo Clinic's health information site to help educate people about their health and provide them the tools and information to live healthier lives.
The Auburn, Neb., native has been with Mayo Clinic since 1981 and is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Harms is a practicing physician and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and his specialty areas include office gynecology, high-risk obstetrics and obstetrical ultrasound.
From 2002 to 2007, Dr. Harms was director for education at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Harms was the 1988 Mayo Medical School Teacher of the Year and served as associate dean for student affairs and academic affairs. He is the co-author of the "Mayo Clinic Model of Education." In 2008, Dr. Harms was presented the Distinguished Educator Award, Mayo Clinic, Rochester.
Dr. Harms is vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and medical editor of the Pregnancy section on this website. In addition, Dr. Harms is editor-in-chief of the "Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy" book, a month-by-month guide to everything a woman needs to know about having a baby.
"My medical education experience has grown out of a love of teaching, and that is what this site is about," Dr. Harms says. "If any visitor to this site makes a more informed and thus more comfortable decision about his or her health because of the information we provide, we are successful."
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Leg cramps — painful involuntary muscle contractions that typically affect the calf, foot or both — are common during pregnancy, often striking at night during the second and third trimester.
While the exact cause of leg cramps during pregnancy isn't clear, you can take steps to prevent them. For example:
- Stretch your calf muscles. Stretching before bed might help prevent leg cramps during pregnancy. Stand at arm's length from a wall, place your hands on the wall in front of you and move your right foot behind your left foot. Slowly bend your left leg forward, keeping your right knee straight and your right heel on the floor. Hold the stretch for about 30 seconds, being careful to keep your back straight and your hips forward. Don't rotate your feet inward or outward and avoid pointing your toes. Switch legs and repeat.
- Stay active. Regular physical activity might help prevent leg cramps during pregnancy. Before you begin an exercise program, make sure you have your health care provider's OK.
- Take a magnesium supplement. Limited research suggests that taking a magnesium supplement might help prevent leg cramps during pregnancy. Make sure you have your health care provider's OK to take a supplement, however. You might also consider eating more magnesium-rich foods, such as whole grains, beans, dried fruits, nuts and seeds.
- Stay hydrated. Keeping your muscles hydrated might help prevent cramps. If your urine is dark yellow, it might mean that you're not getting enough water.
- Choose proper footwear. Choose shoes with comfort, support and utility in mind. It might help to wear shoes with a long counter — the firm part of the shoe that surrounds the heel.
If a leg cramp strikes, stretch the calf muscle on the affected side. Walking and then elevating your legs might help keep the leg cramp from returning. A hot shower, warm bath or ice massage also might help.
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- Hensley JG. Leg cramps and restless legs syndrome during pregnancy. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. 2009;54:211.
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Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics
July 31st, 2012 Submitted by Davi BarkerFirearm prohibitionists love to use tragedy to leverage their agenda. So, it's important for gun rights advocates to stand their ground and fire back (proverbially) whenever this happens.
I posted a graphic on Facebook claiming the average number of people killed in mass shootings when stopped by police is 18.25, and the average number of people killed in a mass shooting when stopped by civilians is 2.2. I based it on 10 shootings I found listed on some timeline somewhere. I honestly don't even remember where. I presented the case studies in a blog post on the Silver Circle blog and I did the math myself.
The graphic was met with great enthusiasm and much skepticism. Leave it to Facebook users to demand an audit on a meme. So, I started over, only much more meticulous this time. I compiled and analyzed 100 shootings, noting my methodology, and I am now prepared to present my findings, complete with links to the data. But here's a spoiler… It's not that different.
The average number of people killed in mass shootings when stopped by police is 14.29
The average number of people killed in a mass shooting when stopped by a civilian is 2.33
I was so close! Here's what I think accounts for the difference. In the first sample there was likely a selection error based on what grabs headlines. Larger shootings get more press, so if you take a small sampling you're going to be working with a data set of the worst shootings. As for the consistency of the civilian statistic, it makes perfect sense if you think about from inside the mind of a heroic civilian with a concealed carry permit. It goes something like this:
"Holy crap! that guy shot that other guy."
"He's just going to keep shooting people."
And the shooter goes down.
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text: Brian Sims of San Diego wanted to build a custom motorcycle unlike any other out there. Sure, you've heard that cliché before, but because not many people start with a Buell engine platform that would eventually end up in a custom rigid one-off frame, Brian is close to accomplishing that very feat. "I wanted the work and craftsmanship put into the bike to speak for itself versus a lot of flashy chrome. The frame, gas tank, and rear fender are powdercoated to show there was no bondo used for this build," Brian states. A lot of guys feel using bondo is a way to cut corners, and in this case Brian took the road less traveled. Brian grew up around dirt bikes and had a couple of his own. He's also been inspired by trophy trucks and has been around off-road racing for years. He wanted to mesh the styles together with this build and he did so with the box frame and dirt bike handlebars and ASV levers. Brian bought a Buell because he liked the style of the front brake. Buells are racy motorcycles and that's exactly what he was looking to achieve: a racy rigid that would blow any other bike away off the line. "I wanted the work and craftsmanship put into the bike to speak for itself versus a lot of flashy chrome. The frame, gas tank, and rear fender are powdercoated to show there was no bondo used for this build." When he got the Buell home, he immediately took it apart and took measurements from the motor to design the frame. The only pieces that would remain from the Buell were the motor, front suspension, and wheels. "The frame was designed on Auto CAD, then cut from 4130 chromoly plate on a water jet machine. I rolled some of the pieces then TIG-welded all of the individual pieces together, fitting each piece together with precision," Brian recalls. He also plumbed the frame with stainless steel hard lines with A-N fittings to flow the oil to the motor. Brian designed the SIMS triple clamps for better riding. He also used his own SIMS overlay plate for added strength. "I only did a 35-degree rake so the bike would be very stable and controllable. I also built the 2.5-gallon gas tank with flat sides to go with the contour and shape of the bike," Brian says. For a little extra cushion on the seat pan, Brian installed a Fox downhill mountain bike shock for added comfort since it is a rigid. The seat is topped with 1/4-inch handtooled leather. Being that Brian didn't want a carbureted bike, he kept the fuel injection for reliability. Expelling the Buell's spent gases are one-off pipes that Brian made to get a different sound. He then wrapped the exhaust to add a little bit more of an edge to the bike's theme. Being that Brian is a die-hard San Diegan, he added little touches to the bike to represent his hometown. "On the motor I made a custom cover to reflect 'SD,' which is where I was born and raised," Brian says. Keeping with the dirt bike theme, Brian had to ditch the belt and go to a chaindrive. And for the proper ergonomics, Brian concocted some custom mid-mounts for better body placement. The frame and wheels are powdercoated candy blue. Also the gas tank, rear fender, and headlight are powdercoated in black with a light wrinkle finish. The black and blue scheme represents how Brian leaves his opponents feeling after leaving them in the dust off the line. Nice work, Brian! HB Brian built the custom pipes and covered them with high-temp header wrap for an edgy look. He also made sure to represent his hometown with an "SD" engine cover. Brian built the custom pipes and covered them with high-temp header wrap for an edgy look. The Fox mountain bike shock provides a little more cushion for the seat pan. 1 | 2 | » | View Full Article By Brian Sims, Jordan Mastagni Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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This was our first stop while visiting the Golden Triangle. We loved Amarya Haveli. Very modern with old world charm. Great roof top patio. We dined in our room one night and they were able to accommodate us with wonderful flavors of India. We slept very well in our spacious room. Beautiful decor and colors. Great selection of books and... More
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Carbon dating, a valuable tool for placing ancient archaeological finds in context, is now being applied to date more modern treasures: pricey bottles of scotch.
Researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) in England have applied their craft to sniff out counterfeit whiskeys, with the help of an unsavory ally: 20th-century nuclear tests. Those tests left their mark in the isotope record, significantly boosting levels of atmospheric carbon 14, the radioactive form of the element that researchers measure in carbon dating. Living things take up carbon from the environment, so barley grown during the nuclear era—and the whiskey distilled from it—bears an increased load of carbon 14. (Carbon dating of truly ancient objects uses the steady decay of carbon 14 in once-living tissues as a marker of age: the older something is, the less carbon 14 it has left.)
Stakes are high in the antique whiskey business—a bottle of 1926 Macallan fetched $54,000 at Christie's New York in 2007—and forgeries appear to be commonplace. "So far there have probably been more fakes among the samples we've tested than real examples of old whisky," Tom Higham, deputy director of the ORAU, told PlanetEarth online. Among those bogus bottles, reportedly: a Macallan supposedly from 1856 that tests showed to have originated post-1950, when aboveground nuclear tests began upping levels of carbon 14 worldwide.
"It is easy to tell if whisky is fake," Higham told the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper, "as if it has been produced since the middle of the twentieth century, it has a very distinctive signature." Earlier samples can be tougher to nail down precisely: "If it's from before [1950] we may only be able to say that it doesn't contain bomb carbon," Higham told PlanetEarth online.
Levels of carbon 14 from nuclear explosions peaked in the mid-1960s, when test ban treaties began to take hold. Enterprising scientists have already used the nuclear record to trace the regeneration of human cells, last month establishing that human heart cells do in fact regrow over a person's lifetime.
For more on nuclear testing, see our coverage of proliferation and test bans, France's plan to compensate those harmed by its tests, and this feature from the March issue on detecting covert nuclear tests.
Photo of whiskey barrels in Scotland: foxypar4 on Flickr
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