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WINTER PARK, Fla. - Saint Leo sophomore Matheus Assis has been recognized as the Sunshine State Conference Men's Swimmer of the Week Presented by VALIC.
Assis earned two NCAA provisional times in the 100-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle relay against No. 1 Florida Southern. Against the Moccasins, the sophomore finished the 100-yard freestyle in first place in a time of 46.10 seconds. He also took first in the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 50.57 seconds.
The native of João Pessoa, Brazil was part of the 200-yard freestyle relay team that recorded the second best time so far in Division II in a time of 1:23.56 for first place against the Mocs. Against Rollins, Assis finished first in the 200-yard backstroke and the 400-yard relay.
After a busy couple of weeks, the Lions will hit the road for their next meet as they travel to Tampa on November 15. Saint Leo will face the Spartans in a Sunshine State Conference meet starting at 3:30 p.m. in Tampa.
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The Mangwanani spas offer creative packages that you certainly won't find in European spas (or anywhere else but Southern Africa, for that matter). There is the African Revitalisation Package, UBUSO, a Renewing African Facial Spa with pressure point massage; TLAPISHO, a Full Body Cleansing incorporating an African mielie meal exfoliation; IZIMANGA, also known as 'heaven on earth', a full body traditional massage using hot stones; MOLALA, a North African head massage using sesame oil; NEO MAOTO, the traditional African 'foot gift' incorporating a sugar and grape seed scrub, and the NEO MATSOGO using sugar and grape seed scrub and incorporating the exclusive Mangwanani massage cream.
At this African spa there are numerous packages to choose from including the Mangwanani Vital Renew Package, the African Queen Package, the Mother's Day Package, the Mangwanani Moroccan Full Day Spa Package, the Shwe-Shwe package and many others (including something special for brides, expectant mums and there is even something for the dads).
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Trans-Pecos Pronghorn Restoration Effort Continues
AUSTIN — The continuation of the Trans-Pecos pronghorn restoration project took another step forward with the successful relocation of 130 pronghorn recently.
The animals were captured from healthy populations around Dalhart and moved to an area near Marathon to supplement severely declining populations.
The relocation process was coordinated by the Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University, Trans-Pecos Pronghorn Working Group, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), and USDA-Wildlife Services.
The objective of the Trans-Pecos pronghorn restoration project is to restore Trans-Pecos pronghorn populations that have reached historic lows through translocations from burgeoning herds in the Panhandle. Pronghorn numbers and population trends are assessed through aerial surveys conducted each summer.
During the initial phase of the restoration project in 2011, about 200 pronghorn were captured and released on ranches near Marfa. TPWD estimates about 15-20 percent of the transplanted pronghorn remain.
"The historic drought that occurred in the Trans-Pecos shortly after transplanting the pronghorn was the primary reason for the high mortality rate," said Shawn Gray, TPWD Mule Deer and Pronghorn Program Leader. "However, in the area where the transplanted pronghorn were released they, and their offspring, currently compose a bulk of the local pronghorn population."
The 2013 relocation/release near Marathon occurred under significantly improved range conditions.
"The release area had favorable precipitation during the summer, as well as good winter moisture," said Gray. "We also spent six months working to prepare the release site, including fence modifications and predator management, all with landowner cooperation. Trans-Pecos field staff, headed by the local District Wildlife Biologist Mike Janis was instrumental in this effort."
Joachim Treptow, TPWD District Wildlife Biologist stationed in Dalhart spent endless hours coordinating with local landowners in the Dalhart area to obtain trapping permission and working on trap site logistics.
"Without his hard work and local landowner support this project would not have happened" said Gray.
At the capture site, workers took each animal's temperature to monitor stress, along with blood and fecal samples for disease surveillance. The pronghorn also received a mild sedative and other injections to minimize stress related to capture and transport. Ear tags were attached for identification, and 59 of the captured pronghorn were fitted with GPS radio collars to monitor movements. The collars will provide one GPS location per hour.
After processing, the pronghorn were transported by trailer to the Marathon release site. Dr. Louis Harveson, BRI director and Sul Ross professor of Natural Resource Management, said that "The pronghorn were in excellent shape and traveled really well."
During the next year, the BRI and TPWD will monitor the translocated pronghorn to determine survival, reproductive productivity, fawn survival, habitat utilization, and movements.
"We sincerely appreciate all the cooperation and support from the Dalhart and Trans-Pecos communities, because of their continued teamwork our state's pronghorn resource and all Texans are greatly benefited," said Gray. Without the many partnerships involved, this monumental project would have not occurred."
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Box explorer David Hempleman-Adams is no stranger to awards but his latest for his work in the Polar regions is better than a knighthood, he says.
Mr Hempleman-Adams, 57, was at Buckingham Palace to be presented with a Polar Medal by Prince William on Tuesday along with his three daughters.
He said: "It was very special and of all the things I've ever had this is the one for me.
"The Polar Medal is given by your peer group and the committee is a huge secret. They are extremely rare.
"If I could choose a knighthood or the Polar Medal I'd choose this.
"It makes all the absences worthwhile and I dedicate it to my wife Claire.
"It might be time to slow down because trying to keep up with my daughters is hard work – they are beginning to overtake me."
Alicia, 24, flew to the North Pole, aged eight. Camilla, 21, was the youngest person to ski to the North Pole aged 15 and Amelia, 18, became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole aged 16.


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My favorite baking book this year has to be Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole Grain Flours. The recipes are wholesome, accessible and appealing; the photography has a warm, rustic simplicity that I love. When I browse through the book I want to make – and taste – just about everything in it.
I've been experimenting with switching out butter for olive oil in baking, which led to Olive Oil & Cocoa Brownies a few weeks ago. I've also had this recipe for Olive Oil Cake from Kim Boyce's book flagged for months, and after making it a few times I can say it's definitely a keeper.
These are perfect little breads to give as gifts, or to snack on when you crave a bite of something not-too-sweet.
I have a special place for rosemary in my cooking, so any time I see an opportunity to highlight its distinctive piney-lemon character I jump in to explore.
The first time I baked this lightly sweet cake (to me it's actually more of a quick bread than a cake), I threw in some freshly grated lemon zest. Lemon is a nice partner with the fruity taste of the olive oil and chocolate, but it got a little lost in there.
Next, I tried adding some ground coriander, a spice that has essential elements of citrus and balsam. You barely notice it in the background, but I think it naturally unites the slightly unusual pairing of chocolate with rosemary and olive oil.
I couldn't help gilding the rosemary, so I sprinkled rosemary sugar leftover from my Italian Greyhounds over the tops just before putting them in the oven.
- 3/4 cup spelt flour (or use an equal amount of all purpose flour)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup olive oil
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
- 5 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped into 1/2-inch or smaller pieces
- Rosemary sugar
- Position an oven rack to the middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Lightly coat 4 small loaf pans (5" x 2") or one regular loaf pan with olive oil. Place the pans on a baking sheet. If using a single loaf pan, you can skip the baking sheet.
- Put the flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and coriander in a large bowl. Use a whisk to blend the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs thoroughly. Add the olive oil and whisk together. Add the milk and rosemary and mix again just to blend.
- Pour the wet ingredients over the dry, stirring gently to combine. Stir in the chocolate until evenly distributed.
- Divide the batter among the pans and smooth the top. Sprinkle tops evenly with some Rosemary Sugar, about 2 teaspoons each, or regular sugar mixed with 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes for small loaves; 45- 50 minutes for standard loaf or until the tops are domed and a skewer inserted in the middle of the loaves comes out clean.
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New York -- Target Corp. opened a new retail concept, called C9 Active Apparel, in San Francisco, Women's Wear Daily and other media outlets reported.
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The Bears were recruiting Bunte all season but things didn't pick up for them until recently, ironically only after a coaching change occurred.
"Coach Tedford offered me early on but after the coaching change is when I really started getting interested in Cal," said Bunte.
After the Bears started filling out their staff, Bunte took notice and decided to be proactive, picking up the phone and calling new offensive coordinator Tony Franklin this week.
"I eventually got a hold of Coach Franklin and he and was as (running backs) Coach (Pierre) Ingram caught the first flight available down to Orange County to meet me in Mission Viejo.
"The next day, I was on a plane to Oakland for my official visit."
Suffice to say it was a successful visit for the 4 star offensive tackle.
"I ended up committing to Cal," said Bunte. "It couldn't have gone any better (on the trip).
"I love the new coaches, espcially (head) Coach (Sonny) Dykes. They are all men of integrity and are really hard workers."
Despite coming from Orange County, where Berkeley is often a big adjustment, Bunte felt right at home, a factor that played a big role in his decision to commit to Cal so quickly. That, plus a future degree from the top public university in the country sealed the deal.
"The area felt like home to me," said Bunte. "I didn't feel uncomfortable around anyone and I liked that a lot. And the education can't be beat at Cal."
When Dykes was hired as Cal's new head coach, he quickly noted that Cal's offensive line needed to get bigger and stronger. But not just any big man can fit into the high-tempo pace of Dykes' new Bear Raid offense.
"I'll be a good fit at Cal because not only am I big, like Coach Dykes is looking for but I'm an athletic big man, ready for the pace of his no-huddle offense," concluded Bunte.
Bunte attended Rancho Santa Margarita High School through his junior season, winning a state championship in 2011 while earning All-State Underclass status before transferring to Mission Viejo for his senior season and received offers from Arizona State and Cincinnati along with Cal and UCLA.
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about 1470
Piero della Francesca, Italian, about 1415–1492
Tempera on plaster, 151 x 126 cm (59 7/16 x 49 5/8 in.)
Genre: European Art, Paintings
Location: Early Italian Room
Accession Number: P15e17
This fresco once adorned Piero della Francesca's house in Borgo Sansepolcro. The painting was originally positioned in the upper corner of a room, with its right edge bordering a wall, which helps explain the steep perspective of the image. Hercules stands at a threshold. Beyond, we can see a ceiling with wooden beams decorated with foliage. There is no evidence that the room was decorated with other gods or heroes, as might be expected. Further, Piero della Francesco chose to portray Hercules as a youth, rather than as the bearded, muscle-bound figure familiar in ancient sculpture. Certainly the ideal nude was a central theme of the Italian Renaissance. However, it remains a mystery what this image of the young Hercules might signify in the painter's private dwelling, although the hero was commonly associated with civic virtue and goodness. Perhaps the painting of a classical nude in unusually steep perspective was a compelling artistic challenge for Piero.
Mrs. Gardner's attempt to acquire the fresco was also Herculean. The fresco had been detached from the wall in the 1860s and in 1903 it was sold to Gardner by the Florentine dealer Elia Volpi, with the assistance of Joseph Lindon Smith. However, the Italian government delayed the work's export until 1908, and when it arrived in America, it was seized by customs officials for payment of duty and fines. At Fenway Court, it became the centerpiece of a new gallery of early Italian pictures where it was displayed in front of a flame-stitched embroidery.
Source: Alan Chong, "Hercules," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 53
Textiles played a crucial role in the decoration of Isabella Gardner's Museum. Tapestries, velvets, embroideries, and laces appear in nearly every gallery--whether as wall hangings, backdrops, frames, or objects of attention in their own right. One of Gardner's most intriguing installations is that of the fresco of Hercules by Piero della Francesca which was purchased in 1907.
The Gardner Museum first opened to the public in 1903, but in 1914, Gardner commissioned an extensive rebuilding of portions of the building. An earlier Chinese Room was reconfigured as the present-day Early Italian Room, which displays fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian paintings. Gardner placed the painting by Piero della Francesca, one of the highlights of the entire collection, over a hanging composed of green silk damask and two panels of needlepoint embroidered in a flame stitch pattern. This Renaissance-style embroidery is called Bargello, after the museum in Florence which possesses a set of chairs upholstered with this pattern.
After ninety years of exhibition, the original textile had deteriorated and needed to be stored. Led by textile conservator Tess Fredette and historic upholsterer Gisele Haven, a team embroidered new flame stitch panels by carefully following the original materials and colors. The silk thread embroidered in a mathematically precise pattern shimmers in the shifting light of the gallery.
It is typical of Isabella Gardner to create provocative installations: why was Hercules placed atop this textile? The two panels of embroidery serve to frame for the painting, and echo the blocks of color in the image. The fresco is immensely heavy, since part of the original wall was carved out when the painting was detached. The light and delicate textile seems a deliberate contrast to the solidity of Piero della Francesca's fresco.
Although a new work, the hanging carefully duplicates Isabella Gardner's original and restores the original ensemble. In the recently restored setting of the Early Italian Room, Piero della Francesca's painting commands renewed attention.
Residence of the della Francesca family, Sansepolcro.
Senator Giovanni Battista Collacchioni, Palazzo Graziani (formerly della Francesca family residence), Sansepolcro, by 1886.
Transferred to the family's country residence, Villa Cattani, near Sansepolcro, by 1892.
Marco Collacchioni, by inheritance, 1895.
Returned to Palazzo Graziani, Sansepolcro, by 1902.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer Elia Volpi, Florence, for 200,000 lire ($40,000) through the American artist Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950) on 11 December 1906.
Due to the high cost of import duties, this fresco remained in Europe until 1908 in the care of Mrs. Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne (Emily R. Crane, 1871-1964). Its arrival in Boston was delayed further by a customs dispute.
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection in 1908.
- August Schmarsow. Melozzo da Forli. Ein Beitrag zur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Italiens (Berlin, 1886), p. 316.
- Felice Pichi. La vita e le opere di Piero della Francesca, monografia di Giovanni Felice Pichi con prefazione del Cav. Uff. Ing. Vincenzo Funghini (Sansepolcro, 1892), p. 108. (as detached by Cesare [Stefano?] Bardini)
- Giovanni Margherini Graziani. L'arte di Città di Castello (Città di Castello, 1897), p. 170, pl. 27.
- Evelyn Franceschi Marini. "Ercole." Cronache della civilità elleno-latina (1902), pp. 140-41.
- Evelyn Franceschi Marini. Piero della Francesca. Monarca della pittura ai suoi dì (Città di Castello, 1912), pp. 129-32.
- Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), pp. 213-15, 230.
- Roberto Longhi. Piero della Francesca (Rome, 1927), pp. 121, 178. (between 1460 and 1470, as part of a lost cycle of famous men)
- Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 262-64.
- Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 90, pl. 14.
- Stuart Preston. "Hercules" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 19, ills. 19-20.
- Kenneth Clark. Piero della Francesca (London, 1951), p. 206. (as 1460-66)
- Corinna Lindon Smith. Interesting People (Norman, Oklahoma, 1962), pp. 163-65.
- "Notes, Records, Comments." Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 6, no. 2 (9 Sept. 1962), pp. 1-2. (excerpting Corinna Lindon Smith, pp. 163-65)
- Benjamin Rowland, The Classical Tradition in Western Art (Cambridge, MA, 1963), pp. 165-67, ill.
- Oreste del Buono and Pierluigi de Vecchi. L'opera completa di Piero della Francesca (Milan, 1967), p. 99, cat. 21.
- George L. Stout. Treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1969), pp. 110-11, ill.
- Eugenio Battisti, Piero della Francesca vol. 2 (Milan, 1971), pp. 67-69. (as post-1465)
- Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 181-83, ill. (as perhaps about 1465-1470)
- Mario Salmi. La pittura di Piero della Francesca (Novara, 1979), pp. 107-09. (as 1467)
- Richard Cocke. "Masaccio and the Spinario, Piero and the Pothos: Observations on the Reception of the Antique in Renaissance Painting." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1980), pp. 29-30, ill.
- Rollin van N. Hadley. Museums Discovered: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1981), pp. 32-33, ill. (as about 1465-1470)
- Antonio Paolucci. Piero della Francesca (Florence, 1989), p. 218. (as post-1459).
- Carlo Bertelli. Piero della Francesca (New Haven, 1992), pp. 192-33, no. 8 (as pre-1459)
- Ronald Lightbown. Piero della Francesca (New York, 1992), pp. 267-9, ill. (as early or mid-1470s)
- Hilliard Goldfarb. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum III: Imaging the Self in Renaissance Italy. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1992), pp. 32-34, 45, ill.
- Creighton Gilbert. "The Hercules in Piero's House." Artibus et historiae (2002), pp. 107-16.
- Stephen Campbell and Alan Chong. Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2002), p. 173.
- Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 52-53, ill. (as about 1470)
- Machtelt Israëls. "Piero della Francesca's Panel Paintings for Borgo San Sepolcro" in Nathaniel Silver (ed.). Piero della Francesca in America: from Sansepolcro to the East Coast. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2013), pp. 30, 34 (as part of a lost cycle)
- Nathaniel Silver. "Piero 'in terra nostra': Image-Making for Borgo San Sepolcro" in Nathaniel Silver (ed.). Piero della Francesca in America: from Sansepolcro to the East Coast. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2013), p. 22 (as a single, emblematic figure)
- Nathaniel Silver. "An Old Master for the New World" in Nathaniel Silver (ed.). Piero della Francesca in America: from Sansepolcro to the East Coast. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2013), pp. 8, 9, 12, 13
- Nathaniel Silver in Nathaniel Silver (ed.). Piero della Francesca in America: from Sansepolcro to the East Coast. Exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2013), pp. 122-27, cat. 6 (as late 1460s or early 1470s; as a single, emblematic figure)


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Zink - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkThe embedded version plays podcast 14 in Chrome Reply
Egg - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkI've been dying all weekend after seeing the tweet that you guys had finished recording the podcast. I think I might be addicted... I listened to podcast #14 for a third time on sunday.
... oh yeah guys, your <audio> element is podcast 14... Reply
Egg - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkAgh, ninja'd. Reply
josephsamuellee - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkIs there any chance these podcasts can be or have already been transcribed? Love reading articles, headphones not an option at work. Keep up great work. Reply
QuesoLoco - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkBecause the apps don't scale as well.
Windows Phone apps are based on being in portrait mode, but windows 8 apps are based on being in landscape. Reply
Paulman - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkDon't be such a downer, man. YOLO Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkFunny thing is that without Brian and Anand, I would have no idea what YOLO meant (though obviously I could Google is if it became clear it was important to know). I'm of the opinion (as an aging 39-year-old) that many if not all of the Intel execs A) don't listen to rap music, B) have no clue that YOLO means something to the younger generation. I'm also not sure that "You Only Live Once" is really that bad -- crazy, maybe, but bad? Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkI had no idea about YOLO either, until it was voted "Youth Word 2012" here in Germany. I will be 25 this year. Guess I'm don't belong to the "youth" anymore. If that means I don't use words like "Yolo" though, I'm totally fine with that. Bunch of idiots. ^^ Reply
Paulman - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - link:P I think Yolo as a name choice is great, personally. It's both hilarious AND it naturally follows from Xolo AND I'm pretty sure it can only boost sales, not hurt it. Plus, I'm sure it'll get extra media buzz. Reply
icrf - Thursday, January 31, 2013 - linkI've heard it before, but certainly don't really go there with the mention of the phone's name. I honestly don't think it's a problem to the majority of people, who aren't so into rap and/or twitter.
I honestly thought it was kind of painful to listen to the last 10-15 minutes that discussed nothing but that. It's definitely worth a mention, internet culture and all, but that was stretched, IMO. Reply
Aikouka - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkIs it me or does Ian have a UPS battery that's failing? I kept hearing a beep every 30 seconds, which sent me on a wild goose chase to find out which UPS was having an issue! (I had an APC UPS die on me the other day, so I've been on edge. =P) Reply
creed3020 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkIt sounds like a smoke detector which claims it's battery is dying and needs to be replaced. I've worked at facilities in the past where this was the norm. Reply
eBauer - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkAnother vote for smoke detector - I kept looking around for a beep until I realized it was from the podcast, LOL Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkGet a 9V Lithium battery when you replace it, though -- not even twice the cost and about 10X the life. Changing smoke detector batteries every 6-12 months sucks. Reply
s44 - Monday, January 28, 2013 - linkIntel's big problem isn't that OEMs aren't out-Appling Apple. Intel sells a part either way. Display calibration drives an insignificant number of sales. And only Mac-obsessed tech reviewers are still obsessed with trackpads now that touchscreens have made them obsolete.
Their problem is that their core, monopoly-profite part of the market is going -- has gone -- from central to peripheral in a flash. Reply
lukarak - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkTrackpads, especially with the range of functions that they have on OS X are far from obsolete, especially with larger screen sizes. Touchscreen is fun when you can operate it using wrist motion. Elbow and shoulder, not so much. Reply
risa2000 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkProgramming on Commodore 64 (or Sinclair Spectrum in my case) was mostly done in assembly code if you wanted to get things done in reasonable time. But it was still possible to write bloated inefficient code or very optimized/compact code. Documented Sinclair ROM book was excellent showcase of the latter, some games of the former. The only difference was that the differences back then were not abysmal as sometimes today.
I have been running Intel motherboards since 2006, both the high end and low end and the point for me was always kind of robustness in both the layout and in a sense that every single feature (big or small) always worked as it should. There were no surprises like feature X does not work with card Y, or under condition Z, etc. Before I have had ASUS, Gigabyte (and even before ABIT) and I remember there was always some catch. So maybe Intel boards were not super overclockable (but I left this arena already), but otherwise very good and all round products.
I do not agree with Brian on the security level in current consoles and their impact. It seems to me that it is very easy to get a pirated game running on a PC, but it is still quite difficult to get it on a console (if possible at all). And this differentiator makes great difference in sales. As long as new PC like console will carry the same stigma as regular PC, the devs will not have the same incentive to develop for it, no matter how open it will be, because it will not bring revenue. So while fixed hardware spec is one part of the console, closed and reasonably protected/secured ecosystem is another and both together define the industry. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkYou may "feel" like you describe in the last paragraph, but the data doesn't back you up. Plenty of success stories on the PC, many DRM free titles seeing no significant decrease in financial success, PC ports paying for themselves in 2 days (Alan Wake), massive innovation in gaming IPs being done by the indy PC community and so on. Don't believe the BS the major publisher are sprouting. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkWere you referring to the add-on console for the SEGA Genesis/Master System? That sure took me back. I forgot how common add-on performance enhancers were with the old consoles:
SEGA Genesis - CD/32X (coprocessors in attached hardware)
Nintendo SNES - Super FX/Super FX 2 (coprocessor embedded in carts)
Nintendo 64 - 4MB RDRAM Expansion Pak (for higher resolution textures, higher framerates, or more simultaneous players, depending upon the game)
Other than adding an SSD to a PS3, is there really anything else you can do to improve the performance of modern consoles? Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkYolo County, California isn't too far from Silicon Valley... Intel does like codenames based on places... Reply
themossie - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkUC Davis students and grads (Davis is in Yolo County) are getting a real kick out of the Yolo thing.
Except that we make fun of them for it :-) Reply
watersb - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkVery happy with another Anandtech podcast!
I was waiting for you all to connect the dots for us, putting this Intel announcement of no more motherboards together with the previous rumors of Haswell as initially a BGA-only part… Reply
creed3020 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - link"Oh look a lion, YOLO!" ~Dr Ian Cutress
Ian that was awesome. Full stop.
I really enjoyed this podcast as the off the cuff comments made the show! Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkWon't Nvidia become very strong soon in the baseband market with their soft-mdeom Icera 500, which can adapt to any frequency, and basically make phones work on any frequency, without having to implement physical parts for certain bands? Reply
jeffkibuule - Thursday, January 31, 2013 - linkSDR can't adapt to any frequency. The software can change the way it processes data from external antennas (like dealing with newer 3GPP standards), it doesn't change the frequency an antenna is tuned for. Reply
dragon0005 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkguys first zolo is not an intel brand coz lava the company which makes zolo phone has another one with an ARM processor
and the yolo man any time you watch some NGC r discovery or something an they show like tribes it sounds a little like that Reply
dragon0005 - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkXOLO Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - linkThe whole appeal of consoles is to have a unified specification to develop for across a broad install base. If they cut console generations down to 3-4 years, the install base would never get as large as the current generation, which would mean developers would always have a smaller market to target which they obviously do not want. Plus consumers would probably be less than happy to shell over a few hundred dollars ever 3-4 years.
I do think this generation is excessively long, but 3 would be far too short.
And in terms of a midway update to the same console generation, that again is bad for developers as they then have to put the budget into making sure the game performs well on multiple hardware specifications, which reduces some of the appeal of going with consoles (granted two configs is still better than infinity). Same with add on cards. Remember the N64 expansion pack? Remember how they never ever tried that again? Reply
alwayssts - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - linkI imagine what Anand is saying (beyond the PC-standard argument) is a spec needs to be updated before they become irrelevant to the modern ecosystem dictated by shrinking process tech and gpu cadences. I think two full-node shrinks is a fair cadence, assuming a contemporary spec is built around a ~150w discrete graphics card, which seems fair given where it lies in the performance/price/power/yield curve at any given time.
Essentially, if we start with a 3870 (11/2007) it should be updated by around the time we have llano (mid-2011). Any longer and the spec doesn't make sense, and I agree. That may not be 3.5 years, it may be much longer depending on how quickly nodes ramp. How long until 14nm is as prevalent (using tsmc/gf) as 28nm will be at the end of this year?
For instance, if the next consoles use the computational ability equal to a graphics card made to saturate 16 ROPs, say 896sp/1ghz+ (or in console terms probably 1024sp at a lower speed, ie 875mhz+ for yields/power), we should update that spec before AMD/Intel build that spec into a CPU. It's not crazy to believe that will be 14nm for AMD, and a similar time-frame for Intel.
In terms of console add-ons, it would be interesting to see an update that essentially turns it into a 'crossfire' solution. If the new consoles' common spec becomes the standard for 1080p/60fps, would it be so crazy in a few years time to sell an add-on and update the main system as a new sku to allow it to run similar titles more-or-less 4k/30fps (twice the gpu grunt)? Considering how cheap that would be in terms of hardware to provide that upgrade (essentially adding another contemporary low-end gpu to the box to create a mid-range part) and the extreme likelihood AMD will not be changing the GCN structure any time soon, I don't think it's an asinine request. Reply
scales - Thursday, January 31, 2013 - linkI agree.
I do not think Anand's "open console" is a great idea. Anand appears to push for better and better hardware, but he is neglecting half of the situation.
I left most of my computer gaming in favor of a console because I got sick of shelling out 200-300 bucks every 5 months for a new graphics card. The whole point of the console is that the consumer doesn't have to worry about their hardware not being able to play the game. It is extremely frustrating to sit and fiddle with texture and detail settings just to get a higher FPS. Consumers don't want to have to keep buying new hardware just to play a newer game.
I think it is also pretty easy to tell that most of these games are NOT optimized for any hardware, just ported across each (look how laggy Skyrim is on the PS3). Additionally, developers need to focus on creating unique and optimized content, rather than release more than 5 iterations of the same first-person-shooter. The beauty of the older "DOS-and-before" era games was that there was far more creativity being put into game development (only a few indie games are doing that now).
On another note, if a console's life cycle were shortened to 3 years, what happens to all of my previous games that are no longer compatible? Do I have to buy all new controllers too?
Shorter life cycles on consoles just doesn't make that much sense. Reply
watersb - Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - linkI suppose I'm the only one who remembers Gentoo-based GameCDs.
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20030515-games.xml Reply


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I'm trying setting my Netgear WG511T in monitor mode using Ubuntu 7.04.
I have a feeling it is somewhat interfearing with my built in ipw2200 but I'm not sure.
I've tried disabling both eth1 (ipw2200) and ath0 using "airmon-ng stop eth1" and "airmon-ng stop ath0". But they still show up in the iwconfig list and when I use airmon-ng stop ath0 I get error 537:wlanconfig not found.
when "airmon-ng start ath0" I get VAP cannot be put in monitor mode
when "airmon-ng start wifi0" I get unregognised wireless request "10" and device not found
Any ideas, please? (yeah obvouisly run bt 2.0 but I would like to get it working in ubuntu)
You need to install the madwifi drivers first, they don't come pre-installed with Ubuntu and that's why you're getting the error messages. Go have a look at their site and you'll find out how to install them.
You also need to stop ath0, and then start wifi0...ie:
airmon-ng stop ath0
airmon-ng start wifi0 <CHANNEL>
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Ok, so I'm busted. After my accidental soy sauce ingestion last week, I felt sharply tuned to my task and determined to be on the lookout for hidden sources of gluten. I market over 50 gluten free Bob's Red Mill gluten free products and I've I should be good at this. Well, I am. Knowing where gluten lurks is not my problem.
What I ran into was a social situation that made it impossible to refuse a dish that I knew well contained gluten. It was orzo and my friend Andy had prepared it with an amazing array of herbs and dry Italian cheeses. He was so proud to serve it and I knew he wouldn't understand why I couldn't eat any of the creamy mound of pasta he'd already piled on my plate. I ate it all and it was delicious, but I'm feeling a little bummed about flubbing up my trial.
Shamed, I confessed to my friend Nellie. Nellie has celiac disease and has severe reactions when exposed to even the tiniest bit of gluten. So I was really surprised when she told me that she has also succumbed to gluten willfully in certain situations. Does that happen to any of you? How do you cope when you're invited to dinners, parties, etc?
So I messed up but I'm back on track. That was Saturday and here I am on Wednesday night and I haven't had any gluten at all. Thanks for the supportive messages I got from y'all. If you have tips or experiences to share, I would love to hear them.


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The motto of The Master's College –For Christ and Scripture- signifies our commitment to the reality of the universal lordship of Jesus Christ and the sufficiency of His Word. We are bound to this reality because of our anchoring in the Scriptures, which present Christ as Lord over all creation.[1] This confession of Christ's preeminence gives TMC commanding reasons to welcome, affirm and celebrate diversities of gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture in its population and programs.
In creating man God elected to create him in the very likeness and image of Himself.[2] The Bible clearly points that all humans are made in the image of God. The image of God (imago dei) designates mankind as the image bearers of God, carrying the same attributes with their Creator.[3] This stems to every person from every tribe, tongue, and ethnicity that exists, since God made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.[4] Understanding this then it is to be resolved that every human being possesses an inherent dignity, meaning, and worth –he or she being made in the imago dei.
It is true that the unity of the created order is deeply disrupted by sin. Men and women, families, tribes, ethnicities, and nations have been set against one another, with differences among people often serving as a pretext for personal and systematic injustice.[5] Yet God has responded to the sin of prejudice and partiality not by abandoning His world, but by providing for its redemption[6] and reconciliation.[7] In consequence, a core value of the Christian church is unity. Jesus prayed that his followers might have complete unity so that the world might believe and know that he was sent by the Father.[8] God's people are called to repent of sin, grow in grace, acknowledge and submit to truth, seek justice, show mercy, practice forgiveness, and go and make disciples of all nations [9]–all because of Christ's atoning work by which, we've been united together in Him, and the power of sin has been broken.
Given the divine intention for creation, then, we see human diversity as a feature of life worth savoring; a featured designed and embraced by God. The unity of the kingdom, attained and emulated on earth by Christian fellowship,[10] gladly acknowledges the variety of personal backgrounds, histories, and contexts out of which love, thanksgiving, and worship are rendered to God. The vision of heaven presented by the Apostle John in the book of Revelation is that of a diverse group of believers from every tribe, language, people and nation, who find their unity, not in similar cultural customs or linguistic patterns, but rather in their worship of the one and only King of kings and Lord of lords, the Lamb upon the throne, Jesus. [11]
Anticipating this fulfillment, Christian relationships across differences are to be unbiased and impartial rather than repressive, joyful and loving rather than dismissive. Individuals must not be stigmatized for being different; rather within the church, diversity is a glorious property of the whole. "We" are a diverse body of many members, from various languages, cultures and continents, which have been united together in Christ eternally is the sentiment shared by all true Christians. This is only achievable through the gospel which gives us new eyes to see from the vantage point(s) of creation/redemption, to our future hope and glory.[12]
[1] Colossians 1:15-20; Philippians 2:9-11
[2] Genesis 1:26
[3] Human beings carry the same attributes with the creator even though he is infinite and perfect, whereas we are finite by creation and imperfect because of the fall.
[4] Acts 17:26
[5] Beginning in Genesis 3-4
[6] 1 Peter 1:17-21
[7] Ephesians 2:14-16; Colossians 3:11; Galatians 3:25-28
[8] John 17:20-23
[9] Mark 1:15; John 17:17; John 8:33; Matthew23:23; Luke 10:37; Matthew 18:21-35; Matthew 28:19-20
[10] Acts 2:42-47
[11] Revelation 5:9, 7:9, 14:6, 22:2
[12] 2 Corinthians 4:6, 16-18


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It's All About Performance
Piercing Props
By Capt. Patrick Sciacca — June 2004
A surface drive can only function as well as the propeller it's attached to. But a propeller designed to function both in and out of the water is atypical. "A surface-piercing propeller (or surface propeller) is a propeller that is positioned so that when the vessel is underway, the waterline passes right through the propeller's hub," states naval architect Paul Kamen in a recent Professional Boatbuilder article. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. Phil Rolla, president of Rolla Propellers, recently told me of the challenges he's faced in designing a prop to perform in such a manner. "Mechanically, most surface-drive propellers have a splined hub, whereas submerged inboard propellers use a tapered bore and keyway," he explains. A surface propeller also deals with a constant change in stress due to its function. The propeller is out of the water for half of each revolution. This can cause fatigue and pulsation problems, says Rolla, noting that additional blades (surface-piercing props may have five or even six blades) help reduce these issues but don't completely eliminate them.
A surface propeller also has ventilation, which is good, as it replaces the cavitation that would be found in a traditional underwater setup, but it also means the power comes from the prop's pressure face. Rolla says there's no low-pressure side giving lift, and to address this he uses "cambered-face geometries" to optimize the lift-to-drag ratio. Because the surface propeller runs in two densities—air and water—there is no single program that can provide a predictable propeller result. Rolla says he has performed extensive field testing to ensure an effective prop, but adds that, in the end, "If it looks right, it stands a hell of a better chance of working right." —P.S.
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Elton John will get a chance to honor Liberace, the only man with more flamboyant fashion sense than the "Rocket Man" himself.
John will perform a tribute to the late pianist at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs September 22 on CBS. No details about his actual performance have been released as of now. It's the first time the Sir Elton has appeared on the awards show.
The HBO film, Behind the Candelabra, which takes a look at the last ten years of Liberace's life and the secret affair he had with Scott Thorson, is nominated for 15 Emmys this year including nods for its director, Steven Soderbergh and two stars, Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
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Disney's March 8 release of Oz: The Great and Powerful has me conflicted. On one hand, I can't help but be sucked into the technicolor grandeur of the trailer, in which a tuxedo-clad James Franco is sent to the land of Oz to defeat the Wicked Witch. On the other hand, what new spin on the classic — that made Dorothy's red slippers and Margaret Hamilton's cackle immediately recognizable — could possibly out-do Wicked, the uber-musical centering around the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West? Unless James Franco turns green, belts a high F and flies through the air, this movie has its work cut out for it.
Nevertheless, as is the case with any movie that features flying monkeys, I'm interested — particularly as a perfect excuse to pair with-a-twist cocktails with the classic icons of Oz.
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I dont know why but am having the urge to code in C++ lately. However, i dont really need to for any reason, just for sport and self teaching. Its just i keep plugging along in python, and i am doing quite well i think. I just feel like my C++ skills are lacking behind. I can do stuff in python that i have no idea where to start in c++, even simple things like writing to files, etc. Anything i learned a couple years ago in C++, i forgot, by now.
But what i do not want to do is end up going to C++, and forgetting python. Because python is just awesome.
However its hard for me to switch back and forth between python and c++, with the syntax, and the ways of doing things, its normally just easier to do one or the other for awhile.
I dont know, maybe i get that feeling because i have been told that Python is s*** compared to C++. But i dont plan on creating any drivers or anything with C++. The most i would do in it is what i do in python. But python is just a lot easier to deal with, less headaches. Its only downside is its speed, and lets face it, i have NEVER came to a situation where its speed is a problem.
But then, ive read some things (somewhere) that say, if Python was around in the early days, and everything was Python, then python would be the most used language, but since c++ was earlier, and some other things that i guess its just the head honcho, i guess.
But doing stuff in python taught me how to, why its done like that, methods of doing it, and then i go back to c++ and i am like ok, i know i need to make this, just not sure how. Instead of completely lost at the syntax and the reasoning behind it.


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M.I.T. Results
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PHILADELPHIA - In their final race on the Schuylkill River, the University of Pennsylvania lightweight rowing team topped M.I.T. in the varsity 8 race to cap the careers of Penn's senior class. Earlier in the day, the Quakers were beaten out by Navy for the Callow Cup.
On a chilly Senior Day, the Quakers finished on top. In fact, Penn had two boats in the varsity 8 race that finished ahead of M.I.T. The first varsity won handily in a time of 6:21.5. It was the second varsity that was in a tight race with M.I.T.'s top boat. But the Quakers second boat finished a few seats better than the Engineers. Penn came in at 6:31.6 and M.I.T. was at 6:33.7.
Penn's freshman boat had similar success against M.I.T. It was a close race, but the Quakers edged out the win by a little more than a second. The winning time was 6:21.9 and M.I.T. finished in 6:23.5.
Later in the day, in the Callow Cup race, the Red and Blue finished eight seconds behind Navy. The Midshipmen kept the cup in Annapolis, Md., with a winning time of 6:01.1. It was an open water victory as Penn finished the 2,000-meter course with a time of 6:09.5.
Navy swept the other three races during the morning regatta. Each was in similar fashion to the cup race. The second varsity finished in 6:09.1 for the Midshipmen, while the Quakers came across the finish at 6:25.3. The visitors won the third varsity race by a similar margin. Navy won with a mark of 6:16.1 and the Quakers stopped the clock at 6:33.3.
Penn's freshman topped Navy's second freshman boat and were close with the Midshipmen's top boat. However, Navy pulled out the victory at 6:06.9. Penn was the runner up at 6:15.5, which was 12 seconds better than Navy's second boat.
Saturday's action also marked the final regatta of the regular season for the Quakers. Up next is Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., on Sunday, May 13.


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It seems to me that it would be prudent to have a tagging system that both supports deletion at the end of a month (or some time period) BUT is much more open to intervention in the intervening duration. Further, it would be nice if the worst of the fix tag articles that people DON'T want to keep are more quickly deleted, effectively "filtering" the articles that need fixing down to a size that might allow us to focus on fixing them. Finally, I hope my proposal will allow fix tagged articles to more effectively be brought to the attention of the community before they are silently deleted without anyone noticing they were there. Furthermore, being brought as such to the attention of the community repeatedly, it can more confidently eventually be deleted, as at that point it will most likely be obvious that nobody actually intends to fix the article.
I will attempt to phrase my proposal as generally as possible, as the actual values of the variables in question are obviously up for debate if people agree the general idea is sensible. The following is what I propose will happen when an article, say A, has a fix tag added to it:
- At the end of a smaller interval of time than fix tags currently last for (say every K days, for example K might be 7), a bot places the article on a Quick Vote to Keep (QVK) page.
- If some small number N (5, perhaps?) of people vote to keep, the article is kept for another cycle of K days (after which it will once again be placed on QVK). You may not vote against keeping the article at this point, because at this point (until the fix tag is eventually removed) the article is still headed for deletion. I propose further that if the prerequisite small vote is NOT met, the article is deleted instantly: the reason for this is the "filtering" spoken of above--this will filter out the truly crappy fix-tagged articles, allowing users to focus on the worthwhile ones.
- I would be willing to write some javascript that makes it extremely quick to vote to keep, ie pressing a button next to the name of an article.
- Optional: Users may at this point vote to Keep and Remove the fix tag, if some larger number M (10?) vote to do so, the fix tag is immediately removed, and the cycle ends.
- If, after some number R of K-cycles has passed (ie, 3 cycles would be a month), the article still has a fix tag, one of two things I think would be reasonable outcomes:
- The article is immediately deleted. This is not insensible, because at this point the article has been brought to the attention of at least N of the users R times, and it is beginning to become clear that it is just not going to be fixed. I personally favor this option.
- The article goes up for one last vote, where a larger number of people (perhaps M as above for Keep and Remove) must vote to keep, at which point it enters another R period of K cycles.
As a final note, I would prefer that -- if users think this is at least the beginnings of a sensible idea -- that a discussion happen before an actual vote. Or just feel free to tell me I am an asshat.
In my opinion, we could either have K be 7 and R be 3 (ie vote every week for a month), or have K be 30 and R be 2 (ie, vote after a month, wait another month to fix, and then delete). I left these open intentionally so the idea is not shot down immediately simply because my proposal had timing that everyone didn't like.
- TL;DR: Users should have the ability to vote to extend the duration of the fix tag on specific articles, but only requiring a small number of users votes to pass so that the process is still quick. This will further solve the problem of bringing fixed articles to their attention, and the proposal above helps filter out ones that are obviously bad, leaving as fixed tagged only those articles that users believe are salvageable.
Thank you for your time. -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 03:39, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- For -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 05:25, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- For with the following timing parameters: a month after being tagged with fix, an article is brought to QVFK where it will remain for two days. If it garners 5 votes to keep, the article is kept for an additional month after which it is deleted. If the article does not gain the requisite number of votes, it is deleted. After discussing with Zombiebaron for clarification, this is the timing he supports, as well. If people can come to a consensus that these are reasonable parameters that they are willing to support (assuming they support the idea at all), I will modify the proposal above to be specifically this. -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 05:39, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- I'd just like to add that when talking about a "month" here, we will be dealing with the same system we currently have, where a "month" is measured as 30 days after the last edit. Also, when the second-month-tag expires, pages will only be deleted if deemed necessary by an admin. -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 06:49, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- For Agree with all the above points. As VI says below, the two aren't mutually exclusive, and the two would work well together synergistically, which is a big word, and I like big words. Pup 06:28 27 Jan '12
To me, VFDand QVFd are the way to go. The more content we have, the more chances we have to appeal to readers who are looking for a particular topic. That oibsession with lowering the quantity of article is nonsense: we don't need space, we're hosted for free and besides, our traffic is as good as it's always been. Mattsnow 03:45, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- That's fair; I am merely attempting to propose an intermediate step between VFD and QVFD. There are certainly articles that sit between these two. The point, I think, of having an extended QVFD (like fix tags) is not to save space, but rather increase the quality of article offered at Uncyclopedia. I do not believe that "anything goes because we have the space for it" is a good policy. -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 03:48, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
Another line of thought
I've been thinking about the life span of articles recently and especially the deletion thereof. One thing I've been considering is the nomination and voting on VFD is a pain in the butt. Added to that is the issue of archiving articles and kept article templates and stuff. And I have an idea.
- Have the VFD votes work on a system that is similar to VFH - each nomination is a separate page, there is a compact view and a detailed view, and on creation of the page the timestamp is added, blah blah blah.
- Advantage 1 - easier to locate archived votes for deletion.
- Advantage 2 - votes can be archived by adding a template onto the page, rather than a cut and paste
- Advantage 3 - on a page deleted due to VFD vote a link to the actual vote itself can be used
- Advantage 4 - we can use a similar js for adding votes to nominations, so someone can give a yes or no with only a couple of clicks
- Advantage 5 - something else that I've forgotten right at the moment, but when I though of it I was excited, so it must have been good.
I've also been looking at the guidelines for VFD (as per the conversation with Zombiebaron on his talk page, with input from Socky, Al, and I think BB also jumped in. Given the drop in our userbase, maybe we could also be looking at a simpler system. Such as:
- Eliminate the 24 hour grace period - if an article is deleted it doesn't mean it can't be restored, but I'd there is more support for deletion than keeping, then why should we wait longer?
- Change the vote margin to a vote ratio of 60% votes for deletion, with a minimum of 3 votes - When we had a dozen people regularly voting for it against deletion, 5 was a reasonable number, when we have less people, 3 is a reasonable number, but more than anything we need a majority of votes to delete. This means if we have only 3 votes, 3:0 to delete, 4 votes, we need 3:1 to delete, 5 votes => 3:2, 6 votes => 4:2... 10 votes, 6:4, etc. this system works when we have a high active user base and a low active user base.
- Further note on this: it was suggested to me that we look at a halfway point for shitty articles that mean if we have no votes, but it stays on the page longer than x days than we kill it. I think with the above changes that wouldn't be needed, and the problem with that system is no-one adds an article to VFD unless they think it's shitty.
- Limit of 15 active articles on VFD at any given time - just to ensure that a user has a chance to go through them and decide in a reasonable time period. Any articles that someone wants to nominate when we have 15 articles can be added to Poopsmith's lounge.
'TL;DR Articles that are placed on VFD are likely to be deleted if there is a majority consensus for deletion. They can be deleted in an expedient manner. VFD becomes the preferred channel of choice for deletion of articles rather than expiration of maintenance tags. And this is less prone to abuse than the current {{fix}} system.
This, along with VI's suggestions above, seem to me the sanest way to go ahead. Pup 04:29 27 Jan '12
- I should also say there's more thought that I've put into this suggestion than the above reflects (scarily enough). If anyone has any questions I'd rather answer them on my talk-page than here, so as to avoid the topic spiralling too far into digression. Pup 04:32 27 Jan '12
- I am personally not opposed to changing the way VFD works, I simply believe that something like what I suggested above should exist--an intermediary between QVFD and VFD. QVFD is sort of like, "This page should just be deleted now, mostly anybody would probably agree." VFD is along the lines of, "Is there something like a consensus among users that this article should be deleted?" What I am proposing is a "this article is headed towards deletion, but we shall bring it to the attention of users a few times first, giving them the chance to intervene and save it." I believe changing VFD is not incompatible with QVFK as I proposed, because QVFK is for lower quality (read: obviously bad unless fixed) articles than VFD, and should be used if there should be a sense of inevitability attached to the threat of deletion if nothing is done. In essence, VFD is a place where users have to vote to delete an article to delete it, whereas QVFK is a place where (a smaller number of) users have to vote to keep the article to save it (because it is presumably bad enough). -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 04:53, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- For -- Brigadier General Sir Zombiebaron 05:25, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Conditional for that at least some sort of intermediate between QVFD or VFD, something like the one I describe above, is implemented (though I believe my suggestion for this is a reasonable one, obviously). Again, I do not believe these changes to be at all mutually exclusive. -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 05:39, January 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Strong against removing the 24 hour minimum on VFD; a little patience won't kill people, and the longer it has, the more representative the vote may be. In any vote around here, the first wave of voters is usually either a pile of idiots or rallied on IRC. Or a pile of idiots rallied on IRC. Uncyclopedia is not a cabal, and it is also, actually, damned hard to get things undeleted again, and for good reason. ~ 05:59, 27 January 2012
- For Given it's my proposal... Pup 06:28 27 Jan '12


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ORLANDO, Fla. - Saying it's been "a murderous 12 hours or so in Orange County," Sheriff Jerry Demings addressed a triple shooting that unfolded at two hotels in the tourist district of Orlando and left two women dead.
A third woman was shot and injured in the domestic incident, according to officials, who said the gunman, identified as Michelet Polynice, was later found dead after apparently shooting himself while fleeing deputies.
Two 28-year-old women, Polynice's estranged girlfriend Carlene Pierre and Vanessa Gonzalez-Orellanes, were shot just before 8 a.m. Thursday at the Quality Suites at 7400 Canada Ave. near International Drive. Orange County sheriff's deputies said the women worked at the hotel and were behind a counter when they were shot.
The women were taken to Dr. Phillips Hospital and pronounced dead, deputies said.
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Polynice then went to the Westgate Lakes Resort & Spa at 10000 Turkey Lake Road, about 2.5 miles from the other hotel, and shot Pierre's 31-year-old friend, Jean Guerline, who was a housekeeper at the resort, deputies said.
Deputies located a car in Pine Hills connected to Polynice, and a brief, slow-speed pursuit ended near Powers Drive and Sunshine Street, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.
"As a deputy was approaching the suspect's car, he observed the individual with what appeared to be a handgun, saw a flash, and the car crashed into tree (and caught fire)," said Demings, who added that the 33-year-old Polynice was pronounced dead at the scene.
Demings said deputies served a domestic violence injunction Wednesday night in connection with incidents in Osceola and Orange counties. In one of the cases, Polynice tried to run over Pierre with a vehicle, Demings said.
"It does stem from a relationship gone bad," Demings said. "A child is involved, but the child is in good health."
Local 6 has learned Pierre had three children.
"Carlene was a very hard-working mother. She was a single mother of three," Pierre's mother told Local 6 through a friend.
Her mother said Pierre was employed at the front desk of the Quality Suites and was attending nursing school so she could provide for her young daughters.
Pierre's mother said she had serious concerns about Polynice and her daughter's relationship with him became violent over time when their 2-year-old daughter was born.
"He's very abusive, very aggressive, so she just did not want to remain in that situation," said Michaelle Desruisseaux, a friend of Pierre's.
In alluding to a "murderous 12 hours," Demings was also referring to a fatal shooting at a Chinese restaurant in Orlando during a robbery Wednesday night.
The shooting happened just before 8:30 p.m. when a masked gunman stormed into the China Wok restaurant on Silver Star Road near Pine Hills Road. Orange County deputies continue to search for the gunman.
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Egypt's Opposition Nominates New Premier
Secular and Hard-Line Factions Propose London-Trained Economist, but Support Shows Cracks; Demonstrations Calm
CAIRO—Leaders of Egypt's hard-line Salafist Nour Party and secular party leaders agreed to put forward Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, a London-trained economist, as a candidate for prime minister, officials from Mr. Bahaa-Eldin's Social Democratic Party said.
The decision followed lengthy negotiations on Sunday. Mohamed ElBaradei, leader of a grouping of political parties called the National Salvation Front, will be nominated for a vice-president...