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Tuesday, July 02, 2013 - 22:03 PM
My Start With Meinl
My Start With Meinl
I got my start with Meinl through Instagram. I had a part in setting up their page and gaining over 2,300 followers in three short days. Big thanks to the Meinl artists who helped get the page noticed: Matt Halpern, Luke Holland, David Puckett, and JP Bouvet.
After the page was established, Meinl asked me to start working on a guest blog for them. I've never written anything that people wanted to read, only some bad essays for high school and college. So I figured I'd start by writing something I'd like to read, something about the drummer that got me interested in Meinl – JP Bouvet.
I learned about JP back in 2011 when he won the GC Drum-Off. His solo was awesome and he posted all these cool videos of his experience. He took us behind the scenes of what happens to a winner. After that, he began posting more vlogs of his life, his drumming, and anything else he was doing. He took us on a tour of Meinl USA and the process artists go through to pick out cymbals. He showed videos of his band on tour in Istanbul. Most importantly however, he managed to stay humble the whole time, always giving off an, "I can't believe this is happening," sort of vibe.
JP is truly an inspirational guy. Throughout his videos, you realize the guy is wise beyond his years. He wants to inspire anyone and make everyone realize that if he can do it, why can't anyone. JP has never given up on his dreams, and just wants to share his experience with the world. I couldn't think of a better person for it to happen to.
Watching his videos, I saw a lot about Meinl. I began researching the company and realized that my favorite drummers are playing Meinl. Alex Rudinger, Matt Halpern, and Grant McFarland are just a few of them. I began learning everything about Meinl, from all the artists, to all the cymbal lines. Believe me, there are a lot of both.
Now I am in the position of writing this blog and have talked to and gotten to know a bunch of the guys at Meinl. They love their jobs and are all about making the company awesome. I hope with this blog I can get the word out about Meinl and how they're making the drum world better. I am new to this, so go easy on me. I plan to talk about monster drummers, cymbals and cymbal lines, practice tips, and whatever I'm working on. What do you want to see? Let me know!
Mike Fasano

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Protect Yourself Against Tick-Borne Disease
Commonly called a "deer tick," this tick can transmit Lyme disease and a malaria-like disease called babesiosis. When in the larvae stage it is the size of a poppy seed, so checking your body for ticks requires close examination.
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Different kinds of ticks present in the U.S. may be infected with bacteria, viruses and parasites that can be transmitted to people and cause at least 10 diseases. While there are treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), prevention is the easiest, cheapest and most effective approach to combat these serious, sometimes fatal diseases.
Some disease-bearing ticks are the size of a poppy seed. Steps to prevent infection include:
- When walking in grassy, wooded areas that are tick-prone, use an insecticide that is effective against ticks and cover up with long shirts and long pants tucked into socks.
- Ticks must stay attached for more than 36 hours to transmit the parasite, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), so a full body check soon after being outdoors in a tick-prone area, even a suburban lawn, is urged.
- Taking a shower within two hours of being in an area with ticks has been shown to be helpful and provides a good time to check for ticks on your body.
- When checking for ticks, include hard-to-see areas such as between toes, between legs and on the head.
- Remove any ticks with pointed tweezers, grabbing ticks by their mouth parts, close to your skin.
Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are the two best-known serious diseases transmitted through tick bites in the U.S. Each year since 2002, about 20,000-30,000 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Lyme disease. During that same time period, between 1,400 and 2,500 cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been reported each year.
More recently, health officials have documented the emergence of babesiosis, a disease caused by single-cell parasites called Babesia. The parasites are carried by the same kind of ticks that carry Lyme disease.
Young, healthy adults infected with Babesia may have no symptoms, mild symptoms or flu or malaria-like symptoms. However, Babesiosis can be severe or even fatal among the elderly, newborns and those with weak immune systems. It is treated with a combination of FDA-approved antibiotics and anti-malaria medicines.
"Public awareness is critical, because most cases of babesiosis can be prevented by avoiding tick bites," said Mark O. Walderhaug, Ph.D., an author of a study of babesiosis among the elderly. Walderhaug is the associate director for risk assessment in FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).
Number Diagnosed
Elderly people living in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts were found to suffer the highest rates of babesiosis in the study published in 2012 by scientists at FDA and their collaborators. Babesiosis also seems to be on the rise in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, the study concluded.
The FDA scientists, led by Mikhail Menis, PharmD, M.S. and aided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a consulting firm, used the novel approach of exploring large health-care databases, including Medicare records and those kept by skilled nursing homes. (To protect privacy, names were not included in the study.)
"Indications are that clinical cases reported are only the tip of the iceberg," said Walderhaug. "In some areas, up to 1.5 percent of the population tests positive for Babesia antibodies, meaning they have been infected at some point in the recent past."
In 2011, health departments in 18 states conducting babesiosis surveillance began using a standard case definition developed jointly by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the CDC.
A total of 1,124 confirmed and probable cases were reported in 15 of the 18 states surveyed; 97% of these cases were reported from seven states—the four states showing the highest rates among the elderly in FDA's study plus New Jersey, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Although most people who get babesiosis are infected through tick bites, rare cases of transmission from mother to baby during pregnancy or delivery have been reported. The parasites also can be transmitted through blood transfusions.
There are no FDA-approved tests for screening blood donors for evidence of Babesia infection. However, scientists from FDA and other institutions are working to develop such tests. FDA has taken several steps, including holding a public workshop and convening a blood products expert advisory committee meeting.
"Finding ways to protect the blood supply from this parasite is critical," said Sanjai Kumar, Ph.D., chief of FDA's Laboratory of Emerging Agents in CBER.
Kumar is also one of the FDA scientists involved in the study of babesiosis among those ages 65 and over. Potential blood donors currently are asked if they've ever been diagnosed with babesiosis. If they answer yes, they are deferred from donating blood indefinitely.
Risks and Symptoms
The parasite that causes babesiosis is typically spread by the tick while in its young nymph stage, when the tick is about the size of a poppy seed.
Symptoms of babesiosis can include fever, chills, sweats, headache, body aches, loss of appetite, nausea, fatigue and a type of anemia that can lead to jaundice and dark urine.
Among the elderly, newborns, or people with a weak immune system or without a spleen, babesiosis can be life threatening, with symptoms including low blood pressure, severe anemia and a low blood platelet count, a condition that can lead to blood clots, bleeding and malfunction of vital organs.
Patients with active symptoms can be tested for the disease through blood smears; multiple types of tests may be needed to detect low levels of parasites. The parasites, after entering the human body, live and grow inside red blood cells.
In the study of the elderly, FDA found that whites were more likely than African Americans or Latinos to get babesiosis, and the rates are higher for men than for women. White men by far had the highest rates of infection.
"We don't know if there are genetic links, but white males, many of whom spend more time outdoors, hunting, hiking, fishing and such, are more likely to be exposed to ticks," said Walderhaug. "People of both sexes and all ages and ethnic groups who go into tick-prone areas should be cautious."
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Updates page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
June 26, 2013
For More Information
Babesiosis, a Malaria-like Disease, May Be Rising Among Elderly in U.S[ARCHIVED] Babesiosis Facts from CDC Outpatient transfusions and occurrence of serious noninfectious transfusion-related complications among US elderly, 2007-2008 U.S. Transfusion-transmitted Babesiosis: Workshop Summary American Red Cross Participating in an Investigational Study to Test the Blood Supply for a Tick-Borne Parasite in Donated Blood Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Manual for Health Care Providers


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- Collection Overview
- ExhibitionsPast Exhibitions
- Close Up: Piermatteo D'Amelia's The Annunciation
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- Raphael, Cellini, and a Renaissance Banker
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- Cosmè Tura
- Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces
- Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice
- Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy
- The Inscrutable Eye: Watercolors by John Singer Sargent in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Collection
- Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America
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Christ Disputing in the Temple
Oil on canvas, 163 x 229 cm
Location: Titian Room
Accession Number: P26w11
Signed lower left: BORDONVS
The subject of the painting is Christ Disputing in the Temple, the only event from Christ's childhood mentioned in the Gospels. The theme of religious debate offered a painter ample opportunity to portray a variety of puzzled and agitated facial expressions. Paris Bordone underscored the theme of Christianity's imminent triumph by making the brightly lit Christ Child the calm center of a composition of muscular figures in restless poses. Books and scrolls in simulated Hebrew lettering and a bell at the lower right lie in disarray. Punctuating this confusion is the very human expression of Christ's frantic parents who enter at the upper left; you can almost hear Mary whine, "We've been looking all over for you!"
A cautious painter who tended to react to developments in Venetian painting rather than initiate them, Paris Bordone trained under Titian and emulated Titian's style of the 1510s and 1520s – albeit in a more timid mode – for his entire career. This painting (which has been variously dated between the mid-1530s and 1545) seems indebted to a picture of the same subject by the young Tintoretto (Museo del Duomo, Milan), which must date from the early 1540s. Bordone's painting is typically Venetian in its layering of impasto to create a surface resonant with rich coloring, particularly in the costumes, whose folds have squirmy lives of their own. Characteristically Venetian as well is the way Paris improvised during the process of painting: major changes include shifting Christ from left of the central door to the right, altering the shape of the throne, and adding the decorated step in the foreground.
That Mrs. Gardner didn't always collect "names" confirms her status as a collector. Buying a picture by Paris Bordone would not have furthered her social position, nor the reputation of her collection. Rather, she selected this masterpiece by a second-tier artist in order to provide context for paintings by more famous artists, especially Titian's Europa, and also for its intrinsic beauty and drama.Gardner bought the picture from J. P. Richter, a noted scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, who also had a reputation as a dodgy dealer.Yet Richter certainly had an eye for quality; he sold Mrs. Gardner her painting by Giotto.
Source: Frederick Ilchman, "Christ Disputing in the Temple," in Eye of the Beholder, edited by Alan Chong et al. (Boston: ISGM and Beacon Press, 2003): 109.
Purchased in 1901 from J. P. Richter, through Berenson.


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Cross compiling
From ErlangCentral Wiki
Matthias Lang
Why Cross Compile
Cross compiling means using one type of system to compile the Erlang runtime system for a different type of system. A typical example would be using an x86-based linux system to compile Erlang for an embedded MIPS CPU.
You usually cross compile when you want to run Erlang on a system which doesn't have its own development environment, i.e. no C compiler, libraries and make system.
In this howto, the term target means the system you want to run Erlang on when you're finished. The term build platform means the system you're using to compile the Erlang runtime system.
From R13B04, Cross Compiling is Easier
As of R13B04 (released February 2010), there's documentation and support for cross-compiling Erlang directly in the OTP source distribution. If you want to cross-compile R13B04 or later, stop reading now. This note is about earlier versions.
- A working C compiler and C libraries. Verify that it generates object files which run on the target, for instance by writing hello world. This howto assumes that your build platform is a unix or unix-like system.
- The autoconf tools.
- The Erlang/OTP source code, from erlang.org. The examples assume R10B-10.
- Some cross-compiling experience. If you've never cross-compiled before, it's probably worth starting with something a bit simpler than Erlang, just to get a feeling for how it's meant to work. One suggestion: busybox.
- Experience with native compiling Erlang. If you haven't built the Erlang runtime from source before, do that first, to get a feeling for how it's meant to work.
- A generous serving of gumption.
Unpack the source
Make a directory for the cross compiling work, say /usr/local/src/mips_erlang/ and untar the source distribution there.
Patch the configure script
A couple of small changes to the configure script supplied with the Erlang source makes cross compiling much easier. Take this patch:
--- configure.in.orig 2006-03-17 17:38:39.000000000 +0100 +++ configure.in 2006-03-17 17:29:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ exit(0); #endif } -], poll_works=true, poll_works=false, poll_works=false) +], poll_works=true, poll_works=false, poll_works=true) case $poll_works in true) AC_MSG_RESULT(ok) @@ -1365,7 +1365,12 @@ DED_CFLAGS="$DED_CFLAGS -fPIC" fi -DED_LD=ld +if test "x$LD" = x; then + DED_LD=ld +else + DED_LD=$LD +fi + DED_LD_FLAG_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_PATH="-R" STATIC_CFLAGS=""
and apply it in the erts/ directory in the source tree you just unpacked.
After applying the patch, you need to re-run autoconf to update the configure script:
cd erts autoconf configure.in > configure
Set environment variables for non-detectable features
In a native compile, the 'configure' script autodetects many settings by compiling and running small C programs. When cross compiling, this isn't possible, so you need to do some manual setup to override the autodetection:
export ac_cv_prog_javac_ver_1_2=no export ac_cv_c_bigendian=yes export ac_cv_func_setvbuf_reversed=no export ac_cv_func_mmap_fixed_mapped=yes export ac_cv_sizeof_long_long=8 export ac_cv_sizeof_off_t=8
The values of the variables above are correct for an AU1000 MIPS CPU running linux 2.4.x. They're probably not correct for your particular system. You need to manually figure out the right settings, i.e. is your system bigendian? How large is a long_long on your system? If you're not sure, write a short C program to find out, and run the C program on your target.
Set environment variables to set up the C compiler
Next, we need to set up the environment so that we use the right C compiler and related tools:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/eldk31/usr/bin/ export CC=mips-linux-gcc export CXX=mips-linux-g++ export SHLIB_LD=mips-linux-gcc export LD=mips-linux-ld export AR=mips-linux-ar export RANLIB=mips-linux-ranlib export CROSS_COMPILE=mips_4KC- export CFLAGS=-Os
The above settings are correct for an Au1000 MIPS on linux target. Your settings are likely to be different.
Manually disable parts of HiPE
Some HiPE-related code attempts to run during the build process in spite of the --disable-hipe flag. The code fails because it expects the build host and target system to be the same.
A quick and dirty way to disable that is to manually edit erts/emulator/Makefile.in and kill HIPE_GENERATE. In addition, edit lib/Makefile and remove hipe from the OTHER_SUB_DIRECTORIES list.
Run the configure script
./configure --prefix=/tmp/cross_compiled --without-ssl --without-java --disable-hipe --host=mips-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Assuming configure ran all the way through without failing, we're now ready to compile. At this point, it's worth spending five minutes manually browsing through 'config.h' and checking that everything looks reasonable. For instance, you can check that the endianness settings are correct for your system.
Run make
TARGET=mips-linux make noboot | cat > buildlog
The above will take a while. After it's done, you probably want to install the Erlang runtime somewhere. Become root, and then:
TARGET=mips-linux make install
Correct the bin/erl path
There's one thing left to manually fix: the installed copy of the Erlang runtime will have some incorrect paths in it. Edit 'bin/erl' by hand to fix that.
Slim the system
Disk space is often limited on embedded systems. By deleting parts of OTP you don't use, stripping binaries and recompiling all .beams without debug information and with the +compressed flag, it's possible to get the entire Erlang system down to less than 3MB.
The build system in Open Source Erlang includes some relatively unappetising support for cross compiling to a VxWorks target.
Matthias Lang realised that for "similar build and target systems", it was possible to run 'configure' natively on the build system, hack the resulting makefiles to take into account differences between the build and target and then compile using a cross compiler.
Brian Zhou then pointed out how to use manual overrides through environment variables to avoid much of the hacking.
The methods described in this article are used to cross-compile Erlang for Motorola MPC 860 PPC systems, Au1000 MIPS systems, NSLU2, and most optware platforms.
- Optware erlang cross compilation erlang make file and patches
- Openembedded erlang cross compilation recipe bb file


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Mean Betty's Reasons Why Lindsay Lohan's Publicist Might Have Quit
Why might Lindsay Lohan's former publicist, Steve Honig, have quit the starlet's employ? Mean Betty ponders…
-Mean Betty
As you no doubt have heard by now, kittens, Lindsay Lohan's long-suffering publicist, Steve Honig, recently parted ways with his troubled client. Meanie can't say that she is exactly surprised; after all, there is really only so long one can spend getting a perpetual publicity nightmare out of trouble. As the butler can attest, it simply wears one down after a time. (And for the curious: No, the butler will not disclose the previous employers he may or may not have had who may or may not have put him in similar situations. Rest assured, though, that Meanie is the very picture of innocence! Isn't that right, butler dear?)
But what exactly might have been the reason behind dear Mr. Honig's departure? Alas, neither he nor the tabloids are forthcoming; as Mr. Honig (or Stevie-pie, as Meanie likes to call him) put it himself, he's "not discussing this out of respect for [his] client."
Naturally, this means that Meanie and all of the other curious kittens out there will have to come up with our own reasons why Stevie-pie quit (alas, we can't blame her awful "Oh, come on, Hurricane Sally [sic] isn't going to be THAT bad!" Tweet, as it happened after the fact). Here are the possibilities that Meanie has dreamt up; do you have any of your own, kittens? Share them in the comments!
Read Mean Betty: Another Taylor Swift Break Up, Another Hit Album?
1. Daddy issues.
Michael Lohan doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to keeping Lindsay's best interests at heart, and if anything has driven this point home yet again, it's his recent attempt to gain conservatorship over Lindsay. According to the gossip mongers at TMZ, Stevie-pie released a statement after Michael's "intervention" saying that Miss Lohan's management team had nothing to do with Michael's plans. Michael then allegedly called Stevie-pit "a (cover your ears, kittens) f***ing liar," and the next thing we know, Stevie-pie has peaced out.
2. Stress.
In the two years that Stevie-pie has been repping Lindsay, she has: Passed out in a hotel room; gotten into a car crash; trashed her trailer; gotten all mixed up in a jewelry heist; been banned from a hotel for not paying her bills; been arrested for a hit-and-run; had the fight to end all fights with her mother, Dina; and so on. This, mind, in ADDITION to all of Lindsay's court dates, legal troubles, and jail time. Meanie simply can't IMAGINE what two years of dealing with these sorts of disasters might do to a body!
3. More troubles looming on the horizon.
Reports of Lindsay's allegedly divalicious behavior (and not in the glamorous, VH1 special kind of way) have been pouring in since she went back to work, first on the set of Glee and now on the set of Scary Movie 5. Add to that the fact that an "insider" has been running around saying that LiLo stole upwards of $15,000 worth of clothing from the Scary Movie 5 wardrobe, and, well… Meanie can understand why Stevie-pie would want to quit while he's ahead (or at least before the proverbial excrement hits the metaphorical fan).
4. Stevie-pie has long harbored a desire for a simple life in the country on a farm with two horse, a pig, and several chickens.
What? It could happen!
We may never know what caused Stevie-pie to hand in his walking papers, but Meanie can't say that it happened a moment too soon—and, in fact, may have even been a few moments LATE. The butler says he can't help but wonder who Meanie will rope in to represent her next. Are there any masochists out there who would relish the challenge of rehabilitating Lindsay's shattered image? It will undoubtedly be an uphill climb, but surely there is SOMEONE up to the task?
Butler, dear? If you're thinking about leaving Meanie for Lindsay… don't. We both know that would be a poor decision. Besides, who else will Meanie drink martinis with while watching Real Housewives if you go? Perish the thought!
Mean Betty


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AMD Demos 28nm GPU Again, No Update on Availabilityby Anand Lal Shimpi on 10/5/2011 3:52 PM EST
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Ushio01 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkit's been 2 and a half years since the last GPU die shrink it used to seem about every 10-11 months or so that one happened. Reply
fincrisp - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkThat was a half node cycle. Remeber everyone canceled the 32nm shrink and went straight for a full node at 28nm. That still puts it behind but not as bad. Reply
saneblane - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - link32nm is the full node, and 28 is the half. the next full node is 22 and half is 20 Reply
mpschan - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkForgive my stupidity, but what differentiates a full node from a half? All I see is numbers getting smaller by varying amounts, and I can't remember ever reading a comparison of the process of shrinking by a half step vs. a full. Reply
GiantPandaMan - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkFrom what I can tell, a full node requires totally new tools, usually done at a different facility than the current node. A half node is more of an upgrade in processes and some upgrades in tools, and usually done at the same facility. Anyone with a better explanation? Reply
ChrisC62 - Friday, October 07, 2011 - linkIn principal:
1) Full Node shrinks reduce layout area by a factor of 2 - so dimensions reduce by sqrt(2).
2) Half nodes should shrink area by a factor of sqrt(2) so dimensions reduce by 2^1/4.
Full Nodes 45, 32, 22.5, 16, 11, 8
Half Nodes: 38, 27, 19, 13.5, 9.5, 7
In practice this is limited by what the technology allows and what the customers need, so often they are rounded up or down. Reply
Sivar - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkIs it just a photographic anomaly or is that cooling fan missing a blade? Reply
Lunyone - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkIt looks like the fan was running when the picture was taken, at least that is how it looks to me. :) Reply
OCedHrt - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - link88mph rotation speed. Reply
SquattingDog - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkYup, pretty sure the fan is running - those are not the blades you're seeing, they're slots cut in the heatsink beneath it if you look closely :) Reply
JonnyDough - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - link+1 this comment. Truth. Reply
phaxmohdem - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - link...foreshadowing a 1.21 Gigawatt power requirement? Reply
MysteriousAndy - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkJigga what? Reply
fic2 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkSummary: AMD did another demo of a part that has no release date.
Why is this news?
Still just trying to fill the void of Bulldozer non-news? Reply
formulav8 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkIt still shows that AMD has working silicon.The Lovely NVidia has not shown anything yet.
Either way, working silicon does say something about AMD's 28nm progress. So it IS at least something to report. Whether its worth your time to read is up to you. You at least felt the urge to complain about Anands post even though the title clearly said that AMD only showed off another public demo of working 28nm silicon. And therefore you could have just skipped over it and not use up any of your time. :\ Reply
fic2 - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkSo, the one piece of working silicon that was working last week is still working this week.
And your right I shouldn't have bothered. I think I am just going to stop reading tech sites until Oct 12. Hopefully AMD will actually release Bulldozer this time and allow benchmarks. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkOkay, so Nvidia should baby-sit every childish customer's feelings with cheerleading about it's future products every minute?
They've made it clear that their next release won't be for awhile yet, so what's your point? Clearly, some people are going to believe they are being "strung along" if you start talking about a project too early - Bulldozer is a good example. Many companies prefer not to talk about a product until just before a release, and I don't blame them, much as I like to know what's coming down the road.
In my opinion, there isn't a right or wrong about when you start talking about a product, because some part of your customer base is going to whine and cry no matter what you do. The best thing you CAN do is be accurate and straight-forward with the information you release and any predictions you make.
;) Reply
Filiprino - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkStop. Demoing. Release. Damn. Products. Now. Bulldozer. Wink. Wink. Radeon. 7000. Wink. Wink. Reply
mino - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkDone as ordered!
Please go to link below and choose your version:
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hasu - Wednesday, October 05, 2011 - linkJust wondering... So who does not want to see AMD products in working condition? Are they Intel fan boys or are they Intel investors? Do Intel also use GlobalFoundry for any of their production? Do they have any investments in that company? Reply
fic2 - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkIt's not that we don't want to see AMD product demos it is that we want to see BullDozer released. Any other "news" from AMD is blah. Like I said in an earlier post - it was news when this was demoed last week. It is not news when the same thing is demoed a week later. Gee - it still works, well golly. If they had demoed and released some numbers it might have been news. It is like when the Boeing 787 made it's first flight - that was news. When it made it's 2nd flight it wasn't. Reply
dave1231 - Thursday, October 06, 2011 - linkLooks like there's sticky tape on the GPU whilst the fan is running in the foreground. Reply
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There are only three kinds of ways to kick off a football. You can kick it as hard and as far as you can, you can "pooch" kick it, or you can onside kick it. It sounds simple enough to match these options to game scenarios, yet there were two choices too many for Mike Smith, the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, who did everything in his power to blow the Falcons' first post-season victory since 2004 on Sunday.
I would like you to participate in an exercise with me.
Find someone who knows very little about football and present them with this scenario: He/she is the head coach of a football team winning by two points, with eight seconds left in the game. A field goal is worth three points, and if the opposing team kicks one, you will lose this game. So what should you do when you kick off? Do you kick the ball as far as you can, away from field goal range? Do you kick it not quite as far, but into the hands of someone who does not usually field or return the football? Or do you kick it as short as legally possible and try and recover it?
The first option could result in a touchback, which would put the ball on your opponent's 20-yard line. With eight seconds to go, they would have time for only one play to get into field-goal range, which in the NFL, would equate to a 45-yard gain on a single play. Additionally, if your cover team was on the mark, they could tackle the returner inside the 20, making this possibility even more improbable.
With a long kickoff, though, comes the chance, albeit remote, of a return for a touchdown, or a long return. Still, with only eight seconds on the clock, with a long kickoff return, there would not be time to run another play.
If you were the most paranoid of coaches, though, and the opponent had the best of all returners, you might opt for the "pooch" kick.
This is a kick of medium length and great height, where you sacrifice maximum distance to have the football caught by a player who is not a returner and does not field kicks with any regularity. He is there to block.
I believe the Riders employed this technique against the Bombers twice in 2012, in succession, and both times the player fumbled the football and the Riders recovered. In this option in our hypothetical scenario, your opponent is that much closer to getting within field-goal range, but the effectiveness of the return is decreased.
If your test subject chose either of the first two options, congratulate them, because they have superior common sense than at least one NFL head coach making millions of dollars a year, namely Mike Smith. Coach Smith, defying what would appear to be the only two logical choices, opted for option three in this game, the onside kick.
For those of you that don't know, the onside kick is primarily used when a team is behind and doesn't have time to get the football back after a defensive stop. So they sacrifice massive amounts of field position to compete for the football after it has travelled a minimum of 10 yards. It is a highly risky and rarely successful option, but when you are behind in a game, you have few other options.
With eight seconds left in this playoff game, though, while protecting a two-point lead, the Falcons attempted an onside kick.
While it is true, in the final two minutes of the half, the clock only starts after a kickoff when a player touches the football, this still doesn't excuse giving the Seahawks instant field position. While I'm certain the Seahawks were caught off guard with this tactic, because it was so incredibly idiotic they could never have seen it coming, the Falcons almost lost the game as Seattle retained possession, and had a single play to get within a manageable field-goal range.
So without further deliberation, I'm taking the San Francisco 49ers to defeat the Atlanta Falcons next week in the NFC Championship game, for no other reason than the fact that I will not bet on stupidity to make it to the Super Bowl.
For the AFC championship, the Baltimore Ravens will travel to Foxborough again to play the New England Patriots. While it took a miracle of sorts to get Ray Lewis past the Denver Broncos and into this game, in my mind, betting against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady makes as much sense as Atlanta's idea of how to protect a two-point lead.
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Regardless of the the diplomas on the wall or the balance in the checkbook, everyone experiences that late night phone call, thorny email or knock on the door from a disgruntled colleague. The initial reaction to many of these experiences is to become defensive and to tune out what the other person is saying.
As primitive humans millions of years ago, we developed the fight or flight response as a survival strategy. A threat would start a cascade of responses designed to sharpen our focus and quicken our step to get away from danger. It's hardwired in us.
The fight or flight reaction worked to our advantage back then, but it can be a real killer for us today. So when lightning strikes, it's important to resist the urge to attack or flee. Instead, your first action should be to do absolutely nothing. Be quiet. Be still.
Respectfully listen to the message, and then simply tuck it away in the back of your brain for at least a day. Get a good night's sleep. Clear the brain of distractions. Recognize that this too shall pass.
Then reach out to a trusted friend or advisor for perspective. When we're in the midst of a fog and can't see the shoreline, we need a compass. So too we need to look for guidance when situations arise that confound us.
Another lesson from our past: We're not hardwired to go it alone. We need others to survive and thrive.
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Jeno was born into a large, religious Jewish family in the village of Nagyhalasz in northeastern Hungary. The Briegers spoke Yiddish and Hungarian. After Jeno's mother died, his father remarried and the family moved to the town of Nyiregyhaza where his father owned and operated a hardware store. Nyiregyhaza had a Jewish population of 5,000.
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Network-based DVR services have been waiting in the wings for years now, but their big debut seems to be only a matter of time now that content rights issues are thawing out and the network architectures are taking shape.
Among the big cable operators in the United States, nDVR will be, when paired with a content delivery network or cloud, one of the legs that TV Everywhere services stand on once it's enabled.
It's been several years now since Cablevision was allowed by the courts to fire up its remote storage (RS)-DVR service, but in the meantime, Comcast has conducted an nDVR trial of its own in Augusta, Ga., Time Warner Cable has finished up its own CDN and has elements of nDVR in play with its Start Over and Look Back services, while Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge has hinted that his company is interested in deploying its own nDVR service.
All well and good, but unfortunately, all three declined to discuss their respective nDVR plans with CED. There's a convergence afoot of nDVR, video-on-demand and TV Everywhere services at the headend, and vendors stand at the ready position with their various enabling platforms.
"The interest level has been very, very good," said Bob Scheffler, vice president of strategic technology at Motorola Home. "I think network DVR is one of the hot topics that everyone wants to understand and hear about, so I think the interest level is very high. There's been a lot of discussion about the economics and when does it make sense, and kind of clearing up misconceptions about the economy of replacing hard drives in set-top boxes. We see a couple of real drivers around multi-screen and TV Everywhere and how to bring that DVR functionality, not necessarily to replace hard drives in set-top boxes, but actually how to add DVR capability to devices that don't have a hard drive, so to connected TVs, tablets, phones and those kinds of things.
"Usually, with a customer, it starts out about network DVR, and then this ties to rights questioning, including what can you do in home, out of the home? Meaning does it have to be remote storage DVR, like Cablevision, or is it cloud DVR, which I call the whole world DVR?" Network, or cloud, DVR puts video recordings into the cloud or CDN, which is also where cable operators such as Time Warner Cable and Comcast are putting electronic program guides (EPGs) for faster interface management. In theory, cable operators could cut down on truck rolls and expensive set-top boxes with nDVR services, but the cost of building or renting a cloud could offset those savings.
And nDVR is a service that records a program and stores it in a network for viewing by a large number of subscribers. RS-DVR grants a subscriber the right to record a service and store it, but each user has to have his or her own copy. In essence, RS-DVR is a virtual DVR that has remote storage.
"The way I look at it is network DVR is the total umbrella, but very specific types of rules around network DVR makes it RS-DVR-compliant," Scheffler said. "I don't look at them separately. It's just that there's a specific set of rules around network DVR that makes it RS-DVR-compliant."
Motorola's Medios platform blends together various elements, such as control plane and policy management, to enable nDVR services.
In theory, cable operators can reduce customer churn by offering a sticky nDVR service to subscribers.
On the other end, subscribers can watch stored content on PCs, iOS, Android and other devices anywhere and anytime. On top of those opportunities sits targeted advertising, which would bring incremental revenue to cable operators and please programmers with the Internet-like reporting metrics.
You gotta fight for your nDVR rights
When it comes to nDVR, the elephant in the room has been getting content licensing agreements from content owners and programmers.
Comcast's multi-platform deal with Fox Networks included granting multi-platform rights to Fox's video content, which was further proof that rights issues are picking up speed between cable operators and programmers.
"I think we're in a really interesting place around content rights now because of the TV Anywhere concept of: 'How do I get all of the content everywhere?' And I think there's a flurry of activity where people are negotiating broad rights to be able to deliver content to many different platforms and to have it stored in many different locations, including in the cloud," said Joshua Danovitz, vice president and general manager of international at TiVo. "So the lines of where you can put something I think are being blurred.
The idea that a piece of content is licensed for a specific individual seems to continue to be rather consistent."
Danovitz said having content rights could drive technological innovations, such as the BBC's popular iPlayer. Conrad Clemson, director of strategy and business development for Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group, said content rights are incredibly complicated, but some areas, such as Europe, are further along than North America.
So while content rights for nDVR are thawing, it will take a while for the floodgates to open.
"There seems to be some confusion around that," Motorola's Scheffler said. "In my opinion, it's not going to be a switch that gets turned on or off and everything switches to the other. It's going to be a blend for years. Some channels won't give the rights, so the only way to do it is RS-DVR using the copyright law and fair use doctrine as kind of the cover for it. But other channels can greatly benefit from de-linearizing their video and just make it live TV converted to VOD. So for some channels and some services, you're going to be able to do a common copy or shared copy across the big pool of subscribers and proactively record, even if it wasn't requested.
"I think it's going to be a several-year road here, where you slowly see this opening up channel by channel, and then in some cases within a channel during very specific times of day. Maybe late night you can record a common shared copy, but maybe primetime you can't. Certainly with live sports, you can't because there are lots of people in the food chain for who gets paid with big, major sporting events."
Once the rights are secured, Buckeye CableSystem CTO Joe Jensen said the nDVR service needs to mirror the home DVR service.
"Once you've got the rights identified and what constraints you have almost on a per-channel basis, you now have to look at the architecture and understand how you are going to be delivering the content," Jensen said. "Where should you have your primary storage? Where do you want to place your caching in order to optimize your network and still make it close enough to the customer that you have good control as you move down the food chain? You need to consider how you handle advertising and ad insertion.
If that's an option, do we have those rights, and when will we have an efficient platform that will allows us to insert fresh ads in anything past day three potentially? "There's authentication that needs to be brought in, and is that dealt with on a regional basis? How do you now manage to communicate in real time with your billing and back office systems to make sure that all of these things are legitimately delivered to customers? We're still a ways away from getting all of that taken care of, too."
Vendors take to the field, labs
On the vendor front, Envivio's Halo network media processor has been deployed in an nDVR setting in Europe and is in trials with two top 10 MSOs in the United States.
Arnaud Perrier, vice president of solutions at Envivio, said that in regard to nDVR, Halo was designed to work with multiple copies, which includes a unique copy stored per user, or with a shared copy in storage, including individual playlists, depending on the legal environment.
"In either case, we can scale it for millions of simultaneous users, which is one of the main challenges for MSOs," Perrier said.
Perrier said that cable operators need to provide parity between the nDVR services on companion screens and what consumers are used to seeing on their TV screens.
"From my perspective, you really need to understand how you want to, from a user interface and user experience perspective, present VOD versus network DVR and how you can come as close as possible to the experience that a customer has with a customer-controlled DVR," Jensen said. "You also now need to look at blending together TV Everywhere, VOD and network DVR functionality on a consistent user interface that allows a customer to do search and discovery and find the assets that they want."
Cisco introduced its Videoscape Unity platform at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, while Motorola touted its Medios platform in Las Vegas. Both can enable end-to-end nDVR services or can be used in a modular approach.
"The key is that we really have to drive complete services," Cisco's Clemson said.
"At Cisco, we think a network DVR service – where the idea is you can record from anywhere on your iPad, on your PC or on your set-top box, and then stream it anywhere – is a really compelling service."


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TechWorld is Vincent Quigg's personal electronics repair and customization service, specializing in Apple products. "I love technology," says Vinny. "I'm extremely passionate about it. I also love Apple. I had always seen customers at Best Buy, where I've worked over the last two years, with broken devices. It's a plain and simple fact that stuff happens, and your device is with you almost 100% of your day. There is a definite industry for it."
Even though Vinny has been selling iPhones and customizing phone software since his early teens, he didn't settle on TechWorld right away. His initial idea was a meal donation plan for restaurant chains, based on Tom's One for One Movement, which donates a pair of Tom's shoes to a child in need every time a pair is sold. Fearing that his idea wasn't good enough, Vinny dropped out of the NFTE course for two weeks. He explains, "Once I left, I thought, 'What am I doing? This class is something I'm really involved in.' I came back, chose TechWorld, and wrote my business plan in three days."
He did retain one element of his original idea: making a contribution to those in need. "I plan on being an official drop-off location for cell phones for soldiers. We will donate the community's used cell phones to our soldiers at war," says Vinny. "I also plan to donate a percentage of sales to One Laptop Per Child. They supply waterproof, low-powered laptops to students in third world countries."
Vinny takes naturally to the role of entrepreneur, partly because of his youthful business experience, but also because he has been thrust into a leadership role at home. "My father divorced my mom and has a new family now," he says. "I was the father figure, being a role model for my younger sister and providing stability to my mom, emotionally and financially. But it's helped me grow up fast." It has also spurred Vinny to succeed. "My family is full of entrepreneurs. It has been especially hard because my dad is a very successful one. I am very proud to say that I have gotten to where I am without him."
Vinny had originally planned to move to Arizona for college, but NFTE has kept him in California, where he attends Rio Hondo College in Whittier. He considers confidence and drive to be his strongest assets, and he remains determined to be his own boss. "You look at the entrepreneur to the left or right, and I can guarantee that I want it ten times more than that person. I refuse to fail, and I refuse to be controlled by anyone else but myself."
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THE Altrincham branch of Traders Outlet - home to a vintage and craft showroom, No16 The Downs - is to remain open on Sundays.
The initiative proved a great success when it was introduced over the festive period.
Owner Mathew Wray said: "Having looked at the increasing footfall and till sales within the store we're excited to announce that, in line with customer demand, we will be a seven-day-a-week trading destination.' The store is open from 11am to 4 pm on Sundays - in addition to 10am to 5pm Monday to Saturday - giving shoppers more opportunities to check out the town's latest new independent businesses.
Mathew added: 'Thanks to the momentum created over the past month with tailored shopping events such as December's successful Little Black Dress evening and Christmas Shopping Afternoon Tea, we felt the time was right.
'Alongside our Decopatch Den cafe, new concessions and with the backing of our regular press promotion, we're confident we can become a regular Sunday shopping and eating destination in the town.
"With everything from handmade wooden toys, to jewellery to vintage clothing, homewares and one-off pieces of art, the store is crammed with really unique, one-off ideas that mean you're sure to find something for even those hard-to-buy for friends and family."
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Just sent out a press release announcing a long-term development partnership with U.K. studio, Splash Damage. These are the guys behind award-winning titles like Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. We were just really impressed with the team they've got, their ideas, and where we think they're headed and felt like it was a team we really had to work with.
I'm personally very excited to work with these guys going forward as they're a very likeable, enthusiastic, and smart lot, though admittedly it will be a while before we reveal any specifics. To find out more about Splash Damage, head over to their web site where you'll find they have their own developer blog.
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My Beloved World
By Sonia Sotomayor
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In her inspiring and highly personal memoir, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor chronicles an against-all-odds journey to her 2009 appointment as the first Hispanic and third female member of the highest court in the United States.
In plain yet eloquent language, accessible to people of all ages and levels of education, the 58-year-old Princeton and Yale Law School graduate talks about her alcoholic father, who died when she was nine, and her diagnosis of Type I diabetes at age seven.
She learned to inject herself with insulin at that tender age because "the disease inspired in me a kind of precocious self-reliance that is not uncommon in children who feel the adults around them to be unreliable."
She details growing up amid poverty in the Bronx in New York with family who hailed from Puerto Rico. Her mother worked tirelessly as a nurse so that Sotomayor, and her brother, now a physician, could have a better life.
Sotomayor writes that her memoir is designed "to make my hopeful example accessible. People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible."
From the very first page, she succeeds in demonstrating that fact. She also acknowledges that she's written more "intimately" about her personal life than is "customary" for a member of the Supreme Court. Doing so is a risky move, she admits, because her candour has made her vulnerable: "I will be judged as a human being by what readers find here."
Interestingly, Sotomayor ends her autobiography 20 years ago, when she first became a judge. She does so, she writes, because while her judicial career is still a work in progress and she is also still experiencing personal growth, "the person I remain was essentially formed (by the time she became a judge)."
Sotomayor writes of experiencing "survivor's guilt," because she continues to thrive after her favourite cousin, her "soul twin" Nelson, a drug addict, died when he was 30. Sotomayor opines that perhaps her personal qualities of "discipline, determination, perserverence" and "the force of will" help to explain her success.
Sotomayor's work ethic was acquired from her mother who taught her that "a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won't hold." More important, though, was her mother's lesson that "a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."
Divorced many years ago after a brief marriage, Sotomayor describes herself as a confidante to her friends and family and godmother to many of their children. She writes that a "happy relationship" remains an "alluring alternative." She adores children but chose not to have any because of her fear that diabetes might mean she might "not be around long enough to raise a child to adulthood."
Even though medical advances have mitigated that concern, Sotomayor writes that "I've lived most of my life inescapably aware that it is precious and finite." With that in mind, she successfully completed a five-day residential treatment program to quit cigarette smoking more than two decades ago.
Careful readers searching for insights into Sotomayor's legal opinions will find many. For example, she writes that "diminished capability is always a flimsy argument at best. It has no legal standing."
Sotomayor experienced discrimination from a firm during an employment interview while at Yale Law School. The prohibited questioning focused on her ethnicity and on her thoughts concerning affirmative action programs. She filed a human rights complaint with Yale's career office and was vindicated when the firm was forced to apologize.
Sotomayor believes that she is "truly blessed" to live the life that she does and readers will share that emotion on every page of this compelling and powerful memoir.
Brenlee Carrington, a Winnipeg lawyer and mediator, is the Law Society of Manitoba's equity ombudswoman.


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We have been so busy lately with Christmas parties, trips out of town and Christmas shopping that we haven't done ANY Egging since that deep dish/pan pizza back on the 6th! Even when we do have time, we just simply have not had the energy.
Last night, Mrs. G was supposed to have a Girls Night out so I was determined to fix that and grill me up some wings. Wings get bought, rubbed down with some DP Dust and were air drying in the fridge. Get a call from SWMBO that the night out was canceled was canceled. There goes HALF my wings. Oh well, need to eat more rabbit food anyway.
Wings went on the Egg on a raised grate at 350F with some cherry wood for smoke. Think they went around 20 minutes or so. When they were done, they were tossed in a basic sauce of Franks, butter, siracha and some onion and garlic powder. It was cold and I was lazy, so no pics on the grill tonight.
I'll try and rack my brain for something to Egg tonight and I'm gearing up for Egging my first Prime Rib on the Egg for Christmas (and only my 2nd one to cook ever) Just gotta transport my Egg the long 10 miles to my parents house.
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I am messing around with try/except and have come up with this:
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def print_user_input(your_number):
print("You entered {0}".format(your_number))
a_number = input("Please enter a number: ")
while True:
num = int(a_number)
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print("You need to enter a number")
a_number = input("Please try again: ")
print("Exit program...")
My question is, instead of using the break statement, what condition can I use in the loop itself in order to exit when a number has been entered? My info source says there are always ways to do this without break/continue, I can't seem to find a way though.
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Had an idea tonight--what does anyone else think of removing skill points completely for social skills when used out-of-combat? People could make an appropriate ability check flavoring what they do as they please to make it work (Fighter cracks walnuts in the palm of his hand to use Strength check for Intimidate, for example, Rogue might use Dex to tumble impressively and make people like him... or... something), and the DM would decide on the results of the check.
Some of the consequences:
- Everyone can play the social minigame. No longer is it restricted to people who have high charisma AND ranks in social skills.
- Gives an incentive to players to find interesting ways to RP beyond, "I talk in his ear until he's convinced," since any ability score can be used to talk to NPCs.
- Puts a bigger emphasis on RP rather than "I roll to make them like me."
- Does away for the most part with diplomancers. While you can shoot skill modifiers past a hundred, it's not that easy to do the same with straight ability checks.
- Keep the basic mechanic of D&D, which is d20+modifier vs. DC.
- Allows the +/-2 from the DM to mean something for good RP. +/-2 doesn't matter if you've got a +50 vs. a DC 30, but it can make a considerable difference if you've got +4 vs. DC 15.
- Keeps DCs manageable. Assuming that the prime score someone uses is going to rise by 16 over 20 levels, you can have a standardized DC of something like 15 + 1 per two to three levels.
- Allows characters to focus on other skills, giving more skill points overall, rather than making the single person who has them as class skills "have" to take bluff/diplomacy/etc to be the "party face".
- Charisma becomes even more meaningless to people who don't have it as a prime stat. But then again, it was before, so I'm not sure how much that changes.
Before anyone points it out; yes. This is basically freeform "lite". That doesn't make it a bad idea in and of itself.
Thoughts? --Ghostwheel 08:54, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
- You would have to rework how demoralizing and feinting work, but they are usually overhauled with houserules anyways. From a mechanics standpoint, this works similarly to a DM just asking "what is your diplomacy bonus?" and then setting a DC accordingly. The difference is 1d20+X and 1d20+Y -- which is really the nature of freeform DCs.
- A advantage and disadvantage to moving to such a system is that you are promoting a player to use their skills rather than the character. Instead of the character being the master at public speaking, the burden is now on the players. That is nothing new, however, because every combat challenges the player's ability to make tactical decisions (not the character's). And that is really the point of a game.
- One way I have considered doing social stuff (I haven't had the chance to try yet) is something like skill challenges. You freeform the DC like you suggested, but you also have a scale of how likely a person is to be swayed. In the case of bluff, you are trying to convince them using deception of some kind. In the case of diplomacy, you are trying to convince them using logic. In the case of intimidate, you are trying to convince them using fear. Back to the "scale" of how likely someone is to be convinced, you have something like this:
- Wants to believe it/Agrees with logic presented/Intimidation is far "scarier" than what they are being told to do = 1 success
- Somewhat reluctant to believe it/Somewhat agrees with logic presented/Intimidation is a bit "scarier" than what they are being told to do = 2 successes
- etc.
- An advantage to a skill challenge type of system is that for diplomacy they may need to present several points to convince the person. Intimidation could also be used in new ways that diplomacy used to have a chokehold on: "if you send your goblins to attack the castle now, your fort will be open to attack by the hobgoblins to the north". Sure, that is a logical point, but it is more made with the intention of causing "fear". Bluffing may have the NPC question their bluff a certain number of times: "How did you manage to find out that information?". The DM will have a good baseline to know just how far they need to make their NPCs resist being convinced of stuff (which really is the whole basis of D&D's social skills).
- So does it matter to allow 1d20 + ability modifier vs. 1d20 + skill bonus? Probably not. It would probably help a bit to allow the fighter to make meaningful contributions. That would be nice too: I tend to pick classes with social skills for that very reason. --Andrew Arnott (talk, email) 13:29, August 27, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't think I would--like I mentioned above, this change would be strictly for out-of-combat use. No one really cares if someone uses the demoralize or feinting actions and succeeds, so those have no need to be changed. Furthermore, it wouldn't work similarly to a DM just asking "What's your dip modifier" since we would/could have a specific number for each level that would work in most cases, allowing people with extraordinarily high ability scores to excel.
- I'd like to think about a sort of skill challenge system, but that's a completely different matter with a whole different bag of worms that we'd need to work out design goals for. Do we want people succeeding around half the time? Do we want it to scale with the number of people in the party? How many successes before succeeding? Do failures mean anything? How long do people have? In short, it's a whole different thing, and I'd like to simply concentrate on whether ability checks rather than skill checks work for social dynamics first. --Ghostwheel 05:18, August 28, 2010 (UTC)
- Talked about it in the chat room, and it was pointed out that some characters might have ways to increase their ability scores by incredible amounts through rage or wildshape, for example. To even this out, give characters a circumstance penalty on their check equal to 3/4 their bonus from feats and class abilities, so that while a barbarian who's foaming at the mouth is still more effective, he's not so much so that he can almost fall off the RNG. Thus, if a character had +12 modifier from different class abilities and similar effects, it would only be +3, while someone with +7 modifier would actually get +2 to their check. --Ghostwheel 12:30, August 28, 2010 (UTC)


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My goodness, Bettys! Can you believe that Clueless is 17 years old? The most fashionable Jane Austen update of them all, its star, Alicia Silverstone's loveable Valley Girl Cher, was practically THE style icon of the '90s. Alicia was just 19 when she made the movie—but guess what? Today, she turns 36! My how the time does fly! So in honor of the occasion, we've compiled our 10 favorite Cher looks from the 1995. Like, totally!
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Operation Baking Girls – Round 13
Today is the day I shipped my baked goods for Operation Baking Gals (be sure to check out the article on Taste of Home about OBG). As a reminder, I paired up with Heather Drive to co-lead a team this round. The soldier we sponsored this round is a friend of mine from high school. If you have someone who you'd like to have sponsored by a team, please let me know. This time around, we had 36 members for our team, so Jon and his buddies are going to have a LOT of goodies to enjoy!! Thanks to everyone who joined the team!!
As I mentioned in the post announcing the Round 13 team, I ordered a 10-pack of Flat Rate boxes from the US Post Office. They came in the mail shrink wrapped and ready to be used. It's so great that the USPS does this. It definitely makes things so much easier when sending a package overseas.
I made my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe (The Chewy), and a batch of Pecan Pie cookies. I actually froze the cookies for about 5 days prior to sending them. I didn't do that last time, but I'm hoping that they will be fresher when the arrive because of it. In the bio that we had about Jon, he said he loved pecan pie. Obviously I couldn't send a pie, so I Googled pecan pie cookies and used the first recipe that came up. I'll be blogging these soon. Hubby and I both enjoyed them and I hope Jon does as well.
The cookies I made only filled about 1/2 the box, but due to travel and other things going on, I didn't have time to bake anything else. I decided to throw in the Nature Valley nut cluster packs that I won in a blog giveaway recently. I figured Jon might enjoy them as a snack.
I used the generic grocery store brand tupperware containers to package my cookies. I didn't put any paper towel or apple peal in them this time, and I'm hoping that it works out ok. I'll let everyone know what Jon says about this…
I also wrote a little note for Jon saying hi and that he's in our thoughts. Again, if you know someone who is stationed overseas right now, send me an email if you'd like to find out more about having them be a sponsored soldier. And be sure to check out the Operation Baking Gals website for more information about participating as a baker.
Don't forget about my Power of Pink Challenge going on all month.
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It's so cool to see so many people involved in Operation Baking Gals. Those soldiers are definitely going to feel the love from our goodies!
I'm so excited to learn about this! my brother is in the navy and I've seen how soldiers react when freshly baked cookies show up! Looking forward to reading you blog!
I (thankfully) dont have anyone you could sponsor, but just wanted to let you know how awesome it is that you're doing this. My husband has deployed twice to Iraq in the past few years, each time for a year, and homebaked goodies were always among his favorite things to recieve. He recently got out of the marine corps but his unit is heading to afghanastan in the coming months, if I hear of anyone in need of extra goodies I'll be sure to think of you girls! Thanks so much for supporting the troops!
Operation baking gals is so amazing!! Jon is going to love everything you sent!
This is a wonderful idea. The soldiers certainly need love from back home and what better way than cookies.
This is the first time I'd heard of the Baking GALS. I went and signed up!


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like anybody will
Thus my point. I was simply using myself as a reference as to not offend anyone. But yeah, I don't want to play Twister with any of you smelly bastards.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
well you know some people just smell like roses no matter what they do
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams
So after all of this has there been a decision made? Is Friday the official Spades night? I would like to join in but I need to double-check on what time my flight arrives and what time we'll be doing dinner.
I guess so. We need an itinerary. Which night were we all going to meet for dinner or whatever? Is that Saturday night?
I wasn't sure if the dinner meet up the night before was tossed and if we are just going to meet & greet at the race.
Yeah. I forgot we were splitting into groups for the meet and greet thing since some people hate Tweak.
I think some of us are going to Casa's where cold Corona will be served with hot wings and greasy pizza.
Buy my wife's sea catchers
I will do either. I'd rather eat greasy pizza in front of Tweak, actually.
Oh Mighty Wing
Can I eat it next to her?
Oh. You know...Hate is a very ugly word. *grumble* (I just get lectured about that the other day from a mom at soccer)
I don't hate anyone, can I be invited too? I like Corona, hot wings & greasy pizza!!