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With its tree-lined boulevards and lakes, its blend of French, Chinese and Vietnamese architecture, Hanoi is the jewel of Asia. Charming pagodas and the "36 streets and 36 wares" of the fascinating Old Quarter will vie for your attention.
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It is always worth having the day trips to Hanoi's surroundings for refreshment away from the city noise. Ninh Binh is really outstanding to many other satellite areas since this has lots of attractions, we could not cover all the sites there but to be taken back to the 10th century when visiting the ancient capital and next is our great boat row along the stunning landscape, along the rice paddies and through many caves.
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Perfume pagoda is the one of the most important religious sites of Buddhism in Vietnam.The pagoda itself was built into limestone sliffs and only can be reached by boat or on foot, as there are no roads in the area. This one day trip include gliding along lovely stream, walking uh hill, discovering the Vietnamese Buddhism, and enjoy the fresh air of countryside.
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Duong Lam ancient Village has been known as a museum of surviving laterite (red clay formed from weathered basalt found in northern Vietnam) with ancient houses aged up to 400 years old. After the recognition of Hoi An ancient town and Hanoi Old Quarter, Duong Lam was recognized as a national relic in 2005. Visiting Duong Lam is a journey to trace back the origin of Vietnam's culture and its traditions
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Located east of Ninh Binh province, covering almost 2000 hectares, Trang An eco-tourism complex is divided into 5 sections: a specially preserved area – Hoa Lu ancient citadel, a central area, a natural area of grottoes and caves, a tourist service area, and a holy mountain of Bai Dinh area. The total 47 historical vestiges, hidden caves and grottoes in limestone karst, valleys, rivers and streams all together create a fanciful landscape. With hundreds of big and small statutes, numerous categories of architectural works, Bai Dinh – Trang An combined complex is one of the biggest in Vietnam and has become a must–see place for almost travelers these days.

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Neighborhood: Keswick Forest South
Asking: $799,000
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Year Built: 2,000
Size: 4,518 fin. sq. ft., 1,336 unfin.
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In many ways, this Troy parcel isn't what it seems. To start, Woods Edge is kind of a misnomer. This house is in the woods, not on the edge. From the road, the gravel drive goes on way longer than necessary for seclusion. I began to wonder if I had taken a wrong turn and what I'd find at the end.
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The master suite and a second bedroom are on the first floor, but the second "bedroom" is so small it would make more sense as an office. The master isn't huge, either, but its walk-in closet is a real plus, with custom shelving to the ceiling. In the bath, a Jacuzzi-like tub (with a great view), separate shower, and double sinks mean no crowding during the morning routine.
Also on this level are an oversized mudroom and roomy laundry room with space for shelving and storage. All the rooms facing the back of the property offer mountain views.
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The finished basement has been converted to a cavernous party pad, divided into several different zones including a media area, pool table with custom lighting (the new buyer will have to negotiate for the table itself), and a bar. A large full bath offers a walk-in tiled shower with waterfall showerhead. A wood-burning stove keeps things cozy. Most of the flooring down here is gleaming hardwood, although tile surrounds the stove, and carpet delineates the media area.
A separate unfinished area of the basement is a workshop providing plenty of additional utility space.
Out back it's like a summer camp, with a picnic table, horseshoe pit, gargantuan fire pit, and fenced garden plot. A fishpond and a tank to catch rainwater are bonuses. There's plenty of room out here for a brood of noisy teens and their friends, and the secluded location means no neighbors to complain about the ruckus.
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Joe Crede received a lot of attention in US Cellular in his return to Chicago. After helping the White Sox win the 2005 World Series, the Sox decided to allow Crede to leave through free agency only to watch the third baseman who led them to a championship four years prior sign with their biggest rivals. In his first plate appearance back at the Cell in a Twins uniform, Crede found himself serenaded by Air Supply's "All Out of Love". Maybe the cheesy 70's rock inspired the former Sox who deposited a 2-0 pitch from Jose Contreras into the left field bleachers for his 70th home run at the ballpark. "A lot of fans over there above the dugout were saying, 'That's the last time you're going to get cheered here — just wait 'til you start hitting,'" Crede said. "And it came true." Coming into Friday's game, Crede was 3-for-16 (with a questionable hit included in that total) and since then he is 0-for-8 with two strikeouts.
Sox manager Ozzie Guillen had interesting comments towards the Twins' new found third baseman. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Guillen said that Crede was "cheap". The Sox apparently have a ritual that states if the Sox would sweep an opponent, any current Sox that played for the former opponent would have to buy something for the Sox. Naturally, Crede has never played anywhere but Chicago so he was never subjected to the ritual but Guillen claims that Crede would "always come up with the cheapest [suggestions]."
It took an eternal wait of 252 plate appearances before Delmon Young hit his first home run in 2008. This year it was just 12 plate appearances before Young smacked a Mark Buehrle 2-0 offering into the left field seats.
Kelly Thesier informs us that Ron Gardenhire has promised that Brian Buscher will get a start soon. Buscher has seen action twice so far in 2009 -- a pinch hit walk in the 9th inning of Tuesday night's comeback against the Mariners and a substitute for Justin Morneau on Saturday. "I told [Buscher], 'Stay with 'em, you'll get in a ballgame pretty soon,'" Gardenhire said. "He's the only guy that I really haven't gotten in a game enough."
Last Wednesday, Mauer reiterated that there would be no timetable for his return while working out in Fort Myers, so the next few days will be a real test for Joe Mauer's back reports La Velle E. Neal. After running in a pool to alleviate stress on the back, the Twins catcher is finally ready to run on dry land. Mauer has been taking batting practice and bullpen sessions without experiencing any pain, however, it has been the running that has caused the most discomfort.
The Star Tribune's Sid Hartman made an altogether not-so-subtle jab at Mauer's durability. Says Hartman, "Mauer has also missed more than 150 games since his first season in 2004. Mauer missed 124 of those in 2004 when he suffered two different injuries at two different times. He did miss 30 games in 2007, and now he has missed six and likely will miss 25 or so this year." The ancient columnist continued, adding "On the other hand, Justin Morneau played in all 163 games last year." Drawing this parallel is like wondering why a person who runs a marathon is a tad more winded than the one who jogged around the block. Former Giants catcher Bob Brenley once said of catching "By the end of the season, I feel like a used car." Even Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who never caught an inning in his life, recognized the strain placed on the body and mind when choosing to squat behind the plate. Jackson said "Get up. Get down. Get up again. Get down. Come up throwing. Take the chest protector off. Take the shin guards off. Hit. Put them back on. Go back behind the plate and repeat the process. Catching just breaks a man down, inning by inning, game by game, year by year." Needless to say, the toll taken on the body between first and catching is vast.
Joe Christensen submits the possibility of the Twins trotting out new uniforms to coincide with the inaugural year at Target Field. Christensen suggests that the Twins should "[p]ermanently pack away those sleeveless vest alternate home uniforms, once preferred by Livan Hernandez. Or simply burn them." I'm all for some updates, so long as none of which result in the the 1999's season's Turn Ahead The Clock uniforms.
The Pioneer Press's Charley Walters needs to be given a pamphlet on statistical context. On Saturday the columnist wrote "Mike Redmond is hitting .400 and has been just about everything the Twins could have hoped for while regular catcher Joe Mauer recovers from a back injury." Yes, at the time of publishing, the Twins backup catcher was batting .400 after starting two games and going 2-for-5. By the end of the day Saturday, Redmond was a .222 hitting catcher. By sundown on Sunday, Redmond was a .166 hitter after an 0-for-3 night against the White Sox.
Seth Stohs provides game notes for the weekend and updates on the entire organization.
Josh Johnson hands out his Game Balls for the Twins this past weekend.
The Twins will face Jesse Litsch and the Toronto Blue Jays at the Metrodome starting tonight. In four starts against the Twins, Litsch is 3-0 with a 2.08 ERA in 26 innings pitched with nine strikeouts and four walks. Delmon Young is 4-for-13 (.308 BA), Morneau is 3-for-10 (.300 BA) and Brendan Harris is 3-for-8 (.375 BA) with a solo home run.


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GAO Concludes Piracy Stats Are Usually Junk, File Sharing Can Help Sales
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For many years we've explored how entertainment and software industry piracy statistics are very reliable -- at least in terms of being consistently and notoriously wrong on an annual basis. Each year companies (especially the BSA) like to throw out marginally-coherent data "proving" the supposedly-huge impact piracy has on the economy, national security or employment. The claims are quickly debunked as nonsense -- yet the same claims return year after year, and often get cited by U.S. politicians as gospel.
Carl was the first amongst many to direct our attention to a new study by the GAO on the effects of piracy (covering all sectors, even toys, clothing, automobile parts, and medicine). The GAO's study unsurprisingly found that U.S. government and industry claims that piracy damages the economy to the tune of billions of dollars "cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies." The full GAO report is worth a read, and not only argues that claims of economic impact have not been based on substantive science -- but that file sharing can actually have a positive impact on sales:
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Some of you bloggers and creators may understand that sometimes we have to create or we go crazy.
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A Monthly Column for Word Lovers
In All Truthiness
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."
—A. N. Whitehead, Dialogues
Last month the American Dialect Society (ADS), in its annual ritual, named the 2005 word of the year. As usual there were contenders in many categories: Most Useful (lifehack, podcast, patent troll), Most Unnecessary (man date, pope squatting, reverse logistics), Most Euphemistic (holiday tree for Christmas tree; holistic practitioner for prostitute), and so forth. The top honors — the Best Picture Oscar of the word world —went to truthiness.
Frequenters of the Language Lounge are excused for scratching their heads at this point. The Loungeurs themselves were somewhat nonplussed, not ever having heard the word. But it soon came to light that truthiness is a coinage of Stephen Colbert, anchor of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report," which comes on late at night, when synonyms of sugar plums are dancing in the heads of the locals, so it was no surprise that we know nothing of it.
As a WOTY (that's shorthand for "word of the year"), truthiness has several disadvantages over recent winners: it's possibly not as enduring as red state/blue state (last year's winner); it doesn't quite trip off the tongue like metrosexual (2003); it's somewhat lacking in topicality, in contrast to weapons of mass destruction (the 2002 winner). What we find most lacking about truthiness, however, is that it lacks a convincing definition. The ADS's press release says truthiness is "the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true." An ADS spokesman gave a shorter definition: "truthy, not facty." Huh? We turned to the Visual Thesaurus, our trusted companion, to see if we could get a better handle on this word and adjudge on its merits.
The word that we can't prevent from popping into mind when we hear truthiness — perhaps because this new arrival leaps into the memory location next door — is of course, truthfulness. Truthfulness, as we can see if we center its main node, comes in a couple of varieties: veracity and sincerity, along with the now archaic sooth. Going the other direction, we see that truthfulness is a species of honesty. And honesty, as we can see, has many constituents: frankness, forthrightness, candor, integrity, scrupulousness, and the rest. With so many synonyms to choose from, does English need another? Wherein lies truthiness, and is it even a species of honesty?
The definition we're given of truthiness suggests that perhaps it is not: while stating what one believes to be true can probably be included under the umbrella of candor, putting forward as truthful something that one only wishes to be true is a different kettle of fish. We would be inclined to include that activity under such heads as exaggeration or disingenuousness. Now, that's funny: notice how disingenuousness is actually the opposite of some words we already saw under honesty? The categories that subsume disingenuousness (which you get by clicking on its red dot) land us precisely in the opposite camp: artfulness, deceitfulness, and dishonesty. So there you are: truthiness, not far from being the opposite of truthfulness.
But They Mean WellThe ADS spokesman goes on to say: "The national argument right now is, one, who's got the truth and, two, who's got the facts. Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we're not going to make much progress." Another ADS member, defending the choice of truthiness for WOTY said: "it seems to me that one criterion might be that the word captures the zeitgeist of the time. I think 'truthiness' wonderfully captures the political tendencies of current Republicanism/fundamentalism."
Just when we in the Lounge were beginning to think that this whole truthiness brouhaha was just an excuse for taking some pot shots at familiar targets, a news report caught our attention: the controversy surrounding James Frey's bestselling pseudomemoir A Million Little Pieces, in which he reportedly fabricates, for dramatic effect, a number of "facts." His publisher, in a statement defending him, says that "He represented to us that his version of events was true to his recollections." There's food for thought: which of true's more than a dozen senses is meant in this statement? An interesting thing about true, if you study it here, is that it's not really a synonym for factual; the VT doesn't offer up anything more than a "similar to" dotted connection between them.
So is the idea here that you can be true to your recollections but out of synch with what actually happened? That seems to be the defense proposed for Mr. Frey. We're ready to concede now that perhaps the ADS does indeed have its finger on the pulse of the lexical zeitgeist, and that perhaps truthiness, is the new truthfulness: it's the habit, or practice, or failing (you decide!) of people who imagine that "saying it's so makes it so;" or perhaps in the case of Mr. Frey, that remembering it's so makes it so.
One ADS member, not altogether pleased with the choice of truthiness, predicts that it won't last, and notes that in fact English already has a word with the intended meaning: verisimilitude. Verisimilitude, as you can see, is a species of semblance or gloss, which has many other varieties (pretense, guise, disguise, camouflage), all of them things that you should generally avoid when honesty is required: in other words, perhaps not a bad stand-in for truthiness. Why not just press this old (16th century!) and venerable word into service when a characterization truth-embellishing is required? Well, for three reasons as we see it:
- many speakers find 6-syllable words rather intimidating and are not confident about pronouncing them;
- though verisimilitude has a related adjective (verisimilar), it is so rare that most listeners would probably think that you said "very similar";
- Given the choice, most native English speakers, and especially Americans, opt for the punchiness of words with German and Anglo-Saxon roots (like truthy and truthiness), rather than ones with Latinate roots.
Further Reading:
You can read the ADS's entire press release about the 2005 WOTY here:
If you'd like to read some of the discussion within ADS about the choice of truthiness — it was not a universally admired choice — you can look at the archives of their discussion list here. Search on truthiness:
Haven't had your fill yet? You might also be interested in the discussion about truthiness in a Wikipedia article:
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How I'm healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: The UI
You have your gear (note that the gear post is somewhat outdated) and reforging in mind and you've picked out the Talents and Glyphs you want to start with. You're ready to start pressing buttons!
Before getting to the pressing buttons part, I want to make sure your UI (User Interface) needs are met. To heal effectively you want a proper interface. One that tells you what you need to know yet cuts down on useless, overwhelming information.
A good healer knows exactly what's happening to each person in the raid at all times as well as what their own character is doing, while following the fight.
The key to that, friends, is a proper UI.
What to Add to the Addon Shopping List?
Here's a screen shot of my UI (click on it on few times to make it bigger). This is obviously just an example and you are free (in fact, I encourage you!) to use your imagination to build your own interface.
1- Raid Frames
You want to see what's going on in your raid. The more popular frames for healing are VuhDo, Healbot, Grid and Grid2. Shown in the above picture is Grid2.
Grid and Grid2 require an extra addon if you want to use the mouse to interact with the frames (Clique is the only one I'm aware of). The original Grid may require extra addons to track certain buffs and debuffs as well. For an elaborate breakdown of the major frame addons, check out Grimmtooth (the series may be a little outdated but the general gist is there).
Having tried all of the popular healing frames, I found them equally good, so go with whichever you find prettiest or whichever your friends use (so it's easier to get answers if you have questions).
As a Holy Paladin, you want to track:
– Your Beacon of Light as well as the Beacons of other Holy Pallies in the raid (indicated separately)
– Eternal Flame
– Sacred Shield (If you are using the spell, otherwise it is optional)
– Your Illuminated Healing (Optional – nice to have but may be overwhelming)
– Range (Fade out at 40 yards)
– Aggro (Optional but helpful)
– Rezzed but not yet taken the rez (Called Resurrection on Grid2. Most players don't track this, but I find it super helpful.)
– Fight specific buffs and debuffs (Such as Pungency on Garalon)
– Magic, Poison and Disease debuffs (Curse debuffs can be shown separately if desired)
As a side note, in the screenshot you can see the tanks on the default WoW frames. I do this in LFR to keep track of who the tanks are. I would hide the default frames in a guild raid.
2- Bar Organizer
The popular addons are Bartender 4 (shown in screenshot) and Dominos.
A good bar organizer will keep your game from vomiting buttons all over your screen. If you look closely, you can see my keybound abilities on the bottom (I rebound my movement keys to ESDF and use the surrounding keys to tap abilities) and my cooldowns (mostly) on the top. My mounts, professions and others are faded out to the right of my main bars, my seals are to the left, and my system buttons (Raid Finder, Raid Journal, Character, etc) are to the top left (hidden behind the WoW frames on the screenshot).
(The screenshot was taken during a time of winter cleaning so the layout isn't ideal – there are a couple of suboptimal buttons and even an empty space. I am still working on perfecting my bars, so please don't copy the screenshot.)
Ideally, I would have my cooldowns larger and more in the middle of my screen, but there are so many cooldowns and so little room on the screen. I've just gotten in the habit of glancing at my CDs as part of my regular screen visual sweep.
3- Personal Frames (Heads Up)
While you can keep track of yourself using your raid frames, many of us find it easier to track ourselves separately. I use mine for mana and Holy Power (it shows health too, but out of habit I tend to look at my raid frames for my health).
Shown in the picture above is IceHUD, but there are a lot of options to choose from. Once again, the awesome Grimmtooth has reviewed and cataloged the main ones (again, may be a little outdated but still relevent, see Grimmtooth's comment on this post for some updates).
I have the bars set to fade out of combat so they are hard to see, but in the left circle is my mana bar, my health bar and my pet bar (not shown). On the right side, if I had a target, you'd be able to see my target's health and mana.
In the bottom circle is my Holy Power bar. I love the location – right on my character, above my healing frames. I always know how much Holy Power I have!
Even if you choose not to use frames for yourself, you will have to track Holy Power near the center of your screen somehow. The tiny bar at the top left of the screen is too out of the way. You'll waste a lot of time if you extend your visual sweep all the way up there just to look at your Holy Power.
4- Scrolling Battle Text
Some players will say this is optional, but I can't play without battle text. On the rare occasion that my addon crashes, the difference in my healing output is noticeable.
I use MikScrollingBattleText (you can't see it in the shot since I wasn't doing anything at the time) and I have used Parrot in the past as well.
There are a lot of cool things you can do with your battle text, such as sounds for when your cooldowns come up, or when you have 3 Holy Power. You can also use it (mostly) out of the box, to keep an eye on your numbers or to notice when Beacon isn't transferring heals.
5- Pally Power
Pally Power is truly optional, but I find it helpful for rebuffing after a rez or swapping a Seal. And it's so small and cute that it doesn't cause me any problems.
6- Combat Log
Not an addon, but a valuable part of an interface.
I love my Combat Log so much that I moved it to the right side of my screenkeep, separating it from my chat box. You can customize your Combat Log, but Blizzard has done a really good job fixing it up so that the default "What happened to me?" is all you really need.
It's fantastic for diagnosing deaths (nothing sets me off more than people who don't know what killed them…the Combat Log SPELLS IT OUT TO YOU DUMBASSES /fume), verifying damage type (physical/shadow/nature/etc) and seeing if the raid healers are slacking.
A Note on the Addon-Free School of Thought
Occasionally you'll come across healers who refuse to use addons, for a variety of reasons. What they might not tell you, though, is that, if they are successfully healing in a competitive raid environment, they're using other aids, like macros and optimized keybindings. If you choose to use macros instead of addons (addons are essentially, after all, pretty and precoded macros), you can heal well, however I won't be able help you.
If you're hesitant about adding to your game, think of it this way: designing an interface that's both pleasant on the eyes (you'll be staring at it a lot, it needs to be sexy) and informative is a skill in itself.
Building a super efficient UI does not take away from your talent as a player. Rather it highlights your ability by reflecting your understanding of the game and of your personal playstyle. A bad player who doesn't know where or what to look for won't be able to build a proper UI.
So stop worrying and start addon shopping.Explore posts in the same categories: General WoW, Paladinning Info, Teh paladin
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13 Comments on "How I'm healing in MoP – Holy Pally 4eva: The UI"
December 31, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I don't track Beacon myself, but I've got a fantastic memory for the last person I cast it on, and since it doesn't expire, I'm not terribly concerned. I usually have my primary tank that I'm healing focus targetted so I can see if he has Eternal Flame/Sacred Shield up (depending on which I'm using). I use X-Perl for my raid frames, and mouse-over macros for my spells, X-Perl's big weakness is definitely not being able to track Eternal Flame casts. I love it for just about everything else though.
I love me some Dominos, though. I don't know how anyone heals with Blizzard's default action bars. They're awful, and trying to override keybinds is an exercise in frustration and tedium without an addon.
Question, what addon did you use for the Holy Power bar specifically? I would love to have one of those near my feet. I usually keep my raid frames in the upper left so I usually don't have an issue around seeing how much Holy Power I have, but having another reminder would be great.
Great post! In Ulduar I healed without any addons at all, just mouse-over macros (I didn't even have DBM!), and sure I kicked butt at it according to my friend's logs, but my healing improved significantly by optimizing my UI to give me the info I need when and where I need it. Blizzard designs raids under the assumption that you're using addons (at the very least DBM), so addon-less healing is really just self-defeating for no reason.
December 31, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Wow, that unit frame article of mine (thanks for the link!) is a bit long in the tooth! Fortunately, most of what we can say about those addons is still true, except if they're still having Pet Happiness issues, they probably have bigger problems to boot 🙂
One thing I can back off of is that Shadowed Unit Frames is no longer suffering huge issues like it was. Either it was picked up by someone or Shadowed started playing again. At any rate, I'm using it again and have been since MoP caused some initial problems with Pitbull. Small memory footprint, but doesn't support raid-unit-target frames still, which may matter to a DPS but not to a healer (usually).
One thing to point out is that Grid2 is not in that overview. I had thought it had been abandoned at the time. I should check it out on my healer, at least.
I didn't cover oUF or its derivatives, either, but I think it's more a UI replacement than a unit frame replacement, so I'm not being too hard on myself. Once I learn to understand oUF, I may change my mind 🙂
The HUD overview is even older, but I can cut to the chase: I'm back on IceHUD. When you have a lot to do, convenience matters, and Ice is *very* convenient.
January 3, 2013 at 5:17 am
I cannot stand huds personally, I always get distracted by them >_<
Also, I use the standard raid frames with clique. I find that grid takes a while to get it all correctly set up, and then renewing mist is still a pain in the ass to follow.
Standard raid frames just seem to get it mostly right without me having to fiddle with it, or it breaking with patches.
Raid frames at the bottom is also something I have tried, since so many people kept being all woah about it. But I just keep missing stuff under my feet when I have it there and dying in fires. So instead I have it off to the left of my character (I do raid 10's so a little less space needed).
Once people start messing with addons I can advise minimapbutton bag (or something like it), this addon gathers up all your other addons from the minimap and places them all in a neat frame together.
For most things that I have to keep track off I use weakauras with quite subtle reminders.
Good post though!
January 3, 2013 at 4:38 pm
I want to second the recommendation for Death Note.
It's really fantastic. Lightweight, easy to use and I love the way the information is displayed.
When the raid leader asks someone why they died, as they're struggling to come up with a good answer, I'm always the one piping in: took 245k dmg from this thing and had been at half health for the previous 10 seconds.


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With most of his first-teamers busy with European club duty or Major League Soccer playoffs, Bob Bradley was expected to call a young group of players to compete against South Africa in a friendly on Nov. 17 in Cape Town (2 p.m. ET, ESPN2/Galavision)
Bradley, known for his unpredictable selections, surprised again, calling an even less experienced collection than anticipated.
Six players, including New York Red Bulls' Tim Ream and Juan Agudelo and Kansas City Wizards Teal Bunbury, will have a chance to earn their first cap.
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Agudelo's U-20 teammate Gale Agbossoumonde will also make the trip to Cape Town as will former age group standout Mikkel Diskerud.
Jonathan Bornstein should sport the captain's armband, while Brad Guzan, Clarence Goodson and Jonathan Spector join him as the only members of the 18-man roster with at least 15 appearances for the Red, White and Blue.
Nat Borchers, Brian Carroll, Eddie Gaven, Logan Pause and Robbie Findley round out the Major League Soccer contingent, while Dom Cervi, Eric Lichaj and Alejandro Bedoya come in from Europe.
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England), Dom Cervi (Celtic, Scotland).
Defenders: Nat Borchers (Real Salt Lake), Eric Lichaj (Aston Villa, England), Clarence Goodson (Start, Norway/Brondby, Denmark), Jonathan Spector (West Ham, England), Jonathan Bornstein (Tigres, Mexico), Tim Ream (New York), Gale Agbossoumonde (Miami/Braga, Portugal).
Midfielders: Brian Carroll (Columbus), Robbie Rogers (Columbus), Eddie Gaven (Columbus), Mikkel Diskerud (Stabaek, Norway), Alejandro Bedoya (Orebro, Sweden), Logan Pause (Chicago).
Forwards: Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake), Teal Bunbury (Kansas City). Juan Agudelo (New York).


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Run by three county commissioners instead of a county executive, Howard County was a different place in the early 1960s.
As required of all counties by the Maryland General Assembly in 1953, Howard had finally approved its General Plan in 1960, a much-heralded document based on local officials' recognition that the county was "ripe for development," said Barbara Kellner, manager of the Columbia Archives.
Soon after, Charles Miller, J. Robert Black and David Force banded together to run for office on a no-growth platform and won their seats on Nov. 2, 1962. The rural county's population at the time, according to the U.S. Census, was about 36,000.
The next day, the Rouse Co. settled on the first of many properties it would eventually amass in an undercover operation to buy land quickly enough to avoid creating a seller's market.
That first acquisition of farmland was the catalyst that made the creation of developer James W. Rouse's planned city possible, Kellner says. As the official chronicler of Columbia's history, she is mounting an exhibit to mark the 50th anniversary of the first purchases that paved the way for America's City, as it was called.
"Creating Columbia: The Idea and the Gamble," the first of a series of exhibits, will open Tuesday with an open house at the Columbia Archives on Wincopin Circle.
Photographs, maps, news coverage and correspondence from 1962 to 1963, when the bulk of the properties were purchased, "will trace the progression of Rouse's thought process, analysis of the Baltimore-Washington area, and his first forays into town planning," she said.
"The real story that I want to tell is that there was an idea of how to build a place for people to live that would better serve their needs," she said, adding that it was Rouse's thinking that set the stage for what was to come.
"I want to invite people to the archives to stimulate conversation about the early days," said Kellner, who moved to Columbia in 1982 and recalls waiting for chickens to cross the road at Routes 29 and 108 as she drove near her home. She will also share anecdotes gleaned over the years about the city's earliest days.
The irony of those early back-to-back milestones in November 1962 is not lost on those interested in Columbia's genesis, even to this day. Perhaps even more surprising to some, Kellner said, was that when the no-growth commissioners learned of the plans for the land nearly a year later, "they really didn't have a problem with what Rouse wanted to do."
Indeed, the newly enacted General Plan "called for designations and controls that had never been used in the county," Kellner states in her display.
New and progressive concepts included setting aside school sites to handle growth, developing neighborhoods similar to those in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, and centering growth in already developed areas, such as Ellicott City, Elkridge, Savage and North Laurel, she said.
"Rouse saw the possibilities of transferring his ideas to a real place due to the availability of land here," she said.
Even before the developer started accumulating land through five straw companies with such names as Serenity Acres, he had said in speeches that "we must infuse some of the spirit and feeling and scale of the small towns of America into our cities."
Michelle Miller, director of Community Services for the Columbia Association, which operates the archives, said, "It's important for people who have lived here for a long time as well as for new residents to understand the roots of Columbia and the possibilities for the future.
"The archives is a treasure for Columbia, as many cities don't have a place where their history is kept," Miller said.
"The gamble" the exhibit title refers to was the acquisition of that first 1,039-acre lot on Cedar Lane, where parts of Harper's Choice and Hickory Ridge are now, after Community Research and Development Board member Melvin Berman happened upon a for-sale sign and recommended the purchase to Rouse, Kellner said.
"They really didn't know if this would be the place, or whether they'd even be able to buy 13,000 more acres to build a city," she said. The company sought to buy contiguous properties but wasn't always successful, she noted.
"There was a lot of misconception that Rouse did this underhandedly," Kellner said. "But Rouse [executives] had kept their actions under wraps because they just didn't think the land would have been affordable if they had announced their intentions beforehand."
Most sellers were happy to get a fair price, "though owners of property in strategic locations may have been pressured [to sell] more than others," she said.
Handling the purchases under different buyers kept the initial costs to $500 per acre, though that price escalated to $1,500 to $2,000 toward the end of the purchasing cycle as sellers and others began to suspect what was afoot, she said.
In a sense, Rouse became "the biggest farmer in Howard County" after acquiring so much farmland with no guarantee of future development, she said.
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Other archives exhibits will follow in sequence over the next 41/2 years, leading up to the 50th anniversary of Columbia in June 2017. A committee has formed to begin planning for that celebration, Kellner said.


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I first heard about Regen yesterday when a friend recommended it for its higher emulation accuracy, the sound emulation in particular. I know someone who's been wanting to record gameplay footage of the "Sega 8-bit" versions of Fantastic Dizzy (as in NOT GENESIS, sorry), so when I heard that Regen also emulated older Sega consoles and had full input and video recording capabilities, I thought, "Great! A more accurate emulator ought to handle Fantastic Dizzy and record it just fine!"
But unfortunately, on both the Master System and Game Gear ROMs I have, Regen fell prey to a familiar bug that freezes the game. What's frustrating is that I don't know what triggers it exactly, the timing just seems random, but it always happens very early into the game, usually only a few seconds after gaining control of Dizzy, but sometimes I can go for a whole minute before it happens. I don't think it ever occurs on the inventory menu or during the automated title sequence, where Dizzy plants a beanstalk to jump onto his name, but it has happened during some of the demos where Dizzy is just standing around in random locations.
What happens is, Dizzy will freeze where he is, all the other sprites in the playing area will disappear, and button input will cease to do anything, but the music will keep playing. After several seconds, Dizzy and his inventory items may flicker a few more times and slow down the music briefly, and after many more seconds, the music will stop, and the status bar will change palette and may shift over to the left or right a little. In re-testing this just today, I found that sometimes the game would return to normal if it was still in the music-playing part of the bug, but it could freeze up again shortly thereafter.
This bug happens in the exact same way on Kega Fusion, so I'm starting to think that this is an old, common bug that is either not well known or difficult to fix. I know other games by CodeMasters had custom mappers that are frequently the source of inaccurate emulation--like in Cosmic Spacehead on SMS/GG, some emulators will place the backgrounds too low or freeze up in the middle of a teleportation. I'm not as technically proficient as a lot of people on this forum, so this guess may be completely wrong, but I wonder if the freezing is anything like the Pause Button Hack, a way to pause the game but keep the music playing. I know the facts that sprites disappear and the music eventually does stop cast doubt on that idea, but I just thought the values in that hack might be worth looking into...
So I've also been working on finding another emulator that can play and record a whole game of this version of Fantastic Dizzy. Meka gets through the game without any hiccups, and it does have savestates, sound capture, and screenshot capture, but no true video recording, and its sound output is very stuttery anyway, so I think trying to screen-record it would just make that even worse. I was considering MESS since this one "online arcade" site uses it for a lot of things and I was able to play a whole game of Game Gear Fantastic Dizzy there, and MESS does have .Avi recording, but I downloaded it for myself and couldn't figure out how to make it recognize the files it needed to start up the game. I did find it interesting that its driver has a special CODEMASTERS setting as a hashfile feature though.
That's why I came here, because the same person who recommended Regen also recommended I submit a bug report. What does everyone else think is a good solution for Sega 8-bit Fantastic Dizzy?
Ah, before I forget, I was trying Regen 0.972D on Windows XP. Let me know if there might have been changes to that kind of mapper support that would mean I should try a different version.
Anyone tried Fantastic Dizzy on Master System or Game Gear?
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And thanks for reading the bug report! What's tricky about finding a good Master System emulator is that a lot of them are bundled in with good Genesis emulators because of Sega recycling their architecture or whatever, but then most of the attention in development appears to be on getting the Genesis emulation right, and the previous Sega consoles can start to seem a little neglected. So I appreciate you looking into it.
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North Texas, a few years after the War Between the States. Former "ramrod" and now trail boss Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) has 3,000 head of cattle to get to Sedalia, Missouri, and he hasn't got time to screw around with drovers who can't cut it out on the newer Chisum trail. Tough veteran rough rider Jim Quince (Steve Raines) is now the run's new ramrod, and always grumbling, comical G.W. Wishbone (Paul Brinegar) is still the chuck wagon cook. Newcomers on the run include rider and former buffalo soldier Simon Blake (Raymond St. Jacques), rider and Englishman Ian Cabot (David Watson), and scout Jed Colby (John Ireland). Fighting the elements every step of their journey, including bad grassland, storms, mountainous passages and killing heat and drought, Rowdy's team encounter obstacles not just from nature, but from the human landscape, as well, as they deal with the problems of the people they encounter out on the trail.
In my season seven review of Rawhide, I pointed out how a bold production move towards deliberately "arty" episodes from producers/writers/director Bernard L. Kowalski and Bruce Geller, in an effort to stem Rawhide's slipping Nielsen numbers, resulted in some remarkable outings...but no better ratings for the rapidly failing oater. For this abbreviated eighth season, many of the episodes are quite good (although not in the K-G category), but the common thread that binds them together seems to be a vibe of half-hearted, last-ditch doctoring of a terminally ill patient. Remaining fans that tuned into Rawhide that fall of 1965 found the series' lead character, trail boss Gill Favor, mysteriously M.I.A., with no explanation ever forthcoming (by most accounts, the sometimes difficult Eric Fleming was finally canned by the producers). Off-and-on again semi-regulars Pete Nolan (Sheb Wooley) and Hey Soos Patines (Robert Cabal) were "off" for good, as was dopey supporting player Mushy, played by James Murdock. Perhaps most disheartening of all is the marginalization of Paul Brinegar's Wishbone character this season--the talented, amusing supporting player doesn't even get his own episode this time around. Even though Rawhide was set up as a flexible anthology format, the series' framework was held together by the relatively stable "family" of characters that most viewers wanted to see week after week in their homes. Taking away supporting characters that either had come and gone before, or who didn't contribute much to the show in the first place, wouldn't cause that much damage to the show's sense of continuity. But ditching the lead performer without even a passing mention had to have thrown the remaining viewers who stayed faithful to the series.
In the same vein, the producers compound that lost sense of viewer continuity this season by introducing new characters without the slightest bit of background information on them, before they're jumbled up--on-screen one week and gone the next...only to return the following week--due to some rather illogical production date/air date shuffling. In the season opener, Encounter at Boot Hill, newcomers Raymond St. Jacques, as rider Simon Blake, and David Watson as rider Ian Cabot, appear quite chummy with steely Rowdy Yates, but we're never told how they joined the run, what their pecking order is (Blake seems to occupy some senior position...but what?), or most critically: who are they? I would imagine most people know that there were all kinds of people, of different nationalities and races, who worked as "cowboys" during the settling of the West. So the possibilities of working in new stories or at the very least new viewpoints within Rawhide's more established storylines, would seem high with the addition of Englishman Cabot and African-American Blake. However, absolutely nothing cultural or racial or anything for that matter is explored in either character--the wonderfully talented St. Jacques in particular is given nothing to do in these 13 episodes). It's a decision that makes it very hard not to think that the producers and CBS were just plugging in a token Black actor and a Britisher to superficially ride the wave of two currents then occupying the American scene: the exploding civil rights movement, and the "British invasion" of our music and movies.
So who was oddly, incoherently alternating with St. Jacques and Watson on those off-weeks? Big-time movie star John Ireland (one of my favorites), as scout Jed Colby. And guess what...except for one storyline where we get a line or two about one of his past adventures, we never learn a thing about him, either. How he got on the ride, or more importantly, who, exactly, he is, isn't told to us. And of course to confuse the audience more, sometimes St. Jacques shows up on those Ireland episodes, sometimes Watson...or neither one. As for the show's "new" anchor, Eastwood, well...it's tough to get audiences to tune in week after week when the star of the show looks alternately pissed-off or bored out of his skull. Far from feeling finally ready to shine in the part (now that Fleming's sarcastic, frequently demeaning-to-Rowdy trail boss is gone), Eastwood has made it clear in countless subsequent interviews that by this time in his stint on Rawhide, he was more than ready to depart the series. And frankly, it shows. Had either Rawhide somehow magically managed to stick around another two years, or had A Fistful of Dollars--a huge hit in Italy at this point but still not known in the States in 1965--somehow managed to be released this season, maybe audiences would have flocked to Eastwood's surly, mean take on his once-dopey Rowdy character. As it worked out, though, Eastwood looks like an actor who knows his steady acting gig is soon to end--a gig he never really liked, anyway--while irritably waiting to see if a no-budget no-name Italian spaghetti Western would translate into a high-profile movie career. With all this confusion over vague, fuzzy new characters, and a lead who doesn't seem particularly thrilled in his new promotion...no wonder the left-over long-term viewers further abandoned Rawhide, while newcomers couldn't find a foothold amid the chaotically shifting cast.
The season opener, Encounter at Boot Hill, certainly seems designed to grab whomever might be tuning in, with now-legendary TV director Sutton Roley delivering his patented dynamic, electrifying set-ups and cuts for this otherwise familiar story from Anthony Spinner about a crooked sheriff (Simon Oakland) taking over a town. Solid turns from pros Oakland and Jeff Corey (doing his usual obsessed psychotic) help, with Timothy Carey getting big, big laughs with his own crazy shtick (I hit the floor when, pitching pennies, he yells out, "There's my mother and her hominy grits!" I guarantee he ad-libed that...), but Roley's hyperventilating style trumps substance in this finally superficial outing. Herman Miller's Ride a Crooked Mile, about John Ireland's obsession with getting a fine horse from crook John Drew Barrymore, would have had more impact if we actually had some kind of introduction to Ireland's character--why do we care what he wants, when we don't know who he is, or why he "is" (negative or dismissive notes are all I've ever read about John Drew Barrymore's acting chops, but this is another TV turn of his where he impressed me with his fidgety, snake-charming skills). Apparently somebody decided early it wasn't working out with Watson, because he's relegated to the end credits here in Six Weeks to Bent Fork, from Mort R. Lewis, where Rowdy has to suffer under hardass James Gregory's leadership when Rowdy's injured during the run. Too many familiar elements from previous Rawhide episodes lessens the impact (starving Indians, crooked townspeople looking to rip-off the drovers), while it's easy to see why Watson wasn't connecting with the production (his British witticisms and dropped-in phrases come off as arbitrary and inorganic--he's hardly "period"...and what the hell is with that embarrassing finale, where all the men start whistling The British Grenadiers? That's "the olde West"?). At least L.Q. Jones is amusing in a small part--they should have hired him onto the cast.
Far, far superior is scripters Joanna Thompson's and Jerry Adelman's Walk into Terror, a punchy Wages of Fear/Ace in the Hole hybrid that finds the unlikely Of Mice and Men duo of Bruce Dern and Claude Akins helping the men transport some old nitro to a collapsed mining cave where Quince and Blake are trapped (cave-in episodes, no matter what the series, always work). Director Thomas Carr develops an increasingly suspenseful rhythm, while Bruce Dern, naturally, walks away with the episode (the second he's on, you know he's operating on another level: instantly alive and irritating as hell). One of the season's best. Scripter Walter Black's Escort to Doom's story about starving Cherikowa Indians led by White chief Rip Torn stays pretty interesting until its contrived end (of course he comes in on the side of the Whites). Torn's pretty intense, and does well with the sometimes silly role. Scripter Black is back for Hostage for Hanging, another intriguing, entertaining entry that sports a familiar-but-well executed story...that unfortunately pulls up lame at the finish: a crazy bunch of backwoods folk take Rowdy hostage over a scam horse deal gone bad. Excellent, quirky turns from good actors Sharon Farrell, Robert Blake, and Warren Oates, are memorable here...but Mercedes McCambridge should have had a getaway car at the ready for her grotesquely miscued performance.
Boris Ingster and Louis Vittes penned the all-too-familiar The Vasquez Woman, which finds Rowdy...actually, Rowdy isn't in this episode, and unless I missed a line, I don't believe his absence is explained. It's Ireland's turn to headline his own episode, when he falls for Mexican royalty Carol Lawrence, while rogue Army officer Cesar Romero tries to steal his cattle. It's all rather dreary and predictable. Louis Vittes does better with Clash at Broken Bluff, where suffragette Nancy Gates puts Rowdy and his men right in the middle of a little gender war on the prairie. Some interesting proto-feminist ideas swirling around here...but the ending is too pat (looks like they did hire L.Q. Jones to come back as "Pee Jay"--he's fun). Past Rawhide contributor John Dunkel's The Pursuit sports a first-rate, nasty turn from old pro Ralph Bellamy in a pre-The Professionals villain role, this time as a retired U.S. Marshal bent on killing Ireland. We get the faintest whiff of a background for Ireland's character here, while an unexpected Bernard Herrmann music credit surprised me at the end. Good, tough, focused outing--one of the season's best. Director Sutton Roley is back for Duel at Daybreak, from Robert Bloomfield and Herman Miller, but he's noticeably subdued in his set-ups, opting instead for a relatively flat but nicely-paced mounting that has Brendon Boone (as a potential new addition to the cast that didn't work out?) going up against killer Charles Bronson in a duel (crisply staged by Roley). Familiar face Larry Gates does well as a seemingly upright Southern gentleman here.
Brush War at Buford, from Mort R. Lewis, is another tough, thematically complicated outing where Cattlemen Association president Robert Middleton is in cahoots with rustlers who are still fighting the War Between the States. Notch up another excellent performance by a young Tim McIntire as a kid confused by hate, with Richard Carlson and particularly Skip Homeier as "the Wichita Kid" doing good work in this challenging piece. Another season best. Cult director Gerd Oswald keeps the string of excellent episodes rolling with The Trading Post, from John and Ward Hawkins. In their clever script, the Hawkins devise a tense story of phony U.S. Cavalry officer Rory Calhoun stealing Rowdy's beeves. Dick Foran shows up (to good effect), and Calhoun, as usual, is excellent playing a tough charmer who can turn like a rattlesnake. Another season best, as this go-around winds down. And finally, the last Rawhide episode concludes with Crossing at White Feather, scripted by Robert Bloomfield and directed by Richard Whorf. Like so many of the best Westerns, Crossing's story concerns a troubled father/son relationship, with The Rifleman's Johnny Crawford discovering he can no longer live with his drunken bum of a father, Albert Dekker. A mournful little outing, where we get a final peek at Rowdy's own troubled childhood, it's difficult not to feel a little sad when wistful Rowdy, seeing Crawford ride off after Dekker, quietly intones, "He's going home," and Rawhide fades out for the last time.
Rawhide went home, too...to Jesus, when CBS Chairman William Paley tuned in one night and saw that Eric Fleming was no longer on the show. Or at least that's how the story goes; there's little doubt, though, with its continual fall in the ratings that Rawhide wouldn't have lasted past this eighth season no matter what Paley saw. Moved yet again, this time to the more advantageous slot of Tuesday nights at 7:30pm, Rawhide's direct competition was the fast-rising now fast-fading Combat! on ABC, and one of the most derided (quite unfairly, I might add) premieres in network sitcom history: My Mother the Car, over on NBC at 7:30pm, followed by bland sitcom under-performer Please Don't Eat the Daisies at 8:00pm. CBS, finally fed up with the long-running oater's numbers, particularly since the network gave it a primo lead-out as a last-ditch effort to save the Western--The Red Skelton Hour, the 4th most-watched show on television that year--Rawhide was unceremoniously cancelled mid-season, and kiddie favorite Daktari premiered in its place...to a remarkable 14th slot in the year-end Nielsen's.
The Video:
The fullscreen, 1.37:1 black and white transfers for Rawhide: The Eighth and Final Season look fine, with generally solid blacks, a sharp image, and few imperfections.
The Audio:
The Dolby Digital English mono audio track is okay, with low hiss and no subtitles or closed captions.
The Extras:
No extras for Rawhide: The Eighth and Final Season.
Final Thoughts:
Final round-up, pards. Rawhide: The Eighth and Final Season sees the series trying half-heartedly to inject some new blood into the now-thoroughly familiar oater. Several of the episodes work quite well this outing, but the producers' efforts to put new characters into the mix was doomed the minute they didn't feel it was necessary for those character to matter to the viewer. So...what was the point? Fans of the series will take this last ride, of course; I'm recommending Rawhide: The Eighth and Final Season.


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MANCHESTER — It was cool enough that 4-year-old Braylon Jones got to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at Friday night's New Hampshire Fisher Cats game. Then the catcher ran toward him, took off his mask and asked the surprised little boy for a hug.
Braylon was still in disbelief and at a loss for words minutes later that the catcher was his dad, Air Force Staff Sgt. Ian Jones, who returned home Friday from a four-month tour in Afghanistan and used the ballgame as a way to surprise his family.
"He doesn't even know what to do right now," dad said while holding his son.
"This is indescribable," Jones said. "This has been the best experience of my life, and I thank the Fisher Cats for letting it happen."
Outside of one member of the family, nobody knew Jones was coming home. That includes his wife, Ashley, and his mother, Julie Jones.
"I'm shocked," Ashley said while tears streamed down her cheeks. "I'm so surprised."
"This is so great," Julie said, sporting the similar tears. "I'm blown away."
Mike Ramshaw, senior vice president of sales for the Fisher Cats, said the team was eager to set up the event after receiving a call from Jones. The team even hosted the family, which included a large group of siblings and grandparents, in a luxury suite for the game.
"It was a no-brainer for us," Ramshaw said. "Anytime we can be a part of something like that, we're happy to support it."
Jones, who grew up in Manchester and is based at Hurlburt Field in Florida, was decked out in a Fisher Cats uniform, complete with a catcher's helmet and sunglasses to maintain the disguise. He said it was hard to keep up the ruse once he saw his wife and son.
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INGREDIENTS: Poultry By-product Meal (Meat and Clean Organs), Corn, Wheat, Dehulled Oats, Poultry Fat (Preserved With Mixed Tocopherols, Citric Acid And Rosemary Extract), Dried Plain Beet Pulp, Flax, Chicken Liver Digest, Salt, Dicalcium Phosphate, Dried Brewers Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Rosemary Extract, Ascorbic Acid (Source Of Vitamin C), Vitamin A Acetate, Cholecalciferol (Source Of Vitamin D), dl Alphatocopherol Acetate (Source Of Vitamin E), Ferrous Sulfate, * Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Niacin, Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, * Copper Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, * Manganese Proteinate, Riboflavin, Calcium Iodate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Folic Acid, Biotin, Sodium Selenite, Cobalt Carbonate, Menadione Sodium Bisulphate Complex (Vitamin K), Vitamin B12.
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Crude Protein (min.) 22.0%,
Crude Fat (min.) 12.0%,
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Byproducts and fat of unidentiable source, low quality grains, controversial filler
The first ingredient and sole meat product in the food is byproducts. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. The AAFCO definition of poultry by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered poultry, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. Note that this ingredient is not identified by species and may vary. Ingredients of unidentifiable species and source are usually very low quality.
The main grains in the food are corn, wheat and oats. Oats are decent quality, but the minor ingredient here. Corn is a difficult to digest grain of limited value in dog food. It is also commonly associated with allergy problems. Wheat is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergies in dog food. Beet pulp is controversial filler which appears to be used in large quantities in this food. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Poultry fat is a further low quality ingredient rarely found in anything but very low quality foods. Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
We note the use of synthetic vitamin K, a substance linked to liver problems and that is progressively being removed from better quality products.
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The atrium is a vast space measuring approximately 140 feet tall and 330 feet long and provides inward and outward views. Dubbed "The Grand Stair" by the design team, the centrally-placed path of movement is meant to serve as a quasi-public space and a facilitator of vertical and horizontal circulation. Morphosis has lined the entire height of the atrium with 400 fiber-reinforced translucent polymer panels measuring 30 feet wide. Produced by Kolon, the panels are fastened to the interior structure by stainless steel armatures.
The west-facing facade has a dramatic inflection that defines the structure's exterior. Morphosis describes the main facade as "an interconnected array of sunshades that form a monolithic outer skin, analogous to woven fabric." The woven embellishment—featuring the Kolon-produced Aramid, a reinforced fiber with a greater tensile strength than iron—was designed parametrically to balance the interior's need for outward vistas and shading requirements. Stan Su, director of enclosure design at Morphosis, views the sprawling sunscreen as carrying a "cloud-like plasticity in form while maintaining a remarkably high tensile strength."
Each knot of "woven fabric" is fastened to the curtainwall with traditional stainless steel brackets that cut through exterior joints to the steel mullions that ring the structure.
While the western elevation is the primary face of the development, the facility was designed holistically. Stan Su states that "the pared-back embellishment of the three other elevations is a response to their interior functions; lab and office blocks comprise what can be considered the rear of the building." The curtain wall wrapping these elevations largely consists of Han Glass's low-iron glass and ALU EnC produced aluminum cladding, a measure to match the clear view and visibility requirements of the client.In a bid to secure LEED Gold Certification, Morphosis added a number of sustainable and environmentally-friendly interventions; Kolon One & Only Tower is decked with a green roof, solar photovoltaic panels, and geothermal heating and cooling mechanisms. Additionally, Morphosis reduced concrete use by 30 percent through a bubble deck slab system which uses plastic balls as a form of reinforcement. Further projects by Morphosis Architects will be discussed during Facades+ LA October 25-26.


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Somewhere Apple and YouTube executives are smiling after hearing the words of Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen.
In a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal, one of the most powerful men in deciding how television gets to our homes said his company introduced a controversial feature that allows television viewers to skip ads with the push of a button in large part because of the Internet.
Ergen said it is time for networks to rethink the television model, something Google and Apple as well other Silicon Valley companies have been doing years.
He said Internet video has changed the way consumers watch television and the industry needs to react and that is exactly what his company is doing.
Ergen added that Dish's Auto Hop feature was a "competitively necessary" response to the popularity of sites such as YouTube.
The comments comes after Google and several other technology companies introduced"smart" Internet connected televisions earlier this year.
Many in the industry have also been waiting for Apple to unveil its long-rumored television, which Steve Jobs hinted would be Apple's next big breakthrough in Walter Isaacson's biography on the late Apple co-founder.
But the Cupertino-based technology company has reportedly run into trouble trying to convince television networks and content providers to join a re-envisioned take on how television entertainment is brought into the consumer's home.
Some reports even had Jobs making unsuccessful pitches to television executives in the twilight of his life.
But just last week at All Things D D10 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted that his company could still very much be interested in re-imagining the television, with reports that the Cupertino-based company could introduce a new product, or an updated Apple TV device, as early as next week's WWDC conference in San Francisco.
All that could be moot depending on who you believe. One Google executive's thinking is more in line with Ergen.
At January's Consumer Electronics Show, Google's Vice President for Global Content Partnerships Robert Kyncl echoed the Dish chairman's thoughts. w
He said the future of television already exists on the Internet and it is called YouTube.
Google, he said, believes that by 2020 75 percent of all channels that are being watched will be online. That is a number that includes current network channels.
Kyncl added that that statistic is why Google has invested millions in developing original content for YouTube.
It might be the very same reason Ergen believes cable operators, dish providers and television networks need to start innovating again.And Ergen wants to starts with ads.
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I got this from Mendelson:
Let $\mathbb {Z}$ be the set of integers.Let $p$ be a positive prime integer. Given distinct integers $m$, $n$ there´s a unique integer $t=t(m,n)$ such that:
$$ m-n=p^tk $$
where $k$ is an integer not divisible by $p$. Define a function $d:\mathbb {Z} \times \mathbb {Z}\rightarrow \mathbb {R}$ by the correspondence
from $m \neq n.$
Prove that $(\mathbb {Z,d})$ is a metric space.
I would appreciate a better explanation to this question. I didn´t get the $t(m,n)$. This is also a distance,right?