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Philips ADS talks about their CD-i history (part 3)
>> Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Read the previous parts first: Part 1. Part 2. ---Before Atlantis - The Last Resort was released the precursor, Ram Raid was given as a covermount on the UK based CDi Magazine Issue 17 in April 1996. Establishing the basic gameplay mechanics for Atlantis with a completly unexpected 3D engine it also incorporated on-line downloads and competitive leader tables. Do you know what brought about this revolutionary (to CD-i at least!) technology bringing not only 3D graphics but also an element of on-line play into the arena?
Johnny: God Yeh. That was amazing. I still remember that day I saw the first demo. I was stunned, everybody was stunned. We met this guy from the Research Labs round the corner. They don't make games. They make chips. You should have seen that place. It was incredible, that's where all the research goes on. I watched Video on Demand there, 15 years ago! And Clarkey was a rocket scientist. By this point I'm still amazed at Andys multiplexer, then this guy comes along. Talks softly, doesn't even try to promote himself, then with programmer graphics of cartoon bricks wall promptly loads up.... DOOM On CDi!
So you've just got the first online CDi system working, you need a game to show it off. Your console can't actually do very good games. You need a miracle, Paul Clarke had written one in his lunch break. So we were put in touch with the guys at CD-online. Who were all ex philips, branching out to the new set-top box technology. This was ten years ago. Clarky bought the rocket science. They developed the communications. We got a proper musician, and the ADS were Game Design. So this time it was Myself and Rak that had the brunt of the work. It'd been years since I'd done game design, having branched out into graphics in the late 80's, so the chance to get back onto that on such an innovative game was pretty cool for me. Rak got the chance to branch out into 3D.... He later went on to work in that field in movies and TV. That game made us all pretty famous.
We had meeting after meeting to see if we could bring it into the online arena. We sadly had to accept that the rest of the world hadn't caught up with us yet, as data transfer rates weren't fast enough to send packets of live data. Then we came up with the challenge system where a players performance would be logged, and leagues were made. That was the game that would have single handedly saved the platform if it had not been for the other events that were happening higher up the ladder at the time. Damn I wish I'd never gone and dropped out for a life as a roadie. Still
With the release of Atlantis - The Last Resort any mode of on-line play was lost. Do you have any idea why this was cut from the final product?
Johnny: Well there are conflicting stories on this. But actually Atlantis was never intended to be an on-line game. Ram Raid should have evolved into the on-line version, Atlantis was a challenge based game. A linear game with a plot, set missions and a challenge. Ram Raid had started to evolve, but all this happened at the time when Philips was letting CDi die. Wanna hear a sad little story. When Lance Mason who hired me all those years ago at Dorking showed me CDi magazine, before I started, we were talking. He was unsure about hiring me because I was fresh from the streets of Birmingham and homelessness. So I promised him I wouldn't let him down and one day that magazine would have my artwork on the front cover.
Atlantis came out at the exact time CDi magazine published its last issue in Europe. On the day we were clearing out the ADS office after we'd been shut down. A parcel came from Sander in the Philips homelands where the Dutch version was still published. I opened it up. Atlantis was on the front cover and in the centre spread. ADS games were 30 percent of the charts. I bunged it into the box with the rest of the stuff, and that was the end of an era.
Can you share any further anecdotes to drench the CD-i communities appetitie?
Johnny: Loads. Some unprintable. There was the time I told Paul Reid I needed him to stand on an ironing board and pretend he was a cyber-surfer so I could animate his actions for the cyber-surfer in Ramraid. This was of course a lie. I'd already animated it and just wanted to see if he'd do it! There was another time Jason and myself blew up hundreds of balloons on the night shift, and filled the office with them completely for the dayshift. Actually I really better not tell anymore just yet. We had a bit of a reputation for being pranksters, and I'm not sure the others would want any of this online just yet!
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Australian studio powers up new Borderlands game
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Classification: TBA (likely MA15+)
Platforms: PS3, Xbox 360, PC
Release date: 17 October 2014
Previewed on: Xbox 360
Borderlands was never meant to be a huge hit.
Following its release during the packed 2009 Christmas shopping season it sold respectable numbers, but it was its extremely positive word of mouth that turned it onto a sleeper hit. In the first few months of 2010, it doubled its sales from around 2 million to around 4 million.
A sequel was rapidly put into production, implementing a raft of improvements requested by fans, and it became publisher 2K Games' biggest selling game of all time, topping even critical darling Bioshock.
For the next entry in the series, changes are afoot. First, it has a very unusual title: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. It is so named because it lies between the first two games, making it a sequel to one and a prequel to the other.
Second, series creator Gearbox is not developing it. Instead, Bioshock veterans 2K Australia, located in Canberra, have been handed the reins.
"We'd just finished on Bioshock Infinite and we were interested in walking with the guys from Gearbox," explains 2K Australia studio head Tony Lawrence.
He recalls that the Australian team was interested in developing the villain of Borderlands 2, the notorious and hilarious Handsome Jack.
"We loved Handsome Jack. As an antagonist, he was fantastic. You really couldn't have someone you'd love to hate more than him."
There was one small problem: Jack was dead, and he couldn't be brought back. Gearbox would not budge on this fact.
"I don't want to have a universe where death loses its meaning," says Gearbox's Matt Armstrong, franchise director for Borderlands. "One of the frustrations I have with comic books is that you can kill Superman, but it's all right, he'll be back later. There's no emotional impact."
The natural solution, then, was to go back in time and explore the character's early days. Would this, then, be "the rise of Handsome Jack"?
"Yep, that's pretty much it," says Lawrence. "We get to see the story of how he came to be the guy who likes to scoop out eyeballs with a spoon. So we take you from when he wasn't the CEO of Hyperion, and along the way there are the decisions that turn him into that guy."
"Between Borderlands 1 and 2, we wanted to feel like there was a game there. We wanted to give the impression that things just keep happening," recalls Armstrong. "In Doctor Who you're given the impression there are adventures in between shows we never get to see, and we wanted to give the same impression."
"When you load up Borderlands 2, you look up at the moon and it's cracked and it's got lava all over it. Some catastrophe has happened to the moon, and there's a space station, not orbiting Pandora, but orbiting the moon. What we're doing is telling that story, explaining what occurred up there and how it ties in with the rest of the universe."
Armstrong explains that this choice of setting fundamentally affected the game's design.
"What is the promise for fans when you take them to the moon? Low gravity, of course, and there's no atmosphere, it's cold up there, and there's lasers and spacesuits and meteors. So we said, yeah, all that stuff needs to be in there."
"Just that mechanic of having low gravity allows you to do so many things," Lawrence said. "Rather than just travelling long distances in single bounds, which is fun in itself, it informed our whole level design. So you've got very high things you can jump onto, and you can jump across wide canyons, and we've added things that make it even more ludicrous, like jump pads that fling you up in the air."
One early struggle was designing a way to turn a limited oxygen supply into something entertaining.
"When you face an enemy in Borderlands, they're not there to kill you," Armstrong explains. "They're there so you have the opportunity to do something cool: a cool way to kill them, avoid them, stuff like that. So the question became, how do we make oxygen a resource for the player to have fun?"
"So we turned it into a jetpack!" Lawrence replies with a laugh. "You can use your oxygen supply to double-jump, gain more speed and height. You can also use it to shoot up, pushing you down, so you slam into the ground. That slamming is a new way to attack enemies."
"It's no longer a resource, but a fun thing to play with."
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Ravens strong safety Bernard Pollard lived up to his intimidating reputation as one of the hardest hitters in the NFL, knocking New England Patriots running back Stevan Ridley out of Sunday's AFC championship game with a devastating fourth-quarter tackle.
During the Ravens' 28-13 AFC victory at Gillette Stadium, Ridley was down on the ground for several scary minutes before finally walking off the field under his own power.
"Bernard, man, he's a hitter," Ravens free safety Ed Reed said. "He's a thumper."
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This week we take a look at demos for Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm, as well as Breach.
This week we take a look at demos for Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm, as well as Breach.
Huge centipedes and dinosaurs are deadly to humans.
Kong dispatches some pesky foes.
Kong defeats a T-Rex.
Kong pays Manhattan a visit in this awesome trailer.
Greatly injured, you must fight through the pain and blurred vision.
Be careful. There are predators around looking for something to eat.
Take aim and throw your spear!
Kong bashes some creature with some mighty fists.
Take a look at this intro cutscene for the game.
Shoot some bats out of the sky.
Keep your eyes peeled for some new weapons dropping from the plane.
Kong throws cop cars at some fools in NY.
Try to take out a huge crab with a handgun.
Alex Navarro tries to take down Kong in his video review.
Say hello to the locals.
Fire is often a fine bug repellant.
Keep those giant centipedes out of the shot!
Get a glimpse of King Kong's soft side.
King Kong chases after Anne's scream for help.
King Kong shows this T-Rex a thing or two.
You better get over there and hide before you become T-Rex's dinner!
Keep the T-Rex distracted.
Watch out! A prehistoric monster has been sighted!
Don't miss out on this awesome trailer for King Kong.
Find out what separates Peter Jackson's King Kong for the Xbox 360 from the other console versions.
Gain insight into the development process for the Xbox 360 version of Peter Jackson's King Kong in this developer interview.
An awesome brawl comes to a heroic end.
Two giants of the jungle go head to head in this movie.
Take a look at a breathtaking battle in this movie.
An unexpected visitor makes an appearance in this clip.
Two heavyweights of the Animal Kingdom battle to the death in this incredible trailer.
Ubisoft's Michel Ansel discusses how Peter Jackson approached him about doing a game based on his King Kong movie.
What danger lurks in the Jungle? Watch this awesome trailer and find out.
Go on an absolutely wild raft ride in this trailer.
Don't miss out on the full length trailer for King Kong from E3 2005.
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Sometimes I amazed that (some) scientist are considered so smart. They get sop busy looking at chemicals they can "build" to take care of problems that they seem to overlook the obvious. Nature being the obvious here.
I saw this article & even though it may not apply to home use...keep in mind that nature may have provided a solution to yet another problem. Guess what? Nature doesn't make all this stuff just so humans can go and destroy 1/4 of the earth just to figure out a solution that she already has the answer done for them...they just have to look.
Oh, here's the article Banana peel can purify water, say scientists. Just almost to simple huh?! Banana peels to remove copper & lead from water! These yummy fruits may also remove even more things. Oh, and you get to eat the banana they only used the peel. Guess banana peels aren't just for slap stick comedy anymore.
Mother Nature is just so cool...to bad so many people are out to kill her.


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RA64Freddy posted up this fantastic little RB3 Odyssey.
Just a clean and mean example of what your hot wife should be driving.
A fresh set of WORK VS-XX wheels in an Extreme Gold finish set this little beauty off right.
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Lets say you go to a petrol bank and put fuel for Rs 100. You give the guy Rs 500 and you see him counting four 100 rupee notes to give back to you. He counts four 100s. He makes sure you see him count four 100s. He gives you the money. You think you've got Rs 400 back. In reality he has given you only three 100s. The other one by some sleight of hand is still with him. He relies on the trust he has established with you by counting so clearly in front of you to make you not double check the note count. If you trust him and put the money in your pocket without counting and leave - the guy pockets Rs 100. If you don't trust him and he sees you counting the money again and you reach the third hundred and give the confused look, he will be waiting hand outstretched with the fourth Rs 100. He pretends that he is giving you the last 100 separately. Like it was unintentional and matter-of-fact absent mindedness.
I noticed that this happened both in Bangalore and Madras quite consistently.
That leads us to an interesting story, which can only happen to the likes of me. There is a petrol bank in the intersection of Venkat Narayana road and Mt. Road. Its on Mt Round right before you take a left into V. Narayana road. My cousin and I were driving two separate scooters and we both put petrol for Rs 100 each. So total cost is Rs 200. I hand out Rs 500 and see the guy counting three 100 rupees. He hands over the money to me. I start counting it. There are only two 100s. I smile as I see him stretching out his hand a giving me another 100.
After we reach home I gloat about this to my cousin. Tell him how easily observable this ruse is. He looks a bit curious and asks me, "why did you pay Rs 200, I thought you only put petrol for Rs 100". And then I told him "thats because I paid for you as well". He then shouts at me angrily " you idiot! don't you have to tell me that. I paid Rs 100 as well"


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At first sight there is no abstract (= structural) definition of "product" in set theory. E.g. the Cartesian product of sets $A$ and $B$ is defined as the set of all ordered pairs $(x,y)$, $x \in A$, $y \in B$, and thus depends on the definition of "ordered pair" which is notoriously arbitrary.
I wonder if the following can count as an abstract (= structural) definition of "product" in the context of set theory.
Consider a set $S$ with two equivalence relations $\sim_1$ and $\sim_2$.
Definition: $(S,\sim_1,\sim_2)$ is a product iff $$(\forall x \in S)(\forall y \in S)(\exists ! z\in S) x \sim_1 z \wedge y \sim_2 z$$ $$(\forall z\in S)(\exists ! x\in S)(\exists ! y\in S) x \sim_1 z \wedge y \sim_2 z$$
If $(S,\sim_1,\sim_2)$ is a product
$S$ can be understood as $S/_{\sim_1} \times S/_{\sim_2}$
the relations $\sim_i$ can be read as has the same $i$-th component
the canonical projection map $\pi_i (x) = [x]_{\sim_i}$ can be understood as the $i$-th component
Question: Isn't this definition somehow on par - concerning structuralness - with the definition of category theory? If so, why is it so rarely found, or rather: where can I find it (in which textbook, e.g.)?
Considering the product of a set with itself, i.e. $S = X \times X$, one relation $\sim$ does suffice, which does not have to be an equivalence relation, not even symmetric, but from which two equivalence relations can be defined:
$$ x \sim_1 y :\equiv (\exists z) x \sim z \wedge y \sim z $$ $$ x \sim_2 y :\equiv (\exists z) z \sim x \wedge z \sim y $$
If $(S,\sim_1,\sim_2)$ is a product the relation $x \sim y$ can be read as the first component of $x$ equals the second component of $y$.
Question: Are there conditions on a relation $\sim$ such that $\sim_1$, $\sim_2$ as defined above make $(S,\sim_1,\sim_2)$ automatically a product?


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Students, faculty, and staff of Brigham Young University-Idaho now have access to two valuable online resources to assist with academic research and other needs. The Wall Street Journal Online and Get Abstract are available at no cost to all BYU-Idaho students and employees.
"Having free access to two useful websites like these is a great benefit to both students and employees. We'd like to see everyone at the university take advantage of this resource," said Robyn Bergstrom, former dean of the College of Business and Communication.
Bergstrom worked with Mike Thueson and Jessica Sorenson of the university's Purchasing Office to arrange BYU-Idaho's free usage of both sites.
The Wall Street Journal Online provides full access to the newspaper in digital form, as well as archives dating back to 1889. A premium version of the Wall Street Journal app for iOS and Android devices is also available for free download. Click here to access the university's Wall Street Journal Online resources. Instructions on how to sign up are available here.
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Infusing "Place" in a Social Studies Methods Course
Although social studies methods courses vary, below is a "sample" sequence of class sessions for an imaginary social studies methods course using historic places. This course outline illustrates some of the opportunities to capitalize on "place" as a way to advance the goals of pre-service social studies teacher education. The sample comprises 15 three-hour class sessions, for a total of 45 contact hours.
For a more detailed discussion incorporating historic places into methods courses, see Teaching with Historic Places: The Place of "Place" in the History/Social Studies Methods Course.
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General Topic
Use of Place
Session One
What is/are Social Studies? Definitions, Purposes, and Scope
Maintaining and transmitting a cultural heritage through preservation and study of historic places
Session Two
Content core: History and the Social Sciences
National Standards
Historic places referenced in national and state standards across the disciplines and social studies themes.
Session Three
Methods of Teaching Social Studies Concepts and Skills
Concrete concepts that have specific physical referents/exemplars in the built environment can be used (such as "temple," "school," "park").
Session Four
History and Historical Inquiry: Central Concepts and Skills
Places as 3-dimensional primary documents. Places foster empathetic understanding of and connections to the past.
Session Five
Historical Field Study: Applying Historical Inquiry to the Local Community
Session Six
Civics/Government: Central Concepts and Skills
How civic values and institutions are reflected in the physical spaces in which civic deliberation and governance are conducted.
Session Seven
Public Policy and Social Justice: Applied Civics/Government
Session Eight
Geography: Central Concepts and Skills
Session Nine
Why Place Matters: Applied Geography
A selected historic place can be used as a case study for the interplay of geographic themes and elements.
Session Ten
Economics: Central Concepts and Skills
Places as cases studies of work life, industrial change, and commerce.
Session Eleven
Personal and National Decision Making: Applied Economics
Places as reflections of changing technology and the vagaries of the free market. The rise and fall of industries as revealed in historic places.
Session Thirteen
Globalism and Multiculturalism
Historic places of significance to diverse cultures can come into play.
Session Fourteen
Information Technology and Social Studies Education
Using technology to research historic places.
Session Fifteen
Assessment in Social Studies Education
A variety of assessment techniques applied to the study of historic places.
Prepared by Charles S. White, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Education
Boston University
Boston, MA
6 The six "essential elements" include: "World in Spatial Terms," "Places and Regions," "Physical Systems," "Human Systems," Environment and Society," and "Uses of Geography."


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The difference between still hunting and stalking is that when stalking, you follow signs leading to a particular type of game or group of animals, or close the distance to game already spotted.
You may follow tracks on trails or a morning "dew" trail through leaves and brush. Or you may follow sounds or scents of animals, such as elk, sheep, or collared peccaries. Or you may simply need to sneak closer to an animal for a better shot.
Stalking requires total focus because you must remember to keep downwind, stay quiet, stay alert, and remain patient.
It is extremely dangerous to stalk a turkey. It is impossible to know if the sound you hear is another hunter "calling" or if another hunter is stalking the same turkey. For safety, do not hunt turkey by stalking.


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Psychological Testing and Measurements is an upper division course that provides an understanding of tests and behavioral measurement techniques. The course concludes with a formal poster presentation, wherein students present to the campus the findings of their research. Creating and presenting a research poster is a great way to gain valuable experience that employers are looking for.
Examples of past research topics include:
In this course, you will become familiar with intelligence, personality, and industrial, psychological measures. The basic principles of behavior are introduced and students learn to design and implement observation assessments.
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The Life Raft for ob/gyn
Along with surgery, the obstetrics and gynecology rotation is one of the most fear-inducing clerkships that a medical student will encounter. It, too, is filled with long hours in which lots of patients have to be seen, prepped for surgery, and then operated on. I took my ob/gyn rotation after family medicine. Making the switch from getting up at 8:00 a.m. to getting up at 4:00 a.m. hit me pretty hard.
The inpatient gyn section of the rotation is very similar to surgery. The attending yelled at residents for not knowing minutia. The residents in turn yelled at the intern for not anticipating the desires of the superiors. And the medical students got ignored and were forced to stand in the back of the room when examining a patient. While a simple hysterectomy can be performed in under two hours, some of the oncology surgeries would go well beyond the eight hour mark as we removed the entire pelvic anatomy of a woman stricken with ovarian cancer. And I use "we" in a loose sense. In reality, I sterilely stood to the side and watched as an attending muttered profanity under his breath with each blood vessel and ligament encountered. So long as you remember the details and advice from the Life Raft for surgery article, you should be fine on the gynecology section.
The real highlight and breakaway comes when you do obstetrics. Obstetricians have vast medical knowledge regarding drug effects on fetuses, the day-by-day timing of embryonic growth, and carry with them enormous patience for a woman in labor to finally hit the delivery point. At my hospital, medical students are required to deliver at least one baby during the rotation. Unfortunately, there is a turf war going on between midwives and obstetrics residents for delivery time. I may spend an evening on call working with a patient in labor in the hopes that I might get to perform the delivery, only to have a midwife shove me out of the way and tell me, "She's mine, bitch!"
It's kind of like when I'm at a party and trying to pick up the attractive girl, only to have her fat friend show up and say, "We're leaving! No one wants to talk to me." And just like that, all of the work on my behalf is gone. But so long as you are persistent, you should eventually get to catch a baby on your own.
Some advice:
First, never examine a patient on your own, even if you are female. There are lots of nutty people who come to the hospital with their own expectations. You might be performing an internal exam to check for STDs, positioning of a baby's head, reasons for vaginal bleeding, or whatever else you can think of—only to have the patient accuse you of sexual assault. Find a nurse for another medical student and have that person chaperone you when you are performing a physical.
Second, when you find a patient that you want to perform the delivery on, introduce yourself many hours in advance. Granted, some women who choose to go to county hospitals for delivery don't care who delivers her baby, much less who knocked them up, but it's still the polite thing to do.
Finally, make sure everything is ready to go for the delivery—even if the baby isn't due for another six hours. I had everything laid out on a table in case of an imminent delivery because there really is no way to predict when the baby will arrive.
Some previous artcles:
Was that my alarm clock making that noise?
Birthing: the miracle of life or "don't drop it"?
The fake surgeons
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Scrub Notes said,
Heh, can't reiterate that 'be prepared' point enough. I finished ob/gyn a few months ago, and I remember a high parity mother (like G4P3) that I had. She was close to delivering, and we were in the room getting ready. However, by the time we had gotten the kit set up and our gloves on, the baby had already popped out on its own! Of course, the nurse assisted, but in essence, it was an "auto delivery." Sometimes, I think we forget that nature took care of a lot of this stuff long before there was formalized "medicine."
nadia said,
Hi im interested in Doing OBgyn residency and I wanted to know as a pg1 what should I do or know before hand… any physical exam advice (like you mentioned in your post) medication advice? note taking advice? what books do the residents use. will i always be supervised and told what to do or will i be expected to know already? anything you can tell me will be helpful or even if you know a place i can look to for more info. thank u


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A memorial motorcycle ride for Canada's fallen soldiers in Afghanistan will end Saturday with a service and wreath-laying at the Walk to Remember plantation.
The plantation is located at Derek Doubleday Arboretum. The memorial contains the names of each of the 158 Canadian troops killed in Afghanistan, and a tree has been planted in memory of each of them.
The ride is being organized by the 3rd Canadian Army Veterans (CAV) ROME unit, which was responsible for having a portion of Highway 1 in Langley designated the Highway of Heroes.
The CAV is a group that is made up of veterans and their supporters, who ride side by side, saluting the sacrifices of the past, present and future by members of the Canadian Armed Forces, while helping others in the community.
CAV unit president Barry Drews said this is the fifth memorial "Ride for the Fallen."
There will be eight Silver Cross families in attendance from B.C., and Langley Township Mayor Jack Froese will also attend.
The ride is free, and motorcyclists will gather at Trev Deeley Motorcycles, 1875 Biundary Road in Vancouver, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, with the ride beginning at 11.
They will arrive about 12 p.m. at the Walk to Remember, and then proceed to the site, located in the midst of the arboretum, which is located off Fraser Highway, just east of the Langley City boundary.
The memorial service will take place at 12:30 p.m.
There will be a piper present, and the 3rd CAV will be laying a wreath for the fallen, as will other invited guests.
"Veterans Affairs Canada Remembers is behind us, as well as numerous factions of the military and many local businesses from the Lower Mainland," said Drews.
"Once again the same as last year, we are looking forward to seeing people lining the overpasses on Highway 1 with Canadian flags as we ride by, honouring those that gave their lives for our freedoms."
The ride is open to every one, with bikes in the lead, cars to follow.
More details about the event can be obtained from Drews at email@example.com or at thecav.ca.


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Content Marketing and Article Writer are buzzwords of the moment but there is confusion over what that really is and why a business should do it. This article sets out some of the basics.
The Best Article Writers and Better SEO Strategies
If you create content that your prospective customers need and want, they will find it, consume and engage with it and ultimately transact a profitable action with you. They may also share that Article Writer derived content with their own friends and contacts, amplifying the effect.
So this is where you start – developing a content marketing strategy. First you need to work out what your audience wants. Finding them is easy, but working out what they're really interested in and why they visit certain sites or retail outlets is the issue.
All consumers are looking for solutions to their problems. Work out what those problems are and you can target your article marketing based on your Article Writer derived strategies for maximum effect.
Once the aims of the content marketing programme are set and customer needs identified, then you need to create the content to fulfil that need. That content can take many forms – here are just a few; videos, infographics, social media content, apps, website articles, blogs, eNewsletters, photos/illustrations, animations, webinars, microsites, etc.
If you can't produce that content yourself, you will need the support of writers, bloggers, designers and web developers. You will need a network of tried and trusted partners – videographers, coders, app builders etc – who will work to your strategy and brief.
Using Content Marketing to Sell Online
Blog content (as a matter of fact, all content) has a very specific purpose. That purpose is to educate and inform your readers/target audience) about your products/services and to put them in a position of knowing a little more after they read your content than before they read it.
Using content marketing to help you sell online
First of all, when it comes to your content, you need to consistently deliver top-quality, valuable content to your readers. It is your content that enables you to build a relationship with the other person, which means that eventually, that person will trust you enough to want to buy what you are selling. This is where content marketing comes into it.
Content marketing is an amazing tool to help you sell your product(s) online. If you do it correctly, your content marketing materials will reach the other person in such a way that he or she will only consider you and your business to be the one from whom to buy.
The truth is that your ability to sell anything online stems from the content that you share with other people. If not for your content, you would not have any way of letting your online connections know about what you are selling and why it stands above the products and/or services of your competitors. Of course, as far as selling is concerned, it is much more difficult to sell a service than to sell a product.
On the other hand, the concept of selling using content marketing is the same whether you are selling a product or a service. The fact is that content has always been king, is king now, and will always be king.
Right about now, you may be asking exactly how you go about creating a selling strategy using content marketing materials. Well, there is an approach that will most likely work for you.
Online business and content marketing
When it comes to selling online, there are a few things that you want to accomplish. You want to:
- Increase brand awareness.
- Raise your ranking on the search engine results page (SERP)
- Engage your readers more effectively
- Increase your brand's value through your content marketing materials
- Increase your social reach through a large volume of top-quality content. If you achieve this, you will have a chance that your content will go viral.
- Make it feel as though you are not selling. If you are actually teaching your readers what you know, they will walk away from your content with something extremely valuable.
The effective type of content to allow you to sell online
The answer to this is not the same for every person and for every business. The most appropriate type of content largely depends on the industry that you are in and your particular target audience. Some of the possible vehicles that you may want to consider using include online newsletters, white papers, short videos, graphic materials, etc. Now, you are at the point at which you need to consider what to do with the actual content.
- Make your headlines highly effective: What you need to understand here is that you have exactly three seconds to capture the attention of your reader with your headline. If you can't do it in that amount of time, the reader will move on to someone else's content. Your headline should contain strong keywords or key phrases (although you will want to be careful about not over-stuffing the title with too many keywords or key phrases). If you don't feel confident about your keywords and key phrases, you will want to do your homework so that you have a clear understanding about which keywords and key phrases work most effectively for your particular brand.
- Using guest bloggers can be extremely beneficial: Using guest bloggers can be extremely effective because it adds interesting perspectives to the content that you have written and shared. Your readers will thank you for it. Of course, you should not surmise that your readers are more interested in what your guest bloggers are writing than in what you are writing. It is a value-added service that you are offering them. The more valuable, informative information you share with your readers, the more they will appreciate what you are doing for them.
- Maintain a reasonable approach to content marketing: The major focus (and point) of your content is to establish an emotional connection with your target audience members (readers). Your readers may be current clients or they may be prospective clients. In either case, you want to connect with them on an emotional/human level. If the content that you are sharing resonates with your readers, you will most likely succeed at establishing a lasting relationship with the other person.
Using your content marketing materials to sell online is an obvious choice. It is a well-established fact that content marketing is necessary if you are going to succeed in selling online. You will want to make sure that your content is original and as innovative and refreshing as possible. If it possesses those qualities, other people will want to read it. Now, all you need to do is go about it in the most effective manner possible for your brand.
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Article marketing is one of the best ways that a business can promote itself. By doing something as simple as writing an article, a business can make its products and services available to a wider audience. Use the advice in the following article if you want to use article marketing.
One of the biggest problems marketers encounter with their article campaigns is that they do not complete enough articles to make an impact. Your articles do not have to be long, but they do need to be of a very high quality. And the more you write and the more locations you send them out to, the better your odds of success become.
Writing can be a good way to earn income for one's personal finances. Using the internet to sell ones writing such as how to guides or short stories can produce a return for a low to free start up costs. One can also take things they may have already written for school or fun to save time.
When you are trying to market your articles, always remember that providing information should come first. You can sell yourself, just do not make it too obvious. The readers are looking for things that will benefit them, and when you only attempt to sell yourself, the reader will have no benefits.
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Has this happened to you before?
You have a great idea for a killer article.
You see so much potential with this article and ideas are running through your mind. You know that this article is going to make a big impact so you start writing immediately.
When you're done writing it, you submit it to a bunch of your favorite article directories.
Everyday you're checking up on the progress on your amazing article but there's a problem. The so called killer article that you had so much potential is barely getting any readers.
What should you do?
The article that you are about to read is going to talk you through the process of making a high traffic article that will get you lots or readers and a lots of click through conversions to your site.
Tip 1 -Your title is the face of your article and if that face is not well groomed then you will have a hard time attracting readers.
Remember that you only have about 5 seconds to catch your readers attention with your title so make sure that it's strong, catchy and to the point. A great title tells the reader what they are going to learn if they click your article.
Tip 2 - Your first paragraph is what will make or break your article. You have to keep in mind that the first couple of sentences are what determines your reader's decision on whether he/she will continue reading your article.
Tip 3 - the body of your article has to be short, easy to read and to the point. All readers want are answers, so make it your job to give the readers what they want. There's nothing to it, all you have to do is provide your reader with useful information that she/he can use to improve their business or help solve their problem.
Tip 4 - You are going to need a strong call to action. You resource box is where you do your selling and it's where you need to persuade your reader into clicking the link.
Do not be afraid to tell your reader to click your link and check out your site because if you don't try to close the deal who's going to do it for you?
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Electronic interference test planned for unmanned attack aircraft
A pilotless X-47B is slated to be subjected to a burst of electromagnetic energy that will be 10 times that endured by other aircraft being tested to survive the electronic pollution found on an aircraft carrier.
Aerospace officials are pointing to that closely held plan as an important clue about a key mission that the U.S. Navy's next-generation, unmanned combat air system is being designed to perform. The mission is electronic attack—using bursts of high-power microwave (HPM) energy—against enemy electronics such as surface-to-air missiles and the radars that control them. Targets also could include computers, command-and-control centers or anything else that involves the heavy use of electronics.
Unlike other seagoing aircraft, the X-47B, a surrogate for the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike (Uclass) aircraft, will not be tested to an electromagnetic interference (EMI) level of 200 volts per meter. Instead, the design will have to survive and operate in a stunning environment of 2,000 volts per meter.
That means the Navy wants a design for its Uclass program that would be able to fire a permanently installed, rechargeable, anti-electronics weapon and withstand the sidelobes and errant electronic spikes that may occur when it is fired. Such an HPM device could be used at close range against enemy electronics without damaging the Uclass system's own electronics and flight controls.
As part of the testing, a trip to the anechoic chamber at NAS Patuxent River, Md., is next on the X-47B's test agenda.
"We will spend the better part of this spring doing electromagnetic compatibility testing," says Capt. Jaime Engdahl, who represents the unmanned combat air system demonstration (UCAS-D) program.
"Does [the future Uclass aircraft] have to be the [X-47B size]?" he asks. "It was developed under the J-UCAS [Joint Unmanned Combat Air System] program and was sized for an internal weapons bay to carry 4,500 pounds of weapons and some electronic warfare weapons."
Congress is already weighing in on the Navy's future unmanned strike options. A draft authorization bill keeps four major contractors—General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing—alive in the hunt for a Uclass until 2016, stipulating that the program remain in the critical design review phase until that time.
Right now, the Navy's unmanned strike aircraft program is proceeding with two Northrop Grumman X-47B test aircraft. One (AV-1) is at NAS Patuxent River for the autonomous aircraft carrier landing program. It is slated to demonstrate the first carrier-based catapults and arrested landings in 2014.
The other aircraft (AV-2) is undergoing flight testing at Edwards AFB, Calif., and will be used eventually to autonomously find and rendezvous with two tankers, says Capt. Jaime Engdahl. That evaluation will be followed by an approach, a plug-in and the receipt of 3,000 lb. of fuel. One tanker will have a Navy probe-and-drogue refueling system; the other will have an Air Force-type boom refueling system. The transfer of fuel will be followed by a disconnect, detachment and flight away from the tanker using all the onboard sensors and software.
"All of that will have to be done in a closed loop," says Engdahl. "There are phases that drive the program. For the carrier [demonstration], it's the final approach, the last half-mile before landing. You need to do that autonomously.
"You also need to hit the basket on a Navy-style [probe-and-drogue] tanker autonomously instead of it being remotely piloted," he adds. "The air vehicles can't be commanded by operators on the ground, the carrier or another aircraft.
"We're taking the exact same software and processors and putting them on the the tankers and using GPS algorithms for both carrier landings and autonomous aerial refueling."


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Gay marriage pressure on Obama
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide on two same-sex marriage cases, but the court's attention-grabbing move has put the pressure on President Barack Obama to clarify his stance on the issue.
When Obama announced in May that he favored same-sex marriage — after previously supporting just civil unions — many took it as a full embrace of same-sex marriage rights. It wasn't: his nuanced language stopped well short of endorsing the idea that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to marry for same-sex couples. He said the issue was best left to the states to decide in the near term.
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But the Supreme Court's decision Friday may have sped up Obama's timeline.
( DOCUMENT: Supreme Court order on gay-marriage cases)
The Obama administration made clear last year that it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that denies federal benefits to same-sex married couples. Obama said he'd concluded that law was unconstitutional. It was the Justice Department that asked the Supreme Court to take a challenge to DOMA, hoping justices would agree to strike it down.
However, the federal government has never taken a stand on the other, potentially more significant case that the justices added to their calendar on Friday: the legal challenge to California's ban on same-sex marriage, approved in 2008. In 2010, a district court judge struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional and found a broad federal right to same-sex marriage. In February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit also found the measure unconstitutional, but on narrower grounds.
( PHOTOS: 20 gay-rights milestones)
Though the case transfixed gay rights activists, the Obama administration never weighed in. And when Prop. 8 backers asked the Supreme Court to take the case, the Justice Department was again silent. The department had no duty to file anything since the suit was against the State of California, not the federal government.
( PHOTOS: Celebrities tweet about Obama's gay marriage stance)
The Justice Department could have taken a stand at any point, and could still stay out of it — but now, dodging that question has gotten harder.
"There will be pressure for the Justice Department to weigh in on the Prop. 8 case," said Richard Socarides, a longtime gay rights activist and White House adviser to President Bill Clinton.
Socarides said that when Obama "evolved" in the direction of support for gay marriage earlier this year, he and his aides seemed eager to let some time pass before confronting the question of whether it was a right every American should be guaranteed.
"I think this federalizes the issue much more quickly than the White House would have liked and may force them to take a position earlier than they would have liked," Socarides said.
"It's a fascinating question," said another prominent gay rights activist, who asked not to be named. "Will they be at the table and which side of the table will they be at?"


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Native audio worked fine out of the box... but I wanted to see if oss4 performed better.
(Didn't know about project Boomer at this point... could have saved me some trouble).
Installed oss4: pkgadd -d oss-solaris-v4.0-123-i386.pkg
Rebooted and ran osstest: sound worked fine.
Decided to un-install oss: pkgrm oss (reboot).
The end of the un-install procedure produced the following:
- ## Executing postremove script.
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWaudd/save/pspool/SUNWaudd/install/postinstall: not found
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWvia823x/save/pspool/SUNWvia823x/install/postinstall: not found
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWaudiohd/save/pspool/SUNWaudiohd/install/postinstall: not found
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWad810/save/pspool/SUNWad810/install/postinstall: not found
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWadixp/save/pspool/SUNWadixp/install/postinstall: not found
sh: line 1: /var/sadm/pkg/SUNWusb/save/pspool/SUNWusb/install/postinstall: not found
## Updating system information.
Removal of <oss> was successful.
I suppose it should say: Removal of <oss> was successful: sorry about the collateral damage!
Upon reboot, no native opensolaris sound drivers get loaded.
I need the audiohd driver, which got borked by oss4.
Any comments? (Other than why did I mess it up to begin with )
Perhaps the oss4 un-install procedure is no longer sufficient with Boomer?
I'm going to poke around and see if I can reinstall the native drivers manually...


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We're going to take a look back at the time Former UFC Champion Ronda Rousey surprised her team on The Ultimate Fighter by bringing in Nate Diaz to teach them and run a training session. Check it out
Lets go back and look at the history of Mixed Martial Arts and how it all began. Art Davie proposed to John Milius and Rorion Gracie an eight-man single-elimination tournament called "War of the Worlds". The tournament was inspired by the Gracies in Action video-series produced by the Gracie family of Brazil which featured Gracie jiu-jitsu students defeating martial-arts masters of various disciplines such as karate, kung fu, and kickboxing. The tournament would also feature martial artists from different disciplines facing each other in no-holds-barred combat to determine the best martial art and would aim to replicate the excitement of the matches Davie saw on the videos.[15] Milius, a noted film director and screenwriter, as well as a Gracie student, agreed to act as the event's creative director. Davie drafted the business plan and twenty-eight investors contributed the initial capital to start WOW Promotions with the intent to develop the tournament into a television franchise.
In 1993, WOW Promotions sought a television partner and approached pay-per-view producers TVKO (HBO), SET (Showtime), and Campbell McLaren at the Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG). Both TVKO and SET declined, but SEG – a pioneer in pay-per-view television which had produced such offbeat events as a gender versus gender tennis match between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova – became WOW's partner in May 1993.[17] SEG contacted video and film art director Jason Cusson to design the trademarked "Octagon", a signature piece for the event. Cusson remained the Production Designer through UFC 27.[15] SEG devised the name for the show as The Ultimate Fighting Championship.
WOW Promotions and SEG produced the first event, later called UFC 1, at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado on November 12, 1993. Art Davie functioned as the show's booker and matchmaker.[19] The show proposed to find an answer for sports fans' questions such as: "Can a wrestler beat a boxer?"[20] As with most martial arts at the time, fighters typically had skills in just one discipline and had little experience against opponents with different skills.[21] The television broadcast featured kickboxers Patrick Smith and Kevin Rosier, savate fighter Gerard Gordeau, karate expert Zane Frazier, shootfighter Ken Shamrock, sumo wrestler Teila Tuli, boxer Art Jimmerson, and 175 lb (79 kg) Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Royce Gracie—younger brother of UFC co-founder Rorion, whom Rorion handpicked to represent his family in the competition. Royce Gracie's submission skills proved the most effective in the inaugural tournament, earning him the first ever UFC tournament championship[22] after submitting Jimmerson, Shamrock, and Gordeau in succession. The show proved extremely successful with 86,592 television subscribers on pay-per-view.
It's disputed whether the promoters intended for the event to become a precursor to a series of future events. "That show was only supposed to be a one-off", eventual UFC president Dana White said. "It did so well on pay-per-view they decided to do another, and another. Never in a million years did these guys think they were creating a sport."[23] Art Davie, in his 2014 book Is This Legal?, an account of the creation of the first UFC event, disputes the perception that the UFC was seen by WOW Promotions and SEG as a one-off, since SEG offered a five-year joint development deal to WOW. He says, "Clearly, both Campbell and Meyrowitz shared my unwavering belief that War of the Worlds[note 1] would be a continuing series of fighting tournaments—a franchise, rather than a one-night stand."[24] With no weight classes, fighters often faced significantly larger or taller opponents. Keith "The Giant Killer" Hackney faced Emmanuel Yarbrough at UFC 3 with a 9 in (23 cm) height and 400 pounds (180 kg) weight disadvantage.[25] Many martial artists believed that technique could overcome these size disadvantages, and that a skilled fighter could use an opponent's size and strength against him. With the 175 lb (79 kg) Royce Gracie winning three of the first four events, the UFC quickly proved that size does not always determine the outcome of the fight.
With increased visibility, the UFC's pay-per-view buy numbers exploded. UFC 52, the first event after the first season of The Ultimate Fighter featuring eventual-UFC Hall of Famer Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell avenging his defeat to fellow eventual-Hall of Famer Randy Couture, drew a pay-per-view audience of 300,000, doubling its previous benchmark of 150,000 set at UFC 40. Following the second season of The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC's much-hyped match between Liddell and Couture drew an estimated 410,000 pay-per-view buys at UFC 57.


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JFrog Artifactory Open Source is an open source repository manager that both stores internally created binary artifacts and caches third party binaries in a central location. It is like a version control system for binaries that ensures all parts of the enterprise software organization are developing using the same set of binaries.
JFrog Artifactory was built to tackle some real world problems with Maven, and includes features such as fine-grained permissions, LDAP integration, advanced artifacts management policies, scheduled backups, auditing, and more. JFrog Artifactory works with Maven, Ivy, and Gradle and supports hosting and remote proxying of artifacts. It integrates with Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo and other CI servers.
Why use Bitnami Certified Apps?
Bitnami certifies that our images are secure, up-to-date, and packaged using industry best practices.
With Bitnami, you can trust what is in the app you're launching. We monitor all the applications we package for vulnerabilities, outdated components and libraries, and application updates. When any of these are identified, we patch and release every affected listing within a couple of days.


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Internet providers Twin Falls ID – Broadband Satellite Internet Services
The internet has become a household necessity. The changing world in Twin Falls ID requires internet providers to offer faster and faster internet download and upload speeds. Gone are the days of dial-up service. Twin Falls ID internet providers must meet the demands of consumers. Streaming HD content is becoming more and more common in Twin Falls. Video requires the download of massive amounts of data. Wide screen HD TVs are one of the reasons internet providers in Twin Falls Idaho are scrambling to boost speeds.
Internet providers Twin Falls Idaho
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Twin Falls Idaho Cable Broadband & DSL broadband internet providers
There are 3 types of broadband Twin Falls internet providers. Typically satellite internet providers have been limited in their speeds. Satellite based broadband with speeds from 1-3Mbp has been typical (New technology has increased this to a top speed of triple that). Satellite is now offering blazing fast internet in Twin Falls of up to12mbps. The internet providers have evolved to keep up with the bandwidth demands from their Twin Falls ID internet customers.
The main advantage of a satellite provider is the access it affords homeowners in areas where DSL or cable broadband is not available. There is a vast area in rural America that depends on satellite for their internet needs. The new technology that is just being offered will enable these rural ID homes to enjoy the speeds previously limited to city dwelling DSL and Cable Broadband subscribers. As technology marches on, who knows, maybe there will be a internet satellite on homes in denser populated areas similar to the satellite TV expansion we have seen in the last 10 years.
DSL Internet Providers in Twin Falls ID
Twin Falls ID phone based DSL broadband is typically the least expensive of all the broadband internet providers. Speeds range from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps depending on the distance from the ISP. The price is right, however DSL has a somewhat limited service area. DSL broadband has to be within an 18,000ft radius of the internet service providers central office. Call for Twin Falls ID DSL internet availability.
Many people are confused as to exactly what DSL is. DSL is delivered to your home via the good old telephone wire. Yes, the wires running around the neighborhood. These same wires that have been used primarily for phone service. Pretty amazing how the internet providers new technology allows a small copper wires bandwidth to be split between phone service and DSL high speed internet. Probably much to many peoples surprise, only a fraction of the bandwidth is actually used for the telephone. This leaves you're your local phone provider with a huge opportunity to provide you with high speed internet.
DSL is an affordable answer for many home owners who are looking for an internet connection to their home. One draw back to DSL service is that it does require a telephone line service provider. In other words to Have DSL you need a Land-line Phone provider. But don't despair, the phone service internet providers realize many people today only have cell phones and do not need a landline service too. So within the last couple of years the internet providers have begun offering DSL without landline Phone service. The DSL internet providers call this a DRY LOOP. At first this option was a little pricey but as the competition among the Twin Falls internet service providers has heated up recently, the prices have dropped. DSL can be a pretty neat alternative to Cable, as the price for internet service can be a little cheaper. If you do not have cable service at your home or use the internet where speeds of 1.5-6mbps are sufficient, then you can save a couple bucks and the internet service will be just fine.
Internet Providers in Twin Falls by Cable
Twin Falls cable internet service providers are in the middle as far as price range. Cable internet providers supply a vast part of our country with broadband internet. Cable usually is supplied to your home on a coaxial RG6 cable line from a nearby telephone pole. The readily available access to this form of broadband delivery gives your Twin Falls cable company a huge advantage in the cable service provider's world.
Twin Falls ID Internet Providers Speeds
Cable also boasts speeds as fast as 105 mbps. Although a bit pricey at these speeds, this wins cable, the holy cow that's really fast award. Typical Idaho cable internet providers speeds subscribed to by the average homeowner are in the 6-20mbps. This is a great and affordable option for Twin Falls ID Internet to enjoy uploading and downloading large files and streaming a video with little or no buffering. Cable broadband internet providers have filled a new nitch in the market of ID. HD video streaming. A couple of years ago no one could have imagined the advances we have seen. What wonders will the cable internet providers achieve in the next couple of years. The internet and the data delivered to your home in Twin Falls by your cable internet providers is truly amazing.
Order Internet service in Twin Falls ID by providers you can trust
What a world we live in today. Sounds like something out of a SIFI book. Twin Falls is streaming video to their HD LCD TVs with 5.1 surround. You've arrived home and video conferenced with some clients in Hong Kong. Grabbed a cold beverage and downloaded a couple of HD movies to watch later. Your buddy calls your Twin Falls home, and you answer on your VOIP sip phone. The wife is surfing the web to shop for a new laptop. Your smartphone rings and your off to the golf course. Perfect time to pull up that new GPS golf app on your smartphone. The internet and technology sure have changed things in a very short time. One thing you can count on, your internet providers in Twin Falls Idaho will be evolving with us.
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text: TECHNOLOGY: Contact Lenses Wal-Mart, 1-800 CONTACTS Deal: Is Opportunity Knocking? By Staff Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:00 PM RELATED CONTENT Wal-Mart and 1-800 CONTACTS Form Alliance Wal-Mart Teams with 1-800 CONTACTS to Expand Vision Care Offerings and Increase Customer Savings By Marge Axelrad Editorial Director NEW YORK--In the wake of Wal-Mart's announcement that it had forged an agreement with 1-800 CONTACTS to offer a new contact lens program for patients this fall, optical retailers and major contact lens distributors told Vision Monday they view the alliance as a major opportunity for ECPs and other retailers to revisit how they provide lenses and replacement lenses to their own patients and are emphasizing they have the tools to help them do it. In January, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced an alliance of nearly 3,000 Wal-Mart and Sam's Clubs and 1-800 CONTACTS for a program which "will create efficiencies across their call centers, Web sites, purchasing, and distribution efforts--resulting in customer savings the companies estimate could reach $400 million over the next three years," the companies said in a joint statement, noting the alliance "could save these customers nearly 20 percent on their contact lenses." The companies expect to integrate store, Web, and phone service this fall. Through ODG's Net Results, accounts can control info and patients can see reorder capabilities on their ECP's site. Stated Angel Alvarez, CEO of ABB/Con-Cise, "As a stand-alone company, ABB/Con-Cise is the second largest mail order company in the country, but we are doing mail order on behalf of 14,000 eyecare independents--another way to look at it is that what 1-800 is to Wal-Mart, the distributors are for independents and optical retailers. 1-800 has a distribution center that Wal-Mart will leverage; we have a $30 million inventory in contact lenses and the capabilities for ECPs to leverage to allow them to retain their control of patients but be more efficient in servicing them." He added, "Independents are still responsible for 70 percent of the new fits in contact lenses. Wal-Mart understands costs; ECPs need to better understand costs and we are a major assistance here. Our Your Lens program is a turnkey one which enables us to customize and embed our system into the doctor's site, so they have a major service advantage with their patients, earn their usual gross margin on lens reorders and not lose sales to a third party." Alvarez added, "The alliance does nothing to alter loyal relationships between independents and patients, which are based on personalized, enduring care that retailers have greater difficulty delivering. The best defense, actually 'offense,' for independents is to present annual supply packages to contact lens patients, using manufacturer rebates, during the annual exam visit. Most ECPs accept this concept, but do not routinely execute it well. Most lens transactions continue to be two boxes, not four or eight. We also encourage doctors to reduce their own per box price when annual supplies are purchased and to quote this price [after manufacturer rebate] to respond to price inquiries from patients. Independents should also add contact lens re-order functionality to their Web sites, neutralizing the convenience of 24/7 re-ordering with no office visit provided by the Internet sellers." Independent ECP Soft Lens Retail Pricing vs. Wal-Mart and 1-800 Contacts: 4Q (unweighted average price per box of 22 leading brands) Source: ABB Retail Price Monitor 4Q 2007 Commented Jeff Rems, president of Westchester, NY-based Optical Distributors Group, "We're not overreacting to this alliance as we view it as an expansion of the existing doctor network for 1-800 and referral service. We have been and continue to take a proactive approach with practitioners relative to their interaction with their CL patients. "We analyze purchase data from the ECP/ customer to determine fitting patterns (types of products dispensed and quantity initially dispensed versus total year, number of multipacks dispensed per patient). We take this historical information in many cases to show ECP that they are currently losing patient CL repurchases to alternate outlets (1-800, Costco or Wal-Mart) and that now is the time to secure these patients locking them into their practice. By doing more annual quantity dispenses, either at initial visit or on auto replenishment program like we offer through our online e-commerce solution [ODG Net Results], ECPs can maximize the number of multipacks dispensed to their patients. The result will be increased patient retention, better patient compliance and improved patient/doctor relationships. The other benefit is obvious--increased revenue and profitability for the contact lens practice." Steve Baker, president of Eyefinity, said, "Ironically, the big guys see now what we saw a few years ago. The consumer wants choice, ease of access and convenience. It could be easy for independents to overreact to this deal, but they have companies like ours that are lined up and ready to help them compete. Eyefinity's Reorder Contacts is specifically built for a doctor to manage their patients, allow patients to reorder lenses and keep control." Eyefinity's ReorderContacts.com creates options for patients and ECPs. Reflecting on the growing interest in ECPs' participation in systems, Baker said, "We have data that show when doctors choose to compete, they can do so effectively: In 2007, between 55,000 and 60,000 patients have been registered by the practices of the ECPs who've chosen to use ReorderContacts.com, that's nearly 50 percent more than the prior year when we launched it." Robert S. Hammond, OD, who owns and practices at three locations and acts as product manager overseeing contact lens business at Doctor's Vision Center/Eye America's 58 locations in North Carolina, offered a similar outlook. "Our contact lens business is an integral part of our patient care. We offer all phases of eyecare from primary to tertiary care. Our offices are always looking for new cutting edge products and we fit many specialty lenses. Contact lens patients are educated on the need for annual examinations to assess their eye health and are mostly compliant. Our strategy is to fit mainly monthly replacement lenses, because we think they provide the best fit, comfort, acuity and value for the money especially if they purchase an annual supply. Our contact lens business has grown as expected last year. "Our philosophy is to sell an annual supply to our patients at the time of their examination. We count on our ability to bundle professional services to strengthen our relationship with each patient providing the best value for money for all services and products related to a contact lens wearer. We also continue to look for innovative cutting edge products that can enhance the unique contact lens needs of our patients and actively communicate these innovations 'one to one' via mail and email messages. We don't feel that we have to match our competitor's prices because of the added services we provide to our patients. I do not think we will be doing things any differently after the merger takes place as we continually stress our programs in our offices."


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Well I can't give you much info on when's the best time to kite since I personally haven't even ridden yet. As far as temps the weather gets nice by may. The water usually is really warm by July 4th but it can fluctuate depending on when the currents come in. The big thing with OBX though is that there is the sound side and I went out there in June last summer and the sound side was like bath water but the ocean side was still pretty chilly. I plan on going out there to ride probably in may with a spring wetsuit on to learn to ride.TheJoe wrote:Whats the best time during the summer to kite up there. I plan on visiting sometime this year and would like to bring some gear. I only come home when it's in the middle of the summer as I can not tolerate the cold anymore.edt wrote:i kite everywhere there are literally thousands of launches in mi, here are some I go to
Hmm. I need to update my map I have some new places I just scoped out last weekend. Anyway, contact the local kiters they will tell you the best places.
Milkwaukee is too far from my stomping grounds not sure what you have there, I'm sure there are plenty of awesome spots.


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There's a built-in Unix command
repeat whose first argument is the number of times to repeat a command, where the command (with any arguments) is specified by the remaining arguments to
For example,
% repeat 100 echo "I will not automate this punishment."
will echo the given string 100 times and then stop.
I'd like a similar command – let's call it
forever – that works similarly except the first argument is the number of seconds to pause between repeats, and it repeats forever. For example,
% forever 5 echo "This will get echoed every 5 seconds forever and ever."
I thought I'd ask if such a thing exists before I write it. I know it's like a 2-line Perl or Python script, but maybe there's a more standard way to do this. If not, feel free to post a solution in your favorite scripting language, Rosetta Stone style.
PS: Maybe a better way to do this would be to generalize
repeat to take both the number of times to repeat (with -1 meaning infinity) and the number of seconds to sleep between repeats.
The above examples would then become:
% repeat 100 0 echo "I will not automate this punishment."
% repeat -1 5 echo "This will get echoed every 5 seconds forever."


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Yet India conducts an ICBM test in the back drop of muted criticism from USA who shrilled the loudest when north Korea fail tested a mere SLV! What is it going to take for you to see this hypocrisy?
Where have I said it is not hypocritical? I have repeatedly said that the western media is fully one sided and every single powerful country in the world is capable of and has demonstrated hypocrisy in history...China included.
What I care about is truth and reality.
Belief in an opponents capabilities would give that opponent encouragement to coerce the believer. do you remember the Indian SRE-1 RV capsule that came back down to earth without any char marks due pyrolysis? Those pictures of the RV's shiny phenolic resin and black silica tiles cant be found anywhere now. Indian shiit came out then when the Chinese debunked their test as fake. doesn't carbon carbon composites go through some form of thermodynamic transformation?
There looks to be some sort of discoloration and abrasion of the silica tiles in that picture. The original pictures (from what I understand) that were used to attempt to prove it never actually took place was the capsule before it was even launched (hence the shininess etc...)
The material used in this capsule I would imagine to be similar to the HRSI silica tiles used on the space shuttle....rather than an ablative heat shield that many of the naysayers used to try to discredit the SRE experiment.
Silica tiles dont go through such charring like ablative heat shields (which are used only once). Thats why silica and reinforced CC were used in the space shuttle (so that such charring wouldn't take place and the system could be used many times with minimal change). Both of these do suffer discoloration during re-entry. Have a look at the space shuttle black tiles....you will find them similar to what the SRE looks like in the picture I posted.
remember the handyman-1 that found water vapour and concluded that there is enough water on the moon to grow vegetables one day? I was trying to draw your attention to the fact that there is water vapour everywhere in space... hell, ESA even found water vapour in the Orion nebula for crying out loud.
Please point me to the conclusion that there is enough water to grow vegetables? That was a possible interpretation expounded by some from the results of the mapping from NASA payloads (one on the chandrayan and the other on NASAs LCROSS). The indian impactor mission analysed the lunar atmosphere and found trace water there. The two most likely ways this could be invalid:
1) Water saturation/contamination prior to the mission
2) Instrument noise
Both are somewhat likely if you didnt prepare for them and even if you did.....would require more and more missions in the future to establish as fact imo.
Your rationale that the result is not valid because "water is everywhere in space" is quite silly. The depths of space....heck even the vast majority of space in our relatively comet and debris full solar system....has such little concentration of water that it is thousands of times drier than the atacama desert....pretty much nil. A water trace would be measured relative to this near-zero amount....so the result itself showed (if results were valid) that a much higher concentration of water was found in the soil environment that was ablating the water away (due to the vacuum of space). The concentration of the water increased in such a fashion according to altitude and latitude that it coincided very well with the M3 NASA and LCROSS results....so I feel that since all 3 payloads support each other very well....the chances that one of them being invalid is very slim.....(Simple statistical analysis).
Bringing in a system like the Orion Nebula is stupid. Our solar system's nebulous origins are billions of years in the past....so that sources of water are concentrated to bodies that have sufficient gravity....leaving the vast reaches between them nearly devoid of water (as I stated earlier).
Of course if you go to a nebula, you will find a large presence of water...along with many other elements and compounds. Please point me to a source that says the space regions in our solar system have a water vapour level concentration as high as what was found by the quadrapole spectrometer on board the impactor. Otherwise, throwing golf balls at the wall and hoping one will eventually stick achieves nothing.
Also I don't understand why you are bringing a whole new discussion into the ICBM and MTCR discussion....let's stick to the topic at hand.
hence we should according to you believe in indian capabilities.
Believe what you want...and I'll believe what I want. However remember it is better to be prepared and not need a counter-capability....rather than not be prepared (because you underestimate an opponent) and find that you dont have a response when sh1t hits the fan.
What you believe is of no concern to me....what is of concern to me is that the millions of people in the world dont suffer from a nuclear holocaust due to politicians fancy, apathy and ignorance.


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To: Blandmore response officers
From: The Inspector Responsible for Caring About Stuff
Date: 26th February 2008
Subject: Search forms
Area Intelligence has drawn attention to the fact that search-forms are not being submitted in a timely manner to be logged on the system. This means that important information about local criminals being stopped and searched in high-crime areas is not appearing on the intelligence system for several days. This damages our ability to link criminals to crime patterns. From now on, ALL SEARCH FORMS must be put directly into the Intelligence-Collection letterbox without being seen by a sergeant. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
To: Blandmore response officers
From: The Inspector in Charge of Target-Achievement
Date: 26th February 2008
Subject: Search forms
At present there is no way to record the quantities of search-forms submitted by officers in a timely manner. This makes it hard for the area to reach its HQ-set targets in this area. There has also been an issue with the quality of the forms, not containing vital statistic-related information such as the size of the subject's shoes and their Zodiac signs. From today onwards, ALL SEARCH FORMS must go directly to your sergeant for checking and signing, to be logged on a target-achievement sheet and counted towards our monthly targets. Do not submit them directly into the Intelligence-Collection letterbox. Thank you for your cooperation.
Treading a path between orders like these is how a good proportion of my working life is spent.
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