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"Hiatus" (season two, episode three; originally aired 1/20/2002)
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Talk about TV shows or films about the creative process for long enough and you'll run up against this old critical saw: Most art about fictional art ultimately fails because the song or play or painting its characters produce can't possibly live up to the praise it receives from within the piece. I don't entirely buy into that argument—because if the quality of, say, the film-within-the-film is lacking, does that really drag down the piece as a whol but I can see where its opposite applies to a film like Almost Famous, where the music of just-alright boogie-rock act Stillwater sounds like any just-alright boogie-rock single that'll turn up between the monster hits on your local classic-rock station.
Home Movies finds its own way around this pitfall: Because its main characters are still in elementary school, there's no expectation that the movies they make will be any good. In fact, they're usually as bad as you'd expect short, highly derivative home movies made by 8-year-olds to be: In the legal drama that opens "Hiatus," the dialogue is leaden, the acting wooden, and what begins as down-to-earth divorce proceedings (albeit with the unconventional twist that Melissa's character is representing Brendon and divorcing him) devolves into feverish scatting from Brendon and Jason. In that regard, the primary challenge of the filmmaking segments in Home Movies was writing and animating mini movies that were bad, but still entertaining. Jason is correct in saying that the "Hiatus" movie is "an alternative to good," but the "fight with jazz" segment is hilarious—an early comedic high for this second season.
But the viewer's pleasure is the kids' pain, and thus "Hiatus"' main plotline kicks into gear: In order to recharge their creative juices, Brendon suggests he, Melissa, and Jason take a vacation from filmmaking. "Time off" provides the thematic engine for all of the episode's storylines: While Brendon tapes Scäb practices and serves as the world's worst roadie, Coach McGuirk plans a Mexican vacation with Mr. Lynch (though only after failing to get Brendon to come along to take further advantage of a group rate) and Paula takes an involuntary leave of absence from teaching. There isn't a bum note in any of these threads, each of which starts from a basic character trait (Brendon needs a creative outlet) or previously established dynamic (McGuirk bullies Lynch, Lynch annoys McGuirk, Paula can't figure out how to handle Arnold Lindenson's "crazy energy") and heightens, heightens, heightens. It's all Home Movies 101, but it's incredibly effective—particularly in McGuirk and Lynch's corner of the episode. H. Jon Benjamin and Ron Lynch struck something special with this antagonistic friendship, and it's truly satisfying to watch Lynch tip the seesaw when the characters get to Mexico. I have a hunch the characters needed some extra-legal assistance to return to the States following Lynch's little bender.
While "Hiatus" is busy pushing McGuirk and Lynch together, it forces Brendon, Melissa, and Jason apart from one another, providing the template for my favorite type of Home Movies episode. (And serving as the dry run for what's possibly my favorite installment of the entire series, the season-three première, "Shore Leave.") There's a spectacular chemistry between Benjamin, Brendon Small, and Melissa Galsky, but to appreciate how well those actors (and their characters) work together, you have to understand how they function apart. Which is to say "poorly"—but "poorly" as in "the jazz fight at the end of the divorce movie went over poorly." The friendship stops short of codependence, but Brendon's blundering in the presence of "fancy dance-y" choreographer Cynthia demonstrates the important social safety net that Melissa and Jason provide. "Hiatus" effortlessly shows how these characters are made for each other, even if their clinginess is a byproduct of their bond: Jason has it so bad in this regard that he's instantly pulled toward Walter and Perry—though the power of their connection is such that it ultimately turns repellent.
The straw that breaks the hiatus' back is a telling character detail: Following a blissful, if not entirely convincing diary entry about his non-filmmaking activities ("I'm playing for the first time and making new friends. I realize now what's been missing from my life: Fun") Jason loudly and proudly declares that he can't play forever. He has to return to the weird, prematurely mature form of playing that he does with Brendon and Melissa—a hobby that's portrayed more like work than anything the adult characters do for money. This is the other way Home Movies dances around the limitations of art about fictional art: The series convincingly and humorously shows the importance of Brendon, Melissa, and Jason's goofy little movies. And it's not enough to simply illustrate that importance—episodes like "Hiatus" make us feel it as well, through Jason's loss of patience with Walter and Perry, Melissa's growing expertise in the ways of moping and lurking, and Brendon's grasping for a vessel, any vessel, to pour his creative energies into. And in comparison to what "Hiatus" turns up, jazz fighting ends up looking like the best use of those energies. Because the scatting only gets worse after the hiatus.
"Business & Pleasure" (season two, episode four; originally aired 1/27/2002)
(Available on Netflix and Amazon Instant Video)
And then there's the flipside of that thought: Sometimes the kids aren't so much friends as they are coworkers. This should be a familiar situation for anyone who's undertaken a creative endeavor with a friend, a scenario that splits the relationship into two uncrossable streams. (Or two potentially colliding worlds, depending on the pop-culture metaphor with which you prefer to work.) When Jason—who's spent an entire shoot interrupting Brendon and Melissa at earlier and earlier intervals—invites Brendon to spend the night, it initiates a chain reaction that ultimately alters the entire makeup of The Blind Date. Brendon's correct to have a Constanza-esque meltdown about Movie Jason rearing his ugly head in the middle of the playdate; if only he could've predicted that Movie Jason has a legitimately ugly head—or that the ugly head is named George. Jason, George—yeah, the show is definitely working in Seinfeld territory here.
"Business & Pleasure" is a solid "cruelties of childhood" episode of Home Movies, in which Brendon is forced to take crap from every person in his life—sometimes literally. I'm not a fan of Coach McGuirk using Brendon as a straw man in order to motivate the other members of the soccer team, but the plotline nudges my feelings for it a little closer toward "affection" with its use of the coach's heretofore unseen (and never to be seen again) dog, Mr. Freckles. In spite of his directing bona fides, Brendon's so accommodating to everyone in this episode that he can't even refuse to clean up after McGuirk's near-dead dog. It makes a lot of sense that Mr. Freckles disappears after this episode: He does his business and gets the hell out of there. (Did I mention that there's a weirdly high number poop jokes in this one?)
Brendon's lack of control in "Business & Pleasure" is a fun reminder that, in spite of all his pretensions toward calling the shots, Brendon's still a kid. That's underlined by Jason and Melissa's behavior in this episode: The neediness of the former carries over from "Hiatus" (and several first-season episodes, too), but I'm at a loss trying to remember if Melissa's play with the cookies is the first sign of her particular shrewdness. She's always been portrayed as the smartest of the show's core trio, but this feels like a new side to the character, one that recognizes she can play two members of the Small family to swipe her Blind Date lead role from Jason's clutches. The kids hurt each other almost as often as they help one another, a complexity that takes most shows more than 17 episodes to develop.
Fortune refuses to smile on the Smalls this week: Paula just can't catch a break in the job market, and at Erik's suggestion, she lies her way into a technician job that's more science fiction than Home Movies' grounded reality usually allows for. It's an odd fit for the show, but a good button for the episode—I just wonder if the animation team didn't over-reach by giving Paula a job with Globex Corporation. "Business & Pleasure" serves Paula better when she and Erik mirror the "you rub my back, I rub yours" situation their kids are in, with their first two scenes seizing upon some low-key, scruffy improv that sells the awkwardness of their situation. Their Abbott & Costello routine about Paula's prospective employers ("That's Strange." "No, that's next week." "Well, I'll Drink To That" "That's the week after") plays so, so well to Erik's hokey-dad sense of humor.
Though not as end-to-end enjoyable as the episode that proceeds it, "Business & Pleasure" succeeds at drawing lines between the tightly knit characters of Home Movies, determining which can be crossed safely—and which cannot. And with the show's world set to expand in the coming weeks (or at least expand to reintegrate some characters we haven't seen since last season), it's important to shore up the links between the personalities that have played the biggest role since the show was in Squigglevision.
Stray observations
- H. Jon Benjamin has played seemingly dozens of variations on the McGuirk-Lynch friendship, but each one feels unique. He's the perfect scene partner in that regard: Bringing out the best in his co-stars, making himself look good by making others look better.
- This week in "John McGuirk says more about himself than he realizes": The coach's soccer team-as-hospital analogy betrays an alarming knowledge of the inner workings of the emergency room. (Though he's stopped short of giving the location of a cut that inspires incredulity in some smart-ass doctor.)
- Further proof that you can learn everything you need to know about Home Movies from "Hiatus": The way Cynthia gets stuck on Brendon's off-the-cuff "awesome"—and Brendon's inability to stop saying "awesome"—is the quintessential Home Movies joke.
- "Duane, watch the others."—Home Movies resident rock savant is already on his way to being Eddie Van Halen in the "Hot For Teacher" video.
- Jason's genre definitions have some permeable boundaries: "We should do a buddy picture starring me and you. Like Midnight Run, or Midnight Cowboy, or Midnight Express."


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Sleep apnea, a condition that causes sleepers to stop breathing and gasp for air, may be linked to depression, according to a new study. Men with sleep apnea are twice as likely to be depressed and the emotional impact for women is even greater. Female sleep apnea sufferers are five times as likely to show signs of depression compared to normal sleepers, researchers reported
Sleep apnea often persists undiagnosed. Researchers relied on self reporting and more than 80 percent of people who reported classic sleep apnea symptoms such as snorting or gasping for breath in their sleep were never officially diagnosed.
People who reported sleep apnea symptoms without an official diagnosis were three times more likely to exhibit symptoms of depression, such as hopelessness, feeling like a failure and poor appetite, according to the study.
Mental health professionals often ask about certain sleep problems such as unrefreshing sleep and insomnia, but likely do not realize that [sleep apnea] may have an impact on their patients' mental health. the researchers, led by Dr. Anne Wheaton, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wrote in the study.
Over 100 million people worldwide have sleep apnea, many of whom remain undiagnosed according to the World Health Organization. Undiagnosed sleep apnea adds $3.4 billion a year to medical costs, according to a 1999 study.
More research is needed to determine whether treating sleep apnea will alleviate depression symptoms, the researchers wrote.
Sleep apnea is most commonly treated with a continuous positive airway pressure, also known as CPAP, machine. The machine fits over the users face like a mask and blows air into the throat to keep the airway open, allowing the user to sleep without having to wake up to breath. Surgery can also be performed to increase the size of the airway, but is very painful, requires months of recovery and slightly changes facial appearance.
The journal Sleep will publish the study in April.
This study underscores the seriousness of sleep apnea, a condition that is already linked to a multitude of other health issues.
People with severe sleep apnea are at a higher risk of stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in February. Researchers conducted a sleep study on 61 patients who suffered a stroke without any symptoms, known as a silent stroke, and found 91 percent of them had sleep apnea.
We found a surprisingly high frequency of sleep apnea in patients with stroke that underlines its clinical relevance as a stroke risk factor, Jessica Kepplinger, lead researcher and research fellow at the Dresden University Stroke Center's Department of Neurology, said in a statement.
Sleep apnea may also be a risk factor for dementia in women, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers studied 105 women with an average age of 82 who were diagnosed with sleep apnea but otherwise healthy. Five years later, 45 percent of the women with sleep apnea had developed some form of dementia. After adjusting for factors such as age, race and smoking status, researchers concluded that people with sleep apnea are 85 percent more likely to develop dementia.
Sleep apnea can also put a damper on your sex life. Researchers compared 80 women with sleep apnea to 240 women without the condition and found women with sleep apnea had a lower libido and more instances of sexual dysfunction, according to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Gasping for air can cause erectile dysfunction as well, according to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Mice that underwent intermittent periods with a lack of oxygen, much like people with sleep apnea do, had a lower libido and developed erectile dysfunction. The mice did not fully recover six months after the study concluded, leading researchers to conclude sleep apnea can cause long-term damage even once it is treated.

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Monaco seems a long time ago now. And not just because 12 days have passed since the Tour's Grand Départ.
A strange torpor has fallen on the 2009 Tour de France. The racing for stage wins has mostly been entertaining, and thanks to Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins, there's been plenty to talk about. But the general classification, save for a brief flurry here and there, has been more the nip and tuck of a Test match than the fireworks of a Twenty/20 game.
But this is exactly what the organisers wanted. It was clear from the innovative route unveiled by Tour boss Christian Prudhomme last year that the plan was for the race to go right down to the wire, to Mont Ventoux on the penultimate stage. Prudhomme built in three strategically tame Pyrenean stages, reduced the time trialling kilometres, and even took some of the bite out of the Alps, all so that as many riders as possible could still be in with a shout of victory going into the final week.
Perhaps Prudhomme saw the dramatic conclusion to last year's race, when five riders started the climb to L'Alpe d'Huez within 75 seconds of the yellow jersey, after a tense battle through the Pyrenees and Alps, and liked what he saw enough to actually design the race around a repeat.
Now, with the race on the cusp of the Alps, Prudhomme has got what he wanted. The 2009 Tour is actually the closest in modern history.
We've looked back at all the Tours since 1984, and compared how far behind the rider in 10th place was after the first set of mountains had been completed. And 2009, by this measure, is the tightest.
Vincenzo Nibali is currently occupying 10th place overall, 1-54 behind Rinaldo Nocentini. There's only been one other Tour in the last quarter century where the 10th-placed rider was within three minutes of yellow after the first mountain range, and that was last year's, when Vladimir Efimkin left the Pyrenees 2-32 behind Cadel Evans. Otherwise, 10th place is typically already at least four minutes back. Often more.
The only exception can be found in the 1992 Tour, when the start in San Sebastian meant that the Pyrenees were even more neutered than this year's. Although 10th place was 5-06 behind the yellow, that was thanks to a four-minute lead gained by Richard Virenque in a long break. The spread of the favourites, from second to 10th, was only 32 seconds. It would possibly have been a historically close Tour, except that Miguel Indurain proceeded to knock three minutes into everybody in the Luxembourg time trial.
The bad news is that by engineering a backloaded Tour this year, ASO have accidentally caused the general classification battle to be a little too negative. The sum total of intrigue includes a decent short time trial, a 40-second split in the peloton, the team time trial, and a couple of attacks by the favourites in the Pyrenees.
The good news is that tomorrow, with three dangerous cols en route, the battle for the yellow jersey should at least stir, even if nothing decisive happens. And then, the Alps.
The five closest Tours of the modern era, following the first mountain range
Year Time of 10th place after first mountain range
2009 1-54
2008 2-32
2003 3-45
2005 4-16
2006 4-17
1996 5-03
The five biggest gaps to 10th place, following the first mountain range
Year Time of 10th place after first mountain range
2001 21-48 (Thanks to long break by François Simon)
1993 21-32
1986 15-19
1984 14-37
1990 13-58
1995 13-43
Tour de France 2009 – the hub: Index to reports, photos, previews and more.
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Stage 12: Sorensen wins in Vittel as Cavendish goes for green
Stage 11: Cavendish takes fourth win to equal Hoban's record
Stage 10: Cavendish spoils Bastille Day party to take third stage win
Stage nine: Third French win as contenders content with ceasefire
stage eight: Sanchez wins from break as Tour favourites cancel each other out
Stage seven: Feillu wins at Arcalis, Nocentini takes yellow, Contador leap-frogs Lance
Stage six: Millar's brave bid denied on Barcelona hill as Hushovd triumphs
Stage five: Voeckler survives chase to win his first Tour stage
Stage four: Astana on top but Armstrong misses yellow by hundredths of a second
Live Tour de France stage four TTT coverage
Stage three: Cavendish wins second stage as Armstrong distances Contador
Stage two: Cavendish takes first sprint
Stage one: Cancellara wins opening time trial
Tour de France 2009 News Index>>
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Tour comment: The suspense is killing us
Analysis: Why Cavendish is one of the modern greats
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Arvesen out of Tour with fractured collarbone
Tour analysis: Why the go slow did cycling no favours on Bastille Day
Cavendish's odd stage 10 finish celebration explained
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Tour audio: Mark Cavendish after stage 10
Contador brushes aside talk of Armstrong conflict
Cavendish odds-on favourite for Bastille Day victory
The Tour de France Comment: Monday, July 13
How the favourites are doing (first rest day)
Wiggins stays with leaders at Tour
Armstrong: 'If Contador wins, I'll be second'
Wiggins 'on cloud nine' at Tour de France
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Wiggins, the Tour de France overall contender, has arrived
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David Zabriskie's time trial bike
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Jonathan Vaughters on Bradley Wiggins' chances
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Stage 11 photo gallery by Graham Watson
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Stage nine photo gallery by Graham Watson
Stage eight photo gallery by Graham Watson
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Stage six photo gallery by Graham Watson
Stage five photo gallery by Graham Watson
Stage four TTT photo gallery by Graham Watson
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Stage one photo gallery by Graham Watson
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Bethryn's Pretty Big Guide to Hall of Monuments pointsThis should give you a basic idea of what you can aim to achieve in a reasonable amount of time - say, a month - depending on what campaigns you own and so on. It's a basic "how to get 30 points" guide with some economics thrown in to help you get the necessary money.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page - Guild Wars Wiki, gives you information on enemy locations, advice on how to complete missions and what skills you might need to bring, what you can salvage from what, and a lot of other stuff.
http://www.gwpvx.com/PvX_wiki - PvX Wiki, a source for working builds for all characters in both PvE and PvP; also contains hero builds, including the popular "7 hero support team"
http://argos-soft.net/GwEstimator/ - The Argos GWEstimator is basically a price check on various items you'll need for crafting, and money-making
http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome - this lets you know how far you've got to go and what you've got thus far for HoM points and rewards
Owning all the campaigns helps speed things along a ways, but isn't completely necessary. All campaigns provide access to Obsidian armour, which is not remotely recommended for HoM points.
Prophecies provides the Sorrow's Furnace mission which is good for a title, but is the longest campaign and has no heroes included (but 1 in WiK). It includes War In Kryta and Hearts of the North free campaigns, which are very profitable both in terms of money and HoM points.
Armour: 6 armours for all classes.
Factions provides Ritualist skills (very useful for good hero builds), a fair amount of money, and the Winds of Change free campaign which while long and at times difficult, is profitable. It has no heroes in the main campaign but two in WoC, and is quite quick and easy to complete.
Armour: 2-3 armours for all classes, 2 extra armours for Ritualists or Assassins.
Nightfall provides a lot of heroes, a lot of money, but no free campaign at this point. Its main hub, Kamadan, is the trading city of choice in Guild Wars, which is very useful; you can still buy/sell in EotN, but not as easily.
Armour: 4 armours for all classes.
Eye of the North is necessary to actually receive HoM rewards, and provides a lot of heroes and a lot of money.
Armour: 3 armours for all classes, 1 extra armour for Warriors.
There are a few basic rules to being profitable from just playing the game.
1) Identifying. Use basic Identification Kits (the 100g ones), and identify anything worth more than 16g to a merchant unless you're going to salvage it. This improves the value of the item.
2) Salvage. Salvage anything that has iron, feathers, granite or plant fibers. You can find out what has them in using GWW, e.g. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:Contains_granite for Granite. Normal Salvage kits can't give rare salvage, so it's worth getting Expert's Salvage Kits. If you have Nightfall or Factions, you can get Superior Salvage Kits for 5 quest reward items (do not use Trade Contracts for this).
3) Tournament points. Each account is entitled to 50 free Tournament points. To access these, you need to reach a certain area (Lion's Arch, Kaineng Center, Kamadan having completed the Istan portion of the campaign), travel to Isle of Balthazar, talk to Tolkano and register your account, then talk to High Priest Zhang for 50 Tournament points. You can then turn these in to Tolkano for 10 Zaishen Keys, each of which sells for 5.7-6k.
4) Rares. These are the gold coloured items that drop occasionally. 7 unidentified rares can be sold to players for 5k without much trouble. You can also sell them for 700 each if you really want to.
5) Zaishen quests. These are your 'daily' quests, 3 available from Embark Beach, 1 more from Isle of Balthazar. The Zaishen Mission and Bounty are usually a good source of quick 'free' gold; Zaishen Vanquish is tougher until you're all kitted out with good heroes, and Zaishen Combat requires PvPing.
6) War in Kryta + Hearts of the North. These two campaigns give you a lot of money. Between the two of them, you should be able to get 15 Medals of Honor, 23 Royal Gifts and almost 125 War Supplies (which you can turn into 5 more Medals of Honor). 10 Medals of Honor turn into an Oppressor Weapon, which players will buy for 90-100k. Rather than buy a particular weapon and try to sell it, it's better to hold onto your Medals and ask your buyer what weapon they want (since you can't trade Medals of Honor). Keep 10 Medals for your own Oppressor Weapon, obviously. Royal gifts sell for 5k each; that's 115k. So you've made 215k and a point in the HoM just for doing these campaigns, which are both pretty short!
7) Winds of Change. This campaign is much harder and longer, but also provides some very worthwhile rewards. Rubies and Sapphires are worth 8-8.5k each, and are used for crafting Vabbian armour for players with Nightfall.
8) Trade Contracts. If you own Nightfall, you will get Trade Contracts for completing quests in Vabbi. 7 of these can be turned into a Ruby or Sapphire, and there are 27 total; you can buy the last one from other players for 700-900g.
9) Farming. It's possible to solo some of the Underworld for 'ectos' (which are worth 8-8.5k each) as a Ritualist and some other classes too. Serafina Pekalla in the guild can hook you up with his build, which he's been making unnecessary levels of profit with. There are other ways to farm and make money (Feathers can be farmed by repeating one mission in Winds of Change, for example), but most are fairly tedious. I haven't done any serious farming myself, just completed the main campaigns and EotN, and ended at around 500k in cash.
10) Dungeons. In EotN there are dungeons and when you complete them a chest spawns. Some of the items unique to those chests are worth a lot of money; check them on Argos. Also, remember to bring Light of Deldrimor and spam it; rare crafting materials can drop from the hidden treasures that spawn, and that could be a free Ruby or better!
11) Runes/Inscriptions. Occasionally you'll get a magic item with a rune/inscription that's definitely worth salvaging. Since we're not identifying rares, runes/insignias will only be on salvage armours, but inscriptions can be good on anything. Here's a list of stuff you should salvage:Runes/Insignias:
Sentinel Insignia [Warrior]
Minor Strength
Minor Divine Favor
Minor Soul Reaping
Minor Fast Casting
Minor Inspiration Magic
Minor Energy Storage
Nightstalker's Insignia [Assassin]
Minor Dagger Mastery
Shaman's Insignia [Ritualist]
Minor Restoration Magic
Minor Communing
Minor Spawning Power
Windwalker Insignia [Dervish]
Minor Mysticism
Minor Scythe Mastery
Centurion's Insignia [Paragon]
Survivor Insignia
Blessed Insignia
Minor Vigor
Major Vigor
Poison + 33% bowstring
Strength & Honor: Damage +15% while health above 50%
I have the power!: Energy +5
Aptitude not Attitude: -20% casting time on spells of attribute
I Can See Clearly Now: -20% Blind duration
Forget Me Not: -20% recharge time on spells of attribute
*Measure for Measure: Highly Salvageable. Take these off items you don't want salvage from, and stick them on blues/purples with an empty inscription slot [Nightfall/EotN only] that give good salvage (i.e. Granite, Iron).
HoM points
Here's where we get the nitty-gritty. Depending on what campaigns you own, certain goals are reasonable. If you're prepared to farm, you can get 30 points just by paying for most of them.
Points: 4-5 points easily, 3 more points more expensively
Costs: 130kish for 5 points
Make sure you are buying undedicated mini-pets; "unded" in trade channel. When buying, hover over the item offered to make sure you can't see the phrase "Dedicated at the Hall of Monuments".
All campaigns can get these by buying them from other players.
You want 1 rare (Rurik/Shiro/Lich/Water Djinn) from Year 1 or 2 for around 20-30k
18-19 commons. There are 8 commons from each year, 1-4k for year 1, 5-10k for year 2/3, 10k+ for year 4-5.
If you own all three campaigns, you can get the Unique Black Moa Chick mini-pet. If not, you can buy them for 50k+.
Points: 6 points easily, 8 points easily for Nightfall, 9 points easily for all three campaigns.
Costs: free if you do the challenges yourself, 5k per armour piece if you don't (125k total)
Dedicating pets requires they be level 20, which is no problem mostly. Dedicating Heroes requires they are wearing an upgraded hero armour piece, which means completing missions in either Nightfall or EotN. Miku, Keiran Thackery and Initiate Zei Ri can't be dedicated for this reason. You can buy these pieces for around 5k (25 pieces required total).
A profession changer can give you the Ranger secondary spec for 500g, which includes the Tame Companion skill. You can use this skill to tame the Black Widow in the Underworld (all campaigns) and the Black Moa and Phoenix in Factions. Dedicating one of these pets provides both its statue and the Animal Companion statue, i.e. 2 dedications and 2 points.
Points: 3 freely, 5 more easily, 1-4 more at medium difficulty, 6 more very expensively
Costs: free for most titles you'll be aiming at, very expensive for the ones you won't!
Completing a campaign provides 1 title, as does completing all its mission bonuses. Prophecies also includes Sorrow's Furnace which can be easily completed for another title.
2 titles per campaign + Sorrow's Furnace = 7 titles (you need 5 for 5 HoM points).
To reach 10 titles, you can get 2 more points by completing the Underworld (medium) and Fissure of Woe (easy with good heroes). The easiest last titles to get are probably either Lightbringer or Sunspear. The other three Eternal Conqueror (The Deep, Urgoz' Warren or Domain of Anguish) are possibilities too, but will require a good group to complete and aren't really doable with just you and heroes.
Legendary Survivor is a possibility if you have a very strong tolerance for repetition; see Kilroy Stonekin.
Points: 4 points easily, 3 more points somewhat expensively, 1 more point super-expensively
Costs: varies by armour, probably around 200-300k total the 'easy' way.
You do not need the headgear to dedicate armour.
Deldrimor armour cannot be dedicated.
Asuran, Monument and Norn armour costs less gold to craft, but requires reputation with those factions (and sometimes weird crafting materials which make them less desirable).
You'll want to look up the costs of crafting armour on the wiki and decide which armours to go for based on their crafting materials.
Kurzick/Luxon armour costs 70k for Jadeite Shards/Amber Chunks on top of normal crafting materials.
Vabbian armour costs 224k for the Rubies and Sapphires on top of normal crafting materials.
Points: 3 points easily, 5 more points more expensively
The Oppressor weapon is easily gotten through WiK. Otherwise, they're 90-100k (you can try buying 250 War Supplies for 350 each to lower the cost, but this can take a while).
The Destroyer weapon can be easily gotten once you complete EotN. 10 Diamonds = 50-55k, 10 Onyx = 10k, Granite Stack = 13-14k, 100 iron = 3k, +5k crafting = 81-87k.
The Tormented weapon is very expensive;200k, which means 24e (since you can't trade more than 100k; e means ecto i.e. ectoplasm rare material, 1 ecto = 8-8.5k).
Oppressor + Destroyer = 3 points, more than that will cost you. If you're going for 30 points, you'll want to work out what's cheaper: Destroyer weapons or your armour sets. Usually, it's armour sets.
Points totals!
Low-hanging fruits only by campaign:
If you only go for the easy stuff to get, here's a rough average of what you can expect:
Prophecies only: 26 points (5/6/8/4/3)
Factions only: 23 points (5/6/5/4/3)
Nightfall only: 27 points (5/7/8/4/3)
If you have two campaigns, you should be able to hit 27 easily, and pick up the last few points from armour or weapons.
Getting your goals in order and knowing what you're aiming for and how reasonable it is to complete it in a given time frame is the key here. I would say most people should be able to make 30 points in the HoM in about a month and a half of 1-2 hours a day, provided you don't have too much trouble with the campaigns.
Campaign Order Addendum
In my personal opinion, do:
EITHER: Nightfall up until you can go to EotN, getting as many heroes as possible on the way.
OR: Factions if you're going to be a Ritualist, up until you can go to EotN.
Go do a bit of EotN, though the final battle might be too hard for you. Make sure you go to Gunnar's Hold and enter Magni the Bison's fighting tournament (100g per attempt). Look up builds that can get to to round 3+, and pick up Xandra (it's a random chance whether you fight her or not, but once you beat her you have a Ritualist in your party). Make sure you do the Asuran quest up to Finding the Bloodstone to get Livia.
EITHER: finish Nightfall for more heroes, then do Zaishen quests or PvP until you can unlock elites.
OR: if you're a Ritualist, do enough of/finish Factions for Signet of Spirits, Soul Twisting and Signet of Ghostly Might elite skills, then head off to Nightfall for more heroes.
Your aim now is to build the skills necessary for 7 hero support, which will make all PvE from that point onward fairly easy. You can get the elite skills via Balthazar faction (Zaishen quests give you silver Z coins which turn into 1k Balthazar for 2; 3k = an elite), PvPing or skill-hunting yourself (profession change if necessary).
Once you've got the set-up, do anything else left to do in whatever order you want!
Hope this has been helpful, any criticism, extra tips and other feedback, put @Bethryn in the response so I see it!
That's just insulting, I think DBZ is bad but I'm not going to insinuate that it only appeals to people who are equal parts retards and psychopaths.
juice for jesus wrote: »I've been using salvage kits to break down most of the trash drops. Should I vendor those instead?
The game doesn't explain missions very well. I was all out of quests in Ascalon before realizing what those shield icons meant.
Dealing with NCsoft account shit is like
the worst thing
in the world.
No, I don't remember my master account name, because I haven't used it in years. Any PW recovery system with any amount of sense asks for the account's E-MAIL ADDRESS, because that is a permanent fixture.
So I've been having to kind of GUESS what my account name is, and now that I've found it, I have to deal with the next layer of opaque annoyance: because I had failed guesses as to what my account name was, the system put me on lockout. Except that it doesn't tell me that when I try to reset my PW. Instead, after I enter the account name I want to reset the password for, it asks for my DoB and to fill out the two word human confirmation. I submit ... and then redirects back to the 'enter account name' field, with no notification of a failure or anything to suggest why it's looping.
I've gotten to the security question field ONCE and it failed.
I remember a character name. So I'm good there. And my e-mail should've worked.
I think I must have gotten hacked. None of the passwords I use work for logging into GW.
Do not get me started on NCSoft support. I got an email saying it had been requested my password be reset, and if this was not me, to contact support immediately. So I do, and they then lock my account. They wouldn't unlock it until I gave them a serial number from a game on my account.Yes, NCSoft is horrible.
Depends on the dungeon and, more importantly, how experienced your teammates are in running that dungeon. For example, I find Domain of Anguish in Nightfall very easy, but I am flabbergasted as to how to get around in Underworld or Fissure of Woe in Prophecies.Reasonable Hobo wrote: »How hard are end-game dungeons?
Generally speaking, yes, but this depends on your team. Most dungeons can be cleared with a pretty general party build in Normal Mode, but then the length of time needed to complete dungeons increases exponentially. There are lots of "speed clearing" builds that can be used by teams, and these require very specific builds, skill sets, and equipment.Are there specific build needed?
I have not done this dungeon in 5 years... not since it became THE place to get green items. I understand it has changed very much from the 4-man party that used to be able to ace the place in no time flat, and so I would be down to join you for this. We may work it into the "weekly endgame event" cycle.Also, if anyone needs to do the Final Assault mission in Sorrow's Furnace let me know. I know at least another guildie was thinking of doing it maybe this weekend. If you need help getting to the final mission I'll help as well.
I forgot my password. I wonder how long it will take for supports auto-password recovery to email me a new password
i dont even have the game installed anymore
I forgot my password. I wonder how long it will take for supports auto-password recovery to email me a new password
If you open up the game and use the reset password in there, it sent it immediately to me.
i dont even have the game installed anymore
Download this handy tiny exe file: http://www.guildwars.com/download
Boom. Now you have Guild Wars installed. Of course, it'll take about 50-100mb more to actually get you logged in and playing, but still. I've always loved how the entire game can be streamed as you play.
i dont even have the game installed anymore
Download this handy tiny exe file: http://www.guildwars.com/download
Boom. Now you have Guild Wars installed. Of course, it'll take about 50-100mb more to actually get you logged in and playing, but still. I've always loved how the entire game can be streamed as you play.
Add -image behind the shortcut.exe
And you can download the whole game at one game.
Streaming is terrible.
After getting 30/50.
I have been trying so hard not to play this game since i have a huge backlog of games.
Must resist untill Winds of Change comes out.
I hope Shiro returns.
So I got GW again (thanks for the exe people and the tips). The one thing that put me off is having the heroes with me. I have NO idea what abilities to give them I liked to use the guy that can use enhancements (i didnt load up the game yet, just got it installed). Any tips on what hero abilities to give my guys?
Serious_Scrub wrote: »So I played a single alliance battle in Ancestral Lands, as Kurzick, which is the map most biased in favor of Kurzick. Joined a team that otherwise consisted of the same guild
Got rolled by over 350 points
One sample a distribution does not make, but why is Kurzick so bad at Alliance Battle? The Luxons seem to always be in Kurzick territory whenever I look at the factions map.
In this particular battle, there was a drawn-out 8v8 (since everybody runs builds optimized for shrine capturing, not pvp) between two shrines. Not sure what the other teams of four were doing, but we went from controlling 5 shrines to 1 during the stalemate, and eventually lost our remaining shrine, too.
Several years ago, teams tended to be much more balanced, and maps rarely got to Ancestral lands/Grentz Frontier
Aspenwood suffers this to a lesser extent, and Jade Quarry seems to be the exception
My issue is that for doing exactly what I was told to do by NCSoft, I was potentially locked out of my account. There were even plenty of other ways I could have verified that I owned the account, but they insisted on providing a serial number.Serious_Scrub wrote: »Well, to be fair, given that hijacked accounts could be valuable
Oh guys. I finally got deep enough in Factions over the weekend (finished off the main campaign actually), and finally captured Signet of Spirits on my ritualist. Jesus, why did noone tell me. This is great. Spam 5 spirit skills, tap a group with Painful bond and relax while my group does the dirty work.
DrHookenstein wrote: »So, is anyone else interested in working on Ebon Hold faction?


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I gave a talk on biopesticides so guess what? I have information on biopesticides for you!
Looking for biopesticides that are appropriate for a particular problem – heck, even if you are just looking for pesticides for a particular problem? IR4 has a cool labels database which includes efficacy data so you can compare! Its got a good search page and links to labels, even tells you if it is acceptable for organic production. I LOVE it when people make my job easier!
Spear and Spear T are biological insecticides – based on spider peptides no less (Charlotte! Who knew!) – newly registered for NYS. Spear is registered for ornamentals, edible, and turf (a variety of Lepidoptera and thrips). Spear T is labeled for thrips management in greenhouses. If you've tried them, I'd like to hear about efficacy. To find NYS labels go to NYS PAD and look under Names – Spear and Registrant – Vestaron.
Apps, apps and more apps. Of course, my favorite is my own and you can watch me talk about it at a Horticulture seminar (January 30 blog post) It is called Greenhouse Scout and is available on Apple and Android.
19 for Nurseries! And other plant geeks.
Greenhouse Grower's App (only for Apple smart devices) – a set of 12 production calculators and a free Lite version of 5 of them). It is from Australia so the measurements are in different units.
Now that you are (or are thinking about) warming up your greenhouses for the spring crop, don't assume that the cold weather killed off all the insect pests. They are diabolically clever at surviving (remember some of them survive outside in the winter, too). A great article from UMass with additional resources to convince you. Want to know what's popping out before the plants go in? Hang sticky cards under the benches if there is enough soil on the floor for fungus gnats and thrips to survive in, or near where pests might come in to the greenhouse and see what you catch.
I've heard one report so far of broad mite (admittedly not in NY but they like it here, too) so here's Dan Gilrein's broad mite post from e-Gro. There are other posts on the topic there, too – just Google e-Gro and broad mite and they will pop up, just like broad mites)
Aphids will tolerate cooler temperatures than some pests so we have seen aphids happily going about their unfortunate business in overwintered perennials in tunnels in late winter (is it late winter yet?). And heard anecdotally that people have successfully used ladybugs to control them. So, an article from Suzanne Wainwright-Evans (the BugLady) on using wild collected ladybugs (Don't even think about it!)
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Windows 7 is complete, but before we begin, this isn't the exact version of Windows 7 Ultimate that you'll get on a new PC. That's because there are still content deals for Media Center to lock down and it doesn't have the Windows 7 web browser ballot scren that users in Europe will see when they set up a Windows 7 PC (new or upgraded).
PC builders and laptop manufacturers are also busy creating their own Device Stage interfaces for some PCs and many more peripherals will have Device Stage interfaces by the release on 22 October.
But this is the final code you'll be using from day to day - the last few bugs and the debug code of the Release Candidate are gone - and it's the first time we can tell whether Microsoft has delivered what Senior VP Steven Sinofsky promised last autumn: "Making Windows 7 compelling and easier to get used to."
Windows 7 has to woo Windows XP users who have resisted Vista by offering performance and compatibility as well as extra features, and it has to entice Vista users who feel they should have had the performance and compatibility all along by convincing them that it's more than a service pack.
And given how many people have tried out the pre-release versions of Windows 7, the RTM has to dot the i's, cross the t's and feel truly finished.
It's a tall order. Can Windows 7 deliver all that, compete with OS X Snow Leopard and stave off the attack of Android and Chrome OS at the low end? Is it a Windows you'll actually want to use?


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That could be the reason no other country has tried to invade the USA in many, many years.
Limited entry is the only solution--[...]Even if you don't buy what I'm sell'n as any kind of a long-term solution, it is a practical first step. If in places we're willing to defend a courthouse to this level, then how could we ever rationalize not doing so to protect our most valued in society our children.
Figuring out how to stop producing psychopaths would help a lot, but I have no idea how to go about that.
The BBC is reporting at least 17 fatalities.What's also sad is that its only the 7th week of the year and this is already the sixth school shooting incident in 2018 that has either wounded or killed students.Edit: Another news site I've read it on (The Guardian) says its at least the 8th this year
I am wary of arming any significant number of people in crowded, public places, especially closed- in places, simply because the potential for collateral shooting victims would increase, at least IMO. No amount of training or skill will prevent the shooting of the wrong people by mistake, or even the shooting of unintended people in addition to shooting the 'right' person(s) due to over penetration.
If you do, you would certainly earn a Nobel prize. https://psychcentral.com/blog/differences-between-a-psychopath-vs-sociopath/Unfortunately, it seems most of these rare acts of extreme and senseless violence are, indeed, committed by psychopaths and sociopaths. Even more unfortunate is that the best science can tell, people are born psychopathic or not. The real slippery slope is that we are getting better at detecting who actually is one, even at an early age. I have seen programs that claim an FET brain scan can spot psycho/sociopaths.... the common trait being that they cannot empathize correctly with others and that actually shows clearly in the scans when questioned about certain topics.
On this I disagree: psychopathy is not a binary (Positive or Negative) state but a sliding scale.
Also, given our constitution, what exactly would we do about sociopaths / psychopaths anyway?
Quote from: mikeyw64 on Yesterday at 12:16:22 amQuoteThe BBC is reporting at least 17 fatalities.What's also sad is that its only the 7th week of the year and this is already the sixth school shooting incident in 2018 that has either wounded or killed students.Edit: Another news site I've read it on (The Guardian) says its at least the 8th this yearJust a tad misleading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-there-havent-been-18-school-shooting-in-2018-that-number-is-flat-wrong/2018/02/15/65b6cf72-1264-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.82ea612a8cf5
"Just five of Everytown's 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury"
Just a tad misleading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/no-there-havent-been-18-school-shooting-in-2018-that-number-is-flat-wrong/2018/02/15/65b6cf72-1264-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.82ea612a8cf5I never said there had been 18 school shootings this year.The news reports that I referenced were that this was the 6th or 8th this year here there had been injuries or fatalities which ties in with the Washington Post article."Just five of Everytown's 18 school shootings listed for 2018 happened during school hours and resulted in any physical injury"
We probably don't disagree at all. I shouldn't have worded it as a yes/no, I know it is variable, just paying the price now for sloppy/quick posting. I just edited it, to help with that. And yes, it can actually be "positive" in some ways (when on the lower end of the scale and with proper nurture). I spent hours researching it years ago, and it is quite fascinating.That was my "slippery slope" disclaimer.
For whatever it is worth Mike, please note that 'Everytown', which is really 'Everytown for Gun Safety' is a hard- left, anti- gun faction that has the goal of unilateral personal disarmament. Started by and still largely financed by former N.Y.C. mayor Michael Bloomberg. I am not saying they are good nor bad, merely pointing out that the information from them is coming from a very staunchly left (anti- gun) group, just as any information from the NRA would be from a very staunchly right (pro- gun) group. As a non- American, I just wanted you to be aware of where this information is sourced and the fact that they have a very direct, very deliberate and very, very hard- line view on this issue. As does a considerable faction of US news reporting agencies, with the majority seeming to be left- leaning at the current time.Again, we are wading hip- deep into an extremely derisive, polar issue here in the US. In fact, I am amazed that this thread is 1) still open and 2) still has not been moved to the arena. My compliments to all who are participating, as well as certainly some who are not participating but would do so with perhaps too 'heavy a hand'. Brian
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Vanessa Paradis and Lily-Rose spend mother daughter time together
Posted by Alisa on Monday, January 9, 2012 / Labels: Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis
Singer/Actress Vanessa Paradis took her daughter Lily-Rose, 12 1/2, went shopping around the Grove in West Hollywood, CA on Saturday (January 7). Vanessa and her partner actor Johnny Depp are also parents to Jack, 9 1/2.
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The LAPD said the incident started in the area of Plummer Street and Shirley Avenue near the Northridge Fashion Center just before 10 p.m. Wednesday. Officers attempted to stop a man who was driving erratically in a black Ford Crown Victoria. He took off and led them on a seven-minute pursuit.
When officers backed off, the suspect began driving more erratically, running red lights and almost striking pedestrians, according to authorities.
The pursuit came to an end on the 101 Freeway near Canoga Avenue when the driver appeared to make a U-turn into oncoming traffic. Officers slammed into the driver's side of the suspect vehicle. The driver jumped out the passenger side and pointed his hands at officers several times as he ran across lanes of the freeway.
According to police, the suspect exited his vehicle and took what appeared to be an aggressive "shooting stance" several times, extending his arms out, and pointing an unknown object at the officers. This caused the officer at the scene to believe he was armed with a handgun.
The LAPD said more than three officers opened fire, killing 19-year-old Abdul Arian. Police recovered a cellphone from the scene.
Thursday afternoon the LAPD released a statement stating that Arian was unarmed. He did tell a police dispatcher during a 911 phone call that he had a gun, and threatened officers.
"If they pull their guns, I'm gonna have to pull my gun out on them," Arian allegedly said, according to an LAPD transcript.
According to the LAPD transcript, Arian also told the 911 dispatcher: "I have a gun," and "I've been arrested before for possession of destructive devices, I'm not afraid of the cops."
"Clearly what he was doing during that altercation was assuming a shooting stance, holding some type of object in his hand and pointing it at our officers," said LAPD Commander Andrew Smith
"He had the phone with him. He was probably trying to tell LAPD, 'You know I'm on the phone with 911, don't shoot,'" said Hamed Arian, the suspect's uncle.
Asked if the officers on the ground were aware Arian was talking to a 911 dispatcher, Smith said: "We're looking into that now to see how much of that information was relayed by the dispatcher to the officers in the field."
Family members are in shock over the death. They say the graduate of Taft High School has never been in trouble before, and at one point wanted to be a police officer. But he developed a fear of law enforcement, which they believe played a role in his reluctance to pull over when police started chasing him.
"He came out from the gym, and he ran a red light. The police chased him, and while they were chasing him, he was calling 911, saying that, you know, 'The police are chasing me.' He was always afraid of cops," said Hamed Arian.
Family members say Abdul Arian did not own a gun, and they are convinced he was not armed when police opened fire.
"He was running from the cop when they shot him, and they didn't have to shoot him so many times. They could have used rubber bullets, they could have used Taser," Hamed Arian said.
Police shut down the freeway in both directions at White Oak Avenue for 10 hours while they investigated the scene. The California Highway Patrol tried to hold traffic back, but drivers ended up stuck on the freeway for hours within the crime scene, including a driver named Mike Moratti.
All lanes of the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills reopened at 8 a.m. Thursday after being shut down for hours. Dozens of evidence markers were strewn across the freeway, many placed next to shell casings.
Northbound lanes reopened around 2:15 a.m., but southbound lanes between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and De Soto Avenue did not reopen until 8 a.m., causing major delays for morning commuters.


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And we thought the USC girl celebrating a Texas touchdown would've been the best photo of the week? Never underestimate the cleverness of a sneaky Terrapin fan.
UPDATE: Yes, I know I spelled Redick wrong. Yes, I now know this photo is from last year. Yes, I know the USC photo was posted yesterday. Tipsters are proving to be both helpful and hurtful. Please continue. And the photo will stay up because it's funny. But thanks to Saved By the Blog for the input. There's your cookie. We now return to the royal 'we'.


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A few days ago I was browsing Haldane's Sieve,when I stumbled upon an amusing discussion which arose on it's "About" page. This "inside baseball" banter got me to thinking about my own intellectual evolution. Over the past few years I've been delving more deeply into phylogenetics and phylogeography, enabled by the rise of genomics, the proliferation of 'big data,' and accessible software packages. This entailed an opportunity cost. I did not spend much time focusing so much on classical population and evolutionary genetic questions. Strewn about my room are various textbooks and monographs I've collected over the years, and which have fed my intellectual growth. But I must admit that it is a rare day now that I browse Hartl and Clark or The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection without specific aim or mercenary intent.
Like a river inexorably coursing over a floodplain, with the turning of the new year it is now time to take a great bend, and double-back to my roots, such as they are. This is one reason that I am now reading The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics. Fisher, Wright, and Haldane, are like old friends, faded, but not forgotten, while Muller was always but a passing acquaintance. But ideas 100 years old still have power to drive us to explore deep questions which remain unresolved, but where new methods and techniques may shed greater light. A study of the past does not allow us to make wise choices which can determine the future with any certitude, but it may at least increase the luminosity of the tools which we have iluminate the depths of the darkness. The shape of nature may become just a bit less opaque through our various endeavors.
So what of this sieve of Haldane? As noted at Haldane's Sieve the concept is simple. Imagine two mutations, one which expresses a trait in a recessive fashion, and another in a dominant one. The sieve operates by favoring the emergence out of the low frequency zone where stochastic forces predominate of dominantly expressing variants (i.e., even if an allele confers a large fitness benefit, at low frequencies the power of random chance may still imply that it is highly likely to go extinct). An example of this would be lactase persistence, which in the modal Eurasian variant seems to exhibit dominance. The converse case, where beneficial mutations are recessive in expression suffer from a structural problem where their benefit is more theoretical than realized.
The mathematics of this is exceedingly simple, a consequence of the Hardy-Weinberg dynamics of diploid random mating organisms. Let's use the gene which is implicated in variation in lactase persistence as an example, LCT. Consider two alleles, LP and LNP, where the former confers persistence (one can digest lactose sugar as an adult), and the latter manifests the conventional mammalian 'wild type' (the production of lactase ceases as one leaves the life stage when nursing is feasible). LP is clearly the novel mutant. In a small population it is not unimaginable that by random chance the frequency of LP rises to ~10%. What now? At HWE you have:
p2 + 2pq + q2 = 1, where q = LP allele. At ~10% the numbers substituted would be:
(0.90)2 + 2(0.90)(0.10) + (0.10)2
This is where dominance or recessive expression is highly relevant. The reality is that LP is a dominant trait. So in this population the frequency of LP as a trait would be:
(0.10)2 + 2(0.90)(0.10) = 19%
Now imagine a model where LP is favored, but it expresses in a recessive fashion. Then the frequency of the trait would equal q2, the homozygote LP-allele proportion. That is, 1%. Though population genetics is often constructed on an algebraic foundation, the results lend themselves to intuition. A structural parameter endogenous to the genetic system, dominant or recessive expression, can have longstanding consequences in terms of the likely trajectory of the alleles. Selection only "sees" the trait, so a recessive trait with sterling qualities may as well be a trait with no qualities. In contrast, a dominantly expressed allele can cut like a scythe through a population, because every copy "counts."
In preparation for this post I revisited the selection on Haldane's Sieve in the encyclopediac Elements of Evolutionary Genetics. The authors note that this phenomenon, though of vintage character as these things can be reckoned is a field as young as evolutionary genetics, is still a live one. The dominance of favored mutations in wild populations, or the recessive character of deleterious ones in laboratory stock, may reflect the different regimes which these two genes pools are subject to. The nature of things is such that is easier to generate recessive mutations than dominant ones (i.e., loss is easier than gain), so the preponderance of dominant variants in wild stocks subject to positive selective pressure lends credence to the idea that evolutionary rather than development forces and constraints shape the genetic character of many species.
And yet things are not quite so tidy. Haldane's Sieve, and the framework of dominant versus recessive alleles, operates differently in the area of sex chromosomes. In many lineages there is a 'heterogametic sex' which carries only one functional chromosome for most of the genome. In mammals this is the male (XY), while in birds this is the female (ZW). As males have only one functional copy of most genes on the sex chromosome, the masking effect of recessive expression does not apply to them in mammals. This may imply that because of the exposure of many deleterious recessive variants to natural selection within the heterogametic sex one would see different allelic distributions and genetic landscapes on these chromosomes (e.g., more rapid adaptation because of the exposure of nominally recessive alleles in the heterogametic sex, as well as more purifying selection on deleterious variants). But the reality is more complex, and the literature in this area is somewhat muddled. More precisely, it seems phylogenetically sensitive. Validation of the theory in mammals founders once one moves to Drosphila.
And that is why research in evolutionary genetics continues. The theory stimulates empirical exploration, and is tested against it. Much of the formal theory of classical evolutionary genetics, which crystallized in the years before World War II, is now gaining renewed relevance because of empirical testability in the era of big data and big computation. This is an domain where the past is not simply of interest to historians. Scientists themselves, chasing the next grant, and producing the expected stream of publications, may benefit from a little historical perspective by standing upon the shoulders of giants.


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Monopoly and Competition
The whole idea of government regulating so-called monopolies in order to promote competition is based on fallacies. If anything, such intervention only stifles market competition and lowers living standards.
Protectionism and Free TradeValue and Exchange
The national trade account balance is of little economic significance and is a sterile concept. But the government's attempts to "fix" it can have many harmful effects.
Philosophy and Methodology
Many modern economists think the standard for a "good" economic theory is how well it predicts future trends. Not only are most economists terrible at making predictions, but the whole premise of economics as being about predicting things is a flawed idea.
Money and BanksMoney and Banking
Given the way it's calculated, GDP can be driven up just as much by squandering wealth, as by building it up.
While government spending re-allocates and distorts resources, it is not necessarily inflationary. Inflation really just stems from money creation and fractional-reserve lending carryied out by central banks and private banks — thus creating money "out of thin air."
Government spending doesn't create wealth. It destroys wealth.
The Gilets Jaunes are a crisis for the French state, and it remains to be seen if the French leviathan will use it to expand their powers.
A strong GDP growth rate, in most cases, is likely to be associated with the intensive squandering of the pool of real wealth.


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Ronda Rousey, Olympic judoka and holder of sundry MMA titles, won the Ultimate
Hugging Fighting Championship's first-ever women's bout Saturday night, defeating an unfortunately overshadowed Liz Carmouche to secure the bantamweight title.
Even if you frown upon MMA as brutal bloodsport that nobody really wins so much as survives, we can all appreciate Rousey's primetime Saturday night victory as both an individual triumph of all-around badassery, and a move towards gender equality in a sport whose fanbase contains some of the broiest bros in all of brodom. According to the AP, a sellout crowd (which mostly wanted to see the much-hyped Rousey dominate her opponent) watched Rousey use her patented armbar on Carmouche with 11 seconds left in the first round, although Carmouche (the UFC's first openly gay fighter) had Rousey in trouble early.
No matter. Rousey (now 7-0) is the female fighter that UFC president and anthropomorphized nurse shark Dana White has chosen as the face of the the UFC's women's bouts, and for good reason — she is a terrifying fighter AND boasts a great nickname. It shouldn't be long before we see "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey starring in a They Live! remake, with an aged but undaunted Keith David as Wise-Cracking Sidekick.


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The third game in the Q-Games PixelJunk series, PixelJunk Eden is a refreshingly different platformer. You control a minute creature whose job is to collect treasures in a vibrant garden full of plant life. By smashing into enemies you release batches of pollen that can help the lush alien plants evolve and grow - and as they develop your miniature gardener can leap, swing and soar between them to get further through the undergrowth and gather all the treasures from the level before the time available runs out.
Featuring a distinctive 2D graphical style and projected in beautiful 1080p resolution, PixelJunk Eden is a uniquely distinguished experience offering organic gameplay that grows the more you play.
In the garden of Eden
What with all the shooting, driving, and kung fu fighting on PlayStation 3, occasionally it's good to take a deep breath and relax.
PixelJunk Eden is like an interactive lava lamp: you find yourself transfixed on its steadily moving forms as bright colours meld into one another, sprouting branches that curl and entwine like fluorescent calligraphy. Yet as you play, you realise that its levels are not as passive as first thought; that these organic worlds are under your control and that each emerging plant is a path to your goal.
PixelJunk Eden is the third game in the PixelJunk series developed exclusively for PlayStation Network by Q-Games; a studio with "simplicity, familiarity, and originality" at the core of its ethos. However, don't expect it to look like its predecessors, PixelJunk Racers and PixelJunk Monsters; PixelJunk Eden looks and plays like no other videogame.
You control a small creature called a Grimp as it moves from garden to garden in search of precious Spectra. The Grimp will stick to any surface it touches, and then you can send it flying in any direction, using the right stick to aim, and cast out a thread to swing between plants and around the garden.
When you begin each stage, it is sparsely populated with a few plants and brightly coloured orbs floating across the screen. Swinging into these orbs will break them and release tiny particles of pollen, and swinging into the pollen sends it to the closest seed. You can increase the amount of pollen released by capturing orbs in quick succession. When a seed has received enough pollen it will transform into a new plant. The purpose of the game is to move around the level collecting pollen and filling the garden with new plants to swing from so that your Grimp can reach the Spectra that are out of reach.
The floating Grimp and the way that it swings from its thread like a pendulum matches the pace of the floating orbs, the silent explosions of pollen and the emerging fauna. Everything moves at the same slow pace, which allows the soft, yet relenting electronic soundtrack to complement the visuals perfectly, adding beats to the cacophony of colour unfurling on the screen.
Relaxing as it is to play, that's not to say that PixelJunk Eden is easy. It's extremely accessible, as for the most part it uses only one button, and while some Spectra can be discovered quite easily, others are fiendishly tucked away and require not only the right plant to use as a platform, but also a well timed swing to avoid plummeting all the way to the bottom of the garden. There are five Spectra in each of the ten gardens, and collecting all 50 demands many hours of play.
Complicating progress is a meter at the bottom of the screen called the Oscillator, which decreases with time and ejects you from the garden when empty. It can be recharged with crystals, although these are in limited supply. Also impeding your Grimp in the more difficult gardens are enemies that can cut your thread or deplete your Oscillator if touched, and there is no way to destroy them, so all you can do is stay out of their way. If you're struggling and you need help, up to two other players can join in locally to give you a hand.
Completing the package is a unique video mode, which lets you capture your play and upload it to YouTube from the game. And the game also supports Remote Play for PSP, so you can play it in your own garden - or someone else's if you so wish.
Q-Games is building a sterling reputation for producing innovative, quality titles for PlayStation Network, and PixelJunk Eden continues that trend. It's a kaleidoscope of colour and growth that is sumptuous to look at, with a solid platform game beneath the surface. It massages the senses.
Jump into the gardens of Eden: you'll never want to look away.
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