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This is the home of Protimient, an independent British Font Foundry, specialising in original, retail typeface designs.
Featured in the prestigious "16-type-foundries-you've-probably-never-heard-of" list, Protimient Typeface Design supplies type to customers from all walks of life, from the discerning Design Master who can tell a good typeface from a bad one, to the budding amateur, who can't.
Since its inception in 2004, Protimient Typeface Design has grown in stature and rapidly become the number one choice for literally several people across the globe.
If you would like to get in contact with me, Ben Jones, just send an email to
I am also on twitter @protimient
As part of my Typography and Graphic Communication degree course I was required to write a 20,000 word dissertation. The subject I chose to write about was the history and evolution of the matchbox cover/label from its beginnings in 1827 to the present day. This is now available for download in PDF format for strictly personal, non-commercial purposes from here (about 1.5Mb)
And, because it is a well known fact¹ that most phillumenists are also ardent gastronomes, here is a link to a brilliant and pioneering recipe website called Really Nice Recipes.
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Al McKay
From 1973 to 1981, Al McKay co-wrote and played guitar on an entire generation's life soundtrack with Earth, Wind & Fire—the most sophisticated funk band of its time. But the mighty McKay's locomotive style had been around plenty before propelling Earth, Wind & Fire to fame as one of the most visionary and successful bands of the 1970s. Prior to that he'd also done stints with The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, the Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson, and Gladys Knight. If that ain't a funk pedigree, what is?
EW&F augmented its dense, syncopated sound and catchy pop hooks with spirituality, uplifting messages, and elements of world music (before it was called that)—all of which was a big contrast to the party funk bands of the time. On chart-topping hits such as "September," "Fantasy," and "Sing a Song," McKay used a variety of left-handed vintage instruments—his favorite was a '72 Gibson ES-335—and either a modified Roland JC-120 or a Vox Super Beatle to lay out a buffet of funk guitar styles, from muted triads and swinging rock licks to sliding octave work and lush, major-7th embellishments. And his sense of time was freakish—just listening to his relentless rhythm work on "Getaway" makes your arm tired!
McKay considers feel and groove to be his God-given forte. "My gift is finding the pocket of the song," he says. "Once I set the pocket, everybody plays to me. I came up with these grooves. This is how Maurice White and I wrote. All the songs we wrote came out of me sitting in the tuning room, tuning up before we went onstage. I'd just start playing. He'd hear it and start singing something. He'd come in the room and say, 'What's that?' I'd say, 'Nothin'.' He'd say, 'Tape that!' We'd put the tape recorder on and we'd write three or four songs that way. Big songs!"


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Darksiders II on Wii U comes to Wii U with a host of unique features. Picking up the story more...
Darksiders II on Wii U comes to Wii U with a host of unique features. Picking up the story from the original Darksiders game, the Horseman War has been blamed - and banished - for starting the Apocalypse early; Death believes War was framed, which leads to less of a sequel and more of a side-story: Death's search for those responsible.
Wii U Edition Features include:
Unique Wii U Game Pad Functionality - Use your Game Pad as a convenient touchscreen map, or to scroll through your inventory to quickly change armour, weapons and power-ups during the heatr of battle
Argul's Tomb - A brand new dungeon to explore, and plenty of loot to capture
Death Rides Pack - Multiple side-quests for you to further explore the Maker's Realm and the Dead Plains and earn more experience and loot. Aid an ancient Construct, recover lost treasure and battle the Bloodless!
Angel of Death and Shadow of Death packs - Early access to more armour and weapons to boost your battle power
Deadly Despair pack - Your horse Despair gets a boost of speed
Unique legendary armour and weapon sets
Death is the new hero of Darksiders 2 on Xbox 360 at GAME
Darksiders II Features:
An agile new anti-hero with fierce new weapons
Skill-based armour choices that define your character and style - choose your own Death!
A massive and visually stunning world - dungeons, demons and so much more
Unique locations with unique challenges - from lava pits to lost souls
Loot systems to top up your skills and arsenal
Battle bests and bosses across the Abyssmal Plane and beyond in Darksiders 2 on Xbox 360
Walk On The Dark Side
Darksiders II not only expands the story, but it expands the Darksiders world, too. Combining combat, platform-style adventuring and mind-challenging puzzles through maps and dungeons that dwarf the scale of the first game. Whether you're in the Overworld or the Abyssmal Plane, each location has its own distinct look, its own distinct challenges, and its own distinct dangers.
Fans of the original game will enjoy the same visual style carried over, with even more unique ghouls, goblins, beasties and bosses to take out, while new players will get to experience this awesome attack on the senses for the first time!
Death Becomes You
As Death, you are nimble and ninja-like, with an emphasis on agility and plenty of opportunities for parkour moves. You're armed with your Harvester scythe - which can split into two blades - and Ghost Hand grappling hook. Plus your handy Steed Despair and Raven Guide Dust are at hand to help you make your way to your goal.
The different armour you choose will influence how your Death fights. From the sorcery of Necromancer to the rogueish Wanderer, your armour is like a skill class that you can build throughout your quest. MMO-style loot systems will enhance your arsenal even further, and you can even build up to full 'Reaper' form to take on the really big bads.


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Benzo[a]pyrene at Lockwood
This page last reviewed October 19, 2010
Benzo[a]pyrene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). It exists in the atmosphere mainly in particle phase,
and it is soluble in benzene, toluene, and xylene, but insoluble in water. California has determined under Proposition
65 that benzo[a]pyrene as a cancer-causing compound. Chronic exposure to benzo[a]pyrene in humans has resulted
in dermatitis, photosensitization in sunlight, eye irritation, and cataracts. The ARB has take regulatory actions
to reduce Benzo[a]pyrene emissions.
Benzo[a]pyrene is mainly produced by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and vegetable matter. The primary industrial sources that have reported emissions of benzo[a]pyrene in California are petroleum refineries, industrial machinery manufacturers, and the wholesale trade in petroleum and petroleum products. Indoor sources of benzo[a]pyrene include tobacco smoking, wood-burning in fireplaces and wood stoves. Benzo[a]pyrene occurs naturally in crude oils, shale oils, and coal tars. It is also emitted with gases and fly ash from active volcanoes.
Ambient Monitoring Results
Ambient levels of benzo[a]pyrene are routinely monitored at approximately twenty sites in the California air toxics
monitoring network. The statewide average concentration of benzo[a]pyrene during 1998-2000 was 0.19 ng/m3, based
on values ranging from 0.025 ng/m3 to 4.6 ng/m3. The current routine monitor closest to Fruitvale is in Fremont.
Relative to the statewide average, the Fremont region was 32% lower for the same time period, averaging 0.13 ng/m3.
The ambient monitoring results at Lockwood are provided here:
- A graph comparing the monthly summaries of benzo[a]pyrene at the community with historical statewide and regional levels
- A table of summary statistics
- Raw data in Excel format
Cancer Risk
Cancer risk is the number of excess cancer cases among a million people if the people are exposed to levels of a toxic air pollutant over 70 years. Benzo[a]pyrene is equivalent to less than 1% of the potential cancer risk of the nine measured compounds and the estimated diesel particulate matter.


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Time for tighter gun control after sad history of shootings?
THE US is no stranger to mass shootings with the latest tragedy sparking renewed calls for the superpower to tighten its gun control laws.
Relatives of those killed in past shootings reacted with anger to news of another massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut.
A crowd of about 200 people gathered outside the White House on Friday evening (US time) for a candlelight vigil, many of them drawn together through social media sites.
Speakers urged President Barack Obama to push for gun control and said the Connecticut shootings were just the latest in a US epidemic of gun violence.
Following the news that at least 12 people were killed and up to 50 injured at the premiere of the latest Batman film, The Independent took a look at some of the worst mass shootings in American history.
2012: In April this year a lone gunman killed seven people and injured three at a small Korean Christian college in Oakland, California.
A former student, One Goh, stands accused of the massacre after a female member of staff wasn't on site when he wanted to speak with her.
This shooting became the sixth-deadliest American school massacre in history.
2011: On August 7th 2011 seven people were shot dead in Copley Township, Summit County, Ohio.
Using two handguns Michael E. Hance, 51, killed his girlfriend and six other people following a family argument.
2009: The Geneva massacre occurred on the 10th of March 2009 in Geneva and Samson, in Alabama. 11 people, including the gunman - 28-year-old Michael Kenneth McLendon were killed in the incident.
Among the victims of the massacre were members of McLendon's family. The victims were aged between 18 months and 74 years old.
2007: The Westroads Mall shooting - as it became known - started on the morning of December 5, 2007.
Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed himself after shooting nine other people at the Von Maur department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
Hawkins had written in a note that he loved his friends and family, but "he was a piece of s--- all his life, and now he'll be famous."
2007: The Virginia Tech massacre is the deadliest shooting incident by a lone gunman in US history.
Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, killed 32 classmates and wounded 25 in April 16, 2007.
Cho, an English major, sent a "media pack" containing menacing images of himself to NBC on the morning of the attacks before later committing suicide.
2005: Dubbed the Red Lake Massacre this incident occurred on the morning of March 21st when 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend before going on to kill nine people during a school spree killing.
Five students, one teacher and an unarmed security guard were killed in the incident. Five other people were injured.
The shooting is the fifth deadliest school massacre in US history.
2004: On December 8, Nathan Gale shot Pantera guitarist Darrell 'Dimebag' Abbott three times in the head as he performed on stage.
After killing Abbott, who Gale reportedly claimed was stealing his thoughts, he then fired at the band's head of security, fans and other members of the band.
Gale killed four people and wounded seven after firing a total of fifteen shots.
2002: In October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people in what would later be dubbed the Beltway sniper attacks.
The pair went on a shooting spree through Washington and Virginia, using a series of different weapons.
Muhammed was later executed for his crimes and Malvo was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
1999: On April 20 1999, two senior students at Columbine High School, Colorado, went on a killing spree which left 12 students and one teacher dead.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold also injured 21 other students before committing suicide.
The shootings sparked debate over gun law reforms and, for one of the first times, the influence of video game violence.
1991: On October 16 George Hennard, an unemployed sea merchant, drove his truck through Luby's cafeteria in Texas before shooting 23 customers and staff to death.
What was later called the Luby's massacre also saw 20 people injured and the perpetrator finally killing himself after being wounded by police.
1990: Over two days in mid-June, James Edward Pough shot and killed 11 people, injuring six.
Pough entered the office of a loan company who had repossessed his car and open fired on two customers at the front desk. He then proceeded through the building firing at every employee he could find.
He killed 11 of 86 employees, many of whom were cowering behind desks or running away, before he committed suicide.


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Things do not happen overnight. Sometimes, it takes years for events to unfold. In 1985 farmers throughout the Midwest US struggled to keep the family farms that had been in their families for generations. Corporations hovered like vultures waiting to pick on the next farmer whose bank foreclosed on the farm. It was something right out of the Great Depression, albeit, 50 years in the making. The resulting crisis would cause Ronald Reagan to slightly bend his economic model to get the farmers through the crisis.
During the Great Depression, the Agricultural Adjustment Act began a policy of subsidizing farmers to not grow certain crops and to leave certain fields fallow. Due in part as a reaction to the Dust Bowl, but more so, the FDR administration wanted to raise the price of crops to help farmers. By controlling the supply, the government felt the price would fluctuate less. Due to mechanization fueled by gasoline power tractors, combines, and other farm equipment, the American farmer was producing more crops than ever before. For 40 years, the system worked and it worked well. However, things started to unravel for the American farmer beginning in the middle 1970s.
Several factors merged to create the crisis.
1. Technology continued to evolve. Not only were machines partly responsible, but also new methods of farming and irrigation along with new insecticides and herbicides combined with genetics changed drastically how much one farmer could produce. In 1940, one American farmer could feed 15 people. But 1960, that number increased over 400% to 65.
2. To keep up with the changes and to grow more, farmers leveraged themselves by borrowing money to support their expansion of their operations.
3. Interest rates were very low in the beginning of the 1970s. Farmers borrowed more because it was a good deal.
4. The price of oil and gasoline skyrocketed in the OPEC Embargo in 1973. The cost of farming grew immensely.
5. As a result, the economy turned south.
6. Jimmy Carter did not help. When the USSR invaded Afghanistan, the US placed an embargo on farm products to the USSR.
7. As foreign markets dried up, debt piled up. Farmers began to struggle to survive as farm prices continued to sink.
In 1978 and 1979, farmers drove their tractors to Washington to protest Farm policy. An estimated 3000 farmers went and some even stayed for the winter camping out on the mall. The policy did not change except for a moratorium on foreclosures from the FHA.
When Reagan took office, things were not much better. Bumper stickers could be seen around America to protest their plight.
Reagan's economic philosophy did not mesh with the growing crisis. In fact, Reagan initially cut subsidies to farmers. When the economy did not improve, banks began to raise interest rates and the crisis grew. Foreclosures skyrocketed. Violence became an everyday aspect of rural life. If a farmer was having an auction to sell off machinery or to auction off the land, sometimes shots were fired, people were killed, or kidnapped. The banker and the auctioneer became the villains of the heartland.
Farm life had changed drastically since the 1930s. The number of farms shrank while the average size of the farm grew. It took fewer and fewer people to run a farm and the population of rural America was turning greyer. In Nebraska, it was estimated that 1/3 of all farms were at risk in the 1980s of being foreclosed. Farm support groups began to grow to help farmers save their farms. It was not enough.
By 1985, Reagan was wanting to end all subsidies and let the market dictate what the price of farm products should be. Deregulation was Reagan's dream. However, the crisis was turning into a nightmare. Bob Dylan, in an off handed comment at Live Aid, said the organizers should take some of the money and give it to the farmers. Three people were listening that day: John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, and Neil Young. The three men would put together a benefit concert called Farm Aid to aid the farmers. It would be held at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois.
As a soon to be college senior, I made the trip from west central Illinois with my friends, Jim Jones and Craig Schaeffer. We left at 6 in the morning and got home at 3 in the morning. It was a day filled with many memories of great acts (BB King, Beach Boys, Eddie Van Halen and Sammy Hagar, Tanya Tucker, Bob Dylan, and many more). I remember it was cold, chilly, and overcast. When the concert started, the sun came out for a brief period but as soon as Bon Jovi was roundly booed, it turned in to an all day soaker. It did not let up until 8 p.m. However, the concert did raise national awareness about the farm crisis.
Mellencamp, who would routinely criticize Reagan, was from the heartland of Seymour, Indiana. His 1985 album, Scarecrow, contained the title track, Rain on the Scarecrow, about the farm crisis. It had been my impetus in attending. The title track laid out what was happening around the center of the country.
Scarecrow on a wooden cross, blackbird in the barn
Four hundred empty acres that used to be my farm
I grew up like my daddy did, my grandpa cleared this land
When I was five, I walked a fence while grandpa held my hand
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
This land fed a nation, this land made me proud
And son, I'm just sorry, there's no legacy for you now
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
The crops we grew last summer weren't enough to pay the loans
Couldn't buy the seed to plant this spring and the farmers bank foreclosed
Called my old friend Schepman up to auction off the land
He said, "John, it's just my job and I hope you understand"
Hey, calling it your job, ol' hoss, sure don't make it right
But if you want me to I'll say a prayer for your soul tonight
And grandma's on the front porch swing with a Bible in her hand
Sometimes I hear her singing, "Take me to the promised land"
When you take away a man's dignity he can't work his fields and cows
There'll be blood on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
Blood on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
Well there's ninety-seven crosses planted in the courthouse yard
And ninety-seven families who lost ninety-seven farms
I think about my grandpa, my neighbors and my name
And some nights I feel like dyin' like that scarecrow in the rain
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
This land fed a nation, yeah, this land made me proud
And son, I'm just sorry, they're just memories for you now
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow
Copyright 1985 by John Mellencamp
Shortly after the concert, the Reagan administration began to take the crisis more seriously. When 15,000 farmers showed up for a rally in Ames, Iowa, the crisis had to be taken more seriously. It was turning in to a political issue. Throughout most of rural America, the Republican party is king. By not dealing with the crisis Reagan was threatening to alienate his constituency at the price of sticking to his economic morality of deregulation. Had Reagan stuck to his economic guns, the Republican party could have been lost. Instead, Reagan made the first of many deals to ensure the continuance of the American family farm. Beginning with the 1985 Farm Security Act and grain deals in 1986 and 1988, farm policy became a priority for Reagan. Kansas Senator Bob Dole spearheaded moves in 1986 to increase the aid, and along with Dick Lugar from Indiana, more aid followed in 1987.
Former Nebraska state senator Elaine Stuhr reflected back on the crisis.
""No, they weren't. And that's one of the reasons I think that the women coming together and being supportive and partners in their family farming operations certainly gave them a better understanding of what we were going through. And times were very, very difficult. In fact I was looking at several clippings where bankers said that this was probably one of the most difficult times because of the very low prices. I think corn was like a $1.50 [per bushel]. And then our high interest rates – the rates of inflation [actually interest rates were] going to 19, 20 percent. Even over. We lost many, many young families. I think probably the biggest notice was farm women went to work in town. If there was any opportunity to find employment, this was the time when women would work just to buy groceries and have groceries on their table. It was a very difficult time. And I think one of the reasons was about in 1973 Russia bought corn. And prices were good, up to $3.00, $3.50. And land prices escalated, as well. And so, people were paying as much as $2,200, $2,500 an acre for land thinking the prices would stay up, the interest rates would stay low where they were. But then the culmination of all these things happening in the late 70s and early 80s and that just put the squeeze on many families. And they simply couldn't make it."
For many farmers, the way of life they always knew was threatened. More than $25 billion was poured into subsidies in1986. By 1987, there added an additional $4 billion and talked of overhauling the Farm Security Act. For most farmers, things did not change much after the Farm Security Act. Many still lost the farm and a way of life was shattered. Farmers relied more on grassroots groups than government. F arm Aid has given out over $37 million in aid in the past 25 years. Other grassroots groups continue to aid farmers today. While rural America continues to shrink under a growing urbanized country, the number of farms continues to shrink along with the number of farmers. Reagan, even after getting the aid for farmers, still wanted to deregulate the farm industry and price controls. And for many of the corporations that process the agricultural products, that deregulation did take take place just not in the price of crops and meat. While Reagan gave with one hand, the other hand oversaw the change in a deregulated processed foods industry. Today, only a few corporations oversee the processing of agricultural products. In addition, the selling of the products is now also done by a few regional supermarket chains.
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I love me some Heather Spohr of Spohr's are multiplying fame. Aside from being a dear person who I have sought counsel from before, she is an established mom blogger. She has been at this a long time and I wanted to ask her about something I had been struggling with in this being-creative-working-at-home thing. One of the most unexpected bonuses of entering this blog/vlog world has been the friendships I have made with other woman. Often first knowing them online before knowing them in the flesh.
We met mid day between our two homes on a lovely sunny day. Our studio for this shoot was my Lexis hybrid. I had forgotten the clamp so I couldn't use my camera light–ugh.. so my crows feet will be readily featured. It would have been very dark had Heather not said, "open up the sun roof". Smart! Not Oprah lighting, but this is guerilla vlogging.
Where else can two mom's talk without being interrupted but a car anyway? Well, unless I got side by side toilets and lock on the door!


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Obama, 9/11 kin, survivors gather at museum ceremony
Museum president: "You won't walk out of this museum without a feeling that you understand humanity in a deeper way."
By Jennifer Peltz
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama and Sept. 11 survivors, rescuers and victims' relatives are expected to mark the opening of the 9/11 museum, where the story of the terrorist attacks is told on a scale as big as the twin towers' columns and as intimate as victims' last voicemails.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum is set to be dedicated Thursday before opening to the general public May 21.
By turns chilling and heartbreaking, the ground zero museum leads people on an unsettling journey through the terrorist attacks, with forays into their lead up and legacy.
There are scenes of horror, including videos of the skyscrapers collapsing and people falling from them. But there also are symbols of heroism, ranging from damaged fire trucks to the wristwatch of one of the airline passengers who confronted the hijackers.
"You won't walk out of this museum without a feeling that you understand humanity in a deeper way," museum President Joe Daniels said Wednesday.
The museum and memorial plaza above, which opened in 2011, were built for $700 million in donations and tax dollars. Work on the museum was marked by construction problems, financial squabbles and disputes over its content and the appropriate way to honor the dead, but its leaders see it as a monument to unity and resilience.
And its opening is prompting reflection from presidents and the everyday people whose lives were changed by the attacks.
Obama is mindful of "the need to remember and the power of memory in a nation's history, as well as the need to properly grieve and rebuild," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday. Former President George W. Bush issued a statement saying the museum "will help ensure that our nation remembers the lessons of Sept. 11."
Charles G. Wolf, who lost his wife, Katherine, awaited Thursday's ceremonial opening with a mix of anticipation and dread.
"It brings everything up," he said Wednesday.
Visitors start in an airy pavilion where the rusted tops of two of the World Trade Center's trident-shaped columns shoot upward. From there, museumgoers descend stairs and ramps, passing through a dark corridor filled with the voices of people remembering the day and past the battered "survivors' staircase" that hundreds used to escape the burning towers.
At the base level — 70 feet below ground, amid remnants of the skyscrapers' foundations — there are such artifacts as a mangled piece of the antenna from atop the trade center and a fire truck with its cab shorn off.
Then, galleries plunge visitors into the chaos of Sept. 11: fragments of planes, a set of keys to the trade center, a teddy bear left at the impromptu memorials that arose after the attacks, the dust-covered shoes of those who fled the skyscrapers' collapse, emergency radio transmissions and office workers calling loved ones, even a recording of an astronaut solemnly describing the smoke plume from the International Space Station.
Sprinkled in are snippets about the 19 hijackers, including photos of them on an inconspicuous panel.
Associated Press writer Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.


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If you were alive in 2002, you may remember Steel Battalion for the original Xbox. To many gamer's dismay, it required a special giant $200 controller and a priceless amount of mental fortitude, making it one of the most unique games of last generation.
Flash forward about ten years -- the long awaited spiritual successor is about to drop. It's Kinect-only. Most of the unique technological features and settings are dropped in favor of a "grittier", Call of Duty-esque theme. Are you already seeing some early warning signs here?
When you start the campaign, your character bends down to pick up a broken piece of the mech you're about to pilot -- this is basically a metaphor for the entire game.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor (Xbox 360 [reviewed])
Developer: From Software
Publisher: Capcom
Released: June 19, 2012
As previously stated, Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is a Kinect-only joint that uses a controller in tandem with Microsoft's high-tech camera.
Now, I have a decent size basement, and plenty of room to play Dance Central 2 with both my wife and I. To maximize my experience, I cleared out the room and placed a chair in the middle of it. I was able to calibrate my motion tracking sitting and standing settings in-game. So far, so good.
Upon piloting my mech (which are called Vertical Tanks) for the first time however, the game's control issues become immediately evident. Simply put, the fact that they're required is absurd, because they absolutely do not need to be, for reasons that become clearer the further the game goes.
First off, you have to sit up straight while playing (no slouching!). If you want to have less issues, this is non-negotiable. As you can imagine, it's very awkward to sit up straight constantly during gameplay -- especially when games are supposed to be a relaxation tool for some people. While this isn't a deal-breaker, pretty much everything else is.
Posture aside, the main problem is switching between the game's two points of view. Basically you're in a jalopy tin-can mech with three other co-pilots in your default view, looking at your instrument panel -- you start every mission in this same manner. In order to actually see outside of your tank (to you know, move, or shoot anything), you have to put both of your hands in front of you to "grab" the panel and pull yourself forward.
This motion never works consistently, and the controller itself (which the game says you need to hold, as both movement and firing are done from it) even blocks your hands from the sensor sometimes. This basically means that in the heat of battle, you're putting your hands in front of you back and forth constantly just to see/shoot/move, and go back to view your instruments.
Once you make the motion to utilize the viewport, you don't have to specifically keep holding your hands forward, but you can easily move in/out of it accidentally, depending on where your hands are at all times -- so basically, not only do you need to sit up straight, but you need to babysit your hand placement as well. This wouldn't be so bad if it actually worked, and you didn't have to constantly move in and out of your viewing area to mess around with pointless switches and gadgets like the HVAC system. To make matters worse, a large AP shell will cause you to shake out of your viewport, which means more two-handed masturbation while fumbling a controller.
The other big issue is that you are required to physically stand up for a lot of sections to pop open the hatch and periodically check out the action. This is a cool idea, but constantly has motion issues, and again, actually looking around is done with the controller, which can hinder the Kinect's sensors. It also means you need even more playing space, because the Kinect needs to detect your head before you're allowed to play the game (and every time you get up to use the bathroom or whatever, you have to recalibrate this).
My breaking point came around Mission 5, which forces you to stand up, and scout for an enemy platoon. After about thirty seconds I found said enemy unit, and was told to "make sure I give the signal so my unit can start up the engines" -- except the game doesn't tell you what "the signal" is. I pressed every button, waved my arms around like an idiot, and even tried to vocalize something for the Kinect mic -- nothing. Eventually we are getting shot at, and then my engine-guy decides to start it up. After that, you have to "juice" the engine yourself by holding your right hand down, grabbing a lever, and pulling. Even though I had been doing this fine the first four missions, for some reason my Kinect shat itself and it wouldn't do it.
After getting killed four times (having to wait for the enemy unit to show itself from the very beginning of the mission each time), I had to go do something else for a while. Eventually, I figured out the mission, and was able to continue on my way. But shortly after that, I had another similar experience that severely impaired my ability to enjoy the game.
Kinect isn't entirely to blame here (as I've had plenty of good Kinect experiences since buying it at launch) as much as the design choices involved. Unfortunately, there is no voice control capability whatsoever; either to augment the experience, or provide an additional control scheme. To add insult to injury, you may be having issues as a result of a false positive when calibrating. To be clear; the calibration tool can be deceiving. Sometimes if you're sitting too far away, the game will correctly calibrate like nothing is wrong, leaving you to guess whether or not everything is fine. After you're unable to grab a pivotal lever and suffer an untimely and frustrating death because you're not immersed in the game's perfect conditions, you may not be inclined to keep playing.
I could have fixed this entire scheme with one simple design philosophy -- allow the player to turn the Kinect off. Simply allow the left analog stick button-click to move the player in and out of the cockpit (a button that is not used, mind you), and by pressing the right analog stick, allow the player the option to select certain instruments -- done and dusted. Utilizing voice commands to bark orders at crew-members (thus not forcing you to wave your arms around) could have also helped immensely, and helped drive the "crew unity" point across much more effectively.
Even then, if you put all of this forced control nonsense aside, you're greeted with one of the most generic games of all time. All of SB:HA's characters are literally stereotypes, including the "aww sheeet!" token black guy and the "haha you must be a virgin... loser!" New York guy. Even the loading screens remind you of the shallow supporting cast, such as the "proud Native American who eventually embraced his heritage", or the "OCD young female". The story is fairly terrible (like a World War 3 Kojima fanfic gone wrong), and the art direction is non-existent, as it's basically a very simple "Army" aesthetic.
The game attempts to have you "connect" with your crew through "fist bumping and hand shaking" Kinect motions, but it falls completely flat due to how unlikable pretty much every character in the game is. Also, these simple movements are often plagued with the above tracking problems.
For those who feel like putting up with the game's controls, there is a full coop feature for up to three other players for some missions. By playing coop you're able to unlock new VT parts, so it's in your best interest to look for people as much as possible. Everyone pilots their own independent Vertical Tanks, and in the few coop sessions I was able to test, I had no latency issues.
All of the above issues are quite a shame -- I liked the original Xbox title (giant controller and all), because it worked. All I had to do is push a button and it did what it needed to do. It was extremely non-user friendly and had some questionable design choices, but ultimately it was beatable, and unique for the time.
Heavy Armor on the other hand isn't unique in any way. At its core, it's a basic mech game with a "realistic and gritty" feel to it that you've seen a million times before. Maybe at some point, the Kinect requirement can be patched out of it. Until then, piloting these Vertical Tanks even while sober may result in a loss of brain cells.
Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor reviewed by Chris Carter
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selmrog wrote:Hi Trubador,
I used the add-in for 5 time series. I think the results are fine?! I attached the work file. My question is, if its possible to get the variance covariance matrix for the time varying correlations to use the matrix for portfolio optimization. I did get it right that the rho_12_01 is the correlation between series 1 and 2 and so on?
Thank you very much for you help!!
Yes, the results "appear to be" fine. However, I cannot verify or validate your model, as it requires a more thorough analysis of diagnostics.
Yes, it is possible to get covariance series (though not as a matrix). Since you already have correlation series, just save the variance series from garch estimations and then use the statistical formula of correlation.
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For his first studio album in eight years, Peter Gabriel came up with an audacious plan. He decided to cover the work of his favourite artists and, in exchange, they would do the same for him. Scratch My Back is the first instalment of this project, and sees the 59-year-old, ex-Genesis man cover the likes of Radiohead, Talking Heads and David Bowie. The artists whose songs you hear here will be returning the favour by performing Gabriel's songs on a forthcoming album, I'll Scratch Yours.
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EDITORIAL: 26 reasons to act: Jessica Rekos
When Richard and Krista Rekos first heard that there had been a shooting at their daughter's elementary school, reports were that a few people had been injured and taken to the hospital.
That part was true. But it did not convey the real horror. Only a few were taken to the hospital because the other 26 children and school staff members struck by hundreds of bullets from a semiautomatic Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that day were dead.
Six-year-old Jessica Rekos was among the victims.
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At her funeral, Krista Rekos described her daughter's struggle to learn how to tie her shoes, until one day when she proudly announced that she'd simply found an instructional video on her iPod and learned how to do it.
One of the horrible truths about what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 14 is that there were so many victims, and so few made it to the hospital that day because of the power and efficiency of the weapon that was used. It was designed to kill a lot of people, very quickly, and it worked exactly as it was designed.
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As a "super fan" who's seen every episode, Jake Lacy knew when he joined The Office that he would be able to do something he had never done before.
"The big special thing is that you can look to the camera," Lacy tells TVGuide.com. "I'm still trying to find a balance because I'm so afraid that every take will look like I'm just staring dead into the camera for 35 seconds. They're like, 'Jake, you can't just look at the camera. You have to look around.' I'm always one foot in, like, this is going really well. And the other foot is, am I completely screwing this up?"
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So far, so good. Lacy made his debut on last week's season premiere as Pete, one of two new hires filling the empty cubicles left behind by Kelly and, subsequently Ryan. So far little is known about Pete, aka "the new Jim," other than he likes NASCAR and hails from Vermont — why else would he root for the Red Sox this season? — much to Jim's disgust. "It was as under wraps to everyone else as it was to me. They just sent out the sides, and the breakdown for it basically said, 'Pete is a new hire,'" Lacy says. "Even when I got on set, there was no, 'Here's the inside scoop.' They just said 'OK, let's shoot.'"
Lacy's nerves didn't really kick in until his first day on set at Dunder Mifflin. "You think, 'I hope I'm doing this justice because as a fan, I have had an emotional connection to these characters and these stories and this show in general.' I don't want to come onto a project and drag that down for the millions of people," he says. "You just have to let it go and think: They hired me for a reason."
However, he isn't the only new hire this season. He joins fellow first-year Clark Duke, who plays Clark, aka "the new Dwight," aka "Dwight Jr." "Luckily we enjoy each other's company because so much of our time is spent together on- or off-camera."
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Lacy found it more difficult to find his place on-screen than off. "It's a bit of a challenge to figure out how to weave yourself into a story that is complete in a lot of ways," he says. "You don't want to step on someone's toes and be like, 'I'm going to do this thing now,' and they're like, 'Yeah, but they write that for me. We don't need two of this or two of that.' You try to find your own special little spot in that world."
Part of that transition stems from the fact that Lacy's past work has been on more traditional sitcoms, like ABC's multi-camera comedy Better with You, which was shot in front of a live studio audience during its one-season run in 2010-2011. Luckily, he's been able to learn about The Office's unique style from the best. "Greg Daniels has a very, quiet wonderful way of getting actors to stop performing and just do things, which is the basis for what makes this show so special," he says. "He really gets you to trust that just saying these words and doing what's right in front of you is more than enough for this format. You don't need to present it."
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Daniels, who adapted the series for America back in 2005 and served as showrunner for the first four seasons, returned to his day-to-day duties this past season in order to — as it was recently revealed — help wrap up the series. "I definitely knew it was a possibility. At the time it was still up in the air and then, the morning that Greg Daniels announced it to the public that this would be the end, he sent out a very kind, comprehensive e-mail to everyone just letting the cast know ahead of time," Lacy says. "I just keep my distance from that because I'm here for a year and then I'm gone and [most of the cast has] been at this for quite a while."
Although many would be disappointed to learn that their new dream job suddenly had an expiration date, Lacy only sees the upside. "Either way, this is a win-win. Three months ago, if you had been like, 'What is the one show you want to be on?' It would have been this show. So that thrill has carried over beyond any sort of looking into the future, like, 'I hope I'm on here for a decade' or 'I hope we are extended for another two or three years,'" he says. "NBC is just going to let them pull out all the stops.
"It's very exciting to be here for this culmination of a 10-year journey both inside that, as a cast member, but also feeling a little outside because they never tell us what's happening. Each week you get a new script and you're like, 'Oh, that's where that's going!'"
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Though she may be from one of the most recognizable country music bloodlines of all time, granddaughter to lonesome country crooner Hank Williams and the daughter of his rowdy Hank Williams Jr., Holly Williams is her own artist with her own voice. And though her lean figure and covetous cheekbones eerily hint at her grandfather's lineage, Williams isn't riding any ancestral coattails. Nor is she trying.
"People assume just because I'm Hank Jr.'s daughter that I wake up in wads of cash every day or something," she told CMT.com during a recent interview. "I have a very successful dad, but he wants us to be our own people. He's always been very supportive."
With a smile, she added, "I mean, he's not going to buy me a tour bus. I wouldn't expect him to."
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And for the past 12 months she's done just that — roving the countryside with her band that also includes her husband and musician Chris Coleman. She's been busy playing gigs to promote her third studio album, The Highway, a soulful collaboration of tunes released earlier this year. The project features introspective and poignant lyrics, much like the album's namesake. Songs like the brooding cheating-song, "Drinkin'," and the adoring ode to her maternal grandparents, "Waiting on June," highlight the project's introspective and poignant lyrics.
In January, she'll be joining Jason Isbell for a few concerts before planning a trip overseas where she looks forward to the international release of her album. By November, she hopes to be working on her next musical project.
In the meantime, Williams is enjoying pounding the pavement to play her music, stopping at local eateries and antique stores along the way, tasting and taking in the local cultures– even if it means being ribbed by one of her bandmates.
"My bass player calls it the 'Tour With Soul'," she grinned. "We do it in a very Jack Kerouac way and experience all the local culture. One day, a tour bus would be great, but I'm happy where I am now."
Hailed as one of CMT's Next Women of Country , Williams has always been one to appreciate a good story. In fact, contrary to what many may assume, Williams wasn't raised on a musical diet of country music alone. Instead, she nurtured her love of storytelling — no matter the genre — developing a voice of her own.
"Even though my dad was a country singer, he didn't play music for us at all at home," she explained. "He said, 'I'm not Bocephus. I'm Daddy.' So when he was home, it was hunting and fishing. It was not music. So I found music I loved."
Gravitating toward singer-songwriters like Jackson Browne, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, she would find herself getting lost in their story webs as well as music from Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell to Dolly Parton and even Jay-Z.
When discovering a musical direction for her own work, Williams refers back to key advice she was once given by a manager, who told her, "Go where you win."
Heeding these wise words, she did just that.
"For me, I win in small, singer-songwriter club, small theaters," she said. "That's my fan base. It's a sit-down, listening crowd, and they love the storytelling part of it and all the stories behind the scenes. It's just going where it fits you. I'm not thinking every single day about what radio station is or isn't playing my song. I'm thinking about putting on the best show I can for the fans. It just teaches you that if you want to do this for a living, you have to keep doing it for yourself."
In fact, just after what she thought had been the last day of recording in the studio for what would become The Highway, Williams told her husband she felt as though the project was missing an important piece to the puzzle.
"There's something else that I need to say," she told him. "'I feel like this album has another song that's supposed to be here, but I just don't know what it is exactly.'"
Surprisingly, she found her answer later that evening while routinely performing one of life's most mind-numbing nuisances — getting gas. As she was filling up her car, Williams began to sing, "Out there on the hiiiiighwaaaay."
"A lot of songs have come to me that way," she detailed. "When I'm driving a car, usually I try and turn my phone off and be still, especially if it's nighttime. I always get a lot of ideas that way. So I started singing the chorus and ran home and told my husband, 'Oh, I have a chorus I love! I have to write it real quick!' And, I finished it that night, and I told my producer the next morning, 'OK, we're not done. We've got to add one more.'"
Her video for the song gives viewers a glimpse into her life out on the open road. With footage of rolling hills, blacktop roads, her beloved band and various venues and hotel rooms, Williams can be seen quietly pondering her thoughts while gently plucking away at the guitar.
A love song to the road, "The Highway" features the lyrics, "I've been sitting here asking him every night/For a brand new song and a peace of mind."
"I'm the girl that prays for a song. I literally do," she said of the song's lyrics. "That may sound ridiculous to some people, but I believe God gives us creativity and ideas, and I'm always praying that I'll get more. You have to be open and in a still moment. Every time I write a song, I feel blessed to be able to have that creativity for it to come out of nowhere like that song did."
Despite her love for traveling and sharing her music, Williams is also passionate about her home life in Nashville where she fancies quiet time with her husband and their two dogs as well as running two local retail stores.
"It definitely feels like two very separate lives," she said. "But that's what to me makes me a better musician or writer because I really have to go away sometimes for a few days — or a week, if I've been on tour for two months — to get creative again and then be able to go back to the piano or guitar and write. It's more like a split-personality feeling. I'm really happy in both places. Which is a good problem to have. I'm not miserable anywhere. I feel very at home in both — trying to balance them."
Looking forward to the year ahead, Williams is eager to join Jason Isbell for a period of time on the road. His highly-praised latest project, Southeastern was her most cherished album of 2013.
"I hope he will love me and want to work together. He's an unbelievable songwriter, and that's really what I grew up in," she said. "I think we both kind of play for those kinds of crowds who love music, and it's about the songs and the storytelling. It's not just about the single. They fall in love with your album."
And though her goals for next year may not be selling out arenas, Williams simply looks to cultivate her craft and touch fans with her storytelling along the way.
"I hope they walk away with at least one song that really pierced them and set with them and made them feel like she's talking about exactly what I'm going through," she said. "For me, I love stories. I hope these stories that I'm telling about have a universal theme we've all been through — love and loss and friends with addiction problems — kind of every emotion just running the gamut. I just hope they saw I had a feeling in my singing and there was passion there."


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2013 Nissan Leaf First Drive
Almost two and a half years after its introduction, the Nissan Leaf's sweet spot may be in sight. The Leaf now exceeds Lotus's annual sales every month and soon will better Lotus and Maserati together. Meanwhile, there have been no reports of garage fires while the Leaf is charging, and the lithium-ion batteries that were baking last summer in Phoenix, impinging the performance of some Leafs, have enjoyed a rare winter that brought a snowfall to the Valley of the Sun.
While the saguaros were snow-covered, the new 475,000-square-foot Nissan Battery Plant came online at Smyrna, Tennessee. This beneficiary of a $1.4 billion Department of Energy loan is capable of adding to industry-wide overcapacity by some 200,000 packs annually. Leaf final assembly for the North American market moves from Oppama, Japan, to Nissan's adjacent Smyrna factory, where the electric runabout is built on the same line as the Altima and the Maxima.
As long as the next-generation battery plant was going in, Nissan took the opportunity to upgrade some important aspects of the Leaf. Or, as product planner Mike Higginbotham put it, "Localization really gave us an opportunity to revisit everything."
A different animal, if you will, from its predecessors, the 2013 Leaf is less platypus and more wombat. It promises greater agreeability in daily use because of new features. Additionally, it's not as pricey. There are now three models: the value-minded S ($29,650, including destination charge), the midrange SV ($32,670), and the leather-trimmed SL ($35,690), which rides quite nicely, thank you, on 17-inch aero-correct alloy wheels and Michelin Energy Saver A/S 215/50R-17 tires. Of course, the stickers don't reflect available federal and state subsidies, which kick back at least $7500 to the trendy young buyers -- some 2336 of them in March -- who just happen to average 750 on their credit scores, probably about the same as they rang up on their SATs.
The '13 Leaf is more aerodynamic and has lost about 150 pounds. It holds more cargo because the onboard charger, now available with 6.6 kW-capacity, moves under the hood from between the rear wheels. Greater range is promised after EPA testing is complete, although Nissan's proviso about actual range and decreasing battery output over time reads almost like the prose you'd find on a cigarette package.
The charging port's door in the nose now opens remotely from the key fob, a light inside the area eases nighttime hookup for either a DC fast-charger or a 220-volt connection, and an automatic locking feature secures the charger in place. (Nissan foresees a quantum jump in charging stations in coming years.) Available interior features include a heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, a unique energy-efficient Bose sound system, and an "Eco Route" choice for the navigation.
The driving experience is pleasant, like listening to the Ray Coniff Singers perform the Beatles' Something. The field of view through the windshield is close to that from within an aerial tram -- although the scenery isn't as interesting -- and the steering is light without being vague. The available B-mode drive setting increases the level of regenerative braking, which translates to fun as you anticipate traffic's chaos with the aim of using the stopping pedal as little as possible.
When the Leaf was launched in December 2010, Nissan forecast the conquest of Toyota Prius customers and intimated that the appetite for an expensive small commuter car was rumbling like a cowpoke with a plate of beans. Then unknown was the soon-to-be-discovered fact that two-thirds of hybrid owners defect to conventional powertrains when trading for a new car. The notion of producing 150,000 Leafs annually in Smyrna was looking like Carlos Ghosn's Ishtar.
The battery plant went ahead anyway, and the lucky dogs involved in Nissan's marketing effort get to figure out how to sell this cute, better mousetrap. It has so many blue accents -- the wheel centers, the badges, even the tip of the dorsal antenna -- that it appears to be frosting up. Last December, Al Castignetti, vice president for sales, told Automotive News about the dealers' "need to go out and find the electric-car buyer in your market." We picture Diogenes, setting forth with his lantern in search of an honest man.
But even with the upgrades, the Leaf is still too expensive and, without the government's generous support, no one would want it. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the skeptical environmentalist himself, Bj¯rn Lomborg, recently revealed a devastating analysis of the EV's real carbon footprint: "If a typical electric car is driven 50,000 miles in its lifetime, the huge initial emissions from its manufacture means the car will actually have put more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than a similar-size gasoline-powered car driven the same number of miles."
Might be great in a couple of decades, he suggests. Or chemistry, as others have said, might be destiny. Either way, for now we see strong appeal in less expensive competitors like the Ford Focus and the Hyundai Elantra. But if you want to take part in a moonshot, the Leaf is your launch vehicle.
2013 Nissan Leaf
- Powertrain
- Electric motor: 80 kW AC synchronous
- Power: 107 hp
- Torque: 187 lb-ft
- Battery: 24 kWh lithium-ion
- Transmission: Single-speed reducer
- Drive: Front-wheel
- Chassis
- Steering: Electrically assisted rack-and-pinion
- Suspension, Front: Independent MacPherson strut, coil springs, stabilizer bar
- Suspension, Rear: Torsion beam, stabilizer bar
- Brakes: Four-wheel disc with regenerative capability, ABS
- Tires: P215/50R-17 all-season (on SL)
- Measurements
- L x W x H: 175.0 x 69.7 x 61.0 in
- Wheelbase: 106.3 in
- Track F/R: 60.6/60.4 in
- Weight: 3256-3340 lb
- Cargo volume (rear seats up/down): 24.0/30.0 cu ft
- Performance
0-60 mph:
- Top Speed: N/A
- EPA Mileage: N/A


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Time for the next entry covering Shawn Riley's list of 101 Tips to Make your EMR and EHR More Useful. I met someone at a conference who commented that they liked this series of posts. I hope you're all enjoying the series as well. This is the second to last post in the series of EMR tips
10. Build performance dashboards, not just quality dashboards
Yes, Dashboards can work well for clinicians, but for support people as well. If you start measuring something and displaying the results of that measurement, then the measurement improves. Study after study has shown this.
9. Flexibility with physician devices is important, but you still need to standardize
I think this is a little bit of an evolving issue. However, it's unreasonable to expect your IT staff to support every platform, every version, and every type of device out there. Tech innovation is moving way too fast and an attempt to go this route will lead to failure. Create some standards so you don't have your IT staff spinning their wheels and cursing your name for a bad policy.
8. Do time studies
My gut reaction to this one is two fold. First, get the data. Don't assume you know the data. Get as much data as possible and focusing on the time it takes to do things is one of the best places to get data since this is incredibly important for users. Second, don't shy away from the truth. If your EHR software has doubled the time it takes to do something, don't be afraid to find that out. It's better to know that there's a problem and try to fix it than to let the problem fester because you didn't want to know the truth.
7. Make sure IT shadows the clinicians
I'd probably take this one step further. If your IT doesn't want to shadow the clinician, then you might want to find other IT. There's no way that IT can help to design the proper system for the clinicians if they don't understand the daily processes that the clinician has to do. Clinicians need to be willing to let IT in on what they do as well. It takes two to Tango and this is certainly true when you're talking about implementing an EHR. It's not nearly as pretty if they aren't dancing together.
6. Use predicative analytics
I'm definitely not an expert on predicative analytics and its application, so I'll just give you Shawn's summary:
Predictive analytics are old hat in most industries. However, health care hasn't put PA in a real forefront of the clinical practice. If you want your physicians (especially in a ED / UC) to be able to prepare for trends due to environment or time, make sure to have PA built into your EMR and easily available for all providers.
If you want to see my analysis of the other 101 EMR and EHR tips, I'll be updating this page with my 101 EMR and EHR tips analysis. So, click on that link to see the other EMR tips.


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TORONTO - A man at the centre of the Maple Leaf Gardens sex abuse scandal is facing new sex assault charges dating back to the 1970s.
Gordon Stuckless, 63, was convicted in 1997 for sex assaults on 24 boys while he was an usher at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto between 1969 and 1988.
Police in Toronto say two people, who are now grown men, have come forward to allege that Stuckless sexually assaulted them on several occasions when they were 11 and 13 years old.
Police say Stuckless was volunteering at a local community centre and sports clubs at the time and believe there may be more victims.
Stuckless was charged today with six counts of indecent assault on a male, assault and possession of a weapon or imitation.
He is scheduled to appear in court on March 22.
In 1997 Stuckless was sentenced to two years less a day but that was later increased to five years.
He was paroled in 2001 after serving two-thirds of his sentence.