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Some our our readers will remember the awesome Tron Lightcyle that we featured on Geeky Gadgets last year, it was made by the guys from Parker Brothers, and now they are back with a new more environmentally friendly version, the Electric Tron Lightcycle.
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Mateusz Dziedzic designed a vision system for industrial robots to calculate object's real position based on the readings gathered from its on-board camera. It can also identify the object's color and size based on the readings. This information can be valuably used for industrial applications in which the position of the object cannot be determined or the object cannot be identified by the robot because the provision wasn't made at the time of robot's creation. Using vision system for industrial robots can substantially reduce the costs involved in executing an industrial automation. While the average industrial computer vision system is very expensive, Mateusz opted for the Colibri T20 Computer on Module to make his project affordable for the masses.
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|Intel 525 SSD mSATA Solid State Drive
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage
|Written by Olin Coles
|Tuesday, 12 February 2013
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Intel SSD 525 Conclusion
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure that all aspects of the product are considered, there are often times unforeseen market conditions and manufacturer changes which occur after publication that could render our rating obsolete. Please do not base any purchase solely on our conclusion, as it represents our product rating specifically for the product tested which may differ from future versions. Benchmark Reviews begins our conclusion with a short summary for each of the areas that we rate.
SandForce has made an enormous impact on the storage market, and as a result Benchmark Reviews has tested plenty of products based on their technology over the past few years. 2012 was filled with countless reviews of SF2281-based SSDs; most sharing performance results nearly identical to one another. It was surprising to find a SandForce SF-2281VB1-SDC inside the Intel SSD 525 Series solid state drive, but it makes perfect sense because this wildly popular SATA 6 GB/s controller has a track record of solid performance and reliability.
Our performance rating considers how effective the Intel SSD 525 Series mSATA solid state drive performs in operations against directly competing SATA-based storage solutions. For reference, SandForce specifies the SF-2281 controller capable of 500 MB/s maximum read/write speeds, which Intel tweaks to 550/520 MB/s sequential read/write. In our storage benchmark tests, the Intel SSD 525 Series solid state drive (model SSDMCEAC240B301) performed at or above this speed, and competed with the fastest SATA-based products previously tested. Our test results proved the Intel SSD 525 Series was good for delivering 557/534 MBps peak read/writes speeds using ATTO Disk Benchmark, which matches performance with the Intel SSD 335 Series as well as the fastest SandForce-based SSDs we've tested. Linear testing with Everest Disk Benchmark produced 470/477 MB/s, placing the Intel SSD 525 Series among the very top results.
The 240GB OEM kit sent us for testing advertises 4 KB random I/O reads reaching 50,000, and up to 80,000 write IOPS for 130,000 combined IOPS. Using a SandForce-provided configuration for our own Iometer operational performance tests, we used a queue depth of 32 outstanding I/O's per target that measured 75,980 combined IOPS performance. In this test, the Intel SSD 525 Series performed well and positioned itself among the highest-I/O products, and measured better than nearly all other SandForce SF-2281 SSDs. In the 4K 32QD tests with AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark, the Intel SSD 525 Series outperformed enthusiast storage solutions like the OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS Edition.
Solid State Drives are low-visibility products: you see them just long enough to install and then they're forgotten. Like their Hard Disk Drive counterparts, Solid State Drives are meant to place function before fashion. Since the Intel 525 SSD is a mSATA-based solid state drive, there's not much room to build up appearances. To this extent, the product fulfills its purpose while maintaining some visual appeal.
Construction is probably the strongest feature credited to the entire SSD product segment, and Intel products have never offered any exception. Solid State Drives are immune to most abuses by nature of their durable technology, but if any Intel SSD 525 Series product fails during the limited 5-year warranty period end-users may contact Intel's customer support. I've personally used Intel's warranty service, and found their customer support to be among the very best on the Planet.
As of February 2013 the Intel SSD 525 Series mSATA solid state drive was available in several capacities from online retailers:
The second-generation SandForce SF-2281 controller included on Intel's SSD 525 Series mSATA solid state drive achieved performance levels eclipsing the fastest SATA-based storage solutions we've tested, while matching performance with the 6 GB/s Intel SSD 335. It's clear by Intel's specifications that SSD 525 is designed to deliver exceptional transfer speeds with emphasis on improved I/O performance. 25nm IMFT NAND Flash components ensure the Intel SSD 525 Series delivers top-end performance for a decade or longer of continuous use, while Intel's five-year product warranty delivers industry-leading protection, Intel's high level of after-sales customer support is far and beyond anything the competition can offer. In consideration of its compact mSATA form factor, top-level performance, and reasonable price, the Intel SSD 525 Series solid state drive series earns our Golden Tachometer Award for excellence.
+ Outstanding 557/534 MBps read/write speed with ATTO
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When I moved to Sydney in 1987 I got to know the city by memorizing its coves and bays. In Los Angeles since 2013, I've memorized where the studios are located. After all, locals often think of Los Angeles and Hollywood synonymously. Paramount is only a $10 cab fare away; Warner Bros is in the Valley. But in another sense I've learned a different geography. What I would call 'classical music's verities' stand out more vividly now.
I had at first considered writing an article entitled 'What Classical Music can learn from Hollywood; what Hollywood can learn from Classical Music'. I was going to include such 'pearls' as: 'You're never finished'. Film scripts, for example, are multi-coloured documents inserting rewrites way beyond the first day of shooting; how does that compare with classical music's sketch, short score, orchestration..?
'It Takes a Village' (apologies to Hillary Clinton) occurred to me while sitting in our local cinema, the Vista, at the junction of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards (where D.W. Griffith filmed the silent epic Intolerance in 1915 before the roads were paved) and realizing that the audience was sitting through fifteen minutes of end-credits. Such appreciation for everyone's work! Classical music may have gotten over the idea of the lone genius starving in the garret. But in Hollywood you find the 'sort of collaboration that once yielded cathedrals', says Billy Mernit, a story-analyst whose classes on dialogue I've taken.
The distance I've travelled through this landscape also makes me sensitive to arguments about 'New Music'. I'm reminded of a former piano teacher who said that when he came back to the piano after a long spell at the harpsichord all he could hear were the piano's hammers. These days I notice the 'shoulds' in the programming debates. Companies should program New Music; people should listen to it.
Maybe it's a worry that our classical music scene doesn't seem to have a big-enough audience for the most future-bound music of our tradition but I wonder if there is another way of looking at this. Los Angeles suggests to me there is. 'Should' just isn't in the vocabulary of anyone in the Green Room of 10,000,000 people that is Los Angeles County.
I guess people have been worrying about the decline in audience-appreciation for our modern repertoire since Henry Pleasants bemoaned the loss of singable themes in The Agony of Modern Music. Oliver Rudland wrote in a recent edition of Standpoint that composers stopped writing tunes because they lost their Christian faith. I don't even think they have to write tunes (!).
But my favourite analysis is that of Richard Taruskin who, in a 2004 edition of The Musical Times, focussed on the idea (fallacious in his mind) that all that matters in a piece of music is the artist's making of it (their 'poiesis'), regardless of the audience's capacity to hear. Taruskin traced what he called 'the poietic fallacy' back to 19th century critics like Alexander Serov or Franz Brendel (remember them?), but in Schoenberg's atonality and 12-tone music he felt that the audience had really been abandoned.
I know Schoenberg tried to help audiences comprehend his new music by emulating classical forms. But the classical forms couldn't serve their previous clarifying purpose once a composer's means of punctuating them (Tonality) was lost. That's not a catastrophe, except that at some point after 1910 you could often detect an idea that composers didn't have to worry themselves if the audience was left behind. The composer's principal, if not sole, job was to extend the musical language; it was the audience's problem if they were bewildered.
'A lot of the cuts are from the first act' says screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, of the Clint Eastwood film J. Edgar, 'because we didn't want the audience to be ahead of it.' [italics added] [1]. 'Subtext helps your audience to participate. It's fantastic if your audience knows a bit more than your characters,' [italics again] says Billy Mernit. What do these seemingly contradictory statements suggest? A filmmaker is constantly shifting their audience's understanding, and the audience is granted enough of the basics to play along? I decided to collar Mernit, since I know him, and put some questions to him.
Billy Mernit is a former songwriter who has had his songs covered by people like Judy Collins and Carly Simon. These days he's a story analyst for Universal Pictures, and is best known for his textbook, Writing the Romantic Comedy. Mernit gets to see and comment on each of the seemingly interminable drafts a screenplay goes through before the cameras roll. How important is consideration of audience to the film work?
'The general rule of thumb is that with most writers, first draft is for you. Second draft is where you start to take into consideration who it's for and who might respond to it,' he says, when I catch up with him in the sculpture garden at UCLA, where he does some teaching. 'In the Hollywood studio system it is almost scientific. One of the first questions any executive asks of a project is "what's the demographic?" "who's the intended audience?" "how do we expect to sell this thing?" because it's in the studio system that you're dealing with major money.
'And by the way, back in the Silent Era, in the early days of Hollywood, a lot of the stuff that is now sort of codified, in its nascent form was responding to audience. In some of the earliest Silent Movies, like Chaplin two-reelers, audiences were going "give us more of that. We love that." And only when the audience created the demand for things, did Hollywood say, "Hmm, if we put a woman in the picture with that comedian we'll expand our audience" – things like that.'
So, could I take another Clintonian expression and turn it into one of my 'lessons' – 'It's the Audience, Stupid'?
'Well, the slight confusion in the question, the thing that's being conflated is …it's creator versus producer, meaning a creator may not be thinking of the audience; a screenplay might be a very personal endeavour. But the producers of a screenplay are thinking audience first and foremost.
'I don't want to be too glib about this because if you're a story analyst who's worth what they pay you, on a certain level there's this naive, fundamental "does this get me excited?" You have to have a personal response to it. And that, by the way, goes with producers as well. You don't necessarily get into producing unless you have a great love for movies, like a good story and want to be involved. So I'm responding as a human being, that's the litmus test. If it grabs me and I'm thinking "I've gotta keep turning these pages", I am the audience; with the producer's hat on. I don't think of things in terms of what's commercial or not. It's more "is there something in the story that speaks to some kind of audience beyond myself?" Everything should be personal, of course, and the most personal projects are quite often the most impassioned and unique, right? but it's a communicative medium.'
A producer like 1930s whizkid Irving Thalberg (the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'last tycoon') thought that the success of a movie was arbitrated solely by the audience, director Billy Wilder's 'wonderful people out there in the dark'. I wonder if the classical music fear of giving so much consideration to audience response is that we would lose out on masterpieces?
Says Mernit: 'Well, it's not like Mozart or Verdi or Vivaldi were writing extremely esoteric masterpieces that were being foisted on an unsuspecting public; they were using the popular vernacular. But the crucial difference is that Hollywood is not attempting to make the general public watch a Godard movie. You can have a Best Picture winner like 12 Years a Slave and it's something that people can relate to, whereas much modern classical music – unless it's Minimalist – is very difficult for most audience members to even hear. It's as if you were making a movie with a strange lens on the projector.'
I find myself wondering if classical music would ever get to this level of deference to the public. After all A Composer's Cohort, an article on the Opera America website, says, '…try not to worry about the reception….Whether the audience likes your piece is arbitrary but informative.' I can't help feeling that not only would this be a strange abdication of skill in the movie world which is premised on predicting hits (and often does), school teachers wouldn't say, 'I have no idea at what point I lose my students' nor would sales personnel concede, 'I have no idea when I've lost the buyer.'
And it's not as if classical music was always in such an unknowing position. A classical composer knew that if you put an A minor chord after a G while you were in the key of C, an audience would experience interruption. Wagner knew that if he kept withholding resolution of the 'Tristan chord' we in the audience would lean in with yearning. And I'm convinced Tchaikovsky set his audience up so that they would burst into applause at the end of the march in the 'Pathétique' and feel all the more excruciatingly the wrench into the Adagio lamentoso which in fact ends the symphony.
Do classical music writers want to second-guess the audience? Do they want positive reinforcement of their vision that badly? I wonder what would happen for contemporary repertoire if the practitioners began to 'Think like Thalberg'; if classical music had its equivalents of film producers, people in orchestras who could stand between a CEO and a Director of Artistic Planning, a CAO (Chief Artistic Officer) if you like, with the authority to say, 'Look, the audience feels you've got ten minutes more music than thematic material. I saw them fidgeting at the preview we set up to test their responses.'
These are just some of the thoughts that have come to me from immersing myself in a different artistic milieu. But to come back to an earlier promise, what can Hollywood learn from classical music? I said above I was thinking of writing about each artform's lessons for the other.
So far I only have one, but it's big, and fairly reaffirming. Paradoxically it's something about form. In Save the Cat, probably the most popular screenwriting text of today, the book that every second aspiring screenwriter working on WiFi in Starbucks has sitting by their elbow, the author Blake Snyder says 'Act II begins on page 25. No, please. Don't argue'. Yes, but I will. (By the way, since screenplays are formatted so that one page equals one minute of running time, this is even more restrictive than it sounds.)
Classical music wouldn't buy this. Classical Sonata Form, for example, is a 3-Act structure. It was a screenwriting teacher, Sydney's Linda Aronson, who made me think about this. Classical Sonata Form contains exposition, development, and recapitulation. There are certain goals it must satisfy but look, there is a world of variation in the way Haydn, Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich and others even closer to our time went about it. Classical music proves you don't have to be rigidly formulaic.
But screenwriting may not be as schematic as I think. I put this to Billy Mernit. 'It gets moved around a lot,' he says. 'The A-teamers are not slaves to those kinds of restrictive formulas really.' And then I think of Pulp Fiction – three acts functioning traditionally but out of real-life chronological order, containing enough that's familiar for an audience to appreciate what's fresh. Yes, even as I continue to try to learn from classical music, Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction's screenwriter/director) proves you can create an innovative masterpiece that is also popular.
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Following Saturday's UFC Fight Night 23 event, the attention turns to the organization's next venture: a stacked Super Bowl weekend show, UFC 126.
And the traditional pre-event preview show returns Feb. 2 with the debut of "Countdown to UFC 126" on Spike TV.
The pay-per-view event takes place Feb. 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas with an Anderson Silva vs. Vitor Belfort middleweight title fight and a Forrest Griffin vs. Rich Franklin co-headliner.
The preview shows debuts Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on Spike TV.
Replays air Feb. 5 at 2 a.m. ET/PT and 6 p.m. ET/PT on Spike TV.
The in-depth "Countdown" show focuses primarily on the night's long-awaited title fight. Initially, Silva was expected to fight Chael Sonnen in a rematch of their UFC 117 meeting, which the champ won with a come-from-behind fifth-round submission. But when Sonnen failed a post-fight drug test, officials pulled Vitor Belfort from a UFC 122 headliner with Yushin Okami and booked him for the Silva meeting.
In addition to the title fight, a future light-heavyweight title challenger could be determined from the night's two key 205-pound matchups. In addition to former champs Franklin and Griffin, up-and-comers Jon Jones and Ryan Bader meet in a pivotal bout. Each winner eyes a shot at champ Maurio "Shogun" Rua or Rashad Evans, who headline March's UFC 128 event.
The full UFC 126 card includes:
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Scope and Contents: Letter, December 18, 1968, from Robert Graves to Major Esprey, reminiscing about World War I. Also, included is a color reproduction of a painting of Robert Graves by John Aldridge. 1 ALS, 1 p.; i color print. Acc. # 644.


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Dublin, Monday, July 30th, 2018 – Fear of litigation and perceived safety concerns and are among the key factors influencing the decision to perform a caesarean section, according to a major international literature review conducted by researchers at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin.
The rising rate of caesarean sections (CS) worldwide, despite the considerable evidence that vaginal birth is safer and associated with fewer complications, is a growing concern among women and healthcare professionals.
In a systematic review of 34 international studies conducted in 20 different countries, Trinity researchers have found that 'clinicians' beliefs' are the main factor influencing obstetricians' and midwives' decisions to perform CS. These beliefs were mostly related to clinicians' personal preferences, an over-estimation of the degree of risk associated with vaginal birth or vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC), and caesarean sections being seen as a safe and convenient option.
Fear of litigation and professional agreements and disagreements were identified as key factors in the decision-making process, according to the study, published recently in the journal, PLOS ONE. Insufficient human and physical resources, lack of unified guidelines, financial benefits to the hospital, and private versus public health care facilities were also influencing factors, ultimately contributing to the rise in rate of CS, according to the authors.
The systematic review, part of a Health Research Board-funded study, describes the views of 9,008 midwives and obstetricians obtained from research conducted over the 24-year period from 1992 to 2016. It provides in-depth understanding of clinicians' views of the factors that influence the decision to perform a CS and so will be of significant benefit to policy-makers seeking to improve and promote normal births and reduce CS rates.
Lead author, Sunita Panda, PhD candidate and Health Research Board Research Fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity commented: "Caesarean section rates are increasing worldwide, particularly among first-time mothers, with limited explanation of the factors that influence the rising trend. This is a big concern for health care professionals because vaginal birth is safer and associated with fewer complications. Our research is the first systematic review of international research on the topic and it gives important insight into the 'why' behind the rising rate of CS. Our study identified the significant influence of 'fear of litigation' on clinicians' decision to perform CS, irrespective of hospital setting, age, gender, professional experience, resources and culture within the health care system."
Professor Cecily Begley, Chair of Nursing and Midwifery in Trinity College Dublin, and co-author of the paper, commented: "This research generates strong evidence to influence clinical practice. Clinicians often have multiple reasons for deciding to perform a CS; however, the key issue is the justification of these reasons and the impact of the decision on the mother and baby. This study will be of significant benefit to policy-makers seeking to improve and promote normal births and reduce CS rates."
Key findings:
- Fear of legal consequences and litigation was a major and significant influence on the decision to perform CS. Most of the perceived fear related to legal consequences arising from complications associated with vaginal birth compared with birth by CS, despite the fact that CS causes more maternal mortality and morbidity.
- Decision-making was further influenced by clinicians' perception of the small degree of risk involved in performing a CS and their belief in CS being a 'safe' procedure compared to vaginal birth.
- Personal convenience for obstetricians also influenced the decision to perform CS rather than aim for vaginal birth, and related to perceptions of CS being an organised, orderly, convenient and controlled birthing option compared to attempts at vaginal birth and having to be available throughout labour, day and night.
- Midwives' perspectives differed, and they viewed 'convenience' as a cause of unnecessary CS.
- Inter-professional conflict, differences in attitudes, and lack of cooperation among midwives and obstetricians, and obstetricians with different levels of experience, are some other reported factors that influenced the decision to perform a CS, or a repeat CS instead of aiming for vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC).
- The influence of private health care systems was mentioned frequently by clinicians, sometimes in association with financial payments, or benefits to the hospital.
- Lack of hospital guidelines or clinicians' unawareness of the existing guidelines and protocols were other factors that influenced the decision-making process.
- Clinicians viewed maternal request as one of the factors, which was mostly influenced by women's socio-cultural perspective, their preferences, demands and obstetricians' perception of women's anxiety and fear. The study findings suggested that obstetricians more so than midwives were inclined to support women's request to perform a CS.
Professor Michael Turner, a collaborator on this research study, and UCD Professor for Human Reproduction at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, added: "This innovative research is important because the evidence is that caesarean section rates are continuing to escalate and have not yet plateaued. About one in three births in Ireland is now by either elective or emergency section. If we are to reverse this trend nationally, we need to better understand the complexity of the decisions made by women and their obstetricians."
Assistant Professor Dr Deirdre Daly, the supervisor of the PhD work, added: "It is really important to understand these factors because they influence individual clinicians' attitudes towards the natural progress of labour and spontaneous birth, even when the woman and baby are well and have no risk factors. This then leads to the decision to intervene prematurely, often without medically justifiable reasons."
A digital copy of the paper, "Clinicians' views of factors influencing decision-making for caesarean section", is available here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200941
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Each developer at Impulsis must say that with many years of experience working as Magento developers they are confident that there's no need to migrate to a new Magento website if you don't want your business to move forward, but leave everything as it is.
If you want your online business grow in the right direction you should know about a huge variety of merchandising and promotion opportunities that Magento offers.
Let's observe some simple cases & solutions that will help you drive traffic to your website after it gets relaunched.
Banners and Blocks
Have you seen a website with the top banner saying a "New Year Sale" in summer? I did, and it's one of the reasons that will make your potential customers go to look somewhere else.
If you have a website built with Magento, you should know that it allows you to make your content dynamic, relevant and interesting. So don't forget that your Magento developer has to make everything content-managed for you to keep the content up-to-date.
All customers love sales. Well, we all do. So, make sure you have an in-built functionality for special offers, events, like discounts, sales, voucher codes, etc. In this way, you will be engaging your customers to buy the featured products and subscribe to your website to be notified when a new deal comes.
Customer Rewards
Yes, rewards and everybody likes being rewarded! When somebody buys sth at the store, no matter if it's online clothing store or a supermarket, the customer feels so happy when receiving a present for a made purchase. It's like you buy two and get the third for free, buy sth more expensive and receive a cheaper gift for free, or you get a virtual currency (points) to be spent while making your other purchase… there are so many options to encourage the repeat customers to come back more, again and again.
And I have a great news for you — Magento Enterprise Edition has the rewards functionality that comes with solutions, like Sweet Tooth available for Community Edition. So don't forget to discuss this option with the developers.
Customer Segmentation
All the products have their target groups of people. If you sell different types of them it will be right to notify only the specifically target customers in order not to "spam" all of them.
Let me give you an example to explain what I mean.
If you sell clothing for all men, women, children and other household stuff, it will be great to collect your customers personal data, like age, sex, if they have children, size, etc. And give them information that is more relevant and interesting for them.
Thus, if you want your website to be more engaging you will need to have set the extensions of Community Edition.
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If your commercial website has a social activity (e.g. Facebook business page and other) that encourages the customers to be subscribed in order to be aware of all the new stuff that appears, as sales, rewards, new collections, you can get your followers bringing you new followers when you say — "Like this post/page and share it to receive a 15% discount on all summer clothing collection".
Sounds good? Then make your website live a social life as well.
All I want to say is that your eCommerce business should stand out from the competition. I'm not saying that Magento website will make your business go better, what I want to say is that it gives all the possibilities to let your business go better.
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Was this the most amazing Swedish summer ever, or what!!? I can't believe how hot it was here. Like genuinely HOT! 🔥🔥🔥 That's not usually something you can claim about Swedish weather.
My fiancé, Henrik, and I have typically taken on the habit of spending some of the summer break months abroad; however, by an unusual stroke of luck, we didn't plan anything this year. It was the first summer we have spent entirely in Sweden, and I couldn't be more happy about it! We are currently planning a very extravagant wedding and really needed to save up. So, we decided to have a "staycation" here in Stockholm. At the beginning of July, when all of our friends left for a bunch of awesome Instagramable destinations and we stayed home, I have to admit that I did have a little FOMO initially. Yet, something in the universe must have been on our side.
Henrik and I had the most awesome summer together. We became home-town tourists and explored Stockholm like never before. WE DID IT ALL! We hiked, swam, picnicked, picked our own flowers at Ulriksdal's Trädgård (pictured above,) and walked all over the whole city. We even escaped on several fun day trips.
Norrköping is one of our favorite day trips to take outside of Stockholm—year round! It only takes about a two-hour drive from central Stockholm to get there. This pretty river walk view (above) is just one many of the fun things to see.
Norrköping also has one of our favorite burgers ever! If you ever make it to Burgers and Bangers, try "The Coolio," It has Swedish Västerbotten cheese on it and is insanely good. The owner told us that it used to be on their regular menu but they took it off. Then, people kept asking for it, so it's now on their "secret" menu.
This cute little outdoor garden inspired summer bar in Norrköping (above) is called
Trädgår'n. It's the perfect location for drinking a crisp summer rosé while
sitting outside in the sunshine. I highly recommend a visit!
After this glorious summer, I've realized that sometimes you should just take things as they come. Say "Ç'est la vie!" and move on with your day (or month) and make the best of it. Occasionally the universe does have your back and things can turn out for the better. Thanks, universe! 💫✨
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Q. I like to add pinto beans to soups and pastas, but I hate how long they take to cook. The whole process of soaking them overnight to soften them and then boiling them for what seems like forever is a serious deterrent to eating them very often. I know that you can buy them in cans, but I don't trust all the stuff they add to canned food, and the texture just never seems right anyway. I have been looking for a way to cook and preserve pinto beans in advance. Someone suggested canning but I don't really know how to do that. I guess what I want to know is, Can you freeze pinto beans?
A. You're absolutely correct when you say it feels like it takes forever to cook pinto beans! They take about two hours to fully cook to the right texture, and not many people want to be bothered to do that on a regular basis. However, the good news is that yes, you can freeze pinto beans! You still have to go through the whole cooking process, but if you make them in a large batch, you will only have to cook once and then get to eat several times before needing to do it all over again.
Bags of dried beans typically yield about two cups of dried beans, so I recommend cooking up at least one bag of dried beans at a time. The beans will expand upon cooking, and then expand a bit more upon freezing, so you will have a nice stash of frozen pinto beans when you're done. Begin by cooking the pinto beans. Sort through them first and discard any small pebbles you may find. Wash the beans. Then, soak the beans overnight first if you wish. This cuts down the cooking time required. Cook the pinto beans according to the instructions on the package. Then allow to cool completely.
Place cool, cooked pinto beans in freezer bags or freezer safe containers. Ladle enough of the cooking liquid over the beans to completely cover them. This will keep them from drying out. Leave an inch or two of headroom at the top of the container to allow for expansion during the freezing process. Seal the containers, then label and date them. Frozen pinto beans should be used within about 3 months for best results. To thaw, simply remove from the freezer and allow to thaw in the fridge.


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19. At home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson (audio) - incomplete, because I fried my iPod, but I didn't want to forget it on the list.... eventually I'll listen to the rest. It's entertaining.
18. Barefoot Sisters: Southbound, by Lucy Letcher and Susan Letcher - the personal story of two sisters hiking the Appalachian Trail together. It is written in the first person, and they take turns writing chapters. Very captivating, more so than I thought it would be... recommended.
17. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald - a re-read, still liked as much this time as before. Recommended.
16. The Magician King: A Novel (The Magicians), by Lev Grossman - sequel to The Magicians. I think I liked it better than the first.
15. The Fiery Cross, by Diana Gabaldon (audio) - the 3rd and 4th in a series. These books are a little too "romance novel-y" for me on paper, but they are great for car listening. The reader does a fabulous job with a variety of Scottish, English, and American accents, and they are fun to listen to.
14. Drums of Autumn, by Diana Gabaldon (audio) - see above


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Can you believe it? Summer is simply flying through. What's also flying are all the amazing projects fellow TOCPUG'ers are cranking out!
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- The prevailing belief: Art/Technology 50/50.
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From Proteopedia
Structure of the Interleukin-15 quaternary complex
Structural highlights
[IL2RG_HUMAN] Defects in IL2RG are the cause of severe combined immunodeficiency X-linked T-cell-negative/B-cell-positive/NK-cell-negative (XSCID) [MIM:300400]; also known as agammaglobulinemia Swiss type. A form of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of rare congenital disorders characterized by impairment of both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, leukopenia, and low or absent antibody levels. Patients present in infancy recurrent, persistent infections by opportunistic organisms. The common characteristic of all types of SCID is absence of T-cell-mediated cellular immunity due to a defect in T-cell development.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Defects in IL2RG are the cause of X-linked combined immunodeficiency (XCID) [MIM:312863]. XCID is a less severe form of X-linked immunodeficiency with a less severe degree of deficiency in cellular and humoral immunity than that seen in XSCID.[11] [12]
[I15RA_HUMAN] High-affinity receptor for interleukin-15. Can signal both in cis and trans where IL15R from one subset of cells presents IL15 to neighboring IL2RG-expressing cells. Expression of different isoforms may alter or interfere with signal transduction. Isoform 5, isoform 6, isoform 7 and isoform 8 do not bind IL15. Signal transduction involves STAT3, STAT5, STAT6, JAK2 (By similarity) and SYK.[13] [14] [IL15_HUMAN] Cytokine that stimulates the proliferation of T-lymphocytes. Stimulation by IL-15 requires interaction of IL-15 with components of IL-2R, including IL-2R beta and probably IL-2R gamma but not IL-2R alpha. [IL2RG_HUMAN] Common subunit for the receptors for a variety of interleukins. [IL2RB_HUMAN] Receptor for interleukin-2. This beta subunit is involved in receptor mediated endocytosis and transduces the mitogenic signals of IL2.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Interleukin 15 (IL-15) and IL-2 have distinct immunological functions even though both signal through the receptor subunit IL-2Rbeta and the common gamma-chain (gamma(c)). Here we found that in the structure of the IL-15-IL-15Ralpha-IL-2Rbeta-gamma(c) quaternary complex, IL-15 binds to IL-2Rbeta and gamma(c) in a heterodimer nearly indistinguishable from that of the IL-2-IL-2Ralpha-IL-2Rbeta-gamma(c) complex, despite their different receptor-binding chemistries. IL-15Ralpha substantially increased the affinity of IL-15 for IL-2Rbeta, and this allostery was required for IL-15 trans signaling. Consistent with their identical IL-2Rbeta-gamma(c) dimer geometries, IL-2 and IL-15 showed similar signaling properties in lymphocytes, with any differences resulting from disparate receptor affinities. Thus, IL-15 and IL-2 induced similar signals, and the cytokine specificity of IL-2Ralpha versus IL-15Ralpha determined cellular responsiveness. Our results provide new insights for the development of specific immunotherapeutics based on IL-15 or IL-2.
Mechanistic and structural insight into the functional dichotomy between IL-2 and IL-15.,Ring AM, Lin JX, Feng D, Mitra S, Rickert M, Bowman GR, Pande VS, Li P, Moraga I, Spolski R, Ozkan E, Leonard WJ, Garcia KC Nat Immunol. 2012 Oct 28. doi: 10.1038/ni.2449. PMID:23104097[15]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Games of Glory Interview: The Lightbulb Crew CEO talks PS4/PC Cross-Play, Free to Play and Much More
The Lightbulb Crew CEO Anders Larsson talks about the team's upcoming title Games of Glory for PS4 and PC.
The Lightbulb Crew is soon going to launch its free-to-play top-down action team shooter Games of Glory, and recently DualShockers had a chat with CEO Anders Larsson to hear directly from him what the game is all about.
In the video interview that you can enjoy below, Larsson talks about a variety of topics, from cross-platform between PC and PS4, to the choice of free to play as a business model. He also touches some of the deeper concepts behind the design of the game, and what makes it stand apart from the rest, on top of the differences with traditional MOBA games.
Interestingly, we also get an explanation of the game's "clubs" feature, that serves as a bridge between PS4 and PC.
You can check out the video below, and if you want to read more and see a couple of trailers, you can also head to our announcement post.


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Training on HIV Viral Load and Infant Virological Testing Scorecard:
A key step to support the scale up of viral load testing toward the achievement of the 'third 90'
Monitoring the continuum of viral load testing at the facility level is important to help identify potential bottlenecks that can limit the scale up of viral load testing for improved patient management, and delay the achievement of the 'third 90'. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed the 'HIV Viral Load and Infant Virological Testing Scorecard', a laboratory- and clinic-based tool, to help define, improve, and measure improvement of efficiencies across the viral load testing spectrum. Expanding the use of the scorecard has the potential to help improve the overall quality and efficiency of VL testing for improved patient management.
The Pan-African Consortium (PAC) is a joint collaboration between the Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidémiologique et de Formation/Cheikh Anta Diop University (IRESSEF/CADU), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM). The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funds the PAC to assist supported countries to further advance and sustain access to quality-assured HIV laboratory services, and bridge the gaps towards the 90-90-90 targets. Under this umbrella, ASLM supports various activities for the scale up of viral load testing.
ASLM and the International Laboratory Branch of the United States CDC organized a training that took place 25-26 February 2019 to support the use of the HIV Viral Load and Infant Virological Testing Scorecard by laboratory staff and implementing partners from PEPFAR-supported countries. The training was conducted under the umbrella of the PAC, facilitated by Global Health System Solution (GHSS) and hosted by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI).
Twenty-six staff from laboratory facilities and implementing organizations from 10 African countries participated in the two-day didactic and practical training. They learnt how to use the scorecard for auditing viral load and infant virological testing laboratories.
Dr Peter Fonjungo from CDC Atlanta's International Laboratory Branch brought his expertise to this training by explaining that auditors should conduct a reassessment of laboratories conducting viral load and infant virological testing after 6 months to monitor and evaluate improvements in resolving gaps that they see in their baseline audit.
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Established in 2011, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) is a pan-African professional body focused on improving healthcare by strengthening all aspects of laboratories including workforce strengthening, quality improvement and accreditation, harmonization of regulations, strengthening of networks, and strengthening advocacy and communications. Laboratory testing is pivotal for disease diagnosis, epidemiological surveillance, outbreak investigation, and initiation and monitoring of treatment, as well as research and development. ASLM addresses these challenges by working collaboratively with governments; national, regional and international organizations; implementing partners, the private sector and other agencies to achieve its Strategic Vision goals. ASLM is endorsed by the African Union with support from the World Health Organization, Africa CDC, the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the World Bank, the Clinton Foundation, UNAIDS, and others.
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I know that I have.
So, over the holidays, in between watching a buttload of episodes of "The Wire" on DVD, I learned to speak Cat.
It was either that or Italian, and since I'm off Italian women…
I can see that you are skeptical. (About the Cat thing, not the Italian chick embargo.) Permit me to demonstrate.
Scamp: You don't HAVE to fuck off, but it would be really super if you did.
Whiskers: That's not you talking, man. It's the 'nip.
Scamp: Please… I'm barely using any of the stuff. It's purely recreational.
Whiskers: And I suppose that you can quit at any time?
Scamp: Absolutely.
Whiskers: You are lying to yourself. Tell him, Sir William James Purrington III.
Sir William James Purrington III: Well… see… the thing with catnip is… and studies have shown…
Whiskers: Yeah, thanks. You've been helpful.
Scamp: I appreciate the concern, but–
Whiskers: It's that Princess next door, isn't it?
Scamp: Princess has nothing to do with anything. I'm just bummed that they cancelled "The O.C."
Whiskers: We all are, but it's more than that. You fell for her, didn't you?
Scamp: No. Not at all.
Whiskers: Come on. She did that neck nuzzle, deep purring thing. It got to you.
Scamp: So what if it did?
Whiskers: But, you let her know that she was getting to you. You gave her the upper paw!
Scamp: That's crazy.
Whiskers: Is it? What do you think, Sir William James Purrington III?
Sir William James Purrington III: Well, relationships… They are a tricky thing… When emotions… Feelings are–
Whiskers: Exactly!
Scamp: Listen, I'm fine. I just want to read today's Garfield strip and be left alone.
Whiskers: Can't do it, homey. We are going to get you off the 'nip. And there is a cat show tonight down at the civic center. We'll go chase some tail. You'll see.
(They are interrupted by some humans speaking nearby.)
Scamp: I wonder what that is about.
Whiskers: Sir William James Purrington III, you can speak human. What are they saying?
Sir William James Purrington III: Well… Okay… I'm a bit rusty, you know… Someone named Britney is in rehab… Uh oh…
Whiskers: What is it?
Sir William James Purrington III: It's just that… Not sure how to… Princess has fleas.
Scamp: I can't believe this.
Whiskers: (scratching himself) Me neither.
Scamp: Don't tell me…
Whiskers: You know that I have a weakness for calicos.
Scamp: Bastard.
Whiskers: Sorry, dude.
Scamp: Forget it. I need a flea bath.
Whiskers: Me too.
Sir William James Purrington III: Me too.
Scamp and Whiskers stop in their tracks.
Whiskers: You?!?
Sir William James Purrington III: Well, she was… playing with a roll of toilet paper… It was double-quilted… Double-quilted, motherfuckers!!!
The three kittens walk quietly down the hall together.
Whiskers: So, that Pat Robertson is a huge sack of crap, eh?


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Yet another reason to be proud of my old alma mater. Our friends at Inside INdiana Business report:
The Innovate Indiana Fund is the latest in a series of moves by Indiana University President Michael McRobbie aimed at leveraging IU's substantial entrepreneurial research capabilities, technology and business resources in an effort to help grow the state's economy.
In early November, IU dedicated a new $10 million Innovation Center, which will serve as a state-of-the-art home for university researchers and start-up companies. The center is expected to be a hub for alliances between the information technology (IT) and life sciences sectors and as an anchor for a new technology corridor along 10th Street and the Indiana 45/46 Bypass in Bloomington.
IU has proven this year that translating innovation into successful companies in the marketplace can be lucrative. Angel Learning, which grew out of IU's Emerging Technologies Center in Indianapolis, was sold for $100 million, making it the largest single commercialization deal in the history of the university. Because of the investment in the company, IU and its Research and Technology Corporation realized $23 million for the sale.
In 2007, McRobbie named Bill Stephan as vice president of engagement, with a focus on connecting the university with businesses and communities statewide in an effort to help enhance economic development and quality of life in the state.


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This is not one of the supply of good articles about the impact of fireworks on people with autism and other special needs. (Hint to save you a lot of reading: People agitated by sensory issues don't like boom boom boom).
No, this is another sad tale of freedoms taken for granted and lost, such that not even the most manipulative candidate can come up with an impossible election year promise to bring them back.
We don't get to attend fireworks shows because by the time it is dark our son's evening medications are making him drowsy and he doesn't like going out.
Mind you, when we want to turn in early he's quite capable of staying up all night making noise.
But going out for 4th of July fireworks is out of the question. The problem worsened when we moved up here over the northern horizon. In the summer it's not dark enough for fireworks until about 9 p.m.
So sad, because when I worked at a local hospital I realized that the top of one of its parking towers provided a panoramic view of several area fireworks shows. So we tried packing snacks and driving up there, figuring that Joey would be fine reclining in our own familiar minivan.
But he protested, almost melted down and made things miserable.
Some caregivers work up to their elbows in bodily wastes and gore. That's been a sporadic demand for us, but our greater challenge has been the steady elimination of freedoms – we can't be spontaneous; social life is whittled away; we can't park on a roof and watch fireworks.
Am I whining again? Well…


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6 Critical Digital Marketing Tips
Digital marketing can be daunting for the uninitiated. However, there are so many thought leaders out there that are trying to break down the barriers for those that come after them that you don't have to go at it alone. Consider the following digital marketing tips and strategies, when putting together your B2B, PPC or content marketing strategies:
LinkedIn Not FaceBook
Mark Schaefer, of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, says FaceBook gets all of the hype, but LinkedIn and LinkedIn Groups are the best way to market. He said there are over 800,000 different professional groups on LinkedIn and they are segmented by topic, industry and geography. That makes it much easier to target your audience, answer questions and solve problems. He argues content that moves is power.
No Flash in the Plan
Curt Porritt, Sr. VP of marketing for MasterControl, recommends using videos or Flash tours and offering them for free in sharing content marketing. He said people will almost always watch something before they'll read it. Videos shouldn't be more than 3 minutes long.
Don't' Reinvent the Wheel
This B2B Lead Generation Guide and this PPC Management Guide can take some of the hassle out of the steps to lead generation best practices and proven marketing activities, and best of all, both are free. The B2B guide delves into creating content that generates leads, how to deploy it and the methodologies behind all of it. The PPC Management Guide addresses a wide range of issues from keyword intent, which words to target and how it applies to Google, Ad Words and Bing Ads.
Embed Your Sharing
Michael Stelzner, CEO of Social Media Examiner, said good blogs, tweets or podcasts need to have embedded social shares build into the files. He said those triggers will strategically put you in a position where others will share your great content-generating traffic and buzz.
He said great content needs to be shared, not remain hidden.
Don't Overdo It
Louis Foong, a B2B marketing expert, said some companies focus so much on sexy tactics in social media, that they sacrifice content and needed focus in the process. Quality, not quantity, needs to be the focus of lead generation.
People Matter
A survey of 5,000 business customers done by Harvard researchers showed customer loyalty is more a function of how people sell, rather than what they sell.
Waynette Tubbs, the managing editor of SAS, said many companies fail because they spend too much time tooting their own horn, instead of learning who their audience is and letting them guide the message. She suggests making the customer the hero by telling their stories, posting their blogs and re-tweeting their 'aha' moments.
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A leadership team that cares
Our management team is impeccable, and comprised of patriots and scholars. Their leadership inspires superior performance from all of us every day.
Sean Davis
Clinical Administrator
Our day to day clinical administrator is Sean Davis. He is also the Director of Therapy. Sean knows the moments, hours, days, weeks, and months of hard work that it sometimes takes to achieve full recovery. He has walked shoulder to shoulder with literally hundreds of clients during his 22 years in the field. Imagine the sheer amount of miles Sean has covered over that time. But before taking a step he graduated from college and enlisted in the military.
Right out of High School, Sean served in the United States Navy at the Air Facility in Detroit. From 1989-1993, Sean earned his degree in Physical Therapy from The Ohio State University.
Sean has witnessed the many dramatic changes in health care since he started. He has personally implemented new protocol as the field of in-home therapy has matured and developed. Sean has seen first hand and welcomed the expansion of oversight and regulation designed to protect our clients. Every day Sean keeps close track of the medical service domain and applies his acumen directly to our patrons.
Without Sean, the day-to-day gears of the Patriot Homecare operation would grind to a halt. Because of Sean, Greg and Craig are free to do what they do best.
Greg Davis
V.P. of Business Operations
Greg Davis is the vice president of business operations. Greg concentrates primarily on the business development portion of Patriot. Based on his education and first hand knowledge, he represents our company to the community and region with authority.
From 1989-1993 Greg was enlisted in the Navy and served during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 1997 he graduated from Youngstown State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. By 2000, he advanced to the position of administrator for a skilled nursing facility. He served in that capacity until 2004 when he shifted into another dimension of the industry.
From 2004-2006, Greg worked as a pharmaceutical salesman. Then, for six years he sold medical devices and equipment. As an example, Greg has detailed involvement with KCI wound vacs. Because of his rounded profile as a field nurse, salesman, and administrator, Greg knows everything there is to know about how the devices function, and what it takes to get them for our clients.
As a field nurse, Greg has personally applied wound vacs and cared for patients who needed them. As a sales professional, he knows how much they cost, who the competitors are, and which products are the highest quality. His tenure as an administrator means he knows how to negotiate the approval process. He is an expert at obtaining everything from surgery notes to signatures from doctors. Greg is also the one who invests his time in countless phone calls with case workers and insurance companies to procure the necessary authorizations and documentation. He is our community relations personality. While Greg Davis is our external representative, there is one more essential aspect of Patriot that takes place largely behind the scenes.
Craig Colton
President and CEO
Craig Colton is our president and chief executive officer. Like Sean and Greg, he is a veteran. He served in the United States Army during desert Shield and Desert Storm. In 1993 he joined the National Guard. Just two days before the terrorist attacks in New York, D.C., and Pennsylvania, Craig graduated from officer candidate school. Since then, Craig has been been combat deployed numerous times.
Starting in 2004, he was sent to Kosovo. He went on to restore the area in the Gulf Coast after hurricane Katrina in 2005. He was in Iraq during 2008. Most recently, in 2011, Craig was deployed to Afghanistan. Currently he is a Major and works for the Joint Force Headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. In the meantime, Dr. Colton has hammered out an equally remarkable academic career.
His specific contribution to Patriot comes from a pure scientific and scholastic background. From 1994-1998 he earned his bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University in Biochemistry and Microbiology. He immediately followed on to graduate school in 1999. By 2006, Craig earned his PhD in Biochemistry. Not complacent, he pursued post doctoral research at Harvard to develop treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The drug is now in clinical trials.
The Davis brothers and Dr. Colton are each accomplished in different dimensions of the medical field. They constantly combine and refine their abilities to continue building a name and serving our clients, families and partners.


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I became a girl that thought she was the shit , literally , I think my ego could fill up a entire room . Being a girl is already very hard , imagine being a stripper and competing with others it's all about the looks in a strip club not about your brain! I met one of my best friends in my first year of being a stripper , we have our fare share of stripper stories together. I moved in with her at some point she lived with her grandma , her grandma raised her , a very nice lady she is . We use to work together from Monday to Saturday we didn't work on Sunday's ( laugh) it's actually a rule sort of for most strippers you don't work on gods day. I was still with my boyfriend but he had went back to his moms house and I was at my friends house. Me and her we were like partners in crime and every night we would stay up till five am to go have breakfast together and then sleep because we were exhausted . Even though it's not so glamorous to be a stripper and it's not something much people talk about I don't regret a day because it made me learn things and see the world in a different perspective. One time in a strip club I got in a fight with a girl ( another stripper) I think she was maybe 30 years old not sure, I called her a crack head and she got mad because she was a crack user big time. That night after the club she was waiting for me outside with scissors ,she wanned to stab me my friend had a knife and I kept telling her give it to me, but she wouldn't she said nothing is going to happen , well when we walked outside she was waiting with the scissors.
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It's been a season for the ages. Perhaps all-time.
The man I thought was going to win the title belt, James Stewart, isn't going to win it. The rookie that captivated the industry with his courage and speed, Trey Canard, fell victim to injury. The defending champion, and perhaps the statistical favorite to repeat, Ryan Dungey, now needs a miracle. The man a lot of us forgot about, Ryan Villopoto, now holds the world in his hands.
Villopoto controls his own destiny at Vegas.
Photo: Simon Cudby
RV Park came out swinging when the bell rang and he's fought all season long for his chance to earn his supercross championship. That said, I can't remember the last time a rider failed to make the main event during a championship effort and still pushed his motorcycle to the final round with a nine-point lead. A statement of how downright crazy this year has been.
All of the wins and the losses, the crashes and take outs, all come down to this shining moment in Las Vegas.
Ah, Sin City. The biggest dump in the world. The evil luminescent lubricant for all of the vices we are born with and are taught our entire lives to suppress. Las Vegas brings out the worst in every soul that dares to enter its realm. My first experiences of Vegas came from racing the World Mini Grand Prix as a youth. Back then, I loved all of the lights and the fact that Circus Circus had the biggest arcade in the world. Being set loose with a roll of quarters in the gargantuan game rooms remains my favorite memory of the rotten metropolis. Those memories are, ahem, clouded, if you will, by too many weird walks through the MGM lobby at 8:00 a.m. as I saw clean and fresh people heading to the breakfast buffet. "Don't see me," pretty much covers those moments. Remember that scene in the cornfield in Casino with Joe Pesci's character, Nicky? That almost matches some of the mornings I've had in the devil's playground.
Dungey is still alive, but will need a miracle to win his second career title.
Photo: Matt Pavelek
I have no use for the place. I see it as a symbol and a resounding reminder of how not to behave. Maybe I just took too many laps around the Hard Rock circle bar in the late '90s...
But, the way we do it is we finish our supercross season in Vegas. There is an elaborate banquet and a decadent party that falls in the wake of the crowning champion. The pool at "Rehab" the following morning is quite the scene. Yep, sure is.
You see, there is just one thing though, there is still a race to be ran. There are still twenty laps left on the table and nobody has won yet. If this hyper-dramatic season has taught us anything, it is that we shouldn't expect anything. The forecast remains frail.
Chad Reed is still alive. Nine points? Man, all bullshit aside, that is a lot to make up on a rider as solid as RV. The Thunder is going to have to just go out and win, and hope that something goes wrong with Villopoto. That said, it has gone wrong before! Damn, dude didn't even QUALIFY at Jacksonville. The theme of the 2011 Supercross series is we're all ready for anything.
Reed is still alive, but will need help from Villopoto.
Photo: Simon Cudby
I'm just excited to see them go at it one last time this year. And why wouldn't we all be? It's been quite the show, folks. A chicken-skin, heart-pounding roller coaster that's had all of us out of our minds.
Time for the final charge. Time to finish the game. It all unfolds live on SPEED on Saturday night. If you're not at the race, I hope you're tuning in.
Thanks for reading, see you next week.


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How to Plug a BlackBerry Into a Laptop for Wi-Fi
You can use your BlackBerry to connect your laptop to the Internet. Use the mobile network to stay connected while traveling, allowing you to access your online business files and services on the go. Using a smartphone in this way is called "tethering," and it's simple to set up once you've installed the right software on your laptop. Not all mobile providers allow tethering, so check with your provider to find out if yours does, and whether it costs extra.
Download BlackBerry Desktop Software for PC from the BlackBerry website (link in Resources). Though the software is called "Desktop," it works with a laptop as well.
Plug your BlackBerry's USB cable into the USB port on the device, and plug the other end into a USB port on your laptop.
Click Start and "All Programs," then select "BlackBerry Desktop Software" to launch the software. Note that the software may automatically open when you plug in the USB cable.
Click the "Tools" menu and select "Mobile Internet Settings."
Click the "Profile" drop-down menu and select the name of your mobile provider from the list. Click "OK."
Click "Mobile Internet" at the bottom of the BlackBerry Desktop Software window.
- You may incur data charges while tethered. Check with your mobile provider for more information on your specific situation or to increase your data plan to account for the extra data you'll be using. Your BlackBerry Desktop Software display a box near the bottom of window, showing how much data you have used while tethered.
- If you don't see your mobile provider listed in the Profile section of the Mobile Internet Settings window, click "Add Custom Profile" and type a name for the mobile provider. You may have to contact your mobile provider to determine the correct information to include in the Profile setting.
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Well, developer Winch Gate Property, Ltd previously said they would change the business model of their MMO "Ryzom" and turn it from a free-to-play MMORPG into a pay-to-play MMORPG, and by golly, that's exactly what they're going to do. Beginning sometime next week (unfortunately no exact dates are given), if you want to continue playingContinue reading "Winch Gate lifting 'Ryzom' into pay-to-play"
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New browser game for adults, 'Disciple'
If you are an adult looking to try out an MMORPG or are a teenager and just feel you are mature for your age, you may enjoy checking out a newly launched browser game, "Disciple." Resistor Productions has put together this fantasy battlefield geared toward adults; almost the entire game is based on the writingsContinue reading "New browser game for adults, 'Disciple'"
Space MMO 'Cosmic Supremacy' now available
Feeling an urge to play a space-themed MMO after watching J.J. Abrams' incredible "Star Trek?" Why don't you give "Cosmic Supremacy" a try. (Forgive the cheese, but the release schedule of the two pieces of media remains a little too close to be a coincidence.) Formerly known as "Space Civilizations," "Cosmic Supremacy" is a turn-basedContinue reading "Space MMO 'Cosmic Supremacy' now available"
Get hitched in 'Deco Online' for a limited time
From now until June 9, players in the free-to-play MMORPG "Deco Online" "… can don wedding gowns and tuxedos acquired from the in-game item mall and attend a ceremony officiated by their favorite game master," as the press release notes. In other words, for a limited time you can get married. Wait, what? Try asContinue reading "Get hitched in 'Deco Online' for a limited time"
'RuneScape' lightens offence policy
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MMORPG 'Magic World Online' celebrates anniversary
No self-respecting MMORPG developer would allow a holiday to go by without including some kind of celebration in their title, and this includes any and all relevant anniversaries. With that in mind, it could be said that developer Ingle Games Ltd. has announced the one year anniversary celebration for their MMORPG with legal bots, "MagicContinue reading "MMORPG 'Magic World Online' celebrates anniversary"
IGG previews new 'Angels Online' PvP system
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Cigarette usage influences Eastern MMO design
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8450 video game jobs lost since July 2008
Some suggest the video game industry's rapid growth within the last ten years most closely resembles the over-inflation of a balloon or a bubble, and that it will soon burst, sending jobs, careers, and aspirations to the wayside. Perhaps in support of this claim, independent market analyst Wanda Meloni estimates that 8,450 people in theContinue reading "8450 video game jobs lost since July 2008"
'Destiny Online' holds 2-week long b-day party
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