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It's unfortunate there's a disconnect between cutscene Lara and ingame Lara but, like Susan, I'm not sure I could come up with a way to remove that without altering the core of the TR experience. Either way, I just may have to pick this up at some point.
Hehe I'm thinking the same thing. It's getting to be just like the movies where generally when something is withheld from critics, there's a pretty good reason for it (aka it's most likely trash).
Hm, this actually sounds really interesting. Note I said 'sounds', cause judging by the review it's a game I'd gladly play, but judging by the gameplay video it looks awkward and clunky.
But I liked the dinosaurs from the old games. Yeah, you couldn't exactly take anything seriously, but I like a bit of levity in a sea of apathy and death.
And sounds much much more interesting to play as because of that. :)
I'm glad this game turned out so well.
Yup. The Amulet of Power, The Lost Cult and the Man of Bronze. Pretty good reads for a fan as well.
This is my biggest concern. It really bothered me in uncharted (Drake has a kill count that is terrifying yet he act as pretty normal person), and here the difference seems even worse. I am seriously worried that taking down 6 guys with a bow and pickaxe in a minute will completely kill my immersion.
Also does Lara ever pick up a jacket? I like her new design but when I see her freeing in the rain or running around in the snow with out ever picking up a jacket from one of the, apparently, many people she has killed. Well once again it just kind of threaten kills my immersion (a nit pick I know).
TBH, I'm hoping sequels bring back some of the craziness the series is known for. On the other hand, I think it's positive that such an established IP can show restraint and not bombard you with inanity and ridiculous, over the top bullshit. I'd be fine with a Tomb Raider with just one, really impressive dinosaur.
I was just about to say this. Why do so many people get the name wrong?
The hubs where you upgrade your weapons and skills are actually little campsites where she sits by a fire. So no jacket necessary. :) (Yes, I avoided the set up for a Phil Collins joke on purpose.)
I just want to let everyone I can know that I am actually going to buy this game. When the first previews came out I was probably one of the loudest to voice my discontent with what was shown. In the end, the pretty awful previews were hiding a very good game and I'd like to think developers listened to some of the issues their consumers had with their product and did something to ameliorate it. Whenever someone dares to critisize a game, a lot of people become paranoid thinking the games industry might collapse if the audience demands better products or even just points out how future products could be improved. For the record, even if I or anyone else does rail on about what we don't like about games, it's only from a sense of true love for games.
Obviously you lack camping experience :p (also you have to help me out on the Collins joke because I have no idea what you are talking about)
This is good to hear. It is also possible that the 'changes' were always there, you just hadn't seen them yet. :D
He has an album called "No Jacket Required." :)
And there is no way on god's green earth you will find me camping. You know why? There are BUGS out there. And they will crawl all over you if you let them. GAHHHHHHHHHHH.
I can put up with a lot, but I draw the line at bugs.
It's called Tomb Raider 2
Never played a Tomb Raider game and never really cared to play one since it just did nothing for me. The only interaction I had with the series is watching the movies (they were kinda stupid but fun), and owning the soundtrack to the first one. That's it.
However, I was really hoping that this game would turn out well since it looked like it was trying to do something with an old franchise and I can respect that. Glad it turned out great and I will be definitely getting this.
I am glad that it's apparently good, but I'm still sad that it exists... if that makes any sense.
Simply put it's not Tomb Raider, not in the same sense it used to be. The review talks about Lara Croft murdering people dual pistol style like its a hallmark of the series, but in the first game there's a grand total of one, 1, human enemy you fight and he's a rival tomb raider out to eliminate his 'competition' so to speak. Even then it was pretty forgettable and while many of the later games did indeed begin to involve more combat, that's never what Tomb Raider was meant to be about.
Tomb Raider was at its best when it was just you alone in these massive labyrinth landscapes full of puzzles and dangers. You could play for hours and not hear anyone save the occasional bit of dialogue from Croft. It was all about the immersion, the experience of exploration and puzzle solving.
This... shoot shoot shoot cutscene quicktime optional puzzle shoot shoot shoot quicktime cutscene.
So while I'm glad its apparently turned into a good game, you'll excuse me if I take a moment to mourn the loss of Tomb Raiders once unique design because if this game is successful, it's something we'll likely never get to see again save in little indie titles like Spelunky.
Awe, No mention of the "Rape" controversy? I was curious as to how that would play out.
Someone who wants "reinvigorated character" SHOULD be playing Heavy Rain. Why are they playing Tomb Raider? The game has never been about story or characters but pure action/puzzle platforming.
Also, Mario is garbage.
When I first read that sentence by brain injected the word "anatomy" and then got confused when the words "personal history" showed up instead.
Answer to first question: lots of people.
Yeah that drives me nuts as well. Also why does everyone keep referring to the original TR as a PS1 game? The original was a PC game you fecking twits!
[Edit: Ooops. Wikipedia says was on Sega Saturn first. Ball of shame.]
There was a time when "games" were 2D and only appeared in Bars. If it wasn't for people pushing the boundaries you wouldn't even have your precious Tomb Raider.
If everyone thought the way you did, we'd still be stuck playing PacMan down at the Pub.
Lots of people care about no-fuss action/puzzle platforming too, and despise the kind of forced "depth" they are trying to add to a game whose depth was never in story or characters but elsewhere.
So we cater to one set of fans and ignore the other? Great.
Well, if it sells then it's justified...and it will sell.
See, the problem is that I don't see how dumping a dramatic backstory over the main character is "pushing the boundaries". Just like I wouldn't see adding a story and characters to a crossword puzzle as an evolution but actually a devolution.
And Pacman is a good example. Just like Mrs Pacman the new TR will sell, just because it's different - or so claims to be. It didn't add anything to the original except for a new sheen, and yet it was the biggest selling arcade game even in the US.
But let's face it - TR hasn't sold well in the last few incarnations. How to evolve the franchise? Better puzzles. Unique gameplay. But that's hard work and design teams that can't be bothered always take the easy way out.
Oh...thanks for bringing back those memories xD
OT: I was really hoping this would be good, so this review pleased me. But heck, i'll buy anything with the words "Tomb Raider" on it...
There's no rape, nothing close to rape, it's such utter claptrap I saw no reason to clutter the review with it.
It's about going beyond what has already been established and explore new ideas.
You're basically saying "I'm afraid of what's different, don't change anything ever!"
Your ideas regarding consumerism and the spending habits of the masses may or may not be correct, but they are completely irrelevant in the current context.
You're implying the new Tomb Raider doesn't have better designed levels and puzzles amongst the more evolved characterisation.
Wait, easy way out? Adding character development and doing something different as opposed to doing the same shit over and over again is the easy way out?
This makes me glad I have my pre-order in. Sounds like the makers of this game learned some lessons from Uncharted, which was a Tomb Raider clone in the first place. That's exactly what I'm looking for in a new Lara Croft game.
That's fair enough. I'm still curious to see the responses of those who made such a kerfuffle over the trailer :P
Am I? What they are doing is adding the same festering "spoiled hero goes through hell" storyline that is the last resort of the failing franchise. It's not a new idea at all. It's a very old theme and been used and overused in literature and movies for ages, and just happens to be fashion at the moment in games (think Far Cry 3). If I didn't want "change" I would probably love the game.
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The quote wasn't about that but what is really 'evolution'. But regarding consumerism - like it or not, what they are doing with TR is commercially motivated. You can't ignore that in any discussion of the game, or indeed, any modern AAA game.
Yeah, but only because the review seems to imply that.
It feels like Far Cry 3 meets Assassin's Creed. Personally, I'm not too sure I want to do both of those again at the same time.
From what I've heard not only is it a good port, but it has a ton of graphical effects not present in the console versions like tessellation and bokeh depth of field.
It may not be new in the sense it's never been done before ever, but it's new for Tomb Raider, remember baby steps.
So why are you opposed to the only change they made?
The "motivation" is irrelevant regarding our discussion. We're not talking about why things change, merely that not changing is bad.
Really? Did we watch the same review? Because I got the impression that the level design had been refined and improved.
There's actually a reason for Lara's skill with a bow and gun. Lara was a part of the Sisters of Artemis club, which was basically an archery club at her uni. I asked the devs this myself after the teaser trailer was released where she had a mug with the logo on it, and was told this. They're actually selling SoA gear in the TR store. I know a lot of people complained about why she picked up the bow and was suddenly a sure-shot, but in the game she's been practicing archery for years.
I really like that background tidbit. It's cool to relate Lara to the goddess of the hunt.
Anyway, as a long time fan, I'm really excited for Lara's new focus on story, but the gameplay is a little worrisome. I will get the game, but not until the price drops down a little. I went to preorder and I wasn't able to get any bonuses at all, and was going to have to pay twice the amount than any other country. This is what happens when you live in New Zealand, I guess, only now I'm not going to stand for it. I will support you Lara, I promise, just a little later than I would have done, if it wasn't for blatant price fixing!
EDIT: Oh, and also, people calling Lara "Laura" is my biggest pet peeve. They aren't even pronounced the same, or are even the same name.
Pretty much, yeah.
I feel for fans of the series... but not that much. I mean there's been like eight TR games or something? I'm used to getting shafted by the needs of the "broader audience" on the second or third game in a franchise. Count yourself lucky! ;p
No, just listed to the video. While playing a game and not paying much attention.
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Citroen's improved Berlingo is one of the larger compact vans on the UK market, offering a usefully large payload capacity and a maximum load volume of up to 4.1m3. It's now smarter looking than before and gets some extra hi-tech, but the main news lies beneath the bonnet with a range of fresh BlueHDi diesel engines. As before, the driving experience these units deliver might not be as perky as some would like but the comfort and refinement are both a match for the sector's best efforts.
The star turn in Citroen's LCV line-up has long been the Berlingo van. The original model was launched in the UK in 1996 and it proved extremely popular with its straightforward design and robust construction. In more recent years, the second generation version has offered a more sophisticated option and aims to please compact van buyers who need something larger than Citroen's little Nemo. So, in this improved version, as well as a smarter look, there's a range of efficient BlueHDi diesel engines and in the cabin, an infotainment screen to give the interior a little more of an up-to-date feel. As before, buyers can opt for a smooth automated gearbox, the option of Grip Control for slippery roads and even all-electric technology. It all represents a commitment to product improvement that has been rewarded by businesses across Europe, where one in seven Citroen products sold is a commercial vehicle.
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The second generation Berlingo actually shares its basic platform with the old first generation version of Citroen's C4 Picasso MPV. As a result, it's not surprising to find that ride comfort has been prioritised. Road and engine noise are well contained too, making sure that big distances fly by and the steering is light, combining with the tight 11m turning circle to aid manoeuvring. A few might notice that around the twisty stuff, this spacious Berlingo feels a little less agile and immediate in its responses and rolls a tad more than the original but most operators will accept a slight loss there. The Berlingo is offered with three BlueHDi diesel powertrains, plus there's an all-electric version and a minority-interest VTi 95 petrol engine option. Nearly all sales will be of the BlueHDi variants, which deliver either 75, 100 or 120bhp. Go for a BlueHDi 100 model equipped with Citroen's occasionally jerky ETG6 automated manual transmission and you'll find optimised pedal mapping to adjust power effectively for smoother start-ups and acceleration. Gear change speeds are modulated more precisely, based on driver input, for improved performance and comfort, and its optimised gear shift patterns further improve efficiency. For even greater safety on the road, this Citroen is available with Grip Control to increase traction, incorporating hill-start assist. Some versions can now be specified with a fixed speed limiter enabling the operator to set a permanent maximum speed from a choice of four available limits.
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The look of the Berlingo van has been updated in recent years, with the bumper, radiator grille and daytime running lights all now being carefully integrated to give the front a smart appearance. The bumper and radiator design has been created to sit low and wide as part of a look that Citroen hopes will underline the robust strength of the vehicle. Internally, the Berlingo remains an impressive piece of work with good quality materials and neat design. The main cabin change is the adoption of a full-width over-windscreen storage shelf with map reading lights on either side for driver and passenger. Other stowage space remains abundant and clever solutions abound ready to swallow up all the paraphernalia of your working day. In the two-seater Berlingo, the single passenger seat folds down to reveal a desk and cup holders. There's also an 'Extenso' extra middle seat option. As before, there are two Berlingo bodystyles to consider and both are on the large side of what we expect from a compact van. Both versions share a 2,728mm wheelbase but the longer L2 model has 248mm extra tagged on behind. It means that even the smaller L1 is 4,380mm in length, that's 243mm longer than the original Berlingo with 350mm extra in the wheelbase department. Payloads range from 625kg to 850kg in the L1 and 750kg in the L2 version, sizable carrying capacities that edge awfully close to that of some small panel vans at the top end.
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The Berlingo van comes in either shorter L1 or longer L2 bodystyles and virtually all trim variants get the option of the useful 3-seater 'Extenso' multi-function folding passenger seat. There's also a 5-seat crew van, an enhanced traction version, an all-electric model and a platform cab for special bodywork conversions. As for equipment, well all models include ABS brakes, a trip computer, a CD stereo, central locking, electric front windows and internally adjustable door mirrors. All Berlingo vans specified with the hi-tech ETG6 auto gearbox also have Electronic Stability Control (ESC), traction control with Hill Start Assist, a passenger airbag, cruise control with driver-adjustable speed limiter and a new Gear Shift Indicator as standard. For greater efficiency, safety and reduced driver stress levels, all Berlingo panel vans are fitted, as standard, with Citroen's unique - and recently enhanced - Trafficmaster telematics platform, which includes Smartnav dynamic satellite navigation system and Trackstar stolen vehicle tracking. Other useful options include front and rear parking sensors and a reversing camera. There's also an optional 'Active City Brake' system which scans the road ahead as you drive at urban speeds for potential collision hazards. Inside the cab, the newly-introduced 7-inch infotainment screen can be specified with satellite navigation and various clever apps. It can also be specified with neat 'MirrorScreen' technology that duplicates the functionality of your smartphone.
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With a maximum load capacity of 4.1 m3, sliding side doors and 60/40 rear doors opening to 180 degrees, this Berlingo is able to carry two euro pallets easily and safely. The space in the rear is 1,800mm long in the L1 version and never less than 1,229mm wide. Sliding side doors are available as options as is a hinged roof flap through which long items can be poked. The loading lip at the rear is nice and low and the load bay gets excellent protection from its contents courtesy of panelling that extends halfway up the sides of the vehicle. Citroen has also completed a programme to optimise payloads, which has resulted in an increase for virtually every Berlingo van. As a result the Berlingo HDi 90 Manual L1 850 models now have a maximum available payload of 896kg. The standard bulkhead is a ladder frame behind the driver's seat only and an unusual touch is the load compartment light that can be detached and used as a torch. Running costs meanwhile, have been usefully reduced with the arrival of Euro6 BlueHDi technology. For the BlueHDi 120 S&S engine, the Berlingo at last gains a 6-speed manual gearbox for the first time, for greater driveability. This helps with this variant's 115g/km CO2 figure. Most buyers though, will be going for one of the lower-powered variant. The entry-level BlueHDi 75 variant manages 65.7mpg on the combined cycle and 113g./km of CO2. Go for the BlueHDi 100 model with stop and start and that figure falls to 109g/km. If you want to go further, there's the fully electric version to consider.
This second generation Citroen Berlingo van is large but not too large, very capable and certainly sophisticated. A key brief for this model is to try and tempt buyers down from their larger panel vans and thanks to a larger payload capacity, lower running costs and that potential 4.1m3 maximum load volume, we could see that happening. True, there are some capable alternative options going head to head with this Citroen but it's good enough to give any one of them a run for their money.
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Tim is responsible for allocating Hanna Andersson products to all retail locations. He ensures each store is well stocked without leaving excess products at the end of each season.
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text: One of CCA's top legislative priorities remains the complete elimination of the federal death tax. The federal estate tax has wreaked havoc on many farm and ranch families seeking to pass the operation to the next generation. CCA works at both the state and federal level to reduce the tax burden on producers while continuing to lobby for a complete abolition of the estate tax. Recently the estate tax was reduced to nothing as part of the last stage of the tax cuts adopted by Congress under President George W. Bush. The legislation threatened to sunset and return to the original level of $1 million at 55 percent. Unfortunately, Congress punted a long-term fix and settled for a rate of the $5 million of total assets to be assessed at 35 percent. CCA will remain as a principal advocate for the complete elimination of the death tax in the future.


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HDCP is an invention from Intel, which secures the data path between playback device (source) and receiver (sink). Each source and sink device has its own private key, generated in such a way that each pair can decrypt the data sent from source to sink without revealing the actual keys in use. To achieve this, each key - source and sink - has to be generated from the same master key.
As early as 2001 people warned that it would only take about 50 source/sink keys to be able to generate the master key, and if the rumours are indeed true, then this has finally happened over the past few weeks. There's also the possibility that the key has been leaked instead of generated, but the author of a 2001 paper warning about the possibility to generate the key doesn't think this is the case.
The master key is a a 40×40 matrix of 56-bit numbers. While the web has been buzzing about this one for a few days now, it's a little difficult to ascertain the validity of the claims made. Assuming the master key is indeed legitimate, it wouldn't be of much use for average consumers at this point, as Ars Technica's Peter Bright explains.
"This is unlikely to be of much interest to the typical consumer - most people don't have digital capture devices anyway - but it does mean that someone suitably motivated could build an HDCP sink device that could decrypt incoming HDCP data and produce full fidelity digital streams, and that this device could never be blocked," Bright argues, "Such a system would be of interest both to pirates and those with legitimate data archival needs."
Still, if the master key is real, it could start to bring an end to the myriad of incompatibility issues people encounter when mixing and matching HDMI/DVI/etc. devices - such as a PS3 not being able to use a certain monitor, or a Blu-Ray disc not playing in your player.
There isn't a whole lot the HDCP licensing company, Digital Content Protection, can do about this, save for starting over with a brand new master key. However, this is not a likely course of action since it would be incompatible with all devices still using the old master key. On top of that - such a possible new master key would be cracked in the same way eventually.
So, yet another epic fail on the DRM front, proving once again that DRM is a total and utter waste of money, and that the concept only serves to encumber legitimate consumers. I guess the content industry hasn't been beaten hard enough just yet.


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I know the overwhelming feeling is that pump weaning at a year is totally okay, that your body will adjust, etc. I am thinking a lot about the year point, as I have recently hit a minor, but seemingly permanent pump slump.
It seems like most people worry about engorgement, leaking, etc--literally, they need to wean slowly to tell their body to make less milk during the work day. I worry about the opposite. I feel like I could probably stop all four pumps tomorrow, and never get engorged or uncomfortable. I do however, feel like it would tank my supply for at home, even though we nurse all evening, all night, and all day on the weekends. I don't know if I can trust my body to do this right away. Mostly, I don't think I want to make baby rapidly adjust to a lowered supply.
So, just out of curiosity--did anyone here pump much beyond a year at work? How did that go, if you did?


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24 hours: More stuff for Milwaukee's weekend to-do list
10 a.m. Friday
What's that old saying - home is where the improvement project is? It is at the Milwaukee/NARI Home Improvement Show, running through Sunday at State Fair Park's Wisconsin Exposition Center.
10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 640 S. 84th St., West Allis. $8; $5 for seniors 60 and older; free for children 12 and younger and for members of the military (with military ID card). Info: www.milwaukeenari.org.
Noon Saturday
Defy winter at Mitten Fest, the party-hearty street festival at the Bay View hot spot Burnhearts. Classic cocktails, barrel-aged beer, live music (Jaill, Call Me Lightning and Football) are on tap; bring nonperishable food and winter clothing to benefit the Hunger Task Force.
Noon to 6 p.m. Saturday. Burnhearts, 2599 S. Logan Ave. Admission is free (donations urged). Info: www.burnheartsbar.com.
8 p.m. Saturday
Milwaukee natives turned Chicago comics Jack & The Wolf bring their improv act to Retro Comedy Night at Underground Collaborative, in the Shops of Grand Avenue. Standup Sammy Arechar is also on the bill.
8 p.m. Saturday. Underground Collaborative, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. (lower level of the Plankinton Building). $15. Info: www.milwaukeecomedy.net.
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Browse our weekly entertainment calendar listings from the Journal Sentinel Cue section, posted every Thursday evening.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A California woman who got kicked in the face after trying to climb into the giraffe exhibit at a Madison zoo has paid a fine and apologized.
Police say 24-year-old Amanda Hall, of San Luis Obispo, California, tried to get into the pen at the Henry Vilas Zoo late Saturday afternoon.
Hall tells WISN-TV (http://bit.ly/1p0WspT ) the 2-year-old, 12-foot-tall giraffe named Wally ate some grass from her hand, licked her, then kicked her in the chin. Police ticketed Hall for harassment of zoo animals, which carries a fine of $686.
Hall tells WISN-TV she's paid the fine. She says getting kicked in the face seemed like punishment enough.
The police report says Hall told officers she climbed into the exhibit because she loves giraffes.


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July 2002
There has been a lot of interest in what some people call "drug holidays" -- that is, stopping anti-HIV medications for limited periods of time. Since there is no clear answer as to whether this is beneficial or even safe, Richard Jefferys of Treatment Action Group presented an overview of some of the most recent important studies.
Structured Treatment Interruptions (STIs) fall into three main categories:
A study at Johns Hopkins University looked at 101 people who stopped HAART (Highly Active AntiRetroviral Therapy). The most common reasons were having started treatment too early according to the revised treatment guidelines, side effects, or problems with adherence to therapy.
Two-thirds of those who stopped are still off HAART after an average of 74 weeks, and the average CD4 count is 508, with a viral load of 43,000. One-third (33 people) restarted therapy due to rising viral loads, declining CD4 counts or because they were nervous about being off therapy. All but two of these individuals have now suppressed their viral load to less than 400 copies on HAART. The best predictor of having to restart was a low CD4 count prior to starting HAART, although about 40% of people who had CD4 counts below 350 prior to starting HAART remain off therapy.
The study calculated that people who started HAART with CD4 counts over 350 and viral loads below 55,000 could stay off therapy for 5.7 years (or possibly longer) before reaching a CD4 count that was below 200. So, "If you didn't need HAART then, you may not need it now." Since this study did not randomize people to stop or continue treatment, it couldn't prove anything, so other trials, such as the CPCRA's SMART study, are being conducted to look into this more carefully.
A trial done in Argentina randomized people on HAART who had never had a CD4 count below 350 or a viral load above 60,000 to either stop or continue HAART. The early results show that after six months off treatment, CD4 counts are still greater than they were before HAART was started. Some people had a big jump in viral load when they stopped therapy, followed by a decline; others had a smaller increase and then a decline. But everyone's viral loads stabilized about twelve weeks after stopping treatment and stayed within one log of their viral load before HAART was started. Surprisingly, there was no significant change in lipid levels, although there was a significant increase in hemoglobin, and a significant decrease in lactic acid levels.
Concerning the effect of STIs on drug side effects, results look good when it comes to lipid levels. One study looked at 25 people who stopped HAART when they had viral loads below 50 and an average CD4 count of about 400. So far, the average time off HAART is 11 months, and only four people out of the 25 have had to restart treatment. The study has seen significant decreases in cholesterol and triglycerides, but increases in insulin levels. Another study found significant decreases in cholesterol and triglycerides in 26 men on HAART who underwent a brief, one to two month treatment interruption. This study saw no change in glucose or insulin, however.
Finally, a look-back study of HIV-related illnesses during the first three months off therapy in 247 people found only 18 clinical events, none of which were life-threatening -- eleven cases of thrush, two herpes zoster infections, one herpes simplex outbreak, one hairy leukoplakia, one case of salmonella, and two cases of bacterial pneumonia. The average CD4 count was lower in people with clinical events compared to those without any (261 vs. 499).
Another approach being studied in people who had controlled their virus while on HAART is a "7 days on/7 days off" cycle. So far, in a pilot study of only ten people, no one has a detectable viral load, even though some people have repeated this cycle for up to three years. This is a very small study, however, and larger trials need to be conducted to verify whether this is safe.
The French GIGAHAART study looked at 62 people who had taken all classes of anti-HIV drugs for a long time (six to seven years) and who had multiple resistance mutations. They had advanced HIV disease, with an average CD4 count of 26 and an average viral load over 100,000. Study participants were randomized to either begin GIGAHAART immediately or after an 8-week break. GIGAHAART consisted of taking six to nine antiretrovirals.
In this study, those who stopped treatment before restarting saw a clear benefit. After 24 weeks (six months), they had an average viral load drop of 1 log compared to a 0.29 log drop in those who began treatment immediately, and their average CD4 count increase was 51 compared to 8 in the group who began GIGAHAART immediately. There was one case of tuberculosis and one of recurrent herpes zoster in the treatment interruption group compared to one fatal case of lymphoma, one diagnosis of PCP and one dual diagnosis of cryptosporidiosis and microsporidiosis in the group that went immediately into GIGAHAART. This study showed a surprising benefit to an STI, so follow-up will continue to see whether or not the benefit is real.
Steven Deeks, M.D., an expert on STIs, offered his personal opinions at the International STI Workshop in March of 2002:
And, of course, there is always the option of trying to access to experimental drugs through clinical trials or expanded access programs.
In a study by Bruce Walker, fourteen people who had recently become infected with HIV (acute infection) took HAART before they developed antibodies to HIV. They then did between one and three STIs. Eight of the fourteen have maintained viral loads below 5,000 up to three years after infection. Only one of the fourteen is still on continuous HAART. Those who were able to control their viral loads while off therapy had HIV-specific CD4 and CD8 responses. But it's hard to interpret these data because everyone did HAART followed by STIs. It's possible that they might have been just as successful if they had never taken HAART to begin with.
The Swiss-Spanish Interruption Trial (SSITT) studied 133 people who were taking HAART and had viral loads below 50. They interrupted treatment four times (two weeks off, eight weeks on), and then stopped treatment after 40 weeks. Sixty-six of the 133 people withdrew from the study when their viral loads did not go below 50 once they restarted treatment or because their viral loads went too high after they stopped.
After a year, 23 of those remaining had viral loads below 5,000 -- nineteen of those remained off treatment after 20 months, and 41 people total were still off treatment at that time. The good news is that no one developed an opportunistic infection, and only one person developed drug resistance. The bad news is that there was little evidence of auto-immunization, and there was one case of HIV being transmitted to an HIV-negative partner during the treatment interruption.
More studies are continuing with differing schedules and with therapeutic immunizations to increase the chance of an immune response while off treatment.
Several studies of repeated STIs have found cases of drug resistance -- the risk is less likely in the case of a single extended interruption. Another concern is that "archived" drug mutations can exist even in people who have viral loads below 50. An STI could cause the mutations to re-appear. So in the end, the risks of STIs remain unclear.
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POSTED: Feb 14, 2013 5:20 PM ET
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets have recalled forwards Terrence Jones and Greg Smith from the developmental league.
The 6-foot-9 Jones was a first-round pick (18th overall) by the Rockets last summer out of Kentucky. He has averaged 18.4 points, 9.3 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 17 games for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. He's appeared in 11 games for Houston this season.
The 6-10 Smith appeared in 26 games for the Vipers last season and three this year. Smith has played in 44 games for the Rockets this season, averaging 5.5 points and four rebounds per game.


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Saracen's new downhill bike, the Myst, is one hell of a lot of bike for the money. Now the company who've resurrected the classic British mountain bike brand, Madison, have launched a team to show just what it's capable of.
Unveiled yesterday at the iceBike trade show in Milton Keynes, the Madison Saracen squad is a development team made up of six riders under the age of 21. The most famous face is probably 17-year-old Manon Carpenter, from South Wales, who came 11th overall in the women's UCI World Cup last year and finished sixth at Champery despite being a first year junior.
Harry Molloy, 19, from Kent, also had success on the world circuit in 2010, with a 35th place at Leogang being his top result. They're joined by reigning national Expert champ Jack Geoghegan, 20, from Hertfordshire; English champ Philip Atwill, 16, from Hampshire; PORC series winner Josh Lowe, 16, from Kent; and 14-year-old Will Weston, from Wolverhampton, winner of the Juvenile category of the 2010 Halo British Downhill Series.
Madison's CEO Dominic Langan said: "The first year, it's mainly a development squad, with a couple of people riding the World Cup series. In years two to three – it's a minimum three-year programme, and hopefully we'll be doing much more beyond that – the aim is to get more riders into the World Cup series. We hope to build that up, and hopefully we can get some champions... We just want to get good British riders out there."
The red team-issue Saracen Myst may have the same frame as the £2,300 production bike, but it's decked out with some much fancier kit, including a Fox 40 RC2 fork and DHX RC4 shock, Shimano Saint bits and Funn finishing kit. The squad may be young but they'll have full factory support, with a massive team truck, their own mechanic and coaching.
You can watch the Madison Saracen team in action below, along with videos of Carpenter and Molloy:
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* A lot of packages come with both release and debug binaries. The latter one are completely useless, at least to end users. It may be more sensible to separate debug binaries into their own packages.
* A lot of packages come with both release and debug binaries. The latter one are completely useless, at least to end users. It may be more sensible to separate debug binaries into their own packages.
* There seem to be mingw+msvc versions even for seemingly C libraries, e.g. dbus. Such libraries are usually easily exchangeable between compilers (e.g. an MSVC compiled library with a C interface usually works w/ MinGW without problems). Perhaps this is an opportunity to remove some unnecessary packages?
* There seem to be mingw+msvc versions even for seemingly C libraries, e.g. dbus. Such libraries are usually easily exchangeable between compilers (e.g. an MSVC compiled library with a C interface usually works w/ MinGW without problems). Perhaps this is an opportunity to remove some unnecessary packages?
Use this page to record your experiences with KDE on Windows. Click the + tab and enter ~~~~ as the subject to add your experiences. Include your installer version.
Please use only meaningful descriptions (the content will be edited). The software is in early beta now. The installer will receive usability improvements before the final release.
Here's User:Skierpage's experience using kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.4-4.exe to install 3.97 2007-12-31 files on Windows XP SP2.
_ The following concerns 0.8.1-2 and 0.8.2 :
1)The installer seems to also like to crash. Anyone want to post alternative setup instructions?
2)The installer should not install documentation automatically if the user install the binary package
heres a killer libkdewin32.dll not properly installed AKA this is useless. Installer is a mess , can't uninstall either properly. Got one game to work but others kept that lib error. Not going to bother fixing. You shouldn't say this is ready when its clearly not even installable properly. Note rerun the installer 8 times you might get it to run. Its still trying to uninstall.
Here's User:Skierpage's experience partially installing files with kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.1-2.exe on Windows XP SP2.
Some of my problems were caused by the KDE Installer silently failing to install kdebase bin.
Each app's Help > Handbook fails to start
About the time I tried the handbook the program couldn't find the KDE crash handler drkonqi.exe.
Submit Bug Report fails to load anything when you click [Launch Bug Wizard]; nothing displays in Process Monitor or DebugView.
Okular and KStars crashed just after trying to access ksyscoca and then "launching kbuildsycoca4". I ran kbuildsycoca4 by hand and then both applications got further.
My display got garbled, displaying what looks like a backing store of the current window in the top left. This first happened with kolf.exe, then happened to KDE Installer. Closing every K* app seemed to cure it.
bovo, kblackbox, kgeography pixeltool, etc. worked fine.
Looks awesome. In the list of cities in setup, accented characters appear incorrectly as multiple characters, as if the encoding is off. See screenshot.
When I clicked [Download extra data], it crashes. In DebugView, last thing it tried to do was open ksycoca and then launch kbuildsycoca4.
After running kbuildsycoca4 and restarting, KStars [Download extra data] created a "Get Hot New Stuff", but that window was obscured by both KStars and its wizard. It had a [Close] button but would not accept input. I was able to [Cancel] the KStars setup window, at which point both the KStars and Get Hot New Stuff windows appeared. There was nothing in Get Hot New Stuff for "KStarsAdd On Installer" (sic -- word layout bug), so I clicked [Close].
As this seemed to be causing problems, I ran it myself in a command window. It said "kbuildsycoca4 running..." then exited, seemingly OK.
crashes when you choose "Named Colors" from the list. (It fails to open several .mo files and .js files, then tries to read rgb.txt from various X11 directories and obviously it's not there, and then crashes.)
kruler's cursor in North or South orientation shows the vertical arrowhead and line but has black and white garbage on the other half of it where the selection point would be.
First time it started klauncher.exe process but hung without displaying anything. I killed the okular process and tried again; second time okular crashed; DebugView indicated it was trying to open ksyscoca, and when that failed it tried to launch ksyscocabuilder.exe:
[4644] okular(4644)/kdecore (KSycoca) bool __thiscall KSycocaPrivate::checkDatabase(class QFlags<enum KSycocaPrivate::BehaviorIfNotFound>): We have no database.... launching kbuildsycoca4
After running kbuildsycoca4 by hand okular appeared OK. When I chose File > Open I got an alert
Windows - No Disk Exception Processing Message c00000013 Parameters hex hex hex
I clicked [Continue] and got this alert again. I think each time Windows was spinning up my empty floppy or CD-ROM drive. Then the file dialog appeared but also an alert
Error - okular The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly.
Meanwhile DebugView showed
[2916] not able to find 'kio_file' because KDEDIRS environment variable is not set. [2916] Set KDEDIRS to the KDE installation root dir and restart klauncher to fix this problem.
I clicked Root in the file dialog and okular generated a ton of DebugView output in kdecore (KUrl) and then crashed.
I followed the instructions about setting up KDEDIRS, killed klauncher.exe, restarted Okular. I still got errors about No Disk but no more "file protocol death". Howeer, clicking Root in the file dialog still generates a ton of DebugView output and Okular crashes.
Even when I navigate to a folder with .png images in it, Open a document displays nothing. Even if I choose PNG image, it displays nothing. However, if I enter *.png in the Filter, it displays appropriate files.
However, choosing a png file results in okular displaying
Can not find a plugin that is able to handle the passed document
and then an error alert. Same for selecting a *.bmp.
Weirdly, entering *.jpg in the Filter immediately exits okular, with no errors.
Exits, DebugView shows
[3452] ASSERT failure in class Phonon::PlatformPlugin *__thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::platformPlugin(void): "The plugin 'C:/KDE4/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_platform/kde.dll' uses incompatible Qt library. (Cannot mix debug and release libraries.)", file D:\kde-msvc\tmp\kdelibs-beta4-22.214.171.12471029\work\kdelibs\phonon\factory.cpp, line 283
The accelerator [Alt+e] for [Next Task] does not work.
Is pitch dark. The tooltip shows current city and add flag works. DebugView shows:
[4524] [4524] QImage::scaled: Image is a null image [4524] QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 [4524] QPainter::setCompositionMode: Painter not active [4524] QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
Its context menu has Map Theme > Surface Depth / Flat World / Surface Depth / Flat World , i.e. two entries repeated. Whatever you choose is checked twice.
I can't uncheck Show Daylight, Show Cities, Show Flags in the context menu, they remain checked.
It does display a fabulous notification bubble from the system tray when the tea is ready! Howeer, DebugView indicates "error while contacting knotify server" (I had configured KTeaTime to Play a sound, Show a message in a popup and Mark taskbar entry) :
[6052] kteatime(6052)/kdeui (KNotification) unsigned int __thiscall KNotificationManager::notify(class KNotification *,const class QPixmap &,const class QStringList &,const class QList<struct QPair<class QString,class QString> > &,const class QString &): error while contacting knotify server
It put up a dialog towards the back about progress, but unlike earlier app, that completed and it then worked great. I chose to, roughly. get words in a new language, chose France from the dialog/ Get Hot New Stuff showed up and worked but displayed an alert:
Error - KHangMan Cannot start gpg and retrieve the available keys. Make sure that gpg is installed, otherwise verification of the downloaded resources will be impossible.
I installed gpgme and reran khangman, but now Get Hot New Stuff, did not display any categories.
I changed settings to play sounds and it immediately crashed with
[6072] ASSERT failure in class Phonon::PlatformPlugin *__thiscall Phonon::FactoryPrivate::platformPlugin(void): "The plugin 'C:/KDE4/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_platform/kde.dll' uses incompatible Qt library. (Cannot mix debug and release libraries.)", file D:\kde-msvc\tmp\kdelibs-beta4-184.108.40.20671029\work\kdelibs\phonon\factory.cpp, line 283
I got around this crash by editing khangmanrc to disable audio. Still nothing in Get Hot New Stuff.
It worked pretty well, I was able to save a .kig file. It kept prompting
Format not supported - Kig Kig does not support saving to any other format than its own. [Save Kig Format] [Cancel]
but if I choose "Save Kig Format" I get the alert again. Only cancel worked to save the file.
However, when I tried to open that file, the Open dialog displayed its type as "plain text document", opening it led to a "Format Not Supported" alert. DebugView showed:
[5432] kig(5432)/kdecore (KUrl) __thiscall KUrl::KUrl(const class KUrl &): KUrl::KUrl(KUrl) path "" toLocalFile "" [5432] kig(5432) bool __thiscall KigPart::openFile(void): mimetype: "text/plain"
So there are problems with mime type handling. (It's scary that mime problems will stop a program from editing a file, how do I force it?)
I was able to download French vocabulary, but when I dismissed it, I got the same alert as KHangMan once displayed
Cannot start gpg and retrieve the available keys. Make sure that gpg is installed.
kdelibs/knewstuff/knewstuff2/core/security.cpp is trying to start gpg in a new KProcess. I don't have `gpg` in my path, I'm not sure what package it's in.
The background appears but none of the tiles, and the icons for them in Create New Game are missing. So some directory is missing, could be C:\KDE4\share\pixmaps NAME NOT FOUND, I don't know where the tiles should be.
I went through the installer (version 0.8.5), and when it got to the select mirror screen, all the mirrors are blank.
I have no idea what to add to the list.
After several minutes trying to find an adress to submit bug reports for kde on windows I report here that I have given up! This site is the only one I found to tell anyone about the problems.
Please post a link to a forum/bugreport engine or some email address.
I started the installer and ended up with the dialog 'Download needed packages'. The docu says something about manual selection of the dependencies - WTF. On Linux nobody would even think to let the user select manually the required ones out of thousends of packages, but on windows one has to select the required ones out of ~100 Packages ? I would not mind to install every package that might be required, but the installer has no option the select 'all'.
Edit: I now found out that if one selects one of the kde suites, that then the dependencies are resolved. So I propose to make this installer more suitable for non kde programmers an in general easier to understand.
Some things I noticed:


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PARIS (AP) — They're helmeted, mute and mysterious, and they're suddenly the pride of France.
Duo Daft Punk did something no other French music group has done: Brought home four Grammy Awards in one night.
Congratulations poured in Monday from French media, tweeters and bloggers — and even the U.S. Embassy in Paris. "See, France is capable of winning!" said commentator Jean-Jacques Bourdin on BFM-TV.
The multiple wins for the electronic music pioneers Sunday night were a rare bit of good news in France amid bleak reports on unemployment (stuck around 11 percent) and the president's personal life (complicated).
The men behind the masks, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, kept their French accents carefully concealed at the Grammys. The two, who only appear in public behind helmets, left it to Pharrell Williams to accept their awards.
While those in the French masses celebrate Daft Punk's repeated trips to the podium at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, French officialdom has been strangely silent. Daft Punk's work didn't get a single nomination for the 2013 French music awards Victoire de la musique.
Perhaps that's because, as critic Pierre Siankowski put it, "We have a problem in France with the mainstream." Something as universally popular as the never-get-it-out-of-your-head "Get Lucky" isn't seen as "real art."
That wasn't a concern for the Recording Academy voters, who handed Daft Punk and Williams the trophy in every category they were nominated in at the Grammy Awards: Album of the year for "Random Access Memories." Record of the year for funk-electronic anthem "Get Lucky." Best pop duo or group performance. And best dance or electronica album.
"Random Access Memories" also won for non-classical engineered album, an award that went to their engineer.
Daft Punk, produced by Columbia Records in the U.S., broke into the global sound consciousness with their 1997 album "Homework" and its hit "Around the World." They went on to win Grammys in 2007 for best dance recording and best electronic dance album.
Then, they reached for something radical: live instruments. Their combination of real musicians, R&B rhythms and electronic expertise is seen as the key to the success of "Random Access Memories."
Siankowski, the chief editor at pop culture weekly Les Inrockuptibles, isn't afraid to be a fan, praising them for "intelligent music ... that goes against the grain."
And something about those helmets all over French TV on Monday looked familiar.
Henri Guaino, speechwriter for ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy, couldn't resist drawing a parallel with the helmeted man pictured in a gossip magazine this month sneaking out of the presidential palace on a motorcycle to meet his actress paramour.
The magazine says the man was President Francois Hollande, a claim neither he nor the actress has denied. Guaino quipped on BFM that the images provided "good publicity" for Daft Punk.


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Population, Demographic Trends and Human Rights
The report attempts to give an insight into the processes underlying the development of the human development indicators. Four issues have been chosen for examination in detail, each being covered in a separate chapter.
Principal Contributors: Klara FotiAngela GorbeGabor KardosPeter Szivos
Human Development (General)
Measurement of Human Development


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BuyImpact necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 291 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
BuyImpact.com (under development) - Helps customers find companies they want to support
WHY I CREATED BUYIMPACT.com
I use online directories often to find places to eat, shop, and get stuff cleaned and fixed. However, there's often a long list of results that meet my criteria and have great reviews. To narrow down the list and decide which businesses I want to support with my money, I wanted to know more about them:
* Who owns them?
* Do they operate responsibly?
* What do they do to support their community?
I needed a database I could search so it would be easy to find companies I want to support when I need to buy something.
Our choices about where to spend our money make a difference! I hope this site will empower consumers to make an impact through the things they buy and places they go every day!
Thank you for considering my project! I'd love to see your work!!!
Amy Dolin
Age 15-50 (mostly 20s & 30s)
Both male and female, mostly caucausian, mostly urban
Well-educated & tech-savvy
Regular/mainstream consumers who want to find small, convenient ways to make the world a better place through their everyday purchases
We don't have any visual identity yet - so everything is wide open. Colors, imagery, etc. IT'S ALL UP TO YOU! :)
***CHECK OUT THE ATTACHED AWESOME BRIEF WITH MANY GREAT EXAMPLES that will be useful to you in many projects, company/site description, ideas and more info!!!***
Site personality/brand:
*Empowering, bold, fun, different, smart, clean, fresh, "responsibility and making a difference made easy"
*Not too touchy-feely or hippie/alternative-want this to have broad appeal, not just for the super socially-conscious people
Design notes
*I included lots of examples so you'll have a great idea of what I am seeking
*I'm not sure which word to emphasize – "buy" or "impact" ?????
*Don't be too focused on "green" – that will be one aspect of site, but there are many other aspects
*I don't want some overused, generic, cliché, cookie-cutter crap like swirls or boxes that could apply to anything. I want something creative and clever that looks like it was designed specifically to communicate both buying and empowerment/making a difference/making informed shopping decisions
*Usage: Primary usage will be on 1) web site (probably white background) and 2) on stickers/signs at businesses and on business web sites (i.e. yelp.com stickers) (on boldly colored or black background)
*Should have space for tagline: Know where your money goes!
* .com at end (small), (.com in vertical text could be one option)
I would like to see:
•Color version
* Color version that can be on a dark background
•Optional: B&W version
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What is keyword density?
Keyword density is a combination of the number of times a keyword or a keyword phrase, in proportion with other words, appears on a Web page. The more times the keyword appears in relation to the total number of on page words, the greater the overall keyword density. The more times that other words appear, the lower the proportion of keywords, resulting in a lighter keyword density.
Does keyword density make a difference?
The various search engines, including Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search consider keyword density as part of their search algorithm. Each search engine has a different mathematical equation regarding the density of keywords that is rewarded with higher search ranking placement. There is also a different level of tolerance between the different search engines as to the degree of density permitted before a penalty is imposed.
Okay, so what are keywords anyway?
Keywords are the terms that searchers enter into the search engine's search interface when seeking information, products, or services. The keyword is entered into the search engine algorithm as a mathematical calculation, to determine relevance of the many billions of Internet pages to that particular search. The pages the algorithm deems most relevant to the search for those keywords are ranked accordingly.
How are keywords different from keyword phrases?
A keyword can be one single word or a phrase including that word. Searchers use both types of entries when seeking information. As a general rule, the longer the phrase, the more specific the returned information will be from the search engine index.
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It's generally thought by search engine optimization experts that Yahoo and MSN Search tolerate heavier keyword densities per page than industry leader Google. As with all areas of SEO, there is some debate on this issue, and counter examples are very likely to be found. Generally, however, Google is less tolerant of heavy keyword usage than Yahoo or MSN.
Is there a formula for keyword density?
There is no hard and fast formula for keywords but it's probably best to keep the keyword percentage below five percent of the total number of words on the page. Any more words could potentially trigger a keyword stuffing filter. Too many keywords in any on page copy can also work against the page's readership retention and its conversion rate from visitor to paying customer. After all, the purpose of a Web page, for any commercial website, is to convert visitors to customers. For an informational website, the goal is to have as many visitors as possible read the available information. Badly written copy precludes those things from happening.
Is keyword density different from keyword placement?
Keyword density refers to the amount of keywords used on the page, in relation to the total number of words on the page in question. Keyword placement refers to the location of the words on a Web page. That placement could be in the title tags, links, headings, main body of copy, or anywhere else where wording appears on a Web page.
Does the order of keywords make a difference?
Some SEO experts believe that placing keywords higher on the page gives that page a boost in the search rankings. That opinion is not shared by all search engine observers, however. In general, it's better to sprinkle the keywords throughout the on page copy in a normal writing fashion. Natural sounding content is much easier to read, and could even score as well in the search rankings as any special placements on the page.
Can keywords help as link anchor text?
Link anchor text is a common usage of keywords and has little effect on keyword density of the sending or receiving page. For purposes of SEO, link anchor text, comprised of the receiving page's most important keywords, is probably more powerful than heavier use of keywords in on page copy. Keywords in link anchor text tell the search engines what the receiving page is about in terms of themes and topics. A form of keyword stuffing, that appears unnatural to the search engines, is the use of exactly the same keywords in all incoming link anchor text. Keywords and phrases are best mixed and matched, with several variations of link anchor text employed.
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The use of keywords in title tags is a powerful placement of the page's most important search terms. In title tags, the placement of keywords is important. The most important keywords should be placed at the beginning of the page title tag. As with all keywords, there is danger of keyword stuffing in the title tags themselves. Be sure to refrain from using any word more than three times in the title tag. A maximum of twice would be even safer to prevent triggering a keyword stuffing filter.
Does the keyword form make a difference?
Keywords can be written as planned for the search engines. They can also be organized into desirable search phrases. Plural and singular forms of the words should also be utilized as many searchers will choose either one form or the other. Additional ways of writing keywords include adding -ed, -ing, or other related suffixes to reflect different searches.
Plural and singular forms of a keyword will often result in vastly different search results in Google, making it important that both forms of a keyword be part of the copy if well written content is the result. If different word variations become too difficult, and if the keyword is highly competitive, it's preferable to create an entirely new page for each alternative form of the word, to concentrate the keyword power of the page.
Should different keywords be used in the on page copy?
It's a good idea to use different keywords on the Web page. By doing so, the page could rank well for other searches, many of which might result in more traffic or sales than the originally targeted keyword or phrase. The different words also make the page more pleasant for visitors to read, greatly enhancing the site's length of stays and sales conversion rates. In highly competitive situations, however, the best course of action is often to create separate Web pages for each different keyword or phrase.
What is the best way to write on page copy?
The best way to write Web page copy is in an easy to read format. The copy should flow freely, and lead the visitor either to convert to a customer, or to seek even more information from the website. Placing the sought after keywords in natural locations throughout the information, in the page headings, and title tags will enhance the page's keyword value. It will also prevent keyword stuffing possibilities as the keywords are not all packed into the page's informational or sales copy.
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A number of good keyword density tools are available. They include:
Search Engine World's Keyword Density Analyzer http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi_bin/kwda.cgi,
Keyword Density Analyzer http://www.virtualpromote.com/tools/keyword_analyzer/,
and SEO Chat's SEO Tools – Keyword Density http://www.seochat.com/seo_tools/keyword_density/
There are many more good tools available with a simple search.
Can a Web page have too many keywords?
In theory, a web page can have an almost unlimited numbers of keywords provided that the page contains enough other words to balance them. In practice, however, a page should most certainly contain five percent keywords or fewer. The reason for restricting the number of keywords is not strictly to avoid Google filters. It's also to keep the copy easily readable for the visitors. Badly written copy is not informative or good sales or marketing material. Any minimal benefit derived from slightly higher search rankings is more than offset by a rapid loss of visitor traffic and potential customers.
What is keyword stuffing?
Keyword stuffing is the very intensive placement of keywords within a Web page's copy. In general, the level of keywords would be so frequent as to overwhelm the rest of the copy. While the overuse of keywords is likely to trigger a Google filter, the potential loss of visitor traffic due to hard to read content is a much larger problem. A searcher finding a Web page consisting of keywords obviously jammed in everywhere is highly unlikely to remain and convert to a paying customer. The loss due to keyword stuffing is therefore twofold.
What are some common forms of keyword stuffing?
Keyword stuffing can result from jamming as many of the keywords into the page's informational copy as possible. The copy reads like a string of keywords and little else. Another form of keyword stuffing is to pack the word or words as many times as possible into the page title tags. The search engines will often downgrade the page in the search rankings, or perhaps ignore the keywords entirely. Neither result is beneficial to the website. Keyword stuffed doorway pages or cloaked pages are not only examples of keyword overuse, but are also penalty causing items in their own right. The constant and complete usage of the same link anchor text for all inbound links can be considered a form of keyword stuffing as well.
Can a site be penalized for keyword stuffing?
A site can and will be penalized by the search engines for keyword stuffing. Google appears to be very sensitive to overuse of keywords on the page, as a filter will be triggered. Penalties ranging from a downgrade in the search results, to the loss of Google PageRank, to possibly being banned are options that the search engine giant could consider imposing on the site. As with all search engine optimization efforts, common sense and thinking of what benefits your site's visitors is the best action for any website owner to use.


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Stubbs: Price, Subban strut stuff for Ruff
MONTREAL — So, the smoothest road to the 2014 Sochi Olympics for Canadiens goalie Carey Price and defenceman P.K. Subban became clear at noon on Tuesday, precisely 100 days before the opening ceremony in Russia.
"If they play bad tonight," Dallas Stars head coach Lindy Ruff said, a grin working at the corners of his mouth, "I'll give them a chance. I'll give them a real good look."
Ruff, an assistant coach on Canada's Sochi staff, was pulling legs — though a dismal effort by Price and Subban against his Stars at the Bell Centre Tuesday night would have been most welcome.
Alas, the two Canadiens were not dismal talents, Montreal beating Ruff's Stars 2-1.
Price made 26 saves to earn his sixth win of the season, while Subban had two shots, five aimed at the net, blocked two and was minus-1 in his 25:09, the second-busiest player on the ice behind teammate Andrei Markov.
"Obviously, we're keeping an eye on all the (Sochi) possibilities," Ruff said before the game.
"And P.K. and Carey are a big part of that."
Ruff has made, what he says, is a comfortable transition to Dallas after 16 seasons and 1,266 regular-season and playoff games in Buffalo, having been sacked by the Sabres 17 games into last season's lockout-abbreviated campaign.
On Monday, he made his return to Buffalo behind the visitors' bench, his Stars grinding out a 4-3 victory.
"It was nice to get back, but even nicer to get through that one and get out of town," Ruff said Tuesday at the Bell Centre before his club would face the Canadiens.
During the first TV timeout at First Niagara Center, a minute-long video of Ruff's playing, then coaching career in Buffalo was screened on the scoreboard, fans rising from their seats to cheer and wave signs of affection at the man who left town with a 571-432-162 record.
Ruff said he didn't watch the tribute, his emotions too near the surface, but said he had "a lot of great playing and coaching memories. It'll be easier going back now."
Ruff led the Sabres to Eastern Conference Final in 2006 and '07, then for the next five years directed a club that never got off a downhill slope, greased by the July 2007 departures of free agents Daniel Brière and Chris Drury.
The Sabres have not won a playoff round since.
Ruff held court with Buffalo media before Monday's game, exiting the stage with, "Thank you, great seeing y'all," chuckling with another "y'all" almost under his breath.
"There's been some other words that have been more common, but there have been a few 'y'alls,' " Ruff joked Tuesday of his new-found Texas twang.
After 16 years coaching the Sabres and a decade playing for them before that, crossed swords practically branded onto his skin, Ruff said there's a friendly fine among Stars coaches should he stumble into a Buffalo frame of mind — though he's not been nicked yet.
"I've tried to avoid any talk about the former team, but I've slipped up the odd time," he said. "Sometimes when you're looking up stats, I turn to the wrong page."
Ruff admitted he still pulls for the Sabres, "but not (Monday night)," he said with a laugh before the Stars' win. "I can root in between games when they're in the East. I root for the city and I root for the team. I want to see them do well."
The Stars jumped out to a 4-1 lead Monday and hung on for a nail-biting victory, an almost perfect night all around in that Matt Moulson, acquired from the Islanders for Vanek, scored twice for the Sabres.
Where it's common for a player who's facing a former club to quietly put a pot of cash up for teammates, to be shared for a win, Ruff said there was no monetary incentive in Buffalo.
"The line from Caddyshack, 'There'll be no tip, but on your death bed you will receive total consciousness?' " he said, laughing again. "It was something like that.
"And they get an extra day off somewhere down the road. It's a pretty good deal."
There won't be many days off this season for Ruff, not between his work with the Stars and role with Team Canada.
For now, he's spending very little time on the Olympic portfolio, certainly less than head coach Mike Babcock of Detroit.
"It's just being ready when we're scheduled to have a call later on," Ruff said of a talk to come with Babcock and the St. Louis Blues' Ken Hitchcock, Ruff's fellow assistant coach, all three returning from Canada's Vancouver 2010 gold-medal effort.
"It's watching the guys, taking game notes on how the players we're considering are playing so that, if asked, you can put your two cents in."
Ruff enthused about a "great" adjustment to his new life in Dallas.
"The fit with Jim has been awesome," he said of GM Jim Nill. "Jim's been terrific. And once you get behind the bench or on the ice for practice, hockey is hockey. I don't look outside the Plexiglas and worry about hockey in Texas, I just look at hockey as being hockey.
"Somebody said change is good and I really believe that. How Jim built their team (in Detroit as GM of the Red Wings), the type of players, his really trying to get this team where we want it and how we want to play — I'm finding it a real good experience.
"It's all new. I think sometimes that helps anybody."
What won't hurt Ruff will be for his squad to get on a bit of a roll.
The Stars having arrived in Montreal with a 5-5-1 record, second-last in the West.
"We've got to become a better team and, to a man, we know that," he said. "(Tuesday) will be a night we have to go out and try to show it."
It was Olympic hopefuls named Price and Subban who helped send the visitors home on the short end of the score, blissfully unaware that a poor performance was their better route to Sochi.
But Ruff was kidding. Wasn't he?
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Scripture: Acts 17:17 NIV So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there.
Observation: Paul is in the city of Athens. He does not wait for the Sabbath (Saturday) or The Lord's Day (Sunday) to do his Christian duty, but spoke to others "day by day." Old and New Testament lovers of God lived out their faith on a daily basis. It was a daily relationship with daily responsibilities.
Application: My daily life does not revolve around my weekly commitment to join with other believers on Sunday, but joining with others on Sunday revolves around my daily commitment to live for the Lord and let Him be seen in me. Weekly church commitments should build my daily walk with Jesus and as I grow in a daily relationship with Jesus, I grow in relationship to other believers. The daily aspect is the key!
Prayer: Lord, you are so faithful to speak to me day by day! May I faithfully live for you day by day. Amen
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About 50 men and women, hungry and sweaty under the blazing afternoon sun, line up across a vacant parking lot on Meeting Street.
A ceaseless herd of cars and trucks thunders by, drivers glancing at those gathered for the Hot Dog Ministry, a Christian volunteer-run effort to feed the city's homeless with a portable table, grill, hot dogs and prayer.
Wayne Weart, a Medical University of South Carolina pharmacy and family medicine professor, steps forward to lead a prayer. He warns that God allows people to get pushed to a breaking point.
"But never past it," he assures.
"Faith grows only when it's stretched — stretched to a breaking point," Weart tells the group, some fragile and timeworn, many calloused by the hardships of homelessness.
Across Meeting Street, a thin man in a wheelchair watches as traffic rumbles between him and a much-needed dinner.
Hot dog volunteer Nathan Mansell hurries over to steer Mikell Felder across one set of lanes. They pause atop a thin center strip of concrete median.
Mansell stands protectively behind his friend, risking the wrath of vehicles that don't slow for a man in a wheelchair, much less one standing.
Finally, Mansell gets Felder to the food, and to all that he has provided this fellow man. Including the hope of walking again.
At one time, Felder thought nobody heard his cries for help.
That might have been because they were muffled by alcohol, drugs and a mean streak that got him into enough fights to earn him the nickname Dusty. Felder was trying to survive in a homeless man's Charleston, one just a few blocks but worlds away from a tourism-rich stretch of Meeting Street.
He was born nearby, but his parents died long ago. Other relationships failed, too.
"I've been by myself," he says.
Felder's worst times began in 1991, when a car struck him, leaving him with a mangled leg and a broken spirit. He sank deeper into drugs and alcohol until infection took hold. In 2007, doctors removed his leg and told Felder to quit drinking and start dialysis. He says he did both.
Then he suffered four seizures one day. Between each, he surfaced into clarity.
"I could have been gone," he recalls.
Instead, he asked God to save him, both in life and soul.
"When the Lord touched me, he took all that anger away," Felder says. "He made me at peace."
By then, Mansell and his wife, Hillary, had joined a group of young volunteers who turned out with a grill and hot dogs every Tuesday evening. They fed homeless folks in a parking lot near Crisis Ministries, Charleston's homeless shelter.
Today, three to 25 volunteers from local churches show up to serve nearly 350 hot dogs most weekday evenings.
As more volunteers came, Mansell took time to talk with the people gathered, to learn their stories, to know them as more than masses at the ketchup line.
All signs warned him to stay away from Felder.
"Nobody wanted to talk to him because he was so mean to everybody," Mansell recalls. "But for some reason, I felt called or led to help him."
Mansell struck up some small talk and showed his concern.
"I've been an angry person. I would fight with you in a heartbeat," Felder admits. "But he showed me love and cared about me."
Beyond faith, they couldn't be more different.
Mansell, a clean-cut 24-year-old, grew up without his mother and questioned God's existence. But as an adult, he found a strong faith and became active at East Cooper Baptist in Mount Pleasant.
Felder, a crusty 52-year-old, had a temper that still flared at times despite his newfound heart for Jesus.
None of that mattered.
"The lines and boundaries that society has drawn are banished because God created us all," Mansell says. "No matter where we are in life, it makes no difference."
But it isn't always easy.
One recent week, Mansell brought Felder an apple, a treat.
But years without dental care left Felder with few teeth.
He couldn't bite into it. He admits he snapped at his friend.
Mansell tries to let it roll off.
"We all mess up," he says. "Just because God saved you doesn't mean you won't mess up again."
The next week, Mansell hands Felder a soft breakfast bar and gets him two hot dogs.
Felder wheels into the lot's only shade, a thin strip cast by a pole, while he eats.
No rush, but eat up, Mansell says. He has far greater plans for Felder than hot dogs.
It so happened that just as Felder called out to God, Mansell became a physical therapy student at MUSC.
And as a student, he began volunteering at the MUSC CARES Clinic, a student-run program that provides free care to uninsured or underinsured patients.
"Things lined up almost too perfectly," Mansell says.
Now every Tuesday, he loads Felder into his car and transports him from dialysis to the Hot Dog Ministry.
Every Wednesday, he takes Felder to the CARES Clinic.
There, he works with Dr. Sara Kraft, a physical therapy professor who became involved in Felder's care. She asked Floyd Brace Co. to donate a prosthetic leg to Felder, which it did.
Still, homelessness makes nothing easy, not even on MUSC's modern campus.
Inside the clinic, Felder lies face down on a square table.
For most people, this would be comfortable.
For Felder, it's pain.
Without a bed, he sleeps sitting in his wheelchair. He rarely stretches out. His hip flexors have contracted into knots. If he cannot stretch them to stand straight, he won't be able to walk on his prosthetic limb.
At the clinic, he gets help stretching the muscles.
Mansell also pays for Felder to stay in a hotel once a week so he can bathe and rest in a bed.
"It's almost medically necessary to get him in that hotel so he can stretch out," Mansell says. "If he's not lying down and stretching out, it's an uphill battle."
Felder simply needs a bed and a place to live.
Trouble is, his years of drinking and fighting have left him with burned bridges to Crisis Ministries and other housing prospects. Being in a wheelchair eliminates other options.
He also has kidney and heart failure, hepatitis C, HIV and myriad other health problems.
"I could die any time," he says. "Jesus says if you buy into his rules and walk in his righteousness, he can take me to heaven. I don't want to go to hell. If it's like this, I don't want to go."
Lying on his stomach is causing pain to radiate into the small of his back.
"It hurts real bad," he murmurs. "But I can take it for a while."
He adds: "I want to walk."
When Felder can't take the pain anymore, he rolls onto his side, his frayed Hardcore Carnivore cap resting beside him.
Exhaling, eyes closed, his head sinks into a soft white pillow, a luxury he rarely knows.
Today, Felder calls Mansell his brother in Christ and "the brother I never had."
"Somebody is paying attention to me now," he says. "I wake up in the morning and say, 'Thank you, Lord, for another day.' "
After Felder rests on the table, Mansell and his colleagues fit the prosthetic leg onto the remains of Felder's own leg.
Felder eases off the table, grabs hold of a walker and, with Mansell behind him, steps with the limb. It is a long, steel pole with knee and ankle joints and a white tennis shoe at the foot.
"I can't control it," Felder says, eyes closed in concentration.
Mansell coaches him, hands on Felder's hips, offering the guiding hand of a medical worker — and a trusted friend.
"Step all the way through," Mansell encourages.
With help from student Alli Foster, he steers Felder through several successful steps and helps him pivot to turn.
"Shift that weight," Mansell encourages. "Good!"
Felder walks, step by ginger step, through the therapy area.
His progress encourages everyone. If only it could last.
Because where will he sleep until his next visit? "Any place I feel safe," he says.
By the time he returns to the clinic next week, his muscles will have tightened from another seven days in his wheelchair, and the therapy will start awfully close to square one.
Yet, Mansell will keep bringing him, trying to feed his friend in body and spirit.
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10-20 inches. Pale gray or tan above, with a row of dark blotches or spots down the back and one row on each side; reddish or orange band present down the middle of the back, and wide black band along the side of the head; underside whitish, gray or tan with brown blotches or spots; scales keeled and in 21-23 rows. The rattle is very small in contrast to those of the other rattlesnake species.
Pygmy rattlesnakes occur in wooded areas, but tend to avoid swamps. They favor areas with a grass understory such as pinelands and dry coastlands, but also occur in palmetto flatwoods. They give birth to from 4-14 young.
Upland areas and pine flatwoods in the Florida Parishes and northern and central Louisiana, southwest to Calcasieu Parish. Isolated populations are in the west edge of the Atchafalaya Basin-Vermilion River area, the salt dome islands around Cote Blanch Bay, and liveoak ridges from the New Orleans area southward and eastward.