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You're never too young to start sailing
We aim to make sailing as enjoyable as possible and Sailfish is the ideal environment to learn. It's fun, there are structured courses and there is a good mix of experienced sailors to help and encourage the more inexperienced ones. The season Starts in Mid march on Snday Mornings (subject to weather conditions) and moves into Saturday and Sunday Morning sessions with the popular Friday evening sessions starting in April.
Learning at your own pace
Children take to sailing naturally and they learn through a mix of training and play activities. When they join Sailfish it is expected that they follow the typical progression which is monitored by qualified RYA level 2 race coaches
Stage 1
Familiarisation with the boats used at the club. Wind direction and strength. Comfort on the water in a heeling boat.
No skill expectation. Qualifications – RYA level 1
Stage 2
Summary: Sail the boat in light winds. Experiment with the boat controls of rudder, sails, centre board to sail the boat in a planned direction. Crew a double hander under supervision and trim the jib according to the direction the boat is sailing.
Limited skill in light winds mainly on a reach but able to tack the boat.
Qualifications – RYA level 2
Stage 3
Summary: Sail the boat in light to medium winds. Control the sails and steering to sail a defined course on all points of sailing.
Take part in first races around a triangular course and able to complete it unassisted.
Participate in external Team sailing event such as the Hollingwworth 8 hr Race
Stage 4
Summary: Building confidence from Stage 3 in stronger winds to balance the boat and control the speed by changing the sail settings.
Race confidently around a triangular course and sail a junior class boat in the Sunday afternoon Junior Race and other club races.
Participate in external junior class events such as Northwest Topper series oand the Junior Traveller Series
Participate in external Team sailing events such as the Southport 12 and 24 hr Race.
It is expected that at stages 3 and 4 the sailor will want to participate in additional race training courses. Numerous events are held where juniors are coached intensively by a top RYA course. Courses are normally a minimum of 2 days and are heavily subsidised.
At this stage the top young sailors may also be asked to participate in regional squands or start the path along an elite training programme.
Assessment for the stages is made by level 2 Race Coaches to ensure the standard has been reached.
Stage 5: Compete regularly in Junior and Adult club races. Have the ability to sail a mix of single and double handed boats, sail with Spinnakers. Sail confidently in strong winds.
Typical Progression
Year 1 – Taster & Stage 1.
Year 2 – Stage 2 & 3.
Year 3-4 – Stage 4.
Year 5 & 6 – Stage 5.
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Unofficial theme song of the police vice squad. It is a play on the title of the 1970s hit song, "Message in a Bottle", ironically made famous by the British pop group, The Police. "Massage in a Brothel" is intended to highlight the preference for some corrupt police to receive payment in the form of sexual services rather than money when soliciting bribes from prostitutes.
Detective Brown won't take money from prostitutes. He prefers a "massage in a brothel".
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Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII:Early Church Fathers Index Previous Next
The Letters.: Without address on the subject of the exaction of taxes.
Letter LXXXVIII. 2298
Without address on the subject of the exaction of taxes.
Your excellency knows better than any one else the difficulty of getting together the gold furnished by contribution. 2299 We have no better witness to our poverty than yourself, for with your great kindness you have felt for us, and, up to the present time, so far as has lain within your power, have borne with us, never departing from your own natural forbearance from any alarm caused by superior authority. Now of the whole sum there is still something wanting, and that must be got in from the contribution which we have recommended to all the town. What I ask is, that you will grant us a little delay, that a reminder may be sent to dwellers in the country, and most of our magistrates are in the country. If it is possible for it to be sent in short of as many pounds as those in which we are still behind-hand, I should be glad if you would so arrange, and the amount shall be sent later. If, however, it is absolutely necessary that the whole sum should be sent in at once, then I repeat my first request that we may be allowed a longer time of grace.
Of the same date175:2299
χρυσίον πραγματευτικόν, Lat. aurum comparatitium. The gold collected for the equipment of troops. Cod. Theod. vii. 6. 3. The provinces of the East, with the exception of Osroene and Isauria, contributed gold instead of actual equipment. The Ben. note quotes a law of Valens that this was to be paid between Sept. 1 and April 1, and argues thence that this letter may be definitely dated in March, 372, and not long before Easter, which fell on April 8.
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Hello everyone! Welcome to my first blog with Imagination. Going forward I'll be contributing here by providing snapshots of Imagination's participation at events around the world, as well as some of the latest developments from the company. Let me start with some really cool news.
At the recently concluded Open Innovation Platform® Ecosystem Forum held in Santa Clara, California, Imagination received the 2015 Graphics Partner of the Year Award from TSMC. This is an honor for Imagination as the award recognizes the cutting-edge collaboration between the two companies in the area of graphics. Over the last few years, Imagination has been partnering with TSMC to develop highly optimized reference design flows and silicon implementations using PowerVR GPUs combined with TSMC's advanced process technologies, including 16nm FinFET process technology.
Martin Ashton, executive VP of Imagination's PowerVR business, attended an exclusive luncheon event where he received the award from Dr. Cliff Hou, Vice President, Research & Development and Design and Technology Platform for TSMC.
Here is a peek into a couple of the interesting projects that Imagination and TSMC have been collaborating on.
Designing an integrated wireless 4K video camera IP platform
The IoT market is fast evolving from simple M2M devices that merely transmit low data rates over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to far more complex systems that are capable of streaming and analyzing HD video. To address this market, Imagination, with support from TSMC, has developed a reference design for 4K imaging and display. The IP platform has advanced features such as camera ISP, GPU compute, power-managed CPU clusters and on-chip Wi-Fi and Bluetooth -demonstrating that high-performance local processing and connectivity can be integrated not just efficiently but cost-effectively as well.
Optimizing PowerVR GPU using 16nm FinFET
Leading-edge GPUs today occupy as much as 50 percent or more of an SoC's area and demand the highest performance memory bandwidth to deliver high performance at low power. To meet the needs of next generation's most advanced SoCs, Imagination and TSMC teamed up to enhance the overall performance, power and area (PPA) achieved on Imagination's PowerVR Series6XT GPU on TSMC's 16nm FF process. The companies successfully created silicon-validated PPA reference points that exceeded the original target of 600MHz @ 2.5W, achieving 660MHz @ 2.35W. Colin McKellar, senior director of hardware engineering for Imagination published a paper at the TSMC OIP forum that detailed this work, and Imagination demonstrated the solution at the show
Watch this space from more information on the advances we are making in developing cutting-edge technologies of the future. In my next post I'll bring you key takeaways from the recently concluded Linley Processor Conference.
For more news and announcements from Imagination, follow us on Twitter (@ImaginationTech) and stay tuned to our blog.


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Made this tv table with a long board of aged pinewood. The split is created by removing the rotten part of wood and later burnt with a propane torch. Finished with some linseedoil and placed on a metal frame.


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I grumbled in pain down to the mailbox and retrieved the mail. Came back into to the house grumbling louder. My chest started to feel tight, and I started to feel faint. I thought great - that SOB is going to send me to the ER. It was like I felt the wasp's venom running up my arm and into my chest - like the SOB hit a vein. I sat down at the kitchen table and put my head between my knees and finally the tightness in my chest began to subside and the faintness disappeared.
It this point my husband popped out of his office to see what all the commotion was - which was not the easiest to explain at that point other than I had a wasp sting and not doing well. I washed up the wound and put some hydrocortisone cream on it, but it itched like a motherfudger and was swelling. So, of course the next step was antihistamines and ice/heat rotation.
Here is a pic of what it looked like before antihistamines and ice/heat rotation:
The hand finally returned to normal by Monday of this week except the sting site still had a little red spot. I figured that it was just taking its time to heal.
Today, the sting spot and surrounding area started to itch like a motherfudger again and hive up like an allergic reaction. So, I clean up the spot AGAIN. More antihistamines...snoooze.... and I am hoping that this will resolve on its own. I really do not want to have to go to the doctor just because some Guido wasp was sent to give me a message about smushing spiders. I think I need to reiterate - I hate bugs.....


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Another one-vote election winner has emerged and has created controversy in a small town in eastern North Carolina.
While not on the same scale as the Virginia House of Delegates row that has that state's legislative power up for grabs, Ricky Hines just wants to take his seat on the Winterville town council, according to a news release.
Hines apparently defeated incumbent board member John Hill by a single vote in the Nov. 7 election. But reaching that conclusion has been controversial.
Hill held an eight-vote advantage on election night before absentee and provisional ballots were counted. When those votes were included, Hines overtook Hill by a vote. Subsequently, it was discovered that a mapping error that was not found before the election began had allowed about 10 people to vote who were not eligible. They lived in an area that Winterville is annexing but that process isn't complete.
The Pitt County Board of Elections certified Hines' win on Nov. 27 — 10 days after the canvass occurred on Nov 17.
Since then the election was uncertified and the fight now is headed to court.
The Southern Coalition for Social Justice filed a petition in Wake County Superior Court Wednesday on behalf of Hines. They're requesting the court honor the original election certification and award Hines his seat on the town council.
The State Board of Elections had previsously filed a petition for judicial review in the case, requesting a new election be held.
Hines and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice claim the staff of the N.C. State Board of Elections urged the Pitt County Board of Elections to decertify the election results and ordered that incumbent John Hill retain his seat despite losing the election.
"This election was certified and state law does not allow a local board of elections to revoke that certification once it has been granted," said Allison Riggs, senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
They said Hines' margin of victory was one vote and his election was made official when the Pitt County Board of Elections issued him a certificate of election on Nov. 27.
Prior to the certification and the canvass, an error was discovered that showed a small group of people may have been included in the election when they were not yet eligible. A mapping error prematurely placed parts of two new streets in the town limits before their annexation was complete. The mistake covered residences that were not yet part of the town.
Hill requested a recount and it occurred on Nov. 21. The results did not change and Hines still maintained his one-vote margin over Hill.
State law permits election protests to be filed after a recount, which in this case was up until Nov. 22. No one entered a protest, according to the local board of election.
"The geocoding error was well known, it was reported widely in the press, and every Winterville resident had the opportunity to file a protest," Riggs said. "Overturning the election and circumventing the process now is wrong."
The State Board of Election took the position that the number of voters who were ineligible to cast ballots in the race was greater than the margin of victory and that a new election should be held.
"We know undisputed errors in that election affected more ballots than the margin of victory," said State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon. "It would be bad precedent to certify elections we know to be in doubt. This is about protecting the rights of all of Winterville's voters."
The State Board of Elections is ultimately responsible for supervising the elections in the state. Under state law, it can take any "action necessary to assure that an election is determined without taint of fraud or corruption and without irregularities that may have changed the result of an election."
On Dec. 6, the county board of elections started the process to overturn the election.
"I thought we were done once the election was certified," Hines said. "What's happening now is undermining the ability of voters in Winterville to have their certified representative govern. That is unacceptable and undemocratic."
The hearing will be held Dec. 29 in Wake County Superior Court.
Joe Johnson: 919-419-6678, @JEJ_HSNews


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Sengoku closed beta taking applications
Paradox has begun selection of beta testers for its upcoming feudal Japan-themed strategy title, Sengoku.
You can apply for the beta through Paradox's sign up page.
Sengoku is set in the titular period of Japanese history, and sees players cast as the head of a samurai clan. It's being developed by the Hearts of Iron and Europe Universalis team, which gets mad strategy props, yo.
It's due on PC on September 13; check out the announcement trailer and screens.


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Smart Measure Pro v2.3.1 Apk App
Requirements: ANDROID 1.6 and up
Overview: You can measure the distance, height, width, area of an object.
Smart Measure Pro is the part 2. of Smart Tools series. (distance, height, width, area)
This range-finder measures the Distance, Height, Width and Area of a target with your phone by trigonometry.
Are you ready to gauge all? Just stand up and press the shutter. The important point is aiming the camera at the GROUND, NOT the object. (i.e. In order to measure the distance from someone, aim at his shoes.)
* Pro version added features
1) Width and Area can be measured
2) Quick Shutter
3) Portrait mode
4) Camera Zoom
5) Virtual Horizon
6) French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese supported
* Now, 3 tools for distance were completed.
1) Smart Ruler (Short, by touch) : 1-50cm
2) Smart Measure (Medium, trigonometry) : 1-50m
3) Smart Distance (Long, perspective) : 10m-1km
What's in this version:
v2.3.1 : more models calibrated.
v2.3.0 : Manual Calibration update.
v2.2.5 : zoom control by volume button.
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I was reading a beat-up paperback library book with my daughter over the Christmas break -- an entry in the "Babysitter's Little Sister" series -- and was surprised to find a really nice treatment of different families in general and adoption specifically. The book is "Karen's Twin," and although Amazon.com lists the paperback version as out-of-print, it's probably lurking in more school libraries than just ours.
The main character is proud to be a "two-two," with two of everything in the two households she lives in -- one she and her brother share with their mother and stepfather, and the other with their father, stepmother, stepsiblings, and a little sister just adopted from Vietnam. Part of the plot centers on paperwork problems surrounding the adoption, and I liked the fact that, while Karen sometimes thinks of the new family member as a pest, when she fears that the adoption may not go through, she springs to the tot's defense. Not to worry: the book ends with a "Happy Adoption Day" party.
A good deal of the story centers around an in-class "family tree" assignment -- the bugaboo of so many adoptive parents -- that is handled creatively by all the children; Karen, for example, makes a tree for each of her "families." When the class gets to invite members of their family for a special day, Karen invites her father and adopted sister, another brings the grandparents who are raising her, and another brings his foster parents.
The main plot -- in which one of Karen's classmates wants desperately to be her twin sister, and essentially stalks her for much of the book -- is interesting only in that the twin wannabe picks Karen because she's got the most interesting family in the class. As part of the "Babysitter's Club" sub-genre of grade-school fiction, "Karen's Twin" ain't exactly art, but it's amiable enough, and I much enjoyed the very matter-of-fact way in which family differences were treated. That's the way I try to treat them with my kids, too. If you're looking for ways to validate that point of view with your own personal pre-teen, this is a book worth checking garage sales for.


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Let It Go seems to be the theme song for 2014 thus far, and I am really trying to embrace it, to let go of my hangup with the way things "should" be and accept things the way they are.
But that can be hard sometimes.
It started on New Year's Eve when Fletcher began making a strange huffing sound, almost like he couldn't breathe. When we asked him he said it was nothing, but it continued and got worse. By midnight he was making the sound every few seconds and it was clear that this was not a breathing issue but a tic, an involuntary sound and movement he could not control or stop. A second tic emerged, one where he blows on his hands every few minutes. It was strange, and disconcerting, but this was not our first time at the tic rodeo – Fletcher had a similar bout of tics, one vocal and one motor, almost exactly one year prior when he was in 3rd grade. We learned then that tics are not all that uncommon in children and that most go away on their own. So we ignored it, and after 3 or 4 months the tics just disappeared. We had hoped that would be the case this time as well.
But over the first few weeks of 2014, Fletcher's behavior changed abruptly. He suffered from frequent headaches, became emotionally volatile, and started to develop irrational fears. He refused to be alone. He told us his head was filled with "bad thoughts" and he couldn't stop them. He couldn't sleep at night unless he was in bed with me, pressed against my side where I could feel his body jerking and fighting against the tics. It was heartbreaking and terrifying and confusing.
Sixteen days into this mess I called the pediatrician and the nurse's immediate response was "This sounds like a strep infection." Huh? Yes, Fletcher had a bad cold in December, and yes during the same time several of his close friends were diagnosed with strep. But Fletcher never ran a fever, never complained of a badly sore throat . . . Let's don't even talk about the fact that I had NO idea that strep could do anything more than cause a sore throat. Now I know better. It is a nasty bacteria. Sure enough when we went in for blood work we discovered that his anti-DNase B strep antibodies were dramatically elevated.
Fletcher was diagnosed with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep, P.A.N.D.A.S. for short, and started on a long-term course of antibiotics. It is likely that the tics we witnessed in 3rd grade were the first flare of the disease – it seems as though symptoms intensify with each successive flare. It is a controversial diagnosis. Many in the medical community are unaware of P.A.N.D.A.S. or dispute it's existence, believing instead that the proper diagnosis is Tourette's or OCD. But as soon as I read about P.A.N.D.A.S. I knew this was what we were dealing with. Everything fit. It may not have been diagnosed strep, but Fletcher was sick in the weeks leading up to both of his flares. And we do know that Fletcher does not present with typical strep symptoms – the only time he has ever been diagnosed with strep before this was when he was in Kindergarten and he spent 3 weeks visiting the school nurse every afternoon with a tummy ache. She would take his temperature, let him sit and talk for a while, and then send him back to class. We assumed he just really liked spending time with her because he never complained of feeling sick when he was at home, but after 3 weeks of this we took him to the doctor. Sure enough, he had strep throat. I had no idea it was even possible to have strep without a sore throat, but apparently it is. So it is not out of the question to think that he also had other undiagnosed infections.
The biggest thing indicating that P.A.N.D.A.S is the correct diagnoses is that within a week of starting antibiotics, Fletcher said the "bad thoughts" were gone. That is HUGE. But it is just the tip of what I imagine is a very large iceberg.
We are nine weeks into this now. Fletcher is taking a daily antibiotic and a host of other medications and supplements to help maintain his gut and to help with the ongoing insomnia. He has good days and bad days. Mostly, to the outside world, he is the same old crazy kid. Except that he isn't. For the most part he is dealing with it very well – I am so proud of how strong he has been through all of this. But when kids pick on him for his tics, when he has irrational reactions that he doesn't understand and can't control, it's hard. It is definitely taking a toll on all of us.
I haven't dealt with all of this very well. I've spent a lot of time, too much time, thinking back to how wonderful our life was in December . . . and even more time worrying about what will happen if we don't get this under control, if he flares again. It's time to let go of that – it's not healthy or productive.
We are also letting go of a few other things that might not be healthy for Fletcher – like gluten, dairy and soy. It seems there is a lot of evidence out there connecting dietary intolerances to brain health. It won't be easy, but if it works it will be worth it.
So this is where we are now. The pediatrician says it could be a long hike – possibly up to six months on antibiotics. Honestly, I'm not even sure what happens after that. I can't think that far ahead right now. Right now, it is time for me to put on my momma pants and stop mourning for the simplicity of life 10 weeks ago, for the cake and ice cream we won't be eating for my birthday next week, for my sweet boy who is proving himself to be one tough kid. This is the new normal and we will figure it out one way or another.


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Kinect has 2 cameras – video and depth (IR) and therefore has 2 different camera frames where you can compute things – the depth camera coordinate frame of reference (that Kinect's skeleton uses and returns results in) and the color camera coordinate system. The Face Tracking API, which we shipped with Kinect For Windows SDK 1.5 developer toolkit, computes results in the color camera coordinate frame since it uses RGB data a lot. To use the face tracking 3D results with Kinect skeleton you may want to convert from the color camera space to depth camera space. Both systems are right handed coordinate systems with Z pointed out (towards a user) and Y pointed UP, but 2 systems do not have the same origin and their axis are not colinear due to camera differences. Therefore you need to convert from one system to another.
Unfortunately, Kinect API does not provide this functionality yet. The proper way to convert between 2 camera spaces is to calibrate these cameras and use their extrinsic parameters for conversion. Unfortunately, Kinect API does not expose those and it does not provide any function that does the conversion. So I came up with the code (below) that can be used to approximately convert from the color camera space to the depth camera space. This code only approximates the "real" conversion, so understand this when using it. The code is provided "as is" with not warranties, use it at your own risk 🙂
/* This function demonstrates a simplified (and approximate) way of converting from the color camera space to the depth camera space. It takes a 3D point in the color camera space and returns its coordinates in the depth camera space. The algorithm is as follows: 1) take a point in the depth camera space that is near the resulting converted 3D point. As a "good enough approximation" we take the coordinates of the original color camera space point. 2) Project the depth camera space point to (u,v) depth image space 3) Convert depth image (u,v) coordinates to (u',v') color image coordinates with Kinect API 4) Un-projected converted (u',v') color image point to the 3D color camera space (uses known Z from the depth space) 5) Find the translation vector between two spaces as translation = colorCameraSpacePoint - depthCameraSpacePoint 6) Translate the original passed color camera space 3D point by the inverse of the computed translation vector. This algorithm is only a rough approximation and assumes that the transformation between camera spaces is roughly the same in a small neighbourhood of a given point. */ HRESULT ConvertFromColorCameraSpaceToDepthCameraSpace(const XMFLOAT3* pPointInColorCameraSpace, XMFLOAT3* pPointInDepthCameraSpace) { // Camera settings - these should be changed according to camera mode float depthImageWidth = 320.0f; float depthImageHeight = 240.0f; float depthCameraFocalLengthInPixels = NUI_CAMERA_DEPTH_NOMINAL_FOCAL_LENGTH_IN_PIXELS; float colorImageWidth = 640.0f; float colorImageHeight = 480.0f; float colorCameraFocalLengthInPixels = NUI_CAMERA_COLOR_NOMINAL_FOCAL_LENGTH_IN_PIXELS; // Take a point in the depth camera space near the expected resulting point. Here we use the passed color camera space 3D point // We want to convert it from depth camera space back to color camera space to find the shift vector between spaces. Then // we will apply reverse of this vector to go back from the color camera space to the depth camera space XMFLOAT3 depthCameraSpace3DPoint = *pPointInColorCameraSpace; // Project depth camera 3D point (0,0,1) to depth image XMFLOAT2 depthImage2DPoint; depthImage2DPoint.x = depthImageWidth * 0.5f + ( depthCameraSpace3DPoint.x / depthCameraSpace3DPoint.z ) * depthCameraFocalLengthInPixels; depthImage2DPoint.y = depthImageHeight * 0.5f - ( depthCameraSpace3DPoint.y / depthCameraSpace3DPoint.z ) * depthCameraFocalLengthInPixels; // Transform from the depth image space to the color image space POINT colorImage2DPoint; NUI_IMAGE_VIEW_AREA viewArea = { NUI_IMAGE_DIGITAL_ZOOM_1X, 0, 0 }; HRESULT hr = NuiImageGetColorPixelCoordinatesFromDepthPixel( NUI_IMAGE_RESOLUTION_640x480, &viewArea, LONG(depthImage2DPoint.x + 0.5f), LONG(depthImage2DPoint.y+0.5f), USHORT(depthCameraSpace3DPoint.z*1000.0f) << NUI_IMAGE_PLAYER_INDEX_SHIFT, &colorImage2DPoint.x, &colorImage2DPoint.y ); if(FAILED(hr)) { ASSERT(false); return hr; } // Unproject in the color camera space XMFLOAT3 colorCameraSpace3DPoint; colorCameraSpace3DPoint.z = depthCameraSpace3DPoint.z; colorCameraSpace3DPoint.x = (( float(colorImage2DPoint.x) - colorImageWidth*0.5f ) / colorCameraFocalLengthInPixels) * colorCameraSpace3DPoint.z; colorCameraSpace3DPoint.y = ((-float(colorImage2DPoint.y) + colorImageHeight*0.5f ) / colorCameraFocalLengthInPixels) * colorCameraSpace3DPoint.z; // Compute the translation from the depth to color camera spaces XMVECTOR vTranslationFromColorToDepthCameraSpace = XMLoadFloat3(&colorCameraSpace3DPoint) - XMLoadFloat3(&depthCameraSpace3DPoint); // Transform the original color camera 3D point to the depth camera space by using the inverse of the computed shift vector XMVECTOR v3DPointInKinectSkeletonSpace = XMLoadFloat3(pPointInColorCameraSpace) - vTranslationFromColorToDepthCameraSpace; XMStoreFloat3(pPointInDepthCameraSpace, v3DPointInKinectSkeletonSpace); return S_OK; }


text: Suck My Trend - I wasn't super quick on this review of the hit mobile game, Temple Run 2 because I was waiting patiently for the Android release for my Samsung Galaxy S2. Now that it has finally arrived, I have found myself able to get a score of just over 11 million after playing for a couple of days, and now I am saving my coins for the rest of the upgrades. There is a lot going on this simple yet effective and fun game.


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4820 Webster Road, Richmond Listing #: R2331668
Luxurious custom home in the preferred Riverdale area, walking distance to shopping center, parks, Burnett Sec, James Thompson Elem, Golf Course and the dyke. This CUSTOM new home boasts over 3,700 sq ft living space, custom coffered high ceilings, high end gourmet kitchens with Sub Zero fridge & Wolfe Range, triple garage, 5 large bedrooms with ensuites, custom theatre room just to name a few. Interior features include Real Schonbek Swarovski chandeliers, Nest thermostats, marble & quartz counters, AC/HRV, extensive use of millwork throughout. Exterior features include private backyard, professionally landscaped yard, and extensive use of Lime Stone and moulding puts this beauty at the top.
Taxes (2017): $7,615.62
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Colors and Cocktails
Hosting a soiree without the perfect cocktail can leave your guests feeling as if they've attended a Cirque du Soleil performance without acrobatics—wondering who dropped the proverbial ball on the menu.
We are such visual creatures. A signature cocktail not only acts as a wonderful precursor (or as an accompaniment) to the food served, but it can visually set the tone of your event. Dark, deep beverage colors and flavors are reminiscent of velvety, opulent textures and exotic spices, while clear pastels radiate a sense of order and refinement. Brights play well as accents to both color sets but also stand alone as bold options that recount a confident playfulness.
Are you hosting a cozy get together by the fireplace with a speakeasy vibe? Try a dark, clever bourbon and soda.
Is it a ladylike brunch with a twist of glamour? A mimosa punctuated by grapefruit and sage makes a daring statement with deep lush pink and green additions to the bubbly.
Regardless of the direction you choose, at Luxe we will make sure you have the perfect cocktail—with or without alcohol—to reflect the flavors of the food you choose and the personality of the event you are hosting!


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Current mood: contemplative
How do you make someone hear the truth
when all the can see is what they want to read
How can you show without giving up your soul
that your only desire is to be the one that they need
Force feeding never works, but neither did space
patience is my only friend, Love my only strength
The Jew thats lurking below the surface swallowed by snake
the unhappiness you own you give to others with blame
The vehicle the tools you have at hand
and every truth in the world is yours to use at will
With faith, hope, and open eyes you'll see all you ask to know
you can be that child again, he is in you still
I knew you weren't dead yet when I met you
saw a spark of light lingering in your smile...your eyes
Saw right through the hard facade to the sweetness clinging on
saw a ray of sun in your head's clouded skies
Most live in deception, know not at what they stumble
darkness has swallowed them and all that was once good and kind
The voice that spoke in your childhood from your heart
gets replaced by the louder ones of the world...of your mind
The key is yours. Prayed for and placed in your hand
the door is there is you will only turn inside to see it is locked up tight
With all my heart I gave you all I have
The message delivered, a lantern for your night
I wish you wouldn't walk away, can't you see what you're running from
this fear you have will follow you, no matter how long you walk on
See yourslef as clear as you believe you see others, find the way back home
My love is you, space I opened now empty, and we're just another song.
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
By Wilco
Release date: 23 April, 2002


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Top 100 pension funds assessed on climate disclosure
This is the first segment of a four-part report assessing the global pensions sector's response to the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The report uses new data to rank the world's 100 largest global pension funds on their approach to climate-related risks and opportunities.
This first part will explore the performance of pension funds at an individual, national and regional level, and considers the influence of climate policy debate and action on geographic performance.
The following three parts will cover specific areas from the survey and follow the structure of the TCFD core recommendations – Governance, Strategy & Risk Management, and Metrics & Targets.The report will also review feedback from pension funds on harmonising green finance standards, barriers to low carbon investment, and challenges in implementing the TCFD framework. The following three parts of the report will be published between September and November 2018. To ensure you receive the following parts, please get in touch with Peter Uhlenbruch, AODP Investor Engagement Officer, on [email protected] to be added to the AODP mailing list.Obtenga fuente RSS de estos resultados
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Press release: 60% of the world's largest public pension funds in breach of duties on climate change, new data reveals.
Autor(a): Asset Owners Disclosure Project
- Over 60% of the world's largest public pension funds have little or no strategy on climate change, which could put them in danger of breaching their legal duties.
- AP4, Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR), New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF), and ABP come top in a new global pensions ranking on climate, as the three largest UK funds lag relative to the rest of Europe.
- European funds are showing leadership; five funds in each of Sweden and the Netherlands achieved a leading rating.
- California and New York house leading US pension funds, in spite of weak national climate regulation.
- Less than 1% of assets of the world's largest 100 pension funds are invested in low-carbon solutions, and only 10% of assessed pension funds have a policy to exclude coal from their investment portfolio.
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Rebate is a four-letter word among many travel agents these days. But for mature travelers looking for ways to cut travel costs, it can also spell bargain.
First, if you're not familiar with rebating, here is a brief explanation:
In a normal travel transaction, a client buys an airline ticket from a travel agent who usually does the work of checking schedules and fares to find the best deal for the client. There is no charge for this service, as the agent earns a commission, usually up to 10%, from the airline.
In the last year or so the practice of rebating--or giving back to the client--a portion of the agent-earned commission has come into being. It started among large business travel operations and is inching its way into the leisure travel market--but not without a loud and legitimate protest from full-service travel agents.
They point out that the time-consuming chore of checking rates and schedules is hardly covered by the commission paid by the airlines, and to kick back any portion is an unacceptable business practice.


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The kilt is a knee-length garment with pleats at the rear, originating in the traditional dress of men and boys in the Scottish Highlands of the 16th century. Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic (and more specifically Gaelic) heritage even more broadly. It is most often made of woollen cloth in a tartanpattern.
Although the kilt is most often worn on formal occasions and at Highland games and sports events, it has also been adapted as an item of fashionable informal male clothing in recent years, returning to its roots as an everyday garment.
The kilt first appeared as the great kilt in the 16th century, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. Thesmall kilt or walking kilt (similar to the "modern" kilt) did not develop until the late 17th or early 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt.
The name "kilt" is applied to a range of garments:
- The traditional garment, either in its historical form, or in the modern adaptation now usual in Scotland (see History of the kilt), usually in a tartan pattern
- The kilts worn by Irish pipe bands are based on the traditional Scottish garment but in a single (solid) colour[1]
- Variants of the Scottish kilt adopted in other Celtic nations, such as the Welsh cilt and the Cornish cilt
- Other skirt-like garments designed for men, but more or less different in structure from the Scottish kilt, including contemporary kilts
- Certain types of pleated wrapover skirt worn as school uniform by girls.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning "to gird up; to tuck up (the skirts) round the body", itself of Scandinavian origin.
[edit]Scottish kilt
The Scottish kilt displays uniqueness of design, construction, and convention which differentiate it from other garments fitting the general description. It is a tailored garment that is wrapped around the wearer's body at the natural waist (between the lowest rib and the hip) starting from one side (usually the wearer's left), around the front and back and across the front again to the opposite side. The fastenings consist of straps and buckles on both ends, the strap on the inside end usually passing through a slit in the waistband to be buckled on the outside; alternatively it may remain inside the waistband and be buckled inside.
A kilt covers the body from the waist down to the centre of the knees. The overlapping layers in front are called "aprons" and are flat; the single layer of fabric around the sides and back is pleated. A kilt pin is fastened to the front apron on the free corner (but is not passed through the layer below, as its function is to add weight). Underwear may or may not be worn, as the wearer prefers, although tradition has it that a "true Scotsman" should wear nothing under his kilt. The Scottish Tartans Authority, however, has described the practice as childish and unhygienic.
Organizations that sanction and grade the competitions in Highland dancing and bagpiping all have rules governing acceptable attire for the competitors. These rules specify that kilts are to be worn (except that in the national dances, the female competitors will be wearing the Aboyne dress).[4][5]
Design and construction
The typical kilt as seen at modern Highland games events is made of twill woven worsted wool. The twill weave used for kilts is a "2–2 type", meaning that each weft thread passes over and under two warp threads at a time. The result is a distinctive diagonal-weave pattern in the fabric which is called the twill line. This kind of twill, when woven according to a given sett or written colour pattern, (see below), is called tartan. In contrast kilts worn by Irish pipers are made from solid-colour cloth, with saffron or green being the most widely used colours.
Kilting fabric weights are given in ounces per yard and run from the very-heavy, regimental worsted of approximately 18–22 ounces down to a light worsted of about 10–11 ounces. The most common weights for kilts are 13 ounces and 16 ounces. The heavier weights are more appropriate for cooler weather, while the lighter weights would tend to be selected for warmer weather or for active use, such as Highland dancing. Some patterns are available in only a few weights.
A modern kilt for a typical adult uses about 6–8 yards of single-width (about 26–30 inches) or about 3–4 yards of double-width (about 54–60 inches) tartan fabric. Double-width fabric is woven so that the pattern exactly matches on the selvage. Kilts are usually made without a hem because a hem would make the garment too bulky and cause it to hang incorrectly. The exact amount of fabric needed depends upon several factors including the size of the sett, the number of pleats put into the garment, and the size of the person. For a full kilt, 8 yards of fabric would be used regardless of size and the number of pleats and depth of pleat would be adjusted according to their size. For a very large waist, it may be necessary to use 9 yards of cloth.
One of the most-distinctive features of the authentic Scots kilt is the tartan pattern, the sett, it exhibits. The association of particular patterns with individual clans and families can be traced back perhaps one or two centuries. It was only in the 19th-century Victorian era that the system of named tartans known today began to be systematically recorded and formalized, mostly by weaving companies for mercantile purposes. Up until this point, Highland tartans held regional associations rather than being identified with any particular clan.
Today there are also tartans for districts, counties, societies and corporations. There are also setts for states and provinces; schools and universities; sporting activities; individuals; and commemorative and simple generic patterns that anybody can wear. (See History of the kilt for the process by which these associations came about.)
Setts are always arranged horizontally and vertically, never diagonally (except when adapted for ladies' skirts). They are specified by their thread counts, the sequence of colours and their units of width. As an example, the Wallace tartan has a thread count given as "K4 R32 K32 Y4" (K is black, R is red, and Y is yellow). This means that 4 units of black thread will be succeeded by 32 units of red, etc., in both the warp and the weft. Typically, the units are the actual number of threads, but as long as the proportions are maintained, the resulting pattern will be the same. This thread count also includes a pivot point indicated by the slash between the colour and thread number. The weaver is supposed to reverse the weaving sequence at the pivot point to create a mirror image of the pattern. This is called a symmetrical tartan. Some tartans, like Buchanan, are asymmetrical, which means they do not have a pivot point. The weaver weaves the sequence all the way through and then starts at the beginning again for the next sett.
Setts are further characterized by their size, the number of inches (or centimetres) in one full repeat. The size of a given sett depends not only on the number of threads in the repeat, but also on the weight of the fabric. This is because the heavier the fabric the thicker the threads will be, and thus the same number of threads of a heavier-weight fabric will occupy more space. The colours given in the thread count are specified as in heraldry, although tartan patterns are not heraldic. The exact shade which is used is a matter of artistic freedom and will vary from one fabric mill to another as well as in dye lot to another within the same mill.
Tartans are commercially woven in four standard colour variations that describe the overall tone. "Ancient" or "Old" colours may be characterized by a slightly faded look intended to resemble the vegetable dyes that were once used, although in some cases "Old" simply identifies a tartan that was in use before the current one. Ancient greens and blues are lighter while reds appear orange. "Modern" colours are bright and show off modern aniline dyeing methods. The colours are bright red, dark hunter green, and usually navy blue. "Weathered" or "Reproduction" colours simulate the look of older cloth weathered by the elements. Greens turn to light brown, blues become gray, and reds are a deeper wine colour. The last colour variation is "Muted" which tends toward earth tones. The greens are olive, blues are slate blue, and red is an even deeper wine colour. This means that of the approximately 3,500 registered tartans available in the Scottish Tartans Authority database as of 2004 there are four possible colour variations for each, resulting in around 14,000 recognised tartan choices.
Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index (ITI) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority (STA), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and/or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland (NAS), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK₤70 as of 2010. Although many tartans are added every year, most of the registered patterns available today were created in the 19th century onward by commercial weavers who worked with a large variety of colours. The rise of Highland romanticism and the growing Anglicisation of Scottish culture by the Victorians at the time led to registering tartans with clan names. Before that, most of these patterns were more connected to geographical regions than to any clan. There is therefore nothing symbolic about the colours, and nothing about the patterns is a reflection of the status of the wearer.


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In the description on the YouTube page for one of the film's trailers, Red Tails' creators summarize it thusly:
"1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options — including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country — and the fate of the free world."
But apparently Hollywood isn't so sure that an awesome new historical action film by the creator of Star Wars himself will be a success. Their reason? The film features an essentially all-black cast...
Read the rest of my article at The Silver Underground.
Wes Messamore,
Editor in Chief, THL
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When I was a young man I worked as a consultant for the US Navy. One of my first programming assignments was to produce a printed report of some shipboard equipment in order of it's cost-effectiveness for "the Admiral". "OK, but I'll need the algorithm for computing the cost-effectiveness first." I responded. "Oh, don't worry about that --- we'll give you those figures before you write the program." "So," I replied, "you want to use the computer as a printing press --- why not just have our secretary type up the list --- it'd be a lot cheaper." (Computer time was 360 dollars per hour back in the mid-sixties). "No, no , no," was the response, "This report will have much much more credibility if it comes off the computer."
Unfortunately, this attitude has not changed much in 50 years. There is an integrity and a legitimacy about the printed page that defies reason, especially if it's printed by an esoteric technology like a computer --- it's as if our secondary national motto has become, "In Technology We Trust." The computer in particular seems to carry an authority on a par with judges, ministers, scientists and government officials. I was reminded of this interesting flaw in human nature by the Nov 19 PR headline, "Government insists full-body scanners are safe". The gist of the article is that some of us worry that the X-rays used by the full-body scanners at airports are not without risk and airline pilots in particular are concerned about the cancer risks. In this instance the technology in question is an X-ray device and not a computing machine but the same sort of naivety is at work here --- we're supposed to trust the pronouncements of the appropriate authorities that these machines are safe. However, the article goes on to quote a physics professor as saying, "The thing that worries me the most is what happens if the thing fails in some way and emits too much radiation." And large doses of radiation can cause cancer. What are the odds of this happening? It's already happened.
In the early 1980s, several hospitals used a radiation machine called the Therac25 to provide therapy for cancer patients. Instead of helping them, it caused several deaths and burn injuries due to a software bug. There is not enough space here to describe scenario, who the stakeholders were and who was blameworthy but the following three links will be helpful: the first describes the Therac briefly in a list of other software disasters (including a shockingly similar one 15 years later), the second is a more detailed description in Wikipedia, and the third is a link to a list of other links from a Google search.
So, I remain wary of "official" reports stressing the safety of any potentially dangerous technology not only because of documented cases like Therac but from personal experience. As I mentioned above, at an earlier juncture in my career I worked for the Navy as a civilian. In a section of Engineers and Physicists I was the only Mathematician and so it fell to me to write programs to process the effects of the shock wave resulting from underwater explosions on critical shipboard systems .The most exciting part of the job was crawling around in the bilges of destroyers and installing the instrumentation that would gather the shock wave data. Later I would digitize and process it with my programs.
Some of the ships carried nuclear material and so we were all issued special badges to record the amount of radiation we were exposed to on each visit as a safety precaution. So far, so good. At that time, we were told that was radiation was not cumulative over long spans of time so we got fresh badges each time we went to work. As we now know, it is cumulative and maybe the radiation I accumulated made me smarter, stronger and more handsome but I doubt it. The take-away is that the government is not evil but it can be ignorant.
So, while it is true that we can never know the long term effects of any technology with perfect certainty, we can still demand the best efforts from our scientists and technologists to investigate potential safety issues before they unleash it on the public. Have we made any progress in the last 50 years? Some perhaps but, as one of my colleagues used to say when we were working together way back then, "If your car acted like your computer does, you'd sell the *%#!! thing in a minute! ". As our French friends say, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."


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Why Grown Ups Need To Play Pretend
If you're a grown up, you need to play pretend? Why? Well, I am going to use my pet topic of men who wear women's clothing as a way of example here, but this has a much wider application which will become glaringly apparent by paragraph three or four, I promise.
It all started during the debate around the way that men who wear women's clothing try to sometimes pass as women.
(Now, before we start getting tangential, let me officially acknowledge that not every man who dresses in women's clothing is trying to pass as a woman. Some men just like skirts and dresses and whatnot and are quite happy being male, but enjoy female fashion styles. I know you guys hate getting mixed up with those men who really are taking on feminine qualities, so there's the disclaimer.
During these debates, a women claimed that a man dressed as a woman could never be a woman even if he looked just like one. This would seem to be a claim of such monumental obviousness that it barely needed stating, but the fact that it was stated showed me that some adults have grown up far too much and forgotten the supreme importance of fantasy in one's life. They've lost the ability to play pretend themselves, and to understand when other adults are doing it.
As kids, we're encouraged to use our imaginations. Nobody chastises a child for pretending that they're in a rocket ship on the way to the moon. But for some reason, in spite of the fact that adults are perhaps far better at living fantasies and lies as if they were real than children ever could be, adults are not often encouraged in the realm of imagination. (Don't believe adults are better at kids at playing pretend? Most kids climb out of the imaginary rocket ship when it is time for tea, but some adults will make believe that they love someone and actually marry them only to admit months or years later that they never really loved them at all but didn't want to die alone.)
As adults, our capacity for imagination
tends to become sublimated and discouraged outwardly, but it doesn't
go away, instead it becomes a much more powerful force of delusion,
where instead of enjoying our little fantasies, we actually believe much darker, less life affirming things that sap our energy and age us faster than a mother ship full of free radicals ever could.
However, some of us haven't lost our capacity for imagination, fantasy, fun and play. I believe that men who cross dress often fit into this category. They enjoy the feeling of being feminine, they enjoy ladies things and they live their 'real' lives quite happily. Other adults enjoy other types of imagination play, and as long as they are able to put down their toys and go and do the dishes at the end of the day, I think that imagination and fantasy are important parts of a healthy psyche not just for children, but for adults too.
I'm fortunate in that, as a writer, I am allowed to indulge my imagination on a regular basis. Though not a great deal of my fiction is published here, I nevertheless quite often spend several hours a day 'away with the fairies' as they say. When I return from these worlds, I am so much happier and more relaxed than I was when I was indulging delusions of the mundane.
If you've lost the spark of imagination in your life, take some time to rekindle it. Dress up. Write a story. Watch an old movie you've always secretly wished you could live in. Read a book that sweeps you into another realm. You'll be astounded at how just an hour of 'playing pretend' refreshes you, relieves your stress, and makes the world seem a much better place altogether.
There is an old saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." A good point that the play time can be in out minds, our imagination is maybe the best most effective play we can experience.
well said starfiend, i always said i may get older but i will never grow up and i have tried hard to keep that idea up.
i still take my teddy bear to bed every night and have pooh bear bedding on my bed i liked it when i was a young boy and dont see any thing wrong with still liking it i am one of the few who are not afraid of admiting i like childish things in life even though i am older than the norm for them.
when i go round to friends homes who have kids i still get down on the floor and play with the kids i think it keeps you young at heart and also you have loads of friends who have kids.
i know many men who have admited to wanting to play with lego when watching the kids playing with it also plenty of people like model planes and helicopters and spend lots of money on there "toys" but dont like it when you ask how much was there toy plane they dont like to admit it is a toy just like kids have but costing more.
more people should admit to like playing with toys just becouse you have got older does not mean you can not like playing its a way of escaping from the normal life style most of us have (sleep eat work sleep eat work) day after day we should not live just so we can work we should work so we can live and do the things we like.
regards paul
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The Benedictine Monastery in Pecos, NM became very close to my heart during my month there this summer, so that was my chosen subject matter. I worked on three paintings this weekend, two were of the monastery building. Of those, one is "eh" and the other I haven't finished yet. The one I haven't finished yet has some dead tree branches in the foreground (like the ones on the wind swept bluff above the monastery)...the instructor liked my tree branches so much that he suggested that I leave the monastery out of the painting..."I don't think so!"
The only one I finished is a painting of the wonderful life-size statue called "Hosanna Madonna". The statue is carved out of a dead tree on the monastery grounds along the Pecos River. Here's a photo of the statue:
Here's how it feels to me:
I love this imagery...not just in celebration of new physical life but also new spiritual life. I see that God is always in the process of bringing forth new life in me which I need to gratefully embrace and celebrate.
Revisiting my time in Pecos, made me feel a bit homesick for the place. One of my fellow classmates described the experience this way:
"The silence and prayer remain with me like a little monastery within and I have a holy longing to return to the quiet." (Ray McCracken)I am grateful for my "little monastery within" that calls me to return to the quiet.


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We left New York behind to go and see my parents in the Pacific Northwest. They took such good care of us. A major highlight for Clover was the beautiful garden that my mom keeps. Not to mention the 8 week old chickens she was taking care of. Clover wanted to visit them about fifteen times a day. The big hit was to get to feed them. As he held out grasses and leaves they like to eat, he'd say in his tiny voice, "nom nom nom."
Rain or shine he wanted to go out and say hello. And my parents were kind enough to oblige him.
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I got the Au Pairs compilation (Stepping out of Line) the other day (And it is great) and I stuck it onto my computer as per usual.
Just now I went into Sonicstage (don't ask me why it's here, it's my brothers fault) to listen to it, the genre name which came up for it was Porn Groove.
I must admit I'm new to Porn Groove, what's your favourite Porn Groove album/band/song?
I think that
Prince is the ultimate in porn groove.
And also most remixes of Death From Above songs.
Another album I have has managed to top this...
The genre that Maximum Joy's Unlimited is apparently in is 'Crippled Dick Hot Wax!'
Yes it is...
I look like a fool now...
It came up on Genre though!!!
Stupid Sonicstage...
Would be a better name for a genre.
I'm not going to judge you on your stupidity by the way. I shall judge you on your face.
This thread shall now be renamed:
Why Sonicstage is fucking shit.
the best
porn groove is what they play in the downstairs bit of the big bookshop in soho. you know the one thats normalish books upstairs and full on dildo mania underground in the dirty cellar. they had crazy bad hiphop all about sticking big dicks into eyeballs, absolutely hilarious especially in contrast to all the businessmen that undoubtedly fill the shop in their lunch hours. at the same time i heard this porn groove mania i saw some executive leafing through chicks with dicks magazine and actually laughed out loud, thus causing him to run away really fast.
not that
i hang out in porn shops every day, of course.
I've never been
in the downstairs bit. I keep telling myself I should go and have a look, then I just get scared.
i was in london on my own and figured 'what the hell, i'm not gonna see anyone i know and get rumbled, so i might as well'.
interesting for a few minutes. mega pricey though.
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i love that shop, i go in there and play about with the fist shaped buttplugs until they throw me out.
Good times.
Oh and Girlsvsboys before they got shit were pretty porny
it's fun attempting to freak people
out in porn sections.
when i was 17, myself and my then-girlfriend were in HMV on oxford street. we noticed some shifty guy milling around in the "adult" section in the basement, so we went and stood next to him and talked REALLY loudly about what to buy.
"oh, how about this one?"
"no, i've seen that one."
"this one?"
"yeah, looks good!"
"hey, isn't that your sister?"
"ohmygod, it IS!"
"i've got to start coming to your house more often!"
he fled very quickly.
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Be@rbrick in Shanghai!
If you happened to be in Shanghai this weekend, you might have caught YOHOOD2014 - the exhibition dedicated to the cult Be@rbrick toy, curated by my friend the actor, producer and entrepreneur Edison Chen.
He asked me to customise the Be@rbrick, so inspired by Edison's Instagram where he posts pictures of clouds from his long and very frequent airplane journeys I decided to make my Be@rbrick out of the time-lapse clouds I photographed this summer, suggesting a world free of national boundaries, one people, no divisions.


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NBA Playoff Projections Watch: February 23
There's one certain headline that caught my eye this morning: "Kobe Bryant Guarantees the Playoffs".
As somebody who works with playoff projections and odds on a daily basis, I just had to say, "Really?" I understand the concept of wanting to be confident in your team, but there's a certain point where confidence runs face-first into a wall of false bravado. Kobe should be able to see that wall ahead of him. It looks vaguely like Dwight Howard standing there and not fighting for another rebound.
That's why I've decided to break down this week's playoff projections by order of guarantees, from Really? to Mind-Numbingly awesome. This is post-Trade Deadline, mind you (not that it would matter much with the, umm, caliber of players moved yesterday). And when you look at the odds, really the only question left has to do with those Lakers.
The Matt Hasselbeck Category
30. Charlotte Bobcats: 0.0% Playoff Chance
29. Sacramento Kings: 0.0%
28. Orlando Magic: 0.0%
27. Phoenix Suns: 0.0%
26. Cleveland Cavaliers: 0.0%
25. Washington Wizards: 0.0%
24. New Orleans Hornets: 0.0%
23. Minnesota Timberwolves: 0.2%
If they ever remake the "Agony of Defeat" section of the Wide World of Sports intro for the 21st Century, I propose that this exact video be the underlying footage. You know, and if they wanted to make it hip, they could put one of the One Direction guys at the end screaming "Fail!" or something. That's cool, right?
By the way, I found the Josh McRoberts for Hakim Warrick trade yesterday absolutely hilarious. Two adults who get paid a ton of money had this exact conversation in the context of their jobs.
"So, Mr. General Manager of the Worst Team in the NBA, know what you need? Why, you need Josh McRoberts! Why, he has played exactly seven minutes in our last four games combined, but they were a great four minutes. He'll be excellent not being able to take playing time from Byron freaking Mullens.
"Why yes, Mr. General Manager of the Third-Worst Team in the NBA, I dare say you are correct! And in return, I believe that Hakim Warrick will do for you quite nicely! Granted, you will waive him five hours later, and he may never play in the NBA again after you do so. Isn't that delightful!"
"Indubitably! Come, let us submit this to the league office right now! Then, our combined playoff chances will surely not budge an inch from the 0.0% that they currently are."
I want to be an NBA GM some day so I can have this exact conversation.
The Jon Kitna Category
22. Portland Trail Blazers: 1.5% Playoff Chance
21. Detroit Pistons: 3.9%
20. Dallas Mavericks: 5.2%
19. Toronto Raptors: 7.7%
18. Philadelphia 76ers: 14.5%
Honestly, that's not too outlandish of a guarantee, when you think about it. Oh, my team's going to win 10 games with this absolute freak of a receiver we drafted! The likelihood is somewhere around predicting that Kanye West would end up with Kim Kardashian. There's some rationale behind it, but you'd still be surprised when your crazy reasoning actually occurs.
That's where all five of these teams sit: you can talk yourself into believing them if you try hard enough, but chances are, they'll leave you at the end of the season saying, "Wait, I believed what?"
The Raptors may have half the odds that the Sixers do of making the playoffs, but to me, they're the most interesting team in this group. It's a tale as old as time. Team barely clinging onto the Playoff Ledge decides they are going to be buyers and trades for a star. Said star leads them to a five game winning streak, including wins over playoff teams in Indiana, Denver, and New York. Said star also has a 97 offensive rating and a 106 defensive rating in his nine games with the franchise. Wait, you haven't? Well, come to think of it, neither have I.
It's odd to say, but Rudy Gay actually did very little to spur the Raptors to victory, other than not letting them win by more due to his egregiously high 30.1 percent usage rate. Instead, Toronto leaned on another star in the making: Amir Johnson. The Raptors forward played at least 29 minutes in all three of those wins over playoff teams I mentioned. And in each game, he had an offensive rating at least 17 points higher than his defensive rating, showing overall efficiency that the Raptors haven't seen all year.
The Kobe Bryant Category
17. Los Angeles Lakers: 30.6% Playoff Chance
I honestly have no idea what to think of Kobe's guarantee. The sports fan side of me says, "Oh, Kobe's guaranteeing this? He's going to play extra hard now!" Meanwhile, the sports analyst side of me took a frying pan and beat that sports fan into a purple-and-yellow pulp.
Let's look at this from an analysis perspective. The Lakers are eighth in offensive rating. That's not bad; they have the Jazz (ninth) and Warriors (11th) both beat while the Rockets are above them in fifth. The Lakers are also 18th in defensive rating. That is bad, but the Warriors (20th), Rockets (21st), and Jazz (22nd) are all worse. Can those advantages allow them to catch up 3.5 games in the standings?
Survey says... probably not. As it stands, the Lakers (the ninth-best team in our nERD rankings, mind you) still play five games against the top eight teams in the rankings, plus two games against the Warriors (No. 14) and one game against the Rockets (No. 10) to boot. They would likely need to take three against the top eight teams, plus two of three from the playoff spot rivals to have a chance.
And in order to do that, the Lakers will have to get some more solid play out of, of all people, Steve Nash. As mentioned last week, the Lakers are poor on both sides of the ball with turnovers: 21st in offensive turnover percentage and 28th in defensive turnover percentage. Perhaps it was unreasonable to ask Nash to help cure those woes: his career turnover percentage is around 20 percent, mostly due to his past-paced days in Phoenix. But at a current 21.4 percent turnover rate, Nash is turning the ball over four percent more than anyone else in the starting lineup, something that can't happen if the Lakers are to win.
Do you trust a 39-year old point guard to get better as the season drags on. Nah, I don't either.
The Tim Tebow Category
16. Milwaukee Bucks: 82.0% Playoff Chance
15. Utah Jazz: 86.7%
14. Houston Rockets: 87.4%
13. Golden State Warriors: 88.4%
Start at 2:20 for the Tebowing.
Notice what Tebow actually says, there. There are a ton of platitudes about "playing hard" and doing things the right way. But he doesn't actually guarantee anything. "Tebow's Promise" has about as much pull as his promise that he wasn't going to mess up a circumcision or two in the Philippines: it's the thought that counts, right?
No, no it's not. That's what we get with these four teams; empty promises. They sound nice, and they play well, but you never quite know whether they're going to actually pull through, because there's no actual weight behind their push.
The Milwaukee Bucks used to be in the last category down. They used be virtually cemented. But slowly and surely, those percentage points keep slipping away, and the Sixers and Raptors are still clinging to the hope that they can catch the Bucks. Last week, the Fighting Miller Breweries were at 87 percent. This week, they're at 82 percent.
I already talked a bit yesterday about how the J.J. Redick trade was essentially a wash and may only be useful in getting Monta Ellis, his 97 offensive rating, and his 105 defensive rating off the court a bit more. Know who actually might have helped a bit more? Well, how about Josh Smith and his 14.0 percent true rebound rate to a team that is dead-last in defensive rebounding.
I know, I know. It would have taken a lot to get him. I mean, it's not like the Hawks would have accepted Monta Ellis as the centerpiece... wait, that's what they wanted? Seriously?
I want to be an NBA GM some day.
The Mark Messier Category
12. Boston Celtics: 93.3% Playoff Chance
11. Atlanta Hawks: 98.8%
10. Brooklyn Nets: 99.9%
9. Chicago Bulls: 99.9%
8. Denver Nuggets: 99.9%
To make a real guarantee, there has to be something at stake. The New York Rangers had not won a Stanley Cup since they were called the New Amsterdam Rangers, and they were actually a group of Rangers instead of hockey players. I'd say something was at stake when Messier made his guarantee.
There's something at stake for all of these teams as well: the opportunity to be legitimate. With the Heat and Knicks dominating the Eastern storylines and the Thunder, Clippers, Spurs and (undeservedly) Lakers dominating the West, these particular teams wouldn't mind a stake in the action.
There's a catch, though: do you realize that only one of these team (the Nuggets) are actually in the top ten of our power rankings? A top ten that includes, among other teams, the Lakers and Rockets? For most of these guys, it's easy to dismiss them as one-hit wonders because of their relative inefficiencies.
Of these teams, only the Nuggets (No. 6) and the Nets (No. 10) are in the top ten in points scored per possessions. Only the Bulls (No. 4), Celtics (No. 6), and Hawks (No. 9) are in top ten of the defensive efficiency rankings. Make a note how those two lists don't overlap. The Thunder, Spurs, and Clippers, meanwhile, are top ten in both.
Let's put it this way: there's a reason that these teams only have a combined 8.5 percent chance of winning it all. Just as Messier's guarantee has been overshadowed by another New York guarantee in the annals of history, so are these guarantees likely to be overshadowed by the final seven teams on our list.
The Joe Namath Category
7. Memphis Grizzlies: 100.0% Playoff Chance
6. Indiana Pacers: 100.0%
5. New York Knicks: 100.0%
4. Los Angeles Clippers: 100.0%
3. San Antonio Spurs: 100.0%
2. Miami Heat: 100.0%
1. Oklahoma City Thunder: 100.0%
We have two more teams joining the 100% odds club: the Pacers and the Grizzlies. And both of these teams have done it in a similar fashion: with defense.
Despite being at the top of the charts, neither Memphis nor Indiana has a particularly strong offense: the Grizzlies only have the 17th-best offensive rating while the Pacers sit in 24th. The two teams, however, sit 1-2 in DRtg, with the Hoosier State Fellas at the top of the charts.
Does this necessarily bring good tidings in the playoffs? Well, it's sort of a mixed bag. In the past three years, X teams have been in the top five of defensive rating but bottom half of the league in offensive rating. The 2012 Celtics made the Eastern Conference Finals as a 4 seed. The 2012 76ers made the second round as an 8 seed (granted, going against a Rose-less Bulls). The 2011 Celtics lost in the second round as a 3 seed. The 2011 Milwaukee Bucks just missed the playoffs in ninth in the East. And both the 2010 Bucks and 2010 Bobcats were knocked out in the first round as a six and seven seed, respectively.


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Thomas was born July of 1860 in the great state of Wisconsin and was 39 yrs. of age. Both of his parents, Richard & Mary (Faulds), were born in Scotland. At the time of the 1880 Census, they were residents of Galesville, Trempealeau, Wisconsin.
Thomas supported his family by working as a woodsman. Laura B. Bibby was born Oct. 1852, also in the Badger State. Her father was a native of Vermont and her mother began life in Connecticut. Laura was 48 yrs. old, eight years older than Thomas. Both of their living children were born in Wisconsin. Their living daughter, Helen M., was 10 yrs. old, born July, 1889 and she was attending the public school. Their seven year old son, Horace Melvin, was 15 Feb 1893, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Other Bibby family members living nearby were the woodsman and farmer, Peter F. Bibby (b. Nov 1864), presumably a brother to Thomas, and his wife, Esther (b. May 1869 in NY) and a son, Richard L. (b. Jun 1893).
Joshua A. Bibby (b. Apr 1874) and his wife, Lena E. (b. June 1876), their daughter Mabel E. (b. Mar 1897) and a thirty year old brother of Joshua's, James B. (May 1870) who was born in Wis. of parents born in Scotland. Another brother, Andrew F. Bibby (b. Oct. 1871, Wis., parents b. Scotland) who did carpentry work.
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Convenient hatchback design; standard safety equipment; low price (Rabbit); performance and handling (GTI); fuel efficiency (GTI).
VW's value-priced 2008 Rabbit, and the performance-oriented GTI are both available in three- or five-door hatchback body styles.
A 170-horsepower, 2.5L five-cylinder engine powers the Rabbit; it comes with either a five-speed manual or a six-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission, which has a Sport mode.
The GTI features a 200-horsepower, 2.0L turbocharged and direct-injected four-cylinder engine that, besides bringing better performance than the Rabbit's engine, is also more efficient. It's paired with either a six-speed manual transmission or Direct Shift six-speed automated manual gearbox, and with the manual is rated at 32 miles per gallon on the highway. Both the Rabbit and GTI are front-wheel drive.
The Rabbit comes with a wide range of standard equipment for a low-priced small car, including air conditioning, power heated mirrors, cruise control, power windows, locks, and mirrors, and an eight-speaker sound system. An electromechanical steering system helps bring crisp handling and easy maneuverability in parking lots.
The GTI comes with a lot of additional performance equipment, and more comfort and convenience items. A sport suspension, special appearance cues, 17-inch alloy wheels and performance tires, alloy pedals, and sport seats bring a performance emphasis. Xenon headlamps, keyless entry, and a ten-speaker sound system are among the included extras.
For both the Rabbit and the GTI, VW is generous with standard safety features, too. Front side and full-length curtain air bags, and anti-lock brakes are standard on both, and the GTI adds electronic stability control.
Both the VW Rabbit and the sporty GTI model see minor changes for 2008. The Rabbit's 2.5L inline five-cylinder engine now makes 170 horsepower, up 20 from last year, and tire pressure monitors are newly standard. The GTI gets revised suspension settings that reduce its ride height by nearly an inch.
The Rabbit is now offered in a single trim level, called the S.
The 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit's standard five-cylinder engine is more torquey and responsive than many other rival four-cylinder engines, and the Rabbit offers a wealth of standard equipment, plus more safety features than most other cars in its price range. The GTI models bring perky performance and improved handling to the same practical hatchback body style.
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Distinguishing The Turion 64 Platform - Part 1
The first surefire way of telling the resolve AMD has in penetrating the thin and light notebook segment lies in their marketing slogan. In a move that's similar to Intel and their Intel Centrino Mobile Technology, the Turion 64 processor is now under the official product name of AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology. "Mobile Technology" - that bit of the catchphrase is the first clear sign of AMD's strong determination to march into the same turf that has long been dominated by Intel.
Ecosystem of Providers
Looking beneath the slogans is where we'll find the major differences between the AMD and Intel platforms. In the AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology solution, components such as the motherboard core logic chipset for example, can be supplied by a number of chipset vendors, which is the complete opposite of Intel's stranglehold practice that have had notebook manufacturers procuring Intel chipsets, processors and WiFi cards in order to earn the Centrino badge and advertising subsidies. Granted AMD has less financial muscle to flex, this strategy of chipset and component liberty must be adopted if it is to stand a chance in a pro-Centrino market.
AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology
Intel Centrino Mobile Technology
Northbridge Provider(s)
AMD, On-die
Intel, Discrete
Southbridge Provider(s)
ATI, NVIDIA, SiS, Uli and VIA
WiFi Card Provider(s)
Atheros and Broadcom
Just as we've mentioned above, each subsystem tier in the AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology is provided by a variety of participating vendors.
From AMD's chair, this looks set to be a win-win situation for the company as it would not only bag the ready support of vendors who were forced to sit out when Intel first launched Centrino, but would also make it cheaper and easier for companies to go the Turion 64 way since the components that go into a Turion 64 notebook are going to come from a highly competitive and nonexclusive component ecosystem. Depending on the manufacturers' specifications, the pricing for Turion 64 notebooks can thus vary greatly, possibly allowing for a broader pricing catalogue than Centrino notebooks. If this strategy pays dividends, AMD and its supporting partners will all but benefit in a big way. That of course is the essence of the grand scheme but in order for it to bear fruits, the Turion 64 processor must first demonstrate that it has what it takes to really give the Intel Pentium M processor a good run for its money.
Block diagram breakdown of the AMD Turion 64 Processor.
Before rushing out for a Turion 64-enabled notebook, we ask that you educate yourself with yet another mind teasing modeling scheme to make the right investment. Just like the four digit modeling for the Mobile Athlon 64 processors, the new number scheme for the Turion 64 was specially formulated in making sense of performance without delving into mundane technical details such as clock speed, size of L2 cache and thermal design power.
New modeling sequence for AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology.
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Go To Page 4 -- A White Stallion
Go To Page 5 -- A Widescreen and a Pair of Stereo Speakers
Go To Page 6 -- Benchmark (Part I)
Go To Page 7 -- Benchmark (Part II)
Go To Page 8 -- Wrapping Up
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