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"Just getting here yesterday, we've already started some of these discussions, but they're very preliminary," O'Brien said at his press conference. "At every position, we want a good team guy. We want a guy that is a hard worker, a guy that's physically tough, mentally tough, smart guy. It doesn't matter what position it is. To me, it's a guy that understands the team concept and understands that it's not about individual stats or individual performances. It's about doing what's best for the team and being a good teammate. So whether it's a quarterback or defensive end or linebacker or wide receiver, that's what we'll always look for here at Houston."With an abundance of quarterbacks entering the 2014 NFL draft, including top prospect Teddy Bridgewater from Louisville, the Texans and O'Brien can hand-pick and groom their next franchise quarterback.
"Obviously, we've got a situation where we've got to get that position resolved because we didn't have an effective player at the position last year," general manager and executive vice president Rick Smith said. "So that is one of the big priorities but really we've got to improve the overall football team."
O'Brien was the quarterbacks coach to All-Pro Tom Brady from 2009-2011. With O'Brien as his position coach, Brady was named the first unanimous Associated Press NFL MVP after leading the Patriots to a 14-2 season in 2010. That year, Brady led the AFC in attempts (1,668), completions (1,096), touchdown passes (103), interception percentage (1.7), and passer rating (104.0). The All-Pro quarterback averaged a career-high 8.1 yards per pass attempt during the three-year span he worked with O'Brien.
"I think that's a fantastic position to coach because of all the things that go into it," O'Brien said. "I think the quarterback has to be a great teammate, a leader, a hard worker, a really good practice player, a guy that's always striving for perfection knowing that he's probably not going to get perfection but he's going to reach some level of excellence. On the field, it's a position that has to really have great knowledge not only of your own offense and your own teammate's talents on offense, but also he has to have a great knowledge of defensive football and the talents of the defensive players that you're going against. It's a job that is never ending. It's a job that you can always improve at doing, coaching quarterbacks, and it's a lot of fun to do."
Matt McGloin, now with the Oakland Raiders, flourished under O'Brien at Penn State. McGloin broke nine school records and tied one more during his senior season in 2012. With O'Brien as head coach, the Nittany Lions led the Big Ten in total offense (437.0 yards per game), and were second in scoring offense, averaging 32.6 points per game. McGloin started all 12 games in his senior campaign and 10 games since joining Penn State in 2008. He completed 60.5 percent of his passes for 3,266 yards, 24 touchdowns, and just five interceptions in O'Brien's offense.
The Texans have selected a quarterback in the first round of the draft just once in team history. In their inaugural draft, Houston selected David Carr with the number one overall pick in 2002.


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The senator began the debate with a gentle reminiscence about his mother, who took in wash from the brothels in scruffy Searchlight, Nev.I thought "Prairie Fire" was William Ayers's "forgotten communist manifesto." Lefties are poetic — "A single spark can start a prairie fire" — but apparently Sharron Angle wrote a book about an actual prairie fire. Literal. Righties are so concrete. Dumb as a block.
Angle could have told the poignant story of her German immigrant great-grandmother who died trying to save laundry hanging on the clothesline in a South Dakota prairie fire, which Angle wrote about in her self-published book, "Prairie Fire." But instead the former teacher and assemblywoman began hurling cafeteria insults. "I live in a middle-class neighborhood in Reno, Nevada," she said. "Senator Reid lives in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C."
But, so... Dowd's point is that Sharron Angle is a high-school "mean girl." Hey, I wonder if she read my October 8th piece answering Slate's question "Who gets to be a feminist?" I wrote:
So what am I supposed to care about here? You don't get any special rights or privileges for being a feminist, so what difference does it make? "Who gets to be a feminist?" Is it some high-school clique with mean girls deciding who gets in? Are there guardians at the entrance? The entrance of what? Nothing hinges on it. One woman says, "I am a feminist" and another says, "No, you're not." This is political polemic of a very dull sort.I see the liberal women as having the exclusionary "mean girl" attitude, but Dowd is trying to pin that stereotype on Angle. How does Angle's failure — in a political debate — to rhapsodize about an ancestor exclude anyone? I can see that Reid might wish things had stayed sweet and gentle, but how is a political debate a time for hugs? If women are to be in politics, we need to rise above the socialization toward niceness and not hurting anyone's feelings.
And how is it "hurling cafeteria insults" to question Reid about how he got so rich when he's spent nearly his whole career in politics? It certainly wasn't saying my neighborhood is better than yours — which might be mean-girlish. He lives in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington!
Dowd is hot to flip everything around. If you want to talk about mean girls, she's the mean girl! But look at how she portrays herself:
... I was getting jittery....Dowd is my age — nearly 60. Isn't there something really awful about presenting your emotional life in adolescent terms when you are that old? Especially when you're cozily situated on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Here's Dowd's description of Sharron Angle:
As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I worried that Governor Brewer might make a citizen's arrest and I would have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all, declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her state....
After the debate was over, Angle scurried away and so did I — in a different direction. I was feeling jittery again. If she saw me, she might take away my health insurance and spray-paint my locker.
Even sober and smiling beneath her girlish bangs, the 61-year-old Angle had the slightly threatening air of the inebriated lady in a country club bar...Now, click over to Dowd's column and see how she looks: sober and smiling beneath her girlish side-swept bangs, the 58-year-old Dowd has a slightly threatening air. Which is just fine! Don't get me wrong. A columnist should feel threatening. But she's not a timorous girl. Or maybe she is when she gets out in the world, out of her comfort zone. If so, that's not fine. And it's not Sharron Angle's flaw.

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1. A high-OBP bat for the top of the lineup. I like Cozart, but he's a #7 type hitter that's miscast at the top of the batting order. Ideally, I'd also like this bat to be a high-BA bat. I know BA is an overrated statistic, but the Reds need more people who put the ball in play.
2. Depth for the starting rotation. This year was a fluke when it comes to health -- you can't count on your starting 5 to make every start for a season. If something had happened this year, the Reds had nobody waiting that was even below average.
Ideally, you'd want to acquire a quality arm and push Mike Leake to the minors or out the door.
3. Replacement CF. Could also go along with item #1. I think the team needs to move on from Drew Stubbs.
4. Solution in LF. I highly doubt Ryan Ludwick passes the opportunity to test the market for a multi-year deal, so I think it's a safe bet he'll decline his option. I'm not opposed to bringing him back if the dollars make sense, but if not Ludwick, the Reds need someone in LF who can provide some pop.


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We knew something was up.
Obama is all about using unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists. From Slate:
Since Obama took office, media outlets have reported more than 300 drone strikes in Pakistan targeting al-Qaida or the Taliban, outnumbering the Bush administration's drone strikes five to one. ...
This map, which is based on data from the New America Foundation, displays the location and kill count of reported drone strikes since 2004 and shows that Obama has greatly extended the drone program.
Be sure to investigate this map -- it's interactive!
The Rumble In The Air-Conditioned Auditorium is Saturday night!
You watching?
If only this info had been sitting on Obama's lecturn...
National Journal used responses from political surveys to create this totally legit infographic. (Embiggen.)
Time to judge your friends by their choice of beer.
So this is how Americans die. Now if only we could get a straight answer about what happens to us when we die.


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What are the hardest Puzzle Games you know?
Pretty much what the title says. I'm more keen on games with levels rather than endless, but both are welcome!
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Not sure if its the hardest since I haven't played that many puzzle games but Kunundrum is quite difficult.
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puzzle and dragons is not that hard..you can use gems and place it in any locations on the board..the hardest puzzle game for me is cargo bridge..have to build up bridges to transfer cargo from one place to another without making the bridge fall down..should calculate all the braces and length of the bridges
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Colorbind is probably the only puzzle game I literally could not finish because of difficulty. But I'm still working on it, occasionally ill open her up and give her another go.
Lots of levels. I think around 100. Gets SO hard. Try colorbind lite to get the idea of gameplay. (It's probably the most simple but innovative game I've ever played, it's truly brilliant.
Color alchemy - lots of levels, gets quite difficult as well.. Similar to the game flow, you have to match the color blocks to the same color block with lines, but lines can't overlap each other, but it adds many more objects like one object changes the color to the opposite color on the color wheel, another changes it 4 colours forward, another mixes two colours together, etc.. With all these elements it gets very hard.
Woozle- this was a port of a classic console game.. Back in the good old days when console games had so much content. This game has a plethora of levels, and they get very hard even from the beginning. The levels take a while to complete too. At least a few minutes. I'd assume it must take at least 20 hours to completely finish the game.
Hairy balls.. Starts easy for the first 10 levels or so, then gets craaazy hard. Free game too.. But you pay for hints. (Since you want a challenge, you probably won't need hints anyway)
Wriggle - again, it does start easy, to teach you the ropes.. It has around 120 levels, the first 30 are easy to medium, but after 40 the game gets crazy difficult! Free version available - awesome concept, I love it.
Grooh, again starts relatively easy, gets very challenging. Over 100 levels, unique gameplay, head scratching fun. Free lite available.
Penguin patrol, another freebie.. Such a fun game. I enjoyed every second of it. It's medium difficulty to simply pass it, but getting 3 stars is very hard. The game consists of getting to the exit, but each tile collapses after you stand on it. Getting to the exit alone gets you 1 star, saving all the penguins gets you 2 stars, but if you get all the penguins and clear all the tiles and make it to the exit, you get 3 stars.. It'd s huge challenge! Over 100 levels and FREE. I fell in love with this game!
Alchemedes- I recently got this little gem, it's actually been on the AppStore for years, basically your a scientist, you have 3 beakers and you have to get the right amount of liquid into the test tube. You have to measure it out correctly, like you have the bottle with unlimited chemical to start with, then you have 3 empty beakers, each a different ML.. Just say 5, 1 and 9 for example. The test tube needs to be 3ml, so you fill up the 9 beaker, then tip it into the 5 beaker, so now you have 4ml left in the 9 beaker, then you fill the 1 beaker, and you have 3ml remaining. Also, you have a piece of gold floating in one of the beakers too, so you have to work out how to finish with the right mg and have the metal in your beaker you pour into the test tube too. Gets really challenging.. I'm half way through and spent hours on it. There's 150 levels and I struggled after 50.
Zen puzzle garden- this was a classic flash game, pikpok gave it a makeover and brought it to iOS. Again unique gameplay. You are a Buddhist and must prove yourself to the monk by raking the zen gardens correctly. You sweep across the garden but can't over lap your previous sweepings, you have to sweep every space on the grid without getting stuck between rocks or previous sweepings.grest level design, gets very difficult.
Karoshi- instead of most games needing you to survive, it's the opposite, you have to find ways to kill your character. Still haven't finished. Gets hard.
Alio the wood cutter - currently free for the day, definitely get this one, lots of levels and gets REALLY difficult.
Puzzle of the dead - kinda like the adventures of lolo classic nes game, kinda like sokoban but more objects to use, like water, for example. Pushing stones into water to make bridges.
Conways inferno - FREE at the moment, not sure how long for, absolutely brilliant classic flash game, ported to iOS. Awesome classic pixel art, you have to start fires and burn everything down basically, or kill them through virus through water. Really interesting gameplay. I think that's where toast the chicken got their inspiration from.
Ice cream mania- if you ever played factory balls, the gameplay is similar, or gelato mania, or dimo eggs (the last two are free, give them a go, though they are on the easy-medium side) basically you get a canvas, an ice lock canvas, and you get shown an ice cream, for example, a blue ice cream with yellow spots, green lines, and half orange coating. You have to use your stencils to create the same ice cream. Gets very challenging.
Toast the chicken- you must light a fire to kill all the chickens, but you can't get burnt yourself, you have to set the room up with the correct objects to do so, I got stuck on a level and couldn't proceed, it gets challenging halfway through.
Joining hands.. Brilliantly innovative gameplay, you must simply make all the guys happy.. You have a grid and you play "peablins" on the grid but they all must be joining hands to be happy. Each monster has different rules, emos have to be at least 2 spaces away from every body to be happy, some monsters will only hold hands with their own kind, others have 5 hands, etc very challenging down the track. One of my all time favourites.
Save the puppies - don't be fooled by its cute moniker, it's truly a unique and challenging game.
Tractor trails gets pretty hard towards the end, and again, very unique concept
Helsings fire is apparently very hard and good, lots of levels.
Twingo- another one of my favourites. Fun and unique, but not super hard. Medium at best, maybe hard when going for 3 stars on some of the levels. Not a lot of levels either. There are 3 chapters, of 20 levels each I think. So 60 total. Would have liked to see 200 levels total, and have the difficulty continuing to increase after 60 would have been nice. Still one of the best games ever. Reminds me of a game I'd play on Nintendo.
Bag it, same as above, medium, hard sometimes with 3 starring, but absolutely brilliant gameplay. Puzzle mode is really awesome.
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Co-recipient of John Harnice Spirit Award ... Played in 21 games ... Made first career appearance in victory over Fordham (Dec. 1) ... Collected a rebound in win over WPI (Dec. 7) ... Came down with two rebounds against Boston University (Dec. 11) ... Grabbed a rebound at George Washington (Jan. 15) ... Came off the bench to hit two important baskets for five points and made a career-best three steals in comeback victory over Dartmouth (Jan. 22) ... Had two rebounds, made a steal and handed out an assist against Columbia (Jan. 28) ... Grabbed a rebound in win over Cornell (Jan. 29) ... Assisted on a field goal in double-overtime victory at Penn (Feb. 5) ... Scored a career-high six points and made two steals in 18 minutes of action against Yale (Feb. 11) ... Buried a key 3-pointer in win at Brown (Feb. 25) ... Made two baskets and finished with five points against Penn (March 4) ... Scored five points and made a 3-pointer while grabbing three rebounds against Princeton (March 5) ... Hit a three at Oklahoma State in NIT (March 15).
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As usual, York had a number of competitive teams throughout the spring. Here are some of the best moments from the Dukes' spring sports season.
1: Number of state trophies for York after placing fourth this spring.
Highlight: The Dukes made state for just the second time and went deeper in the playoffs than any other York team. York's fourth-place finish was a surprise to everyone involved and took some late inning magic – the Dukes were down to their last out in both the regional and sectional finals. Senior Gracie Sullivan had some clutch hits in the playoffs but was the only senior starter. Junior DePaul-recruit Angela Scalzitti will return as captain with a talented team looking for more next year.
Photo gallery: York softball heads to state
17: York's seed at the Pepsi Showdown before making the semifinals.
Highlight: The Dukes have been a strong girls soccer program lately but lost a lot of talent from a year ago. York proved it could still compete with the best at the Pepsi Showdown. The Dukes were the No. 17 seed in the 32-team field, but won three straight matches despite being the lower-ranked team in all three. Senior midfielder Bryce Banuelos took charge of the team and sophomore Alyssa Kovatchis picked up the scoring load lost from the previous season.
Photo gallery: York girls soccer hosts St. Charles North on senior night
18: Top-three finishes at the West Suburban Silver meet for York
Highlight: Lyons Township won the West Suburban Silver indoor track meet, but York had the last laugh in the outdoor season. The Dukes outpaced LT 162-141 in the outdoor conference meet despite winning fewer titles. Reid Smith picked up two wins (high jump and pole vault), Nate Mroz won the 3,200-meter run and the 4x800 relay also took first. The 4x200 produced the Dukes' top result at state, finishing fourth behind Jake Sacksteder, Josh Farrar, Jeff Ostling and Emmett McCoy, all of whom are expected back next year. Reid took ninth in the high jump, and the 4x800 finished 10th.
Photo gallery: York at the Glenbard North sectional
5: Top-10 state finishes in Emma Fisher's distance running career, including three this year.
Highlight: Emma Fisher finished her standout York career with two top 10s at the Class 3A state meet. Fisher was third in the 3,200-meter run and sixth in the 1,600. Throw that onto her runner-up finish at the cross country meet in the fall and Fisher had a memorable senior year. The future Stanford Cardinal qualified for state events eight times in her career. The 4x200 relay team of Emily Simo, Marissa Sparks, Josephine Jelinek and Shante Dansby took seventh at state.
8.5: Team points the Dukes scored at the state tournament.
Highlight: York had a wildly successful season that included five invite wins, a sectional title and a top-10 finish at state. The Dukes qualified the maximum number of state entrants and tied for eighth in the team standings. All six state qualifiers – Georgia Schneider, Julia Carlson, Lauren Liang, Karen Altergott, Cori D'Onofrio and Natalie Rizzo – were seniors.
9.1: Sam Bode's score on vault at the state meet for sixth place.
Highlight: Sophomore Sam Bode was York's top gymnast this spring and made two event finals at state. Bode was sixth on vault and ninth on floor exercise. He also qualified for state in the all-around, parallel bars and horizontal bar. John DiCianni and Bryce Simpson also qualified for state.
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York softball knocks off Lyons Township in a conference game
Duke baseball takes on Wheaton North
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"The first two days of spring you're in shorts. So I don't put a whole lot of stock in what we do in shorts. But there was one guy while we were in shorts, it didn't take but about half a day to figure out he was special," said first year North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora. Fedora was talking about his star running back, redshirt sophomore Giovani Bernard. Bernard was indeed special to his head coach this season, compiling 1,228 rushing yards at 6.6 yards per carry and 12 touchdowns. Since the conclusion of the college football season, Bernard has made headlines by declaring himself eligible for the 2013 NFL Draft, making him the first redshirt sophomore of the class to do so. He is one of the most impressive talents I've watched at the running back position this year, as he has a strong combination of traits that typically lead to success at the professional level. These traits include three vitals at the running back position: balance, agility and vision. And then there's also acceleration, which is not a requirement but is always welcomed with open arms because there are only so many ball-carriers that possess it along with the vitals. Bernard's talented traits have enabled him to rush for consecutive 1,200+ yard seasons and at least a dozen touchdowns as well as make many eye-popping plays in other facets of the game. Balance has been a big credit to the large gains that Bernard has made over the last two years. He has been able to stay on his feet upon receiving contact on numerous occasions and keep his balance as he's falling to the ground by means of holding himself up one hand in an effort to gain additional yardage. Running backs are always praised for their ability to fall forward whilst going to the ground and he's shown the ability to do this. Although there are times when he falls to the ground at a swipe of his ankles, which is a product of his small stature (5'10", 205 lbs.), he has shown on various occasions that he is able to withstand arm tackles and keep his feet churning.Moreover, his agility is what stands out the most to me when watching him take the field. He is a very dynamic runner in the sense that he is able to administer moves that are considered a high degree of difficulty anywhere on the field, let alone at the line of scrimmage where a defender is closing in at full speed. Bernard has shown that he can dazzle in the tightest areas on the field as witnessed against the Virginia Tech Hokies in Week 6.Offset to the left of quarterback Bryn Renner as part of the Tarheels' "11" gun personnel, Bernard was ready to take the handoff on an inside zone play call. His keys consisted of reading the outside hip of the right guard when the ball snapped, which told him that he had to make a quick cutback to his left because of penetration from the defense. He quickly put his left foot into the ground, sunk his hips to get very low and then turned his focus to his left. Once he shifted his focus right, he was dealt with another tough task: an unblocked defender.
The unblocked defender quickly crashed downhill, closing the gap between himself and Bernard. Bernard's first instinct after squaring his shoulders was to execute a quick spin move to the outside that showed off his brilliant agility. He spun instantly on the defender, who was left grasping only the grass, and then showed off another great move by using a stiff-arm to separate his self from another Hokies defender. Finally, he squared his shoulders and freely turned the corner, turning on the jets and showing off his impressive acceleration.
This ability to make lateral moves in the backfield with quick feet illustrates Bernard's agility, which is one of his best traits as a ball-carrier along with keeping his feet moving. Both were on display against Duke only two weeks later when he put a smooth move on a Blue Devils defender.It was a shotgun set again and the Tar Heels had a split-back set with Bernard aligned to the quarterback's right. He was going to be taking another inside handoff and when he did, he turned his attention to the outside by wrapping the run around the right of the formation. Once he got to the outside, he was met by a Blue Devils cornerback who appeared to be playing with good contain and was constricting the space that Bernard had to work with. At first, it looked to be a simple and short gain for the UNC runner but proved to be otherwise. He firmly stuck his outside foot into the ground, which forced the cornerback to make a slight move to the outside to protect the edge, and then abruptly sunk his inside foot into the grass and sprang forward. The cornerback attempted to dive forward to stop Bernard but missed completely.
Last but not least, the final vital listed is vision. Every ball-carrier that's been successful in the NFL has had good vision, whether he's a front-side runner, a back-side runner or both. Fortunately, Bernard possesses good vision and does a good job of using his head and shoulders to set up running lanes as well as find them. In an early first quarter touchdown against the rival North Carolina State Wolfpack, he exquisitely showed the latter. It was another handoff from shotgun and he was initially without a running lane to penetrate. The Wolfpack defenders had done a very good job of getting into the backfield, particularly through the left side of the offensive line where Bernard was originally lined up. This forced him to stay patient and seek other alleys. There was a slight crack of light in the near A-gap but not enough to attack it, so he kept his feet moving to his right. At his far right, Bernard saw a running lane developing inside of the right tackle but it wasn't crystal clear so he made it just that. He planted his outside foot into the ground and slightly shifted his weight outside, forcing the defenders to slightly move wide, and then he planted his inside foot into the ground and shot up the field, hitting the alley for a touchdown.
Giovani Bernard's combination of balance, agility and vision could potentially take him a long way in the NFL. He has also shown a willingness to pass protect, often taking on and out linebackers at their knees and taking them on directly on occasion. This is an impressive toughness from the ball-carrier considering he doesn't have the greatest of stature. Despite likely to be deemed "too small" by some personnel men, his height or lack thereof has been an advantage as he has a natural low center of gravity that enables him to make cuts quicker.Overall, Bernard possesses the talent to be a potential late first-round pick. However, he will need to convince GM's that he is worth more than typical athletes are at his position and must pass all of his medicals, which will be interesting to see considering he has an ACL injury in his past.


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duck wrote:First, before this advise circus goes any further, I'd like to clear out wether radar is actually using CDE?
Unless I misunderstood, he's now said twice that he is not using CDE, though perhaps it would be worthwhile for him to share a screenshot of his desktop.
@radar - to do so, use the "screenshot" command, or poke around the icon collection for "media recorder." The file will be saved in SGI RGB format, which most of us here will be able to view. Alternately, just take a snapshot with a camera phone.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is urging a divided Congress to boost job creation and strengthen the middle class through a package of government-backed proposals.
In his State of the Union address, Obama is calling for increasing the federal minimum wage, spending more to fix the nation's roads and bridges, and expanding early childhood education.
The president is also pledging to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in half within a year.
Obama says his proposals would not increase the deficit "by a single dime." But with unemployment persistently high and consumer confidence falling, he is pressing a progressive case for Washington's role in reigniting the economy.
Obama wants an increase in the minimum hourly wage from the current $7.25 to $9 by the end of 2015. Obama also proposes the minimum wage be required to keep pace with inflation.
The current rate took effect in 2009. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have higher minimum wage rates than the federal requirement. Washington state's is highest at $9.19.
The proposal is sure to draw opposition from business groups and congressional Republicans who say higher rates increase costs and reduce employment. The White House says the new wage would raise pay for more than 15 million workers and indirectly help millions more.
Obama wants the rate to increase in stages over three years.
Obama wants all 50 states to provide pre-kindergarten schools for 4-year-olds, a plan that the White House says will result in better prepared students and ultimately a more educated workforce.
Obama's plan would provide federal government support to the states to provide access to preschool for all low- and moderate-income 4-year-olds.
Obama also wants the federal government to give the states incentives to provide full-day kindergarten.
Obama campaigned in 2008 on a plan for universal pre-school. Advocates say such a plan results in improved student test scores and reduced spending on government assistance programs. Skeptics say that evidence of positive results is limited and that preschool can encourage children to spend less time with their parents.
The President says al-Qaida is a "shadow of its former self," and does not pose the kind of threat to America that requires tens of thousands of U.S. troops to fight abroad.
In his address Tuesday, the president said U.S. troops will continue pursuing the remnants of al-Qaida in Afghanistan for a number of years.
He noted that various al-Qaida affiliates have emerged elsewhere in the world in recent years, including in Yemen and Somalia. Instead of sending large numbers of U.S. troops to fight there, he said, the U.S. aim will be to help those countries provide their own security and to help allies fight al-Qaida, as the French have done in the African nation of Mali.
The President is emphasizing the need for more background checks for gun buyers in his State of the Union address, saying that overwhelming majorities of Americans favor the proposal as a way to keep firearms from criminals.
Obama said Tuesday night that senators from both parties are working on legislation to prevent people from legally buying guns and then giving them to criminals.
He said police chiefs want lawmakers to ban "weapons of war" and magazines carrying large amounts of ammunition so law enforcement officers won't be outgunned.
The president proposed all those ideas after the December killings of 20 first-graders in Connecticut. But expanded background checks is the only one he described as having vast support - a description that matches public polling and reflects congressional sentiment too.


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Grove City defeats Wright State-Lake in McDonald's consolation game, 87-77 in OT
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Despite trailing Grove City throughout most of the second half, Wright State used a six-point run to knot the game at 66 with 1:25 to play in regulation and forced the Wolverines into overtime before succumbing to Grove City, 87-77, on Saturday, December 30, in the McDonald's of Bluffton Holiday Tournament consolation game. With the victory, Grove City improved to 4-6 while the Lakers fell to 6-12 on the season.
Neither squad could gain a significant advantage until Wright State put together a 10-0 run to open up a 30-18 lead following a Chad Miller jumper with less than four minutes to play in the first half.
Joe McCoy drained a triple and Ryan Gerber found his way to the hoop to trim the Lakers' advantage to six points, 33-27, at the 1:35 mark.
Wright State's Travis VanSkyock converted on an old-fashioned three-point play to help the Lakers to an eight-point lead, 36-28, at the break.
Grove City still trailed by six points when Joe McCoy nailed a three-pointer which began to shift the momentum to the Wolverines with 16:42 to play in the game. Ryan Gerber followed with a trifecta and McCoy and John Scheller hit consecutive layups to put the Wolverines on top, 44-40, two minutes later.
The Wolverines maintained a slim lead throughout the second half until the Lakers knotted the contest at 66 with 1:25 to play.
The extra frame belonged to Grove City as the Wolverines opened the period with six straight points, including four makes from the free throw line. Gerber nailed a triple and Grove City connected on four of its final six attempts from the line to pull out the consolation game victory over the Lakers of Wright State, 87-77.
Ryan Gerber led the Wolverines with 27 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the field. Joe McCoy hit for 18 points while Ryan Gibson, who was named to the all-tournament team, chipped in with 14 and a game-high six assists. Bobby Turner led Grove City with seven rebounds in the victory.
Wright State-Lake placed five individuals in double figures and it was led by Travis VanSkyock's 22 points off the bench. Chad Miller scored 15 points while Jay Miller took home game-high rebounding honors with 11 boards. Brooks Topp tallied 14 points and eight rebounds. Brad Johns and Nate Barhorst chipped in with 13 and 11 points respectively. Barhorst was named to the all-tournament team for his efforts in the McDonald's of Bluffton Holiday Tournament.
Wright State held a commanding 46-34 advantage on the boards, but the Lakers hit only 23-of-61 shots from the field (38 percent) compared to Grove City's 31-of-61 shooting (51 percent).


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Technical Analysis & Charting Programs
by Wayne A. Thorp
Security analysis falls into two broad categories—fundamental and technical. The goal of fundamental analysis is to analyze the characteristics of a company in order to estimate its value. Technical analysis, on the other hand, does not concern itself with the value of the underlying security. Instead, it focuses strictly on the price movements. By analyzing the supply and demand of a security, technicians attempt to forecast its future price movement or trend. The tools of technical analysis are charts and technical indicators, which help to identify patterns that suggest future price movements.
Those looking for technical analysis and charting software will perhaps find a more diverse collection than that offered in other categories of investment software. Given all the choices, it is vital that you identify the type(s) of analysis you wish to perform as well as the securities and markets you wish to track and then purchase an appropriate program. Before making your decision, however, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the features and functionalities of a variety of packages to find the one that suits your needs.
This comparison of technical analysis and charting software covers programs catering to "mainstream" technical analysis, and, thus, to our more typical reader. We have focused on those programs offering the functionality sought by the average technician. For this reason, you will not find "pure" trading platforms or niche products focusing on a singular analysis technique highlighted here. At a minimum, all of the programs covered here handle stocks, offer charting capabilities, and have a library of technical indicators. You can use these programs for end-of-day analysis, and they also handle intraday analysis on either a real-time or a delayed basis.
The comparison grid examines the key features you should expect to find with a full-featured charting and technical analysis platform. When available, we also offer a link to the company's website for a listing of the specific technical indicators the program offers.
Our discussions here are based on the latest versions of the software available at the time of this writing (late November). It is always a good idea to verify features with the company before buying.
What to Consider
With technical analysis, the bulk of data used in the analysis process is price and volume data. When looking at technical analysis software, you will find that some programs are tied to an "in-house" data service while others are compatible with one or more third-party data vendor(s). No matter the data source, be sure to budget for the potential additional cost of the data, and don't be surprised if, over time, data costs eclipse the initial purchase price of the program.
The following are some of the typical data issues to consider when evaluating a technical analysis and charting program and when seeking out a compatible data vendor.
End-of-Day Versus Intraday
Price and volume data, the key inputs of technical analysis, can be delivered to the end user on either an end-of-day (EOD) or intraday basis. End-of-day data summarizes activity during the course of the trading day. A single day's trading data usually consists of the opening (first trade) price, the highest and lowest prices of the day, the closing (last trade) price, and the total trading volume (number of shares or contracts bought and sold over the course of the regular trading day). In contrast, intraday data provides periodic updates throughout the trading day on either a real-time or a delayed basis. A premium is usually paid for this more timely data.
Ultimately, your investment time horizon will dictate whether you require end-of-day or intraday data. Investors with longer time horizons should be able to make do with end-of-day or delayed intraday data, while short-term investors and traders would want to consider a real-time data feed in order to more closely monitor market movements.
Supported Data Vendors
Technical analysis programs that use data from third-party providers require you to choose a data provider separately from the program software.
The programs highlighted here vary in their support of data vendors. Some programs, such as TC2000 from Worden Brothers, rely on a sole data source. These "self-contained" packages do not allow users to shop around for a data provider.
Others give users a wide variety of compatible data vendors from which to choose. Investor/RT, for example, currently supports 10 different data services. When there is a broader selection of data vendors, you have a better chance of finding one that meets your exact data needs—and budget. The comparison grid indicates which data vendors each program supports.
Some programs can automatically collect price and volume data en masse from free sources, such as Yahoo! Finance. However, Investor/RT is the only Editor's Choice program here that allows you to download historical end-of-day data from a free data source.
Data Importing and Exporting
If you already have a database of historical price and volume data, it may be worthwhile to note the data formats that can be imported into a given program. This functionality can also save you time and money, since you do not have to start over from scratch. MetaStock and TC2000 are two industry standards when it comes to data formatting, and many programs support the importing of such data. In addition, ASCII and CSV text formats are popular.
Split, Dividend & Distribution Adjustments
Since the accuracy of charting and technical analysis is predicated on the accuracy of the underlying price and volume data, it is important that the data you are using correctly reflect certain events or, at a minimum, that you can easily adjust the data yourself. Such events include stock splits as well as dividend and distribution payments.
Programs that automatically adjust for stock splits will back-adjust any historical data you already have when a stock split occurs.
While a chart that has been adjusted for dividends or distributions does not reflect the historical prices at which you could have bought and sold the security, it does reflect the equivalent prices at which it traded. Such adjustments allow the user to more accurately track price performance over time.
All three of our top picks will automatically adjust data for stock splits, dividends and distribution payments.
Chart analysis is a cornerstone of technical analysis. In fact, many technicians rely solely on what they see on a chart when attempting to predict future price movements.
Chart Types
There are several popular chart types used by technicians, and the programs here differ in the types of charts they offer.
The most common chart types are line and bar charts, and all of the programs in this comparison offer these two chart types. Line charts plot a single price point—usually the closing price—over time. In contrast, bar charts may show up to four data points for a given period—the open, high, low and closing (OHLC) prices for a day, week, month or other period.
Some other common chart types you may run across include candlestick, equivolume, and point & figure. A proper discussion of these charts is beyond the scope of this article. However, you can find articles dealing with charting in the online Computerized Investing archive (www.computerizedinvesting.com).
Chart Templates
A chart template or layout allows you to specify the characteristics of a chart, such as the time period displayed, data periodicity—such as daily, weekly or monthly—chart type, and any indicators or drawing tools you wish to be displayed. Programs that allow you to create custom templates generally allow you to save them for future use as well.
Templates are especially useful if you view multiple securities in the same manner. Instead of having to specify the chart characteristics for each security, all you need to do is specify the security and apply the template, and the program does the rest.
A technical indicator is the mathematical manipulation of price and/or volume data, the results of which are then typically displayed on a chart. The number and type of indicators built into a program are important factors to consider when selecting a technical analysis program. However, the raw number of indicators should not be the sole consideration—more is not necessarily better. Instead, the emphasis needs to be on ensuring that the program includes the indicators important to your analysis.
When available, the comparison grid has links to the websites of the various software companies where you can see a list of the technical indicators each program offers.
Beyond a set of predefined indicators with default values used in calculating them, the ability to modify indicators to fit your particular trading needs and style is a useful feature. Modifications allow you to adjust factors such as the number of time periods used in calculating a given indicator. For example, the most common time periods for a daily moving average are 50 and 200 days, but programs allowing modification of indicators give you the opportunity to adjust the period to one you are more interested in.
Some of the more advanced programs allow you to create custom indicators. While the methodology differs across programs, in general you enter a formula into a spreadsheet-like module or use a "wizard" that walks you through the creation process.
Filtering & Alerts
In generic terms, screening is the method of taking a large universe of securities and narrowing it down to a more manageable number with similar characteristics. In the context of technical screening, you are isolating securities that exhibit certain technical properties, such as price or volume behavior, moving average breakouts, or overbought or oversold conditions based on various indicators. Users are typically able to specify both the universe they wish to screen and the criteria they wish to use; the program will then generate a list of securities matching the criteria. All three of the Editor's Choice programs in this comparison allow you to perform some type of screening or scanning based on technical indicators as well as fundamental data.
Another useful feature is the ability to receive alerts when certain "technical" events take place. These events can include meeting a specific value for a technical indicator, generating a buy or sell signal through a technical system, or even violating a trendline. Programs may give you the option of selecting groups of securities to watch—such as those held in a portfolio or a "watchlist" of stocks—and then alert you when any of the prices move by a certain percentage (up or down), or when pre-determined price levels are met. These alerts can take the form of on-screen pop-up windows, email alerts, or messages sent to a cell phone or hand-held device.
Trading Systems
Many traders develop trading systems—sets of trading rules for when to buy, sell, short or cover—based on technical indicators, and they use a technical analysis program to indicate automatically when these rules are triggered. The rules underlying a trading system can involve a single indicator or a collection of confirming indicators matched to specific market conditions.
Generally, you tend to find trading systems in the higher-end technical analysis packages. All of our top picks offer system trading; however, TC2000 requires its StockFinder module, and with Investor/RT you must purchase the Trading System Tools add-on for an additional monthly fee. You can modify these systems to match your own trading patterns and the securities you track. Advanced traders may also want to develop their own technical trading systems. Again, our top picks allow you to build systems from scratch, although Investor/RT and MetaStock do so in a more straightforward and intuitive manner than TC2000.
When developing a new trading system, it is useful to test it using historical price and volume data to get an idea as to how it may perform going forward. To backtest a system, users specify a time period in the past, and the test provides an indication of how the trading system would have performed over that period.
It is important to implement assumptions that mimic the "real world" as closely as possible when backtesting a trading system. Programs allow users to account for such items as slippage (the amount by which a security price may move between the time you place an order and when it is actually filled) and broker commissions. Other items to consider are stop-loss methods, user-defined entry and exit points, and whether you wish to trade on long positions, short positions, or both.
The final element of system backtesting is optimization, where the program identifies the optimal variables that generate the highest gain or smallest loss for a trading system over the test period. However, be aware of the popular saying regarding optimization: You can torture the data until it tells you what you want to hear. Investor/RT and MetaStock offer system optimization, while TC2000 does not.
When analyzing the overall effectiveness of a system, it is useful to have access to system reports that provide such measures as rate of return, performance relative to buy-and-hold, maximum drawdown, and the profitability of each individual trade. These reports allow you to see the transactions you would have made if you were following the system and measure the success (profitability) and riskiness of the strategy over the testing period. The ability to rank and compare the performances of trading systems is a valuable tool for finding out how different systems perform in different market conditions.
Program Help & Support
Technical analysis programs tend to be some of the more complicated software packages you will run across. Therefore, you want to make sure you have the resources to get to know the program.
All three of our Editor's Choice programs offer in-depth user resources to help you get the most out of your investment. Through their respective websites or online help systems, each offers multi-media tutorials or guides that help you navigate through the programs.
Long gone are the days of receiving printed manuals. Now, when you run into trouble using a software package, you can usually refer to a help system within the program. If the program's help system isn't as useful as you would like it to be, ideally there will be human support available through email or telephone. All of the programs in this comparison offer, at a minimum, free email support.
Some software companies have even built online user "communities" where you can interact with fellow users. At these forums, you can exchange ideas relating to trading and gain insight on how to get the most from your technical analysis package. Users of the three Editor's Choice programs will find discussion forums that will allow you to interact with other users to exchange ideas.
Investor/RT & End-of-Day 10.4 Standard &
Professional w/Trading System Tools
|MetaStock 11 End-of-Day
|TC2000 Version 12
|Recommended Platform
|Windows XP, Vista, 7; Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel Mac only)
|Windows XP, Vista, 7
|Windows XP, Vista, 7; Mac OS X 10.4+ (Cloud only)
|Linn Software Inc.
|Equis International
|Worden Brothers Inc.
|-770 761-8551
|-800 508-9180; use Priority Code: AAII
|-800 776-4940
Investor/RT: $40/mo. Std., $60/mo. Pro;
EOD: $20/mo. Std., $30/mo. Pro;
Trading System Tools:$20-$40/mo;
12% discount for 1-year prepayment
$499, end-of-day program only; $59/mo.
or $565/yr., program & end-of-day data
|free software; Gold: $29.99/mo. or $299/yr.;
|Platinum: $89.99/mo. or $899.90/yr
|Demo Available
|yes (30-day money-back guarantee)
|yes (14 days free for Gold service)
|AAII Discount
|20% off full price with annual prepayment
Markets Followed
|stocks, forex, futures, mutual funds, bonds, indexes, sectors/indus, options
|stocks, forex, futures, mutual funds, bonds, indexes, sectors/indus, options
|stocks, indexes, ETFs, mutual funds,
|forex, sectors/indus
Data type used
streaming real-time (not w/end-of-day), intraday,
|Gold: end-of-day, BATS intraday real-time;
|Platinum: intraday real-time
|Historical database included
Compatible data vendors
DTN.IQ, DTN IQFeed, DTN Market Access,
eSignal, Interactive Brokers, Infinity Futures, Rithmic, TransAct Futures, Yahoo! Finance, Zen-Fire
|Reuters DataLink
|Worden Brothers
|Data downloader provided
|Unattended data downloading
Data import formats
|ASCII, MetaStock, TickerWatcher
|AIQ, ASCII, Excel,MetaStock, Quattro/123, TC2000
|Data export formats
|DIF, Excel, Quattro/123
|Automatic split/distribution adjustments
|Security merge feature
Popular chart types
|line, bar, candle, point & figure
|line, bar, candle, candlevolume, point & figure, equivolume
|line, bar, candle, point & figure
|No. of predefined chart templates
|User-defined chart templates
|Scaling (linear, semi-log)
|linear, semi-log
|linear, semi-log
|linear, semi-log
|Zoom/unzoom charts
|Print charts
|No. of predefined indicators/drawing tools
|Company list of indicators/drawing tools
|www.tc2000.com/tc2000help/content/indicator library.htm
|Customize/modify existing indicators
|Create new indicators
|yes (Pro)
|Show indicator values on charts
Ranking based on
|drawing tool, indicator/study, technical system, fundamental data
|drawing tool, indicator/study, technical system
|indicator/study, fundamental data
Screening based on
|drawing tool, indicator/study, technical system, fundamental data
|drawing tool, indicator/study, technical system
|indicator/study, fundamental data
Alerts based on
drawing tool, indicator/study (Pro), technical
system (w/Trading System Tools), fundamental data
|drawing tool, indicator/study, technical system
|Trading Systems/Models
|Number of predefined systems
|sample only (w/Trading System Tools)
|70+ (StockFinder Backscanner w/Platinum)
Securities handled
|stocks, futures, mutual funds, options
|stocks, futures, mutual funds, options
|stocks, ETFs
|Customize/modify existing systems
|Create new systems
|Rank/compare multiple systems
|System backtesting
|System optimization
|System performance reports
|System signals plotted on charts
System stop methods
|trailing, max-loss, breakeven, price target
trailing, max-loss, breakeven,
profit target, inactivity
|trade length, trailing stop, stop loss,
|percent change
|Accounts for slippage/commissions
|Online help
|Online indicator/trading system library
|Online users forum
|Phone/email support
|yes (email only)
Editor's Choice Picks
Investor/RT 10.4
Investor/RT by Linn Software is unique in that it comes in both Mac and Windows versions. Furthermore, the Mac version offers the same features and functionality as the Windows version, a rarity among investment analysis software. The program satisfies the needs of active technical traders, offering intraday analysis, several different chart types, custom indicator and trading systems creation, system optimization, order placement, and portfolio management functions. The program also supports one of the largest collections of data vendors of any technical analysis package.
There are four main versions of the program—Standard and Professional versions supporting either intraday real-time data (Investor/RT) or end-of-day data (Investor/RT End-of-Day). The Standard edition offers charting, predefined technical indicators and drawing tools, custom instruments, and news monitoring. The Professional edition offers added functionality through the Investor/RT user language, called Real Time Language (RTL). With RTL, users can perform custom scans, create custom indicators and trade signals, and build advanced indicators. You can also purchase an add-on called Trading System Tools for either the Standard or Professional editions of Investor/RT; this allows you to develop, optimize and implement technical trading systems either in real-time or on an end-of-day basis.
Investor/RT offers several popular chart types—including line, bar, candlestick, and point & figure—along with a library of over 170 technical indicators. In addition, it provides candlestick pattern recognition. Users may select from any of the over 40 predefined patterns, and the program will mark each pattern's occurrence on the display—even on an intraday basis.
Investor/RT also offers position tracking and portfolio management features not found in many trading platforms. Investor/RT can track long or short positions and gains and losses on stocks, mutual funds, futures, and equity/index options. The system also tracks transactions—such as cash, dividends, commissions and interest—in order to calculate the annualized rate of return for each open position.
Investor/RT 10.4 supports several data services, including real-time futures data from Zen-Fire, Infinity Futures and TransAct Futures. One nice feature is Investor/RT's support of free historical quotes and fundamental data from Yahoo! Finance. However, its usefulness is limited by the fact that you are only able to download about three years of daily data per stock, definitely not enough for backtesting of a trading system, let alone analyzing long-term trends.
With Investor/RT Professional, users can create custom indicators, trading systems (using the Trading System Tools add-on), and scans with RTL. The scan function allows users to identify trading signals being generated. Scans can be based on technical indicators, fundamental data, and current or historical prices and can be run using tick or minute data as well as daily, weekly and monthly data. Once a scan is completed, the results are presented in a quote page that can be sorted on a number of data elements.
The Trading System Tools add-on provides trading system development, testing and optimization to Investor/RT. Users can organize trading signals into a set of trading rules and then backtest these rules over any desired time period. To analyze the results of backtesting, this module also offers detailed reports. The trading system optimization feature allows users to backtest ranges of values for the variables used in the trading system to find the optimal values and periodicity. Once a trading system has been developed, backtested, and optimized, trading system deployment allows for the plotting of trading systems on a chart on a real-time or end-of-day basis. With the trading system deployment module, users can set up "signal actions" that communicate trading orders when trading system rules are triggered. These orders can then be sent to simulated trading portfolios within Investor/RT or to real brokerage services. You can deploy trading systems as indicators on a chart with buy and sell signals. The Trading System Tools add-on costs $40 per month ($20 a month for Investor/RT End-of-Day users).
With version 10.4, Investor/RT offers direct-broker access for Rithmic, Zen-Fire and Interactive Brokers. This means you can place orders within Investor/RT and the program will convey them directly to one of these brokerages. Furthermore, the program will automatically update your portfolio to account for the trades you make.
Overall, Investor/RT has features and functionality that rival any high-end technical analysis package. Mac users will also appreciate having such a robust system at their disposal. A wide variety of both end-of-day and real-time data sources is an attractive feature for those wishing to "shop around" for a data provider. The ability to download free historical data from Yahoo! Finance is another welcome (and money-saving) offering. Furthermore, Linn Software has done an excellent job of producing online tools, including an array of video tutorials, to educate their users on how to get the most from the software.
MetaStock 11 End-of-Day
MetaStock—from Equis International, a Thomson Reuters company—has been a leader in the technical analysis software arena for over a quarter of a century. Offering a comprehensive collection of technical indicators, charting capabilities, and system development and optimization tools, coupled with unrivaled ease of use, MetaStock has established itself as one of the most complete end-of-day programs of its kind.
MetaStock goes beyond the standard chart offerings of most charting platforms to offer nine different charting styles—line, bar, candlestick, equivolume, point & figure, Kagi, Renko, three-line break, and candlevolume. The program's SmartCharts feature automatically saves your charts, along with the underlying specifications, so you do not have to recreate a chart the next time you open it—a valuable time-saving feature. You can also create chart templates that allow you to apply the same set of indicators and studies to different securities. You can even create a custom default template that is always used when you open a new chart.
MetaStock comes with over 375 technical indicators and line studies. To help gauge the direction of the overall market, MetaStock offers over 90 "broad market indicators"—monetary indicators as well as momentum indicators for both the NYSE and NASDAQ. There are also over 40 "adaptive indicators" with dynamic look-back functionality based on volatility, cycle, or a combination of both. This is in contrast to standard indicators, which use a fixed look-back period, such as a 50-day moving average. In addition, you can create your own indicators using the program's indicator builder.
The Explorer function in MetaStock allows you to find, compare, filter, rank, search and list multiple indicator values for multiple securities, including stocks, currencies, options and futures. Users can view a list of securities that are generating buy or sell signals or that have broken through some predefined barrier dealing with price or indicator. MetaStock also ships with a set of predefined scans, and you can create and save custom scans with the same programming language used to create custom indicators.
One useful educational tool for novices and experts alike is MetaStock's Expert Advisors. These advisors—there are currently 70—help you interpret technical analysis signals. Expert alerts provide indications of when current market conditions meet your criteria. There are also Expert highlights that color-code individual prices or significant chart patterns. You can use these Expert systems to receive text, audio or video alerts when certain conditions are met. Using the indicator builder, you can also create your own market advisors.
MetaStock ships with 50 trading systems and allows you to create your own, all of which can be backtested and optimized with the enhanced system tester. You can run one system on a single security, many systems on a single security, one system on many securities, or multiple systems on multiple securities. The program also offers features such as the ability to change and edit variables in testing—entry and exit points, commissions and slippage—to help create a more realistic picture of the trading scenario's results.
Although MetaStock is an extremely robust analysis tool, its developers have also taken great pains to make it very user-friendly. The program offers a comprehensive on-board help system. In addition, the MetaStock and Equis websites offer user forums, free webinars (online seminars) and video tutorials, and real-time online support chat.
Users can purchase MetaStock End-of-Day and a subscription to the Reuters DataLink data service for $59 a month ($565/year), or they can purchase the MetaStock software along with The Downloader (Equis' data downloading software) for $499. With the Downloader you can import data in a variety of formats, including ASCII text and TC2000 formats.
MetaStock offers everything a seasoned trader needs—custom indicators, trading system development, backtesting, optimization and scanning capabilities. Despite its potentially intimidating lineup of features, MetaStock is also one of the most user-friendly programs we have ever run across. Furthermore, the extensive educational resources available within the program and at the MetaStock/Equis website allow neophytes to grow into the program. When combined with Equis' highly rated, and free, technical support, you have one of the top products for technical analysis.
TC2000 Version 12
TC2000 from Worden Brothers is our final top pick among technical analysis and charting software. The program offers a combination of solid charting and technical analysis capabilities, ease of use, and unique features, making it one of the most popular analysis tools on the market today. Add Worden's award-winning data feed, and you have a program that suits the needs of most beginner and intermediate technicians.
Perhaps the most exciting development among all our top picks in this comparison is the release of TC2000 version 12, which is now part of "the cloud." In a nutshell, this means that the data used by the program, as well as all your user preferences, are stored on Worden servers. This also allows you to run the program through a Web browser instead of installing it to your computer (although this option is still available for Windows users). What does being online mean? Mac users can now run TC2000 on Mac OS X.
TC2000 comes in end-of-day (Gold) and streaming real-time (Platinum) versions. Actually, the Gold version does offer "real-time" quotes, provided by the BATS system. Similar to MetaStock, TC2000 only supports a proprietary data feed for direct data updating. The Gold software and data package costs $30 per month, and Platinum costs $90 a month. The database itself contains over 5,900 U.S. common stocks, nearly 3,800 Canadian common stocks, over 16,000 mutual funds and nearly 1,300 U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The program comes with dozens of predefined watchlists, which allow you view a group of stocks such as the NASDAQ-100 index component stocks or the stocks currently held in the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Aerospace & Defense Index Fund ETF (TA). There are also watchlists for Morningstar industry groups and subgroups. Once you have selected a watchlist, run a slideshow of the charts for the symbols in the watchlist. You can also create and save custom watchlists.
TC2000 offers the basic chart types—bar, candlestick and line—along with an expanded library of over 70 technical indicators, including some proprietary indicators that are exclusive to the program. If you wish to go beyond the provided indicators, you can program your own. Personally, I feel that creating custom indicators with TC2000 is a bit clunky; it is not nearly as easy or intuitive as it is with MetaStock.
With TC2000's scanning functionality, you can locate symbols meeting custom search criteria. You can run scans against the entire Worden universe or against subsets, such as industries or personal watchlists. Simultaneously, you can scan for long-term technical and fundamental conditions, as well as intraday conditions. The software comes with a dozen predefined scans, and users can save custom scans. Users will find predefined lists of index and industry components.
The level of customization TC2000 offers makes it extremely appealing. Users can design workspaces to suit their needs, with watchlists, charts, alerts, scans and more. You can link watchlists and charts so that you only need to select a symbol from the watchlist, and the respective charts in your workspace will reflect that symbol. Your options are almost limitless.
For advanced stock screening and charting, you can upgrade your Gold subscription to Platinum ($90 a month) to access StockFinder. StockFinder offers a broader library of over 130 technical indicators along with company fundamental data, earnings estimates and analyst ratings. You can create your own indicators and backtest any indicator-based trading rule, but optimizing capabilities are not offered. Lastly, Platinum subscribers can connect to their TD Ameritrade, optionsXpress or Interactive Brokers account. StockFinder is not as intuitive as the rest of TC2000, but a collection of free webinars and other resources can help you fully understand the functionality offered.
One of the more interesting Platinum features is that the software allows users to interact with each other. Platinum subscribers can join more than 100 public and private chat rooms or create their own. Platinum subscribers can also upload files to the Platinum community as well as download files from other Platinum users.
As TC2000's capabilities have expanded, so too have the resources available to users to learn about them. There are hours of webinars and video tutorials available online, with new events being offered all the time. There are also a variety of discussion forums where you can post questions regarding the program.
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Ease of Use
Software Cost (AAII Discount)
|Indicators/ Drawing Tools
|Trading Systems
|Screening/ Sorting
|Documentation/ Tutorials
|Investor/RT 10.4 End of Day Std
|+Extensive portfolio mgmt capabilities
|–Trading Tools add-on only offers sample trading systems
|Investor/RT 10.4 End of Day Pro
|+Runs on Windows & Mac
|–Ability to create indicators only in Pro
|Investor/RT 10.4 Standard
|+Direct downloading from free historical data providers
|Investor/RT 10.4 Professional
|add'l $20-$40/mo. for Trading Tools
|*with Trading Tools
|MetaStock 11 End-of-Day
|$499, software; $59/mo. or $565/yr.,
|+Free online classes & user groups
|–New Fundamental Analyzer only available in Pro version
|software & end-of-day data
|+Expert Advisors
|–OptionScope offers limited options analysis
|+Nine chart types
|+Data usable in numerous programs
|TC2000 Version 12
|free software; $29.99/mo.
|+New cloud version Windows & Mac compatible
|–Fixed amount of data
|or $299/yr., Gold; $89.99/mo. Or
|+Extensive training resources
|*with StockFinder BackScanner w/Platinum subscription
|$899.90/yr., Platinum
|+Highly customizable work spaces
M from FL posted over 6 years ago:
Mr Thorp:
Thank you for your unbiased critique of the 3 leaders in Technical Analysis Trading systems. In fact it is a brilliant and magnificent presentation.
I only have experience with Worden's output I being their subscriber since 1965, when there were no online services. They, like the others have evolved into a necessity since the personal computer was invented. Yet, as statistics are extrapolations into the future based on a small sample of a big universe, Virtual Reality can never catch up with Real future Reality. Thus,we investor and traders rely on you as an experienced observer to keep us updated.
M from FL posted over 6 years ago:
Mr Thorp:
Thank you for your unbiased critique of the 3 leaders in Technical Analysis Trading systems. In fact it is a brilliant and magnificent presentation.
I only have experience with Worden's output I being their subscriber since 1965, when there were no online services. They, like the others have evolved into a necessity since the personal computer was invented. Yet, as statistics are extrapolations into the future based on a small sample of a big universe, Virtual Reality can never catch up with Real future Reality. Thus,we investor and traders rely on you as an experienced observer to keep us updated.
Anthony Humpage from AZ posted over 6 years ago:
I have never used Investor RT. I have used the current version of Metastock EOD and TC2000 V12.
I am quite computer literate but just could not get along with Metastock -- which I owned for a couple of years. My use was confined to basic charting because of it and I never found anything easy about it. Also, the data costs get to be tedious on top of the software cost. I bought the Gold version of TC2000 and have since thrown Metastock away. TC2000 was easy to learn and is relatively inexpensive. I have many different screens set up to monitor different watchlists specifically. The sorting and filtering facility is great too. One use I like a lot is determining leading and lagging S&P Sector ETFs in various timeframes.
TC2000 has many excellent free tutorials on the Worden website which anyone can view. They will give you a great feel for how the software works in addition to being a great educational resource.
I also use TC2000 to illustrate points in my personal blog.
For me, the choice is TC2000 hands down.
Anthony Humpage
Scottsdale AZ
Dave from WA posted over 6 years ago:
Mr. Thorp, excellent comparison. We need more of these. I was an early user of TC but fell away. Long ago I tried Vector Vest, Invester Pro, Omni, and recently visual trader. I have not found a system that works for me. I like some of the recent upgrades to Vector so I may try again. Any comments or suggestions from you or fellow members?
Gregory Silvis from MN posted over 5 years ago:
For the last 3 months I have been working with MetaStock, Worden Brothers tc2000 v12.1, Stock Investor Pro and Fidelity's Active Trader. All of the programs are tightly locked to prevent pirating -- too tightly I would say. All of them have been buggy initially and required multiple uninstall/reinstall cycles.
I agree with Mr. Humpage's "just could not get along with Metastock" even though I too am quite computer literate. It also seemed sometimes to be akin to adware, anything of interest required an upgraded subscription. Sorting the universe of equities was also p-a-i-n-f-u-l-l-y slow.
I just finished another unsuccessful clean install -- the 5th, 8th, 13th I don't know how many, but definitely some Fibonacci number though I'm done trying.
Worden Bros is my favorite. It is fast, fast, fast in sorting and charting stocks. The charts are very colorful and the colors are customizable allowing the color to convey important data. With some poking around I have highly adapted it to "speak to me". I have Platinum service which gives realtime data feed (but not the Stock Finder module) One strategic intraday entry paid for a year's subscription to the realtime data.
Stock Investor Pro has an unbelievably rich database of fundamental data. It is an essential complement to all of these tech analytic programs and could clearly stand on its own for longer term investors.
The fidelity program is also buggy. But the integration of order entry and the very rich fidelity research makes it a program that I will work to get tuned.
I have been checking out some intermediate to advanced books on tech analysis and TradeStation seems to be the standard: much code and even software CDs. I'm going to check it out as well as the tc2000 stock selector module before settling.
Ian Craig from CA posted over 5 years ago:
Mr. Thorp , Thank you.
Any opinions on " Chart Lab Pro" I trade SPY & SDS
murty from NY posted over 2 years ago:
TC2000 does NOT adjust data / charts for dividends! Only splits.


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I was at Brigham Young University 's Education Week most of this week, with my gorgeous sister and two favorite cousins. (That's saying a lot about how cool Rochelle and Quinn are, since I have 48 first cousins and they all rock out loud.) I got to see a few GSG readers here from out of town I'd arranged to meet, or who saw me in classes. (Lala whipped out her empty green smoothie container from her backpack, and I learned that her dad is one of the authors of Crucial Conversation, one of my all-time favorite books—I was there to attend his lecture. Fun!)
Here's a photo of us at our last class, my sis next to me and cousins on the outside. The incredible class we're sitting in was taught by Kathy Headlee Miner, the founder of Mothers Without Borders, who I am meeting with tomorrow. GSG readers will be hearing more later about how we are gonna get good nutrition to orphaned children together in third-world countries!
I have lots of comments about things I learned, so this will be a multi-part series. Education Week has literally hundreds of classes all over the huge campus, about everything from single parenting, to Isaiah in the Bible, to gardening (to give you an idea of some of the things I learned about).
I got Quinn and Roch (12 Steppers) addicted to Hot Pink Breakfast Smoothie, since they stayed at my house. Roch told the others that she dreamed about it at night. Just sixty seconds ago, she wrote me an email about how she made it for her family and they were mocking her because it was disgusting. Then she said, "I forgot the strawberries!" She would like me to write you a "testimonial" that says this: "Don't forget the strawberries."
If you've tried it and don't like it, you made it wrong. LOL! If you can't find fresh young Thai coconuts (by the case in Asian markets), never fear. You can buy coconut water/liquid (not milk, high in fat) in cans. I get them $1.19 by the case, and one can has about 2.5 cups in it, so it's no more expensive than fresh. It doesn't have live enzymes because it's not raw when it's canned, but it'll do in a pinch and has many other health benefits fairly intact.
The recipe is in Ch. 10 of 12 Steps to Whole Foods. Even though it's really yummy and virtually all raw, it has beets and carrots in it. Anyone, please tell me a breakfast containing those ingredients that you'll enjoy as much.
Anyway, tomorrow I'll tell you a couple of REALLY interesting things I learned before I go off about modern dietetics based on a nutrition class I attended. Watch out: I'm fired up and both barrels are loaded.


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just because i just noticed it and to change subjects for a bit, looking at the bronco sched its possible they end up 2-14 instead of 14-2.
falcons -loss
texans- loss
raiders - win
saints -loss
bengals - loss ?
panthers -loss?
chargers - loss?
CHIEFS - loss
ravens - loss
CHIEFS -loss
raiders - loss?
browns - win
not actualy predicting it, but i could see it hapening if things don't go right in those [?] games.
so much for the donx being the favorite to win the division, heyna or no???
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They'll win 10 games plus or minus one. Look for a slow start (2-4ish) but once they get in rhythm they will be good. Manning isn't the problem it's the rest of the team learning his tendencies. The reason the colts won so many games was he had a true rapport with his teammates built over time.
Manning has helped make a lot of Lesser WRs better but he didn't do it alone. Harrison and Wayne also had a factor in that as they took a large amount of the attention from the Defenses. I no many want to give Manning all the credit for Indy but he doesn't deserve all the credit there were other good players that helped make Manning look better at times as well. I have seen a number of times Manning overthrew the ball Harrison would make a GREAT catch and it was declared a great throw by Manning. He doesn't have that same talent in Denver. And Denver lost a pretty big part of there rushing offense from a year ago in Tebow.
He misses a year there will be a rust factor as well. He might start off same old Manning but will he be able to hold up with his neck? Those are all very fair questions to have. I don't think anyone can say just how good or bad Manning will be.
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Who is Blair White?
yeah they WERE a superbowl contender every year with him. what some people dont realize is peyton was more than just a qb on that team. he was the o- coordinator as well. not buy title but he was the ones calling the plays dungy said so himself. now take away an elite qb from the team(pre surgery). as well as the guy that makes the audibles and calls the plays. and replace him with a curtis painter and some non proven coordinator. that does not know how you run the system and there you have it a piss poor record and a team that had given up week 4 into the season. if mannings neck was not an issue there would not have been speculation of him retiring because the injury he would not have been at only 60% when they signed him. good luck donkey fans
here is how i see it going down
steelers- actually a win (todd haley enough said)
falcons -loss (falcons are going to be pissed from there opening day loss to us) they also dont lose at home
texans- loss
raiders - win
saints -loss
bengals - win
panthers -loss?
chargers - win (will be a shootout)
CHIEFS - loss
ravens - loss
CHIEFS -loss
raiders - win
browns - win
The donks will always be in the running for the AFC West, I think Peyton does make them better. But not good enough. Tamba makes a great hit and sack on Peyton early in our games against the donks, Peyton will be gun shy. I predict we will win both, or not. Probably be 1-1. As with the faiders, it is such a rivalry to go 1-1 is most likely, to sweep is to be division champs. But then the dolts have to be considered in recent history, they need to be beat twice. As for donks, faiders and dolts record against other teams, may they lose more of them than us!
That my friends and fellow members is all that is important at this time of the year.
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Rare good news in the Holy Land
It's rare to be able to celebrate a victory for peace in Israel and Palestine, but a friend has brought to my attention the success of a U.S. Catholic interviewee from a couple of years ago. Archbishop Elias Chacour's Mar Elias Educational Institutions has won accreditation for what will be called Pope Benedict XVI University. The accreditation, approved by Israel's Cabinet in March, provides Arabs who live in Israel with the only Arabic language university-level education in Israel. (Bethlehem University lies behind the security barrier separating Israel from the West Bank, making it almost impossible for Arabic-speaking students to attend.)
The Mar Elias institutions are open to all the residents of Israel: Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Druze, and its faculty will reflect the diversity of the student body, according to a letter from the president of the board of trustees. The Mar Elias institutions now provide education from kindergarten to university. In the words of the founder, Archbishop Elias Chacour: "Here we are not negotiating peace, we are building peace on top of desks!"
I'd call that good news. You can read the U.S. Catholic interview with Charcour here [1], along with other recent good news related to Bethlehem University [2]. Watch also for an interview with Rabbi Ruth Langer, who comments on the pope's recent visit to the Holy Land, coming in the August issue of U.S. Catholic.


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It's the most Wonderful Time of the Year…Whoop Up Days in Conrad
Let the fun begin and it will this weekend in Conrad for the 72nd Annual Whoop Up Days. The Pondera Golf will have their annual Whoop Up scramble on Friday and an new attraction on Saturday night with an outdoor concert at the golf club. - Check out the rest of the schedule after the jump


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Since my roomates being an a$$, I cannot resize my photos due to him making me a limited account on the comp, so I can't use PSP anymore. :mad: :rolleyes: :( So I will have to attach the photos. Enjoy!:D
A view from the top. These photos came out a lot better than the last ones. :p


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1. Revis
2. Peterson
3. Haden
4. Sherman
5. Asomugha
Who really are the best corners in football?
Here's my top 12.
1. Revis
2. Nnamdi
3. Champ
4. Haden
5. Tillman
6. Joseph
7. Asante
8. Cromartie
9. Woodson
10. Finnegan
11. Leon Hall
12. Brandon Browner
N.m.:: Patrick Peterson, Ike Taylor, Tim Jennings, Tramon Williams, Devin McCourty, Dunta Robinson..
Anyone I'm forgetting?
1. Revis
2. Peterson
3. Haden
4. Sherman
5. Asomugha
Have you seen him play recently? He's not even top 10 anymore. He gets torched every week.
Based on this year, my top 5 would probably be:
McCourty isn't a CB anymore.
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What the hell?
After that, it's the battle of the middles.
champ looked terrible in playoff game against ravens.. Huge reason why they lost..
McCourty was so bad at Corner he is now a safety. Where is actually doing
G very well.
1 Revis if he is still Revis
2 Richard Sherman
3 Patrick Peterson
4 Charles Tillman
5 Asante Samuel
6 Kareem Jackson
7 Brandon Flowers
8 Joe Haden
9 Darius Butler
10 Vontae Davis
Sorry but Cro was good but not one of the best CBs in the league. Woodson is a S Hall, Aso, and Bailey are all aged. I love Joseph but right now Jackson is the best on that team.
Hold onto Revis for one more season then trade a mid-round pick to Philly in 2014 for Asomugha.
Lol at people putting players like nnamdi and asante ahead of cromartie. Had to double check to make sure this thread wasn't started in 2009.
And Champ gets dropped out of any top ten with his performance against the ravens. He was beat by five yards on every big play.
Obviously I've seen Cro and I've watched Haden plenty of times. They're both significantly better than Samuel and Davis.
1. Darrelle Revis NYJ
2. Patrick Peterson ARI
3. Charles Tillman CHI
4. Joe Haden CLE
5. Richard Sherman
6. Antonio Cromartie NYJ
7. Jonathan Joseph HOU
8. Derek Cox JAC
9. Leon Hall CIN
10. Ike Taylor PIT
Honorable mentions:
Brandon Flowers KAN
Vontae Davis IND
Brandon Browner SEA
Morris Claiborne DAL
Champ Bailey DEN
Antoine Cason SD
Kareem Jackson HOU
Asante Samuel ATL
Sean Smith MIA
No love for Grimes? I know he did not play this year due to an ACL but i think he is easily top 10. I love Leon Halls Game, I don't see any love for Webb either another guy who i think is a top 10 guy. Finnegan is another guy who deserves some mention. What about Brandon Carr?
Did everyone in this thread forget about Ladarius Webb?
There are a lot of good cornerbacks out there, then there are really really good ones... and then there is Revis...
Think about it, Sherman was by many considered to be the top cover corner this year and he got beat by Roddy White during their playoff game with Atlanta. Check Darrelle Revis' playoff performances vs even better competition...


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Lawrence W. Maheu
Lawrence W. Maheu
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Lawrence W. Maheu, 97, of North Kingstown, passed away January 30, 2012 at home. He was the husband of the late Marion E. (Wright) Maheu. They were married on June 1, 1940.
Born in Providence, he was a son of the late Albert and Lillian (Landrie) Maheu. Mr. Maheu was a printer for Livermore & Knight Co. for 33 years, retiring in 1969, and was then a custodian for the Warwick School System at Winman Junior High School for 10 years, retiring in 1979. He was a member of the Lithographers Union, Local 239 M for 59 years and a member of the M&W Racing Team.
He was the beloved father of Judith M. Clark of Warwick, Shirley A. Lucier of North Kingstown and the late Arthur E. Maheu and Barbara J. Maheu; loving grandfather of 10, great-grandfather of nine and great-great-grandfather of four. He was the brother of the late Alfred, Ernest, Oliver and Raymond Maheu.
His funeral will be held Feb. 4 at 8:45 a.m. from Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Ave., Warwick, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Francis de Sales Church, 381 School St., North Kingstown. Burial will follow in St. Ann Cemetery, Cranston. Relatives and friends are invited and may call Feb. 3 from 4-7 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in his memory to Cornerstone Adult Services, 140 Warwick Neck Ave., Warwick, RI 02889 or Odyssey Hospice, 100 Quaker Lane, Warwick, RI 02886 would be appreciated. For information and guest book visit www.murphyfuneralhomes.org.


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Historically, the theory of panspermia (from the Greek pas meaning 'all' and sperma meaning 'seed') – that life exists throughout the Universe, and is distributed by asteroids, meteoroids and planetesimals – arose as an attempt to address fundamental concerns over the evolution of life on our planet, specifically the ability of life to evolve in the harsh conditions postulated to be present on the early Earth. The theory was re-popularised by Francis Crick (the co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule) and Leslie Orgel in a 1973 paper that rather controversially suggested that life was intentionally sent to the Earth by an advanced civilisation on another planet.
Conditions on the early Earth were unlikely to have particularly conducive for life. A particularly unpleasant period of the Earth's history, known as the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), occurred at the Hadean-Archean boundary, roughly 4 Ga ago, and was characterised by extremely high cratering rates on inner Solar System planets, evident from petrological analysis of impact craters on the mostly undisturbed surface of the Moon. The LHB presents a conundrum when considering the evolution of life on Earth: a series of statistically plausible cataclysmic asteroid or meteorite impacts would have in effect sterilised the planet, boiling the oceans and obliterating vast swathes of terra firma. However, life arose rapidly after the LHB, recorded by carbon isotope analysis of sedimentary rocks to be possibly as early as ~3.8 Ga, in direct contention with our understanding of the probabilities of the critical evolutionary steps required for the evolution of life. Is it possible that the Earth was seeded with life during, or after, the Late Heavy Bombardment?
Approaching this problem methodically, organisms that survive interplanetary transfer would have to endure ejection from an impacted planet, transit in space and eventual re-entry and impact onto another world, thousands or perhaps millions of years later. Is this really feasible?
As it turns out, it is.
Studies analysing the factors associated with the ejection process considered the ability of bacteria to endure the associated extreme pressures, temperatures and acceleration likely to be experienced at the beginning of a trip to space. A study exposing spores of Bacillus subtilis to peak shock pressures of 32 GPa (gigapascals) and post-shock temperatures of 250 °C, similar to values expected to have been experienced by Martian ejecta, reported survival rates of 10-4, indicating that the high shock-pressures and heating associated with planetary escape may not be detrimental to bacterial survival in the long-term, providing that a significant fraction of the ejecta avoids being heated to > 100 °C. Similar research indicated that, even when Bacillus subtilis spores are subjected to acceleration 2.5 – 25 times greater than would be normally experienced by ejected material, survival rates remained between 40 and 100%.
Similarly, interplanetary space may not be as harsh an environment as initially thought, at least for bacteria encased in several metres of rock. However, there are still the issues of vacuum, long periods of thermal inactivation, desiccation, photolysis of volatiles, impacts with micrometeorites and most significantly ionising radiation, in the form of solar ultra-violet, solar particle events and galactic cosmic rays to deal with. Modelling studies suggest that organisms at the centre of objects greater than 100m in diameter receive a sterilising dose of radiation after 10 to 100 million years in space, whilst centimetre and smaller objects are sterilised in less than 10,000 years. For an estimate of transit duration, Monte-Carlo trajectory analysis used to estimate the likely duration of ejecta in space approximates that the vast majority of Martian meteorites reach the Earth within 10,000 to 100 million years; for approximately 0.1% of Martian meteorites the transit period is less than 10,000 years. On top of this, recent studies suggest that the space environment may actually be conducive to microorganism growth, providing adequate radiation defence is in place, due to a currently undiscovered mechanism disrupting the ability of antibiotics to inhibit the proliferation of bacteria.
Seems plausible so far, but what about landing? With no external evidence of lithopanspermic planetary colonisation as of yet this stage of the transfer process is perhaps the least well understood. The shock of a low angle (≤ 30°) impact is predicted to be less than those associated with ejection, so a viable population may be able to survive landing. Even large organisms, such as the worms recovered from the wreckage of the Columbia space shuttle, may be able to weather re-entry. However, environmental conditions such as nutrient availability and appropriate osmolarity, low toxicity and low predation will dictate the ability of surviving organisms to colonise the planet.
Considering the time scale of the evolution of the Solar System, the ejecta liberating LHB event and the results of empirical studies on Earth and in space, the possibility of panspermia may not as unfeasible as it first appears…


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Hi, this is my first post.
I gotten with me a game in .swf format.
I seen some site with full screen flash game, meaning people play the game full screen. How do they do that?
Do i need write some code in html, link (src) to the flash game, make it full screen etc?
Do i straight away navigate to my folder and the .swf game in the browser?
If navigating, isnt it dangerous, as people can navigate through the folder in browser and download my .swf files?
I hope to learn some tips.
Thank you.
how to link swf into html and make it full screen fit to browser, what the correct way to do it? css and html.


text: Sacred Destinations Destinations Germany Wittenberg Castle Church Castle Church Photos 25188 × share full URL share short URL embed link code photo 55 of 96 Previous | Next Tomb of Martin Luther Tomb of Martin Luther, who died in 1546 in his birth town of Eisleben and was buried here four days later. Philipp Melanchthon delivered the funeral oration. The bronze plaque is a replica made in 1892. The abbreviated Latin epitaph roughly translates: "Here lies the body of Martin Luther, Doctor of Divinity, who died at Eisleben, his birthplace, on the 12th of the Calends of March, in the year 1546, when he had lived 63 years, 3 months, and 10 days." Credit: Holly Hayes