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July 22, 2004, 01:42:27 PM »
After a very long wait, another RPG has appeared on the Xbox market - Sudeki. Some have said that this is little more than a hold-over title until the greats like Fable and KotOR:II come out. Is it? Well, here's my 60 minute (and just a bit more) impressions:
To be very blunt, this is the best part of the game by far. The world is vibrant, colorful, filled with polygons, and detailed. People run around the towns, and they all seem to be different from one another. No attack of the clones here.
The character models are large and expressive, and are detailed enough to zoom in for closeups during the 'talking heads' sequences and still look quite good. Mouths will move in pretty close sync with the speech as well.
During combat, you'll face the clones (like in most all RPGs). Special effects are used in abundance with every hit, and when you kill your opponents, they explode into a pool of blood and body parts. I thought I was playing a Mortal Kombat game after my first opponent fell to my blade.
The game opens with a decent looking CGI movie, but it looked like it was a slightly enhanced in-game engine movie instead of a CGI masterpiece like Namco or Square.
The frame-rate seems to be locked at either 30 or 60fps (can't really tell yet), and while I've seen a few bits of slowdown already, I don't know if it's a problem yet. The game also supports Progressive Scan natively.
Whoo boy. First off, the music is pretty standard RPG fare from my listening in the first hour. I didn't find any songs that stood out, but I didn't find any that were grating to the ear either.
What I did find that wanted me to mute the game was the voices. To use the old PC terms, this game is a full talky, which means that every single line of text in the entire game is spoken (with a scrolling text box at the bottom if you mute your TV). This is a very uncommon thing in an RPG. In fact, I can't think of a RPG in recent memory that did this.
However, there is a reason why you don't see this - the lack of quality voice actors. You know that Rare (now owned by Microsoft) uses voice actors drawn from their pool of employees, right? Sudeki does the exact same thing, but unlike Rare (where the voice actors tend to be actually good), these voices, well, suck.
I immediately hated the voice given to one of your female party members (and I haven't even gotten her in my party yet), and the voices of the other three in your crew (of which I also haven't gotten) aren't any better. Hopefully things will improve, but I honestly doubt they will.
Like Tales of Destiny on the Gamecube, Sudeki is best described as an Action/RPG. All combats will take place on the world map you run around in, with nary a load time short of enemies 'beaming' in. Yes, they actually teleport in all around you.
Combat is a twitch-fest, but with some stragety. The two melee fighters (of which I've only gotten the 'hero') are capable of 3 hit combos right off the start, which are governed by a small box in the corner of the screen. Hit the next button while the box is glowing, and you continue the combo. Unfortunately I've seen exactly two good combos, both of which allow you to extend that 3 hitter into a 6 one, also striking everything in your general area in the process. Hopefully I won't use that move over and over the entire game, but it honestly looks like I will.
You also have a slew of special skills (and magic, eventually) to choose from. When you want to use one of your powers (or go into your inventory to drag out a healing item), the game slows down dramatically, ala The Matrix. It doesn't give you unlimited time to think, but it's slow enough that you have plenty of time to choose what you want without feeling rushed.
As far as combat goes in general though, I really don't like it. Tales of Destiny for the Gamecube seemed to give you far more control of battle right off the bat. It also is a ton more fun, and even faster-paced than this game.
Sudeki is a pretty looking game, with a very poor set of voice actors, and a combat engine that while looks entertaining, I don't know if it'll keep my interest during the course of the game. Will things improve as I move forward? I sure as heck hope so. The first hour was not that all impressive.
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Impressions appreciated, although I've already given up on purchasing this title. What I've found somewhat humorous so far, from all the reviews, is that they say the story takes about 10 hours to kick in, while the game can be completed in 17h.
So, what they're telling me is that until I'm over halfway
with the game, then I'll be rewarded with a good story? And a blunt, unsatisfying ending to boot? Well, it's a lot better than what
Dark Alliance
had storywise, at least.
That said, I will pick this game, when it hits the bargain bins, since I'm an RPG wh*re to the core. Now I'm just going to wait August for the triple-RPG goodness.
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Thanks for the shakedown!
It came down to either Sudeki or Tales of Symphonia and it looks like ToS wins. I wouldn't mind playing Sudeki, but I'll wait until it goes down in price.
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Yes, I'm enjoying Tales a ton more than Sudeki. The battles are even faster, there's next to no load time, the voices are actually good, and it's a longer game (with a far more interesting story, based on reviews).
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July 24, 2004, 04:02:58 AM »
Contrary to the shakedown assessment, Sudeki is the 2nd best RPG on the Xbox (KOTOR WINS). As a real time RPG, it is by far the best RPG on the Xbox.
Although some do not like the voice acting, it has a distinctive flair.
The combat is better than any other action RPG i have yet to play.
Give this game a chance, it is actually very good.
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Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies—and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn't just about technological feats—it was an old fashioned confidence game that required guile and deception to trick the unwitting out of valuable information.
Driven by a powerful urge to accomplish the impossible, Mitnick bypassed security systems and blazed into major organizations including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and Pacific Bell. But as the FBI's net began to tighten, Kevin went on the run, engaging in an increasingly sophisticated cat-and-mouse game that led through false identities, a host of cities, plenty of close shaves, and to an ultimate showdown with the feds, who would stop at nothing to bring him down.
Ghost in the Wires is a thrilling true story of intrigue, suspense, and unbelievable escape and a portrait of a visionary whose creativity, skills, and persistence forced the authorities to rethink the way they pursued him, inspiring ripples that brought permanent changes in the way people and companies protect their most sensitive information.
©2011 Kevin Mitnick. Foreword 2011 by Steve Wozniak (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
"Intriguing, insightful, and extremely educational into the mind of one who truly mastered the art of social engineering with the use of a computer and modern-day technologies. I strongly believe that one can learn a great deal about protecting themselves once they understand how another one perpetrates the crime." (Frank W. Abagnale, author of Catch Me If You Can)
"Quick paced, intriguing insight"
Seemed to fly by. Really felt like I was there in the midst of all the hacking adventures. A great book, worth listening to. Narrator did a top job.
"Unbelievably great story into Technology"
Unbelievably great story into Technology and its flaws. Beautifully narrated and absolutely accurate from software based attacks to social engineering to realising the power of information gathering.
10/10 - highly recommended.
"Fantastic Story. Excellent audiobook narration."
This audiobook is impossible to put down. The narration is so well done and the production quality is top shelf.
"Great listen for tech fans"
This book is great for anyone who wants a non-technical overview of the progression of Hacking from the late 70s to early 90s told from the inside. He never gets very technical about how he accomplished some of his hacks, but he does cover the spectrum of methods he used.
I don't know how similar Ray Porter's portrayal and Kevin Mitnick actually are, but he really brought life to his reading. Well done.
"Detailed; almost to a fault"
Mitnick provides an exhaustive account (both a good thing and a bad thing) of his 'exploits'. The book is mostly entertaining, and does a good job of showing how obsessive he was. However, detailing hack after social engineer after hack can get a little boring.
"Worthy of five stars, if not more"
One of the most compelling books in my audible.com library, and I have more than a hundred. Although he was one of the most hotly-pursued and agressively prosecuted hackers ever, in the end Kevin Mitnick has done us all a favor: making computer networks and phone systems more secure. And he's done us another favor: writing page-turners.
Mitnick, himself, is easy to like. He's no reptile. Besides his remarkable intellegence and resoursefulness, he has a conscience and a sense of humor.
Lastly, Porter's narration is excellent. He reads the book as though he wrote it himself. Nice job, Ray.
"A Teriffic listen"
First and foremost, Ray Porter is just the right narrator for this book. His delivery is right on.
The story itself is riveting. While I know, on one level, that for the most part, the police, FBI, and variety of corporate IT security is in place to protect us, there is another, darker side to that protection. I found myself cheering for Kevin, and hoping that he'd evade capture and prosecution. Why didn't these folks hire him?
"For a smart guy, Mitnick was an idiot"
This was an amusing and informative book. I have to say, though, I like Mitnick less now that I've gotten to know him.
I always thought of Mitnick as a brilliant hacker who was persecuted by a government that didn't understand the technology that they were trying to control. This is half true. The government certainly did overstep the bounds of sanity when they went after Mitnick... but Mitnick was not a brilliant hacker.
Mitnick spends the book telling us that all his greatest hacking achievements were about "social engineering", which is the marketing term for "lying". He was certainly an intelligent guy who knew how to do research and learn about systems... but all the brilliant computer hacking was actually just him taking advantage of bugs that he read about or was told about.
What made Mitnick famous wasn't that he was the smartest hacker, it was that he was the dumbest. In spite of constantly being caught in the act, and knowing that he was being watched by the highest echelons of law enforcement, Mitnick kept engaging in very risky hacks. He was the only one stupid enough to apply known bugs to breach security at major institutions, and he told other people about it, and kept hard evidence about it on his person.
I have lost so much respect for Mitnick after reading this. He wasn't a genius that couldn't be contained. He was a fool who couldn't stop getting himself in trouble.
The sad thing is that if Mitnick had actually had some brains and self-control he could have been the mastermind that the world mistook him for. At several points he was monitoring the FBI and police as they were tracking him. A sensible person would have kept this card close to the vest. But Mitnick tipped them off by leaving a box of donuts for raiding FBI agents. When I first heard this anecdote, I thought it was awesome, because he was one step ahead of the FBI. The book flushes this out a bit more, and we see that Mitnick didn't really have a plan at this point. This wasn't measured taunting... this was an impulse control problem.
The list of idiotic things that Mitnick did just goes on and on: he frequently stuck around after he had evidence that his cover was blown; he made no contingency plans; he gave incriminating evidence to people he didn't know, or worse, knew as untrustworthy or suspicious characters; and he always kept damning evidence of his crimes on him... without encrypting it.
I wanted Mitnick to be just like Richard Feynman mixed with Frank Abagnale. Instead I found out he was a damned fool.
"Great story of a person tuning his life around"
This book, and the narration, was REALLY well done. I had a hard time turning this thing off. I had been following Kevin since he first made the news about the whole Netcom incident as I was a member at that time. It was interesting hearing the differences reported from the main stream news as well as the online tech community and hearing so many discrepancies between the facts. Over the years we all found out how unfair they were towards Kevin in regards to the law. Of course he was no angel and he did deserve to pay for some things, which he admits to. But seeing how he did turn all of this into such a positive for himself was probably the best part of the story in my opinion. Of course it was extremely entertaining hearing some of these exploits and how he "maneuvered" the system.
I highly recommend this book!
"An insight into the mind of a hacker"
naughty computer geek
The emotions described when Kevin has to return to solitary confinement. It seems unbelievable that a white collar perpetrator of largely victimless crimes should undergo a Stalinesque torture
You are able to believe that Kevin is reading it to you, and that is all you could ask for
The trials and tribulations of the world's most notorious hacker
It started slowly, and initially I had no sympathy for this maladjusted nuisance blowing his own trumpet about how he pointlessly infiltrates various phone companies. But as the book develops you develop empathy with him. It becomes especially interesting when he is on the run and creates new identities for himself. But the idiot still can't stop himself from engaging in meaningless hacking, he's just addicted. There is a nice happy ending which gives you a feelgood factor, and you can't help yourself warming to this odd character.
"coundn't be done soon enough"
I would def listen to Ray Porter again, just not a Mitnick book.
was pretty good in the beginning, but waaay too much minutiae to keep me interested.
constantly found myself checking how much longer i had to go.
I guess i just don't care how you "find someones phone number at will"
"Unsympathetic Protagonist, Fascinating Study"
I enjoyed this book. My problem is really with the moral landscape of its author. Kevin Mitnick is not a sympathetic character, at all. What intrigues me about his book is his still apparent air of condescension when he refers to one of his adversaries catching him stealing or lying. After all, he's not really a thief or a liar. He's just a joy-rider on the information highway. As readers, we're invited along for the ride. What fun!
There is real irony when he mentions how law enforcement officials must have something better to do with their time than pursue him. (Uhm-- yes they do, Kevin-- but you need to be stopped). When he hacks into his ex-wife's answering machine to discover that she is seeing someone else, he comments in dismay at her apparent betrayal: "...Where's the trust...?"
I have to wonder if he actually understands himself, even now as he wrote this book-- and how skewed his perception of his actions appears to be. Mitnick justifies his actions by stating that he did no harm, and never gained monetarily. Well, at least not until the publication of his books.
Still, this is a fascinating look at the pre-Internet world of modems, call-back numbers, back-up tapes and mainframe systems on raised floors. More importantly though, it is a telling portrayal of how easily people can be used to reveal small details and secrets that allow Mitnick access to systems and places that he has no right to be. He calls it "Social Engineering"; really just taking advantage of the very human desire to be helpful.
The book is very well narrated. I could not stop listening.
"Interesting character study of a sociopath"
This is a fascinating character study of Kevin Mitnick, whom I would describe as a "low level" sociopath. He clearly has exceptional knowledge of computers, telephone company infrastructure, and what he incessantly calls "social engineering". Yet he has spent much of his life using his unusual skills in illegal pursuits.
Equally fascinating is his sense of entitlement, lack of ethics, and lack of moral substance. He has lied through his teeth on a regular basis to get what he wanted and then dropped names of the people he finagled in this book, which is really one long "BOAST" and whining session about how unfairly he has been treated.
I rate the book as highly as I did, because I have always had a deep fascination with sociopathy, a mental disorder with a wide spectrum of lethality. Kevin prides himself in having ethics, but I see very little in the way of ethics in his behaviors. He is terrifically narcissistic, and he has given us here a clear picture of the deviousness of a narcissistic sociopath. How anyone could make him into a hero is beyond me. Listen for yourself and you decide!
"Excellent Text and Excellent Reader"
This book was fascinating in that it showed that at least 50% of the "hacking" prowesses of Kevin Mitnick were what he calls "social engineering" and what most of us would call using psychology to trick people. No major technical prowess; just understanding how people think. Very enlightening for anyone concerned about IT security.
In addition the reader of this book is excellent. One feels that it is Kevin Mitnick who is telling us his story directly. The only other time I kept on feeling that it was the author telling me his story rather than someone reading a book was for the Churchill WW2 Memoirs.
"A treat to read and better then a James Bond novel"
I read Kevin Mitnick's first book about hacking and I was hooked. its a great read, as is this book and it tells you so much about social engineering and how hackers do it. I naively though that they sat at the computer guessing passwords. If you think that then read this book. Its far easier to hack and break into a company's server then you could realise and though I assume that if this guy wasn't guilty he would not have been sent to jail, he tells a really goos storey about manipulating people to get people to give you access to company secrets.
This is a tale about breaking in, and having to be on the run. There was a film of his encounters which was a flop but to be rank you need to read this to get to the real adventure. Its all here, secrets, FBI, mistrust, betrayal and finding new identities. Great.
Loved it and hope there are other similar books out there for me to delve into.
"The absolute obsession and love of the challenge.."
The absolute obsession and love of the challenge rather than any financial gain is richly described in this deeply detailed account of Kevin Mitnick's life as one the original hackers and expert social engineers of the 80's. I'm sure others may dispute Kevin's version of events but it is both scary and scandalous how he is portrayed in both the courts and the media. He is no angel but some accusations levelled at him are not only rubbished by Mitnick but also shown to be completely implausible and utterly untrue! His skills as one of the original hackers are amazing and his audacity to social engineer people is breath taking. The sheer joy he gets from taking on a hacking challenge and succeeding is described in rich detail and it makes for an exhilarating, roller coaster listen.
"Next time you credit card company phones..."
Listen to it. Learn about social engineering. Understand why you should be sceptical with phone calls claiming to be from your bank, your credit card company and/or your mobile phone company. All they want is your date of birth, the first line of your address and your post code. Hello Kevin! This book is cool.
"Close but no cigar"
Sadly no, even though this book was well written and amazingly actually based on real life events that kept me listening to just one more chapter finished leaving me with no real closure.
Obviously very clever Kevin Mitnicks crimes eventually come to grow a pointless and as a reader I ended up hoping for him to get caught just for some variety. A very clever man with one hell of a story to tell but I personally only want to hear it once.
Without giving too much away the most memorable moment in Ghost in the wire, was the fugitive tacking the FBI, the way he went around it was genius.
Kevin Mitnick, this is the only choice really as it is only Mitnicks side of the story that is retold.
Firstly sheer disbelief, with what he had the guts to do. As most of the crimes are repetitive a ended the book in frustration.
Kevin Mitnick gets information from people by basically lying to them. It is called social engineering in the book, social engineering to get information out of people to use to your own advantage. I just wonder if you replaced every reference of social engineering with the word lying if Kevin Mitnick would come across as such a likable person? A good listen but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone without a technical background.
The life of Kevi Mitnik unfolds like a Jason Bourne story but without people getting killed. Whether or not you approve of hacking you cannot help holding this man in awe in terms of his high intelligence and his incredible audacity. Also, the narration by Ray Porter is superb. Highly recommended.
"Not just for Geeks and Nerds!"
Ghost in the wires is a fast paced story of how Kevin Mintnick evades and escapes the police and FBI after being a caught numerous time hacking into various different organisations computer networks.
I really enjoyed listening to this book. You genuinely feel an attached towards Kevin, and you don't want him to et caught. He is honest with the reader and doesn't embellish being on the run, he tells it how it was, make helps you appreciate the loneliness and isolation that he felt.
Ghost in the wires is not a book that I would normally choose to read, but I enjoyed every page. For this reason I gave it 5 stars.
"A brilliant Audio Book"
Once I started listening to this Audio Book I couldn't stop and until I got to the end I thought it was actually Kevin Mitnick reading it! This is a brilliant audio book from start to finish and I would highly recommend it.
I wasn't sure i would like this, But after the first hour i was hooked. I actually listened to it in about 2-3 days as i could not STOP listening, its such an interesting story and very exciting, I could also tell there is an effort to explain it to people who are not tech smart, which is nice (not that i needed it). Its actually one of the best books i've had the pleasure of listening to.
"unremorseful criminal..."
I started off enjoying this story, - Kevin's cleverness and undoubted skills make for interesting reading. However he has made a fortune out of lying to people and taking great delight in tricking other people- who trust him. He really enjoys making people look stupid. it is very telling that some of his closest friends also betray him...He never sees this as a personal character flaw - in fact every time his behaviour is challenged he reverts to 'poor old me'. The two most salient factors that absolutely turned me OFF were when he stole the identities of dead babies, without a thought to how this would impact any families involved in those tragic events. Secondly, several time he mentions the tole his life choices have taken on his Mother & Grandmother- he calls on them every time he gets into trouble, but he never thinks to alter his behaviour, change his choices, in fact every time he gets a steady job, he 'just can't help' & 'just to see if I can' and ends up getting fired again. I couldn't wait to see him locked up, but he seems to fall on his feet right to the end. This book made my blood boil, I ended up intensely disliking the author.
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The PlayStation 4 is coming. Maybe it will be called Orbis, maybe it will be called Thebes, maybe it won't be backwards compatible, maybe it won't play used video games. Maybe Sony will finally release a video game console that will actually slice bread. It's all up in the air until the company announces the machine later this year, as they're expected to do sometime between now and E3 2013. All that's guaranteed is that it will be different than the PlayStation 3, and in more ways than one. Based on new rumors it appears that the PlayStation 4 will be the first Sony console to abandon the DualShock controller.
The UK's Computer and Video Games reported on Friday that a studio source working on a PlayStation 4 game that Sony will publish has said that the next home console from the company will abandon its iconic 18-button controller. While the exact form factor of the new controller isn't finalized, it will bear little in common with any iteration of DualShock from the past 15 years.
According to the source, the new controller will have biometric sensors in the grips as well as an LCD touch screen in the middle. Another source connected to Sony (but not a video game developer) backed up the first source, claiming that the PlayStation 4's designers are "trying to emulate the same user interface philosophies as the PS Vita."
Incorporating a touch screen into the controller is an expected move from Sony. It would allow for better cross play experiences between PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, and a number of Sony's competitors are including touch screens on their controllers. The Nintendo Wii U's raison d'être is its tablet-style controller, but even the new Android-based Ouya console has a touch panel incorporated into its controller.
The biometric sensors are also an expected addition. Sony patents published in September detailed such controller sensors, describing a system that would recognize individual users by scanning their fingerprints, irises, and even their DNA. The tech would both allow for deeply personalized experiences but also an anti-piracy system based on genetics. Orwellian? Yes, but Sony seems dead set on avoiding the specter of piracy while also making its system easier to develop for than the PlayStation 3.
Prior to the PlayStation 3's release, Sony proposed a very different looking game controller than the DualShock 3. The boomerang-shaped controller pictured above was widely panned and never went into mass production.


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Our next bump in the road has been the fact that we got sick. Not a huge deal, just no fun. And it meant that we really didn't make it to all the meetings or out in service in Atlanta. So we feel a bit low. Our next bump-remember that check engine light that went on the very first day of the trip? Ummm....we sort of ignored it.
So now the good news. Albert was able to purchase some sort of external thingamajig for the computer and could then successfully extract the info he needed and put it into his laptop. The video is saved! He's just about done with it now. He still needs to buy some other part that will enable him to burn it onto a DVD, but apparently this is doable.
So we missed the meeting last Sunday because I was having one of those difficult days where my pain and fatigue issues were at a peak. However, we were able to call in and listen over the telephone line to our own Arcadia congregation! It's amazing how Jehovah knows just what we need and when. We were feeling so bad about not going to the local meeting, but having the option to call in home turned out to be such a blessing. We loved hearing all the voices of our loved ones back home. There was great participation at the Watchtower study that day! Even normally shy Tim Cook commented! As each different person was called on, we were able to think about what that person looked like, what kind of personality they have, what challenges they face, all these things that make each person so valuable to us. We really miss everybody so it was just what we needed. We felt so uplifted!
So Monday we did manage to make it to the Book Study at the East Marietta congregation. As always, we were welcomed warmly, and it was nice to be among friends. I kept getting distracted by this cute little boy named Jayden. He just looked too cute with that binky hanging out of his mouth. But I did manage to pay attention and Albert and I both were able to participate quite a bit.
Tuesday was our fun day. Albert didn't have any training sessions planned for that day, so he didn't have to go in to the office. So we decided to go to the new
That night, we went to a Caribbean restaurant called Bahama Breeze. We found ourselves jealous of the yummy-looking crab legs that the sea otters were eating and decided we needed seafood for dinner. Terrible, I know. We had been to this restaurant before, on a previous business trip, and enjoyed it so much that we figured we'd go again. We shared an appetizer of blue crab claws, cooked in a very rich and flavorful Jamaican sauce.
Then we had pan-fried tilapia cooked with a chorizo/chipotle salsa. Yum. And I had my first mojito. I think I have a new favorite drink. We finished off with a chocolate pineapple upside down cake. Good, but almost too rich.
So after this fun day, we headed home. Right as we were pulling into our campsite, I started coughing. It wasn't long before it had developed into that deep, loud painful cough that I get at least once a year. The next morning I found that I had to cancel my service plans because my lungs were shot. Very disappointing. And that night, Albert came home congested and feverish. This has been our state for the last several days. Albert had to call in sick on his last day, Friday, but at least all the training had been finished on Thursday.
Oh, by the way, for those who care (and you know who you are) there's a Waffle House right across the street from the campground! We wandered over there for dinner Thursday night since we felt too icky to cook. Those pecan waffles are so good! We'll have to make a habit of that place.
So that was Atlanta! Hopefully the next phase will be healthier. We will drive to Greensboro, NC tomorrow, spend the night, and then drive on to Washington, DC on Sunday. Actually, it's Fairfax, VA, but Albert's company refers to it as the DC office. We'll be there for 2 weeks. My how time is flying!


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Gunner's Up sent me a holding blind to test several months ago. I stand behind anything I recommend so I wanted to wait a while before I posted anything about them to make sure they were a quality product. I have put some very heavy use on it so far and it still looks and functions like brand new. These are very light weight and I was worried that would equal something that would not hold up to heavy use. This is not the case the light weight poles are still straight and show no signs of wear. I have used these by myself, with my training group, and at club training days. I am not easy on my equipment, I set it up, take it down and toss it in the truck. No special care at all.
Iam not sure if it comes in other patterns, but mine is the digital camo and it seems to blend in well with most cover if that is what I am using it for. It comes in three and four pole models. Our club liked them so much that we are going to order some for the club.
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Great photo, great embellishments and an absolutely wonderful quote to go with them! I love this.
Love the quote, and for any woman, especially a teenager - true! true! true! Great frame and use of the arrows. Very cool page.
Very cool page and great quote. So many creative uses for this paper!
Isn't that Alice in Wonderland quote just fabulous?! I HAD to include it in the club, and I'm SO glad to see it put to such good use on your layout Great work here!
Very fun! I love your quote and the bright fun elements you put with this freebie paper. The expression on her face works great for this page!
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Description Parnassius phoebus, known as the Phoebus Apollo or Small Apollo, is a butterfly species of the family of Swallowtail butterflies (Papilionidae) found in Eurasia and North America.
P. phoebus is found in the Alps, Urals, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Alaska and Canada south through the United States to Utah and New Mexico.
Dimensions Wingspan 2 3/8-3" (60-75 mm).
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True story #1: A few days after Steve and I had finished moving into our home in Newport's East Row it snowed. And snowed. And snowed. Over two feet of snow paralyzed the region in late December 2004; businesses and schools closed, flights were cancelled and the declaration of a snow emergency meant all non-essential personnel had to stay off the roads.
The local news mentioned that bus service hadn't been cancelled, so we decided to put on our wellies and walk down to the riverfront to catch the shuttle. Trudging through the neighborhood was more difficult than we had reckoned, and by the time we reached the Port of Entry at Third Street we had icicles hanging from our hats and were desperate for warmth. As we stood shivering at the bus stop we noticed that a floating restaurant on the Ohio River appeared to be open for business, so we slipped our way down the gangplank to Hooters.
Now anyone who has ever been to Hooters knows that the servers wear very skimpy uniforms of orange hotpants and white tank tops. Year round. So it's freezing outside and we walk into the restaurant covered in ice and are greeted by perky girls in next to nothing. They would huddle in big coats at the bar, but each time one of them visited our table the coat was off. We felt so sorry for them that we left a hefty tip for their trouble.
True story #2: One of our friends in England does a lot of business in Detroit, and on his very first stateside trip he went to Hooters on the recommendation of some Americans with whom he was working. He swears he had no idea what the restaurant was like - which is believable since it was his first trip and the restaurant's reputation hadn't yet reached the U.K. - but ten years later he is still trying to live down the penned heart and lipstick kiss that his server put on the receipt that he turned in with his expense report.
Back in 2004 there wasn't much for the vegetarian diner at Hooters, so we went back Sunday before the Bengals-Bears game to give them another try. Five years later and nothing much has changed. The servers still wear orange hotpants and there's still precious little for non-meat eaters. Basically we're stuck with a couple of appetizers and side dishes. The atmosphere is a sports fan's dream, with 21 flat screen TVs airing the games, but since the food is typical sports bar fare, I'll just let the photos do the talking.
Mr Veggie Option's viewpoint
The idea that Veggie Option should do a write up on Hooters has been a running gag in our household ever since my wife first started this blog. We've walked by the one on the riverfront on many an occasion, and each time I have pointed it out, winked jokingly and pulled her towards it.
However, this past weekend the NFL threw up a pairing of Cincinnati vs Chicago at Paul Brown Stadium and, even though neither of us are big football fans, it seemed like a fun idea to share the fans' P.M.T. (pre-match-tension) at a convenient bar. I once again suggested Hooters, and Veggie Option finally decided it was time to finally give it the once over for the purposes of a post.
So we headed off for an afternoon of Bengals, Bears, beer, banter, barfood and boo......
... ooops, nearly forgot my place there.
I have always joked with friends back in England that Hooters certainly has a couple of things going for it. If truth be told, it hasn't really risen much above that cliché. If you were to take away the diverse collection of suitably-endowed servers in their tight white tops and skimpies it would actually result in a decidedly less-than-average sports bar. The surroundings are worn & grubby, the seating feels cramped and uncomfortable, the food is decidedly so-so and the atmosphere lacks a certain something. It's akin to an untidy bachelor's pad made public.
Hooters' website suggested that they offered a Grilled Cheese Sandwich but we were already sat down and drinking our first beer before we discovered that this simple vegetarian staple was no longer offered and the online information was out of date. I always get irritated when businesses - especially corporate restaurant chains - fail to maintain websites, thus undermining the very usefulness of their own marketing tool.
Instead, V.O. was forced to adopt her 'fall back' position; a selection of items from the appetizer fayre. Once again, the combination of all these added up to far more than the cost of my far more substantial meat-based entree - a disgraceful solution to a problem that really shouldn't exist in the first place.
I think restaurants that fail to offer a respectful vegetarian choice or two on their entree menu miss a very big trick indeed. Possibly without even realizing it. Like many other 'city folk' we often have groups of people come and visit us, some from overseas, and every time a new set of friends are here we obviously take them out for lunch or dinner at a variety of local places. Now, given the fact that my wife wants to enjoy the meal as much as the rest of us, where do you think we are likely to take these friends; the diner with the selection of scrummy vegetarian options, or the place that can't even be bothered to whip up a simple grilled cheese sandwich?
We have removed SO MANY restaurants from our personal revisit list because of their inability to understand a simple business concept, that of properly providing for everybody who might walk in. Places like Hooters - for all its other 'charms' - is never, ever going to get our 'group booking' because it fails to cater for everyone that might be in that group.
Not only that, they gain a negative reputation from blogs such as this one. Given the fact that the restaurant trade is having an extremely tough time of it lately you would like to think that places would adapt themselves to a changing marketplace in order to assure a better chance of survival. Instead chains like Hooters actively remove vegetarian choices from the menus, evidently forgetting that men can be vegetarians too?!


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Alabama took care of Tennessee as i expected that they would. A lot of the talking heads were saying Bama secondary would have a hard time with Bray and the TN recievers. I think the Bama secondary answered alot of question that people had about this defense.
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Wow. Where to begin with this thing. Well it's called the MIGALOO and was designed by the Austrian naval architect firm motion code: blue – who have previously worked on a number of luxury yachts and super yachts in the USA, Europe and Asia. So this isn't just someone's pipe dream. It really could get built. It's a 115 meter long submarine which has all the amenities you'd expect to find onboard a large luxury yacht; pool, gym, luxurious owner's suite and guest quarters, salon, sunbathing areas, dining spaces, cinema, games room and crew quarters. But at the same time it can dive to depths of 240 metres and travel completely out of sight of prying eyes and the paparazzi.
In order to keep the build relativley straight forward, motion code: blue aren't trying to reinvent the submarine. Well, they are a bit. But for the most part they're sticking with a tried and tested submarine hull, and just retrofitting it with high-grade luxury appointments.
One of the areas motion code: blue have tweaked the design of the original sub is in the conning tower. Here the designers have made it longer and wider to allow more light into the bowels of the vessel. A staircase and elevator take you down to the subs lower decks. The foredeck is fully dedicated to the owner's two-level private suite, hosting a full-beam lounge and bar. On decks 2 and 3 there are 8 VIP suites. While deck 4 houses the crew quarters – who have their own mess and gym as well as the laundry facilities.
The hull and tower are fitted with specially designed high-pressure windows which offer views of the briny deep. Lights fitted around the windows help illuminate the depths.
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The sub gets its name from the only albino humpback whale known to exist. The animal lives off the east coast of Australia, and the word "Migaloo" is an aborigninal Australian word meaning "white fella". It's fitting then that the sub is also painted in brilliant white. And it's the only one of its kind too.
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I'm not an expert but I don't like the left hip (right side of the picture) - I don't think there is enough coverage, the right looks good to me. But keep in mind I know nothing and am only basing my opinion on my very limited experience.
The lack of coverage could be due to the positioning? With a sedated dog and digital X-rays I'd expect a little better??
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It looks like both heads are more than half covered with socket. Some vet, somewhere or other, told me that was what made a good hip.
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They look fine to me. The positioning also looks fine. I don't think you have anything to worry about.
But I am no expert.
Note that the dorsal acetabular line is straight not concave. That line is the indicator of how much ball is covered by the socket. This is very good coverage and that is a good thing and the reason that slight malpositioning on this individual is inconsequential. At the worst these will be rated Good.
I'm not an expert either, but I'm 99.9% sure that the leg bone IS connected to the hip bone.
Good but I'd bet better, looks that the bone is well seated to me & tight in the socket, with nice coverage around the entire head of the femur, no jagged edges nor protrusion interfering around the joint. This is all based on what I can see on the screen, not the best way to look at it. What did the vet say? If they are familiar in OFA they can usually tell you exactly what they'll come back as. Trust me when I say you should really go to a vet-xray person very familiar with the OFA, particularly for elbows, most vet can do a passable job with hips, elbows not so much. I messed up greatly having my x-ray done by my home vet, who had no idea about OFA and ended up having to do everything twice. The right person taking the picture can really effect ratings. As the x-rays are already done, and probably sent in you'll just have to wait and see. but i don't see you having a problem
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Let us know how they turn out, I'm about to go through the same thing with my (first) dog.
I was reading up on the procedure, this you tube video is an eye-opener about the importance of hip positioning:
Good - bad - or otherwise . . . no test result will change the way we treat our Chance! He is a loved and valued member of our family.
I appreciate the feedback both on the board and through private messages. Most of what I know I have learned from others, and I value the variety of opinions.
Again it is our first time waiting on results. Weird how you never care or worry about something until you have it checked.
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Guys... this forum is about the Arduino Due...let's keep in on topic
Start writing up some requiremets, I'm sure it can be reduced to a smaller size.- desired size- desired power sourcing- desired pinouts- desired headers- desired built-in interfacing- etc.
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Headers: Suggestion: Male headers down for breadboard compatibility, Female headers up for additional pins.
Hi Massimo and thanks for stopping by. First of all, many thanks for your time, efforts, and so on that it has taken to get the Arduino project as far as you and your team have. You've single-handedly transformed what used to be a clubby atmosphere in the embedded systems market with the excitement of open-source IDE's/hardware, excellent documentation, great boards for people to begin learning electronics on, etc. That's a huge achievement and the number of competitors imitating you is I guess a nice compliment.That said, and I don't want to be rude, but where are we off-topic? We're comparing the Due to its competitors, it has features they don't and vice versa. Similar conversations go on all over the forums, comparing various Arduino boards to each other. Are you sensitive to the discussion of a competitors' product? Many thanks again for all the work that you and your team do to push the Arduino business forward.
I've looked at other memebers of the same family with a smaller package that wouldn't require a huge amount of porting. it would be possible to make a Uno sized board with one of those.m
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He compiled a very nice stat line, but sometimes as baseball fans we get engrossed with stats and do not look at the player for who he was and the impact he made on the game.
Who had the higher OPS+, a stat adjusted for context?
Yes, when adjust for context, Biggio's numbers are even better than Ryno's. All of those stolen bases in an era of the home run was almost unheard of.
You sir, then are putting people in just based off numbers. I am a fan of baseball, but I feel the HoF is for the best of the best and not just based on stats. Do you honestly consider Biggio, Blyleven, or Jim Rice the best of the best?
Biggio played in nearly 700 more games than Sandberg, and has a whopping 70 more steals.
OPS+ is different from OPS. OPS+ is specifically adjusted for ballpark and league average. It is on a scale in which 100 is league average. Biggio's 136 OPS+ in his peak means that he was 36% better than league average at a neutral park (actually 18%, but let's not get into that statistical problem).
I use OPS+ and ERA+ when comparing across era for this exact reason. It "normalizes" the stat and put people on the same level. It's not perfect, but it is a good tool to compare across time.
I do. He was a game changer for most of his career. A table setter for the guys that get all the love. Like I said, that part of baseball seems to be under appreciated.
Like I said the 3,000 is pretty much all he hangs his hat on
Or does that include the breaks?
Yet, that is about 500 more hits than Ted Williams had in his 19 year career.
And it has Biggio sitting 20th ALL TIME in career hits. How the hell does that not qualify as a superlative?
because its a number compiled over time. It doesnt pinpoint greatness at any one point in time in his career.
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I'm a new member and am looking for some help/advice. We just adopted a 10 month old male black lab. I'm a pretty avid duck hunter and would love to train this lab to retrieve. In the past, I have trained two labs from puppies into workable gun dogs, but I'm far from what I would call "knowledgeable" as a trainer. I relied very heavily on the Wolters method, and used a video by Mike Mathiot to fill in the holes. I'm pretty confident this dog can be trained, but both Wolters and Mathiot methods center on a puppy and beginning at 8 weeks.
That said, are there any books or other resources I could look at? Will the Wolters method work for me? He seems to be responding well to learning the general obedience type training such as sit, stay, heel, and kennel. I'm not looking for a field trial dog, just a weekend hunting partner. Any advice would be much appreciated.


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Broaden the scope:
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- Check for some bug fixes in the maintenance branch
The interesting stuff
- Take another stab to get the XInclude processor into XML commons. It wouldn't hurt to make an XNI wrapper and perhaps a real Xerces plugin configuration. This requires some more XNI study, I guess. Lift some code from the Cocoon XIncluder. Target: 2003-8
- Get some work done on a validation SAX filter.
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As the train I'm on ambles its unheated way through the unseasonably Wintry English countryside, it's time for another "weekly" exciting entrepreneurial update. Actually I should be properly working, not just talking about working, but there's a file I need for that elsewhere, and three's mobile Internet coverage evaporates about 3 minutes outside Waterloo station – if only there were a company dedicated to bettering mobile data infrastructure... So, here I am, with means, motive and opportunity to write a diary entry.
Since I last wrote, I have fought with R's handling of categorical variables in linear models; the eventual outcome was a score draw. The notion of a contrast is a useful one; very often, when we have a heap of conditions under which we observe some value, what we're interested in is not so much the predicted value given some condition, but the difference between the value under some condition and the value under some other: the canonical example for this is probably the difference between the condition of some group receiving a trial treatment, and the group receiving a control or placebo: the default contrast for unordered categorical variables in R is called the treatment contrast (contr.treatmen t).
In my particular case, I wanted to know the difference between any particular contrast and the average response – none of the categories I had in my system should have been privileged over any of the others, and there wasn't anything like a "control" group, so comparing against the overall average is a reasonable thing to want to do, and indeed it is supported in R through the use of the sum contrast contr.sum. However, this reveals a slight technical problem: the overall average and differences for each categorical variable is one more variable than the (effective) number of values; just as in simultaneous equations, this is a Bad Thing. (Technically, the system becomes undetermined.) So, in solving the system, one of the differences is jettisoned; my problem was that I wanted to visualise that information for all the differences, whether or not the last one was technically redundant – particularly since I wanted to offer a guideline as to which differences were most strongly different from the average, and I would be out of luck if the most unusual one happened to be the one jettisoned. Obviously I could trivially compute the last difference, simply from the constraint that all the differences must sum to zero (and actually dummy. coef does that for me); but what about its standard error?
Enter se.co ntrast. This operator allows the user to construct an arbitrary contrast, expressed most simply as a vector of contributions to that contrast and ask an aov object for the standard error of that contrast. Some experimentation later, for a linear model m for len observations, and a particular factor variable f, and a function class.ind to construct a matrix of class indicator values (i.e. for a vector vi of observations, construct a matrix xij where xij is 1 if observation i came from condition j, and zero otherwise), I think that:
anova <- aov(m) ci <- class.ind(data[[f]]) ci <- ci[,colSums(ci) != 0] contrasts <- ci %*% diag(1/colSums(ci)) %*% (diag(len)- (1/len)*matrix(rep(1,len*len), nrow=len)) ses <- se.contrast(anova, contrasts)gives me a vector ses of the standard errors corresponding to the sum contrasts in my system, including the degenerate one. (As seems to be standard in this kind of endeavour, the effort per net line of code is huge; please do not think that I wrote these five lines of code off the top of my head. Thanks to denizens of the r-help mailing list and in particular to Greg Snow for his answer to my question about this).
So, this looks like total victory! Why have I described this as only a score draw? Well, because while the above recipe works for a single factor variable, in the case I am actually dealing with I have all sorts of interaction terms between factors, and between factors and numerical variables, and again I want to display and examine all the contrasts, not just some subset of them chosen so that the system of equations to solve is nondegenerate. This looked sufficiently challenging, and the analysis to be done looked sufficiently peripheral to the current business focus, that it's been shelved, maybe for a rematch in the new year.


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A new regulation from the National Labor Relations Board is being challenged in court by the small business community as an overreach of its legal authority granted to it by Congress in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). According to the lawsuit, the regulation requires the nearly 6 million employers covered by the NLRA "to post a workplace notice informing employees of some of their rights under the NLRA, as selected and reinterpreted by the NLRB" including forming, joining, or assisting a union.
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"The essence of the soul is Pure Consciousness and Absolute Reality." There are three bodies, shariras, five sheaths, koshas, an inner and an outer aura. The chakras are windows of consciousness. We can find That which has never changed, then we're deep within the soul. That's a good place to look for Parasiva.
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In "Decision Time," Editor Brian Lovett will share a scenario from his 20-plus years hunting turkeys. Each hinges on a critical decision. Post what choice you would have made, and then see how things actually turned out.
The Curious Matter of the Calamitous Creek
When Steve Stoltz ripped through a series of world-class yelps, so many good things came together. The sun broke free of the morning clouds, illuminating some of the prettiest northern Missouri timber you'll ever see, and a turkey responded with a furious gobble. It was going to be a hunt for the history books.
Well, not so fast there, buckaroo. It had rained quite a bit before our hunt, and the creeks in that area were flooded. In fact, one such creek -- essentially a raging river -- ran between the aforementioned gobbler and us.
But the turkey had responded, so we sat and hoped for the best. The bird never really got hot, but he gobbled at every fourth or fifth series of calls and eventually moved down from a bluff, past our position and into a large, open flat about 100 yards away but across the creek. And that's where he drew his line in the sand.
For the next hour, the longbeard stood in place, gobbling occasionally and probably looking through the flat and past the creek at our decoy in the adjoining field. After a while, my confidence waned, and my posterior screamed for relief.
Waiting still seemed like the prudent play. After all, the gobbler had initially moved toward us. If he got hot enough, he might fly the creek. Of course, the hunt had started two hours earlier, and the bird didn't seem any too anxious to come to our side. Perhaps a sneak to the creek was in order.
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Anyone notice the A&M and AL scores were off by only one point. A&M over OK by 41 to 13. AL over ND 42 to 14.
The Aggies missed a PAT.
Anyone notice the A&M and AL scores were off by only one point. A&M over OK by 41 to 13. AL over ND 42 to 14.
The Aggies missed a PAT.
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http://espn.go.com/college-football/...llege-footballThe sea of blue-clad fans inside Twitter Stadium on San Francisco Bay erupts. Brent Musburger, 86 years old but miraculously looking younger than he did 20 years before, intones, "And your 2025 national champions -- the Kentucky Wildcats!
To which Kirk Herbstreit adds, "That's 18 of 20 for the SEC, and this is the most unlikely champion from the SEC era, a program that really found itself under the leadership of coach Tim Tebow."When Florida crushed Ohio State on Jan. 8, 2007, to claim the BCS national championship, no one imagined that would be the first of seven consecutive titles for the SEC. While the SEC was widely viewed even then as the nation's best conference, most considered the wide world of college football as too laden with regional powers dotting the landscape for one league to take over in the BCS era.
For all you BCS haters/playoff enthusiast. I heard on ESPN earlier that they have decided to have a selection comittee of 16-24(?) people. The guy said they will not go by any BCS,ap,coaches or any other poll out there. He said they will sit down in a room and decide on 4 teams to go to the 4 team "playoff". Could be any team with no curiculum to go by really, they will just be asked to take into account for Strengh of schedule and con. champs.
Would it be to hard for them to just take the top 4 teams in the AP poll to put into the playoff? All day long on the sports radio i listen to they are trying to figure out the 4 teams to go with out a method to the madness. Some of the guys were saying they need to pick the 4 hottest teams at that time. Some were saying leave oregon out due to a head to head loss to stanford and put stanford in. Some were saying put TAMU in the playoff because they had a good back stretch run late in there sch and scrap out the TWO losses they had. It was a even larger mess by throwing in a mediocre undefeated suckeye team.
This playoff is not going to be what alot of people think it is.
It's the whole reason that SPLIT/Championships exist in the first place.
-Look at ESPN and other Sports outlets were VOTERS are writing these SEC HAte Articles. You don't think they'll do their best throughout the year with their votes to KEEP SEC Teams from ganging up in the Play-offs ??
-You're right about that
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I think if they're going to use a selection comittee. They need to have a selection comittee poll of some sort vs telling them to sit down in a room and try to agree on 4 teams.Then have the play off and award the winner of the play off as the champion and let the AP,or coaches or harris polls do what they want. If anything over the years at least the BCS did get it away from having split champions. We know how everyone hates on Bama for all of our championships from those splits
I just dont see it being a smooth fair process if they proceed with what i heard today.
But to answer: No i dont want to go back. I'm a fan of the BCS and think there is just more griping and complaining to come with a new system.
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Curtis, Ronald E.; age 75; of Orion, formerly of Romeo; passed away October 23, 2014; after a long illness with Alzheimer's. Loving husband of Barbara (nee Grooms) for 19 years; dear father of Diane (Jerry) Markey, Darryl (Sue) Curtis; and step-father to Jeff LaVoy; proud grandfather of Amy, Joshua, Jeremy, and Casey; brother of the late Richard Curtis. Ronald graduated from Royal Oak Dondero Class of 1957. He retired after 44 years of service for General Motors. He was a member of the North Macomb Sportsman Club and enjoyed traveling. A Memorial Service was held Saturday, November 1, 2014 at St. John Lutheran Church, 246 Benjamin St., Romeo. Suggested memorials to Alzheimer's Association or to a hospice of donor's choice. Arrangements care of Modetz Funeral Home, Orion. Online condolences www.modetzfuneralhomes.comPublished in Daily Tribune on Oct. 25, 2014+Read More Share Listen to Obituary Remember Share a message, photo, or video below View all messages 2 "I worked with Ron at GM. He taught me a great deal. It was a..."- Collette LeClair"Ron was a long time friend and will be remembered as such."- John Sevald Add a memory or condolence to the guest book Add Message Please add or record a video for the family of Ronald Curtis Add a video + Please add a photo and share in the life story for Ronald Curtis Add a photo + http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailytribune/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-e-curtis&pid=172931584&fhid=12997


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3.1: Chemical Bond
Did you ever make cupcakes from scratch, like the boy pictured above? You mix together flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients to make the batter, put the batter into cupcake papers, and then put them into the oven to bake. The cupcakes that come out of the oven after baking are different from any of the individual ingredients that went into the batter. Like the ingredients that join together to make cupcakes, atoms of different elements can join together to form entirely different substances called compounds. In cupcakes, the eggs and other wet ingredients cause the dry ingredients to stick together. What causes elements to stick together in compounds? The answer is chemical bonds.
What Is a Chemical Bond?
A chemical bond is a force of attraction between atoms or ions. Bonds form when atoms share or transfer valence electrons. Valence electrons are the electrons in the outer energy level of an atom that may be involved in chemical interactions. Valence electrons are the basis of all chemical bonds. For a video introduction to chemical bonds, go to this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGA8sRwqIFg&NR=1
Q: Why do you think that chemical bonds form?
A: Chemical bonds form because they give atoms a more stable arrangement of electrons.
Why Bonds Form
To understand why chemical bonds form, consider the common compound known as water, or H2O. It consists of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. As you can see in the on the left side of the Figure below, each hydrogen atom has just one electron, which is also its sole valence electron. The oxygen atom has six valence electrons. These are the electrons in the outer energy level of the oxygen atom.
In the water molecule on the right in the Figure above, each hydrogen atom shares a pair of electrons with the oxygen atom. By sharing electrons, each atom has electrons available to fill its sole or outer energy level. The hydrogen atoms each have a pair of shared electrons, so their first and only energy level is full. The oxygen atom has a total of eight valence electrons, so its outer energy level is full. A full outer energy level is the most stable possible arrangement of electrons. It explains why elements form chemical bonds with each other.
Types of Chemical Bonds
Not all chemical bonds form in the same way as the bonds in water. There are actually three different types of chemical bonds, called covalent, ionic, and metallic bonds. Each type of bond is described below. You can learn more about the three types by watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEFeLYWTKX0
For an entertaining song comparing covalent and ionic bonds, go to this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCYrNU-7SfA
- A covalent bond is the force of attraction that holds together two nonmetal atoms that share a pair of electrons. One electron is provided by each atom, and the pair of electrons is attracted to the positive nuclei of both atoms. The water molecule represented above contains covalent bonds.
- An ionic bond is the force of attraction that holds together oppositely charged ions. Ionic bonds form crystals instead of molecules. Table salt contains ionic bonds.
- A metallic bond is the force of attraction between a positive metal ion and the valence electrons that surround it—both its own valence electrons and those of other ions of the same metal. The ions and electrons form a lattice-like structure. Only metals, such as the copper pictured in the Figure below, form metallic bonds.
Metallic bonds explain many of the properties of metals. This coil of wire is made of the metal copper. Like other metals, copper is shiny, can be formed into wires, and conducts electricity.
- A chemical bond is a force of attraction between atoms or ions. Bonds form when atoms share or transfer valence electrons.
- Atoms form chemical bonds to achieve a full outer energy level, which is the most stable arrangement of electrons.
- There are three different types of chemical bonds: covalent, ionic, and metallic bonds.
- chemical bond: Force of attraction between atoms or ions that occurs when atoms share or transfer valence electrons.
Watch the video about covalent bonds at the following URL, and then answer the questions below.
- Which types of elements can form covalent bonds?
- How can you tell the number of covalent bonds an element can form?
- Why does one atom of nitrogen form bonds with three atoms of hydrogen?
- What is a chemical bond?
- Explain why hydrogen and oxygen atoms are more stable when they form bonds in a water molecule.
- How do ionic bonds and covalent bonds differ?
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Korg Poly-61
The Korg Poly-61 was released in 1982 as the successor to the Polysix. It was somewhat of a step up from the Polysix, as it has 2 DCOs for better reliability. It also retained the arpeggiator of the Polysix. The Poly-61 can provide cool gritty basses or trippy analog sounds and fx.
Also added is the familiar Korg joystick, which can be used to modulate the VCO or the VCF. However, its filter only has 7 steps of resonance and is not as fat as the Polysix's filter. It also uses the same method of programming the Poly-800 and Yamaha DX-7 use, so it's not a very useful synth for real-time-tweaking junkies. The first Poly-61s didn't have MIDI, but the Poly-61M released in 1984 corrects this. Overall, the Poly-61 is still a decent synth, and it can be acquired for practically nothing! It has been used by FM Static and The Faint.
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- Demos & Media
Audio Clip 1 - Some nice demos to give you a taste of the Poly 61, submitted by Antoine G.
Audio Clip 2 - Some nice TB demos to give you a taste of the Poly 61, submitted by Antoine G.
Audio Clip 3 - Some nice analog demos to give you a taste of the Poly 61, submitted by Antoine G.
Manual - Download the original owner's manual from SoundProgramming.net.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 6 Voices
- Oscillators - DCO1:sawtooth, pulse, and square; DCO-2: sawtooth, square
- LFO - 1 LFO can modulate the DCOs or the Filter
- Filter - 1 lowpass filter w/ ADSR
- Memory - 64 patches
- Keyboard - 61 keys
- Arpeg/Seq - Arpeggiator with external sync
- Effects - Chorus
- Control - MIDI (on later Poly-61M models)
- Date Produced - 1982 - 1986
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