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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 257, November 1, 2002
SX-6 Cross-Compilers Available on rimegate
SX-6 users may now compile and link codes for the SX-6 on the front-end SGI Octane2 host, rimegate. We've also installed NEC's X Windows System programming environment, "psuite". From "man psuite":
PSUITE provides an integrated GUI-based environment, which supports the whole program-development cycle consisting of editing, compiling, running, and performance tuning of the Fortran90, C and C++ program.
man pages are available on rimegate, and NEC on-line documents are available at ARSC's web site for the following products, and more:
sxf90 sxc++ sxld psuite
We have just installed the cross-compilers, and will update our regular documentation as soon as possible. Watch news items on rimegate for details.
The Size of IBM XLF Fortran Reals
[ Thanks to Kate Hedstrom of ARSC. ]
On the Cray systems, the default "real" is 8 bytes in size while the IBM "real" is 4 bytes. When compiling a code on the IBM, one might use a compile time option that promotes "real" to "real*8".
The IBM compiler happens to have several of these promotion options, so let's investigate what the differences are.
We need a code that will provide some hint about the size of the variables. This is derived from one by Andrew Vaught that was posted to the g95 list:
real :: a double precision :: b real(kind=4) :: c real(kind=8) :: d real(kind=kind(0.0)) :: e real(kind=kind(0.0d0)) :: f a = 1.1; b = 1.1; c = 1.1; d = 1.1; e = 1.1; f = 1.1; g = 1.1 print *, a; print *, b; print *, c; print *, d; print *, e; print *, f; print *, g end
Default compilation:
% xlf90 types.f % ./a.out 1.100000024 1.10000002384185791 1.100000024 1.10000002384185791 1.100000024 1.10000002384185791 1.100000024As you can see, variables b, d, and f are double precision while the rest are single precision. All instances of the literal 1.1 are single precision.
xlf90 -qdpc[=e]:
% xlf90 -qdpc types.f % ./a.out 1.100000024 1.10000000000000009 1.100000024 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.100000024
This promotes all literals, so both 1.1 and kind(0.0) become real*8. The optional "=e" allows the promotion of 1.1e8 to 1.1d8 as well although our code doesn't test this.
xlf90 -qautodbl=<setting>:
% xlf90 -qautodbl=dbl4 types.f % ./a.out 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 % xlf90 -qautodbl=dbl8 types.f % ./a.out 1.100000024 1.1000000238418579101562500000000000 1.100000024 1.1000000238418579101562500000000000 1.100000024 1.1000000238418579101562500000000000 1.100000024 % xlf90 -qautodbl=dbl types.f % ./a.out 1.10000000000000009 1.1000000000000000888178419700125232 1.10000000000000009 1.1000000000000000888178419700125232 1.10000000000000009 1.1000000000000000888178419700125232 1.10000000000000009
This option allows the promotion of all reals to real*8, all real*8 to real*16, or both.
xlf90 -qrealsize=8:
% xlf90 -qrealsize=8 types.f % ./a.out 1.10000000000000009 1.1000000000000000888178419700125232 1.100000024 1.10000000000000009 1.10000000000000009 1.1000000000000000888178419700125232 1.10000000000000009
This option is quite interesting, promoting "real" and "double precision", but not "real*4" and "real*8". It also promotes literal constants such as 1.1.
We hope this helps you determine which option is right for you.
SELECTED_REAL_KIND, Caution for Portability
The SELECTED_REAL_KIND function is useful for writing portable codes, when you know the minimum precision and range required of variables. Using it consistently can help eliminate the need for real type promotion, as discussed in the previous article.
That said, care is still required, as a user porting a code to the Cray SV1ex discovered this week. The problem: while IEEE 8-byte reals provide 15 digits of precision, Cray 8-byte reals only provide 13.
The code didn't actually need 15 digits of precision, but had made this a requirement anyway, using "SELECTED_REAL_KIND(15,307)". To ensure 15 digits of precision, the Cray compiler was forced to use 16-byte representation for the variables in question
Cray 128-bit (16-byte) math is performed in software, and for performance, should be avoided unless necessary.
The solution was to redefine the kind parameter as follows:
this guarantees 13 digits of precision wherever it runs, which was adequate, but yields 8-byte reals on both IEEE and Cray PVP platforms.
Excerpt from "man SELECTED_REAL_KIND":
NAME SELECTED_REAL_KIND - Returns the real kind type parameter SYNOPSIS SELECTED_REAL_KIND ([[P=]p] [,[R=]r]) DESCRIPTION The SELECTED_REAL_KIND intrinsic function returns the real kind type parameter of a real data type with decimal precision of at least p digits and a decimal exponent range of at least r. At least one argument must be present, and the arguments are as follows: p Must be scalar and of type integer. r Must be scalar and of type integer.Test Code:
This is based on the user code and also borrows from the previous article and the detailed article on Fortran "Range and Precision", given in issue #231
MODULE mod_kinds implicit none integer, parameter :: kind_13x307 = selected_real_kind(13, 307) integer, parameter :: kind_15x307 = selected_real_kind(15, 307) END MODULE mod_kinds MODULE mod_scalars USE mod_kinds implicit none real(kind_13x307) :: t1 real(kind_15x307) :: t2 END MODULE mod_scalars PROGRAM test USE mod_kinds USE mod_scalars implicit none t1 = 1.1_kind_13x307 t2 = 1.1_kind_15x307 print* print*,"selected_real_kind(13, 307): t1= ", t1 print*," kind:",kind(t1) print*," range:",range(t1) print*," precision:",precision(t1) print* print*,"selected_real_kind(15, 307): t2= ", t2 print*," kind:",kind(t2) print*," range:",range(t2) print*," precision:",precision(t2) END PROGRAM test
Cray SV1ex Output:
selected_real_kind(13, 307): t1= 1.100000000000001 kind: 8 range: 2465 precision: 13 selected_real_kind(15, 307): t2= 1.10000000000000000000000000001E+0 kind: 16 range: 2465 precision: 28
Cray (NEC) SX-6
selected_real_kind(13, 307): t1= 1.100000000000000 kind: 8 range: 307 precision: 15 selected_real_kind(15, 307): t2= 1.100000000000000 kind: 8 range: 307 precision: 15
IBM p690:
selected_real_kind(13, 307): t1= 1.10000000000000009 kind: 8 range: 307 precision: 15 selected_real_kind(15, 307): t2= 1.10000000000000009 kind: 8 range: 307 precision: 15
Again, the conclusion is that you should determine and specify the precision and range required, and not simply default to 15 and 307.
PE 3.6 Available for Testing on Crays
Programming Environment 3.6 (PE 3.6) has been installed on both yukon and chilkoot. It is available as PrgEnv.new, and we encourage users to test their codes with it and let us know of changes in performance or if problems are discovered.
Execute this command prior to compiling your code, to test PE3.6:
module switch PrgEnv PrgEnv.new
This release of craylibs fixes the problem in CTRSM noted in issue issue #243 . It changes the behavior of cpp slightly, as noted in the following article.
What follows are salient features of the new PE, as taken from Cray's release notes. Enjoy!
- 2.1.1. C Interoperability
C interoperability allows C programs to share functions and global variables that have external linkage with Fortran programs; likewise, Fortran programs can share like objects with C programs. More importantly, C interoperability provides a standard portable interoperability mechanism between Fortran and C programs. Refer to Fortran Language Reference Manual, Volume 2 for detailed information about C interoperability.
- 2.2.1. Optimization Enhancements
New optimization features for inlining and cloning take advantage of constant actual arguments. Another optimization feature lets the user select the file containing the code to inline.
The new inlining feature attempts to inline functions at call sites that contain constant actual arguments. This functionality is assigned to -O inline4. Therefore, aggressive inlining is now activated by -O inline5.
- 2.2.3. New Compiler Command
The ftn command is the new default Cray Fortran Compiler command on the Cray SV1 series and Cray T3E systems and has the same functionality as the f90 command. (The f90 command remains available.) Refer to the Cray Fortran Compiler Commands and Directives Reference Manual or the ftn(1) or ftn(1m) man page for more information.
The command name f90 was changed because it no longer accurately reflects the implemented Fortran standards.
- 2.3.1. Support of C++98 Standard
The Cray Standard C++ compiler now supports the C++98 standard (ISO/IEC FDIS 14882:1998). Few features of the C++ standard are currently not supported by the Cray Standard C++ compiler. These are identified in the Cray Standard C/C++ Reference Manual.
- 2.3.2. Support of C99 Standard
The Cray Standard C compiler now supports the C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999). The compiler also continues to support language features that were extensions prior to the adoption of the C99 standard including the complex type, VLAs, the restrict keyword, and hexadecimal floating point constants. The behavior of these features remains unchanged. Some language features are defined differently in the C99 standard than in the Cray extension. The C99 standard defined behavior is available using the -h c99 command line option, while preserving the previous behavior. Refer to Section 2.4.2 for more information about this option.
- 2.4. Cray Standard C/C++ Compiler Enhancements
Changes to the Cray Standard C/C++ compiler include enhancements for dealing with the standard template library (STL), conforming to the C99 standard, and displaying currently used optimization options.
Refer to Cray Standard C/C++ Reference Manual or the CC(1) man page for more information.
- 2.4.1. New Compiler Options for the Cray C++ Standard Template Library
C++ code that defined templates using nonstandard STL from the Cray C++ STL can now compile successfully when you use the -h conform compiler option with new compiler options -h [no]parse_templates and -h [no]dep_name.
A new compiler option, -h one_instantiation_per_object, allows you to instantiate each template referenced in the source into its own object file rather than merging them together into one file. Another new compiler option, -h instantiation_dir, allows you to select the directory to contain these files.
- 2.5. Data Transfer Enhancements for Cray SV1ex Systems
Fortran and C/C++ programs developed on Cray SV1ex systems can now use the new bte_move intrinsic command for faster data transfers (about 50 times faster).
- 2.6. Vector Optimization (UNICOS Systems Only)
A new infinite vector length optimization feature was added to the Cray Fortran Compiler and Cray Standard C/C++ compilers.
For the Cray Fortran Programming Environment, the vector optimization feature consists of a new INFINITEVL clause for the IVDEP directive and a new -O [no]infinitevl compiler option. The INFINITEVL specifies an infinite safe vector length. That is, no dependency will occur at any vector length.
- 3.3. ftnlx Replaces ftnlint and ftnlist
(Not) Using cpp to Pre-Process Fortran Code
As noted in Newsletter #173 , you're ill-advised to use cpp to pre-process Fortran code. Again, we recommend you use Fortran pre-processors on Fortran code. This issue reappeared because there's a behavior change in Cray's cpp between PE3.5 and PE3.6.
The Fortran pre-processor syntax is unfortunately different in the various Fortran compilers. Check the man pages.
As an example of the problem discovered recently, here's a bit of valid Fortran code ("//" is Fortran's string concatenation operator):
file: j.F --------- if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
The C99 standard allows C code to use C++ style comments, which commence, of course, with "//". Thus, a C99 conformant cpp will likely strip string concatenations if handed Fortran code. Our hunch is that Cray, in implementing C99 (see the article on PE3.6), had to update cpp.
Anyway, here's what happens to the above Fortran file using various commands on the Cray. Note that the behavior has changed in Programming Environment 3.6.
On the Crays: =================================
First, the correct output: using the Fortran pre-processor. The "-eP" option specifies pre-processing, only. Output goes to "<source-file>.i".
--- PE3.5 and PE3.6 chilkoot$ f90 -eP j.F chilkoot$ cat j.i # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Now, incorrect output using cpp:
--- PE3.5 and PE3.6 chilkoot$ cpp j.F #line 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt)) 1 comm(1:ilen(comm)) mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Incorrect output using PE3.6 cpp -N:
--- PE3.6 chilkoot$ cpp -N j.F # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt)) 1 comm(1:ilen(comm)) mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Correct output using the PE3.5 cpp -N:
--- PE3.5 chilkoot$ cpp -N j.F # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
And correct output using PE3.5 or PE3.6 cpp -C -N:
--- PE3.5 and PE3.6 chilkoot$ cpp -N -C j.F # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Excerpt from "man cpp" on the Crays:
-N cc, CC, and cpp commands. Enables the old style (referred to as K&R) preprocessing. Use this option if you have problems with preprocessing (especially non-C source code). -C CC, cc, and cpp commands. Retains all comments in the preprocessed source code, except those on preprocessor directive lines. By default, the preprocessor phase strips comments from the source code. This option is useful with the cpp command or specified in combination with the -P or -E options on the cc and CC commands.
On the IBMs: =================================
Again, the correct output: using the Fortran pre-processor. The "-d" option specifies that intermediate files be retained. The name xlf chooses for the pre-processor output is quite interesting.
ibm_sp$ xlf90 -d j.F [... Fortran error messages ... attempt to compile fails ...] ibm_sp$ cat Fj.f if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Now, incorrect output using cpp:
ibm_sp$ cpp j.F # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt)) 1 comm(1:ilen(comm)) mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
On the SX-6: =================================
The SX-6 f90 "-EP" option specifies that pre-processing occur, and that the output go to a file named "i.<source-file>".
sx6$ f90 -EP j.F [... Fortran error messages ... attempt to compile fails ...] sx6$ cat i.j.F if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
On the SGIs: =================================
The SGI f90 "-E" option specifies that only pre-processing occur, and that output goes to stdout. It'd be nice if every Fortran compiler had this option, as it gives the nearest replacement for "cpp".
sgi$ f90 -E j.F # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt))//',cmnt="'// 1 comm(1:ilen(comm))//'"' mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Now, incorrect output from the default, gnu cpp:
sgi$ cpp j.F # 1 "j.F" # 1 "<built-in>" # 1 "<command line>" # 1 "j.F" if (comm(1:1) .ne. ' ' ) then tstring=mswopt(1:ilen(mswopt)) 1 comm(1:ilen(comm)) mswopt=tstring(1:ilen(tstring)) endif
Excerpt from the gnu cpp man page:
The C preprocessor is intended to be used only with C, C++, and Objective-C source code. In the past, it has been abused as a general text processor. [...] Wherever possible, you should use a preprocessor geared to the language you are writing in. Modern versions of the GNU assembler have macro facilities. Most high level programming languages have their own conditional compilation and inclusion mechanism. If all else fails, try a true general text processor, such as GNU M4.
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Radinovich to serve on three legislative committees
House Speaker-designate Paul Thissen announced the Minnesota House of Representatives committee assignments for the 2013-14 biennium, selecting state Rep.-elect Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby, to serve on the Early Childhood and Youth Development Policy, Education Finance, and Housing Finance and Policy Committees.
"I'm honored to be serving on these important committees and looking forward to working on one of our most important issues — the educating and development of our children," said Radinovich. "Years of inadequate investment have left our schools and our children without the resources they need to succeed. In Crosby-Ironton, we've lost our Gifted and Talented program, have no librarians, teach just one language and have made major cuts to technical education, choir, band and art programs. We have to make a change.
"Great schools lead to a growing economy and a growing middle class," he said. "Our public schools need adequate funding so that our children have an equal opportunity for success. We have great challenges, but great opportunities as well and I'm ready to get to work."
Radinovich is a fourth-generation Cuyuna Ranger and an avid outdoorsman. He is a member of the Cuyuna Lakes and Aitkin Chambers of Commerce, the Minnesota Farmers Union, Ducks Unlimited and several community and interest organizations. He owns a home in Crosby and has been active with Kinship Partners for more than four years.
The legislative session is scheduled to begin Jan. 8, 2013.


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Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (VRX) spiked this afternoon, going from a fairly flat day to being up about 13%.
The move was prompted by a report saying the company is close to buying Bausch & Lomb Holdings from Warburg Pincus for about $9 billion.
As Reuters reports:
Last month Valeant tried to acquire generic drugmaker Actavis (ACT) in an all-stock deal that would have topped $13 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The talks broke down, and Actavis ended up with a deal to buy pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott Plc…
The source that spoke to Reuters on Friday requested anonymity because the matter is not public. Valeant could not be immediately reached for comment. Bausch & Lomb and Warburg Pincus declined to comment.
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2.17: Circle Graphs to Make Bar Graphs
Remember how Alex used the circle graph to make predictions? In the last Concept, Alex used the circle graph that Tania had made. Well, the entire time, he kept wishing that she had used a bar graph instead of a circle graph. Now Alex wants to take the information that Tania put in the circle graph and make a bar graph to use instead.
Here is the circle graph.
Alex looks back at the data again.
Total vegetables = 400
Carrots = 120
Tomatoes = 80
Zucchini = 60
Squash = 100
Potatoes = 40
Use this Concept to learn how to create a bar graph from a circle graph.
Circle graphs are just one of many different displays we can use to organize and present data in a form that is easy to interpret. As we have said, circle graphs are most useful when we are comparing parts of a whole or total. We can easily see which part is the biggest or smallest.
Bar graphs also allow us to make comparisons easily. Unlike most circle graphs, bar graphs let us compare exact amounts. We usually use circle graphs when dealing with percentages, and the percents of the pieces add up to 100 percent. In a bar graph, however, we use a scale to show the exact amount of each category.
Take a look at the two graphs below.
The circle graph gives this information in percents.
We can see that Trey spends 40 percent of his money on food and 10 percent on buying baseball cards. He saves the other 50% for his new bike.
The bar graph shows the same results but in a different format. The "pieces" in the circle graph are represented by bars on the bar graph. We show the categories of how Trey spends his money across the bottom. Along the side, a scale gives actual amounts of money. The height of each category bar tells exactly how much money Trey spends on that category. The food bar shows that Trey spent $16 on food and $4 on baseball cards. He saves $20 each week to put towards the new bike.
How did we get from a percentage to an actual amount of money?
When we have a circle graph, the data is presented in percentages. When we have a bar graph, the data is presented using the actual amounts that the percentages represent. To figure out a number from a percentage, we have to do a little arithmetic.
Let's look at the first piece of data-Trey spent 40% of $40.00 on food.
We need to figure out how much that 40% of 40.00 is. To do that, we can write a proportion. A proportion compares two fractions, so first we convert our percentage to a fraction:
Notice that the fraction shows the partial value on top, and the total on the bottom. Next, we want to know how much of the $40.00 is 40%. We write a second fraction with the total number of dollars Trey has to spend on the bottom, and a variable on top to represent the part of his total money we want to know:
Here is our proportion.
You can see that we cross multiplied and divided to get our answer. Trey spent $16 of his $40.00 on food.
If you look back at the bar graph, you can see that this is the actual amount from the bar graph.
Once you have converted all of the percentages to actual numbers, you can build a bar graph just as you did in an earlier Concept.
Now let's practice.
Example A
John spent 15% of $20.00 on candy. How much did he spend?
Solution: $3.00
Example B
Susan ate 45% of 20 carrots. How many did she eat?
Solution: 9 carrots
Example C
Kelly sold 55% of 60 zucchini. How many did she sell?
Solution: 33 zucchini
Now back to the original problem.
We can draw some conclusions about the data to help Alex make sense of the graph. Let's look at a few questions to help us make sense of the vegetable growth.
What is the largest group of vegetables grown?
- According to the graph, the carrots were the largest group grown.
If they were to double production next year, how many of each type of vegetable would be grown?
- Carrots = 120 to 240, tomatoes = 80 to 160, zucchini = 60 to 120, squash = 100 to 200, potatoes = 40 to 80.
Which vegetable was the smallest group?
- The smallest group is potatoes.
Alex and Tania can look at two things as they work to increase vegetable growth. Our graph doesn't tell us why they only grew 40 potatoes. They can analyze whether insects hurt their crop or whether or not they planted enough. The circle graph gives them a great starting point for future planning.
Alex prefers bar graphs to circle graphs. Let's use the data from the circle graph to build a bar graph.
- The first thing to see is that the range of growth is from 40 to 120. We can make our axis on the left hand side have a range from 0 to 120 in intervals of 20. This will include each category of vegetable.
- Here is our bar graph.
Alex and Tania now have two different ways to examine the same data. Planning for next year's garden is a lot simpler now.
Here are the vocabulary words in this Concept.
- Circle graph
- a visual display of data that uses percentages and circles.
- Decimals
- a part of a whole represented by a decimal point.
- Percentages
- a part of a whole written out of 100 using a % sign
- Predictions
- to examine data and decide future events based on trends.
Guided Practice
If you think back through the last several concepts, you have learned many different ways to display data. Let's put that altogether.
- Frequency Table-shows how often an event occurs.
- Line plot-shows how often an event occurs-useful when there are a lot of numbers over a moderate range.
- Bar graphs-useful when comparing one or more pieces of data
- Line graph-shows how information changes over time
- Circle graph-a visual way to show percentages of something out of a whole.
Take a minute to write these notes down in your notebooks.
Choose the best data display given each description below.
- A tally of how many people ate ice cream cones in one week.
- The number of people who attended Red Sox games for 2002, 2003 and 2004.
- Percentages showing where people choose to go on vacation.
Video Review
Here are videos for review.
Khan Academy: Reading Bar Graphs
Khan Academy: Reading Pie Graphs (Circle Graphs)
Directions: Use the following circle graph and proportions to answer each question.
Three hundred students were surveyed to find out their favorite school lunch.
1. How many students chose hamburgers as their favorite lunch?
2. How many students chose chicken fingers as their favorite lunch?
3. How many students did not choose hamburgers?
4. How many students chose pizza as their favorite lunch?
5. How many students chose grilled cheese as their favorite lunch?
6. How many students did not choose grilled cheese or pizza?
7. How many students did not choose chicken fingers as their favorite lunch?
8. How many students were undecided?
9. Given your answers to numbers 1 - 8, what interval would make sense to use as the vertical axis of the bar graph?
10. What is the range of the data?
11. What would you use to label the horizontal axis of the bar graph?
12. Would the bar graph use numbers of students or percents?
13. What proportion did you use to figure out each value in numbers 1 - 8?
14. True or false. Any circle graph can be drawn as a bar graph.
15. True or false. Bar graphs use actual numbers and circle graphs use percents.
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SPOILER FREE Captain America: Civil War is good. It's very, very good. Great, even. Easily the best Marvel movie (so far), and, in my book, the best superhero movie to date. Themes of responsibility, causality, guilt, and consequences play out in a story that also contains breathtaking, awesome action. Full Story
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And I mean EVERYONE, up to and including the stunt doubles. Filming for Captain America: Civil War continues and more set photos are coming out of Atlanta—hilariously doubling for Nigeria—and we've got more of Chris Evans looking like a life-size action figure in his Cap suit, and better shots of Anthony Mackie in Falcon's new souped-up gear, and though we can see Elizabeth Olsen's wig action, there still isn't a good look at her second generation Scarlet Witch costume. Full Story
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I am a board-certified pathologist with expertise in soft tissue sarcoma and bone tumors. After my fellowships in oncologic pathology and sarcoma research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I joined the faculty in 1999. As part of the sarcoma disease management team, I work alongside colleagues from surgery, medical oncology, and radiation therapy to care for patients with these very complicated diseases. My role is to establish accurate pathologic diagnosis, grading, and staging. These analyses guide treatment decisions. We have extensive expertise in diagnosing even the rarest forms of these tumors. Findings from molecular and genetics tests are usually incorporated within the pathology report for a more refined classification.
My research interests are focused on detection and molecular characterization of prognostic markers in soft tissue sarcomas, with particular emphasis on the molecular mechanisms and drug resistance in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), angiosarcoma, and a genetic subset of soft tissue sarcoma known as translocation-associated soft tissue sarcoma.
I have authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications and lectured nationally and internationally.
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Aaanyhoo - Hey guys! Means has been a bit absent this week due to what appears to be signs of The Aporkalypse (good old swine flu) running through his household, so once again I've been asked to step up to the plate and chat with you all about the latest goings-on up here in Oslo.
On a personal front it's been a busy past few weeks with attempting to get our Halloween content out and about, but everything seems to have gone really well and we all hope you're enjoying the new holiday loot. Last weekend was an especially exciting time as we got to have our annual Halloween party in-game AND launch the new nightclub, The Grind. I wanna thank everyone from all three dims who showed up, hung out, and partied with us - It was a real blast for us up at the office to get the chance to hang out with you guys and I'm hoping we'll have the opportunity to do so again in the near future. I wanna give some special thanks to our ARK-CR department, the Customer Service team down in North Carolina, and the wonderful folks from both Gridstream Productions and Radio SdF - A party like this can only happen when you've got a good group of people working together to pull it off, and everyone involved did a great job. Hopefully you guys had fun too - With any luck it won't be the last time we get the chance to do something like this. =)
Halloween isn't quite over yet, though, and there are a few surprises left in store for everyone out there. Looks like Uncle Pumpkinhead and his mysterious master The Harvester are still up to their old tricks, and maybe even with some new minions to terrorize Rubi-Ka... keep your eyes peeled for stories, news articles, and special in-game appearances for your chance to bring a little payback to the Halloween horrors - You might even find a nice little reward for helping out. So join the hunt and head out for the fight - The Harvester is waiting, after all...
In other news, we've been talking about this behind-the-scenes for quite a while, but it's now time to take the lid off on the all-new, all-improved Professionals Program. I won't go into too much detail in this post, as you can find all the relevant information in this thread, but I encourage everyone to take a look, read what's going on, and get involved. Notices of the new Professionals Program will also be hitting the launcher and hopefully even in-game, so make sure to tell your friends to keep their eyes peeled and check out the posts - This is something we wanna get everyone in on, so spread the word, pitch in, nominate and get ready to vote. Should be exciting stuff. =)
I'm not gonna go for a huge, long wall-of-text this week (I know, I know, I'm breaking tradition here), but that's because we've got more important things to focus on. We've been pouring over the feedback from the initial perk change documents and making adjustments all over the place - As time goes on, we're starting to get more and more willing to make larger, sweeping changes to the perks, and we hope you guys will be happy with the places we're going. There are a few things to note, though, which we hope might make some of the changes a little less confusing to everyone:
- Many perk lines currently have 10 levels available to them, but lack a perk special at level 9/10. For several of these lines, we will be adding in an additional perk special if the line is trained to level 10.
- Adventurers in particular will see large adjustments to their morph nano lines, attempting to seperate the lines and give them unique functionality which makes them more appealing within certain situations. This will also be reflected through their perk lines as our nano-change documentation becomes more finalized.
- Parry and Riposte are returning as part of the overall balance change situation. Final designs on how these special actions will work have yet to be nailed down, but there is a large chance that these actions will have different benefits for different professions, similar to Dimach.
- Grenades are an interesting topic, in that they are obviously a weapon line which has not received much support over the years. It is our hope to revitalize the weapon line - While weapons of this type will be available to all professions if they so choose, the revamp of the weaponry will feature its largest focus on Engineers. Much like other neglected areas we are looking to alter, this will be a very radical, "ground up" revamp.
- Nanotechnicians will see radical changes to their nuke lines, particularly focused on nanos introduced with/post-Shadowlands. Currently their perk lines have seen very few changes in the available documentation - This will change based on the final decisions made for the profession's nano-based toolset.
- Many debuff timers in the existing perk documentation have been reduced. This level of reduction is meant to reflect their functionality in Player vs. Player combat. In many cases, the perks will have dual functionality, wherein the time exist is different depending on whether it is used on an NPC or another player. It should be noted, however, that for debuffs with very long time exists, these will most likely be reduced in duration across the board.
- For Bureaucrats, we will be merging the "Directorship" and "Insurance Agent" perk lines into a single, ten-point line. Replacing this will be an additional eight-point line named "Autocracy", designed to focus on nano-based damage. There is a chance that we will look at other professions and offer new perk line options to them, either as new additions or due to the removal/replacement/merger of other perk lines.
- Martial Artists will see the largest amount of changes taking place within their nano lines and Martial Arts attacks. They will also, most likely, be one of the professions to see the largest benefit from the incoming Parry & Riposte additions.
- Many changes are focused around the idea that total investment in a perk line will aid in specializing a character in one direction or another - A focus on pets vs. weaponry, or offense vs. defense.
- Ranges for melee perk specials will be increased across the board - With perhaps only a few very special exceptions, ALL perks should have a minimum range of 5 meters as their distance.
- Shades will see a large portion of changes taking place in the rebalancing of their itemization. In line with our desire to see Shades as a faster-paced class, Hecatomb has had its duration returned to 1 second, keeping in line with the rest of the perk specials
- For perk lines where the thematic elements have been altered, there will be eventual renaming of the perk lines and actions.
- Perk specials that have different effects while in Shadowlands (as opposed to on Rubi-Ka) will have this difference removed. The perk action will then be altered to one static value that works the same regardless of location.
I think it's really important to let you guys know that nothing here is finalized or written in stone. We're trying to keep ourselves from being locked into only making minor changes, or just slightly tweaking what's already there - Where there are major changes that need to be made, we're trying to keep ourselves open to the idea of actually making said changes. In addition, we will devotedly change and alter these perklines based on feedback - This includes alterations after the perk changes have hit live. None of us here want to lock ourselves into a situation where we feel that we can't/shouldn't be open to the idea of making additional changes down the road (which is, to an extent, what placed us in this situation in the first place). So nothing here is final, everything is malleable, and nothing - nothing - is considered untouchable. We wanna do this and do it right - Hopefully, with the help of everyone else out there, we can make some great improvements to our gameplay and systems while maintaining the exact same feeling for all the Professions.
So what's next? Well, today you're getting your hands on the altered Profession-specific perk documents *and* your first look at the Group Perk documents. The AI Breed Perk documentation will be coming along Soon™ and there's plenty more information to come after that - We've still got Research, Nanos, Weaponry, Items... no rest for the weary or the wicked.
Anyhoo, I figure the documentation will keep you guys busy for the next little bit, so I won't keep you here any longer. Genele and I will be popping into the thread through-out the weekend to check in and maybe even answer a few questions/concerns here or there (and I get the feeling Means will show up sooner or later too ), so you guys have fun pouring over the docs and we'll chat with you later. Peace! =D
NEW INFO! Forgot to mention: We've got the first iteration of our brand new mail system heading out to Testlive today, and we would love to see you guys break it in two. No, seriously - Head out, use it, abuse it, do what you guys do best; the more we can get the new system tested before shipping it off to live, the better. Enjoy!


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Baking | Savoury Chicken Galette … Cherry Tomato with Green Garlic Pesto & Roasted Veggies with Smoked Sea Salt {Baking with Julia}
"Ingredients are not sacred. The art of cuisine is sacred."
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It was a savoury chicken galette waiting to happen, or maybe wanting to be baked. It's a result of blogger interactions, loads of food talk, some food cravings, events missed and repented, flavours virtually thrown into the air and talked about….I missed a picnic a few weeks ago with the Delhi food bloggers bunch. There was so much talk about food, what who was making, baking, getting, that I had pangs …not hunger pangs but pangs of missing out on something good! The Great Cookaroo threw in yolks after yolks to make her to go pastry cream from Dorie Greenspans Baking with Julia. I had the book on the shelf. A favourite from a favourite food blogger who gifted it to me from Bangalore. {Thank you again Suma!}
Then there was talk of pickled green garlic pesto which immediately threw my tastebuds in overdrive … that sounded drop dead delicious. I wanted some! My chance soon came as a bunch of us met again at the Ty.phoo Tea & Food pairing event. Sangeeta carried a bottle of pickled green garlic pesto for me.
Smothered on a toast the next morning, it had a comforting homey feel! It had all the hints of the green chutney sandwiches my dad often made … beautiful flavours that teased the palette. As I sat in the kitchen, the laundry machine whirring punishingly in the background, I reached out for Baking with Julia! The book is a winner. Read it, bake from it, drool over it, learn from it. I wanted to bake something savoury that morning, and settled for Cheese & Tomato Galette!
The galette dough was done in seconds, a Flo Baker recipe from the book. Don't you love a dough that comes together in a heartbeat, is fuss free, smooth, pliable and uses pantry staples? I didn't even need to rest it since it held beautifully, winter ensuring a fridge like cold kitchen. {Feedback from batch #2: An overnight rest in the fridge yields a pliable nice dough too.}
I used everything I had on hand! Pickled green garlic pesto, mozzarella, chicken salami, then some roasted onion balsamic jam, cherry tomatoes, smoked sea salt, pepper. Finished it off with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and fresh garlic greens.
The green garlic pesto was a bit spicy / chili for the younger fellow, but hit all the right spots with the daughter and husband who love everything chili! You can find the recipe for the Pickled Green Garlic Pesto {or lehsun ka achaar} on Sangeeta's blog. Use extra virgin olive oil to get a more pesto like feel to it {as she did for my batch}, and reduce the chilies if you don't like it too hot! BTW, Sangeeta does great personalised diet plans too, so do stop by if you need one!
You can do pretty much anything with a 'pastry canvas' like this. To keep the younger one happy, I made a second lot with roasted bell peppers and onions {roasting done in the Philips AirFryer, 10 minutes was all it took}, topped with sliced chicken sausages marinated briefly in a honey-mustard-garlic mix. Keep it vegetarian with roasted veggies, caramelised onion & garlic jam and feta, maybe tomatoes. It's smooth, fun to roll out, and even more fun to ruffle over the filling to give it the characteristic galette feel.
Recipe: Savoury Chicken Galette
Summary: A simple, crisp and delicious pastry base which can go sweet or savoury. This savoury rustic pie can hold varied combinations of toppings, vegetarian or non vegetarian, and is great for picnics, snack boxes. The savoury chicken galette can be assembled ahead of time, or even baked ahead and rewarmed in the oven briefly. Recipe adapted minimally from Baking with Julia. Makes 4 6″ galettes.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
- Galette dough
- 80ml ice cold water
- 45ml buttermilk
- 120g plain flour
- 25g cornmeal [makki ka aata]
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 90g butter, chilled cubed
- Suggested toppings {a combination of any of the following}
- Green garlic pesto {recipe here}
- Mozzarella
- Caramelised onion & garlic jam {recipe here}
- Chicken salami, sausages etc
- Cherry tomatoes, halved
- Sliced and roasted bell peppers
- Sliced onions {roasted with the bell peppers}
- Green garlic stalks
- Smoked sea salt
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Galette Dough
- Place the flour, cornmeal and salt in bowl of food processor. Pulse briefly to mix, then add chilled butter and pulse briefly until you get an uneven mix from peas to breadcrumb size bits.
- With the mchine running, pour in the buttermilk, followed by most of the chilled water and process until a soft, moist dough forms.
- Remove, divide into 2, press into flat disks and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Assembling
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Divide each disk into two and roll out to about 8″ circles. I cut the edges round with a pastry cutter, though you could just leave it uneven.
- Line a shallow platter with the rolled out pastry hanging over the edges, fill it up as you like, beginning with mozzarella, then gently fold the edges over the filling around the sides.
- Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, garlic greens etc over the filling and bake for about 30-35 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden.
- Transfer to a cooling rack, leave for at least 10 minutes, then slide off with a wide spatula. Serve warm or at room temperature with a scattering of garlic greens, fresh herbs etc.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Designer Tidbits: Basic Grey
BasicGrey is here to chat with us about their newest collection, Little Black Dress, detailing their chic vision and their elegant color palette. The collection arrived at the Fat Quarter Shop yesterday and its sophistication is contagious. Get ready for a swanky Friday night!
Q1: To what or whom would you dedicate this collection, or what inspired this collection?
A: A few years ago, BasicGrey created a very popular collection "Black Tie" for the scrapbooking industry. Little Black Dress was a spin off on this line, with that classic, elegant and chic look to it. We loved the simple blacks, white, grays, beiges and taupes. It's a very sophisticated collection, mixed with simple and ornate designs.
Q: What is your favorite project using this collection?
A: Our adorable Penguin family: Peter, Polly and Penelope, or the heart yo-yo frame.
Q3: What would be your collection's theme song?
A: "Haven't met you yet" by Michael Buble. He is always dressed to the nines and we just imagine him waiting for that amazingly classic, elegant woman dressed in her Little Black Dress.
Q: If you could live in a movie, what movie would it be?
A: Breakfast at Tiffany's; Audrey Hepburn would have gone crazy over this fabric collection!
Posted by Fat Quarter Shop at 12:00 PM
Labels: Designer Tidbits, Moda Fabric
15 comments:
- Gill said...
Love the penguins!!
- August 17, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- java diva said...
BG has the best fabric collections!
- August 17, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- Queenie Believe said...
Totally love the bowtie quilt!
Have a great day.
Always, Queenie
- August 17, 2012 at 5:44 PM
- Vroomans' Quilts said...
I bought 2 layer cakes a month ago - I love the bow tie pattern for this collection.
- August 17, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Love black and white. Your penquins are so amazing.
- August 17, 2012 at 7:38 PM
- Nancy said...
I have already bought some of Little Black Dress and want to buy more now that you have yardage!! What bowtie pattern is that? Do you have it listed in your shop?
- August 17, 2012 at 8:35 PM
- What's for dessert? said...
Beautiful fabric collection!
- August 18, 2012 at 1:05 AM
- CBH said...
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in Creative Busy Bee Craft Inspirations, under the Page 4 post on Aug. 18, 2012. Thanks again.
- August 18, 2012 at 9:08 AM
- Rianne said...
I just love the Penguin family. Is there a pattern available for those?
- August 18, 2012 at 4:14 PM
- Zuzan said...
Thank you for Basic Black, I have a Charm Pack but want more. It is wonderful.
- August 19, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Sandy said...
Love this fabric! I am making an Irish Chain with it!
- August 20, 2012 at 1:02 PM
your work is beautiful and looks like fun to create!
- August 20, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- Linnie Quilts said...
Love it, love it, love it!!!
- August 20, 2012 at 9:00 PM
- Kathy ~~~ said...
penguins are adorable!!
- August 21, 2012 at 9:43 AM
- Fat Quarter Shop said...
Hello Everyone!
We just heard back from Basic Grey regarding the Bowtie pattern. Unfortunately, a friend whipped up that quilt for a booth and they have no pattern to reference.
Sorry! Good luck!
- August 23, 2012 at 1:40 PM


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|Ocean Flyfishing for Salmon Perhaps the most under-rated fishery in the world
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i grew up always fishing and boating from seabeck to browns pt to hazel, oakhead ,Daybob.Quilicene,Dosewalips,Duckabush . i saw maybe 2-3 seals a year when i was young. now if i go out and cover that area looking for action i can easily see 20-50 in one morning;way too many!!!
Kinda Off Topic
My wife and I were fishing for Pinks off Chiniak on Kodiak Island Alaska. We separated ourselves by about 50 yards and were waiding waist deep. There was no seel or Sea Lion activity. My wife was fighting a Pink and all of a sudden the fish darted straight for her, just bairly missing her leg. Following close behind was a large "V" shape in the water. A Sea Lion bareled over her, knocking her under.
She was Ok, just a little shaken.
Those sea lions have no shyness whatsoever about taking a salmon off the line, I found out.
The horsehead (grey) seals on the atlantic have been giving me some fits by eating stripers off my line, eating my fly or more commonly picking off freshly released fish.
My take on the whole seal problem (Ballard Locks, etc) is that humans create the worst of it. If there were no locks the predation would be like any other river mouth. If I didn't C&R fish in front of the seals, they wouldn't try to eat the dazed fish I release. Sure, before there were concrete walls to trap fish against they got their share of the fish, but only their share. I hated watching hershel eating just the roe out of the endangered native Cedar River steelhead! Not the sea lions fault, we gave them the all-you-can-eat buffet.
They are curious critters though. They sure know how to scare the crap out of me when I am wading far out on a shallow flat! It ruins my whole day when they play chicken with me.
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Don't know if the seals were following the canoe because they might get a free meal or it was easy to follow and they were curious. Wish we would have been able to get onto a fish just to see if they were silvers feeding. Next week think I'll go much further out if is a glassy morning. Staying so close to the estuary may not have been a good idea as the mother seals and thier pups love that shallow water.
It's interesting that the guys over in the striper section of this site are having problems with seal off of Cape Cod. I grew up back there and only ever remember seeing seals when I surfed in winter. Protection of seals has been a sucsess, wish that all the protection of salmon and steelhead worked as well.
When I started reading this, I thought you were going to say the seals had learned to associate your canoe with an easy meal. Pprobably a lot easier for a seal to grab a lassoed silver than it is to grab one unfettered. We ran into the seal circus one year in a lagoon we fish. The seals would grab hooked fish, sometimes biting them and sometimes just letting them go. They kept this up a whole lot longer than we found amusing.
Are these harbor seals or sea lions? Our encounters were all with harbor seals.
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Silvers & Seals
Sunday morning 1st light put the canoe in near the Duckabush River on the Hood Canal. Great morning, glassy, lots of eagles and osprey. Also just a ton of seals that followed us as soon as we left the boat ramp. Every time I turned around there were 4 or 5 sets of eyes right behind the canoe. About 200 yards out in the canal we started to see bait being chased by what I thought were Silvers. The bait would scatter in every dirrection across the surface and nice big swirls under them. We would start to make our casts into the bait and as soon as we did the Seals would swim right into the area and the bait would disapear. This happened to us 6 or 7 times and got pretty frustrating. Funny thing was the Seals didn't look like they were interested in the fish but more interested in following in out flies. They would swim in right behind the fly till they got about 20 feet behind the canoe. Has anyone else had this happen? Begining to think that a power boat might be the best way to get on to these feeding fish, the canoe seems like too much of an interest for the seals.
The day before from shore watched a guy in a fancy bass boat catching sea runs by casting into shore and stripping his fly back to the boat. His fish all looked to be about 12 to 16 inches. That whole area is just great looking water for sea runs.
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A basic guide to Fish Photography...
A basic guide to fish photography.
This is a basic guide to fish photography. I have kept it as simple as I possibly could. I hope some of you get a little help from it.
Step 1 ... Preparing for the session ...
a) First things first. Clean the tank inside and outside as nothing will mess with your pics more than water streaks or algae spots. Your camera will focus on these instead of your subject and your pictures will be distorted.
b) After cleaning the aquarium, let things settle for a few hours until your filter clears any debris that you have disturbed. Floating particles don't look good in your fish pictures.
c) Before taking any pics, turn off any other light sources in the room like lights, tv's etc. Draw the drapes or pull the blinds to exclude any outside light as well. Turn of your filter, this will let things settle in the tank and insure there are little or no unwanted particles floating in the tank.
Step 2 ... Setting the camera ...
Photographing fish is not easy, especially photographing small, fast moving fish. So, it's best to start with basic settings and then get more adventurous once you have mastered those.
The basic settings for fish photography ...
* Flash on
* ISO set to 100/200
* Macro on
* Set on auto
* Image size large
a) If your camera has a flash setting you can reduce it to half power or so. Alternatively, you can diffuse the flash if it is too bright by taping some tissue paper over it loosely as you don't want it over heating. Using the flash enables you to obtain that faster shutter speed to freeze the movement of a fast swimming fish.
b) Using a low ISO will help you get more light on the subject, a higher ISO will make the pictures sharper, but the higher you go the more noise you will get in your pics (your pictures will be grainy). I find the ISO of 100 to be good for fish pics.
c) Switch your macro on, this is usually a small flower symbol on the shooting menu, it will enable you to get close up pics of your fish.
d) Set the camera to auto and let it do the work. When incorporated with the macro feature, your camera will automatically focus on the subject. It's a good idea to set your image size to large, this way you can take a picture from further back, crop the image to get the bit you want and not lose any of the image quality.
Step 3 ... Taking the picture ...
a) Study your fish and get to know their movements and anticipate when they are going to make that turn for the action shot you are after.
b) Focus on a spot in the tank, a rock, plant or a bit of driftwood, half depress the shutter button to auto focus, wait on a fish to swim by and click, you have the shot.
c) Using a tripod ... I don't as a rule use a tripod, except for full tank pics. I find it makes it difficult to track a fish's swimming pattern. Instead find your self a steady base like a table or the back of a chair to rest your arms on and help keep your camera steady.
d) Eliminate flash bounce back ... Never aim you camera straight at the tank as the flash will bounce straight back at you. Instead, hold your camera at a slight angle away from you, this will eliminate the problem.
e) Using the zoom ... Instead of using the zoom on your camera (using the zoom loses some image quality) stand back a little, take the pic, then crop to size required.
f) Remember those settings ... Most fish you'll find will appear better at different settings, so if you hit on a good setting for your favourite fish, write it down for future reference. It's also not a good idea to try to many different settings in one session. Try different settings one at a time and see what works best for you.
g) Finally ... Don't be afraid to take lots of pics--Remember the more you take, the better chance you have of getting those one or two great pics.
h) Using a dark background, blue/black works well, will help your fish stand out more resulting in better pics.
I hope you have got a tip or two from this basic guide to fish photography. Happy snapping and we'll look forward to your fish pics.
Last edited by fins_n_fur; 11-29-2008 at 03:55 PM.Mike!
Hey thanks for the tips! Ive been trying to get better at fish pictures, and this will help me get there.
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thanks i needed that
A thank you from me also. I've just been messing with my settings and havn't found one I really like for my fish. This should make things easier!your friendly neighbourhood arowanaman!
Great sticky!!! When I get something other than my camera phone and disposables,(lol) this will come in handy.
excellent tips on shooting the fish. I find though with a tripod you can get better light though I know hard to get a moving fish with the tripod. Sports setting is good. Incandescent is good as well it makes things bluish. Did mike say the ISO was 100/200 why was that? I will remember that tip about the flash. Covering it... well that might be good. So turn off all lights. IT is hard to get clowns in the morning. Pics are coming out better in the nightime.
oh how do i get into a sticky to read it?
Good write-up for a picture noob like my self. Explained some things that were unclear before.
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Hi Brook,
Great sticky. Thanks. I really need this info, to help get better fish pics. Cheers,
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That is a very informative write up.
I havn't used my macro settings yet.
I may have a go soon and see what happens.
Thanks Brookfish.


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The violent brawl that broke out at Her Majesty's Penitentiary (HMP) in St. John's on Sunday was an orchestrated attack on Kenny Green, his family members told The Telegram.
"They jumped him with shanks," Green's father, Ken Green Sr., said in a telephone interview Monday.
"Kenny's best kind, though. He's taking it all in stride. He's laughing about it, actually."
Police are saying little about what happened because they are still investigating, but they were called to the prison on Forest Road in St. John's at around 4:30 p.m.
They said a number of inmates were involved in the altercation, but wouldn't mention names. Some of them were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Sources say the injuries were stab wounds. All have been treated and are back at the prison.
Green Sr. said it happened in the prison's chapel, where a group of inmates gathered for a weekly Sunday service.
Three Salvation Army clergymen were said to have been in the chapel when the fight broke out, but they weren't injured.
Green Sr. said his son's injuries were minor.
"He only got three stitches in his side," Green Sr. said. "The other crowd — nine of them — got the worst of it."
Green Jr. was first jailed in March of last year, when he arrested in connection with the beating death of 47-year-old Joey Whalen.
Whalen died in hospital on March 17, 2013, two days after he was reportedly beaten at a notorious drug house on Tessier Place in downtown St. John's. The 35-year-old has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder.
Green Sr. believes his son was falsely accused of the crime. He added that the HMP attack was likely in retaliation for an incident that happened years ago involving another man, now an inmate at the prison, who was at the chapel at the time.
"This has been going on for years," said Green Sr. "(The man) got the shit kicked out of him and he's blaming Kenny for it. It's over bullshit."
Green's girlfriend and the mother of his child, Danielle Collins, said Green Jr. called her immediately after the HMP incident.
"He's really good," she said, when asked how Green was doing. "He was laughing about it.
"He didn't even know he was cut until a little while after. He didn't want to go to the hospital, but it was mandatory.
"But he did really well, considering there were nine or 10 of them (who attacked him). Kenny knows how to handle himself."
Shortly after the incident, Collins wrote on her Facebook page: "2 against 9 and my man still held his f---ing own... F---ing punks think you can take him you got a surprise didn't ya... You looked like fools and hope you enjoyed getting your head jumped on while my man was laughing at it... I talked to the guards and heard the way it went down LOL St. John's mob my ass."
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Posted on December 14, 2009 6:10AM by Scroshi112
Does someone know how to get the guy with the camo outfit at the top left corner of the picture ? Otherwise, you've done a great job !
Posted on December 14, 2009 11:47AM by Officer Edwards
Its a render
Posted on December 14, 2009 11:50AM by Thegodofskins
Officer Edwards that's a real photo, but u can Download this: -- http://www.gta4-mods.com/player/camouflage-military-outfit-f3374 -- if you want a camo outfit
Posted on December 14, 2009 1:51PM by Mitchell Maniac
your kidding me thare is bo weaonsinfo so it oly has 30 rounds in the mag, in reallife it has 200
Posted on December 14, 2009 3:56PM by gas
@gas - you can change the rounds in mag in weaponsinfo :]
Posted on December 14, 2009 4:56PM by Mati
wow a gun from BoGT
Posted on December 14, 2009 8:41PM by yohsukenakano
Yeah, I've just seen my mistake a bit too late... ;) The picture didn't look so good on my mobile phone !
Posted on December 15, 2009 6:33AM by Officer Edwards
Very nice & clean! 10*
Posted on December 16, 2009 9:16AM by Tomern11
Please add a custom weaponinfo.xml for this weapon!!
Posted on December 19, 2009 2:28AM by Vic Vance
i have the weapon info for this weapon and for all i change the magazine and ammo pack its not complicated to customize this but if you want mine add me in the hot mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Posted on December 26, 2009 11:41PM by JaimeKena
Here is a custom weaponinfo: <data slot="RIFLE" firetype="INSTANT_HIT" damagetype="BULLET" group="RIFLE_ASSAULT" targetrange="65.0" weaponrange="70.0" clipsize="200" ammomax="600" timebetweenshots="133"> <damage base="15" networkplayermod="2.5" networkpedmod="1.25"/> <physics force="80.0"/> <reload time="2066" fasttime="1166" crouchtime="2066"/> <aiming accuracy="1.0"> <offset x="0.14" y="1.0" z="0.55"/> <crouchedoffset x="0.08" y="1.0" z="0.12"/> <reticule standing="0.6" ducked="0.5" scale="0.2"/> </aiming> <pickup regentime="600000" ammoonstreet="80"/> <controller> <rumble duration="90" intensity="0.1"/> </controller> <flags> <flag>GUN</flag> <flag>CAN_AIM</flag> <flag>CAN_FREE_AIM</flag> <flag>ANIM_RELOAD</flag> <flag>ANIM_CROUCH_FIRE</flag> <flag>2HANDED</flag> </flags> </data>
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Can this mod replaces to AK-47?
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@kaisoldier yes just rename it to w_ak47 from w_m4
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now all yu need is the animation for M249
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I really want to use this with TBOGT. Will it work if I rename the w_m4 to w_e2_m249 ?
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nice job but how do u get the camo suit on the top left corner
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Way Out Ware TimewARP 2600
Way Out Ware is a relatively new company to the world of software synthesis, but they bring to the table a leap forward in synth emulation technology! They have recreated the classic Arp 2600 with their software plug-in, the TimewARP 2600. Rather than adapting a general purpose synth-modeling algorithm to suite the needs of reproducing ARP-like sounds, WOW designed this software from the ground up to specifically recreate every nuance of the original 2600's look and sound. And they succeeded! The TimewARP 2600 is supported and endorsed by the 2600's designer and ARP founder himself, Alan R. Pearlman. Of course there are some updates to the 2600 that adapt it to life in the computer age as well (total MIDI control & automation should go without saying).
TimewARP 2600 is (as of this writing) an RTAS plug-in and will only work in Pro-Tools 6.1 or later. But VST, Audio Unit, TDM, and stand-alone versions will surely follow soon. While the original 2600 is monophonic, the TimewARP can support up to eight voices of polyphony, but this can be quite a CPU gobbler and is really dependent on the power of your computer. The plug-in's interface is a very realistic recreation of the original "grey-meanie", with only a few tweaks or modifications. Patching and creating your own sounds is done just like on a real 2600. And finally you can store and categorize your 2600 creations using the TimewARP's unlimited patch memory manager.
But this is where the TimewARP can let some users down. It ships with a rather boring and small set of presets. In other words, if you were hoping to browse through oodles of patches to find the perfect bass, lead, or pad, you will likely be disappointed. That said, however, if you are one to experiment, you can really get into creating some amazing sounds if you know how or are willing to learn. The TimewARP 2600 is definitely aimed at those of us who maybe once owned a 2600 and are looking for an inexpensive and practical way of getting one back, or anybody who wants to learn and experiment with analog synthesis the old-school way!
TimewARP 2600 comes closer to sounding like the real thing than any other software synth emulator out there! The three VCO's sound great, the filter is excellent with realistic self-oscillating resonance and almost no glitchy stair-stepping during slow gradual filter sweeps. The envelopes, LFO, keyboard controls, and CV/Gate options give the keen programmer lots of options for creating some really wild sounds just like on the original 2600. Even the original's built-in spring reverb and a virtual ARP 3620 keyboard are reproduced here. Perhaps the TimewARP 2600 is a little too good at reproducing the original - the plug-in seems to generate a little bit of noise at it's outputs while idle just like most real analog gear would do.
If you've got yourself a Pro-Tools rig and the chops to program such a beast as the ARP 2600, WOW's TimewARP 2600 is a steal! At $250, no aging 30 year-old 2600 can come close to offering what this little plug-in can! And WOW's plans to add support for more platforms and to create an on-line user patch library should make the TimewARP un-beatable in the future!
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Rather than post an article, I'm going to diarize my diatribe. I'm working on a paper for the next Perl conference in California, TPC 5.0. It's basically on a whole new regular expression paradigm, that would theoretically work for any dialect of regexes. The concept is simple. Matching variable-width things at the END of a string is not efficient -- reverse the string and the idea of the regex, and you have a much faster process.
The simplest example is matching the last sequence of digits in a string. With a regex like (\d+)\D*$, the engine will find EACH occurrence of \d+, and fail for EACH occurrence but the last one. This is a lot of failure for a long string. So, reverse the input string. Reverse the sense of the regex to ^\D*(\d+). Then, reverse the sequence that matches.
I've developed a module for reversing many simple regular expressions, in Perl. What would be nice is an optimizer, since in ^\D*(\d+), the ^ and \D* are totally extraneous.
Anyway, it's cool, fun, efficient, and writing the parser helped me understand how less sleep makes regular expressions make more sense. ;)


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Deuces Wild! Dueling Pianos will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College (CLC) in Brainerd as a scholarship fundraiser for CLC students.
David Charles Eichholz and Ted Manderfeld are self-taught pianists. Eichholz also plays the guitar, saxophone, harmonica, trumpet and all other brass instruments.
Manderfeld plays a variety of styles, including rock, blues, country, reggae and gospel.
The Waite Park-based artists present a piano variety act offering a mix of comedy, impromptu acting and audience participation presented in a mix of music and parodies. The venue taps a variety of genres, from classic rock to country to rap to show tunes.
The Deuces Wild! Dueling Pianos show has appeared throughout the Midwest in performances for colleges and universities, corporations, conferences, weddings and fundraisers. For information about the performers, go to www.wildpianos.com.
Proceeds from this event will go to scholarships and the Random Acts of Kindness Fund for emergency assistance for CLC students.
Reserved seating tickets may be purchased online at www.clctickets.com for $35 or $50 each.
For information, contact Pam Thomsen, director of resource development and CLC Foundation, at 218-855-8129 or firstname.lastname@example.com.