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PnP vs. Board Games vs. Cards
October 21, 2005, 04:41:27 PM »
Is it just me, or does it seem more people are getting into board or card based games these days rather than the good ol fashioned PnP games?
I can see the great thing about the other two, namely not having trouble finding enough people, not needing a dedicated GM, and requiring far less of a time obligation.
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October 22, 2005, 03:55:09 AM »
well honesatly, PnP requires a hge amount of time and people to agree to meet up for that time over the course of months sometimes.
A boardgame is everyone hanging out for 2-3 hours one day every now and then, and Cards is whoever shows up can play no problem.
It's a lot of convenience ot not catch on.
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January 20, 2006, 08:13:50 PM »
Was hoping to see more responses to this thread so I'll put my money where my mouth is.
I love games. All kinds of games... and I love them equally. PnP requires so much more of an investment (time, mostly, unless you pick up more than the basic player handbook). It can also require so much more interaction or effort than your standard board or card game. I think it's often more time and investment than most people are willing to provide.
Board and card games are much easier to pick up and go, especially from a new player standpoint. It takes much less time and money to get rolling too (aside from the Fantasy Flight Games, most board games run approximately under $20 these days) plus it's just a one time purchase.
It's unfortunate that PnP games can be so intimidating to get started with but to each their own. I'd be more than happy to play a great board or card games instead of PnP if it meant not playing anything at all. I'll find good PnP players if I'm patient enough!
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January 20, 2006, 11:23:39 PM »
One of the other things PnP games have going against them is the amount of skill involved in playing and especially in running one. With a board game, either it's good, or it's not, and the people playing it generally don't have a huge impact on its quality. With PnP games, if the GM is awful, the system itself can't do a lot to fix that. Conversely, a good GM can overcome even a terrible game system.
There's also a certain taint associated with PnP games, ie: only fat, stinky geeks play them. Board games have that to a certain degree, but generally, a non-gamer can associate with what's going on. Even more than that, many board games in a short period of time, and are generally less intimidating than your average RPG handbook (ASL aside).
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January 23, 2006, 04:29:14 PM »
For me it is a time thing. For a PnP there is a pretty good sized imbalance between the time the players put in vs. a GM. You have to have a GM that is willing to do the "homework" required prior to playing. I was spoiled by playing with a guy that had an incredible imagination and would design year long "seasons" for his campaign. He put a lot of time into it and I couldn't see myself or current flock of friends doing so.
A boardgame however requires taking the box somewhere and that is about all the preprep I need.
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January 23, 2006, 05:05:38 PM »
This is one of the primary reason I switched to the Savage Worlds generic RPG rules. The lead designer says right inside the book that the system is designed for working dads who don't have time to do all the homework before a game.
With it, I can just whip up stats and abilities on the fly without having to come up with massive stat blocks.
Still, our gaming group has shifted towards board and card games anyway, which isn't a bad thing considering how high quality these games are nowadays.
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January 24, 2006, 03:45:40 PM »
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This is one of the primary reason I switched to the Savage Worlds generic RPG rules. The lead designer says right inside the book that the system is designed for working dads who don't have time to do all the homework before a game.
Savage Worlds? I don't think I've heard of that one before. Standard RPG handbook or are there additional source materials with them?
I've found multiple references on Google. Is it this?:
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January 24, 2006, 07:41:56 PM »
Yup, I'm a HUGE PnP fan, but getting the time to do it right isn't easy. Fyedaddy and I have a game going with another friend that I'm the GM for, and the biggest obstacles are twofold:
1) me getting the time to prepare ahead of time for sessions when I'm not so burnt out from work/whatever that I'm falling asleep over my desk.
2) us getting the time scheduled for 3-4 hours to game with the third gentleman.
I don't have much trouble whipping up stats for critters and guys on the fly as a GM using 3.5, though. Once I got used to the system enough to ballpark the power level of an appropriate encounter, I was able to do that fairly well. Sometimes it's obvious that I'm improv'ing, others not so much. Heck, sometimes trying to browse through my prepared npc's stats and such takes longer than just making up a reasonably appropriate number for the character/class.
What's the difference with Savage Worlds?
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January 24, 2006, 08:33:15 PM »
lol We were discussing why soime things are way more popular than others.
For instance, thew amazing oppularity of games liek magic over minerature battling or PnP...
Well I guess for things like Magic, its because you can basically walk around with a deck in your bookbag and if someone else has one you can play a game for an hour or two with very little effort.
Now if you play Warhammer 40k... You're toting around an army which isnt light or simple. If it falls through it's a lot more annoying. I guess the same can be said for a bag of dice, character sheets, rulebooks etc.
Plus there is a time factor. You cant just all meet up for lunch and get in a good session of anything PnP-like. While you could fire up a game of something like Settlers of Catan and get it done with time to spare.
I also think if you could do PnP online better, people might be more apt to play. of course if you are doign that you guys mine as well fire up a MMORPG or NWN and play that way.
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January 24, 2006, 11:03:42 PM »
First, go to this page and download the Test Drive Rules 4.0, basically a free PDF that is pretty much the entire ruleset right there, including character creation. The main things that are missing are more special case rules.
Savage Worlds is basically 1 book with just rules. As a warning, they're based off miniature wargame rules, which is partially why they're so fast, so some things it does will seem odd to a pure role player. They're also somewhat geared for more heroic action adventure games right out of the book, but tweaking is not only encouraged in the rules it's also the norm for the setting books.
The publisher has gone on record saying that they won't be printing fifty books for the same setting and making their settings too unweildy to use. You'll need just the main rulebook, a setting book (or a setting of your own) and maybe an optional side book or pdf adventure.
The key reason why it's so fast, at least for the GM, is that everything's rated the same way. Just 5 attributes and a set of skills that are rated in about 5 steps. It's really easy to think up an entire stat line, and the stat lines take up about a paragraph instead of an entire page that D&D does.
As for the topic, the reasons why things are more popular are pretty simple and we've already covered most of them. It's just a sign of the times too, with everything being so fast paced nowadays. It's just easier to fire of a cooperative video game than to setup an RPG session. That said, who knows what the future will bring. Maybe a full VR system and thinking computers will help role playing come back big time with fully interactive GMed VR campaigns. But it's somewhat doubtful it'll still be called role playing.
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August 11, 2006, 01:08:20 AM »
I have to go with card games primarily because they're the easiest to find enough players for and often the most accessible to new players. They don't have to think of themselves as "gamers" so there's no mindset (?) against their playing.
I prefer boardgames if the group is more obviously gathered for a certain amount of time and purpose. If we meet some Friday or Saturday, I'll play virtually any boardgame. Last week, we played
. I thought that was fun and really easy to get into.
PnP gaming: It's going to probably stay just history for me. Ironically though, it was the most fun but frankly too dependent on the nature of the players involved. I doubt that I could get a group such as the one I was involved with in high school. I used to think every gamer should have tried PnP gaming at some point.
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Someone should come out with a multi player card game on the DS...
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Let's talk about your feelings at the year's end.
It was one of the best years ever!
2001 was a vast improvement for product selection and / or distribution.
It was OK, but the products offered really didn't excite me.
It was OK, but distribution continued to be a problem for me.
I was very disappointed with the product mix and / or distribution Hasbro offered.
Let's talk about your feelings at the year's end.
All the bottom 3 apply to me but I feel we got heaps of Main characters (which we really didn't need) and the distribution of the toys totally blows!I was very disappointed with the product mix and / or distribution Hasbro offered.
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There were a lot of good products put out this year but they were very hard to find unless you pay on line.
I was very disappointed about the jedi masters. Not to many were put out. I hopeing that this coming year will be a better year for the collectors and the fans.
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"Just when I remembered what it was,I forgot where I put it."
Well, it was a good year if you like having to order every single thing you find, practically, online. Some good figures came out, but like everyone else, I feel the distribution, or lack thereof, damn near killed it for me.
It was a good year for the most part, was able to find assortments about a month or so after release, 12", deluxe figures and ships plentiful (except Toys R Us Tie Fighter). I can't go to the stores in the mornings like I did back in 90's, I got a real job, so some figures were bought on line. I sure do miss speed walking (OK RUNNING) to the Star Wars isle and seeing those new releases! I will never forget when I went to Target way back when and saw the FF Sandtrooper, Boba, Tie, and so on on the pegs. It was funny to see the look on some of the other collectors faces. Some were happy like I was and bought two of each and others were ****ed that Kenner just recarded and added a slide to an old line of figures. I was impressed with the Freeze Frame line, I was sad to see it go! What am I going to do with 12 slide holders. Hasbro, keep up the good work and please do something with the rubbery pastic.
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Someone I saw posting in these forums who claimed to have worked for Hasbro in past years said the rubbery plastic (and I assume you'd point to Aurra Sing's rifle or Amanaman's staff as cases to point out) have to do with required toy safety standards.
The company must have determined it would not be profitable for them to mold and card the same figure in two different series: for adults with harder plastic, and for kids to meet saftey standards.
Furthermore, the gentleman posting said the softer plastic (and painting it) costs more than using traditional hard plastic, so they are not saving money by doing this, but complying with the law.
I've seen Emperor Jargo post before saying that England's safety standards also apply here: they won't allow sharp or hard plastic on fine-point parts or weapons. It also was not effective for Hasbro to make different versions for UK shipping versus elsewhere. Not to mention, variation hunters would require psychiatric care.
Meanwhile, I heard similar information divulged by Hasbro in a Q&A about why Aurra Sing was not sculpted with her antenna, and they said she never will be as it won't pass safety standards, or it will droop and not pass quality control.
I myself would say "let a few kids die or poke their eyes out... who cares? I like the harder plastic for higher accuracy and I got through childhood without injuring myself." Some of you who are parents might not agree.
While this is a valid concern for the quality of products we saw in 2001, it's also still on topic to focus on a lot of other things and I'll chime in about that later, once the "using rubber for protection issue" is resolved.
Actually, I do think other issues brought up are worth talking about now:
In terms of distribution, I'm thinking about polling people about "7am shopping" as it is relevant to distribution: I had no problem finding any wave this year myself, and I was able to get multiples of figures I wanted. Eventually I did find Yestertoys.com more convenient for my Imperial Officer army (6 figures was all I needed) but for the most part, I went out "hunting" for all my product. One reason I have gone to school to get a better job is to afford the things I want (obviously that means Star Wars amongst other things) - and so if I'm up in the mornings to go to work, I make the time to hit the stores in order to be able to buy the Star Wars I want at prices I think are fair for the money I'm earning.
In terms of product offerings and GNT's comments about main characters - I'm honestly not sure if he's right:
R= resculpt---------- JP = Jabba's---------- CA= Cantina Alien-------------
PR = pod race-------------p-w = peg warmer
Main Characters-----------------------Secondary "cool" characters
Leia Bespin Escape (p-w)-------------Aurra Sing (POD RACE)
Chewie Mechanic (R)----------------SaeSae Tiin (JEDI MASTER)
QUEEN Theed Invasion-----------------Tessek (JABBAS PALACE)
Darth Maul (Drag Queen)--------------R2-Q5 (astro droid)
Lando Bespin Escape (R)-------------Plo Koon (JEDI MASTER)
JarJar Mechanic (R)---------------K-3PO
Obi-Wan (Cold Weather)--------------IG-88 (resculpt)
Qui-Gon (Training)-----------------------Mon Calamari (pegwarmer)
QUEEN (Sabe decoy)-------------------Bespin Guard
Shmi Skywalker--------------------------Ketwol (CANTINA ALIEN)
QUEEN (black travel)-------------------Duro (CANTINA ALIEN)
Luke (X-wing) (R)------------------FX-7
Han Stormtrooper Belt (R)---------Imperial Officer (army builder)
Vader (Emperor's Wrath)--------------Rebel Fleet Trooper (army bld)
Luke Bacta Tank-------------------------Zutton (CANTINA ALIEN)
Leia Sail Barge Cannon (R)----------Eeth Koth (JEDI MASTER)
Darth Maul (shirtless)------------------Amanaman (JABBAS PALACE)
---------------------------------------------Sandtrooper (army builder)(R)
That's 35 figures:
3/8 Jedi Masters left were done.
2 Jabba Goons got made (at least 10 more have to be made!)
3 Cantina Aliens got made (at least 9 more have to be made!)
4/35 were army builders (I have suggestions for more Imps / Rebs)
9 / 35 were resculpts if we give shirtless Maul and EW Vader a break
22 / 35 were Classic Star Wars (3 movies); inversely 13 / 35 were Ep. 1
3 / 8 possilbe Padme / decoy / Queen outfits were made
1 astromech repaint got done (I'd like 2 per year, R4's, R-5's etc.)
There are still 6 years to do remaining figures from these categories that are not ONLY from Episodes TWO and THREE (though they better get going on Padme's wardrobe if she keeps changing ever 10 minutes during the film)
But if you spread the remaining items we'd like out over the next 6 years, considering many of us would still like to see Classic Star Wars product during that time (not just AOTC and E3 stuff), Hasbro just put out the perfect assortment for a perfect year - the best since 1997, and they are finally on the ball with a whole lot of great improvements achieved!
So I voted for one of the best years ever! I will remember 2001 quite fondly!
Last edited by Tycho; 12-31-2001 at 03:29 PM.
Well, my biggest concern with this years line was with distribution.
I NEVER saw the B-Wing or Y-Wing and the Lando wave disappeared faster than it could hit the pegs!!!
I am SICK of having to trade or resort to on-line sellers...if they even have 'em in stock...to get what I want.
Meanwhile my local TRU got MASS shipments of the TIE Interceptor.
What is going on with Hasbro's distribution? OH yeah, I forgot, we're talking about HASBRO here.
We're all getting used to Hasbro's LOUSY distribution practices.
I have NO HOPE in finding the last couple of waves, ZERO, ZIP, NADA, you get the point.
Oh well, guess I'll have to buy from some STUPID e-tailer. I HATE having to pay all tose shipping charges, but since Hasbro can't get the job done I guess I'll have to pay.
Thanks HASBRO, for the LOUSY distribution and I'm NOT looking forward to those WAY TOO HARD TO FIND exclusives.
BTW, I am pretty happy with the selection of figures.
May the force be with you.
People, probably telling where you live and buy your toys would be a good idea - as a lot of distribution issues are coming up.
SithKiller, - B-wings here sat on the shelves until they went down to $9.00 in Clearence (San Diego CA, USA)
The Lando /Tessek wave did come and go real fast, but I got like 10 R2-Q5's with no problem on one Walmart run at 7am in the morning. (I kept 2 that I opened and distributed the rest to friends Tony, Dexter, and James who are making large flight hanger scenes and want lots of astromechs). The wave later showed up briefly at Target (around the same month - umm last April or May?) and then disappeared. It is resurfacing now at K-marts and Targets where JarJar and Lando have not been difficult to find - the other two selling better to the early birds doing dioramas with aliens and astromechs).
By contrast, the TIE Interceptor was fairly limited in shipments here, but I haven't bought anything from Toys R Us in a while, save for the last 12" wave which I got from them online.
Meanwhile, I'm not so sure that it was HASBRO's fault with distribution this time: I think a lot of what Walmart and Target ordered, and then how they distributed it after they received shipment, had a lot to do with it. You could have used B-wings, and I could have used Interceptors (SithKiller) - but these stores did get them - was it Hasbro's fault, or theirs (when Target decided to stock 15 pegwarming B-wings in my store and not give you any?) I don't shop TRU very often, because out here in San Diego, they are not doing a very good job (though they have the Deluxe Waves in quantity - but so did K-mart, for nealy $2 cheaper!)
Finally, with online ordering, I'm doing some of that with Yestertoys.com and even after shipping (due to lack of tax) I am paying only $2.oo more for the total purchase (not per individual figure) - than I would by buying them at retail. Their non-mint figures are great - I can't tell what's wrong with them, and are $7.00 each. It's $7.32 after tax for any single figure to leave Target - plus gas and wasted trips when items are not in stock. Yestertoys ships Priority Mail, too. So I did not care that I saved gas, slept in, and got my figures. For kids though, I'd agree, if they can't do the 7-8 am thing, Target and Walmart are not delivering the products with great distribution. But this time around, I think it's less Hasbro's fault.
It was OK. I didn't know it was physically possible but the distribution both sucked and blowed at the same time.


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This is just so awesome. Publishers of the world please take note of EA's pre-release Dead Space animated series. The fourth episode – after the link – turns up the heat on the colony's inhabitants considerably. Watch it now. Here are parts one, two and three, in case you missed them. The sci-fi horror releases […]
Second Dead Space animated comic released
It's on GamersHell. The first one was awesome, so this is definitely something to lighten up your Friday morning. Watch it. Update: Oh. They bleeped out the swearing. Watch it anyway, though.
Dead Space animated movie in the works
EA's making an animated movie prequel of Dead Space, the EA horror game due to ship on Hallowe'en. Starz Media's handling the project. From the press release: The script for the Dead Space animated feature picks up the plot where the original comic book series ends and leads up to the beginning of the Dead […]
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How important is it for the player to be easily able to relate to the morality of the characters in a game? If you present players with a morality that is highly incompatible with their own morality, does it end up being intriguing or does it just make a player feel uncomfortable and alienated? Is it important to couple a radically different morality with a character that the player can identify as being an 'other'?
Just to create a concrete example, say a game contains a culture in which it was viewed as entirely normal to, say discard children if the parents think they've messed them up, or something equally ridiculous from the perspective of our culture. Like anytime before the kids 5th birthday, the parents can call a do-over. The player could be walking around a grocery story, and a kid throws a tantrum, and the parent just rolls their eyes, stick them with a syringe, and throws them in the garbage, and everyone around just looks at it as perfectly acceptable and understandable.
I'm assuming that this would at the very least make the player uncomfortable in the immediate sense. Can it be expected though that the player would make an attempt to acclimate to this different morality, or will they just be revolted? Do most players have any interest in assuming a different morality, or do players mostly hope to take their existing personality & morality and project it onto a new world? Would it make a difference if this culture was that of a race of weird looking bug-aliens instead of people, where a player would identify it as being an okay moral code for those gross things, but not for people?


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Since I have not really made any journal entries, I believe I should go ahead and describe what my current project is. At this point, I am working on repairing FreeBSD's fdesc file system.
What is fdesc? Fdesc is a file system which basically gives you information in file system form about what files (i.e. sockets, pipes, etc.) you have open. Since devfs likely won't be available for a while, I decided I'd make this something to work on. Currently the FS data such as the date, owner and permissions in fdesc ``as-is'' is set inaccurately (or to zero).
Currently, FreeBSD uses a directory, /dev/fd,
which is basically full of a bunch of device nodes that
really tell you absolutely nothing about your open
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$ ls -l /dev/fd 3>/dev/tcp/10.0.0.2/21 | tee /dev/null total 0 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 3 Mar 29 06:14 0 prw-rw-rw- 1 chris chris 0 Mar 29 06:14 1 crw------- 1 chris tty 5, 3 Mar 29 06:14 2 srw-rw-rw- 1 chris chris 0 Mar 29 06:14 3 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 27 06:03 4 dr--r--r-- 2 root wheel 512 Mar 27 06:03 5
Note: The /dev/tcp/addr/port-no is a feature of the Korn shell and is in no way related to my fdesc work (other than being an awfully convenient way to make a socket in the shell).


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After a brief mindwarmer of a DJ set from local fuzzkins Planets Around the Sun, Brooklyn-based banjoist Melaena Cadiz played a frolicking batch of lightly mournful Americana songs. She was joined by local everything-player Vince Nez on vocals and guitar; the two shared a good musical vocabulary despite having just met the day before. Vince Nez is a deft improviser, and his unassuming playfulness was a good fit with Cadiz's silvery croon.
It feels most appropriate to call Kevin Micka, the sole member of Animal Hospital, a sound architect. His churning, rhythmic collages were organically played, looped, tweaked, and layered with a fleet of switchboards, guitars, and effects pedals. For additional performance value (or perhaps to silence unbelievers), an on-stage camera projected a bird's-eye live feed of Micka's knob throbbery onto an upstage screen.
After another intermittent Planets DJ swamp kept the kids (from) feeling awkward, Grouper came on, and a gorgeous set of subterranean dreampop warble followed. A one-woman band, Liz Harris filled the room without drowning it, and her minor-key chord progressions revisited the ponderous maladies of Robin Guthrie with a steeping note of distant terror. Enough, perhaps, to coax a bead of sweat from a brow or two.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 03:58 PM
Life is full of surprises! Here in the U.S. we have April Fools Day on April 1st. Have you ever been surprised by someone playing an April Fools joke on you? Or, you can scrap about another surprise that has happened in your life. You dont have to have photos. It could be a journaling page. Please post your layouts in the April Monthly Layout Gallery before April 30th at midnight Mountain Time and you could be one of the two people who will win a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Be sure to add your product credits to the description area or in the EXIF properties.
Posted 02 April 2012 - 01:25 AM
This is a great challenge Pat!
Click the images below to be taken to the product page
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Posted 03 April 2012 - 01:34 AM
I've got an idea, but the journalling will not be easy.
Posted 03 April 2012 - 04:49 AM
Pat, sounds a good challenge. If I do a page it might be just a jounaling one about a childhood memory of April Fools day at school.
Posted 03 April 2012 - 05:22 AM
Looking forward to seeing your entries this month. what a fun challenge!
Elisha Barnett
Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:56 AM
The Journalling wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, once I sat down to write it. This is the first time I did the journalling first then created the layout.
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Posted 06 April 2012 - 05:13 PM
Valerie your Simply Amazing layout is absolutely amazing!
I've got my thinking cap on for this one - not sure what I'm going to do yet.
I've got my thinking cap on for this one - not sure what I'm going to do yet.
Posted 07 April 2012 - 12:01 AM
I couldn't resist this challenge Pat! What great opportunity for a laugh! Here's mine surprisingly named SURPRISE!
Posted 17 April 2012 - 06:16 AM
I enjoyed recording this childhood memory so thankyou Pat.
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Posted 25 April 2012 - 03:01 PM
Here's my layout for the April Surprise Challenge - Jax Surprise
Posted 26 April 2012 - 01:31 PM
Here is mine --- Buddie & Odie's 12th Birthday Party Surprise --- TFL!
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Remember Friday nights? Those used to be the days when you went to the club and met cute guys, met-up with friends at the bar, grabbed a bite to eat at your favorite restaurant, or took in a flick with your mate.
I remember those nights fondly, but since becoming a mom my Friday nights consist of burrowing through heavier-than normal rush hour traffic, fixing dinner, and trying to fight sleep and actually enjoy the fact that it's Friday night.
Just because your a mom doesn't mean that your once-fun Friday nights have to become just like Tuesday night, it just means that you will need to find fun things to do as a family (or call a sitter). Here are my favorite family-fun Friday night activities:
Bowling for Ninos
The bowling alley is fun, energetic, and usually not too expensive. Two games is usually enough fun for everyone. If you are bringing a few kids, rent two lanes next to each other and allow the kids to enjoy their own game with bumpers. I prefer a bowling alley that offers a great selection of food and bar.
Amusement Parks
Most families wait until weekend to hit up the local amusement park, but Friday nights are actually a perfect time. No, you won't have all day to ride, but if you invest in Season Passes it won't matter. You and your kiddies can ride well into the night with no crowds. That means more rides in less time.
Drive-ins are a great way to enjoy a movie without having to take it so seriously. Dress the kids in pajamas, sneak in some real food, and watch a movie everyone can enjoy. If you have access to a pickup truck, take it. It's better to pile into the back of the bed, the kids also have a bit of room to move around.
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Baseball, football, basketball–whatever your fancy, Friday night games are always the best! Even if you are not a sports fan, there is nothing better and more exciting than a live game whether it be at your local high school or the nearby professional sports arena. Check StubHub for cheap tickets to local events all year long.
Sweet Treats and Movies
On cold, rainy days, the best place to spend a Friday night is right at home. Make some treats with the kids like cookies, brownies and popcorn, and watch some of your favorite family movies. The sugary treats will keep you up passed your normal bedtime, and allow for quality family time.
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Evening Primrose Oil
Can Evening Primrose Oil help increase fertility? Is it safe to take it? What are it's benefits and side effects?
14th September 2012 04:02 AM #2
Evening primrose oil is a vital component of natural, feminine health. It can help to decrease vaginal dryness, lower cholesterol, and may help to dilate the cervix during latent pregnancy.
Some studies also suggest that it may help to improve fertility by increasing the quality of fertile mucous. It also may help to balance the body and reduce the symptoms of PMS.
EPO should be used with caution by individuals with seizure or blood clotting disorders.
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Thanks mom2many. I appreciate your taking time to reply.
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Description Also called red oak or champion oak, (syn. Quercus borealis), this member of the red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae) is a native of North America, in the northeastern United States and southeast Canada. It grows from the north end of the Great Lakes, east to Nova Scotia, south as far as Georgia and states with good soil that is slightly acidic.
In forests, the northern red oak grows straight and tall, to 28 m (90 ft), exceptionally to 43 m (140 ft) tall, with a trunk of up to 50-100 cm (20-40 in) diameter. Open-grown trees do not get so tall, but can develop a stouter trunk, up to 2 m (6 ft) in diameter. It has stout branches growing at right angles to the stem, forming a narrow round-topped head. It grows rapidly and is tolerant of many soils and varied situations, although it prefers the glacial drift and well-drained borders of streams. It is frequently a part of the canopy in an oak-heath forest, but generally not as important as some other oaks.
Under optimal conditions, northern red oak is fast growing and a 10-year-old tree can be 5-6 m (15-20 ft) tall. Trees may live up to 500 years, and a living example of 326 years was noted in 2001 by Orwig et al.
Northern red oak is easy to recognize by its bark, which feature bark ridges that appear to have shiny stripes down the center. A few other oaks have bark with this kind of appearance in the upper tree, but the northern red oak is the only tree with the striping all the way down the trunk.
Bark: Dark reddish grey brown, with broad, thin, rounded ridges, scaly. On young trees and large stems, smooth and light gray. Rich in tannic acid. Branchlets slender, at first bright green, shining, then dark red, finally dark brown. Bark is brownish gray, becoming dark brown on old trees.
Winter buds: Dark chestnut brown (reddish brown), ovate, acute, generally 6 mm long
Leaves: Alternate, seven to nine-lobed, oblong-ovate to oblong, five to ten inches long, four to six inches broad; seven to eleven lobes tapering gradually from broad bases, acute, and usually repandly dentate and terminating with long bristle-pointed teeth; the second pair of lobes from apex are largest; midrib and primary veins conspicuous. Lobes are less deeply cut than most other oaks of the red oak group. Leaves emerge from the bud convolute, pink, covered with soft silky down above, coated with thick white tomentum below. When full grown are dark green and smooth, sometimes shining above, yellow green, smooth or hairy on the axils of the veins below. In autumn they turn a rich red, sometimes brown. Often the petiole and midvein are a rich red color in midsummer and early autumn, though this is not true of all red oaks. Petioles year, about 18 months after pollination; solitary or in pairs, sessile or stalked; nut oblong-ovoid with broad flat base, full, with acute apex, one half to one and one-fourth of an inch long, first green, maturing nut-brown; cup, saucer-shaped and shallow, 2cm (0.8 in) wide, usually covering only the base, sometimes one-fourth of the nut, thick, shallow, reddish brown, somewhat downy within, covered with thin imbricated reddish brown scales.
Warning Leaves and acorns toxic to animals if eaten; in some cases fatal. Humans should generally avoid ingesting plants that are toxic to animals.
Habitat Grasslands & prairies, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Cities, suburbs & towns.
Range Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Southeast, Eastern Canada, Plains, New England.
Comments One of the most shade-tolerant oaks. Transplants readily due to negligible taproot. Susceptible to the deadly oak wilt. Do not prune in wilt-infested areas during the growing season. Fairly fast-growing. Withstands pollution. Develops chlorosis in soils of high pH.
Exposure Preference Sun to partial shade.
Native Distribution Nova Scotia to Ontario & Minnesota, s. to Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, e. Kansas & e. Nebraska
Site Preference Mesic upland, forests; ravines; north & east slopes
Soil Preference Well-drained, loamy sands. pH 4.8-6.5.
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So this dude gets banned, then creates a new screen name to get around the ban??
Doesn't that get you a lifetime ban?
So this dude gets banned, then creates a new screen name to get around the ban??
Doesn't that get you a lifetime ban?
What I have learned these past few days is that Philbin is a questionable head coach, Tannehill sucks and will never improve, Jake Long sucks and we shouldn't even consider bringing him back, Ireland sucks, Ross is clueless and Miami has no chance for success anytime soon. Did I capture all the doom and gloom?
Well reading this thread makes me realize I hate the words aquas, oranges , elite, and blue chip
As for Tannehill being the worst rookie QB, I disagree. I think he is close with all of them and better than Weeden. Tannehills problem is his weapons for sure. I think his long ball is fine, he just got too excited this past week. He hadnt seen a guy open downfield in weeks and he got a little too excited. I think if he starts seeing opportunities regularly he will become much more consistent with those throws. Just look at the players around all the other rookies. 3 out of 4 of them have top notch running backs. Not little ass 200 lb backs, were talking Richardson, Lynch, and Morris. each team also has better receivers. I think if we had kept Marshall tannehills progress would be much greater. Too bad, I sure hope we draft a Wr in the 1st. If we dont get one till the 5th again I will be ready to speak out with everyone to get him canned.
R1: Devante Parker WR Lousville
R2: Denzel Perryman LB Miami
R4: David Cobb RB Minnesota
R5: Adrian Amos Safety Penn State
R5: Doran Grant CB Ohio State
R6: Warren Herring DT Wisconsin
Finjim... Your trolling every post... GOOD JOB BRO!
@califin - Like I said in my previous post, I want to see what Tannehill can do with some weapons. I just wish he did the small things. Like pump fakes and and looking off his #1 target after the snap. Our longest passing play of the year is 39 yards... Brandon Weeden has a 72 yard pass, 62 yard pass, and a 54 yard pass this season...
Actually I didn't read it all the way through. I was just looking for an excuse to use that picture. Lol.
Forgive my spelling. This was sent from my phone.
I dont know about any1 else but im on the verge of putting Luck into the All World category.This guy makes EVERYONE better.
RGIII is really coming along and im liking him more and more.


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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 2:45 PM GMT on March 11, 2013
In 2010, Russia baked through its most intense heat wave in recorded history, one that killed over 55,000 people. At the same time, intense rains deluged Pakistan, bringing that nation its worst natural disaster in its history. The following year, it was the United States' turn for extreme heat, as the nation sweltered through its third hottest summer on record, and Oklahoma suffered the hottest month any U.S. state has ever recorded. The U.S. summer of 2012 was even more extreme. Only the Dust Bowl summer of 1936 was hotter, and drought conditions were the most extensive since the 1930s. All of these events--and many more unusually extreme summer months in recent decades--had a common feature, said scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany, in a research paper published in March 2013 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to the authors, "each time one of these extremes struck, a strong wave train had developed in the atmosphere, circling the globe in mid-latitudes. These so-called planetary waves are well-known and a normal part of atmospheric flow. What is not normal is that the usually moving waves ground to a halt and were greatly amplified during the extreme events. Looking into the physics behind this, we found it is due to a resonance phenomenon. Under special conditions, the atmosphere can start to resonate like a bell. The wind patterns form a regular wave train, with six, seven or eight peaks and troughs going once around the globe". Using a complex theoretical mathematical description of the atmosphere and 32 years of historical weather data, the scientists showed that human-caused global warming might be responsible for this resonance phenomenon, which became twice as common during 2001 - 2012 compared to the previous 22 years.
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Figure 2. Business was slow at the Lake Conroe, Texas jet ski rental in 2011, thanks to the great Texas drought and heat wave of 2011. Texas endured its driest 1-year period on record in 2011, and had the hottest summer ever recorded by a U.S. state. July 2011 in Oklahoma was the hottest month any U.S. state has ever recorded, and the contiguous U.S. had its third hottest summer on record. The total direct losses to crops, livestock and timber from the drought, heat wave, and record fires of the summer of 2011 are estimated at $12 billion, with a death toll of 95. Image credit: wunderphotographer BEENE.
Figure 3. Tourists wear protective face masks as they walk along the Red Square in Moscow, Russia on Aug. 6, 2010. Moscow was shrouded by a dense smog that grounded flights at international airports and seeped into homes and offices, due to wildfires worsened by the city's most intense heat wave in its history. The heat wave and fires during the summer of 2010 killed over 55,000 people in Russia and decimated the Russian wheat crop, causing global food prices to spike. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
Two fundamental atmospheric flow patterns may be resonating more often due to global warming
Earth's atmosphere has two fundamental patterns. One is a series of wave-like troughs and ridges in the jet stream called planetary (or Rossby) waves, which march west-to-east at about 15 - 25 mph around the globe. The other pattern behaves more like a standing wave, with no forward motion, and is created by the unequal heating of the equatorial regions compared to the poles, modulated by the position of the continents and oceans. A number of papers have been published showing that these two patterns can interact and resonate in a way that amplifies the standing wave pattern, causing the planetary waves to freeze in their tracks for weeks, resulting in an extended period of extreme heat or flooding, depending upon where the high-amplitude part of the wave lies. But what the Potsdam Institute scientists found is that because human-caused global warming is causing the Arctic to heat up more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the planet, the two patterns are interacting more frequently during the summer. During the most recent eleven years, 2002 - 2012, there were eight Julys and Augusts that showed this unusually extreme resonance pattern (this includes the U.S. heat wave of July - August 2012.) The two previous eleven year periods, 1991 - 2001 and 1980 - 1990, had just four extreme months apiece. Global warming could certainly cause this observed increase in the resonance phenomenon, but the researchers cautioned, "The suggested physical process increases the probability of weather extremes, but additional factors certainly play a role as well, including natural variability. Also, the 32-year period studied in the project provides a good indication of the mechanism involved, yet is too short for definitive conclusions. So there's no smoking gun on the table yet--but quite telling fingerprints all over the place."
Figure 4. The northward wind speed (negative values, blue on the map, indicate southward flow) at an altitude of 300 mb in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during July 2011 and July 1980. July of 2011 featured an unusually intense and long-lasting heat wave in the U.S., and the normally weak and irregular waves (like observed during the relatively normal July of 1980) were replaced by a strong and regular wave pattern. Image credit: Vladimir Petoukhov.
The new Potsdam Institute paper gives us a mathematical description of exactly how global warming may be triggering observed fundamental changes in large-scale atmospheric flow patterns, resulting in the observed increase in unusually intense and long-lasting periods of extreme weather over the past eleven years. The paper also adds important theoretical support to the research published in 2012 by Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, which found that the amplitude of Earth's planetary waves had increased by over 100 miles (161 km) in summer over the past decade in the Northern Hemisphere. Dr. Francis theorized that this change was connected to increased heating of the Arctic relative to the rest of the Earth, due to the observed decline in late spring Northern Hemisphere snow cover. Humans tend to think linearly--one plus one equals two. However, the atmosphere is fundamentally non-linear. What may seem to be modest changes in Earth's climate can trigger unexpected resonances that will amplify into extreme changes--cases where one plus one equals four, or eight, or sixteen. In some cases, when you rock the boat too far, it won't simply roll a bit more, it will reach a tipping point where it suddenly capsizes. Similarly, human-caused global warming is capable of pushing the climate past a tipping point where we enter a new climate regime, one far more disruptive than what we are used to.
Julys and Augusts since 1980 when quasiresonant extreme conditions were observed
The Potsdam Institute's research lists sixteen July and August periods since 1980 that have had extreme atmospheric flow patterns due to quasiresonance. These months featured severe regional heat waves and destructive floods in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes, detailed below. Half of these months occurred in the most recent 11-year period, 2002 - 2012. During most of these extreme months, there was not a moderate or strong La Niña or El Niño event contributing to the extremes. Summers when a La Niña or El Niño event was present are listed in parentheses, based on the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI).
July and early August 2012: Catastrophic floods in China and Japan, as well as record-breaking temperatures during heat waves in the United States and southern Europe (weak summer El Niño)
July 2011: Record heat wave in the United States, resulting in the fourth warmest July on record nationally and the driest conditions in the southern United States ever (weak summer La Niña)
July/August 2010: Russian heat wave and the Pakistan flood, with the strongest and most persistent extreme weather conditions and the highest death tolls from heat waves and floods ever for these two regions (strong summer La Niña)
July 2006: Temperatures higher than 100°F for only the second time in Britain's history and much of Europe experiencing a serious heat wave (weak summer El Niño)
August 2004: Much of northern Europe hit by very low winter-like temperatures and sporadic snowfalls (moderate to strong summer El Niño)
August 2003: European summer 2003 heat wave, causing a highly persistent drought in western Europe (weak summer El Niño)
August 2002: Catastrophic Elbe and Danube floods (strong summer El Niño)
July 2000: Destructive floods in northern Italy and the Tisza basin and a simultaneous heat wave in the southern United States, smashing all-time high-temperature records by that time at many sites (strong summer La Niña)
July/August 1997: Disastrous Great European Flood, which caused several deaths in central Europe, and the destroying floods in Pakistan and western United States (strong summer El Niño)
July 1994: Very strong heat wave in southern Europe, with a national temperature record of 47.2°C set in Spain (weak summer El Niño)
July 1993: Unprecedented great flood in the United States that reigned over the country from April (weak summer El Niño)
July 1989: Unusually intense and unprecedented widespread drought in the United States (weak summer La Niña)
August 1987: Severe drought in the southeastern United States (strong summer El Niño)
August 1984: Continuation of the severe heat of summer 1983, with serious drought in the United States (weak summer La Niña)
July and August 1983: Very dry conditions, severe heat, and substandard crop growth (5–35% below normal) in the Midwest United States (weak summer El Niño)
Petoukhov, V., Rahmstorf, S., Petri, S., Schellnhuber, H. J. (2013), "Quasi-resonant amplification of planetary waves and recent Northern Hemisphere weather extremes" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (Early Edition) [doi:10.1073/pnas.1222000110]. No subscription required, but understanding this article requires a graduate-level understanding of the mathematical theory of atmospheric dynamics. Try reading instead this easy-to-read description of the paper by the authors, published at http://theconversation.edu.au.
Press release issued in March 2013 by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), "Weather extremes provoked by trapping of giant waves in the atmosphere."
In this 40-minute lecture presented in 2013 at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University explains the linkage between warming in the Arctic due to human-caused global warming and an observed shift in Northern Hemisphere jet stream patterns.
Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the Arctic, a March 2012 article by Dr. Jennifer Francis in the Yale Environment 360.
Francis, J.A., and S.J.Vavrus, 2012, "Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes", GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 39, L06801, doi:10.1029/2012GL051000, 2012
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The Broader View: "OCHA is our bridge into the UN system"
Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, 46/182, to establish a global humanitarian system. The resolution called for governments and aid agencies around the world to work together to deal with the rising number of crises. Two decades on, that system is more important than ever.
Elizabeth Rasmussen, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, explains how she learned the importance of coordination in Angola, in 1997 – and why OCHA is so important for non-governmental organisations.
From the point of view of NGOs and the humanitarian partners, it's very important that OCHA exists, because OCHA is the one UN agency that is trying to bring all of us together.
We also feel that OCHA is in many ways our bridge into other parts of the UN system.
There is another thing which OCHA does well, and that is humanitarian advocacy. I think particularly with the last few emergency relief coordinators – and maybe particularly with Valerie Amos – we have seen that OCHA is really raising the profile of humanitarian action, of humanitarian actors, and of the importance of principled humanitarian activities.
That's very important to all of us.
I truly realized how important coordination is, when I started as Field Coordinator for United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) and Unit for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance in Angola (UCAH) in Angola in 1997.
After the war that ended a few years earlier; the needs were breathtaking and the resources minimal. It was critical that we coordinated closely the few resources we had, so that the humanitarian response could have as much impact as possible.
Coordination is no longer a voluntary effort. It is the way the humanitarian community does things. Coordination has become our methodology. At this point, we have some very good coordinators who understand the very purpose of coordination and are bringing actors together in an efficient way.
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Five Types of Married Couples based on ENRICH - 1993 (click here)
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This study identified five distinct types of married couples from a sample of 6,267 couples, using the marital inventory ENRICH. Profiles were derived using a three-stage cluster analytic procedure, including an exploratory cluster analysis, a replication of the exploratory results, and a cross-validation. The five-cluster solution was robust. Vitalized couples (12%) reported high relationship quality on all dimensions. Harmonious couples (11%) had relatively high relationship quality. Traditional couples (16%) had scores that were slightly above average with markedly higher scores on parenting and religious scales. Conflicted couples (25%) were characterized by moderately low scores on all but the roles scale. The Devitalized couples (36%) had the lowest scores on every ENRICH dimension.
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This study identified 4 types of engaged couples from a sample of 5,030 couples, using the premarital inventory PREPARE. Profiles were derived using a 3-stage clustering analytic procedure, including an exploratory cluster analysis, a replication of the exploratory results, and a cross-validation analysis. All indicated that the 4-cluster solution was the best. The Vitalized couples (28%) reported high scores on all dimensions. Harmonious couples (27%) had moderately positive relationship quality. Traditional couples (23%) had moderately low intrarelationship scores but scored higher on scales assessing planning for marriage. Conflicted couples (22%) were characterized by pervasively low scores.
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The familiar eyeball shape of the Helix Nebula shows only two dimensions of this complex celestial body. But new observations suggest it may actually be composed of two gaseous disks nearly perpendicular to each other.
Henize 206 Nebula
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This false-color infrared image captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Henize 206 Nebula, a massive cloud of gas and dust in which hundreds and possibly thousands of new stars have formed over the last ten million years. The nebula, located just outside the Milky Way in a galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, offers astrophysicists a celestial ringside seat on the death and rebirth of stars.
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It's late at night in a windowless, basement room at CIA headquarters in Langley. A group of men, all dressed in black suits, sit around a table, cigarette smoke fills the air and no one is saying anything until suddenly the only door swings open and a young recruit pops her head through.
"Cough, cough, what are you guys doing in here?" she asks. "You know smoking was banned in all federal agencies years ago!"
"Yeah," one of the agents says, snubbing out a butt in an ashtray. "But we're stuck and sitting around smoking always seems to help in the movies. Come on in and shut the door."
"Hey, wait a minute," another agent says.
"It's OK," the first agent replies. "We've had women agents longer than there's been a smoking ban."
"No, no," the other agent says, "I mean what you said about the movies. Anyone seen 'Argo?'"
"Yeah," the first agent grumbles. "Shame Ben Affleck didn't get a Best Director nomination."
"No, I mean the movie," the other agent says. "It was about a covert agency operation posing as a film crew to get hostages out of Iran."
"Oh yeah," the first agent says, reaching for another cigarette and getting slapped on the hand by the young, female recruit. "Ouch! Something about a sci-fi movie, right? So how does that solve our problem?"
"Look," the agent says. "We're supposed to be figuring out how to get into North Korea, sabotage its nuclear and missile programs, and open the world's most closed society up to western culture. Problem is, they don't trust us and won't let anyone from the west even visit."
"So we're going to tell them we want to come make a sci-fi flick?" the first agent asks. "That's dumb. They probably don't even get the Sci-Fi Channel. They wouldn't know sci-fi from hi-fi. It'll never work."
"No, no, no," the other agent says. "We can't pull that ruse again. Kim Jong-un has probably already seen a bootlegged copy of 'Argo' anyway. We have to come up with something better but the same principle applies, something they would never suspect as being a CIA operation."
"A reality TV show?" the first agent suggests. "You know, like 'Survivor: Pyongyang?'"
"Not very realistic," the other agent says. "No Westerner could survive long in Pyongyang."
"I know!" says the female agent. "We'll send in the women from 'The View' to broadcast live for a week. While Barbara Walters woos Kim Jong-un, Whoopi and Joy can steal the missile and bomb plans and set up a nationwide wi-fi Internet system."
"Too risky," one agent says. "Whoopi might try and take over."
"Look, if we really want to send in someone no one would suspect as being covert CIA agents, why don't we send Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters?"
"I thought we weren't going to do sci-fi?" an agent says. "Those guys are from another planet."
"Brilliant!" says the lead agent.
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Elon Musk Unveils His Vision For 'The Future of Design' With Hand Manipulated Holographic Technology
I can't believe I just typed that sentence. The video is up, and here it is:
Musk showed a wireframe of the rocket part, and he was able to rotate the 3D object on a screen with one hand, and with a second hand, he zoomed in and out, moved it around the screen, and spun the object around and "caught it"--all in the air.
He moved on to manipulating an actual 3D CAD model and interacting with the software; you can see that he used a Leap Motion controller. He performed pretty much all the same motions as above, but it appears as though he was able to "click" certain areas, too.
Next, he shows off a 3D projection, a freestanding glass projection (Ironman style), and interacts with the model using the Oculus Rift. Finally, he prints the part in titanium with a 3D metal printer.
The input methods he demos are powerful, although he's just using existing technology to do it. This isn't really a future-leaning endeavor per se. Finally, note that we don't actually see him design anything; the models he works with are already made. Still, it's exciting to see new ways of doing things come to life on screen.


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Princeton junior Joanna Friedman has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship, which supports promising students in their graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Friedman, who is from Mansfield, Texas, is an English major and certificate candidate in linguistics. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in English and hopes to become a professor.
Friedman is primarily interested in Renaissance drama, particularly the works of Shakespeare. "I'm interested in early modern representations of race and ethnicity but also, more broadly, in how Elizabethans perceived 'marginal' segments of the population," she said.
Friedman is one of 20 students from around the country to be awarded 2006 Beinecke Scholarships, which provide each winner with $2,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. The awards were established in 1971 and are administered by the Sperry Fund.
Friedman served as president of the Princeton Debate Panel during her junior year and has won several awards for excellence in debate. Previously, she was president of the senate for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the country's oldest student-run political, literary and debating society. She also is an undergraduate fellow of the Policy Research Institute for the Region and a writer and editor for several campus political publications.
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Glory 14: Why We Need More Five-Round Fights
- Written by Aneel Deshmukh
The conclusion of Glory 14 saw kickboxing legend Remy Bonjasky hang up his gloves after a hard-fought three round battle with Mirko Cro Cop that featured moments of vintage greatness from both fighters. Remy actively landed his signature kicks and knees while Cro Cop connected with thundering high kicks and powerful punches. Some fans may find fault with the decision, but I feel that it was rendered appropriately as Bonjasky landed more cleanly with his knees in the first two rounds, taking the fight two rounds to one. But did that mean that both fighters were done fighting? Hardly. Cro Cop turned up the pressure in Round 3, cornering Bonjasky and landing hard punches in the pocket. As controversial as fans may see the decision, there is no doubt that a fight of this magnitude should have been a five round fight.
The lack of five rounds is a curiosity in the sport of kickboxing. An ongoing staple of Muay Thai, the kickboxing world has largely spurned the concept, preferring a 3x3min structure originally set in place by K-1. This might be seen as a way to streamline the action, giving fighters a more limited time frame to make their case for the win and preventing fighters who are ahead on the scorecards from coasting through rounds. Indeed, "speeding up the action" is a reason that's been frequently utilized to justify many of Kickboxing's more unusual rules, particularly its controversial and often inconsistent clinch rules. While it's unusual and remarkably savvy for promoters to tailor the rules of the sport to suit their product, the flipside in this particular case are lost opportunities to see great fights live up to their full potential.
Take Andy Ristie vs. Davit Kiria, for example. This was a fight that like Bonjasky vs. Cro Cop, could have ended after three rounds with a clear decision in favor of Ristie, yet like the Bonjasky fight, gave us a glimpse of what was possible in Rounds 4 and 5. Davit Kiria was still in the game after three rounds, turtling up Albert Kraus style and taking heavy punishment from Ristie while returning with counters that were increasingly finding their mark. The pendulum was beginning to swing, and there was a palpable sense that Kiria could gain control of the fight. Ending the fight after Round 3 would have deprived audiences of the best comeback of the year so far.
Kiria, like Remy Bonjasky and Buakaw in the past, is a slow starter whose essential style is not rewarded by current Kickboxing rules. These men typically open with careful, more conservative movements, studying their opponent in the early frames and then intensifying their offensive output in later rounds. This may not satisfy those who would prefer a consistently fast tempo for the fight, but I would argue that this cerebral style of fighting has an appropriate place in the sport, creating intrigue and suspense. A chess match is a great spectacle in and of itself, especially when it involves two elite competitors. Alternatively, a five round fight also allows us to see a knockdown, drag-out brawl like Chahid vs. Mike Zambidis or a tense affair like Artem Levin vs. Joe Schilling come to a more definitive conclusion. While Glory would undoubtedly have to adjust its pacing and structure its fight cards appropriately to accommodate a five round fight, Kiria vs. Ristie has clearly illustrated that the results can be magnificent, title or not.


text: Kevin- while I can't talk about the Lake Country RC or Southern Minny (I know there's good people in both, I'm just not familiar with their training days etc..), in looking at where your located and thinking of where some of the FPRC guys live, your pretty close. The FPRC guys who are in the Waconia to Apple Valley "range" are all great guys and very welcoming. So I would second Travis's recommendation above and go to the seminar if for nothing else then to wet your appetite on training dogs and to meet some people. I would imagine that the majority of those guys that I mentioned above will be there and you'll get the chance to meet them then.