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Sweet of you to take her in. If grandpa didn't talk in high pitch voice, it may not help the dog. let the dog take the initiative and drop treats for doing so. If she is ready, have him pet her under her chin, avoid leaning over, direct eye contact or petting the top line as this can be intimidating. Give her room but also private time to "digest" the information she is getting. Chew bones might help with anxiety. This is major for her.
Have your boy friend spend time alone with her and just be in the room with her without putting pressure on her. She evidently loves human contact and if she doesn't have a choice she also may bond with him quicker.
|Thank you both! We will try the ignoring tactic and see how it goes! I appreciate your input!
|Yes I would have responded exactly as Pax said! Ignoring her in the beginning will be his best bet. The less of a big deal you make about her behavior the better. And not pushing her past threshold, respecting her boundaries will gain her trust.
It sounds like she may not have been socialized very much. She is probably very stressed with so much change. I would keep working on her training to start building a good relationship with her. I also wouldn't force anything on her at this point. She is going to have a bad association with anything she feels is forced on her - including your boyfriend. I would start by having your boyfriend completely ignore her - no eye contact, no talking to her, no approaching her, nothing. Pretty much like she doesn't exist. Let her get used to him and approach him at her own pace. She will be much more comfortable and he will have a better chance to get friendly with her after she is used to him and he isn't a scary or threatening presence in her perception.
You can also try starting an association between his presence and something she likes. Stuff a Kong with peanut butter or dry treats. Anytime he walks in the room, he just sits down and hangs out and she immediately gets a good treat. That way, his arrival always means something good is going to happen.
Most importantly, give her plenty of time to adjust. Three days is a VERY short span of time to be asking a dog to be okay with a new person she's never met, especially after a major home change and a less than great socialization experience.
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3 days ago I brought my passing grandfather's GSD, Holly home. She has always taken interest in me, and being an avid dog lover with plenty of time and space for her I decided to take her in. She's approximately 3-4 years old, wasn't trained or exercised, or introduced to more than a handful of people. She is very sweet and loving, and the past few days I've been working on training and getting her used to walking 2 times a day. Things are going well; however, whenever my boyfriend enters the room she's in, she growls and runs away from him. I know she is in a new home with lots of changes, but my boyfriend is getting irritated with her and feels like he will get bitten. He's tried getting down to her level, giving her treats, and talking in a high pitched voice. I am determined to make this work, as she had special meaning to my grandfather and I want to give her a forever home. I'm just confused and need some input to try to improve the situation. Thank you for any tips!
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Seroprevalence of HSV-2 in HIV Infected Subjects and the Effect of Daily Valacyclovir in the Reduction of HSV-2 Recurrence and Viral Shedding
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|HSV-2 HIV HIV Infections
|Drug: Valacyclovir Drug: Placebo
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Seroprevalence of HSV-2 in HIV Infected Subjects and the Effect of Daiy Valacyclovir in the Reduction of HSV-2 Recurrences and Viral Shedding
- To evaluate efficacy of valacyclovir 1gm PO twice daily for the suppression of genital herpes in HIV/HSV-2 positive subjects receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) [ Time Frame: 24 Weeks ]
- To determine the prevalence of unrecognized genital HSV-2 infection in persons attending HIV care clinics [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- To evaluate the efficacy of valacyclovir in reducing HSV-2 viral shedding in HIV/HSV-2 positive subjects [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- To evaluate the efficacy of valacyclovir in reducing plasma HIV-1 RNA viral load in HIV-HSV-2 positive subjects [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- To evaluate the safety of valacyclovir for the suppression of genital herpes in HIV/HSV-2 positive subjects. [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
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|January 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Active Comparator: Valacyclovir
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Drug: Placebo
Dosage: Two tablets once a day for 24 weeks
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Most people with herpes infections do not know they have the infection. HSV infections most often occur in areas in and around the mouth and genital tract. HSV Type 1 (HSV-1) usually causes "cold sores" or fever blisters and HSV Type 2 (HSV-2) usually causes lesions in the genital or rectal areas. However, HSV-1 can sometimes cause genital herpes and HSV-2 can cause oral lesions (acquired from oral-genital sex). Herpes Simplex is transmitted by contact with someone who is shedding virus in either the mouth or genital tract, usually by kissing or sexual intercourse. While contact with an active sore can cause transmission, so can contact with saliva or genital secretions that are infected, even when the person does not have an obvious sore. This is called asymptomatic shedding of HSV. Once acquired, the virus has the ability to remain inactive in the nervous system in the area of the mouth or genital region.
Persons with both HIV and HSV-2 often have shedding of both viruses. We know that persons with HSV-2 tend to have increased amounts of HIV in their blood as well. Recently, research studies have found that taking medicine daily to prevent asymptomatic HSV-2 shedding can reduce the amount of HIV found in the blood and in genital secretions. This study seeks to determine how common herpes is among persons with HIV who do not know they have it and if valacyclovir (FDA approved drug) reduces outbreaks of herpes, the amount of HIV in the blood, and the amount of HSV in bodily secretions.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- 19 years or older
- HSV-2 seropositive as determined by HerpeSelect-2 ELISA
- Documented HIV-1 seropositive
- Currently receiving HAART for 3 months or longer
- CD4 count 350 or greater
- Women of child bearing potential must agree to use acceptable contraceptive measures during the entire conduct of the study. Acceptable contraceptive methods include one or more of the following: oral hormonal contraceptives, injectable hormonal contraceptives, transdermal hormonal contraceptives, IUD, diaphragm or cervical cap.
- Willing and able to provide written informed consent, undergo clinical evaluations, and take study drug as directed
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of symptomatic genital herpes, lesions or symptoms consistent with genital herpes, or recurrent undiagnosed symptoms consistent with genital herpes.
- Known history of adverse reaction to acyclovir, valacyclovir, or famciclovir.
- Planned open label use of acyclovir, valacyclovir, ganciclovir, valganciclovir, famciclovir, cidofovir, or foscarnet for oral herpes or other herpes viral infections.
- Medical history of seizures
- Renal insufficiency, defined as serum creatinine greater than 1.5 mg/dl
- AST or ALT over 5 times uper limit of normal
- History of thrombotic microangiopathy
- For women, pregnancy as confirmed by a urine or serum pregnancy test.
- Any other condition which, in the opinion of the principal investigator, may compromise the subject's ability to follow study procedures and complete the study.
- Participants with active bacterial STDs may be treated and be eligible for enrollment 14 days after STD therapy is discontinued and symptoms have resolved.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00803543
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|Community Care Building
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
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|Nicholas Van Wagoner, MD
|University of Alabama at Birmingham
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|University of Alabama at Birmingham
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|Study First Received:
|December 3, 2008
|Last Updated:
|December 2, 2014
Keywords provided by University of Alabama at Birmingham:
Herpes Simplex
HSV Type 2
treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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Does anyone know of other good texts, especially if they've got activities to go with them? I was thinking that it would be good to use short stories, poems or (short) plays - you can only do extracts from novels, unless the students agree on a book to study longer term, but several shorter projects would be much better, more varied, than a longer one, I think. The material could probably be at CAE level too.
I thought that a modern version of the Canterbury Tales might be a good idea, but the ones I've found seem to keep the word order close to Chaucer's original style, which is a kind of back-to-front version of modern English and might end up being a bit confusing and teach bad habits (might still have a go with one of them though).
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Most college students in this era devote X number of hours each day engaged in activities that revolve around use of Facebook of MySpace. A recent study at Ohio State University concludes that university students who use Facebook spend less time studying and thus wind up with lower grades than those who use the time for more productive uses. Researchers surveyed 219 students at Ohio State University and of this group, 148 said they had Facebook accounts. The survey revealed that Facebook users had grade point averages between 3.0 and 3.5 while non-Facebook users had grade point averages between 33.5 and 4.0. Those on Facebook spent about one to five hours studying while non-users spent about 13 to 15 hours.
Naturally, most Facebook users insist spending time chatting with others instead of studying had no impact on their grades. It would be interesting to do a more extensive research project in order to more accurately determine if this is a national trend. Obviously, less time studying and more time chatting has to have some impact on grades.


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The small bypass hole is really a flow balance hole, that combined with the short pump could result in that side seeing too much flow at the expense of the drivers side. The natural spin direction of the pump tends to favor that happening. The short pump is worse about that than the long pump.
The hole you plugged on the top of the pump leads to the suction side; it functions as the bypass return to the pump in a normal street application. The Gen I SBC can be a bit fussy about this when it isn't hooked up.
The intake gaskets you have allow the option of drilling and tapping the rear of the intake for a return. Such a return helps keep bubbles from forming and becoming trapped over the rear combustion chambers. Many racers run what is known as 4 corner coolant return for this reason. The rear return's don't need to be large about 1/2 inch is plenty, you're after some circulation, but not a major return as that would deprive the forward chambers of coolant. The center hole is for an exhaust cross over to heat the intake. OEM heads for carbureted and TBI models use this hot spot to force vaporization of fuel and to prevent ice buildup under the carb. Port injection and high performance engines don't need this so OEM Port injection and most aftermarket heads do not have the passages from the center exhaust ports to feed the cross over.
High flow pumps can overwhelm the system they are really designed to be operated with an under drive pulley to slow them down, this also helps improve left to right side coolant flow issues. However, some racers block off about a third of the right (passenger) side inlet hole. It is helpful to run dual temp gauges from the near center tap on each head, good gauges that can be read within about 5 degrees so you can actually see if/or what the temp differences are side to side. The idea behind high volume pumps was not to simply put more coolant through the engine, but to reduce the high RPM power consumption of the pump by obtaining adequate high RPM flow by turning the pump slower. The typical OEM pump at high RPM delivers far more flow than is necessary to cool the engine which consumes a lot of power for no valid purpose. So with this type pump look at under driving it by 20% crank RPM.
Yeah water wetter doesn't have that big of an effect on temperature but being a foam-less detergent it breaks the tension between water molecules. This allows them to better saturate surfaces making the coolant better able to transfer heat. I think the reason you don't see much change in temperature when using water wetter is that it not only is better able to transfer heat into the radiator's structure, but it is also picking up more heat from the engine's internal surfaces, so the net temps look about the same to the gauge, while the area of hot surface cooling is improved through fuller contact with the coolant. So I wouldn't say the stuff doesn't work it's doing something beneficial for which it doesn't get any advertising press because the process is too subtle to sell by shouting.
Is your compression ratio a DCR or SCR number, I think it a bit low for an SCR with the Lunati cam this kit includes, especially with aluminum heads.
To that thought, I'd add that this could use more initial advance with an equal amount taken out of the centrifugal, like about the reverse of the static to dynamic you currently run. No vacuum advance makes sense.
To me it looks like you have most (if not all) of the bases covered. Yes, your motor plate will block a LOT of airflow, but lets face it - underhood airflow is NOT a streamlined, smooth-flowing thing anyway.
The combination of big motor plate and no inner fenders, combined with turbulence from wheels spinning in the airflow means all bets are off in terms of predictions regarding efficient exhaust of cooling air from under the hood.
However, your biggest potential trap will be ignition timing. Being either too advanced or too retarded can negate just about any other factor in temperature control.
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You probably clicked on this thread thinking 'yay, another my engine is over heating and I need you to fix it for me over the internet thread'. Let me assure you that I am not starting this thread with that hope in mind. I want to have the experts on here pre-evaluate my cooling system set up before the car is on the road.
Before you tell me to search, I'm pretty sure I've read almost every thread on the cooling topic in the Engine forum. One thread was with a guy who had an old Scout that was running hot at cruise, and it was about a 20 page thread. I read it start to finish, took notes, and was amazed at how many people threw in some grand-plan suggestion for the guy 8 pages in without even reading from the start. With that in mind, I'm going to give a detailed rundown of my car in all the areas that I have learnt affect its cooling capacity. I'm going to throw out a few specific questions. If you actually take the time to read and digest my questions and background info, I would MUCH appreciate your feedback. Feel free to be an *** and as sarcastic as you want as long as you're giving me real information.
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ENGINE: 383 only broken in on engine stand, holley systemax head-intake-cam combo(300-503-1), eagle rotating assembly with -18cc dish pistons, felpro 1003 head gaskets, CR of 9.2:1, Powerjection iii fuel system, msd6a and Summit MSD knockoff distributor, planning on running 14 deg initial and 36 deg total timing with mechanical advance only
TRANS/GEARS/TIRES: built TH400, TCI 241002 10" converter, 4.10 gears, 31" tires
I'm attaching pics so you can see what we're working with.
1.)The radiator is a Howe aluminum, crossflow, the CORE is 32"x17", 10 fins per inch, 2 row. The core is 3" thick, I'm not sure on the tube size but they're between 1.125" and 1.325" so we'll go with 1.25". Big enough?
2.)The fans are electric 14" blade 2500cfm/fan. I'm controlling them with a Flexalite controller that ramps them on from 60 to 100% duty cycle proportionally from the set_temp to set_temp+10degs. Big enough? Oh I'm running a 185 t-stat.
3.)The shroud fully covers and it's side walls are sealed to the rad core but is only 1" deep due to space limitations. I'm debating putting a flap in the shroud for cruising airflow, but the fans cover 95% of the suface area of the shroud/core so I don't think I would get any appreciable air flow gains at cruise with an added flap. What do you think? How crucial?
4.)As you can see, I eliminated the stock wheel wells and ran sheetmetal plates from tabs on the fenders over to tabs on the front rollcage bars. I'm expecting this to aid in getting hot air out of the engine bay. The blazer sits low to the ground and I'm using the factory air dam. Expecting this to aid in low pressure zone creation in the engine bay. These two things help me get hot air out of the engine bay, but I'm wondering what your opinions are on the effect of the front motor plate inhibiting exit of hot air from radiator during cruise? Motor plate comes up to bottom of valve covers and goes down to mid line of crank pulley.
5.)I'm running an 11"x11" plate and fin tranny cooler mounted right to the rad-core on the outside. Cooler is blocking part of the rad core right in the rad support opening but I don't have anywhere else to put it
6.)50/50 green anti-freeze and water, with a bottle of water wetter. Waste of money?
7.) The pump is short weiand 9208 high volume, driven with the belt setup you see I threw together. Pulley's are either 1:1 or a 10% pump overdrive. I can't measure for sure right now. How's this pump and pulley combo fit the bill? See the blue aluminum pipe plug on top of the pump, is this a suction or a pressure port? Should/could I use this as a bypass from the front of the intake manifold to this port on the pump? I'm thinking I need more bypass flow cause I got wierd temp spikes and fluctuations on the break in stand. My break in stand has a radiator and taurus fan. (OldBogie I need your advice! ) If you're wondering, I drilled the front motor plate out for the passenger side little hole on the water pump horn/engine block.
8.) The intake manifold is a holley street dominator It has no rear water crossover. The intake does have a middle crossover as well as the mandatory front crossover where the thermostat resides. I'm confused though because the intake gaskets (felpro 1002) that holley suggested using with the systemax kit have the rear coolant opening in the gasket where the intake manifold blanks it off, but do not have a coolant opening in the middle of the gasket where the intake manifold does. Am I allright with not having coolant crossover flow out of the rear ports on the heads? Should I cut the intake manifold gasket to open up flow to the middle crossover in the intake? Check out the attached pics.
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This reporter has just visited the battle front at Bagozici University where combatants eye one another with hats and head coverings in hand prepared to launch a derby or shawl into the direction of opponents. The university faculty has made clear it will not allow women to enter their sacred classes wearing any hair covering like the chador and even those who try to circumvent rules and regulations by wearing hats are considered to be criminals out to disrupt law and order in the university. School administrators struck a blow for freedom by denying women the right to attend classes wearing a headscarf since it is well known that such head coverings essentially cover up religious strategies to end freedom of speech in universities.
Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that wearing the headscarf violates the nation's constitution. This writer is not Turkish and is Jewish but quite aware of the historic background surrounding the ban on religious symbols in Turkish education institutions. However, we live in the 21st century at a time of vast economic dislocation and ongoing battles to create a peaceful Middle East. Perhaps, it is time to put aside the famous headscarf issue and just let one's hair let out. It is doubtful if free speech will end in Turkish universities if some of the speakers are wearing a headscarf. In fact, allowing them to wear the headscarf reinforces the right of all Turkish people to adhere to their own religious and cultural beliefs. Who knows, maybe the Armenians can finally get the rest of the nation to acknowledge what happened to their ancestors and maybe Kurds can finally get freedom of speech.


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Artist's BiographySaxophonist Bryan Murray moved to New York in 2002 and has since established a strong presence in the music scene. His avant-jazz country band Bryan and the Haggards released their first album to huge critical acclaim. The Boston Globe called the Biggest Surprise Jazz Album of the Year and it made Wire Magazines top 10 jazz albums of 2010. Music critic Nate Chinen of the New York Times called it satisfying as both a commentary on Mr. Haggards music and a dispatch from the current jazz frontier.
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Per my previous post about Playstation Home, the rumor mill is hitting full steam. From what I understand now, companies will be able to develop for this new virtual world by partnering with Sony. So in other words, it may have the programmability of SecondLife but in a different fashion. Jay's also gathering info on the PS Home.
Sony is used to partnering with game development houses only for their Playstation environments. This kind of development can involve a build environment in conjuction with a game unit simulator that also supports debugging and large-scale development. I have never worked in this environment but the last I heard, it works with the Eclipse environment. In any case, theirs is not an open development environment and you essentially have to join their partner program to be able to do such work. This and the much higher cost of entry for developers and customers ($600+ PS3) creates some hurdles for them.
Obviously they really need to have a compelling offer and in this case, visually at least the PS Home looks appealing. Programmatically, it's value is still to be determined. With IBM's support in terms of the cell processor, I'd think we would be thinking of working with this environment too, but I am not privy to such information either so I can just speculate.
In any case, there are also two types of development involved here: application (or prim) programming and the 3D visual design. The 3D design is outside my skill level; I've done 3Ds of buildings before, but you really need to become immersed and practised with the tools for a while to become a good artist and I'm just not that caliber. This should translate to either Secondlife or Playstation Home, since these visual objects are fairly standardized in the industry. The app programming however, is definitely specific to the world.
Nintendo's Mii, on the other hand, is slightly different animal. From what I gather, essentially it allows you to edit/update characters and the environment of existing games. This to me is more like what WindowBlinds does to the Windows desktop environment, i.e. customize an existing system. This is particularly different than a MMO environment where you can build new things, exist in a mass population, and it is not centered around the structure or rules of an existing game. Another way to look at it is what tuners do to cars. You can improve the car vastly or personalize it to the extreme, but in the end, you usually still end up with a car. (but sometimes also a nightclub, a performance stage, a giant dinosaur, etc.)
So I don't really consider the current Mii and Mii channel comparable to Secondlife or PS Home. Please do prove me wrong.
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Playstation 3 hits Home
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I think it was inevitable that something like this would emerge: a top console maker integrates with the Internet and start creating online communities, to combine its graphics system, user-to-user interaction and build a following.
And it looks like Sony has beat the others in the race with its announcement of the Playstation Home. It leverages the enormous power of the PS3 to render truly gorgeous graphics. News of it is already starting to make the rounds as a serious contendor to other 3D MMO systems like SecondLife. Since I missed the Game Developers Conference last week, but I believe it was announced according to this article.
Since I haven't actually tried it, it is difficult to tell how well it works over a network link. Also, graphics aside, it still remains to be seen what you can do inside this virtual world. From reports, it is much more like a true-3D system competitive to Cyworld, where users have homes they can decorate, buy stuff online, etc. and used primarily for socializing with friends. There's no word about programmability or if there is a way to develop new items or objects within the world, as you can in SecondLife. This is what has helped make SL so popular, and has contributed to its growth. Plus, it's free. On the other hand Sony certainly has a huge marketing machine, an established base of fans, and a network of games that could integrate with it. This might even give MySpace a run for its money in terms of social spaces.
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Sharing the reward is a problem whether an MMORPG or in a coporate division
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It's interesting to see the evolution of reward mechanisms in MMORPGs. In multiplayer situations, it is often difficult to tell who completes a task when there are a number of steps involved. For example, in a raid on WoW against a single monster, who gets recognition for the kill when it takes 40-80 people working as a team to kill that beast? It's defined now in WoW but this same problem existed all the way back to the days of text MUDs.
In the first generation, essentially there was no thought involved in this. Whoever made the killing blow got the points for the kill. Very primitive and the cause of many an argument. The next few improvements--it came in several different ways--was to add a list on the create being attacked where it kept track of who the attackers were and distribute the points based on how many points of damage each person made on the creature, so the distribution of experience points for the kill was more even. WoW provides a newer version of this whereby each person engaged in the raid gets dollars per kill, which once the creature was dead, they could spend to buy the reward items.
However, this still raises a problem when there are items that several people want to share from the common pool of rewards. In the people-administrative way, the guild--there's usually a guild involved--makes a decision on who gets what. This is where it breaks down again: what happens when there is an item so unique that the top contendors or leaders will argue for it. As my friend Eric described, that is the death knell of many a guild.
If you think this is a situation limited to MMORPGs and games, you're mistaken. This same situation exists when you have a community that is working for a shared goal, and there is some reward that needs to be distributed across the membership. In team scenarios in corporate environment, that is not very different than negotiations for annual bonuses. The differentiating factor is that in MMORPGs as in other communities, the group of people are not part of a single formal organization with defined managers and advocates. Instead it is up to each person to argue their own case. In other words, it is even more difficult in communities.
I don't have any answer here, but it is important to recognize that the situations are similar here, and compare what methods of distribution or approaches people take.
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a guide to understanding communities for the non-gamer generation
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In the last post, I introduced the book The kids are alright that talks about ethics, interests, and motivations of the gamer generation as it is starting to enter the workplace. The post was getting long so I left out this bit.
To me the idea of SecondLife was only a dream back in 1992, when text-based MMOGs were available. Even then, there were many MUDs, MOOs, etc. where players eventually got bored of playing the hack-n-slash life and switched more to socializing and creating. The lands I created in lpmud using a derivative of the C programming language inside the game is a similar notion to Lindenscript in SL now. Of course, with a text-basis, you did not have the sheer coolness of a 3D world. But that came back to bite me when I tried SL programming. While I can do the programming, I'm pretty lousy & slow with 3D graphics. That and my lack of time just made me give up (too easily I'm afraid).
My own scripting woes aside, it's the change from game-playing to game-making that made those programmable MUDs really fun. I don't want to say it's a bit of growing up but for me it was a switch from entertainment to using my skills. Not everyone wants to do that and even those who didn't want to play but still returned to the game to socialize points to the need for a different kind of environment: the same that SecondLife is suited for.
What's more, by taking the game aspect out of SL, it allows those of the non-gamer generation (per that book) to relate even better. My guess on what sold companies on getting involved in SL is not just the 3D factor, the programmability, the multi-user environment, etc., but because it is a transition environment between the two generations. Gamer-gen folks can work on this and still explain to their non-gamer gen bosses and seniors that it's okay because "It's not a game." That may sound silly, but the reality is that the non-gamer gens generally still consider games a waste of time, so anything that suggests that it is a game is most likely not worth the attention, and that the gamer employees are probably slacking off.
I bring this up because it is not limited to SL and the like, but even to other community & web 2.0 services. This same parallel exists in situation when a developer becomes an active member of a discussion forum, a chat, a wiki or are blogging . One common first assumption is that they are slacking off, rather than the reality that they may be building better relations than what you pay loads of money to communications, marketing and PR departments for, or even make the right connections to help them in their work.
Very often they are asked to justify themselves spending their time in such activities, in terms of some sort of results: solutions, work products, clientelle, etc. The difficulty lies in the fact that the benefits that they get from communities is building social capital, which itself is an intangible and variable product. You'll find dozens of books that all talk about the value of social capital in business, but it is still hard to measure and compare. But then again some folks have figured out (somewhat) complex ways of determining other intangibles like productivity, loyalty, coolness, etc., so I think there is hope yet for some form of measure.
After all, if we are fixated on results-driven and measured processes for everything, we would definitely need a way to describe that. Enough for now, I'll gab about some ways of measuring this in other posts.
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Guide to the Gamer generation for managers
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I picked up a copy of The Kids are Alright by John Beck and Mitchell Wade at the airport a few weeks ago. The subtitle How the Gamer Generation is is changing the Workplace is very apt. It is a sort of business-oriented sociological report on the behaviors, interests and incentives of this particular generation.
This is probably a must-read for all current managers and those who simply don't consider themselves as part of this generation. What is this generation you say? It's a cohort/generation that probably started around the early 1980s up until the current block of 10-year olds. They generally consider anyone over 34 or 35 to most likely not be part of this generation. I'm in that generation myself although I'm just about exactly at the cut off point.
This is one of those books that talks about the implicit life lessons that influenced those in this generation, even if they were not heavily into game playing. It is very likely that those in this generation were surrounded by this and the closer you get to the current time, the less likely that they know a world where video/computer games were not commonplace. The preface lists 7 Habits of Highly Typical Gamers which seem quite relevant to the behaviors I've experienced amongst others in this generation. I'd even put it as something to think about when designing or delivering products and services.
The book appears quite on the point but almost dates itself, not because of time necessarily but because it was likely written at the turning point in the game industry: the rise of MOGs (for the non-gamer generation folks: multiplayer online games). At one point of the book, it talks about how gamers are tuned into solely individual experiences, in that the game-world exists solely for them.
While this is/was case for single-player games, recent years have shown that multiplayer games can become successful, recurring sources of revenue. While single-player games are still the vast majority, many leading games now are either designed solely, or have special modes, for squad (4-6 players), team vs team (16-32 players), or massive-players (up to hundreds of thousands simultaneously).
Most WoW players today probably won't even understand that even ten years ago, even squad-team games were not worth their development time. I recall in 1996 trying to convince a VC and game developers to consider creating multiplayer games. Most just shrugged or plain laughed at the idea. Thank goodness for a reversal on that. (For me, it does suck to be way too early to a party and no one's there).
Anyway, MOGs may change the rules for gamers once again. One key point in this book is that because it's a world customized for your experience, it does not emphasize the more-challenging issues of building social connections within games. Even when players get together to play a game, with SP games, it was mostly a solitary experience. With MMOGs, players once more are faced with social relationships and often with total strangers from other locations, and with much larger crowds and changing people. On top of that technology has evolved so that it is even simpler to interact: actual live audio conversations rather than typing a lot of text, greater bandwidth and better computing power for richer environments, and even social networking sites for recording/blogging events, etc.
It's my belief that games are so much better these days for their multiplayer aspect. For myself, I started on MMOGs back in the text-based MUD days around 1990 or so, so I'm pretty ingrained into this from an early date. So when I play a top-10 single-player game like Oblivion, even with one of the richest environments, most detailed graphics and storyline, open ended gameplay, and a reactive environment, it still feels a little dull because of the lack of other real human players.
In any case, I'd be curious to see a followup to this book in another 4 years examining how MOGs have affected the gamer generation. Let's face it, after a certain point, you can't really call it a separate generation because games are likely going to be here from now on.
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SecondLife, playability, Nintendo Wii and the Age of Conan
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Eric Sniff and I were having a conversation on MMORPGs today starting with Age of Conan and eventually ending at SecondLife.
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (AoC) is an upcoming MMORPG that is based on the character and fantasy world created by Robert E Howard back in 1929. They are doing several things fairly interesting with this MMORPG starting with how you get into the game: you start off isolated in single-player mode within a fixed area playing until you develop your character to a certain degree and generally become familiar with the controls. It then transitions into the multiplayer world alongside everyone else. It solves a common current issue of game development and getting started on multiplayer games (dealing with noobs). The game is visually gorgeous, on par or perhaps better than Oblivion, one of the top single-player games of 2006.
One interesting aspect of the game is that rather than fixed predetermined attacks ('press this button for "slash"'), it is much more analog allowing more realistic combat. This means you actually have to direct the sword where to hit. This exact same feature is what I liked about another game available for the Nintendo Wii, Red Steel. (ok so I really do like swordfighting, and not just in real life)
The Wii itself is raising a new phenomenon in game, that of 3D motion-sensitive game controllers, where you have to move the controller around to perform an action, rather than simply a joystick or by pressing buttons. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk is changing how people play games rather than what they play. For example, if you're playing tennis, you have to wave the Remote around like a bat. Just look at what everyone is doing with it: tennis, bowling, fishing, swordfighting, etc.) It's only starting out and there's not a huge selection of games, but I for one am excited that this new direction is succeeding. Rather than playing an ever increasing war of more complex systems--not that I mind the improvements in graphics--Nintendo came up with real outside-the-box innovation. Now if it will only spread to PCs and other consoles.
This kind of playability got us talking about other issues of MMORPGs. This introduces even more information about each player's movements that have to be conveyed across the network to other players. It would be interesting if it strikes a good balance between playability and performance with this level of complexity. Some of it lies in the problem of managing servers... I'll come back to that.
Where most MMORPGs require a lot of work in development is filling out the world. SecondLife which is not a game in particular but still a MMO system solves this by letting users develop the world. That however results in a wide variety in the environment from the well-made to the random garbage and litter. But the question remains: can you design an MMO where the game is networked and functions peer-to-peer style, rather than a multi-server based system run by a company like most MMORPGs.
With most true peer-to-peer systems, each client itself is smart enough to provide the application environment and only the peers that interact exchange traffic, rather than a more centralized system of servers (even if distributed). Games like AoC have the capability to display everything in one user's direct view in 3D, but it works well when all that data is local on the drive. If new data was available (new buildings, environment features, etc.) in each peer, they would need to be transferred to other peers that interact with them, and in a 3D world, that may be a lot of data.
SecondLife does a slightly different model I believe (I only understand the server system on a basic level), where each island is a server and all avatars on that island are essentially on the same server. When you move off an island by walking, flying or teleporting, it transfers the avatar object to the other island. This can be slow in redrawing all the details when receiving the data a bit at a time. This isn't bad or incorrect, it is a matter of complexity and traffic.
Who knows? The net certainly has grown by a billion percent since the old days of text muds with a max of 3000 simultaneous players. Game development has reached magnitudes of greater sophistication. MMORPG players today simply demand a lot more and there are a lot more of them. They're certainly taking over or replacing other forms of entertainment (in terms of dollars).
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Good Player mods deserve more credit
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In search of more turn-based games to fill my baby-watch time (see my reasons), a friend told me about this fantasy mod for Civ IV where they redesigned the gameplay almost from ground up. I went looking for it and found Fall from Heaven, a free player mod (version 1.0 released in April) that rewrites much of the Civ IV game from classic countries and developing nations, to more of one set in a fantasy world where it is about improving characters and combat. If you want to download this use the download.com site; they also have some screenshots there.
The set up is that there are a number of different races: orcs, merfolk, minotaurs, knights, etc. that each have their own religion. The units are very different and there are many more upgrades/enhancements that each character can get. Thus most people start with Warriors that can actually last quite a while gaining new skills. The city buildings are completely different with lots of added benefits: with wine, your brewery raises revenue and food; hunting lodges to improve your scouts to hunters and assassins. You can tame wild animals, etc. The tech tree is very different, and so are many of the Wonders.
While the map style looks the same and some of the units are still around, the gameplay is quite original. This took a lot of work to put together. This is what I call a player mod done right. Most other mods are simply changes to the units, or smaller fixes here and there. I'm surprised Firaxis doesn't consider licensing and selling this commercially. I'd put this comparable to the Rise of Nations commercial add-on, Rise of Legends, but instead of three new nations, this one has about eight. It's obviously more well known because of the big marketing engine of Microsoft Games behind it.
It's these kinds of player mods that I really enjoy. From over a decade ago, the MMORPG text-only games like MUDs had a programming aspect to it so users could add more areas to the game. Most MMORPGs don't allow that any more because of uncontrolled growth and often poor execution on most users parts. Secondlife, while not really a game, is gaining a lot of success (see Wired article) because it goes the very opposite direction: build all you like. It can be chaotic, but this is really pure capitalism at work: the successful ones should get the most attention and reward. To make a success, you need good planning and execution, as well as all the other things: marketing, delivery, customer satisfaction, etc., but it still starts with having a good idea that people will want.
I was about to go pay $50 to buy a new game like Caeser IV, but I thinkthese guys should get my money instead, if I can figure out how.They're off working on the next version, Fall from Heaven 2.
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Computer games for new fathers
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I was discussing this topic with several other friends today: when it's your turn to watch the baby, what computer game do you play?
I have a night shift from 8 to about 12 to watch the baby and the best game I can play is Civilization IV. It's a little older now but it's still a good game and the turn-by-turn basis gives me a lot of time in case I need to stop and attend to him. Also Civ IV is can be played almost as well whether you have just a keyboard or just a mouse, which is an important factor when you have to do your turn one-handed (while bouncing on a big rubber ball holding the baby). Also, the game takes many hours to finish and that is just what I need.
My friend Eric is/was quite into World of Warcraft, but when the baby cries, he put his priest character into "follow" mode. Unfortunately, that doesn't always work so well, when the others need your help. E.g., they're off fighting a creature and you're just standing there while others are begging you to heal them. So, I won't mention what his character's name is...
Another friend plays a version of Half-Life--I think it's Team Fortress--where you can turn your character to Observor mode, thus essentially making your character invulnerable but ineffective in the game. Your teammates still probably won't appreciate you taking yourself out.
Anyway, I've played Civ IV to death and new I'm looking for another building/management strategy game. I hear good things about Caesar IV, so its next on my list.
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More community building books, the services industry and Services science
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Okay, another hunt at the bookstore and came across two morebooks I need to read in depth, although I'm still finishing The Long Tail and The Wisdom of Crowds. (see my reading list).
The first book is MassivelyMultplayer Online Game Development 2 published by Charles Media in 2005,and edited by Thor Alexander. The first edition of this book was much more focused onthe programming issues around this topic, but this edition also has a number ofchapters—almost a third of the book--on managing the overall community,building guilds (groups), policing/managing member conflicts, analyzing memberbehavior, reward and punishment methods, and even pricing policies and marketadoption strategies. I'm surprised by the amount of detail they have in here. I have not seen a copy of Richard Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds around here but that is also something to add to the list.
The other book is Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class …andhow its transforming work, leisure, community & everyday life. Thislatter book is interesting due to new ideas that I learned the other day on theimportance of Services and the service industry.
IBM has an ongoing focus on what we call Services Science, Management and Education (SSME)which is a look at the science (or business theory) behind the serviceindustry. The reason is because in leading nations and even some emerging ones,Services is becoming a significantly larger portion of the overall GDP versusAgriculture and Industry. We're talking 70-90% of the Gross Domestic Producthere version less than 5-20% for Agriculture and 10-30% forManufacturing/Industrial output. It's hard to describe, but for example,Starbucks is a service company (a café or caffeine delivery service) eventhough it produces caffeinated input for others; grocery stores are the same:they sell stuff, but selling is a service action not a production action.
The word "Service" in terms of an industry is difficult todefine; it is generally considered is different than a physical (or virtualproduct), although products are sometimes outcomes of services (and is oftencalled 'consulting'). Even much of IBM's revenue comes from services.
So if you look at the stats, the real "business" in topnations is in the service industry, producing stuff for the other customers.Yet, there is still a lot of vagueness about the subject (even after 200-300years). The Communications of the ACM has a special issue just on the subject,contributed by social scientists, business folk, technical folk, and more,indicating the wide range of applicability of this new science.
For the community side, services have a lot of impactespecially on measuring the value of each service provider. Any community is aninformal (or formal) environment for brokering knowledge or other services. Soa greater focus on this can only help us.
In any case,
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Make it three yards mother****er and we'll have an automobile race
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Make it three yards mother****er and we'll have an automobile race
Just like how more people are ready to vote for Romney than people who actually like Romney for the man he is and even the policies he runs on, just to vote against Obama and the status-quo.
They may not have liked or even agreed with Hitler's social policies, but businesses were getting contracts that they couldn't dream of under the Weimar administration and individuals were working and putting food on the table.
Do you guys think that this version of the Pzkfw VI had more "soul" than its Henschel counterpart?
Um, but anyway, no sympathy for Nazis or their collaborators from me; yes I recognize that hindsight allows us to better judge what was going on at the time than people in the moment but I don't think it matters. If you happily dance with the devil, then that's going to be your legacy regardless of however many other people were dancing, too.
So all this talk of Henry Ford's anti-semitism or the conduct of other German industrialists (abhorrent though it may be) is irrelevant to Porsche's complicity in genocide and war. And I don't think this means that people should feel bad about driving a 944 or whatever, either. Time has passed the man by and "Porsche" is now something else entirely.
So, yeah, in the 1930s they loved him, and by the mid-1940s they hated him. (sh)It happens.
That's a matter of historical record --Really makes you wonder how he got so much power... you know, since everyone hated him... hmm.
1) Hitler gave millions of unemployed Germans jobs, both in the military, and in building the Autobahns.
2) Hitler fomented racial hatred towards Jews and other foreigners, who were already disliked amongst Germans, and propoganda was used to convince the average idiot German that it was the Jews that caused them to lose the first world war.
and that's pretty much it.
Does anybody seriously believe deleting "Ferdinand" from the name negates any Nazi associations?
Maybe if those associations are so important, they shouldn't allow Porsche to build the plant in the first place-problem eliminated.
what they need is a nice non-politically charged street name like jefferson davis or robert e lee... oh wait, they already have a few of those in ATL
but i guess that was culture, not racism.
Funny the parallels you can draw between present day US and 1930s Germany ... it's also funny that the party calling Obama a "Nazi" falls more in line with the xenophobic mantra Mein Kampf espoused..At two separate events in recent days, Samuel Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher has proposed to put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting.
Ferdinand Porsche would go well with Lee and Davis avenues in ATL.:
porsche was an engineer in a nazi country, not necessarily a nazi, but his company did make reparations to jews for slave labor used in WWII....Ford on the otherhand was a true anti-semite....far worse than the man who designed and built the weapons. as far as I can tell, and have looked into it, porsche went along with it as his life depended on it, not for personal reasons. ford was the opposite.
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Wait, how big is the ash tray in a Porsche?
I'm glad! Who the hell wants to have to punch a name that long into a damn GPS?!
Just name it Peachtree like every other ****ing street in Atlanta and be done with it!


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I am in my upper twentys, married and no kids. Born and raised in central Kansas on a farm. My family and inlaws all farm, so i know my way around the country and just about anything with wheels. I have a 13 month old Chessie, this was his first year hunting and he did fantastic. With a little luck we should get our junior hunter title this summer, and be well on our way to senior. He had a 92% recovery rate this year, loves working out of a dog blind and dog stand. We are a currently working through three handed casting and blinds. I have been waterfowl hunting for 12 years give or take and I am decent on a call. I am very dedicated and hardworking when it comes to waterfowl hunting. I promise you won't have to worry about me stealing your spot or talking to your land owners. I have had both done to me in the past, and it chaps my but!! Nothing i can't stand worse than a knife in the back. I have probably around 100 or so duck floaters, 12 goose floaters, 2 dozen duck shells, 2 dozen duck full body's, 12 goose fullbodys. Mallards, gadwalls, pintail, woodys,widgeon, canada's. Most all are avery decoys however i do have a few dakotas and big foots as well. Where i hunt up here it's a two hour drive followed by a 2.5 mile death march.
I gues this is a little long for an introduction, but i am a little long winded on things i am passionate about. Good luck this season, and if anyone would be interested in meeting up when i get down south the beers on me!!


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In a July 10 article examining the effect of the Iraq war on the 2008 presidential race, The Politico quoted Mark Salter, an adviser to the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (AZ), asserting, "It's one thing for (Democrats) to say, 'Get out,' or 'Redeploy,' or 'Divide the country into thirds' ... But it's another to say, 'We won't fund the troops.' That, I think, will be a pretty costly mistake in the general election. You had 150,000 troops in the country, and you voted not to resupply them with armor. ... Those things are easy to point out." Salter appeared to be criticizing those Democrats, who, on May 24, voted against a war funding bill that did not include a binding timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The Politico did not note, however, that McCain himself recently voted against an emergency spending bill that funded the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That bill passed the Senate by a vote of 51-47 on March 29 and was reconciled in conference with a similar House version. Bush ultimately vetoed the bill on May 2, citing its provision for a withdrawal timetable.
This is not the first time the media have quoted McCain or his staff attacking Democrats for their votes against one of the Iraq war funding bills without noting McCain's own vote against a war funding bill. As Media Matters for America noted, both the Associated Press' Liz Sidoti and NBC News congressional correspondent Chip Reid uncritically quoted from McCain's May 25 statement criticizing Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) for voting against the version of the funding bill that did not include a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Neither Sidoti nor Reid noted McCain's March 29 vote.
From the July 10 Politico article by senior political writer David Paul Kuhn:
Democrats are heading into the 2008 election with what, at first glance, looks to be a historic opportunity: For the first time in decades, they are facing Republicans on terms of rough parity -- and possibly even superiority -- on national security issues. Polls show the public trusts Democrats as much as or more than Republicans to keep the country safe, a dramatic reversal from President Bush's first term.
These numbers may mean that Democrats have vanquished the ghost of the Vietnam era, when liberal activists won the debate about ending the war but, in the process, gave the party a reputation among many voters for being too dovish to lead on a dangerous planet.
But some political analysts say they believe the McGovern experience could be repeated again, as the party's presidential candidates compete to win the favor of anti-war Democrats while leaving themselves vulnerable to charges of weakness in a general election.
This uncertainty is one reason the leading Democratic candidates are trying to run as hawk and dove simultaneously. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.), for instance, are both moving rhetorically and substantively against the Iraq war while calling for an increased military presence to fight terrorists in Afghanistan.
As far back as the Eisenhower years, Gallup was recording consistent preferences for Republicans on military issues.
But if the mood of the country has changed, Democrats are plainly still laboring to project that opposition to Bush's handling of the Iraq war -- most polls show the public agrees with them -- does not mean they are uncomfortable with military force.
Republicans are banking that this is a distinction Democrats cannot sustain and that votes by Clinton and Obama to defund the war effort would damage either one as a general election nominee. A similar vote by 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) -- while former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean pressed Kerry from the anti-war base -- combined with his inept public explanations, shadowed him through the general election.
"It's one thing for (Democrats) to say, 'Get out,' or 'Redeploy,' or 'Divide the country into thirds,'" said Mark Salter, a counselor to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). "But it's another to say, 'We won't fund the troops.' That, I think, will be a pretty costly mistake in the general election.
"You had 150,000 troops in the country, and you voted not to resupply them with armor," Salter added. "Those things are easy to point out."
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I wonder how old the cubs were, and if they will survive. I understand he had to shoot the bear, but it really wasn't the bears fault either.
Alone and adrift on an ice floe, teen refuses to give up
A chartered aircraft circles above a stranded teenager in Nunavut after having airdropped food supplies.
As the ice heaved and cracked beneath him and temperatures dipped below -20, teen hunter persevered for two days before rescuers parachuted onto the floes
Dawn Walton
Calgary From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 12:16PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 8:09AM EST
As another polar bear season dawned in Nunavut, 17-year-old Jupi Angootealuk and his uncle, Jimmy Nakoolak, a seasoned hunter, set out to prowl not far from their home in Coral Harbour.
The pair had hunted the dangerous white carnivores before on the unforgiving landscape around Southampton Island at the mouth of Hudson Bay, but as the unpredictable sea ice broke apart, the men found themselves on separate, desperate journeys to survive.
Nursing two bad knees, the older man would crawl into the arms of a rescue party two days after the ordeal began. His nephew, stranded on a drifting ice floe, was forced to shoot a polar bear that was stalking uncomfortably close, before he was plucked to safety a day later.
From his hospital bed in Churchill, Man., where he is recovering from hypothermia, 56-year-old Mr. Nakoolak recalled the terrifying experience.
He's really relieved to hear that his nephew was found, Jerry Panniuq, the hamlet's mayor, translated from Inuktitut as he visited with Mr. Nakoolak.
An aerial photo shows a stranded teenager, identifiable as a small speck in the upper middle of the frame, who spent two nights on an ice floe in Nunavut before being rescued on Nov. 9, 2009.
It was nice to know that he had a rifle with him and [I] was kind of worried that he might have been attacked by a bear or something. When [I] heard he shot a bear [I] was happy to hear about it, he said.
The men left Coral Harbour (pop. 769) on Friday on a single snowmobile. That afternoon they dismounted, leaving the snowmobile loaded with gear, including a rifle, a cooler bag and thermos.
They walked out on the sea ice, which blankets the region from November until July, to test its strength only to have it crack under their feet.
That separated them from their sled and from each other as darkness began to fall. As the mercury dipped below -20 they waited for the sun to rise and tried to make their way to shore.
But on Saturday the ice cracked again, and the two men remained adrift. They lost sight of each other.
Meanwhile, their abandoned snowmobile had been found 10 kilometres south of Coral Harbour and a rescue party was mobilized, but little could be done on foot as the ice heaved, broke and another night came. By Sunday morning, Mr. Nakoolak had been pushed back to shore.
He was all soaked and wet and started crawling at least two miles on his knees because he was so tired and it was hard for his legs, Mr. Panniuq said.
Volunteer searchers found him at 10:30 a.m. But his nephew's nightmare had taken a turn for the worse.
By Sunday, the teenager had drifted about four kilometres offshore and was 42 kilometres from Coral Harbour. Meanwhile, air support had been called in.
Phil Amos, a pilot with Kenn Borek Air Ltd., was at the controls of a de Havilland Twin Otter when he spotted footprints, then the teen standing on a 30-metre patch of ice and, perhaps 30 metres away, two polar bear cubs with the carcass of their mother.
Mr. Angootealuk had shot the animal in self-defence.
We had circled around him for about 40 minutes or so. He never waved at all. I don't think he really wanted to move because the bears were so close, Mr. Amos said.
I kind of flew down to see if I could get the bears to move away, but they were very adamant about sticking around their mom.
An emergency kit including a lighter, flashlight and some candy was dropped to the teen. At the same time, the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Trenton, Ont., was scrambling a Hercules aircraft to the scene, but only caught a glimpse of the young man before flares proved useless and they lost him to another night.
As daylight broke on Monday, another Hercules aircraft went up and located Mr. Angootealuk. Sergeant Randy McOrmond, Master Corporal Rob Richardson and Master Corporal Eric Beaudoin jumped to the ice below.
The fact that our technicians were able to parachute in to land on an ice floe close by is an amazing thing for them, said Jean-Pierre Sharp, maritime search and rescue co-ordinator.
It's kind of like if you would imagine trying to jump from lily pad to lily pad out on some ice and slushy water, he said, describing how they crawled on their bellies to the teen.
Mr. Angootealuk was conscious, but suffering from hypothermia and frostbite.
Rescuers in a seven-metre aluminum boat waiting nearby picked their way through the ice and carried all four men to safety. As the teen was whisked to the local health-care centre, children poured out of the school and residents lined the street of the tiny community.
Everybody was clapping and cheering when the truck pulled up, said RCMP Constable Chad Butler.
Mr. Angootealuk was taken to the same hospital in Churchill where his uncle anxiously waited to be reunited. As the story of the teen's courage made its way across the North, it was a tale Joan Griffin, general manager of Nunavut operations at Kenn Borek Air, called bittersweet: cubs left orphaned, but a young man found alive.
That's the glory of the Arctic, Ms. Griffin said. A 17-year-old young man and he's seasoned enough that he was able to save his own life so very resilient.
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I wonder how old the cubs were, and if they will survive. I understand he had to shoot the bear, but it really wasn't the bears fault either.
Amazing story.
I watched this show on polar bears. Guys shot a caribou. The polar bears could smell the carcass from about 50 miles away.
Would guess the kid did not want to shoot the mother, but I dont think he had too much choice.
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I have been running XBMC going on 6 years now but I have been quiet in the background. Through all my reading and searching have not found a good way to accomplish what I am trying to do:
I currently have Both DirectTV and a Time Warner Cable, I have an XBMC box (currently 12.0) running in my Garage/Man Cave I have Internet run to my garage but not Coax and I would like to be able to use the Online live streaming from Either or both DirectTV and Time Warner but I have not found a good way to do this.
I cannot seem to figure out if I can use strm for either of these. Currently I am just using minimizing XBMC and launching a web browser is there a better more integrated option.
Sorry if this has been answered before I just have not figured out the right combination of search terms I guess.
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I'm not sure what you have in mind, but I mentioned about Directv on this "Netflix, Amazon, HBO GO 1080/5.1 support" thread. You can find some links to my configurations within the thread....
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I refused to watch movie without bitstreaming HD audio!
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(2014-01-31 22:57)theemc Wrote: I have been running XBMC going on 6 years now but I have been quiet in the background. Through all my reading and searching have not found a good way to accomplish what I am trying to do:
Sounds like you want to stream live tv to your xbmc box, if that is the case. your options may be limited. I don't think DirectTv will be an option, unless you can find a DirectV Network Tuner, I don't think they exist.
Depending on where you are, you may be able to use a Ceton or HDHomerun box to be able to use Time Warner as a source and see live tv on your XBMC box. keep in mind that Time Warner encrypts channels and you will only be able to see un-encrypted channels.. in NYC you can only receive local channels via Time Warner. other areas are different. Windows media center will be able to use all Time Warner Channels except pay per view.
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are you using "windows explorer" to do this?it sounds like you're using "internet explorer"the first is for messing around on your computerthe second is for looking around the internetyou want the firstDave
I go to the old drive now "E" drive and click on book marks
why don't you pull your hard drive. buy a case with a USB plug in at some geek store. run old drive as a slave drive. you keep all info and don't have to transfer. you should be able to import bookmarks, etc from one drive to another without to much trouble if you want to.


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