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'Film' is the costume theme of the day as today, we celebrate the birthday of Francis Ford Coppola. Born in 1939, Coppola has directed, produced and written a wide range of movies, from the major masterpiece about Vietnam 'Apocalypse Now' through the Godfather trilogy, to other projects such as 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and 'Peggy Sue Got Married'.
With the possible exception of Dracula in its Gothic-Victorian context, few of the films mentioned would generate costuming opportunities, especially for females. More precisely, there are many film genres and themes where females feel rightly short on choice. For Star Wars costumes it's down to Princess Leia and Queen/Padme Amidala, whilst the epic Lord of the Rings series features just Galadriel, Arwen the Elf Princess, or Eowyn, the daughter of the King of Rohan, who virtually had to disguise herself as a man to get involved in the climactic battles. And as for the ever popular James Bond, it's either arm-candy or gold-body paint (well actually it isn't, as here at Props n Frocks we have come up with a few other suggestions – see Bond Fancy Dress). The bottom line is, when choosing your costume theme think through the costuming potential with a view to equal opportunities for all!
We have given you a lot of film costume ideas in previous blogs, so take a look for plenty of great fancy dress inspiration.


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"Over the river and through the wood, to Grandmother's house we go," is a classic holiday song romanticizing the joy of Thanksgiving travel. In the 21st century, we've abandoned sleighs for minivans, airplanes, and headaches. Air travel is especially fraught with anxiety; a missed flight, a delayed departure, or a cancellation can send even the best laid plans into a tailspin. The LA region is teeming with airports and whether you chose to depart from LAX or Ontario is probably based in part on traffic patterns and proximity, rather than their on-time flight statistics. Here at Hopper, we're numbers nerds, so we wanted to dig a little deeper into the data to rank the LA region airports on on time departures, weather delays, and cancellations to see how they all stack up. So without further ado, from best to worst, we give you: LA's airports.
LA/Ontario Airport
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ONT Ontario: LA's second smallest airport, racked up wins or close seconds in a couple key categories. ONT had an 88.65% on time departure rate, versus worst ranked LAX's 83%. If there is a delay, expect to wait just 6.8 minutes on average. Ontario saw fewer than 1% of flights cancelled, and weather delayed just 10% of flights. Just 35 miles east of Los Angeles and 36 miles from Disneyland, it's also just a little over an hour from Palm Springs and one of the best options for access to Joshua Tree National Park. With great statistics and a killer location, Ontario airport is on the up and up.
Bob Hope Airport
photo credit: {Guerrilla Futures | Jason Tester} via photopin cc BUR, Burbank: Bob Hope holds its own in several categories. Expect the shortest departure delays in the LA area, only 5.86 minutes on average, and very few weather delays (5.5% of flights in 2011 got held up by stormy weather). In fact, 88% of Bob Hope's flights took off on time. The only place Burbank struggles is in cancellations. In 2011 close to 2% of its 15,323 flights were cancelled, the worst percentage in the LA region. So basically, at Burbank if your flight isn't cancelled, you'll probably leave on time. Still, Burbank has some of the most affordable flights in the LA area and at only 15 miles from downtown LA (even closer to Hollywood), it's both a cost and time efficient alternative to LAX. photo credit: Atomic Taco via photopin cc
Long Beach Airport
photo credit: Atomic Taco via photopin cc GB, Long Beach: Little Long Beach had the fewest flights in 2011, with 8,679 flights versus next closest ONT's 13,146 and only .55% of those flights were canceled. Not bad for a small fry! LGB struggles with on-time departures, with the average departure delay at 8 minutes, second only to LAX. Weather is the imiting factor here, with 11% of flights getting held up by mother nature. LGB is essentially the opposite of Burbank: your flight probably won't be cancelled, but chances are, you're going to run a little late. Jet Blue made Long Beach its California hub, which means it's a budget friendly option-- if you have a little extra time to spare.
John Wayne's Statue at SNA
photo credit: Marcin Wichary via photopin cc SNA, Santa Anna: Orange County's John Wayne Airport saw 23,000 flights in 2011. It's the largest of LA's smallest airports (LAX dwarfs them all with 130,000 flights in 2011) but that's pretty much all it has going for it. SNA is mediocre in all categories, with the second most flights cancelled (1.29%) and the second worst on time departure percentage (85%). It is middle of the pack in delays too - 11.67% of flights were held up by weather, and an average delay of 8.2 minutes on late flights.
photo credit: ATOMIC Hot Links via photopin cc AX, Los Angeles: LAX is humongous and among the most heavily trafficed airports in the US, and thus obviously faces a huge array of logistical issues that smaller airports don't have to tackle. Still, it ranks pretty poorly in all the categories we analyzed. Although, LAX had the second best cancellation percentage (only .95% of flights were cancelled in 2011.) However, it ranked at the bottom in percent of flights delayed by weather (17%), on time departure percentage (83%) and average departure delay (10 minutes). If you're not flying internationally, we'd suggest avoiding LAX and choosing any of the smaller airports, if only so you get out on time!
Read more from Hopper:
The 15 Worst Airports in America Right Now
California's National Parks
LA/Ontario Airport
LA Regional Airports

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Mhensel needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Gumball Factory Sign
The Gumball Factory is a 100 year old building in East Boston. It was converted to Condos in the late 80's from its original candy manufacturing layout. Many of the units have exposed beams and brick walls. In recent year, the owners of the condos have collaborated to improve their building with jointly paid projects -- a new elevator, pointing all the bricks, new windows and a new entrance. The condo board would now like to have signage for the building.
There are two corners - Southeast and Northeast - that could have signs. The brick columns (see photo) are 60-inches wide on each face. Depending on the design, signs may be place on all 4 column faces.
The condo board likes the idea of a sign cut out of metal since this is compatible with the industrial look of the building. They have an acceptable quote from a local water jet cutting service for a 42-inch wide by 36-inch high sign made of 3/16-inch aluminum plate. The final design does not need to be these dimensions.
The goal of this design project is to get a good design that can be provided to the water jet company, and then installed by members of the condo board. Thus, letters such as 'A' need to have portions of the metal retained to support interior portions of the letter.
Walking and driving traffic. This is a side street in a gentrifying area where the top speed is 25 MPH.
The signs must be visible without lighting. The signs will be positioned on the brick with standoffs so light can flow through the cut out letters. The height of the standoffs is part of the recommendation from the designer. We have imagined that the standoffs might be 2-inches, and located in the four corners.
I have attached a crude mockup of a sign in both .doc and PDF. The designer can choose whatever font they want. The water jet firm will use the designer's PDF to prepare the machine cutting instructions.


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When we reach retirement the goal for many of us is to have paid off our mortgage, leaving us with full equity in our homes. If you are thinking about extracting some of that equity to give yourself extra income in retirement, financial planners urge you to consider the pros and cons of such a strategy very carefully.
"I work with all my clients to make sure that they don't have to access their house money to fund their retirements," says Vikas Saida, a financial advisor with Edward Jones in Mississauga. "The most important thing is to plan well ahead so that this stage is never reached."
Mr. Saida says he stays in close contact with his clients to make sure their retirement plans are on track so they are not compelled to extract equity from their homes.
"People need to balance their expectations and their achievable goals," Mr. Saida says. "We need to make sure that the investments they have in their portfolios are in line with their risk-tolerance levels and their goals are achievable."
However, if circumstances change and you require a new source of income, perhaps for unexpected medical expenses, a mortgage advisor can help you assess if a reverse mortgage is appropriate.
"A reverse mortgage is an instrument where you do not have to prove income or credit worthiness. You're not required to make payments," says Gary Siegle, regional manager, Alberta South and Saskatchewan, Invis. "You get a certain amount of money and your mortgage balance increases at an established rate over the period of the reverse mortgage."
Mr. Siegle checks with clients to determine whether they have sufficient income to qualify for a regular mortgage before discussing a reverse mortgage.
The calculator on chip.ca will help test out how much you may be able to borrow.
"It will depend on your age and the amount of equity that you do have in your home," Mr. Siegle says. "They do not collect payments from you, it is just the interest that keeps accruing. You have the option, if you wish, to make payments, but you do not have to."
The younger you are, the less you will be able to borrow.
Reverse-mortgage providers make assumptions as to what your house will be worth down the road, when your estate is settled.
"If your house is worth $400,000 and you borrow $200,000, [and the interest rate on your loan remains at 5%] and your house value of $400,000 grows at 3% a year, your house is going up $12,000 a year, your interest is accruing by $10,000 a year," Mr. Siegle says. "Your house value is going up somewhat more quickly than your debt. Even if you live until 80 and you are now 60, there will still be money to turn over to your estate."
The reverse mortgage debt will have to be paid by your estate, reducing what your beneficiaries will inherit.
"Clients should review their objectives frequently," Mr. Saida says, "so that [they don't even get to the] stage of withdrawing money from their house's equity or their fixed assets."


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Endometrial and acute myeloid leukemia cancer genomes characterized
- Posted: May 1, 2013
Two studies from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program reveal details about the genomic landscapes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and endometrial cancer. Both provide new insights into the molecular underpinnings of these cancers with the potential to improve treatment. These studies represent the sixth and seventh in a series of genomes of at least 20 major cancers.
The first study is on endometrial cancer:
Study establishes basis for genomic classification of endometrial cancers; proper categorization is important for choosing the best treatment
A comprehensive genomic analysis of nearly 400 endometrial tumors suggests that certain molecular characteristics – such as the frequency of mutations – could complement current pathology methods and help distinguish between principal types of endometrial tumors, as well as provide insights into potential treatment strategies. In addition, the study, led by investigators in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, revealed four novel tumor subtypes, while also identifying genomic similarities between endometrial and other types of cancers, including breast, ovarian, and colorectal cancers.
These findings represent the most comprehensive characterization of the molecular alterations in endometrial cancers available to date. They were published May 2, 2013, in the journal Nature. TCGA is funded and managed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), both part of the National Institutes of Health.
"With this latest study in a series of 20 planned TCGA tumor type characterizations, more genomic similarities are emerging between disparate tumor types," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "Teasing out heretofore unknown genomic markers or mutations in various cancers is again proving the value of TCGA."
Clinically, endometrial cancers fall into two categories: endometrioid (type I) and serous (type II) tumors. Type I is correlated with excess estrogen, obesity, and a favorable prognosis, while type II is more common in older women and generally has a less favorable outcome. Type I tumors are often treated with radiation therapy, which helps stop or slow cancer growth, given in addition to or after the primary treatment. Type II tumors are generally treated with chemotherapy, in which drugs are used to kill the cancer cells or stop them from growing.
Distinguishing between different types of endometrial cancers is currently based on histology, an examination of a thin slice of tissue under a microscope. But categorizing endometrial cancer tissues is often difficult, and specialists frequently disagree on the classification of individual cases.
In this study, investigators showed that approximately 25 percent of tumors that pathologists classified as high-grade endometrioid showed frequent mutations in TP53, a tumor suppressor gene, as well as extensive copy number alterations, a term for when a cell has too many or too few copies of a genomic segment. Both are key molecular characteristics associated with serous tumors, along with a small number of DNA methylation changes, which are additions of a basic chemical unit to pieces of DNA. Most endometrioid tumors, by contrast, have few copy number alterations or mutations in TP53, though there are frequent mutations in other well known cancer-associated genes, including PTEN, another tumor suppressor gene, and KRAS, a gene involved in regulating cell division.
These data suggest that some high grade endometrioid tumors have developed a strikingly similar pattern of alterations to serous tumors, and may benefit from a similar course of treatment.
"This study highlights the fact that some tumors with the same characterization by pathologists may have very different molecular features. That's where these findings will be directly implemented in additional research, and also in the context of clinical trials," said Douglas A. Levine, M.D., head of the Gynecology Research Laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and a co-leader in the study.
According to the authors, the new findings provide a roadmap for future clinical trials for endometrial cancer. "Each tumor subtype might warrant dedicated clinical trials because of the marked genomic differences between them that are indicative of different drivers of cancer," said study co-leader Elaine Mardis, Ph.D., co-director of the Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. "Developing therapies for each subtype independent of the other may improve outcomes, as has been shown in breast cancer."
Investigators also found genomic similarities between endometrial cancers and other tumor types. Previous TCGA research showed that a form of ovarian cancer (high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma) and a subtype of breast cancer (basal-like breast cancer) share many genomic features. In this study, the scientists found that endometrial serous carcinoma also has some of these same genomic characteristics. The cancers share a high frequency of mutations in TP53 (between 84 and 96 percent) and a low frequency in PTEN, with only 1 to 2 percent mutated. Surprisingly, the researchers also found many shared characteristics between endometrioid tumors and colorectal tumors. Both cancer types demonstrate a high frequency of microsatellite instability, where the repair mechanism for DNA is broken, and mutations in POLE, a gene responsible for producing a protein involved in DNA replication and repair. These genomic changes led to high mutation rates in both tumor types.
"TCGA's multidimensional approach to collecting genomic data, including clinical and pathology information, have made these findings possible," said Harold Varmus, M.D., NCI director. "Without the integrated characterization of so many tumor samples, correlations between histology and genomic data may not have been observed or potential clinical outcomes identified."
With a complete analysis of the study's findings, investigators have identified four novel genomic-based subtypes of endometrial cancer, which may set the stage for new diagnostic and treatment approaches. Each of the four genomic subtypes clustered together and was named for one of its notable characteristics:
- The POLE ultramutated group was named for its unusually high mutation rates and hotspot mutations (sequences highly susceptible to mutation) in the POLE gene.
- The hypermutated microsatellite instability group exhibited a high mutation rate, as well as few copy number alterations, but did not carry mutations in the POLE gene.
- The copy number low group showed the greatest microsatellite stability but a high frequency of mutations in CTNNB1, a gene critical for maintaining the linings of organs, such as the endometrium.
- The copy number high subtype was composed of mostly serous tumors, but included some endometrioid samples. This subtype displayed copy number alterations and a mutation landscape that was characteristic of serous tumors.
Endometrial cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States. NCI estimates that close to 50,000 women will be diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2013, with more than an estimated 8,000 deaths from the disease. For a majority of patients diagnosed with aggressive, high grade tumors with metastases, the five-year survival rate is about 16 percent, though chemotherapy has been associated with an improvement in survival, and new targeted agents are being tested.
"Finding genomic similarities among types of breast, ovarian, endometrial and colorectal tumors once again reveals that cancer, although very complex, may have themes extending beyond tissue type that can be exploited for therapeutic benefit," said Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., NHGRI director. "These similar genomic features demonstrate hitherto unknown commonalities among these cancers.
To date, the TCGA Research Network has generated data and published analyses on glioblastoma multiforme, ovarian serous adenocarcinoma, colorectal adenocarcinoma, lung squamous cell carcinoma and invasive breast cancer. Data generated by TCGA are freely available at the TCGA Data Portal and CGHub.
This work was supported by the following grants from the NIH: 5U24CA143799-04, 5U24CA143835-04, 5U24CA143840-04, 5U24CA143843-04, 5U24CA143845-04, 5U24CA143848-04, 5U24CA143858-04, 5U24CA143866-04, 5U24CA143867-04, 5U24CA143882-04, 5U24CA143883-04, 5U24CA144025-04, U54HG003067-11, U54HG003079-10 and U54HG003273-10 and supplemented by the Recovery Act.
More details about The Cancer Genome Atlas, including Quick Facts, Q&A, graphics, glossary, a brief guide to genomics and a media library of available images can be found at http://cancergenome.nih.gov.
Reference: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Integrated Genomic Characterization of Endometrial Carcinoma. Nature. May 2, 2013. DOI:10.1038/nature12113.
The second study is on acute myeloid leukemia:
TCGA researchers identify potential drug targets, markers for leukemia risk; New study reveals relatively few mutations in AML genomes
Investigators for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have detailed and broadly classified the genomic alterations that frequently underlie the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a deadly cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Their work paints a picture of a cancer marked by relatively few mutations compared to other types of cancer occurring in adults. They also found that AML is powerfully influenced by mutations in genes that cause epigenetic changes (chemical changes to the genome that do not change the DNA nucleotide sequence) that can affect the expression of genes. TCGA is jointly supported and managed by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health.
The findings, which appeared online May 1, 2013, in the New England Journal of Medicine set the stage for identifying potential new drug targets and treatment strategies for AML. They may also offer better guidance for predicting the severity of disease for individual patients.
"These results provide important new insights into the genomics of a deadly and difficult-to-treat cancer, and underscore the power and scope of The Cancer Genome Atlas project," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
"Rather than just random snapshots about individual patients, this study provides a more detailed look at the aberrant genomes of AML than we have ever had before," said NHGRI Director Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. "It has the potential to open up new directions in AML research, and perhaps, in the design of new therapeutics, its impact could be felt in the near future."
AML, the most common acute form of adult leukemia, develops when immature white blood cells fail to mature and instead accumulate in the bone marrow. The leukemia cells reduce the production of healthy blood cells, leading to anemia, abnormal bleeding and infections, and, if untreated, death.
Researchers examined the genomes of tumor specimens from 200 adult cases of spontaneously occurring, newly diagnosed AML. These cases represented all of the known subtypes of AML in approximately the same proportion as the general population. In this way, the study provided a realistic view of the disease, particularly in the number and frequency of genomic alterations. Each AML genome was compared to the normal genome derived from a skin sample of the same patient. Out of the 200 samples, 50 were analyzed by using whole genome sequencing, which is an examination of the complete DNA blueprint of the cells. Researchers analyzed the genome's protein-coding regions in the remaining samples, and used powerful new sequencing methods to look at changes in RNA in each case.
By studying a large number of AML cases, investigators were able to predict that they have identified virtually all of the mutations that occur in at least 5 percent of AML patients. Surprisingly, they found that overall, AML genomes have relatively few mutations, and such tumors are among the least mutated adult cancers. The average number of mutations in genes for each AML genome was 13, in contrast to solid tumors such as breast, lung or pancreatic cancer, which often have hundreds of mutated genes.
Because investigators found more than 1,600 genes that were mutated at least once in the 200 samples, they organized the recurrently mutated genes into nine categories based on their function or the known pathways involved. Some of these categories include tumor suppressor genes, signaling genes and epigenetic modifiers, with the latter being the most frequently mutated class of genes in the study. Epigenetic changes are alterations to DNA that often involve the addition or removal of chemical tags (such as methyl groups), which can affect when genes are turned on and off.
"This data set helps to integrate what was previously fragmented information," said study co-leader Timothy J. Ley, M.D., associate director for cancer genomics at The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "We didn't realize how few recurrent mutations there were, and no one was thinking even five years ago that AML was associated with a high frequency of mutations in genes that encode epigenetic modifiers."
By finding comparatively few recurrently mutated genes, yet frequent alterations in genes that help control gene expression, the investigators may have narrowed the search for likely drug targets and disease markers.
Other results were also somewhat surprising. Researchers knew that mutations in signaling genes, which help control cell growth and development, were very common in AML, and thought that all AML samples may have at least one signaling gene mutation. But the TCGA findings showed that these genes are mutated in only 60 percent of cases. These include mutations in the gene FLT3, which occur in about a third of cases, making it one of the most commonly mutated genes in AML. FLT3 is important for normal blood cell development. The researchers also found that many AML patients have concurrent mutations in three commonly mutated genes: FLT3, NPM1 and DNMT3A. Patients with this combination of gene mutations appear to have a unique subtype of AML.
Investigators unexpectedly found recurring mutations in cohesin genes, which are important in cell division.
The study is the first to report a recurrently mutated microRNA gene in AML. MicroRNAs can play an important role in regulating gene expression, particularly in turning off gene activity.
Abnormal chromosome rearrangements and gene fusions (where two genes join to form a new, altered gene) are frequently useful in diagnosing and providing prognostic information for AML patients. The study uncovered many such fusions that had not been described before, and nearly half of the AML samples were found to have gene fusions.
Currently, only a few good markers exist to help guide treatment decisions for the majority of patients with intermediate risk. Some of the recurrently mutated genes identified in this study may allow for better prognostic information that will be relevant for AML patients.
"We've never had such a complete picture of AML, and this data set will be mined by researchers for years," said co-study leader Richard Wilson, Ph.D., director of Washington University's Genome Institute. "These findings have probably identified every pathway in which a modification – and perhaps new drugs – might be beneficial. They also further refine our understanding of the importance of individual mutations for disease classification and prognostication, and will help us build better disease models."
"These results will enable investigators to examine patient samples for mutation patterns and affected pathways, and to begin new studies to try to understand the relationships between these genetic mutations and treatment results," added Ley.
"This study of AML reinforces the value of the approach we are using to study the genomic diversity among tumors of many different cancer types and even within a single kind of cancer such as AML," noted NCI Director Harold Varmus, M.D. "Only such a systematic analysis of cancer types could have uncovered such clear patterns, such as the apparent importance in AML of genetic mutations that lead to changes in gene expression and cell traits."
To date, TCGA Research Network has published analyses on these cancers:
- glioblastoma multiforme (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/newsevents/newsannouncements/news_9_4_2008)
- ovarian serous adenocarcinoma (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/newsevents/newsannouncements/ovarianpaper)
- colorectal adenocarcinoma (http://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/TCGAcolorectal)
- lung squamous cell carcinoma (http://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/lungsquamoustcga)
- invasive breast cancer (http://cancergenome.nih.gov/newsevents/newsannouncements/breastserovca)
This work was supported by the following grants: U24CA143845, U24CA143858, U24CA144025, U24CA143882, U24CA143866, U24CA143867, U24CA143848, U24CA143840, U24CA143835, U24CA143799, U24CA143883, U24CA143843, U54HG003067, U54HG003079, U54HG003273, and P01CA101937.
Reference: The Cancer Genome Atlas Network. Genomic and epigenomic landscape of adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia. New England Journal of Medicine. Online May 1, 2013. In print May 30, 2013. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1301689.


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Finally, after some planning and time I managed to make my first Battle Report!
This battle took place in Standardion IX (my bedrooms floor), a peaceful green planet with no inhabitants but wildlife, ruins and rich rainbow deposits.
Mysteriously, the legendary TUGRLWAOS (The Ultimate Gatling Rocket Laser War Axe Of Slaying) was found in the middle of some ruins, obtaining the weapon would mean not just becoming cooler, but the warlord of the battlefield!
Fighting for the possession of TUGRLWAOS are two armies;
NOTE: I shall post them tomorrow on The Armory
The Metal Warriors; BFenix (Me) wants to get the weapon for future use that will be revealed in my also first upcoming forum battle. With him are his trusty metal brothers, his War Bitches and a Shogun Combat Droid.
Armies of Random; Leading the Random hordes is Lord Blhaek, he is sick and tired of being the army that always has to "fill up" battles against overpowered armies and get killed all the time, he thinks that by getting his hands on TUGRLWAOS he can change that. With him are a pair of Flamethrowers, Snipers, a horde of random blood thirsty figs and Nasty Pirate Joe.
The battlefield is simple, the only structure that might give some advantage is the guard tower, with a minigun mounted on top.
After everything being ready, Initiative is rolled, and the Armies of Random get first turn.
TURN1: Not much happened, both forces moved out.
TURN2: Dr. Venom fired his launcher, his trusty side-kick reloaded it right away
Yet, he missed. Guess his better at the lab than at the field... Also, the Classic Brikwars vehicle moved up and shot the Shogun, but without effect.
The missile launcher dude climbed to the tower after a quick sprint
And despite more troop movement, that was pretty much it for the AoR turn.
Eager to start out with a bang, Demoman moved up and threw his Remote Detonation Bomb.
Oh boy-
BOOM! One flamethrower guy is blasted and the other is thrown away, the Classic vehicle losses a pair of wheels!
The Biker Metal Warrior goes in for the kill, but kills no one
The Shogun did not hesitate to return fire on Dr. Venom, but a miscalculation made its minigun miss
The War Bitches moved up, one stayed behind cover like a bitch and the other went bitchin' with her minigun, killing two with Gatling bonus.
The Metal Warriors urged to the front, killing another fig.
BFenix sprinted for the tower and jumped. He did not make it to the top but was able hang around with the aid of his Pneumatic Maul.
Overwatch shot of T2
TURN3: Turn 3 had a bit more carnage. It started with Missile Launcher dude seeing and opportunity, those MWs were begging to be blown up!
But, the gods were with them today, and the missile malfunctioned and broke down in the middle of its flight...
The Sniper Team moved up and fired upon the MWs
One was gunned down with an accurate shot, the other protected himself with his cape.
Mr. Cranky moved up and filled one of the bitches with lead.
Dr.Venom tried taking down the Shogun again!
Close! But not close enough, his shot hit the Shogun but its armor proved to again to be efficient!
The Bandolier only embarrassed himself by moving up and shooting against the MWs front alone, his revolvers let him down.
The horde move forward, securing the TUGRLWAOS
The other Flamethrower guy tried to BBQ the Shogun, but he should know better then to try and flame a Droid.
Arrr! So ye think ye can just blow up me comrades eh?
Well then, how about aye show ya landlubbers how ta blow stuff up!
BOOM! Biker MW gets knocked off his bike, fortunately both he and the bike stay intact. Looks like Nasty Pirate Joe didnt show them after all...
Lord Blhaek moved up, trying to flank the MWs
The Pilot grabbed his pair of wheels and tried to repair the Classic vehicle
Succeeding! The Metal Warrior haven't heard the last of this baby yet! After this, AoRs turn ended, with not so great results... The MWs turn was up
(Nevermind the pilot, this was a small mistake in turn order, no big deal) Demoman went towards the Shogun, but for what?
Ah, to get his hands on some more boom goodness of course!
BFenix got himself up. That Missile dude is in BIG trouble, the Pneumatic BIG kind!
With a mighty swing the Missile dude flies across the battlefield and ends up completely crushed!
BF now saw one of those moments were not grinning of pure slaughtering pleasure was impossible
And with a big jump, a successful feat and a roaring pneumatic maul, BFenix smitted the enemies of Metal with great prejudice, making the work of the Gods, shaking the ground, killing three and leaving the rest disrupted...
Biker MW recovered from the explosion and went to recover his beloved ride, thinking of ways to get his revenge on Nasty Pirate Joe
The remaining bitch moved up, ignoring the lame Bandolier and switching to her Rocket Launcher!
The two Snipers were damn lucky and only got disrupted...
The forward Metal Warriors engaged the horde, killing one
And the rest did the same, wasting the Bandolier
Overwatch of T3
Now Im tired, Ill continue the Report tomorrow, stay tuned!


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By Jason Kurylo:
A few thoughts on Tuesday's 4-3 OT win over the Colorado Avalanche:
- Secondary scoring has officially started to chip in. Last night's goal scorers: Ryan Kesler, Mason Raymond, Peter Schaefer and Jeff Tambellini. Although, come to think of it, can you call JT secondary scoring when he's skating with the Sedins?
- The Canucks did a good job to take advantage of the other team's errors this night. The first goal came when an Avs breakout jumped off a stick. Tic-tac-Tambellini, it was in the net. Raymond's overtime winner also came from a Colorado youngster making a boo-boo; as rookie D-man Jonas Holos started to take a faceoff win around the net, MayRay pokechecked the puck off his stick and past a startled Budaj. It's good to see the team is starting to score ugly goals when the other guys goof up. Opportunistic plays equal winning ways in this league.
- Manny Malhotra leads the Canucks in breakaways, with like a million of 'em so far this season. Yes, that's how the NHL.com stats page on missed breakaways reads: M. Malhotra: G 2, A 3, P 5, MBR like a million of 'em. Anyway, he blew a glorious chance to win the game with five seconds left in regulation, booting the puck right into Budaj's breadbasket. It was good to see him break out for two goals against the Wild, but he has got to start burying some of these prime chances.
- Ryan Kesler is starting to look like Ryan Kesler. A goal, a crossbar, some intimidation of opposition centres, and a little levity in the intermission interview with Kristin Reid. Don't worry, @KaptKatz, methinks your boy'll be just fine.
- Daniel Sedin looked dangerous every time he crossed the centre line, forcing Peter Budaj to make several excellent saves. He and Henrik assisted on Jeff Tambellini's first period goal, extending Dank's league-leading point streak to nine games. Unfortunately, the Sedins were also dangerous on defense – they were on the ice for all three of Colorado's goals.
- Team defense has to be an issue for Alain Vigneault and his coaching staff. If not for the goalkeeper on this night, the home squad would have left one game under .500 instead of one game over. More on him later.
- Remember Andrew Alberts? The official goat of the 2009-2010 Canucks playoff exit? He hasn't been part of the problem on D. Rather, the opposite: he has shown why he, and not Shane O'Brien, was kept on the roster – last night he logged a team-high 20:07 in even-strength ice time, and looked solid in doing so.
- You can't blame Roberto Luongo for the game going to OT. He put in a very strong performance, stopping 36 of 39 shots, quite a few in spectacular fashion. The three goals against included a perfect shot off the crossbar, a deflection by his own defenseman, and a last-minute defensive breakdown that left Matt Duchene with a tap-in at the lip of the crease. The Canucks owe their superstar goalie some of the same quality team defense they've show in front of Cory Schneider in his two starts.
- Luongo's post-game scrums are in danger of becoming interesting. After Raymond's odd winner in OT, the netminder cracked a few jokes with reporters, including this gem: "I was getting jacked for another shootout, so I'm disappointed we won it in overtime." Okay, you had to be there. Still, nice to see Bobby Lou smile without the weight of the captaincy on his shoulders.
- Is it just me, or have we seen far more of Guillaume's Desbiens, and a lot more of his DesCommecicommeça?
- Peter Schaefer scored his first goal on a well-screened shot in the second period. He now has 99 NHL goals in his career. If he wants to hit triple digits, he'd better stop being invisible – Schaefer has done little to impress in his second tour of duty with the Canucks.
- That entire fourth line, in fact, has been largely ineffective, and it's clear that AV sees that. Schaefer, Desbiens and Tanner Glass combined for just over 17 minutes of ice time. Ten Canucks skated more than that individually. Between the three of these guys, they had one shot on goal, a weak wrister that happened to fool Budaj because of a great screen.
- Avs blueliner John-Michael Liles got an assist in last night's OT loss, tying him with Daniel Sedin for the longest points streak to start the season. More impressively, at nine games, he now has sole possession of the NHL record for consecutive games with assists to start a season. That's right, in the storied careers of Paul Coffey, Ray Bourque, Bobby Orr, Rob Blake and Dennis Potvin, no D-man has ever had helpers in nine straight games to start a campaign. Hell, none of the forwards in Avs history – not Joe Sakic, not Peter Forsberg… – have started a season with this many games in the A column. Until now. Congratulations to JML, and to Avs fans. It's always exciting to see history being made. Let's hope the league pulls last year's ad formula out of a drawer somewhere to make a commercial now that it's actually true.
- The Green Men have lost their lustre. Even fans sitting nearby look bored by their antics. Sorry boys, it was fun while it lasted, but when I tap my watch like this, it means your 15 minutes is up.
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Subscribe to Jason's podcast, Pucked in the Head, on iTunes. Episode 15 is an in-depth look at the Central Division, and includes many a joke at the expense of the aged Red Wings.


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Operating systems
Budget $10-30 USD
Develop a scheduler with the aim to achieve equal allocation per user. For example if there are four processes each process should receive a fair amount of CPU time.
This Project/assignment involves you to design, implement, and evaluate a fair-share scheduler in Linux.
As part of this assignment you will decide the objectives of your scheduler and what you used to perform the scheduling.
Make all decisions that you think are appropriate and discuss that in your project
Part 1
In Part 1, please read and understand the source code to the Linux schedulers and our schedulers, (Week 5, Assign 4) by running and revisiting the code and how it functions. Design on paper how you want your fair-share scheduler to work, and implement your design and test it several times to evaluate your implementation. List all your observations and arrive at a valid conclusion for your scheduler.
As part of your project/assignment, you need to answer the following questions:
1. What does your current scheduler do? Please consider and address the following inquiry:
o What is your scheduling mechanism? Be explicit and detailed. (Description and specification of your scheduler)
o Can other processes be starved in your scheduling? If so, give an example of how it might occur and how starvation can be avoided.
o Is there aging? That is, are the priorities of processes that have low recent CPU consumption raised to avoid effective starvation?
2. What are the objectives of your fair-share scheduler? Discuss how you want your "fair-share" to mean. Your answers to these inquiry are best answered by referring to your implementation of your scheduler (just as exactly what your scheduler does can be clear only by its implementation).
3. How to you plan to transform our schedulers' in week 5 implementation to achieve your fair-share scheduling?
4. How will you evaluate your modified scheduler? Your evaluation should test whether each of the objectives you set for your scheduler are met, within the bounds of what is realistically possible given the time allotted for this assignment.
5. Use Gantt charts to illustrate the execution of the processes
• A short report to discuss how and what you might if done differently from your plans from Part 1
• A detail analysis of the experiments you actually ran to corroborate your implementation, their results, and an explanation of the results. (For example, if your scheduler did not behave as you had expected, some explanation for why.)
Kernel Module
Computers have come a long way to stay. Studying operating systems allow us to explore architecture, organization and the software part of computers. In this project, we are going to develop our own hardware and software that will allow users to use the hardware. Device drivers are used to enable a hardware to work. Develop your own hardware and create your own device driver (kernel module).
The kernel module should use the name of your hardware and be licensed to you. Load the module and remove it.
Files to Submit
1. One Page description of your hardware and kernel
2. Source Files – including your Makefile
3. Output
4. Documentation
Software in C Programming
Develop a software (data entry) in C Programming that allows a user to enter at least 10 records.
As part of this assignment you will decide the objectives of your software and what it does. Create a documentation to enable users to be able to use the program.
Make all decision that you think are appropriate and discuss that in your project. This Project/assignment involves you to design, and implement your own program in C
1. One Page description of your Hardware and Software
2. Source Files
3. Output
4. Documentation
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Farney Castle, Holycross, Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Historic Farney Castle was built in 1495 by the Duke of Ormond and was added to in 1790 by the Armstrong family. It is now the home and studio of Irish International Knitwear and Porcelain Designer Cyril Cullen. The round tower is the only one in Ireland
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On Our Radar: Crisis Control for Big Bird
Being a star employee is great, except when you're one-upping your boss. HBR offers up a few tips on what to do when your manager is afraid of you. Don't stop being spectacular, for starters. –-Melissa Korn
CEOs don't necessarily stop working once they retire – at least not on paper. Many receive lucrative "consulting gigs," generally severance packages disguised as employment, from their former employers, according to The Journal. –Leslie Kwoh
When crises come to Sesame Street, an impressive damage-control and communications response kicks into gear. New York Magazine has a fascinating profile of Big Bird's PR team. —Nikki Waller
Forbes profiles one of the newest members of the "World's Billionaires" club: Wolfgang Leitner, CEO of Andritz AG, one of Europe's largest engineering groups. –Leslie Kwoh
And finally…
Hold that Twinkie! Hostess and its bakers union have agreed to a mediation session Tuesday, The Journal reports. Here's hoping for a sweet resolution, and yet another thing for which we can give thanks. —Melissa Korn


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Should You Care if Dimon Has Two Jobs?
An intense debate over Dimon's current dual role has dominated corporate governance blogs for months now but what should investors think? Mark Hulbert joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Sumner Tunnel opens June 30, 1934
Sumner Tunnel opens June 30, 1934
In the East Boston tunnel, a conveyor carries the clay and other material from the shield on Jan. 14, 1932. The shield was a round device of steel about 15 feet long and a little more than 31 feet in diameter. In the front part of the shield the actual work of excavation was done. The shield advanced as clay was removed. This conveyor consisted of a wide belt running over rollers. Along the conveyor ran a steady stream of clay, which workers burrowed out. The conveyor belt dropped the clay into a huge elevator consisting of a chain of wide buckets. The elevator then carried the clay to the surface where it dropped into waiting trucks and was taken to fill the space around the then East Boston Airport, currently Logan International Airport.
In the East Boston tunnel, a worker on April 10, 1932 ties in the reinforcing rods of the curved ceiling that will be buried in the concrete. Reports at the time said that the level of safety was such that if the outside coating of cement between the steel and the mud were to wear away and if the steel itself were to corrode to nothing, this inside 18-inch wall of concrete would continue to stand and make a safe tunnel.
The new Sumner Tunnel ventilation plant at Liverpool and Maverick streets in East Boston takes a delivery of $34,000 worth of fans purchased from Buffalo on June 28, 1933. There would be a corresponding ventilating plant at Fleet and North streets on the Boston side. These fans on either end of the mile-long tunnel could shoot a volume of 1 million cubic feet of fresh air per minute into the newly constructed tunnel.
On Sept. 30, 1933, an open-air market lined up along the East Boston portion of what would become the approach to the Sumner Tunnel. On the Boston end, transformation was also taking place as construction crews tore down buildings and widened streets around Haymarket Square.
This $5,000 tractor, photographed on July 2, 1934, was purchased by the city to keep the tunnel cleared of broken-down vehicles. To pay for this machine, motorists were charged a 50 cent tax for towing and a dollar a gallon for gas should they run out. Gas at this time was selling at 19 cents per gallon. John F. Lane, an official with the Public Works Department, noted that although the money was needed to pay for the tractor, the tunnel would still turn away any rickety automobiles that could break down and delay traffic.
Joseph J. O'Brien, the cashier in charge of toll collection at the Sumner Tunnel, examines the toll recorder on Dec. 23, 1940. Toll costs ranged from 15 cents for a pleasure car to a dollar for a truck 10 tons or more, with a variety of amounts in between. Lights would flash on the indicator pictured here when a toll was paid, indicating to the driver that the toll worker had recorded the amount paid. When the tunnel opened the toll was 25 cents for cars but was lowered to 15 cents when the Chelsea North Bridge was closed in January 1935.
Automobiles entered the Sumner Tunnel on April 24, 1958. Almost exactly a year after this picture was taken, on April 30 1959, more than 1,000 people attended a ground-breaking ceremony for construction of a second tunnel to run parallel to the then 25-year-old Sumner Tunnel. The Lieutenant William F. Callahan Tunnel opened on Nov. 11, 1961.


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I was Richmond town supervisor/budget officer from 1994 through 2001, during which I lowered the property tax rate from $1.51 to 45 cents per $1,000, paid off all debt and acquired no new debt. In the last six years, taxes have gone from 84 cents to $1.64 per $1,000, including up 59 percent in 2013 while the state has a 2 percent tax cap. Richmond, at $1.64/$1,000, is now the 10th lowest of our 16 towns on the Ontario County Real Property Tax website.
Each year towns file a financial report with the NYS Comptroller. In 2012 the Comptroller began evaluating towns for fiscal stress that considered year-end fund balance, operating deficits, cash position, use of short-term debt and fixed costs. Richmond has, by far, the worst score of all towns in Ontario County. I would bring a conservative and responsible approach to financial and budgeting issues to restore fiscal integrity.
I will work with the Richmond Economic Development Task Force and Chamber of Commerce to do whatever we can to focus on our economy to retain existing businesses while attracting new ones to increase our tax base and provide new employment opportunities.
Honeoye Lake needs the supervisor�s full attention. Lake properties pay about 40 percent of the town property taxes, and if lake values and assessments drop, off-lake properties will pay a higher percentage. I would involve community members and watershed organizations to solve water quality issues and clearly communicate the activities and projects to residents on a regular basis. We need to encourage and explore novel ideas and search for emerging technologies that could help with lake quality issues.
In the next two years, Richmond will be installing miles of new water mains on East Lake, Ashley, and White roads. This multi-million dollar project will require intensive management, coordination and public works experience. My college degree is in civil technology, I have 35 years experience in a public water utility and am licensed by the state Health Department to operate public water distribution systems. I will manage these projects to stay within budget while regularly communicating the schedule to the public, particularly during the construction.
I believe we need a cooperative spirit among residents, businesses and town leaders that will support innovative and proactive leadership. Please go to www.EdJackson2013.com for platform details. I hope you will carefully consider my education, financial experience and willingness to get involved when you vote on Nov. 5.
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SAN RAMON, CA – Basketball star Yao Ming and 24 Hour Fitness have partnered up to open clubs in Yao's native China.
The signature sports club, which will be called California Fitness—Yao Ming Sport Club, will open in August in Beijing. California Fitness is a wholly owned subsidiary of 24 Hour Fitness and currently operates 24 locations across Asia.
California Fitness—Yao Ming Sport Club will occupy nearly 40,000 square feet and will have such amenities as a 3-on-3 basketball court, a cycling studio, cardio machines, free weights, resistance equipment and steam and sauna facilities.
24 Hour Fitness plans to open 20 to 30 facilities throughout China in the next five years. The premiere club in Beijing not only will feature Yao's likeness in signage and marketing, but the club also will have a special air purification system.
24 Hour Fitness said it had revenue of $1.12 billion in 2005 and employs 16,000 people, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2005, Forstmann, Little & Co. bought 24 Hour Fitness for a reported $1.6 billion.
Other club companies have entered the China market. Bally Total Fitness has operated clubs in China since 2002, and major hotels such as Shangri-La group's China World Hotel in Beijing run large, modern fitness centers, the newspaper reported.
Yao, a 7-foot-6 center and member of the NBA's Houston Rockets, has been voted as a five-time NBA All-Star since entering the league in 2002. He will be a member of the Chinese men's basketball team in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Yao is just one of many sports celebrities who have teamed up with 24 Hour Fitness to create signature clubs. Other athletes include Andre Agassi, Lance Armstrong, Shaquille O'Neal and Magic Johnson.


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It must be pretty obvious from these pics that I like dogs, kids, icecreams and glass.
The pic of the old sea dog was taken at Mykonos - a Greek island we love and have wonderful memories of... especially Psarou Beach ( more pics coming up!). The Kissing Poms happened in the port of Bari...
What you probably imagine are delicious cup cakes and delectable bon bons, ready to gobble up, are made out of Murano glass! This pic was shot in Venice... and my daughter Arundhati surprised me by handing over a pretty box inside which nestled a really happy Murano glass necklace that I shall always cherish - almost too pretty to wear!
The ice cream cones are real... I was enchanted by the very artistic display in a super chic Cafe in Bari. We also enjoyed a sensational Cappuccino here at the Gran Caffe, where the waiters were real cuties. Check out the customer with his pooch waiting for his cuppa!
And the lovely little girl was accompanying her mom and baby sister ( all of twenty days) when she posed for me in a leafy street in Athens, near the famous Plaka. As you can sense, I am still in holiday mode.
Off to Lisbon soon. But this time to address an international TiE Retreat.


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The Grand Island Chamber of Commerce has named Linda Tufillaro and Wavelengths Hair Design as recipients of the Citizen of the Year Award.
The award recognizes those people and businesses who have made Grand Island a better place to live, work and play.
The Citizen of the Year Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 25, at the Holiday Inn Grand Island with Luke Moretti of WIVB-TV Channel 4 serving as the master of ceremonies.
Business of the Year 2012
Wavelengths Hair Design
Business of the Year owner Ingrid Kinney opened Wavelengths Hair Design in 1982. Her father, Anton Vogel, was a very distinguished and respected barber in the community. Kinney apprenticed under him for many years before opening her own salon. She is an icon in the industry and one of the few master barbers left in the Western New York area. Hair design runs in the family, so it was only natural that her two daughters, Danielle Neuhaus and Erica Forbes, would follow in her footsteps.
Along with their wonderful staff of highly skilled stylists, Kinney, Neuhaus and Forbes strive to provide clients with the pampered experience of a high-end salon while still maintaining an intimate, small town atmosphere.
Wavelengths is currently celebrating its 30th year in business. The last two years have been very exciting, with renovations to the salon and the addition of styling labs to the salon's list of services. A styling lab is a complimentary service where clients are invited to spend an evening learning styling techniques and tips from the staff, while enjoying appetizers and beverages. Wavelengths is staffed with talented stylists who take part in ongoing education and training to stay on top of the latest trends and fashions.
Serving the community for the past 30 years, the Wavelengths staff has generously supported many Island charities and have volunteered their time to worthy causes. With their commitment to teamwork and great service, they are poised for another 30 years of providing residents with incredible hair and beauty.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Linda Tufillaro
Linda Tufillaro grew up on Love Road as Linda Deeter and attended each of the three Island elementary schools, graduating from Grand Island High School in 1971.
She attended Niagara University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in education/physical education.
She started working for the town in 1970 as a part-time playground attendant and special events leader under Robert Zuchowski.
Tufillaro is on the board of directors for the Neighbors Foundation and member of the Grand Island Rod and Gun Club. She married Louis Tufillaro in 1991. She received her master's degree in sociology in 1996.
In 1977, Tufillaro became a full-time staff member of the Parks and Recreation Department under James Niland, and was appointed director after Niland's retirement. She participated in the development of the town's master plan, sesquicentennial events and Veterans Park master plan.
She received the chamber's Citizen of the Year award in 1987, Quality Quest Service Recognition in 2000, and the Rotary International Centennial Service award for 2004-05.
Tufillaro said she totally enjoys her position with the Town of Grand Island, the many years of developing programs, the activities and being able to assist the various service organizations.
"It's of great pleasure to see the youths that have once passed through the 'recreation doors' return as adults, fully prepared to meet the needs of life ahead of them. All have had an impact on my life - I hope that in some small way I had a positive influence on theirs."
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I can say this is much more better and the best part is...no colour added!! (Original colour from the pumpkin i used)
200g Sweet potatoes / Pumpkin (cooked n mashed)
300g Glutinious flour
1 tbsp Rice flour
2 tbsp Sugar
3 tbsp Cooking oil
200ml Water (fr cooked potatoes)-might not need tat much, so have to add slowly.
250g Green beans/Mung beans (yellow in color)
140g Sugar
4 tbsp Cooking oil
* Cut some banana leafs according to the mould using (for the base of the kuih) when steaming!
METHOD (paste):
~Soaked the beans at least 2 hours n rinsed.
~Steam the beans for 45-1hr, with pandan leafs on top if desire
~While its still hot, add in oil & sugar, blend till fine
~Make into small balls. (can be kept for a month in freezer)
METHOD (pastry):
~Mixed all ingredients by hand
~Make into a dough, leave for 20-30 minutes
~Grab a portion (as the mould using) then wrapped in the paste(ball)
~Dust the mould with some rice flour before pressing in the dough.
~Knock out & place on the cut & oiled banana leafs.
(Brush alittle oil on top of the (cut) banana leafs before placing the kuih on top)
~Use a steamer to steam for 8-10 minutes (medium heat)-medium size
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Is this normal or there is something I am doing wrong?
For example, I am trying Monkey Island 3 using ScummVM (114mb fastmem used while running) but it's very slow when compared to an older version of ScummVM warpup on the same configuration.
Maybe it's because of CyberVisionPPC ? I guess it doesn't have all the features that are available when using Cybergraphx4?
Here is Monkey3 running under warpup: http://youtu.be/h7J_OZ-caDs
Here is Monkey3 running under OS4.1: http://youtu.be/fxP43A56Vzs (fullscreenmode has exactly the same speed)


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- January 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM
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- January 7, 2014 at 6:29 PM
- DV said...
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- January 8, 2014 at 2:15 AM
- DV said...
Hi Shobhaa
Wishing you a very Happy New Year. I love both your blog & books. When is "Never a Dull De' coming out. I live in NZ and cant find it.
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Inserting a New String
insert function inserts a new string into the tree, and does nothing if it is already present. We insert the string
s with the code
root = insert(root, s);. The first
if statement detects running off the end of new node, initializes it, and falls through to the standard case. Subsequent code takes the appropriate branch, but branches to
eqkid only if characters remain in the string.
Tptr insert(Tptr p, char *s) { if (p == 0) { p = (Tptr) malloc(sizeof(Tnode)); p->splitchar = *s; p->lokid = p->eqkid = p->hikid = 0; } if (*s < p->splitchar) p->lokid = insert(p->lokid, s); else if (*s == p->splitchar) { if (*s != 0) p->eqkid = insert(p->eqkid, ++s); } else p->hikid = insert(p->hikid, s); return p; }
This code is short but subtle, and worth careful study.
The resulting tree stores the strings themselves, but no other information. Real symbol tables store additional data with each string. To illustrate this problem, we'll store a pointer to every string in the tree; this data will be used by later search algorithms. We could add a new
info field to each node, but that would be wasteful. Instead, we'll exploit the fact that a node with a null
splitchar cannot have an
eqkid, and store the data in that field. We could make a
union that contains the two possible pointers, but that would be syntactically clumsy (we would have to refer to the union at each reference). We will instead use the sleazy hack of coercing a string into a
Tptr. The code inside
*s == p->splitchar test, therefore, becomes the following:
if (*s == 0) p->eqkid = (Tptr) insertstr; else p->eqkid = insert(p->eqkid, ++s);
Faster Insertion Functions
We can improve insertion in two different ways. We'll start by tuning the insertion code, and consider different orders in which we can insert the nodes into the tree.
A major cost of the
insert function is calling
malloc to create each node. The function
insert2 in the demo program (available electronically) uses the ancient C technique of allocating a buffer of nodes and dealing them out as needed. Profiling shows that this eliminates most of the time spent in storage allocation. We measured the time to insert the 234,936 words in a dictionary file (one word per line, for a total of 2,486,813 characters). Table 1 lists the run times in seconds on three 200-MHz machines, with the compilers optimizing code for speed. The
insert3 function (also available electronically) uses other common techniques to reduce the run time even further: transforming recursion to iteration, keeping a pointer to a pointer, reordering tests, saving a difference in a comparison, and splitting the single loop into two loops. These changes are beneficial on all machines, and substantial on the SPARC.
Table 1: Run times of insertion functions.
Better Insertion Orders
In what order should you insert the nodes into a tree? No matter in what order you insert the nodes, you end up with the same digital search trie -- the data structure is totally insensitive to insertion order. Binary search trees are at the opposite end of the spectrum: If you insert the nodes in a good order (middle element first), you end up with a balanced tree. If you insert the nodes in sorted order, the result is a long skinny tree that is very costly to build and search. Fortunately, if you insert the nodes in random order, a binary search tree is usually close to balanced.
Ternary search trees fall between these two extremes. You can build a completely balanced tree by inserting the median element of the input set, then recursively inserting all lesser elements and greater elements. A simpler approach first sorts the input set. The recursive
build function inserts the middle string of its subarray, then recursively builds the left and right subarrays. We use this method in our experiments; it is fast and produces fairly well-balanced trees. The cost of inserting all words in a dictionary with function
insert3 is never more than about 10 percent greater than searching for all words. D.D. Sleator and R.E. Tarjan describe theoretical balancing algorithms for ternary search trees in "Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees" (Journal of the ACM, July 1985).
Comparison to Other Data Structures
Symbol tables are typically represented by hash tables. We conducted a simple experiment to compare ternary search trees to that classic data structure; the complete code is available electronically.
To represent
n strings, our hash code uses a chained table of size
tabsize=n. The hash function, from Section 6.6 of B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie's
The C Programming Language, Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 1988), is reasonably efficient and produces good spread:
int hashfunc(char *s) { unsigned n = 0; for ( ; *s; s++) n = 31 * n + *s; return n % tabsize; }
The body of the
search function is as follows:
for (p = tab[hashfunc(s)]; p; p = p->next) if (strcmp(s, p->str) == 0) return 1; return 0;
For fair timing, we replaced the string comparison function
strcmp with inline code (so the hash and tree
search functions used the same coding style). We used the same dictionary to compare the performance of hashing and ternary trees. We first built the tree by inserting each word in turn (middle element first, then recurring). Finally, we searched for each element word in the input file. Table 2 presents the times in seconds for the two data structures across three machines. For both building and (successful) searching, the two structures have comparable search times.
Table 2: Run times of data structures.
Ternary search trees are usually noticeably faster than hashing for unsuccessful searches. Ternary trees can discover mismatches after examining only a few characters, while hashing always processes the entire key. On some data sets with very long keys and mismatches in the first few characters, ternary trees took less than one-fifth the time of hashing.
insert3 and
search combine to yield a time-efficient symbol table. On one dictionary described at our web site, ternary search trees used about three times the space of hashing. An alternative representation of ternary search trees is more space efficient: When a subtree contains a single string, we store a pointer to the string itself (and each node stores three bits telling whether its children point to nodes or strings). This leads to code that is less efficient, but it reduces the number of tree nodes close to the space used by hashing.
We analyzed the worst-case performance of several aspects of ternary search trees in our theoretical paper. In "The Analysis of Hybrid Trie Structures" (Proceedings of the 9th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January 1998), J. Clement, P. Flajolet, and B. Valle analyze the expected performance of a broad class of hybrid trees that includes ternary trees, and describe extensive experiments to support their theory.
Other Operations on Ternary Trees
Most standard techniques on binary search trees can be applied immediately to their ternary cousins. For instance, we can print the strings in the tree in sorted order with a recursive traversal:
void traverse(Tptr p) { if (!p) return; traverse(p->lokid); if (p->splitchar) traverse(p->eqkid); else printf("%s/n", (char *) p->eqkid); traverse(p->hikid); }
Simple recursive searches can find the predecessor or successor of a given element or list all items in a given range. If we add a
count field to every node, we can quickly count the elements in a given range, count how many words begin with a given substring, or select the
mth largest element. Most of these operations require logarithmic time in a ternary tree, but linear time in a hash table.


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sorry if this is too long, thanks for reading


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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Inventing Landscapes Workshop – March 9-10, 2013 – SF
I hope that the holiday season is treating you well and wanted to share what I have planned for my March 2013 Workshop. It's a brand new theme, Inventing Landscapes!
Introducing an exciting new workshop that covers how to approach painting and sketching environments from your imagination. We will start with thumbnail sketches from memory, onsite notes and how to proceed to more resolved compositions with or without the help of photo reference. We will be using mixed media, such as gouache, watercolor and acrylics with pen and ink and pencil/markers to create new landscapes. Lighting and weather conditions will be heavily considered in our designs. This has practical applications for concept designers, fine artists, illustrators and for those who want to explore new subject matter in their work regardless of medium. Please join in for this March workshop to expand your artistic vocabulary, skills and see the world with a different point of view.
Come join me this March 9-10, 2013. Treat yourself or special friends and family (makes for an incredible Christmas gift!) to a fantastic experience at beautiful Ft. Mason, SF.
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