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Monday, 17th March, 2008, 08:44 PM #1
4E PrRC ~v2.7~ FINAL UPDATE May 29.08(right click, save link as...)
Was the 4E PHB Lite
Final Update, Version 2.7 of the Pre-release Rules Compilation is now available.
May 29, 2008
With only a week to go until the Core Ruleset is available, v2.7 will be the final update for the PrRC. There are known errors contained within the PrRC, but there is no promotional or preview material to correct the errors with. Scoops and internet chatter are referencing the core rulebooks now, so there is little new information that can be added to the PrRC. It is no long PRE-release.
Its been a pleasure to work with the community to compile the known information about 4e pre-release, and I heartily thank all those that took the time to report errors and inconsistencies, or to provide scoops to be added. I sincerely hope the PrRC has helped gamers with their preparations for 4e, and that they are looking forward to the official launch as much as I am.
I would like to take this opportunity to once again thank the designers and developers at WotC for all the hard work they have put into 4e to improve and reinvigorate our hobby. As much as Ive enjoyed putting together the PrRC, Im really looking forward to start my new campaign with ALL the rules, if the tidbits youve been showing us over the last year are any sign of what is around the corner!
If I ever make it to Gen Con, please say Hello!
All the best,
Verys Arkon
This document is a collection of preview and promotional material of D&D Fourth Edition from numerous sources, including:
Wizards of the Coast D&D website http://www.wizards.com
D&D XP Quick Start Rules http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/news_20080228.zip
Scalegloom Rules Appendix http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=221113
WotC Pre-generated characters from D&D XP http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/Exp...Characters.zip
Transcribed photos of pages from the Core Books previewed at D&D XP as promotion
Many EnWorld Forum posts
Many WotC/Gleemax Forum posts
Remember this is all based on preview material, subject to change when the 4E Core Ruleset is released June 6 2008. Where there was disagreement on the board posts about a particular rule or feature I attempted to find the most well supported argument (especially the point-buy system, where there is still debate if it is a 28 point-buy like 3.5E). I have attempted to keep speculation to a minimum, but there are some places where enough data has not yet been previewed. A notable exception is the Warlord class. Areas of particular uncertainty are flagged by ? or [ ] punctuation, or outlined in a box.
Remember this is only a tiny fraction of the whole game, so please don't judge 4e by the limited view here. I have to stress that YOU CANNOT JUDGE 4E BY THE Pre-release Rules Compiliation (aka the PHB LITE), it is assembled from potentially outdated preview material and some pretty clever guess-work by fans, but that is all. It gives impatient fans a single place to see what has been revealed (and what might be deduced), and it can give you an idea how it "might" play, but for goodness sake, wait until you get your hands on the real PHB in June before you make any final conclusions.
Errors and disagreements will abound! I will be collecting any errata people post here and updating the file at some point. Thanks to everyone who spots an inconsistency and takes the time to help improve the document.
A Note about Keep on the Shadowfell
Preview copies of the first 4e adventure, Keep of the Shadowfell, have been arriving at RPG stores in early May. There is a wealth of crunchy rules and powers contained within the 80 pages of adventure and 16 page quick start rules. As much as I would love to include those details here, I wont be adding any details to the PrRC from sources that are not released as part of the 4e preview and promotional campaign, unless someone from Wizards of the Coast says it is okay (email me! email@example.com).
Things I will be doing as a result of the KotS information:
Removing incorrect information
Correcting minor details about powers already revealed in another preview or promotional source
Adding names of powers with the note (See KotS)
For a discussion about KotS reveals, see Thalmins thread.
Here are some other useful links to play a level 1 fan demo game
PrRC will complement ThirdWizards excellent Monsters and More PDF
Monsters and More
Keterys' Original 4e Monsters, compiled by VBMEW-01
Download the Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures RPG stats for Dungeons of Dread .
Character Sheets
Neceros' 4e Character Sheets Now available in Landscape
PeelSeel2's Retro 4e Character sheet Version 2
VBMEW-01's "Original Creations Compilation" thread
Make your own Power Cards
**NEW** The 4E Fan Publishing site has amazing completed Power Cards generated from the Make Your Own Powercards thread.
Additional 1st Level Characters using PrRC
4e Fan-Made or Converted Adventures
Raiders of Oakhurst Adventure
Raiders of Oakhurst - Reloaded
Second Son Adventure
Return of the Burning Plague
Children of Solgan
NEW! Expedition to the Feywild
Edit May 29.08
Added Warlord powers Vipers Strike, Leaf on the Wind, Aid the Injured, and Steel Monsoon. (Tiefling Warlord pregen)
Corrected Tactical Assault feat description. (Tiefling Warlord pregen)
Corrected Clerics Healing Word (the + Wis is from Healing Lore, not as part of Healing Words).
Hide armor has a -1 armor check penalty (Tiefling Warlord pregen)
Removed +1 Reflex from Halflings, added +1 Reflex to Paladin (undoes the change made in v2.2) (Paladin sheet from Wired blog).
Added Iron Will feat (+2 Will defense). (Wired blog)
Confirmed short sword is +3 proficiency (FreeXenon quotes Scott TheRouse http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=226951 and Peter Shaffers reply, same thread)
Changed spelling of Orcus from Ocrus (Fiendish Dire Weasel)
Directed reader to KotS for concealment rules.
Added Readied Actions (Logan Bonner http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?...8&postcount=20
Updated Burst diagrams to read Ranged Burst instead of Area Burst or just Burst (Logan Bonner http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?...59&postcount=8)
Edited fighters combat challenge (based on MindWanderers interpretation).
Added Warlords Inspiring Words (Tiefling warlord pregen). Edited clerics healing word so it does not add +Wis HP (which seems to be from Healing Lore class feature).
Edit (May 21.08)
Updated to v2.6
Added Magic Items excerpt, and Flaming, Phasing, and Holy Avenger magic weapons.
Added Quests excerpt
Ability score increases every 4 levels, +1 to two scores. At tier levels (11 and 21), add +1 to all stats (Thalmin)
Added Githzerai, Gnoll, Hobgoblin, a second shifter type, to the list of playable monster races (Rechan).
Added feat Two-Weapon Fighting (exact mechanic unknown). (Thalmin)
Blinded condition gives -10 to perception checks.
Justicairs Just Radiance is Close Burst 5, not melee weapon (MindWanderer)
Gnomes hinted to get +2 Int, +2 Cha (Logan Bonner)
Changed Scalemail to Scale in armor table (Gavinfoxx).
Added paragon path names (no details): Spellstorm mage, Iron Vanguard, Battle Archer, Battle Captain, Astral Weapon (Jonathan Tweets blog, http://www.gleemax.com/Comms/Pages/C...6blogid%3D2076)
Only two actions provoke OAs: Moving out of a square when an enemy is adjacent to you. Making a ranged attack. (DimitriX quoting a response from WotC to his question http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?...05&postcount=4
Roll a recharge check per power (not one roll for all powers). Roll a d6 if it equals any shown recharge number, the power recharges Chris Sims
Minion HP: Minions interact normally with temporary hp rules (that's one reason why they have 1 hp). (Chris Sims, http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=226755)
Noted potions normally take a minor action to use, but administering a potion to someone else is a standard action. (KotS FAQ).
Edit (May 15.08)
Updated to v2.5
Added Epic Destinies to the Classes chapter, and the Archamage to the Wizard entry, from the excerpt (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080512a)
Added Rewards excerpt (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080514a)
Added magic item cost table derived by Keterys and Lurker59 from the Rewards excerpt.
Added ability array 16, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10 (KotS pregens)
Standing up from prone does not provoke OA (Dkarr)
Confirmed Half-elves take an at-will power from another class and make it an encounter power (mearls).
Added a bonus language to half-elves , humans, halflings,
Added +2 Endurance, +2 Dungeoneering to dwarf skill bonuses (KotS)
Wizards have 4 trained skills, Fighters have 3 (KotS)
Added feat names Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Channel Divinity: Armor of Bahamut, and Healing Hands with a See KotS note.
Added all power names from KotS pregens, with note See KotS (no power details will be included in PrRC, at this time).
Class Skills: Wizard + Dungeoneering, + Religion; Fighter + Intimidate; Paladin + Endurance, +Intimidate,
Changed longsword proficiency bonus to +3, quarterstaff +2,
Armor Check Penalties apply to Endurance as well.
Divine Fortune does a flat +1 bonus to saves, not +Cha.
Turn undead pushes undead 6 squares, not 5.
Correct Paladins Divine Challenge (KotS)
Paladins Lay on Hands can be used Wis modifier/day (Mearls). Paladins Shielding Smite and Bolstering Smite use Cha, not Str, for attack vs AC (Mindwanderer).
Added Skill Challenge Complexity Table (1-3).
Added Giant to the languages list (Giant excerpt http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080512b), and Deep Speech (Swordwing excerpt http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080502b)
Lava does not instantly kill (Mindwanderer, quoting Peter Schaeffers blog).
Edit (May 9.08)
Updated to v2.4
Several changes from the Weapons excerpt http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080507a including: changed Weapon Proficiencies title to Weapon Categories, changed Weapon Categories title to weapon Groups and completed the list of groups, , added Heavy thrown and Light thrown weapon descriptions, and added Weapon Properties. Weapon table updated with new information.
Added Warlord At-Will powers from the June Preview http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4pr/20080509a
Added three traps from the June Preview http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4pr/20080509a
Added fan-made adventure Expedition to Feywild link.
Added possibility that Half-elf bonus power is instead a bonus multiclassing feat.
Speculative: Added Mixed Heritage racial trait to half-elves, allowing them to take human feats (and probably elven feats) see half-elf pregen with human feat Action Surge.
Replaced Melora with Obad-Hai as the Nature deity (Cold_Hellfire)
Changed warhammer and handaxe from proficiency +1 to proficiency +2, to fix Kathra, the pregenerated dwarven fighter since dwarven weapon training feat gives +2 damage only.
Adjusted Paladins On Pain of Death to do 3d8, not 3[W].
Changed Fighters Passing Attack attack line to read Str vs AC, not Melee vs AC.
Added Drow as a playable monster (D&D Podcast 21)
Made a note for Ability Score Method A, that if using the 3.5 system use 30 points.
Corrections from KotS (Thalmin, unless otherwise noted)
o Dragonborn breathweapon damage is 1d6
o Draconic Heritage increases your healing surge value by your Con modifier
o Fixed Paladins Divine Challenge text
o Fixed Lay on Hands from 3/day to Wis mod/day
o Divine Strength does Str again to damage
o Sacred Flame grants Cha Modifier + ½ level temp HP, not a flat +2
o Half-elf ability bonus might be +2 Con instead of +2 Any.
o Added power names and (See KotS)
- Expeditious Retreat (wizard utility 2)
- Fire Shoud (wizard attack 3)
- Trick Strike (rogue daily 1)
- Valiant Strike (paladin at-will attack 1)
- Radiant Smite (paladin encounter 1)
- Paladins Judgement (paladin daily 1)
- Martyrs Blessing (paladin utility 2)
- Staggering Smite (paladin encounter attack 3)
- Bait and Switch (rogue encounter 3) (DimitriX)
- Sly Flourish (rogue at-will 1) (DimitriX)
- Spinning Savagery (fighter encounter 3) (DimitriX)
- Reaping Strike (fighter at-will 1) (DimitriX)
Edit (May 5):
Updated to v2.3
Added racial feats from the Racial Benefits excerpt
Edited Skill Challenges from the Skill Challenges excerpt. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080505a
Added bonus trained skill: History, to Eladrin (since the ranger pregen has an extra trained skill). (jaldaen)
Moved the bonus feat back to the ranger and away from the Eladrin (feat is maybe from an archer build option??)
Changed several powers Attack line from melee or ranged to Str or Dex to more closely follow the standard ability vs defense pattern (jaldaen)
Corrected Class Summary tables skills for cleric and ranger. (jaldaen)
Added a note for the Paladins Divine Strength power to indicate the bonus might be +Str instead of +2. (jaldaen)
Changed the Dragonborns breath weapon attack to Attack: Str, Con or Dex vs. Reflex instead of vs Fortitude.
Edit (May 1):
Updated to v2.2
Changes include:
Added How to Read a Power excerpt. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080425a
Added "Multiclassing by Feats" excerpt and edited feats table. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080430a
Added Justiciar Paragon Path prayers
Changed First Reaction feat from heroic to paragon tier
Noted temporary HP last until the end of the encounter, unless otherwise stated.
Removed +1 Reflex from Paladin, added +1 Reflex to Halfling
Removed +1 Will defense from Ranger, added +1 Will defense to Eladrin http://www.enworld.org/images/4e/IMG_1244.jpg
Removed bonus feat from Ranger, added bonus feat to Eladrin
Added Prime Shot to the Ranger as a class skill.
Changed key ability for Nature skill from Int to Wis, and removed Rangers +1 to Nature skill.
Updated Rangers Class Skills list.
Added speculative weapon proficiencies to class descriptions. Reorganized weapon table by proficiency (based on 3.5 PHB classification)
Edit (April 24):
Updated to v2.1
Changes include:
Edited the Warlord entry to match the PHB excerpt (http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080421a)
Added Paragon Paths to Classes (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080423a)
Added sections for Monster Roles, Monster Categories, and quoted the Customizing Monsters excerpt (http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080418a)
Added a list of known playable monster races.
Added known weapon categories and weapon proficiency groups.
Added Paragon Tier feats (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080423a)
Added feats Inspired Recovery and Weapon Focus
Added list of known bonus types
Added list of know Gods and speculated portfolios (MRick; Portfolios by Hong with additions by Sonny, Malraux, Bold or Stupid, FabioMilitoPagliara).
Removed mention of Universal Skills (MindWalker)
Edited the Experience and Power Progression chart to include Paragon Path powers and features.
Corrected Dragonborn in the Race Summary table so they get +2 Cha instead of +2 Wis (Chibbot, malcolm_n)
Added a 9th level daily at level 9 in the progression table (Torchlyte)
Cleric Daily Cascade of Light does 3d8 + Wis damage, not 3[W] + damage (Bayonet_Chris)
Edit (April 17):
A major update to the PrRC deserves a full 2.0 version number!
Added Dragonborn to races section, racial ability score modifiers, racial skill modifiers (Kwalish Kid)
Added Warlord (still MANY unknowns), to classes section including powers known, all appropriate tables. (TheLordWinter, Deathdonut).
Added enough fan-generated powers to create a level 1 Warlord and a level 1 Rogue (Deathdonut, TheLordWinter, VBMEW-01, author of the pre-gens Varis Darkstrider and Fidder Rivers).
Added Power progression table from preview article 4th edition Tiers http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080416a
Removed the Alternate HP Method B table, and verified HP Method A as correct http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080416a (DandD)
Added Wizard powers Dispell Magic. Added known Wizard powers revealed at DDXP. Added high level Paladin smites.
Added feats Tactical Assault and Burning Blizzard (eiglos).
Added Ranger bonus feat (Sadrik, bganon)
Added illustrations for Bursts and Blasts.
Added Line of Sight and Line of Effect rules from DDM2.
Clarified Healing Surges, after Chris Sims (WotC Designer) post.
Clarified what happens on a natural 20 during a death saving throw (activate Second Wind, if available) (FitzTheRuke)
Clarified Warlocks curse and Rangers Quarry to indicate the additional damage only applies to successful attacks. It is not auto-damage.
Paladins Shielding Smite adds + Wis AC, instead of +Cha (if Shielding Smite is the renamed Safeguard Smite) (FireLance).
Paladins Holy Strike does 1[W] + Str damage (bganon)
Added additional text to Critical Hits to clarify extra damage (from High Crit weapons, for instance) is rolled, and all other damage die are maximized (Xorn).
Added initiative calculation.
Removed bonus language from the half-elf (Tiras extra language is likely related to intelligence, not race?) (FitzTheRuke)
Reduced Wizards trained skills by 1.
Updated Neceros character sheets to Beta F.
Added known class skills to class descriptions
Changed references to base ability modifiers to be more consistent.
Reverted calculations for defenses to a previous version to specifically include +1/2 character level (since ½ level is not added to ability modifiers).
Added colors to powers (Dave Noonan's Blog 3.25.2008)
Reorganized Actions, Movement, Injury, and Combat sections to more closely follow 3.5 PHB organization.
Formatting: Changed font to Mentor (used in the PHB), narrowed margins, improved pagination for double-sided printing.
For updates prior to v2.0, see the full Update History at the back of PrRC.
Last edited by Verys Arkon; Thursday, 29th May, 2008 at 07:57 PM. Reason: Updated to v2.6
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:10 PM #2
Not bad, but the lay out is a little confusing in certain areas. Perhaps adding in a dividing line between subsections would help. Example is the break between Ranger and Rogue.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:19 PM #3
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I'm not convinced that Controllers only get 3 HP per level, but otherwise, good job!
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:22 PM #4
Very nice - there are some errors. Like, the half-elf gets a bonus power... check out Ray of Frost (an encounter power), which suggests humans can take encounter powers too. Also note it's from another class.
The halfling +1 to all defenses seems less likely since they updated Corrin on wotc's site to remove 2 from his Will, suggesting paladins get +1 to all defenses and halflings get nothing.
You can probably be more consistent - ie, humans and half-elf writeups should look more similar for bonus skill, etc.
I _really_ suspect 17 is 14 points, not 13. 13->18 seems ludicrous.
Anyhow, I'll let other people errata this... but awesome job.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:27 PM #5
Might want to check the spelling of "roll" and "role" - spotted a couple of typos there.
I would suggest sourcing it, too: just so people know you haven't made it up. I recognise the source of a lot of the info, but many people won't.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:33 PM #6
I think someone else suspected per level hp are (static bonus at 1st level) / ~2.5, which would give you
Fighter 6
Rogue 5
Wizard 4
I think we need at least one more data point
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:35 PM #7
Uhm... Not to be a total killjoy, but what you did *MIGHT* considered a infringement since there IS NO OGL for 4e and since there is no SGL available at the moment. Like your pdf saids, "CONTENTS PROPERTY OF WIZARDS OF THE COAST." Thus, I'm not sure if you could legally compile information on 4e they way you did (especially any text they might have released with a copywrite).
For your sake, I hope WoTC's lawyers are not bloodthirsty now that they had a change in management.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:35 PM #8
There's a mistake on Flanking. A flanked creature grants combat advantage to every other creature in the encounter, not just the flankers.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:41 PM #9
I love this
Though I'm sure you'll have some erata, I look forward to using it as my group plans to switch over now and play what we know, filling in the blanks as we must.
Monday, 17th March, 2008, 09:41 PM #10
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I'm still convinced it will be Defenders get 6 hp per level, Strikers and Leaders get 5, and Controllers get 4.
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The reigning ACM and CMA Female Vocalist of the Year will take a brief hiatus from her main gig on Wednesday night to take the stage with her all-female trio during the 2012 CMT Music Awards. With the release of their 2011 album, 'Hell on Heels,' Lambert has maintained a perfect track record, reaching the top of the album chart with all five of her major label studio records. To date, she has sold more than three million records since her debut in 2005.
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The Immune Response Corporation Secures Key Partners for Launch of Phase II Trial of NeuroVax(TM) In Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
October 10, 2006 - PRNewswire-FirstCall - The Immune Response Corporation today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Accelsiors CRO & Consultancy Services, a clinical research organization (CRO) with extensive experience in conducting multiple sclerosis (MS) trials, to oversee the 200-patient Phase II trial of NeuroVax, an investigational T-cell receptor (TCR) peptide vaccine for the treatment of MS.
The Company further announced that this November in Budapest, Hungary, it will hold a clinical trial launch meeting with investigators participating in the trial and expects patient enrollment of the multi-center, randomized, double-blind trial to begin shortly thereafter. NeuroVax may represent a significant advance in the treatment of MS, which affects more than 2.5 million people worldwide, including more than 400,000 in the United States.
"We are extremely excited at the potential of NeuroVax to help patients with Multiple Sclerosis," said Krzysztof Selmaj, MD, PhD, Dept. of Neurology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland, Coordinating Investigator of the study. "This treatment may have the ability to alter how the immune system fights MS and we eagerly anticipate study results that could offer benefit to the millions of MS patients in need of more effective and tolerable treatment options."
The trial will enroll 200 patients with relapsing-remitting MS and will examine the effectiveness and safety of NeuroVax versus placebo. The primary objective of the study is to compare the cumulative number of new gadolinium enhancing lesions, a key marker of MS disease activity, using MRI scans at 24, 32, 40, and 48 weeks. Secondary objectives include additional MRI measurements, analysis of clinical relapses, measures of neurologic disability, immunologic evaluations, and safety.
The Company has also contracted with NeuroRx Research, a company with special expertise in advanced MRI acquisition and analysis techniques, to oversee professional management of all MRI-related study activities.
"This trial is truly a watershed event for the Company, and potentially for the MS community as well," said Dr. Joseph O'Neill, President and CEO of The Immune Response Corporation. "We've made tremendous strides in building on the early NIH-funded research into NeuroVax and have now taken the critical steps necessary to launch a robust trial in multiple countries."
NeuroVax, which is based on IRC's patented TCR peptide technology, has shown potential clinical value in the treatment of relapsing forms of MS. A recently published study showed that NeuroVax induced strong disease- specific cellular immunity in essentially all patients who received it. In addition, results from a one-year Phase I/II study, presented at this year's American Academy of Neurology annual meeting, showed that NeuroVax was able to restore normal levels of FOXP3+ Treg cells in patients who had statistically significant diminished levels compared to healthy controls (p<0.02). These Treg or regulatory T-cells appear to help control levels of pathogenic T-cells in MS patients.
MS is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks normal tissues of the central nervous system. The disease is caused by activation of a specific subset of the patient's own white blood cells, pathogenic T-cells, which then attack a fatty tissue called myelin that surrounds and protects nerve fibers and creates multiple areas of scarring (sclerosis) that interferes with the normal transmission of nerve impulses. This damage, in turn, leads to a variety of chronic, highly individual and unpredictable neurological symptoms, ranging from movement and balance problems to vision impairment.
By restoring healthy regulatory T-cell function, NeuroVax may offer a new and highly targeted mechanism to control pathogenic T-cell activity and limit or prevent nerve tissue damage in MS patients. Moreover, with a once a month dosing regimen and side effects that are so far limited to transient injection site reactions, NeuroVax could prove to be very easy for patients to tolerate compared to existing MS therapies.
About the Study
This trial is a multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled 48-week study to assess the safety and efficacy of NeuroVax. Two hundred subjects with relapsing-remitting MS, with an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score of less than or equal to 5.5 and meeting all inclusion/exclusion criteria, will be enrolled in the study in several Central and Eastern European countries including Belarus, Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Clinical sites in these European countries have demonstrated themselves to be favorable locations for conducting efficient Phase II placebo-controlled MS studies by providing experienced clinical investigators, large patient populations and excellent MRI facilities.
Study participants will be randomized equally to receive either NeuroVax (100 microliters/mL of each of three T cell receptor peptides) or placebo (Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant) intramuscularly in the deltoid muscle every four weeks. Evaluation will occur every eight weeks by brain MRI scan and patients will also undergo evaluation by neurology examinations at 12, 24, 36, and 48 weeks. Safety will be monitored by routine physical exams that will be performed at 24 and 48 weeks, and lab tests of hematology, chemistry panel and urinalysis will be performed at weeks 4, 12, 24, 36, and 48.


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Clip exposing atrocities of US-backed rebels in Syria was sent out by Obama's hijacked Twitter account
Paul Joseph Watson
October 28, 2013
In a possible act of collusion between the Obama administration and Google-owned YouTube, a video exposing US-backed rebel atrocities in Syria – which was sent out from Obama's official Twitter account after it was hijacked by hackers – was quickly censored by YouTube.
As Infowars reported first exclusively, Obama's official Twitter, Facebook and campaign website were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army earlier today. The accounts were hijacked and used to promote a video to Obama's combined total of 76 million followers.
The clip was a 24 minute compilation of rebel atrocities and terrorist attacks committed in Syria.
Within hours, the video was removed for "shocking and disgusting content," despite having already been hosted on YouTube for months.
Only after the video started receiving attention as a result of Obama's hijacked Twitter account did YouTube see fit to delete the video, suggesting collusion between YouTube and the White House at some level.
YouTube routinely censors content in response to requests from governments and law enforcement authorities.
As we reported in 2011, demands to remove information, including videos containing "government criticism," are increasing year upon year. YouTube complies with the majority of the requests, including the removal of videos which merely show political demonstrations.
"YouTube occasionally receives legal complaints from governments around the world to block content on our site. After a review of the legal complaint and the content at issue, YouTube may block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain countries," states the company's disclaimer.
The notion that the Obama administration asked Google-owned YouTube to remove the Syria video that was sent out from Obama's hijacked Twitter and Facebook accounts is plausible given Google CEO Eric Schmidt's cozy relationship with the White House.
Schmidt has been a major donor to Obama's two presidential campaigns and served as an informal advisor during Obama's 2008 White House run. After his success in 2012, Obama even offered Schmidt a major cabinet post.
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The closest thing to a big electric supercar in my life until now had been the defunct (and ugly, in hindsight) Honda Dual Note concept first shown in 2001 at the once-popular Tokyo motor show. It used all the electricity from the power stations that Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan managed not to destroy.
This one is real. The SLS E-Cell was talked about a lot right at its launch in 2009 and I've been dogging the heels of the Daimler villagers in Stuttgart and Affalterbach ever since. Then came the urgent call: The prototype, painted an appetizing matte "Lumilectric Magno" with matte-black everything else, would be left for testing on the Norwegian coast at the oil-derrick-servicing Kristiansund aerodrome.
Electric unripened-banana-colored supercars + 24-hour daylight + Norwegian coast = fun times for all. And you can't beat the salmon during the breaks in driving action.
Oh, and there was David Coulthard, too, right. He's retired from Formula One but still making the automotive circuits. I just wish that on the flight up he'd held up a warning flag prior to asking me if I'd yet joined the Mile High Club. The funniest things happen in business class.
Coulthard was just down from Brussels for 24 hours or so and had some time before heading to Germany for some DTM testing with Mercedes. He's a brand ambassador now, so he was joining our group for some publicity stills and video at the E-Cell's wheel.
And by the way, I proudly joined the Mile High Club somewhere between Oakland and Burbank back in 1985. What-do you say "no" when a Formula One guy asks a thing like that?
You cannot miss the SLS E-Cell's Emergency color scheme. If you have your back turned, however, you would miss it since it is truly silent. Those four electric motors make not a whisper at parking lot speeds. There's a low whine as I hammer the pedal and then the kickdown final inch, but other than that the car does have a very nice purr to it when switched on and standing still if you have your ear pressed to the fender panels.
So, first the filthy-minded yet somehow irresistibly chisel-chinned Coulthard took the SLS E-Cell for a whir. He returned to the helicopter-packed tarmac all smiles. Tough always to tell if these ambassadors for brands are just in ambassador mode, but he seemed to really like the silent SLS.
Then it was my turn. For all the kilograms dropped from ripping the M159 6.2-liter motor out of the SLS AMG, not to mention all of the emissions bits and entire exhaust system, we get back 992 pounds with the four electric motors, three-section lithium-ion battery pack assembly scheme, power electronics unit, and single-speed Getrag gearbox and transaxle. The good part is that all the weight is, as on all such current situations, kept very low down in the body, so there are good driving effects. The effective yaw point goes lower here by 23mm (0.90 of an inch). The bad part is that it's just plain pig-heavy at 4,585 pounds, especially in this early prototype form.
And this is a strict prototype, I must warn you. Incredibly open-talking and intelligent SLS E-Cell project maestros Daniel Semmler and Jan Feustel were not shaken or stirred when I leapt from the car after a spirited 44-mile-long jaunt and announced that the thing was damned heavy and that this was most likely due to the fact that the current steering setup is bloody awful-nay, dangerous.
Good thing, too, that they therefore had us doing this in remote Norway with its golf-cart speed limits and non-existent Norwegian traffic.
Both Semmler and Feustel looked right at me and said I was exactly right. Then they pointed out the whys. First, though the 525-hp car is technically all-wheel-drive with the four Brusa electric motors from Switzerland, the power and 650 lb-ft of torque from zero rpm are forever 50/50 split right now and there is no fancy torque vectoring yet on board either fore-aft or side-to-side. In addition, the steering strategy is only now getting the attention it deserves and this is a very complicated bit in making sure the SLS E-Cell is a dynamics king among poseur plug-in princes.
So, I went with what I was handed. And Daimler/Mercedes/AMG and all others who entrust us supreme almighty know-it-alls with early prototypes are to be vigorously applauded and patted too hard on their backs. This is the best and most constructive way of developing a car for humans imaginable: use human dummies.
Then we hit the airport tarmac in between medivac and oil derrick helicopter take-offs and landings. First, big, hard accelerations for a kilometer or so, then a gripping slalom section on the way back to the nervous technicians. The striking thing here was the hurtling momentum in the midst of all the silence. The feeling is awesome awesomeness and thankfully the five-stage regenerative brakes work wonderful wonders in their turn. Thank the Nordic gods on that one.
Things were good on the slalom too, and that's not me just being an ambassador. The normal SLS can get squirrely in tight dynamics, the rear end flinging itself around a little too much from an over-eager throttle with all the chassis nannies switched off. Here, however, with the lower and greater weight, plus four-wheel drive of a sort, the slides are totally controllable and a letting-off of the go pedal wrangles things in really well without any braking usually. What I'm saying is that the normal SLS really would be well served by an ultra-sophisticated all-wheel-drive system.
Brake regeneration to the 324 Kokam lithium-ion battery cells happens via a new-thinking system. The SLS still has those anodized aluminum shift paddles at the steering wheel. Notice that? Well, no, they are not there to shift up and down through the single-speed gearbox. They're there for when you find your available battery energy falling below 90 percent and you are in a sailing or off-go-pedal situation. There are five stages and the dash lights indicate how many of these stages are available to you depending on your level of charge. You can accordingly "shift" up and down between these with the paddles. Cute, but I don't feel it really adds anything to the technology apart from a little involvement. Not evil, certainly, and the paddles are just sitting there anyway begging to be used.
Current range is 150km (93 miles) and the technicians are pushing hard for 200km+ (±125 miles). The three separate-but-equal 108-cells-per battery packs-one at your feet, one through the tunnel, one between you and the luggage-together take relatively normal amounts of time to recharge AC or DC. But the prototype didn't even yet have a cut in the panels for a plug-in point, so it's hard to address.
The guys on site at least said that the E-Cell SLS will make 100 km/h (62 mph) acceleration in a time that equals the normal SLS, 3.8 seconds or so. To 200 km/h (125 mph) they say it's currently at 11 seconds. And that's 4,585 pounds of curb weight, which number engineer Semmler insists upon getting to just below 2 tons by the time SLS E-Cells start leaving the production line.
Everyone insists, too, that these will be buyers' cars, not goofy leasers' toys.
Slammin' salmon. And we all discovered why the SLS E-Cell guys were so excited about the car's prospects in supercar-unfriendly Norway (at least 100 percent taxation over the price of the car). Turns out the money grubbing Norwegian governors let all electrics go tax-free! Could this make the SLS E-Cell a high-volume seller up here?
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-Cell
Four-wheel electric engines, three-section lithium-ion battery pack, all-wheel drive
Four 98-kW electric units; 8300-rpm redline
Single-speed Getrag unit for each wheel; constant 50/50 torque split at present
Pushrod damper and spring front; SLS multilink rear
Ceramic composite rotors, 402mm front, 360mm rear; ABS, ESP
Wheels and Tires
Forged one-piece black aero wheels, 19-inch front, 20-inch rear; Tires: sidewalls were scraped clean to hide specs
MSRP: $250.000(est.)
Peak Power: 525 hp @ 12,000 rpm
Peak Torque: 650 lb-ft @ 0 rpm
0-60 mph: 3.8 sec.
Top Speed: 150 mph*
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Disclosure of both the good, the bad and the ugly is something I enjoy seeing in blogland. So, I'm here today to share my most current Pinterest FAIL!
We have two stinky boys in our house. I mean seriously…what IS it with boys? And mine are still little boys…is this going to get worse? ugh.
To fight the stinky fight, I'm a big fan of the store bought smelly things that don't require electricity. Why no plugin's? Well, once the boys turned one of my Glade oil diffusers upside down and the oil leaked all over the floor. Not pretty. Pretty smelling, but not pretty to look at or clean up. Especially since the oil was Harvest Apple…which is RED!
Those smelly dodads add up. So, homemade gel freshener? Why not! Sounded like a great idea to me.
Here's the original Pin…
Source: tipnut.com via Kelly on Pinterest
It sounded simple enough. I followed the directions and putting it all together went really well. Until I took a peek inside of one of the jars this week…
EWWWWWWW! Mold!
I checked the rest of the jars and they all had mold. It didn't help that the food coloring I chose was a bright great either.
This all happened in less than two weeks time and since there is a significant amount of mold, I assume the molds been in them for at least a week. Yuck!
Supposedly the addition of salt will keep mold at bay, but I added salt and STILL got this science project. I know some recipes called for alcohol and maybe that would help. Until then, Glad and Febreeze will be getting some moo-lah from us for the time being.
Any suggestions on this one? Any unwanted science experiments in your home?Pin It


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DNA Testing - know the In's and Out's of it. Genetic Genealogy, a new branch of genealogy combining genetics and traditional genealogy research, is the most accurate tool for the family historian. Family connections can be proven or disproven. DNA testing can support a paper trail which is often in question given the lack of surviving records. Its popularity grows daily with thousands testing monthly throughout the world.
16 February 2010
Family Finder Test by Family Tree DNA Just Announced!
twentieth century it was a man's world. By law and custom husbands controlled society: men purchased land, paid taxes, served in the military, and left wills; children carried the male surname to the next generation; and many genealogies neglected female lines. Fewer records recorded women's actions and with their names change at each marriage, it is most difficult to follow their trail.
Ten years ago Family Tree DNA began genetic testing with the genealogist in mind. At first the Y-chromosome test for men was established and later the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test for both men and women, but only for the HVR1 and HVR2 segments.
The advent of mitochondrial DNA testing has allowed women to join the world of DNA testing. Through mtDNA tests both men and women can find others who are related, even when the paper trail does not exist. A match on the HVR1 and HVR2 can be thousands of years ago, but through careful testing and good genealogical research, testers have found their common ancestor. The difficulty in finding cousins lies in the slow marker mutation of the mitochondria.
For the past several years, testing the full mitochondria (full genome sequence or FGS) has been more useful. This test can provide a genealogist with matches, even though the common ancestors for those matches could be a few hundred of years ago.
That can now change as genetic testing has progressed to a new level.
Just today Family Tree DNA announced its new Family Finder test. In their press release just hours ago, FTDNA stated:
"This is the most exciting genetic genealogy breakthrough since the company launched its Y-DNA test, which uncovered relatives in the direct paternal line", says Bennett Greenspan, founder and President of Family Tree DNA.
Family Tree DNA is pleased to inform you of the pre-launch of our newest test: the autosomal-based Family Finder test. This pre-launch will progress in phases so that we do not exceed our lab's capacity, and to ensure delivering results in a timely basis. A limited number of our customers are being offered the Family Finder Test during the prelaunch. We anticipate Family Finder will be offered for general release in the middle of March at the breakthrough price of $249.
Special Note: Since the Family Finder test requires an untouched vial of DNA, we cannot transfer DNA from Arizona to run the test. If a kit does not have an extra vial on file, we will mail a collection kit for a new FREE DNA extraction. After ordering, you will be notified whether we are able to use a stored vial or will be mailing a new collection kit.
This test analyzes your autosomal markers in all the chromosomes to determine shared blocks of markers with other testers. We inherit approximately 50% of our DNA from each of our parents as they did from their parents. In our autosomal markers that DNA mixes differently with each conception, therefore, different sections of the genes are passed along from generation to generation, picking up new segments from new family members. Mathematically, geneticists can determine possible sizes of shared segments with each generation at an accurate level for up to our fifth cousins. Thus, the size of the shared blocks of DNA helps determine the level of cousinship between two people. This autosomal test allows you to find people who are your fifth cousins or closer, thus putting a tighter, more exact genealogical time frame for matches.
The Family Finder test has many advantages for genealogy and for the genetic genealogy world.
I have thirteen DNA projects which include a haplogroup project, several surname projects, and three geographical projects. Within these projects there are people who do not know their biological surname due to an adoption, an illegitimate birth or some other surname change in the past. ALL of these projects will benefit from this new type of test.
For mitochondrial testing, a person can now determine if their matches are recent or more distant. I have six people who match me on the FGS. We cannot connect the paper trails and have no idea when the common ancestor lived. By all of us taking the Family Finder test, we can determine if the six of us are fifth cousins or less … or if we are more distant.
A group of people matching on their mtDNA can determine who in the group is more closely related with whom and who is more distantly related. Take the six of us. By everyone testing, we can determine if two or three of us are more closely related with each other than we are with some of the others.
With the result of the Family Finder test showing us who is closely related, we can begin to see the migration patterns of our collective line. This may help us track more ancestors.
For Surname groups, the new Family Finder test has wonderful opportunities to allow females to join the project. Women have long felt left out in Surname Projects, although many of them are the administrators or do most of the research for the project. Bringing more participants into the surname project creates more interest which can open avenues for research. With this test, a female does not have to locate a family member to do the testing for her, but still may. Females can find out how closely they are related to the men who have tested.
Some Surname Project members have tested fewer markers than others, leaving the administrator to wait until the test is upgraded before placing the tester in a particular group. There's just not enough data to make the determination. However, with this test, I will be able to assign testers to the correct branch in a lineage even without the paper trail.
The Family Finder test helps determine whether the testers are closer or more distant cousins, thus better defining the branches in a family tree.
Many projects have groups who have a perfect or near-perfect match, but the common ancestor has not been located. With the Family Finder test those larger blocks of matches can be better defined, creating sub-branches of closer related members.
For example: In one of my projects I have several men who match perfectly on 37 markers and in some cases on 67 markers. However, with this autosomal test, I will be able to see who among them is more closely related. The size of the matching segments of DNA will vary with the testers and thus determine the cousinship probably.
Geographical Projects can be overwhelmingly large. Administrators are reduced to just maintaining the website, answering general questions, and watch for patterns that may indicate a certain haplotype location. The Family Finder test can uncover new clues to extended family groups among the members. This can bring more relevant lineages to the project and open up new avenues for research as new connections are discovered. Testers can explore the lost family connections behind migrations. Testers in other projects can find cousins in geographical projects, thus helping them find relatives in their homeland. Family Finder test can also break up large blocks of matches into more closely related groups as well as find connections between different surnames.
Adoptees can greatly benefit from the Family Finder test as any matches would be close matches. You can find aunts, uncles, half siblings, and recent cousins. The match would not be just on the unknown line, but anywhere in your lineage, thus you could connect with family members to find clues to help you trace your missing line.
How wonderful is this! A very useful test from a company who pioneered genetic genealogy!
NOW, I can have a central place to organize and track all my project participants.
NOW, I can find all those missing cousins and add new lines to my chart!
AND, it is so exciting that women and men can now be compared with equal status!
For more information on this test see: http://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx
6 comments:
- Tony said...
Interesting article. Thank you for all of the detailed info. How do you think this service compares to 23 and Me's Ancestry/Relative Finder? Certainly the price point is attractive. Thanks!
- February 18, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Matt said...
You seem to know more about DNA than me but I am troubled by how FTDNA is promoting this as a great leap forward for surname projects. Even you say this creates equal status for women in such projects. I just don't see it. I have been beta testing the similar 23andme test since it started and while it is fun it has its drawbacks.
Due to inheritance and recombination there seems to be no guarantee that an ancestor farther back than 3 or 4 generations will even show up in our genome and if they do the person you are looking to determine cousinship with might not have inherited that same block of DNA. It certainly isn't accurate at predicting the level of cousinship within a surname project as you suggest. Yes it is accurate if the two people are 1st, 2nd or 3rd cousins beyond that not so much. I think there are going to be a lot of disappointed customers if this is marketed as a way to determine if two people are descendants of a specific ancestor. It is a crap shoot for this purpose and a very expensive one. Autosomal testing seems to be much more useful at finding random cousins that could be related to you on any branch and then working together to find who the common ancestors were. Maybe you know more about FTDNA's test that will make it more accurate within the frame of a surname project versus 23andme's version. Also it is disappointing that FTDNA's version doesn't include the X-chromosome.
- February 20, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- Genealem said...
Tony...Forgive the delay in replying.
The short answer is that the customer database for 23andMe differs from that of Family ?Tree DNA. From the feedback I get and my own experiences (I've tested with both), most people took the 23andMe test as they were interested in the health portion, and most people I've run into or others I know who have emailed their matches at 23andMearen't avid genealogists. At Family Tree DNA the customers tend to be genealogists as that is the focus of the company.
Each of the two companies use a different chip, and their parameters vary some, but both will find matches in about the same range. However, most people I know test with both companies so they have every opportunity to find any cousin they can.
I will be posting more articles on this type of testing, its benefits to genealogists, and its limitations in the next few weeks. Stay tuned! LOL
- June 7, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- Genealem said...
I appreciate your comments and will address a few here. But as I just stated earlier, I will be posting more articles on this type of testing in the next few weeks (June 2010), including its limitations. None of us interested in genetic genealogy want dissatisfied customers.
You are most correct that these tests will not find all your cousins. That is the nature of autosomal testing. Each of us inherits a different combination from our ancestors and these tests (at both companies) have parameters to determine cousin-ship. Sometimes the blocks of DNA aren't large enough to be confident of a match. That doesn't mean you aren't cousins with a person who doesn't show up as a match if your paper trail indicates they are related and you are confident in that research.
Mathematically, each company feels they can estimate rather well back to 5th cousins; however, it really becomes a range of cousin-ship past the 3rd or 4th generation. As you can see from my blog, it is possible to find much more distant cousins. It all depends upon how much DNA appears in each person and how far you can take the paper trail. I've actually found people connected to my Hartzfelder line who tested, but who did not match.
No, you are right...it cannot predict a cousin-ship in a surname project. I probably wasn't really clear on that. In some cases we know that families stayed in the same areas for a long time and sometimes marrying cousins. I have a case in my Talley project where the man has two lines of Talley...one on his surname and the other not. He will likely match another person (especially a woman) who couldn't test for the surname project, but has a Talley in rather recent times. That is how it can broaden the surname projects and bring women into the mix.
With any DNA test, you need a good paper trail as well.
I do think that if we don't help the public understand what this test can and can't do, there will be some disgruntled customers. At the price of these tests, anyone should first learn about the test, establish their goals for testing, and clarify with the company or other persons who understand the tests if a test can meet their goals.
You wrote: Autosomal testing seems to be much more useful at finding random cousins that could be related to you on any branch and then working together to find who the common ancestors were.
This is exactly what this test does in that it is an autsomal test, and it will find matches to cousins. AND, that it is up to the two people matching to find that common ancestor. (Same with a Y-DNA test...you still have to find how you fit into the surname branch and only good genealogy research can do that.)
Regarding the X...FTDNA has tested it and will be releasing that result when the web pages for it are done. The X is inherited in a very unique way, and the company wants their web pages to reflect how best to use the X.
There is a lot going on at Family Tree DNA right now, so give them some time and you will see more offerings and some improved ones. I know of a few in the works.
I hope this reply has helped.. I appreciate you pointing out that I needed to clarify part of what I wrote. My posts scheduled for late June and early July will reflect how to use this type of testing, what to expect from it, and what not to expect.
Thank you,
- June 7, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- Matt said...
Thank you. I had heard a rumor some time ago, but I was curious if FTDNA was going to allow people to upload (transfer) their 23andme raw data to FTDNA? I know FTDNA and 23andme don't test all the same SNPs but there is some overlap. I have tested with both companies but have some other family member's results at 23andme.
Basically with these tests like you said you need a good paper trail and you have to know the test's limitations, which you said you will cover in more detail in the future. But with the standalone autosomal test you really don't know where your shared DNA is coming from. If you have a shared surname with your match, is the shared DNA from that line or is it just a coincidence? If you have a known common ancestor, is the shared DNA really from that ancestor or is the shared DNA from another unknown ancestor from another branch that the two of you share?
I actually have a match that has an ancestor with my surname. That is the only surname we share in common among our known ancestors. I have a brick wall with my surname and can't trace back far enough to know whether me and this person share the same ancestor farther back on that line or if it is just a coincidence. The sister of my match has tested and we don't share any DNA at all. Since I've had other family members tested (father, mother, paternal grandmother) I know I would have to be related to them on my paternal grandfather's side. However with my match, since only the brother and sister have tested I don't know if I am related to them on their paternal or maternal side. Their maternal side is the side of our common surname we share. I have done a y-dna test in the past with no matches. I was actually thinking though of tracing their ancestor that shares my surname down to present day to find a living direct male descendant and testing him (y-dna) to see if I am a match. This would be one way, although expensive that the two tests (ydna surname tests and the Family Finder/Relative Finder) could be used together.
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My mother who recently passed away was told many years ago by an angry sister that their father was not my mother's biological father. The parents and siblings are all deceased. Can I confirm if this is true by submitting my DNA with DNA of her brother's daughter (my cousin)?
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No Brand: The Zen of Living
Is the ultimate brand, no brand at all? It may seem strange, but in this world of pervasive advertising and relentless globalization a quiet movement is underway that rejects distinctive branding in favor of pure, unadulterated design. In Sweden, there is IKEA. In Canada, No Frills. In Japan there is Muji. What these three companies have in common is, outwardly at least, a single "no brand" for all the products they sell. Surely they are brands themselves. However, at the end of the day, the product comes first and foremost.
For example, No Frills' products maintain distinct design ethos: black on yellow with a set type face, regardless of the type of product. Taco mix, tuna cans and tapioca pudding are all very different on the inside yet outwardly they look the same – first among equals. Even the shopping carts at No Frills are yellow! What the "no brand" revolution seeks to project is a concept that establishes a brand from within.
Muji has arguably been the most successful in pushing their brandless agenda – the company sells pretty much everything a homeowner needs, even (in Japan) the home itself! Every Muji item possesses a common... well, Muji-ness. Here's how Muji itself frames their image: "Muji's natural and simple design proposes rational lifestyles for today's world." Muji products embody "the confident awareness that modesty and discretion are, together, the better part of style."
What exactly does that mean, in plain words? Muji products are simple, yet not plain. Neither are they cheap or cheesy. They're designed to perform their function smoothly and efficiently without distraction. Therefore, the design is primal, timeless, light, uncluttered. They do not depend on added decorative flair nor obtrusive detailing just for the sake of reinforcing a bespoke brand identity.
Muji's lead designer, Naoto Fukasawa, labels (pardon the pun) the aesthetic "Supernormal," with a deliberate nod given to the ancient Japanese concept of shibui, or "an unobtrusive beauty." Their products' free-flowing functionality reminds one of certain futuristic Fellini films or independent, avant garde productions set in an undated time and space. In this respect, they transcend time, eschewing passing trends and in doing so, have reached what some say is the end point of historical design vectors.
Beyond post-modern; almost anti-materialistic with a familiar look and feel approaching the organic, these products strike a deep-seated appeal that makes the need for an outward identifying brand irrelevant.
Think about it... do you yearn to break free from the constant product placements, blaring "new & improved" promotions and the frantic, constant pressure to buy/sell Our Brand instead of Brand X – when both are basically the same? The alternatives – the IKEAs, the No Frills' and the Muji's of the World seem to be a cool, calm, common-sense alternative that offers society way out while still providing good looks, good products and good value.
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If two self-driving cars approach an intersection at the same time, the one on the right will still have the right of way, just like it is now on roads in the United States. But what happens if their clocks aren't synched quite right and one car mistakenly senses that it has arrived at the intersection incrementally sooner than the other? No doubt, smart cars will use sensors to avoid a collision, but the problem is an important one. To address this and similar challenges, a new cross-institutional research project will undertake a major study of timekeeping in "cyber-physical systems" (CPS), better known as the "Internet of Things."
The Roseline Project, as it's called, is receiving a $4 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation. While the initiative will be based at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Engineering and Applied Science, scientists from UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara as well as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Utah will also join.
The goal will be "to improve the accuracy, efficiency, robustness and security with which computers maintain knowledge of time and synchronize it with other networked devices," according to new coverage on the NSF Web site.
Smart cars aren't the only application where the research could have an impact. The scientists point to applications in aeronautics, which use autopilot systems; advanced robotics and medical devices; energy efficient buildings; and multiple industrial areas in which cyber-physical systems require exact knowledge of time to infer location, control communication and coordinate activities. The specific output could include new clocking technologies, synchronization protocols, operating system methods and control and sensing algorithms.
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While Dow Jones, our little corner of News Corp. (NWS), might not be the biggest potential market for the Apple (AAPL) iPad, the way the device is being treated by the company's IT department sheds some light on an issue that will have to be dealt with by every large company: whether to let the iPads access corporate networks.
Here's the Dow Jones policy, from the company's internal Web site:
Apple will make the iPad available on April 3rd, 2010. We understand the commercial importance of this product as it presents another excellent opportunity to distribute elite Dow Jones content to millions of existing and new customers. As we did with the iPhone, our intention is to rapidly assess the device in terms of compatibility with our network and vital applications. It is our responsibility to ensure that our use of this device introduces no vulnerability to our critical infrastructure and services.
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Peripherals that use Thunderbolt, the high-speed interconnect developed by Intel and heartily embraced by Apple, have taken their sweet time coming to market. The options so far include a high-end professional RAID from Promise, an expensive portable RAID from LaCie, a pricey display from Apple, and a 50 cable necessary to connect them all.
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Transitions are key building blocks for putting together cohesive videos in your NLE of choice. In Final Cut Pro X, there are many shortcuts, tips, and tricks that can be used while inserting or editing transitions. In this week's episode of Final Cut Friday, I share 10 transition tips to help you master this vital part of the editing process.
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Editors Guild President Alan Heim has joined the chorus of dissent to the Academy's plans to present four Oscar categories during commercial breaks and air the moments in condensed form later in the telecast.
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After cutting the subversive complexities of "The Big Short" with Adam McKay, editor Hank Corwin quickly realized that it was just a warm up for "Vice," the Shakespearean dramedy about the unprecedented rise to power of political operative-turned VP Dick Cheney (Oscar nominee Christian Bale).
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BlacKkKlansman editor Barry Alexander Brown — who has also worked as a director and writer on both documentaries and features through his 30-year career — met Spike Lee in New York during the mid-'80s, and since then he has cut many of Lee's feature films, including Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X and Inside Man. BlacKkKlansman marks Brown's first Academy Award nomination as an editor, though he was also Oscar-nominated for his 1979 documentary The War at Home.
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Today's visual effects are so high-tech that it seems quaint that Oscar nominees are chosen through a process called the Bake-Off. This live event, staged at the Academy's Beverly Hills theater, is as far from a cooking contest as you can get. The craftspeople behind 10 shortlisted films take the stage to demonstrate, until a timer with a light flashes, how they achieved their effects.
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Four of the year's oscar sound contenders — "Black Panther," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "First Man" and "Roma" — share sound editing and mixing nominations, whereas "A Star Is Born" lands in mixing and "A Quiet Place" in sound editing.
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Monsanto is offering a savings of $10/bag for growers interested in planting "stacked" YieldGard/Roundup Ready corn hybrids from DeKalb, Asgrow or participating regional seed companies that license the technologies. Contact your seed dealer, call 800/768-6387 or visit www.farmsource.com.
AgReliant Genetics LLC, located in Westfield, IN, is the name of the new U.S. company that will sell the brands Great Lakes, AgriGold, LG Seeds and Pride. The company is a result of a merger between Groupe Limagrain of Chappes, France, and KWS SAAT AG of Einbeck, Germany.
BASF and Dow AgroSciences have agreed to expand the availability of the Clearfield Production System (formerly known as IMI-corn from Cyanamid) herbicide-tolerant trait to the seed corn industry. Dow already markets the trait in hybrids sold through its Mycogen Seeds business unit. Now it can produce and sublicense the technology to third-party seed companies through its crop genetics marketing subsidiary Advanced AgriTraits LLC. The purpose of the pact is to combine BASF's herbicide-tolerant crop expertise with Dow AgroSciences' insect protection traits and hybrid development skills.


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The frenzy of Black Friday has officially begun. A survey of several stores in Manhattan from Thursday night leading into early Friday morning told the tale of shoppers who were out to save that extra buck, as well as plenty of first-time shoppers who were in for the fun and the thrill.
Outside the Best Buy store in Union Square, a crowd of more than 300 people circled around the block by 9 p.m. Thursday night. By around 10 p.m. it appeared to have extended to well over 400.
Jose Sanchez, a 62-year old disabled veteran from Puerto Rico who now lives in New York, was the first in line at Best Buy, since 6 p.m. Tuesday. Among his trophy targets was a $420 Toshiba 40-inch TV on sale for $179.99; plus an Acer tablet he said was on sale for $250 from $350. His total expected savings: $700.
The wait \"is worth it,\" the fourth-time early Black Friday shopper said, adding that he saved $1500 last year from buying things including two TVs, an ultrabook and an MP3 player from Best Buy. \"Every penny you save is a penny earned. Most of the time Best Buy has the best deal.\"
Still, while Best Buy was getting him as a loyal doorbuster special shopper, the troubled electronics retailer wasn\'t getting Sanchez to spend beyond those things.
\"I buy only what\'s on sale.\"
Howard Werten of New York, 51, said this will be his last Black Friday stakeout after doing it five or six times over the past 10 years.
\"There are no bargains,\" the tech consultant said. \"It\'s the race to the bottom. Electronics are [a] commodity. Anything that\'s [a] commodity, you can buy online. Electronics are getting cheaper. I don\'t feel like the deal I\'m getting is as good as in the past.\"
Werten, who\'s been waiting in line at the Best Buy since 5 p.m. on Thursday, said he is only waiting because he was planning to buy 8 Seagate external hard drives on sale for $100 apiece, from $149. \"There\'s no casual shopping,\" he said, adding the economy has hurt him, with his income as a consultant about 10% lower than last year. \"I\'m here [on] a mission.\" Not only would he not buy anything that isn\'t on sale, he would return even his purchases if they were later found to be cheaper online, Werten said.
Patricia Velasquez, on the other hand, may offer a glimmer of hope for Best Buy. The second in line outside of that Best Buy, also since Tuesday evening, she was interested in the same Toshiba TV as Sanchez, a Blu Ray player at half price for $40, and a DVD collection of TV shows she said were on sale for $8, down from $55. Her surprise find were the tickets at Best Buy that guaranteed she could purchase some products: a two-year warranty plan for $20 that she said usually costs $120.
\"That\'s a lot of savings,\" said the fourth-time shopper at Best Buy for Black Friday deals. \"I didn\'t think I was gonna get this (product insurance) deal. I can use the $100 savings to buy other things.\"
In contrast to what some other shoppers believed, she thought the deals were getting better.
Best Buy was also getting her as a reward zone member, as she signed up for the company\'s credit card while waiting in line.
Further uptown in Times Sq. around 11 p.m., shoppers carried bags from stores from Toys \"R\" Us to Aeropostale, which advertised sales of 50% to 70% off the entire store.
Outside of Toys \"R\" Us, Bushra Rashid, with her husband and 7- and 9-year old kids, came out with bags filled with $1,000 worth of merchandise, all from a doorbuster special sale.
Among their trophy buys: two $200 iPods, which came with a total of $100 gift cards, and a Wii console for $130.
\"All this talk about Black Friday got us interested,\" the first-time Black Friday shopper said. \"I said \'Let\'s try,\' and it is fun.\"
Stormy Outlaw, a health-care professional from Harlem, left Toys \"R\" Us close to midnight carrying 10 big bags filled with toys that she said she spent $500 on. Among her best buys was a $100 guitar on sale for $50, and a $40 video game that was buy-one-and-get-one for $1. The veteran Black Friday shopper said that was just her first stop for the night with Target the next destination.
\"With the sales, it\'s worth losing a little sleep over. I saved a lot of money for the year for this.\"
Down a few blocks at Macy\'s , at Herald Square by the 34th St., Preeti Potdar was one among thousands waiting to get into the department store chain right before midnight.
A dance student from India, and in her first year in New York, she said she had heard about Black Friday even back home.
\"It\'s an experience for me,\" she said, already toting two bags from Toys \"R\" Us that she said she got for about half off. \"Who doesn\'t want to go shopping? I\'m freezing, but I\'m having a great time. This (American tradition and the organized crowd and the security) is very impressive. It\'s fun for me.\"
At almost 2 a.m., crowds were still everywhere near Herald Square, carrying shopping bags from Gap , Macy\'s, American Eagle and H&M.
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CANYON, Texas—Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy, an international business major from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, is the winner of the second Moses Business Plan Competition sponsored by Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) at West Texas A&M University.
Harold Moses, a 1994 WTAMU graduate with a B.B.A. in accounting, funded the top three prizes for the competition to encourage business students to engage in writing business plans. Moses, a real estate investor, became interested in funding the competition because he saw that entrepreneurs with business ideas needed a better understanding of how to package those ideas in a formal business plan before approaching a lender or investor. The Moses Business Plan Competition is conducted by the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team in WTAMU's College of Business.
Before submitting a business plan to the competition, each competitor was required to attend seminar sessions on writing a business plan. The sessions were taught by David Terry, executive director, and Jeff Reid, incubator director, at the WTAMU Enterprise Center.
Skorodziyevskiy, winner of the $1,000 first prize, entered a business plan for Computer Savior, a computer repair business. Skorodziyevskiy has IT experience as a student worker in the WTAMU Office of Information Technology. First runner-up and winner of a $300 prize was Elizabeth Meech, an agriculture education major from Fort Scott, Kan., with a plan for Twisted EM Ranch. Miriam Shattuck of Canyon won the $200 second runner-up prize for a retail store for mothers-to-be called Go Figure Mommy.
Others finalists from the field of 23 entries were Lenzi Schmucker, a marketing major from Canyon; Maxwell Pierce, an economics major from Amarillo; and Dana Versmessen, an international business major from Philadelphia, Pa. Each of the other three finalists won $100 prizes funded by David Wilder, one of the competition judges.
Judges for the final round of competition were Harold Moses; Dr. Jerry Miller, retired dean from the WTAMU College of Business; David Wilder, P&E Leasing, Inc.; Jeff Reid, incubator director, WTAMU Enterprise Center; and Donna Makhavanne, events and marketing coordinator in the WTAMU Office of Communication and Marketing and a past SIFE president.
Awesome! Congratulations, Vitaliy! We need more student entrepreneurs. Thank you to Mr. Moses for his vision and foresight in funding this competition and for Ms. Walker for championing entrepreneurship through all of her efforts. Well done!
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Of course, Sherman won't be shutting his mouth any time soon. It's part of the reason why Thomas looked over at his still-ranting teammate postgame and said, "That guy was born for TV."
Sherman started talking before the game, kept it going during the game and was still going an hour after the game.
Brady was a target for much of the conversation. Every time Brady would complete a pass against him, it just made Sherman want to talk more.
"I kept saying I'm going to get that next time," Sherman said. "Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to him: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.' That was when they were winning. He just gave me that look and said, 'Oh, I'll see you after game.' Well, I made sure I saw him after the game."
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