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Monday, day 13.
I´m not sharing any names, but one of the guitar players didn´t show up to play his missing parts this morning. Luckily, the other one performed those as well, so when I got to the studio everything was played just as asked, with some extra awesome stuff as well. So kudos for this other guy!
The rest of the day was spent by editing the bass. Playing some parts again, making it sound like it should and finally having MAJOR problems with the tuning, I used all my professionality I could possible have to tune the parts digitally. Then we realized that Tundra´s bass playing wasn´t actually that bad at all, but the autotune had actually fucked up the timing in most of the places, so the more we used it the more the timings went astray. The joys of digital signal processing, I guess.
At the end we had a perfectly pitched bass- track.... which was played like someone who just got his first bass guitar.
After hours, bugged Pro Tools and tons of "FUCK THIS, delete, start from scratch" we finally got it sounding right like it was performed in the first place. And before you ask, no, there was no fucking way we´d play those songs again from scratch. Using 4 hours for editing is less than using 12 hours for playing AND editing.
We got home at 1AM- No keyboards were done due to the bass editing,but at least we sound now like we should.
Tuesday, day 14.
So, with all the "band" now finally done, lagging behind for only three days, it was finally time for me to do something else than edit, repair, instruct, scream and cry. So, enter the keyboards! FINALLY.
We rigged my (t)rusty N364 with Virta´s two better hi- end Korgs and started to ruin all the songs. That was so fucking fun compared to that hell I´ve been through for the last two weeks.
We first layered the "basic" stuff from my N364- Analog Pad, Choir and Strings. Seriously, the strings just sound so good in that machine. It´s the exactly same sound that e.g. Nightwish, Bal- Sagoth and Dimmu Borgir have used, and afaik, Tuomas Holopainen still uses.
Fun trivia: If you got access to that machine (or X3/ X5), pick up Prog C07- "The Strings" and start playing "Mourning Palace". You´ll be surprised. Not to mention that one...whatever, "Festival!" or something, which is exactly this sound. Hailz for creativity.
My wild guess is that back in the mid 90´s when me and countless of other metal keyboard players had access only to one piece of equipment, we got the best overall synth with a reasonable price, thus ending up getting that particular piece which was very popular. However, the number one rule of keyboard players:
Get it? Seriously. Never use them. On the other hand, we found out that Jeremy Soule has a Korg as well. Shame on you for laziness, Jeremy. Then again, we used it for too. We also used some Nintendo- sounds just because it turned Lolbster into a platformer game from the late 80´s. And then it started to sound like Giana Sisters. Yet, even though we love to take the piss on everyone, we´re not actually putting them that audible, so fear not. We´ll still be sounding like Finntroll instead of playing some uninspiring Göteborg- metal with occasional C64- sounds glued on top. No names mentioned.
After playing keys for Blodsvett (using Shakuhachi as a "old school Finntroll tribute I could swear I´d see Somnium clapping his hands for this one"!), Kyyppari (ended up sounding like a Turkish scifi- movie from the 60´s at some parts. Black Metal, no compromise!) and Kylskåp (Ever thought what happens if Demented are Go, Darkthrone and Nightwish clashed together?) , I went to visit home quickly (I live only 12 kilometers from the studio), had dinner with my wife, went to sauna, shaved face and head, and got back to the studio where Vreth already had started to do the vocals. The joys of recording near home. :D
I wasn´t very fond of the vocal sound so we sat down and started to tweak it into more violent. In the end we went with a guitar distortion plugin (!!!) and a compressor so tight you could hear the guy fart in the next room as loud as Vreth screams. The result sounded so uncannily aggressive that we decided to go for it as a template. We did vocals for Blodsvett and Kylskåp as well and headed home at 1:30 AM.
Wednesday, day 15.
I got vacation from work for today, so I headed straight to the studio and started to edit the trumpet and trombone takes. Virta got there half an hour later, and Vreth followed soon. I brought the upright bass track for Piraatti which I had recorded at my office (!!), imported it in and started to lay keyboards for Piraatti with Virta. We had some akward ideas, tested many, and finally started arranging the keys more to suit the upcoming vocal lines. That was one helluva task, yet rather fun. You see, we just got the lyrics for it, and realized that they are not fitting the way we thought they´d do, so we started to think how to "fill the blanks" in the chorus with keyboards.
After finally getting Piraatti sounding like it should, we ruined Lolbster with all sorts of cheesy organs, 8- bit sounds and horns and whatnot. Then I ended up playing all cool shit into Halkodisko, including something so weird I´ll leave it as a surprise. Let ´s just say that our metal got even more black with this one.
After amusing ourselves with the keys, it was Vreth Tiem. We did vocals for Kyyppari and Lolbster and started to get rather hysteric at some point, after working for 13 hours in a row. We heard Vreth singing lines like "Vi skinka, vi gurka", "Penetratzioon" and whatnot, but finally got everything sounding perfect. Little whipping, little whiskey and he´s topping himself once again. Halkodisko started to sound a bit tired at some point (you try to scream 3 hours in a row at night and let´s see how your voice sounds like, hehe) so we decided that it´s 1:20AM and we should probably hit home after doing a 15+ hour workday.
When we got off from the studio, I realized it was freezing, extremely windy and there was snow everywhere. I dropped Tundra home and drove small roads back home, at max 40 km/h. Every turn was like bobsledding, and I certainly don´t need a smashed, unusable car at this moment. Some World of Warcraft soundtrack on the background, and we ended up chatting with Tundra about....yep, World of Warcraft for the whole trip. Hey, it´s very nice counterpart for doing metal for the whole day.
Got home at 2:10AM, remember pressing the snooze- button at 8AM.... woke up 9:20 with a phone on my hand. FUCK! Looked out of the window. More snow. FUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Had to get tires changed and ended up being at the office at 11 instead of 9. Fuck yeah.


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The amazing inscriptions on ancient cave walls represent some of humanity's first known creative work, but it wasn't just master artists who were allowed to paint. Kids as young as two or three were cave-painting 13,000 years ago.
That's the finding of Cambridge archaeologist Jessica Cooney, who discovered some of the paintings in the French cave of Rouffignac were actually made by very young children. While these prehistoric tykes weren't responsible for the world-famous drawings of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and other ancient beasts - the paintings we're most familiar with only represent a small fraction of all the examples of prehistoric painting that we've found - they still left some pretty amazing contributions, like what you can see in the image up top.
This particular art form is known as finger fluting. The young artists made them by running their fingers across the cave walls - it's basically the prehistoric equivalent of finger painting. Since the art was actually created by direct application of the kids' fingers, it's possible to use those markings to determine just how old and even what gender the creator was. Cooney explains the process of identification:
"By 2006 Sharpe and Van Gelder had developed a way of determining the age and gender of children's hand impressions, through the flutings. As a methodology it's amazingly accurate. By measuring the flutings at Rouffignac with callipers and matching them up against the modern data set we can tell the age of the child who made them to up to seven years old – and that is being conservative. Similarly, if we have a clear finger profile, the shape of the top edges of the fingers, we can tell to 80 percent accuracy whether the individual was female or male. This works with both children and adults. Using methodology we can also identify marks made by the same child.
"Flutings made by children appear in every chamber throughout the caves even those that are a good 45 minutes' walk from the entrance – so far, we haven't found anywhere that adults fluted without children. Some of the children's flutings are high up on the walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone's shoulders. We have found marks by children aged between three- and seven-years-old – and we have been able to identify four individual children by matching up their marks.
"The most prolific of the children who made flutings was aged around five – and we are almost certain the child in question was a girl. Interestingly of the four children we know at least two are girls. One cavern is so rich in flutings made by children that it suggests it was a special space for them, but whether for play or ritual is impossible to tell."
Finger fluting appears to be an incredibly popular art form among prehistoric civilizations. Examples of them are found not only in ancient France but also as far away as New Guinea and Australia. We don't know precisely what motivated ancient children to make these inscriptions, but, as Cooney explains, we have some ideas:
"We can make guesses like they were for initiation rituals, for training of some kind, or simply something to do on a rainy day. In addition to the simple meandering lines, there are flutings of animals and shapes that appear to be very crude outlines of faces, almost cartoon-like in appearance. There are also hut-like shapes called tectiforms, markings thought to have a symbolic meaning which are only found in a very specific area of France. When in 2006 Sharpe and Van Gelder showed that that some of the tectiforms were the work of children, it was the first known instance of prehistoric children engaging in symbolic figure-making."
One of the interesting things here is that there's no real clear separation between the art children make and art adults make. While we obviously can't say much of anything with certainty when we're peering back 13,000 years, Cooney speculates that finger fluting might suggest there was far less of a divide between adults and children back then than there is today. Prehistoric societies might have allowed children and adults to participate in activities side by side in a way that doesn't really directly translate to our experience today.
Yes, that's speculative, but it is a good reminder that people in the distant past were also once kids, and that kids can leave lasting impressions on the world even 13,000 years after they're dead and gone. Also, is it just me, or has cave art suddenly become completely adorable?
Via the University of Cambridge. Image by Jessica Cooney and Leslie Van Gelder.

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I agree with LittleBunny---her hair looked good before! Looks better now, but not a huge difference.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 16, 2013) – Italy has received the wild card into the FIVB Men's Grand Champions Cup, which will take place Nov. 19-24 at the Kyoto Prefectural Gymnasium and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
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Oct. 17 at the FIVB Club World Championship in Brazil.
The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team qualified for the Grand Champions Cup by winning the NORCECA Continental Championship in September. With the victory, the U.S. improved its FIVB world ranking to No. 4.
Besides the U.S. and Italy, host Japan, Brazil (South America zone champion), Russia (Europe zone champion) and Iran (Asia zone champion) will also compete.
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Italy, ranked No. 3 in the world, was selected by the FIVB, host broadcaster NTV and the Japan Volleyball Association due to its position as the highest ranked men's team that finished second at its continental championship tournament.
The team composition at the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup consists of the four continental champions from continents whose teams reached the highest ranking in the preceding Olympic Games, the host country plus a Wild Card selection.
The FIVB also released the schedule for the Grand Champions Cup:
Nov. 19: United States vs. Japan
Nov. 20: United States vs. Brazil
Nov. 21: Teams travel from Kyoto to Tokyo
Nov. 22: United States vs. Italy
Nov. 23: United States vs. Iran
Nov. 24: United States vs. Russia
Setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), a U.S. Olympian in 2004 and 2012, and his Italian club team Trentino Diatec are 1-1 after two matches at the FIVB Club World Championships in Betim, Brazil.
On Oct. 15, Trentino defeated Kaleh of Iran, 24-26, 25-19, 25-19, 26-24. Suxho started all four sets and scored three points on two kills and one block. He was also credited with 23 running sets on 79 attempts.
On Oct. 17, Trentino fell to UPCN of Argentina, 22-25, 25-23, 25-22, 16-25, 15-13. Suxho scored one point with a block and was also credited with 26 running sets.
Trentino Diatec also won the Italian Super Cup with a 25-23, 25-23, 25-21 victory over Cucine Lube Banca Marche Macerata on Oct. 9. Suxho was named the Most Valuable Player of the final match.
The regular season in the Italian Serie A League will begin Oct. 20.
The Berlin Recycling Volleys, including U.S. setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu) and outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) opened the regular season with a 25-22, 20-25, 25-17, 25-19 victory over Generali Haching on Oct. 15.
Touzinsky finished with 12 points on nine kills, two blocks and one ace. Shoji added two points on two kills and helped Berlin to a kill percent of 49.
The first three stages of the French league have been played.
Tours, which includes middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.), is 2-1. St-Nazaire, which includes opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.), is also 2-1. Toulouse, where middle blocker Futi Tavana (Kalaheo, Hawaii) plays is 1-2.
In notable statistics, Troy is fourth in the league in attacks with 58 points and an average of 8.54 kills per set. He is also fourth in the league in scoring (64 points; 4.92 points per set) and is second in aces (six aces; 4.08 per set).
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) and his Russia team Zenit Kazan fell in the finals of the Russian Super Cup to Belogorie, 21-25, 21-25, 25-23, 2-23, 15-13 on Oct. 16. Anderson scored 19 points in the match.
The regular season in Russia will begin Oct. 26.
Hypo Tirol Volleyballteam, which includes U.S. libero Erik Shoji (Honolulu) and middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) is 3-0 and in first place in the league after its first three matches of the season.
In the race for the Belgium league cup, outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Maaseik fell to Volley Haasrode Leuven in the round of 16, 25-20, 25-18, 11-25, 25-21.
VC Euphony Asse-Lennik, which includes middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak (Warsaw, Poland) defeated Axis Shanks Guibertin A, 25-21, 25-17, 25-16 in the round of 16 and will advance to the quarterfinals.


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With the helmet off though... ugh. Is he gonna look like **** or no? If the helmet's off and he looks bad, the figure's got a problem to me. I hope not because a good A-Winger's been a long time coming, even if it's a figure Hasbro EU'd up a little bit.
Face it guys, Hayden is Anakin now.
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Rumor: Marine Corps Officers' Wives Told to Stock Food, Water, and Some Cash
Saturday, December 8, 2012
My wife, through her network of girlfriends in Oceanside, was told yesterday that the Marine Corps Officer wives at Camp Pendleton were being told to stock up on food, water and cash in contingency for 7-10 days of possible disruption of normal shopping and electronic banking systems. They were also told to keep the gas tanks full of fuel.
This is very similar to what Poof and Cobra has said.
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Cobie Smulders has been playing "the hot one" on the hit sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" for six seasons. It looks like she's finally ready to parlay that into a decent role in a major motion picture.
Samuel L. Jackson had let slip to Jimmy Fallon last week that he and "Avengers" director Joss Whedon would be trying out five actresses over the weekend for the role of Nick Fury's female sidekick. Word has it that Smulders gave the best reading, reported Deadline.
Now it's just a question of who Smulders will be playing. The vague "female sidekick" comment opens up a host of possibilities, and fans are speculating it could be anyone from Janet Van Dyne (an Avenger who fights under the alias "The Wasp") to Carol Danvers (who has spent some time in the comics as both the costumed hero Ms. Marvel and as S.H.I.E.L.D. director).
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However, the smart money seems to be on Maria Hill, who, in the Marvel world, succeeded Fury as the head of SHIELD, butted heads with Iron Man and had Spider-Man arrested and unmasked.
Whedon has apparently been a fan of Smulders' for some time now, having considered her for the lead role in the "Wonder Woman" film he was once developing. We've been a fan for some time as well, but we're curious to see if she can go as dark as the role requires.


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Time Warner Dodgers on Demand…
Those who have been following the Dodgers during the past decade have probably seen Tony Kinkela and his crew all over Dodgers on Demand…they do a great job covering the team on a daily basis from a visual standpoint and they're up for a 2011 Telly Award.
It's a YouTube competition where you all can vote for your favorite video so check it out and hopefully you'll give it a thumbs up.
Otherwise, a relatively quiet day at camp. Lots of position players have reported early. Billingsley and Broxton were among those who threw bullpen sessions today and Manny Mota and Jamey Carroll both celebrated birthdays. No sign of a cake anywhere.
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Great to see Dodgers on Demand and Tony Kinkela nominated. I also like Jessica Rosales reporting in English and Polo in Spanish.
Hello Gang!! Hope everyone is doing well. I am enjoying reading all your comments. Nice song Beav!!! Well, in my humble opinion; staying healthy is paramount in our pursuit of taking the NL West. If we stay healthy, we've got as good a chance as any team in our division. Also, I am looking forward to seeing how Mattingly runs the show and how he uses the bullpen. I've never been a big fan of Torre and especially his use of pitchers. A younger and fresher approach from Donny could make a big difference. Not only in the bullpen, which I think will be a big key to contending/winning the NL West, but also, with Kemp, Ethier, Loney, and Brox!!! Right now I am somewhat optimistic and a "glass half full" kind of opinion about our players, manager, and new coaches. Not at all with our owner, GM, head trainer, and pitching coach. Oh well, gonna be fun to see what transpires!!!! GO DODGERS!!!
Can't wait for the season to start!
Feliz cumpleanos to Manny Mota and Jamie Carroll. Happy Birthday and manny more!
Also, give Paul a decent shot at left field. I think given the opportunity, he will be a good if not great left fielder. Unfortunately, Ned would rather throw money that could be used for better bullpen pitching or a 3rd baseman to patch up LF with over the hill or underachieving temps. Geez!!! If Paul falls flat on his face, you can grab a decent fill in in July!!!
Fabulous posts Jhall, and everyone this morning from the previous thread.
Kahli/Kpookiemon – It looks like we are finally rid of our time-warping, submission error nightmare. Thank goodness!!!
From the photo on the previous page…….I can relate to some of those players who appeared to not want to be there. I have those kinds of meetings all the time nowadays. However, ours lately are more of the rolling the eyes and you have got to be kidding me ones – LOL!!!
Jhall – I am holding out hope that Mattingly will be different from Joe and pay attention to how Xavier does do, and he gives him a decent shot at the left field job, unlike the Ethier/Pierre issue we had a few years back.
Hi'Ya Nelly!!! Me too!!! I'm glad JoJo is gone. Now if we could just get rid of Frank, Ned, Stan, and Beav's Honeybuns!!!! LOL!!!
Hey Josh, just a shout out to say thanks for all your efforts!! I know we can be trying sometimes!!!
Oh…………….and Josh, thanks to whoever got the blog fixed. It's seems to be much, much better……. knock on wood 🙂
Hey Nelly, speaking of fixing the blog. Do you remember when we had to put up with Joey P/Joey Rock from the old Dodger Thoughts blog and all his profane tirades and threats of physical retribution?!!! I figure he must have gone to prison. Geez!!! We've come a long way. It is a credit to Josh and all our ITD gang that this blog has lasted while so many have failed.
I thought you liked my Honeybuns…
LOL!!! Yep, I'm sweet on you my brother!!!!
No more for you!!
I agree brother Wally – Larry, Curly and Joe needed to be gone. I think that alone lifts a giant weight from Kemp and a few others.
And yes, Paul needs to be give a legitimate shot at LF. How could he possibly be worse than a platoon of JaMarcus Thibbons?
JaMarcus Thibbons ~ Priceless 🙂
Well Beav, if Loney doesn't get it done this year, I think he is gone. Ned has his eye on Hee Sop Choi!!!! LMAO!!!!
The frightening thing Wally – that's about Ned's speed. And LaChoy was what? in the bigs 5-6 years ago? That fits Ned's criteria.
I think Loney has to busta move this year as do all the young guns. They're all young vets now. Its time for them to shat or get off the pot.
Totally agree Beav!!! This is it for Loney!! Also Brox!! Quite honestly, if these two don't get it done this year, perhaps, it is time to go in a different direction. I hope they can keep Kemp and Ethier as a core. However, I feel we will loose one or both in the fall out if we are not very successful this year. JMO!!!
Jhall – OMG!!! I so remember those days!!! You can add PaDodgers to that list as well, and I am sure there are a few others that will come to mind as I think some more.
If this team isn't any better off at the trade deadline than it was last year I would hope Ned would for once in his life sell instead of buy and at least try and replenish the farm. Hell, even if we're somewhat in it they need to get rid of Furcal, Blake, Kuroda and a number of other vets. Blake, Kuroda and Furcal are gone anyway.
Yep Nelly, those were the days!!!! I'm with you Beav!!! Unfortunately, Ned doesn't know when to hold'em or fold'em!!! We should have been sellers last year in July and August.
Hello there everybody! I hope all is well!
In case anyone has MLB Network their 30 In 30 preview of the Dodgers will be on 3/6 at 6:00.
Take care…
Collie – Thanks for the info Collie. I look forward to that series each spring training season. It's always good to see what the other clubs are doing as well as the Dodgers. I actually designed my baseball geography unit around that show this year. We are doing a team a day, and it's been fun so far.
Yahoo top 300 Fantasy Players, as figured by voodoo, I guess…Dodgers crack in at 47. Who is it? Pujols is #1. Don't go look it up…just say who you THINK it is…………..
Anyone read this yet? Furcal?s contract perk will put out fires
lol what the heck is Tomko doing back in the league?
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It's been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a sodomy law in Texas.
In the past in Charlottesville, Virginia's felony sodomy law has been used against men who requested a certain illegal sexual act when trying to pick up hookers on West Main. It resulted in the arrests and public humiliation of 14 men at Ivy Creek Natural Area in 1998.
And in Richmond, several years earlier, a lesbian mother lost custody of her child because of Virginia's criminalization of sodomy.
This year's General Assembly didn't get around to revising Virginia's "crimes against nature" law that forbids oral and anal sex– and some sodomy cases are still being prosecuted.
So can police come knocking on your bedroom door?
"No, absolutely not," says UVA law prof Anne Coughlin. In the Lawrence v. Texas ruling, she explains, the Supreme Court said that laws prohibiting sodomy between consenting adults in private are unconstitutional.
But what about sodomy in public?
In January, 22-year-old Keia Horton was arrested in Newport News for receiving oral sex in a parked car. She was charged under Virginia's felony sodomy law, which doesn't differentiate between private and public acts.
At first, Horton was going to challenge the constitutionality of the law. But faced with the possibility of a felony conviction and its maximum two years in jail, she opted to plead guilty to a misdemeanor indecent exposure charge instead.
Joel Singson picked up the gauntlet by challenging his conviction for solicitation of sodomy in a Virginia Beach department store restroom. Lambda Legal, a national gay-rights organization, filed a petition July 12 appealing Singson's six-month sentence, arguing that he could have been prosecuted for prostitution or indecent exposure instead of sodomy.
And in May, an inmate convicted of sodomy filed an appeal with the Virginia Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press. Trondell Askew had three years added to his sentence for performing oral sex on another inmate in the prison yard at the Southampton Correctional Center.
Coughlin believes that police still can arrest those committing public acts of sodomy. However, "We would still want the legislature to speak to this– not individual police departments."
There's the rub for the General Assembly. HB 1054 attempted to preserve the prohibition against public sodomy, explains Delegate Rob Bell. "It passed 97-1 to rewrite the law, and then it was carried over."
"They're definitely dodging a controversial topic," says Coughlin.
"One worries the refusal to revise this law in light of the Supreme Court decision is a reflection of hostility toward gay people, particularly with the Affirmation of Marriage Act," muses Coughlin. "It's hard to say."
Perhaps 2005 will be the year Virginia gets this constitutionally challenged law off the books. Until then, the only legal "sex on the beach" will be a beverage.
At least Virginia is an equal opportunity anti-sodomy state: Both gays and straights are forbidden from partaking.


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A man at a gas station in Maryland was caught on camera reacting with excitement to a scan of his Powerball ticket, purchased in Arizona. NBC's Tom Costello speaks to the store clerk who checked the man's numbers, and claims he's the mystery co-winner of the $580 million jackpot.
Officials say the winning tickets for the largest Powerball jackpot ever -- $587 million -- were sold in Missouri and Arizona. But on Thursday, a mystery man showed up at a gas station in Upper Marlboro, Md., claiming to hold one of the big winners.
Surveillance video showed the man -- burly, bald, African-American and clad in a yellow construction suit -- slowly amble up to the counter, where he pulled out some lottery tickets.
He showed them to the clerk and then repeatedly pumped his arms in excitement after reportedly seeing the numbers match.
According to Kamran Afgan, a cashier on duty at the time, the man said something along the lines of, "Oh my God," after his numbers matched, and gave Afgan the ticket to hold and examine.
Afgan said the man told him he was from Maryland and a member of the military. It's unclear if he's based in Arizona, but his ticket was an Arizona ticket, Afgan told NBC News. Afgan said he didn't get a chance to scan the ticket into the lottery machine because the man took it back so quickly.
The entire store was in shock, Afgan said.
Before leaving, the man showed his tickets to two other people in the store who confirmed he had the winner. At that point, the man walked out. But a moment later, he returned, saying he forget to buy gas.
One can understand how he might have been a little distracted.
No winner has come forward yet in Arizona, which means it is possible this Maryland mystery man holds a ticket worth $293.7 million in his hands.
On Friday, Missouri lottery officials announced that a husband and wife from Dearborn, Mo., were the lucky ticket holders in that state, and they couldn't be more shocked at their good fortune.
"I called my husband and told him, 'I think I am having a heart attack,'" Cindy Hill, 51, said, according to a Missouri Lottery press release. "I think we just won the lottery!"
She added, "You know it's the Show Me State, so he said, 'Show me.'"
NBC News' Cydney Weiner contributed to this report.
NBC's Kerry Sanders reports from Dearborn, Mo., where the town is celebrating one family's luck of winning half the record Powerball jackpot. A family friend of the couple, expected to be named by lottery officials Friday, tells TODAY's Savannah Guthrie "it couldn't have happened to a better guy."
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Historical thoughts on linking
Link building is indeed a tactic with direct benefits via rankings traffic from search engines and direct traffic from high profile sites. However, outright link building is only a slice in the overall online marketing mix that makes up a productive web site marketing program. In the early days of marketing web sites, building links from directory submissions and programs such as web site reviews and web awards sites sent significant amounts of traffic. Then came Google.


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RAITHE wrote:These simple components in LUA would work as long as the projectile is marked as guided (there might be more to adjust in the physics than that, but I can't think of any at the moment):
t = p:find_target()
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Marking the projectile guided will not do anything against other players. Guided is only for monster -> player, or with the MML, player -> monster. Player -> player guided projectiles requires a real Lua script.


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As a devoted follower of Jesus, husband, father, friend, and author of the groundbreaking book, Sacred Unions, Sacred Passions, I rejoice to see a growing number of Christian men and women rethinking sexuality, friendship, and deep trust between men and women in the 21st century.
Yet, as one who has published the first evangelical full length book on the subject, I struggle with my role as a conversation-starter, a leader, a paradigm-changer within this deepening and growing conversation. The momentum for this contiunues to build.
I struggle not out of issues of personal integrity. For me, the struggle is in a different sense.
How do we, as followers of Jesus, shift from something viewed as taboo between men and women to deep trust? What is my role in helping and participating in that shift? Is taking steps toward encouraging men and women toward deep trust worth the risk?


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Four Years Ago on The Fourth7/03/2011 11:15:00 PM Edit This 6 Comments »
That's right, it's our fourth anniversary. Four years ago on July 4th at 4:04pm I walked out of the baby house in Aktau Kazakhstan with Lexie in my arms as my daughter. Here she is in the director's office as we waited for the official word that we could leave. She was more than ready and so was I!
Cut to one year later. She was of course walking on her on. In fact she was driving! We hit the local July 4th carnival and she had a ball. Mom and I were both so amazed at how much she'd changed in that year. She was a typical happy, healthy just turned two year old. I couldn't have asked for more.
But a year later she turned three and was more amazing than ever. At least I thought so and so did the rest of the family. We were excited to spend the Independence Day (both the USA and Lexie's) with them down in Texas. Even my brother's kids were up from Mexico so there was lots to celebrate.
Then last year we went to a big festival with some friends, then came back for a picnic with other friends and then finally watched the fireworks at another friends house. It was a very full weekend but as you can see Lexie was having fun and growing up fast. Or so I thought.
Happy Adoption Day Lexie.
And all the fireworks are from Mommy just for you!


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Whether ODF will wither or weather
depends on us as we work together.
The question is where we should go: whither?
The answer is clear at once.
The question of "whither" is not so dense,
and is easy to answer when we start with "whence?".
Of the topic today
I will no longer delay nor dither to say
whether we will whither or weather
but will now give you my 2-cents.
Rob's ODF-Next Rant
- The word processor and spreadsheet, as we have them today, are relics of the 1980's, designed when the web did not exist and collaboration occurred predominantly by exchanging paper documents. If we were designing a document author and collaboration system to meet modern circumstances and capabilities, it would likely bear little resemblance to Word. So the question is how much do we let the sunk costs of yesterday continue to determine our future? How much longer do we paint speed stripes on a horse and pretend that it is a racing car?
- Products like Word and Excel have evolved via the uncritical accretion of functionality over the past decades to a point where the products are overly complex resource gluttons with a knack for having a critical security flaw reported in them every other week.
- Increasingly users are getting work done via email, wikis and blogs rather than using heavy-weight document editing solutions. Why is this so? Why is the modern word processor losing users rather than gaining them?
- WYSIWYG is a fine paradigm if you are doing all of your work targeting printed output. But it is a sub-optimal approach for creating documents for almost any other use.
- The revered Bold, Italics and Underline icons, along with the font selection drop down list, which define the modern editor GUI, should be forcibly removed from the user interface, stripped of rank, and put on trial for crimes against productivity. You are writing a document, not decorating a cake. You need to ask yourself "Why should this text be italics?" Is it a book title, a foreign phrase, a name of a movie, the name of a legal case? Then choose a named style that indicates why that text is special. Let the named style take care of how it is displayed.
- Unless you are designing a poster for a modern art gallery you should stick to the named styles in your template. Power users might define additional named styles. But direct application of random attributes to random text selections should be considered a form of data corruption.
- Few documents today are ever printed. The are born, live and die entirely in digital form. We should be optimizing for the most common cases, not just for what our parents or grandparents did with WordPerfect 1.0.
- The most common sources of reused content come from other documents and from PDF and from HTML. Current cut & paste mechanisms today make a mess of styles. Paste in the content with the styles of the source document? According to the styles of the destination document? Mapping to the nearest local style? All are wrong answers. The only correct answer is to give me the choice.
- PowerPoint is pure evil. It has elevated form over substance and turned every form of business communication into a "pitch".
- I should be able to call spreadsheet functions using named parameters, like PV(rate=1%,periods=12,payment=$1000.00) rather than PV(0.01,12,10000) so my model is self-documenting and avoids errors from incorrect ordering of parameters.
- Security needs to be designed into the document authoring environment, including the format, not patched on as an afterthought.
- I want Greasemonkey for my word processor and my spreadsheet.
- Connections between documents may be as important as the documents themselves.
- The less control the user asserts over the appearance of a document during editing, the more flexibility he or she has over the final published appearance. In today's multi-modal, multi-device world, it is essential that we do not prematurely commit our documents to a particular rendering. We need late binding of presentation to content, not early binding. If we had done this for the past decade, we would have perfect interoperability today between all word processors. If we start doing it now, we will have perfect interoperability among word processors going forward.
- Spreadsheets should have functions that access web-based data stores for common financial, economic, political and scientific data sets. Mathematica does something similar, presumably using local caching.
- Presentation should be a mode of displaying another document, not just document type itself. For example, I should be able to take a report and push a button to enter a slide-show mode, where all images are shown as slides, with their captions, and each top level section header becomes a slide with 2nd level headers as bullet items. During the presentation I should be able to seemlessly drill down into the real document.
- I want to be able to share data ranges, text ranges and presentation slides with others and to subscribe to theirs via feeds. I rarely write a document from scratch. Reuse, reuse, reuse. But the tools only support this at a scavenger level.
- We lack high level support for the compositing or assembling a document from fragments. Once I cut & paste, my new docment has lost all knowledge of the document I copied from. This is great if I am a professional plagiarist. But it is bad if I am a CIA analyst and my report has copied information claiming uranium production in Africa, and I never know when that information is repudiated, and I pass my flawed report onto the President. Very bad. When I cite an authority for an argument, my argument is only as good as the authority. I owe it to myself and my readers to make it easy to know whether the information I cited is still accurate and vouched for by that authority.
- Current tools are impoverished when it comes to the social side of documents. Review/comment reflects old, hierarchical thinking and doesn't scale to the network. How can I have 100 people comment on my document? What if I want 100 people to jointly author a document? The Wiki knows where Word cannot go…
- Most user woes in modern word processor are caused by our attempts to remain compatible with the design choices made by Microsoft Office developers 15 years ago. It is time to move on and learn from past mistakes, but not perpetuate them.
- I want to use the same text editor to edit documents, web pages, emails, blog posts, discussion forums and wikis. Why do I need a different brand hammer for every nail?
- I want a spreadsheet function that can call a web service. It might lookup a book title by ISBN, do currency conversions, or geocode data. There should be thousands of such spreadsheet functions, backed by web services, interoperable based on standard protocols. Some might be free, others fee-based. Some might be both, e.g., 20-minute delayed quotes for free, real-time for a fee.
- Spreadsheet functions express a core analystic function and should be usable in all tables, in word processors and presentations, not just in spreadsheets. They should also be usable in fields in forms and in text passages.
- The inability of word processors to output clean, readable and valid HTML or XHTML should be an embarrassment to all vendors.
- We must define power as in "power user" based on results, on productivity. Power is as much about what a system allows you to ignore as what it allows you to control.
- Today trust is based on digital signatures and classical questions of authentication, integrity and non-repudiation, all backed by a chain of trust traceable back to some well-known certification authority. In some contexts, this hierarchical, binary view of trust is adequate. But the network sees trust based on reputation, rating, scoring, voting, reverse citation counts and other non-hiearachical values. How do we account for these?
- Spreadsheets are unnecessarily dangerous, based on a muddled view of data types which leads to silent errors and inconsistencies. This might have made sense in the memory and processor constrained systems of the 1980's. But today, with our better sense of the errors and the cost of errors, we need a spreadsheet system that is type-safe, aware of measurement units, and which enforces consistency and accuracy. We obviously can't prevent someone from making a stupid spreadsheet model for subprime mortgages, but we can at least ensure that they don't make stupid cut & paste errors when creating that model.
- Spreadsheets should have instrinsic support for image, sound and geographic data. Not just embedded media, but as an intrinsic data type, so a function could take an image as input, or return an audio clip as a result.
- A grid in a spreadsheet provides a logical addressing scheme as well as a visual layout scheme. But what if I want the former without the latter? Why can't I do a spreadsheet calculation in a text document? Why am I always stuck in in a grid?
- Spreadsheets should have built-in support for sensitivity and risk analysis, perhaps via monte carlo methods. Yes, I know support is available via 3rd party plugins, but this should be a core feature in the repetoire of every user. We might not be in the global financial mess we're in now if spreadsheet users all could easily "stress test" their models.
- The Holy Trinity of Word/Excel and Powerpoint is only a convention, mainly enforced by Microsoft's definition of their office suite. It is not a law of nature. Other applications types should be considered to be part of the core desktop authoring environment, such as project management and mind maps.
- Outliners and other pre-draft tools have lagged far behind the core editing functions of a word processor. And what is the equivalent of an outliner for a spreadsheet?
- Microsoft is as much a prisoner to the predominent model of end user producitivty as the user is. Their need to support legacy documents constraints their freedom of action and has contributed to the relative lack of innovation in Microsoft Office over the past decade.
- An editor should allow a user to verify interoperability as easily as it lets them do a print preview.


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Scientists Demonstrate Microscale System to Study Frustration in Buckled Monolayers of Microspheres
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has demonstrated a simple system based on micron-sized spheres in water to study and control geometric frustration. Their research, published today in the journal Nature, elucidates open questions about frustration and frustration relief and provides a new tool for scientists grappling with these issues in a variety of fields from magnetism to basic statistical mechanics.
Frustration is a feeling known to anyone who has had to choose one course of action from a range of imperfect options. Similar situations arise in nature, and scientific ideas about frustration have been explored to understand materials as varied as water, ceramics, magnets and superconductors.
"Our experimental situation is somewhat akin to the situation faced by a party host aiming to arrange dinner seating so that men are fully surrounded by women and women are fully surrounded by men," Arjun Yodh, professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Penn, said. "If the host chooses tables with odd numbers of seats, then the seating goal cannot be achieved, and some people will be frustrated. If the host chooses square tables, then all of the men can have two female neighbors and all of the women can have two male neighbors, and everyone is happy.
"We created a similar sort of packing frustration by arranging spherical particles in water on a flat triangular lattice, while permitting the particles to freely move small distances out of plane, that is, up or down," Yodh said. "The frustrated material is formed because neighboring particles prefer to move away from one another. Thus, if a particle is in the down position, its neighbors will want to move to the up position. In our case, the microspheres pack on the corners of each triangle, and the lattice is said to be geometrically frustrated. For every triangle, there is always at least one pair of energetically unfavorable neighbors that are both up or both down."
This multiplicity of imperfect choices leads to frustrated materials with many "lowest energy" states in which small perturbations can introduce giant fluctuations with peculiar dynamics. Traditionally, these phenomena have been explored in magnetism, wherein spins on each atom experience frustration as a result of their anti-ferromagnetic near-neighbor interactions and the lattice on which they sit. But it is difficult to observe individual spins directly.
"We use microscopy to directly visualize the configurations and dynamics of all the 'spins' in the sample," said Yilong Han, a member of the Penn team and currently an assistant professor of physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "This is a major advance over previous experimental work, and, furthermore, we can use small changes in temperature to change the strength of the inter-particle interactions."
The ability to control inter-particle interactions enabled the Penn scientists to control the degree of frustration in the sample and concurrently probe material responses. The team found that the lattice deforms to relieve frustration as the material becomes more strongly frustrated.
"At high compaction or interaction strength, the in-plane lattice deformed into stripes and zigzags so that the microspheres were able to pack more efficiently," Tom Lubensky, professor and chair of the physics and astronomy department at Penn, said. "We were able to understand theoretically why these particular configurations relieved system frustration using a simple geometrical model tiling the plane with isosceles triangles."
"The slow sample dynamics also offer insights into the interplay between frustration relaxation and order," Yair Shokef, a post-doctoral Fellow and theorist with the team, said. "Deep connections between frustrated materials and glasses might exist, and we are now in a position to explore these possible connections."
Since the experimental scenario emulates classic models of spin frustration, the research builds a novel connection between two very different fields of physics: soft matter and frustrated magnetism. In the near future, novel energy landscapes can be created for the microspheres using laser tweezers and enabling experimenters to directly probe the role of lattice deformability on the dynamics and creation of structure. Similarly, optical and magnetic traps can be used to "flip" and move individual particles, experiments impossible with traditional magnetic materials.
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Breast cancer risks could be cut by taking statin drugs which lower cholesterol, say scientists.
A study of a million UK patients over a decade has found a link between affecting 50,000 women a year, and the waxy substance in the blood which can cause heart attacks.
Study author Dr Rahul Potluri said: "Our preliminary study suggests women with high cholesterol may be at greater risk of getting breast cancer.
"It raises the possibility of preventing breast cancer with statins, which lower cholesterol, but as this is a primitive study, significant time and research is needed before this idea can be tested."
The next stage is a clinical trial. Statins are already taken by millions to cut risks of heart disease and strokes.
Cardiologist Dr Potluri, of the University of Aston, discovered during his survey of more than 660,000 women that those with high cholesterol had a 1.64 times greater chance of developing breast cancer.
After the research was released, Dr Potluri added: "It raises the possibility of preventing breast cancer with statins. We are heading towards a clinical trial in 10 to 15 years to test their effect on breast cancer incidence."
Cholesterol is produced in the liver and absorbed from foods such as red meat, high fat cheese, butter, and eggs. It can be reduced by a change in diet and increased exercise.
Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of Breast Cancer Campaign, said: "These are interesting results that report a link between increased fat in the blood and an increased risk of breast cancer.
"However, this is just the first step in understanding more about how cholesterol relates to the risk of breast cancer and more research is needed to determine whether statins could help.
"We do know being overweight, particularly after menopause, can increase a woman's risk of breast cancer.
"So we would encourage women to maintain a healthy weight and discuss concerns, such as breast cancer risk, weight or cholesterol with their GP."


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text: ROANOKE, Virginia -- A pair of buildings on Plantation Drive sits just past the tractor-supply store, right in front of the barn belonging to the local women's college. From the street, the cream-colored structures don't look like much more than typical office buildings; only a wire fence distinguishes them from their neighbors. Inside, however, is a laboratory and fabrication facility where engineers produce one of the U.S. military's most important advantages over its foes: the ability to see in the dark, when others are all but blind. Night vision technology — and these buildings — have been around for more than a half-century. The green-tinged view from inside the goggles is now yawningly familiar. But this ITT Corporation facility doesn't make the rudimentary night-vision gear found in kids' toys or sex tapes. Here, they design and build the military-grade gear. And it can peer further into the dark, with greater fidelity, and under darker conditions, than any civilian equipment. (Sorry, Paris.) That's not all. The latest generation of ITT's night-vision gear, issued to a relative handful of American forces, comes with thermal sensors inside; that allows troops to detect the heat from an insurgent sniper, even when he's completely camouflaged. The generation after that — currently under development here — will send digital maps, mug shots and drone footage to that same night vision eyepiece. In other words, U.S. forces will be able to ambush, apprehend and identify suspected militants — without the target ever seeing what the hell just happened to him. The work is sensitive enough that export of the equipment is strictly controlled, and reporters are not ordinarily allowed inside these two buildings. "People are freaked out that you're here," one ITT executive told me. "You're the first one." Truth be told, the company didn't exactly open up the place to me, either; I was mostly confined to a lone conference room. But I was able to try out a prototype of their latest night-vision gear before many generals had the chance. And I learned about the mind-meltingly complex manufacturing process that enables troops to "own the night," as the military cliché goes. Here's what I saw.Cleared Hot Even in the blackest dark, there are still a few stray photons of light. Night vision works by capturing that light, and amplifying it. But the Hulk-green view provided by this "image intensification," or "i2," can only tell you so much. It can't tell you if there's someone hiding in the tall grass in front of you. It can't say which car in a parking lot full of them has just been driven. It can't find newly dug-up ground or a freshly-fired gun. So U.S. forces supplement their i2 gear with thermal sensors, which pick up signs of heat. These new eyepieces build the sensors right in. The Enhanced Night Vision Goggles can spot hidden threats — and keep working even when i2 technology is "blinded" by a sudden flash of light. In a specialized trailer outside the factory, ITT's Harry Buchanan shows how sensitive the thermal sensor is. He rubs his hands on the wall, then puts them back by his side. Through the eyepiece, I can still see his handprints. Then Buchanan takes his shoes off. Not only do his feet leave similar marks; his shoes continue to glow hot.Ghosts in the Machine The goggles' classic "image intensification" sensor is analog. The new thermal sensor is digital, which means it has a bit of latency. In other words, the amber-colored thermal image can lag behind the green i2 one, producing some freaky — almost spectral — effects. In this shot, Buchanan and I look into a TV screen, while ITT executive Erik Fox looks on. He moves his hand and head ever so slightly. But it's enough to throw the combined image off — and make it look like Fox is possessed. For years, the Army asked for — and ITT tried to produce — an all-digital model, to get rid of the ghostly images. They could never get the digital i2 resolution right. "The technology is a lot harder than it seemed," Buchanan says. "It's hard to beat that little analog tube…. I think we're still another eight years away." In the meantime, the Army has issued about 5,550 of the Enhanced Night Vision Goggles. (And yes, they're called "goggles," even though they only cover one eye; "monogoggle," military "monocle" and a single "goggle" all sounded too goofy to use.) Special forces units, like the Rangers, got 'em first in 2008. Other regular Army units received the rest, starting in 2009. Now, ITT and three other firms are working on lighter-weight, cheaper-to-manufacture models. Each company could receive up to $260 million and the rights to build 16,720 systems.So Sensitive The thermal sensor doesn't just generate ghosts. Sometimes, it'll see stuff that was never there in the first place. The camera is so sensitive, it picks up the heat reflected off of a mirror, a window or (in this case) a television set.Between the Lines Toggle a switch on the goggles, and they go into "full thermal" mode. Everything that generates a heat signature lights up. Toggle it again, and they go into "overlay" mode, showing only the hottest items. Hit it a final time, and they'll only show the outline of what's radiating with thermal energy. That's the mode you see here, in this picture of me. The thermal camera performs a different function than the i2 sensor, Buchanan says; the former is for "detection," while the latter handles up-close "identification." The outline mode allows the first job to be handled, without interfering in the second.Head Shot These goggles are an alpha test of ITT's future night-vision gear. (Obviously, the switch box dangling behind my right ear won't stay in the final version.) It essentially shoots footage of what the wearer sees — allowing a commander around the corner (or maybe even in the White House Situation Room) to look through his soldier's eye. Broadcasting night vision comes with a price — namely, a sore neck. The early NVG models weighed about 14 ounces. These new ones (like the models with the thermal sensors built in), are a little under two pounds. That may not sound like much of a difference. Trust me, when you're carrying the things on your head, it's huge. Buchanan claims that, by moving the battery pack to the back of the helmet, the enhanced model is actually more comfortable than the old one. I'm not so sure. Earlier gadget arrays could broadcast night vision, too. But they required snapping a camera onto NVG eyepiece. That not only had a habit of reducing the goggles' field of view. It wasn't exactly neck-friendly, either.Caught! The newer-than-new night vision gear won't just send out what a soldier sees in the dark. It'll also let him take in all sorts of new information in his eyepiece. Like this mug shot, for instance. An 800 x 600 SVGA display — in essence, a tiny computer screen — is inside the goggles. Just about anything a soldier might see on his laptop or smartphone can go onto it: battlefield maps, buddies' locations, pictures of top insurgents, even drone footage. The difference is, a glowing iPhone will give a soldier's position away at night. These goggles won't. For decades, the Army has tried to give its troops a wearable computer ensemble — one that pushed digital maps and soldiers' whereabouts to a monocle on the helmet. One of the many, many problems with the system is that you'd need a second night vision eyepiece in order to move around in the dark. And covering both your eyes is rarely a good idea. Even on moonless nights, your peripheral vision is still feeding your brain information. Better to combine it all into a single gadget.From Superman to Soldier To make night-vision goggles, you start with one of those crystals from the Superman movies. Or perhaps it's a custom-crafted glass rod, surrounded by a hollow tube made of slightly different glass. The combo is taken to the top of a tower inside the ITT facility, and heated up. As the glass begins to melt, it's "drawn" into thin fibers. Then the fibers are packed together into a hexagonal shape, drawn again — and packed once more. Now, there are about 10 million fibers, or "cores," smushed into a cylinder and sliced into a disk the size of a quarter. The more cores, the greater the resolution of the image intensification gear. Think of these cores as the analog equivalent of pixels. Creating them from those Superman crystals takes 40 days. It's one of 400 processes that ITT as to go through to make the night vision gear. The whole thing requires more than 1,150 manufacturing assembly operators, engineers, chemists, physicists, lab technicians, working in this 356,000 square-foot facility and a smaller one in West Springfield, Massachusetts. ITT builds their own semi-conductors here (they don't want to depend on a potential corporate competitor, or on a foreign government, for their key components). They coat those components with layers of cesium oxide so volatile and so fine, they're impossible to measure — getting close enough to take a look would introduce oxygen, which would cause the cesium coating to decompose. The image intensifier has three main components. The first is a photo cathode. It works pretty much like a solar cell, turning photons of light into electrons. Those electrons are then transferred into an electrically-charged "micro channel plate" — that's the quarter-sized bundle of glass fibers, originally melted from those Superman crystals. The micro channel plate is basically a tiny amplifier; the electrons bounce around those rods, creating more along the way. At the bottom of the rods, the electrons smash into a fiber-optic screen coated with the rare earth compound phosphor. The microscopic particles glow green when the electrons hit. Photons are created again. And that produces the classic night vision view. Night vision's tell-tale green glow is everywhere today — from horror movies to all-too-real news reports from the battlefield. There was even a restaurant craze a few years back when patrons sat in the dark while NVG-equipped waiters brought out the food. But it's worth remembering that the process required to make these everyday gadgets is anything but commonplace. Video: ITT Photos: Noah Shachtman See Also:- Night-Vision Tech Tangles Troops in Afghanistan Night Vision Toy Lets Kids 'Own the Night' Buying Night Vision, Nuke Gear? 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Election Day's Biggest Loser (Other Than Romney)
White House says no reprisal against billionaire who spent heavily to beat Obama
Nov. 7, 2012 -- Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson gambled more than $54 million on Tuesday's elections. And he lost.
The quixotic chairman of the Las Vegas Sands gaming company rose to the top of campaign giving in 2012, gaining notoriety for almost single-handedly staking the campaign of Republican primary contender Newt Gingrich and then continuing to make audacious contributions once Gingrich dropped out – with millions more going to GOP nominee Mitt Romney and two superPACs supporting his bid.
Tuesday, he emerged as arguably the single biggest loser of the campaign, financially speaking. In addition to investing in Gingrich and Romney, Adelson and his relatives donated to the U.S. House campaigns of Rep. Allan West of Florida and New Jersey Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and the Senate runs of Virginia's George Allen, Florida's Connie Mack, and Texas's David Dewhurst. All lost. (Dewhurst never made it past the primary.) His sole consolation was helping fund the defeat of hometown nemesis Shelley Berkley, who lost her bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Not that Adelson's likely to feel much of a sting. Adelson, 79, owns 49 percent of the Las Vegas Sands casino company, of which he is chairman. The company's operations in Macau and elsewhere in Asia have made it the world's leading gambling operation. His estimated net worth is north of $20.5 billion.
Throughout the campaign, there was widespread speculation about his motives for donating so much this cycle. Adelson is a major supporter of Israel and Israel-related causes. He has also been embroiled in a controversy surrounding his company's sizeable operation in Macau, a Chinese island that has outpaced Las Vegas as a source of gambling revenue.
ABC News previously reported that Adelson's company has been the subject of a criminal investigation for the last year by the Department of Justice and the Securities Exchange Commission for alleged bribery of foreign officials, according to corporate documents. A separate civil lawsuit filed by a former Sands executive has further alleged that Adelson ordered him to keep quiet about the casinos' purported "involvement with Chinese organized crime groups." Adelson has publicly dismissed the allegations as frivolous.
In its filings with the SEC, Adelson's company says it became aware of the investigation in February 2011. The company said it "intends to cooperate with the investigation." At a gaming forum in 2011, Adelson said the lawsuit "is not a serious case" and that the federal investigations would find no wrongdoing. "When the smoke clears, I am 1,000 percent positive that there won't be any fire below it."
Sands corporate spokesman Ron Reese did not return messages left at his office Wednesday.
If Adelson's goal in donating so much to the 2012 campaigns was to open a channel of access to high-level federal officials (he has denied he is seeking access), experts said he is now safe in assuming that effort has failed.
"I don't think he has bridges to the Obama administration," said Bill Allison, who follows campaign giving for the Sunlight Foundation.
"One reason we always think people give, especially that much money, is they want access," Allison said. "They want an appointment or an ambassadorship. They want the ability to pick up the phone and call the White House. He definitely won't have that. He has cut himself off by coming out so strongly on one side."
But will he be subject to reprisals, having put so much money behind an effort to defeat President Obama?
A White House spokesman responded to that question succinctly: "No."
Allison said he does not believe Adelson's lost wager will dissuade future wealthy political enthusiasts from throwing large amounts of money behind a political candidate.
"I have no doubt," Allison said, "that some other billionaire will feel like he can make a huge impact on the political system with a small fraction of his fortune."


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Freeing up airflow with Steeda's cold-air intake for the Focus ST
Horse Sense: At the time of our visit, Steeda was in development for its own upgraded intercooler for the Focus ST. Reduced inlet temps are great for power and durability, so we look forward to seeing what develops.
If you' ve been following along, I picked up my 2013 Focus ST because I wanted a fun, practical daily. Of course, even a daily driver can be even more fun than stock. As such, we picked out a short list of mods to amplify the fun factor without degrading its driveability.
When we last left Project Silver Lining, it had picked up some power with one of Steeda's high-flow, catted downpipes. To continue that theme on the inlet side of the turbo, we chose Steeda's cold-air intake (PN 555-3169; $349.95).
The factory airbox looks like a well-engineered piece that draws in air from the grille, but history has shown that open-element filters and smoother induction tubing is worth some power. In the case of the Steeda kit, it features an aluminum heat shield, a billet-aluminum velocity stack, and an open-element conical filter.
Moreover, the Steeda unit is designed to improve performance without requiring an updated calibration, so I decided to install and test it as such to see its individual merits. A performance calibration is part of the plan down the line, so we can all see what each mods is worth. While the induction system was disassembled, it was also an opportune time to install Steeda's new oil separator (PN 555-3714; $59.95). This unit reduces oil contamination in the inlet air, which is beneficial as oil can cling in places it shouldn't and even increase the chances of detonation.
So keep reading and see how Steeda's Steve Chichisola revamped PSL's induction.
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In case you missed our last installment on Project Silver Lining, we are including the results from that modification, the Steeda downpipe, along with the latest piece, the Steeda CAI. As you can see, both helped our cause of making this driver more fun to drive daily.
In the case of the CAI, it really delivered, especially considering that PSL is still running the factory PCM calibration. While the peak-to-peak gains seem modest at 4.23 horsepower and 8 lb-ft, if you look deeper into the numbers you'll see that it really thundered at the bottom of the curve with gains of 12.34 horsepower and 24.92 lb-ft of torque. It tapered off with modest gains in the midrange, and picked up strong again with double-digit gains of 11.97 hp and 10.84 lb-ft at 5,800.
So with two bolt-on parts, PSL is pushing nearly 250 horsepower at the wheels. Moreover, it feels and sounds faster thanks to these additions, and it's just as driveable as when it was stock!
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Once again, the Bush/Cheney Campaign demonstrated at a Rally in Oregon on Thursday their respect for their beloved U.S. Constition:
The women said they did not intend to protest. "I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president," said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.
�We chose this phrase specifically because we didn't think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene," said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher.
Apparently "obscenity" is subjective, Ms. Tong.
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While most designers reveal their seasonal inspirations in show notes and backstage interviews, Dries Van Noten is offering explicit insight into his creative process with a new exhibition—Dries Van Noten: Inspirations, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. The show, which will open just three days after the Belgian designer's floral-filled Fall 2014 runway presentation, juxtaposes nearly 200 pieces from his past collections with artworks (19th-century masterpieces, Francis Bacon paintings), film stills (Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, Jane Campion's The Piano), and couture garments (Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior). Art show? Fashion show? Sure, why not. Just don't call it a retrospective—Van Noten is just getting started.
"Dries Van Noten: Inspirations" will run from March 1st to August 31st at The Musée des Arts Decoratifs; 107 rue de Rivoli, Paris.


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I attended Showstoppers on January 8th, 2013 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The ballroom was easy to find and the representatives were helpful for the most part. Showstoppers was a great opportunity to get up close and personal with new and interesting products. It's almost impossible to see everything there is to see at CES, and this gathering is helpful for companies as well as the press.
Showstoppers provided an intimate setting for all people of the electronics industry to meet and converse about the future of electronics. The booths were easily accessible and demos were freely given. The food was superb with everything from steak to chocolate desserts. My personal favorite was the shrimp cocktail. The interior of the ballroom was gorgeous and spacious. Some of my favorite exhibitors were Drip Drops and Lite Brix, who both specialize in children's toys. The representatives for Moos Audio Speakers were especially friendly and went out of their way to connect with us.
If you are a frequent CES attendee and are feeling overwhelmed by all the opportunities, Showstoppers is a good way to narrow down your viewing experience. The food is also a definite plus.


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I'm electronically challenged this week due to Sandy. While the first couple of days weren't so bad, we're now into day four and the outage is losing its charm. It's really hard to keep up with news when you don't have Internet or television. Unfortunately, the local radio programming in our part of the world is completely inadequate. Most stations have few or no news reporters. So there's a ton of local news and a real dearth of local news reporting. Texts have become my primary way of staying connected. School cancellations come by text as well.
I have to admit, this has given me pause to think about the value of an fm chip in phones. Even though I can listen to a stream right now, my battery charge is a little too precious for that. Would I listen to broadcast radio on my phone during this outage? I might, especially if I could get decent local news by live reporters who would tell me what the power outage situation is, update me on what is going on in town, what roads are flooded, and where I can get an Internet connection. Some of my neighbors are looking for even more basic information like showers and water.
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Clear as Mud - DNR Discover Pass Info
Well it only took them a year to finally put it in writing - but following is a definitive explanation of Discover Pass expectations for vehicles that also have OHV permits. This is NOT good news for dual sport 4x4's and bikes- but at least the ruling has been made clear now.
DNR has been actively patrolling their lands and writing citations for failure to display the proper Discover Pass...
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Cleaning up the mystery behind ORV tabs and the Discover Pass
Off-road motorcycles get ready to explore DNR trails.
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Rev up your engines; its time to explore DNR trails!
Before you go, we want to clear up any confusion with the Discover Pass and ORV tabs. Inquiring minds have asked if they need to have both the pass and the tabs for their ORV and the simple answer is .no.
So, here is the nitty gritty:
» If your ORV is registered and licensed for highway use, you will need a Discover Pass.
» If it is not licensed and registered, you will need an ORV tab.
Its that simple.
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If you have to tow your ORV to the trail head, you are required to display a Discover Pass to park the tow vehicle.
Here is where it could get tricky.
If you are towing a dual sport motorcycle that is licensed and registered for highway use, you will need two Discover Passes one for the tow vehicle and one for the motorcycle.
Can my ORV be the second vehicle on my Discover Pass?
The Discover Pass is now transferable between vehicles including your registered motorcycle but it is only valid for one vehicle at a time. You will need two Discover Passes to tow and use your dual sport motorcycle or 4×4 in the same trip
So, how do you display a Discover Pass on a motorcycle?
Not to worry, DNR does not require that you display your Discover Pass in the front windshield like you would in your car or truck. You can just carry it with you.
Purchase your Discover Pass.
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Photo studios suddenly close
Portrait studios that have taken family photos in Walmart and Sears closed suddenly Thursday leaving workers without jobs and customers without their photographs.
Charity Rosander found out from a friend who lost his job in at a Picture Me Portrait Studios that employees who showed up for work Thursday were told to leave and file for unemployment.
"They gave little or no notice, some didn't know until they came in today and everything was closed or locked," said Rosander. "I'm thinking I'm not going to see my portraits, I paid for."
Rosander said she paid $130 to have her 6-month-old son photographed at Sears at Merle Hay Mall.
"I paid by cash. I'm a temp worker. It was a struggle to make it happen," said Rosander.
The company that owns Portrait Studios, CPI Corp., has been struggling financially and recently defaulted with its lenders. It closed 500 stores last year.
The Sears and Walmart portrait websites were blank Thursday afternoon except for this statement, reading, "After many years of providing family portrait photography, we are sad to announce our Picture Me Portrait Studios are now closed. If you currently have an album or have had a recent session, you can order products at myonlineportraits.com thru April 18, 2013. Your portraits may be available at your local studio."
The Iowa Attorney General's Office said customers can also file a claim if CPI goes into bankruptcy.
"Sometimes people are out of luck if a company closes down, if they paid for something they don't receive it," said Bill Brauch, of the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division.
CPI Corp. is based in St. Louis and ran about 2,700 portrait studios across the country. No one with the company could be reached for comment on Thursday.