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Student teams selected to take part in sounding rocket and balloon campaigns
Following a workshop held 5-6 March at the European Space Technology and Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, 8 student teams from various ESA Member States and Co-operating States have been selected to fly their experiments on future sounding rocket and balloon campaigns.
The Workshop followed on from an announcement of opportunity issued by the ESA Education Office in November 2007 for the REXUS and BEXUS programmes (Rocket / Balloon EXperiments for University Students). After evaluation of the initial proposals, a number of shortlisted teams were invited to present their proposals to experts from ESA and Esrange during the workshop. The final flight selection was made on 7 March. The winners join six teams chosen earlier in the week for the same flights by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
"The students were all very enthusiastic, and they presented some diverse and interesting experiments," said Helen Page of ESA's Education Office.
The experiments selected for the REXUS sounding rocket campaign are:
Nordic Ionospheric Sounding rocket Seeding Experiment (NISSE) - University of Bergen, Norway, University of Oulu, Finland & Finnish Meteorological Institute
Water will be released into the ionosphere to form a cloud of ice crystals that will be visible from the ground. The water molecules will be ionized by solar radiation and travel along magnetic field lines, forming patterns that will be analysed using the EISCAT radar.
Itikka - Castor Space Club of the Tampere University Of Technology
A test of an inertial measurement unit. They will analyse its performance in the high acceleration, high angular velocity and high vibration environment and search for unexpected sources of errors.
Vibration effects on biphasic fluids (VIB-BIP) - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
A study of the behaviour of a biphasic fluid (a liquid containing gas bubbles) in a microgravity environment when vibrations are applied to the system.
The experiments selected for the BEXUS balloon flights are:
TimePix@Space - Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, Charles University Prague and Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Detection of particles in the stratosphere using a hybrid imaging pixel detector developed at CERN.
Stratospheric Census - An international team of students from the 'Erasmus Mundus' Space Masters course, currently based at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Using innovative nanofilters combined with a strong airflow from a power-effective air pump to gather dust particles for study with advanced sample-return analysis techniques.
Stratosphere and Magnetic Field Polar Explorer (AURORA-SMF Polar Explorer) - Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, Rome, Italy
An investigation of the polar lights phenomenon by mapping the properties of the stratospheric environment.
Low Cost Inertial Navigation System (Low.Co.I.N.S.) - La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Design and validation of an inertial measurement unit built with low cost sensors and components.
Icarus - Romanian Space Agency, Romania and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
A study of lifting body technology by releasing a glider from the balloon and piloting it to a designated landing zone by remote control.
Three of the successful ESA-sponsored teams will have the opportunity to place their experiments on the REXUS 5 and 6 sounding rockets, to be launched from Kiruna, Sweden, in March 2009. The payloads developed by the other five teams will fly on the BEXUS 6 and 7 stratospheric balloons that will be launched from Kiruna in September 2008.
Each flight will carry a payload consisting solely of student experiments. Half of the overall payload is available only to German students through a DLR Announcement of Opportunity, while the other half is opened up to students from all other ESA Member States and Co-operating States by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) through a collaboration with ESA.
A preliminary design review of each experiment will be carried out during a training week at Esrange in Kiruna, Sweden, from 21-25 April 2008. The students will build their experiments during the summer (in the case of BEXUS) and up to the end of 2008 (in the case of REXUS). The student teams are responsible for funding the development of the experiments and their shipment to Esrange, in collaboration with their universities or other sponsors.
ESA has agreed to sponsor up to four members from each team to attend the training week at Esrange and the REXUS and BEXUS launch campaigns. The sponsorship covers student travel, accommodation and other related expenses.
All costs related to the rockets, balloons and launches are covered under the bilateral Agency Agreement between SNSB and DLR regarding the REXUS and BEXUS programmes. Esrange experts will provide technical support in the integration and testing phase, as well as providing campaign management and operations.
EuroLaunch, a joint venture of Esrange (Swedish Space Cooperation) and the Mobile Rocket Base MORABA (DLR) is responsible for the integration and testing phase, as well as the campaign management and operations of both the REXUS suborbital sounding rockets and the BEXUS balloons.
The next announcement of opportunity to fly experiments through the REXUS and BEXUS programmes will be issued in September 2008. These flights will take place during 2009 and 2010.


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ESSAY- Anna Nicole: How TV has failed us
You would think that Mother Teresa had just died (again) the way the media– especially television– is covering every nuance of the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith.
Fox News Channel has labeled it a "tragedy," while devoting a portion of their website to a photo essay of her life. The Today Show ranks it ahead of their reporting on government corruption and cover-ups in the Libby trial. The LA Times provides readers with a timeline of her life, such that it was. The Houston Chronicle has printed a eulogy of sorts– thoughts from her friends (Playboy's Hugh Hefner being one of them) on her untimely death.
But it's an exotic dancer-turned-model that the media is turning itself inside out to glorify: a stripper who met an octogenarian billionaire at the topless bar where she was working, subsequently divorced her hometown husband in order to marry the oil tycoon, only to become a widow a year later and spend the rest of her life fighting over her inheritance and using her notoriety to win a place in the tabloid media spotlight.
Pure and simple, Smith was a creation of the media, a porn star personified. Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1993. Guess jeans girl for a season or two. Producer and headliner in several movies that went bust. Star of a TV reality show that dwelt on the absurdity of her life. Spokesperson for diet pills. Mother of two: a son whose death at age 20 reflected a fast-track culture of drugs, and a baby whose paternity is being challenged by two different men.
Anyone who dies deserves a certain amount of sympathy (to quote John Donne: "Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind"). However, what I find offensive is the way the media has fallen over itself in its eagerness to glorify someone who left little behind except nude photos, a handful of lawsuits, and a five-month-old baby girl who may or may not be an heiress.
The media's obsession can be chalked up to the white goddess syndrome. Smith was a tall buxom blonde who positively smoldered with eroticism and sex, but she had no redeeming social or moral value other than as the object of the media's devotion. As author Neal Gabler said, "She had no talent. She couldn't sing. She couldn't dance. She couldn't act. She was attractive. Anna Nicole Smith's job was to live a cinematic life, which could then be broadcast by the media and entertain us. So she's an entertainer in this new art form, which is life itself. The only value she had was doing things that had narrative components that would then show up in supermarket tabloids. That was her life."
The true tragedy in all of this is not that Smith died, but that the media continues to fail the American public. First, they fail to give us the news. The death of Smith is not news. Very little real news is to be found on television anymore– it's newzak. Nearly all the news shows have shifted into entertainment formats; otherwise, they would not draw an audience in our entertainment-driven, non-information, low-content society. Most of the content of news programs now largely consists of inane entertainment items.
Second, the media has lost its way. The world is devastated by crisis, war, and the deaths of noble, courageous people. Yet seldom are their names even mentioned in the news. They have become mere statistics. However, this former stripper's death has already been given more coverage than the death of former President Gerald Ford.
Lest we forget, the media has a moral obligation to tell us what's going on in our society and the world, even if we don't like it. It's what we used to call the truth. They need to show us what's really happening. They need to challenge us.
Instead, the media simply titillates the American public. Why? For the sake of ratings. That explains why they publicize their own media creations like Anna Nicole Smith.
Sadly, American society is essentially an extension of television. Some might even say that television is America's God. It holds tremendous sway over people's minds.
Maybe it's time to turn the television off.
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Amen Cletus. Yeah, let's turn the TV off now - what an original idea. Do you think maybe it's a bit too late for way too many.
Wow, aren't you a hater!?!?!?! Do you just not like women???? Jeez! The true tragedy here is that a human being died and a six month old baby is now motherless. If you don't like what you see on tv then change the channel for God's sake, don't sit there griping, then write a pathetic article about a woman degrading her after her death. That is pathetic! Who cares what she did, who cares how she became famous, who cares what she did wrong or right during her lifetime!! She was a human being in search of love just like everyone else in this world. Our media covers "crap" because that's what society wants to see, that's what society feeds off of....the pain of others, humiliation of our brothers and sisters, torture of innocents in other countries as well as our own, society lusts after the crap you just spent hours, maybe days writing. See, Mr. Whitehead you just wrote an article that consists of nothing but inane entertainment crap, wherein your self esteem and manhood was obviously boosted by your ability to degrade and trash a woman that did absolutely nothing to you. Put that on your resume big guy, it's pretty impressive. You are a judgmental jerk and I think The Hook ought to reconsider letting you write articles of substance, or articles of inane crap for that matter in the future. Rest in peace Anna Nicole Smith. You were a beautiful woman who went after what you wanted and I loved that about you. I am one of the many women in society that wanted to be more like you. Mr. Whitehead, lighten up, don't be a hater, it just shows me that you deep down really dislike yourself. If everyone could just be a little nicer to each other and stop hating, this world would be a much better place.....now that's something that you could really write about, and something I would love to read about!!
Mr. Whitehead, you had some good points, but then slipped into that kill-your-television Postman cliche. That was too easy an escape from a more complex problem that deserves more thought from someone like you. Something is clouding your mind. Instead, why not examine why people are more interested in this version of the news than yours. Does Anna have more relevance to the everyday lives of most people than Gerald Ford, or Mr. Libby? Take Savannah for instance, who reveals much or her thinking in her comment above. Or, how about examining the talent aspect. Today, there are so many people with talent, ability, or beauty. What makes some successfull and others not? Is it the right friends and relatives, or the willingness to trade in all dignity and morality - to sleep with the billionare. Or, how about reactions. We could examine that. What makes degreed and credentialed people like yourself crow at simple Anna's demise and deplore the media and public sentiment?
Cletus, why would you say Anna was a brainless gold-digger? You did not know her, neither did I. We only know what we were told by the media, so how can you judge her? No one knows what killed Anna Nicole, so you can't say she left her child. She died. I don't think any mother who is truly a good mother leaves their child, or even wants to leave their child. I think Anna Nicole Smith was a beautiful woman, she was bold and exciting. She lived life the way she wanted, with no boundaries, and what is so wrong with that? Who are we to judge each other anyway? I would never wish death upon anyone, and I am very disappointed to see you write such a comment. I guess what suprises me also is that you even refer to me as a "dim bimbo" and you don't even know me. I am neither "dim", nor am I a "bimbo". I guess if you can't pick on Anna, then you have to pick on someone. What is the purpose of degrading and lashing out at people? This is the kind of person you choose to be through your writing. Why? Who does it benefit? No one. If you want to make a difference then write something positive for the community to read, after all The Hook is a community based paper.
Cletus, John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute, whomever you are, you are a hateful, angry man and I feel very sorry for you.
Cletus~Were you born with your umbilical cord wrapped tightly around your neck? Or, are you really just this ignorant in making a total FOOL of yourself? Go back and read your article. Read it until it sinks in to your very closed and narrowed mind. Then read your responses to the contributors comments regarding this article. I have a feeling if I was to read the archives of your 'article' they would pretty much have the same 'flavor.' You're no better than the very 'media' mentioned in your article...what a bunch of CRAP! The Hook needs to make a big change...and let you OFF and OUT of there!
Cletus whoever gave you the job to voice your opinion needs to lose theres. Where in the hell do you get off talking about someone (ANS) that way and then having the nerve to regard a reader in such a tactless, disrespectful manner. You're the one who is wrong here and I hope you found what you were looking for, belittling others the way that you have. You need jesus, I'll say a prayer for you.
Wait... Are Cletus and Mr. Whitehead the same person? One would hope that the author of the article would not post messages such as these. If so, then I have a new view of the Rutherford Institute.
From her first entry, Savannah was criticizing Mr. Whitehead's article. Cletus, et al, why are you all defensive, insulting and vitriolic? These posts do not represent people who are interested in a rational dialogue.
Cletus, you do have a right to your opinion, and so don't we, but what i cannot understand is how you can result to 9th grade name calling. It's pathetic. And Savannah is right, you didnt know ANS and neither did anyone else that watched her on tv or read her in the paper and so forth. Nobody knows and of the celebs because we cannot talk to them person to person and the media is the only way we can possibly know what is going on in their lives. It's not always correct but that it the media. I also think you should have a little more respect for the dead, how would you feel if that was your daughter, wife, sister or friend that someone was trashing about??
Such heated responses! Its really sad that their is so much hatred in the world and a lack of compassion. I have to mention Jesus again because this is not what he taughts us. We are not to judge others. Ana Nicole Smith was a human being just like all of us. A person's worth should not be determined by how great an actress she can be, how physically beautiful someone is, whether they takes drugs or not. We are human beings and we all make mistakes sometimes. Ana Nicole may have made mistakes in her life but that is no reason for us to condem her. She is no longer alive. We need to end this banter and respect her for being a human being not for what we saw being portrayed in the media, not for her celebrity but for who she was when she went home and she was not in the spotlight. She had a son that she lost that was her everything and just gave birth to a daughter not too long ago. At least see her as a mother and that she had worth to her life. Its just sad that I even have to read such ignorance. I feel disgusted. It almost makes me feel like your hate is spreading because I'm starting to feel the same about the writer of this article and the people who even agree. I will definetely pray for all of you that the hate is dispelled from your hearts.
Whether you liked her or not, the woman is dead & isn't in control of all this attention she's getting. Have some respect. Asshole.
Cletus, thanks for the offer of flowers. After reading your posts, I'd have to decline. I might say or do something that you disagree with and be subjected to insults.
Whoever Professor Randall is, she seems to be the object of your affection, so it might be crowded.
What is your argument anyway? That you agree with what Mr. Whitehead already said?
Do you guys actually have lives?
What do you want from this message board? Validation for stating the obvious? To belittle people who don't feel like engaging with you when you spew nasty insults? To assume that you are right because no one addresses loaded questions? I only say these things because your posts seem to do this. My only impression of you and your thoughts is from your posts. People get self-righteous all the time on blogs, and it's tiring. It's really easy to flame others on an anonymous board. I think it's a lot more interesting to have a discussion.
I logged in to say what I thought, so here it is: No, ANS is not a role model. So far, no one has said that they wanted ANS to be their role model. Doubtful anyone would say they want to be just like her. I don't think famous person=role model. That's a hard standard to hold for anyone, famous or not. I do believe that all humans deserve compassion. Sure, make judgements, but is it necessary to brand a human worthless? The media attention to ANS is overdone and exhausting. Celebrity gossip is more like folklore and fairy tales these days, so I don't think it's a crime to show interest and take in a cautionary tale or two.
I'm done. Have fun.
I agree with the above and also with Savannah. No, she was not a role model. ANS was beautiful yes, but extremely troubled. I hate how the media hypes up celebs like they're gods and goddesses, but then when they're down and out or down in the ground for her (ANS) matter, they spat on them and ridicule every aspect of there life. Is all of this necessary? Do we need to be so unprofessional as to degrade and belittle anyone and call them a bimbo without truly knowing them? Whatever you think or don't think of Anna Nicole, I am saddened by the tragic life and death of this woman and that her son got caught up the same whirlwind and died, now there is another child out there who's motherless. I just pray she won't end up the same way!! No, we shouldn't glorify her life or any other celeb. We are all human, and some of us make a hell of lot more mistakes than others, but it's no reason to bash people up! The woman needed help, not ridicule. Thank you for your time.


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EDMONTON - Striking corrections officers at the Edmonton Remand Centre and across Alberta remained on the picket line despite a back-to-work order from the Alberta Labour Relations Board.
After the decision, Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, addressed the strikers with a message of defiance.
"Let's stay out here until we get what we need with the government, until they listen to us," Smith told about 150 workers outside the remand centre.
In response, the officers cheered that they wanted to stay on the picket lines.
"You went out as a group and there are groups going out all across the province," Smith said, speaking of workers striking in solidarity at Peace River, Calgary, Red Deer and Lethbridge detention facilities.
"We have each other's backs, we support each other."
The decision to remain off the job quickly drew harsh words from the Alberta government.
"The results of this illegal job action put individuals' well-being and property at risk," said deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk. "We will do everything to restore order. This situation can be resolved quickly. We have and will continue to do everything we can. It's the union's turn to step up."
In a statement to reporters, Lukaszuk repeated several times that "we will not be negotiating with a union that chooses to engage in illegal activity."
Smith, meanwhile, told reporters he had a "short" and "very frustrating" meeting with Lukaszuk earlier in the day.
"His goal was to be there to lecture us on the fact that this is an illegal strike and that it's incumbent on me to tell you to go back to work and I told him I'll support my members 100 per cent until this is over. They're turning hard-working workers into criminals and it's shameful," Smith said.
Edmonton guards and those at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre were ordered back to work after the Labour Relations Board deemed their wildcat strike illegal during an emergency hearing earlier Saturday. Smith told the striking workers they could be arrested or served with an order to appear in court and fined.
Another AUPE representative reiterated the union won't stand in the way of workers if they choose to remain on the picket line.
"We'll give them what the decision is and let them decide," said Bill Dechant, executive secretary-treasurer for AUPE.
Remand centre inmates reacted violently to the lockdown that resulted when corrections officers began striking Friday, the labour board heard. The lockdown means that all inmates are continuously locked in their cells.
Mike Tholenaer, executive director at the Edmonton Remand Centre, told the board inmates had become frustrated and angry. Meal delivery has been interrupted and nurses were only delivering "life and death" medications.
"We had a considerable amount of acting out," said Tholenaer. "Kicking doors, smashing windows, flooding cells … yelling and screaming. Purely and simply, health and safety is at risk. Tempers flare easily."
Lukaszuk said the new centre "is now bring trashed," but provided no further details. He did say that no injuries have been reported.
After Edmonton employees walked out, the job action spread to six other provincial detention facilities. Smith said those employees were ordered back to work as well, but they also defied the order.
On Saturday night, pickets outside the Edmonton Remand Centre were huddled around burn-barrels for warmth.
'At the moment, they are prepared to stay as long as it takes," Smith said. "They're in for the long haul."
RCMP officers and managers have been working inside the facilities as a stop-gap measure, but staff numbers are still far short of normal levels. When the strike began Friday, 52 managers and RCMP officers were taking the place of 110 workers usually on shift, caring for 1,020 inmates.
In Fort Saskatchewan, only a handful of managers and staff were left in charge of about 450 inmates when 35 security workers left their keys and radios behind and exited the building. There are no toilets in the cells and inmates had to wait to be escorted for bathroom breaks.
"It put a lot of people at risk," said director Wayne Reddon.
The $580-million Edmonton Remand Centre at 184th Avenue and 127th Street opened earlier this month. AUPE filed a formal complaint with Occupational Health and Safety officials in an attempt to delay the centre's opening, citing structural deficiencies. The details of those deficiencies haven't been made public.
Smith said the strike began because two remand centre employees were reprimanded and suspended indefinitely for raising safety concerns.
At the hearing, Tholenaer disputed that explanation. He said there had been no disciplinary action at the facility since it opened. He said there was alleged staff misconduct of two employees who are now on leave with pay while an investigation takes place.
Lukaszuk also disputed that safety concerns were the main cause of the strike. On the list of 10 demands he received from Smith, he said, "the safety of employees was item No. 7. Very few of his demands have anything to do with Occupational Health and Safety."
Smith said he didn't want to release specifics, but concerns included the physical layout of the facility, equipment used inside, and a lack of staff.
The strike comes in the midst of labour negotiations for the correctional workers. Lenore Neudorf, executive director of workplace and labour relations for the province, told the hearing that meetings and bargaining have been taking place since the correctional workers' contract ended at the end of March.
Hugh McPhail, the lawyer representing the province, said after pursuing an end to the strike, the government would seek substantive damages against AUPE.
"I don't use the word crisis easily or loosely," McPhail said at the hearing. "This is a very very serious situation. It has left these facilities in a crisis, woefully understaffed."
Justice Minister Jonathan Denis stood quietly by Lukazsuk's side during most of a Saturday press conference, but did emphasize that the union is not above the law.
"At the end of the day, we live in a law abiding society and we expect people to obey the law," he said. "Just as our government has to obey the law, we expect the union to obey the law as well."
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A wild night all around
Pretty safe bet tonight's game can't be as crazy as last night's. Then again, every time you think that's the case, something wild happens and you're left shaking your head.
We need to snap out of this funk. A six-game losing streak is never fun, especially coming out of the break. But as we've all seen, this team can streak with the best of them and has an ability to come back when everyone least expects it. Here's hoping Billingsley and the Boys are up to the task tonight.
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Look like another former ex Yankees manager pass away today.
Condolences to the Houk family!!! LOL Beav!!! Speaking of the deceased, I think you can put Martin in there!!! What a waste!!!! Geez!!!!
Crap, I'm freaking time warped again!!!
You're absolutely right Josh.
Only 17 rain out in LA?
This would be the "getaway" game if we were on the road.
Considering that this is a homestand, I'll call this a "go-away" game.
As in "Go Away, Giants!"
Or for those of you who ???? ? ?????? ??? ? ????????!
Look like another former ex Yankees manager pass away today.
By sellthetm on July 21, 2010 6:59 PM
And I thought Joe only looked lifeless.
🙂 :)!
My condolences to the Ralph Houk family.
Alright Blakester!!!! WTG!!!
Casey's in double digits. GOOD GOING BLAKE.
No really, I must say I stand corrected. Joe IS the perfect manager for this team – he hasn't got a pulse either.
I'll be here all week folks. And don't forget to tip your server.
I'm sure you will BPB1 🙂
LMAO!!!! We wouldn't want you anywhere else BPB1 :))
Here's a tip BPB1- don't assume 10 runs is enough 🙂
Tip #2….drinking during the game is highly recommended.
I thought drinking was mandatory.
There's a game tonight? Here I thought "Blake gets Dodgers started" might've kicked off the dumping of PVLs.
My hopes are dashed again…
lol Wolf performance what the heck?
Too funny, BPB1!
Normally I'd be a little hesitant in signing on at this point in a game, but considering the garbage heap of games we've suffered through lately, perhaps I can be a late-inning good luck charm tonight.
Figures I'd get warped.
Hey shad, what's Randy Wolf been doing lately?
Wally!! Dad!! Wat are you doing up there?
R. Wolf (L, 7-9) 5.2 13 12 12 2 4 2 1.56 5.20
Don't want to jinx the Braves, but they're beating the Pads so far……..
Dang it Braves
Hey Enchanted, just fooling around until I can get out of the warp! Now tell Ned he can get Wolf back.
Hey Ned, maybe you can get Randy Wolf back.
Mr. Gorbachev FIX THIS BLOG!!!
The next thing is that someone will tell me we've signed another gnat castoff. I just hope it isn't tru.
Good Work, Bills and Crew!!!
BPB1, we did purchase the conract of former Giants discard Taschner. Feel better?
Out-freaking-standing Billz!!!! Billz and Beard tonight!!!
Way to go Chad Billingsly!!!! Very, very proud of you!!!!! A very well pitched game!!!!
What a crappy homeplate umpire we have tonight!
Getting that queasy feeling again 🙂
LOL Beav, JoJo would have over mangaged and probably pulled him!!!! Billz was pitching tonight, not just throwing..
Good sign. He doesn't have to overpower, just locate and trust your stuff. Maddux will make the Hall of Fame with less than Billz stuff, because he was smart.
Not all of us Dad/Eric!! Great to see you my friend!!!
Anyway, WooHoo, win streak. If anyone sees this, have a great nignt true blue faithful. Excelsior!!!!!!!
Well was this pitching dued last night?
What Tru, was Miller getting lonely?
I'm glad the Padres won, I feel it sort of holds back the Giants.
I wouldn't want the Giants to take the division.
He's going to bolster our BP…LMAO!!!!!!
In fact, we may see him tonight!
A gem for Bills, his 5th, I hope he wins.
Billingsley has pitched a fantastic game so far. I hope we can get the last 6 outs without blowing this one. Bills really deserves to win. I don't know who would close this one? I would suspect both Broxton and Kuo are unavailable. Weaver, maybe. Taschner……… YIKES!!!
Alright Bills fantastic eight inning! Keep it going go for the complete game shutout!
The only other time Bills did that (CG Shutout), I was in attendance, against the Giants.
The date: July 30, 2008: Manny Eve.
Wow, an ace-like game from Billz.
Now I've got to ask the question… If Joe was managing tonight and not Mattingly, is there any doubt that Billz wouldn't have been allowed to go the distance? How many times have we seen a guy throw a shutout for 7-8 innings only to never get a chance to finish it because Joe's an idiot? Not saying it will, but these are the kind of games that could help Billz turn the corner. Could help Kersh too next time he gets close.
WTG BILLS!!!! In this dreary week following the All Star break Billingsley's gem gives up a little ray of hope.
Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
C Billingsley (W, 8-5) 9.0 5 0 0 2 3 0 125-80 4.22
I love seeing this in espn.com box score.
So we're all out of the warp? You don't think they've fixed this, do you?
Haw, haw, haw!!! I KNEW IT!!!!
So Donny Baseball is now 1-0? Keep Torre in the press box!
I think Torre would let him go for it since Kuo and Broxton was used last night.
Ethier's line is starkly similar as well (though they had Jonathan Sanchez starting that game instead of Zito):
7/30/08 v. Giants: 0-4, K, GDP
7/21/10 v. Giants: 0-3, K, BB
Let's see we swept the Cards and they swept us back. The Mets were a good team when we seen them without Beltran and swept us and I don't mind us taking 3 of 4 from them and I hope the Mets don't get swept but the dback.
Hmm, out of the warp, back in the warp, now in submission error hell.
I think Torre would have let him go out there in the ninth, but Kuo would have come in if anyone got on. That's his MO. And Donny probably would have done the same. Why? Because I'm betting that Schaffer spent the night with a Bluetooth device in his ear.
I hope that Mets game goes to 20th innings.
lol not Kuo 2 innings last night and I don't think it's possible
In and out of time warping with submission error hell.
I still want Wallace to be our manager.
Kuo was warming up, shad. And it looked like he was ready. I'm saying he's in the game if Chad allowed a baserunner.
I've been cruising the minors a little tonight. I don't really want to rush him, but I'm getting excited to see this Kelly Jansen kid. 6'6″, 22 years old, 50 Ks in 27 AA innings?
And what the hell kind of helmets are they making the kids wear these days? Looks like you could get two of Dee Gordon's heads in that one lid!
OK, it's only Rookie ball in Ogden, but we have a 6'5″ catcher who just turned 21 named Michael Pericht who's played 28 games. Hitting .339/.429/.633/1.062 with 9 homers. A 16th round pick last year.
I am not sure where I was reading, but I had also read something about Kelly Jansen. They were also talking about the other guy you've been watching…………Kyle Russell. It must have been a Bleacher Report or something of that sort. Oh, I know what it was………………….something about untouchables in our minor system I believe. It had to do with trading and who we were not willing to give up for the right price so to speak.
Russell was killing the ball at high A Inland. They moved him up to AA Chatanooga and he went right into the toilet. He's just now starting to hit again.
Those are the Rawlings S100's, Eric. The new helmets designed to take a 100mph fastball and still keep one's brains in place. MLB made them mandatory for all minor leaguers before the start of this season.
Although, they have the outside chance of making the wearer shrink, turn a greenish hue, and have mental excursions to the Stone Age, where they have the sudden urge to call everyone a "dum dum".
Shockingly this year, they had just about every All-Star in the helmets during the All-Star Game, though they were a slimmed-down version. The brims are a lot shorter on the ones the big-leaguers wear, the ones who are brave enough to put safety first, anyway, like Justin Morneau and sometimes David Wright.
Last year, the NFL approved a helmet with the same idea as the S100s, called "The Gladiator". Don't know if any NFL'ers wore it last year, but judging by the look of it, I doubt it. http://www.thegoosesroost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gladiator.jpg
That wouldn't been dumb if Kuo got into this game and got lit up and I wonder why Kuo can't pitch back to back game but he does have 2 games already stretching 2 innings out of him? Maybe he can pitch in back to back game if his PC is low. I always wonder if Kuo had just thrown 4 pitches to 3 batters would he come back out the next day.
Thanks north! Now that you mention it, I remember hearing about them in the spring, but I don't think I ever saw them.
Gad, that NFL helmet is something else too. Although I'd put up with it if it kept my brains in order. Concussions are a scary thing.
Do you ever get the feeling that they purposely cause submission error issues? This is just absolutely ridiculous!!
Anyhow, before I was brought back into submission hell for the upteenth time tonight……………
Shad – I read that Kuo takes hours to get ready for a game. So, I am assuming his regimend has something to do with when he does and doesn't pitch. I know it's not right, and I agree with enchanted. We should have a bullpen pitcher that can go back to back games, but with his injury record, I am sure that is behind his workout regimend to keep him as healthy as possible.
Dodgereric – interesting about Kyle, but I am sure he will figure things out. I am looking forward to seeing him up to the big club some day, along with Dee Gordon. A 6'5″ catcher? I am guessing that is a Brian McCann type then. That can bring some excitement someday too.
Northstateblues – thanks for the explaination. Now, if they can just figure out the wood bat issue. That broken bat that came at Billz in two parts was a little frightening. My son uses a composite bat that is supposedly unbreakable. So far it hasn't unlike others that he has used.
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11:21pm, pst
That would be submission error hell – LOL!!!!
So, I guess we can start mapping out when hour #2 will hit. ITDFST is already up to an hour and 10 minutes.
The Mets really do suck and making the dback bullpen look good.
D. Haren 6.0 6 3 3 2 8 2 1.35 4.60
E. Vasquez 2.0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1.26 4.32
A. Heilman 2.0 0 0 0 1 3 0 1.48 3.80
J. Gutierrez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.53 7.13
S. Demel 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.13 3.60
B. Boyer 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.82 4.73
I was trying to type this but Boyer pitch another innng and won.
I agree I wish we can clone 2 to 3 more Kuo.
WTG Furcal finally he has enough PA's to take over Prado for #1 in the batting average.
1. Rafael Furcal, LAD .337
2. Martin Prado, ATL .320
3. Placido Polanco, PHI .314
4. Marlon Byrd, CHC .314
5. Angel Pagan, NYM .311
Not long ago this current group of youngsters reminded me of the Dodgers of 1973 led by Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey (as well as Yeager who is often forgotten) who went on to appear in 4 World Series culminating in the '81 World Championship.
Now, the situation is reminding me a lot more of the Dodgers of the mid-'90s led by youngsters Piazza, Karros and Mondesi who went on to be destroyed by Fox.
The main difference I see at this point is that Fox destroyed the team in a single devastating blow — you all know what I'm talking about — whereas under the McCourt fiasco, the future that shone so incredibly bright has been dimmed gradually over the last three years.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to see how this current core will ever go to and win a World Series. We no longer have the minor league resources to fill the gaps, and McCourt never had the money to get the necessary free agents.
Here is one frustrated fan's reaction to the events of the past few games, last night execpted.
KURODA has now pitched through the 7th inning for the 8th time this year.
Dodgertown, Brooklyn where it hasn't rained through 857 1/2 straight games, …that's not Brooklyn. LOL
Does KEMP think he's Casey tonight?
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Hi Everyone!
I have been doing some file drawer, desktop and shelving unit "clean-up" and "clear-out" work over the last few days in anticipation of my move to the Reference Office from the Extension Services Office.
Like all of our own lives regarding "stuff", I found plenty of old paper copies of various genealogical society newsletter material. In fact, much of it was still associated with my predecessor who had been subscribing to these materials on behalf of the library at least 15 years ago. We are talking paper newsletter material going back to the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Being a genealogist, we develop a very thin skin on disposing of materials we have "archived" forever. What if someone asks that one-in-a-million question and I realize I pitched that one document that could have helped answer it? Good genealogists always second guess what should be kept and what should be discarded. But at some time, you do run out of space and you have to make some tough decisions.
With stacks of these old newsletters staring me in the face, I thought that I should take a look at the website of these existing societies and poke around to see what they had online for historical and archival newsletters. Digitization projects within these societies often involve the digitization of their own previously printed newsletter material.
It was just wonderful to find one society after another in which you could find their historical archives contain digitized files of their previously published paper copies of their newsletters! I looked at my paper copy and looked at their digital file and I had match after match.
Knowing that there was an online source easily accessible and some open to text searching just made me feel that much easier about actually making the effort to discard all of the personal copies of these paper newsletters accumulated over the past 20 years.
Kudos to these societies and what they have accomplished in digitizing their material that often went back 40 plus years! Converting that material and making it searchable allows the researcher to access material that might normally be impossible if you had to revert to actually browsing through and reading paper copies of these
Whether you are a member of an individual genealogical society or not, be sure to determine whether that society has a digital historical archives on their website. You should be able to search individual issues or combinations or all of them to see if perhaps articles were previously written that may have some connection to names or places that you are researching. These are wonderful resources that contain some great information to help you in specifics related to your own searches. It is now that so much of this is seeing the light of day and is digitally searchable within the online archives of these various societies.
Some societies may make much older versions available readily while not making the most recent few years unavailable. That should be expected. You will find that happening frequently.
Some societies may have the material online as just the image of the page and not be searchable, so you can at least browse the Table of Contents to discover articles of interest. Some have Surname indexes in each issue. Even if not searchable by text, you can often find these as a page that is easily read to see if their might be surnames of interest to you. Then you can go to the page where the surname occurred. Some societies may only provide access to a Table of Contents historical view and not the full article. Some societies may only allow "members" to access the material. So you will see a mixture of what is available.
But the bottom line is do not omit looking at a society website to see what they do have from a historical archive context about their newsletter publications that you can access.
You can always determine if a society exists either geographically in an area of interest for your own research (e.g. generally at the county level), or if a society exists based on a broader term that matches your own areas of interest (e.g. Polish Genealogical Society) by using the Federation of Genealogical Societies website. You can find the society at:
Federation of Genealogical Societies
Here is a link within the society that allows you to search for societies of interest to you or just browse through the listing of member societies:
Federation of Genealogical Societies/Society Hall
So what started out as a concern for me of discarding old print genealogy society newsletters, turned into a rather nice discovery knowing I could at last discard old material that could be retrieved if needed digitally from genealogy society websites. You may not discover this good fortune for every society as some may still not have converted older newsletters to digital format. But the ones I had all had a digital presence on the web.
At least for now I won't have to think I will be appearing on the TV Show "Hoarders"!
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When compiled as "Debug", it works fine...and if I rename the data file, the messagebox appears and then the program closes...
I switch my "active build configuration" to "Release", compile and when I run it, it says it can't find the configuration file (yes, I named it back to the original). Also, instead of the messagebox having the message "Can't find data file", it is just filled with a bunch of crap and the title is the path to my executable, not the title I told it to display...
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Thirty-eight people were laid off today from Red Storm Entertainment, the Ubisoft-owned studio co-founded by Tom Clancy and best known for the Ghost Recon franchise.
The publisher confirmed the layoffs at the North Carolina-based stdio with Kotaku. A spokesperson for the company said the cuts were due to "a realignment of production priorities" and noted that "these team members have the opportunity to consider positions in other Ubisoft studios," a company spokesperson said in an e-mail.
It's unclear which production priorities changes and if the layoffs represent the cancellation of any Red Storm games. At least one publicly-announced project will continue, according to the Ubisoft rep: "Red Storm remains an integral part of Ubisoft's worldwide production team and will continue to work on the multiplayer component of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier."
UPDATE: Answering a follow-up question about whether the layoffs signaled the cancellation of a game, a Ubisoft spokesperson said, "The decision was part of a plan to allow the studio to focus on its core expertise: developing innovative multiplayer experiences."
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With that triumphant yell, "Nature Boy" Ric Flair surpassed his predecessors and his peers to become one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history.
Throughout the years, there may have been equally charismatic performers, comparable athletes, and even better interviews, but none were blessed with the same combination of talents to manage to stay on top for over three decades.
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Away from the arena, Richard Morgan Fliehr spent years struggling with his own concept of what it meant to be a man. He suffered periods of crushing self-doubt, marital strife and -- in a profession where there was room for only one Ric Flair -- broken friendships.
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Berrien County in the Civil War
29th Georgia Regiment on Sapelo Island
Part 6: In Regular Service
Berrien Minute Men on Sapelo Island
- Arrival On Sapelo
- Place of Encampment
- Camp Spalding
- Election of Officers
- Tidewater Time
- In Regular Service
During the Civil War, two companies of men that went forth from Berrien County, GA were known as the Berrien Minute Men. From October, 1861 to January, 1862, the campfires of the Berrien Minute Men were made at Sapelo and Blackbeard islands protecting the approaches to Darien, GA on Doboy Sound and the Altamaha River. The Berrien Minute Men arrived in early October and were stationed on Sapelo Island along with the Thomas County Guards, Thomas County Volunteers and Ochlocknee Light Infantry. Regimental officers were elected by the first of November. Through the fall, the men bided their time on the tidewater, fighting boredom and disease…
According to Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States "An officer may draw subsistence stores, paying cash for them at contract or cost prices, without including cost of transportation, on his certificate that they are for his own use and the use of his family." The officers of the 29th GA Regiment were authorized to purchase provisions at Darien GA. Records of the Subsistence Department show Major Levi J. Knight signed for 59 pounds pork, 195 lbs flour, 112 lbs meal, 299 lbs rice, 46 lbs coffee, 162 lbs sugar, 2 lbs candles, 12 1/4 lbs soap, 16 quarts salt for his officers and their families during the month of January, 1862.
Finally, the 29th Regiment was reported ready for service.
On January 14, 1862, Brigadier General Alexander Robert Lawton informed Adjutant Inspector General Samuel Cooper that the regiment had been properly mustered in as the 29th GA Volunteer Infantry.
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Savannah Jany 14th 1862
General S. Cooper
Adjt Inspector General
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a letter of the 10th inst from the Ajt General's Office, inquiring if Col R Spalding's 29th Geo Regiment has been properly mustered in or not.
In reply I beg leave to say that it is a full regiment and has been for some months regularly in service
I have the honor to be, very Respy
Your Obdt Servt
A R Lawton
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A Regimental Surgeon, William P. Clower, was finally appointed on January 18, 1862. Surgeon Clower's brother, John T. Clower, would later serve as the doctor in Ray's Mill (now Ray City, GA). The surgeon was a welcome addition, but the health conditions of the Regiment did not immediately improve. James Madison Harrell was sent home sick. Alfred B. Finley, who joined the Berrien Minute Men at Darien, contracted measles and lost an eye to complications; despite that disability he would continue to serve with the 29th Regiment. Hiram F. Harrell contracted measles and died at Darien, GA. Edward Morris contracted measles and "camp fever" and never recovered; he died a few weeks later at Savannah, GA.
The 29th Regiment's tenure on Sapelo would soon be over. Before the end of January, the 29th GA regiment would be called up to the coastal defenses at Savannah. When the regiment finally left Darien, John Lindsey, William Hall, and James Newman and John R. Langdale were left behind, sick. William Anderson, who had been on sick leave in October, had a relapse and was also left in Darien. Thomas J. Lindsey, David D. Mahon and Robert H. Goodman were detailed to Darien as nurses. John W. McClellan was also detailed to remain at Darien. Malcolm McCranie died of measles at Darien on February 2, 1862 and Ellis H. Hogan died February 25, 1862. In the Ochlocknee Light Infantry, George Harlan was disabled and discharged at Darien on February 17, 1862 and Francis M. Dixon died of typhoid pneumonia at Darien the following day.
A Civil War letter from Camp Security dated February 12, 1862 describes the prevalence of tonsillitis and measles among the men. This letter, signed Gussie, was probably written by Augustus H. Harrell, of the Thomasville Guards. Of the 350 or so men at the camp, less than half were fit for duty. There weren't enough guns to arm all of the soldiers; some of the men carried a pike as their primary weapon.
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List of attempted Blood source port and recreation projects.
- 1 Gallery
- 2 Attempted Source Ports
- 3 Attempted Recreations
- 4 See Also
- 5 External Links
Source Ports
Attempted Source Ports
The source code to Blood was never released; however, source ports have been attempted using released Build engine, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, or the leaked Blood Alpha code, as well as original programming using reverse engineering. Based on original or already free software source code and only reading the original game's assets, these projects are considered more clear legally speaking (although issues can still persist).
The exact definition of what is a source port is debatable however, in regards to the lack of official source code, and methods of reverse engineering will vary. Our working definition here is any project that works with the game's native files and formats. As such, they should also be able to run custom content such as Bloody Pulp Fiction or Death Wish. Some alternative definitions in the community require at least the use of original Build engine code, which would exclude releases such as the official Fresh Supply alike to efforts like ZBlood, but potentially still accept projects such as BloodCM (which can not open original maps without conversion).
- Fresh Supply - an official remaster of the game by Night Dive Studios using their in-house Kex Engine. Single and multi-player. Closed source and commercial.
- BloodGDX - a project to port Blood using the libGDX framework for Java. Single and multi-player. Merged into a broader open source effort called BuildGDX.
- NBlood - a project to port Blood using EDuke32 as a base. Single and multi-player. Full source code released.
- Raze - a project merging the EDuke32-based ports, including NBlood, in a single package, with a back-end based on GZDoom. Currently in alpha; full source code released.
Comparison of source ports
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|Polymost, Software
|Polymost, Software
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|Polymost with custom backend
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|Gervill, System Midi, fs2 soundfonts
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|Fluidsynth with TimGM6mb soundfont
|Fluidsynth or System Midi
|Custom difficulty settings
|Controller support
|FMV format
|OGV (Theora)
|Cryptic Passage support
|Integrated in episode select
|In launcher
|Through addon menu
|In launcher
|Operating System support
| Windows 64-bit (using own Java runtine)
Windows 32-bit, Mac and Linux (using system Java runtime)
| Windows 64-bit (official builds and oasiz automated builds),
Windows 32-bit, Mac and Linux (building from source code)
|Windows 64-bit
|Other features
| Crouch Toggle
Texture filtering
| Interpolated palette emulation
Optional v1.0x weapon balance toggle
| Crouch toggle, Auto crouching,
Ambient Occlusion, Anti-aliasing
|Texture Filtering (incompatible with palette emulation)
Blood 32
The first ambitious port, started in 2005 and last updated in 2009 by Justin "icecoldduke" Marshall, also known as WinBlood. It first attempted to port the game assets to the Build engine port hosted on icculus.org before later being restarted from scratch based on JFDuke3D, releasing a few screamshots and four public alphas.
- Links: SourceForge WinBlood video, WinBlood on 3D Realms Forums, WinBlood on Transfusion Forums, icecoldduke's modern website
Registered by Jacob Moorman on April 12, 2010 and last updated on April 11, 2013, OpenBlud attempted to create a basis with the original Shadow Warrior source code while also porting to 32-bit Windows systems.
- Link: SourceForge
"The XL Engine is an engine that runs the 'XL Games', which are enhanced remakes/ports* of the classic games. Essentially they are remakes in the spirit of a port, or to put it another way, they emulate the original games and then provide optional enhanced features on top in order to improve playability and visuals. All these games will be able to use the 'Pure Renderer', which is a software renderer that can support the original 8 bit rendering and resolutions. Basically this means that you can play the games as they original looked and played or play in higher resolutions and color depths with a variety of enhancements. You choose how close to the original you want the games to be."--ModDB
The XL Engine, a reversed engineered port of the Jedi Engine used in Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws, was attempting Blood support since first announced on December 22, 2010. Pursuant to this, support for the original Shadow Warrior had also been prototyped. No news has been posted in years, and the website is no longer online.
- Links: Official Website, XL Engine Wiki Article, ModDB
Build Sharp
"BuildSharp is an application, currently in development, that can read from and utilise assets from Build games and be used to generate games via a scripting language. Developed in C# and using XNA (but planning to move to MonoGame when able) The primary focus is on the Build game Blood as it is currently one of the main three Build games (the others being Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior) that has not had it's source code released. This site is still quite new, so please check out our Facebook page for details of our development so far."--Cosmo
A project aiming to reverse engineer Blood onto the .NET Framework; first announced May 22, 2014 and last updated on June 13, 2015. Announced on Facebook as in "hibernation" as of August 14, 2017 and the webpages for it are no longer online.
- Links: Google Code (archive), Facebook, YouTube
- Threads: Transfusion Forums, Postmortem Forums, Duke4 Thread
Blood EX
"EX moves away from BUILD in terms of mechanics and basically reproduces the original game in a modernized engine, which means floating point math instead of fixed point and timing/speed/movement etc has to be scaled down to match the original game, so theres bound to be some minor flaws here and there. Though despite of that, EX will have a more dedicated focus on modding and customization... The way I handle it is anything regarding to damage values, health, etc is reverse engineered, because that's the most important things that needs to be done right. Anything regarding to player weapon swaying and object momentum speeds (such as how far you throw dynamite, or how much an explosion knocks you back) is entirely empirical, though I do rely on the assembly as a guide. AI behavior is 100% identical and taken directly from the disassembly. Though I do add a bit more to it so it can be easily customized by modders. The only thing I am concerned about is how the enemy aims at the player. Build engine games uses a fixed-point slope value while Kex uses atan2/angle pitch to determine the aim.... which results in the AI being a tad more accurate even while the player crouching. I have some ideas to emulate the fixed point slope behavior though. Everything else (renderer, collision, resource management, etc) is done from scratch."--Kaiser
A project that was "under tight wraps", started sometime after May 2015 by Samuel "Kaiser" Villarreal based on his prior Kex Engine ports. Superseded once it was announced that Kaiser was working on an official remaster of the game using this work as a base. This was developed by Night Dive Studios under license from Atari and was released under the final title of Blood: Fresh Supply on May 9, 2019 (although Kaiser himself has still referred to the project as Blood EX during its development).
"The premise of REing a game to a new engine is fundamentally flawed. I have a better idea but it's low priority right now."--Hendricks266
"BLEED is easily the most ambitious project I have ever undertaken, and I have to reinvent several wheels to make it happen."--Hendricks266
Mentioned in a number of Duke4 forum threads since at least 2014, Voidpoint programmer and Duke4 administrator Evan "Hendricks266" Ramos has had his own port for Blood in the works. Rather than straight up reverse engineering, it would be based on reading directly from the original BLOOD.EXE to avoid any legal issues, while utilizing EDuke32 as a base. It was meant to be part of a larger framework that will work with every Build engine game. He has been tight-lipped when it comes to further details, and stated on August 12, 2019 that NBlood has diminished its usefulness and would probably scale back the project's scope.
"My port will sidestep the legal issue entirely, while achieving 100% accuracy from the start--of any version of Blood you choose... Making modifications will be harder but still doable."--Hendricks266
"My [Blood port] will work with every BUILD game, so don't worry."--Hendricks266
"With NBlood around I haven't felt the need to think about it much and it's no longer as important a goal for me. If I work on it, it will be mostly as a research hobby because NBlood serves players' needs that much better."--Hendricks266
"In the absence of being a copyright puritan it's vastly more efficient in terms of development effort to render source code as output instead of engineering a runtime interface and also expecting to patch it to meet modern user needs such as high-precision mouse aiming. I would still like to write a decompilation tool as a complement to NY00123 and Nuke.YKT's efforts, similar to what I did for the 64 and TM CON files."--Hendricks266
"This is a modified version of DosBox v0.74 called BloodBox, that will serve as the platform for a reverse engineering effort of the classic first person shooter Blood. Specifically version 1.21 (The GOG version should work) After loading the main executable of the game, BloodBox injects calls to a special interrupt at the start of certain functions. These functions were then reverse engineered and implemented in BloodBox itself. In this way, instead of having to reverse engineer the entire game, only code useful for speeding up, bug fixing, modding and adding features will have to be considered."--Psycho87
A modified version of DosBox v0.74, that would serve as the platform for a reverse engineering effort of the classic first person shooter Blood (specifically version 1.21). Instead of having to reverse engineer the entire game, only code useful for speeding up, bug fixing, modding and adding features would have to be considered. Not updated upon since July 1, 2016.
- Links: Project Homepage on GitHub, Thread - Duke4
Attempted Recreations
See Also: List of Mods
Most of these take the form of total conversions for other games, sometimes with attempts to imitate the Blood game logic as well as its aesthetics. Others are better classified as original fangames. As with all fan made projects using copyrighted assets, there are questions as to their legality; Transfusion received a quitclaim license however. As opposed to source ports, our working definition here is anything that rips assets out of Blood and outright re-constitutes them on their own engine and systems, rather than working with the original files and formats, or simply uses its own original assets. Curiously, the official Fresh Supply is a bit of both, supporting the original maps and files but still being re-constituted onto the Kex Engine. Under our working definition however, we still count it as a source port.
- Transfusion - a project to recreate Blood under the true 3D DarkPlaces engine which is a modified Quake engine. Supports multi-player.
- Halls of Stonehenge - a total conversion for Wolfenstein 3D that borrows from Blood so heavily it is a de-facto demake. Single-player.
- Blood TC - a total conversion WAD file for Doom II: Hell on Earth with seven levels. Had its own story, but mostly recreated original levels. Single-player.
- ZBlood - modified and enhanced version of Blood TC which runs on the ZDoom engine as well as its derivatives. Single, cooperative, and multi-player.
- Continued in project forks such as ZBlood+, ZBloodX and most recently ZBloody Hell.
- Q3 Bloodbath - a project that converts Bloodbath maps from Blood and Blood II to Quake III Arena.
- Blood Reborn - an attempted recreation of Blood built using Game Maker 7. Single-player.
- Blood: Refilled - a mod for the Gamebryo based Fallout: New Vegas which recreates areas from the original game. Single-player.
- BloodCM - a Blood total conversion for EDuke32. Currently considered to be the most accurate recreation. Single-player only.
Blood Fan Remake
A project to recreate Blood atop of the Unity 3D engine first announced on April 23, 2017 by OrdinaryFpsFan789. Currently hoping to complete a full remake of E1M1: Cradle to Grave. A demo was released on May 22, 2017. D!rt, formerly of both Blood Evolution and Blood Source, is now listed as a modeller.
- Links: ModDB, Download, Transfusion Forums, YouTube channel, YouTube video, Another video, Reddit thread, Doomworld thread
Blood - Fan Revival
Another Unity game engine project, by Amateur Hour Games, which released a one level demo on August 11, 2018.
Links: IndieDB, ModDB, YouTube
Blood Evolution
A project to replicate Blood atop of Unreal Engine 4 by D!rt, an Irish 3D artist who worked on the 2013 remake of Rise of the Triad and the earlier Blood Source project. The first news post is from January 7, 2015. Once seemingly being merged into the Blood Fan Remake on Unity 3D, a video of the current state of the project was released on March 15, 2018.
- Links: ModDB, Transfusion Forums thread, Postmortem thread, Article, BloodLine article, Similar project
Blood Source
A project to port Blood to Valve Corporation's Source Engine by The Chosen; superseded by Blood Evolution. The first news post was released on February 24, 2009 and the last on May 27, 2012.
- Links: Website, ModDB, Postmortem thread (related thread), Transfusion Forums thread (related thread), Forum thread, Similar project, Similar proposal
Blood Reimagined
"My team and I are very proud to show you our take on Blood, a PC game from the 90's. Blood was a First Person Shooter, we imagined it as a twin-stick shooter centered around the use of TNT. We also completely redid the visuals with a semi-stylized art direction. We really wanted to capture the tone of the original game, which is over-the-top, satiric and packed with horror clichés. We also seized the opportunity to explore the destruction capabilities of Unreal 4!"--Announcement
A student project at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi arts department circa late 2015 through early 2016 "re-imagined" Blood as an isometric third-person shooter atop of Unreal Engine 4 focusing on twin-stick dynamite usage. Completed as part of a course, and no doubt also due to copyright concerns, it was never properly released beyond images, screamshots, and video such as on artist Gabriel Fleury's portfolio. It has also been called the Blood Fan Reboot.
"This was only a student project : a short playable sequence done in 7 weeks for an assignment. We never intended it as a full game. We won't release anything more than this video!"--Violane
Cradle to Grave
Similar to the later finished BloodCM, Cradle to Grave (or C2G) was another project to add Blood enemies, objects, and styles to EDuke32. It was worked on by Daedalus, Dimebog, Daedolon and others from The Postmortem going under the title of Bunch of Butchers. First announced on June 23, 2008, it received its last news post on March 23, 2011 and has remained dormant.
- Links: ModDB, Postmortem thread,3D Realms thread 1, 3D Realms thread 2
- Videos: Alpha video, Weapons test video, Physics test video
Bloodmod To Duke
An early attempt at doing a Blood total conversion for Duke Nukem 3D, announced on August 17, 2005 by TheChosenOne.
An attempt to succeed Transfusion using the X-Real engine derived from id Tech 3.
- Links: Google Code, Find Best Open Source
Dead Reckoning
A project by Justin "icecoldduke" Marshall, creator of WinBlood, attempted to port Blood assets onto id Tech 3, announced on June 2, 2009.


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