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Valentines Strategery
Valentines Day is next week, so it's a good idea to start strategizing now. I mean strategerizing. I mean stratavarigizing. I mean WHATEVER SPELLCHECK YOUR NOT THE BOSS OF ME.
[What you're not seeing - other than me yelling at my screen like a madwoman - is that spellcheck is telling me "strategizing" is spelled wrong but "your" is right. IRONIC, idn't it?)
I'm going to assume you haven't already proceeded with Operation Dump Week, so let's move on to plan C: Choosing the right gift.
First of all, remember that you can never go wrong with roses.
Unless they're these roses.
Or...SWEET MERCY, has Sleeping Beauty been on another rampage?!
Ok, maybe instead you should go with a single, long-stemmed...
....tape worm.
You know what, forget the roses. Teddy bears are where it's at:
Or, sure, decaying gophers could work too, I guess.
Here's a good option if your guy/gal is nicknamed "Poo Bear:"
A yellow-bellied Poo Bear? Nice one, bakers.
You could also just stick to the Valentine basics: you know, hearts, cupid arrows, that sort of thing.
That's it.
Sing it with me, Kathleen S., Lindsay R., Maria V., Suzanne, David G., Amanda S., & Caroline M.:
Shot through the heart!
And you're to blame!
You give loooove
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Wasn't I just telling ya'll about these folks. Dekalb Police be on some other shit. DKP the biggest gang in Metro Atlanta.
From AJC:
A DeKalb County Police Officer was charged Friday with rape and aggravated sodomy for an incident involving a person in custody.
Jeremy Reynolds, 23, was arrested as he reported for work Friday. DeKalb County Police spokesman Jason Gagnon said the incident occurred last September though he wouldn't reveal any more details about Reynolds' accuser.
Reynolds, a DeKalb cop for two years, also faces two counts of violating his oath of office. Gagnon said his former colleague has been placed on administrative leave pending termination.


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Gasparin sisters bond over biathlon in Sochi
Competing with two of her elder sisters, Selina and Elisa Gasparin, 20-year-old biathlete Aita Gasparin was full of emotion at the finish line of the women's biathlon 15km individual finals.
The eldest of the three, Selina, won silver, resulting in an outburst of emotions in the Gasparin family.
"I am so proud of my sister's achievements; she is the reason why Elisa and I followed in her footsteps. When we look at this moment 20 years down the line, we will remember with the fondest of memories," Aita said.
Selina dedicated her hardware to her sisters and her family.
"It is amazing to share this with them."
Biathlon is a family affair for the Gasparin sisters, who made history at the World Cup in 2012 in Austria by becoming the first three siblings to take part in a relay competition together.
Aita, who also participated in the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012, said that the Sochi Games were all the more memorable for her because of all the moments spent with her sisters during training and in the Olympic Village.
"I wasn't always this close to my sisters. My elder sister Selina left to pursue biathlon in Norway when I was six. But now we all travel together, train together. We are together every day, 24/7."
The sisters congratulated each other with a hug while cameras flashed to the delight of the proud parents at the Laura biathlon centre as the crowd cheered them on.
Silver medallist Selina backs her youngest sibling, saying that she has a bright future ahead.
"My sisters, they now have better conditions than I had when I started," she said. "This together means they will be better than me."
The Gasparins have helped develop the sport for Swiss women. They have built two shooting targets near their childhood home and also established three more ranges around Switzerland.
Elisa finished in 33rd place, while Aita claimed the 62nd spot in the final rankings.
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THURSDAY, March 24, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- To push the theoretical promise of stem cell research into the world of viable treatments, scientists have successfully fashioned adult stem cells into the kind of eye cells that fall victim to the onset of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD.
The work did not involve embryonic stem cells, which have been the subject of much debate in recent years, but rather so-called "human-induced pluripotent stem cells." The aim, according to the researchers, was to develop a therapeutic response to the death, caused by AMD, of retinal pigment epithelium, a cell layer that is critical to the health of the retina's vision cells.
But the researchers, from the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., stress that this was a preliminary move toward that goal, achieved solely in a laboratory setting. They say that numerous complex obstacles must be tackled before such newly created cells could be transplanted into diseased eyes.
"But we have shown that we are able to generate retinal cells from cells originally taken from a small amount of biopsied skin, that are then induced to become stem cells," noted Nady Golestaneh, an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology at Georgetown, and a co-author of a report on the research, published in the March 24 issue of Stem Cells. The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
"The retinal cells we have generated are really functional," Golestaneh explained. "That means they mimic the function of native retinal cells that play a key role in the eye for light absorption, nutrition and receptor function."
That's important "because, if these cells die, they can induce disease in the eye, one of which is age-related macular degeneration," she said. "Until now, there has not been any medication that can stop this disease. So basically these people lose their central vision, which we need to do daily tasks like reading, driving or anything that you need to do to be independent."
In the United States, AMD is a leading cause of vision loss among people 60 and older.
Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, an attending physician in the retina service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, described the research results as a "major step forward."
"But this is still very early work," Vavvas noted. "This has been achieved only in-vitro. It is in-lab work with cell cultures. So it's still a question how this will work in person because there are still hurdles that need to be overcome," he added.
"For example, all of this work so far needs viruses to function as cell carriers, and this creates problems," he explained. "So, people are now trying to see if they can replicate this kind of lab work without the use of viruses. That will have to happen before we can go to human trials. And we're not there yet," Vavvas said.
"With the current know-how and technology, we're probably talking a minimum of three to five years before we can even go to clinical trials," he pointed out.
The researchers used a line of adult stem cells that had been a relied-upon source for lab research. They said that the differentiation process that prodded the stem cell stock to develop into retinal cells equivalent to those damaged by AMD took many weeks of high-tech culturing, but ultimately the stem cell-generated retinal cells exhibited the same functional capacity and gene expression as naturally occurring retinal cells, the researchers reported.
However, they cautioned that the cell line they generated also appeared to display DNA chromosomal damage, aspects of over-expression that prompted growth inhibition and some structural abnormalities.
Though the generated cells were deemed "viable," the researchers said that more work would be needed to render them "safe" for treatment purposes.
"But when we talk about the potential use of stem cells, we shouldn't only think about transplantation," Golestaneh said. "They could also be used as an in-vitro model to study the disease itself in the lab -- their function, their impairment, gene mutations. That would help to generate targeted drugs to cure the disease."
That makes the cells "very valuable not only for transplantation but also to study the mechanism of the disease and advance drug development," Golestaneh said.
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Tiger Woods has won at Torrey Pines a record eight times, but this week wasn't his week.
SAN DIEGO – Starting on the back nine in the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open on Saturday and on the edge of contention, Tiger Woods arrived at the 18th tee at 2-under par and seven shots behind the leaders. He pumped a 300-yard drive into the middle of the fairway and was just 254 yards from the green at the par-5.
One solid shot and one or two putts later he would be back in the mix.
Thirty minutes later he was out of contention.
Ninety minutes later he was gone.
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In a shocking result in his season debut, the world's No. 1 player and defending champion made two double-bogeys in a row, then made five consecutive bogeys en route to a 7-over-par 79 that sent him eastward back to his Florida home.
Woods, who shot 72-71 to make the cut by one shot, finished at 6-over par -- with a 42 on his front nine in the third round -- and did not make the secondary cut Saturday. That was necessitated by too many players earning their way into the weekend.
It is the first time Woods made the cut but did not finish the tournament (an MDF in golf speak, which stands for made cut, did not finish). It does not count as a missed cut – Woods has missed just nine in his career.
Woods, who did not give any indication of injury, did not speak to reporters after the round. But one of his playing partners, Jhonattan Vegas, said the round "proved that Tiger is human."
"I don't know what was going through his head, but it was really different to see him play like that," Vegas said. "You don't expect to see that out of him. But it happens to the best. He's human just like the rest of us."
For the first time in Woods' career at Torrey Pines, the place he owns with seven wins in the Farmers Insurance Open and another in the 2008 U.S. Open, the course owned him. The 79 was his worst score since a third-round 79 in The Memorial last year. His worst score came when he shot 81 in the second round of the 2002 British Open.
He did not make a single birdie on the par-5s this week, going 0-for-12 and finishing 4-over par on them.
His 79 was just the fourth time he was over-par in 57 rounds at Torrey Pines during the Farmers Insurance Open.
And Sunday will be the first time he isn't playing in the final round in his 14 starts in the Farmers. Last year he won the event by four shots.
His demise started on the 18th (he played the back nine first), when he dumped his second shot into a water hazard and eventually made double-bogey 7. An errant approach on the next hole and a missed tap-in putt led to another double-bogey. The last time Woods made back-to-back double-bogeys was in the second round of the 2011 PGA Championship.
On his next hole, the par-4 second, he missed another short putt and made bogey. On the next hole he three-putted for another bogey.
He added bogeys on the fifth and sixth holes before finally halting his bogey train with a birdie on the seventh hole. His tipped his cap to the crowd and took a bow to acknowledge the end of his poor play.
He finished his round by making a 10-foot par putt, which enabled him to break 80.
Woods will play in next week's Omega Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates.


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The Big Lie
In this space last week, we expressed regret at the timidity of Beaumont Independent School District superintendent-in-waiting Dr. Timothy Chargois, who did not see fit to instruct his attorneys to remove an ill-gotten clause in his contract granting him an automatic pay raise despite the stated objections of virtually the entire BISD board. The board's outside counsel Tanner Hunt allowed the clause to somehow slip into the contract. Assuming Hunt wouldn't take such an action on his own, we have to wonder who could have ordered such a thing. Actually, there is only one likely suspect in this not-so-mysterious mystery, and the sooner Dr. Carrol "Butch" Thomas leaves the building for good, the better off BISD will be.
At that point, we hope Chargois will step up and overcome the failure to lead that has characterized his tentative tenure to date, perhaps understandable while the man who selected him for the job and doubled his salary is still sitting at the head of the table. But when Thomas finally leaves — with yet another bundle of cash bestowed on him by the very tame BISD board — it will be time for Chargois to step up.
A good place to start is the removal of those ridiculous signs proclaiming BISD is one of the Top 10 school districts in the country. No sane person believes this nonsense promulgated by Thomas' hand-picked minister of propaganda, Jessie Haynes. They still think if they tell a big lie often enough, eventually people will believe it
It is especially cruel for students at Austin Middle School, where a giant banner proclaims the lie daily for motorists passing by on the interstate. In fact, Austin Middle School's 2011 ranking was 1,720th out of 1,889 in Texas. BISD was 460th out of 953 districts in the state, but still the big lie of Thomas and Haynes persists, all attributed to some online "magazine" unknown to legitimate educators that delivered the ranking in exchange for access to BISD vendors who were pressured to buy advertising in a magazine you'll never see on a table in your dentist's waiting room because it only exists in the cyber realm – and in the propaganda machinations of the current BISD regime. Chargois must take a broom and sweep this trash out of the schools and declare a commitment to truth in advertising.
Another occasion of sin is the misinformation surrounding a retirement "Extravaganza" for Butch, which involves not a big lie but a series of smaller ones. They said it wasn't going to cost taxpayers a dime, but that was never going to be true and they knew it. Something called the Beaumont Area Alliance for Black Student Educators is now in the driver's seat, but any accounting of how much public money is being spent will not occur until far in the future – if ever.


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Just wanted to let y'all know that Saint Pauly posted a couple other reviews over at WTF!? (Watch the Film). Normally i don't talk much about his shit here, but this time he reviewed two pretty hardcore movies.
First up, he did The Human Centipede:
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Well, Crud.
As some of you know, Jen and I spent this past weekend at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, which was awesome. However, part of the "fun" of this particular convention is that you get to share your personal space with 50,000 other geeks, many of whom are sweating disease through their Superman tights or are too burdened with enormous fake weaponry to cover their mouths before coughing in your eyes.
Which is all to say that Jen is currently sick as a dog. (Although I've never seen a dog whine as much as Jen, so I can only assume she must be sicker.) (Actually, I've never seen a sick dog at all. Who comes up with these clichés, anyway?)
So, baby? Because I love you, I'm writing today's post. No, no... don't thank me. You just stay right over there and keep folding that laundry; I wouldn't want the wrinkles to set. Oh, and I could use a refill. No rush! Just when you're done crushing the ice.
Hey, Sweetie, this remind you of anything?
Sweetie? Where ya goin'? Jen?
Well, I guess I better wrap this up. So...
Here's to Jen's speedy recovery! And really ugly golf balls.
You're welcome, baby.
(Say, my throat's starting to feel a little scratchy. And now Jen's staring at me with a creepy grin on her face. Should I be worried?)
Thanks to Shelli K., for the... ah... ACHHOOO!!! Oh crap...


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A version of the Nook SimpleTouch is now equipped with front-lighting, Barnes & Noble announced Thursday. The new Nook SimpleTouch costs $40 more than the standard version with the light being the only difference; other features remain the same.
Built-in lighting has become the next logical step for e-ink readers. On April 6, TechCrunch found that Amazon had acquired patents for a front-lighting design in 2010. The company has offered Kindle cases with built in lighting for some time, but on this count Barnes & Noble has beaten Amazon to this feature.
The new Nook benefits from "Flex Lighting," a thin LED lighting film that sits like a skin on top of the e-ink display. The lighting relies on one or two LEDs, according to The E-Book Reader, and its brightness is adjustable. The standard battery life estimate for a Nook SimpleTouch is two months of one hour of reading per day. Barnes & Noble states the device will still last "over one month" if the reader is using the lighting.
Hilariously, Barnes & Noble is marketing the Nook SimpleTouch toward couples beleaguered by a specific situation—where one person wants to read later than the other ("End bedtime reading debate—when you want to read & your partner wants to sleep," reads the features list). We expect the Nook SimpleTouch will find a much wider audience, though the $139 price tag is a bit steep compared to the $99 regular Nook SimpleTouch. We'd point out that it's also only $60 less than the Kindle Fire; which reader you'd choose depends on your dedication to e-ink. The device is available for pre-orders today and will ship May 1.


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Finding a good Sichuan restaurant with an elegant, calm atmosphere can be difficult. Sichuan food, like most other Chinese food, still thrives in simple, rènao (noisy and lively) environments.
But for the past decade or so, Beijing has been a hotspot for sophisticated cuisine from the provinces. It's only naturally that city-dwellers are demanding great food with the attractive atmosphere to match.
Yu Xin Sichuan Dish, one of five locations in Beijing, is on the first floor of the Chang'an Grand Theatre, a block away from Beijing Railway Station. We walked into a high-ceilinged lobby and past the theater shop, selling what seemed like every variety of Chinese opera recordings in the country. During our 20 minute wait, we flipped through the menu and watched as satisfied diners strolled out of the restaurant.
Yu Xin specializes in pricey seafood specialties for formal banquets, but also cooks up great homestyle dishes. Other couples, like us, were led to small roomettes with beaded curtains. Being only two people, we skipped the pricier options and stuck to good ol' delicious homestyle Sichuan. "Ants climbing on trees", a vermicelli and ground pork dish, had a delicious soy and hot bean sauce. The braised straw mushrooms were delectably big, the size of Ping Pong balls. The only dud of the night was the fried chicken dumplings, a bit too oily for my taste.
The stand-out was huí guō ròu, sometimes translated as twice-cooked pork, but is actually cooked three times (braised, stir-fried, stir-fried again.) The thin slices of fatty pork mixed with red and green peppers still make my mouth water, even two days afterward as I write this post.
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The team-by-team draft needs continue with a franchise that is once again hitting the reset button, an exercise that happens far too frequently for the Cleveland Browns. This could be the last time the house gets cleaned out for a while, for better or worse. "Better" will be more likely if the team makes good use of its draft picks. Here's where they need to focus if they hope to avoid getting worse.
Cornerback: As the NFL skews even more sharply toward the pass, teams need quality cornerbacks. The Browns currently have only one in Joe Haden, and the team has shown no inclination to bring back 14-game starter Sheldon Brown. Whether it's Dee Milliner or Desmond Trufant with the sixth overall pick or others coming later, the Browns need to spend at least one pick on a cornerback.
Quarterback: With a new owner, new CEO, new G.M., and new coach, the Browns surely are interested in at least exploring the possibility of adding a new quarterback. Unless Geno Smith falls into their laps, the Browns would have to wait until round three at the earliest, given that their second-round pick was used last July on receiver Josh Gordon.
Receiver: Even with Gordon, a pair of failed second-round picks from 2009 (Mohamed Massaqoui and Brian Robiskie) have left the cupboard more bare than it should be. More depth and, perhaps more importantly, increased competition will help.
Linebacker: Outside linebacker is fine, but the inside linebacker position got weaker when the team recently cut Chris Gocong. So it would make sense to add at least one body at that area of the roster.
Safety: Usama Young is recently gone, too. Which means that the Browns need help at safety.
Tight end: Sure, there are five tight ends on the roster. But coach Rob Chudzinski has an affinity for the position. And none of the tight ends on the roster will be confused for Tony Gonzalez.
Kicker: The only kicker on the roster is Brandon Bogotay. Enough said.


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The government paints a damning picture of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in its dealings with Bernie Madoff. The $1.7 billion settlement revealed Tuesday portrays bank employees who were alternately too incompetent to notice, or too calculating to bother reporting, that Madoff was running a gigantic Ponzi scheme.
The J.P. Morgan banker assigned to helping Madoff Securities for years had no clue how much money was in the Madoff account, and signed off on compliance reports because he couldn't see a reason not to, according to the government's charges.
Others within J.P. Morgan and the predecessor banks later subsumed by J.P. Morgan started raising questions about Madoff beginning in the mid-1990s, and one senior executive joked via email that they should visit Madoff's accountant's office to make sure it wasn't a car wash. Employees then yanked out most of the bank's own money invested with Madoff-related funds and congratulated themselves after his arrest on the money they'd saved the bank.
The government charged J.P. Morgan with failing to put proper controls in place to prevent and detect money laundering, and cited the bank for not reporting suspicious activity in the Madoff funds to the U.S. government, even though it filed a similar report with U.K. authorities. J.P. Morgan was Madoff Securities' main bank by the time Madoff was arrested in December 2008, taking in deposits from Madoff's clients and making loans to Madoff.
When Madoff Securities collapsed, it claimed to have assets of about $65 billion but really had just $300 million, most of which was in the J.P. Morgan account. J.P. Morgan "admits and stipulates" to the allegations in the government's case. Here's more of the story, as detailed by the government:
The history between Madoff and J.P. Morgan is long. Employees at a J.P. Morgan predecessor first raised questions about Madoff in the mid-1990s, after the bank realized that Madoff was shuffling money among various accounts in order to secure bigger interest payments from J.P. Morgan.
In 1993, a senior investment officer at the bank met with Madoff at a client's request to try to understand how he was turning in such outsized returns. A memo from the meeting reports that the bank officer was "very comfortable" with Madoff and his "conservative, risk-averse investment approach," and a bank analyst said at the time that it was "quite possible" for top-notch investment advisers to turn in annual returns of 20% to 30%. Later, though, the investment officer wondered if Madoff "might also have been smoothing out the returns."
A banker within the investment bank's broker-dealer group was in charge, from the mid-'90s through his retirement in early 2008, with certifying that business complied "with relevant legal and regulatory-based policies." But the banker had a "limited and inaccurate understanding" of the account he was in charge of. For instance, he believed that the Madoff account that at one time held as much as $5.6 billion and took in client deposits had an average balance of tens of millions of dollars and was used for paying rent and other routine expenses.
J.P. Morgan's computerized anti-money-laundering system generated two alerts of potential suspicious activity, one in January 2007 and one in July 2008. The alerts were closed, with notes that the transactions did not appear out of the ordinary.
Over time the bank became more tied to Madoff.
In 2006, its "equity exotics" desk in London started selling investment products tied to the performance of "feeder funds," which were funds invested in Madoff Securities. The bank also invested its own money in Madoff feeder funds.
The investment products were popular, and by 2007 the traders on the equity-exotics desk wanted more. They told other bank officials that there was little market risk -- the main concern, they said, was possible "systemic fraud risk at the BLM [i.e., Bernard L. Madoff] level."
Madoff wouldn't cooperate with the bank's due-diligence efforts, though, and plans to expand the investment products were scuttled.
In the summer of 2007, the investment bank's chief risk officer had lunch with another J.P. Morgan executive, and while at that lunch the risk officer emailed other top executives, stating, "I am sitting at lunch with [the executive] who just told me that there is a well-known cloud over the head of Madoff and that his returns are speculated to be part of a ponzi scheme -- he said if we google the guy we can see the articles for ourselves -- Pls do that and let us know what you find."
He was referring to a 2001 Barron's story headlined, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Bernie Madoff is so secretive, he even asks his investors to keep mum." The other bankers didn't locate the story.
Later that summer, a J.P. Morgan employee analyzed the returns reported by a Madoff feeder fund versus the investments in S&P 500 stocks and Treasury bills that Madoff claimed to have made. The bank employee determined that the market's performance was "far away" from the returns that Madoff "allegedly made."
On Oct. 16, 2008, less than two months before Madoff's arrest, an analyst on the equity-exotics desk wrote a memo raising a series of red flags. It outlined J.P. Morgan's inability to validate Madoff's trading activity or even the custody of assets; questioned why Madoff had chosen a small, unknown accounting firm to audit him; and noted the feeder funds' "apparent fear of Madoff, where no one dares to ask any serious questions as long as the performance is good."
"It's almost a cult he seems to have fostered," the analyst wrote.
The head of due diligence then replied jokingly that a visit to Madoff's accountant's office was in order, to make sure it wasn't a car wash.
After that, the equity-exotics desk started pulling out the bank's money from Madoff-related feeder funds in earnest. The bank also sought to unwind or cancel certain investment products related to the funds.
The bank also filed a report with U.K. authorities saying that Madoff's returns "appear too good to be true -- meaning that [they] probably [are]." But the bank did not file a similar report with the U.S. government or relay these concerns to other anti-money-laundering agencies in the U.S. It also continued processing banking transactions for Madoff, whose money was dwindling as investors -- namely, the two feeder funds in which J.P. Morgan had invested -- pulled out.
After Madoff's arrest, the investment bank's chief risk officer noted how the bank had curbed its losses: "We actually look like we have some clue of what we're doing."
The banker who had joked that Madoff's accountant's office could be a car wash emailed the analyst who had written the memo questioning the cultishness of Madoff's feeder funds. "Can't say I'm surprised," the banker wrote, "can you?"
-- Christina Rexrode
Christina Rexrode covers banking for MarketWatch.
Follow her on Twitter @chris_rexrode.
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Physics Best Practices
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In this lesson we will be looking at some best practices for when using physics in a game and some evidence to demonstrate why they should be used.
Layers and Collision Matrix
All game objects, if not configured, are created on the Default layer where (by default) everything collides with everything. This is quite inefficient. Establish what should collide with what. For that you should define different Layers for each type of object. For each new layer, a new row and column is added on the Collision Matrix. This matrix is responsible for defining interactions between layers. By default, when adding a new layer, the Collision Matrix is set for that new layer to collide with every other existing one, so it's the developer's responsibility to access it and setup its interactions. By correctly setting layers and setting up your Collision Matrix, you will avoid unnecessary collisions and testing on collision listeners. For demonstration purposes I've created a simple demo where I instantiate 2000 objects (1000 red and 1000 green) inside a box container. Green objects should only interact with themselves and the container walls, the same with red objects. On one of the tests, all the instances belong to the Default layer and the interaction are done by string comparing the game objects tag on the collision listener. On another test, each object type is set on their own Layer, and I configure each layer's interaction through the collision matrix. No string testing is needed in this case since only the right collisions occur.
Figure 1 : Collision Matrix config
The image below is taken from the demo itself. It has a simple manager which counts the amount of collisions and automatically pauses after 5 seconds. It's quite impressive the amount of unnecessary extra collisions occurring when using a common layer.
Figure 2 : Collisions amount over 5 seconds
For more specific data I also captured profiler data on the physics engine.
Figure 3 : Common vs Separate Layers physics profiler data
There's quite a difference on the amount of CPU spent on physics, as we can see from the profiler data, from using a single layer ( avg ~27.7 ms ) to separate layers ( avg ~17.6ms ).
Raycasting is a very useful and powerful tool available on the physics engine. It allows us to fire a ray on a certain direction with a certain length and it will let us know if it hit something. This however, is an expensive operation; its performance is highly influenced by the ray's length and type of colliders on the scene.
Here are a couple of hints that can help on its usage.
- This one is obvious, but, use the least amount of rays that gets the job done.
- Don't extend the ray's length more than you need to. The greater the ray, the more objects need to be tested against it.
- Don't use use Raycasts inside a FixedUpdate() function, sometimes even inside an Update() may be an overkill.
- Beware the type of colliders you are using. Raycasting against a mesh collider is really expensive.
- A good solution is creating children with primitive colliders and try to approximate the meshes shape. All the children colliders under a parent Rigidbody behave as a compound collider.
- If in dire need of using mesh colliders, then at least make them convex.
- Be specific on what the ray should hit and always try to specify a layer mask on the raycast function.
- This is well explained on the official documentation but what you specify on the raycast function is not the layer id but a bitmask.
- So if you want a ray to hit an object which is on layer which id is 10, what you should specify is 1<<10 ( bit shifting '1' to the left 10x ) and not 10.
- If you want for the ray to hit everything except what is on layer 10 then simply use the bitwise complement operator (~) which reverses each bit on the the bitmask.
I've developed a simple demo where an object shoots rays which collide only with green boxes.
Figure 4 : Simple Raycast demo scene
From there I manipulate the number and length of the rays in order to get some profiler data to backup what I've written earlier. We can see from the graphics below the impact on performance that the number of rays and their length can have.
Figure 5 : Number of rays impact on performance
Figure 6 : Rays length impact on performance
Also for demonstration purposes, I decided to make it able to switch from a normal primitive collider into a mesh collider.
Figure 7 : Mesh Colliders scene ( 110 verts per collider )
Figure 8 : Primitive vs Mesh colliders physics profiler data
As you can see from the profile graph, raycasting against mesh colliders makes the physics engine do a bit more work per frame.
Physics 2D vs 3D
Choose what Physics engine is best for your project. If you are developing a 2D game or a 2.5D (3D game on a 2D plane), using the 3D Physics engine is an overkill. That extra dimension has unnecessary CPU costs for your project. You can check the performance differences between both engines on a previous article I wrote specifically on that subject:
The Rigidbody component is an essential component when adding physical interactions between objects. Even when working with colliders as triggers we need to add them to game objects for the OnTrigger events to work properly. Game objects which don't have a RigidBody component are considered static colliders. This is important to be aware of because it's extremely inefficient to attempt to move static colliders, as it forces the physics engine to recalculate the physical world all over again. Fortunately, the profiler will let you know if you are moving a static collider by adding a warning to the warning tab on the CPU Profiler. To better demonstrate the impact when moving a static collider, I removed the RigidBody of all the moving objects on the first demo I presented, and captured new profiler data on it.
Figure 9 : Moving static colliders warning
As you can see from the figure, a total amount of 2000 warnings are generated, one for each moving game object. Also the average amount of CPU spent on Physics increased from ~17.6ms to ~35.85ms, which is quite a bit. When moving a game object, it's imperative to add a RigidBody to it. If you want to control its movement directly, you simply need to mark it as kinematic on its rigid body properties.
Fixed Timestep
Tweak the Fixed Timestep value on the Time Manager, this directly impacts the FixedUpdate() and Physics update rate. By changing this value you can try to reach a good compromise between accuracy and CPU time spent on Physics.
All of the discussed topics are really easy to configure/implement and they will surely make a difference on your projects' performance as almost every game you'll develop will use the physics engine, even if it's only for collision detection.
Связанные обучающие материалы
- Raycasting (Урок)
- Colliders (Урок)


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According to the Tobacco Manufacturers Association consumer spending on tobacco products in 2007 amounted to £12.6 billion. This led to tax revenue amounting to £9.9 billion - £8.0 billion in excise duty plus £1.9 billion in VAT.
Then there's the aftermath - according to Medical News Today, the global smoking cessation aids market is to reach $2.6 billion By 2010.
Quite the lucrative industry all in all.
There are all manner of products to try and wean the addict from the evil weed, with varying degrees of success, but surprise surprise, they all require will power and rely on the person concerned having a genuine desire to give up.
It shouldn't really come as a surprise for this to be a booming industry. It is notoriously hard to give up, compounded by the fact that people know it is notoriously hard to give up and that provides its own psychological barriers. To be cynical for one second, a product which relies on will-power (regardless of whether it is Big Pharma or Big Quacka), will help to ensure repeat sales from people who won't give up giving up, and keep the tills ringing for many a moon.
This is happy home turf for homeopathy - a placebo remedy that depends largely on the psychology of the person, and not at all on the sugar pill. Failure is due to lack of will-power, success is due to homeopathy. FTW!
Despite it being illegal to sell homeopathic products in the UK with therapeutic indications (unless licenced by the Medicine and Healthcare product Regulatory Agency), it is possible to buy homeopathic products marketed at the smoker.
How about a homeopathic anti-smoking spray from Smoker Stop Shop?
Spray away your cravings (for tobacco smoke or chewing tobacco) with Smoke Control homeopathic oral spray. It helps with nervousness, anxiety and irritability when quitting. It can also help with cough or shortness of breath, difficult breathing and the sensation of weight on your chest from smoking.Or what about those homeopathic detox tablets and anti-craving lozenges further down the page
Drug Facts
Active Ingredients (per lozenge) Purpose
Caladium seguinum 4x, 12x, 30x Reduces tobacco cravings
Plantago major 4x Reduces tobacco cravings
Cinchona officinalis 6x, 12x, 30x Reduces tobacco cravings
Lobelia inflata 6x Reduces ill effects of nicotine
Nux vomica 6x, 12x, 30x Reduces tobacco cravings
Staphysagria 6x Reduces ill effects due to tobacco
Calcarea Phosphorica 12x Reduces tobacco cravings
Ignatia amara 12x Reduces nervous tension
Seems like pretty straightforward indications for homepathic products to me.
For the interested few, I'm led to believe that 4x dilution is equivalent to a 2c concentration. This means that 1 drop of the mother tincture has been diluted in 99 drops, hit against a magic board (succussed) and then a drop of that taken and diluted in another 99 drops and succussed again. This means that although the product is dilute, there is still some 'active' in the sugar pill. i.e it's not a homeopathic remedy in reality, it's only labelled that to pass US Food and Drug authority regulations. This crazy loophole which means that products containing 'actives' can be called homeopathic and thereby politely excuse themselves from the rigours of normal drug testing. This can mean that the untested pseudo-homeopathic products have massive unknown negative side effects and cause problems in the users - ZiCam is the most recent example. A pseudo-pseudoscience, if you will.
This can lead to all sorts of wacky products like homeopathic nicotine water being sold (I'm sure I can get hold of some bong-water and sell that?) - but only in US, right? Our strict laws wouldn't allow such quackery to be sold in UK?
As ever there are loopholes. Just because a site has got a '.co.uk' domain name doesn't mean it comes under UK law. As I found when I contacted my MP about a quack arthritis product called Artrosilium and put a written question to the Department of Health, the UK's position is that
The importation of medicines by individuals for their own personal use or for use by a family member is exempt from regulatory controls, and this includes purchases from the internet.Dawn Primarolo signed the letter. Trading Standards have recently been warning people about false confidence in '.co.uk' websites with consumer goods - surely untested imported medicines with their uncontrolled, unregulated ingredients should be given higher priority than a few knocked-off hair-straighteners?
So who runs the Smoker Stop Shop (www.smokerstopshop.co.uk)? That is one Penelope Walford, who runs a private clinic in Harley Street and refers to herself as a 'smoking cessation specialist' using hypnotherapy as her main tool.
[A Cochrane Review asking "Does hypnotherapy help people who are trying to stop smoking" concluded that
We have not shown that hypnotherapy has a greater effect on six month quit rates than other interventions or no treatment.So much for that, then. No doubt she has many positive testamonials - most placebo treatments do, and present them in place of real evidence]
So how can Penelope Walford sell homeopathic products in the UK with therapeutic indications, which is against the law? I've asked MHRA the same question - I'll let you know the response.
The idea that homeopathy can do something for smokers to help them kick the habit is quite widespread. Other UK-based companies that seem to be up against the law are The Body and Mind shop and i-Quit, with the media, helpful as ever, to give a hand to evidence-free nonsense. Yet surprisingly, few of them seem to require the major magic ingredient that known to give results - willpower.
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Too often, web entrepreneurs today think of search as a one-way business, focusing solely on how to make money off of the search engines without understanding how search engines also need to make money in order to survive and thrive.
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies 2003 Conference, August 18-21, San Jose, CA.
Those attending the session, "Search Economics, Search Monetization Strategies," at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose this past August, heard representatives from Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, and LookSmart give their side of the story. Each one spoke on how their company makes money from search, the economics and business of search in general, along with the factors for their own growth and monetization.
"From the point of view on Wall Street, search has been a great source of revenues and profit," said moderator Safa Rashtchy, Senior Research Analyst for U.S Bancorp Piper Jaffray. All four companies on the panel concurred, each reporting huge gains from the previous year.
"We are increasingly seeing companies — that before were only doing brand types of advertising — embrace search marketing as a good venue for them to get users and get business as well," observed Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations for Google.
Some of the core components of a search engine's monetization approach include the following:
- Relevancy before monetization. For some portals, search is their core business. For others, like Yahoo or AOL, it is part of a much broader business. To achieve maximum benefit out of any monetization strategy, a search engine company must keep the priority on relevancy (and diversity) of results; an updated, user-friendly interface; ever-increasing inventory; and improving the search tool's understanding of the audience's query type.
- Provide unique search technologies. A search engine has to consider what differentiates its search product from others, and whether or not it clearly provides a perceived value to both search users and advertisers.One of AskJeeves' challenges was how to differentiate itself from the most well-know search engine – Google – by doing something unique with its own search product that people find appealing. "What differentiates us is that our audience is used to giving broader type queries," said Jim Diaz, SVP of Sales and Business Development for AskJeeves. "A substantial majority of people that come to our site will ask more than three words in a typical keyword query. That's substantially higher – even off the charts – compared to most search engines, where you typically get one or two queries.""We're not trying to out-Google Google," added Diaz. "Unless your product is different and offers something unique to the user, it's going to be very difficult to make a name for yourself and stick around in the long-term."
- Encourage commercial search. Commercial search accounts for 30% of all search queries, according to Rashtchy's own research. However, the search engines find these queries to be just as complex as their non-commercial counterparts. "Search users articulate wide range of commercial needs," said Tim Cadogan, VP of Search for Yahoo Search. "That involves showing a decent quantity of relevant results, not just one or a couple. And for a significant portion of queries, users are expressing needs that businesses satisfy best."
- Present a diversity of vendors, partners, products, and sales channels. All search engine companies have created paid inclusion or paid placement programs to obtain broader reach for more targeted advertising audiences.
- Offer affordable or value-oriented pricing models. While search engines make no bones about going after the big fish, monetization strategies rely heavily on expanding opportunities for the majority of businesses. "We also have the opportunity for small-to-medium advertisers to sign up and get ads on their pages," stated Sandberg. "We're already seeing people who had pages on the Web – that they were not able to monetize before – are now able to monetize and target for the first time."
- Motivate advertisers to improve content and conversions. "There are always a lot more advertisers that want to show up for a commercial query than there is space available," said Tony Mamone, Vice President of Small Business Services for LookSmart. "By charging for that content, you're motivating that advertiser to improve on their own site. They're paying for that click, for the leads that are coming through. They're not going to want all-you-can-eat; they're going to want all that's relevant. It also calls out the bottom performers over time. And for those who request help, you can provide them with a team to assist with optimizing their content and making sure it is relevant and more productive."
- Globalize your ad market. Obtain a broader reach geographically and provide localized services for each region. "More than half of Google's 200 million searches each day are done internationally, outside of the US and Canada," said Sandberg. "Similarly, our advertising program has also gone global. At Google, you can target your ads for any country in the world. You can also pick your keywords in any language in the world. We even run our international advertising program with localized customer support in eleven languages and we take payment in six currencies."
- Keep operational expenses cost effective. Infrastructure to carry for so much search traffic can be very costly if not carefully supervised. Search engine companies must regular monitor peak usage times on their Web servers; improve on their software efficiency with Web servers; and limit the size and complexity of database sizes and complexity of the search nodes.
While many individual performance models were described, paid inclusion was a particular issue of contention between among audience members and the panelists. The search engines touted paid inclusion being one of the most effective monetization strategies that successfully delivers more relevant results. Yet some in the audience expressed concerns on how it might be affecting the relevancy of search results. "How can search results be relevant as Google's results if paid inclusion is such as important part of each of your programs?" one audience member asked.
"We believe paid inclusion actually helps us with commercial relevance," responded LookSmart's Mamone. "The best set of results sometimes is actually a set of results is from advertisers. Advertisers can equate to relevance for commercial query for the user."
Mamone also argued for paid inclusion having a self-regulating effect that creates more responsible advertisers. "If the listing does not lead to a conversion for the advertiser, then the advertiser will get out of that search result on their own. Whereas by contrast, if you had used techniques to show up through non-commercial areas (and not paying for volume), it is an 'all-you-can-eat' scenario that involves no responsibility. Through the paid inclusion model, the advertiser does have a responsibility to make sure the results are working for them."
Mamone addressed the flip side to that argument: knowing when a query is commercial and when the query is non-commercial. "It is something we've spent a lot of R&D around. When we have paid results, we want to make sure they only show up under paid queries. It is something we've gotten substantially better at over time in the last three years, but there's still progress to be made there."
"For Yahoo, we find paid inclusion helps drive quality of search results up," stated Cadogan. "Sites that have deep content, not normally accessed by crawlers, can have their information presented to the users."
Yahoo differed with LookSmart's point on commercial queries, stating that paid inclusion URLs don't go through any different relevancy process. "They are treated exactly the same way, as all the other URLs," replied Cadogan. "We're not worried about if a link is commercial or non-commercial, just as long as it is relevant. We trust the algorithim, which treats everything the same way and doesn't know if it's paid or not. We really view it as a benefit, rather than something we have to differentiate from."
When asked of Yahoo's intention to implement Inktomi's paid inclusion program on Yahoo, Cadogan remarked that it hasn't happened yet nor will it happen in the immediate future. "But we are looking at plans on when to do it," he said.
Google was the sole company on the panel that has no paid inclusion program, and reiterated that the company has no plans or intentions of incorporating one. "We believe the most relevant results come from naturally crawling the Web," said Google's Sandberg. "We do want to crawl the deep content and the dynamic pages, and we believe that by continually improving on Google's span and reach of our crawl, as well as how often we crawl, we can continue to provide relevant results for our users."
Cadogan offered some parting words for the audience on how major search engines view their monetization strategy as to the benefit of their advertisers, partners and users. "A search engine company's focus on the best user search experience first; the monetization strategy is not something that goes along side of the user experience. It is part of the user experience."
Grant Crowell is the CEO and Creative Director at Grantastic Designs, Inc., founded in 1993 in Honolulu. He has 15 combined years of experience in the fields of print and online design, newspaper journalism, public relations, and publications.
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The Ubuntu wiki for the Aspire One is being updated. It is here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne/Home
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This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Acer Aspire One laptop. We have been using it for our Driveways Nottingham with some good success.
This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Acer Aspire One. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Acer Aspire One page on LapWik.
If you would like to edit this page please first view our Editing Guidelines.
For full specifications see the Acer Aspire One specifications page.
|Acer Aspire One
|Intel Atom 1.6Ghz
|8.9" WSVGA Widescreen
|512MB or 1GB
|8GB Flash or 120GB HDD
|Optical Drive
|Intel GME945
|Ethernet, Acer InviLink 802.11bg
|Optical Drive
|Not Tested
|Card Reader
|Did not test the left card reader
Tested running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 on the 150 model with built in Hard drive and 3G.
Installing Netbook remix using USB image on USB memory stick, everything worked out of the box with no configuration needed.
The Ubuntu wiki for the Aspire One is being updated. It is here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne/Home
Does anyone have installed 9.04 on a AAO 751h?
I bought recently this thing in France (with a French version of MSxP, but want of course Ubuntu on it, at least in dual boot in order to get rid of this windows nonsense asap…
hints and tips are highly welcome
I have a ZG5 (3G/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA) running Debian Linux. 3G is working excelent!
See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne, http://www.pharscape.org/hso.html and http://www.pharscape.org/HSOconnect.html
My machine is the AOA 150-1777. It features a 160GB SATA HDD and comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home pre-installed. It featured a 3-cell battery. I am running the machine in a dual-boot configuration with XP and Linux. I gave over 50GB to the Linux install and set it up with "/", "/home" and swap partitions.
I have been running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 since Alpha 6. It is now on the full release version. At Alpha 6, things were kind of rocky, but that seemed to pretty well smooth out by the time the Release Candidate came out, and it runs smoothly on the public release.
At present I am running the public release version (through upgrade from Alpha 6) of Netbook Remix. Everything seems to work except the second card slot (the multi reader on the right side). Battery life seems a bit shorter than I had hoped for. I purchased an aftermarket 9-cell battery (rated 7200mAh) to help alleviate the two hour or so run times and now get about six hours or more on a charge. The WiFi LED works. Upon resume from suspend, a Nautilus Window opens showing the contents of my 8GB SDHC card. This behavior is the same as I had previously experienced running many different distributions on my earlier Asus Eee. As I don't have anything larger 8GB, I have not tried a 16GB or bigger SD. I have used cards of anywhere from 512MB and above without issue. The 8GB card I mostly use is by Transcend.
I am quite happy with Linux on this machine. For the record, I have used Linux, off and on, since 1998, and have been using it full time since 2006. In addition to the Aspire One, I currently run Ubuntu Intrepid as the sole OS on my IBM ThinkPad X40. Previous to the Aspire One, I ran numerous distributions on my old Asus Eee PC 4G Surf (701), trying both Eee-specific Linux distros, and variants of Ubuntu using the Array dot org kernel. I have an Acer Aspire 5735Z (5735-4624) that dual boots Vista and Windows 7 Beta. I've run Ubuntu Intrepid on this live, and now that Win 7 will be going into nag mode, I will probably convert it too to dual boot with Linux.
Please look at this distro that is specially designed for Acer Aspire netbooks (for all models) with preconfigured drivers etc. http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
Just realized that that was a little vague.
Compile in PATA Intel PIIX drivers.
Do not compile in IDE Intel PIIX drivers or IDE-generic.
I put my config up at:
I'm still installing and tweaking so you can probably improve on that config, but it get's the ATA driver right (on WinXP model with the 120gb HDD)
Experience with AAO
I'm currently typing this on the AAO running Gentoo Linux. Everything works well, with the exception of 3D Acceleration on the 945GM chipset, and the lights on the wifi switch with the 2.6.27 ath5k driver. I've read that 3D accel is possible, and that the wifi lights work fine with the madwifi-ng driver.
Perfomance is very nice.
Important gotcha that took me a while to figure out. The intel PIIX chipset can operate in several modes, IDE compatability, SATA and PATA. It is important that the SCSI-DISK subsystem and the PATA Intel drivers are compiled into the kernel, and not the Intel PIIX ones. If both drivers load, they will fail and you can fall back to IDE-generic drivers, which run in non-dma mode and will make the system extremely slow and unresponsive under heavy disk activity. I've experienced this in my own kernels as well as using live cd's that autoprobe and load modules.
Check your dmesg and be sure you are not falling back to ide-generic drivers. This problem is easy to fix, but since compiling a kernel under ide-generic mode on the AAO can take some considerable time, it took me a while to figure out.
I highly reccomend the machine, good luck to everyone. There's a bunch of great information out there regarding this machine.


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Lunch Box: Make-Ahead Turmeric Mushroom Stir-Fry with Herbs and Vermicelli
After traveling through Southeast Asia last month, the memory that's stayed with me the most, I suppose neck-and-neck with Angkor Wat, is cha ca la vong. I know I'm late to the party, and both the Vietnamese fried fish dish and the famous Hanoi restaurant of the same name (which only serves, you guessed it, cha ca la vong) have been well documented, but I was blown away nonetheless. With turmeric, fish sauce, and a plate of fresh herbs as large as my head, something very simple was transformed into something that became more rewarding with every bite.
Vietnamese cuisine aims to hit every note on your palate, and I humbly tried to borrow a bit of that here with turmeric, dill, scallions, garlic, and lime. The most glaring difference being the absence of the fish. Fried fish does not a lunchbox item make, so I substituted with shitake mushrooms instead and was not disappointed. Well...to be home, yes. But to recreate a little bit of my favorite food memory? Not at all.
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This bra does a nice "lift and separate." The plunging neckline looks great for me, which isn't usually a flattering style on my figure. I can't wear regular bras, only sports bras, and this is comfortable, supportive, AND looks great! I'm excited to wear some favorite dresses and not worry about my bra and the neckline. Full review
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The Cassandra Sports bra is built for real women who want to be active without hiding or falsely advertising anything. Mainly this bra is great for climbing because of the crossed back straps and allowance for large shoulder muscles (some bras cut into the front of the shoulder). For the first 15 years of climbing, I bought any cheap sports bra that was under $10 at Target or a consignment shop. I finally doled out $25 (with a store discount) for a real sports bra after hearing so many recommendations. Full review
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Great comfort for all day wear. I've long been a fan of Isis bras, but the Active Bra which I reviewed earlier, has a different fit then a lot of their bras. In this bra, since I thought I was a Large in the Active Bra, I order a large in this bra. I am normally a 36B, but in some Isis bras of the past a medium has been too tight around or the straps are too short for my long torso. In this bra a large is true to the sizing chart on Isis. It is just hard to know what the fit of this brand is… Full review
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Great quality and wicking, but I'm between sizes. The quality and venting features of the fabric impress me, but the fit isn't quite right for me. I'm a 36" and I bought this bra in a medium before and the circumference was too tight, and the straps a bit too short. If a bra is too tight my back starts to get achey, so I gave the medium away. I got it in a Large and I find that it is much more comfortable, but as I wear it, it starts to ride up in the middle of the back, indicating it is too… Full review
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So comfortable, packs small and light, dries fast, pricey but worth it. Perfect for low impact summer or winter sports. Looks great too. Love this bra. Merino wool doesn't itch at all even on my super sensitive skin (hint wash in"Soak" from yarn stores). Better than a light cotton bra for backpacking or cross-country skiing because of breathability and quick drying. Feels like you're putting on a hug! Totally worth what I thought was a high price but I've paid more for other sports bras that keep… Full review
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Defense and stout pitching carry the Brockton Rox past the North Shore Navigators, 5-0, Sunday night in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
BROCKTON – After a pair of marathon losses to start the weekend, the Brockton Rox took care of business Sunday night in regulation time.
Defense and the pitching of All-Star Simon Mathews, Christian Campbell and Zack Perry carried the Rox to a 5-0 victory over the North Shore Navigators.
The Rox started the post Futures Collegiate Baseball League All-Star break with a pair of overtime losses. They lost in 13 innings on Friday night to the Martha's Vineyard Sharks, 5-4, and lost in 17 innings to the Worcester Bravehearts, 4-3, on Saturday evening.
''It will be nice for the players to get a chance to sleep in for the first time in a while,'' said Rox manager Bryan Stark, who will be an assistant coach at Harvard University next season. ''The tough part is that the last three losses have been difficult mentally.
''You put so much into it and you come up short. It is tough to see because our players have given a lot all summer.''
The Rox defense turned two double plays in the first three innings – catcher Jonathan Salcedo gunned down a North Shore runner on a ball that bounced away from him and Jacob Marotta of Bridgewater made a diving stop and threw out Justin Peluso. It made Mathews' job easier as the right-hander from Georgetown pitched six shutout innings and scattered five hits, including three infield slow rollers.
Campbell was overpowering for two innings as he struck out the side in the eighth inning and Perry pitched a perfect ninth inning. The three pitchers did not allow a hit for the last six innings and only three North Shore hitters reached base.
''Our defense carried us early in the game,'' said Stark. ''I think for the first three innings of this game both coaches were ready to snap just the way the game was going.
''Our guys slowly got it going and winning the game was huge.''
The offense had only two hits for the first five innings, but still managed to score two runs. A porous defense and poor pitching made the Rox offensive job easier. The Navigators committed four errors and walked seven in the first five innings.
Brockton's Tom Marcinczyk (two hits) scored on a bases-loaded walk to Marotta in the fourth inning and Brice Myers scored on a Tom Stoffel single in the fifth inning.
The Rox broke the game open in the seventh inning. Marcinczyk, Stoffel (two hits) and Apolinar De La Cruz started the seventh with three straight doubles.
Zach Littman of Abington, with his second hit of the game, delivered De La Cruz with the third run of the inning to give the Rox a 5-0 lead.


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The name of our company comes from an urban legend investigated by the Mythbusters show. The story goes that in 1930's New Zealand, farmers pants started spontaneously exploding after working with common chemicals such as fertilizers.
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We'd rather not place too many stipulations on the crafting of our logo, we want to see creativity. That said, we want a brand with "stickiness" and appeal, something fun and fearless. Ideas we've kicked around include something retro or campy, possible using the pixel art style. You are in no way required to work within those parameters, we would prefer that you impressed us with your originality and design-fu.
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- ATP Tour
Djokovic: 2012 my best season ever
Novak Djokovic believes his achievements in 2012 rank higher than his 2011 season, when he first became world No. 1 and landed three grand slams.
Djokovic beat Roger Federer at the O2 Arena on Monday night to cap his second season at the summit of the world rankings with the ATP World Tour Finals title, a victory he dedicated to his father Srdjan, who is reportedly suffering from an acute respiratory illness.
And despite finishing the season with just one grand slam title to his name, Djokovic rates his 2012 campaign above his stellar exploits the previous year.
"I actually feel even more satisfied right now than last year, even though I had an incredible 2011," Djokovic said. " I feel this year, considering the circumstances that I had to face on and off the court, expectations, all these things, I believe that this year has been even more successful for me."
Djokovic also reached the finals of the French Open, for the first time, and the US Open, where he was defeated by Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray respectively.
After carrying the Serbian flag at the London Olympics 2012, he went on to reach the semi-finals, where he lost to Murray before being denied a bronze medal by Juan Martin del Potro.
The Belgrade native saw Federer overhaul him at the top of the ATP rankings after his Wimbledon triumph, but regained the ranking after the Paris Masters. In all he played 87 matches this season, losing just 12.
"It's been a very long year, a very long two years, but very successful two years. I didn't really know how I will follow up after incredible 2011, but I believed that I have to use the time where I'm playing the best tennis of my life and I'm winning grand slams, finally realise what I need to do to win the major tournaments.
"This was my time, my moment, and I needed to step in and really believe in my ability. So throughout the whole season I've had lots of success and had some disappointing losses at big events, in a couple major finals.
"But, you know, all in all, it was a fantastic year, where I've had to face a lot of difficulties off the court as well. You know, especially coming into this tournament, having my father fighting his own fight for health gave me extra strength that I wanted to play for him in a way.
"That's one of the reasons I really gave it all every match, especially tonight. This was a title for him."


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Joe Fafard
Canadian, b. 1942
Manitoba, 1988
33 x 67 x 20 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from The Winnipeg Foundation and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Sculpture, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
Joe Fafard's sculptures are made in response to experiencing real life. His technique reflects folk art traditions, deliberately rejecting the sophisticated concerns of high art. In this work the artist explores the interrelationship of people and place by naming a figurative sculpture after a Canadian province. Manitoba is represented by an Aboriginal man, symbolizing the long history of Aboriginal people in the Prairie region and their ancient connection to the land. In the Cree and Ojibwa languages, Manitoba means "strait of the spirit." By using a human figure to symbolize a territory, Fafard reminds us that landscape is as much about the people who inhabit it as the lakes and vegetation that define it.
Gallery Hours
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- Saturday 11am-5pm
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And Now, MORE Weird Wedding Cakes
Aw, you know you love it.
Monica G. thinks this cake from the Wilton website looks like it's covered with rocks. I, however, say it looks like a pottery project. Covered in rocks.
And here we have...
If that isn't fishy enough for you, though, there's always this option:
Laura M. tells me this next one is a "new take on a croquembouche gone awry". Now, I have no idea what a "croquembouche" is, but from looking at the photo...
I'm going to guess it's French for "albino booby tower".
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In recent years, travel writers pretty much have laid off of reporting two "insider" strategies for cutting airfare costs, mainly because those strategies had lost much of their usefulness. Of course, they also violate airline rules. Despite the competitive influence of Southwest and the other low-fare airlines, sometimes they can still be useful.
These days, "tricky" ticket strategies mostly are limited to trips when you need a one-way ticket to or from some big airline's fortress hub. On routes where competition is lacking or weak, the legacy lines like to stick it to business travelers by charging very high one-way prices for nonstop flights. You have three ways to avoid the gouge — one that's OK with the airlines, and two that aren't.
Here's an example from a friend who recently did it. He wanted to fly from Toronto to Charlotte. The fare was $351. However, the fare from Toronto to Orlando, Fla., with a connection at Charlotte was $191. So he bought the Orlando ticket, didn't take the connecting flight from Charlotte, and pocketed an extra $160.
Obviously, this strategy has three drawbacks: First, you can't check any bags — airlines will not check bags to a connecting hub on a through ticket. Second, you may have to do a lot of checking to find the right "beyond" spoke. Third, it violates airline rules. In theory, an airline can detect this and bill you for the difference, but I haven't heard of any recent enforcement.
Back when most airlines required a Saturday-night stay on their least expensive tickets, you could use this ploy to avoid the much higher no-Saturday fares: Just buy round-trips starting at each end of the trip and throw away the returns. Repeat travelers could even schedule those return tickets for second round-trips within a 30-day period. Unlike the hidden city trick, this ploy works in either direction and allows you to check baggage. But it, too, violates airline rules.
My research also uncovered an unrelated but fascinating additional tidbit. Between Phoenix and Salt Lake City, Delta posted one-way fares, in both directions, of $139, or $278 for two separate tickets. But the round-trip posted at $328. Go figure.
Opportunities to apply hidden-city and throwaway strategies are a lot more rare than in earlier years, but you can still find them. Only you can decide whether violating airline rules represents an ethical barrier.
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text: Distribution Centres - Boots Plc, UK Sign up for our newsletter here!!! When the Boots Group, UK's leading health and beauty retailer, decided to consolidate its retail supply chain and automate its central warehouses, it identified that an alternative solution was required to convert an existing 5,000 square metre section of warehouse space to handle high volume top selling lines. Chosen by Boots on a competitive tender, Constructor, has unequivocally fulfilled its brief by creating the ultimate fast pick operation for Boots top 100 lines. "We short listed a number of suppliers but chose Constructor for their competitive pricing, design and ability to provide us with a complete turnkey operation", said Dominic Reilly, Project Manager at Boots Group. "They had an excellent knowledge of what was required and supported us throughout the project." The new facility is open six days a week handling a wide range of goods varying from pallets of nappies to crisps and soft drinks. Goods are put into roll-containers (rocos), with around 2000 rocos being used each day. Because of a need for a very fast picking operation, Constructor has created a technically advanced facility made up of push back racking for storage and pallet live pick lanes located within a pick tunnel. This facility is fully integrated into a new automated complex that supplies the remaining 75% of average daily volume. Solution:To kick off the project, Constructor's design team collaborated with Boots in creating a solution for the warehouse that maximised the space available. This comprised of a pick tunnel located below single storey push back storage with pallet live lanes servicing the tunnel. With the design completed and agreed by Boots, work began in turning the building into a fully functional warehouse facility with special emphasis placed on health and safety. Part of the building was stripped and then smoke-curtains, lighting, sprinklers, smoke detectors, CCTV cameras and in-rack sprinklers installed. With pallets weighing anything from 100kg to 1250kg it was necessary for Constructor to ensure that the racking system could accommodate any pallet weight within this range. Capacities:The main racking system has been designed to accommodate 1265 pallets and comprises of pallet live and a push back operation. The overall height of the system is six metres with the pick tunnel having an overall height of 2840mm clear. A single level of full-width roller push back lanes, three or four pallets deep, services the ground floor pallet live system with product for the picking operation. Print Pdf Add


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Pino is a mustard brown monster who learns to share and play with others through the Sesame Street song "Don't Be a Bully". At the start of the sketch, Pino barges in on three monsters who are playing peacefully in the playground, and takes their ball. When Narf asks for the ball back, Pino refuses, shouting, "ME ball!"
Narf calls Pino a bully, which confuses him -- he doesn't know what bully means. Narf explains in song, which inspires Pino to mend his ways and become a friendly monster.
See also
- Pino, the giant blue bird star of Sesamstraat
- Piño, another monster on Sesame Street
- Pino (disambiguation)
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