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The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this casea certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine, and a bizarre attack on a windmill only intensify Chee's fears. A dark and very ill wind is blowing through the Southwestern desert, a gale driven by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed. And it will sweep away everything unless Chee can somehow change the weather.
About the Author
Tony Hillerman was the former president of the Mystery Writers of America and received its Edgar® and Grand Master awards. His other honors include the Center for the American Indians Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribes Special Friend Award. He lived with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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"Background, characters, story—all first rate."
-Amarillo Texas News
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"Tony Hillerman continues to teach and delight."
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"Hillerman's best book in an already strong series."
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"Hillerman is first-rate ....Fresh, original, and highly suspenseful."
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The United Methodist Church of Norris City will host their Fall Revival. The three-day event will feature Rev. Matt Henson, grandson of the late Rev. Nile Stone, as the evangelist speaker.
The revival begins with the regular morning worship service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 followed by an evening service at 6 p.m.
The Fall Revival continues Monday, Oct. 15 with a service at 6 p.m. and concludes Tuesday, Oct 16 with a 6:30 p.m. service.
Everyone is welcome to attend. A special offering will be taken at all services to support Rev. Henson's Living the Adventure Ministries.
The United Methodist Church is located at 108 South Forrest Street in Norris City.
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Tom Ford's Translucent Finishing Powder is a good - though expensive - option for people looking for a pressed powder with an invisible application to complete a polished look.
When you feel this powder in its compact, you'll immediately notice its satiny-smooth texture. It blends into skin effortlessly, creating a softening effect when worn without foundation; when applied over foundation, it sets makeup without appearing chalky. This powder doesn't highlight fine lines or pores, and helps control oil throughout the day. It's also fragrance-free!
There are only two drawbacks that keep this powder from getting our highest rating: It can feel a bit drying on those with parched skin, and it is very powdery, which means it creates a bit of a mess when you try to pick some up on your brush, so avoid wearing dark clothing when you're putting this one on! Other than that, this is a good option, although you absolutely don't have to spend this much for a powder, as there are better ones than this for a fraction of the price.
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Strengths: Fantastic cream lipstick; beautiful eyeshadow palettes; a great brow sculpting product; a unique lip lacquer product; the majority of products are fragrance-free or contain minimal fragrance.
Weaknesses: An eye pencil that's overpriced for its quality; lackluster yet super-pricey foundations, including one with sunscreen that doesn't provide sufficient UVA protection; a mediocre eyelining product; an expensive and ineffective highlighting pen.
Summary: The dashing, debonair Tom Ford is one of the world's hottest fashion designers, famous and sought-after for his controversial photo shoots (featuring models showing more skin than clothes) and his classic, yet edgy, fashion designs. Ford came to prominence in the mid-1990s, when he became Creative Director at Gucci's fashion house. He is credited with bringing glamour back to fashion at a time when grunge and heroin chic looks were en vogue, and he helped take the then-failing Gucci from the brink of bankruptcy to a multi-billion-dollar brand.
A few years after Ford joined Gucci, brand was acquired by rival fashion house Yves Saint-Laurent. Ford became Creative Director there as well. Finally, in 2006, Ford launched his own fashion line of menswear, eyewear, fragrances, and accessories. Five years later, he followed in the footsteps of fellow high-fashion houses Armani and Chanel by launching his own line of color cosmetics.
Housed in sleek black packaging with "Tom Ford" stamped in prominent gold-embossed lettering, the makeup certainly looks luxurious, and the pricing is definitely in the haute couture range - the foundations cost $78! However, like many other fashion designer makeup lines, what's inside Tom Ford's range of products is largely unexceptional, especially given the expense.
Tom Ford's makeup and fragrance lines are owned by cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, so you won't be surprised when we tell you that much of what you see in the Tom Ford line isn't all that different from what other Lauder brands, such as MAC, Clinique, and Lauder's namesake line sell. What that means is you don't need to ante up for Tom Ford makeup, because most of what this line does well is available for less money from other Lauder-owned lines.
High prices aside, though, there are some winners among Tom Ford's small but well-edited makeup line. The lipstick, brow pencil, lip lacquer, and eyeshadow palettes are all high-quality and perform well. We're also pleased to say that most of the makeup products either have no or minimal fragrance, which is always a bonus - especially when you consider that this line got its start in the cosmetics field with perfumes and colognes.
Unfortunately, the foundations feature such ingredients as fragrance and lavender, which are both a problem for skin, and some of the other products, like the needs-sharpening eye pencil, are so common and ordinary that it makes the asking price a joke! Overall, Tom Ford has a handful of excellent makeup products to check out - and the counter personnel we dealt with were first-rate makeup artists – but be aware that you're not getting anything that justifies any of those products' high price tags. If anything, Tom Ford's makeup confirms what we've been saying about cosmetics for years: There are good and bad products in all price ranges, and expensive doesn't necessarily mean better!
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Massif wrote:While these are all cool ideas, it seems unlikely that people will want to buy into them.
NETallica wrote:Actually, this is my personal request and it's not related to the topic. I understand that C9 is the site with tech resources for the developers around the world. Some of us might not catch all the words from the videos here.
NETallica wrote:Some of us might not catch all the words from the videos here.
You don't need to talk like the guys from BBC Learning English and VOA English lessons. But if it doesn't affect the topic and the contents, I would like to listen more clearer conversations from our C9 guys.
Rory wrote:
Yeah... but that's one of the points of TechFest and MSR.
Bits and pieces of the research will make its way into projects. I don't know if any MSR stuff goes straight from project to product.
It's kind of like going to a car show and seeing all the concept cars. Nobody's ever going to buy them as they are (except as collector's items). They're just examples of what the future might hold.
RoyalSchrubber wrote:I am not native speaker (as you might deduce from my misused tenses and strange phrases in my past posts - is it noticable, is it??..) but IMO Rory speaks very clearly (I give him 9/9 for intonation ). I even think Rory (and all C9 interviewing team) speak more clear english than you can hear in most movies...
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(What is it with people lately?)
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Shaker Bottle
- Clean, empty 16-ounce soda bottle with cap
- Colored rice or pasta
- Glue gun or quick-bonding glue
- Make sure the soda bottle you are using is clean and dry.
- Place colored rice or pasta into the bottle and glue the cap on.
- Little ones will love to see what's happening inside as they shake and rattle their bottle.
More on: Activities for Toddlers
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BEC cold atoms occupy the same ground state. But what about the electrons or other fermions of the BEC atoms? Are they in the same state? Do electrons of one atom interact with those of another?
Yes, the electrons are in the same state and yes they interact (in the sense that identical bosons interact to create a BEC). The explanation is kind of involved.
In a collection of identical atoms, it's not possible for us to distinguish between them. This also applies to their electrons. This is true whether or not the atoms are cold enough to be in a BEC state.
Now the rules of QM state that when you have identical particles (electrons or atoms) you have to symmetrize over them. Thus a literal answer to your question "But what about the electrons or other fermions of the BEC atoms? Are they in the same state?" is "Yes, they're in the same state but this doesn't have anything to do with the BEC state.
Your second question: "Do electrons of one atom interact with those of another?" can be answered similarly. If you consider the electrons as identical particles which must be symmetrized over, then it is impossible to distinguish one electron from the other. Therefore they must all be in the same state. So anything you do to "one" electron will effect all of them. Therefore they do interact; their waveforms are shared.
Now let's be more specific about your questions in terms of the nature of the BEC state. Consider just a single atom. It is described by a wave function. As the atom is placed in a cooler environment it loses energy. This loss of energy changes the shape of the wave function. It makes the wave function bigger. The wavelength for the wave function of a gas atom is called the "Thermal de Broglie wavelength". The formula is:
The thing to note about the above formula is that as the temperature gets lower, the wavelength $\lambda_T$ gets bigger. When you reach the point that the wavelengths are larger than the distances between atoms, you have a BEC. The reference book I've got is "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases" by C. J. Pethick and H. Smith (2008) which has, on page 5:
When the wavelengths are longer than the inter-particle distances, the combined wave function for the atoms (which one must symmetrize by the rules of QM) becomes "coherent". That is, one can no longer treat the wave functions of different atoms as if they were independent.
To illustrate the importance of this, let's discuss the combined wave function of two fermions that are widely separated with individual wave functions $\psi_1(r_1)$ and $\psi_2(r_2)$. For fermions, the combined symmetrized wave function is:
Another, more immediate, way of stating the Pauli exclusion principle is that you can't find two fermions in the same position. Thus we must have that $\psi(r_a,r_a) = 0$ for any fermion wave function where $r_a$ can be any point in space. But for the case of the combined wave function of two waves that are very distant from one another there is no point $r_a$ where both of the wave functions are not zero (that is, the wave functions do not overlap). Thus the Pauli exclusion principle doesn't make a restriction on the combined wave function in the sense of excluding the possibility that both electrons could appear at the same point. That was already intrinsically required by the fact that the two wave functions were far apart.
Now I used the above argument about "far apart fermions" because the Pauli exclusion principle has a more immediate meaning to a lot of people than the equivalent principle in bosons. The same argument applies to bosons, but in reverse. Bosons prefer to be found near one another, however if we write down the combined wave function for two widely separated bosons, there is still a zero probability of finding both bosons at the same location. Again the reason is the same as in the fermion case: $\psi_1(r_b)$ is only going to be nonzero in places where $\psi_2(r_b)$ is already zero. The bosons are too far apart to interact (in the sense of changing the probability of finding both at the same point from what you'd otherwise expect classically).
Another way of saying all this is that in QM, there is no interaction between things except if their wave functions overlap in space. You use the thermal de Broglie wave function to determine how big a wave function has to be. If the atoms are closer than that, they're interacting in the sense of bose (or fermi) condensates.
So let's apply our understanding to the question "do the electrons interact" in a BEC. Consider the $\lambda_T$ formula to the electron. Since $m$ appears in the denominator, replacing the atom with the electron decreases $m$ by a factor of perhaps 3 or 4 orders of magnitude. This increases $\lambda_T$ by perhaps 2 orders of magnitude. Therefore, any gas which is cold enough to be a BEC will be composed of electrons that are much more than cold enough to also be coherent.
When you describe BEC as condensation of an ideal Bose gas, you completely neglect interaction between the atoms. This is ok because the density of a BEC is so much lower of the liquid of solid phase of the same species of atoms. Thus the answer to your question is that nothing happens to the electrons, they keep orbiting the nuclei at their undisturbed orbits. The only times their fermionic nature matters for BEC is an occasional collision between the atoms which is not essential for the basic nature of the Bose condensation effect.
Good question! I'm not an expert in Bose-Einstein condensation but I will try to give an answer.
When temperature is lowered in an ensemble of atoms which have integer spin (so that they are bosons and then they are susceptible to condensate) the wavefunction of each individual atom overlaps with the wavefunction of the other atoms. They form, as I see it, a kind of superatom, with different orbitals (each atom). The electrons are not in the same state because themselves are fermions and that would violate Pauli principle. Indeed, the electrons are in different space-time positions $\mathbf{r}_i,t_i$ with with different quantum numbers $\nu_i$ for each orbital so everything its fine.
The question about interactions is very interesting. I imagine that, as happens in isolated atoms, electron- electron interactions can be tackled roughly with a Thomas-Fermi model for screening but I have never read anything like this. The phenomena of BEC is robust against the interactions and appears even when considering free ball-like bosonic atoms, because is purely statistical effect...
This is a great question. I won't claim to have the final answer, but I do think there is an important point to be made here.
Let's take the simple case of Rb87. There is a single electron in the valence shell, allowing the atomic structure to be described as "hydrogen-like." If you study the electronic structure, you find that the electron spin interacts with its own angular momentum about the nucleus. This gives rise to different possible orientations of angular momentum and spin with different energies. In other words, an energy splitting, known as fine structure. A further splitting of each of the fine structure lines results from the interaction of the electron's total angular momentum, and nuclear spin. This is called hyperfine structure and it's roughly 3 orders of magnitude weaker than FS (but still quite important). So in the end, the possible states an atom can occupy are given by it's hyperfine energy levels, which in Rb87 are usually separated on the order of 100 MHz. THE reference for line data can be found here.
The point is that the atomic state is all we have. The coupling of electronic and nuclear states means that expressing the bare electron wavefunction becomes fruitless, much in the same way that you would never expect to describe an entangled photon using a single particle wavefunction.
An illuminating example comes from Cooper pairing, which gives rise to superconductivity. Cooper pairs are bosons, and so they can Bose condense. But the wavefunctions of the constituent electrons are now tied to their partners, making it impossible to give the state of just one of these paired electrons.
Just a thought, I hope it helps.


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Pregnancy: Weeks 15-18
In the fourth month, your baby's face looks more human. Her eyes, which started out on the sides of her head, have moved closer together. Her very thin skin is covered with hair (which usually disappears before she's born).
Week Number 15
- Blood vessels can easily be seen through the skin, which is very thin and translucent.
- The legs are longer than the arms.
Week Number 16
- The fetus can make a fist, open its mouth, move its lips, and swallow.
- The fetus might suck its thumb.
- Fine lanugo hairs can be seen on the head.
- The nails are well formed.
- The heart is beating 117 to 157 times per minute.
- The stomach is producing digestive juices.
- The kidneys are producing urine.
Week Number 17
- Brown fat begins to form.
- The rapid growth rate begins to slow down.
- White fatty material begins to enclose the nerve fibers of the spinal cord.
- Between the 17th and 20th weeks hearing develops; the fetus can hear internal-organ and outside-world sounds.
Week Number 18
- The skeleton can be clearly outlined on x-rays of the fetus.
- Ears stand out from the head.
- Lanugo covers the entire body.
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On July 17, 1933, two pilots, Dr. Albert Forsythe and C. Alfred Anderson became the first black men to make a cross-country flight from Bader Field in Atlantic City. The men successfully made the trip without lighting or a radio, with only an altimeter and a map. They coasted to Los Angeles in their plane, which was named The Pride of Atlantic City. When the men returned, they were greeted with a parade.
Dr. Forsythe had purchased the Pride of Atlantic City earlier that year for $2,000. After taking leave of his medical practice, he joined with Anderson and learned to fly from a white flight instructor in Philadelphia – the only place blacks could learn to fly in the country. The fact that the men learned to fly from a white instructor during a peak time of segregation made their accomplishment remarkable.
They took flight in July and were sponsored by the Atlantic City Board of Trade.
Once Forsythe and Anderson completed their first flight, they expanded their journey to include trips to Montreal and the Caribbean, which was Dr. Forsythe's birthplace (Nassau, Bahamas).
Two years later, Dr. Albert Forsythe returned to his medical practice and C. Alfred Anderson worked as an instructor at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Dr. Albert Forsythe was inducted into the New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame in 1985 and died one year later.


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Ghost Town actor hurt in shooting accident
Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 8:19 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 8:19 a.m.
MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (AP) — State investigators are looking into the circumstances of an injury during a gunfighter shootout at the Ghost Town amusement park in Western North Carolina where an actor was hurt in the staged shootout July 6.
The park uses guns loaded with blanks. Officials are investigating the injury to Robert Bradley, who places "The Apache Kid" during the shootout show.
The state Labor Department says it received a complaint that the park did not have medical personnel on standby July 6. The complaint says those who helped Bradley could not wash the blood from their hands because the water was not working.
Labor Department spokesman Neal O'Brant says inspectors will interview witnesses, the victim and the park's owner.
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text: Isn't she lovely, isn't she wonderful. Here is "how to draw Harmony", step by step from Hamtaro. Harmony is an angel that works on getting people or couples paired back together whether they be boyfriend girlfriend, or just good friends. I guess you could say that she is somewhat of a cupid figure that first appeared in Ham-Ham Heartbreak. She is a very loving Ham-Ham and the only thing that she hates is Spat, or when Spat fools around with peoples love. She is easy to draw which means you shouldn't have no problems with drawing Harmony. I shall return in a bit so enjoy this lesson for now. Adios mi amigos and have fun.


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|Aug 11:
|"Help Me Rhonda"
Rhonda Moellering is a hypochondriac who is just trying to figure out why she doesn't feel good, but she inadvertently acts heroically instead.
|Aug 4:
|"When You Grow Up"
A woman travels deep into space to leave a mysterious seed in a mailbox. In Japanese with English subtitles.
|Jul 28:
|"Single White Fowl"
Theresa moves into a new place with a new roommate. While they initially feel like birds of a feather, their relationship eventually goes foul.
|Jul 21:
|"Latino Roadshow"
On a beautiful day at Cesar Chavez Flea Market and Tortilla Factory watch as people find out just how much their prized possessions are worth in this parody of Antiques Roadshow.
|Jul 14:
|"Fool's Gold"
In this vintage after-school special, superstar high school athlete Bolt Speedstone has a run-in with bling, the drug with the ultimate high.
|Jul 7:
|"A Bit Off Key"
A documentary crew follows Melissa, a woman who has everything she needs to be a rock star—except talent.
|Jun 30:
|"Lizzie Strata"
Enjoy this World War II era adaptation of Lysistrata, in which the women withhold sex from the men in order to put a stop to war.
|Jun 23:
|"The Grownups"
Two couples wallow in the aftermath of a dinner party gone horribly wrong. This one goes out to the filmmakers from Austin who will make films this weekend.
|Jun 16:
|"Attack of the Hot Female Alien Man-Eaters"
Two man-eating alien women from Planet Wellesley come to earth to search for men to devour, but their culinary plans are foiled when one of them begins to fall in love.
|Jun 9:
|"Western Promises"
Cowboy Billy Bob Robinson stars in one of the shortest 48HFP films ever--unless you include the many deleted scenes and interviews, which the DC Dogs do.
|May 26:
|"Met Anna...."
In "Met Anna..." ("With Anna..."), a couple talks to us about how they pretend that every date is their first. In Dutch with English subtitles.
|May 19:
|"The Belgian Pretzel"
Conyer can't figure out how to approach Kristy, so his friend Seamus steps in to help, gathering a team to employ the foolproof tactics of the Belgian Pretzel.
|May 12:
A janitor, while cleaning a gym, bitterly narrates the life of a prize-fighter who used to practice there.
|May 5:
The paperboy happily and tunefully delivers his papers, until a flat tire leads him to an underground lair of iniquity and...lettuce.
|Apr 28:
|"Gwendolyn Dangerous and the Great Space Rescue"
In this campy ode to sci fi serials, Gwendolyn Dangerous boards the ship of Hassan the Heinous in an attempt to save her sister from being his slave.
|Apr 21:
|"A Love Not Standing"
In honor of the beginning of the United States tour this weekend in Dallas, we have last year's winning film from Dallas. "A Love Not Standing" follows the story of a man whose first dates are ruined by his anxiety, with hilarious results. Will he be able to keep himself together tonight?
|Apr 14:
|"Nicht nur der Himmel ist blau"
On April 12th at Filmapalooza at NAB Show in Las Vegas, the best film of the 2009 tour of the 48 Hour Film Project was announced: "Nicht nur der Himmel ist blau" ("How to Fly High"). This mockumentary tells the story of an environmentalist group who uses YouTube for the good of the world and the detriment of Lufthansa. In German with English subtitles.
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This week's film of the week is an encore: the best 48 Hour Film Project of 2008. "Transfert" is about an airline pilot who has a supernatural experience and then doesn't quite seem himself. In French with English subtitles.
|Mar 31:
|"Tales from the Bottle"
In this musical comedy, a man wakes up in the park without his pants and must piece together the events of the night before.
|Mar 24:
A man has engages in scientific experiments in his basement, all the while talking to a woman in his freezer named Sweetie.
|Mar 17:
In "Regenmakers" ("Rainmakers"), a model leaves her producer boyfriend and, while hitchhiking, is picked up by a mysterious woman, with whom she forms a strange bond. In Dutch with English subtitles.
|Mar 10:
|"Opening Night Jitters"
Harry Heartburn is directing a new play, but the rehearsals aren't going well, there is drama among the cast, and the mafiosi creditors insist on being paid now. Clearly the opening night needs to be a success...or else! How will our director and his cast handle the pressure? This film goes out to the teams in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, who have the opening night of the 2010 Tour this weekend!
|Mar 3:
|"Rich Dillson, Realtor"
Realtor Rich Dillson gives two rats a tour of a potential apartment in this single-shot film.
|Feb 24:
|"Take the Body and Run"
Two buddies collect their friend from the morgue and go on a road trip to fulfill his dying wish.
|Feb 17:
A man receives a call from his long-lost brother, asking him to meet him at a nearby hotel. This suspenseful film feels like it was directed by Stanley Kubrick...despite being shot entirely with Legos.
|Feb 10:
|"Love is a Battlefield"
Two filmmakers discuss the script for the romance movie they are about to shoot, which is brought to life by colorful drawings and Matthew McConaughey.
|Feb 3:
A family sings their way through a caper to steal the quill that the Founding Fathers used to sign the Declaration of Independence. Amazingly, the film is all in one shot. This film won the Panasonic HD Filmmaker Showdown for the 2008 Tour, in which 48HFP teams made movies in HD with a Panasonic HPX500.
|Jan 27:
A woman finds herself on a deserted road near a phone booth and unravels the mystery of why she is there.
|Jan 20:
|"Flight to Freedom"
An illegal alien and her unborn child fight for the right to stay in the United States. The catch? They're Canadian geese.
|Jan 13:
|"Half Trick Pony"
McGinty's Twelve-Tent Traveling Circus must reduce its numbers by one. They're going to abandon one of the men who wear the donkey suit. Will it be the front? Or the behind?
|Jan 6:
Three writers discuss different plots for a short film involving Reginald H. Higginbotham, a diplomat. All of their story ideas seem strangely...familiar.
|Dec 30:
|"Occupational Hazard"
In a corporation beset by hostile takeover, a man writes poignant and hilarious letters to his friend and colleague, who has been transferred to the front lines.
|Dec 23:
|"Honey and Babe in Christmasland"
Amusingly and tragically, Christmas brings Honey and Babe exactly what they paid for.
|Dec 16:
|"A Very Hot Date"
In this upbeat film, Trey sings his way through his preparations for a very hot date.
|Dec 9:
|"Go Human"
Brad has feelings for a woman that he works with, but there's one problem: he's a puppet and she's not.
|Dec 2:
|"TGIF: The Musical"
An office sings for joy as they prepare to leave work for the weekend...but will they be able to leave on-time to start their weekend plans?
|Nov 25:
A cab driver picks up an Egyptian passenger who has a mysterious mission.
|Nov 18:
Spudgy and Jan McGonnagle are rubbers...grave rubbers. In this dry and hilarious mockumentary, they talk about their history of rubbing together.
|Nov 11:
|"Buying Time"
An elderly woman prepares a sizeable gift. This Melbourne film bested 39 other films to win the International Shootout in 2008.
|Nov 4:
|"Zombie Attack"
Two locals hide out in a barn in the midst of a zombie attack and discuss ways to get out of town.
|Oct 28:
|"The Lemonade Stand"
Suspecting that the little girl who runs the neighborhood lemonade stand is actually the devil, two friends devise a cunning plan to banish her back to hell. Happy Halloween!
|Oct 21:
The morning after a rambunctious party, Stuart's morning routine is stopped by a realization: he doesn't know where his car keys are. Fortunately, an answering machine message puts him on the right track to solve the mystery. This thrilling comedy beat out 200 films to win the National Film Challenge in 2008.
|Oct 14:
In "Sweep" ("Coup de balai"), Detective Fenouil investigates the case of Paul Petit, the insurance executive, who was murdered by being impaled on a broom. The language not safe for work—at least if anyone in your office speaks French. In French with English subtitles.
|Oct 7:
|"Last Words"
In "Last Words" ("Mes Maux pour le Dire"), a man wakes up one morning and knows that today is the day to complete the task which he has been planning for 25 years. This film is not safe for work—it has some tasteful nudity. In French with English subtitles.
|Sep 30:
|"The Can Man"
A serial killer dubbed the Can Man has murdered four people in Bombay, leaving behind an aluminum can and a nimbu mirchi (a string of lemons and green chiles that according to tradition wards off evil). Inspector Jaaved enlists the help of the precocious Detective Vijay, who is the only one who can tell him whether the suspect in custody is the Can Man. In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
|Sep 23:
A catburglar bests the security of an auction house to retrieve a 200-year-old Bordeaux Chateau Lafite.
|Sep 16:
|"Training Way"
Two detectives solve crimes from the comfort of their Segways.
|Sep 9:
|"Booster Rocket"
After breaking up with his girlfriend, a man reflects on his childhood imaginary friend: an astronaut.
|Sep 2:
A young man volunteers for a mysterious egg-eating contest with an even more mysterious opponent and—the most mysterious of all—one solitary, red egg.
|Aug 26:
|"The Quimby Files"
Tom Quimby may seem like just another child, but he's actually a spy, and it's his duty to bring the secrets of his neighborhood out into the open.
|Aug 19:
|"The Didier Chronicles"
Bobby Jo's boyfriend was eaten by a tree demon, and she is almost as well, but in the nick of time, she's saved by Bert Didier, an axe-wielding tree expert. The two team up to take the battle back to the tree demon. Language is not safe for work.
|Aug 12:
|"A Monkton Family Christmas"
Seven-year-old Kylie Monkton narrates the story of her family's Christmas on the road, but she doesn't quite understand the reason for their travels.
|Aug 5:
|"Training Film"
A man is stuck inside a training film about clear communication, and he'll do anything to escape.
|Jul 29:
|"The Trade"
In this atmospheric thriller, two gentlemen meet to complete a deal.
|Jul 22:
|"Phenomenal Me"
A very short detective—who is also quite a ladies man—uses his ESP and his gun to save women in trouble. Language is not safe for work.
|Jul 15:
|"Wir Wollen, Können Aber Nicht"
In "Wir Wollen, Können Aber Nicht" ("We Want To, But We Can't"), four men have a plan to escape East Germany, but the plan has one big problem, which only one woman can solve. In German with English subtitles.
|Jul 8:
|"Moment of Silence"
All the sounds in Ronald's life are created by his own personal foley artist, working deep in the recesses of his mind. Suddenly, things take a turn for the worse when nothing sounds as it should. "Moment of Silence" is featured on our Best of 2008 DVD—get yours!
|Jul 1:
Tina Walton works behind the counter at a kitsch shop named Tinkertown, when dashing Detective Mills comes in to ask some questions about a recent rash of burglaries.
|Jun 24:
|"The Hall"
A nervous fellow tries to impress his lovely neighbor, but to do so, he must face his biggest fear: a giant menacing owl. "The Hall" is featured on our Best of 2008 DVD. Also, Hungry Camera's trip to Cannes with "The Hall" was featured on Roger Ebert's blog.
|Jun 17:
|"An Old Scam"
In this off-kilter comedy, two old men hold up a drug store in an attempt to obtain an elixir of youth—and befriend the pretty cashier in the process."An Old Scam" is featured on our Best of 2008 DVD. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
|Jun 3:
A small-town cop investigates a mysterious massacre of a group of campers. It's featured on our Best of 2008 DVD.
|May 27:
|"Long Night"
A woman is called away from her friends to help out her ex-boyfriend during a long night in New York City.
|May 20:
|"Robot Love from Another World"
Three visitors from another world are stranded on Earth without their ship and without their robot. But at the last moment, a chance encounter leads them to possible salvation in this homage to 1950's Science Fiction B movies. "Robot Love" is featured on our Best of 2008 DVD.
|May 13:
Klaüs is a withdrawn employee of a furniture store who one day meets a woman who might be able to bring him out of his shell.
|May 6:
|"Kitchen Aide"
In this light and original film, three kitchen appliances—Irene, a dishwasher; Betty, a telephone; and Helen, a convection oven—take care of and get to know their new tenant, Raymond, who is still broken-hearted from the loss of his wife.
|Apr 29:
|"Stand Up Mandy"
Mandy Myers, a musician looking for a big break, is playing a party that a major record executive is expected to attend—but how can she play a good show if she can't stand up without her guitar strap?
|Apr 22:
|"Main Cabin"
Air Franc (prononced "Air Frank"—not to be confused with Air France) is an airline with a mission: to rise through the ranks and get to the top. This is their story, as told by a few of their priceless staff.
|Apr 15:
|"Aidan 5"
In this somber city of clones, a cop sees the same face on every corpse: his own. It's one of the 15 films featured in our Best of 2008 DVD.
|Apr 8:
|"Birthmarked for Death"
A rookie mob executioner and a discovered undercover cop form a wacky friendship over their love of substitute teaching as they head to the forest that will be the cop's gravesite. It's one of the 15 films featured in our Best of 2008 DVD.
|Apr 1:
"Fused" follows the story of a charming bloke who is set up on a poorly-matched blind date at a dinner party...but all the while he's falling for the girl downstairs. It's one of the 15 films featured in our Best of 2008 DVD.
|Mar 25:
In this starkly beautiful film, a woman plants a garden of letters and watches them grow.
|Mar 18:
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2008, "Transfert" is about an airline pilot who has a supernatural experience and then doesn't quite seem himself. In French with English subtitles.
|Mar 11:
|"Romp and Circumstance"
To celebrate our first anniversary of the 48HFP Film of the Week, we give you our favorite 48 Hour Film Project about...the 48 Hour Film Project. "Romp and Circumstance" is about a team of spies who will stop at nothing to find out the character, prop, and line of dialogue for the 48 Hour Film Project.
|Mar 4:
|"I Will Not..."
Matt is a dutiful police officer who is unlucky in love—because he's arrested his last five dates. Can he stop himself from arresting another?
|Feb 25:
JoBeth is an unpopular teenager whose difficulties getting along with her peers are her least concern in this sad and beautiful film.
|Feb 18:
|"US Air Marshalls"
You don't know who they are. You don't know where they are. They're undercover. And when it comes to disguises, yes, they're that good. These are trained professionals making sure you get to your destination safely. These are US Air Marshalls.
|Feb 11:
|"Killing Time"
Steven and Thea work near each other, but their hobbies couldn't be further apart in this sweet and slightly disturbing romantic comedy.
|Feb 4:
|"Who is Bert Didier?"
Bert Didier is a SWAT officer. Becky Bailey is a receptionist at a periodontist's office. This film amusingly and captivatingly outlines their deep friendship with a constant stream of trivia about them and their lives.
|Jan 28:
|"Eleanor Stops by for a Bite"
Ruff Corporation and the American Etiquette Board present a short documentary on how to comport yourself like a proper young lady while at lunch with a couple who is very improper—frighteningly so.
|Jan 21:
|"Lethal Cotillion"
A young boy tells his grandmother a story of the Hatuchama, a secret society with supernatural powers, only to discover that she has a secret of her own. This film won the Shootout in 2007.
|Jan 14:
|"Feels Like Drowning"
A couple is off on a romantic getaway, but the woman is haunted by memories of waterboarding from from her military past. This emotionally poignant film was part of the Panasonic HD Filmmaker Showdown for the 2007 tour, in which 48HFP teams made movies in HD with the Panasonic HPX500 camera.
|Jan 7:
|"Abla Nara"
"Abla Nara" ("Helpless Man") takes place in an alternate dimension where the traditional roles of men and women are reversed, leading to humorous results. As the men wait on their wives, they discuss the particulars of their world. In Hindi and English with English subtitles.
|Dec 31:
|"Franz Kafka: The Happiest Man in Happytown"
Franz Kafka is just a happy guy who is not at all sensitive to the misery of his fellow countrymen...but that all changes when an insect comes to dinner.
|Dec 24:
|"Seasonal Disorder"
A couple attends a holiday party in their new neighborhood with disastrous, sidesplitting results.
|Dec 17:
|"White Bitch Down"
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2002—the first time we gave out the grand prize—"White Bitch Down" features the details of a small gang cleaning up after a mysterious crime.
|Dec 10:
|"Recharging the Batteries"
In this light comedy, a married couple is having difficulties with their sex life and seeks help from a therapist.
|Dec 3:
|"The Chip in My Head"
Since the second year of the 48 Hour Film Project, Bill Dyzsel (a.k.a. CinemaSolo) has made 48HFP films in a novel way: all by himself. That's right, he writes, shoots, directs, edits, scores, acts and sings in each film. And he's not only our most solitary filmmaker, he is also our most prolific, having completed over fifteen films in seven different 48HFP cities."The Chip in My Head" is one of our favorites of his work. Watch as Secret Al Simon reacts to the chip in his head.
|Nov 26:
|"Food Plus"
Made for the Equal Exchange Invitational this September (where filmmakers created short films about being "dangerously disconnected from our food"), "Food Plus" gleefully narrates the future of food itself. If you're in the mood, check out the other Equal Exchange Invitational films.
|Nov 19:
A man waits for his plane in an airport and begins to imagine his life with the woman seated nearby—only to discover another man is imagining his life with her! In their hilarious shared fantasy, the two men compete for her affections. This film won the first Panasonic HD Filmmaker Showdown, in which 48HFP teams made movies in HD with the Panasonic HVX200 camera.
|Nov 12:
|"Do What You Can"
"Do What You Can" is an upbeat music video in which fantastical creatures do what they can to help disaster relief. It was created as part of the Red Cross Invitational to celebrate the Red Cross' 125th Anniversary in 2006. Just watching it makes us want to do what we can.
|Nov 5:
|"America's Next Top Superhero"
Perennial sidekick Brainiac is searching for a new boss, so he devises a competition to find America's Next Top Superhero. Watch for the character (Spudgy McGonnagle, Pastry Chef), the prop (a garden hose), and the line ("So what's the plan this time, Brainiac?").
|Oct 29:
|"Under the Bed"
A woman is haunted by something under the bed in one of the most frightening 48HFP films of all time.
|Oct 22:
|"Happenin' Town"
A dinner party, weighed down by wanderlust, is given new hope by a singing travel agent who shows them that they can travel the world right at home in Brisbane.
|Oct 15:
Two salesmen duel for their jobs in this modern-day spaghetti Western. In French with English subtitles.
|Oct 8:
|"Time Cougars"
The Time Cougars, a squad of time travelers, go back in time to help a friend pass a vision test. This loony comedy beat out 200 films to win the National Film Challenge in 2007.
|Oct 1:
A hilarious parody of 1980's Sierra-style video games, "Piggy" walks us through the adventures and travails of...a guinea pig.
|Sep 24:
|"Room 303"
A man finds a camera in a hotel, and its strange set of stored pictures leads him to room 303.
|Sep 17:
While other superheroes are off saving the planet from destruction, an affable British not-quite-as-super hero named AndyMan uses his ability to predict the future to help us with the minor inconveniences of life—like badly tuned guitars and unrefridgerated leftovers. Language is not safe for work.
|Sep 10:
|"The Road"
In "The Road", Charles Fillmore (a Roads Scholar) narrates the history and impact of that ancient object made from rubble, voodoo, and the spine of a toddler: the road.
|Sep 3:
|"Den Førpagter Hüs"
"Den Førpagter Hüs" ("The Boarding House") is the story of a Bergmaneque hotel with doll proprietors which is asked to rent to a sequence of stranger and stranger guests. Watch for the line of dialogue: "This is absolutely the last time." In Danish and English with English subtitles.
|Aug 27:
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2003, "Baggage" begins with a woman rejecting a marriage proposal from her boyfriend. This decision leads her to unpack the baggage from previous relationships, quite literally—when she takes her psychological suitcase out from under the bed, her exes climb out, one at a time. You'll love this comic gem from the early years of the 48HFP.
|Aug 20:
"Once upon a time, there was a boy named Alain. On his 10th birthday, his father gave him Suzette, the bicycle that had carried him to 12 Tour de France victories." So begins "Manquer" ("Missing"), which tells us the story of the love between this French boy and his bicycle. Told entirely in still photos, the film uses Chris Marker's style for a tale that is easy-going and warm. In French with English subtitles.
|Aug 13:
|"Skinned Alive"
In the animated horror film "Skinned Alive", two talkative fish discuss the gruesome fortune of a human friend while ignoring their own fate. Made by Sputnik Films of Portland, Maine, the creators of this year's animated introduction to the 48HFP.
|Aug 6:
|"Love and Sappiness"
In "Love and Sappiness" a man visits his girlfriend's parents for their over-the-top Arbor Day celebration, and begins to think that he and she might not be a good match after all.
|Jul 30:
|"The Spy Who Spied Me"
"The Spy Who Spied Me" is a fast-paced spy/detective/noir/comedy about Dick Chase, the superhero-spy-detective for hire who breaks hearts and solves crimes but just can't seem to pay the rent.
|Jul 23:
|"Mimes of the Prairie"
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2005, "Mimes of the Prairie" is a short documentary about the three peoples of the American frontier—the European settlers, the Native Americans, and...the mimes. One of the funniest 48HFPs ever made, it's also a lovely cinderella story: this was the first time these filmmakers had made a film, and it was Des Moines' first year in the 48HFP, and it won it all.
|Jul 16:
|"1,900 Lady Lane"
Before the Internet, there were 1-900 numbers. But not many people know that before 1-900 numbers, there were 1,900 addresses. "1,900 Lady Lane" takes us back to a time when virtual sex was conducted by the quill, where Master Betrand conveys his regard to Madame Ramsey, and vice versa.
|Jul 9:
|"Hook Her"
"Hook Her" tells the story of a sad and lonely man who is helped by a strange fisherman to find the woman of his dreams. But there's a catch...
|Jul 2:
|"Turning Boint"
In "Turning Boint" a suicide bomber seeks out the best speech therapist in Israel to help him learn Hebrew well enough to deliver his bomb. But as she teaches him the intricacies of Hebrew, they begin to fall in love. In Hebrew and Arabic with Hebrew and English subtitles.
|Jun 25:
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2004, "Moved" is a fast-moving tale of coffee shops, armed robbery, telekinesis, superpowers, and filing.
|Jun 18:
|"The Monitor"
In this psychological drama, a woman finds herself trapped in a Escher-esque prison of office restrooms and searches for a way out.
|Jun 11:
|"Stale Mate"
A famous actress meets a mortician in a strange yet upbeat tale of a love that could never survive.
|Jun 4:
|"Morning Sickness"
In "Morning Sickness", D-Bob and Growler's irreverent radio show hits a snag when they are required to play it straight with a sex doctor. There's nothing quite as funny as the funny guys trying to be serious.
|May 28:
|"Late for a Date"
"Late for a Date" follows a gentleman who is trying to get to his date, but is running just a little bit late. As he traverses the town, it seems like circumstances are conspiring to make him later and later, to his chagrin and our amusement. Be sure to watch through the end credits!
|May 21:
|"The Golden Tiki of Djbuti Buti"
The supervillain Mullet has stolen the Golden Tiki of Djbuti Buti, and only one man can recover it. By day, he is Oliver Barnes, a mild-mannered accountant. But at night, he's...Naked Man! Hearkening back to the Adam West's Batman, "Golden Tiki" packs in a satisfying conclusion and a lot of laughs on the way.
|May 14:
|"Les Champignons de Paname"
"Les Champignons de Paname" ("The Mushrooms of Paname") tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the mushrooms growing all over the streets of Paris, only to discover they hold a terrible secret. In French with English subtitles.
|May 7:
A man is trapped in a fantasy world and believes he is Don Quixote de la Mancha. Perhaps, though, it is not a fantasy world after all. In Italian with English subtitles.
|Apr 30:
|"The Kumbio Takedown"
In this wickedly funny film, two detectives are hot on the trail of a mafia kingpin, but their attention is on an entirely different issue.
|Apr 23:
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2007, "TimeCatcher" ("אדון הזמן") is about a superhero who—just by looking at people—can tell how much longer they have to live. We join him for the final few minutes of his own life. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
|Apr 16:
|"Tooth and Nail"
The best 48 Hour Film Project of 2006, "Tooth and Nail" tells the story of a Senator haunted by a horrific revelation: he's a vampire! Take a break from the 2008 election and follow the wickedly funny reelection campaign of this undead politician.
|Apr 9:
|"The Guts and the Glory"
A small town is in the midst of a zombie attack—but there's a surprising twist. You'll like it even if you don't usually like horror films. Be sure to watch through the end credits!
|Apr 2:
|"Pitch Imperfect"
A high school English teacher tries to convey to his unrequited love what she's meant to him for the past four years in this warm and lively film.
|Mar 26:
|"Breakin' Bread"
"Breakin' Bread" is a zany and hilarious retelling of the Last Supper in which John gets a little help from Matthew, Mary Magdaline, Peter, V. Kirk, and Judas to throw a party for Jesus.
|Mar 19:
In this tender and sweet family film, two very unusual people form a friendship that changes their lives forever.


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Bo Ryan, John Beilein address foul total in OT
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Nothing to see here...move along.Hide replies
Touche' Eddie. So the story reveals that even well repected D1 BB coaches are human too. Someone alert the media....oh wait!
eddie, I think there is something to see here. What I see is Bo saying he'd probably put Evans in again, in a similar situation. I find that somewhat mind-bogling. He's a far better coach than I could ever be, and he undoubtedly knows his players better than I, but I would just shudder if in a future game Evans is in late, gets fouled, and goes to the line with the Badgers down 1 or 2, tied, or even up 1 or 2.
Sorry eddie/flunkie, but when a coach acknowledges there was confusion in the final seconds, and that confusion leads to a premature sub (Michigan took out a key defender) that is worth noting. That question was on the minds of fans after the game and today gave us an opportunity to ask the coaches about it.
I am sorry, I love Bo and he's a great coach but that was a mistake. In fact, I thought it was the 3rd critical mistake they got away with in that game.
#1 not fouling on Michigan's last posession in regulation
#2 taking a timeout with 2 secs instead of letting in play out... this allowed Michigan's defense to get set up, made UW go the length of the floor, and gave Beilein time to make sure his kids understood they had fouls to give
#3 evans substitution
Glad none of it mattered in the end due to the Brust heroics!Hide replies
Bruiser did foul Hardaway with about 5 seconds on the clock, the refs just didn't call it, he slapped down on his hands pretty hard.
fightin, although it could have been called, i didn't see intent to 'give a foul' there... that foul is rarely gonna be called in a last posession like that.
jhumbe, Bruesewitz made a clear slap down on the guys arm. It in fact is how you foul somebody late. The refs were asleep to the situation and didn't expect the intentional foul so they missed it.
1) That strategy is NOT inherently wrong. Beilein used that ploy two seasons ago and it did not work. Wolverines lost, 53-52, on a three-pointer at buzzer. Do you remember who hit the game-winning shot?
2) Design the play you would have run with no timeout taken.
yes, gasser. obviously no strategy works 100% of the time but i think using the fouls if you got them.
#2 i wouldn't run a play... that's the point... whoever received the inbounds pass (can't recall) was already moving towards the basket with the ball at half court with 2 secs to get off a shot with a good luck at a 3 pointer. as it turns out, things miraculously worked out but i think you get a better shot and convert more of the time inbounding quickly versus letting michigan set up their defense there.
Jackson got the ball -- not close to halfcourt. By calling a TO they also were able to get a fifth scoring option on the floor (Dekker for Evans). Wonder what fans would have said if the ball had gone to Evans for an open three in a scramble situation. I'm sure they would have been cool with that.
Jhumbe why was it a "mistake?" Because the shot went in? No no no...it is easy to say that from behind a microphone. That is one of thoese plays were you have to let it play out and hope your guys make the right call on it. Bo could have told them to foul or not foul or remind them of the fouls they had to give in the huddle...that is all he can control. A tie game at home I would not have fouled him either on a jump shot like that. If it was a 4pt play and they fouled him in the air on the shot what would any of you in here would say then? They played it right...Michagan on the other hand, I don't know I have to look at the play. I do know this, that was a great inbounds pass and a hard angle for the Michagan player to foul Burst the way he was running and caught it and then shot it. No ref would have called foul anyways...
you have to separate results from what you believe is right. as i said, not every strategy works 100% of the time. everyone has a right to their opinion... i believe it was a mistatke not to foul in that situations and you're better off using fouls more often than not. obviously it worked out in this situation so we can all agree to be happy about that but it's like saying a QB didn't make a 'mistake' in his decision to throw a pass because it went through the defenders and hands and the WR ended up catching it. you have to separate the decision from the results in the analysis IMO.
On offense, most teams are better off just inbounding the ball with out a time out if there is 10 seconds or more on the clock. With just a few seconds left (such as 2.4) its usually better off to run a play, even though that gives time for the defense to set up. For time in between, it largely depends on the teams. Some would be better off with a set play, some would not.
Watching on TV, at the end of regulation, I saw the Badgers make the (miraculous?) 3 pointer to send the game to OT:
What'sisname, the TV network analyst, was going on, and on, and ON, about how Bucky not fouling before MI's 3, was "the dumbest thing I've seen in years." (I put quotes around it because he said exactly that, as far as I can recall.) Later, and to his credit, he gave Bo a chance to rebut that charge to his face. Bo made his point in the interview, and remarked that, perhaps, it was easier to make those calls from behind a media microphone, as opposed to from the head coach's seat.. And you may have heard, the Badgers, um, WON that game.
But to me, because it was said when it was said, that network doofus displayed some of the most appallingly bad "journalism" I've ever been forced to see. I think he should be fired for such incompetence.
If only I could remember that fool's name....Hide replies
The 'fool' was Dan Dakich. I watched the game and the replay of the whole game and found nothing he said that didn't have some substance. To deny that would be to put on the 'homer hat' and ignore the truth.
I can appreciate a different opinion, but even as Wisconsin basketball fans, we should be able to handle the truth.
What's the truth, I Think? Your opinion?
@ [kcbadger]
I believe everyone should have the right to my own opinion.
(Insert sarcasm emoticon here)
His name is Dan Dakich and he is very good. He's usually extremely complimentary of Bo and the Badgers and HE WAS CORRECT. It was a poor move by Bo. He also noted it was a bad move by Beilein not fouling. And I give him credit for telling Bo what he thought. By the way, Dakich's reasoning was much better than Bo's. There are enough terrible announcers out there - no need to get bent out of shape by one of the good one's just because he disagrees with our coach. (by the way, I love Bo - he was just wrong this time).
No his reasoning was not better then Bo's it was easy to say that after both of the shots went in!!! And the Badger did try to foul him like Bo said and the ref did not call it. There is no cardinal rule you have to use your fouls in that situation. Now if they had to bring the ball upcourt then that is different. i think that was a sideline inbound pass am i correct? So the kid was going north to south? Okay, then I don't know...it was not a situation to foul. The play by Michgan on that heave how could you foul on that?
I thought Dakich made some great points and had no issues with what he had to say.
Yeah Dakich made a valid point but he way over did it. Bruesewitz clearly swiped at the Michigan player and appeared to foul him but it wasn't called. You can't tackle the guy, or you run the risk of a flagrant foul being called. The ref missed the call, then Bruesewitz couldn't foul on the shot which he made very difficult.
On the Brust shot, Brust was running full speed and the defender never got to him in time to foul him.
Dakich's rant over the no fouls clouded over what were two fantastic shots at the end of the game. Instead of realizing it, he was in love with his own insight. That's not good broadcasting. Maybe he needs to go back to coaching.
it is not hard to give a foul without getting called for an intentional foul, especially in that situation. i would disagree.
Hey, bear, Bruesewitz's mistake - and it was a big one - was letting Hardaway even receive the ball in the first place. Yeah, he did his best to foul Hardaway to stop the shot from going up, but if he had fouled Hardaway to prevent him from getting the ball, the situation never would have - nor should have - arisen. (BTW, there certainly are ways to emphatically foul to prevent a player from receiving the ball without committing a flagrant, intentional foul).
I don't have a problem at all with an analyst giving an opinion but, did some of you actually watch the game? He repeatedly called it one of the dumbest plays he'd seen in years and then in the post game interview he kept arguing with Bo after Bo explained his strategy. Dakich's opinion is fine, but his over the top ranting about it during and after the game was very unprofessional. He acted like a know it all blowhard on this one. Went way beyond his opinion. There are two ways to handle that end of game situation. A good analyst would note that and then state his preference. He never acknowledged that Bo's way might be a good option.
There are too many brainless posters here to respond to them all - but Beesix has it exactly right in every utterance and nuance. Yes, Bo Ryan is a downright superior coach... yes, he consistently wins with lesser talent (as he did here, but his recruiting deficiencies are another, much-discussed story), but Bo Ryan NEVER admits a mistake.
His consistently failing to take advantage of the proven strategy of using available fouls to eat up time and prevent an opponent's three-point shots is a CLEAR, major mistake. You use the fouls to keep ace shooters such as Tim Hardaway and Trey Burke from even receiving the ball, much less getting a chance to shoot it.
Jay Bilas, who is among the best TV commentators around, said even before the final action that if UW used its available fouls correctly, MICHIGAN SHOULD NOT EVEN BE ABLE TO GET OFF A SHOT! Yet, despite his protestations and lame attempts to explain otherwise, Ryan failed to have his players take the fouls and prevent Hardaway from darn near winning the game in regulation and Burke, in the same situation, almost tying it up at the end of the overtime.
Ryan has notably failed to use this strategy in previous games, too. Minnesota beat Wisconsin in overtime some years ago because Ryan failed to have his team foul and prevent a three-pointer that tied up the game just before the buzzer. Did Ryan admit his obvious mistake after that one? Hardly.
Michigan coach John Bielein was big enough to admit his team erred in not fouling Ben Brust to prevent him from even getting off his nearly half-count shot that tied the game at the buzzer.
it's too bad Ryan, for his part, has never learned to admit a mistake.
Beilein did not admit he made a mistake in not fouling Brust. His player made the mistake. Beilein made it clear the instruction was to foul.
Lone Star. Your post indicates you read blogs but don't watch. There is no way MIchigan fails to get off a shot no matter what we do and even if 2 seconds left. The shot they got was very difficult. But then we all can't have the extensive coaching experience you have.
kc, your post is presumptuous and off-kilter in many ways, topped by your stupid, unoriginal sarcasm. Yeah, I watched closely all that happened re the foul situations in the waning seconds both before the end of regulation and the end of overtime, as well as the late, untimely insertion of Ryan (that charity stripe airball) Evans when he should have been on the bench. Bo Ryan made clear mistakes in all instances. Of course, Bo Ryan has NEVER publicly admitted ANY mistake, nor is he about to.
Bo Ryan is one of the best college basketball coaches in the nation from the standpoints of general court strategy (stressing defense, slowing the tempo, making other teams play his game). That's why his teams are always competitive, year in and year out. In fact, Ryan's likely-genius is such is that this approach could well yield a national title - EXCEPT that his recruiting is consistently lacking and substandard. He does shine in player development, generally, but keeps recruiting too many projects that lack a whole lot of athletic ability and precious scoring ability and knack.
And despite Ryan's other genius, those who DO closely watch Ryan over years can't help but notice his too-often flaws in in-game decision-making and inability to create effective set plays, including in-bound plays.
I'm simply amazed that he hasn't called on you for advice. Your lengthy post indicates how well you think of your coaching insights; did I miss the book you wrote somehow?
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Lone Star. Did you miss the fact that you can't make a point without calling a name like some 10 year old on a playground? Careful, that kind of talk will get you ejected when you coach your next peewee game.
KC, Amen, brother, amen. I am always amazed at the egos posting who think they are smarter than Bo. Or Buzz for that matter. Bruiser fouled the guy; the refs didn't call it; Dakich loves to hear himself talk and simply will not listen to an explanation opposing his world view; and Lone Star thinks he should be coaching the Badgers. Nothing new here.
Who is to say Dekker, a 58% free throw shooter, is a lock to make a free throw? Nor is he as able to get open to make a catch. At that point in the game, the Badgers were struggling to in-bounds the ball. A turn-over on an in-bounds play at the end of regulation was one of the reasons they went to overtime to begin with. If the Badgers had turned it over at that point, it would be similar to missing a free throw, except (1) there would be more time on the clock, (2) you might make the free throw (even Evans) (3) you might rebound a missed free throw, and (4) you rarely get fast break points off a missed free throw, but you do off turnover on inbounds.
Think about #4 for a moment. One of the weak spots of Ryan's teams is they don't run effective in-bounds plays. The most common in-bounds from under the basket is a throw out to half court. At the end of the game situation, the last thing you want to do is make that long pass back towards your own goal.Hide replies
I would love to hear coach Ryan's thinking/experience on why he usually settles for that inbounds play of the long pass to half court.
He doesn't "settle" those. It is the last option of most teams across the country.
Moose, the appropriate question is why that they so seldom run in-bounds plays that result in quality shot opportunities. I would like to hear Ryan's explanation of that.
Because they don't face Indiana all the time? But I'm sure you have a breakdown in the number of times UW has gotten a quality shot after inbounding the ball vs. the rest of the Big Ten and the country.
Observation of watching Bo Ryan led Badgers indicates the opposition gets many more points and attempts off inbound plays. For the serious minded, we could do a count of in bound plays (from the base line) and see whether Minnesota or the Badgers get a higher percentage of the plays that result in shots.
Think, please do the count and prove to yourself that you have no idea what you are talking about. Then, with that information in hand, refrain from critical, ill informed posts. If you hate UW Basketball and Bo, why do you watch?
The real story was the win. Foul issue has been discussed ad nauseum. You can make a case for fouling or not fouling. Bo chose his strategy, it worked, we won. He wasn't wrong and he didn't make a mistake. He made a decision. Move on.Hide replies
Bo discussed his strategy on SVP today saying the players were told as the ball goes towards the basket or if you're beat at all going to the basket on the dribble you foul. You do not foul when UM was wasting time by half court as it provides no purpose.
Everyone saw how MB did reach there, but that will never get called in that situation. A foul would only be called if one team gained a significant advantage - IE ball knocked away on a reach. So the strategy is correct - fouling on advancement.
The more interesting coaching decision to me was UM's passive offense in that possession. I would've thought they'd attack to force the fouls out and get to run catch and shoot out of bounds plays that would likely be better than their late clock offense which is just not very good as evidenced by the difficulty in the shot Hardaway made.
But anyway, I can't believe how much time this has gotten and also how touchy people are about announcers. Sheesh. I'll take honest opinionated analysis over cheerleading garbage every time.
Bo. Agree. The real issue is why Michigan was so passive. Had they just made some moves toward the basket, UW fouls and often, in an attempt to foul, a guy is left open. I was surprised at how passive they were. Did not leave themselves with time to run a play and they wound up with a bad shot. Of course,our D, helped.
KC, I wonder if they got caught up in the idea that UW isn't a great shooting team and played off them thinking they would miss anyway. D-1 players can make a shot at any time and to play passive may not be a good strategy.
Decision? By the very nature of the definition, decisions are judgments, subject to error.
But moving on ...
On Wisconsin, with or without Dan Dakich.
I'll get killed on this blog for saying this but I do find that Ryan is an average in game coach. His usage of timeouts and late game sets are my primary reasons for saying he's average in game. He's the best at player development, to me he's just middle of the pack for in game decisions. That's just fine by me as I wouldn't want a different guy overall.Hide replies
Right, his record indicates a coach who isn't very good in game.
Yeah, best winning %, best overall record in B1G since he got there; best road record...he just has no clue once the tip off. Can't recruit good players, but at least he coaches them up. I never cease to be amazed by the comments.
To Jeff's point of the advantage of running a set play, check this play with five seconds left on the clock. Note this was a designed play to give the player receiving the ball the choice of driving/shooting himself, or dumping off for a shot (based on the defense).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqKxJWbwUIHide replies
Here's another example of a team being forced to guard for nearly five seconds despite having only a second on the clock.
Fouling means the other team gets to run multiple plays without the clock running. It's not an obvious strategy or as fool proof of a strategy as it seems.
"The fact he was open and Mike found him with a really good pass…who is to say Ryan's not going to step up there and hit the free throws?"
Sorry coach, I love you but his stats say he probably won't make the front end of the one and one.
Absolutely all this discussion about fouling theory overshadows a great win over a No. 3 team. Yes, there has been debate for years about the foul/no foul strategy when you have fouls to give. As Bo pointed out, he delineated between ball advancement foul, and no foul. AS for Dakich, I will concede that he has a right to his opinion, but to continuously call Bo's strategy dumb is ridiculous. If Dakich coached the Badgerss in this game we would have lost by 25. Bo is the best.
I like Dakich, he is one of my favorite color commentators in sports, but he took away from what was taking place on the court and that was wrong. Gus Johnson also does this and that is why I don't like him. Announcers go too far when they make it about them and not the game. I really appreciate Dakich's knowledge and like his honesty and straightforwardness, but he went way to far on this call. Agree or disagree with him it was a poor call on his part.Hide replies
If Dakich is so damned smart, why is he behind a mike and not on a major D-1 bench?
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How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen?
Everytime I start Ubuntu I have to hit the num lock button which isn't a big deal but I so use it a lot and it would be nice to have it enabled by default.
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I use 3G, Android 2.2, LG P500 phone. I've tested it on Windows 7 and Windows XP, the result is the same. After several minutes the connection dies and I need to switch off/on the USB Tethering option to restore the connection.
This is most certainly due to network restrictions.
For instance 3G connections on Orange (UK) are dropped if you hit it with "too many" requests in a short period of time. This is very easy to do with a PC, just open a dozen tabs on a browser and the 3G connection is dropped.
I've found solution. I.e. I found how to organize stable internet through my Phone using 3G. It could be done by LG PC Suite, Tools->"Internet Connection Using Your Phone". It works without needing to switch anything in Phone. But I still wondering why simple USB tethering doesn't work.
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Which character-encoding is used by the dbf-file in Shape-files? It seems it is handled different, based on the program and the local encoding-settings of the machine. Which encoding is 'right' - specified for the format?
The original DBF standard defines to use ISO8859-1, and only ISO8859-1. So, when you get a Shapefile that is really standards conform, it should be ISO8859-1. Of course, this (very old) restriction is a not really usable nowadays.
ArcGIS and Geopublisher, AtlasStyler and Geoserver started to extend the standard to define the encoding. For ArcGIS, Geopublisher and AtlasStyler SLD Editor, just create a .cpg file (with the same basename as the other Shapefiles) and fill it with the name of the encoding.
e.g. create a myshape.cpg with a texteditor and insert 5 characters "UTF-8" and save it. If you then open the Shapefile in ArcGIS or Geopublisher or AtlasStyler, they will read the textual contents of the DBF in that charset.
Geoserver: Geoserver WFS can export any WFS layer as a zipped Shapefile. When this is done, a .cst file is contained in the zip, doing exactly the same as the .cpg file.
Attention: All this only applies to the data, not the column names. You should really only use ASCII in the column names of a DBF if you want the file to be openable with other programs.
Hint: To change the encoding of a DBF open it with OpenOffice Calc.. choose SaveAs... click the "Filter options" in the bottom left and press save. You can then define the encoding to convert the text contents into.
I'm pretty sure that there is no "right" encoding. A .dbf file can be in any encoding and you'll be able to open the Shapefile and read the attributes correctly if you know it.
You can find the ESRI white paper here: http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
I usually expect a shapefile to be either UTF-8 or in the local of the covered country (often some Latin encoding).
Anytime I see a question on encoding I refer people to this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
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A simple way is convert shp file to a csv file. And use enca or iconv to detect the encoding. I tried with UTF8 and gb18030 files and it works.


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I have tried double checking for updates and updating the ppa via the terminal. The terminal outputs this, at the end.
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Miguel Cabrera: The Art of Hitting
How the game's greatest offensive player does it
For two years, Miguel Cabrera's numbers have stunned the baseball world. Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers' big-framed 30-year-old third baseman, won the American League Triple Crown in 2012, leading the league in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in—a feat no one had pulled off since Lyndon Johnson's presidency. This year, he didn't quite repeat the accomplishment. His power stats faded in September as he battled an abdominal strain, but his offensive production was actually better than it was in 2012.
In an era dominated by pitching, Cabrera's hitting is borderline silly. The same player isn't supposed to have both the power to club 44 home runs and the bat control to hit .348, get on base 44% of the time, and only strike out 94 times. Chris Davis, who led baseball with 53 home runs this season, hit a respectable .286 but whiffed 199 times.
Far more confounding than Cabrera's production, however, is his approach to hitting. Cabrera defies nearly all of the traditional theories about the so-called hardest task in sports. His style is so hard to emulate that teammates have essentially given up trying to get tips from him.
"They ask me questions but then they say I'm a crazy hitter, that my approach is totally different from theirs," Cabrera said in an interview last week, as the Tigers closed in on their second consecutive Central Division pennant. (They open up the American League Division Series in Oakland on Friday.) "What can I do?"
Beyond otherworldly reflexes, hitting at the highest level is supposed to require mastery of a consistent, repeatable motion and the discipline not to chase pitches outside the strike zone. Yet Cabrera sometimes alters his stance from at-bat to at-bat, even between pitches, and he's become famous for bashing home runs on pitches thrown so far inside they look like they are going to hit him in the thigh.
"I have no idea how he does it," Tigers Manager Jim Leyland said of Cabrera last week. "If I knew that I'd have been able to play in the big leagues."
Cabrera's success, paired with a savant's ability to read pitchers and use an array of adjustments to prepare for what they throw, has already forced people who thought they knew everything about hitting a baseball to re-examine long-held beliefs.
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"He can go to the plate and show four different stances in the same at bat," said Tigers batting coach Lloyd McClendon. "He can stride, do the leg kick, do the no-stride swing, and even stand real tall, straight up, while putting his hands low or holding them high." McClendon said he tells young players "to emulate his work habits and his dedication to the game, but not so much the way he goes about doing it."
Cabrera's ever-changing stances have spotlighted a school of hitting thatignores nearly everything but one instant during the swing. Hitting gurus call it the "launch position," the body's position in that millisecond just before the bat begins to move forward. (See graphic.)
They say nothing else that happens before the swing matters. Hitters can perform a tap dance in the batter's box if they want as long as they get to the launch position in time.
"It doesn't matter as long as he has generated energy and hasn't started his swing," said Don Slaught, the former major leaguer and Tigers batting coach who is now one of the cutting edge gurus of swing mechanics. His company, Rightview Pro, sells a state-of-the-art video analysis program used by hundreds of top high school, college and club baseball teams. "Most guys spend a lifetime trying to find one way to get to that perfect position consistently. Cabrera has mastered at least two ways of getting there. That's unique."
Cabrera's approach to hitting is the latest inflection point in a centurylong debate. Despite more than 200,000 games across the century-plus history of Major League Baseball, the sport at its highest level still lacks a grand unified theory of hitting.
For a long time, Ted Williams, the last player to bat over .400 for a season, was thought to have come pretty close to finding one. Williams's 1970 book, "The Science of Hitting," remains a bible to plenty of big-league batting coaches. Williams urged hitters to hold the bat upright, almost vertical to the ground while standing in the batter's box. Then, they should wait for a pitch in their "happy zone," particularly one they can pull, and stride and rotate the hips into a slight, uppercut swing. That angle places the bat on the same plane as a downward-moving pitch.
In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Charlie Lau, a batting coach with the Kansas City Royals, New York Yankees, and the Chicago White Sox, and his lead disciple, the former Red Sox batting coach Walt Hriniak, became the gurus of a new philosophy. The Lau approach stressed starting with the bat held near to the swing plane, and keeping the weight back until the last possible moment. Also hitters were encouraged to consider letting go of the bat with the top hand immediately after contact to produce line drives that would fall in the vast gaps between infielders and outfielders.
The 1990s brought a series of what now seem like strange addenda to each of these approaches. Young players were encouraged to swing down to produce backspin and give the ball more lift even though a downward swing reduces the chance for solid contact since the bat isn't moving on the same plane as the ball. Some coaches urged digging the back toe into the ground as the bat moves across the plate—"squishing the bug" in hitting vernacular. But that technique requires a hitter to leave weight, and therefore power, on his back foot.
During the past decade, advanced video analysis and computer graphics have brought a far more empirical approach. Biomechanists, who analyze biological issues using principles of mechanics, physicists and the most tech-savvy batting coaches are beginning truly to understand the mechanics of the optimal batting swing.
Glenn Fleisig, a biomechanist with the Alabama Sports Medicine Institute, has conducted a series of experiments on what happens to the bat and the body as they go through the swing motion. According to Fleisig, hitters generate the bulk of their power from pushing off the ground. Pitchers generate substantial power from rotating their trunks, with the bulk of rotation occurring before the pitch is thrown. In hitting, most of the twist happens after the bat makes contact with the ball.
Others have suggested we won't understand the best approach to hitting a baseball until we change how we evaluate hitters. In August, Alan Nathan, a physicist at the University of Illinois, presented a paper at a conference on scouting and the science of baseball at Boston University in which he argued the sport needs to shift its emphasis from outcomes, such as base hits, home runs and runs batted in, to the characteristics of the balls that the best hitters hit, namely their speed, spin and trajectory. Scientists have only recently gained the ability to measure these effectively.
For example, according to Nathan's research, approximately 80% of all balls hit with a trajectory of 10-15 degrees become hits. Long home runs need to leave the bat at a trajectory of about 25-35 degrees. Backspin does aid distance, but measuring spin remains difficult.
Nathan suggests that working backward, scouts and coaches should analyze the swings that produced such well-hit balls and really teach the next generation of hitters the best way to hit. But Nathan has seen enough well-hit balls to conclude that obsessing about bat angles and stride lengths is wasted energy. The most important body part for the best of the best, including Cabrera, is above the shoulders. "My sense is a lot of Cabrera's success is about pattern recognition and the ability to process information quickly," Nathan says.
Cabrera does that better than anyone, though strangely McClendon said he has to drag him into the video room "kicking and screaming." Cabrera, who can remember pitch patterns from at-bats a half-decade ago, says he studies video only to understand certain tendencies—what pitchers throw when they get two strikes on a hitter, what their favorite first pitch is, what they throw with a man on first, or when they are ahead in the count.
That allows him to recognize a pitch as soon as it leaves a pitcher's hand. McClendon said in Texas earlier this season, after Cabrera smashed a change-up for a home run, he told McClendon he'd seen the pitch especially early. "He said, 'I saw it before he even threw it, before it left the pitcher's hand,'" McClendon said of Cabrera.
Cabrera's ability to anticipate the pitch helps explain both his increasing aggressiveness and his proficiency at hitting balls that aren't in the strike zone. Good hitters are supposed to grow more patient as they get older. Williams stressed the importance of taking the first pitch that each new pitcher throws in a game. Cabrera began his career swinging at 34% of such pitches, then dipped down to about 26%, about average for Major Leaguers, according to Baseball Info Solutions. This year he is swinging at nearly 43% of the first pitches he sees from a pitcher.
Cabrera explained he comes out swinging because he's grown tired of letting pitchers get ahead in the count. "I don't understand why I should do that," he said. Plus, he now sees plenty of first-pitch strikes because walking him forces pitchers to face the dangerous Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez with him on base.
Plenty of the pitches Cabrera smashes aren't strikes at all, according to Pitchf/x, which tracks the speed, location and movement of every pitch. This is antithetical to the Williams Bible.
"The greatest hitter living can't hit bad balls well," Williams wrote. "A good hitter can hit a pitch that is over the plate better than a great batter can hit a questionable ball."
Unless the great batter is Cabrera. This season his slugging percentage (total bases divided by at-bats) is a frightening .590 on pitches that pass between him and the inside edge of the plate. That is, inside pitches that shouldn't be swung at, never mind hit.
Max Scherzer, the Tigers starter who went 21-3 this season, said he was sure an inside pitch from the Yankees' Phil Hughes this summer was going to nail Cabrera's back leg. Then Cabrera pulled his weight back, dropped his hands inside the pitch and yanked it over the left field fence for a home run. "He's anticipating what's coming and makes the adjustment he needs to," Scherzer says. "I'd just walk him and take my chances with Prince. That guy has figured out the secret bashing codes."
Cabrera insisted the inside pitches he connects with aren't nearly as close to his body as they appear. To him, an inside pitch is one that nearly grazes his chest. "But if it is over here," he says, putting his hand a few inches from his groin, an area no sane baseball player would refer to as a safe hitting zone, "then I can pull my hands inside and swing." Also, he explained, those inside pitches are usually sinking breaking balls he can get to before they drop too close to his body.
Batting coaches generally strangle such habits early on. "You know what Ted Williams would have done with this guy?" said Toby Harrah, an assistant batting coach with the Tigers who played for Williams when he managed the Washington Senators in 1971. "He would have left him alone."
To Cabrera, hitting is about making a split-second change in his approach as much as it about repetition. For example, if he isn't feeling comfortable at the plate, he'll decide not to stride and keep his front toe in contact with the ground throughout the swing. That calms him down and allows him to see the ball better. If he makes good contact, he'll let go of the bat with his top hand on his follow-through. If he doesn't, he'll complete his swing with both hands to add more power.
Cabrera's most impressive and surprising characteristic might be his ability to hit with power to every part of the field. Most power hitters make their money pulling the ball, but Cabrera is just as likely to pound a double off the right field fence as he is to rip it down the line.
Cabrera credits his uncle, David Torres with honing his ability to go the other way when he was first learning to hit as a kid in Venezuela. During batting practice, Torres would make him do a lap around the field every time he did the predictable thing of pulling the ball.
Two decades later, Cabrera still takes batting practice as if Torres is watching him. Last week in Minnesota, as Cabrera rotated through the batting cage, Fielder and Andy Dirks began an impromptu home run contest, putting on a show for the few hundred fans that had shown up early for a meaningless game for the home team at Target Field.
Before long they were challenging Cabrera to join in. Cabrera ignored them and kept driving ball after ball to right center and right field. About 10 minutes into the session, though, he took the challenge and promptly cranked a towering fly 10 rows deep into the left center-field seats, some 400 feet away. Then he went back to driving liners into right center-field.
The home run to left center was one of only two balls he would pull during the entire hitting session. "My uncle," Cabrera said, "he knew what he was doing."
Ted Williams
Teddy Ballgame believed strongly in the power of the hips to drive the ball. The hips cock backward, then start forward and rotate a classic pull swing. Williams's eyesight, supposedly 20/10, and his patience may have been his most valuable assets.
George Brett
Charlie Lau, who believed in creating an efficient weight shift from back to front, helped Brett craft a stance that began with all his weight leaning toward the back of the batter's box, with the back knee behind the back foot. Also, Brett lowered his hands close to the swing plane to become quick to the ball.
Sadaharu Oh
Baseball's greatest home run hitter has perhaps the game's most distinctive swing. Supposedly based on the movement of the Samurai, the Oh swing began with a high leg kick that required exquisite timing and endless practice. It produced 868 home runs in the Japanese leagues.
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Have you already pre-ordered MW3 or do you plan to?
I think its crazy that its coming out only 1 year after Black-Ops. I hope they fine tuned it. They should have at least had a limited beta test. Im expecting tons of glitches, but I will be in line at mid-night to grab a copy Nov 8th.
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naah, I got MW2, so I don't feel like I'll be missing much.
Also, the reason it's coming out so quickly is because this game will be made by the same team as MW2 was, while black ops was an entirely different team.
Well true, I knew the company behind the game was different, but still seems like a quick release. I know of people who have recently purchased Block Ops or plan to. IF I hadnt yet, I would just continue with MW2 and wait for MW3.
I will be preordering it when I get back to the US. As much as I claim to hate the series, I'm still hooked.
Also, to elaborate a bit on what Stel said, the modern gaming system CODs, COD 2 and up, have had two separate developers working on them (for monetary reasons - 2x as many games). Infinity Ward, the original developer, has made COD 2, MW, and MW2, pretty much the good games. Treyarch, the other developer, has made COD3, WaW, and Black Ops. I, and most people I know, am personally not a fan of Treyarch and stick to buying only the IW games.
Also, the 1 game per year release is what this franchise has done throughout this modern console cycle. It's not unique to this release.
I did when I picked up L.A. Noire only because I got a sweet double sided poster. I'll be moving over to the Gears 3 Epic Edition. That Marcus figure is so awesome looking.
Activision is going to keep pushing the COD franchise every year until people stop buying them like crazy. They are some of the worst money whores in the business and making sub par games. It use to be EA, but they are actually putting out good products.
From what we have heard what is left of Infinity Ward is doing the single player and Raven Software is doing multilayer.
I'll buy it if it supports private servers. No private servers? No interest.
No way. There's simply not enough information yet available about this game to warrant a pre-order.
Will not be preordering MW3. Looks terrible, same old stuff.
My Battlefield 3 preorder, however, has already been made :)


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[CLOSED]Portal Example
I was looking at the portal example:
and was seeing a slow layout (4-5) seconds in IE.
In IE and FF the animated expand/collapse is fairly staggered. At least on the West panel and Portlet 1 and 2. Oddly panel 3 seems more responsive, but only on the first collapse. Subsequent expand/collapse clicks take a second to respond.
In IE and FF when I collapse the west panel if I click on the collapsed header and the panel floats out if I move the cursor out to the middle of the page before the float has expanded I can click around the page and the floated page does not collapse (although at times when I move the cursor towards the floated panel's text/header it will close). Otherwise I have to hover the cursor over the floated panel's body and then out to close it. * as an aside, the collapse/expand animation for the float is perfect.
In IE and FF if I resize the browser window the portlets resize. But, if I move them around to a new location or allow them to snap back to their original position they revert to their original size from when the page was loaded -vs- the new resized size.
In FF when I collapse a portlet the lower right and lower left corners are gapped. IE is ok.
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These are known issues in the preview and will be addressed before final release. Thanks.
16 Feb 2011 3:15 PM #3
Ok. Cool.
I'm doing my testing in the previews and thought I'd give feedback on anything I saw. Should I hold up on reporting anything I see in the Previews examples? Wasn't sure if user feedback was helpful yet considering it's Preview at this point.
* If hanging back is the thing to do please ignore my post on the Grid Plugins Example page.
16 Feb 2011 3:25 PM #4
Well, it's a preview release, so you know how it goes In general the most glaring issues that people are going to find in this release are probably already known since things are still heavily under development. That said, please continue to post whatever you run into.
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