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In fiction, the main character is often the first person we meet in the story. Given that the story is written from his/her point of view, how would you describe what they look like? The classical tricks (they look in a mirror or see their reflection in a lake) are not allowed (too traditional and boring). Do you have any other tips or tricks?
On one side of the spectrum, some ways of describing have the particularity that, instead of describing all of the character, they define them little by little.
For instance:
I. You can highlight their body while they do something.
a) Indirectly:
(Implying a tall character)
b) Directly:
(So clearly it's a muscular character)
II. In the middle of a dialog, as a description:
III. Have someone make remarks about the characters.
Of course, you can mix those. For instance, in that last example, you could add "I felt my face was getting as red as my hair" or something similar.
On the other side of the spectrum, you could use a technique that would be applied differently depending on the psychology of the character. For instance, you could have a very self conscious teenager reflect on their appearance; this approach would apply for a trendy character, too, although with a different feel (critically checking whether they look as they think they should, for instance). As far as I can tell, there are a few more character types that can have this technique easily applied, such as a narcissistic character, or simply one with high self esteem.
The "main thing" about this second approach is, depending on the characters' self esteem and general attitude towards life, and whatever number of factors, the general feel of the way they think about their appearance changes.
This isn't really any different than any other important information you want to get across early. Here's a few thoughts:
Hope this is helpful :)
Give the character a good reason to think about or comment on one key aspect of their own appearance. Perhaps the MC is proud of achieving something related to looks. Or jealous of another character. Or concerned about what some specific person might think. Maybe something has changed, by choice or otherwise. Or perhaps the character has to consider some physical attribute in order to make some decision. The important thing is to make it a strong reason that relates to the story.
Give another character a reason to comment. Maybe something has changed. Maybe the other character is envious. Or something.
Give the character some action that demonstrates or suggests physical attributes. Do they have to move the car seat back in order to fit behind the wheel? Or move it up to reach the pedals?
Leave something for the reader to fill in. Maybe leave all of it for the reader to fill in. I saw Michael Connolly speak once, and he said that there was some main character (maybe Harry Bosch, maybe some other) that he had never described.
One important point: If you are going to describe some distinctive feature, do it before the reader has filled in their own image. Learning on page 112 that the character is 6'5" tall can be jarring if the reader has imagined the character at average height.
All of the previous answers are good.
One technique I didn't see mentioned is that the reader can infer some of the POV character's looks when the POV character compares him or herself to other people, such as:
"Wow, that guy has even curlier hair than I do!"
"That guy must be loaded. I've been shopping big and tall shops since I was 16, and I know suits like that don't come cheap."
"Her mouth looks like mine before I got braces."
I subscribe to the "John Steinbeck school-of-thought" on character description, as set forth in his prologue to Sweet Tuesday:
Consequently, when I describe my characters I try to only include descriptions that are

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A shooting investigation turns into a death investigation.
Brandon Bradshaw, the victim in Tuesday's shooting on the 31W Bypass in Bowling Green, was pronounced dead at 10:10 this morning.
Many banned together to show support for the Bradshaw family.
What just four days ago was the scene of the tragic shooting transformed into a place of unity tonight.
At Michelle's Consignment on the Bypass friends, high school classmates, and even some who barely knew him rallied together to march a mile for Bradshaw, the man they say was a vital member of the community.
Sarah Cowles, who organized the march says, "He was funny always made you laugh, kind hearted, brave. Somebody referred maybe he was a violent man because he was in the military, that doesn't make you violent that makes you brave, that makes you courageous."
"Very motivated, he was ambitious, and had a hand in everything as far as community recognition," says Misty Adamson, a high school classmate of Brandon's.
"Brandon was probably the best friend you could ever ask for."
And with many unanswered questions about what prompted off-duty Warren County Sheriff's Court Security Officer, Tommy Brown, to allegedly shoot Bradshaw, some marched for justice.
"I thought it was outrageous. It made me hurt. It made me angry," says Cowles.
"One person is passed away and the other is off scotch free and that's just not right," says a friend of Bradshaw.
While others say there is no room for hatred.
"There's too much hate in the world, we need more love, we don't need guns and violence," says a woman who attended the march.
"I can't have hatred in my heart for the Brown family because at the end of the day they have children, and grandchildren, and parents, who want them around,"says Kristin Hayes, who attended the march.
And they hope the march and vigil left those grieving with a feeling of comfort.
"Just knowing that there is with a higher power, he is home, happy that he is healed and he's home," says Hayes.
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In Excel, I have a long, complex expression (Expression A) that I am using in a formula. I want this formula to return the value of Expression A except in the case where that expression is equal to some specific value (0 for example), in which case it returns something else, like "(none)".
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5 Ways Pirates Were Way More Modern Than You Realize
We tend to think of pirates as bloodthirsty thieves, brutal rapists, and vicious murderers, concerned only with indulging their every whim and amassing as much wealth as possible, forever living at the expense of others. And this is absolutely true. However, in some ways, pirates were bizarrely ahead of the societal curve. In fact, some of their viewpoints would be heartily endorsed by the campus newspaper of a liberal arts college.
#5. Pirates Had Health Insurance
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You probably feel safe in assuming that pirates didn't have much in the way of medical benefits, because the 16th and 17th centuries didn't have much in the way of actual medicine -- the most effective treatment for gangrene was a woodcutter's ax, a bucket of hot tar, and a bamboo reed to bite down on. Beyond that, when a typical workday consists of shooting terrified sailors in the face while rival pirates hurl themselves at you with blood-tarnished daggers clenched between their teeth, you'd imagine you'd be expected to cover the cost of any lost limbs or eye gougings on your own doubloon.
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"Nice try, Timmy. Go play before I spank your ass with a swordfish."
But you would be wrong. In reality, the crew of renowned pirate/liquor mascot Captain Henry Morgan had one of the first comprehensive, all-inclusive health insurance systems in recorded history. Before the assault on Panama, Morgan drew up a charter for his crew that guaranteed certain benefits for any man who was injured in battle. Any one of his 2,000-strong pirate crew was entitled to 600 pieces of eight for the loss of a hand or a foot, 1,800 pieces for the loss of both legs, 200 pieces for one eye, and 2,000 pieces for total blindness -- that's about $153,000 in modern currency. We assume peg legs and eye patches were covered by a joint flex account.
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"How much does it pay out if you're turned to wood by a drunken harpy?"
Also, any member of the crew could opt to receive his de-limbing payout in slaves rather than money (we said they were progressive, we didn't say they were paragons of virtue). So, you can probably go into your boss' office right now and announce that your health insurance policy is worse than that of a 17th century marauding sea criminal and be totally correct in your assessment. You would likely also start noticing your photo hanging up everywhere next to a list of emergency page codes for the entire building.
#4. Pirates Had a Form of Gay Marriage
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To be sure, there was a certain amount of situational homosexuality that occurred among the all-male crews of buccaneer ships back in the golden age of piracy, much like there is in modern-day prisons and professional wrestling organizations. But it's not as though those super grizzled, hyper-masculine throat-slitting machines engaged in same-sex coupling, right? It's a fiercely divisive subject even today, so 400 years ago it must have been absolute insanity to even suggest two men getting married, much less two pirates.
On the contrary, some historians claim that the original "Pirates of the Caribbean" (pirate crews who docked, traded, and intermittently lived in port towns in the West Indies during the 17th century) had entire communities where homosexual couples were considered perfectly acceptable. Picture that scene in Tortuga from the Disney movie, only loaded with gay men.
It's a stretch, we know.
You see, pirates had a form of civil partnership called matelotage, a marriage-like institution wherein two male pirates shared all of their ... OK, we need to think of another word for "booty" here -- let's go with "loot." Additionally, each would name the other as his sole inheritor. While this makes a good I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry kind of economic sense, in as much as it was essentially the only kind of financial security a pirate could hope for, some commentators argue that these relationships were also romantic in nature, possibly because matelots could routinely be observed having sex with each other.
In 1645, the French government of Tortuga decided to import thousands of prostitutes to try to neutralize the rampant homosexuality, because this was the type of response that governments had to things. Not that it's likely to have made a great deal of difference, though -- pirates in a matelotage shared everything, including wives. Adding mixed threesomes to the gay love-in was probably not the outcome France was going for, but, France being France, we can never truly be certain.
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Forty-five minutes later, his husband's room smelled like spent genitals.
#3. Pirates Practiced Religious Tolerance
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Pirates have been portrayed throughout history as a superstitious lot of miscreants, so it stands to reason that they would greet any practitioner of an exotic or unfamiliar religion with the same courtesy they would extend to a cannibal bone shaman trying to flay their souls from their bodies with the ceremonial Stoneblade Dagger of a Thousand Screams.
After all, the golden age of piracy began in the 16th century, a time when European Christians were still crusading to Jerusalem to try to kill every Muslim who had the audacity to live there. It wasn't exactly a period of religious tolerance. We can only imagine how pirates would have reacted to, say, a bunch of Muslims.
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"You're all stupidheads!"
Actually, as long as there was gold involved, they really didn't give a shit.
For example, Captain Siemen Danziger brought his pirate squadron to Algiers, an Islamic city in North Africa and one of the main strongholds of the Ottoman Empire, to set up a safe home base for him to pillage the shit out of the Mediterranean. Danziger was a Dutch Christian, but he didn't hesitate to offer the Turkish rulers his services as a shipbuilder. And they appointed him their chief naval architect, because it turned out they liked money also.
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"Consider me converted. Yours is the one true god ... whoever that is."
So, alongside an English pirate captain named John Ward, Danziger showed the Algerians both how to build European style ships and how to defeat them in combat, allowing Algiers to extend its piratical reach all over Europe.
Keep in mind, this was during an era of European history where the pervasive belief was that all non-Christians should be punished with considerable jail time at the very least, and that any Muslim should be killed on sight with anything in the immediate vicinity that could be crudely fashioned into a weapon. But pirates didn't cotton to any of that nonsense, particularly when there was booty to be plundered. The Algerians felt the same way, and the two routinely worked together with quantifiable results being the only criteria either side gave a shit about.
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"I am a stereotype. But I am a fair stereotype."
Again, maybe not a great reason for tolerance, but tolerance nonetheless.


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Vitamin D: Having a backward turn in your training and can't account for why? Getting multiple stress fractures? Feeling sluggish? Remember to look at your Vitamin D levels!
Vitamin D deficiency is common in athletes. For athletes presenting with stress fractures, musculoskeletal pain, and frequent illness, one should have a heightened awareness of the additional likely diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency. Correction of this deficiency is completed by standardized and supervised oral supplementation protocols producing significant musculoskeletal sports health benefits.
Vitamin D is a naturally synthesised hormone historically associated with calcium homeostasis, muscle and bone health. Apart from bone disease and muscle weakness, deficiency in vitamin D is associated with an increased risk of developing all cancers. Vitamin D is important in runners as there is a strong correlation with low Vitamin D and stress fractures. 25(OH)D levels (Vitamin D) above 40 ng/mL are required for fracture prevention. Optimal musculoskeletal benefits occur at 25(OH)D levels above the current definition of sufficiency (> 30 ng/mL) with no reported sports health benefits above 50 ng/mL.
The primary source of Vitamin D is ultraviolet-B rays from sunlight with dietary sources accounting for very little. For anyone living in countries with poor sunlight exposure or anyone who works long hours and doesn't see the light of day then you should be checking your Vitamin D levels . What this means is that irrespective of outdoor training, you may require supplementation. Ultraviolet radiation treatment is not a new concept: in 1938 Russian researchers reported a 7.4% improvement in 100m dash times of collegiate sprinters following UV treatment compared to 1.7% improvement of the control group's times.
Vitamin D has been shown to also help with:
Faster reaction time
Far fewer colds/flues during the winter
Less sore/tired after a workout
Fewer micro-cracks and broken bones
Bones which do break heal much more quickly
Increased VO2 and exercise endurance
Rapid recovery following injury is vital for any athlete and 25(OH)D3 levels, through its direct regulation of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), has been shown to increase the healing speed of skeletal muscles. The biggest gain from the use of vitamin D is by those who exercise less than 2 hours per day.
There is some really good research being produced to show the positive that Vitamin D has on an athletic performance. A good website to check out is www.vitamindwiki.com that shows all the latest research and information on Vitamin deficiency. Read up more on this really important and naturally occurring, performance enhancer that you may well be deficient in!
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The SJ is our version of what is commonly called a small Jumbo. Although the 16 inch lower bout is slightly wider than a dreadnought, and the sides almost as deep, the tight curve at the waist creates in a very different sound chamber. SJs, especially examples in maple, typically have a more pronounced midrange response when compared to a dreadnought, making them ideal candidates for a rounded cutaway. Players looking for the bass and overall volume of a large guitar, but with lots of treble clarity and midrange crunch, often find just what they need in the curvaceous SJ.
Standard Features Include:
- Select sitka spruce top
- Mahogany back and sides
- Black/white wood nitrate strip rosette
- Tortoise-style top/back/neck/peghead binding
- Black/white wood purfling with 1-style walnut backstrip
- Pre-war scalloped bracing
- Tortoise-style celluloid pickguard
- High gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- Mahogany neck
- Double bound "Haircut" headstock
- 15 degree headstock angle
- Ebony peghead overlay with inlaid Collings logo
- Ebony fingerboard with ebony SJ-style bridge
- Mortise and tenon hybrid neck joint
- 20 Frets, neck joins the body at the 14th fret
- Medium-Fat "C" neck profile and 2 3/16" string spacing
- 14"-26" Compound fingerboard radius
- 1 11/16" Bone nut and drop-in saddle
- 25 1/2" Scale length
- Medium 18% nickel-silver fretwire
- Mother of pearl Modern Diamond fretboard & peghead inlay
- Fully adjustable truss rod
- Ebony bridge pins and end pin
- Nickel Schaller mini-tuners with 1:14 ratio
- Recommended string gauge - D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"-.056")
- Collings deluxe hardshell case by TKL
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This short documentary film examines acoustic guitar building at Collings Guitars and the focus on quality that has come to define the company culture.
- Body Length: 20 1/8"
- Body Depth at Side: 4 1/2"
- Lower Bout Width: 16"
- Total Length: 41"
- Scale Length: 25 1/2"
- Standard Nut Width: 1 11/16"
- Factory Strings: D'Addario EJ-17 (.013"-.056")
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October 5 Program to Consider Corporate Domination of the Courts, Honor Professor Frank Askin
September 30, 2011 –The increasing rights of corporations as reflected in Citizens United and other court decisions is the topic of the 4 pm, October 5, 2011, Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Program at Rutgers School of Law–Newark.
Featured speakers for the program, titled "Do They Bleed?: Corporate Domination of the Courts," include Burt Neuborne, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law; Rutgers Law School Professor John Leubsdorf, an expert on judicial ethics, who will speak on "Judges, Money and Ideoology"; and Nan Aron, president of Alliance for Justice. The program also includes a showing of the film "A Question of Integrity: Politics, Ethics and the Supreme Court."
The event represents the law school's annual First Monday participation in Alliance for Justice's Student Action Campaign, programming on social justice topics held around the country each year in conjunction with the opening of the new U.S. Supreme Court term.
Following the program, Professor Frank Askin, long-time civil rights attorney and founding director of the law school's Constitutional Litigation Clinic, will receive the 2011 Eric R. Neisser Public Interest Award.
|"Do They Bleed: Corporate Domination of the Courts"
|Professor Burt Neuborne, Legal Director, New York University School of Law Brennan Center of Justice
Professor John Leubsdorf, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Judge Frederick B. Lacey Distinguished Scholar, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice
Neisser Award Honoree:
Frank Askin '66, Distinguished Professor of Law, Robert E. Knowlton Scholar, and Director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
|4 – 6 pm, with reception to follow, Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Reasons You Dont use KI?
I do not have anything against KI. In fact I prefer the way it is run, with stricter rules and a more constructive community. But, I prefer to use instructables as I find the interface much more user friendly, especially when posting things
Seeing as you are a part of this group, I would like to know why you don'y use KI, for me its the fact that the interface is not user friendly, you have to use photobucket and alot of the people there act like they know everything and you're stupid. *********IMPORTANT**************** I hold nothing against KI!!!!! This topic was not designed to flame or take the mick out of either site. this topis only purpose was to see why people did not use Knex Innovation, Because of the comments by Knex Innovation users that should not be here.
That's ignoring the complete lack of punctuation and capitalization.
Dude, you're effing hilarious. Serious. I can't stop laughing!
( splled wrng on purpse)
(Spelled wrong on purpose.)
Who was banned?
u spllded uhhhhhhh wrng it is spllded Uhg. DUHHHHHHHHHH :)
hahaha i putteded a 'D" in front of your UHHHHHHHHHH
( This is all a sign of me going insane, thankyou for your time.)
SEARCH BAR (like lowney said)
a be nice policy :) (that goes for admins too) ^mepain :(
related search thingamobob off on the side
a rating system where you rate in your comment and it displays your rating
a comment tracker
a homepage for every user (kinda like ibles but with only a orangeboard and the stuff you have posted
if you usith any of these idears right heres pleases givith meith someith creditith :))
-On a person's user page, there should be links and thumbnails to all oftheir creations, like on YouTube and instructables
-Making comments should be like on instructables: when replying tocomments they should be below and to the right of the original post, notthe comment with a quote box (not too important though)
-When you make a comment, it shouldn't say "RE: (insert namehere)", it should be like on youtube and other sites where it'sjust a simple box
Well that's it : )
Is the forum thing possible?
And what about having people's stuff on their user page?
and the chat, and people like mepain who abouse there power like mepain does on KI chat, its like you say somthing bad to him and BANNED! he takes you voice its sooooo annoying.
there thats why i dont use KI.
I come here for nostalgia, and the warmish community. Plus, everyone here is easy to please. =p
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With practice one can create a bonsai; no complicated modification of the DNA in a high-end lab required. The bonsai will even beget bonsai fruit.
What I am curious about is - if such bonsai fruit is planted again, will it give rise to a normal, or a bonsai tree?


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- BSO Case Number: TM01-09-2497
- PIO Number: 01-9-25
- Date: September 20, 2001
- Time: 9:40 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: North Lauderdale, Tamarac and elsewhere
- Matt Royko, male, 7105 NW 70 St., Tamarac
- Mary Cavello, female, 7103 NW 70 St., Tamarac
- Annette Pickelsimer, female, 6811 NW 74 Pl., Tamarac
- Jim Cocchioa, male, 7677 NW 88 Way, Tamarac
- 45 additional flag owners & the State of Florida
- Name withheld, 16, male, North Lauderdale
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Charges are pending against a 16-year-old North Lauderdale boy who admitted stealing American flags from homes in northwest Broward so that he could resell them.
Forty-nine star spangled banners were found stuffed in the trunk of a car being driven by the opportunistic young thief, accompanied by two 15-year-old friends. The three are all students at Cyprus Run Alternative School. The discovery was made after North Lauderdale Police observed the vehicle, which matched the description of one involved in a criminal mischief (broken windows) complaint earlier this week. When officers stopped the car in the 7500 block of SW 4th Court they noticed two open bottles of beer on the front seat and a six pack on the rear seat. All three boys were arrested for Possession of Alcohol by a Minor. During an inventory search of the car police found the flags. The 16-year-old suspect admitted that he stole them from houses in Coral Springs, North Lauderdale and Tamarac, hoping that he could sell them to patriotic bargain hunters at the swap shop in Fort Lauderdale. He said the other two boys were not involved in the thefts. All three were released to their parents' custody.
BSO's Tamarac District office had been receiving reports of stolen flags and had already launched an investigation, so North Lauderdale Police relayed their information to Tamarac (District 7) detectives. Investigators will confer with the Broward State Attorney to determine the most appropriate misdemeanor or felony statutes to utilize; however the youth has not yet been charged with stealing the flags.
The recovered flags, currently being held as evidence, will eventually be returned to their rightful owners.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. J. Lee, Chief K. Dugger, Dist. 7 Jim Leljedal / PIO Det, Sinatra, Maj. A Lamberti, NLPD 9/21/01 1500
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New coach Holbrook eager to continue USC's success
Gamecocks baseball program moving forward after legendary coach Tanner shifts to athletic director position
Published: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:47 p.m.
There will be a new coach leading the way this season after Ray Tanner transitioned from the dugout to the athletic director's office, but the expectations for the South Carolina baseball program will remain high with Chad Holbrook now running the show.
College baseball openers
Wednesday: SMC
Feb. 15: South Carolina, Clemson, USC Upstate, Wofford
Despite losing Tanner, its top two pitchers in Michael Roth and Matt Price and its best hitter in Christian Walker, South Carolina is preseason No. 5 in the USA Today coaches poll, while Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball have the Gamecocks No. 7 entering the season.
Holbrook, who served as the associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for four seasons before being appointed head coach by Tanner, is excited about the opportunity to run the Gamecocks' program, but says he knows it'll take a lot of hard work for USC to continue its success.
"You don't win a national championship in January and they don't give you a ring or trophy based on how good they think you're going to be," Holbrook said at a press conference last week. "I have a responsibility to keep that tradition coming. I've been blessed with an incredible opportunity. I'm not going to let the expectations be a burden for me. I look at the expectations of this program as an awesome opportunity. We're going to do our best to make our fans proud."
The expectations will certainly be high as USC has played for a national title each of the past three seasons, winning the College World Series Championship in 2010 and 2011 and finishing as runner-up in 2012.
Star pitchers Roth and Price are gone after playing critical roles as both leaders and players, but Holbrook believes that his pitching staff will remain solid moving forward.
Jordan Montgomery and Colby Holmes are penciled in to two of the weekend spots, but there's some uncertainty as to who will pitch on Sundays for the Gamecocks.
Freshman Jack Wynkoop seems to be the most likely candidate at this point, but Holbrook said that could change in the coming weeks.
Holbrook also mentioned Nolan Belcher, Patrick Sullivan and Forrest Koumas as potential starters, with Tyler Webb the likely closer.
"I think one of the strengths of our team is our pitching depth," Holbrook said. "We have a lot of work to do and a lot of decisions to be made based on who we're going to put in what role, but we feel good about our front two guys. Not sure what we're going to do on Sunday yet. There's some competition there for that Sunday spot."
Offensively the Gamecocks will try to be aggressive on the bases. Holbrook said he intends to take advantage of the team's speed, adding that he and Tanner share the mindset of cashing in on opportunities to steal bases when they're available.
"I think one of the things about our program is we've always been aggressive. Coach Tanner's an aggressive coach, I think I'm an aggressive coach. We've got some guys that can run. I wouldn't be a very good coach if I didn't try to utilize their strengths," he said. "The one thing I'm going to try to do is utilize the strengths that some of our kids have. We're blessed to have some foot speed, and I intend to give them a green light and let them run."
In addition to losing Roth and Price, USC also lost its best hitter in Walker. The first baseman hit .321 with 11 homers and 55 RBIs last season to lead the team in all three categories.
The Gamecocks will turn to a freshman in Max Schrock to take over Walker's spot as the third hitter in the lineup. While it'll be a challenge to replace Walker, Holbrook believes Schrock has earned the opportunity to hit third.
"He's physically strong, stronger than most freshmen. He's mature. I'm counting on Max to be a special, special player here. Any time you put a freshman in the lineup hitting three-hole opening day, that's the ultimate confidence from a coaching staff," he said.
Holbrook, who will be serving as a college head coach for the first time, said that Tanner has been very helpful in making the transition as smooth as possible.
"(Tanner) has a way of giving you an incredible amount of confidence and belief in yourself. The transition has been a whirlwind; it's been a lot of fun," Holbrook said. "I think as you watch our team play you're going to see a lot more similarities than differences when it relates to my team versus Coach Tanner's team. Coach Tanner's fingerprints will be all over our program. I think that'll be easy to see. I'm going to utilize him as much as I possibly can."
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Lewis, Ravens advance in playoffs by dumping Indy
Posted at: 01/12/2013 3:37 PM
By DAVID GINSBURG
(AP) BALTIMORE - After receiving rave reviews for its closing act in Baltimore, The Ray Lewis Retirement Tour heads to Denver for another show.
When Lewis and the Ravens go up against the top-seeded Broncos this Saturday, they won't receive as warm a reception as they did in their game against the Indianapolis Colts.
With Lewis leading the way, Baltimore eliminated the Colts with a 24-9 victory Sunday to set up a rematch against Denver in the second round of the AFC playoffs.
Following a 12-week layoff with a torn right biceps, Lewis led the Ravens with 13 tackles to spark an emotional win in the final home game of his spectacular 17-year career. The 37-year-old middle linebacker intends to retire after Baltimore completes its current playoff run.
If the Ravens have their way, Lewis won't peel off his No. 52 jersey for the final time until Baltimore walks off the field in New Orleans after the Super Bowl.
"We all have a goal in mind, and we're focused in on that goal," wide receiver Anquan Boldin said.
Lewis began his emotional farewell to Baltimore with his trademark dance during introductions, a scene that captivated the sellout crowd, his teammates and even a few of the Colts.
Around three hours later, Lewis lined up at fullback as Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco took a knee on the game's final play. Then Lewis danced some more before taking a lap around the field to pay homage to the thousands of fans who refused to leave until he did.
"We're all appreciative, grateful for the opportunity to be here and to witness this historic moment in sports," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "And, it wasn't just about one guy. Nobody understands it more than the one guy we're talking about. It was about a team. It was about a city, a fan base, about a great sport, about a great career. I'm just humbled to be a part of it."
The Ravens (11-6) absolutely refused to lose on Lewis' final stand in Baltimore. Boldin set a team record with 145 yards receiving, Flacco threw for 282 yards and two scores and the defense relentlessly harassed rookie quarterback Andrew Luck while holding the Colts (11-6) without a touchdown.
"We all wanted to play well for him and make sure it wasn't his last game," Boldin said.
For Lewis and the Ravens, it amounted to a solid performance on a near-perfect day.
"I knew how it started, but I never knew how it was going to end here in Baltimore," Lewis said. "For it to go the way it went today, I wouldn't change nothing."
The Ravens are the only NFL team to reach the playoffs in each of the past five seasons, and they've won at least one game in each of those trips. To get to the AFC title game for the third time in that span, Baltimore will have to beat a Denver team that breezed past the Ravens 34-17 in Baltimore last month.
"It's onto the next one," Lewis said. "We saw them earlier in the year and now we get them back again, but with all of our guns back."
The loss ended a season in which the Colts went from 2-14 to the playoffs in coach Chuck Pagano's first year in Indianapolis. Pagano missed 12 weeks while undergoing treatment for leukemia and returned last week.
Baltimore's former defensive coordinator believes the Colts will benefit from the experience.
"The foundation is set, and we said we were going to build one on rock and not on sand," Pagano said. "You weather storms like this and you learn from times like this."
Owner Jim Irsay said: "This year was incredible. It was special and unique in so many ways. It was one of the most special seasons in Colts history and probably in NFL history. I couldn't have imagined how this season would have played out. We had a coach fighting for his life, we reorganized, won 11 games and went to the playoffs. ... To say that our future is bright is an understatement."
Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, who went 9-3 as interim coach, was absent Sunday after being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. Pagano said Arians "is fine" and would stay overnight for observation before rejoining the Colts on Monday.
Quarterback coach Clyde Christensen called the plays, but he couldn't come up with a way to foil Baltimore's hard-charging defense.
"It's great making the playoffs, but you can't make mistakes and expect to beat a playoff team," said Luck, who threw an interception and was sacked three times. "We'll have to look back at those and hopefully fix them."
Indy's only points came on three field goals by Adam Vinatieri, from 47, 52 and 26 yards. He also missed from 40 yards.
NOTES: Reggie Wayne of the Colts had 114 yards on nine receptions and moved into second in career playoff catches with 92. He's 59 behind Jerry Rice. ... Ravens LB Dannell Ellerbe sprained an ankle. Harbaugh said, "I don't know how serious it is. We'll have to see." ... Baltimore's Paul Kruger had 2 1/2 sacks ... Ravens RB Ray Rice lost two fumbles. He fumbled only once during the regular season.
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I'm wondering what is "better" to have in terms of profit:
Lets say we have 300 people come to your store and you have 3 products. Each individual is given (randomly) one product. If the individual likes the product he will buy it, but if he doesn't like the product, he will turn around and walk out of the store forever.
Now, I'm wondering is it better (more probable) to have 3 products or just one, in order to maximize the total number of sold products. Important to note is that customer doesn't decide which product he gets (he gets it randomly), he only decides if he likes it or not (50-50 chance he likes it).
Any help is welcome, or maybe link to some theory I should read in order to come p with a solution.
edit: Ok, so, a little detailed explanation: let say that I have unlimited number of each of the items in the store(currently 3 different items - but unlimited number of them in the stock), and lets say that each customer that comes in to my store (aproximatelly 1000 a day) either likes or doesn't like the randomly offered product to him. Each of the products offered is of the same popularity - we sold almost the same amount of product1, product2 and product3. Product1 sold for example just 100 more units than Product2 and Product 2 sold like 100 more units than Product3, but the sold numbers are as high as 1000000 so this difference is really very low. Does this now help in determining if we should chose only Product1 and keep forcing it, or should ve leave the three products as is?


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The University of Colorado Boulder club Freestyle Ski Team brought home the United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association national championship after a week of tough competition in early March.
"I'm very proud, and excited for everyone," said Head Coach Palmer Hoyt. "Each of us shares in this great accomplishment, but we have a huge thanks and congratulations to give to our fearless athletes and coaches who fought to bring home the title."
Scott Szawlowski, Ian Simpson, Ben Hitchcock, Nick Pease, David Lilja, Lauren Ladley, William Baum and Jeremy Brown all fought for the 2012 title. The team of coaches that led the athletes to their victory is Mike Suleiman and Jon Peot.
Brown won the slope style competition and was announced the first team all-American individual champion.
"It was great seeing all of the different schools out there throwing down their best for the title," said Pease. "There is always a heightened intensity when it comes to competing because you need to make sure you land a good enough run to qualify for finals, but at the same time it has to be a run you are comfortable enough with so you won't fall."
Skier cross country was the first event that Colorado competed in where the team went head-to-head with other freestyle athletes. Brown took the lead in this race, qualifying to continue on to time trials.
Colorado continued on to the slope style competition where they competed against Liberty University, the University of Southern California, Western State College and Sierra Nevada College. Brown cleaned up this event, coming in first place. Simpson trailed behind, picking up fifth and placing CU first on the point boards.
The last event of the week was the half pipe. Each of the players excelled in this event, all qualifying for a second running, avoiding elimination. Brown placed number two in this event with Hitchcock coming in close behind at number three.
The Buffaloes picked up the most points of the week, finishing in first place winning the title of the 2012 USCA Freestyle Skiing National Champions.
"It was an amazing weekend and we finished with the title we were all hoping for," said Lilja. "It was the best way I could think of to finish my senior season."
During the 2010-11 season Colorado placed second at the USCSA National Championship behind the University of Southern California.
For more information on the CU club Freestyle Ski Team visit http://www.cufst.com/.
CU-Boulder has 32 club sports ranging from field hockey to snowboarding. For more information about club sports at CU visit http://www.colorado.edu/rec-center/clubsports/.


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So I've been looking for a way to efficiently manage the pixels on a screen, but so far all I've found is along the lines of SetPixel() in windows (painfully slow), and drawing a rectangle 1px X 1px in OpenGL. Both of these methods seem to be too slow, since I'm looking for a way to constantly update the pixels on the screen at at least ~30fps. I need a way to do this so I can make a non-polygon based graphics engine. I'm sure this is possible, since OpenGL and DirectX can do it, but I have a suspicion I'm going to need direct access to the video memory. I just need some direction to work in, since I'm not really sure where to start. Also, before you question the purpose of this in the first place, I'll just explain that this is just to see if I can do it, since it seems like a challenge. :D
What you're running into is that the overhead of calling a Windows API function (SetPixel) for every pixel is huge. Assuming you don't want to use hardware graphics capabilities at all (entirely-software renderer), what you really need to do is compose the frame yourself in your own buffer in application memory - which is really fast since there's no API sitting between you and the memory - and then pass that buffer off to the operating system to display, once per frame.
There's probably no need for OpenGL/DirectX here, as you can likely do it fast enough with the Windows GDI, using SetDIBitsToDevice (which blits pixel data in memory directly to a GDI device context).
Another option is to use SDL, a library that handles all the details of shipping the frame buffer off to the operating system for you. It can use GDI or DirectX on Windows, and supports other platforms as well. It also helps sort out sound, input, etc. so you may find it well worth using.
What you want to do is have a dynamic texture in the graphics card that you update very frame, then draw to the screen. Something like:
There are optimizations for this--I'm pretty sure there's a way to get around copying the ENTIRE texture every time you change a pixel--but this'll get you started. If you aren't doing anything else with graphics card, this will be fine for performance.
edit: Misunderstood the question. Obviously you'd need to copy data to and from the back buffer every frame, which is obviously inefficient. You might be able to get ~30fps out of it though.
(I encourage others with more historical knowledge to correct anything that may be inaccurate herein.)
The sad truth is you are not going to get the acceleration you want (not under Windows, anyway) without modern, massively parallel GPU technology (in the form of pixel shaders specifically). The last high speed frame-buffer rendering under Microsoft OSes, prior to the advent of consumer-level GPUs, was seen with the demise of the VGA high performance modes such as Mode X and Mode 13h under DOS, modes which allowed the rapid rendering of all high-end PC games in the early-to-mid 90's (Doom, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper, the C&C games and so on ad nauseum). It was the innovative memory-access models in these modes that benefited non-parallelised performance; the low resolutions and consequently comparatively low iteration also certainly contributed (as compared with today high resolutions and highly parallelised GPUs developed to deal with this). Because these modes are no longer supported under Windows, you simply won't get the same sort of performance in the same way as those old games did.
There are some high performance (and not exactly cheap) solutions such as Pixomatic, which may interest you. I am not sure how they are constructed, given that eg. Pixomatic runs under Windows, but I can guarantee you they are highly specialist solutions that are built using extensive knowledge of old school VGA rendering, and more generally the subtle ins and outs of x86 architecture.
In conclusion -- You really should be writing a special-purpose pixel shader, unless is there some very good reason not to do so.


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Management of Hepatitis C in HIV-Infected and Uninfected IDUs
This study has been completed.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by:
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First received: July 5, 2007
Last updated: April 17, 2009
Last verified: April 2009
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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this study is to determine if hepatitis C has damaged the liver, whether each subject's hepatitis C is treatable with currently available medicines, whether patient education groups before treatment help more patients start hepatitis C treatment, and if hepatitis C treatment with peginterferon and ribavirin given either by directly observed therapy or standard of care can be successfully given to persons who use or have used injection drugs.
Hepatitis C Virus
HIV Infections
Drug: Peginterferon/Ribavirin
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Management of Hepatitis C in HIV-Infected and Uninfected IDUs
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS Hepatitis Hepatitis A Hepatitis C
Drug Information available for: RibavirinU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- 1. The proportion of IDUs who have clear medical contraindications to HCV treatment. 2. The prevalence of significant hepatic fibrosis among treatment eligible IDUs. 3. The proportion of treatment-eligible IDUs who initiate PEG/RBV therapy. [ Time Frame: 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- The proportion of IDUs without clear contraindications who might be excluded by each of the 7 controversial contraindications. [ Time Frame: 4 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|No Intervention: 1
Active Comparator: 2
Drug: Peginterferon/Ribavirin
peginterferon, ribavirin, standard doses
Other Name: no other names. These are standard names.
Detailed Description:
Injection drug use is the predominant mode of hepatitis C (HCV) transmission in the United States and most injection drug users (IDUs) have HCV infection. HCV infection can cause progressive hepatic fibrosis (cirrhosis) over 20 or more years, leading, in some patients, to end-stage liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma and death. Coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is present in 20-30% of HCV-infected IDUs, and is associated with the more rapid progression of HCV-related liver disease causing HCV infection to be considered as an opportunistic infection. While treatment of hepatitis C with pegylated interferon alfa and ribavirin (PEG/RBV) eradicates HCV infection in approximately one-half of patients, persons receiving methadone maintenance therapy, those who have recently used illicit drugs, and those with comorbidities (e.g., HIV infection, psychiatric disease) have been largely excluded from HCV treatment protocols. This research addresses the reality that the persons most affected by HCV infection (IDUs) are the least studied and the least treated, a disparity that becomes even more compelling as the success of HCV therapy increases. The principal goal of this research proposal is to expand the proportion of former and active injection drug users (IDUs) with HIV co-infection that benefit from hepatitis C care by assessing eligibility for treatment, medical necessity, and effectiveness of enhanced patient education prior to the initiation of HCV treatment among this patient population. To achieve these objectives, we plan to ask three fundamental questions: (1) what proportion of IDUs are eligible for hepatitis C virus (HCV) therapy based on both established and controversial criteria; (2) what proportion of IDUs currently need HCV treatment according to 2002 NIH consensus guidelines; and (3) what proportion of these treatment-eligible IDUs will initiate HCV therapy provided at no cost either as directly observed therapy compared to standard of care and is HCV treatment of IDUs more effective when enhanced patient education is provided prior to the initiation of HCV treatment. By answering these questions, we will 1) characterize the extent to which these various criteria affect treatment eligibility among IDUs; 2) define the magnitude of the medical need for treatment in these settings; and 3) evaluate the effectiveness of directly observed therapy versus standard of care and patient education on the initiation of HCV treatment. Overall, the study will provide much needed data to guide development of policies and guidelines for the treatment of HCV infection among IDUs, the largest risk group in the United States.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must use or have used injection drugs
- Must have a reactive HCV antibody
Exclusion Criteria:
Does not have an absolute contraindication to HCV treatment:
- HCV RNA not detected by PCR.
- Pregnant or not willing to use birth control.
- Life expectancy < 2 years.
- Severe depression with suicidal ideation.
- Allergic reaction to PEG/RBV.
- Severe hematologic abnormality that is likely to be exacerbated by treatment.
- Renal insufficiency.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00496912
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|Johns Hopkins University
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
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|Mark S Sulkowski, MD
|Johns Hopkins University
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Mehta SH, Lucas GM, Mirel LB, Torbenson M, Higgins Y, Moore RD, Thomas DL, Sulkowski MS. Limited effectiveness of antiviral treatment for hepatitis C in an urban HIV clinic. AIDS. 2006 Nov 28;20(18):2361-9.
Seal KH, Currie SL, Shen H, Anand BS, Bini EJ, Brau N, Jeffers L, Wright TL; VA HCV-001 Study Group. Hepatitis C treatment candidacy and outcomes among 4318 US veterans with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: does a history of injection drug use matter? J Clin Gastroenterol. 2007 Feb;41(2):199-205.
|Responsible Party:
|Jag H. Khalsa, Ph.D., Chief, Medical Consequences, NIDA
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|NCT00496912 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 5, 2007
|Last Updated:
|April 17, 2009
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
Hepatitis C virus
IV Drug users
Treatment Naive
Treatment Experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
HIV Infections
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Flaviviridae Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted
#2. Keeping You Pressing It... Forever
Now, the big difference between our Skinner box hamster and a real human is that we humans can get our pellets elsewhere. If a game really was just nothing but clicking a box for random rewards, we'd eventually drop it to play some other game. Humans need a long-term goal to keep us going, and the world of addictive gaming has got this down to a science. Techniques include...
Easing Them In:
First, set up the "pellets" so that they come fast at first, and then slower and slower as time goes on. This is why they make it very easy to earn rewards (or level up) in the beginning of an MMO, but then the time and effort between levels increases exponentially. Once the gamer has experienced the rush of leveling up early, the delayed gratification actually increases the pleasure of the later levels. That video game behavior expert at Microsoft found that gamers play more and more frantically as they approach a new level.
Eliminating Stopping Points:
The easiest way is to just put save points far apart, or engage the player in long missions (like WoW raids) that, once started, are difficult to get out of without losing progress.
But that can be frustrating for gamers, so you can take the opposite approach of a game like New Super Mario Bros. Wii, where you make the levels really short so it's like eating potato chips. They're so small on their own that it doesn't take much convincing to get the player to grab another one, and soon they've eaten the whole bag.
Somewhere in that bag is an angry dinosaur and a kidnapped princess.
By the way, this is the same reason a person who wouldn't normally read a 3,000-word article on the Internet will happily read it if it's split up into list form. Are you ignoring boobies to read this? I've done my job!
Play It Or Lose It:
This is the real dick move. Why reward the hamster for pressing the lever? Why not simply set it up so that when he fails to press it, we punish him?
Behaviorists call this "avoidance." They set the cage up so that it gives the animal an electric shock every 30 seconds unless it hits the lever. It learns very very fast to stay on the lever, all the time, hitting it over and over. Forever.
"Get back to Excitebike!"
Why is your mom obsessively harvesting her crops in Farmville? Because they wither and rot if she doesn't. In Ultima Online, your house or castle would start to decay if you didn't return to it regularly. In Animal Crossing, the town grows over with weeds and your virtual house becomes infested with cockroaches if you don't log in often enough. It's the crown jewel of game programming douchebaggery--keep the player clicking and clicking and clicking just to avoid losing the stuff they worked so hard to get.
All Of the Above:
Each of those techniques has a downside and to get the ultimate addictive game, you combine as many as possible, along with the "random drop" gambling element mentioned before (count how many of these techniques are in WoW). They get the hamster running back and forth from one lever to another to another.
If the levers are far away, they may drive their adorable cars from one lever to another.
So What's The Problem?
We asked earlier if the item collection via obsessive clicking could be called a "game." So that raises the question: What is a game?
Well, we humans play games because there is a basic satisfaction in mastering a skill, even if it's a pointless one in terms of our overall life goals. It helps us develop our brains (especially as children) and to test ourselves without serious consequences if we fail. This is why our brains reward us with the sensation we call "fun" when we do it.
This is why I haven't included games like Guitar Hero in this article. They're addictive, sure, but in a way everybody understands. It's perfectly natural to enjoy getting good at something. Likewise, competitive games like Modern Warfare 2 are just sports for people who lack athleticism. There's no mystery there; everybody likes to win.
But these "hit the lever until you pass out from starvation" gaming elements stray into a different area completely. As others have pointed out, the point is to keep you playing long after you've mastered the skills, long after you've wrung the last real novel experience from it. You can't come up with a definition of "fun" that encompasses the activity of clicking a picture of a treasure chest with your mouse a thousand times.
This is why some writers blasted Blizzard when WoW introduced a new "achievement" system a couple of years ago. These are rewards tied to performing random pointless tasks, over and over again (such as, fishing until you catch a thousand fish). No new content, no element of practice, or discovery, or mastery was included. Just a virtual treadmill.
Or a hamster wheel.
Of course, game developers (and various commenters, I'm sure) would correctly point out that nobody is making the players do it. Why would humans voluntarily put themselves in laboratory hamster mode? Well, it's all about...
#1. Getting You To Call the Skinner Box Home
Do you like your job?
Considering half of you are reading this at work, I'm going to guess no. And that brings us to the one thing that makes gaming addiction--and addiction in general--so incredibly hard to beat.
As shocking as this sounds, a whole lot of the "guy who failed all of his classes because he was playing WoW all the time" horror stories are really just about a dude who simply didn't like his classes very much. This was never some dystopian mind control scheme by Blizzard. The games just filled a void.
Why do so many of us have that void? Because according to everything expert Malcolm Gladwell, to be satisfied with your job you need three things, and I bet most of you don't even have two of them:
Autonomy (that is, you have some say in what you do day to day);
Complexity (so it's not mind-numbing repetition);
Connection Between Effort and Reward (i.e. you actually see the awesome results of your hard work).
Notice that pants are not necessary for job satisfaction.
Most people, particularly in the young gamer demographics, don't have this in their jobs or in any aspect of their everyday lives. But the most addictive video games are specifically geared to give us all three... or at least the illusion of all three.
You pick your quests, or which Farmville crops to plant. Hell, you even pick your own body, species and talents.
Annoying your Facebook friends with updates is a really annoying talent.
Players will do monotonous grinding specifically because it doesn't feel like grinding. Remember the complicated Tier Armor/Frost Emblem dance that kept our gamer clicking earlier.
Connection Between Effort and Reward:
This is the big one. When you level up in WoW a goddamned plume of golden light shoots out of your body.
This is what most of us don't get in everyday life--quick, tangible rewards. It's less about instant gratification and more about a freaking sense of accomplishment. How much harder would we work at the office if we got this, and could measure our progress toward it? And if the light shot from our crotch?
The beauty of it is it lets games use the tedium to their advantage. As we discussed elsewhere, there's a "work to earn the right to play" aspect of World of Warcraft, where you grind or "farm" for gold for the right to do the cool stuff later. The tedious nature of the farming actually adds to the sense of accomplishment later. And it also helps squash any sense of guilt you might have had about neglecting school, work or household chores to play the game. After all, you did your chores--the 12 hours you spent farming for gold last Tuesday was less fun than mowing the fucking lawn. Now it's time for fun.
So What's The Problem?
Video game designer Erin Hoffman said it perfectly: "Addiction is not about what you DO, but what you DON'T DO because of the replacement of the addictive behavior." She was talking about how the attraction of a simple flash game like Bejeweled depends entirely on how badly you want to avoid doing the work you have open in the other window.
Wait, what was I saying again?
The terrible truth is that a whole lot of us begged for a Skinner Box we could crawl into, because the real world's system of rewards is so much more slow and cruel than we expected it to be. In that, gaming is no different from other forms of mental escape, from sports fandom to moonshine.
Heroin: It's pretty much WoW in a syringe.
The danger lies in the fact that these games have become so incredibly efficient at delivering the sense of accomplishment that people used to get from their education or career. We're not saying gaming will ruin the world, or that gaming addiction will be a scourge on youth the way crack ruined the inner cities in the 90s. But we may wind up with a generation of dudes working at Starbucks when they had the brains and talent for so much more. They're dissatisfied with their lives because they wasted their 20s playing video games, and will escape their dissatisfaction by playing more video games. Rinse, repeat.
And let's face it; if you think WoW is addictive, wait until you see the games they're making 10 years from now. They're only getting better at what they do.
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Why do cyclists use padded shorts instead of padded saddle? It seems like putting padding on the saddle would be more optimal. Doubly so for triathlon.
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Padded seats tend to have more padding than used at any given time. This pushes the other 'extra' padding into the soft tissues. This causes numbness and discomfort over time.
So slim hard seats are actually more comfortable over time, if they are the right size. You need to make sure your sit bones (ischial tuberosity) are well situated. The sit bones of your hips are designed to support weight for long periods of time, where a plush seat disperses your weight to muscles and other areas.
Putting the padding in the shorts means that the padding will always be exactly where you need it. Most people tend to change their position on the bike a bit, specially when riding longer tours. With the padded saddles, the padding won't change when you alter your position, which can result in blisters or sores.
It's not really "padding", although it does offer a cushion. It's a chamois, which part of its purpose is to absorb moisture and wick it away from your skin which helps reduce friction. This is aided by creams that condition the chamois.
and +1 to @Matt Adams answer.
It's never a good idea to rely on the saddle for padding. The reason is simple. The sit-bones will sink into the softest saddle and therefore put extra pressure on other parts of the male anatomy where you end up feeling as if your 'privates' dropped off on the road a few miles back. You should also be 'fitted' for a seat so that you get the right width of saddle which suites you.
The chamois is a crutch for an ill fitting saddle and bike set up. Chamois are "gaskets". They hold moisture, bunch up, grip soft skin, causing friction that heats and causes burns, etc. They get worse with slight aging. If the saddle is the right shape for your groin, there should be no "gasket" introduced to the groin. My personal preference is a leather saddle (I use the B17 Brooks) that "gives", breathes, wicks away moisture and stays cool. I use a chamois-less Lycra short that ventilates immediately. With over 50 years of riding several thousand miles per year, This is what works for me. I have a garage full of saddles, many that I've modified. Cheap, ludicrously expensive, you name it. My next to best favorite (BTW) is the Selle Italia SLR superflow 130mm. Big cut-out, very thin padding, flat front to back, and narrow. Again, I use no chamois. 100 mile rides are easy. Once I wear out the Selle as a "now and then saddle", I'll just swap the B-17 around on the bike of choice for the day. It won't wear out in my lifetime. My original was built in the mid 70's and the replacement was built in 2013.


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Leon Hiebert was pastor of Andover Assembly of God (Generations Church A/G) from 1989 to 2009. He is a Viet Nam veteran who spent 10 years in the US Navy most of the time as a corpsman serving with the Marine Corps. A native of Belleville, Kan., Hiebert is semi retired and lives in Andover with his wife, Sharon. He is a school bus driver for USD 385, Andover, Kansas.
Scripture: Psalm 26:2 NIV Test me, Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;
Observation: David was asking the Lord to examine his heart and mind. The heart is the seat of our emotions. What makes us joyful? What makes us really glad? What puts a permanent smile on our face? The mind is the seat of our thinking and choosing. How many of our thoughts center on God? When making decisions, how often do we consider what would best please God?
Application: In Navy boot camp and in Hospital Corps School, we regularly opened our living quarters to inspections. My heart and my mind are the living quarters for my inner life.
Prayer: Lord, I invite you to inspect my inner living quarters. Amen
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I find that when I'm working on hourly-billable projects (in particular, those that are research/design/architecture-oriented as opposed to straight coding) that I'm easily distracted by any number of things (email, grab a drink (loss of focus, but nature happens), link off the webpage I was reading, wandering mind (easy when the job calls for a lot of thinking), etc.) This results in very fragmented time, far too incremental IMO to accurately track with a timeclock, and some time very gray. I frequently end up billing for only some fraction of the elapsed time I spent in order to feel fair, but sometimes it takes a really long time to put in an 8-hour day.
By contrast, when I've worked for salary I've not worried about whether I'm actively working at any given minute, I just get the job done, and I've never had anything but stellar reviews/feedback from past salaried employers, so I think I get the job done well. I personally believe in an 80/20 cycle: I get 80% of my work done during an inspired 20% of my time. But I have to screw around the other 80% of the time in order to get that first 20%.
So the question: what billing/time-tracking policy can I adopt in order to be fair to my hourly customers without having to write off my own less-productive 80% that a salaried employer is willing to overlook in light of the complete package?
Note: This question is not about how to be more productive or focused. It's about how to work around whatever salient limitations that I have in a way that's both fair to me and to my customers.
Update: A little clarification (to pre-emptively stop some righteous indignation): I currently have a half dozen different project/client groups. It's not a great situation and I'm working at reducing it down to two, but that's my current reality. It's very easy to get off on a thread related to a different project than the one I'm clocking, and I'm not always conscious of it at the time. [I did not intend the question to mean that I was off playing games or making personal calls, etc., and have adjusted wording above to be clearer. Most of the time. I am only human, and sometimes the mind does force you to take a break! :-)]


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- From a metro where men would be happy to Dutch on a first date, I'd moved to one where they would panic that you thought they were poor if you took out your purse, and eliminate the notion with a night ride around the city in Daddy's Merc.
- Two beers may get the average South Indian man to profess his love for you, but the Naarthie man can last up to five whiskeys, and then insist he did ten.
- When you say you did some work in the theatre, Naarthies assume you manned the ticketing desk at the cinema. When you explain, and bring in NSD (National School of Drama), they give you a pitying oh-you-must-have-parents-who-
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- The Aunties are the same across India. You figure out Aunties you meet for the first time have been spying on you when they tell you you've become dark, put on weight, got wrinkles, wear the same clothes too often, and lost hair.
- On both sides of the Vindhyas, people intend it as a compliment when they say "you look like a North Indian."


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I have mounted a couple of network shares with my
etc/fstab file - it works great, just like it's supposed to, but unfortunately every mounted drive keeps appearing twice!
When clicking one of the duplicates, an error is shown;
Unable to mount: [mountname]. Mount: According to mtab, [mount address], is already mounted on [local mountpoint]. Mount failed.
Here's how each mountpoint looks in my
//192.168.1.2/backups /media/backups cifs defaults,user=myUserName,pass=myPassWord,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
What can I do to make sure that my mounted drives only are listed once?


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Kdenlive relies on the MLT video engine.
By default, MLT only handles DV.
To have access to a wide variety of formats, you will need to install codecs.
Installed the audio and video packages listes on the following page:
On some systems, you may need to install the package names 'ffmpeg-unstripped' instead of 'ffmpeg'.


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Lamb Meatball Sliders
with Red Beet Salsa and Crème Fraîche
At the winery I serve these lamb meatballs in many different ways, in pasta dishes, on pizzas and as little sliders. In this recipe, a traditional cheese gougère replaces a slider bun. The addition of a pickled red beet salsa and some crème fraîche helps it pair well with our Cabernet Sauvignon.
Makes 24 Sliders, total time:
- 1½ cups milk
- 1½ cups water
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Pinch nutmeg
- 2½ cups flour, sifted
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese, finely grated
- 1 egg, lightly scrambled with a splash of water
Pickled Red Beet Salsa
- 1 pound red beets
- ½ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup rice wine vinegar, seasoned
Lamb Meatballs
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup shallots, minced
- 2 medium garlic cloves, minced
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, large
- 1 pound lamb, ground
- ¼ cup unseasoned bread crumbs
- ¼ cup preserved lemon, diced small
- ¼ cup shelled pistachios, toasted
- ¼ cup olives, chopped
- ¼ cup parsley, chopped
- ¼ cup crème fraîche or sour cream
- 1 cup arugula leaves
- 24 bamboo toothpicks
Make the Gougères
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Combine the milk, water, butter, salt and nutmeg in a medium pan. Bring to a simmer. Add flour and stir vigorously with a wooden spatula until the mixture forms a ball.
- Transfer dough to a standing mixer with a paddle attachment. Mix dough on medium speed, slowly adding the 6 eggs one at a time. Once all the eggs have been incorporated, add the Parmesan and continue mixing until well combined.
- Transfer mixture to a pastry bag fitted with a ½ inch round tip. Pipe each gougère onto a greased cookie tray, about 1¾ inches in diameter, spacing them about 2 inches apart. Lightly brush each gougère with the egg/water mixture. With wet fingertips, smooth tops if necessary.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown. The bottom should be nicely crisp and the inside should be moist.
Make the Beet Salsa
- Boil the red beets whole until tender, approximately 1 hour. After thoroughly cooled, peel and quarter the beets, and lightly purée in a food processor with olive oil and rice wine vinegar.
Make the Meatballs
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- In a small saucepan heat the oil and sauté the shallots and garlic until translucent. Add the pepper, coriander and salt and cook for an additional minute. Transfer to a plate to cool.
- In a medium bowl, beat the eggs and add the cooled shallot mixture. Add the ground lamb, bread crumbs, preserved lemon, pistachios, olives, and chopped parsley. Mix thoroughly together by hand and form into 24 bite size meat balls.
- Line the meatballs evenly onto a cookie tray, then bake until browned for 10-15 minutes. Keep warm.
- Cut each gougère in half, like a burger bun. Place a ¼ teaspoon of beet salsa on the bottom half and a ¼ teaspoon of crème fraîche on the top half along with a couple arugula leaves.
- Place the hot lamb meatball onto the bottom of the gougère,place the top on and pierce with a tooth pick to hold together.
- Serve on a platter with herb garnishes.
Chef's Note:
This recipe clearly makes more gougères than you will need for the lamb sliders. The great thing is that they freeze very well. Gougères make an excellent hors d'oeuvre snack all on their own. Try substituting other cheeses as well to make an exciting hors d'oeuvre.
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When you read "crab", do you think of "crap"? Is it usual to pronounce wrongly?
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Native speakers' brains are already on the right path. We won't mess it up in a conversation between native English speakers. When a native speaker hears, "What's your name? Mine ..." we already have "is" in our heads queued up. If we hear anything else, we will be surprised. A non-native speaker may not have this anticipation, and may hear "Minus" instead of "Mine is". This exact problem happened this morning between my German roommate and me.
Native speakers would almost never hear "minus" where the speaker said "mine is", and likewise we will never confuse "crab" for "crap".
Of course, I make the assumption that the speaker is also a native speaker. Non-native English speakers also have subtle linguistic clumsiness that throws off this anticipation effect. So another time we could mess it up is if the speaker says something that we have to parse word-by-word to understand, throwing off the sense of rhythm and anticipation.
No. They are two different words. If someone is saying crap when they mean crab, either their accent still needs a lot of work or else they really don't like the meal.
Voiced and unvoiced stop consonants at the ends of words can be hard to distinguish. Particularly at a break in the sentence or immediately before another stop consonant there really isn't much to voice, so the difference between 'p' and 'b' (and 't' and 'd', and 'k' and 'g') can be quite slight. Colin Fine points out that the preceding vowel tends to be lengthened before a final stop consonant, and thinking about it I have an unproven suspicion that it happens for stressed syllables too.
As @tenfour pointed out this doesn't matter so much for native speakers. We know without having to think about it what the next words plausibly could be in a spoken sentence, both from syntax and semantic information. We will frequently 'correct' what was actually said to fit our expectations. This can go as far as inserting entire omitted words because we know they must have been there. We have to be paying attention to notice that a mistake actually occurred.
I saw an entertaining experiment that demonstrated this effect in a TV documentary some years ago. One person was given a piece of text to recite, with secret instructions to get a word wrong. A second had to listen to what was being said and repeat it a second or so later -- English to English simultaneous translation, if you like! The repeater passed on the right word, without realising that there had been any error.
I suspect the two words have significantly different collocational profiles, so it seems unlikely that they would be mistaken for one another even during speech, although one could imagine a situation on a dock on the Chesapeake Bay, where a deck-hand on a fishing vessel saying "I have to take a crab" might be misunderstood as meaning "I have to take a crap", or vice-versa. In American English at least it seems that in addition to devoicing, vowel length might also distinguish the pronunciation of "crab" from that of "crap"
I think you are thinking that these two words (crab and crap) are same , but it's not like that. Crab and crap both are different words. Go to the links , you'll get the things clear.
I can't say I find it particularly common, but Dutch speakers of English might well pronounce them the same way due to their native language's devoicing of the final consonant (in a similar way that a Dutch speaker may have problems pronouncing a difference between beat and bead, and pod and pot.)


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10 May 2007 1:15 PM #1
Dragging tree nodes onto leaf nodes?
Imagine you have a tree panel showing a file system. Now, imagine you see some empty folders and want to move some files into them. How can that be done using drag and drop? It's a seemingly relatively simple task, but so far I'm clueless as to how to set up my tree panel to allow that .
10 May 2007 2:20 PM #2
Have you looked at examples? There are draggable tree examples and code of these examples is available too in the Learn/API and Examples section.
10 May 2007 2:33 PM #3
Of course . I've also mucked around in Ext's source code a bunch too, to no avail. There aren't any examples, in the documentation or the forums, that allow nodes to be dragged onto leaves, either. This is a necessary feature for me, so worst case I'll have to hack it in myself.
10 May 2007 2:37 PM #4
I don't know if this is possible but:
Could you listen to nodedragover and beforenodedrop events? First to show user proper drop enabled indicator and second to turn leaf into node before the drop.
Just idea. Never tried.
10 May 2007 7:05 PM #5
check out my solution,
I extend the tree so when u create the TreeNode, set "leaf:false", put it into the tree and expand it, it will stay a folder even it is empty. I didn't try but if it is a folder, then u can drop thing to it.
11 May 2007 2:26 PM #6
Thanks for the replies; they helped point me towards the fix . My solution was to make the following modification to Ext.tree.TreeDropZone:
getDropPoint : function(e, n, dd){ var tn = n.node; if(tn.isRoot){ return tn.allowChildren !== false ? "append" : false; // always append for root } var dragEl = n.ddel; var t = Ext.lib.Dom.getY(dragEl), b = t + dragEl.offsetHeight; var y = Ext.lib.Event.getPageY(e); - var noAppend = tn.allowChildren === false || tn.isLeaf(); + var noAppend = tn.allowChildren === false; if(this.appendOnly || tn.parentNode.allowChildren === false){ return noAppend ? false : "append"; } var noBelow = false; if(!this.allowParentInsert){ noBelow = tn.hasChildNodes() && tn.isExpanded(); } var q = (b - t) / (noAppend ? 2 : 3); if(y >= t && y < (t + q)){ return "above"; }else if(!noBelow && (noAppend || y >= b-q && y <= b)){ return "below"; }else{ return "append"; } },
TreePanel drag/drop bug
Ext.data.Node bug moving between children/no_children states
To avoid changing the core code or creating new classes, you can make those 3 changes very easily by using Ext.override .
11 May 2007 2:31 PM #7
Thanks a lot for sharing. I appreciate very much the way you handle and post bugs. Explain, show cause and propose solution. Fantastic !
12 May 2007 6:19 AM #8
No problem; I interned a couple summers at Adobe working on a big project where I'd be submitting and fixing bugs quite often, so I've learned what makes (and don't make) good bug reports .
FYI, thanks to a vague hint by Jack I've found an even cleaner way to get the desired functionality: set all nodes to leaf=false, and all leaves (according to the CS and TreePanel definitions of leaves, nodes with no children) to expanded=true and children=empty array (not null!). With that, you don't need the above-mentioned fix or the "Ext.data.Node bug moving between children/no_children states" fix, though my TreePanel drag/drop bugfix is still needed.
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Hi ,
Am seeing this problem still in extjs 4.0.5 ,Is it fixed,any Workaround....


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While safeguards exist to protect against misuse of Social Security funds by representative payees for beneficiaries with cognitive impairments, countless instances of theft and misuse go undetected annually because the impaired Social Security beneficiary is typically not competent to monitor the representative payee's management of funds.
In an article solicited for publication by the Penn State Law Review, Reid K. Weisbord, Vice Dean and Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, suggested the creation of a "family representative" program as a solution to the problem of representative payee misuse. His article caught the attention of the House Ways and Means Committee Subcommittee on Social Security and Weisbord was given the opportunity to submit a written public statement for the record following the subcommittee's June 5, 2013 oversight hearing on the representative payee program.
In his statement, Weisbord noted that Congress enacted the Social Security representative payee system in 1939 to protect beneficiaries incapable of managing their finances. The representative is appointed by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to receive and cash benefit checks on behalf of the beneficiary and spend the money appropriately. SSA has been required since 2004 to monitor payees and in some cases reimburse beneficiaries for misused funds, yet a federal study and anecdotal accounts suggest that instances of misuse may be significantly unreported, particularly for beneficiaries in an institutional setting. The agency, wrote Weisbord, lacks a reliable, structural mechanism for detecting misuse and cognitively impaired beneficiaries are often not able to detect or report misuse.
Weisbord advocates creating a "family representative" system "with the twin goals of protecting vulnerable Social Security beneficiaries and conserving scarce government resources." This system would, he explained, "rely on the volunteered service of family and friends who express a significant degree of concern for the beneficiary but who may be unwilling to accept the burden and liability associated with serving as representative payee." Because the family member would serve in a non-fiduciary capacity, the burden and liability would be far less onerous than those of the representative payee.
The family representative would be vetted and appointed by SSA to review the accounting information submitted annually by the representative payee. Given the family member's close relationship with the beneficiary, s/he would be more likely to recognize benefit misuse and would have the legal authority report it to SSA. To prevent fraud or further misuse, the family representative would not have any access to the beneficiary's finances, nor would he or she receive any payment for accepting the role of family representative.
"A family representative with first-hand observation of the beneficiary would be in a better position to detect and report benefit misuse than a governmental agency lacking personal contact," Weisbord's statement to Congress concluded. "This proposal would be essentially cost-free, protect vulnerable beneficiaries, and reduce government spending on benefit misuse reimbursements."
Professor Weisbord's research and teaching interests include nonprofit law, donative transfers, tax policy, and trusts and estates. His published work has been cited in the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. "Wills for Everyone: Helping Individuals Opt Out of Intestacy," 53 Boston College Law Review 877 (2012), was recognized as one of the top 10 noteworthy trusts and estates law review articles published in 2012.| Read Story


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I have this strange issue.
scp is hard locking my server.
I have tried
memcheck, tried downloading big files using
wget, tried
speed test in
openssl and everything works just fine, yet every time I try to copy something (from or to the machine) using
scp, it hard locks the machine.
Not even sysrq magic key combos work.
What could be the cause of this? I have no idea where to look.
Edit: I just managed to crash the system using nfs server.