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Finally, something interesting is beginning to unfold in Athena. Episode 4 is eventful and mysterious, and the circle of acquaintances is closing with enemies, ex-lovers, multiple faced impostors and long time nemesis together pretending to fight for the same cause. Truth is, all of them have their own personal agendas that go way past simple patriotism.
The game has just started, and I can't wait for future unexpected twists and betrayals amongst seemingly loyal teams, so let's sit with some popcorn and enjoy!
Episode 4 recap
Jung Woo after shooting the car and failing to stop it, is in such a complete state of shock that he can't get to pull himself together and faints. Way to finish your overseas assignment, I say. Meanwhile, the kidnapping reports have arrived to the Blue House and an emergency meeting is arranged immediately.
Our local Two Face, Son Hyuk, receives a call apparently informing that everything went exactly as planned, and a few seconds later a secretary comes to tell him that all the intelligence agencies are in alert state – she still doesn't know why, he turns his face and does the classic evil smirk.
At an Italian hospital, Jung Woo has recovered consciousness while Ki Soo tries to woo a nurse, faking a neck pain. After receiving an obvious nope as an answer, he starts complaining about this mission, impatient to go back to Korea. Jung Woo just listens, obviously thinking in more urgent matters – he's planning to take full responsibility for the girl's kidnapping. Just as Ki Soo is expressing his worries, an unexpected visit arrives: Jae Hee (LOL at Ki Soo putting on the orthopedic neck, to try his wounded guy strategy to hit on her). She goes directly to Jung Woo, asking whether he's okay and informing that the team is about to arrive, utterly ignoring his buddy.
Meanwhile, in some dark, wooden, barely sun-lighted classic creepy house, the presidential daughter is kept. Her first survival instinct is to continue her "ordinary student" farce, but her eyes can't help expressing surprise at her captor's knowledge of her status. She tries to seem tough and not worried; too bad those criminals have strict orders and the usefulness of this whole operation is about to be found out.
At the Blue House, a dark cloud of general ignorance of the situation is placed over the intelligence heads meeting. Therefore, in order to get more information, Kwon will head to Vicenza as soon as possible.
Italy Team is being gathered by Jae Hee at the NTS's quarters, giving them instructions to join forces with Italian intelligence agencies. Jung Woo arrives just in time to receive his – he must speak to the local officials about Soo Young's guards. Adding to the family reunion, NTS's backup has just arrived and it includes a certain person's presence, one that makes Jung Woo's eyes wide in surprise: Hye In's (under the codename Juliette). Kwon gives his orders quickly, after noting a bit of incompetence in Jung Woo's work, and walks away. Jae Hee asks who Hye In is, where does she belong to, only to be answered that it's not of her business. She can sense that Jung Woo knows her, but his information is lacking here too – there's no way a simple NIS attendant is here on a top secret mission.
Jung Woo can't cope with his curiosity, so he runs after her, wondering whether she's a Black agent (NIS agents who perform ops by themselves). Too bad her aura of mystery is thick and unbreakable, leading her to say sorry and keep her silence. He won't have too much time to cry over this – the kidnappers have contacted them.
Hye In is in charge of communication with the kidnappers, and when I say in charge, I'm not only referring to her in charge of just talking with them – she wants to be in charge of the negotiation too, wanting to communicate her demands first. She wants to be sure of Soo Young's safety, and, after receiving a no as an answer, she hangs up.
As expected (by her), they call again. Her confidence when telling them that she knows who they are astounds the kidnapper. As informed to the President later on, they seem to have promised to keep her safe until they get what they want.
The operation has begun. Hye In and Jae Hee, plus two snipers and observers here and there, are placed all around some kind of medieval fest. The contact is made, but the kidnapper's not happy with the amount of people Hye In has taken there – she was supposed to be alone. She removes her tracking devices as requested and gets lost in the crowd, while the kidnapper urges her to look for a white van. The NTS agents try to follow her, to no avail – she's quicker, as in smarter, and loses them easily.
Hye In finally runs away in the van, and, due to it being driven through a tunnel, tracking it becomes impossible. Jae Hee is apologetic after losing Hye In, but Kwon is forgiving – Hye In's mission was to be sure of Soo Young's safety, she'll return later.
Ki Soo is suspicious since it's obvious that Juliette lost them on purpose, but Jung Woo, worried, tells him that if Hye In did that, it's because the kidnappers saw directly through their plan. Busted! Jung Woo's previous encounter with the mysterious girl is revealed, but he walks away before he can answer any of Ki Soo's questions.
Hye In, meanwhile, has already checked Soo Young's condition and asked for their demands. They leave her somewhere by a road and put a cell phone in her hands. She informs that they have 48 hours to do what these guys are asking for – handing over Dr. Kim – and if they don't, the girl will die.
Kwon's call puts the President in a difficult predicament – he has to either give up on his daughter's life or Dr. Kim's vital nuclear research. He seems to take this matter pretty cold-headedly, putting his country's future as a priority, even if it means leaving Soo Young behind.
At US DIS, Son Hyuk receives the visit from a researcher in an undercover unit in Japan. He has to gather information and investigate, and he has something he needs to report to the Director only. Son Hyuk dismisses him, but his interest is awakened when the guy asks him about Athena (and I say, at last!). The researcher hands him what he's found until now, while defining Athena as an organization that controls the world's resources market.
Everything, from South America, to Africa, to Iraq, is connected to Athena, choosing whatever means necessary to achieve their goals. Son Hyuk tries to seem skeptic, but his interlocutor is deeply worried over South Korea's new nuclear development and the changes it'll bring over modern technology, making it the perfect subject to Athena's terrorist attacks.
He even knows that the DIS has been infiltrated with Athena's agents. Son Hyuk, faking concern, goes straightly to what's more important for him – who else knows about this? Well, it's still a personal investigation and only he knows about that (REALLY?! NO BACKUP?! OR PLAN B?! Talk about dumb investigation).
After handing a folder with Son Hyuk's assistant's profile, he leaves, relieved. I'm so sorry to say this, love, but you've just dug your own grave.
While walking back home, Son Hyuk's assistant's shadow appears in front of him. Terrified, the researcher runs in the opposite direction only to find Son Hyuk with his gun pointing directly at his chest.
Under the pressure of an impossible situation, the Secretary of the Blue House agrees with Kwon to contact the US Embassy in order to get help regarding the kidnapping. And the great circle of intelligence and counter-intelligence closes as Son Hyuk himself is appointed as the Director of the rescuing operations by the Pentagon. This bomb could detonate in his hands, but Son Hyuk is sure he can be the extreme puppet master reloaded and control both his undercover terrorist activities and governmental position.
So, the DIS' team will be in charge of all the operations now, banning any Korean activities unless thus specifically stated. Everyone's between outraged and confused; Jae Hee even tries to get some details but is ignored as if she was an insignificant insect – Son Hyuk belittles her by asking for a coffee.
As a preemptive measure, Son Hyuk asks his assistant to be especially careful with Jung Woo.
At the same time, Jung Woo is telling the Director how shocking and inappropriate this US invasion over their mission is. Nothing is answered (he doesn't even know the kidnappers' requests), he's just told to follow his orders in order to rescue Soo Young.
Son Hyuk and Jung Woo go to the place where the latter lost his targets. Jung Woo points out that this problem has nothing to do with politics, showing a naiveté that Son Hyuk finds hilarious – everything is related to politics, and on a larger scale than he can imagine thus warning him against meddling as he's used to.
The Vicenza's NTS Headquarters can change names now, Son Hyuk is forcing them to leave since the DIS will take over this operation. After conveying his orders, he asks for a meeting with the person in charge of communications. And who's that? Ta-da, Hye In.
Now alone, Hye In and Son Hyuk can talk more freely. She's weary of the whole rescuing mission, but he's confident they can carry it on in order to get Dr. Kim's whereabouts. She's perfectly aware of the kidnapper's identity – Suh Min Hyuk – but she didn't reveal herself to avoid possible complications. He commands her to give the picture data she's gathered at the place where they're holding Soo Young captive to the NTS. That way, she'll earn the Director's trust.
While the DIS heads are in a meeting trying to locate the kidnappers, Jung Woo's patience finally reaches the limit between tolerable and unacceptable. Alongside a reluctant Ki Soo and an always ready Jae Hee, they'll use Sung Cheol's help from the headquarters to lead a parallel rescue mission. Sung Cheol won't accept at first, but Joon Ho takes this as a chance to defend Korea's pride and convinces him.
Kwon invites Son Hyuk to a fancy restaurant where he's having lunch. Three years ago, Son Hyuk spared him, so now he's curious as to why he did that. The answer he gets is highly disappointing – Son Hyuk was merciful for a winning opponent. Since Kwon took it as a loser's scar, he can notice the irony of being taken as a winner by his enemy. Either way, next time they fight, he'll use Son Hyuk's dead body to cure his wounds.
Now, onto more urgent matters, Son Hyuk makes a rather (un)expected request: he'll need Dr. Kim temporarily to negotiate with the kidnappers. Much to his disappointment, that's not a decision Kwon can make.
Finally, the target's location has been found, but this won't make Son Hyuk happy for long. It seems that the government isn't intending to hand over Dr. Kim, no matter how Son Hyuk had personally checked that he had left for China. At the moment, Dr. Kim is missing.
Oh, lordy, Mr. Quadruple Agent is now angry, so he changes his operation to a Silent Storm type. And from his agents' grave faces, that's really not cool.
Kwon is listening to their meeting, thanks to a well placed device in the room, so he hears when it's said that they'll pin down the enemy, putting the VIP in danger. He doesn't care, the hostages might be lost, but they have to destroy the enemy. Those words resonate in Kwon's ears and now I'm lost as to who knows who's spying on whom.
At this crucial hour, when the operation is about to unfold, Jung Woo pays a visit to Son Hyuk. He's still indignant over these outsiders' intervention and asks for explanations or some excuse that states clearly why them Koreans can't handle their own problems. Son Hyuk has no time for this, he compares the mission to a doctor who can't perform his own children's surgery.
Okay, then, that was his last chance to convince Jung Woo.
The Director finally calls the Three Musketeers, knowing exactly what they intend to do. He simply hands them the target's location, as if it had always been in his mind to do that. They have to safely rescue the VIP, given that the Silent Storm type is all about disregarding the hostages' safety.
Now, both teams are on the road. On one side, double-faced Son Hyuk has a huge group of armed men ready to shoot at his command. On the other, two highly trained agents plus an ex-North Korean agent have to split up to cover the whole village.
After shooting the guards outside the place where Soo Young is kept, Son Hyuk's men officially are told to go there.
As of this moment, everyone on both sides is playing safe and quiet, until Ki Soo accidentally fires his gun alerting literally everyone including the kidnappers.
The operation suddenly changes to Blade Storm and now, more than ever, nothing's sure anymore.
Personal comments
Once again, I don't really find anything to say about this because, while the entertaining factor has honestly improved, there's no depth out there to analyze or even criticize. Therefore, I'll point out some pros and cons of the series up until this point.
Cons: We're still dealing with the quintessential spy drama, and in some aspects, there are characters with no background information thus leaving the impression that we're still in the "opening" part of the drama. I'm okay with that, really, hinting small character traits here and there like raindrops is ok if you handle your story accordingly.
I mean, I know this sounds confusing, but some of them (Jae Hee, Hye In, Son Hyuk) lack the passion I was expecting to get from a hotness level A+ casting in an action drama. They look robotic and unnatural (and from time to time, predictable and bored), and I wouldn't go to the lenghts of saying they're bad actors because, while I'm not a fan of either of them, they can do better than this.
Also, they must fire the person who edits the endings. My Lord, how anticlimactic was that? Several WTF faces by a lot of people, and Son Hyuk bladestorming his team – it was plain awful.
Pros: As stated before, the series seem to be improving its pace from episode to episode.
Jung-frakking-goddamn-Woo-Sung. 'Nuff said. I love his character and I love how he delivers his lines in a teenager-y tone – he wants his candy and he'll get it (with some little help from Kwon, who seems to be manipulating his previously stated work-better-only-if-feeling-underused). Also, Kim Min Jong is doing a great job as the comic relief and buddy.
The badassery of the girls. Yes, they're robotic, but they're not simple puppets of the male characters. They have their goals and they fight for them; and I'm pretty sure they'd do anything if they felt threatened.
What I'm saying, in conclusion, is that they can do better. Maybe that's why I'm expecting so much from this. They have the cast, they have gorgeous locations, an impressive budget and good camerawork, so what's keeping them from doing the perfect twists and turns drama that makes our full-of-excitement hearts pound?


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The biggest disappointment for me this election season has been Jeff Flake's general-election campaign for U.S. Senate. Then again, my fantasy about what a Flake campaign should look like may be entirely delusional.
The deficit and debt are big campaign issues, but not big enough. The federal government is walking a tightrope over a sharp and severe debt crisis.
Federal debt today is more than 100 percent of GDP, well above what economists think is safe. The federal government is borrowing around 33 cents of every dollar it spends.
The capital markets are behaving irrationally. It makes no sense to loan to an entity, deeply in debt and borrowing a third of every dollar it spends, huge sums of money at very low interest rates. At present, the financial stability of the federal government depends on capital markets continuing to behave irrationally. That's a reckless bet.
Regrettably, neither candidate for president is offering a credible plan to get safely to the other side. Under Barack Obama's plan, debt would remain above 100 percent of GDP indefinitely. Mitt Romney says he would cut spending as a percentage of GDP from 24 percent to 20 percent by the end of his first term. That would probably get us out of the danger zone. But Romney's claim is undermined by his pledge to increase spending on defense and Medicare at the same time.
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Flake almost single-handedly got rid of earmarks, congressionally designated funding for specific local projects. The importance of that is also underestimated. Earmarks may not total much in their own right. But they are the coin with which votes for undisciplined spending bills are purchased. If they come back, reining in overall spending will be virtually impossible.
Flake ran as a fiscal-conservative icon in the primary. He's not running from it in the general. But he's also not really running on it.
Instead, he is claiming to be an independent voice for Arizona while his opponent, Richard Carmona, will be a rubber stamp for Obama and Harry Reid.
The depiction of Carmona rings false. Carmona's background and record hardly suggest a rubber stamp for anyone. If he's elected, I suspect he would be like Virginia's Jim Webb, a generally reliable Democratic vote who occasionally kicks up his heels. But when he kicks, it's meaningful.
Carmona, however, has virtually nothing to say about getting the country out of the danger zone on debt. He primarily cites getting rid of Medicare and Medicaid fraud and changing the long-term trajectory of health-care spending. The prospects and savings of the latter are uncertain. But it can't be expected to be big or soon enough to get the country out of the current danger zone.
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Veritas Aflame Inferno The Breaker UxU I say 'The Breaker' and Veritas only because of the sheer amount of fighting in them. We need more GOOD fight anime about now. 'The Legend of Maian' seems like the female version of 'Bastard' - which I don't really mind in the slightest.
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well glad to see basically any manga that i read to get animated so cool on this.
though i do get annoyed by the many that seem to be like monthly or slow releases, because it makes me get worried about some crappy filler ending though as for new anime, i'm surprised there has not yet been a change 123 adoption yet. looking at recent anime adaptations it seems like it woudl fit into the ecchi genre quite well. hell seems like all the new anime this current season is very very ecchi. |
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Maybe it's Bridgette's uncanny resemblance to Tsukiumi from Sekirei that helped get the ball rolling. Since I agree with the Legend of Maian choice. The story is better and adding magic into the mix of things would be worth watching. Ah well ecchi here we come anyways...
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No point asking for anime of manhwa's that aren't even released in Japan. These following titles are serialized in Comic Valkyrie.
# Freezing (Dall-Young Lim & Kim Kwang Hyun) # Onihime VS (Dall-Young Lim & Lee Soo Hyun) # Phantom King (Dall-Young Lim & Lee Soo Hyun) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Valkyrie Going by mangaupdates Aflame Inferno is also running in that magazine. I think the previous 3 are made as manga while Aflame Inferno is like Unbalance X Unbalance in that it's flipped and translated into a manga from a manhwa. KuroKami was made as a manga. Different creators but Shin Angyo Onshi as well as Defense Devil are both made by Koreans but released as manga. |
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Spring is here .. Marakesh pants and Demi drape top
I have started sewing for the warmer weather and the next two cabs off the rank are the Hot Patterns Marrakesh pants and Stylearc Demi Drape top.
The pants I have made before - version 1 and version 2. This version is made from a polyester linen weave fabric called Harmony. The only real alterations I made to the pattern were to shorten the leg by 1" and to sew the back crotch deeper. I still get some wrinkles depending on how I stand, but overall I am pretty happy with the fit of these pants. I probably won't be able to wear them on the hottest days but they will be great for most of the Spring/Summer/Autumn here.
Detail of the waistband and pocket...
The top is my 'trial' version of this pattern. It is made from fabric left over from other projects. They coordinate well but are heavier and not as drapey as the suggested fabrics.
I made no alterations to this pattern and it is a straight size 8 (these patterns only come in one size). I am pretty happy with the fit. The sleeve is snug, so I may need to check the sleeve width if I made the longer sleeved version.
This is why you need to use to use a drapey fabric. I can see me catching all sorts of food in there :)
This won't stop me from using this top. I was trying to work out if I could use a weight but it would show so I just need to remember to smooth down the "pouffiness" every so often.
I have made another version of this top and hope to get it photographed next. I think it is a nice tee shirt shape and may make it without the cowl overlay some time.
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We've discussed the possible fate of comedy "Friends With Benefits" — whose male lead, Ryan Hansen, has just taken a role in another NBC pilot — and it's probably not good. The same probably applies to two more comedies, the rom-com anthology "Love Bites" and the "Curb Your Enthusiasm"-esque "The Paul Reiser Show."
The recent regime change at NBC, coupled with less-than-confident backing from the previous people in charge, has left all three shows in limbo. According to Vulture, it's unlikely that any of the three will get significant airtime before the season ends in late May. And since the networks announce their 2011-12 lineups about a week before that, it's really unlikely that any of the three will stick around for next season.
"Love Bites" actually had a lineup spot at one point: When NBC announced its lineup at last May's upfronts, the show was scheduled to air at 10 p.m. Thursdays. Then executive producer Cindy Chupack decided to step away from the show, the network parted ways with actress Jordana Spiro over the uncertain future of her other show, TBS' "My Boys" (since canceled), and star Becki Newton — whose character in the pilot is a virgin — became pregnant. All of that led NBC to push the show back to "midseason," but so far it hasn't aired.
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White Balance
Automatic white balance on the Optio S worked fairly well in natural light but left images looking very orange under artificial light. The preset white balance setting for incandescent light produced a near perfect color balance, however the single fluorescent preset produced an identical result to auto mode. As we would hope manual white balance was the best option for accurate color in any light source.
Outdoors, Auto | Outdoors, Sunny (or Shade) | Outdoors, Manual |
Incandescent, Auto | Incandescent, Incandescent | Incandescent, Manual |
Fluorescent, Auto | Fluorescent, Fluorescent | Fluorescent, Manual |
Macro Focus
We really didn't expect much from the Optio S in the macro department so were pleasantly surprised when we discovered that in fact it is very capable. Switch the camera to Super-Macro mode and the lens is locked at half zoom, at the closest possible focus distance (6 cm) this produced a frame coverage of 35 mm (1.4 in). For an ultra-compact digital camera this is unheard of. Kudos Pentax.
Flash Performance
The flash unit in the Optio S has a specified range (at ISO 200) of 3.5 m (11.5 ft) at wide angle and 2.0 m (6.6 ft) at telephoto. In our tests flash shots exhibited no color cast and fairly good (if conservative) exposure. The Optio S has no provision for flash power compensation.
Skin tone - Good exposure (slightly under exposed), no color cast, natural skin color | Color patches - Good color balance, good flash power, exposure could have done with a little more power |
Night exposures
The Optio S has limited night exposure capability because of its maximum 1 second shutter speed even in night scene mode. This is a huge pity because ISO 50 shots at 1 second exhibit hardly any visible noise, if Pentax had allowed exposures of up to 8 seconds the Optio S would have at least a usable night exposure capability. As things stand they only option you have available is to increase sensitivity to ISO 100 or 200, but this unfortunately introduces noise which can be hard to remove.
Night exposure: ISO 100, 1 sec, F2.6 | |
Night exposure: ISO 200, 1 sec, F2.6 |
Barrel and Pincushion Distortion
It's design may be a technical marvel but the Optio S lens does suffer from noticeable barrel distortion at wide angle, slightly more than we are used to seeing on an ultra-compact digital camera. Luckily things are better at the telephoto end of zoom where there is no measurable pincushion distortion.
Barrel Distortion, 1.4% @ wide angle | Pincushion Distortion, none @ telephoto |
Vignetting / Light fall off
Our vignetting / light fall off test is very simple, a shot of a blank wall from two meters away, vignetting will always be most visible at wide angle and maximum aperture and will start to disappear at smaller apertures and/or further zoom. The Optio S exhibited some vignetting at wide angle, specifically on the right hand corners of the image. It is possible that such vignetting could be seen in certain shots.
Slight corner vignetting visible at wide angle and maximum aperture (F2.6) | No vignetting at telephoto |
Purple Fringing (Chromatic Aberrations)
The Optio S did exhibit some purple fringing near the corners / edges of images shot at wide angle and maximum aperture (F2.6). As you can see from the crops below it seldom extends more than one or two pixels and isn't particularly strong. This is undoubtedly a consequence of the tiny lens system.
Some fringing visible in the corners of shots with high contrast | Our standard chromatic aberration test shot |
Overall Image Quality / Specific Issues
Overall the Optio S delivered relatively good images with very little noise (at ISO 50), moderately good resolution and no major artifact problems. Color balance is good, as is tonal balance which tends towards maintaining shadow detail rather than trying to be too 'punchy', of course you can modify the output from the camera by changing the image processing parameters in the record menu. One note may be that images can occasionally look a little soft and that higher ISO images do look as though they have been processed (noise reduction?).
Bottom of lens softness
One thing I did notice in images taken at wide angle and maximum aperture (F2.6) was a softness along the bottom of the image and most notably in the bottom left or right corners. Anyone who knows a little about lenses will expect the corners of the image to be softer at maximum aperture (especially for such a small lens), however this was more noticeable along the entire bottom of the image and stronger in the bottom corners than the top. It appears as though this issue may vary from one camera to the next as the Casio EX-Z3 (same lens) we had for review didn't suffer quite as noticeably.


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I want to buy this phone... But lag is my second biggest pet peeve (reception is first). I noodled around with the s4 in store and it lagged a lot (opening apps, swiping left/right etc)... Please tell me those that have it aren't seeing that in real life. I don't see anything here on the board so I'm hoping that's a good sign...
There are discussions here on the subject and things you can do to fix it. I have no lag whatsoever swiping left to right. I had it on open/close animations. When you turn off the animations the lag is gone and apps open/close super fast.
Thanks...I still can't find the discussion about it though... Find it disappointing that a phone this spec'd out has any issue with lag though... You shouldn't have to tinker with it to work right... I'd trade all that sensor stuff for a consistently snappy phone! Oh well... If there's a way to minimize it, guess that's good enough... Thanks again
I see an update soon to fix some of these issues. I'm sure that we're not the only ones seeing this, Samsung must be seeing this too. Some of the International variants have seen some updates as of late so who knows, the US versions will probably be seeing some updates soon too.
ok guys i was first in line to get the s4 the day i came out and it had lag and then returned it and same thing i did a you tube search and found this video and its 98% lag free give it a try! Galaxy S4 Lag Fix Makes it 10 Times Faster! - YouTube
Which versions are you guys using? I'm assuming the GTi9505? I've asked the admins to split the S4 forum in two because this one forum is making it seem the S4 in general has 'all' the problems posted.
Phones that you can play around in a store are usually filled with backgrounded apps taking up ram which is why it was probably leggy. Think about all the people that use the phone and run apps and then just leave.
A bit disapointed with the slight lag. usually happens when i turn the screen on/exit an app then immediately scrolll. Takes a second or so to become smooth. A phone with these specs shouldnt have this problem.
Yeah I noticed it myself when I got the Galaxy S4, I disabled animations and it's really quick now. It's amazing how Samsung overlooked this, good job it's easy to fix.
perhaps the cpu takes a second to ramp up after being idle. in many cases cpu will ramp down when idle to save battery. turning off animations and other unneeded stuff likely reduces the load and makes it more responsive.
If you don't use S voice open it up and go to its settings and disable the home button checkbox. This will pretty much get rid of the home lag when pressing the home button. Also disable the animations as shown in the video and this will essentially fix the launcher lag. On mine I was getting a lot of hiccups from the wimamp 4x1 widget and removing that made my phone smooth in combination with these other things. It should be said that my phone lagged significantly all over the place as it came from the box. The video up above shows a good representation of that and I saw it on both S4s I saw in the store and you can see it in many of the video reviews even when the phone is on final firmware. If you buy this phone you should expect some lag in the launcher and with opening and closing apps until you make some changes. This is not a case of something being overblown on forums, its real and you will have it unless you buy at a later point where a firmware update has fixed it.
Looks like the UK version has it as well - And both versions are drawing wifi complaints. The point is really about helping one another. Some variations will exist sure, but overall, problems are just issues with solutions waiting to happen. Keeping the info together benefits everyone.
UK version is the same, GT-i9505, GT-i9500 may get released here in 32GB flavor in a few months or it might not. No wifi problems as yet.
Thank you very much for the tip about disabling the home button checkbox in the S Voice settings. I did everything in the Youtube video to get rid of the lag but I still had the lag every time I pressed the home button. After unchecking the home button box in S Voice, my home button works instantly with no lag!
I seriously hope Samsung pushes a software fix for this OTA in the near future. It sounds as though there is considerable lag appearing. With a machine with as much hardware firepower as the S4 has, it's surprising that something as small as animations would cause noticeable lag. I'm still rolling with my old school Evo 3D and even that doesn't experience lag with animations turned on and all sorts of apps loaded. I really like the S4 (my girlfriend got one this past weekend) and am basically waiting to upgrade until I see how some of the reported issues shake out and whether software updates fix any of them. I'm also waiting to see if Google announces anything about the X Phone this week before I decide which device I want to upgrade to.
The animations remain, you reduce the built in delay by reducing it to zero. I'm still unclear on why anyone would even want the delay? Regardless you will see no difference other than your lag in the launcher goes away. Take the lag out of the home button by removing its delay to sense a double tap and all of a sudden in combination with the other fix the phone becomes much much better.
Good clarification, thanks. As you point out, the "lag" would make sense if it's due to a pre-defined delay that Samsung has configured out of the box. Waiting for a pre-set delay period is different then general performance lag. To your point, it's curious why Samsung has those delays set up out of the box.
Its from stock android where the settings are also available so long as you access developer which is also hidden there as it is here. So Uncle Google has provided these settings for reasons unknown to me anyways. It is interesting that these were not disabled by default as the phones hardware is easily capable of swapping loaded screens as fast as you can swipe your finger. Maybe one of the smart guys will chime in.
If it's Google as you mention, that that would make sense I suppose as they would set the "ideal" settings for a wide variety of devices, including a large number of them not as powerful as the S4. Which would lead me to believe that Samsung wasn't aware of this or didn't notice it, as they would have had the option in their tweaked version of Android to get rid of this delay since the S4 hardware is obviously powerful enough to handle the animations and transitions without requiring any delay. Hope this is on their list of things they can address in a future update so people don't have to remember to go tweak these settings that aren't necessary on a device as powerful as the S4.
Many UI programmers consider slower transitions to be a bit more friendly for newcomers to an interface. Not saying that I know why they did this, but in addition to supporting lesser hardware, maybe that was a factor. I've seen that, someone touches something and then jerks in surprise at a fast transition. Just saying maybe though, don't know.
Just as another data point.... I've taken a look at my Xperia Z and the 'Window animation', 'Transition animation' and 'Animator duration' scales are all set to 1x by default, so it appears to be universal for JB.


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July 19th, 2010, 12:00 pm by Curtis Zupke, Staff writerANAHEIM - A sense of uneasiness settled into Nick Bonino when he got the phone call.
It was more than month before Ducks' conditioning camp, and Bonino was informed by team strength and conditioning coach Sean Skahan that he would be doing a stationary bike test known as Wingate.
This would require Bonino to sprint against a resistance of seven percent of his body weight for 30 grueling seconds. He had never done it, but he understood the torture factor, and it didn't disappoint when he completed at this month's camp.
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October 6th, 2008, 1:42 pm by Dan Wood, Staff writerDucks players, coaches and management personnel are scheduled to attend a "Meet the Team'' function at 7 p.m. Friday at historic Mission San Juan Capistrano.
The wine-tasting event, presented by OCRegister.com, will benefit the Ducks Foundation and Register Charities.
The outdoor gardens and adobe-brick walls of the "Jewel of the Missions" will serve as the backdrop for the intimate event, giving guests the opportunity to taste a variety of wines provided by Young's Market Company while mingling with their favorite players. Wines will be specially paired with appetizers prepared by Hyatt Regency Caterers.
Silent-auction items will include a watch party for 10 in the Ducks locker room and a training session with Ducks strength and conditioning coach Sean Skahan. Raffle prizes will also be available.
The event will take place one night after the Ducks open the NHL regular season on the road against the San Jose Sharks, and two nights before Sunday's home opener against the Phoenix Coyotes at Honda Center.
>>>> Read the rest of this entry »Ducks' Ryan absorbs painful 'kick'
October 3rd, 2008, 12:15 pm by Dan Wood, Staff writerDucks coach Randy Carlyle called the blow Bobby Ryan just received "a kick south of the waist."
A victim of the Ducks' uncomfortable proximity to the NHL's $56.7 million salary cap, Ryan learned Friday morning that he has been assigned to the Iowa Chops of the American League.
"For sure, it's disappointing," Carlyle said. "His performance made it difficult to do the reassignment, but in the new world of the NHL, cap issues are cap issues. He falls into that category."
A rookie winger who produced five goals and 10 points in 23 games with the Ducks last season, Ryan might not be in Iowa for long.
With nearly a week remaining before Thursday night's regular-season opener against the San Jose Sharks, the Ducks could still fine-tune their roster. Even if Ryan does begin the season with the Chops, the Ducks could recall him at any time. Ryan remains a viable candidate for the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the year.
> Read the rest of this entry »O'Donnell leaves Ducks with fond memories
October 1st, 2008, 7:00 am by Dan Wood, Staff writerThe first asked him to telephone Ducks general manager Brian Burke.
"That's pretty much the kiss of death right there," O'Donnell said.
The second was from Ducks center Todd Marchant, after O'Donnell learned that he had been traded to the Kings for a conditional pick in the 2009 NHL entry draft.
"Todd Marchant kind of caught me off guard," O'Donnell said. "He said 'It was great knowing you, playing with you, and we'll keep in touch. I'll never forget that I was the one that passed you the Cup.'"
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True or false: this week has been a doozy. It has truly been a doozy for my circle of friends. I don't know what is in the air or the stars, but the week has been oddly ripe for health procedures and boy drama. If you can say the same, take heart! You're not alone. Cryptic messages aside, I've mostly been staying up late packing and frequenting the nearby liquor store for boxes. (My bar will be fully stocked at my new place. Party time!)
Moving day is tomorrow and I am downright giddy about leaving this space. Every time my belongings fit neatly into their cardboard box, I feel a slight reaffirmation that I have made the right decision. I'm tired of driving around in circles looking for parking spots and cramming jars of olive oil back into my overcrowded kitchen cabinets. So tired.
I'm also beyond eager—like stomping my feet impatient—to see my new place come together. I cannot wait to wash my clothes in my own washer and dryer, bake cookies in a full-sized oven and let Cookie outside at night instead of donning my puffy coat. I'll feel downright spoiled over there.
I've been on a slaw bender ever since the life-changing slaw at Justus Drugstore that inspired my brussels slaw. This slaw is crunchy and satisfying, filling and full of flavor. I tend to get snacky when I'm feeling anxious or unsettled, so I've been taking a fork to this slaw in those moments. Chomp chomp chomp!
- 4 ounces soba noodles
- 1 small purple or green cabbage, sliced into quarters and core removed
- ½ pound (about 12) Brussels sprouts, optional
- 4 carrots, peeled
- 1 bunch green onions, trimmed and sliced into thin rounds
- ½ cup peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons white wine vinegar or rice vinegar
- 3 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 3 tablespoons reduced-sodium tamari or other soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave nectar
- 1 tablespoon finely grated fresh ginger
- 2 garlic cloves, pressed or minced
- Sprinkle of coarsely chopped peanuts
- Handful of cilantro, coarsely torn
- 1 lime, sliced into wedges
- Cook the soba noodles: bring a large pot of water to boil and cook the noodles according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water before returning to pot.
- Prepare the vegetables: This is easier in a food processor than by hand. If using a food processor, shred the cabbage and sprouts with the slicing disk, then grate the carrots using the grating disk. Or use a chef's knife to chop the cabbage and sprouts into thin strips, then coarsely grate the carrots.
- Prepare the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients until smooth. If the mixture should be thick but drizzly; if it's too thick, whisk in water in 1 tablespoon increments until it is. You might need to add a little salt, to taste, since the flavors have been diluted.
- In a large serving bowl, combine the cooked soba noodles, shredded cabbage and sprouts, grated carrots, and chopped green onions. Pour dressing over the vegetables and toss to coat (you may or may not need all of the dressing). For best flavor, let the slaw marinate for 20 minutes before serving.
- Serve slaw with a sprinkling of chopped peanuts, torn cilantro and a lime wedge.
- Adapted from River Cottage Veg.
- This makes a whole lot of slaw! Feel free to halve the recipe by buying about 6 cups prepared slaw mix and roughly halving the dressing ingredients.
- To make this recipe gluten free, either omit the noodles or buy certified gluten-free soba noodles. You might also have good results with a firm gluten-free spaghetti, like a corn and quinoa variety. Be sure to use tamari (check the label to make sure it's gluten free) instead of regular soy sauce, which is not gluten free.
- To make this recipe vegan, use agave nectar instead of honey.
- This slaw keeps very well for a few days (covered and refrigerated). Before serving, wake up the flavors with a dash of lime juice or vinegar and more fresh cilantro.
P.s. More peanutty/noodley/cabbagey recipes you might like: spicy Thai peanut sauce over roasted sweet potatoes and rice, peanut soba noodle bowl, honey mustard Brussels sprout slaw, West African peanut soup and soba noodle & raw veggie salad.


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He was given last rights that day, and it was the last year F1 races at the north ring.Originally Posted by Wikipedia
there was a whole thread on it awhile back, the entire story even.
bunch of guys from UK decided to do the "lifelong dream" drive cross country and drive the ring, they documented the whole thing, its a pretty decent read, hopefully someone with better memory/logging skills can pull that out of the history books and repost it here.
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Neons were tin-can penalty boxes with so-so reliability and durability, but they're great to drive, and yes, handle very well for FWD cars. Hell, they even had multi-link rear suspensions, unlike, well, any MkIII or MkIV Volkswagen.
The only knock I've ever heard against SRT-4s at the track is that they tend to eat drive axles. Well, when I say eat, I mean eject them from the transmission at speed.
Well, I looked up SRT-4 FAQs on their hateful website and front camber setting STOCK is 0 degrees.
On the note of handling: I remember reading somewhere that a famous autoX driver took an SRT-4 (can't remember if it was the 1st gen or 2nd one with LSD) on a course and absolutely hated it/had a horrible time. I mean, if one of the best autoX drivers in the world can't make a given car run a great time, then I'm not sure the handling is "amazing". Sure, stiffer suspension, thicker swaybars, and LSD help, but I'm not convinced that back 7 years ago Dodge paid all too much attention to properly tuning the suspension of the SRT-4 as they did the engine and turbo setup for drag racing.
I thought it was funny when ads for car insurance popped up during the first vid.
I love how you think camber is the only thing that will affect how a car handles.
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I think you're confusing speed with handling ability. You can pull away in the straights to get the lead but still lose ground in the corners. That doesn't mean it has amazing handling ability. And nowhere did I say camber is the only thing affecting handling (though it matters quite a bit). But the FACT that Dodge failed to give the car front camber at all from the factory is a to me, and I don't see how you can claim that it handles well if it is missing even that important component. Plus, you can't pull out the "World Champ. Racing" or "SCCA Pro" stuff because those cars are NOT stock by any means, and therefore will have had a camber kit added to the front, stiffer sway bars than stock, strut bars, weight reduction, bigger turbo, etc.
Why does every decent thread on this board turn into a ****storm of idiots arguing about nothing?
If you want to discuss something that is "extremely OT" make a new thread about it. Don't **** in someone else's thread
Y u mad tho?
And on the topic of crashing at the 'ring, when I play my Forza 3 on the 'ring I can't make it through the race without going off road once or needing to hit the back button (even when not even trying to go fast). If I can't even do a complete lap without messing up on a video game, I don't expect to do the same IRL. Funny to see others attempt and fail though.
this is particularly funny today with the 1911 button
The SCCA Solo National Tour results would like to have a word with you. The SRT-4 has been kicking ass and taking names for a few years now, including the 2010 national champion.
P.S. I don't care either way about the SRT-4. Never driven one. Not a mopar fan. But your points are generally invalid and that bugs me more. So yeah. One driver disliking a car does not mean it is completely incapable of this mystical thing called 'handling'.


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RATIONALE: Determination of genetic changes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer may help predict the outcome of treatment. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug, and giving them before surgery, may shrink the tumor so that it can be removed during surgery.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study genetic changes and the effectiveness of combining vinorelbine with gemcitabine before surgery in treating patients who have stage IB, stage II, or stage III non-small cell lung cancer.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Lung Cancer |
Drug: gemcitabine hydrochloride Drug: vinorelbine ditartrate Genetic: cytogenetic analysis Genetic: loss of heterozygosity analysis Genetic: microarray analysis Procedure: conventional surgery Procedure: neoadjuvant therapy |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Molecular And Genetic Changes In Patients With Resectable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With Vinorelbine And Gemcitabine - Phase II Study |
Enrollment: | 21 |
Study Start Date: | March 2000 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | May 2003 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
- Determine the frequency of expression of epithelial markers CK19, CK20, MUC1, and MUC5 (by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction) in lymph node tissue and blood samples of patients with resectable stage IB-III non-small cell lung cancer treated with neoadjuvant vinorelbine and gemcitabine followed by surgery.
- Determine the expression of the multidrug resistance-associated protein gene before and after treatment with this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the global expression profile of genes (by microarray technology) in tumor tissue of patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the frequency of loss of heterozygosity at several loci on chromosomes 3p, 9p, and 11p before and after treatment with this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the percent positivity of cells that stain for MCM2 and CDC6 (prereplicative complex) by immunohistochemistry before and after treatment with this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the feasibility of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the pathological response rates in patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the side effects of this regimen in these patients.
- Determine the disease-free and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the autologous immune response in patients treated with this regimen.
OUTLINE: Patients receive vinorelbine IV over 6-10 minutes and gemcitabine IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 8, 22, and 29 in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients with no disease progression by scans or bronchoscopy undergo surgical resection between days 57-70 (weeks 8-10).
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at loci on chromosomes 3p, 9p, and 11p is assessed in blood specimens, tumor tissue, and noncancerous tissue before and after chemotherapy. Specimens are also examined for molecular markers of occult metastasis using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Multidrug resistance-associated protein gene expression is also determined using microarray technology.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 5 years, and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Histologically confirmed non-small cell carcinoma of the lung
- May be confirmed at the initial bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy
- Stage IB (T2, N0, M0)
- Stage IIA (T1, N1, M0)
- Stage IIB (T2-3, N0-1, M0)
- Stage IIIA (T1-3, N1-2, M0)
- stage IIIB (2 lesions in 1 lobe [T4])
- No N3 lymph nodes (contralateral mediastinal/hilar and supraclavicular/scaline) OR T4 primary tumor (malignant pleural effusion or mediastinal invasion) by clinical staging criteria (seen on CT or PET scan and proven by mediastinoscopy)
No metastatic disease (except N1 or N2 disease) or malignant pleural effusion* detected on preoperative evaluation
No exudative effusions (even if cytologically negative)
Pleural fluid is considered exudative if the following apply:
- Ratio of pleural fluid protein to serum protein is greater than 0.5
- Ratio of pleural fluid lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) to serum LDH is at least 0.6
- Pleural fluid LDH is greater than 200 IU/L
- No multiple areas of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake** outside the area of the primary tumor in the lung NOTE: *Effusions visible only on CT scan and not large enough for safe thoracentesis are allowed
NOTE: **If only 1 area shows an increase in FDG uptake, the area of concern requires further evaluation (e.g., biopsy) to exclude metastatic disease
- Bidimensionally measurable or evaluable disease* NOTE: *Lesions apparent on chest CT scan (e.g., ill-defined masses associated with post obstructive changes and mediastinal or hilar adenopathy measurable in 1 dimension) are considered evaluable
- 18 and over
Performance status
- Not specified
Life expectancy
- Not specified
- WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
- Hemoglobin at least 9 g/dL
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
- AST or ALT no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal
- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Deemed medically fit for surgical resection
- No other active malignancy within the past 2 years except nonmelanoma skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
- No psychological, sociological, or geographical condition that would preclude study compliance
Biologic therapy
- Concurrent participation in the RPCI vaccine study (postoperative vaccination with autologous tumor-associated antigen-pulsed dendritic cells) is allowed
- No prior chemotherapy for lung cancer
- No concurrent participation in another study involving other chemotherapy agents
Endocrine therapy
- Not specified
- No prior radiotherapy for lung cancer
- No concurrent participation in another study involving radiotherapy
- No prior surgery for lung cancer
- More than 3 months since other prior major surgery (e.g., coronary artery bypass graft)
- No other prior therapy for lung cancer
- No other concurrent antineoplastic agents
- Concurrent participation in observational studies requiring bloodwork, radiographs, pulmonary function tests, or quality of life studies is allowed
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00057798
United States, New York | |
Roswell Park Cancer Institute | |
Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263-0001 |
Study Chair: | Nithya Ramnath, MD | Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
Responsible Party: | Nithya Ramnath, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00057798 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | April 7, 2003 |
Last Updated: | March 7, 2011 |
Keywords provided by Roswell Park Cancer Institute:
stage I non-small cell lung cancer stage II non-small cell lung cancer stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung Respiratory Tract Neoplasms Thoracic Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Neoplasms Lung Diseases Respiratory Tract Diseases Carcinoma, Bronchogenic Bronchial Neoplasms Gemcitabine Vinorelbine Vinblastine Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic |
Antimetabolites Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Antineoplastic Agents Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents Enzyme Inhibitors Immunosuppressive Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic Tubulin Modulators Antimitotic Agents Mitosis Modulators |
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In his Message, dated February 20, the Holy Father writes that this anniversary "is an appropriate occasion to give more profound consideration to the aspects characterizing the saint's multifaceted personality as scholar, hermit, man of the Church and, above all, enamoured of Christ."
"St. Peter Damian," he continues, "was first and foremost a hermit, indeed the last theoretician of hermitic life in the Latin Church," who lived "at the very moment when the schism between East and West came about."
After highlighting how for St. Peter Damian "the hermit's life was a powerful call for all Christians to the primacy of Christ," Pope Benedict recalls that this Italian saint "was ready to travel from his hermitage and go anywhere his presence was necessary to mediate between contending parties, whether they were ecclesiastics, monks or simple faithful."
"After each ecclesiastical mission he returned to the peace of his hermitage of Fonte Avellana and, free of all ambition, even definitively renounced the dignity of the cardinalate so as not to be drawn away from his hermit's solitude, the cell of his hidden life in Christ."
The Holy Father also recalls that St. Peter Damian was "the soul of the 'Gregorian reform' which marked the passage from the first millennium to the second and of which Pope St. Gregory VII was the heart and the driving force."
"With the pen and the word" the saint addressed "his hermit confreres, demanding the courage of a radical commitment to the Lord, as near as possible to martyrdom." He called on "Popes, bishops and high-ranking prelates to show evangelical detachment from honors and privileges in carrying out their ecclesial functions," and he reminded "priests of the exalted ideal of their mission, to be exercised with purity of private life and true individual poverty."
St. Peter Damian's was aware "that only through a constant harmonic tension between the two fundamental poles of life - solitude and communion - can effective Christian testimony develop. Is not this," the Pope concludes, "also a valid teaching for our own times."


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Now is a great time to pick up our game cards!That's right, if you've ever been to a Target store, you've probably seen our game cards sitting on the shelves. And for a limited time, they are running an in-store only promotion where you can get a $20 dollar game card for only $18! (Zhoom did the math, and says that means you are getting a really nice deal! $20 dollars worth of upgrades for only $18!)
Twillies appwoves of these new game cawds!The Target promotion will run from July 18th (it's in-stores now!) through July 31st, so be sure to stop by a Target store near you and check out our cards. This is something you don't want to miss! And don't forget you can finally stack up cards to get bigger packages in the BattleOn Master Account Sysem.
MetroCon is this weekend!If you're in the Tampa area (or even a ways out, one player told us he's coming all the way from Georgia), try to stop by MetroCon and say hi! Artix and Nythera will be manning the swag table (we have some GREAT new items!) along with many of the other staff who work in the Secret Underground Lab. (Just be sure not to show up dressed as a zombie or ghost. I'm pretty sure Artix has a special battleaxe JUST for slaying Condead!)
Thyton will be sketching random pieces of art to hand out, so if you want a signed piece of his work, (which you can see throughout MechQuest and DragonFable) now's your chance! We'll also try to set up a DVD showing gameplay AND clips from the terrible (and hilarious!) live-action ninja movies Artix and his crew have been filming at an undisclosed location.
Now how about that swag?
Cluck cluck moo!
Our swag table will have Chickencow t-shirts, MechQuest artbooks, more t-shirts AND the unveiling of one of our secret projects! Spoiler pic here: You too can here the sound of doom and awesome combined! You'll also get a free armored Chickcalf pet in DragonFable AND a non-member Armored Chickcalf pet in AQWorlds, too!
This week's release news!We'll be having another crazy quest for you this week! You'll want to get caught up on the Nythera chain if you've missed the last week, because you won't want to miss what is happening this Friday!
The DF team here in the Secret Underground Lab and wayfaraway are all geared up and ready to go for this week's content! Tomix is working on the final additions to the Nythera class animations while we pile even MORE work on Ghost! Rolith is pounding out the components of a secret project, but he'll be back to working on DF by the end of the week. Khelios is going to get with Tomix and come up with some new Nythera skills while he and Verlyrus have a loooooong chat about fixing many of the smaller bugs in DragonFable. (Yay bugfixing!) Geopetal and I are both writing and building the quests for this week while planning what's to come.
So that wraps up what WE'RE doing this week (minus the nerf gun fights, movie night, and D&D). What about you? How are you enjoying the Summer?
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Chase Budinger has been cleared by doctors to start doing agility drills while he works his way back from a knee injury that has kept him out for most of the season. The team says Budinger was cleared on Monday and will start doing more running on the court in addition to some cutting and jumping on his surgically repaired left knee. Budinger will be re-evaluated in two to three weeks, putting his return to the court likely closer to the end of March. He tore the lateral meniscus in his knee in the sixth game of the season. The loss robbed the Wolves of a much-needed perimeter shooter and versatile swingman. The Wolves start a three-game road trip in Phoenix on Tuesday. © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. |


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Self hosted tracking202, prosper202 is working perfectly fine, besides for it will not work with SSL. I cannot use any secure postback links with this setup in this way.
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without being able to look at what's going on, my 2 guess are that, you don't have ssl installed or it's not installed properly.
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"Experimentation, prototyping, beta testing — sure, great for tech start-ups, but this is a pharmaceutical company. We can't just meddle around with…
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Startups aren't the only companies that innovate, despite our cultural obsession with them. Big organizations do it, too; they're just more encumbered. They have the weight of history as an anchor, hard-to-unwind investments, well-worn behaviors (e.g., That's not the way we do things around here), and more established employees. Risk tastes different to a 40-year-old in a large organization than a 20-year-old with nothing to lose.
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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Animalia | Chordata | Amphibia | Anura | Craugastoridae |
Scientific Name: | Psychrophrynella pinguis |
Species Authority: | (Harvey and Ergueta, 1998) |
Synonym(s): |
Phrynopus pinguis Harvey and Ergueta, 1998
Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii) ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Date Assessed: | 2008-01-01 |
Assessor(s): | Ignacio De la Riva |
Reviewer(s): | Ariadne Angulo and Simon Stuart |
Justification: Listed as Vulnerable in view of its extent of occurrence of less than 20,000 km2, area of occupancy of less than 2,000 km2, with all individuals in fewer than ten locations, and a projected decline in the extent and quality of its habitat due to climate change. |
Previously published Red List assessments: |
Range Description: | Psychrophrynella pinguis is known only from the type locality of "Choquetanga Chico" (16 48' S, 67 21' W), in Inquisivi Province, department of La Paz, Bolivia, at 3450 masl (Harvey and Ergueta 1998; De la Riva, 2007). Although it is likely to have a small range, its distribution is still very incompletely known. | ||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: Bolivia, Plurinational States of | ||||
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Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | It is known only from the original specimens, and there has been no recent surveying of the type locality. | ||
Current Population Trend: | Unknown | ||
Additional data: |
Habitat and Ecology: | Individuals of this species have been found under stones in a humid stream bed; the area consists a mixture of low elfin forest and pastures, with abundant mosses and lichens. Other anurans found at the type locality were Pristimantis platydactylus, Telmatobius espadai, and Gastrotheca marsupiata (Harvey and Ergueta, 1998; De la Riva, 2007). The species presumably breeds by direct development. |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): |
It is probably threatened to some extent by smallholder agriculture. In addition, a restricted geographic distribution and the predicted effects of climate change (e.g. drying up of regions) are considered to pose serious threats to the species (I. De la Riva, pers. comm. 2008). |
Conservation Actions: | It has not been recorded from any protected areas. |
Citation: | Ignacio De la Riva. 2008. Psychrophrynella pinguis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T57226A11605205. . Downloaded on 29 March 2017. |
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quartz composer and jitter, a common mystery to me…
hello all you jittery folk,
now that i have complete my big project, [utforma]. i am now looking into getting into jitter much more, mainly because i did spend the cash for it, and plus i do like video stuff to go with my music. and have recently had some ideas to make patches for music videos.
there is one thing that i have been wondering, which did get half answered, but i am still full of haze as to getting it done.
i enquired axiom crux about how he gets those cool visuals that he does. he replied back saying it is all a matter of shaders. fair enough, i thought. that is great. and also by using quartz composer to build them and then wrap them in jitter. even better because i also do use a mac and it comes with it.
but the one last thing that does keep the haze over my eyes, is how do you build shaders in quartz composer? this does confuse me some what, as i can not seem to find anything on making shaders in quartz composer. i know there is another application in the developers folder called OpenGL shader builder, but nobody has said they use that. only QC.
so could someone shed some light on using QC for shaders please, it would mean quite a big deal
many thanks…
lewis edwards
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Hello Lewis:
indeed, shaders are really cool and using QTZ to prototype can be a good option. I would recommend you to visit this site:
This is the best community for qtz users and people there are really friendly, just like our fellas 'round here ;-).
To use shaders in qtz:
Open a patch and drag from the library window a 'GLSL Shader', Double click it and inside the patch drag a Track Ball' object. Double click again and drag a 'Sphere'. Click the icon Edit Parent until you reach again the GLSL shader. Drag an 'Image' and connect the 'image' pin to the texture pin of the Shader object. Select the image object and press apple+2. Choose an image to use as a texture. That's it, the most basic shader in qtz!
To edit the shader select the 'GLSL Shader' and press apple+2. You will see the fragment and the vertex shaders. You can toy with them or even better, get a copy of the 'Orange Book'!
The shader builder is one of the best 'unknown' applications on OSX. It is really nice way to write shaders and test them. You even can use geometry shaders there. It crashes from time to time, but it is a useful tool to learn and test shading.
Hope it helps!
awesome 6000. thats is fantastic, thanks for the help…
My Quartz Composer plugins all use GLSL shaders behind the scenes. There are some subtle bugs with the GLSL macro object so I avoid it. If you are curious, my plugins all include the source. http://002.vade.info, as well as Jitter shaders on http://001.vade.info
All that said, I'm sure Cycling would appreciate any further QC talk to take place on the various QC boards. Feel free to contact me directly if you have questions about the various differences between the patching envionments, because they are plenty.
Briefly, Jitter is almost infinitely more flexible out of the box. QC.. more 'embeddable"…
hi vade, aye i have seen your shaders, but have not gone deep into them yet.
i have also tried to look for an email for you, but could not find one, could you get a hold of me please, my email is lewis[a]smokingbunny[dot]co[dot]uk
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Business Planning and Finance Workshop - Swindon
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Designed to support potential and new entrepreneurs, this in-depth workshop will help you to create and develop a robust, investment-ready business plan and financial forecast.
You will receive a copy of the templates that will tick the right boxes with investors and lenders and there is an opportunity to network with like-minded people and discuss your business goals in a supportive environment.
Key areas covered in this one-day workshop include:
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You will also be offered a one-to-one meeting with a business adviser, which usually takes place one month after the workshop, to discuss your business plan and help with your start-up loan application. This workshop also includes a buffet lunch.
Who should attend:
Potential and new entrepreneurs who are looking for support to develop a robust, investment-ready business plan and financial forecast. Not suitable for employees or for those without a firm business idea.
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.NETLink and notebooks
Hello. I'd like to pass an array from a .NET program into Mathematica so th= at it is useable from a Mathematica notebook. The following code gets the object s into a new kernel (F# syntax): open Wolfram.NETLink let ml = MathLinkFactory.CreateKernelLink() ml.WaitAndDiscardAnswer() let y = new Expr(s) ml.Put(y) ml.EndPacket() I'd like to open a notebook associated with this kernel, but can't find how= to do this. Thanks for any help.


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John is a managing director in the Social Impact service line of Deloitte Consulting LLP, focusing on food safety and emerging market issues. He has extensive experience in private sector development and country competitiveness policy and strategy. John has advised public sector clients in more than 20 countries on issues including enterprise development, industrial policy, investment promotion, and export promotion. He is a prolific writer and has presented on economic development at worldwide forums.


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A tanker truck full of booze got tipsy and overturned yesterday.
No one was seriously hurt when a tanker truck carrying 6,000 gallons of Scotch whisky overturned and caught fire in Woodbridge, N.J.
Fire Chief Dan Gregan tells The Home News Tribune of East Brunswick the truck was making a turn when it clipped a telephone pole, hit a parked car and ignited Tuesday morning on King Georges Road.
The chief wasn't sure whether the truck's fuel or the Scotch caught fire.
The driver, who works for a hauling company in Newark, was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
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text: The Covered Bridge Quilters have been giving out a quilt to the first baby born on March 15, which is National Quilt Day. This year's hospital that was chosen was St. Margaret's in Spring Valley. Pictured with Raelynn Michelle Foster of LaMoille, who received the quilt, are Sandy Gladhill (from left), Yvonne Morman, Mom Jayme Reed holding Raelynn, Dad Terry Foster and Cathy Baltikauski.


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I spent lot of time searching how to receive video streams from VLC into Jitter.
My problem is that i can't figure how to read rtsp streams directly with quicktime, using the jit.qt.movie object.
VLC seems to be able to (re)broadcast rtsp streams to an IP adress using UDP,RTP or HTTP.
I tried to grab those streams from VLC into max using jit.qt.movie, jit.net.receive and a third part object called jit.ffdec without any result…
If someone experienced it i'm curious to know how to do that…
use syphon or otherwise make the stream directly into jitter with http max objects
For interested people,
you can grab video from VLC using jit.ffdec from The art collider project.
Open network stream with VLC, select your URL and then choose the udp or http stream protocol for the diffusion and send it on the "localhost" IP, port 8000 or other. then return in your patcher and tell jit.ffdec "open http://localhost:8000"
Could I see an example code of this suggested appoach?
Because I was interested myself I started googling a bit: http://wiki.theartcollider.org/inout/maxmsp
Hi all Does anybody have the 'jit.ffdec' objects? I can't find them anywhere on the net. I would really appreciate if you can upload or send them to me (firstname.lastname@example.com). Thanks!
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Newcastle have confirmed the signing of teenager Mehdi Abeid from French side Lens.
The deal to bring the 18-year-old midfielder to the Barclays Premier League has been in place for some time, but the Magpies have now formalised the move on a five-year contract.
Reserve team manager Peter Beardsley said: "We are delighted to bring Mehdi to the club. He is a bright, young talent and we think he has an exciting future ahead of him."
He added: "After an impressive trial with us earlier in the year, I'm looking forward to working with Mehdi and developing his talent."
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School: Liberty Center
Year: Senior
Sports: Cross country, track
Notes: Cross country -- placed 11th in Division III state meet to help Tigers win team title last year; 23rd in 2010 as team was runner-up; track -- three-time state qualifier in 3200 meters and 3200 relay (best finishes were 10th in 3200 last year and eighth in 3200 relay in 2010)
School subject: Math
Car: Nissan Cube
Facebook or Twitter? Facebook
Store: Forever 21
Musical artist: Matt Kearney
Song: "Lucky," by Colbie Callait
TV show: NCIS
Movie: Harry Potter
Actor: Daniel Radcliffe
Actress: Emma Watson
Magazine: Seventeen
Radio station: 92.5 FM
Food: Any Italian pasta
Beverage: Gatorade
Fast food: Subway
Can't resist snack: Oreo cookies
Place to visit: Lake Erie
Athlete: Teammate Brittany Atkinson
Baseball team: Tigers
NFL team: Giants
NBA team: Cavaliers
Person I most admire: My dad, Scott
Person I'd like to meet: Barack Obama
It really bothers me when: People don't give their all
In 10 years I hope to be: In a steady job and starting my family
My No. 1 goal this year: End my cross country season with a bang and giving all
Top sports moment: Standing on the podium with teammates as state cross country champions
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