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The Old Codger: playing 78 RPM records like they're going out of style!
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blossom m.:
You tell that homewrecking hussy Nora Bayes that I remember when she was still little Leonora Goldberg from Joliet, Illinois! | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:08pm
Courtney's assistant:
Courtney has asked me to instruct you to step away from the radio, ma'am. he don't want no trouble. | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:08pm
Marc F:
Good to hear the Original OC again... | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:20pm
Mr. Tea:
Go ahead, Courtney, and start a Coffee Bagger movement. | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:23pm
I'd like to hear some Shakira please. | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:24pm
Laura L:
Chant of the Weed! What kind of song is this! Weed is illegal! You are a naughty boy, Courtney! | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:26pm
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Laura, Courtney has asked me to instruct you to step away from the radio, ma'am. he don't want no trouble. | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:29pm
Sen. Hopeless:
Courtney, wasn't this the theme song for Brokeback Mountain, the Greek tragedy by those Coen boys? | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:34pm
ms. bean:
You ain't played near enough Mumford Bean & His Itawambians. | |
Tue. 1/12/10 7:44pm
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Great show! from Al in Torquay, U.K. | |
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Great Show! | |
Tue. 1/12/10 9:48pm
Van Up:
Courtney's got the right tastes but he forgets he's also playing 80rpm's like they're goin' outta style. | |
Wed. 1/13/10 12:18am
I've stepped away from the radio but I can hardly hear you now. If you call me back, I won't know it. | |
Fri. 1/15/10 11:03am
Jimmy Otto:
Satellite radio oughta have a vintage music channel and Irwin oughta program it | |
Tue. 2/2/10 6:21am
Shropshire Lad:
About time we got back to 78 rpm - things have been revolving too slowly round here. | |
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Internet porn nearly ruined one fledgling online business - until we stepped in.
Donna Baines worked "tirelessly for two years around the clock" building up the Facebook page for her ilovemybff.com website until she had nearly 1.5m fans.
A toy company was lined up with a licencing deal and Donna thought she might finally make some money from her idea.
But the Facebook page - where friends could exchange mushy messages - began attracting hard-core pornographic spam messages.
Donna, from Brighton, said she tried her best to delete them - but it wasn't enough for Facebook.
After she complained to them about the spam they told her the page had "been removed for violating our Terms of Use".
Five weeks later, the page was still down and Donna told us: "I'm devastated. I just can't believe it.
"When I told them that I and my fans thought they weren't dealing with the problem effectively they simply removed my page."
After we contacted Facebook, the site was back up within hours.
A spokesman told us: "The page had received an unusually large number of spam posts.
"As a result, the page was temporarily disabled while this content could be removed by Facebook's user operations team, and we apologise for any inconvenience this caused."
But, in under an hour, Donna's porn spam problem was back.
Three tips from Facebook for fan page admins:
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If your page is taking off, you can receive hundreds or thousands of posts each day from fans. Ask for help to keep the quality of content on your page high - and delete things that aren't welcome.
2 Block offensive words
Run a Facebook page? You can now block any word you like from ever appearing. Simply click 'edit page' and add the words you want to block in the 'moderation blocklist' section.
3 Report and block spammers
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This guyHasin Hayder has finally realized that there's no need for Smarty's template language any more (even after writing a book about Smarty).
Harry Fuecks and Brian Lozier made the same conclusion four years ago, and based on those articles, so did I. It turns out that Smarty tries to solve (mostly) the wrong problem
You may have heard that you need to keep your PHP and HTML separated, but that's not quite the case. Instead, what you need is to keep your "business logic" separate from your "presentation logic", and that's a different thing entirely.
Thus, all that's required is a way to keep your views and controllers separated, and perhaps provide helpers for common view tasks. Then you can use plain PHP in your view scripts (templates), without needing a whole new language.
That line of thinking led me to write Savant first in 2004 (and versions 2 and 3 later), along with its more-recent ideological descendants Zend_View and Solar_View. Even the Cake and Symfony guys got the point early on (and — dare I say it? — the Rails crowd as well with eRB templates).
It's so funny to see the comments in Hasin's article; all the same old tired arguments come up. Here's the deal: if you think you need to protect your business logic from your graphic designer, you don't have a technical problem, you have a hiring/management/training problem.
Update (2008-01-11): Apparently some readers thought "this guy" in the first paragraph meant me; changed it to "Hasin Hayder" to be more explicit. (I'm looking at you, Kimsal.)


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Firescape for Edhat by Billy Goodnick
Santa Barbara is the home of what I'm told was the first "firescape" garden in the world. If you live in a fire prone area and were fortunate enough to come out unscathed by the flames of either the Tea Fire or any of the conflagrations of the last few decades, consider yourself lucky, but not immune. My sincere hope is that this article will increase your odds if the next one is in your neighborhood.
It seems that everyone I've spoken with since Thursday knows someone immediately affected by the Tea Fire. Of my three friends who live right in the path of the fire, two cannot explain why their houses were spared when others immediately around them lost everything.
I have no way of imagining what it is like to return to your property after days of wondering and find devastation. The house itself, your pictures, books, clothes, the drawings your kids brought home from school, the fruit trees that put sweet summer delights on your breakfast table turned to undifferentiated masses of ash. So much of who we are centers on our physical place in the universe. We define ourselves by our place of birth, where we grew up and went to school, the places we've traveled. If home is where the heart is, many hearts have been torn and battered in recent days. The enormity of picking up and starting again will affect everyone differently. Some will literally dust themselves off, take a deep breath and say "time to move on." For others, the scars may never be erased.
At the intersection of Stanwood Drive and Mountain Drive sits 1.7 acres of City of Santa Barbara-owned land, home of the Firescape Demonstration Garden. The tragic 1977 Sycamore Fire, which burned 850 acres and 200 homes, was the impetus for this outdoor educational resource. Local horticulturists, landscape architects and Fire Department staff designed the mini-park in 1985 to help residents in Santa Barbara's high fire areas design gardens that enhance their property while providing defensible space to protect their home.
In 2007, Owen Dell, one of the original designers, and I reworked the garden. We also focused four segments for our Garden Wise Guys TV show on the subject of fire-safe landscaping.
The fundamental lesson of the Firescape Demonstration Garden is that when fire approaches your property, a strategically designed, properly cared for landscape is your best defense to keep the flames from destroying your home. It's all about taking the energy out of the raging monster and reducing the vegetative fuel that feeds the flames.
In the interest of page space, I'll skip over the specific design principles, because part of my intent is to get you to visit the garden - right across the street from Fire Station No. 7, at 2411 Stanwood Drive - and experience it for yourself. There you'll find an information kiosk, brochures and well-labeled specimens to help you find the best plants for your own garden. Most everything there is low water-using and the plants are spaced to allow them to mature without colliding and creating excessive maintenance. Owen and I also worked really hard to make sure it was beautiful and give visitors some fresh landscaping ideas.
In a nutshell, the objective is to break the outermost masses of vegetation into an archipelago of plantings, offer minimal fuel leading toward the structure,
For those, like my two friends, whose homes were miraculously spared, I have to wonder how much the landscaping was a factor. I had lunch with one of them today, a landscape architect with a home at the intersection of Stanwood and Sycamore Canyon - Hell Central, from what I've heard. Though she's "in the biz" she admitted that she ignored some of the basic principles of fire-wise landscaping. Perhaps this was where the firefighters made a stand.
Deborah Lee Baldwin, an award winning garden photojournalist and author of Designing with Succulents, sent me a link to Monday's Wall Street Journal article about a couple of homes on Conejo Road that withstood the onslaught. Excerpt:
...498 Conejo, home of Farrokh "Fred" Ashtiani. An amateur botanist, Mr. Ashtiani knew when he moved into the one-bedroom, aluminum-sided home almost three years ago that fire could be trouble. So he erected defenses, packing the property with dozens of succulent species...
If you live in a high fire hazard area please educate yourself about appropriate landscaping around your home. If you are preparing to undertake a landscaping project, hire professionals who know about firescaping. Make sure you and your gardener educate yourselves about how best to care for your garden to avoid fuel build-up.
Find out if your local fire districts will come to your home to assess your landscape. Yes, you might have to make some significant changes and it might not be cheap, but it beats sifting through ashes and starting from scratch.
* City of Santa Barbara demonstration gardens
* San Marcos Growers Firescape page
* Garden Wise Guys - Episodes 6 through 9
* Gardens and Fire (my blog posting from 2007)
* Deborah Lee Baldwin website
* WS Journal article
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THURSDAY, July 19 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they've mapped the entire genomes of 91 sperm from one man, the first time such gene mapping has been done in a human gamete (sperm or egg cell).
The research gives a glimpse into recombination -- the process by which DNA mixes to create offspring that carry with them traits from parents and grandparents, the Stanford University scientists explained.
"We were able to generate an individual recombination map and mutation rate for each of several sperm from one person," study co-author Barry Behr, director of Stanford's in vitro fertilization laboratory, said in a university news release. "Now we can look at a particular individual, make some calls about what they would likely contribute genetically to an embryo, and perhaps even diagnose or detect potential problems."
The findings were published July 20 in the journal Cell.
Until now, scientists had only been able look to population-wide studies to try and gauge how often recombination happened in sperm and eggs cells, and how complicated the process might be, the Stanford team stated.
The new study focused on the sperm of a healthy 40-year-old man who had normal sperm and had already fathered healthy offspring. The study found that prior population studies were fairly accurate in assessing rates of recombination.
The team reported that, as expected, the man's sperm each had undergone about 23 recombinations of DNA, although there were wide variations in this genetic mixing between individual sperm. Two of the sperm sampled were missing entire chromosomes, the authors pointed out.
Between 25 and 36 "new single nucleotide mutations" were also spotted -- random mutations that can affect offspring for good or ill.
"The exact sites, frequency and degree of this genetic mixing process is unique for each sperm and egg cell," study senior author Stephen Quake, a professor of engineering, bioengineering and applied physics at Stanford, said in the news release. "We've never before been able to see it with this level of detail. It's very interesting that what happens in one person's body mirrors the population average."
The findings have implications for research into fertility, because when things go wrong with recombination, sperm can cease to be viable, the researchers noted.
"This could serve as a new kind of early-detection system for men who may have reproductive problems," said Behr, who is also a co-director of Stanford's reproductive endocrinology and infertility program. "It's also possible that we could one day use other, correlating features to harmlessly identify healthy sperm for use in IVF. In the end, the DNA is the raw material that ultimately defines a sperm's potential. If we can learn more about this process, we can better understand human fertility."
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Trichromacy or trichromaticism is the condition of possessing three independent channels for conveying color information, derived from the three different cone types.[1] Organisms with trichromacy are called trichromats.
The normal explanation of trichromacy is that the organism's retina contains three types of color receptors (called cone cells in vertebrates) with different absorption spectra. In actuality the number of such receptor types may be greater than three, since different types may be active at different light intensities. In vertebrates with three types of cone cells, at low light intensities the rod cells may contribute to color vision, giving a small region of tetrachromacy in the color space.
Humans and other animals that are trichromatsEdit
Humans and closely related primates are usually trichromats, as are some of the females of most species of New World monkeys, and both male and female howler monkeys.[2] Recent research suggests that trichromacy may also be quite general among marsupials.[3] Most other mammals are currently thought to be dichromats, with only two types of cone (though limited trichromacy is possible at low light levels where the rods and cones are both active). Most studies of carnivores, as of other mammals, reveal dichromacy, examples including the domestic dog, the ferret, and the Spotted Hyena.[4][5] Some species of insects (such as honeybees) are also trichromats, being sensitive to ultraviolet, blue and green instead of blue, green and red.[2]
Trichromatic color visionEdit
Trichromatic color vision is the ability of humans and some other animals to see different colors, mediated by interactions among three types of color-sensing cone cells. The trichromatic color theory began in the 18th century, when Thomas Young proposed that color vision was a result of three different photoreceptor cells. Hermann von Helmholtz later expanded on Young's ideas using color-matching experiments which showed that people with normal vision needed three wavelengths to create the normal range of colors. The trichromatic theory was later proven physiologically by Gunnar Svaetichin (1956).[6]
Each of the three types of cones in the retina of the eye contains a different type of photosensitive pigment, which is composed of a transmembrane protein called opsin and a light-sensitive molecule called 11-cis retinal. Each different pigment is especially sensitive to a certain wavelength of light (that is, the pigment is most likely to produce a cellular response when it is hit by a photon with the specific wavelength to which that pigment is most sensitive). The three types of cones are L, M, and S, which have pigments that respond best to light of long (especially 560 nm), medium (530 nm), and short (420 nm) wavelengths respectively.[7][8]
Since the likelihood of response of a given cone varies not only with the wavelength of the light that hits it but also with its intensity, the brain would not be able to discriminate different colors if it had input from only one type of cone. Thus, interactions between at least two types of cone is necessary to produce the ability to perceive color. With at least two types of cones, the brain can compare the signals from each type and determine both the intensity and color of the light. For example, moderate stimulation of a medium-wavelength cone cell could mean that it is being stimulated by very bright red (long-wavelength) light, or by not very intense yellowish-green light. But very bright red light would produce a stronger response from L cones than from M cones, while not very intense yellowish light would produce a stronger response from M cones than from other cones. Thus trichromatic color vision is accomplished by using combinations of cell responses.
It is estimated that each of the three cone types in the human retina can pick up about 100 different gradations, and that the brain can combine those variations such that the average human can distinguish about one million different colors.[9][10]
See alsoEdit
- ↑ Color Glossary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rowe, Michael H (2002). "Trichromatic color vision in primates." News in Physiological Sciences. 17(3), 93-98.
- ↑ Arrese, CA; Oddy, AY; Runham, PB; Hart, NS; Shand, J; Hunt, DM (2005). "Cone topography and spectral sensitivity in two potentially trichromatic marsupials, the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) and quenda (Isoodon obesulus)." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 272(1595), 791-796.
- ↑ Calderone, JB; Jacobs, GH (2003). "Spectral properties and retinal distribution of ferret cones." Visual Neuroscience. 20(1), 11-17.
- ↑ Calderone, JB; Reese, BE; Jacobs, GH (2003). "Topography of photoreceptors and retinal ganglion cells in the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)." Brain Behavior and Evolution. 62(4), 182-192.
- ↑ Svaetichin,G. (1956). Spectral response curves from single cones, Actaphysiol. scand. 39, Suppl. 134, 17-46.
- ↑ Kandel ER, Schwartz JH, Jessell TM (2000). Principles of Neural Science, 4th, 182–185, New York: McGraw-Hill.
- ↑ Jacobs GH, Nathans J (2009). Color Vision: How Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution. Scientific American.
- ↑ Mark Roth. Some women who are tetrachromats may see 100,000,000 colors, thanks to their genes. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
- ↑ "Color Vision:Almost Reason for Having Eyes" by Jay Neitz, Joseph Carroll, and Maureen Neitz Optics & Photonics News January 2001 1047-6938/01/01/0026/8- Optical Society of America
External linksEdit
- The Straight Dope: "Are cats and dogs really color-blind? How do they know?"
- Scientific Paper: "Retinal mechanisms for chromatic and achromatic vision"
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After the forced resignation of South African president Thabo Mbeki in September, and the subsequent departure of several cabinet members, Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in as South Africa's interim president. It is widely expected that Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress, and former deputy president, will fill the top post after elections in April. Please join us for the 2008 Darryl G. Behrman Lecture on Africa Policy, featuring Jacob Zuma. Mr. Zuma will discuss the state of South African politics, South Africa's role in addressing regional challenges, and his thoughts about South Africa's future.
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A quick introduction. After lurking here for a while and reading up on things, I purchased a D99+ Andriod version for my 2004 X5 (E53) from Jeff at J&T. I am pleased so far with the unit and aside from a few quirks, I have almost everything done with my install (pics to come in a day or two). Aside from the unit itself, I also added a backup cam (ebay Koolertron variety) to the trunk trim handle which was about as fun as I expected wiring-wise, but that aside it is (mostly) working as expected an I am happy with it. So, here are my questions ... I did search pretty extensively around on the forums/internet for answers before posting these but nothing I have found as of yet has really answered them. Any input (preferably positive!) is greatly appreciated. 1) I have installed my reverse cam and I can see the video if I switch to the cam input, but it does not switch automatically when I put it in reverse. I have the system setting set for camera only. I did not run the reverse wire because I thought that the bus sent that info and the wire was not needed. Am I missing something? I do have the cam wired to a switched 12v so that it is always on, but I did try unplugging the video feed, putting it into reverse, then plugging in the feed to see if it was triggered by the input signal and that did not seem to make a difference. 2) My steering wheel controls are a bit erratic. If I hit volume up continuously, it will either go up the first five or six times then stop for another five or six presses, or it wont go up at all for the first five or six presses and then it starts responding. The same applies for volume down and track up and down. I checked the bus interface box and it is secure and trying unplugging and replugging without any change. I have pulled the bus interface box and reflashed it just in case - with the no-obc/no-odc firmware - but the issue is the same. I am wondering if this is possibly related to issue #1 above as well. 3) The touchscreen is flakey - from what I can tell only on the Andriod side. I calibrated it on both sides of the hardware, but when I am running on the android side I get unusual results. What happens is that the system will trigger a tap on the previous area of the screen, even if you are typing somewhere else ie, if I type the letter D and then the letter O, the system will register another D when I press the O on the screen. It is not just the keyboard either lots of times tapping the back arrow will result in the last tapped point on the screen to be triggered instead. I have gone as far as reflashing the firmware with the latest stock version, but it is still happening. I have also tried to replicate it on the non-android side, but have not seen it happen there yet. Is anyone else reporting this type of issue, or could there be a HW problem on the android side of things? I can reproduce it pretty easy, so if a video example would help I can post one up. One last comment to share was with the wiring of the backup cam from the rear hatch to the front. I was dreading running the wire under the carpet and all the way up to the front, including removing the seat and such as per the posts I have seen for other installs. My idea, which fortunately worked, was to just run the wire straight out the hatch grommet and all the way inside the passenger side headliner, then down the front passenger front pillar and behind the glovebox into the Dynavin. I'm sure I am not the first to do it this way, but thought I would mention it since I did not run across anyone else running it this way and found it to work pretty well. I appreciate any comments anyone has on my questions and would be happy to try and answer anyone else's as well. Thanks in advance! Tom |
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Unrelated to #1, could be a lot of things, could be a flaky box, could be a bad connection, you might try moving the ibus wiring around while pressing the button to see if you can replicate the issue. In general the steering wheel buttons are pretty reliable..... Quote:
Recalibrate the screen hardware....go to the radio settings>DISPLAY, then press the upper right of the screen, follow the prompts. Once that is done, calibrate again in the android menu, that should get the hardware AND the software all on the same page. If that doesnt do it, make there is no debris between the screen and bezel, run a business card around the perimeter to make sure there is no junk wedged in there that could be putting pressure on the screen.
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I just got a D99+ and am trying to resolve an issue with the Parrot bluetooth. When I play media over Bluetooth, the music sounds distorted, as if I am overdriving the speakers, even at a low volume. Seems to sound fine when connected to the iPod connector. I have adjusted the amp settings as per the hidden system menu. Any ideas?
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Not something I have ever heard of.....does your phone have a volume controls? If so, maybe turn them down?
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It sounds odd, doesn't it? I don't think that the volume control would be the issue, but weirder things have happened. Will try it out.
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Well I'll be... The Bluetooth volume was the culprit. Never had that issue before with other bluetooth units, but I realize now that those units controlled the volume on the phone as opposed to the unit.
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My previous post was in response to Keith's writing regarding the possibility of escaping object relational mapping problems by avoiding altogether RDBMS's. The discussion of where and how relational databases are to be used turned out to be a hot topic on the blogosphere* these days, mostly fueled by Tim O'Reilly's nine-part saga on data management in Web 2.0* companies. The three most salient points I got from Tim's posts were: there is a preference for clustering by data partitioning instead of general replication strategies; predictably there also is a preference for open source relational db systems (MySQL being the front-runner); and there is a belief that read-mostly data is better served from flat files (sometimes with sophisticated replication mechanisms) than from RDBMS'. There is a lot of interesting info there, I recommend reading the whole thing.
Speaking of read-mostly data, I found this cool project via Joe Gregorio. It's a relational database system being built at MIT optimzed for this kind of data. Another interesting system for dealing with simple read-mostly data is Google's BigTable, that seeks to achiveve high throughput by adopting of a very simple data model, whithout integrity constraints nor transactional capabilities, structured in a highly distributed and fault-tolerant fashion (as would be expected of google). It also features native data versioning support.
PS: Yes, this post was written in english. At least something approaching what one might call "english"... The short motive is that I just felt like it. The longer one is that I need to practice my english at least as much as I need to practice my portuguese, and writing practice is one of the primary reasons for this blog's existence (yes, I'm a selfish bastard).
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AHL Game Night: 10-23-11 Admirals at Checkers
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Admirals run into a hot goalie.
Dustin Tokarski allowed 3 goals on 30 shots for the loss.
First Period
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NOR Ashton, (6) (Barberio, Conacher), 8:19 (PP)
CHA Jordan, (1) (Blanchard, Pistilli), 11:42
CHA McNicoll, (1) (Pistilli, Terry), 19:39 (PP)
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CHA Bowman, (4) (Matsumoto, Samson), 18:40
Carter Ashton was the game's third star.
Norfolk outshot Charlotte 45-30, but Checkers goaltender Mike Murphy made 44 saves.
Mark Barberio snapped a 3 game scoreless streak with a helper in the contest.
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Also I put a skip button on the intro.
Zwingo is my latest game - for the MaxGames game competition (ending soon). Big thanks to Deseo for making the music especially for this game :) Visit Deseo's site please:
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Swing ('zwing') your ball around using the mouse, smashing all the black balls of screen. Your aim is to protect the white ball in the centre. If the white ball leaves the boundary, it's game over. Every 10 levels you'll face a boss that you have to continually hit until he runs out of health and goes off screen.
As you hit each ball out you gain experience points (xp). The harder you hit the ball, the more xp you collect. At the end of each level you can spend this xp on one or more of four upgrades - size, speed, white ball size and boundary area. You'll need to upgrade to face faster, bigger balls and make it all the way past level 50 to pass the game.
The overall score is calculated as the total xp you collected throughout the game. Thanks to Armorbot for the highscore table. Also, the game has a save feature that lets you come back and play from the same level you left another time.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Nicely done!! I thourghly enjoyed this one, which was surpricing for how simple the concept of it all was. I did notice the ball buggout at high speed collisions. Although I agree with the critter concept of that one of the reviews was talking about I don't think it would make the game any better or worse. Maybe a gun upgrade instead of the boundry upgrade........maybe not a gun but shooting smaller balls or something.
Again, superb game. I gave this 9/10 which = 4.5 and rounded up for the score kuz it was well worth it.
p.s. A shooting smaller balls upgrade would've put it at 10/10.
p.s.s. Which still = 5...so no biggy.
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anyone beat the game just with size upgrades?\ the speed upgrade makes it harder to hit balls, the boundary upgrade is ok but the center ball size upgrade definitely makes the game harder
good game though
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Good game
I enjoyed the game although I found on occasion that the balls would bug out and fly shoot through my ball and off on some weird angle. I noticed this tended to happen more on higher speed collisions but it did occasionally happen on lower speed ones as well.
Elsewise a good game although more variety would be nice. Maybe instead of knocking out other balls it could be little critters trying to get at the centre. That would allow for a greater diversity of play.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
but got a bit repetitive at level 23. plus, u can get that far investing only in size, so there wasn't enough of a impact on gameplay, whatever you chose. still 5/5, but needs a bit more strategy.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
more than i expected!
Simple but very fun and addicting!! Got to love the boss stage to shake things up!!!


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From the sun rising above the marshes of Maeotia There is no one who may be equal in deeds. If is it right for anyone to rise into the regions of the gods, For me alone the greatest gate of heaven stands open. - Quintus Ennius, Epitaph for Scipio Africanus
by B. H. Liddell Hart Da Capo Press, 281 pages ISBN: 0306805839
Captain Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart was one of the foremost military thinkers of the 20th century and he wrote several biographical books on various men whom he considered to be the Great Captains throughout history. At the top of his list was the man who never lost a battle he directed; a man whose strategic thinking was hundreds of years ahead of its time: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Conquerer of Iberia and Carthage.
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon chronicles the life, successes, and disappointments of arguably the greatest general who ever commanded Roman Legions. From the death of his father in the First Punic War to the myriad political fights toward the end of his life from the people he had saved, hardly a beat is missed. Liddell Hart draws heavily from Livy and Polybius, but the list of his sources are many. As a result, this is likely the finest treatment yet written of the man and his life.
In Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon, Liddell Hart claims to present an unbiasaed account of the life of Scipio Africanus. This isn't quite true at all, as at times the book borders on outright hero-worship. While reading it, it's not difficult to imagine Liddell Hart thinking "Why couldn't this man have led us in the trenches in 1917?" Nonetheless, the sometimes heavy-handed opinions never shadow the facts and the facts alone make it hard not to think of Scipio Africanus as some kind of mythical superman akin to Heracles or Achilles.
The sad truth is that even with the modern decline of classical education, Hannibal Barca remains a household name. Many people may not know exactly what he did, or when, but they usually know it had something to do with elephants and mountains. Why Scipio Africanus, the man whose armies defeated Hannibal and his brothers and routed Carthage as a Mediterranean power until long past his death, is not remembered in the same way is uncertain.
The one constant problem in the book is the heavy leaning on certain ethical stances which may or may not have been true. There are no primary sources of Scipio's life. Therefore, all of his chroniclers whose works have survived wrote about him post mortem, and this about a legendary hero, so any ethical or moral qualities that can not be inferred directly from specific actions he is known to have taken are probably speculative at best. Captain Liddell Hart's use of these as historical fact is fairly questionable, although it never really derails the telling.
The final chapter is mostly an argument with the author's contemporaries thinly veiled as a chapter, as it is mostly used to compare Scipio's achievements to those of Napoleon and Alexander, but it makes for interesting reading.
None of the faults manage to ruin the book, however, and it remains very accessible even to those unfamiliar with classical or military history. There are plenty of maps, and the battle descriptions are verbose enough to please military readers, yet non-technical enough to be understood by others. The politics that were thrust upon Scipio later in his life make Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Teletubbies movie (although I suppose some might argue that resemblance without the comparison).
In closing, Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napleon is a book that will greatly appeal to fans of classical and/or military history, but is told in a very entertaining and descriptive way which makes it quite accessible to other readers, as well. It details the life of one of the greatest generals of all time, the obstacles he faced, and the enemies he made. It's reasonably short book, too, so even if you're unfamiliar with the period, you might do well to give this a try and you might even find you like reading about those crazy Romans.
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Matt Cain will undergo season-ending elbow surgery
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New York -- - The Great White Way is a place where huge dreams can blossom or die just the same, right? So it went for the Giants over four days in New York, which ended with Monday's 4-3 victory on Pablo Sandoval's tie-breaking double in the ninth.
On the field, the Giants took three of four from the Mets, got Brandon Belt back, had a nice offensive series and flew to Milwaukee knowing they should have their entire lineup intact with Angel Pagan's imminent return.
Inside the clubhouse, one Giant could be forgiven for not wanting to celebrate. As his team dismantled the Mets, Matt Cain finally realized what was obvious to three surgeons: that he needs the bone chips in his right elbow removed before he throws another big-league pitch.
After Monday's victory, manager Bruce Bochy said Cain will undergo surgery in San Francisco next Monday and will be done for 2014. Giants orthopedist Dr. Ken Akizuki will perform an operation that should leave Cain's arm healthy when pitchers and catchers report to Scottsdale, Ariz, in February.
"It's been frustrating for Matt," Bochy said. "He's been battling this for a while. It's time. He could have kept trying to push it, but it was inevitable. He's going to have this done and be ready for spring training."
Thus, Cain's season ends with two wins, seven losses and a 4.18 ERA. He declined to comment before heading for the bus. He plans to stay with the team during the rest of the trip.
Cain was a central figure in the Giants' two World Series championships. Their hopes for a third, hampered by injuries that extend far deeper than Cain's, could get a significant boost if Pagan gets through his rehab games in Fresno (he went 0-for-4 Monday) with no further back pain and returns to the top of the lineup this week.
"I think he's the guy who's definitely going to make a huge difference for us when he gets back," Tim Hudson said after he pitched a five-inning no-decision in his first game back at Citi Field, where his 2013 season ended with a broken ankle.
"Hopefully, we can be ready for a really good next seven weeks."
Those weeks might be happier if they play as they did against the Mets. The Giants' pitching was stellar, with two-hitters by Ryan Vogelsong and Madison Bumgarner and excellent bullpen work, and the offense finally clicked as a unit.
Hunter Pence had five extra-base hits in a span of eight at-bats Sunday and Monday. He tripled and scored on a wild pitch to tie Monday's game 3-3 in the seventh.
Just as significant, Pablo Sandoval seems calm and poised at the plate, with excellent results in the series finale.
All day, the Mets made it clear they would not let Buster Posey beat them. They walked him four times and challenged Sandoval to make them pay, which he did with three hits.
Sandoval tied the game 2-2 in the third when he rifled a double into the right-center gap. Then, after Gregor Blanco began a two-out rally in the ninth against closer Jenrry Mejia with a single and Posey walked for the fourth time, Sandoval sliced the game-winning double inside the left-field line on a two-strike pitch and raised his average to .280.
Remember when he was hitting .180 to start May?
Sandoval said that with the game on the line, "I just tried to focus, not do too much, just play pepper with the ball."
The Giants peppered the field with 35 hits in the four games and scored 20 runs. Hudson, for one, sees a difference.
"I can definitely see some signs of guys going out there and having a much better approach and purpose to their at-bats."
Bochy agreed with a preface, saying, "Knock on wood."
Cain year by year
Matt Cain has thrown a lot of innings during his 10-year career:
Year | W-L | ERA | IP |
2005 | 2-1 | 2.33 | 46.1 |
2006 | 13-12 | 4.15 | 190.2 |
2007 | 7-16 | 3.65 | 200.0 |
2008 | 8-14 | 3.76 | 217.2 |
2009 | 14-8 | 2.89 | 217.2 |
2010* | 13-11 | 3.14 | 223.1 |
2011 | 12-11 | 2.88 | 221.2 |
2012* | 16-5 | 2.79 | 219.1 |
2013 | 8-10 | 4.00 | 184.1 |
2014 | 2-7 | 4.18 | 90.1 |
* Cain pitched an additional 51 1/3 innings in the postseason over eight games (4-2, 2.10 ERA).
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Putting OpenVPN in its place
Update: I had some errors and oversights in my general config that didn't have any direct bearing on the main message of this post. I have fixed them below and I beg you to pretend they never happened.
OpenVPN is a fantastic piece of software. No, it's an essential piece of software. A godsend.
But it has this tendency to try to be all that and a bag of chips.
My primary gripe with OpenVPN over the years has been what I call "psuedo-DHCP". It pretends, poorly, to be a DHCP server. If you have the audacity to prefer a real DHCP server you find very little help and sometimes even resistance from the tools and the community. I once tried to get it working and failed.
This week I was refreshing my OpenVPN setup and reading through the manpage for version 2.1, and saw a few references to people actually using DHCP. Still no explicit documentation, but it gave me hope. So I duly tilted at that windmill.
Now I will show you how to get DHCP working with OpenVPN. What's more, we'll get rid of ifconfig
and route
options (for the most part). In short, we'll put OpenVPN in its place: as a secure tunnel manager.
The important paradigm shift here is that you aren't required to do anything from withing OpenVPN to configure the interface. You can just bring up the tunnel and your TUN/TAP device will be alive but unconfigured. At that point you could do something like this:
ip link set tap0 up
ip addr add 172.17.0.1/24 dev tap0
You could do this manually, or in an up script, or whatever. Or you could let your distro do it. Ah, so we can have a tap0
stanza in /etc/network/interfaces
(Debian-based distros) that will configure tap0
when we ask it to. Let's look at a client example:
# in /etc/network/interfaces
iface tap0 inet dhcp
hostname falcon
# dhclient doesn't pay attention to this, so if you use dhclient (you
# probably do) see /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
client falcon
# in the openvpn config
dev tap0
route-delay 10
cd /etc/openvpn
up "up.sh"
down "down.sh"
# up.sh
#! /bin/bash
ifdown tap0 2>/dev/null
ifup tap0 &
# down.sh
ifdown tap0
There's some subtlety here, let's talk about it. Note that we're specifying both the DHCP client id and the DHCP hostname—more on that later. We use an external script because of the way OpenVPN's up
option works, so that we can background the ifup
call. This is important because the tunnel isn't fully up at this point, so your DHCP client won't succeed unless we background it (I tried up-delay
to no avail). I have the ifdown
bit in there as a safety measure—if for whatever reason Debian thinks the interface is already up it won't start the DHCP client and that would be bad. But hopefully this doesn't happen much thanks to the down
option. Finally, the route-delay
option gives the DHCP negotiation a chance to finish before any routes are applied (and in my setup there is one important route that I push to clients).
On the server side, we need to set up the DHCP server. ISC DHCP (dhcp3-server
on Debian) isn't very intelligent about interfaces that materialize out of nowhere, so we'll need to set up a persistent TAP device.
# in /etc/network/interfaces
auto tap0
iface tap0 inet static
address 172.17.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
pre-up openvpn --dev tap0 --mktun
# in openvpn config
dev tap0
Now tap0
will be brought up automatically at boot, and will stay up even if you restart OpenVPN (you can bring it up now with ifup tap0
). Notice that no ifconfig
option is needed in the OpenVPN config. Now you can configure your DHCP server for the subnet:
# in dhcpd.conf
subnet 172.17.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
# example options for VPN hosts
option domain-name "vpn.example.com";
option domain-name-servers 172.17.0.1;
option netbios-name-servers 172.17.0.1;
option ntp-servers 172.17.0.1;
range 172.16.0.100 172.17.0.199;
host falcon {
option dhcp-client-identifier "falcon";
fixed-address 172.17.0.77;
Observe the dhcp-client-identifier
option, and its matching entry in foo's /etc/network/interfaces
(or /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
). This is important because TAP MAC addresses don't persist—you get a new one every time. dhcpd will use the client identifier to match a host, but alternatively you could spoof a static MAC address in foo's /etc/network/interfaces
config. I think the client identifier is cleaner. Even if you don't use static leases, this way dhcpd will know it's the same client and give him the IP address he had before. Of course if you don't need (semi-)static leases you don't need to worry about client identifiers. You'll have some cruft leases but they should expire and disappear.
Unfortunately dhcpd doesn't use the client identifier for dynamic dns updates (one of the big reasons I wanted to use real DHCP in the first place), which is why I specify the hostname
option in foo's /etc/network/interfaces
. dhclient (as configured on Debian) sends the hostname whether or not you specify it in /etc/network/interfaces
Other DHCP clients that do honor /etc/network/interfaces
are available. See interfaces(5). I'm kind of partial to udhcpc, especially for hand-testing, though I usually end up sticking with dhclient.
Caveats: I haven't been able to get DHCP working with an OS X client. I tried initiating DHCP on the TAP interface with ipconfig set tap0 DHCP
but it didn't work and once locked up my machine. So for this situation, or for any other reason you may have, you can still push ifconfig
and route
options in the client configuration directory entry for that client.
I haven't tried DHCP over OpenVPN on Windows clients yet but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
Finally, I tried briefly to do it with a TUN device and though I can think of no obvious reason why it shouldn't work, it didn't. I like TAP better anyway.
Now after all this I can see some of you shaking your heads wondering what the point of all this is. "Surely this is more complicated than ifconfig
and route
in OpenVPN." Yes, it's more complicated, but it's more powerful. If all you need is pseudo-DHCP, then by all means use pseudo-DHCP. But if you are a sysadmin serving a gaggle of clients you soon find yourself pining for a real DHCP server. Or perhaps you want dynamic dns updates, or proper DHCP option support. (You do realize DHCP options sent by OpenVPN's dhcp-option
are not applied on linux unless you do so manually by reading the environment variables in an up script, don't you?)
When you realize OpenVPN can just set up the tunnel and get out of the way, you realize that all your fancy networking knowledge and tools can come into play to create the ultimate VPN tailored exactly to your needs. Plus, I think it snaps things into focus so that things just make more sense in your head.
And now, I present my OpenVPN configs (sanitized) for the server (frodo) and a client (falcon):
## frodo (server)
dev tap0
mode server
cd /home/fugalh/vpn
ca cacert.pem
dh dh.pem
cert frodo.pem
key frodo.pem
keepalive 10 60
# this new option is nifty
client-config-dir ccd
# See /etc/network/interfaces for interface configuration and routing.
# (reproduced here for our web audience)
# auto tap0
# iface tap0 inet static
# address 172.17.0.1
# netmask 255.255.0.0
# pre-up openvpn --dev tap0 --mktun
# up ip route add 172.17.64.0/24 via 172.17.0.64
# up ip route add 172.17.77.0/24 via 172.17.0.77
# up ip route add 172.17.82.0/24 via 172.17.0.82
# up ip route add 172.17.83.0/24 via 172.17.0.83
push "route 172.17.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.17.0.1"
#verb 3
mute 2
status /var/log/openvpn.status 60
## falcon (client)
dev tap0
remote frodo.fugal.net
cd /etc/openvpn
ca falcon-cacert.pem
cert falcon-cert.pem
key falcon-key.pem
tls-remote frodo.fugal.net
route-delay 10
cd /etc/openvpn
up "up.sh"
# (reproduced here)
# #!/bin/bash
# ifdown tap0 &>/dev/null
# ifup tap0 &
down "down.sh"
# (reproduced here)
# #!/bin/bash
# ifdown tap0
mute 2
#verb 3
In my setup the 172.17.0.0/24 subnet is for the OpenVPN server and clients, and each client is a gateway to a 172.17.x.0/24 subnet for his LAN. Assuming a static route on the LAN for 172.17.0.0/16 via the OpenVPN client, frodo will route everything so people on one LAN can find people on another.
I also have dynamic dns updates for both forward and reverse DNS in my vpn.fugal.net
One thing I haven't set up which is feasible is for the LAN DHCP servers to do ddns to frodo.
OpenVPN is in its place, and our relationship is that much stronger. Good luck with yours!
Very cool. Thanks Hans.
really helpful for Linux dhcp.
it is funny with openvpn that win and os x clients now work out of box, but linux needs special treatment ;)Could you post your entire Interface file? I guess i don't quiet understand how to properly incorprate this into mine since my Interface file has the internet connection Eth0, the Bridge Device br0, and the internal network eth1 which is controlled by a script that openvpn runs
Thank Youvery cool.. i had almost given up on dhcpd over openvpn.. dont suppose you've tested this with IPv6? would be an excellent guide as nothing is out there for it.
Does my mac adresse change if I upgrade my computer with some other hardware? For example change the graphic card?
crickey, that logically is a far easier concept! probably worth mentioning that ovpn won't like the server config if persistent ips are enabled…
excellent article


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Treatment options that increase immune function, such as Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment (OMT) lymphatic techniques, may provide improved short or long term performance of the immune system. However, the efficacy of OMT to boost immune function among people living with HIV has not yet been examined in a controlled study. Our experiment is designed to examine the short (45 minutes) term impact of OMT on the white blood cells counts of HIV positive men who are either antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve or have not taken ART for at least 12 months prior to enrollment in the study.
Condition | Intervention |
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Procedure: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Primary Purpose: Supportive Care |
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Study Start Date: | October 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2008 |
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Inclusion Criteria:
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"We want to give people 1,001 reasons to keep their OnStar subscription active," said Eric Litt, chief information officer, OnStar. "We feel that opening up our proprietary API to developers will ensure that OnStar continues to keep customers connected in ways they never thought possible."
The first partner to use OnStar's API will be RelayRides, the world's first peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that holds an exclusive partnership with GM. With RelayRides, millions of GM vehicle owners will soon be able to leverage OnStar to rent out their idle cars with the owner controlling the rates and availability of the car. By using the OnStar API, RelayRides will allow its renters to use remote features with their smartphones, such as unlocking GM vehicles to access the reserved car.
"Through our work with OnStar, we are jointly defining the cutting edge of smart mobility," said RelayRides founder and Chief Community Officer Shelby Clark. "With access to the OnStar API, carsharing has never been safer or more convenient. We are looking forward to rolling out the program in early 2012."
In the past, OnStar has worked on API-based solutions with companies like Mapquest and Google to provide the company's eNav service. An API solution was also used in the company's beta test of Facebook Audio Updates.
OnStar will make its closed API available in the first half of 2012. Developers interested in the API should contact OnStar at email@example.com.