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KDE 4 is a radical overhaul of the popular desktop. It offers broad improvements like the Oxygen desktop theme, SVG graphics, and enhanced speeds thanks to the latest version of the Qt 4 toolkit. It also offers specific improvements such as the font manager and the Dolphin file manager. In short, there's a lot to like.
But, as might be expected, not all the changes are equally successful. Nor is the situation helped by the fact that KDE 4 was a preliminary release, and the project intends the upcoming 4.1 as the production-ready version -- as you might expect, most distros have rushed to include the early minor releases as soon as possible.
After a week of regularly using KDE 4.0.2 and 4.03 releases on my laptops, these are the improvements that would enhance KDE the most:
In the rush to get KDE 4 out the door on time, the first version came with an unresizable panel stuck firmly at the bottom of the screen. Minor releases quickly added the ability to change the panel's width and position, but using the top of the screen still isn't an option unless you want to cover the desktop manager button in the upper right corner. Nor can you change the length of the panel, autohide it to give yourself more screen space, or use any except the most basic of the panels found in the KDE 3 releases. Equally annoying is the inability to move icons on the menu as you please.
KDE 4 replaces the classic KDE menu with Kickoff. Apparently based on the Windows XP and Vista menus, Kickoff is an improvement in that it adds a search field and a variety of views that help to simplify the menus for newcomers. However, its replacement of sub-menus that open up like an accordion with sub-menus on sliding panels is a step backwards, because remembering your location can be difficult if you go more than a level or two down. Nor can you jump between menus without laboriously retracing your steps.
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You can revert to the classic menu if you right-click, but that only brings you back to the complicated menus that justify the experiment with Kickoff. With separate top-level menus for Settings, System, and Administration, and for Science and Math and Education, to say nothing of the mysterious Lost and Found, the traditional menu can make tracking down an application nightmarish.
What is needed is a blend of the two, with the different views and search field of Kickoff and a reordering of the traditional menu to make unaided searches less of an exercise in guesswork. But the need to edit the original does not justify an overly-complex redesign.
In KDE 4, icons and widgets -- the name given to desktop applets -- come with a collar that includes four mini-icons for configuring and manipulating them. The trouble is, these mini-icons are not supported equally by all icon themes in every distro, and can sometimes be reduced to a few blurred pixels. Yet, even when they are clearly displayed, they can be hard to pinpoint with a mouse-click. At times, too, accidentally clicking the Delete mini-icon can be all too easy.
The mini-icons add an appearance of complexity that may intimidate new users, and are redundant when each icon already has a right-click menu with the same choices. They serve no useful purpose, and wouldn't be missed if eliminated.
Dolphin is a more agile and efficient file manager than either KDE classic Konqueror or GNOME's Nautilus except for one thing: It doesn't show previews for common graphic formats. How was this oversight allowed to slip through? Granted, not everybody wants a preview under all circumstances, but having to click to start Gwenview before you can see files is an extra step that should be unnecessary.
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HOUSTON --Astros mascot Orbit will make history this weekend as the first mascot to ride the entire BP MS 150 course.
And it should be a fun ride for the big hairy green guy. But he might get a little hot since the temperature will be in the 80s.
The fundraising ride benefits the National Multiple Sclerosis society. Riders kicked off the event from three different spots across the city.
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Most importantly, we needed software that is very intuitive to use. Maple was the perfect software to meet these requirements.
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Kinova Robotics designs and manufactures innovative robotics products for personal assistance and service functions. Their flagship robotic arm JACO, now in its second generation, enriches the lives of people with limited upper-body mobility by enabling them to perform routine daily tasks safely and independently. Maple™, Maplesoft's flagship product for technical computing and documentation, was used by engineers at Kinova to derive and manage the complex matrix equations that underlie the advanced algorithms which control the JACO robotic arm, leading to improved functionality.
JACO features six interlinked segments - the last of which is a three-fingered hand – and operates with 6 degrees of freedom. With a reach of 90cm, it can be mounted onto a motorized wheelchair or a fixed base. Using a joystick controller, the user can move the robot's hand in three-dimensional space to grasp and release objects as required, to perform routine tasks.
Kinova's Robotic Algorithms and Control Team faced a key challenge in the design of the arm's controller. In order to safely operate the robotic arm, they needed to design advanced algorithms involving large matrix equations to calculate the kinematics and applied forces through the arm.
An added complexity is that these computations, which are run on a microcontroller, must be performed repeatedly, at very short time intervals. Therefore, the algorithms must be continuously refreshed at a rapid rate, which creates a very large matrix of simultaneous trigonometric equations.
This kind of mathematical challenge is where Maple excels. Maple's high-performance symbolic computation engine enables you to describe, visualize and solve complex mathematical problems. Maple features efficient algorithms and tools for high performance computing and large-scale problem solving, enabling it to solve even those problems that are beyond the reach of other software systems.
"We needed software that is known for its robustness – one that is able to manage large equations and matrix computations, and return symbolic solutions. Most importantly, we needed software that is very intuitive to use. Maple was the perfect software to meet these requirements," says Dr. Alexandre Lecours, project manager in the Robotic Algorithms and Control Team.
Using Maple, the team set about defining the problem and creating a program to solve it. The first step was to define the inputs to the program – which included the number of links, their lengths, and the joint angles. After defining the relationships between these variables, they were able to create a system of trigonometric equations that represented the problem to be solved.
Then, they used Maple's symbolic computation engine to analyze and simplify these equations to generate the output function, which calculates the position of the hand.
This optimized output function – still in its symbolic form - was then converted into C++ code for use in simulation, and in the arm's embedded controller. Dr. Lecours explained the reasons for this approach. "We could have done the computation directly in C++," he says. "However, there are a number of calculations within the matrices that would have resulted in a multiplication by zero. Maple enabled us to evaluate these ahead of time and factor them out, to arrive at a reduced set of equations with fewer computations."
Given that these computations are being continuously performed with every change in any one of the motors as the robotic arm moves around, having the code in its most optimized form enables the controller to run more efficiently. By eliminating all the null branches of calculations, the controller is able to determine the hand position faster, providing more refined control and ultimately a better user experience.
Dr. Lecours and his colleagues continue to use Maple to develop embedded controllers for their other robotic products. He concludes, "There wasn't any other software that could help us solve this problem symbolically. Not only was Maple intuitive to use, the Maple code was much easier to understand than the C++ code. This enabled us to quickly develop and debug our product, significantly reducing our development time."
To learn more about this and other biomechanical applications, view the Maplesoft-IEEE Spectrum Webinar, "System-Level Modeling Techniques Bring Dramatic Improvements to Biomechanical Systems Design."
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft™, a subsidiary of Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd. in Japan, is the leading provider of high-performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Its product suite reflects the philosophy that given great tools, people can do great things.
Maplesoft's core technologies include the world's most advanced symbolic computation engine and revolutionary physical modeling techniques. Combined together, these technologies enable the creation of cutting-edge tools for design, modeling, and high-performance simulation.
Maplesoft's products help to reduce errors, shorten design times, lower costs, and improve results. The Maplesoft product suite includes Maple™, the technical computing and documentation environment, and MapleSim™, the high-performance, multi-domain modeling and simulation tool for physical systems.
Engineers, scientists, and mathematicians use Maplesoft products to enable them to work better, faster, and smarter. Maplesoft's customers include Ford, Bosch, Boeing, NASA, Canadian Space Agency, Canon and Motorola, covering sectors such as automotive, aerospace, electronics, defense, energy, financial services, consumer products, and entertainment. With Toyota, Maplesoft founded the Plant Modeling Consortium to promote the development of new design techniques for automotive and related industries.
Visit http://www.maplesoft.com to learn more.
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Saturday Night Live Recap: Jim Carrey Dances the Black Swan
And Fred Armisen mocks Mayor Bloomberg.
If you like Jim Carrey–type humor, last night's Saturday Night Live did not disappoint you. The show gave him everything he needed to work with: some seeming improv, some physical comedy, and a large gamut of impersonations to run through. And if you don't like Jim Carrey–type humor, you have no sense of humor. No, you do. We're kidding. And you might still have enjoyed the show. It sent up Black Swan. It mocked the Birds. And bloggers enjoyed it: Entertainment Weekly rightly said that Jim Carrey "radiated positive energy." Jezebel appreciated Carrey's good sportsmanship: "It was a valiant effort, Mr. Carrey," wrote one commenter. Another said: "Jim Carrey is great tonight. He could play the whole SNL cast and I wouldn't notice." Deadline's Nikki Finke noted, "I personally felt Carrey's physical comedy talents could have been put to better use with stronger material, though he made the most of what he was given." Movieline said the show "felt like one big Jim Carrey therapy session ... We have a more mature, certainly a more damaged Carrey hosting for a second time." We don't doubt that Carrey's been through some stuff since his last SNL-hosting gig. But we thought he seemed to put that aside last night. Anyway, HitFix was even moved to admit, "SNL is never quite as dead as people like to proclaim." On that note, here were the highlights.
Most Surprisingly Funny Opening Monologue:
This season has seen opening monologues that were either pure promotion for the host's movie or just unfunny. But Carrey's enthusiastic opening ditty about the 2012 myth — featuring a convincing, impromptu marriage proposal — killed it.
Most Belated Parody:
Well, they got the set, music, and costumes right. Carrey put his heart into the Black Swan skit, literally putting his chest as far forward as possible. It worked as physical comedy, but it wasn't a particularly incisive send-up of the film.
Best Take on Semi-Current Event:
Perhaps we did overreact to the snowpocalypse/tsnumani. The cold opening worked as an excuse to parody Mayor Bloomberg's strange dialect, if nothing else. And the SNL team missed the opportunity to make this joke last week.
Most Crowd-Pleasing:
Jim Carrey. Singing. Crass jokes. "Worst of Soul" train worked.
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Chasing the Dream: Crowd-sourcing her publishing dreams
Cameron Garriepy wanted to see her novel published. But with the odds against her and without a publisher, how could she make it happen?
Garriepy turned to crowd-sourcing, launching an Indiegogo fundraiser to raise money to self-publish her novel, Buck's Landing. Now, the book's out and she's ramped up for a great launch.
Many people dream of becoming authors. For Cameron Garriepy, a mother of one, that dream is becoming a reality. The Massachusetts mom's new novel, Buck's Landing, is now available on the Kindle and will be available in paperback soon.
The book is a romance set in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Sofia Buck returns home to temporarily run the family business after her father dies. Silas Wilde leaves behind Manhattan and an unhappy legal career to live more simply, running a shop in the beach town. They find each other — but can their love survive their different goals?
Loves romances
Garriepy's love of romance novels goes back to when she would read whatever books her mom brought home from the library — along with her own selections. She adores the strong characters and intriguing plots of authors like Nora Roberts and Susan Wiggs.
She jokes that she wrote her first romance novel in the eighth grade — but really, it's true. Using her school friends for inspiration, she crafted a story. That was followed by much writing in her teens and college years. But then she stopped. As a 20-something young professional, Garriepy moved away from her writing.
Then, about three years ago, she became immersed in the online writing world and discovered the Red Dress Club (now Write on Edge), a writing group online where writers discuss the craft. "It sort of became the time. I've always said I should try writing one of those [romance novels]," says Garriepy.
After many starts and stops, the story of Buck's Landing just came to her. She was on vacation at Hampton Beach with her husband's family — and that became the setting of her first published novel.
"The two main characters sort of walked off the boardwalk and sat down next to me," says Garriepy. "I literally started the book while I was on vacation."
Stealing moments off the beach and writing when she could, the story just poured out onto the page.
Crowd-sourcing the funding
Garriepy took a nontraditional road to publishing. Through the crowd-sourcing site Indiegogo, she funded the costs of a professional editor, some printing and marketing costs. "The whole thing still when I stop and think about it just amazes me," says Garriepy.
Her project was fully funded in about 26 hours, because some of her friends made it their mission to help make it happen and because Garriepy reached out to her network too. "I went out and begged for help. I reached out to the community of people I know through writing," says Garriepy.
For Garriepy, with the book just releasing, the adventure is just beginning.
Finding time to write
So, when does Garriepy find time to work on her fiction? She says that she writes in the evening and also in the afternoons while her son plays with Legos. She also takes notes on her iPhone while sitting in traffic — basically whenever she can fit it in.
"Someday I would like to have a door I can close. But kindergarten is coming and I will be sad [my son is] in school all day," says Garriepy.
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Poly Parenting: A Day in the Life
At the high-traffic parenting site Babble.com, on the occasion of Valentine's Day, Sierra posts a new blog article reflecting on her brimming life as a poly parent:
What It's Like To Be A Parent In An Open Marriage
By Sierra
It's movie night at my house. Six kids are piled up on the couch downstairs watching "How To Train Your Dragon' and devouring pizza. My girlfriend and I steal a private moment together while our husbands settle the kids in.
We say a sleepy hello, she gets a work call, and I comfort a sad toddler. End of moment. It's chaos, but happy chaos. There's a lot of laughter and smiles amid the juggling act of feeding everyone dinner and making sure no one's view of the dragons is blocked by an elbow.
When the movie ends, my girlfriend and her husband bundle their kid up and head home. My husband, Martin, and I tuck our girls into bed. He tidies up the living room, getting ready for his sweetie to arrive for their date night. I pack up my laptop and head out to a lover's house. Not for a hot date. We're getting together to work for a few hours. I'm behind on a deadline.
This is a snapshot of life in an open marriage: busy, happy, full.
At least the way we do it....
...Monogamy was never on the table for us. I'd been practicing polyamory since high school and was dating two other people when I met my husband. Martin had never tried non-monogamy, but he thought I was pretty special and wanted to give it a go. It's certainly not what our parents wanted for us — I think my mom hoped it might be a phase I'd outgrow — but they're supportive.
While there are infinite ways to structure an open marriage, my husband and I have one with a few lovers who are closely entwined with our lives. We celebrate birthdays together, and go on family trips. In the decade we've been together, I've had a handful of lovers, all of whom were close friends before they shared my bed. My partners are like extended family — we don't live together, but we see each other often and our families have close relationships. People take all kinds of approaches to this. Some never introduce their lovers to their kids. Some live together in households where three or more adults are parenting together.
And apparently we're not that unusual. Around 7 percent of straight couples have arranged some kind of consensual non-monogamy, according to a recent Slate article. Numbers are much higher for gay men and a little lower for lesbians. Still, there's been little enough research done that these numbers remain fuzzy. What is clear in the research is that practicing polyamory doesn't make or break most relationships....
Read the whole long, thoughtful article (Feb. 14, 2012). Save it to pass to family and friends if they need something reassuring.
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26th Oct 2012
Exciting News!
Misozi Tembo, an employee of Oxfam in Zambia is coming to speak on Oxfam's projects in that country on Wednesday 14 November from 7-9 pm at the ICANDO London Conference and Activity Centre, nr Victoria.
Thousands of amazing people in the South East fundraise for the projects Oxfam works on. This is your opportunity to find out what it is like to work on the ground supporting Oxfam projects and the daily challenges and success's our team on the ground face.
This is a rare opportunity to hear about the work being done to change Zambian farmer's lives, to deliver health campaigns and support a gender justice programme.
Oxfam has been active in Zambia since the early 1980s.Our work here aims to help people make a fair living, gain an education and increase their awareness about HIV and AIDS. We also promote women's rights, deliver improved access to water and sanitation, and help communities cope with the impact of natural disasters. Our goal is to ensure everyone here benefits from a prosperous Zambia.
To find out more about this event please contact Nik on firstname.lastname@example.com
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If top-seeded Louisville is to avoid becoming a March Madness upset victim Saturday, the Cardinals would be well advised to crash the glass.
Colorado State, seeded eighth in the Midwest Regional, leads the nation with an average rebound advantage of 12.4 a game.
But can the Rams (26-8) possibly handle a tenacious Louisville defense that, Thursday against North Carolina A&T, produced a tournament-record 20 steals?
The Cardinals' pressure creates turnovers and, even when teams beat the press, can take an opponent out of its comfort zone.
With each possession, fatigue becomes a factor.
"Usually in games there's like kind of a point, usually in the second half, where we kind of wear teams down," U of L's Luke Hancock said after Friday's practice in Rupp Arena. "But a lot of great teams are here, and sometimes it doesn't happen. Sometimes we just try to continue our pressure the entire game and hope we get steals and deflections."
The Cards (30-5), who have won their last 11 games, set a season high Thursday with 67 deflections. Even Coach Rick Pitino was amazed by that total, noting that guards Peyton Siva and Russ Smith had 16 each.
To read the rest of the article, please scroll past these links to related stories on games in Rupp Arena.
NCAA Visitors Guide: Welcome to Lexington tournament-goers
NCAA bracket with game times, locations
NCAA in Rupp: Louisville, Colorado State present each other unique challenges
NCAA in Rupp: Louisville's Harrell embraces the pressure
Mark Story: Butler's Stevens as calm as he looks — most of the time
NCAA in Rupp notes: Broken brackets to be expected, Pitino says
Marquette looking for payback vs. Butler in third round
"Coach P's philosophy is we get a certain amount of deflections, we feel that we're in a capable place of winning the game," Siva said. "We try to get as many deflections as we can, slow down the movement of passing. That's really been our key for this year, and we just continue to keep our pressure up.
"Colorado State, they're a good passing and moving team. We've got to continue to play our game, continue slowing down the ball and focus on that."
The Cardinals are one win away from reaching the Sweet 16 for the 19th time and second year in a row.
Smith tied a tourney record by getting eight steals Thursday. As a team, Louisville posted its 24th double-digit steal total of the season.
"We pressure. We practice it," Smith said. "You've got to get in the right place at the right time. Just put amazing heat on the basketball, and I think we do a great job of that. Communicating is key."
Much of that comes from knowing where to be.
"We watch a lot of film and we try to make the right reads," Siva said. "Coach kept telling us yesterday we need to get off-the-ball steals."
Being in the right place at the right time, by design.
How are the Cards able to keep up the hectic pace?
"I would say we're in shape," Smith said. "So if they're gassed and they're on Jell-O, then we may be on 60 percent. ... We're still going. I feel like I'm never tired a lot, and I could pressure the basketball all game. It's just the simple fact that we have to communicate and talk. That's what's going to lead us to victory."
With "media timeouts" about every four minutes, plus team timeouts, "it's impossible to be tired" in a tournament game, Pitino said.
But Siva says the Cards also worked during the off-season, and continue to grind in practice.
"We think a game's much easier than practice for us because of how hard we go in practice," Siva said. "For the most part, we just pride ourself on conditioning, pride ourself on defense. That's what Coach P stresses — he stresses defense. He's not worried about the offense; he wants us to play good defense. As long as we play good defense, the rest will come."
Pitino says he developed his defensive philosophy in "my own laboratory" as a 24-year-old head coach of a low-profile Boston University team.
"So I could basically make all the mistakes I wanted and nobody noticed," he said. "I was continuing tinkering with the full-court press, changing it, working at it. For the five years I was at BU, I came up with a style of play that I stuck with from that point on."
U of L forces an average of 18.9 turnovers a game, which has led to 31 percent of their points.
Both teams average a fraction over 73 points a game, and both shoot 44.9 percent.
Rebounds and turnovers. That's where these teams figure to part ways.
"We can't turn the ball over and give them easy opportunities," Rams guard Dorian Green said. "It comes down to just all five guys being sharp in our press-breaking and run it with perfections, and being really crisp every single time."
Louisville vs. Colorado State
What: NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional third-round game
Where: Rupp Arena
When: 5:15 p.m. TV: CBS-27
Records: Louisville 30-5, CSU 26-8
Seeds: Louisville No. 1, CSU No. 8
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Basically, what fans saw in the final exhibition game against Cleveland. Grossman made good reads and good throws and didn't hurt himself. His ability to sell play-action is comparable to Brett Favre's in that department, as his touchdown pass to Desmond Clark showed. And his arm strength is unquestioned, as he proved on a bullet to Airese Currie after a scramble. Grossman is one of those QBs who energizes teammates with his attitude. He always believes the next pass will be a completion, no matter what happened on the previous one. His ability to block out distractions and put bad performances behind him also is a skill. He has worked hard to develop touch and he has overcome questions about his 6-1 height by taking efficient drops and working to make the right reads. There is an air of confidence around Grossman inherent in someone who savors his opportunities. That's the one positive about three injury-plagued seasons.


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We so often hear about how companies should drive brand awareness and differentiation via social media to pull ahead of their competition and win your purchase decision. In this week's blog, I would like to take this same concept and apply it to why sales teams are always in the land of mediocracy which limits their ability to compete.
Put yourself across the desk for a moment in your customer's shoes. They issue the dreaded RFP for your solution, you respond, then show up for that exciting finals day and what do they see? Of course a dark blue suite, Prada glasses, a Rolex watch, shinny shoes & a big smile. What your customers don't see is how you as a person are any different than the next vendor following you in.
One paragraph in a recent article I ready about brand differentiation really struck a chord with me which is "What's the point of going to market if you can't stand for something? Most brands are like needy teenagers, desperately trying to blend in with the crowd. In turn, we care little about the companies we support and often make decisions based on who has the best deal-of-the-day since true differentiation is nonexistent."
Challenge for you as an individual contributor or sales manager: Focus on one thing that will become your personal brand with your externally facing customers as well as your colleagues and you will notice a change in your win rates as well as your yearend performance review scores!
Some ideas to get you started would be…I am the –
- Sharer or collaborator as community expert.
- Blogger.
- Case study creator.
- Local user group lead or event expert.
- Creative presenter.
- Social media expert.
- Master at my CRM system.
- Training expert.
- Technical expert.
- Customer service darling.
Always remember that it's never too late to reinvent yourself and when doing so land your unique brand to separate yourself from your peers and your competition.
Watch for my next blog on "Stop wasting your time with CRM systems" – why do companies always get low user adoption?
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Numpad 1: Cripple Enemy Cars
Numpad 2: Unlimited Cash
Numpad 3: One Lap Only
Numpad 4: Freeze Timer
Numpad 5: Zoom Out
- Cripple Enemy Cars:
While active the enemy cars are crippled. They have no acceleration. You need to quit the race
completely after deactivation otherwise the cars are still crippled.
- Unlimited Cash:
While at the menu activate option and goto your garage/shop and you'll have unlimited cash.
- One Lap Only:
While active your currrent lap is also your last lap.
- Freeze Timer:
Freezes the timer on time trials.
- Zoom Out:
While active the camera is zoomed out giving your a better overview of what comes next.
Customize Hotkeys
Change hotkeys directly on the trainer/editor by selecting your desired hotkey via a drop down menu.
To save hotkeys press right mouse button on a hotkey and press save button on context menu.
To set up hotkeys for the editor, click on the small arrow on the right side of the apply button.
A dropdown menu opens where you need to click on 'Set Hotkey'.
Now press any key you wish and the hotkey is set. To CANCEL press ESC (Escape).
Also mouse buttons (left, right & middle) are disabled for hotkeys.
Controller Support
Open 'Controller HowTo' tab at the trainer interface for a detailed instruction on how to use a controller.
Don't forget to activate 'Use Xbox 360 controller' at the main page.
i love the Requests section !!!
Unfortunately when I use the freeze timer, the car disappears, and it becomes impossible to play.
Thank you for the cheat.
Unfortunately when I use the freeze timer, the car disappears, and it becomes impossible to play.
i too have the same issue, when activating option 4(Freeze Timer). your car disappears
if you have time, could you please try and fix.. and thanks again for the trainer!
Activate option AFTER the timer has started, this should fix the issue.
i already tried that, and my car still disappears when activated..
but just a fyi, all other option work great !
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Putting it all together: A hockey systems, stats, tools, and talent evaluation primerJuly 24, 2016, by
Last summer, I was asked to provide some insight into which stats I use, how I use them, and why I use them. I held off on writing that post until now for a few reasons, most importantly being my personal use of the stats available. This is going to be a very long post about how I use stats, why I use them, and how my use of them evolved over time.
First things first, I am not a statistician. For the most part, I do not understand a lot of the stat posts I see that dive into r-squared calculations. I read the first paragraph, I skim through the meat –which is where these posts begin to lose me– and then I read the conclusion. I also read what the trusted minds say about these pieces, and I draw my conclusions from there. But generally speaking, the "mainstream" stats have been peer reviewed multiple times. In any field, from math to medical to business, peer review is essential, which is why these are the ones that hit mainstream.
Why/How I use stats
I think this is a good place to begin. When I first began blogging in 2008, I had no insight into stats other than what I saw on the stat sheet. It wasn't until the 2013-2014 season when I started to understand what Corsi was and why it was important, and how deployment –quality of teammates, quality of competition, zone starts– was important. The more I read, the more I used it in my posts. The more I used it, the deeper the dive I took into the stats as a critical analysis tool.
Sometime during the 2014-2015 season, I had hit the point where I was using stats for roughly 80-90% of my analysis. Generally speaking, the conclusions weren't too far off from accurate, but it wasn't the right approach for me. I started tying systems into my player analysis, and how each player's skill set fit into a system. From a Rangers perspective, this meant focusing on the guys who could skate and keep up with a difficult hybrid man/zone defensive zone system. After identifying those players with that skill set, then I would look at the stats to see if my eyes matched the data. It wasn't until I saw how far off I was with Marc Staal that I realized I was on to something.
A little backstory on Staal: I am still an unabashed Staal fan. I thought he was truly the next great Rangers defenseman, and there's a good chance he could have been if not for injuries. His poor play was masked by Anton Stralman. And it wasn't until Dan Boyle started to fade that his deficiencies, the ones on paper I ignored prior, started to show for my eyes to see.
Fast forward to today, and we have so much more available. For players that I watch regularly, I follow the above style of matching what I watch regularly to what I see on paper. If my eyes don't match what I see on paper, I trust the paper and try to see where I was wrong. Using Staal as the example here, I spent more time focusing on him, and realizing that while still a good skater, he couldn't pass the puck in a manner that warrants his ice time or salary. It's a tough pill to swallow, that the paper knows more than your eyes, but it's true when you use the paper correctly.
One last aspect that is absolutely critical is that these are all generalizations. There are exceptions to the "rules," or outliers as they are called in stats. There are no absolute statements. These tools are used to evaluate the lower 90% of players to get an edge, not the upper 10% that are the elite players in the league.
The stats I use
Perhaps the biggest misconception with stats, specifically Corsi, is that many think it is the one stat that tells you if a player is good or bad – that the stat is comparable to WAR in baseball.
Corsi is not WAR. It's not even close. Corsi should not be used on its own as an evaluation tool. Any stats person who shouts Corsi at you without stating anything else is doing it wrong. Corsi is a tool to be used in conjunction with deployment, effect on teammates, points, and rate stats (per 60 minutes of play stats). But what exactly is Corsi, and why does it matter?
Corsi is a registered shot attempt (on net, post, missed, blocked) for your team or against your team while you are on the ice. If your team takes more shot attempts while you're on the ice, then you have the puck more, and you could be a reason why your team has the puck. The opposite is also true. The best players in the league are those that register many shot attempts for while limiting shot attempts against.
For forwards, this is pretty straight forward. You want a player that has the puck a lot and drives these attempts. As Wayne Gretzky said, you can't score on 100% of the shots you don't take. There are nuances for sure, and not all shots are created equal, but as long as you have the puck, the other team can't score and you will generate more quality chances.
For defense, it's a little tricky. The game has evolved from the two roles of offensive defenseman and shutdown defenseman. The guys perceived as shutdown defensemen are viewed that way because they block shots and deliver hits. However if you are doing these while on the ice, you don't have the puck. That's not to say there isn't value in blocking shots and delivering timely hits. They are a skill set that every team needs. However it is not the best evaluation of a defenseman in today's NHL. You want players that can block shots and deliver hits as a complement to other skills, not as their primary skill.
That's where CF (Corsi-For) and CA (Corsi-Against) come into play. It helps you split your paper evaluation of defensemen into two segments: Does he push offense, and does he stifle the opposition? The critical piece here is realizing that CF and CA numbers are the result of smaller plays that many say the stat doesn't evaluate. Such plays that actually show up in CF/CA:
- Gap control
- Going to the corner for a loose puck
- Tying someone up along the boards, and kicking the puck to a teammate
- That first pass from behind the net to a teammate at the half boards to start the rush
- A good stick check to break up a play at the blue line
- An active stick in a passing lane
- Using the body to protect the puck
I'm sure I missed some, but these are the plays that I see in my mentions on Twitter as being the flaws of Corsi. It's actually the opposite. These plays are Hockey 101 plays, and while there is no direct stat for each one, they are all inputs into CF/CA. Players with good CF/CA generally make these kinds of plays.
The interesting part here is that in today's NHL, the same skill sets are required universally to survive in this league. Quick feet, good skating, good hockey IQ, quick hands, good vision, and solid passing. Skills and Corsi are not mutually exclusive.
Scoring Chances
Scoring chances are just like Corsi, except these are chances –missed, blocked, posts, on net– that are defined by distance from net and type of play. Same concepts above apply, just for a better quality chance.
You expect your better forwards to have better scoring-chance-for (SCF) numbers. You expect your best defensemen to have great scoring-chance-against (SCA) numbers.
High Danger Scoring Chances
Another type of scoring chance, but these are generally your point blank shots. Same concepts above apply.
Deployment is a critical aspect of talent evaluation, and where things start to get a little tricky. As mentioned above, using Corsi on its own is flawed. There needs to be an understanding of how a player is used to get a full understanding of the numbers. Is a player being dragged down by defensive zone starts and playing against the best quality competition? Is a player being dragged down by bad linemates?
The basics of deployment are simple for forwards. The most skilled players get the most ice time in the offensive zone, and their numbers show. Those that are supposed to excel defensively are given defensive zone starts, with the job of limiting shot attempts –thus preventing quality chances and goals– and pushing the play up to the offensive zone, where the scorers can light the lamp. Every player has a role.
Measuring effectiveness in this role is where a lot of confusions lies. If a player is being deployed against top competition in the defensive zone, then he is expected to have good CA numbers. The logic is simple: He is being deployed this way because he limits shots and goals against. He uses all those little plays listed in the bullet points above to frustrate the opposition, force a turnover, push the play up the ice, and then get off the ice for the scorers. A good CA reflects all this, but they may not have a good CF. This is what you expect of players like Marc Staal, and Dan Girardi. And therein lies the critical aspect: Deployment doesn't deliver results. Skill and effectiveness deliver results.
On the flip side, a good CF is expected from someone who is charged with driving offense, getting the puck to the net, and putting up points. This is what you expect of your guys like Keith Yandle, who will drive possession but may not limit shot attempts against. Yandle isn't viewed as great in his own zone when pinned there, but once he gets the puck, it's a calm and controlled zone exit to get the puck up the ice. Yandle has great CF numbers, but his CA numbers are average.
Now there is a specific subset of players that don't put up points, but have great CF and CA numbers. Prior to signing with the Lightning, Anton Stralman was one of these players. When a player has great CF and CA numbers, he excels at the little things in the bullet point list above, but also excels at setting up his team for chances in the offensive zone. Theoretically with more playing time and the right deployment, these players deliver more points. This is especially true for Stralman.
Rate Stats
If you have two players that have similar skill sets, but Player A gets more ice time than Player B, then you expect Player A to have more points. It's a relatively simple concept, but one that is often misconstrued. Sexy point totals are nice, but ice time can sway any point totals. Just look at Mikkel Boedker.
That's why rate stats –goals, assist, and points per 60 minutes of ice time— are a better evaluation tool. It evens the playing field for players receiving top line minutes and those receiving third line minutes. With ice time equal you can start evaluating who is a passenger on a team benefiting from big minutes (Boedker), and who is playing beyond their role and may put up sexier numbers with more ice time (Kevin Hayes).
When you combine great CF/CA numbers with great rate stats, you get a potentially great player. Victor Hedman excels at everything listed in this post so far, and it's clear he's an elite defenseman. But this is where you can start seeing why players like Shea Weber may currently be viewed as slightly overrated and/or slipping in production from what he once was.
WOWYS – Effect on teammates
The last piece is the effect a player has on his own teammates. The good players are those that have positive impacts in shot attempts –both for and against– while on the ice. Again, all of the little plays mentioned above are accounted for in these numbers. The best teammate is someone who does all these little things effectively, thus creating more chances for and limiting chances against.
A player that goes to the corner, battles, and successfully gets the puck to his teammates is the ultimate teammate. He's doing the little things to stop the opposition and transition to offense. This is the same type of player that can use his body to protect the puck and draw attention to himself in the offensive zone before dishing to a teammate for a look.
Systems matter – Relative stats
This is the piece that is missing from the majority of fans that use these stats regularly. Hockey is not a cookie cutter sport. What works for one player may not work for another. The most polarizing player for the Rangers is Dan Girardi, and for good reason. Under Tom Renney and John Tortorella, who played conservative defensive zone systems that focused on collapsing low, Girardi was the rock that solidified the defense. Under Alain Vigneault and his hybrid overload/man coverage system, Girardi's faults were exposed from day one. Systems matter.
Without getting into a huge primer on systems (all laid out here, or just follow Prashanth Iyer), each coach plays a different system, and each system has a different effect on a player's numbers. A player in a low zone collapse system is expected to have worse CA numbers than a player in a more aggressive overload or man coverage system.
Comparing players within the same system is difficult, but relative stats –comparing teammates to each other– help bridge that gap. These numbers are generally a positive or negative number. A player with positive relative stats compares favorably to his teammates, and may be a better fit for that system. Think of this as the new plus/minus.
Some of this is guesswork, which is where evaluating the skills of the player comes into play. Sticking with Girardi as the example, there's a chance he may be a serviceable defenseman for a team that does not have a defensive zone system that relies so heavily on skating. A system that relies on shot blocking likely suits his skills better. However the opposite can likely be said for Anton Stralman, who is such a smooth skater that he can disrupt the rush and transition to offense seamlessly.
The tools – Putting it all together
There's a lot to digest here, and looking at it all may be difficult to understand. Luckily there are some great minds that have made visuals instead of tables to put it all together for you.
First and foremost is Manny Perry (@MannyElk), who owns Corsica Hockey, the war-on-ice.com replacement. This is where you can view all the rate stats, how a player has progressed/regressed over time, and team stats. 99% of the people listed below use Corsica as the base for all their visuals. Manny's corsica.hockey website is an invaluable resource.
Next is Domenic Galamini (@MimicoHero), who runs Own The Puck. This is where we get our HERO charts from. These charts evaluate one player or compares two players side by side. Here's an example of how Shea Weber compares to P.K. Subban:
After reading the above, and then viewing this chart, it's clear to see that Montreal didn't get enough in return for Subban. It's not that Weber is bad. He's still an elite scorer and shot generator for his team. However he's not the complete package. He appears to be fading quite terribly in his own end. Meanwhile Subban, four years younger, is the complete package. This is why the trade was laughed at.
Up next Micah Blake McCurdy (@IneffectiveMath), who runs hockeyviz.com. There are so many visuals available it's incredible, but perhaps the best resource for me is the WOWY chart for each team.
Everything is laid out with clear cut definitions. Good/bad sections are clearly marked. Blue and red sections for how that player effects the team are clearly marked. And this is just one level. Micah has these visuals for defense pairings and forward combinations as well. This really drives home the impact of a player on his teammates
Carolyn Wilke (@Classlicity), who manages Today's Slap Shot, puts together charts like this one:
Last year NYR vs OTT pic.twitter.com/fupc2v66UT
— Carolyn Wilke (@Classlicity) July 18, 2016
Like Micah and Domenic, everything is clearly labeled, easy to read, and easy for us colorblind folks to follow. This is just one of the many charts she puts together, and then explains in later tweets. It really drives home the deployment and effectiveness of players. And she regularly tweets these for all 30 NHL teams.
Perhaps the best part about this quintet (Prashanth makes five) is that all five answer questions in a manner that is easy to understand. There are certainly more great minds than these five, but these are the five that I personally rely on. They have provided a wealth of knowledge in bridging the gap between the paper analysis, the systems analysis, the skill analysis, and then tying it all together to give a fair, objective scouting report for teams and players.
This is a 3,000 word answer to a question and request made of me last year. I hope that I have adequately answered the question, and helped drive more discussion about the game, the stats, the systems, and tying it all together. Let's make hockey great again."Putting it all together: A hockey systems, stats, tools, and talent evaluation primer",
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Thanks for putting this all together. I can tell you put a lot of TLC behind it.
That was one tough mathematical problem, took me some time to figure it out!!!!
LOL…thanks for all the work!
Dave – very good of you to put this out there.
A couple of questions that may seem silly but I just don't have the knowledge and there are others out there may have the same questions.
On the Hero Charts:
There are different shades of blue and sometimes orange compared to blue. Is there some significance to this?
Where does the following season probability come from and how is it computed? And how is it useful?
What is top 2,4,6 depth- referring to? I would think defensive pairings but not sure. It shows up in both Production/60 and Possession/60 as well as the probabilities.
Other questions:
Who decides if a shot is a high danger scoring chance? It would seem to be pretty subjective and potentially have some bias built in.
I was watching your twitter debate recently on Girardi's usefulness and his stats vs. McD. I believe you said that to really understand McD's you have to look at his time when his was not on the ice with Girardi.
I understand how you can view the team performance without an individual, but how do you get stats on Player A (McD) when Player B (Girardi) is or is not on the ice?
Thanks again for taking the time to get into all of this.
Dave, first let me say excellent post.
I have two problems with all of this. First, there are things which really don't show up in these stats. The fact that the skeptics don't give the right examples doesn't negate this. OTOH, whether such things are common enough to be relevant is less clear.
I will give one example from a Ranger game this year. An opposing player had the puck around one of the circles and wanted to take a shot. Marc Staal stood in front of him in such a way that Hank could see the shooter but the shooter had a clear shot to Staal's left. The effect was that the shooter was shooting at the left side of the net and Hank knew that he only had to cover half of the net. Easy save.
This was only one play and hardly proves Staal is good. I feel certain that these small plays are important in one respect. I am sure that there are Corsi-good players who are so deficient in other matters that good coaches realize they don't belong in the NHL. However, whether or not they are worthy of consideration when we restrict to the pool of players that actually play is less clear.
My second concern is a question. Has the validity of these methods been checked statistically recently? Someone here directed me to a study some years back that said that knowing team Corsi for the first 20 or 40 games of the season actually predicted team success over the rest of the season better than team +/-. However, that study occurred in a world in which scoring and preventing goals was the objective. Now though, GMs and coaches and even players are trying to maximize Corsi; that changes the world. Would the previous results still hold?
I'd like to see a study which ranks organizations according to commitment to new stats and then compares success.
Finally, your BEST point. If the numbers, any reasonable numbers, tell you something that you don't want to hear, analyze and listen. The statement "Marc Staal is a top defenseman because he is" doesn't cut it.
Do any of these statistics take into account outliers?
Like say a dman lets in 7 goals one night. Do we take that into the calc? Is there a measurement to see how tight the stats groupings are?
Statistics never account for outliers. There is just one important rule of statistics to remember – namely watch out for outliers.
However, sample size is critical. With small sample sizes, outliers are very far out. With large sample sizes, outliers are not so extreme. The big advantage possession stats have on goal-based stats is exactly the situation you describe. A guy who has a bad night and gives up seven goals is hard pressed to recover from it. when you count shots, the numbers are so much bigger.
Dave, are a lot of these stats biased based on zone starts?
Yandle was a fancy stat darling last season and you said several times that he made anyone he was paired with better. While I agree somewhat with this I still can't help but believe that everyone of his partners had an uptick in their fancy stats because AV started Yandle in the O-zone far more than anyone else. And therefore whoever he was partnered with had much more favorable zone starts. When you see an increase of O-zone vs D-zone starts aren't you going to also increase you shot attempts for vs against? Of course DMac is going to look better when paired with Yandle and he starts the majority of the time in the offensive zone.
This isn't to rip apart Yandle or anything. I just feel that a lot of these stats can be skewed by how the players are deployed.
Eddie, Eddie Eddie
Here is one opinion which is far from yours because you are a reporter and are take logic and throw it out the window like most media people. You repeat lies and believe it for real. Real is not what you stand for but make believe. You are a Democrat so that is the reason you lie and belittle good and great players and call them B liners.
Dominic Moore says that in his opinion, Kreider is the most "explosive skater in the history of the NHL" (NHL.com)
Moore said that Kreider is a "game-changer" and can do "amazing things" because he is a "freak athlete." (NHL.com)
He added that guys like Kreider "don't grow on trees" and that he has become a "valuable player in the league." (NHL.com)
Who am I to believe me or your lieing eyes? Kreider is great though you don't believe it. You belittle great players and defend shitty coaches.
An example of your logic, you are mad the way the coach handled the Hays benching. The problem was other players were playing worse than Hays and he benches Hays. G and Stahl were playing much worse than Hays and he benches the young guy.
Kreider is a game changer and finally someone finally recognizes that and its not the coach. You can't recognize it because you are too busy defending incompetence. Incompetence is indefensible. The coach sucked even with hurt players he was unable to adjust.
Are you drinking?
Underscore – Dude in general I try to avoid being judgemental although at times I struggle.
In this case though it's clear your post is way out of line for this forum.
I hope you have a better day tomorrow.
Yes I was drinking yesterday. I still agree with what I said, but some things should not be said. Should I apologize or keep silent like the coach and not have any consequence for the presumed error? If I continue to make such presumed errors for an entire season, would I still be able to post here? Though you think I am crazy I have been right about the coach for approx 3 seasons (my opinion) and my record is amazing. Why not tolerate and ignore so many of my presumed mistakes? Would you do that for me?
Like wise I try not to be judgmental, but for some reason in Hockey and politics and religion and the medical industries, I struggle mightily.
No I am not above the rules like AV. From now on I will have a 2 drink maximum for posting. I am sorry for bringing politics into the conversation. We have enough Hockey politics to deal with. I don't want anyone calling Eddie, Lying Eddie.
By the way what part bothered you? The statement about the lying media or that I made a blanket statement about the media? Or was it that I assumed Eddie was a Democrat? Or the part where I said Eddie lies and belittle good and great players and call them B liners? Is that what I do with Leopold?
This is what Eddie said;
These guys are good young players, but they have done nothing to prove they are great. Your definition of great needs a little work I think. Other than Hank, we have no great players at the moment. We have good players. You may disagree, but then I think you owe it to everyone to explain who you think is "great" and what your definition of "great" is. Certainly, based on what we've seen and heard in trade rumors, few if any talent evaluators think our players are "great". I suggest you heed the words of Bill Parcells…."you are what your record says you are". So who has a "great record"? The coach, the goalie, and an argument can be made for Nash, (but not recently). That's it. Who is great beyond that?
So I wanted to shove back at the comment that Eddie the great talent evaluator had by belittling our players.
The only reason we made it to the finals was because of the coach and I see it the other way around.
If Eddie was right we should make back to the finals but the players quit on the coach because the coach quit on them by playing inferior players in wrong positions like Fast and one inept player named Glass and many more defensive mistakes.
What pisses me off is that you pass your opinion off as fact.
The player quit on AV because he quit on them. They were pissed off because of who played on a nightly basis?
That's your opinion and there is zero evidence that any of the players feel the same way.
Thank you for your reply.
I never posted anything as fact. Fact is in the math. I judge human character as poorly as everyone else. I thought the players gave up on AV. I assumed no one would say otherwise.
I was displaying my evidence about Eddie saying we only have B-liners by what Moore said about Kreider. But it still is not fact. Perception is in the eye of the beholder and thats why we disagree. No one here has the only fact. Some comments said by players may not be honest because no one wants to look disgruntled in the lying media. No one wants to look like TO. Yet he was honest. Who is going to say I don't want to play on Glasses line because he only plays 5 minutes?
Underscore – It's not my blog but this is how I see it.
Everyone is free to express their own opinion and disagree with other's opinions in constructive debate like fashion. The back and forth point/counterpoint debate that goes on is what makes the blog work.
We are all NY Ranger fans, we all bleed blue, and we all want the team to win the Cup every year. But we all have a different view of how that should be attained. Thanks to Dave and his merry band of bloggers this forum gives us each a chance to be Glen Sather and Jeff Gorton every day.
I certainly don't agree with many of the blog posts that are released nor with the way they are presented. But again – The BSB staff are the ones taking the time to put all this content together and we should all be respectful of that. I can't imagine the time it took Dave to pull together this Analytics post in particular.
Awhile back, A certain post caught me the wrong way and I said something about it. Should I have done it? Maybe/maybe not or perhaps in a different way. Point it is – I said it – and once it hits the internet it doesn't go away.
I am a "call them as you see them" kind of guy myself. Because of that I typically try to restrain myself in forums such as these because it just makes more sense to.
I am not the BSB Police by any means. There is certainly some stuff that I have read here that I thought was inappropriate, but it is not my place to say so. So it was rather untypical of me to comment on your post yesterday. And I probably shouldn't have.
That being said, I read it and felt very upset by the overall slant and tone of it – the blatant accusation that was made and then made again by bringing politics into it. In my own humble opinion, that kind of stuff has no place here and I said so.
I enjoy interacting with the group here because very hockey knowledgeable and passionate NYR fans are the participants. But at the same time it is not so pretentious as to not be able to poke fun at someone because of their opinion. I read some other blogs and can't believe what people say and I hope that the BSB never gets there.
So Underscore, Walt, Fotiu, Dr Paul, Merchant Sal, Ray, Mikeyyyyy, Amy, Chis, Hatrick, Spozo, Eddie, et al – let's move on to another day of healthy debate and not so subtle digs with and at each other.
You asked and I answered – I consider what happened to be between you and Eddie.
Enough said…..


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Five West African nations have contributed at least 1,500 troops for a military intervention in The Gambia, where the defeated President Yahya Jammeh is refusing to step down.
Senegalese military spokesperson Amadou Ndiaye said they will be forced to activate their mission at midnight if President Yahya Jammeh does not step aside.
The troops, including 860 Nigerian are already in Senegal, although their locations remain unknown. Already 11 pilots, 11 crew members and 80 "supporting troops" have been deployed close to the Gambia's border. Senegal and Ghana also are contributing to the force.
President Yahya Jammeh lost last month's election and refusing to leave power.
West African mediators led by Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari were unsuccessful in their bid to prevail over the longtime ruler to hand over power to Adama Barrow.
Barrow is backed by eight opposition groups and rose to power after the jailing of the main opposition leader Ousainou Darboe.
President Yahya Jammeh has until midnight to reverse his decision rejecting asylum offers from Nigeria and Morocco.
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Every day, at three in the afternoon, I make a trip down the Danube. To travel from Germany's Black Forest to Romania's Black Sea takes a matter of minutes, so I try to enjoy myself as much as possible. I sink into a cushy armchair, rev up the stereo and embark on an epic voyage. "Information on the water levels of the Danube River, in centimeters," the familiar voice on Horizont, the Bulgarian National Radio, announces with the deepest solemnity before reading out the relevant hydrographical values, first in Bulgarian and then in Russian and French. Vienna: 310 (+3); Mohács: 415 (+7); Novi Sad: 162 (-13); Vidin: 380 (+40); Giurgiu: 220 (0).
The captains of river vessels can easily map a course on the Internet, but the daily radio bulletin has remained a fixture in my life. For many years, listening to the fluctuations in the water levels of the Danube was the closest I could get to traveling abroad. Regensburg, Passau, Linz, Vienna: these names mesmerized me. Even places like Bratislava and Budapest, comrades in arms against the decadent West, had the ring of myth to a boy growing up in Bulgaria. Remembering his childhood in the Bulgarian river port of Ruschuk (now Ruse), Elias Canetti wrote, "There, the rest of the world was known as 'Europe,' and if someone sailed up the Danube to Vienna, people said he was going to Europe." If people in Canetti's immediate circle, at the beginning of the twentieth century, still had the occasional opportunity to waltz up to the palaces of the Habsburgs and back, however, the "Europe" I imagined in the 1980s existed only in a galaxy far, far away. To travel up the river as a tourist during the cold war required visas, special permissions, bureaucratic ballast. To swim across it, a negligible distance of a few hundred meters, was to risk both drowning and the bullets of border guards. For nearly fifty years the Danube was a demolished bridge, a liquid roadblock. The wall may have been in Berlin, but the truly impassable one was an invisible dam on the Danube, somewhere between Vienna and Bratislava.
The Danube—or Ister, as the ancient Greeks called it—is a natural highway of nearly 3,000 kilometers. "The greatest of all the rivers which we know," declared Herodotus. "A path for the spirit to follow," wrote Hölderlin, following the footfalls of the Greeks in his hymn "The Ister." Human tribes traveled west against the current, colonizing the core of the continent, gradually shaping it. Before the Americas, there was Europe. The Romans made a few feeble attempts to bring traffic under control by turning the river into the fortified frontier, or limes, of their empire, but without much success. South of the Danube civilization cowered; in the north, the barbarians bided their time.
There is probably no other geographical element of Europe that has absorbed more political weather than the Danube. Unlike the Russian Volga and the Franco-German Rhine, it has served many masters, as a shield or a spear. In 1683, by the walls of Vienna, John III Sobieski and Charles of Lorraine routed the armies of Kara Mustafa, marking the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire. Not long thereafter, in 1704, the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy vanquished the Franco-Bavarian alliance at the Battle of Blenheim, an important event in the War of the Spanish Succession. Near the river town of Ulm, Napoleon forced the Austrians to surrender with barely a fight. And Hitler's Drang nach Osten—yearning for the East—had a strong Danubian stink. "Do not forget," the elderly Heinrich Heine wrote to the young Karl Marx, "the difference between water and a river is that the latter has a memory, a past, a history."


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Tasytt accepted into 500 startups, launch Obie 2.0
2017 is off to a great start for iF and The Forge client, Tasytt! It was recently announced that the team was accepted into the newest cohort of 500 startups.
Tasytt has created a virtual assistant called "Obie" that is designed to keep teams focused and informed. For teams that use Slack, Obie provides instant answers from a database of "tacit" company knowledge directly through the platform. Utilizing machine learning, Obie becomes more knowledgable with each interaction.
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Air Science Experiment
Air can be invisible, so it can be hard to visualize its strength. This activity involving a blow dryer and bottle will show you the power that air can have so you can see it with your own eyes.
What You Need:
- Large empty bottle
- paper
- Tape
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What Happened?
When your child attempted to get the paper ball into the opening of the bottle, the hair dryer was pushing air into the bottle and compressing the air. As a result, the bottle was so full of air that there was not enough space for the ball to get into the bottle. You can try again with the blow dryer turned off or turned away and see that now the ball can go into the bottle. This experiment demonstrates that air has volume even if it can't be seen at times.
- Place the empty bottle on its side and hold it down.
- Ask your child to make a ball out of the paper that can fit inside the bottle's opening.
- Turn on the hair dryer and point it at the opening of the dryer.
- Ask your child to make a ball out of the paper that can fit inside the bottle's opening.
- Ask your child to observe what happened and think about why the paper ball wouldn't go into the bottle.


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In response to Wendy Davis Struggles When Asked a Single Tough Question:
I'm not surprised to hear Davis can't answer questions. For the true abortion zealot, belief is the answer to all questions. They're supposed to be holding all the trump cards. No one has the standing to ask hard questions about the one and only absolute liberty in modern America: the freedom to abort a pregnancy. (On the other hand, you've got to justify the exercise of piddly little liberties like religious conscience, because the almighty State thinks you might be faking it when you get the moral vapors over paying for other peoples' contraceptives.)
And this little drama in Texas is not about women's health; it's about making sure the "right" people feel victorious, and the "wrong" people feel defeated.
It's not surprising that the media has generally been able to obscure the real issues in that "sweeping" Texas abortion legislation. Their readers barely know who Kermit Gosnell was, so there is no need to explain that the Texas bill implements sensible regulations in line with the post-Gosnell conclusions of other state authorities.
It's amusing to watch Big Government liberals magically turn into anti-regulation freedom-of-industry crusaders when it comes to this one particular industry. Maybe a reporter should ask Wendy Davis which other industries she thinks are over-regulated, or why we should only be concerned when abortion clinics are pulverized beneath the weight of government safety mandates.


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Apple and Google have had a long-running battle over patents that now appears to be over. Both companies have agreed to call a truce and dismiss all existing patent disputes. In fact, the two companies will work together on patent reform.
"Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss all the current lawsuits that exist directly between the two companies," the companies announced in a joint statement. "Apple and Google have also agreed to work together in some areas of patent reform."
In the past, Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility have accused the other of stealing their technology to use in products such as smartphones and tablets. In a recent case, Apple sued Google, arguing the Android platform was a knockoff of its operating system and an infringement on copyright laws.
There have been several other lawsuits between the two companies, but it appears that they will leave each other alone.
"It's a huge relief to see these companies finally recognize that competing in the courtroom doesn't make sense," said Julie Samuels, executive director of Engine Advocacy. "Instead of spending millions of dollars enriching patent lawyers, they'll put those resources into real competition—in the marketplace."
What will this mean for you, the consumer? Hopefully, better technology for the future. With the phone companies now turning their efforts to development rather than protection, you might be able to enjoy features and add-ons that you never thought possible. Only time will tell, but at least there appears to be peace in the cellular patent world.


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With pledges now exceeding $1.5 Million via Kickstarter and the total number of backers almost 30 thousand pledgees, Brian Fargo and InXile have committed to a Mac and Linux version of Wasteland 2… however they have confirmed that console versions, including the Playstation Vita, are extremely unlikely.
For those of you having problems donating via Kickstarter, you can now donate via PayPal - an extra $6k has already been raised this way. You'll still get the same goodies, but the levels top out at $500.
InXile have also committed to spend at least 5% of any profit made on Wasteland 2 on other Kickstarter Projects. Other kick-starter users are also being encouraged to pledge a similar amount under the brand "Kicking it Forward".
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No Mutants allowed have raised $1,221 in order to purchase a bar in Wasteland 2. Contributors to their fundraising effort will also have their names mentioned in game.
Liz Danforth talks WastelandEdit
Liz Danforth, who created the "Highpool" map in Wasteland 1, and is in the new Wasteland team has been talking wasteland and more on her blog. Here's what she had to say on her work on wasteland:
- WASTELAND :I wasn't a big part of the original project, but Highpool was one of the areas I wrote that appears early in the game. People still make sour faces when I grin evilly and say I was responsible for the tragedy with the kid and the rabid dog. I did other bits elsewhere in the game too, but that's the piece I hear the most feedback about.
- Still, the remarks aren't always kind! I recall a forum comment I read just a year or two ago, saying something like "What kind of sick mind thinks up a situation where you have to kill a kid's dog? And the kid too?"
- *ahem* Wasteland is a post-apocalyptic world set in our near future. An animal infected with full-blown rabies can't be saved in our world, today. With limited medical supplies and a trashed infrastructure, how in hell do you imagine you could possibly do anything but put a rabid dog out of its misery?
- You never had to kill the kid, either. He'd throw himself at you, yes, but you're playing a squad of big strong mega-weaponed Rangers! Grownups! Walk away. It's not like you were chickenshit for backing down from some evil-hearted final boss bent on scourging the world and all you loved within it. It was a little boy.
- True, if you passed through the area again, the kid would scream and yell and accuse you of terrible things — forever. But why would the boy forget the bad strangers who killed his beloved dog? He'd only asked you to help him.
- You were never allowed to forget either.
- EMOTIONAL CONTENT That isn't something that happened in video games of the time. I didn't know that — the scenario I created was the kind of thing I'd've written for a bit of fiction, or a tabletop game. I play with emotions, and I still delight in knowing a little story I wrote can make strong men and women cry. The rabid dog's tale was simply cause and effect, a touch of the unexpected (for the time), and the power of unforeseen consequences.
- I remember that I had to argue to keep that event the way I wrote it. I think it was Alan Pavlish who said "But you have to give them a way to save the dog!" I explained the medical reasons why I felt that was unacceptable, how effective it would be to keep it this way, and he finally said okie-dokie. And that's how the story was eventually programmed.
- That was just little tiny bit of storyline in a larger game that had many memorable moments. The whole team's joint efforts resulted in something amazing, with impact that still resonates. And even if it did get me called "a sick mind" decades later, people tell me they still remember the dog, decades later.
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|Just to repeat that I am overwhelmed by the response and the faith and support from the fans makes me happy to be in the games business again. Never have I been at a better place to just make the games I love to make and this whole fan funding has provided.
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Generally speaking homeowners spend an estimated $12,759 to $31,733 on a complete kitchen renovation, and I've have projects that ran even higher. Before you give up on remodeling, a small kitchen can look brand new for less than $5,000.
If you want to save on expenses so you can put more money into your kitchen, I have a few tips. Forego a designer, and do as much of the work as you can yourself. Install the cabinets yourself, or simply paint your old ones to save even more. If the walls are being painted you can probably do this without professional help. This way you have a little more to spend on turning the space into your dream kitchen.
With a renovation budget of $5,000 to $10,000 there are several ways homeowners can update their small kitchens. Some of my favorite ways to make the small space really stand out is to,
- LED lighting is a great way to brighten up a dark kitchen, especially with it is combined with a new coat of paint on the walls. The eco-friendly lights also help you save money on your energy bills, which can eventually offset some of the reno costs. Running the lights underneath the cabinets is also a great way to give a small kitchen a modern appeal.
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The Atlantic Rim United States[1] (環大西洋合衆国 Kan Taiseiyō Gasshūkoku lit. Ring Atlantic United States), commonly known by the acronym ARUS (アルス Arusu?) is one of the worlds 2 superpowers. Its main enemy is the Dorssia Military Pact Federation.
ARUS is a union of many states but it started as a trade agreement called the Transatlantic Treaty Organization. It grew in power as it expanded its trade agreements until it became a full economic and political union.It is one of the two major powers in the True Era, the other being Dorssia. It is sometimes called the "Land of Freedom" and "World Police". It has a aggressive foreign policy of invading smaller countries and annexing them as 'member states' which resulted in some nations to form a military alliance to protect themselves from ARUS this alliance eventually became the Dorssia Military Pact Federation which would become its main rival on the world stage.
In T.C. 71 JIOR was invaded by Dorssia and in response ARUS sent a fleet led by Senator Figaro to evacuate JIOR's surviving citizens on their Dyson sphere but their real goal was to get the Valvraves. When Module 77 declared independence as New JIOR ARUS recognized it and tried to protect it but their fleet protecting it got destroyed by the Dorssians. Due to the actions of New JIOR's prime minister, Shoko Sashinami, ARUS was able to bring a resolution to the international congress to condemn Dorssia's invasion of JIOR which was signed by more then 80 other nations besides ARUS. ARUS and its enemy Dorssia are nothing more then puppets for the Magius. But due to the nature of the government there are some who are lesser of puppets to the Magius. This is further reinforced by the fact that the ARUS president turned on the Magius after escaping L-elf's attack, arresting the covert members of the Magius in an attempt to be rid of them.
ARUS is made of many member states on the continents bordering the Atlantic Oceans including Canada, Alaska, the 48 Continental USA, all of Latin America and the Caribbean, most of the western European nation states, and in Africa, Algeria, South Africa, and every African nation state between the 2 and west of them.
They are represented in a senate of sorts with 5 political parties being the party of liberals, party of independence, party of socialists, party of conservatives and the party of communists.
It is led by Jeffery Anderson, who is a human member of the Magius, however he betrayed the Magius by arresting those who weren't members of the Council and those who were members to prevent the Council from further hiding their existence.
ARUS Armed ForcesEdit
Compared to the Dorssian military, ARUS has better technology and greater numbers. Their Air and Space forces make heavy use of highly versatile Splicer Fighters, as seen with the high-mobility Z-Type and the bomber configuration G-Type. Their space warships are based on aircraft carriers, and are armed with at least 4 triple-barrel cannons and a large beam capable of long range fire.
The ARUS ground forces consists of infantry with access to flamethrowers and armored vehicles with at least one type APC having Polymer Carbon Cermet Armor.


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Motorola has taken wearable technology to a whole new level, thanks to a new digital tattoo that you wear on your wrist to unlock your phone.
The average person spends two or three seconds unlocking their phone, and that means they can spend several minutes over the course of a week swiping or entering passcodes. That's a lot of time to spend on such a tedious thing, but Motorola has come up with a solution that should make it both easier and faster to unlock a phone.
Googler Regina Dugan first announced last year that Motorola was working on a new digital tattoo technology, but now it's finally become available for the Moto X. Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group has developed a thin, flexible tattoo based on VivaLnk's eSkinTM technology.
It's a resiliant little NFC sticker the size of a US nickel. We're assuming you can put it anywhere on your body, but Motorola's video showed it mostly worn on the wrist. Although the tattoo actually resembles a small burn or scab, Motorola insisted it thoroughly considered the design.
Moto X digital tattoos will last for five days (even if you go swimming or shower). And starting today in the US, you can buy them in packs of 10 on VivaLnk.com for $10. That means you'd have to buy 7.3 packs or $80 worth of digital tattos in order to wear them for a year.
With a year of regular wear, we're wondering if these digital tattoos will irritate our skin. Either way, it's still a neat idea.