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I'm humbled to say that I didn't build it. You all are such talented woodworkers.
It's a reno, but it's far from the hunk a junk that it was. It had clamshell molding on it, ceiling white paint. complete stupidity. In the middle of the matching bookcase now. The woodburn is mine.
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#1 posted 04-29-2012 12:56 PM
The wood burn did come out nice, I am sure there is some nice looking wood under that latex paint. Even though you didn't build it you improved the design.
-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.
#2 posted 04-29-2012 01:04 PM
Nice bookcase. I like the doors very much.
helluvawreck aka Charles
-- helluvawreck aka Charles, http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com
#3 posted 04-29-2012 04:22 PM
Great work on the wood burn!
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#4 posted 04-29-2012 06:12 PM
thank you for the compliments. the cabinet is mostly plywood. Unfortunately, the matching bookcase has one of those football shaped patches right on the top, but I think it will be mostly invisible when stained. I can only guess, but I think this was home-made(cheaply) many years ago, but not necessarily poorly. It was left behind by the seller of my home. As we updated the room, the bookcases had to go, or be made purty again. Somebody at some time made some poor decisions on fixing it up.
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¶Most decent people who stumble across this site are initially amused
by the antics but then start to feel some pangs of conscience -
sure its funny but maybe its not very *nice* to string
them along like that. After all, surely they wouldnt be doing
it unless they had to etc
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so it was decided to collate these together.
¶1. Surely no one believes it when they get one
of these letters?
It often comes as a surprise when you hear of someone who actually
believed that some ex-presidents son wanted their help to rescue
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¶In Nigeria, we are always amazed that anyone could be
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that there are well over 250,000 scammers involved in 419 scams
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who have already sent money at the time they were warned.
Sadly, many of those are already so convinced by the story
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you to pass yourself off as a relative on legal documents so they
deserve what they get.
¶Many of the early letters did state either that person x (usually
a foreign national) had died without relatives and the corrupt government
would confiscate this money if person Y (the victim) doesnt
impersonate a relative to claim the money. Another variation was
that the money had been obtained by over-invoicing oil contracts
and they needed help to sneak it out of the country. But usually
these letters had a disclaimer to the effect of, "This is a
completely legitimate transaction. It will be carried out legally,
and you will be protected from any breach of the law." This
was to reassure more honest victims that everything was above board
and legal.
¶Now letters come in hundreds of different formats just check
out the Surplus Letters Forum! There are the well-known next-of-kin
letters, the orphan scams, repentant dying sinner needs help giving
fortune away to charity, tsunami victim donation appeals, fake cheque
scams, wash-wash, anti-scam scams (been a victim of 419 crime? Well
get your money back for you at a price!) and more.
¶Good, well-meaning people get tricked. Consider this woman:
¶From: XXX XXX Jennings <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: Amanda Fairheart-Smythe
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:09:16 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
¶Dear Amanda Fairheart-Smythe,
¶I wish I had received this email over 3 years ago. This man has
stolen all that I had saved and money that I borrowed. I heard
from his Mother (?) telling me a sad story that she was dying
from Aids and wanted me to take her children as my own when she
died. She had set up an Inheritance account and put it in my name.
How stupid could I have been? What I sent was to cover legal fees,
legal documents, etc... The money was never sent here. I have
heard in the last couple of days from the bank and have found
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over 3 years to find this out? I would never put your informants
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I have received threats this week. I am so afraid now and don't
know what to do. How did you know that Kwesi Bandermann was expected
to arrive here by plane? He did not arrive and I pray to God he
doesn't. How did you get this email address? Only 2 people had
it. It was Mr. Richard Meddings and Kwesi Bandermann. I can tell
you the whole story if you need it.
XXX XXX Jennings
¶All she wanted to do was adopt some children whose mother had died
of AIDS. She was scammed over 3 years and lost vast amounts of money.
Greedy? I dont think so.
¶Also consider the vast number charity scams. Less than 2 days after
the tsunami killed over 200,000 people in Asia on Boxing Day 2004,
scam letters were being circulated. People responded to these not
because they were greedy but because they were generous and wanted
to help those in trouble.
3. People wouldn't send them money if they didn't
have it to spare.
Again, this is false. Those who fall for these scams believe they
are about to get millions of dollars. Compared to such huge sums
what is $20-60,000? They see it as a 100% risk free investment that
will pay off within days or weeks.
¶Many of the victims take out personal loans, re-mortgage their
homes, sell possessions, borrow from family and friends, and more
to send money to these scammers. When the money is gone and the
scam finishes they are left with crippling debt.
¶I am a pastor in United Arab Emirates and am also a victim of
them. I am poor and hardly feed my family with my meager earnings.
¶I received an email on 28 Feb 2001 from a person called "Shan
Lee Shun" saying that he is the adopted son of a Japanese
widow who left huge wealth. He informed that this lady made a
will to divide a part of her wealth to many humanitarian organizations
and churches world wide and my name is also included in that.
¶My portion he said was $1.6 million. He sent some documents to
'prove' that and said that the money is invested with a GLOBAL
SECURITIES AND COURIER COMPANY in Amsterdam and I was invited
to visit Amsterdam to get this transaction done.
¶Foolishly believing this I went to Amsterdam but before going
they said that a handling charge of $18,000 should be given but
I had not even $500 with me. When I told about this to a friend,
trusting me, he gave this money by acquiring a loan from his bank
on the promise that I would return this amount soon.
¶I sent this to them to transfer the money to account in UAE.
Then they informed me that in order to release the amount I should
produce a Drug Clearance Certificate. For that they said that
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to help me by acquiring a loan from the bank. With this amount
I went to Amsterdam where they took the money from me, gave me
a 'certificate' and sent me back along with some bank transfer
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Since then I am in a very difficult situation that I cannot even
feed my children well or send them properly to school. I am paying
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still I need to pay a big amount which is left.
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to the Amsterdam Police and no action has been taken by them.
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John C 04/12/03
¶4. They wouldnt send much. After a couple
of times they would realise that theyre being duped before
they lose too much money.
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of these criminals are very good at what they do. Plus, it gets
to a point where the victim thinks Ive come so far
and paid so much, surely it this is the last payment.
The victim becomes trapped into a never-ending spiral of fees and
setbacks each costing more and more money.
¶There are documented cases of victims from a number of different
countries who have paid out millions to these scammers. Some of
them are still convinced that the money they were promised a share
of exists.
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¶5. But the scammers are only trying to get ahead
& feed their families. If the West hadn't raped their country
of its wealth they wouldn't have to do this.
¶Funnily enough, this is the argument most often used by the Nigerian
lads and their supporters. Recent lad visits to the forum show that
this is a prevailing justification for their scamming.
¶Basically the argument goes something like this:
¶1. Nigeria was a happy and peaceful country until the west came
2. Western companies, such as Halliburton and Shell, bribed their
way into the country and proceeded to strip Nigeria of its assets
leaving the inhabitants poverty stricken and struggling to survive.
3. Therefore the West is responsible and now it is payback time.
¶Lad to Janne Pekkala (Baiter):
¶Ok, I don't realy call it cheating, most times the smart person
become victorious. Some body has to pay what we call retribution
¶From what Africa went through during the Slave trade era
¶The west took all our resourses, Manpower, and our cultural
and traditional wares
¶Great acheivements
¶Some body will pay some how what your lineage owed
¶This fails to take into account several very basic facts and concepts:
¶ There is a culture in Nigeria that esteems those who can
make money without working.
¶One moderator of our forum, Old
Coaster, grew up in Nigeria and notes:
¶In the 18th century, European traders sat in hulks and trading
posts at the mouths of the Oil Rivers, Badagry and other sites
and were well used to the ridiculous amounts demanded by Nigerian
traders for Palm Oil, Ivory and Slaves. Serious negotiation was
involved and people like John Holt are on record complaining about
the difficulty of dealing with the locals
¶I grew up in Nigeria long before oil was discovered in the Niger
Delta. The culture of Southern Nigeria has always admired those
who can make money without working and I have scam letters going
back to the 1950's.
¶Us Old Coasters became increasingly irritated with the outrageous
prices demanded by traders for Nigerian Craft work as the tourist
business increased and naive tourists (usually Americans) paid
the initial prices asked which could be up to 20 times the going
price elsewhere.
¶The somewhat "jack the lad" culture of southern Nigeria
combined with the stupidity of foreigners showed how easy it was
to make money from the white mugus and intelligent scammers soon
developed the 419 scams, initially via fax and then via the internet.
¶Children raised in this culture soon learn that scamming is acceptable
especially if you are successful. A Nigerian member of this
forum wrote:
¶The attitude of the family is largely dependent on the degree
of success their chum has with scamming, if the lads been on it
for 3 yrs and only has a fairly used car to show, he's a failure
and no-good... but if he's built a couple of houses and cruises
around in an X5, all hail the king! They even give him a chieftaincy
title in his hometown!!!
¶ Using internet cafes costs money. Those poor starving Nigerians
who cant afford to feed their family also cant afford
to use internet cafes.
¶ It is the better educated Nigerians who are able to speak
some English. While we may laugh at the way they mangle it (how
well can you write in another language?) they wouldnt be able
to speak it at all if they werent somewhat better off than
many of the rest of their countrymen.
¶ Scams do not target Westerners. They target anyone with
money. In this
thread one of the 419eater moderators, Lew_Skannen replies to
this claim with a list of some of the victims that he has personally
spoken to:
1. Thai women, catering assistant in Bangkok - lost about £20,000
of money borrowed from family and employer. When she told the scammer
she had no money he told her to go borrow some.
2. Saudi Arab - $130K
3. Egyptian - sick wife - lost $10K
4. Egyptian - $7K
5. Black American woman - student - lost $2K
6. Black American woman - single mother - lost about $10K but was
saved from losing another $20K by a timely phone call.
7. Korean guy - Lost $1000+
8. Mexican woman- reasonably wealthy family I think - lost $120K
9. Polynesian woman - $5K
10 - Colombian man - $500 only.
¶ Successful scammers make a lot of money out of it. If they
were really doing this to right past wrongs then the money would
be used to assist the poor. But this money doesnt get distributed
to the poor. It goes straight into their own pockets. The money
that their victims have borrowed to fund this business deal and
will spend years paying back goes on supporting a lifestyle that
very few others in Nigeria can enjoy.
¶In the course of this business I have purchased several luxury
cars and built many large houses which I rent out. Believe you
me my friend, an American sucker is born every hour. Take you
for instance if you had any money you would have lost it. The
only thing keeping you safe is your poverty. You should thank
God for that!
¶ Many countries are poor and many countries have come off
second best from colonialism but Nigeria has a huge amount of valuable
natural resources. There is more than enough to drag it out of poverty.
However corruption is a colossal problem - Nigeria is rated as the
second most corrupt country in the world (after Bangladesh) and
that corruption is right through the whole of the society
from the top down. Nigeria will not be able to escape what some
see as the legacy of colonialism until this problem is dealt with.
As long as it is tolerated, or worse encouraged, by the majority
of people then they will continue to struggle as a poor nation,
stigmatized by a reputation for corruption and scamming.
¶6. Those pictures with the signs & poses
are degrading. How can you make them do that?
¶They have a choice and they could (and sometimes do) choose not
to send a picture. There are no trunk boxes with $20 million that
they must get out of the country. They are simply doing it to extort
money out of the victim. If they believe that holding a silly sign
or posing with a fish on their head is going to get them some easy
money from a gullible victim then they will do what it takes. They
are criminals.
¶Actually there are a couple of benefits from asking for photos
with signs. One, of course, is the humor aspect. Another excellent
benefit is that now some scammers are becoming wary of any requests
for signs and are dropping legitimate victims as soon as they ask
for some kind of photograph. This is always a good thing!
7. Okay, so they are trying to get money out of
people. Thats a crime but it not like its fatal!
¶Sorry guys, actually it can be. Numerous victims of scammers have
committed suicide or been murdered due to these scams. One particularly
nasty type of scam involves getting a victim to travel to the scammers
country, usually Nigeria, South Africa or to Amsterdam, with large
amounts of cash to finalize the transaction. The victim
is then kidnapped, often beaten and tortured and sometimes killed.
¶This is not a rare event. It has happened numerous times. At the
time of writing this FAQ the latest known victim was a 29 year old
Greek man, George
Makronalli, who traveled to South Africa as part of a 419 scam.
He was then kidnapped and killed when his family refused to pay
the ransom. A day later, police found George's body in Durban. Both
his legs and arms were broken and he had been set alight - probably
while he was still alive.
¶More links to victims stories:
- scroll halfway down the page to read the stories
¶Even if the scam does not cost the victim their life often it can
strip them of everything they have worked for and hold dear. Many
victims end up losing their homes, retirement or education savings,
businesses and jobs, and their professional or personal credibility.
All they are left with is large debts that they have no way of repaying.
¶The tangible cost of fraud crime is easily translated into dollar
amounts. Less easily measured, and perhaps the most exacting cost
of all, is the severe emotional impact of fraud crime on many of
its victims. Fraud crime is a personal violation. Although there
is no serious physical injury many victims of con-men speak of the
betrayal as the psychological equivalent of rape. Their trust in
their own judgment, and their trust in others, is often shattered.
They may have hesitated to tell family members, friends, or colleagues
about their victimization for fear of criticism. Family members
and business associates may even have been financially exploited
at their urging, resulting in increased feelings of guilt and blame.
¶The dread becomes immeasurable, unrelated to specifics, just an
all encompassing blanket of depression.
¶Fraud often evokes the following feelings or emotional reactions
among its victims:
self-doubt, shock, disbelief
societal condemnation and indifference (the attitude that victims
of fraud deserve what they get as a result of their own greed
and stupidity)
isolation (when victims suffer their losses in silence rather
than risking alienation and blame from family members, friends,
and colleagues)
anger, resentment, and a sense of betrayal toward the offender
for taking advantage of them especially if they were someone they
frustration with criminal justice professionals
shame, embarrassment, and guilt if they feel they contributed
to their own or others' victimization
fear for their financial security
increased concern about their personal safety and well-being
or that of their family.
¶ Some of the same physiological and long-term emotional effects
experienced by victims of violent crimes are also experienced by
fraud victims such as:
¶ feeling of terror or helplessness
rapid heart rate
inability to eat or sleep
loss of enjoyment of daily activities
¶Short-term effects on victims include:
preoccupation with the crime (thinking about it a great deal,
talking about it constantly, replaying the crime, wondering what
they could have done differently, etc.)
inability to concentrate or perform simple mental tasks
concern that other people will blame them for what has happened
increased strain on personal relationships (even to the extent
of divorce or withdrawal of support)
¶In the extreme, fraud crimes have led some victims to attempt or
succeed in committing suicide. One of these was Leslie Fountain
who committed suicide by setting himself alight after he was cheated
by an internet scam. Artists Against 419 dedicated the Worlds
2nd 419 Flashmob in his memory.
¶As you can see, 419 scams are about more than just pick-pocketing
a handful of small change from victims. The scammers ruin lives.
They use every trick in the book to get as much money as possible
out of their victims. They do not care about the people they scam
or the effect it has on them. They dupe the generous and the greedy
¶No matter what a persons motivation for answering a 419 letter
nobody deserves to be put through the kind of hell that these scum
have waiting for their victims. And no scammer deserves to profit
from lying and stealing.
¶That is why we have no problem with baiting. Every scammer baited,
every lad who poses with a sign for a baiter, every false form filled
in, every fake bank taken down means that less victims are scammed.
We keep the scammers busy with safe targets. We occupy
them and waste their time. Hopefully some will decide its
not worth it and get an honest job. Others may get caught in a sting.
¶Many of the members on the 419eater.com forum are also active on
other forums that assist the victims, such as
¶These members have seen first hand the profound effects that are
experienced by people who have been scammed. Some of them deal with
hundreds of victims a year. They know all too well the suffering
of the victims. Any sympathy they might have once had for the criminals
has evaporated when faced with the day to day grim reality of the
suffering inflicted on innocent men and women who have had the misfortune
to get caught up in a 419 scam.
¶Please dont offend them by siding with the scammers. Posts
that question the ethics of scam baiting, call baiters racists,
try to justify the scams or call victims greedy will usually result
in a polite request to use the search button before posting. Continue
to post and you may find their patience stretched.
¶8. What can I do to help?
¶There are a couple of key things you can do to help.
¶ Make sure that your family and friends are 419 safe. Nothing
would be more gut-wrenching than to spend hours baiting and shutting
down fake banks just to find out old Aunty Enid has fallen for a
scam and sent her retirement savings off to Nigeria!
¶ Bait! The more baiters the better as it keeps the scammers
¶ Have fun when you bait. The more you mess around with a
lad the more likely hell be suspicious of the next new victim
reply that lands in his in box.
¶ Keep alert for scammers details. Things such as account
numbers, physical addresses, fake bank web addresses, ccd
lists of other e-mail addresses and so on can be very helpful. We
have a team of dedicated fake bank killers who like to meet new
fake banks. We also have good connections with the South African
police anti-419 team [http://419legal.org] who have successfully
arranged stings. Plus some members have the ability to do mass mail
outs to warn potential victims in ccd lists without getting
shut down for spamming. PM a moderator if you find any of these.
¶Article (c)The Cheshire Cat 2005
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Aviva Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined National Championships at Whistler Olympic Park, March 28-29
On March 28th and 29th, Canada's best ski jumpers and Nordic Combined athletes will compete in the Aviva Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined National Championships at Whistler Olympic Park.
Spectators will have the opportunity to cheer on Olympic ski jumpers Atsuko Tanaka, Taylor Henrich and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes and their fellow team mates in their fight for the titles. International athletes will also take part in the competitions: The Swiss ski jumping team World Cup athletes Gregor Deschwanden and Marco Grigoli will participate, and jumpers from the USA will compete on Whistler Olympic Park's Normal Hill (hill size 106 metres) and Large Hill (hill size 140 metres).
On Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th, ski jumping will take place in the morning from 9:30am until approximately 12 noon (9:30am start trial round, 10:30am start of the two competition rounds, subject to weather conditions). On Friday there will also be the cross-country race for the Nordic Combined National Championships in the afternoon (2:00-3:00pm). On the three days leading up to the Championships (March 25th-27th), the athletes will jump during a training camp (jumping times also approximately 9:30am-12noon).
A $10 admission fee per vehicle per day applies for spectators without a regular Whistler Olympic Park trail ticket or season pass. More information on the event is available on the website of the organizer, Callaghan Winter Sports Club www.callaghanwintersportsclub.ca.


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Like a tank that lost its tracks, this thread is doomed to not get far.
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Oh, thanks for the memories! I played these ones excessively back in those years, beside Assault series , Gulf Strike, Aegean Strike, 2nd Fleet, 6th Fleet, and Flight Leader. Still have them, though stored away in the basement. It were good times back then. And many things indeed felt better. And we were younger.
I recently tested X-Plane 11 in VR, which has its VR in an early demonstration included (they consider it to be pre-Beta). To my surprise, it worked much better than I imagined. In small planes with a limited amount of buttons workload, it works better than in a big airliner, however. There is good potential - but also the limitations are clearly shown. Some of the current ergonomic deficits however are already confirmed to be adressed. If somebody thinks about the pros and cons of VR in SBP, X-Plane is a good demonstrator to test one's expectations. By concept, their handling philosophy is brilliant. I provide a link to an explaining text that may give you a first impression of how it works. They base on that no other hardware than the two VR controllers should be used, and I tell you - this way it indeed works best, better than mouse better than joystick, better than HOTAS. The typical vulnerabilties of VR when needing to handle a complex, button rich environment, can only be ergonomically avoided by going all the way. And that means in SBP this would need FULLY interavtive onboard stations in tanks. Every button that is needed for sim funcionality, must be fully functional in the graphical interface. A redesign of so many, many vehicles, that means. Plenty of work. Also, X Plane demonstrates better by experiencing it in VR than a thousand words what prevents VR in SBP the most. CPU power. While the small, simple planes run smooth in VR, a Boeing 737, not even on the complexity level of PMDG's, brings even my brandnew very fast system - an i7 8700K with Asus 1080TI-OC, to its knees in frames. The Cessna flies with medium settings in grapohics options, the 737 even with lowest settings does not really give joy to fly. With the many LOS calculations needed in SBP, I think with present technology you simply can forget VR in SBP. Not even mentioning once again the distance-blurriness problem and the lacking resolution. Technically it currently is not possible, I think, not in the private consumer market segment. It would be way to expensive. Just increasing the resolution in headsets does not help either - you need the platform power to support these many more pixels in resolution. I think some people here underestimate that. Anyhow, here is the text on how complex cockpit handling in VR must be done, at least imo: https://developer.x-plane.com/2018/01/interacting-with-x-plane-in-vr/ And here, the paragraph on "Controls and Manipulators", especially where the explain how their yoke works. http://www.x-plane.com/kb/x-plane-11-20-vr-beta-instructions/ It makes an awful lot of sense of how they do it. The only other way that is reasonable is to have limited cockpit controls and then having them all on your external game controller you use. That is why racing sims with a hardware wheel are the genre of choice for VR, no other major simulation genre works better in VR, not counting exotic, brilliantly working gems like Eleven Table Tennis or such that have no cockpit needs at all.
Extraordinarily bad bug in Intel CPU memory management
Skybird03 replied to Rotareneg's topic in Ground ZeroGaming seems to be mostly unaffected, and desktop users probably mostly have little to fear. It is server centres that may face headaches over performance drops, and certain desktop productivity tasks. I want Intel getting sued for releasing their brandnew 8th generation CPU although knowing since many months that it is affected by this hardware misdesign as well. It is not a continuation of an old product line, but opening a brandnew one although knowing it is porked. The only valid option would have been to delay the release and rework the hardware design. Kick their balls for this betrayal. I read that at least one CEO of Intel has sold all his Intel stocks except the legal minimum already in early November.
FYI: Warning of possible performance loss in Intel CPUs
Skybird03 replied to Skybird03's topic in Ground ZeroOh. Credits to you. Woody's site?
FYI: Warning of possible performance loss in Intel CPUs
Skybird03 posted a topic in Ground Zerohttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ A fundamental design flaw (a Kernel memory vulnerability) in Intel chips of the past ten years has caused a security vulnerability at the very lowest, most basic and most hidden level of the architecture that Intel cannot fix by themselves. The workaround is that operation systems, both Windows and Linux, need to apply rewrites for the Kernel that will soon be distributed via the OS' usual patch distribution channels. The fix comes at a hefty cost for some, older Intel chips may be threatened to lose up to 30% of performance, with newer chips said to get away with lower losses, as low as 5% - but a loss nevertheless. The Linux fix seems to also adress AMD chips, but it is unclear to me whether that is due to a newly revealed weakness in AMD chips as well, or is just a precautionary measure. If in the coming weeks you observe a loss in performance in your systems, this likely is the explanation. A reply to my warning in another forum claims the issue affects producitvity work more than gaming.
Demands coming form their military customers, can be pricetagged by eSim accordingly (as long as they have not already been covered by past contracts). This then would allow eSim to assess whether they have the capacity to carry out the order or to refuse it, or what it would cost them to enable themselves to cvarry out the task. We gamers probably cannot offer than ammount of financial incentive. Our share in their income is most probably too low.
As Ssnake said: it won't happen. He may change his mind one day, but I think that time is still several years away. Many years, most likely. If ever. Just saying. Just to motivate you to control your enthusiasm. eSim is no game developer, the focus and contract obligations that really pay for their bills demand them to set different priorities. Small expectations - small disappointments. Big expectations - big disappointments. No expectations - no disappointments: just the cozy feeling of having been right.
As Ssnake himself already said, they would need to redo all the interiors - and this for a studio of their size. Quite a task. While technically it is possible to be done, I do not really wait for it to happen.
Rumours say 4k displays could come to VR in late 2018 already, both HTC and Pimax seem to work on them. What that would mean for image quality imporvmeent you can see in the second (anmated) illustration in this text, pretty much at the top. https://vr-world.com/htc-vive-2-neue-virtual-reality-brille-2018-4k-display-samsung/ There would be a clear improvement, if this illustration is real, and still, at large distances it still would prevent you from seeing as tiny details as you are used to pay attention to in SBP when triyng to scan for the enemy. Already zoomed in by binos or tele-optics may work, but the bare eye trying to spot the turret of a IFV hiding between trees 1800 meters away? No way. I am not convinced that games will be the driving force behind the future success of VR, but its possible, and I am quziote certain that VR this time has come to stay for sure. Eventually display and lens technology will have advanced that much that the issues SBP now would have with it, will be no more issues at all. But we are not yet there. Two years minimum, I guess. Since the industry' course for better displays seems to be certain, i recommend to go with cheaper VR sets now if now is the time you want to dive into it, namely Oculus. It costs 450 Euros, compared to 700 Euros for HTC's base pack. That way your loss is smaller if you go with a later headset again in two or three years, depending on when 4K will be available for the price of today'S Oculus. Becasue now that I hgave one set, I have no intention to spend more money on a new one then what I have spend right now: 450-500 Euros. IMO Oculus also has the better image quality over HTC. In how far PC specs will be tackled by higher resolution VR sets, remains to be seen. I expect to see that the minimum specs for gfx boards needed will rise and minimum cards that now work will no longer work with the new ones. Probably only today'S higher end cards will be sufficient.
Adding to why current VR is no suitable for SBP: VR images are blurry, compared to monitor picture quality. The deeper you look into the distance of the virtual space, the blurrier it gets. I just have started with VR, and for the purposes I use it for, I LOVE-LOVE-LOVE it. But VR does not work with just everything in games, simulations, software. A TC standing in the turret and looking at the landscape trying to see an enemy 1 km away hiding in the forest, most likely will see nothing there, just a green blurriness. With today's consumer VR technology and displays and used fresnel lenses, VR in SBP simpy will not work well. You will see sufficient detail in the imminent vicinity of the tank, and at 10-15 meters you maybe even will be able to read written letters on signs, if they are big enough. Planes in IL2-Battle for Stalingrad stand out from the blue background of empty sky, but are so featureless at ranges beyond 100m that you could not identify them, and at a kilometer they start to dissolve almost, still - IL2 and VR works well if you switch on labels. But a tank at 1 km, and not having contrasting background behind him, but the cluttered green and and brown and shadows of the ground - no way to play this reasonably. The resolution of the displays would be okay, its is the fresnel lenses that widen the perceived field of view and also move the virtual image "away" from the eyes that do the damage here. The display sits two cm or so before your eyes, but the lenses project it in such a way that the focus the eyes adapt to is roughly an arm's length away. As long as you need to do this by Fresnel lenses, I see no escape from the tradeoffs in image quality. You could do it by prisms or such things, I assume, but that would increase the size of the box on your face, and its weight. Beyond that, if you have a beefy system, try VR. Used with the right software stuff, it is a BLAST and a real game changer like there has been none in the past 20 years or so. Racing sims are not what they used to be to ma anymore. Google Earth VR is a wonder of beauty and amazement. The free demos Air Car and Robo Recall show what is possible to trigger in physical reactions in people. That I start to sweat and breath a bit heavier when playing table tennis with natural movements shows how convincing the illusion can be (I even suffer the same mistakes I did in reality). And what amazes me most is: they managed to have almost zero latency times. No latency you could notice. How they did that really would interest me. I never had a computer - including my new and extremely fast current one - with such low latency times, not a single racing sim where there is not a minor, unobstrusive, but perceivable delay between movement of the FFB wheel, and the virtual wheel in the game. In Oculus, moving the paddle or racket or golf club: zero latency that would be perceivable to my eyes.
Worrying security issue
Skybird03 posted a topic in General DiscussionA general warning that I currently set up on the three or four forums I frequently read and use. We all may have heard of the possibility to install malware and snoops already in factory, in ROM-stored drivers for HDDs and so forth. Any scanner you later install , would not be able to detect it. This scenario here, that seems to have turned real now, is a privacy and security nightmare. Worse it cannot get. Say hello to Minix. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular-os-in-the-world-thanks-to-intel.html One may be tempted to assume that one is safe if buying AMD instead. But who said that those who set this up for Intel, have forgotten that there is AMD as well...? ;) ;) ;) But they want to kill cash money and force us all to set up our wealth and "money" in digital format. Yeah, they want that. Think about that next time you get your plastic card out. And learn to get some doubt on that you really act so clever when doing it. You compromise much more than just cash money.
I expect delivery of my new system in 10-14 days. It will be an i7 8700K and 1080TI, due to VR preparations for some other titles. The thread on a benchmark scenario is from summer 2016, is this still actual, is feedback still wanted? I could provide some data in 3-4 weeks on these specs then. "Es froit sich wer." :)
To be clear, I did not disagree with your described outlook - and desired outcome/trend -, it all makes pretty much sense to me what you said. Regarding these future trends, you probably are right, I tend to think in the same direction. I only disagreed a bit due to the fact that game developers since years have not even made use of multiple core architectures that as a matter of fact already were available. And that leaves me wondering how long this new trend will take to realize in material, in software outcomes on a wide front so that it indeed becomes "mainstream". I do not believe that now that Threadripper is coming, they all start to do simulators for 16 threads only. It could very well be that the full transition until a new "mainstream standard" will take the full technical lifespan of a computer rig: several, and not few, years. And yes, Win X cannot be avoided on new hardware, I tried to install test installations of W7 on two different Sky Lake notebooks, using those usual recipes of how to inject USB code into the installer medium to get it even starting the installation properly, and two or three other things to bypass non-recognition of hardware, but I failed in both attempts. That is in parts due to technical incompatabilities or non-recognitions, in parts due to MS having formed alliances with hardware producers to have them building in needless hurdles to prevent old Windows being installed on new platforms. Like Intel now demands new chipsets Z370 for the 8th generation of intel of CPUs (they use the same old socket 1151...), with the Z370 only unlocking a >>needless<< block to run with the new CPUs, because the Z370 else is nothing else but a Z270 - but Asus and others can sell new mainboards for this reason. The really new chipset unlocking the CPU in full will not be available until second half next year: the Z390. I think dual systems or dual boot is the way to go these days: one Linux system for emailing, browsing, shopping, work, text writing, photo editing, database storage, and one WinX system as game launcher where nothing personal and private is being done with or stored on, with the options set tight and privacy options being shut down as much as possible. (Even then you still can get knocked out or negatively affected by the shabby KB updates Microsoft has started to force-infest people'S property with, which Microsoft now acts with as if it is not peoples' property, but Microsoft's property: they do not accept users' "No" as a No anymore). All privacy cannot be protected with WinX, even a totally sealed Enterprise version of W10 still extracts almost 2000 variables that in one way or the other compromise the safety of private data and try to profile the user, and phones them home. But a "game console" cannot reveal more about me than my steam account (I even buy stuff for steam or load up the wallet via Linux), and what games I play. Any profiling beyond that is not possible, when I do not use that system for anything more than launching a game. I still do not like W10 for principle reasons and the foul policies of MS, but I can deny them the intended full scale of their wanted intrusion. Its not all good in Linux land, there are problem like hardware and driver incompatabilities, but still - it is so much better, safer, faster and stable than Windows ever has been - or will be. Certain software I principally avoid, for privacy and safety reasons: Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Java, and the likes. There is this nice quote by Snowden, and he has it very right: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." Thanks for the replies, I appreciate that you took the time.


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Samira of OPAL Marketing Group wins Lux Style Award 2012
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Samira Fazal, Creative Director at OPAL Marketing Group, wins the Lux Style Award 2012 for best TV writer. Samira has written popular drama serials and shows for several TV channels in Pakistan. She also writes advertisement copy. Her work in two drama serials "Mera Naseeb" (My destiny), and "Mera Sain" (My Lord) was nominated for best TV writer this year. "Mera Naseeb" won her the prestigious award.
The Lux Style Awards is a premier award show event held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate "style" in the Pakistani entertainment industry and honour the best talents in film, television, music, and fashion. The Lux Style Awards have been dubbed "Pakistan's Oscars".
Samira lives in Toronto and has worked on many successful ad campaigns for OPAL


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A couple of years before the World Trade Center attacks, Jon Ronson, a mild-mannered young journalist in Britain, decided to do a profile of a Muslim fundamentalist named Omar Bakri Mohammed, who called himself "Osama bin Laden's man in London." Hoping to counter the "lies" in the "Jewish-controlled media," Omar Bakri invited Ronson to follow him around in his daily life, telling him "I am actually very nice."
Ronson asked, "Are you?"
"Oh, yes," Bakri replied. "I am delightful."
In fact, it's Ronson who turns out to be so. I've never read such a delightful book on such a serious and important topic. Somehow he's written a warm and humane account of some of the most objectionable people on the planet. And he's got a lot of insight into their picture of us–and our picture of "them."
The British tabloids were happy to exploit Omar Bakri's claims to fame. The Daily Mail ran a photo of him on page two a few years ago with the headline, "Is This the Most Dangerous Man in Britain?" The paper was reporting on a 1997 rally that Bakri held in Trafalgar Square, attended by 5,000 people–including Ronson, who summarized Bakri's speech describing Britain should the Muslims take control: "He who practiced homosexuality, adultery, fornication, or bestiality would be stoned to death, or thrown from the highest mountain. Christmas decorations and store-window dummies would be outlawed…. Pictures of ladies' legs on pantyhose packaging would be banned. We would still be able to purchase pantyhose, but they would be advertised simply with the word 'pantyhose.'"
And of course the Spice Girls would be illegal.
Soon afterward, Omar Bakri welcomed Ronson to his home and played with his baby daughter for the benefit of the reporter. He told Ronson his daughter's name translates as "the Black Flag of Islam." He also told Ronson his goal was to rally Britain's Muslims to overthrow its democracy and establish a fundamentalist Muslim state.
After following Bakri around for months, Ronson finally got the payoff a hard-working journalist dreams of: an invitation to a secret jihad training camp. It was not in Afghanistan but rather in a place outside London called Crawley, near Gatwick airport. It turned out to be a disappointment: merely a gym where young men lifted weights and hit punching bags. Here Omar introduces Ronson to the fighters in training–and announces that "he is a Jew." Ronson had told Omar Bakri he was not Jewish. It's a tense moment:
"Are you really a Jew?" someone asked.
"Surely it is better to be a Jew than an atheist?" Ronson replies.
The answer is chilling: "No, it isn't."
Then Omar Bakri lectures Ronson in front of his followers. "I am not offended that you are a Jew…. What offends me is that you hide it. You assimilate…that is the worst thing of all. Be a Jew!" This is not exactly the message he expected at a jihad training camp, but it is the kind of surprise that keeps happening to Ronson in his relations with extremists.


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Bank Failures, Risk Monitoring and the Market for Bank Control (with Geoffrey P. Miller), 88 Columbia Law Review 1153 (1988)
Not since the Great Depression has there been such concern in the popular press about the fundamental stability of the banking industry. This apparent decline in public confidence stems from the unprecedented increase in the incidence of bank failures during the past decade. From 1946 to 1984 the average failure rate for banks was a modest .07%, but from 1984 to 1987 this rate increased five-fold to .37%. Although this failure rate is still quite small compared with the failure rate for firms throughout the rest of the economy, the large stake that the federal government has in the financial stability of banks, and the widespread perception that healthy banks are especially important to the economy, suggest that concern about the increasing incidence of bank failures is warranted.
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Macey, Jonathan R. and Miller, Geoffrey P., "Bank Failures, Risk Monitoring and the Market for Bank Control" (1988). Faculty Scholarship Series. 1741.


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Mylene Riva is Assistant Professor at McGill University, cross-appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Health. She is a health geographer and population health researcher. Her research is concerned with the socio-environmental determinants of health and well-being, their distribution between people, between communities, and across time, and how they produce health inequalities. Her current research focusses on: the links between housing conditions and housing interventions; health and well-being in northern settings; community conditions and health in the Arctic; the health and social impacts of mining development. Mylene holds a Research Scholars - Junior 1 award from Fonds de recherche du Québec ? Santé. Mylene received a BSc in geography and PhD in Public health and health promotion from Université de Montreal. She was a postdoctoral fellow in health geography at Durham University in the UK, and held a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at Université Laval. Prior to joining McGill, Mylene was assistant professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and CHU de Quebec Research Center at Université Laval.
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Best Of The Best Track Athletes Battle For Championships
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It is that time of year when we look to the student athletes who are working hard in Track and Field and doing all of the great things that they do. Just for fun we decided to look in on the Regions best and see how the State of Oregon and Washington stack up against each other!
To do that we turned to our friends over at Athletic.net, the source for High School Track Results, and ran a summary for Washington and Oregon. Both girls and boys are listed below and you can click through to see more information and results.
The following three tables show the best for Washington, the best for Oregon, and a side by side comparison. Many of these marks are at or among the Nations best as well. Here then is our report for you all to enjoy!
Here are the Top Marks in Washington in 2012 so far as we head into State.
All Stats Courtesy of Athletic.net http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Washington/
Now for a Look at the State of Oregon for 2012
All Stats Courtesy of Athletic.net http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Oregon/
Using thes tables going into State we thought is would be fun to look at the events and see how each State racks up Track Wise and it was ever so close across the board.
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Come help us celebrate 10 years of RXTE, with two great events! Out-of-town guests see our hotel information, below.
Thursday, January 12 - Birthday Party & Dinner
|Sandy Barnes
|Terri Shaffer
|Pam Levell
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|T6 room 26
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US Citizens without GSFC badges, or non-citizens with Visitor badges:
Please call one of the below by Monday, January 9, 2006, and have your name added to the list of birthday party attendees. You may pay at the door, as long as we have your name on our list.
Sandy Barnes: (301) 286-7780
Terri Shaffer: (301) 286-4645
Friday, January 13 - "RXTE: A Decade of Exploring the Extreme Universe"
8:20 AM - 4:30 PM, GSFC Building 3
Join us for a mini-conference celebrating RXTE science, with invited talks and poster session. The The Agenda includes galactic and extragalactic science, theory and observation. To participate in the poster session, contact Dr. Jean Swank. There is no charge for attending the conference; anyone with a regular or visitor Goddard badge, or US citizenship may come. We regret that there is now insufficient time to arrange visitor badges for non-US citizens, if you have not already done so.
To attend:
Attendence is free, but please RSVP to one of the below. Give your name
and say whether you will have a Goddard badge (regular or visitor), or not.
Attendees without a Goddard badge will not be able to gain access if they do not RSVP.
Sandy Barnes: (301) 286-7780
Terri Shaffer: (301) 286-4645
Hotel & Transportation for Out-of-Town Guests
HotelWe have reserved a block of rooms at:
Holiday Inn Greenbelt NASA/Goddard
7200 Hanover Drive
Greenbelt, MD 20770
make reservation
mention group name "XTE Birthday/NASA"
Rooms must be reserved before Dec. 29, 2005.
Cost: $134 for Jan. 12, $89 for Jan 13
From AAS to Holiday Inn, Greenbelt:You can take Metro (the Washington, D.C. subway) from the AAS hotel to the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt. The AAS hotel (Marriott Wardman Park Hotel) is near the Metro's "red line" station, Woodley Park-Zoo. Enter the Woodley Park-Zoo station, and follow these directions:
- Get on Metro's "red line" toward Glenmont
- Get off the red line at Ft. Totten
- Transfer to Metro's "green line" to Greenbelt
- Get off at Greenbelt (last stop on the line)
- Take a cab to the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt ($8)
From Holiday Inn, Greenbelt to NASA/Goddard (GSFC):The Holiday Inn has a shuttle bus, and we are making arrangements for it to transport Birthday Party and Conference attendees to and from Goddard. We will also try facilitate car and cab pooling to the extent possible, and local Goddard folk will also be offering rides. Details will be posted here later, or available at the "HEASARC" booth at the AAS meeting.
From Greenbelt to Airport:There are shuttle services from the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt to all area airports (Dulles, BWI, and Reagan National). Details are available at the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt. Visitors may also arrange for van or shuttle service to pick them up from the GSFC Visitor Parking lot, in front of the GSFC Main Gate.
If you have a question about RXTE, please send email to one of our help desks.


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Interpretations abound concerning the series of four blood moons in the years 2014 and 2015. Some Protestants claim it fulfills prophecy. Some Catholics see it as one of several signs leading towards a great revelation.
A blood moon occurs when the earth falls between the sun and the moon. While this ordinarily means the moon is invisible or visible only as a silhouette, sometimes sunlight filters through the earth's atmosphere and is refracted so that the lower end of the spectrum falls upon the moon. This can give it a reddish hue.
Referring to the return of Christ, the Bible several times mentions signs in the heavens, including references to the moon turning red as blood. While the phenomenon happens with some frequency, recent interest has been raised because it is happening around certain feasts in the Jewish Calendar. Pastors John Hagee and Mark Blitz have noted independently that there have been other occurrences of four blood moons in modern history and that each was closely associated with important events in the history of Israel.
Jewish Press writer Yori Yanover responds to this by noting that in each instance cited by Hagee and Blitz the series of blood moons fell after or concurrent with the great historical event, not before, and as such might be heavenly confirmation but cannot be prophecy.


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Vietnam's ministries and agencies have put more effort into promoting the progress of State-owned enterprise (SOE) renovation and development.
This direction was presented in a recently issued conclusion by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh after a last month meeting of the Steering Committee on Corporate Renovation and Development.
The committee and relevant authorities helped the Prime Minister direct the arrangement, renovation and improvement of SOEs' effectiveness, which have gained considerable achievements during last year and the first five months of 2013.
It proposed to the Prime Minister 28 projects on the corporate renovation policies, taking account of 78 percent of the 2012 plan and 50 percent of this year's plan.
The Prime Minister approved 99 of the 101 initiatives on the SOE arrangement and renovation of ministries, agencies and localities in the 2011-2015 period, and passed 17 of 21 projects on the restructuring of State-owned corporations and groups.
In addition to the achieved results, the conclusion also pointed out the drawbacks of SOE rearrangement, renovation and restructuring such as slow progress in issuing policies and mechanism, limited results in implementing SOE renovation projects and difficulties in withdrawing capital.
During its meeting, the Steering Committee also specifies the plans and tasks of ministries and agencies for the final months of this year.
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Charles Krauthammer on the scandalous treatment of William Pryor, President Bush's court of appeals nominee. Pryor, Alabama's Attorney General, just oversaw the removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama state courthouse, even though he profoundly disagrees with the ruling that required the removal (when was the last time any Democrat of note did anything this principled?). This was consistent with his long record of enforcing laws with which he disagrees. Yet the Senate Democrats continue to block Pryor's nomination on the pretext that his "strongly held views" will interfere with his ability to follow the law as a judge. Krauthammer draws the obvious inference that the real reason for the Democrats' opposition is the content of Pryor's views coupled with the fact that they emanate from religious belief.
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DAVIE - Reggie Bush is determined to play on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, and he made his strongest argument for his case practicing on Thursday.
However, it is uncertain at this time if Bush's level of participation was likely limited.
The Dolphins tailback says he'll leave the decision up to his coaches whether he returns this week from the left knee sprain he suffered in Sunday's 23-20 overtime loss to the New York Jets.
"That's something you've got to ask Coach about because I'll tell you right now I'm playing Sunday, but I'm sure that's why I'm not the head coach," Bush said on Wednesday. "I'm going to do everything I can from a physical and mental standpoint to prepare myself as if I'm playing Sunday and, if I get the call and it's true that I can play, then I'll be ready to go."
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Bush, who leads the team with 302 rushing yards on 50 carries, is entering a contract year with the hopes of dispelling his reputation as a fragile player. Bush has only played in all 16 games once, his rookie season. Last year he played in 15 games for the Dolphins before a similar knee issue forced him to sit out the season finale.


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Change may soon be coming to her neighborhood in Fayette-ville, N.C., and Karen Williams is definitely in favor of it. So is Cami Walker, and she's confident that all five other homeowners in their subdivision will be, too. In favor of what? Why, having the road that connects their properties renamed. The current one, you see, makes them uncomfortable - "embarrassed," as Williams puts it. In case you were wondering, it's Anthrax Street. No word on why, except that the planning commission approves any proposed name as long as it is unique and neither obscene nor too long.
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If you're looking for an interesting way to learn about plants and animals, than I highly recommend this non-fiction picture book. It's great for young kids or older readers.
This sounds very interesting. I watched a documentary on Arte this week all about this phenomenon. Have a great weekend, hugs, ValerieReplyDelete
Valerie- Must have been a fascinating documentary. So many interesting plants and animals can glow. :) ~FDelete
That's certainly an interesting choice! Yes, definitely one boys will dig, and some girls as well.ReplyDelete
Alex- Definitely! :) ~FDelete
Sounds like one that's full of info indeed. A winner.ReplyDelete
Pat- It is a glowing winner! :) ~FDelete
Hi DMS - it will certainly amuse many a person; when I was a kid I remember seeing the 'fireflies' in the hazel nut bushes at night ... they've always interested me - and then reading that soldiers in the First World War used them to read by ... amazed me even more. Incredible creatures and all those using bioluminescence ... nature is quite extraordinary ... cheers HilaryReplyDelete
Hilary- I recently learned about soldiers reading by the light of fireflies. So amazing. There are such an assortment of creatures on our planet. We are lucky for sure! :) ~FDelete
My friend's son is obsessed with marine life. He would love this book. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Kristin- He will definitely love it! :) ~FDelete
Wow, that cover looks AMAZING. But I guess that's the point. It's like the perfect book for any kind of waiting room, isn't it :)
Also, a bit late, but #getsocial2017 :)
Evelina- It would be perfect for a waiting room. Captivating pictures and lots of short facts. Thanks for stopping by! :) ~FDelete
The photos are amazing. I am sure my sone would love this, he is so curious.ReplyDelete
Heidi- I bet he would be fascinated by this one. The pictures really pull you in! :) ~FDelete
I love those deep sea fish. I must find a kid to give this to.ReplyDelete
Kate- It is a great book to gift to someone! :) ~FDelete
It sounds fascinating. I am always intrigued (and awed) by natural adaptation.
And would LOVE to be able to travel under the sea.
EC- Reading this book definitely makes you appreciate adaptations and how every creature is unique. :) ~FDelete
Wow the photos of Glow are amazing, but also slightly creepy. I defiantly wouldn't want to run into any of those deep sea fish.ReplyDelete
Brenda- I agree that many deep sea creatures look creepy- but the book also has many beautiful creatures and plants. :) ~FDelete
I love books like this with strange wonders of nature. Thanks for the review. I will check this one out.ReplyDelete
Rosi- I do too! Nature is awesome! :) ~FDelete
This is really amazing info, and the pics are so cool! Hugs...and Happy Friday!ReplyDelete
Ro- I really enjoyed this one and all the pictures and facts were so cool. Hope you had a happy weekend! :) ~FDelete
I love this type of books ! I find really interesting!!ReplyDelete
Gloria- Me, too! :) ~FDelete
Although I don't read a lot of nonfiction now, as I a child I used to love it. I would drink in the images and what information I could read and really understand. I think it helped me grow a lot!ReplyDelete
Olivia- I bet all that nonfiction reading growing up did help you grow. This is a great book since it is a picture book and it is a fast read for most adults and kids. I know I learned a lot! :) ~FDelete
that fish is ever so scary!ReplyDelete
Dezmond- He looked scary to me too- but my sister recognized the angler fish as a character in Finding Dory- so she wasn't scared. :) ~FDelete
What a fascinating book. It sounds perfect for a science lesson at school. (I taught science and we had a unit on animals.) I remember "lightning bugs" we called them. We'd chase them around the yard. They were so pretty.ReplyDelete
Beverly- This would definitely be a perfect book for a science lesson. Lightning bugs is a more accurate name- since many people call them fireflies- and they are actually beetles! :) ~FDelete
Sounds like a book my 9 year old grandson might like. Thanks for the tip! :)ReplyDelete
Karen- I bet he would enjoy this one. :) ~FDelete
I love these kinds of books. Thanks for posting about this one.ReplyDelete
Lee- Me, too! You are welcome! :) ~FDelete
The title makes me giggle. I bet my niece would dig it. :)ReplyDelete
Robert- It is definitely a fun read! :) ~FDelete
Lovely review sweetie :D Yay for enjoying this. I do like looking at animals :) And that angler fish is so creepy; loved it in Nemo, haha :)ReplyDelete
Carina- Nemo definitely helped kids and adults everywhere recognize the angler fish! I agree- it does look creepy! :) ~FDelete
What a fascinating book, a fun way to introduce a little nature and science.
All the best Jan
Jan- Totally! Perfect for introducing science and nature. :) ~FDelete
Sounds like a book we could all learn something from.ReplyDelete
Sandra- For sure! :) ~FDelete
Love the title. This sounds like a very fun book for kids. A great way to learn about these fascinating creatures.ReplyDelete
Janet- It is definitely informative and fun! Beautiful and intriguing pictures! :) ~FDelete
Now that's an interesting subject.ReplyDelete
Mary- Without a doubt! ~FDelete
Aaaaah! These are why I do not touch the ocean. lolReplyDelete
Anna- Lol- I can understand that after reading this book! :) ~FDelete
Very, Very cool!!!ReplyDelete
Magic Love Crow- I thought so too! :) ~FDelete
Great review! It looks like a fun book! :)ReplyDelete
Thanks, Erik! I really enjoyed it. ~FDelete
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