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With Hamilton, impossible quickly becomes reality
Billy Hamilton is fast. I mean, he is really fast. Hamilton is so fast that even though he barely has finished a month in the Major Leagues as the leadoff hitter, center fielder and 23-year-old blur of a rookie for the Reds, he's already considered the running version of Roy Hobbs, Crash Davis, Willie Mays Hayes and T-Rex Pennebaker times Chet "Rocket" Steadman.
Those baseball wonders were fictional, but Hamilton is real.
Billy Hamilton is fast. I mean, he is really fast. Hamilton is so fast that even though he barely has finished a month in the Major Leagues as the leadoff hitter, center fielder and 23-year-old blur of a rookie for the Reds, he's already considered the running version of Roy Hobbs, Crash Davis, Willie Mays Hayes and T-Rex Pennebaker times Chet "Rocket" Steadman.
Those baseball wonders were fictional, but Hamilton is real.
I'm guessing Hamilton is real. Then again, only Dr. Seuss or the Disney people could concoct a player who could go from first to third on a dribbler back to the pitcher -- yes, the pitcher -- or score from third on a grounder to the third baseman, or wait for somebody to make a catch in the shallowest part of right field before tagging and sliding safely into home.
There was also Tuesday night in Cincinnati, where Hamilton did the ho-hum by his standards. He opened the bottom of the first against the Cubs with a walk, stole second, reached third on a wild pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly. Hamilton later managed two infield hits, made a diving catch in center and hit a game-tying home run along the way to a 3-2 victory for the Reds.
Game after game, Hamilton uses his slight frame of 6-feet and 160 pounds to churn his legs quickly enough to turn "impossible" into just another word.
So how fast is this guy?
"I don't do times," Hamilton said, always responding in tones ranging from soft to softer than that.
To say that Hamilton is modest is to say he is pretty fast. So despite his gifted legs, he said he never has wished to know how swiftly he could run the 40-yard dash. Hamilton also said he couldn't care less if he is challenging or surpassing Mickey Mantle's historically accepted record of going from home plate to first base in 3.1 seconds while batting left-handed.
The switch-hitting Hamilton shrugged, while looking slightly uneasy for not having answers about the official nature of his speed.
"Maybe you can ask one of the coaches. They do times," Hamilton said. "I don't know. I don't keep up with anything like that, because it really doesn't mean anything to me. One time, you can run this time. Another time, you can run that time."
Then another time, you can surpass the sound barrier. No big deal -- at least not for this affable kid from Taylorsville, Miss., where every citizen could fit into the left-field bleachers at Great American Ball Park (capacity around 2,300) with room to spare. As for the rest of the world, Hamilton's speed is a huge deal. Let's start with some of his predecessors of yore on the bases. Rickey Henderson had more than a few "wow" moments. So did Ty Cobb, Lou Brock, Vince Coleman and Deion Sanders, known as Prime Time for a reason.
It's just that Hamilton is flirting with sprinting past everybody in that group and beyond to become the most exciting baserunner of all time, and I'm talking about by the All-Star break.
Take it from Rob Butcher. After I asked the longtime Reds media relations director to describe the most unbelievable thing he has witnessed so far from Hamilton regarding his speed, Butcher said, "To be honest, he has done so many of those things that they are becoming routine."
That's scary. No, that's Hamilton. All I know is that nobody goes from first to third on a grounder … back to the pitcher.
Nobody but Hamilton. He did it a couple of weeks ago in Pittsburgh.
"Me and the manager [Bryan Price] talked right before that series, and he said he wanted me to be more aggressive, to make things happen. And that's right up my alley, that's part of my game," said Hamilton, who promptly executed the game plan during his first at-bat.
While easing away from first base after getting plunked by a pitch from the Pirates' Francisco Liriano, Hamilton saw Joey Votto hit a tapper back to Liriano, who promptly threw to first. But it wasn't promptly enough to keep Hamilton from running to third.
Moments later, the Reds' Brandon Phillips ripped a sharp grounder to third as Hamilton charged toward the plate.
He beat the throw.
"I have great baseball instincts," Hamilton said. "I know something in my head [tells me to go]. I feel it, and I never think twice. I knew I was going to run the whole time. I knew I could get a good jump, but it's one of those things you never know what might happen."
Which brings us to Hamilton's Pop Fly Miracle. This was the stuff of Mother Goose, because nobody scores on a pop fly. In fact, nobody even attempts to do so. Yet there was Hamilton, standing on third and studying a pop fly drifting more toward deep second base than shallow right field.
Again, without hesitation, Hamilton tagged and scored.
What was up with that?
"We needed something to get going, so I wanted to do whatever I could to get all of us going together," Hamilton said. "I saw the second baseman going back on the ball, and I had it in my head that I had chance to score, especially since he was going backward. But then the right fielder got it, but I had it in my head the whole time that I had to go no matter what happened. So I had that chance, and I just made it happen."
It happens often for Hamilton … and swiftly.
Terence Moore is a columnist for MLB.com.

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No. Not a feature suggestion/request.
I played around with the entities a bit an built a spawn unlock system.
I'm thinking about a map made of many spheres/platforms that have CAH points on them. Now some also have a spawn that a team can 'unlock' / activate. (actually it uses doors and teleporters)
Should be quite cool on a large CAH map, where it normally takes quite a lot of time to get to the capture point again...
Short Example:
2 platforms, each is a team spawn. a central platform, witht he unlockable spawn on it.
get close to it and your team will unlock the spawn for 30 secs. after that it will time out and can be recaptured by another team.
You cant camp in the spawn because you get killed 5 sec after you teleported there.
Download pk3 spawnUnlock_test01.pk3, mediafire, 25KB (yeah KB)
Im not sure why only one team can unlock the spawn atm. (that problem stared as i split the trigger brush for the unlock)


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The LNG industry is becoming increasingly global and is starting to link regional markets in Asia, Europe and North America with multiple supply options. Both suppliers and customers benefit from these developments, which are providing a wide choice of sales/supply options ranging from traditional long-term contracts to shorter term and spot arrangements to meet evolving customer and supplier needs. ExxonMobil and our affiliates around the world have operated successfully in the LNG marketplace for decades. Together with our valued partners, we have been a driving force in transforming the LNG market into a more efficient and truly global business. Our experience spans the entire value chain, including natural gas fields and liquefaction facilities, regasification terminals, and LNG and gas marketing. Linking these individual elements of expertise into an integrated, value-added LNG development provides a strong, reliable offering to suppliers and buyers. 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Jamie McCartney is a multi-disciplinary artist who specializes in sculpture. For "The Great Wall of Vagina," McCartney casted the vaginas of 400 women, ranging in age from 18-76 years. Casts of mothers, daughters, twins, trans men and women, pre- and post-natal women, and a woman's pre- and post-labiaplasty are all featured in this large piece. "In creating this work, I set out to alleviate the needless anxiety that is driving so many women to contemplate cosmetic genital surgery." "The Great Wall of Vagina" book is for sale and features testimonies of over 100 women who took part in the piece. The piece even has an entire site dedicated to it, featuring images and videos and other information about the project.
For "The Spice of Life," McCartney casted the genitals of flaccid and erect penises, vulvas with closed and open legs,and breasts of a variety of people. "4×4" depicts a panel of 16 erect penises. McCartney claims that many people have engaged with his work in positive ways, noting the variety and lack of "normality" across the spectrum of featured genitals. People often use pornography to gauge normalcy of their genitals, even though these representations are skewed or exaggerated.
McCartney's pieces, "Old Glory" and "O Limp Pricks," feature casts of the tip of the artist's penis. For "Internal Affairs," McCartney casted the inside of vaginas, transforming the vagina into an external, almost phallic organ.
In all of these pieces, McCartney seeks to satisfy our curiosity and asks us to engage with the relationship we have with our own bodies.


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A downloadable file for this article is available here.
Integrating the login script with the blog should not be a problem for you. In fact all it needs to do is send a user through, if his or her login is valid, and then log the user out. The blog will have a MySQL backend that will store all the articles and related replies.
It will also have a categories table that we will use to store all the different categories in. The categories will help us group the articles together that belong to the same category. This will be achieved by adding a "categoryID" foreign key to the article table.
To retrieve the articles we will mostly use joins in our SQL, as this is the best way to retrieve grouped information, which in our case is absolutely vital to the way the blog structures the articles. We will also retrieve the most recent topics and display them on the side bars for easy access. This will act as a shortcut for the user, when he or she wants a quick view of what the latest messages are about.
The index page sends two values over to the comments page. These values represent the categoryID and the article ID. They will be used to retrieve the article and its replies on the comments page; they will also be used to retrieve the category names, which are related to those articles.
{mospagebreak title=The Database Tables}
Here are the tables that will hold our messages:
Articles tbl:
CREATE TABLE `article` (
`artid` int(5) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ",
`title` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ",
`comments` text NOT NULL,
`date_posted` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
`categoryID` int(4) NOT NULL default '0',
`artchild` int(5) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`artid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=30 ;
Most of the fields in the table should be self explanatory, except perhaps the "artchild" column. The artchild column will hold the message ID of a message that users reply to. This is how it works: the first time a article is written, its artchild value will be "0" and it will have an automatically created number. When a response is created to this article the new response article's artchild will have the auto number value added to its artchild column.
So for example if we wanted to retrieve all the articles related to a certain topic, say topic number eight, then all we need to do is retrieve all articles that have an "artchild" value of eight. The categoryID is the foreign key. It represents the ID of the category name in the category table, which we have not yet talked about. That is presented in the code below:
Categories tbl:
CREATE TABLE `categories` (
`catid` int(5) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`category` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ",
PRIMARY KEY (`catid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;
This table will hold the category names of the topics that will be used in the blog. The categories will be managed by the administrator in the admin section of the blog.
The Blog
The blog itself will really have only two pages. The index.php page will show a list of all the main topics in the database. The comments.php page will enable you to view comments made to a particular message, and also give you the chance to comment on the article. There will be an additional page, functions.php, which will hold all the functions used in the blog.
The blog will only allow the administrator to introduce new discussions. The actual users will only be able to comment on those discussions. This is because a blog by its very nature is like a web based personal diary, and as with any other diary you don't let other people write in it unless you personally want them to.
{mospagebreak title=index.php}
When the "index.php" is loaded the following SQL is executed:
include "config.php";
$query1="Select *,DATE_FORMAT(date_posted,'%W,%d %b %Y') as
thedate FROM article INNER JOIN categories ON categoryID=catid
WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 30 DAY)AND artchild='0′ ORDER
BY date_posted DESC LIMIT 10 ";
$blogarticles = mysql_query($query1) or die(mysql_error());
$num = mysql_num_rows($blogarticles);
In this SQL the articles are retrieved together with the categories to which they belong. The inner join does the job of linking the articles with their categories. The DATE_SUB() function does the job of retrieving all the messages posted in the last thirty days.
I set the condition of "artchild=0" because any article whose "artchild" value is greater then zero is a reply. All replies have the same title as the main article to which it is replying. By putting a condition of "0" in the SQL, I only retrieve the main topics. You will be able to view comments made to these topics by clicking on a link called comments, which is displayed with each topic.
To work out whether comments have been made on an article, we run the following SQL:
$getcomments = "SELECT * FROM article WHERE
echo mysql_error();
echo $num_comments;
The '".$row_articles['artid']."' refers to the article ID retrieved from "$query1." Then we just count the number of rows returned as in the line "$num_comments=mysql_num_rows($theResult);" and display that number.
If you look towards the right in the screen shot below, you will notice a list of topics displayed. This is achieved by the following SQL:
$query="Select *,COUNT(*) FROM article INNER JOIN categories ON
categoryID=catid WHERE DATE_SUB(CURDATE(),INTERVAL 30 DAY) GROUP
BY title DESC LIMIT 10 ";
$blog = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
$num_blog = mysql_num_rows($blog);
Again this SQL just retrieves the articles from the database and joins the category information on the articles. We need the category info because we are going to show the title of the articles and in what category they were posted.
Here's a screen shot of the index page:
{mospagebreak title=comments.php}
The comments page has three main functions:
- Display the main article.
- Display the comments made to the article.
- Display a form for new comments to be added.
When you click on the comments link in the index page, two numbers are sent over to the comments page: the article id and the categoryID. The comments page uses the article id to retrieve the main article and then to retrieve all the comments made to that article. Here's the SQL that does the job:
//retrieve the main article…
$getarticle="SELECT * FROM article WHERE artid = ".$_GET['aid']."
ORDER by date_posted ASC";
if(!$result = mysql_query($getarticle)){
echo mysql_error();
//retrieve all comments made to this article
$getcomments="SELECT * FROM article WHERE artchild = ".$_GET
['aid']." ORDER by date_posted ASC";
$getcomments_result = mysql_query($getcomments);
Both queries are straightforward. One uses the $_GET['aid'] link to retrieve the main article and the other uses the same value to retrieve the comments.
The form enables a user to make comments on the main article. Here's the SQL that handles the form data:
$query = "INSERT INTO article SET name='".$_POST
$query .="date_posted=NOW(),categoryID='".$_POST
echo mysql_error();
$getarticle="SELECT * FROM article WHERE artid = ".$_SESSION
['aid']." ORDER by date_posted ASC";
if(!$result = mysql_query($getarticle)){
echo mysql_error();
//retrieve all comments made to this article
$getcomments="SELECT * FROM article WHERE artchild = ".$_SESSION
['aid']." ORDER by date_posted ASC";
$getcomments_result = mysql_query($getcomments);
When the form is submitted, it sends a value over to the form handler script. This value is then used in the code above. The code has two functions:
- Insert form data into the database.
- Retrieve the main article and comments.
The form has a couple of hidden fields that contain data, such as the title of the main article, the category ID, and so forth. All of these are used in the insert query as shown below:
$query = "INSERT INTO article SET name='".$_POST
$query .="date_posted=NOW(),categoryID='".$_POST
echo mysql_error();
Here's an output of the comments page:
That's it for the blog part of the series. In the next part, we will create the administration side of the blog.


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I'd like a closed form expression $x(n)$ for the number of orbits of the symmetric group on $3$ points acting on the triples in $\{ (a,b,c) \mid a,b,c \in \Bbb{Z}, 1 \leq a,b,c \leq n, c = 2n−a−b \}$.
I feel like this should be a really basic problem, but my standard method of attack fails: look it up in OEIS and prove the known formula. My backup plan of "think about it" has failed: I don't know how to deal with the restriction on $c$. (Without the restriction, I happen to have learned this is the same thing as counting $1 \leq a \leq b \leq c \leq n$, and I happen to have learned this is Binomial($n+2$, $3$) because you need to place two bars between $n$ stars, but I have no general context for this.)
I suspect this is a pretty standard counting problem even with the restriction, but I never really learned how to count (fish, fish, fish, …, fish, fish, …, fish).
The counts $x(n)$ for $n=1$ to $30$ are: $0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 23, 26$, $29, 32, 36, 39, 43, 47, 51, 55, 60, 64, 69, 74, 79, 84, 90$.
I think there are $(n-1)\cdot(n+4)/2$ triples, but even that is a little fuzzy (increase increases by $1$ each time). I have no idea how many of them have $2$ equal components.


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Diarrhea and HIV/AIDS
Table of Contents
Diarrhea and HIV
Diarrhea is one of the most common problems for people living with HIV (HIV+). It can affect as many as eight out of ten people living with HIV. While diarrhea caused by advanced HIV disease has decreased, some people living with HIV have diarrhea from their HIV drugs.
Diarrhea occurs when you have bowel movements more often than you usually do and/or have very loose, watery stool. Many factors can cause diarrhea. Some of these include:
- HIV virus damaging the gut (intestines) -- particularly if you have a high viral load or a low CD4 cell count
- An infection of the gut -- from bacteria (e.g., shigella or salmonella), viruses (e.g., Norwalk or rotavirus), fungi, or parasites (e.g., cryptosporidia or giardia)
- HIV drugs (especially protease inhibitors)
- Anxiety
- Antibiotics
- Other medicines
How Does Diarrhea Affect the Body?
When you have diarrhea, your body loses fluid and you can become dehydrated. In addition to losing water, your body loses minerals called electrolytes, such as sodium and potassium.
It is important to keep drinking plenty of clean, safe water or other clear, unsweetened fluids such as non-caffeinated or herbal teas, broths, or club soda. Try to avoid non-clear liquids like milk, juices, and sodas, as these can actually make the diarrhea worse. You can replace electrolytes by drinking Gatorade, PowerAde, or Pedialyte. Pedialyte, while made for children, is also great for adults -- it has much less sugar than typical sports drinks and comes as a drink or as popsicles.
Diarrhea can also lead to malnutrition (not getting enough nutrients and energy from your food). Diarrhea sometimes prevents food from staying in your gut long enough for your body to absorb the nutrients it needs. Also, if HIV has damaged your gut, it can not absorb nutrients very well. This means that you will not get important vitamins, minerals, protein, and calories from your food.
Having diarrhea can also make you not want to eat. When you do not eat because you do not want to have diarrhea, you are at risk for malnutrition.
Treating Your Diarrhea
Even though it may be embarrassing to talk about, it is important to tell your health care provider if you have diarrhea for more than a few days so that he or she can find the cause and suggest appropriate treatments. Be prepared to answer questions about what foods or drink you have taken in the last several days, any place you have traveled, and any prescription medications, street drugs, supplements, or vitamins you have taken recently. Because some germs that cause diarrhea may be sexually transmitted, your health care provider may ask you questions about your sex life. She or he may test your stool for infection, and may also test your blood to find the cause of your diarrhea.
If HIV drugs are causing your diarrhea, it may clear up after you have been on those drugs for a couple of weeks and your body has adjusted to the medicine. It is important to talk to your health care provider before you make any changes to your HIV treatment regimen. If you are starting a new drug, ask your provider if diarrhea is a possible side effect. If so, ask what anti-diarrheal treatments to get ahead of time, so that you will have them in case you need them.
Also talk to your health care provider about seeing a nutritionist or dietitian. A nutritionist or registered dietitian can help you choose foods that will make diarrhea less likely to occur, or more manageable if it does occur. She or he can also help you get enough nutrients and energy from your food. For more information, see The Well Project's article on Nutrition and HIV.
There are many approaches to treating or managing diarrhea:
- Over-the-counter medications
- Supplements
- Dietary changes
- Alternative or herbal remedies: Chamomile, ginger, and peppermint teas -- which are all clear, non-caffeinated fluids -- have calming effects on the gut. Preparations that include slippery elm have been found to reduce inflammation in the gut.
- Prescription medications: Your provider may prescribe medications based on the cause of your diarrhea (e.g., antibiotics for diarrhea caused by bacterial infection). Some prescription antidiarrheal drugs include: Lomotil (diphenoxylate and atropine), and Sandostatin (octreotide). Loperamide, which is available in several over-the-counter forms, is also available in prescription strength.
In December of 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug for treating non-infectious diarrhea in people living with HIV and taking HIV drugs. This new prescription drug is called Fulyzaq (crofelemer), which was shown to reduce the number of watery bowel movements among people living with HIV in a clinical trial. The most common side effects from taking Fulyzaq were upper respiratory infections, cough, and gas.
Over the Counter Medications
- Pepto-Bismol or Kaopectate (bismuth subsalicylate)
- Imodium AD (loperamide), Kaopectate 1-D (bismuth subsalicylate), or Maalox (calcium carbonate +/- magnesium +/- aluminum +/-simethicone )
In some cases a nutritional supplement may help reduce diarrhea. Be sure to talk to your HIV provider before adding supplements to your diet. Some of these supplements include:
- L-glutamine: 10 to 30 grams per day. This supplement is often helpful if your diarrhea is caused by HIV drugs. You may want to try mixing the powder in juice or applesauce several times a day.
- Calcium carbonate: 500 milligrams twice a day. Researchers are not sure how much this supplement actually helps diarrhea, but in most cases it does not hurt to try. It is thought that calcium carbonate helps the most if your diarrhea is caused by Viracept (nelfinavir) or Kaletra (lopinavir + ritonavir).
- Probiotics: these are the "good bacteria" normally found in your gut. They usually need to be refrigerated, and contain live active cultures of bacteria such as acidophilus or bifidus. They can be found in yogurts, milks, and kefir. If you are allergic to or intolerant of dairy products, some probiotics are available in pill form. Probiotics are often used if your diarrhea is caused by taking antibiotics, but they can also work for other types of diarrhea.
Dietary Changes
- Eat small meals at room temperature every two to three hours
- Make sure you drink lots of fluids and replace electrolytes
- Try not to eat high fat or greasy meals, especially fried foods
- If you have gas or stomach pains, try not to eat gas-forming foods like onions, beans, broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower
- Spicy foods and very sweet foods may make gas and diarrhea worse
- Stay away from caffeine, which stimulates the gut -- caffeine is found in coffee, some teas, sodas, and chocolate
- Eat soluble fiber in foods like oats & oatmeal, potatoes, white rice, and apples (without the peel)
- Avoid insoluble fiber, or "roughage," which is found in lettuce, greens, bran, seeds, whole grain breads, and corn
- Avoid eating raw or undercooked foods (such as meat, fish, chicken and eggs) or un-pasteurized dairy products
Sometimes the BRATT diet can help:
- B ananas
- R ice (white)
- A pples (without peels), applesauce, or juice
- T oast (white)
- T ea (unsweetened and non-caffeinated)
After your diarrhea clears up you may slowly return to a normal, healthy diet. However, you may want to start with more bland foods like bananas, plain rice, boiled potatoes, baked chicken (with skin and fat removed), eggs, plain toast, and crackers.
Other Tips
- Keep a diary of food and other things you feel might trigger your diarrhea and discuss this with your health care provider and dietitian
- Wash fruits and vegetables before eating
- Wash your hands often and thoroughly
- Ask your HIV or primary care provider about a referral to a gastrointestinal specialist if diarrhea does not go away after some time
Taking Care of Yourself
Remember, diarrhea is manageable. It may take several tries to figure out what works for you. Try to be patient and do not give up. With the help of your health care provider and dietitian, you can find the best options for managing or eliminating your diarrhea.


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Some interesting peculiarities:
- Montreal (Quebec) is missing; use America/Toronto instead.
- Most countries are listed by their capital cities, but some are listed by their country name:
— Jamaica instead of Kingston
— Malta instead of Valletta
— Costa Rica instead of San José
— Puerto Rico instead of San Juan
— Qatar instead of Doha
...or their largest city:
— Guayaquil instead of Quito, Ecuador
— Casablanca instead of Rabat, Morocco
— Karachi instead of Islamabad, Pakistan
— Johannesburg instead of Pretoria / Bloemfontein / Cape Town, South Africa
- Some countries are not listed at all, e.g. British Virgin Islands (Road Town), Malawi (Lilongwe), Sint Maarten (Philipsburg)


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Welcome back to Medical Mondays! Melissa Sarno had some great questions about her current WIP and I thought I'd tackle a few specific questions she had.
"What kinds of effects can prescription drugs of abuse can a person have, and what are the withdrawal symptoms if they go off the drugs?"
The prescription drugs that are commonly abused usually run in three classes.
- Pain medications (opioids, like morphine, Vicodin, Dilaudid, methadone, etc.)
- Sedatives, including sleeping medicines and anxiolytics ("anxiety destroyers") also known as benzodiazepines, such as Valium, Ativan, and Xanax
- Stimulants (amphetamines, such as Ritalin)
- In the US, prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem (16 million people in the US as of 2009)
- Except for marijuana usage, more people in the US abuse prescription drugs than heroin, inhalants, cocaine, hallucinogens, crystal meth, and ecstasy combined.
- Rapid onset (quicker high)
- Route (to get the best high), so a drug that can be given or changed to intravenous is preferred over inhaled > immediate release > slow release formulas
- Purity (trade names have more street value than generic)
- Pain medications: The mental states can range from euphoria to sleepiness and even coma. Physically, abuser might have a lower breathing rate with shallow breathing, tiny pupils, and a slowed GI rate (constipation and quiet belly sounds)
- Sedatives (benzos and barbiturates): Slurred speech, incoordination, wobbly gait, stupor and coma. Their mood may be all over the place and they might be socially inappropriate. Physically, their irises might be twitchy.
- Stimulants: Euphoria, increased energy and exuberant mood, decreased appetite, and sometimes hallucinations. Severe intoxication can cause agitation, violent behavior, elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rates, elevated body temperature, and sometimes heart attack and cardiovascular collapse.
- Pain medications: Classic opioid withdrawal includes terrible, downed mood, restlessness, runny nose and tearing, body pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
- Sedatives: tremors, anxiety, hallucinations, psychosis and seizures.
- Stimulants: fatigue, depression, inability to find joy in anything, increased sleep or insomnia, vivid dreams, drug cravings, and increased appetite.


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Hi Tennisopolites! FREE Tennis Coaching tonight
in tennisopolis Chat-room!!!!!!!
Tonight at 10pm Eastern time
CoachV & Derek D will discuss the New Old Man VS the Old Young Man Woody VS Graphite Tennis Match.
Discussions will include Tennis Games & Strategy, Skills development, Training & Technique.
We will give an over-all Break down of our history together, what happened in the match and give as much as we can. Our combined experience and the generation gap will give perspectives which will be a benefit for all players looking to evolve ( Get better Fast & Simple ) their tennis game.
We will answer any questions posted here! also Check in here to show your interest in our chat session!
First Set CoachV 6-3
Second Set DerekD 6-4
Third Set CoachV 6-4
Special Exhibition match:at 43:30
Tie-Breaker Woody Squash Racquet VS. Graphite Racquet
DerekD 11-9
Please Watch & Like this video. this is the match. also use time to reference
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First BIG POINT to Hurt Derek is at time:320
Backhand Down the Line
( aka the backhand he never saw before )
Things i think i do Well.
1. I can put the ball away almost at any time on the backhand side.
2. i can change direction of the ball at anytime with the forehand.
we only have 13mins of the first set.
So those were the scores! Well, the 50 min video can't be the whole match. The video looks good though, but chunks must be missing.
Im ONLINE NOW!
CoachV is my tennis god. Very few players make a significant improvement in their tennis game at the 15-20 year mark of their career. CoachV has done just that. Everything he does is better, but what stands out is 1) serve 2) racket head speed so great that he was able to produce (with a wood racket) hard-angled-heavy topspin groundstrokes against my best groundstrokes. Obviously, his groundstroke technique is far superior to mine. Amazingly, I did not notice a big difference between CoachV's wood game vs his graphite game. His kick serve (about as good as mine) was the only shot that was significantly better with more spin with a larger graphite racket. Both sessions were close. CoachV had me 7-5, 3-2 with his 90 square inch Federer racket before the rain halted play on Wednesday. I had 1 set point in that first set. After that first session, I concluded that V had no chance with a wood racket. Then on Monday he beat me 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 with his 66 square inch wood racket. He is mentally tougher now than he was at 25. Although I did not play my A+ game like I did in the tournament that I won 2 months ago; I did play my A game. All the other players in my park were equally amazed at the power CoachV was producing with an overly flexing wood racket. The bet was $50 (not $100) and CoachV was kind enough to kick back $10 to me by betting me $10 that he could beat me in a tie-breaker with an ultra small old wood squash racket. I won but V had one point for the game! Later on, V played the number 2 seed in the tournament I won, beating him by the same score that I beat him by in the tournament; 6-0, 6-2. That result absolutely convinced me that I played decent tennis and should not feel embarassed. Like John Henry (the steel driving man), CoachV's technique overcame modern technology. I do believe that I have a 25% chance of beating CoachV in "Old Man/graphite racket vs Young Man/wood racket 2" in 2013.
"Later on, V played the number 2 seed in the tournament I won, beating him by the same score that I beat him by in the tournament; 6-0, 6-2. " -DerekD
Yes but when i beat the #2 i used a wood racquet as well. so in conclusion I am the KING of Pelham Bay Park and Now the D in Derek's D stands for Duke of Pelham Bay Park and Rules in my Absents.
That #2 player had eaten an entire chicken at Boston Market.
I'm sure you should cut him some slack.
um no excuses please. i just finished playing 2.5 hours and was cramping in my stomach badly when i beat you.
ps Derek & i beat you and jon like nothing before my match against derek.
Derek Defenses are bad at 2:26 & 2:52 opt: Lob into corners, Slice short angle near singles and service lines Drop Shots or more loopy shots ( push Baby ) that move me instead of going for the big hard shots that you hit in the middle & did you in derek. Derek you Need more angles on hard shots. similar to the 3:27 point when you pulled me out wide. ( but i hit a bigger shot backhand down the line that you were not expecting then dejected attitude again.)
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FONTANA — A man was surprised to see San Bernardino County firefighters rush into his home to battle an attic fire.
The man was in the back of the home in the 15800 block of Athol Street around 7 p.m. Saturday when firefighters entered the home looking for anyone possibly inside, according to a Fire Department news release.
Neighbors noticed smoke coming from the attic of the home and called 9-1-1, according to dispatch reports. They told firefighters they believed someone may still be inside the home.
Firefighters entered the home to search for any residents and found the man at the rear of the house. The man quickly ran out when he saw the firefighters.
The fire was moving through the attic, and firefighters cut a ventilation hole on the roof to better fight the blaze,
Firefighters contained the blaze after about 20 minutes but remained at the scene for nearly two hours for mop-up work and to make sure the fire was completely out, officials said.
The American Red Cross was called in to help the family of five that was displaced.
Fire officials urge people to have a plan if a fire were to break out in their home. It should be updated on a regular basis and should include a plan on how to evacuate everyone from the home quickly and safely, and then meeting at a predetermined location.
The cause of the attic fire was under investigation.
One victim was assessed for smoke inhalation at the scene. No other injuries were reported.


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Thursday, 17 May 2007
The Little Things
I am not a proponent of portion size or small servings generally but there are always exceptions such as these little morsels of sweet, buttery goodness. These little cakes are not as dense as a friand nor are they as spongy as a muffin. Rather they are moist and studded with bites of melted chocolate and chunks of moist banana.
The sizing choice was twofold. Firstly while this mixture would work equally well as a larger cake today I was looking for picnic food and things in cupcake cases are too hard to pass up. Secondly served as a smaller cake you get a lovely golden exterior with a moist crumb inside melting into pieces of warm chocolate and banana. As you reach for your second just remember they're so small you have no excuse not to have another one!
Banana and Chocolate Babycakes
(makes 10-12 depending on the size of your cases)
100g/3.5 oz softened butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp white sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1/4 cup yoghurt
1/2 cup almond meal
1/3 cup plain flour
1 very roughly mashed banana
1/4 cup dark chocolate chopped
Pre-heat your oven 180C/350F. Cream together the butter and sugars. Add in the egg and mix well. Pour in the milk and yoghurt and stir until smooth. Spoon in the mashed banana and combine. Add in the almond meal and flour and stir through. Finally sprinkle over the chocolate bits and give one final mix. Place spoonfuls of batter into cupcake cases and bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes.
The rest of the bounty
While I am perfectly happy picnicking on these alone there will of course be some obligatory savoury items. A tub of marinated olives and these sandwiches from a Two Fat Ladies recipe make up the rest of the picnic fare.
8 comments:
- Little Foodie said...
You'd maybe only need an excuse to eat them all... then again. Sound delicious.
- 17 May 2007 at 1:46 am
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I don't know if I'd be strong enough to have only 1 or 2 of these, Truffle... ;)
Banana and chocolate are so delicious together!
- 17 May 2007 at 7:31 am
- Lucy said...
Banana and chocolate are good combination. Clever portion-control idea! Again, great photos - those sandwiches are shot beautifully.
By the way, I've tagged you for a meme. No pressure...
- 17 May 2007 at 3:54 pm
- mellie said...
Your muffin has a wedgie!!
Sorry...I couldn't resist ;-) But dang, chocolate and banana is a winning combination, only topped by chocolate, banana AND peanut butter :-)
- 17 May 2007 at 11:21 pm
- Anh said...
Truffle, these are the things I baked most frequently. I like "baby" portion - easy to carry around and no mess! :)
- 18 May 2007 at 1:04 am
- Freya and Paul said...
Half the size, so you can have twice as many - that's my kind of cupcake!
- 19 May 2007 at 11:38 am
- jenjen said...
Yummo, those cupcakes look delightful and those sandwiches are the perfect picnic fodder.
- 20 May 2007 at 4:28 am
- Truffle said...
Thanks so much Amanda!
Patricia- I love the combination too and unfortunately lack willpower.
Lucy- I completely agree. Thanks very much.
Mellie- I didn't notice but it does indeed!
Anh- You're so right. They travelled beautifully which I loved.
Freya and Paul- I like the way you think!
Thanks jenjen. This reminded me how much I love picnic food!
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Responsible Rider OHM Course - Farragut
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - 6:00pm
The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation (IDPR) Responsible Riders course provides a building block style learning environment. Your learning begins after registering for a specific course date and location. A student reference guide will be mailed once your registration has been received and will provide the necessary information to pass the pre-course 50 question written test.
After the test is completed and reviewed the "on-the-range" interactive rider education takes place. These lessons include pre-ride inspection, starting and stopping, quick turns, hill riding, emergency stopping and swerving and riding over obstacles. You'll also learn about protective gear, Idaho's laws, rules and regulations, Idaho's off-highway vehicle clubs, rules of the road, places to ride and environmental concerns.
Bring your friends and family, and meet new friends to ride with.
- OHM - Off-highway motorbike
Preregistration is required.
To register for this course, click here.
For more information about the course and 2013 training schedule, click here.
Farragut State Park at 13550 E. Hwy. 54 OHV Training Site, Athol, ID
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Hasselblad H4D-40
- Brand: Hasselblad
- Subject: Digital Cameras
- Category: Digital Cameras
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PMA 2018 Report
The announcement of Hasselblads H4D line of cameras and True Focus technology heralded the beginning of a new chapter in the history of medium format DSLRs. Now, with the launch of the H4D-40, Hasselblad is announcing its intent to bring the advantages of Medium Format DSLRs to high-end 35mm photographers. Hasselblad, world leading manufacturer of high-end digital camera systems, announced today the launch of a new product, the Hasselblad H4D-40, the most recent addition to the companys new H4D camera line. The Hasselblad H4D line, built upon Hasselblads successful H3D-II series, adds faster capture rates, higher ISO ratings, up to 4 min exposure times, and the new True Focus feature.
40 megapixel Hasselblad H4D-40 camera
The new True Focus feature is a further refinement of Hasselblads segment leading Auto Focus system that makes accurate near field composing substantially easier for photographic professionals. Hasselblad is targeting the H4D-40, which features a 33×44 mm CCD sensor with 40 million pixels and provides almost twice the capture area of the largest 35mm DSLR sensors, towards high-end 35mm professionals. Most high-end photographers understand the advantages that a Medium Format system has over smaller formats, explains Hasselblad CEO Larry Hansen, but many younger photographers have never been exposed to larger format photography. Most everyone in the photographic world is aware, for example, of the dramatic developments that have taken place in the 35mm in recent years, he continues, but there many of the younger generation of shooters are not aware of the fact that Medium Format DSLRs have evolved equally dramatically, maintaining - and even in some cases increasing - the quality gap that has historically existed between small format and larger format systems.
Hasselblad H4D-40 features new True Focus AF system
"The fact that our large sensors have millions of pixels more than 35mm sensors is known, for instance, Hansen continues, but the superior image quality that results, in terms of color, detail, and clarity, is not as well known. Likewise, many photographers are not aware of the fact that the larger format of the H System cameras provides a considerably shallower depth of field range, making it much easier to utilize selective focus to creative effect. When combined with True Focus, this opens enormous creative possibilities and technical accuracy. Add to this the modularity of the Hasselblad H4D-40 with its choice of bright image viewfinders and an extensive accessories program, and you get a feature set that makes a Hasselblad system, today, more than ever, a crucial component of any professional photographic toolbox.
Hasselblad H4D-40 low noise filters
Features such as new low noise color filters of the Hasselblad H4D-40s sensor and the high performance HC/HCD lens line, provide the basis for increased clarity and increased depth of field. The Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) achieves consistent color reproduction using a single color profile, and digital lens correction (DAC), perfects each image captured through the HC/HCD lenses, by removing any trace of distortion, vignetting, or chromatic aberrations. The Hasselblad H4D also comes bundled with Hasselblads new Phocus 2.0 imaging software, featuring a dramatically reduced learning curve, enabling the average photographer to be up to speed in less than 30 minutes, and a feature set that matches the industry standards defined by Adobe and Apple.
Hasselblad H4D-40 medium format camera
We are thrilled to be able to announce the introduction of the Hasselblad H4D-40, continues Hansen, and look forward to welcoming a new generation of 35mm photographers as they step up to a higher level of image quality and begin to explore the creative possibilities provided by a Hasselblad system. With the H4D-40, photographers get a camera that is as easy to use - or even easier - than a high-end 35mm DSLR, but that comes with the famed Hasselblad image quality - larger lenses and sensors, more advanced optics, increased resolution and clarity, and all the other benefits of Hasselblads Medium Format DSLRs.
Time for 35mm photographers to try the Hasselblad H4D themselves
"For over half a century," Hansen concludes, "Hasselblad cameras have been the choice of the most discerning professionals and the reason for that loyalty has not changed - at Hasselblad, image quality always comes first. We will continue to pursue image quality perfection and will continue to provide the ultimate imaging tools for any application where image quality is important. And in the upcoming months we will do our best to see that as many 35mm photographers as possible get the opportunity to try these amazing products for themselves."
Hasselblad H4D-40 price & availability
Hasselblad is launching the H4D-40 worldwide via a series of dealer demonstrations and events in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The Hasselblad H4D-40 starts at 13,995 Euro for camera body, viewfinder, and 80mm lens, and is available for immediate shipping.


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Well this is the third post I have done like this so far and I have seen some great connections. I'll keep doing these off and on and I think they provide a great way for "active bloggers" to network. This post now has over 2,000 active bloggers waiting to connect in it. I encourage anyone looking for new blogs to view or people to converse with to browse through the comment section and network.
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Following on from the Zerode G1 pro bike feature in Dirt issue#110, photographer Sven Martin talks to New Zealander James 'Dodzy' Dodds about the detail and design of this gearbox downhill bike.
Hit play on the audio player (like the one above) at the bottom of each image in the gallery to listen to Dodzy.
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2011 Toyota RAV4 : Painted Fender
|Toyota Rav4 OE Replacement/Aftermarket Part
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Francis Ford Coppola, (born April 7, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), American motion-picture director, writer, and producer whose films range from sweeping epics to small-scale character studies. As the director of films such as The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), and Apocalypse Now (1979), he enjoyed his greatest success and influence in the 1970s, when he attempted to create an alternative to the Hollywood system of film production and distribution.
Early years
Coppola's father, Carmine, a frustrated composer who played flute in several orchestras, including Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony orchestra, settled his family in the New York City area. Coppola grew up in and around Queens and in Great Neck, on Long Island. Confined to bed with polio at age nine, he devised puppet shows for his own entertainment and soon began making 8-mm films. After earning a B.A. in drama from Hofstra University, he pursued a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of California at Los Angeles, studying filmmaking. During that period Coppola began working for noted low-budget exploitation-film producer-director Roger Corman, for whose American International Pictures he performed second-unit photography and direction, among other tasks. One of Coppola's first projects was writing dialogue to be dubbed into his reedited versions of a pair of Russian-made films that became The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Battle Beyond the Sun (both 1963). While on location in Ireland, Coppola persuaded Corman to put up $20,000 to bankroll his first directorial effort, Dementia 13 (1963), a gory horror film based on a script that Coppola had hastily written.
After contributing to the scripts of This Property Is Condemned and Is Paris Burning? (both 1966) as a contract writer for Seven Arts, Coppola wrote and directed the charming coming-of-age tale You're a Big Boy Now (also 1966), which served as his master's thesis film. Short on plot but rich with incident, it was the story of a virginal young man (played by Peter Kasner) looking for love while in the employ of the New York Public Library. It featured a remarkable cast (including Elizabeth Hartman, Karen Black, Rip Torn, Tony Bill, Julie Harris, and Geraldine Page) and a soundtrack by the Lovin' Spoonful. Impressed by the film, Warner Brothers signed Coppola to direct the big-budget musical Finian's Rainbow (1968). Based on a Broadway play from the 1940s that subversively satirized racism, it starred masterful dancer Fred Astaire but stumbled partly as a result of the mid-production departure of choreographer Hermes Pan.
Warner Brothers provided the financing ($750,000) for Coppola's next project, The Rain People (1969). Scripted and directed by Coppola, it followed a pregnant Long Island housewife (Shirley Knight) who leaves her husband and takes to the road. Her path crosses most significantly with those of a brain-damaged former football player (James Caan) and a Nebraska policeman (Robert Duvall). Warner Brothers had tied its financing of The Rain People to another project from Coppola's fledgling Zoetrope Productions, THX-1138, directed by his friend George Lucas. Disappointed by the box-office results of Coppola's film and unimpressed by the first cut of Lucas's, the studio ended the partnership. In the meantime, Coppola won an Academy Award for his collaboration with Franklin Schaffner on the screenplay for Patton (1970).
The 1970s
Coppola's breakthrough came with The Godfather (1972), a brilliant, enormously successful, muscular adaptation of Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel of the same name. A huge box-office hit (the fifth highest-grossing film of the 1970s), The Godfather was also lauded by critics and was ranked third on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the top 100 American films of all time. A violent, emotionally charged exploration of a Mafia family, The Godfather is a mythic gangster film, but it is also the story of a father and his sons. Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for best actor for his portrayal of the title capo, Vito Corleone. John Cazale, Caan, and Al Pacino played his sons and Duvall his trusted adviser (the last three were nominated for best supporting actor awards). Coppola was nominated as best director, and he and Puzo won the award for best adapted screenplay.
Financially empowered to make a less commercial, more personal film, Coppola wrote, directed, and produced The Conversation (1974), a meditation on technology's dehumanizing power. Gene Hackman starred as a surveillance expert who suspects that a couple upon whom he has electronically eavesdropped are about to be murdered. Too bleak for some tastes, the film nonetheless boasted an Academy Award-nominated screenplay as well as strong performances, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture.
Coppola, however, ended up competing against himself, as his masterful sequel The Godfather: Part II (1974) won that year's Academy Award for best picture. Moving both forward in time through the 1950s and back to the early years of the 20th century, Godfather II bookended the events in The Godfather with contrapuntal stories that enriched each other (and, in the process, the original film). Robert De Niro played the young Vito Corleone, who, having immigrated from Italy, takes over New York's Little Italy bit by bit, ruthlessly ascending to the rank of "godfather." In the parallel 1950s story, Vito's son Michael (Pacino) endeavours (just as ruthlessly) to make the Corleone family legitimate. The Godfather: Part II made explicit the immigrant struggle for survival in America that was at the root of the first Godfather. Michael Gazzo and Actors Studio guru Lee Strasberg were nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor, which was won by De Niro. Moreover, Coppola won the award for best director and shared the best screenplay award with Puzo while Carmine Coppola and Nino Rota won the award for their musical score.
At the peak of his influence—no other writer-director had ever had two best picture nominations and two best screenplay nominations in the same year—Coppola set about the arduous task of filming Apocalypse Now (1979), which transposed Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War with a script by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr. The troubled production was plagued by natural disasters (shot on location in the Philippines, it was struck by a typhoon and an earthquake), personal tragedy (star Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack and nearly died), and simple hubris. Coppola's original $12 million budget finally exceeded $30 million, much of it due to his own profligacy, and a considerable portion of the overrun was paid for by Coppola himself. Moreover, the excessive cost of production and the rumours from the troubled set besmirched the reputation Coppola had earned as the crown prince of Hollywood directors. The quixotic making of the film was chronicled by Coppola's wife, Eleanor, in her journal Notes (1979) and later in the documentary Hearts of Darkness (1991).
Despite its well-documented problems and setbacks, Apocalypse Now is an assault on the senses that is generally regarded as a flawed masterpiece. It is especially compelling when Duvall and Frederic Forrest are front and centre. Brando's darkly complex depiction of the monomaniacal colonel Kurtz was celebrated by some critics and dismissed by others, but it remains hard to forget. In the end, Apocalypse Now earned eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture, and was anything but a failure at the box office, finishing as the year's sixth highest-grossing motion picture.
The 1980s
In 1980, with the money he had made from his films—especially the Godfather movies—Coppola set about trying to realize his dream of establishing a creator-friendly antiestablishment studio to compete with the major Hollywood studios. Purchasing the lot of the former Hollywood General Studios, he established Zoetrope Studios, determined to employ the latest filmmaking technology and distribution techniques (including his vision of satellite-enabled distribution). His dream proved to be short-lived, however, as the studio's first film—the Coppola-written and -directed One from the Heart (1982), an ultra-stylized romantic comedy—cost some $27 million to make and crashed at the box office. Coppola was forced to sell many of his assets and to close the studio in Los Angeles, though he continued to operate his production company in San Francisco, his home.
Returning to work for hire, Coppola retrenched by directing a pair of film adaptations of young-adult novels by S.E. Hinton, both of which were released in 1983. Made first, The Outsiders—a Rebel Without a Cause-style story of teenage alienation starring Matt Dillon and a raft of soon-to-be stars including Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane—was the more popular of the two films. However, the expressionistic black-and-white Rumble Fish, which also featured Dillon, was arguably the better film.
The Cotton Club (1984) marked Coppola's much-anticipated return to big-budget gangster films, but, although his re-creation of 1930s Harlem was stylish, well cast, and opulently produced, most critics felt that his reach had exceeded his grasp this time. An atypical effort for Coppola, the quirky Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) followed. In it an unhappily married woman (Kathleen Turner) is transported in time back to her senior year of high school, where she gets a second chance to evaluate her awful husband (Nicolas Cage, Coppola's nephew). Coppola's next project, the sombre Gardens of Stone (1987), was a portrait of the soldiers assigned to guard duty at Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam War, with Caan as the sergeant in charge, Anjelica Huston as his girlfriend, and D.B. Sweeney as the gung ho kid whose wish to fight overseas is tragically granted. The film fared badly with critics and audiences, but Coppola's life at that time was much more disturbed by the loss of his son Giancarlo in a boating accident.
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) did no better commercially, but this handsome biographical film was arguably Coppola's best film in years. Jeff Bridges played visionary car designer Preston Tucker, whose superior product (the "Tucker Torpedo") is squelched through the collusion of Detroit's giant manufacturers and their Washington lobbyists. The parallel between Tucker's ambitions as an automaker and Coppola's as a filmmaker was not lost on many critics. Coppola also contributed the "Life Without Zoe" segment to New York Stories (1989), a trilogy that also included segments by Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen.
The 1990s
Coppola and Puzo were invited by Paramount to submit another installment of the Godfather saga, and the result was The Godfather: Part III (1990). While not in the same league as the first two films in the series, it did possess some merit. The cast included Pacino, Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Joe Mantegna, and Eli Wallach, but Coppola was taken to task by critics for replacing Winona Ryder with his daughter Sofia Coppola, who failed to rise to the challenge of her key part. (Notwithstanding this disappointment, she would go on become a successful film director in her own right.)
The moderate commercial success of The Godfather: Part III helped Coppola produce another big-budget film, Dracula (1992). A florid, bloody, occasionally silly, violently erotic version of the oft-filmed tale, with eccentric Gary Oldham as the count and Ryder as his (possibly) reincarnated love, it was easily the most faithful and horrific version of Bram Stoker's famous novel. It also returned Coppola, at long last, to bankability.
In Jack (1996), Robin Williams starred as a 10-year-old boy whose cells age him four times as fast as a normal person's, making his interactions with other children extremely difficult. Based on a best-selling novel by John Grisham, The Rainmaker (1997) starred Matt Damon as a young attorney in Memphis whose idealism clashes with the greed of his ambulance-chasing boss. Although it was only a modest commercial success, The Rainmaker received positive reviews. Coppola then entered into a long fallow period, primary as a result of his embroilment in a legal dispute with Warner Brothers involving a three-picture deal for an adaptation of Pinocchio, the children's classic The Secret Garden, and a biography of J. Edgar Hoover. In the end Coppola won a 1998 court judgment against the studio that awarded him $20 million for the studio's abandonment of the project along with another $60 million in punitive damages.
Later work
In the wake of that protracted legal struggle, Coppola released Apocalypse Now Redux (2001), which contained more than 40 minutes of restored footage not seen in the original 1979 version. For much of the early 21st century, Coppola acted as an executive producer for others' films, ran a winery, published a literary magazine, and continued to oversee his company American Zoetrope, which produced films and provided postproduction services. Throughout his career Coppola had produced many of the films he directed and, even when not directing, had many successes as a producer, including American Graffiti (1973), directed by George Lucas; The Black Stallion (1979), directed by Carroll Ballard; and Lost in Translation (2003), the film with which his daughter Sofia established herself as a director.
In 2007 he returned to directing with the self-financed Youth Without Youth, a fantastical drama about a septuagenarian Romanian professor (Tim Roth) who becomes decades younger when he is struck by lightning on the eve of World War II. After that film's commercial failure, Coppola was on surer footing with Tetro (2009), about a teenager who travels to Argentina and reunites with his expatriate older half-brother. Although not a box-office success, the film (shot primarily in black and white) earned Coppola some of his best reviews in years. Twixt (2011), a thriller starring Val Kilmer, fared much less well critically and commercially.
For his achievements in film, Coppola was given the Irving Thalberg award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2010. In 2013 he received the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize for theatre/film.
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| Brand: Alfawise
Model: U30
Type: DIY
Engraving Area: 220 x 220 x 250mm
Nozzle quantity: Single
Nozzle diameter: 0.4mm
Nozzle temperature: Room temperature to 250 degree
Layer thickness: 0.1-0.4mm
Memory card offline print: TF card
LCD Screen: Yes
Print speed: 120mm/s (max.), 30 - 70mm/s ( recommended )
Platform temperature: Room temperature to 100 degree
Supporting material: ABS,PLA,Wood Filled
Material diameter: 1.75mm
File format: G-code,OBJ,STL
XY-axis positioning accuracy: 0.0125mm
Z-axis positioning accuracy: 0.0025mm
Voltage: 24V
Host computer software: Cura,Repetier-Host,Simplify3D
Packing Type: unassembled packing
System support: Windows / Mac / Linux
Connector Type: TF card,USB
Dimensions and Weight
| Product weight: 7.8000 kg
Package weight: 8.6000 kg
Package Contents
|Packing Contents: 1 x 3D Printer Kit ( Semi-assembled ), 1 x English Manual
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What if the filament does not discharge from the machine?
1. After the machine nozzle is heated, the consumables are normally fed into the feeding mechanism by hand, and then passed through the Teflon tube to enter the nozzle.
2. When it is found that the gear of the feeding mechanism emits a "beep" sound, it can first check whether the consumables are wound, causing the extrusion mechanism to pull the material.
3 If this is not the reason, raise the machine nozzle and use the 0.4mm needle in the toolbox to insert it from below the copper nozzle and rotate while inserting.
4. Under normal circumstances, this needle can be used to open the copper nozzle, so that the feed is smooth. The reason for this blocking is generally that there are impurities in the consumables, which leads to plugging.
When the machine returns the filament, it can't be returned. What should I do when stuck in the pneumatic joint?
1. Before returning the material, please heat the nozzle first, and then withdraw the consumables as soon as possible. If you can't pump it, you can re-feed the material with the advanced material, and melt the extruded block formed at the end of the consumable in the nozzle.
2. When withdrawing the consumables, before the end of the consumables reaches the pneumatic joint, we will usually pull the Teflon directly from the Teflon and cut the end of the consumables.
3. Because the end of the consumables in the nozzle will be deformed by heat, if the end deformed consumables are directly pulled out, it may be stuck to the pneumatic joint or the limit switch for damage detection. (The limit switch for the broken material detection is single Towards).
What should I do if I cannot resume printing after power shutdown?
When the machine is leveling, the nozzle moves to the left, it can be leveled normally. When the nozzle moves to the right, it is found that the distance between the nozzle and the heated bed are very far or very close. If the spring is adjusted to the extreme position, it still cannot be leveled.What should I do?
After the machine heats up, the filament is discharged normally. However, when the printing is performed for the first time, the curling occurs on the platform. After printing several layers, the filaments get out of the platform. What can I do?
1. After the user gets the 3D printer, if the leveling is found to be curled on the first layer of silk, it feels like it is gently falling on the platform. It can be judged that the leveling is not adjusted, and the nozzle is too high from the hot bed.
2. At this point we need to re-level, the quality of the leveling can largely determine the success rate of the part printing.
3. In addition, in order to ensure good contact between the model and the platform, we can set the larger plane of the model face down when slicing, and can also be set in the slicing software to add Raft to the model, which can make the model stick to the platform firm.
How does 3D printer work?
How to debug the heatbed of 3D printer without auto leveling?
How to stop 3D prints from warping?
How to choose the right filament?
Pick the right 3D printer filament
How to choose a 3D printer?
How to using Cura 3D slicing software?
Why not extruding at start of print?
1. Extruder was not primed before beginning the print;
2. Nozzle starts too close to the bed;
3. The filament has stripped against the drive gear;
4. The extruder is clogged.
Why not extruding enough plastic?
1. Incorrect filament diameter;
2. Increase the extrusion multiplier.
why there are holes and gaps in the top layers?
1. Not enough top solid layers;
2. Infill percentage is too low;
3. Under extrusion.
Why the 3D printer always overheating?
1. Insufficient cooling;
2. Printing at too high of a temperature;
3. Printing too fast;
4. Try printing multiple parts at once.
How to deal with the 3D printer nozzle jam?
How to solve cracking or breaking of layers during 3D printing
Why 3D printer details can not be printed out?
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Hello Paul,
The extruder is 42 stepper motor
Thank you for your understanding.
By Paul McNulty Mar-28/2019 06:28:04
Hello Paul,
The extruder is 42 stepper motor
Thank you for your understanding.
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How fast should you grow?
Contractor tip of the month
By Damian Lang
When a tree stops growing, it dies. If a tree grows too fast, it must be trimmed or it can get top heavy and collapse. It's a balancing act that nature figures out as it goes. A company is similar to a tree, when you think about it. Your choice is to grow or die – but grow too fast, and die anyway.
Okay, so does your company have the option not to grow? Do you have the option to remain the same size if you are making a comfortable living? Unfortunately, no! The cost of living and inflation creep up daily. It's been years since any of us has seen a decrease in benefit costs. Couple this with the fact that your employees will not be willing to work for the same wage for several years. If you don't grow sales to offset those costs, net profit naturally erodes over time.
It is possible to stop growing temporarily by cutting overhead (trimming the branches) to become stronger. However, at some point, you need to start growing your company again. Wait a minute! Like a tree that must be trimmed so the root system can catch up to support it, growing a company too fast without a proper support structure in place most likely will lead your company to collapse as well.
I experienced this first hand. After enjoying success in the masonry and manufacturing businesses, I decided to launch my third company using a more aggressive growth plan. I must have forgotten that it had taken 20 years to build my first company, and the second one was still growing at a reasonable pace after six years. Plus, I was entering into the steel erection business. I knew nothing about the industry, so I had to count on others to manage the erecting steel part of the business for me. Wow, we grew fast. We went from zero to several million in sales in no time. All of the sudden, we had 10 crews setting steel all over Ohio and surrounding states. It was fun growing so fast! At least I thought it was, at the time.
One day, one of our foremen told me the rumor on the street was that we were doing steel work 30 percent under our competition's cost. My CFO and I started digging to see if the train was on the right track. It turned out that many of the projects our steel erection managers had reported to be 80 percent to 90 percent complete were only 40 percent to 60 percent complete, and our net profit was off by more than $1 million. Talk about embarrassing – but wait, it gets worse.
We discovered we had a million-dollar backlog that would cost us $2 million to complete. Not a fun growth spurt at all! We finished the jobs anyway to keep our reputation intact, losing $2 million during a three-year period. We had grown way too fast without a proper structure to support that growth. Hard lesson learned.
Nowadays, when some wise guy explains to me that he is going to take his company from $2 million to $10 million in sales over a three-year period, I can't be more passionate in telling him to slow it down and not lose sight of the true net profit. You need to build a support structure before you take on extra work. At Lang Masonry Contractors, if our yearly goal calls for $10 million in sales, we know we must have the following structure in place.
Since each foremen handles an average of $1 million in sales per year, if we are planning to do $10 million in sales, we better have 10 good foremen, access to at least 60 to 80 well-trained field personnel, two good project managers, and a damned good estimator to get us the work at acceptable margins. If we land some bigger work, we may flow additional work through with the same management team, while adding extra field employees. But we're certainly not going to make that a part of our business plan up front.
You should have your own business plan that calls for manageable growth. Before you grow too fast, make sure you have a structure in place to support that growth or like a tree, your business will die.
About the Author
Damian Lang is a mason contractor in southeast Ohio and inventor of many labor saving masonry systems and products. Lang has served as the Marketing Committee Chairman for the Mason Contractors Association of America. He is also author of the book Rewarding and Challenging Employees for Profits in Masonry. To network with Damian on contractor tips or tips you have and would like published, contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 740-749-3512.