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[Engine] Maker3D
Maker3D is my software, its for creating 3d rpg softwares in anime/manga style.
The software is designed to provide user-friendly and familiar RPG creation tool for the maker-community. Software offers an easy, self-documenting clickable/writable scripting system based on BASIC programming language. With chipset and tileset based map editing, you can easilly create the universe for your game. To use the application, no programming skills needed. Maker3D ships with large built-in content, including tilesets, chipsets, monsters, avatars. Everything, you need.
Just select a model from the left list by clicking with the mouse, and click on the map. Its so simple to create your rooms, cityes, houses, caves. Select a pen, and paint your ground. Select a texture, and change the ground tiles. Just like in the old 2d rpg maker softwares, Maker3D offers an easy editor system to create your maps within minutes. You need more than the built-in chipset and tilesets? No problem. Maker3D offers support for the most popular object and texture formats, including .3ds, .obj, .c, .jpg, .bmp, .tga
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Select the hair fashion, select the panties, select socks, shoes, gloves, etc... In Maker3D, you can just simply click together your heroes, NPC-s, and enemies. You can simple add your textures too, and the finished models does not needed to be exported: they just work. You viewing the characters in real time while you editing them, you can rotate them with the mouse, and check them from multiple directions.
Documentation-free knowledge
Handling Maker3D is even simplyer than handling the old 2d rpg creator softwares. Just check the example game, read everything wich is writed out to your screen, and put your game together.
Easy script/event editing
You can place your scripts on the world map, and you can simply write them. You not need to learn Maker3D-s syntax: just click on the command! For example, to create a script wich loads a modell, just click on the command LOAD_MODELL, select a modell from the pop-upping content browser, then point on a location on the world map. You can use variables, cycles... FOR, IF, you can build up your scripts with the help of the famous BASIC programming language. After you click or type a command, the command's syntax appears, and a tiny example that shows the working of the specified command. You can place up to 80 script on a map: they will executed parallelly. Almost 100 scripting command: text writing, messaging, sound handlig, everything you need.
Built-in battle system
Maker3D has built in HP / MP / Item / Magic / Attack / Block based, turn-based traditional JRPG battle system. You can add up to 4 hero and 4 enemy to the current battle. You can handle the battle system easilly from the script-system. Running a battle will not even break the other running scripts on the map. Add your heroes, monsters to the battle system, and enjoy the battle with the epic battlecamera system.
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Game created with Maker3D offers loading and saving ability, wich restores your characters, variables, and items. It even saves a screen dump, wich is associated to the save slots.
What you see is what you get. You can just try your map in Maker3D immediately, and return to the map edition. Maker3D has debugging ability: watch your variables, frame per second rate.
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Maker3D can export an executable from your game. Your exported game can be easilly shared with your friends or on the internet. Your exported game is LOGO-FREE. Its not necessarry to install your game on the users machine, its enough to be copyed. No external runtime packages, and no other horror.
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Maker3D got modern 3D graphics, with real time lighting and real shadowing. Particles, anti-aliasing, motion-blur, glow, gamma... Everything, you need. Maker3D is the ONLY usable 3d rpg creator software. This is the only existing software wich offers the simplycity of the old 2d rpgmakers and the magic of real 3d.
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|26th July 2013, 08:57 PM
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thankyou, some say its good idea, some say its lame, i dont have better idea for that page, so i should keep ragecomic there :P
|26th July 2013, 08:59 PM
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I approve of this engine, I have paid for a copy myself and I can assure it's legitimate. For 9 Euro it's a pretty damn good deal.
|26th July 2013, 09:01 PM
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Really appreciate you, the author of this program, for posting this.
Seems like a really nifty program and not too complicated at all, which appeals to me, the laziest game maker out there. I've always been interested in creating a JRPG, and I like that you've included the battle engine and everything. I'll definitely try this out... knowing that Sailor Pia uses it now I GOTTA buy it
Maybe something kinda draws near.
|26th July 2013, 09:06 PM
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thankyou, the main conception is was to keep the things simple enough, just like the 2d rpgmakers back then
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when i get the money from my allowance
edit: I'll be honest though, the website needs some fixing aesthetically
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|27th July 2013, 12:05 AM
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This looks like a really good engine, but is it possible to overhaul parts of the engine that you may want to adjust (Like a portion of the battle engine, or modify menus...)?
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|27th July 2013, 12:43 AM
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So if I wanted to add like a frogometer or something I could easily switch that in? Cool awesome done deal.
Also you mentioned something about being able to upload textures…what does that include, is it hardcore OpenGL/wireframe kind of thing or will we have a sort of guide to help us upload pngs, change the shape as needed, etc.?
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Oglethorpe University completed a wire-to-wire run to claim the 2012 NCAA D-III Men's Golf Championship on Friday at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. The title is the Stormy Petrels' second in four years for head coach Jim Owen and makes Oglethorpe just the sixth school to win multiple championships in the 37 year history of the event.
Petrel freshman Anthony Maccaglia (Tampa, Florida) shook off a balky start to his round to claim medalist honors, becoming just the fourth freshman (along with Methodist's Brion McLaughlin in 1997 and Chad Collins in 1998 and Oglethorpe's Olafur Loftsson in 2009) to claim the top individual prize. Additionally, Oglethorpe is now one of only three programs in the nation to have multiple individual champions. Methodist University and Cal State Stanislaus are the other two.
The Stormy Petrels entered the round with a 16-stroke advantage over Methodist and managed to keep most of the tournament drama on who would claim second, third and fourth place. The Pioneers of Transylvania tracked down Methodist for the second spot, besting the third place Monarchs by a scant stroke. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps claimed fourth.
Oglethorpe's Hayden Jones (Orlando, Florida) pushed Maccaglia, shrinking his pre-round 7 shot advantage down to 3 before settling for second place individually at even par for the Championships. Other individuals scoring top-5 finishes at the Championships were Dex Reese (Illinois Wesleyan) and Jeremy Sanders in a tie for third and Tain Lee (Mudd-Scripps) in fifth.
Maccaglia's stellar week that saw him finish the tournament as the only player under par at -5 was capped by a bevy of awards. He became an individual champion and team champion by the NCAA standards while also earning the Arnold Palmer Award for being the tournament medalist and Phil Mickelson Award as the nation's best freshman by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA). Jones, just a sophomore, earned First Team All-America status by the GCAA.
Oglethorpe sophomore Anthony Amodeo rallied from a difficult first two days to come home in a tie for 36th while senior Matt Rebitch (Delmont, Pa.) finished tied for 40th. Junior Eric Quinn (Norcross, Ga.) carded a tie for 66th place result.
"I couldn't be happier for this group of guys," said Owen. "After the fall season, they really embraced the team concept and started minimizing their mistakes. I knew coming down here we had a great chance to win, but never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined a 20 stroke victory."
Round 3 Coverage
For the third straight day of the 2012 NCAA D-III Men's Golf Championships, Oglethorpe University posted the round of the day on the course they were playing to now extend their tournament lead to 16 strokes. The Stormy Petrels have posted a team total of 867 (+3) through three rounds to keep second place Methodist University (883, +19) at arm's length. Oglethorpe carded a total of 292 on Wednesday to best the Monarchs for the low round by two shots. Meanwhile, 9 different squads are within nine strokes of one another for third place heading into tomorrow's final round.
Individually, Oglethorpe freshman Anthony Maccaglia continues to play beyond his years, this time matching his own low round of the tournament by firing a 4-under 68 on El Campeon today. Only one other player in the field shot a sub-70 round on Thursday, and that belonged to Methodist's Mike Duncan who used 7 birdies in his round to card a 69 and vault from a tie for 38th into a tie for 6th heaing into tomorrow.
Hayden Jones, Oglethorpe's sophomore from nearby Orlando, continued his steady, stellar play, carding a 72 on Thursday to remain in second place overall at -2 for the Championship, six shots behind teammate Maccaglia. Previous medalist and last year's runner-up Tain Lee of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps showed why he is a three-time All-America by posting a third round 71 to sit alone in third place a 1-under for the week.
Tomorrow's final round will get underway at 7:40 a.m. with the lead groups hitting the tee box at just after 9 a.m. Complete results and final round tee times are attached.
Notes and Quotes from around the Championship
One way to win an individual title is by minimizing one's mistakes. Another would be to bounce back from a mistake with a birdie to cover it up. Oglethorpe freshman Anthony Maccaglia has done both this week en route to leading the tournament by 6 strokes. "My bounce-back scoring has been great this week," he conceded. Indeed it has. Maccaglia has only carded 6 bogeys through 54 holes and he has responded to all but one by birdying the next hole.
Sometimes the end of a collegiate career will sneak up on you, as was the case with former medalist and three-time All-America Tain Lee of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Asked about his final collegiate round tomorrow, Lee responded, "I never thought about it until you just said that. It's been a great four years and I have definitely accomplished more than I ever expected to coming into college." The world of Division III golf will certainly miss a player of his caliber that is only rivaled by his kindness.
Mike Duncan of Methodist University made El Campeon his personal playground on Thursday, holing out 7 birdies on his way to a 3-under 69 on the day. His secret? "I never really got mad," he said. I made a couple of sloppy bogeys on 11 and 12 but never got mad and just kept rolling my putts. That was probably the best I've putted all year."
Lastly, from the "Tale of Two Rounds" file comes the story of Wittenburg's Craig Osterbrock. After enduring a painstaking 87 on El Campeon on Tuesday, Osterbrock returned to the scene of the crime on Thursday and flipped the script, posting a 1-under 71. How'd he execute the stark turnaround? "The big difference between today and Tuesday was that I kept the ball in play off the tee. I was really disappointed after the first day but have been determined since then to contribute to the team. It feels great…to get back at that course a little bit today."
Host institution Oglethorpe University expanded their lead to 14 strokes on day two of the 2012 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships being held at the Mission Inn Resorts in Howey-in –the-Hill, Florida.
The Stormy Petrels posted the third-best team score of the day (292, +4) and the best number among the squads competing on the demanding par-72 El Campeon Course. The Methodist University Monarchs sit alone in second place with a tournament total of +15 while the University of Texas at Tyler and Guilford College share third place at 19-over par for the Championship. A group of five teams lurk together just one shot back at 20-over to set up what should be a frenetic final two days on the leader board.
The round of the day belonged to Transylvania University, who bounced back from 308 on El Campeon yesterday to score an even par round of 288 on the Las Colinas Course. Huntingdon College was just one stroke off the pace set by the Pioneers on Colinas with a team-total of 289 that was spearheaded by the Hawks' Thomas Mitchell posting the low round of the tournament with a 67. Aside from Oglethorpe's 292, St. John Fisher College (294, +6) and Illinois Wesleyan University (297, +9) enjoyed the only sub-300 rounds on the El Campeon Course to position themselves nicely for the final two rounds.
Along with Micthell's 67, there were two other individual scores in the 60's on Wednesday turned in by Wittenburg University's David Wetterich (69, -3) and the University of La Verne's Derek Zachman (69, -3), and both came from the Los Colinas Course. Oglethorpe's freshman Anthony Maccaglia still resides atop the individual leader board after carding a 71 today on El Campeon. At 5-under for the Championship, Maccaglia is three strokes clear of three players in a tie for second place: Oglethorpe's Hayden Jones, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Brad Shigezawa and Nebraska Wesleyan's Drew Taylor.
Tomorrow's third round begins at 8 a.m. and will be played exclusively on the El Campeon Course amongst the 15 squads who survived the cut.
Notes and Quotes from Around the Championship
Wanting to climb back into the tournament, St. John Fisher's squad spent last night discussing course strategy at length. Their diligence paid off with the second-best score of the tournament on El Campeon. "We came up with a game plan for every hole and every shot," said head coach Bob Simms. "It kept our guys focused and I think made them less nervous because they were so intent on sticking to that game plan."
Illinois Wesleyan has been searching for a solid fourth score to post each day, but head coach Jim Ott was pleased with Wednesday's team score of 297 on El Campeon. "We got two good bounce-back days to get us back in position," he said, referring to Shane Smith and Teddy Kon each shaking off a rough round one with a 72 and 71, respectively.
Nebraska Wesleyan's Drew Taylor, who's tied for second, is happy with his game but chagrined his team couldn't survive the cut. "I kind of figured things out earlier in the week with my swing," he offered. "I felt like coming in that if I could shoot around par the first two days I might have a chance. The goal was for the team to make the cut, but if we didn't I wanted to at least shoot two good rounds and play on Thursday and Friday."
Wittenburg's David Wetterich proved how much ground a competitor can make up with a great round. He carded a 69 on Las Colinas today to rocket from 83rd place into a tie for 17th, a position if he holds on Friday that will be good enough for All-America status. "We talked about how you could score on Las Colinas and I got off to a great start today." Indeed, he did, posting birdies on four of his first five holes to set up the stellar round.
St. John Fisher's Tyler McArdell's round of 72 exemplified the good day the Cardinals enjoyed on El Campeon. "I just had to fight hard," he said, adding, "I got up and down from a couple of tough spots early on and then managed to go birdie-birdie coming in to finish the round off."
Another squad making a move up the board today was Huntingdon College from Montgomery, Alabama. "I thought we kept our composure pretty well," said head coach Matt Mahanic. "We made two triple bogeys today, which bothers me, but yesterday, we compounded those bad holes with more bad holes. Today we had a bad hole and then fought back. I see two more good rounds in our future."
Transylvania took to the course with heavy hearts today as they learned late last night that their retired legendary golf coach Harry Stephenson had passed away. Still, the Pioneers managed to honor his memory well with the low round of the day to climb into contention. Head Coach Brian Lane was one of Stephenson's pupils at Transy, had this to say about the sad news: "Harry was somebody that basically raised me. There are a lot of Transylvania folks out there today with heavy hearts because he was just one of those fabulous guys."
The 2012 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships got underway Tuesday at the Mission Inn Resorts in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida with host institution Oglethorpe University jumping out to the lead following round one.
The Stormy Petrels fired a team total of 285 (-3) on the 6,895 yard par-72 Las Colinas Course to edge in front of second place Claremont-Mudd Scripps (289, +1) and third place Christopher Newport (290, +2). The top-8 team scores turned in on Tuesday came from the more forgiving Colinas Course with the 6,926 yard par-72 El Campeon Course playing significantly more difficult.
The University of Texas at Tyler and Guilford College managed the conditions on the El Campeon Course best, each carding identical team totals of 300 (+12). Gustavus Adolphus College carded a 301 (+13) on El Campeon to position themselves nicely with a trip over to Las Colinas for round two tomorrow.
Individually, Oglethorpe's Anthony Maccaglia and Mudd-Scripps' Brad Shigezawa are tied after posting matching 68's on Las Colinas. Maccaglia closed his round with consecutive birdies to match Shigezawa, whose afternoon featured seven birdies. Andrew Bateman and Mike Westo of Methodist University, along with Brian Jaeger of Christopher Newport University, are in a three-way tie for third after firing rounds of 2-under par 70. As was the case with the team scoring, the top-8 individual scores all came from players on Las Colinas.
A bunched group of 11 players are tied for 9th place overall after carding even par rounds of 70. In that group of 11 are four individuals who handled the El Campeon Course with the lowest scores. Thos individuals are Ryna Dagerman (Emory University), Simon Erlandsson (Gustavus Adolphus), Alex Kapraun (University of St. Thomas – Minnesota) and Tyler McMorrow (Texas-Tyler).
Round two will get underway at 7 a.m. Tuesday with the field being cut down to the top 15 teams for Thursday and Friday's action.
Notes and quotes from around the Championships:
A veteran coach with loads of Championship experience, Texas-Tyler's King Campbell knows the opening round doesn't tell the complete story. "I always say you can't judge the scores until after the first two rounds are complete," said Campbell after his Patriots tied for the best score of the day (300, +12) on El Campeon. "We felt El Campeon was playing 6 to 8 strokes tougher than Los Colinas and we certainly didn't play ourselves out of it today. We struggled on (the par 5) 17 coming in, but overall I was pleased with today's performance."
Scott Moe, Head Coach for Gustavus Adolphus, certainly gets the Iron Man award for the double –duty he's pulled in the past two weeks. Just last weekend, Coach Moe was guiding the Gusties' women's golf squad to an 11th place overall finish at the NCAA Championships in Angola, Indiana. His reward for pulling the off the yeoman's work unique to Division III athletics? How about the first available tee time on Tuesday morning bright and early at 7 a.m. It didn't affect his squad, though, who posted the second best score of the day on El Campeon. "I thought we managed it well," said Moe, adding, "Holes 4, 5, 6 and 7 are really tough, but we got through them okay. After that, we put a nice string of birdies together on the back 9 to put ourselves in better position heading into tomorrow."
The last time the Mission Inn hosted the D-III Men's Golf Championships was 2005 and Guilford College came away with the hardware. The Quakers are back at the Championships in 2012 looking for another trophy. Current Head Coach Cory Maggard remembers the 2005 Championships well, as he was on site as a competitor for Transylvania University that year. Today, his Guilford squad tied for the best round at El Campeon with a team total of 300. "I'm pleased with today," said Maggard. "We have three freshmen this year at their first National Championship. One of them (Mitch Robinette) started with 2 bogeys on his first three and then made 15 pars after that. Another one of our freshmen (Andrew Thompson) led the squad today with a 73. We'll need to go low tomorrow on Colinas to give ourselves a chance."
Emory University's Ryan Dagerman led the individuals on the El Campeon Course with a nifty round of even par 70 on Tuesday. How'd he do it on the tougher course? "I managed to keep it in play and around the green, and not make too many big numbers which is key in a Championship event," he said. "I had a lot of 4 or 5 footers I was able to hole out."
Transylvania's Justin Tereshko is used to better scoring days than the 82 he posted on El Campeon today. Still, his uncharacteristic struggles were lessened a bit when he aced the par-3 15th hole. "I shot it at 134 (yards) and the wind was slightly into me," he said. "I just hit a 9-iron, it looked good the whole way and then I saw it disappear." His parents were in attendance for the occasion. On his parents witnessing the rare feat: "I think they enjoyed it," Tereshko slyly said.
Individual leader Brad Shigezawa of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps played the back nine in 3-under to advance up the leader board. "I got off to a slow start with a bogey at number one but was able to cover it up with a lot of birdies," said Shigezawa. Indeed he did. In all, Shigezawa carded 7 birdies in his round.
So how did Oglethorpe manage to be the lone team under par after the first round? By being the only squad in the field to not card a double bogey or worse in their 90 combined holes of golf. "That was one of our goals for the Championship– keep the big numbers off the card," said Oglethorpe Head Coach Jim Owen. "These courses are very difficult, and if you make it more difficult by scoring big numbers, you're going to have problems."


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6) I'm not a big guy. Average height, lean toward the slim side in terms of girth. I don't care how big or small you are, random, large or tiny and inconsiderate random traveler that I inevitably have to sit next to on every flight. Your knees are supposed to fit within the borders of the armrests, not halfway into my leg room. And being that I'm flying United this trip, (if my flights take off at all), it's not much leg room at all. And I will tell on you to a flight attendant.
7) You also get one armrest, guaranteed. The one in the middle is a little touchy. It depends on who sat down first and claimed it. I'll give you that. You, however, do not get the middle armrest for your arm and half of my personal space for your elbow. I will push back. Please don't make me be mean.
8 ) If I am reading a book or have headphones in, I do not want to talk to you. If I have not made eye contact with you since we were thrown together in this world, I do not want to talk to you. If I am monosyllabic in my responses to your invasive questions, I do not want to talk to you. If I look you straight in the face when you try to talk to me and I turn away, I do not want to talk to you.
9) If you have one of those roller luggage bags, put the wheels in first. It's the only way it'll fit. Don't pull a Gaylord Focker. And don't say bomb on a plane.
10) Don't be one of those people who is going to protest the scanners. Seriously. Don't.
Follow these tips and you will be an expert traveler and be spared being yelled at by me or other travelers or the TSA.
Happy Turkey Day everyone!
PS – This is what happens when you protest the scanners. No one wins.


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An acute infectious disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, characterized by fever, rash, and joint pain, and seen primarily in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. Also called chicken guinea disease.
Etymology: Swahili, that which bends up
a self-limited disease resembling dengue, not transmissible among people, seen mainly in Africa and Southeast Asia, caused by an alphavirus transmitted chiefly by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Its most prominent symptoms are musculoskeletal, and it has occasionally been associated with hemorrhagic fever. It is a possible agent for bioterrorism dispersed as an aerosol or via infected mosquitoes.
chikungunyaAn acute alpha-virus infection of the Sahara, tropics and subtropics, affecting children in rainy months.
Clinical findings
Fever, arthralgia and rash, which may in part be a "spillover" from the viral cycle maintained in wild primates.
Aedes aegypti, A africanus, A furcifer.
A febrile viral disease resembling dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes.
[Swahili, that which bends]


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WILMINGTON, Del. — Every Tuesday morning, a briefing room at New Castle County's police headquarters fills with people staring at a wall of giant video screens, displaying maps of simple crimes. Loitering. Car break-ins. Burglaries. Panhandling. Public disturbance calls. Every icon potentially critical to Delaware's war on heroin.
Yes, police here are convinced, every blip of criminal activity deserves scrutiny as they try to stem the deadly trade of heroin and a string of other connected crimes. Every detail matters. Nothing is too small.
Heroin is killing more Delawareans each month, and as the number of overdose deaths increases so does the number of skulls and crossbones dotting the maps displayed on the big screens. The symbols are reminders of every life lost to an alcohol or drug overdose, with cheap and plentiful heroin pushing Delaware deaths to an average of 15 a month.
Leaders here say cracking down on panhandlers, prostitutes, loiterers and public drinking can reduce the drug trade and violent crime. Allowing those things to fester sends a message to drug dealers that it's OK to do business.
"They're all symbols of lawlessness," New Castle County Police Chief Elmer Setting says. "When you interrupt those kinds of things, you stop the pebble from hitting the water and all the ripple effects."
Setting is building on others' success with a new style of policing, analyzing and sharing data on reported crimes to understand not only what types of crimes will take place next, but when and where they are most likely to happen.
He and supporters say old methods of crime-fighting aren't enough to combat a national heroin scourge labeled an "urgent public health crisis" by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The drug's popularity and easy access has led to surges in violence and deaths in communities nationwide.
Police here say they can no longer wait for 911 calls and then rush to the scene of a crime that's already happened. They aim to find ways to get ahead of it, using hints offered in the crime data to locate drug dealers and users so they can disrupt their business.
That's why, the police chief says, he holds these meetings every Tuesday morning, assembling an array of stakeholders beyond cops to include prosecutors, other elected leaders and county workers.
"We're trying to tell the dirty little secret that a lot of people don't want to hear," Setting says. "It's that a heroin addict in New Castle County isn't only an urban problem, or an older homeless guy under a highway ramp. It's everywhere in the county."
Police and prosecutors across the country are trying new strategies to push back against surging heroin trafficking and overdoses.
In Wisconsin, prosecutors are more frequently pursuing charges against those who provide fatal doses — doubling the number of homicide charges from 2011 to 2013. County prosecutors charged 71 people with first-degree reckless homicide by drug delivery in 2013, up from 34 in the previous two years, court records show.
In Florida, Tampa police cut the number of special units and instead emphasized officer patrols to impact rising crime and a flood of drugs. Technology allows supervisors to assign officers to specific geographic areas after using data to identify hot spots. The overhaul is credited with helping reduce crime by 65%.
In Illinois, city and state police are cracking down on Interstate 290, a route that's become known as the "Heroin Highway" in and out of Chicago.
In Delaware, New Castle County is borrowing ideas that work elsewhere, hoping to see similar drops in drug activity and violence.
That's a struggle for Delaware, a state sliced by interstates that serve as major East Coast corridors used to haul some of the purest of the heroin seen in the nation, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Setting took a few pages from Tampa's playbook and borrowed from Memphis' Operation Blue CRUSH, another program designed to predict criminal behavior. He also resurrected former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani's 1980s policing model, when cops there arrested even people who jumped subway turnstiles. Known as the "broken-windows theory," Giuliani argued that cracking down on minor crimes would deter bigger crime.
"And what we're doing is broken windows on steroids," Setting says.
John DeCarlo, an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, cautions that predictive analytics works better to reduce violent and property crimes. Traditional undercover operations are best to stem the heroin supply, he says.
To gather better intelligence for drug stings, New Jersey State Police and other agencies across the U.S. have created fusion centers, a kind of clearinghouse for what federal and local law enforcement know about the drug trade.
"All departments have good information, but historically don't communicate with each other well," DeCarlo says. "Fusion centers take data and people from all levels of law enforcement to create intel that is greater than the sum of its parts, which becomes a whole new area of policing."
No matter how proficient police get, combating the drug trade is "like trying to put your finger in the hole of a dike," he says. "You know there's a lot more water coming."
David Dongilli, the Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shares his experiences in fighting heroin on the streets. The News Journal (Wilmington)
In Delaware, a stretch of run-down, two-story apartment buildings across from a Mercedes-Benz dealership and a charter school earned the dubious title of Heroin Row.
Just between Wilmington's city limits and Greenville, the Silver Springs Apartment's laundry room often is littered with empty heroin bags and discarded needles. It's an open toilet for addicts too high to care about where they go to the bathroom. Coin boxes on washing machines have been ripped open by addicts desperate for quarters. Now they're ashtrays full of burnt cigarette butts.
Long neglected by police from both cities, the complex stood as a reminder of how each department rationalized that the other was handling the problem.
"All of that led to a sense of lawlessness that in part allowed the heroin trade to thrive there," Setting says.
Heroin Row symbolizes how far the drug trade has spread from the streets of Philadelphia, where Delaware addicts used to travel to score a small bag.
In the 1980s and 1990s, county police staked out an area in Philadelphia known as The Badlands, an infamous haven for cocaine and heroin. They looked for cars with Delaware plates, followed them back down Interstate 95 and pulled them over once they crossed the state line.
It was an effective tactic then. It's unnecessary now.
Delaware heroin's availability, purity and cheap price is a result of a government crackdown on prescription opiates such as Percocet and Oxycontin, says David Dongilli, special agent in charge of the DEA for Pennsylvania and Delaware. "We've created a new generation of heroin addicts," he says.
Today, heroin's on sale in plenty of suburban areas. Many of the hot spots appear similar to Silver Spring Apartments, where that ground-floor laundry-turned-heroin-haven is located just hundreds of feet from a day care center. After a months-long undercover operation, police arrested 11 people and took 338 grams of heroin. Local police say the 13,500 single-dose bags are the largest-single heroin bust in the department's history.
The cops also aimed to make a statement that they were no longer ignoring Silver Springs. For a week before the big raid, local, state and federal officers set up vehicle checkpoints along Lancaster Avenue, forcing the addicts and dealers to run a gauntlet of cops to get to the apartments. They netted 39 arrests and seized heroin, cocaine, marijuana, pills, cash and a pistol.
County police statistician Mike Walsh says many departments still rely too much on responding to 911 calls. By creating maps of recent hot spots instead, police can predict where the next crimes may occur. That means cops can deter crimes because they're already patrolling those areas or at least get there faster.
Known as a Targeted Analytical Policing System, Walsh compares the approach to being a fishing guide.
"If you're a lousy guide, you give him a rod and tell him to go fishing on the lake," he says. "If I'm good, I can tell him to go behind the island at 2 p.m. and he'll probably catch a fish. If I'm really good, I can tell him there is going to be a fish named Wanda sitting behind the big rock and what particular kind of bait to use to catch it."
Special patrol teams use the TAPS numbers to plan anti-drug sweeps in the high-crime areas. They often start with simple traffic stops, which they leverage into chances to search vehicles.
Shortly into his morning shift on a recent Monday, patrolman Alex Faux got a call about a weekend burglary.
He learned that the victimized couple had let the suspected thief live with them before. He'd stolen from them a few times. This time, he took jewelry that had sentimental value. "He told my husband he had done a couple bags of heroin recently," the woman told Faux.
These cases are why New Castle police created the Property Crime Division this year. The influx of heroin into the area is a driving force behind the county having the fourth-highest per-capita property crime rate in the nation.
Police say that after addicts exhaust handouts and stealing from families or friends, they move on to neighbors, stealing everything from wedding bands and graduation rings to aluminum siding from houses and catalytic converters from cars that they can sell at scrap yards.
Similar links extend to seemingly minor crimes, Chief Setting says. Last month, a special patrol responded to a complaint of a panhandler at Brookside Shopping Center. Police number-crunchers determined the best time to catch him was around noon on Tuesdays or Thursdays.
When police arrived, they also found one of New Castle's top drug dealers nearby. They followed him back to his stash of 2,600 bags of heroin.
"That's exactly the point of what we're doing," he says. "The old way, police never would have been in that area, because they wouldn't have had time to respond to a panhandling complaint. Now that we're in the right place at the right times, it produces additional arrests."
Contributing: Eric Litke
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WesternDot™ 625 Western Blot Kit
what it is
The WesternDot™ 625 Western Blot Kits combine the bright fluorescence properties of Qdot® 625 nanocrystals with the high-affinity streptavidin-biotin interaction to allow simple, highly sensitive detection of proteins immobilized on nitrocellulose (NC) or polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes. You get the sensitivity of chemiluminescence methods combined with brightness, photostability, flexibility and greater ease of processing and imaging—no x-ray film, dark rooms, or developing reagents are required.
how it works
Incorporating a standard western blotting protocol, the detection step relies on a biotinylated secondary antibody, either goat anti-rabbit (W10132) or goat anti-mouse (W10142) followed by the key component, the Qdot® 625 streptavidin conjugate (Figure 1). The extremely high extinction coefficient of the Qdot® 625 nanocrystal in the UV and blue wavelengths combined with high quantum yield and an orange/red emission (Figure 2) allow for subnanogram sensitivity of protein detection using standard UV or blue-light based detection systems. The fluorescent signal is compatible with the commonly used modes of fluorescence detection of DNA or protein gels and does not require specialized emission filters. Blots may be imaged wet or dry, and by epi- or trans-illumination.
Figure 1—Workflow diagram for the WesternDot™ 625 Western Blotting Kit.
|Figure 2—Example of results using the WesternDot™ 625 Western Blotting Kit. Total proteins (2-fold dilution series ranging from 10 μg to ~10 ng) from Jurkat cell extract were analyzed on a NuPAGE® Novex® 4–12% Bis-Tris gel and then transferred to an Immobilon™-FL PVDF membrane. Immunodetection of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), and endogenous "housekeeping" protein in the Jurkat cell extract, was performed with the WesternDot™ 625 Goat Anti-Mouse Western Blot Kit using a mouse monoclonal anti-GAPDH antibody (Invitrogen Cat. no. 39-8600) at 1 μg/ml. The wet membrane was imaged using an Alpha Innotech HD2 instrument with a SYPRO® Red emission filter (620 +/– 40 nm) and excitation at 302 nm transillumination with an exposure time of 300 milliseconds.
what it offers
- sensitivity equivalent to chemiluminescence methods
- easy to use: no need to optimize ECL reagents for the best image
- wet or dry imaging in either epi- or trans-illumination mode
- hassle free: signal on the processed blot remains stable for subsequent imaging
Find out more at www.invitrogen.com/qdots.
Click-iT® EdU Microplate Assay
what it is
The Click-iT® EdU Microplate Assay (C10214) is a fluorescence-based assay for accurate, sensitive, and fast quantitation of proliferating cells through the incorporation of the novel nucleoside, EdU (5-ethynyl-2'-deoxyuridine) during nascent DNA synthesis.
how it works
The Click-iT® EdU assay provides an alternative to antibody-based bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) cell proliferation assays. EdU detection is based on a click reaction—a copper-catalyzed covalent reaction between an azide and an alkyne. In this assay, the EdU contains the alkyne and the Click-iT® Oregon Green® 488 dye contains the azide. The small size of the fluorescent dye azide (MW <~1000) compared to an anti-BrdU antibody (MW ~150,000) allows for efficient detection of the incorporated EdU using mild conditions (see figure). The EdU signal is then amplified using horseradish peroxidase (HRP) which then reacts with Amplex® UltraRed substrate to produce a bright, red-fluorescent product (excitation/emission maxima ~568/585 nm).
Detection of the incorporated EdU with the Oregon Green® 488 azide versus incorporated BrdU with an anti-BrdU antibody.
what it offers
- higher sensitivity and broader assay range than fluorescence- or absorbance-based BrdU microplate cell proliferation assays
- the opportunity to visualize cells by fluorescence microscopy or high-throughput imaging before the signal amplification and detection steps
- stop reagent that stabilizes the fluorescent signal for up to 24 hours
- answers to your cell proliferation query in <2 hours
Visit www.invitrogen.com/edu for more information on our other Click-iT® EdU products for flow cytometry, imaging, and high-throughput imaging.
Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) ELISA Kits
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Invitrogen is now offering assay kits to measure human MMP-9 in serum, plasma, and cell culture supernatant samples. MMPs are proteolytic enzymes that are responsible for the degradation of extracellular matrix proteins and are involved in an array of physiological and pathological processes from development, morphogenesis, reproduction, wound healing, inflammation, angiogenesis, neurological disorders, and cancer cell invasion and metastasis.
how it works
The ELISA kit is a simple and unbiased way to quantify specific proteins. The Invitrogen Human MMP-9 Kit (KHC3061, KHC3062) is a solid-phase sandwich Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). A highly purified antibody has been coated onto the wells of the microtiter strips provided. During the first incubation, standards of known Human MMP-9 content, controls, and unknown samples are pipetted into the coated wells. After washing, biotinylated second antibody is added, which is followed by washing and the addition of streptavidin peroxidase. This binds to the biotinylated antibody to complete the four member sandwich. After a third incubation and washing to remove all the unbound enzyme, a substrate solution is added, which is acted upon by the bound enzyme to produce color. The intensity of this colored product is directly proportional to the concentration of Human MMP-9 present in the original specimen. Invitrogen ELISA kits come ready-to-use with all the necessary reagents including calibrated standards and controls.
what it offers
- sensitive—use small sample volume
- specific—measure the correct protein of interest
- fast—4 hours to complete
- minimal variation—consistent lot-to-lot performance
Demonstration of parallelism between natural and recombinant MMP-9. Random human serum, plasma and cell culture medium samples were serially diluted in the Standard Diluent Buffer and analyzed. The optical density of each dilution was plotted against the Human MMP-9 standard curve. Parallelism was demonstrated by the figure and indicated that the standard accurately reflects the Human MMP-9 content in natural samples.
Learn More about ELISA Kits.
Saretzki, G. et al. (2008) Stem Cells 26:455.
How do stem cells maintain a low mutational load? In order to retain their capacity to differentiate, stem cells have to maintain genetic stability over multiple generations. This is believed to occur through two mechanisms: by reducing spontaneous mutation frequencies through lowered physiological stress and increased activity and fidelity of repair processes, and by the elimination of damaged stem cells through differentiation or cell death. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by mitochondrial respiration constitute a major potential cause of DNA damage; low levels of ROS are required to maintain stem cells, while higher levels lead to differentiation. Researchers have observed a high capacity for antioxidant defense in murine stem cells, as well as greater efficiency of DNA repair. In their current report, Saretzki and colleagues examine changes in DNA maintenance and ROS production in differentiating human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Using three fluorescent probes— dichlorodihydrofluorescein (DCF, a nonspecific probe for oxidative stress), dihydrorhodamine 123 (DHR, which is oxidized by peroxides and peroxynitrite), and the MitoSOX™ Red reagent (to assess superoxide production)—the authors observed an increase in ROS production during hESC differentiation. The authors also observed a loss of telomere maintenance and reduced DNA damage repair during differentiation; though no causal relationship among these three factors was established, the authors suggest these effects constitute closely related responses to a common set of differentiative cellular stimuli.
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To study the mutualism between vertebrates and their associated microbial communities, or microbiota, the Guillemin lab has developed a germ-free zebrafish model. Our analysis has revealed important roles for the gut microbiota in intestinal epithelial maturation, cell homeostasis and cell type specification, and the establishment of mucosal tolerance. We are currently investigating the molecular nature of the microbiota-derived signals that drive these developmental programs. One interesting phenotype we are exploring is the reduced rate of intestinal cell proliferation in zebrafish larvae reared without microbes. Typically, BrdU labeling is used to determine the number of proliferating cells in situ, but it is often not reliable and the harsh tissue treatment affects labeling with other antibodies.
In this image, a 5-day-old zebrafish larva was reared in a germ-free environment and then exposed to a 16 hour pulse of 400 μM EdU, a nucleoside analog which is incorporated into cells that are actively synthesizing DNA. The tissue was paraformaldehyde fixed for 4 hours at room temperature then immediately paraffin embedded, and cut in 7 micron sections. After deparaffinization, rehydration, permeabilization, and a 10 minute blocking step in 3% BSA + 0.5% Triton® X-100 in PBS, the tissue was labeled by the click reaction cocktail. The incorporated EdU was then labeled with the azide-modified click detection reagent for 30 minutes. Slides were then rinsed, blocked with 1%BSA/ 0.3% Triton® X-100 for an additional 15 minutes prior to staining with 20 mg/mL lectin soybean agglutinin (SBA) Alexa Fluor® 568 conjugate in blocking buffer.
The image is a cross section through the mid intestine. Proliferating nuclei appear white due to labeling with both the green Alexa Fluor® 488 azide from the Click-iT™ EdU Alexa Fluor® 488 Imaging Kit and blue from the nuclear counterstain TO-PRO®-3 dye which detects all nuclei in the tissue. Goblet cells in the intestinal bulb are labeled with lectin soybean agglutinin Alexa Fluor® 568 conjugate (red), which stains the mucus compartment. The large circular void in the lower center of the image is the intestinal lumen; numerous actively proliferating intestinal cells can be seen in the surrounding epithelial wall in white. The 20× z-section image was captured using a CoolSNAP camera (Photometrics Systems) mounted on a Nikon D-Eclipse C1 confocal microscope (2 msec (micro second) exposure time). The image was processed (including pseudocoloring) using Photoshop® software (Adobe, Inc.). Image submitted by Sarah Cheesman, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, USA.
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Nyquist plot of frequency response
[re,im,w] = nyquist(sys)
[re,im] = nyquist(sys,w)
[re,im,w,sdre,sdim] = nyquist(sys)
nyquist creates a Nyquist
plot of the frequency response of a dynamic
system model. When invoked without left-hand arguments,
nyquist produces
a Nyquist plot on the screen. Nyquist plots are used to analyze system
properties including gain margin, phase margin, and stability.
nyquist(sys) creates a Nyquist
plot of a dynamic system
sys. This model can be
continuous or discrete, and SISO or MIMO. In the MIMO case,
nyquist produces
an array of Nyquist plots, each plot showing the response of one particular
I/O channel. The frequency points are chosen automatically based on
the system poles and zeros.
nyquist(sys,w) explicitly
specifies the frequency range or frequency points to be used for the
plot. To focus on a particular frequency interval, set
= {wmin,wmax}. To use particular frequency points, set
w to
the vector of desired frequencies. Use
logspace to
generate logarithmically spaced frequency vectors. Frequencies must
be in
rad/TimeUnit, where
TimeUnit is
the time units of the input dynamic system, specified in the
TimeUnit property of
nyquist(sys1,sys2,...,sysN) or
nyquist(sys1,sys2,...,sysN,w) superimposes
the Nyquist plots of several LTI models on a single figure. All systems
must have the same number of inputs and outputs, but may otherwise
be a mix of continuous- and discrete-time systems. You can also specify
a distinctive color, linestyle, and/or marker for each system plot
with the syntax
[re,im,w] = nyquist(sys) and
= nyquist(sys,w) return the real and imaginary parts of
the frequency response at the frequencies
w (in
re and
im are
3-D arrays (see "Arguments" below for details).
[re,im,w,sdre,sdim] = nyquist(sys) also
returns the standard deviations of
re and
im for
the identified system
The output arguments
re and
im are
3-D arrays with dimensions
For SISO systems, the scalars
re(1,1,k) and
im(1,1,k) are
the real and imaginary parts of the response at the frequency ωk =
For MIMO systems with transfer function H(s),
re(:,:,k) and
im(:,:,k) give
the real and imaginary parts of H(jωk)
(both arrays with as many rows as outputs and as many columns as inputs).
where hij is the transfer function from input j to output i.
Plot the Nyquist response of the system
H = tf([2 5 1],[1 2 3]); nyquist(H)
The nyquist function has support for M-circles, which are the contours of the constant closed-loop magnitude. M-circles are defined as the locus of complex numbers where
is a constant value. In this equation, ω is the frequency
in radians/TimeUnit, where
TimeUnit is the system
time units, and G is the collection of complex
numbers that satisfy the constant magnitude requirement.
To activate the grid, select Grid from the right-click menu or type
at the MATLAB® prompt. This figure shows the M circles for transfer function H.
You have two zoom options available from the right-click menu that apply specifically to Nyquist plots:
Tight —Clips unbounded branches of the Nyquist plot, but still includes the critical point (-1, 0)
On (-1,0) — Zooms around the critical point (-1,0)
Also, click anywhere on the curve to activate data markers that display the real and imaginary values at a given frequency. This figure shows the nyquist plot with a data marker.
Compute the standard deviations of the real and imaginary parts of the frequency response of an identified model. Use this data to create a 3σ plot of the response uncertainty.
Load estimation data
load iddata2 z2;
Identify a transfer function model using the data.
sys_p = tfest(z2,2);
Obtain the standard deviations for the real and imaginary parts of the frequency response for a set of 512 frequencies,
w = linspace(-10*pi,10*pi,512); [re,im,wout,sdre,sdim] = nyquist(sys_p,w);
re and
im are the real and imaginary parts of the frequency response, and
sdre and
sdim are their standard deviations, respectively. The frequencies in
wout are the same as the frequencies you specified in
Create a Nyquist plot showing the response and its 3σ uncertainty.
re = squeeze(re); im = squeeze(im); sdre = squeeze(sdre); sdim = squeeze(sdim); plot(re,im,'b',re+3*sdre,im+3*sdim,'k:',re-3*sdre,im-3*sdim,'k:') xlabel('Real Axis'); ylabel('Imaginary Axis');
You can change the properties of your plot, for example the units. For information on the ways to change properties of your plots, see Ways to Customize Plots.


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Ian Wells Track
Short Tramping Track amongst Piha's native bush and surrounding scenery.
From Piha Road track follows old access road to the (now empty) Nihotupu Auxiliary Dam, then narrows and continues with some muddy patches and stream crossings to Cutty Grass Track.
What to expect:
Tramping tracks will:
consist of formed and drained surfaces.
be signposted at track entrances and key junctions.
Tramping tracks may:
have structures in permanent wet areas but waterways will not generally be bridged.
Tramping tracks may also have limited track information, and steep grades.
Suitable for people of reasonable fitness and experience.
Distance:2.4 km Time:1.0 hour Wheelchair access:No Pram access:No
How to get to Piha:
Head along the north-western motorway. Get off at Lincoln Rd. At the end of Lincoln Rd turn into Great North Rd. At first set of lights turn right into Henderson Valley Rd. At roundabout take Forest Hill Rd and drive to end. Turn right into West Coast rd. At end of West Coast Rd turn right into Scenic Drive. Take Piha Rd at junction 200M on. Stay on Piha Rd and it ends at Piha Beach.


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December 23, 2012
Still looking for a Christmas pie? Look no further than this Sweet Potato Pie with Ginger Pecan Crumble.
Clearly, I've been in the mood for crumbs and crumble. First is was a Chocolate Crumb Pear Pie and now this. I may have a problem, but I'm not complaining. If you're not either, then start roasting potatoes, baby, because this pie needs to be part of your holiday dinner.
Your holidays have already passed? I suggest that you get roasting anyway. As much as you think you won't fall prey to the annual healthier-eating-in-the-new-year fad, chances are you won't be baking deliciously decadent pies next week. And oh what a shame if you miss out.
A luscious, silky filling of roasted sweet potato covered with a ginger spiked cinnamon crumb, this pie is like pumpkin pie on flavor crack.
Enough said.
S, xo
Sweet Potato Pie with Ginger Pecan Crumble
(can be shared with kids 12+ mos)*
Makes one 9″ pie
Simple, perfect pie dough, enough for one 9? single-crust pie (1/2 the recipe)
10 ounces evaporated milk
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups very smooth roasted sweet potato puree (made by pureeing 4 large roasted sweet potatoes in a food processor until smooth)
3 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon zest
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, preferably freshly grated
1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
Ginger Pecan Crumble
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup light brown sugar
2/3 cup whole, toasted pecans, finely chopped (makes about 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans)
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1. Preheat oven to 375. Remove pie dough from the fridge (if using dough that has thawed on the counter, be sure to refrigerate it so that it's cold and firm before using) and place on a lightly floured surface. Lightly flour your rolling pin and roll the dough into a 13? round with even thickness throughout, turning, flipping and lightly flouring the dough as necessary as you go. Carefully fold dough into quarters to transfer it to a 9? pie plate. Unfold and gently ease the dough into the pie plate and up the sides. Trim excess with kitchen shears or a paring knife. Set aside in fridge.
2. In a medium pot set over low heat, combine evaporated milk, butter and both sugars. Cook, whisking all the while, until the butter and sugars melt and a smooth mixture just begins to bubble. Take off heat and allow mixture to cool in the pot.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together sweet potato puree, eggs, vanilla, zest and all of the spices with an electric mixer set on low speed. Add cooled evaporated milk mixture and continue mixing until all ingredients are well combined. Set filling aside.
4. Make ginger pecan crumble: Add all ingredients to a medium bowl and, using your hands, work the ingredients to combine and crumbs form. Pinch some of the crumbs together to form bigger crumbs.
5. Pour filling into chilled, prepped crust. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove pie from oven and top with crumble; return to oven and finish baking for 15-20 minutes until crumble and crust turn golden brown. If at any point the crust begins browning too much before the pie is done, carefully cover the crust with aluminum foil for the remainder of the baking time. Remove from oven and allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before serving.
*Note: While there is nothing in this that is unsafe for younger eaters, I recommend this for eaters 12+ months due to the high sugar content. No matter how old your eaters (especially if you share some of this with your wee ones as a holiday treat), be sure to serve an age appropriate portion. A little of this sweet treat goes a long way!


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Man is a social animal and as such thrust of his progress can be measured in terms of the society, created by him.
If it is created measure of his success can also be determined in how sociable he has become. In the evolution of our ape-ancestors to the modern man we hold no distinction between Australopithecines, Homo erectus (which inhabited Asia, Africa, and Europe) and Neanderthals (either Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) (which inhabited Europe and Asia). We carry however in our genome something of those groups that have died out. We are humans and our achievements are part of our common experience. In short despite of evolutionary twists and turns of our origins we bear the bequest of those who did not make it. Family beginnings of modern man go far back as 400,000 and 250,000 years ago. In terms of biology we humans do not demonstrate in the least any particular divine favor that a Christian, Jew or a Muslim claim as special for himself.
But looking at our social structure we see we are fragmented in the way we have chosen to show our identity in terms of our race, religion and economic status. We went about creating a family of man and became a creature of our own conceit. Perhaps this paradox is ever in our consciousness and that would explain the perennial popularity of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
We choose the society that we can relate to and not other way around. In accommodating members with various life experiences and interacting with them we infuse vitality into it. We broaden our horizons as a result. Nature has divised ways which would seem to follow this formula: like repels like; and opposites attract. History is replete with instances where societal collapse owed to the failure in heeding Nature's warning. Inbreeding of Pharaohs in Egypt sowed their eventual demise and one of the serious consequences of Islam lay in the cultural stagnation. Dar-ul Islam or Global Islam means that all nations would be ruled under an Islamic theocracy, which is simply a national government set up under the rule of Allah's divine sanction as expressed in the Qur'an and Shari'ah law. It did not happen. Historically Muslims failed to make their initial successes in world conquests to something permanent or significant. Mongol Invasion of the 13th century and Black Death had curtailed their mission. In their falling back to their old ideas a way of life they were comfortable they denied further growth. Compare between the period of Ottoman Empire at the height of its glory during the reign of Suleiman the magnificent, and the decades prior to the WWI (when it was called the Sick Man of Europe) is a sad commentary of a society that had run of ideas. It ceased to grow.
Islam as a religion can be authoritatively dated and the flight of Mohammed is a historical date. Let us consider Islamic tradition relates Prophet Muhammad in 610, when he was 40 years old first heard the voice of the angel Gabriel, who recited to him the word of God, today written down in the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an, meaning "recitation."
It is significant that Muslims believe that what Gabriel told Muhammad came directly from God;by the same token the Jews believe the promise of Israel was given by God to Patriarch Abraham indicating the extent of their promised land.
One cannot be true and the other false.
Islam says that the message was similar to those received by the early Hebrew prophets: that God is one, he is all-powerful, he is the creator of the universe, and that there will be a Judgment Day when those who have carried out God's commands will enjoy paradise in heaven, and those who have not will be condemned to hell. As we have seen, these ideas were also part of the Zoroastrian religion. When certain ideas are common experience of man there must be something to it. But in the way these ideas are coined and given value we need to be clear that such value system is man-made and as currency holds limited use. The correspondence principle states that if one man's revelation is accepted as true on the same scale every belief must be accepted as true.
Man who dreams the impossible is everywhere persecuted. It is not the dream but how that dream is realized for the betterment of society is the main point. Prophet Mohammed fled to Medina and his dream was put into reality by his followers. How one would make a case for the Mormon sect, which was also founded on a spiritual experience?
This sect was founded in 1830. The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah. At the time of the planning of the exodus in 1846, the territory was owned by the Republic of Mexico, which soon after went to war with the United States over the annexation of Texas.
The journey was taken by about 70,000 people beginning with advanced parties sent out by church fathers in March 1846 after the assassination of Mormon founder Joseph Smith made it clear the faith could not remain in Nauvoo, Illinois — which the church had recently purchased, improved, renamed and developed because of the Missouri Mormon War setting off the Illinois Mormon War. The well-organized wagon train migration began in earnest in April 1847, and the period (including the flight from Missouri in 1838 to Nauvoo) known as the Mormon Exodus is, by convention among social scientists, assumed to have ended with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Whether preposterous or wholesome values that a religion may contain man is ready to forsake all for his liberty of conscience. It is the golden key which opens the door to the promised land.
How can Moslems expect others to accept their religion as perfect when they themselves did not keep the promise? History of mankind shall be strewn with the conflict of liberty of conscience and pursuit of pleasure whatever the term 'pleasure' may mean. History is not concerned with motives or dreams of man but how their dreams were realized. When the children of Islam fell back from the shared experience of the rest of the world they nullified even what was within their reach to be at the vanguard of progress.
Dreams of a prophet like Joseph Smith or Brigham Young will please many but for me to accept these under coercion would be veritable nightmare. (To be continued)
Parts of this essay was taken from my book Principles of History. B


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I have been an Apple computer fan for many years - in fact longer than most, through the (very) skinny times when the share price was junk and it looked like the future was dark indeed, if there was any future at all. I have owned macs since the very early models, fond memories of my venerable IIci still stick with me, I had a performa 6400 juiced up to the eyeballs with so much extra circuitry that it weighed twice as much as when I bought it. I have owned powerbooks, macbook pros, a macbook air, a mac book mini, an iPhone, an AppleTV (version 1) and those are just the ones I can remember.
Lately though, the shine has worn off. We have had a bit of a breakup, and like any really good breakup the blows seem to keep coming. From the Apple control over what I may run on my iPhone, through the abandonment of the AppleTV v1 (and the apparent expectation that like a good little customer I will come back for more and buy a v2), to the recent announcement that Java (the platform I have made a career around for the last 15 or so years and, continue to do so) will be deprecated on Mac OS X, it is clear that Apple's direction and my own no longer align even a little.
This leaves the question of what alternatives exist though. Even with the stifling level of control over my decisions exercised (on my behalf?) by Apple, I am honest enough to admit that, when you use it as recommended on the packet, Apple hardware does work very well indeed. For example, the AppleTV, iPhone and Mac Mini combination formed a very slick (if pretty limited) entertainment and multimedia back bone, the experience gave a nice portable remote control through the iPhone interface, the media selection available over the oh-so-silent mac mini (always running) and the AppleTV connected to the TV and audio receiver in the front room filling the house with sound (and sometimes movies, rented from Apple - that side of AppleTV always worked nicely, but it was a bit of a one trick pony).
Apparently I am not the only one thinking along these lines. Gizmodo, PC Mag and others offer plenty of reading on the matter. What follows is my own list of alternatives in use right now as alternatives for the way I used the Apple products in my life. I will start with the easy ones first.
Work / Home Computers
This is dead easy - for almost as long as I have been a mac fan, I have been a Linux fan (indeed, I have been a unix user much longer). Ubuntu linux has come on in leaps and bounds in recent releases and on most of my work machines I have been developing in Ubuntu for several years, in fact I stopped buying mac laptops some time ago in favor of more powerful, less expensive alternatives that run Linux well, and have been perfectly happy. I hear all the time how desktop linux is still too hard for regular people to use (usually from friends who are actually developers) but I wonder how many of them have actually tried? For me, Meerkat (the latest version of Ubuntu) is wonderfully friendly, super easy to install, lightning fast to use (especially on much faster hardware that often costs half of what the Apple alternative hardware does) and in recent incarnations, quite pretty as well.
So this one is easy - commodity PC hardware running Ubuntu Linux. As a bonus, the Java platform works superbly on Linux, and will continue to do so. What is new is that I have begun stripping Mac OS X off of my remaining Apple computers and replacing them with Linux (which works just fine with the hardware and also makes the boxes feel faster than under OS X). This future-proofs these computers beyond the useful life they would otherwise enjoy (once Java starts falling behind or is removed from the Mac OS completely). It goes without saying that Linux allows me to do much more with these machines for their uses here, for example I can share any directory across my home network easily, on any protocol (Mac OS X restricts the directories you may share using, for example, Windows file sharing protocols, unless you buy the server version of OS X - Linux of course has no such restriction - very useful for sharing my large music collection that is kept on an external drive with all of the machines and devices in my house).
This has been covered already on my blog, but several months ago I switched to Android (a Nexus One device on T-mobile) and have never looked back. I won't rehash in great detail, but the Nexus One does quite literally everything I used my iPhone for and a lot more, including Google latitude updates constantly running in the background (so that Jackie can see where I am and how long before I get home in the evening, with no effort necessary on my part), integration with Google voice that even seamlessly takes over international calls and charges me 2c per minute through the Google voice plan when I dial to the UK direct, tethering and wifi hot spot included in the regular T-mobile plan and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I take so much for granted now that I don't even think about it (note that I can even tether my Kindle to the Nexus One wirelessly and download books and content anywhere, same with my netbook or laptop).
Recording studio
For a long time the Apple Mac Mini has been the computing cornerstone of my home recording studio (used to record the Java Posse podcast
It still is, but now it runs Ubuntu! Making the switch was dead easy, and the result is a Mac Mini that runs faster, cooler and more reliably. It will no longer talk to my stock AppleTV (which is one of the reasons I modded the AppleTV - more on that later), but it does serve as the backbone for my home multimedia system too, and as a bonus makes all of my music available to me anywhere in the world where I have an internet connection. Skype runs just fine on Linux for video conferencing, pulse audio in recent versions of Linux gives a more flexible alternative to Apple's core-audio for recording purposes (it's like using Mac OS X with audio hijack built in), and Ubuntu has had its own app-store (called Ubuntu Software Center) for a few years now which makes finding and installing software a breeze (and removing it without trace similarly easy too).
As well as the Mac Mini works with Ubuntu though, I probably won't buy another. Options like the Acer Aspire Revo (roughly the same power, much less expensive) or the System 76 Meerkat Ion (still less expensive, much more power) offer far more bang for the buck. I will keep the Mac Mini for a while and then replace it with something like these machines (or whatever is available that's even better at the time).
Home Entertainment
This was the big one to work out. As mentioned, the combination of iPhone, AppleTV and Mac Mini made a slick, if pretty limited, home entertainment system with nice features like genius playlists, remote control from the iPhone, access to my whole music library and so on. Once I got rid of the iPhone and converted the Mac Mini to Ubuntu, the AppleTV was not a lot of use (Apple does not allow the AppleTV to connect to any other kind of server than iTunes, through use of a closed API).
The first thing to do was to jailbreak the Apple TV and install Boxee on it. This alone made the AppleTV ten times more capable than it ever was in stock form, allowing things like Pandora, Hulu and many other internet sources of entertainment to be used from the box. It also meant that the box could once again see my entire music collection over the network from the Ubuntu mac mini. Playback of web flash content is even possible, although the horsepower is not quite enough to make it super smooth (it will do at a pinch if you just want to catch up with an episode of something you missed), however alternative internet content that uses one of the formats it understands natively (h264 for example) play back very nicely, so sources like CNet TV and Revision 3 work brilliantly. Music playback of Pandora, Live 365 and many others are flawless too.
I then picked up an old Roku Soundbridge and installed Logitech's Squeezeserver to drive it (the Roku can emulate a squeezebox, although I would recommend people looking to do this look into the real Squeezeboxes as well, since they can do some tricks like sync with one another in different rooms to provide seamless entertainment throughout the entire house - I love the Roku but I will probably upgrade at some point).
Remote control from the Nexus One is also possible, using an app called SqueezeCommander which I have to say is every bit as slick and easy to use as the iPhone Apple Remote was.
The result, between Ubuntu, Roku Soundbridge and SqueezeCommander is a home entertainment backbone that is every bit as nice to use as the Apple stack was, and can do a whole lot more besides (like playing BBC radio streams for example). Genius playlists were a little tricky until I found the MusicIP plugin for Squeezeserver (yes - it has plugins that are easily installable from the web UI - much like an app store you might say :-) ). In truth, this was a little fiddly to set up, and I would say there is an opportunity for an even easier genius playlist plugin for squeezeserver, and maybe there will be in time. On the upside, MusicIP is more configurable and seems to produce better mixes than Apple's Genius (I don't think I will be the only one to notice that certain tracks *always* seem to get played in Genius no matter what the seed song - it just doesn't feel quite random enough, and of course you can't change that - on MusicIP of course, you can change it to your preferences).
Final Thoughts
There are other advantages to choosing alternatives to Apple. For one, you start getting out of the "it must work with Apple" mindset. For example, earlier in the year we picked up an HD Tivo, which actually looks like it might be the one box that can unify the video media experience in the front room. It can also stream movies found on the network (using a Tivo server that runs on Linux and scans your machine for videos which the Tivo can then see easily). If Tivo can just work out some kind of deal for Hulu content, they would indeed be the one box.
Likewise the Google TV looks very interesting, and has the advantage of integrating very well with my Android phone. Since the new AppleTV 2 will be pretty much useless with my current setup (since nothing else in the house uses Apple now), it is much more likely that we will pick up the Google TV at some point, and I have much more confidence that it will continue to work in a heterogeneous environment and continue to be supported (not to mention that it already allows third party apps to run).
It's also worth mentioning that pretty much every alternative device in use is running Linux. From the Tivo, through the Roku soundbridge, to the Nexus One, Linux has arrived, it's already everywhere, and indeed it really is the alternative to Apple.


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The artist David Buckingham with his sculpture Dirty Harry. Cut and welded reclaimed metal, 40"x 75" x 8".
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presents "I Speak As I Please", new sculpture by Los Angeles artist David Buckingham in his first solo exhibition in New Orleans. As a native New Orleanian, Buckingham will explore the profound effect that growing up in the city can have on both its citizens and on those whom - for various misfortunes - it has lost.
David Buckingham will bring his unique brand of metal sculpture to New Orleans for the annual Art For Arts' Sake opening of the New Orleans Arts season this October. His exhibition will feature his trademark sculptures of word phrases, movie lines and famous guns created from old, battered colorful metal reclaimed from race cars, trucks, hay balers, rice threshers, school buses and the like discovered in the High Mojave Desert.
Of the new suite of works to be exhibited in New Orleans, Buckingham says: "You can't be a Louisiana boy and grow up in New Orleans without being profoundly affected by it for the rest of your life, and for my first solo show at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery I will be mining memories of many things that 'ain't dere no more'.
When I think of New Orleans, I think of nectar creams at the K+B fountain on Broadway at St Charles, the late great Buster Holmes restaurant, rushing home from high school on the streetcar to read Tommy Griffin's column in the States Item, sportscaster Hap Glaudi, weatherman extraordinaire Nash Roberts, my Schwegmann's hurricane tracking map, Dixie Beer's infamous bad batch of '75, my 1984 World's Fair pass, concerts at the Warehouse, Professor Longhair live at Tip's when it opened in '77, the intoxicating fragrance of magnolias in bloom, greeting the sunrise from atop Audubon Park's Monkey Hill, attending the first rock concert in the newly opened Louisiana Superdome in '75, being able to drive through Audubon Park at all hours, several nights in Central Lockup, 'submarine races' at the Lakefront, ODing on cholesterol at Deanie's in Bucktown, hearing my grandfather speak Cajun French with his friends (they always switched to French when they didn't want us kids to know what they were talking about), Ruthie the Duck Lady, Morgus the Magnificent, the razing of Pontchartrain Beach, brushing with Dr Tichenor's, Momus and Comus (R.I.P)., Archie Manning, the barbecued shrimp at Manale's, "Show your tits!", and holes in my Perlis alligator shirt from the burning flambeaux at Mardi Gras parades.
I am drawing on all of these things for my show. I left New Orleans many years ago, but New Orleans has never left me. It is my favorite city on the planet and to this day is the place I am most comfortable.
I know what it means to miss New Orleans.
Yeah you wrong!"
-David Buckingham, 2010
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With an advertisting background, Buckingham worked at agencies in Boston, New York, Australia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. In the early 90's he met Ray "Cowboy" Kelly, who had started a Lower East Side movement called the Rivington School, a group of anarchist welders and poets and performance artists who had taken over an abandoned lot on Rivington Street.
Moving to Los Angeles in the mid 90's, Buckingham became obsessed with making art. Venturing into the Mojave, he discovered tons of old, battered colorful metal - ancient cars, trucks, hay balers, rice threshers, school buses - and began to work exclusively with these materials. Having spent 20 years as a professional writer, text and words play an integral role in his artwork. Lines from movies are central to many of his pieces that reflect on the major business role movies play in L.A. and perverse impact on our cultural identity. Mass culture that has been pounded into his head for nearly 45 years now acts as a catalyst in his artwork. Cartoon sound effects, guns of infamous assassins and text lines are created from the man-made detritus of a desert landscape.
David Buckingham's work is in several notable collections including Steven Bochco, Josh Groban, Gwen Stephani, Seth Rogen , Perez Hilton, Prada/Milan and The Cisneros Foundation. His work has been exhibited in New York (O.K Harris) and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and St. Louis. "I Speak As I Please" is his first solo exhibition in New Orleans.
Los Angeles Art Critic Peter Frank writes in an upcoming catalog of Buckingham's work: "David Buckingham does not make signs. Maybe you could say that he welds poetry, but that credits him for his phrases more than he wants to be. Rather, Buckingham records the language of his time and place in a durable but flexible substance - a substance arguably as durable and flexible as language itself. What we say - and how we say it - to one another may seem like so much smoke signaling; but Buckingham thinks that our language, even at its roughest, has a monumental quality to it, and brings out that quality in a manner at once as modern as the words and as timeless as the impulse to speech itself."
The exhibition opens with an artist reception on Saturday October 2, 2010 from 6-9pm in conjunction with the annual Art For Arts' Sake opening of the New Orleans Arts season.
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