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Adventures in Barrywood: Imagine a world without OscarFebruary 25, 2013
I was on South American television talking about the Oscars this morning. This isn't the clip but I'll put it up once I find it.
By Barry Koltnow in The Orange County Register
Imagine a world without the Oscars.
Don't panic; I didn't say a world without oxygen. I didn't say a world without drinking water. I didn't even say a world without Splenda.
All I'm suggesting is that you try to imagine what it might be like to root for your favorite movies without dazzling red-carpet fashions, embarrassing long-winded acceptance speeches and repeated "for your consideration" ads.
And when I ask that you imagine such a world, I include other movie awards as well. Without the Oscars, there would be no Golden Globes. If there were no Golden Globes, there would be no People's Choice awards. In order to have pretenders to the throne, you must have a king sitting on the throne.
I realize that it's almost impossible to imagine such a world because movie award shows have become such an integral part of the pop-culture scene.
However, I said "almost" impossible. It's not really impossible, but if you're having trouble imagining a world without the Oscars, here's how it might sound, assuming you can imagine Ben Affleck bumping into Steven Spielberg at Ralphs.
Why couldn't they run into each other at Ralphs? Without Oscar campaigns to run, what else are they going to do with their spare time?
Imagine this meeting in the dairy aisle:
"Hey Ben, what are you doing here?"
"Jen and I are shopping for fattening food. There's no need for diets if you don't have to squeeze into form-fitting gowns and designer tuxedos at the Oscars."
"That's a great point, Ben."
"I know. Jen and I are focusing on salty snacks today because we no longer have to worry about water retention during Oscar week."
"When's the last time we ran into each other?"
"I think it was four score and seven years ago."
"That's pretty funny, Ben. I guess you're referring to my new movie Lincoln? "
"Yes, I really enjoyed it. If the Oscars were still around, I'll bet you would have gotten 13 nominations."
"That's very kind of you, Ben, but I doubt whether it would have gotten any more than 12."
"Maybe I got carried away, but I know it would have done very well."
"Thanks, Ben. And I might say the same about your film Argo."
"That means so much coming from a legendary director like you, Steven. Of my three films, I think this was my best work as a director."
"I agree, Ben. In fact, I think that not only would you have been nominated in the director's category if the Oscars were still being held, but I think you might actually have won the Academy Award."
"That is very kind of you, Steven, but there is no way either of us would beat Kathryn Bigelow at the Oscars. She would have swept every directing award, and her film, Zero Dark Thirty, would win it all."
"Really? You don't think the subject of torture might have impacted the Oscar race, if there were an Oscar race?"
"What could people object to, Steven? The CIA used torture back then, but nobody's saying that torture led to Osama bin Laden. They may have implied that, but who doesn't stretch the truth a little bit in the movies? Do you think anyone in their right mind believes the last scene in my movie, when all those Iranians are chasing the plane down the runway and shooting like crazy people?"
"That was pretty funny, Ben. I can't believe you got away with that."
"Well, luckily there are no Oscars this year so it's not like Argo is going to win anything and make me answer for those historical inaccuracies."
"You've got that right, Ben. I'm still not sure about my decision to have Lincoln talk like Urkel."
"You're worried about historical accuracy in the same year as Django Unchained?"
"Good one, Ben."
"All things considered, Steven, aren't you happy that there are no more Oscars?"
"I'm torn, Ben. On the one hand, I never liked directors competing against directors and actors competing against actors."
"What about writers competing against writers?"
"Oh, that's OK. Nobody cares about writers."
"And on the other hand?"
"Frankly, it's nice to receive a pat on the back from your peers. There are so few moments of encouragement in this business. Even I need encouragement once in a while."
"Seriously, Steven?"
"Absolutely. When do I get an 'attaboy?'"
"Well, you did win a few awards before they stopped giving them out. You have become fabulously wealthy through your work. You have the power to make any movie you want in Hollywood. You are idolized by millions of people. And you married Kate Capshaw."
"Other than that, what do I really have? When was the last time a roomful of admirers stood up and cheered for me?"
"You mean like at the Oscars?"
"The envelope, please."


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February 18, 2017
When changing hosts (from Bluehost to Dreamhost) I spent some time thinking about what to preserve and what to dump from this site. I vacillated between picking out a few old and useless articles to save or dumping the whole thing. Then I started reading some of the old entries and got all nostalgic and teary-eyed. I simply can't kill this critter just yet.
So here it still is in all its ugly layout and colors, but on the other hand, the content is useless.
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January 11, 2015
Yes, I did get to present at a TEDx event in Uppsala. Enjoy
the video
What I'm trying to explain in that presentation is that current medical record systems are junk. Built badly and for the wrong reason.
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January 11, 2015
My new book is available in all fine bookstores on and off line. (If it's not there, it isn't fine.) One place with a lot of details is
Amazon's page
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Vitalis 2012
March 13, 2012
We've been invited to give a presentation at the Vitalis 2012 conference in Gothenburg, 17-19 April 2012. We have a slot the 17th at 15:15-15:45. We'll show iotaMed and how it utilizes Snomed CT and other techniques to easily link to national registries and do automatic translation of medical records. Among other things.
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New website for our company
January 07, 2012
We have published a new website for our company
MITM - Man In The Middle AB
. You can find there a lot of information about us, our activity and, mots of all, about iotaMed.
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Lecture at KI
December 14, 2010
I (Martin) was invited to give a lecture at Karolinska Institute, to the International Masters Programme in Health Informatics. I talked for 3.5 hours and we video recorded the whole thing. There's a
playlist with all 20 videos
on YouTube and there is also a
separate PDF with lecture notes
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December 14, 2010
I'm working on the next generation Electronic Healthcare Record and we're calling it "iotaMed". It's knowledgebased, it's national registries, it's a medical record, all in one. It's also open source. The home page for the project is at
, where you'll also find the link to the source code.
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Benzelius prize winner, too!
September 05, 2010
Hania, my woman and wife, was one of the winners of the Benzelius price from the Royal Society of Science in Uppsala, Sweden, for her Ph.D. work in digital geometry and combinatorics on words (she had to help me spell this). She got this on the 300 year anniversary of the society, which was set up by such luminaries as Anders Celcius and Carl Von Linn�. The Royal Society of Science in Uppsala is actually the oldest academic society in Sweden.
I'm so proud I'm certain to break some vital organ if I don't calm down.
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I'm a PhD now!
September 27, 2009
Hania speaking: A PhD at last! No, it didn't take that long, but sometimes it felt like it did. Last friday, September 25, 2009, I presented my thesis and defended it with no problems, so I was awarded my PhD. Then we had a party. You can find a link to my thesis, a video of the presentation, and the slides, and some photos from the presentation and the party, if you follow
this link
Thanks to all that showed up for the presentation and the party!
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Irrational Publication Again
January 16, 2008
Hania speaking: my paper "Continued Fractions and Digital Lines with Irrational Slopes" is accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 08), in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The conference will take place in Lyon, France 16-18 April 2008. I will also present a poster there.
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Check out these Lines!
March 08, 2007
Hania speaking: I'm happy (really happy!) to announce that I got my article on "Digital Lines with Irrational Slopes" accepted for publication in
Theoretical Computer Science
. I could tell you all about it and what it means, but if you're mathematically inclined (it's more mathematics than computer science),
you can read it for yourself
. For more, check out
my own page
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Can't leave blogging alone
October 31, 2005
So, I've got a blog now, too. See
. In particular, I think I've found the solution to DRM. It's not very respectful of human dignity and human rights, but both these values are going out of fashion big time, anyway. But it ought to be efficient.
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May 13, 2005
Yesterday, I passed the exam for CSDP - Certified Software Development Professional. This is an IEEE certification based on 9000 hours (5 years, fulltime) proven experience in software engineering tasks and areas. This experience must cover at least six of the
11 knowledge areas
. Additionally, you have to do an exam. Yesterday, I did and passed.
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Digital Lines - The Theory Of...
January 27, 2005
This is another presentation Hania gave at the university on january 24, 2005. This presentation contains an overview of the theorems that Hania is developing for the generation and recognition of digital lines (necessary resp. sufficient conditions for digital lines with irrational slope). You can view the
presentation on-line
download a pdf
of it.
[Digital Geometry page]
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So I got my CISSP
January 05, 2005
Having spent many years working in health care information technology, I felt a need for some kind of an official certificate. The problem is that it is very hard for people to rate the value of our advice, since much of what we tell people sounds like magic anyway. Being an MD seems to make things worse; a doctor is not expected to know that much about technology.
Anyway, from now on, I've got five more letters behind my name. I'm pretty sure being both an (experienced and licensed) MD and an (experienced and certified) information security professional will turn out to be very useful. The CISSP certification is maintained by
, which has also achieved both ISO and ANSI accreditation for this credential. This is what Dr Roy Swift of ANSI had to say about the CISSP:
"Employers in the public and private sectors can be confident that information security professionals holding the (ISC)2 CISSP credential possess the necessary skills and experience to effectively manage and deploy information security programs and policies anywhere in the world."
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Almost Anything Can Be Shot...
October 15, 2004
...one way or the other. There's a scene from a Pink Panther movie that keeps popping up in my internal projection room everytime I see futile security of a particular kind being excercised. In this scene, the detective (Peter Sellers) comes into a room and is suddenly confronted with a raging Kung Fu fighter that flies from one end of the room to the other, swirling arms and legs all around, accompanying it all with HO!...HAH! YI!... and similar loud and intimidating noises. After a fairly long and very scary show of skill and power, the guy faces Peter Sellers, ready to pounce and make chopped liver out of him. Peter Sellers calmly lifts a pistol and fires a bullet through his head, while looking slightly mystified. This guy had spent a lifetime of intensive martial arts training, sacrificed the lord knows what to get to the pinnacle of his art only to be defeated by a cheap pistol fired at point-blank range. There's a moral in this story, especially for security professionals. Sometimes it's described as: don't put umpteen expensive locks on the doors if you leave your Windows� open...
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Tools of the Trade
October 12, 2004
Every developer has his or her own box of tools. Whenever you start a new job or a substantially new project somewhere, you gradually build up that same toolbox over time, while the management gratefully watches you construct their future infrastructure. Anyway, you'll probably need tools in all the below categories.
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Dump Internet Explorer, now!
June 29, 2004
Ever since MS won the browser wars, they've neglected the development of IE. It's woefully behind in the standards implementations, but now it's becoming clear just how much behind it is in the security department as well. The last couple of days, there's been a number of calls to simply dump IE in favor of almost anything else. The statistics don't lie, IE is our major security headache and MS is doing very little effectively to change that.
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New site functionality
May 24, 2004
I've reworked the site considerably. Most of the hard tech stuff was done by
, while I was enjoying myself and being in the way a lot. What the site now allows is for you to comment on articles, be it about a general technical issue or a coding thing. You can also comment on book reviews. Note that to comment on anything, you first have to register. I'm not generally that anal retentive, but I've already been hit by "forum spam", which is a real PITA, so you'll have to go through this hassle if you have something to say. Sorry.
The comments on book reviews will be visible in the book review web page, the comments on articles only in the forum where you enter them. Also, the main headlines and the contents of the "Archives" panel to the left are extracted from the forum database. Actually, I think this whole setup is rather cool. Now we'll see how well it works in real life.
Update: the public forum (see "Forum" link above) is now also reworked in the same style as the site itself (thanks, Kim!). If you see good ol' subSilver only, go to your profile and change "Board Style" to "theWehlou". You find this setting in the section "Preferences". New users and guests should get this style by default.
While I was at it, I added a "Links" page and an "Alerts" page to the top menu. Check them out.
I have one thing to say about stylesheets and fontsizes: after much experimenting, I decided to have the fontsizes absolute. Having them relative made FireFox differ significantly from IE. Having them absolute means that IE can't resize the fonts. On the other hand, neither Mozilla, FireFox or MyIE2 have any problem resizing using ctrl-+ and ctrl--, so I think IE is defective here.
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RFE - RSS Feed Editor
May 14, 2004
This little utiltity makes it marginally simpler to edit the xml file you need to maintain your RSS feed.
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I/O Completion Ports in Delphi
May 14, 2004
This isn't one of my own articles, I just wish it was. Kim Nevelsteen wrote this piece about how to do completion ports in Delphi 6/7. It's a well-written expose with good code in there. Enjoy! The link below leads you off-site
[Kim's article]
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Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier
May 14, 2004
It teaches common sense to people without it. But how do you make people without common sense read it? That is one question that is not answered. It's an enjoyable book, but I fear it won't make much difference. It also, unintentionally, reflects badly on the state of the American society.
[full review]
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Timebuckets in SQL
May 14, 2004
If you have an application that collects events of some kind, you're likely to want to see a timebased graph of those events sooner or later. In my application, I'm receiving messages from clients over HTTP through several servers ("front-ends"). To see how well the front-ends handle the load, I want to be able to present a graph over how many messages are processed per front-end per time interval.
[full article]
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Dummies in the Registry
May 14, 2004
The only thing Microsoft now expects the most simpleminded of our users to do is to add two fairly intricate registry entries, just in order so they won't have to learn how to use a two-field login dialog box. What did these guys smoke?
[full article]
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Digital Lines
May 14, 2004
A presentation Hania gave internally at the university on december 15, 2003. It shows how you can abstract the digitization of a real line into a digital line in levels. A variation of the Euclidic algorithm helps in determining the composition of the levels
[full article]
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Email security basics
May 14, 2004
Email is a very useful medium, but should be used carefully in some circumstances. What I'm mentioning in this text is just the most rudimentary common sense. I'm not at all intending a full treatment of the subject
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ACM and IEEE/CS are good for you
May 14, 2004
I finally decided to join the human race and become a member of
about half a year ago. As a result, I'm also getting access to digital libraries and some print magazines that are way better than what I was used to until now. I've added a couple to my listing of magazines, but I'm going to get more in a while. At least I ordered and paid for more, which ought to give some result after a while
[full article]
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Developing Reliable Servers (or not)
May 14, 2004
There are several ways of developing reliable server systems. The worst thing you can do is to decide for one model during development, then roll it out using another model. In particular, if you develop a loadbalancing server system and roll it out on a single lonely server, you're going to regret it
[full article]
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Multibranching made readable
May 14, 2004
If you need to branch on a set of conditions, if..then..else trees quickly begin to look real ugly. A good example of this tragedy in action and a discussion of how to write it in a more bug resistant and readable way
[full article]
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Restarting Services
May 14, 2004
Assuming you already have a way of finding out when a service of yours has hung or consumed too many resources, you still need a way to stop and restart it. Having the service exit itself often does not work, so you have to have another service that does it for you
[full article]
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Place Phone to PC, Please
May 13, 2004
Or, how I stopped being afraid of the long-distance debugging sessions. Or reduced my fear, at least. It's about an audiovisual aid to debugging threads. It's cute. Do it. There's even sample code here and it's real easy to do. It may win you less bugs, more friends, success with women, better breath and, just maybe, a job
[full article]
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Famous Hania
May 13, 2004
The radio and TV people practically pursued me (Hania) to get a glimpse of me and some of my wisdom. And they finally caught up with me, did their interview and plastered it all over their... website. Anyway, I think I'm famous in a way now, at least in some part(s) of Uppsala
[full article]
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Performance Monitoring
May 11, 2004
Implementing performance monitors in your app is very helpful for profiling, debugging and general satisfaction of the more qualified endusers. It's also a non-trivial excercise, to put it mildly. Microsoft have done their part in making it obscure and hard to use, so naturally, we can't leave it alone, can we? This particular implementation only implements raw and delta counters, but that covers almost anything you'll ever need. The basis is there for other types of counters, though, such as instance based counters and high-precision. Both precompiled and full project source is available
[full article]
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Hello, I'm Taco. I am trying to create a java program that will allow users to open certain files (stored in a text file) by selecting something on a JList and clicking ok. When i program an application (the only other major experience in programming is in dos batch file), I try to make sure a certain element works before continuing, starting from the begging. So, first i tried to make sure java could read from the text file items.txt and store the names and path of a file
this is the format the text in items.txt would be in (eventually i wat the user to be able press a button to create an item):
<Name> (what the user sees on the list) <filepath> (the path that will be run)
the code i used in the class is as follows:
import java.awt.*; import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import javax.swing.*; public class b extends JFrame{ JList itemList; Scanner x; String items = "items.txt"; String[] itemNames; String[] filepaths; public b(){ super("Super Essentials"); setLayout(new FlowLayout()); getItemNamesAndPaths(); } public void getItemNamesAndPaths(){ try{ x = new Scanner(new File(items)); int i = 0; while(x.hasNext()){ itemNames[i] = x.next(); filepaths[i] = x.next(); i++; } x.close(); System.out.println(itemNames); } catch(Exception e){ System.out.println("error occured"); } } }
i tried rearranging everything (except the first line) of the try block, but with everything in the try block that way it opens the window and gets rid of the exception stack, but there's still an error....
it seems to me that the error is it cant find items.txt, even if change the path and such. or it could be that it cant input anything into itemNames[] or filepaths[].
Heres the Exception stack (what was removed before i put the while loop, x.close(), and the println statement in the try block:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at b.getItemNamesAndPaths(b.java:33)
at b.<init>(b.java:20) (where the while loop was before)
at a.main(a.java:6) (in a.java that line is b list = new b() i know fr a fact there's nothing wrong there, everything just needs to work)
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. (info taken from a Washington University press release) -- The ninth-ranked Brandeis University men's soccer team used a pair of goals in a span of just over five minutes today to pick up a key 2-1 University Athletic Association (UAA) road win over the Washington University Bears today. With the win, the Judges improve to 12-1-1, 2-1-1 in the UAA, and sit in a four-way tie for the Association lead with the three teams remaining on their schedule.
Brandeis outshot WashU, 13-2, in the first half, when they were playing with the wind at their backs, but neither team was able to put a shot in the back of the net. The Judges had a number of fine opportunities, including two from senior Sam Ocel (No. Attleboro, Mass./No. Attleboro) that were saved by Bear junior Jonathan Jebson, and a struck post by junior Tudor Livadaro (Bronx, N.Y./Riverdale-Kingswood Acad.) in the 36th minute.
While Washington had the win in the second half and went on to outshot Brandeis, 5-4, it was the Judges who scored the first two goals. In the 58th minute, Ocel sent home a fine flick on from junior Kyle Feather (Pinebrook, N.J./Montville Township). The goal was Ocel's sixth of the season and made him the 22nd player in school history to reach the 50-point mark for his career.
Just 5:03 later, it was senior Lee Russo (Westford, Mass./Westford Acad.) who buried the game-winner, camping out on the far post to knock home a cross from sophomore forward Tyler Savonen (Orleans, Mass./Nauset Regional). The goal was Russo's 10th of the season and gave him two career milestones: his 30th career goal (ninth all-time) and his 75th career points (11th all-time).
The Bears spoiled Brandeis senior Blake Minchoff's (Fiskdale, Mass./Tantasqua Regional) bid with 1:39 to play in regulation. Junior Jeremy Kirkwood headed home a perfectly placed free kick taken from near midfield by sophomore Nik Patel to make it 2-1. The goal for Kirkwood was his second in three games played since returning from an injury.
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Possible action feature? Maybe I missed this one... I searched the forums but couldn't find an answer.
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Will he include an action feature with the missing back piece?
Possible action feature? Maybe I missed this one... I searched the forums but couldn't find an answer.
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Will he include an action feature with the missing back piece?
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The back piece could have been missing for any number of reasons. I wouldn't jump to conclusions. Especially since they did do the 'homage' to the action feature in the shield.
Is it possible we'll get a backpack-based action feature? Sure. But I wouldn't bet on it just yet.
Possibly...nice catch.
I love his sword...it's awesome.
I was never a huge fan of TP He-Man...but I love him in MOTUC. Much better than BA He-Man IMHO.
I also doubt they would do this but its strange that they didn't at least show the backpack.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
I figure he will get his backpack, maybe even one that opens to store another "cap", but it probably won't feature anything like the original. I am interested in someday finding out the story behind the color changes on the swords, like this gold one, the blue one, Adam's purple one, etc. Should be exciting to find out what their bio direction is on this matter.
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I sure hope not. I hate action features. Didn't like them when I was a child, and I certainly have no use for them as an adult.
I still miss some kind of translucent touch in his arm or something similar to the fire of Draego-Man. I love the lack of action features... but this is too plain
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Stay tuned for Pixel Dan's video. All will be explained.
I thought TG stated a long time ago that there wouldn't be any action-features in this line .
Personally, I wouldn't read too much into the cap being inside of the shield on Classics TP He-Man. I would imagine it's just a nod to the vintage line, and given the uproar over the dial sculpted on Hurricane Hordak's back I would imagine that's why we didn't see the rest of the armor. That is to say, perhaps the 4H decided to go a different route other than having the circular knob on the back. Who knows?
*Edit* Aha, thanks for telling us about the video, Scott .
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I hope not.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
As PC as the world is today they would not do a blast cap feature because they would consider it a weapon.
One purple turd deserves another.
Personally I don't see much point in owning a new TP He-Man if he doesn't have at least some sort of action feature. Without it he's just the exact same He-Man in a new red vest. I loved the original toy, but i'm more excited about the minicomic that the new one comes with than the actual figure.
The one thing I'd like to see is TP He-Man to have a spring-loaded waist…so he at least has that punching action. Really can't wait to see Pixel Dan's video!
200X fan? Classic fan? What does that mean? I'm a MotU fan!!!
Clawful's "action feature" was part of an external accessory. The Wind Raider is an all new mold to begin with. But Mattel is NOT going to tool up new torsos for a "collector's line" just to include some half assed action feature (which I'm not sure are even allowed on figures anymore due to the safety hazard).
That said, I think "effects features" (like snap on "energy fields" and such) would be a great means to recreate the feature without tooling a new body.
I want He-man's fist to go bang like a gun.
So I just watched Pixel Dan's tour of the new stuff with Toy Guru and it has been said that TPHM will have a backpack without action feature, but will hold the cap ring.
There will also probably be a translucent energy effect that clips onto his closed-fist right hand. The cap ring comes off the shield if that wasn't obvious...
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You're right though, it is extremely unlikely that this will happen, so i'm not getting my hopes up.
I for one would love the action feature...... I would Love to see lightning or a translucent feature to show the action of a thunder Punch! Thunder Punch He-Man is my favorite He-Man...... I Love Them all, but this one is very special!
i can't wait for this one!!!
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Don't really see a need for the Thunder Punch action feature. It's a novelty really as an adult, one which wouldn't last long


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The following is an account from Luis CocÛn, CFCAís communications liaison in Guatemala, who visited communities to report on the damage caused by Tropical Storm Agatha over the weekend.
It was 6:15 p.m. on Saturday when a loud crack followed by tons of mud, rocks and trees wiped away 26 homes in San Antonio Palopo, taking the lives of at least 18 people, including CFCA sponsored children. It is unknown how many sponsored members have died from the storms.
A purse and a pair of boots are recovered from a home after mudslides in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala.
Many families were having dinner and with no previous notice. They lost everything in the blink of an eye. Local authorities estimate that there are another 32 homes in a high risk area and can collapse at any time. Many families are staying with relatives, some in churches, the municipality building and in the CFCA office building in San Antonio.
A lot of people cannot make a living anymore. Mothers who weave lost their weaving materials, fathers that fish lost their little canoes and day laborers cannot work because they lost their tools. Children have been left orphans. Entire families lost their lives, beds, clothes and everything they had.
A total of 15 bodies were buried Sunday morning. The people of San Antonio Palopo came together in solidarity to say goodbye in a town procession to the local cemetery. Monday, four more bodies were buried. Rescue teams continue searching for people with nothing more than their bare hands and a few hand tools. Only their faith gives them strength to persist.
CFCA staff stand at the base of a deadly mudslide in San Antonio Palopo, Guatemala.
A man who is still searching the mud for family members said, ìI am going to look for them until I find their bodies. I have lost everything. I donít have a home or money. I havenít changed clothing until today. Neighbors gave me clothes because I have nothing left.î
Pedro lost two children and his wife, and now it is only him and his little girl that must find strength to continue.
ìAll of our people are sad. Our town is in tears,î said a mother of a missing sponsored boy.
Antonio Perez Diaz, a CFCA social worker in San Antonio Palopo said, ìI am from San Antonio and I feel the pain of my people. Yesterday, we did not feel like eating. There is a lot of pain and tears.î
A father of a sponsored boy who died recounted the evening of the storms:
ìWe were all together at home. There was a lot of rain. The water always comes through here, but this time it was too much. By the time we realized our home was swept away, my boy and I ran one way and my wife and my girl ran the other way. We went to my father-in-lawís where we thought we would be safe.
"[My son] was in that home when all of a sudden there was a big crack and when I turned, my father-in-lawís home was gone, too. I searched and I found my wife and my daughter, but I could not find [my son]. He did not make it. They found his body at the door with debris on his head. He was dead. We buried him on Sunday.
ìI donít know where to start over again. My hope is to support my wife and my little girl, I need to work hard and continue life, and this is how we are now.î
Diaz said, ìYour thoughts and prayers are very valuable to us. Here we feel that we are not alone through your support. We have lost loved ones, but we thank CFCA for the solidarity and for sharing our struggle, and being a source of hope at this moment.î
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A Tampa pol wound up in jail after he celebrated Father's Day with a good-old family fight, punching his two sons during a black and blue Sunday brawl.
Brian Blair, a former Hillsborough County Commissioner, was charged with two felony counts of child abuse after he punched his two sons, leaving bumps and bruises on the two boys.
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Teachers can use iPads in their physics classrooms to encourage students to apply mathematical concepts to real world examples. The Video Physics iPad app enables physics students to capture video of an object in motion, and to use this data to help measure its velocity.
In this activity, physics students measure the loss of energy in a spring over time using the Video Physics iPad app, and a PASPORT AirLink and PASPORT Accelerometer.
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|Students create a mathematical model for physical phenomenon
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|A weight attached to a large spring
Hang a weight from a large spring from the ceiling or ring stand. Be sure there is a meter-stick near the spring to calibrate the spring length.
To do the extension activity simultaneously, hang the PASPORT AirLink and Accelerometer from the end of the spring.
Ask the students to use their iPad to predict the shape of the graph of a y distance per time for the oscillating spring. Once the students' ideas have been made public and debated, pull down the spring, release, and begin the experiment.
The spring should have just enough tension to give a large amplitude but not enough to cause jumping or erratic motion outside the up and down y-axis.
Students collect the video through the camera app. This can also be done with the Video Physics app using the New Video Capture function. The video will be analyzed for its motion over time.
Once the video collection is stopped, open the video in the Video Physics app; set the scale for the meter-stick length' and tap the position of the Airlink, marking the position with a dot every tenth of a second automatically. Each tap will create a y versus t graph and also automatically advance the frame.
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Inspired by a true story, WALKING WITH THE ENEMY follows the heroic lives of a world leader and a young man swept up in the horrors of WWII. Regent Horthy (Ben Kingsley) is the remarkable leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. In an attempt to balance war and peace, the Regent is faced with ceding power to German adversaries or witnessing the execution of his son. As his control of the country is challenged, his enemies move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek (Jonas Armstrong) emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves, he defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen. Filled with suspense and danger, WALKING WITH THE ENEMY is an unforgettable film of love, courage, and sacrifice.
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Alaska moves toward August vote on legal pot
Alaska could be the next state to reconsider the prohibition on marijuana, following legalization votes by Colorado and Washington last year.
Alaska elections officials posted data Tuesday showing that a petition for a statewide vote on marijuana legalization has gained enough signatures and met legal thresholds needed to put the issue before voters.
Under Alaska law, the petition when officially certified would appear on the Aug. 19 primary ballot. No formal opposition to the initiative has emerged thus far.
Taylor Bickford, spokesman for an Anchorage-based organization that is behind the ballot drive, said that though petitions are still being counted, the state has reported 31,593 signatures are qualified, more than the 30,169 needed.
"Based on the Division of Elections numbers, it appears Alaskans will have the opportunity to replace failed policies of marijuana prohibition with a system where marijuana is regulated and taxed like alcohol,'' Bickford said.
Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, which is pushing to drop legal bans on marijuana, said Alaska was poised to become the third state to vote to legalize pot. He pointed to independent polling from a year ago showing a majority of Alaskans surveyed supported making marijuana legal, along with regulation and taxation.
The plant with psychoactive properties remains illegal under federal law, which classifies marijuana in a list of banned drugs along with heroin and other narcotics.
"Voters are quickly coming to realize that marijuana is not remotely as harmful as they were once led to believe,'' Tvert said. "If voters take an objective look at the evidence, they will likely arrive at the conclusion that marijuana prohibition has been just as wasteful and problematic as alcohol prohibition.''
The Alaska initiative is in line with those approved by voters in Colorado and Washington last year and would make it legal for adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of pot and as many as six plants. It would place regulation of sales in the hands of the state alcohol control board or a new marijuana control board, if the legislature establishes one.
Bickford said dropping marijuana prohibition is in line with Alaska voters' preference for personal freedom.
"Alaskans are watching what's happening in those states and understanding that the sky is not falling,'' he said.
While the outcome has not yet been officially certified, Bickford said there are still some 6,000 signatures yet to be counted. The campaign submitted more than 46,000 signatures on Jan. 8.
"Based on the numbers we're seeing today we know Alaskans will have the chance to vote on this in August,'' he said.
Contributing: Associated Press
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I just had an entire list of things that went through my head that fits all in that category. Now I'm kinda of nervous because that wasn't supposed to happen. My list of things to do just took a dark turn and now I want to run away from the beast and go hide under a blanket.
Sadly, life just isn't going to let that happen.
Even sadder still, I'm not sure if I've blogged this before or if I just thought about a blog post but never got around to actually posting it.
Welcome to my brain! Things may, or may not, make sense at any given....SHINY!
Where was I? Oh yeah. So Hubby dear saved me from my stupidity once again. We have a game plan for pharmacy week that is in October. Please read that carefully - OCTOBER! Pecan Pumpkin Loaves galore. Only to have same dear Hubby tell me that it was employee appreciation week and suggested we do it immediately. As in that day.
Once I stopped laughing so hard I realized he was serious. That's when I told him not happening. I then felt bad as I was the idiot that came up with all these suggestions of what we, meaning me, could do. I offered to do a couple batches of cashew bars instead and we were back in business. Until George decided to weigh in on this decision rendering me in a not great mood. It didn't help said bad mood when I discovered that dude oopsidentally put the corn syrup in his briefcase along with a couple other SoBe bottles. He said it was 5:30 in the morning and had just worked a double, so all bottles look alike at that time in the morning.
I'm amazed he can even focus!
But I only had enough to do 1 batch until he got home, which left me staying up late to get it done as momma taxi was once again on the road as 1 guy had worship practice, 1 kid had youth group, and the other 1 had the car so I can't pawn it off on someone else to take them. I need a nap. And another vehicle, Lord - please and thank you!
While that was baking up, I was
trolling scrolling through Facebook when I noticed my MIL had posted this really cute sunflower wreath how-to on her wall telling a friend it was better material to work with. I did a 4th of July bandanna wreath that turned out cute so I decided to give this a try. And happy day! I got a 25% off coupon from Jo-Ann's. Except it expires tomorrow which means I need to go today because I think I have something else going on tomorrow. So all that happened last week. Fast forward a few days because it took me a few days to survive the carnage. I'm still finding this gold mesh stuff all over the place.
If you feel you have nothing better to do for the next hour or so, go on Pinterest and do a sunflower wreath search and then sit back and watch a few youtube how-tos. I would like to say that they really don't let you know just how behemothly huge this sucker turns out to be. I'm talking it was bigger than the freaking door it was supposed to hang on huge. Needless to say, I took it apart and tried again. I would like to add that my cheap butt did NOT buy the 2 rolls it suggested because it was 15 bucks a roll and the wreath looked a tad bit bald as I spaced out it out on the different ring.
When my eyes landed on that price tag, it was that moment when my mother's head popped up and started telling me that when you do something, you do it nice and the best of your ability. And that's when I said yeah, "but I don't have that much ability OR your talent and reckless spending tendencies so 1 and done," then tossed it in the buggy and kept moving.
I had to keep moving because I said that last part out loud, as I tend to do, and I think I scared a lady.
I should point out that MIL was not joking about material being a bit hard to work with and whathaveyou because GAH! I didn't do the burlap mesh because I couldn't find it and if memory serves me right, it's more pricey. I skipped getting the bag of fuzzy twist ties because I had other things to buy and I thought I was going to be able to tie it like I did the bandanna wreath.
That's a big no there, Captain!
This stuff was not going to be tied off like fabric. In a panic, I sprang to the trusty everything goes draw, but not to be confused with a junk draw. This draw has all my bread twist-ties that I tend to save because I have reasons and possibly some issues. But I can hold those stupid issues together nicely because twist-ties! But I wasn't going to use up my stash on a flipping wreath. Somehow we had some flimsy twist-ties that I'm pretty sure would not pass any twist-tie inspection if there were such a thing; and I can't remember how long they have been sitting there. I looked upon them, and they up at me with a deep desire that had been long denied. Today was their day. Their day of glory! The stuff twist-ties can only dream of! I knew in my heart that I'm not that great at crafts. It was in this moment of craft weakness that I embraced my married into redneck genes that gets encrusted on you when your love slips on that ring and grabbed those sad looking twist-ties and got my craftiness on.
I ended up having to put all of it on 1 ring instead of spreading it all out because 1 roll thankyouverymuch. But it covered up the hickerbilly ties. However, when it came time to do the center part of sunflower - fill in any type of doom and gloom music you can muster. It wasn't working. That hickerbillyness stepped up to the plate and said hold my tea, which is girl speak for hold my beer, I got this Cletus! I ended up taking a Walmart bag stuffed with other Walmart bags to make it a poof. I then tied the poof the wreath. I cut out some brown felt, hot glued in on the poof and then hot glued some little pine cones on the brown felt. It turned out cute but the underside of this thing screams ghetto. I kid you not.
My mom was commenting on how nice it looks until I flipped it over to show the underbelly of ugly hoping she would be proud of my hickerbilly ingenuity. She busted out laughing so bad I'm pretty sure she peed herself a little bit. Once she could properly breath again, she asked why in heavens name didn't I cover it up better. When I asked what did she mean, she hung the wreath back up, closed the door, and pointed out that you could see the ghetto through the glass part of our door.
So much for my hickerbilly ingenuity. But it is cute. Thankfully, it flattened out a little bit when I closed the door, but it's still super poofy.
I finally figured out how to a picture. And I'm pretty sure spellcheck hates me right now because it is screaming at me that most of these words aren't real. I beg to differ spellcheck, and clearly you need to get out more.


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Bakken Shale Geology
The Williston Basin is one of the most structurally simple basins in the world and home to one of the largest oil discoveries of our time - the Bakken Shale. The basin takes the shape of a saucer or bowl being the deepest near Williston, ND, and thinning at its shallow margins. The maximum thickness of Phanerozoic rocks is 16,000 ft. (The Phanerozoic Eon is known for its abundance of fossils) That depth is also referred to as the Precambrian surface. Not many wells have been drilled below this level and the Precambrian rocks do not outcrop. With that, the basins origins are not well understood
While the basin is not well understood, that is changing with the onset of the Bakken oil boom. The Bakken Shale was first discovered over 50 years ago when a well was drilled on the play's namesake's property - Henry Bakken. Not much activity ensued, but various companies attempted to develop the oil bearing formation. There wasn't much success until horizontal drilling incited a short boom in the early 1990s. Even that didn't last long and the play was largely forgotten until a partnership between Richard Findley, Lyco Energy and Halliburton drilled a successful well in the Elm Coulee Field of Richland County, MT, in 2001. The Elm Coulee Field proved economic two years later and rising oil prices motivated operators to expand into North Dakota. EOG went on to discover the Parshall Field in 2006 and operators have largely been connecting the dots since.
Geology of the Bakken Shale Play
The Bakken Shale is a rock formation from the Late Devonian, Early Mississippian age that is estimated to hold as much as 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil. The play extends into parts of Montana, North Dakota, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Bakken formation consists of three layers: an upper black shale layer, middle silty-dolomite, and a lower black layer of shale. The shale layers are petroleum source rocks as well as seals for an oil reservoirs in the dolomite layer and in Three Forks or Sanish formations. The North Dakota Industrial Commission, in a 2010 study estimates the underlying Three Forks Formation could yield 1.9 billion barrels of reserves, but even that number is likely conservative.
In what has now become a famous research paper, Leigh Price estimated the Bakken Shale contained between 271 and 503 billion barrels of oil. With a mid-point of 400 billion barrels, the assumption of 24 Billion bbls recoverable only achieves a 6% recovery factor. If 400 billion barrels is truly a good estimate, there is significant opportunity for technological innovation to increase recoverable reserves by billions of barrels.
Three Forks Geology
The Three Forks Formation is a dolomite that underlies the Bakken Shale. The formation is sourced by the Bakken and produces across parts of North Dakota and Montana. The play is a secondary target in some areas and has proven even more prolific than the Bakken in some areas near the Nesson Anticline.
What is the Sanish Formation?
Many people called the Three Forks the Three Forks Sanish Formation early in the development of the play. The Sanish sandstone is an informal unit that sits atop the Three Forks in certain portions of the basin. The Sanish Formation is primarily targeted in the Antelope Field in McKenzie County and by Whiting in the Sanish Field in Mountrail County.
Other Plays in the Williston Basin
Other producing formations include the Madison, Duperow, Red River, Tyler, and Spearfish. As seismic studies and wells are completed, operators are becoming equipped with the information needed to develop prospects in many of the legacy conventional plays in the region. In 2012, Whiting Petroleum began targeting the Red River play in some areas.


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The most famous Shakespeare soliloquies (and indeed, the most famous soliloquys in the English language) are found in three of his plays – Hamlet , Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet . For example, perhaps the best known opening line to a Shakespeare soliloquy is "to be or not to be", from Hamlet.
In case you weren't 100% sure, a soliloquy is the act of a character speaking their thoughts aloud, often when they're by themselves but sometimes with others around. Soliloquys (or soliloquies – you can spell them both ways) differ from monolgues in that the words spoken are thoughts only, and no other characters can hear them. This compares to monolgues which are simply long speeches by a character (read an in-depth article on soliloquies vs monologues). Shakespeare frequently makes use of both soliloquys and monolgues in his plays.
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright
What light through yonder window breaks?
The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds
How oft when men are at the point of death
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun
What's in a name?
To be or not to be
Now might I do it pat
How all occasions do inform against me
My offence is rank, it smells to heaven
What rogue and peasant slave am I
That this too solid felsh would melt
Is this a dagger which I see before me?
If it were done when 'tis done
The raven himself is hoarse
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
O God of battles! Steel my soldier's hearts
The feast of St Crispin
Oh for a muse of fire
Once more into the breach, dear friends
To horse you gallant princes, stright to horse
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Joe Miller
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Undergrad: George Mason University, Economics
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NDLS Extracurricular: 2L Student Bar Association Rep, Program Associate with the Program on Law and Human Development, Assistant Rector- Sorin College
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