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The other week, the Red Bull F1 team was in the New York area to do a little promotional tour for next year's Grand Prix of America in New Jersey.
They brought an F1 show car that played the national anthem, did some donuts, drove the F1 track, and even hit 190 MPH in the Lincoln Tunnel. But Red Bull didn't release any official video.
Until now.
Red Bull brought two RB7 F1 cars and multi-Grand Prix winner David Coulthard over to the states for a little "American Vacation." Coulthard took to the streets, and drove around Liberty State Park as well as the F1 track at Port Imperial.
But the most impressive part is that they were able to get the Port Authority to close the Lincoln Tunnel AND they drove an F1 car through it at 190 MPH. The fastest I've ever gone in the Lincoln Tunnel is closer to the speed of a sloth on valium, so this is pretty awesome to see.
The entire F1 circus will be invading the New York/New Jersey area in June of next year. Can't wait.

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I am reading the Functional Analysis book of Conway, one question from the book is find a closed subspace M of $l^{\infty}=l^{\infty}(\mathbb{N})$ with the property that $l^{\infty}/M$ is separable. I have found a solution for this but here is my question :
- Is it true that every non-separable normed space $X$ always contains a closed (proper) subspace $M$ such that $X/M$ is linear isometric to a separable normed space whose dimension is infinite ? i.e, are there a map $A$ and a separable normed space $Y$ whose dimension is infinite, st: $A: X/M\to Y$ which is linear, onto, and preserve the distance?
(Edit: I already have an answer for the following question I am thinking a about $l^{\infty}$ : can it contain a closed proper subspace M that $l^{\infty}/M$ is isometric to $l^{1}=l^{1}(\mathbb{N})$?)


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Go to bed: Sleep your way to success
Even though you know you need eight hours of sleep a night, you probably sleep much less than that. Me, too.
Tonight, for example, when I should have been going to bed, I made cupcakes for my son's classroom. I was so tired that I doubled the amount of sugar and baked them anyway. They came out squishy from so much sugar, but, per my son's request, I added green frosting and silver sprinkles on top anyway. I said to myself, "These are absolutely the most disgusting cupcakes ever." Then, two hours later, when I feared I was too tired to stay up to write a column, I ate three cupcakes.
I told myself I would never stay up late for work again. But then I worried that I was probably lying to myself. So in an effort to really reform myself, I have compiled a list of things to remember next time I see the clock strike 10pm.
1. Sleep deprivation makes you act drunk. Occupational and Environmental Medicine reported that if you stay up for 18-20 hours in a row, your mental capacities are the same as those of people with a blood alcohol level of 0.1 percent, which exceeds the legal driving limit.
2. You are smarter if you sleep enough. Scientists at the University of Luebeck found that when you sleep eight hours, you solve problems that you cannot solve when you have not slept enough. So pulling an all-nighter seems fine– if you don't have to be smart the next day. But a lot of sleep-short nights mean a lot of stupid days. And sooner or later, it won't matter if you have the capacity, somewhere, to be brilliant. If you don't ever exhibit it because you never sleep, then for all intents and purposes, you are a slow thinker.
3. Creativity happens after a good sleep. Maybe the manic can get away with no sleep, but for the typically calibrated worker, sleep allows the brain to synthesize in ways that precede a great idea. Dmitri Mendeleev came up with the periodic table of the elements by dreaming it. And Laurie Halse Anderson won a National Book Award Nomination for Speak, a book she dreamed and then woke up and wrote.
4. People who don't sleep are in denial. I have heard so many people say, "I don't need eight hours." Okay. Fine. You need seven. But unless you're over 65, you need at least seven hours. You lie to yourself when you say you don't need the sleep, and the person who is hurt by the lie is you, because you never allow yourself to be your best self during the day. You never get to see what you can really do.
(4a. I, by the way am not one of those people who says I don't need sleep. I always want more sleep. But I'm still in denial. I am in denial all day, leading up to the sleep deprivation. I have opportunities to get the most important stuff done, but instead I do easy, unimportant things like answer random emails. I keep saying to myself, "I have time, I have time." But I don't have time. Not if I'm going to get eight hours sleep.)
5. The just-before-sleep part is magic. One of my favorite sensations is lying down to sleep but not falling asleep right away. My mind clears up, and I see all kinds of things that the tumult of the day obscured. Lying on the pillow with nothing to do is a luxurious feeling. But if I'm not getting enough sleep, that time is gone; I fall asleep the second my head hits the pillow.
Like all good addicts, I am telling myself, as I do this sleep deprivation thing tonight, that I'll never do it again. But really, I think getting enough sleep takes a huge commitment. You need to reorganize your life so that when it's time to go to bed, you've finished all the essentials. And you need to make getting enough sleep essential.
I say "you" because I'm not quite sure that I'm there yet. But now at least I have a list of reminders for the next time I see my bedtime slipping by.


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This story will challenge your beliefs about what high school students, especially those who live below the poverty line and face alcohol and drug problems, are capable of. Autopia, a blog at Wired.com, reported on the story of a class project at the Automotive Design Studio at the DaLeSalle Education Center which serves as an alternative high school. The project was to design and build an electric car that weighed less than 1500 pounds, half the weight of 98% of most electric vehicles today.
The car the students had to work with was a damaged 2000 Lola Champ Car which was purchased for $2500 and repaired by students who had collision repair courses. One of the eye-catching traits of the car is its transparent body, which is made of a material by 3M which is the same that is used to shrink wrap windows. The student's attached the film to the bottom wire of the body and then stretched it using a heat gun across the rest of a wire frame in a process that takes an hour. To date, the skin has shown no fatigue or damage after trial runs.
The transparent body replaced the fiberglass one that was originally used, but found to be too heavy. The new skin weighs only 39 pounds and costs $50. Other contributions to the car include low rolling resistance Bridgestone Ecopia EP100s tires and a sprocket-and-chain powertrain with an intermediate shaft in addition to 21 180 amp-hour lithium-ion batteries to power to the car's electric motor.
The culmination of the project was to test the vehicle's performance at Bridgestone's Texas Proving Ground. During the second day of testing the car was able to record a fuel efficiency of 444 mpg when driving at 25 mph.
Read more at Autopia and the project's website.
Brian's Opinion
Building a car capable of 444 mpg is an incredible feat by itself, but even more so for a bunch of high school students. As far as I can tell the use of the 3M material for the body was a stroke of genius. Steve Rees, the project supervisor, admits it's not a long term solution, but it sure worked long enough to give the car impressive fuel efficiency.
Though building a car with incredible fuel efficiency and a transparent body is cool in itself, what's really great about this story is who built the car. Students, who many teachers or schools may have giving up on, showed us what is possible when they have the backing from their school, teachers and community.


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Maha Sarakham is located in the heart of Isan, Thailand's Northeast Region. With lots of educational institutes, the province is a significant educational center in the region, earning it the nickname "Taxila of Isan" (Taxila was an ancient learning center in India). Maha Sarakham is also the Buddhist center of Isan, as many Buddhist archeological artifacts were found here, including a Relic of Lord Buddha in Amphoe Na Dun. Such evidence leads to the theory that the site was once the location of an ancient kingdom dating back over 1,500 years. A pagoda was built in Maha Sarakham to mark the glory days of Buddhism and to serve as venue for important Buddhist rites in the region.
Maha Sarakham is a small province in the Northeast of Thailand. In addition to being a rather lively college town, Maha Sarakham is famous for its historical sites, beautiful Buddhist temples and Buddha images, and exquisite woven materials, including hand made silk and cotton fabrics. Otherwise the people of Maha Sarakham are primarily engaged in agriculture, the mainstay of the province's economy.


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Stereo 360 Image and Video Capture
We are proud to announce that in 2018.1 creators can now capture stereoscopic 360 images and video in Unity. Whether you're a VR developer who wants to make a 360 trailer to show off your experience or a director who wants to make an engaging cinematic short film, Unity's new capture technology empowers you to share your immersive experience with an audience of millions on platforms such as YouTube, Within, Jaunt, Facebook 360, or Steam 360 Video. Download the beta version of Unity 2018.1 today to start capturing.
How to use this Feature
Our device independent stereo 360 capture technique is based on Google's Omni-directional Stereo (ODS) technology using stereo cubemap rendering. We support rendering to stereo cubemaps natively in Unity's graphics pipeline on both Editor and on PC standalone player. After stereo cubemaps are generated, we can convert these cubemaps to stereo equirectangular maps which is a projection format used by 360 video players.
To capture a scene in Editor or standalone player is as simple as calling Camera.RenderToCubemap() once per eye:
camera.stereoSeparation = 0.064; // Eye separation (IPD) of 64mm.
camera.RenderToCubemap(cubemapLeftEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
camera.RenderToCubemap(cubemapRightEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Right);
During capture of each eye, we enable a shader keyword which warps each vertex position in the scene according to a shader ODSOffset() function which does the per eye projection and offset.
Stereo 360 capture works in forward and deferred lighting pipelines, with screen space and cubemap shadows, skybox, MSAA, HDR and the new post processing stack. For more info, see our new stereo 360 capture API.
To convert cubemaps to stereo equirectangular maps, call RenderTexture.ConvertToEquirect() :
cubemapLeftEye.ConvertToEquirect(equirect, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
Using Unity frame recorder, a sequence of these equirect images can be captured out as frames of a stereo 360 video. This video can then be posted on video websites that support 360 playback, or can be used inside your app using Unity's 360 video playback introduced in 2017.3.
For the PC standalone player, you need to enable the "360 Stereo Capture" option in your build (see below) so that Unity generates 360 capture enabled shader variants which are disabled by default in normal player builds.
In practice, most of 360 capture work can be done on the PC in Editor/Play mode.
For VR applications, we recommend disabling VR in Editor when capturing 360 stereo cubemaps (our stereo 360 capture method doesn't require VR hardware). This will speedup performance without affecting the captured results.
Technical Notes on Stereo 360 Capture
For those of you using your own shaders or implementing your own shadowing algorithms, here are some additional notes to help you integrate with Unity stereo 360 capture.
We added an optional shader keyword: STEREO_CUBEMAP_RENDER. When enabled, this keyword will modify UnityObjectToClipPos() to include the additional shader code to transform positions with ODSOffset() function (see UnityShaderUtilities file in 2018.1). The keyword will also let engine setup the proper stereo 360 capture rendering.
If you are implementing screen space shadows, there is the additional issue that the shadow computation of reconstructed world space from depth map (which has post ODS Offset applied) and view ray is not the original world space position. This will affect shadow lookup in light space which expects the true world position. The view ray is also based on the original camera and not in ODS space.
One way to solve this is to render the scene to create a one-to-one mapping of world positions with screen space shadow map and write out the world positions (unmodified by ODS offset) into a float texture. This map is used as true world positions to lookup shadow from light space. You can also use 16-bit float texture if you know the scene fits within 16-bit float precision based on scene center and world bounds.
We'd love to see what you're creating. Share links to your 360 videos on Unity Connect or tweet with #madewithunity. Also, remember this feature is experimental. Please give us your feedback and engage with us on our 2018.1 beta forum.
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William Pagemarço 14, 2018 às 4:17 pm
Anyone know if the issue with worldspace UI in Camera.RenderToCubemap was resolved?
I've been tinkering with the capture, and none of my UI seems to render. This is a show-stopper for 360 gameplay trailers.
Movie Vertigofevereiro 28, 2018 às 1:05 pm
Please, please, please can we have the cube-map capture take the camera rotation into account? I set up a nice smooth path for my camera to follow (always looking in the direction of travel) only to find that the resulting 360 capture was always looking in the same direction. And trying to rotate the cube map in post will muck up the stereo separation I believe.
Movie Vertigofevereiro 28, 2018 às 1:10 pm
Well, you could do yaw rotation in post without mucking up the separation, but roll would do strange things to your eyes!
Dustin Kersteinfevereiro 26, 2018 às 7:55 am
I seem to be getting very dark textures when outputting single frames or video using the GenericFrameRecorder – https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/GenericFrameRecorder/issues/65
– Anyone else seen this or have a possible workaround?
Dustin Kersteinfevereiro 26, 2018 às 6:09 pm
The dark rendered output can be fixed by going to Edit > Project Settings > Player and make sure Color Space is set to Gamma.
Nice work.
Andreasfevereiro 15, 2018 às 4:22 pm
Mind that the second part of the code (https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Camera.RenderToCubemap.html) :
"// Attach this script to an object that uses a Reflective shader.
// Realtime reflective cubemaps!
@script ExecuteInEditMode
function OnDisable () {
DestroyImmediate (cam);
DestroyImmediate (rtex);
it's not translated to c#. The same code exists also for js. Technicality but anyway..
Albertofevereiro 8, 2018 às 12:55 pm
Is it possible to have an example project?
Carinafevereiro 7, 2018 às 3:14 pm
Has anyone figured out how to save out the actual cubemap? When I try to save the raw cubemap to file, I only ever get a single cubemap side, but the equirect Version still turns out fine so the data should be hidden somehwere…?
And is there any way to make the recording take the camera rotation into account?
Rotating the entire scene around the camera would be a lot of effort and a drain on performance, and rotating the sphere that the video will play on would mean that I'd sometimes have the pole distortions right in the center of my view.
I quickly built a sample out of this blog entry. Please note that the render textures for each eye have to have the dimension Cube, the equirect is a simple 2D render texture. To view the result either click on a render texture and view it in editor, or save it somewhere. :)
using UnityEngine;
public class RenderCubeMap : MonoBehaviour
public RenderTexture cubemapLeftEye;
public RenderTexture cubemapRightEye;
public RenderTexture equirect;
public bool renderStereo = true;
public float stereoSeparation = 0.064f;
void LateUpdate()
Camera cam = GetComponent();
if (cam == null)
cam = GetComponentInParent();
if (cam == null)
Debug.Log("stereo 360 capture node has no camera or parent camera");
if (renderStereo)
cam.stereoSeparation = stereoSeparation;
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapLeftEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapRightEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Right);
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapLeftEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Mono);
//optional: convert cubemaps to equirect
if (equirect == null)
cubemapLeftEye.ConvertToEquirect(equirect, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
cubemapRightEye.ConvertToEquirect(equirect, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Right);
Since it was not mentioned, I guess this cubemap rendering is the traditional way. Any chances of optionally RenderToCubemap() using Google's Equi-Angular Cubemap (EAC) for some extra quality boost? We lose pixels on cubemap, then again on equirectangular.
Damien Labontefevereiro 6, 2018 às 8:12 pm
I would like to capture a Geo scene, then reapply the capture as a 360 degree stereo skybox in VR (on Gear and Rift)
Can we get a follow up explaining this process?
Danny Bittmanfevereiro 6, 2018 às 6:20 pm
We need more of a break down. To none coders this doesn't make much sense… And where do these frames export to? Are we expected to know what kind of code to use to set up the file directory? Please make these breakdowns more friendly to the whole creative community, and not just developers.
Here here. I am a coder, and I appreciate it when fairly spoon-fed exactly what it takes to do what they are saying.
This code appears to create cube and equirect images per-frame. I would venture that ImageConversion.EncodeToPNG() would help, at least with stills. Save them numbered sequentially then assemble with FFMPEG? Is that the intent? Or expect updates from, say AVPro on the Asset store?
Actually, I was able to save PNG with that and System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes, and to AVI with AVPro Movie Capture by adjusting the above script to :
using UnityEngine;
using System.IO;
public class RenderCubeMap : MonoBehaviour
public RenderTexture cubemapLeftEye;
public RenderTexture cubemapRightEye;
public RenderTexture equirect;
public bool renderStereo = true;
public float stereoSeparation = 0.064f;
public AVProMovieCaptureFromTexture _movieCapture;
public bool captureToPNG;
public Texture2D tempTex;
private void Start()
tempTex = new Texture2D(equirect.width, equirect.height);
if (_movieCapture)
void LateUpdate()
Camera cam = GetComponent();
if (cam == null)
cam = GetComponentInParent();
if (cam == null)
Debug.Log("stereo 360 capture node has no camera or parent camera");
if (renderStereo)
cam.stereoSeparation = stereoSeparation;
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapLeftEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapRightEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Right);
cam.RenderToCubemap(cubemapLeftEye, 63, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Mono);
//optional: convert cubemaps to equirect
if (equirect == null)
RenderTexture oldRT = RenderTexture.active;
cubemapLeftEye.ConvertToEquirect(equirect, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Right); // THIS MUST BE A UNITY BUG
cubemapRightEye.ConvertToEquirect(equirect, Camera.MonoOrStereoscopicEye.Left);
RenderTexture.active = equirect;
tempTex.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, equirect.width, equirect.height), 0, 0);
if (captureToPNG)
byte[] bytes = ImageConversion.EncodeToPNG(tempTex);
File.WriteAllBytes("/f" + Time.frameCount + ".png", bytes);
RenderTexture.active = oldRT;
Note, in that above script: I set the execution order to be sooner than the movie recording script, so that the texture would be set and ready for inclusion in the video.
And note the line where I believe there is a BUG in Unity. I was expecting left=top but it was reversed. So I reversed it in script, and it turns out nice.
ellascottfevereiro 6, 2018 às 10:44 am
You can use Google Cardboard/Daydream and Youtube app to view it in stereo or on GearVR, use Samsung Internet app from Oculus store. gmail login
Morganfevereiro 1, 2018 às 2:42 pm
Do you have a full, working code example for this? The snippet included above is not much to go on.
Viktor Phoenix (Headspace Studio)janeiro 31, 2018 às 3:57 pm
Will it capture soundfield audio as well?
Mike Chowjaneiro 30, 2018 às 7:56 pm
Here's an example stereo 360 capture video from our blog:
You can use Google Cardboard/Daydream and Youtube app to view it in stereo or on GearVR, use Samsung Internet app from Oculus store. Be sure to view with highest Quality setting.
Can you provide an example project?
zproxyjaneiro 30, 2018 às 12:09 am
any 360 stereo video renders available on youtube? check here for other 360 examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh5K2z51r9U
Is there an example video anywhere I can watch? Pre-rendered stereo 360 video sounds incredible.
unitypluscryenginejaneiro 26, 2018 às 11:05 pm
Please add time of day and weather system , road tool , river tool , etc to unity 2018 or 2019, we are need to this features at unity , thanks a lot for your hard work , you are the best
You know you can find all that and more on the Asset Store
matt radfordjaneiro 26, 2018 às 7:29 pm
Wow this will be great for matte painting! Currently only the stuff I was raytracing implicitly could I make into these textures! this is going to be great for me!
David Rodriguezjaneiro 26, 2018 às 6:21 pm
We publish content for planetariums. The way we've had to do it is a little hacky – by using 5 stitched fisheye cameras and outputting the video stream using Spout. This has a lot of limitations, like performance and needing a Spout-receiving application to pass the video to the display. Could this be used to enable one camera to output 180° live video directly to the display?


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- According to the instructions on the package, you must take 2 tablets a day before or with a meal at the time of your preference.
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Can a male supplement help, even if I have my prostate removed, have an enlarged prostate or have undergone prostate surgery?
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Can natural supplements for male use increase the penis size of a man?
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Prescription drugs such as Viagra are prescribed to treat men with erectile dysfunction; therefore, they are designed to induce an erection synthetically.
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Are natural supplements safe to use if I take other medicines?
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It is understandable if you choose the cheapest product on the market, but it is not recommended. If a manufacturer only uses top-quality ingredients for his product, it is impossible to make a cheap product. We are talking about a long-term investment in your own health and sex life with the long-term consequences. It is not all the same thing that allows you to become a part of your body and blood (circulatory system). You know how they say, do not you? You are what you eat. Well, in this case, your penis is what you provide in terms of ingredients.
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Greatest I am wrote:Marcion disagreed with the orthodoxy and that might be enough to have me see him as a Gnostic as it shows he is a free thinker. Gnostic Christianity has evolved over time and it would be best to discuss his position on things and compare them to modern Gnostic Christian thinking though as Christianity won the god wars and muddied the waters in terms of what we actually believed. Like the lies that we do not venerate matter and think the world corrupted. Gnosticism, defined in short form, is a creed of esoteric ecumenists and naturalists who recognize that all gods are man made and we just openly admit it and if we are all to make up our own gods then why not take the label of god, which we do, by naming god I am and actually meaning ourselves. Knowledge and honesty is paramount to us and that is what frustrates some as we will only speak to what we know or can be known, which excludes anything supernatural.
Scholars disagree about whether or not Marcion was a Gnostic. Wiki says the following:
Marcion is sometimes described as a Gnostic philosopher.
In some essential respects, Marcion proposed ideas which would have aligned well with Gnostic thought.
Like the Gnostics, he argued that Jesus was essentially a divine spirit appearing to human beings in the shape of a human form, and not someone in a true physical body.
However, Marcionism conceptualizes God in a way which cannot be reconciled with broader Gnostic thought.
For Gnostics, some human beings are born with a small piece of God's soul lodged within his/her spirit (akin to the notion of a Divine Spark).
God is thus intimately connected to and part of his creation.
Salvation lies in turning away from the physical world (which Gnostics regard as an illusion) and embracing the godlike qualities within yourself.
Marcion, by contrast, held that the Heavenly Father (the father of Jesus Christ) of Marcionism was an utterly alien god; he had no part in making the world, nor any connection with it.
Greatest I am wrote:If Jesus had unconditional love for all, he sure did not show it to the merchants who had the temples permission to be where they were when Jesus chased them away from the temple.
I already stated that Jesus seems to contradict the sermon on the mount elsewhere in the texts. Your example may be an instance of that.
Greatest I am wrote:Unconditional love would be epitome of love. Love of the highest form. I think. Ask those mothers if their love would grow for their children if their children had not been axe murderers or otherwise unworthy. If they say yes, which I think they would, then they have conditions to the degree of love they have even for their children. That fact negates unconditional love of the highest degree.
To be unconditional, is to impose no conditions, qualifications, stipulations. To be of the highest form might be something else. I don't see why love couldn't be granted unconditionally and yet still have the capacity to greater or lesser. So, imagine a woman who loves her abusive husband but realizes that if she stayed with him he would kill her. So she leaves him but still has feelings of love for him. Such love as she has for him is unconditional love. Is it the highest love? I don't know. How does one determine that?


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Thursday, May 23, 2013
7N2 - Battlefield 2
Season 26, like the previous three seasons, featured 14 episodes spread across four stories. However, if one were to, after the fact, allocate these episodes to each story, the distribution might end up a bit different. Ghost Light, which follows Battlefield, might have been better stretched out into four episodes, and The Curse of Fenric, the penultimate story of the season, could have also benefited from an additional installment.
Conversely, Battlefield began life as a three-part story, but writer Ben Aaronovitch was asked to extend the plot over four episodes. It seems evident that most of the new material added to the story was slotted into Part Two. There's a scene where Mordred laughs maniacally, and interminably, during a ceremony to transfer his mother, Morgaine, to another dimension. The Brigadier spends pretty much the entire episode in a helicopter on his way to the scene of the crime. Everything just seems to be in a holding pattern, waiting until Part Three to finally have some of the principles meet up.
There are some good sequences though. It's fun to see Nicholas Courtney and Jean Marsh have a scene together - a pseudo family reunion of the Kingdom/Vyon family from The Daleks' Master Plan. It's also a nice character touch to have Morgaine be respectful of the graves of veterans, as well as the Brigadier's status as a "warrior". A lesser villain would have merely killed the Brigadier without a second's thought. That Morgaine focuses her energy only on attacking other soldiers (eventually - as I said, things move slowly in this story) makes her a believable character, even if she's a medieval witch from an alternate dimension.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
7N1 - Battlefield 1
Because the order in which I first saw Doctor Who stories was all cattywampus, Battlefield was my first proper view of the Brigadier in action. I had fond memories of Mawdryn Undead, but I had no context as to who he was when The Doctor seemed to recognize this befuddled school teacher from 1983. It took me a few seconds, then, to first realize, then remember, who this aging man in a flat cap was, being dragged around a greenhouse by his wife like so many emasculated suburban males before him.
Battlefield doesn't make assumptions about the character of the Brigadier: it assumes you know him and his history, and that his appearance in the very first scene would inspire a heartwarming reaction from the viewing audience. But Mawdryn Undead and The Five Doctors, the last two stories to feature the Brig, aired six years earlier, and Doris, the Brigadier's wife who also appears in this opening scene, is named in a throwaway reference in 1974's Planet of the Spiders (which hadn't even been released on video at that point). Regular viewers (never mind burgeoning super-fans like I was at the time) may have experienced confusion, as is possibly evidenced by the record low ratings the original series started off its final season with.
That said, Nicholas Courtney's presence is never unwelcome, and the scene towards the end of the episode where he dons his old uniform again (complete with swagger stick) is very sweet, and the red herring of his impending death is nicely foreshadowed (thank the maker that they never killed off the character). That foreshadowing scene is emblematic of another scene in this episode set in the TARDIS console room. It is the last such scene set inside The Doctor's time ship, and barely at that. While the console is the same one used in the series since 1983, the surrounding backdrop is a cloth with light coloured circles on it, the original set walls having been destroyed between seasons. While the series would endure a "rest" after this season, it is quite clear, in retrospect, what intentions the BBC had for Doctor Who all along...
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- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 stalks celery, chopped
- Freshly ground pepper
- 4 cups vegetable stock or water
- 1/2 teaspoon dried sage
- 1 can (14 ounces) diced tomatoes
- 1–2 cups chopped fresh spinach
- Salt to taste
- Freshly grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
- Basil pesto (optional)
Drain beans. Heat canola oil in pressure cooker and add drained beans, onion, celery, and a few grinds of fresh pepper. Sauté vegetables and beans for about 5 minutes, until fragrant. Add stock or water and sage. Secure lid and bring to high pressure. Cook for 20 minutes. Turn off heat and allow for natural pressure release. Open lid and add tomatoes and spinach. Simmer until spinach is cooked. Add salt and more fresh ground pepper to taste. Garnish with freshly grated Parmesan cheese or a dollop of basil pesto.
Yield: 6 cups.
Serving size: 1 cup.
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Calories: 162 calories, Carbohydrates: 28 g, Protein: 9 g, Fat: 3 g, Saturated Fat: 1 g, Cholesterol: 0 mg, Sodium: 230 mg, Fiber: 9 g
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More than a few times in my life, even as a young kid, I've been accused of asking too many questions and wanting to know too much. Is that a legitimate criticism? I may go overboard here sometimes but in personal interactions I've tried to make the questions count and pick the right time and place without ticking off people unnecessarily. I've found that questions tend to work better than opinionated statements, but not always.
"When you mention someone that people have an 'investment' in, they become defensive on behalf of their investment and close themselves off to legitimate argument." -VisibleNowhere is that statement more evident today than with the Snowden/Greenwald saga. Question these 'heroes' and those invested in the narrative often become very defensive.
Mike King of www.TomatoBubble.com interviewed.....
Since the pope made the cover of the Rolling Stone, is it still OK to question whether he is actually making an effort to change the Catholic Church or is there something more to the story?
Francis's good guy persona is refreshing but maybe it's all about the bottom line. The church needs more members which means more money and saying the right things goes a long way.
Now if he opens up ALL of the Vatican's archives to researchers, it would be a major step towards proving that it's time for the secrets to end. It won't happen because exposing the secrets could mean lessening the control and isn't control what it has always been about?
Questioning religions, although necessary, is often a sticky situation and is a good way to alienate even those close to us. Discretion is often needed and that's easier said than done.
How about the new 'religions?' The new age type. If you've kept an eye on this 'movement' or possibly been involved, John Lash has, to me, an interesting take that asks questions.
Many developments unfolded after the Renaissance, leading to the New Age movement (NAM) as it stands today…
I cannot possibly summarize even the basic outlines of this trajectory in a short essay. Suffice it to say that the NWO agenda, if it is to be defeated, has to be seen as it relates to the New Age agenda.
One must ask, how are the two related? Both present visions for a global or planet-wide society, but obviously two extremely different conceptions of such a society.
Or are we considering one vision in two different guises?
It has been argued that the NAM, especially in the visionary scheme formulated by Theosophists Madame Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey, is nothing but a disingenuous program to sucker people into the NWO nightmare of globalist mind control, disguised as a vast spiritual awakening, guidance by a spiritual elite, the unity of all religions, etc.
The prospect of one world religion would indeed fit into the globalist plan for planet-wide centralization and domination by a self-elected elite, but,
Was the recent historical version of the NAM platform, following Blavatsky and others, originally conceived with that intention in mind?
Does the Illuminati hell of globalist tyranny, implemented in the style that combines 1984 and Brave New World, incorporate for its purposes the pernicious lure of an Aquarian heaven on earth?
One could debate endlessly on this touchy issue.
To do so would open up enough rabbit holes to occupy a team of 1,000 researchers for decades.
In my analysis, principles and proposals of New Age or Aquarian Age spirituality may be adopted to the NWO agenda, but they can also remain free of that association.
It depends wholly on who is trafficking in these principles and proposals, and for what purposes.
Whether the NWO control-freaks are using New Age idealism or not, the vast majority of New Agers are so lacking in discrimination, not to mention basic savvy for social observation, that they would not even know if their precious ideals were indeed being played in that manner.
That ignorance is the real and present danger inherent to the New Age movement, making it the possible and plausible accessory to insidious agendas of social manipulation and mind control.
Ultimately, the two socio-historical trends leading toward the NWO hell and New Age heaven might converge, which would be a huge victory for the globalist psychopaths.
To prevent such a horrific development, one paramount skill has to be mastered by those who embrace the New Age philosophy of Aquarian idealism - the skill of discrimination. More
We get to question virtually everything but there are a few things that we have been indoctrinated to believe that is taboo. The jews and Israel come to mind. A taboo over 100 years in the making. It's worked fairly well but not so much anymore for a growing number of folks. The media tries to make other subjects taboo as well but that's not working either. Nothing can be off limits when questioning crimes and injustices. I believe that to be true. Maybe having a few beliefs every now and then does do us some good.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. - Members from the Georgia College men's and women's basketball teams recently visited The Early Learning Center to read to pre-school children for Dr. Seuss' Birthday.
Dr. Seuss' Birthday is celebrated nationally as the Read Across America Day. This is a day for schools to highlight the importance of developing a love for reading at an early age.
"We read two to three books to each classroom and discussed the importance of reading to help motivate students to want to read more," said women's head coach Maurice Smith.
The trip to the school was a part of the continuing efforts of Bobcat student-athletes in taking part in community service around the county. Student-athletes took part in reading Dr. Seuss novels to the students and even dressed up in Dr. Seuss hats to help celebrate.
"It is extremely important for our student-athletes to participate in community service," said Smith. "Children look up to athletes as role models in the community and anytime we can get out and do something positive for the community, we do."
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Jim Buss and the Lakers, still paying for Chris Paul
It would be nice if only for a few months the Lakers could get by without Jim Buss being in the news. Any chance of that happening in the wake of the team losing Dwight Howard in free agency was wiped out when Buss was interviewed by the Hollywood Reporter for a story that appears this week. Buss came across as bearing the sourest of grapes when he said of Howard, "He was never really a Laker. He was just passing through.â€
Further, his sister, Jeanie Buss, indicated in the article that the working relationship between the two isn't always peachy. Their father, the late Dr. Jerry Buss, wanted Jeanie to run the business side and Jim to run the basketball side, which sounds reasonable enough. But, Jeanie told the magazine, "I would be more comfortable if I understood what the decision process was, and I'm not always involved in it. To be held accountable by the league and not have a seat at the table when decisions are made is hard.â€
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The magazine also addressed Magic Johnson's assertion that, "I don't believe in Jim Buss,†which Buss said hurt him.
Truly, it is pile-on-Jim-Buss season, though it could be argued that it's been in season at least since the spring of 2011, when Buss hired Mike Brown to replace Phil Jackson, and did so without consulting star guard Kobe Bryant (who wanted popular assistant Brian Shaw).
But in the midst of the pile-on, pause to grant Buss at least one indulgence, because in theory, this Lakers team should be on a much different path with All-Star Chris Paul at point guard. There was a moment not long ago when Buss seemed to get everything right. It was the winter of 2011, the league was jolted back into its post-lockout business, and Buss orchestrated a deal that promised to set the Lakers onto a brighter new future path.
They would give up power forward Pau Gasol, who would go to the Rockets. Lamar Odom would go to the Hornets, who would get three other players (Goran Dragic, Kevin Martin and Luis Scola) and a pick from Houston. But the Lakers would emerge with a new star who would be the face of the franchise going forward: Chris Paul.
We know the ending. The deal was killed by David Stern, then acting in the capacity of the Hornets' decision-maker, because the league owned the team and Stern felt New Orleans needed younger assets. In retrospect, it would have been a good deal for the Hornets (now the Pelicans) and likely would have gone through had the team not been owned by the NBA.
Consider how much different the Lakers would look now had Paul been allowed to come aboard. Losing Gasol would have been difficult, but one move that Buss did make that was widely bashed was dumping Lamar Odom for a trade exception—which was prescient in hindsight. He also resisted calls to trade Andrew Bynum for Howard that winter, a decision that was mostly the right one for the short-term. Bynum was an All-Star that year, while Howard unraveled in Orlando.
Had the Lakers reconsidered on the Howard-for-Bynum move, as they did last summer, they'd have been left with a core of Paul and Howard, with Bryant preparing to (eventually) slip into retirement. That would have kept them from signing Steve Nash to a three-year deal, one that looks shaky when you consider his age (39) and injury trouble (he missed 32 games last year).
Howard never really fit with last year's Lakers, but that would have been different had Paul been in town. If Bryant was too intense for Howard last year, and Howard was too loose for Bryant, Paul—who is plenty loose off the court but very intense on it—would be the perfect guy to mitigate the tension between the two.
Where Nash was not healthy enough to really take control of the offense, Paul would have no doubt run the show and established a better inside-outside balance. Without Gasol, the Lakers could have added a role-player forward who would better complement Howard.
Everything that went wrong with last year's Lakers—the chemistry issue, the misfit roster, the coaching upheaval—might never have happened with Paul on board. That's the tricky part about being in the head honcho's chair, as Buss has been for more than two years now. The future can take drastic turns that stem from small things.
Jerry West's deal to bring Shaquille O'Neal to the Lakers could have fallen through, Gregg Popovich's Spurs could have wound up with the No. 2 pick in the 1997 (Tim Duncan) draft, LeBron James could have told Pat Riley he was staying in Cleveland. It's a thin line between a genius executive and one who gets the Jim Buss pile-on.
Some of that has been Buss's own fault. But much of it stems back to that one near-miss, the deal for Paul that got away. That wasn't his fault, but he has been paying the price ever since.


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I think I have the correct forum for this. What i'm wanting to read in Chinese are 3K-period texts but since this is more about learning/translation in general I'll stick it here.
Anyhow, I currently have some books on the subject as well as a program called Clavis Sinica that, despite some limited vocabulary definitions, is a marvel. I'm currently working through Cao Cao's SGZ bio since there are two good translations (though one lacks Pei's commentary) on the web that I can use for elucidating/puzzling out difficult words, context, etc. What I'm doing at the moment is breaking it down into small 5 or 6 line segments which I spend the day on, and I go through three stages:
1. Read through the passage once, going slowly and trying to get a feel for the general meaning, and vocabulary.
2. Using the flashcard tool of Clavis Sinica to generate lists of vocabulary to quiz myself on.
3. Going through the text again, this time focusing on syntax and grammar (the use of different particles, etc - thank God there is no gender BS in Chinese like there is in Greek).
The next day I will review briefly the vocabulary and text of the prior day's pasage and then move on to the next one.
This is not a typical method probably, but I'm good with languages and Chinese syntax especially seems to be very similar to English. A nice, welcome change from Greek.
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Tornadoes had already touched down the day before in Tulsa, but the Power Tour headed there with a blustery whirl all its own. We left Springfield mid-morning, since this was the shortest leg of the entire tour, only 185 miles, but we welcomed an easy day in preparation for the long-distance drives across the Southwest later in the week.
Our only gas stop was just after the Oklahoma State line. Although it was just a freeway turnout, the Power Tour creates a party wherever it goes, with lots of socializing along the way (which is really what makes the Tour so much fun). It's amazing the things your hear while waiting in the crowded lines for the pumps. We spoke briefly with Jean Rice, a three-time Tour veteran driving a supercharged T-bucket who also flies a Varieze kit plane. She was decked out in the same all-weather suit used in previous tours--one plucky lady. For the tour, she keeps her luggage in a larger companion vehicle, and said she had to change her clothes three times during the wet weather of the day before.
We also looked over the shoulders of Chevy's Motor Medic crew that runs an on-road repair vehicle for the Power Tour. Their 502-powered Trip Truck outfitted with a mechanics' dream selection of tools is also used as a support vehicle for GM's desert testing. The medics helped out several people that day. One guy needed to use the vise on the back bumper to file down a part, while two of the Motor Medics in white lab coats dove under the hood of a vendor's tow truck. They are not particular about makes or models of vehicles, and are ready and willing to help anybody with a problem on the Tour. One of the most challenging repairs in years past was a Pontiac that needed a replacement for its hi-po rearend. An incorrect pinion/shaft angle appeared to be the cause of the problem, and the medics had to hack out pieces of 2x4s as wedges until they could obtain the right pieces.
What's interesting is how the level of hot rods has improved in the seven-year history of the Tour. "Generally the cars have been getting better--we've been seeing fewer and fewer problems as the Tour gathers more hot rods," points out Motor Medic Scott Leon. "People are building better cars as a result of going on the Long Haul."
Upon exiting the Moose Lodge that evening, a number of Power Tour cars couldn't resist peeling out, all under the watchful eye of the Tulsa police department. When the crowds cheering them on got a little too close to the action, though, the officers had to rein things in a bit. Still, this showy display of horsepower was far more "apeeling" (sorry) than the yahoos' foolish stunt in the Effingham hotel parking lot a couple days earlier.


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Could I miss to review the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. I could not, as this sub $1000 technical achievement is something you have to talk about. There are tons of reviews on the net, but the point of view of each own of us brings some valuable discussion over the table. The BMPCC hasn't yet been superseded by Blackmagic Design, so a mature evaluation can still be written up.


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Prince provides versatility in first big-league callup
MILWAUKEE -- Josh Prince was the Triple-A Nashville Sounds' starting center fielder on Opening Day and the starting shortstop on Day 2. The Brewers envisioned him developing into a super-utility player, a la the Dodgers' Jerry Hairston Jr.
That project will have to continue in the Major Leagues, because on Day 3, Prince was in Milwaukee.
The Brewers promoted the 25-year-old on Saturday to replace third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained left knee.
"With 'Ramie' out and uncertainly on [left fielder Ryan Braun, sidelined by a stiff neck], we needed somebody who could cover you both ways," assistant general manager Gord Ash said.
Prince fit that bill. He was originally a shortstop but was moved last season to the Double-A Huntsville outfield. A scorching-hot Arizona Fall League (Prince batted .404 with 14 RBIs and 10 stolen bases in 25 games) earned him a spot on Milwaukee's 40-man roster.
When he was optioned to Nashville in March, the Brewers talked to Prince about playing all over -- second base, third base, shortstop and all three outfield positions.
"It's being in the right place at the right time," Prince said of his unexpected promotion. "I'm a very religious guy, so I believe everything happens for a reason."
He welcomed the comparison to Hairston, who played a big role in the Brewers' 2011 postseason run and has played for nine different teams in parts of 16 Major League seasons.
"He definitely has come up. He's a guy who has done it for 15, 16 years, and has done a great job at it," Prince said. "Being able to play the infield and play the outfield, especially in the National League, it's pretty valuable."
A year ago, Prince was not considered a big-time prospect. On Saturday, at Miller Park for the first time since a pre-Draft workout in 2009, he was a Major Leaguer for the first time.
"I'm still pretty speechless," he said. "I'm trying to stay even-keeled, not try to get too many ups or too many downs. Just enjoy the moment."