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Exporting Access 2003 Data to XML
For those of you who are already familiar with XML in Access 2002, note that the enhanced XML support in Access 2003 enables you to specify XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) transform files when importing data from, or exporting data to, XML. When importing, the transform is applied to data as soon as importation starts, before a new table is created or an existing table is appended to.
When exporting data to XML, you can include any predefined filters or sort order when exporting data to XML. You can export just the data, just the schema, or both. Also, if a table contains lookup values stored in a separate database, you can include that data in the exportation.
You can easily export any table, query, form, or report to XML files from a regular Access database (.mdb file) or an Access project and Microsoft SQL Server database (.adp file). When you export a form or report, you actually export the data behind the form or report (you export the data from the form or report's underlying table or query). Regardless of which type of object you export, though, the procedure is the same.
The first step is to click the Tables, Queries, Forms, or Reports button in the Objects list in the Database window and select the item you want to export from the list that appears in the right pane of the window. If you want to export all the data that the object stores, you can just right-click the object's name and choose the Export option from the shortcut menu. Then skip the next paragraph.
If you don't want to export a complete table or query, you need to export data from a table or query. Open the table or query, and then do any of the following:
- If you want to export a single record only, select that record.
- If you want to filter records for export, apply a filter to the records now.
- If you want to specify a sort order for the records, arrange the records into that order now.
After you select the records, choose File –> Export from the Access menu.
The Export dialog box opens. Navigate to the folder in which you want to store the exported data. Choose the XML (*.xml) option from the Save As Type drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 1.
Click the Export (or Export All) button in the dialog box, and the Export XML dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 2. You have a choice of exporting data only to an XML file, exporting a schema of your data to an XSD (XML Schema Definition) file, exporting the presentation of your data to an XSL file, or any combination thereof.
Optionally, you can further refine your selections by clicking the More Options button. Clicking the More Options button expands the Export XML dialog box to . . . show more options! Note the three tabs across the top of the dialog box: Data (shown in Figure 3), Schema, and Presentation.
Choosing XML data options
On the Data tab, you can choose to export all records, filtered records, or the current record. Also, you can opt to apply the sort order that's currently applied to the object. (However, those options are dimmed if you export something to which those options don't apply, such as an entire report.)
If you previously defined relationships between tables in the Relationships window in Access or the Database Diagrams in SQL Server, you can choose whether or not to export data from related tables as well. Click the + sign next to any table name to see the name of any related table. Select the check mark that appears next to any table name to include that table's data in your export.
The Transforms button allows you to choose from any custom XML transforms that you may have written or acquired. If you export data that is imported into some esoteric database program, the owner of that database may supply you with a transform file. You can then click the Transforms button and choose that transform file. Likewise, if you need to use a special encoding for that esoteric database, you can choose one from the Encoding drop-down list.
Choosing XML Schema options
The Schema tab, shown in Figure 4, allows you to choose options for exporting a schema file for your object. You can choose to include or ignore primary key and index information. You can also choose whether you want the schema information to be embedded in the XML data document, or stored as a separate file. How you choose options here depends on the program to which the exported data is later imported.
Choosing XML presentation options
The Presentation tab, shown in Figure 5, provides options for defining an XSL file. You can choose to export to Client (HTML), which can be read by any Web browser. If you plan to put the XSL file on a Web server that supports Active Server Pages, you can choose the Server (ASP) option instead.
If the data you export includes pictures, you can choose to export those pictures or just ignore them. If you opt to include images, you can specify the name of the folder in which the images are placed.
Choosing to export a presentation file actually generates two files. One is an .xsl file, which includes all the XSLT code needed to define how the data is presented. The second file is an .htm file — a relatively plain and simple Web page. That Web page is a "snapshot" of the data at the moment of exportation, not live data that's connected to the database. However, the .htm file opens in Internet Explorer to reveal the actual data from the table or query, not just a bunch of XML tags and raw data.
When you finish making your selections, click the OK button. The exportation may only take a few seconds, depending on the amount of data you export. When done, you return to Access. You won't see any changes in your Access database, but the exported files are in whatever folder you specified during the exportation process.


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Paul Merson's Premier League predictions - Week 28
Merse expects wins for title-chasing Arsenal and Liverpool - but defeat for Cardiff
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If Everton want to get above Manchester United and into the top six, they have to take advantage in their next four games - against West Ham on Saturday and then against Cardiff, Swansea and Fulham. However, West Ham won't be easy. They have won four on the trot and are the form team at the moment out of everybody, but I think Everton will nick this by a couple of goals.
Sam Allardyce's team are safe as houses now, though, and I always thought they would be. Fair play to David Gold and David Sullivan for keeping faith with Sam while other clubs are getting in foreign managers who have never been in a relegation scrap. At least one of those clubs could pay for that, possibly the team I'm mentioning next...
Fulham v Chelsea
I watched Fulham last week against West Brom and for 60 minutes, they were very good and dominated the game but Felix Magath then changed things and his team sat back and if you do that in the Premier League, the other team have a great chance of scoring.
They got a draw at The Hawthorns but I can't see them getting anything this weekend. Chelsea dug in last week and got a bit of luck to beat Everton but you've got to do that sometimes. You can't play like they did when they went to the Etihad and beat Man City every week.
Hull v Newcastle
Steve Bruce has done a great job this season. He bought well in the summer and did so again in January with Nikica Jelavic and Shane Long. You need to score goals to stay in this league and Jelavic does that, while Long works his socks off, so that partnership has worked a treat for them.
I think they will win this but it is important for them to get a bit of consistency and nick a few wins - something they did against Aston Villa last week - even though they are not going anywhere, up or down. They need to end the season well and give the fans something to cling on to for next year.
Stoke v Arsenal
Anyone would have beaten Sunderland 4-1 last week, but Arsenal scored some good goals and they are still bang in this title fight. People keep saying 'when are they gonna go away?' but if they win at Stoke, there is only 10 games left and they aren't going anywhere.
I just can't see Arsenal not winning this game. I never usually back against Stoke at home but they are not going to try and bully Arsenal off the pitch, they are going to try and pass it and I just don't think they will be able to win this game doing that against such good players.
Southampton v Liverpool
Southampton are in a position where they can go for it in any game - which is why they made a big ricket when they rested a load of players and lost to Sunderland in the FA Cup - so this will be a big test of Liverpool's title credentials ahead of some pretty decent fixtures.
If Liverpool get through this, they are a major, major threat and I cannot see how Southampton will be able to stop Liverpool's attack, even though they have got Luke Shaw, who is a great talent and really deserves his call-up to the England squad. I'm not sure he will go to the World Cup, though.
Aston Villa v Norwich
Villa are not good at home but they need to win this football match desperately to avoid getting sucked back into danger. Norwich will make it hard, though, because they have a free swing after that great result at home to Tottenham last week and will be full of confidence.
People look at Norwich's last four fixtures- Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea - and say they will be tough, but Chelsea might be in the Champions league final, and Arsenal and Liverpool might have nothing to play for, so I don't think they will necessarily go down if they are not safe by then.
PAUL PREDICTS: 2-1 (says my heart)
Swansea v Crystal Palace
I thought Swansea did really well against Napoli in the Europa League and will probably have enough to stay up - and beat Palace. Palace have to work so hard every week to get a result that sooner or later it is going to catch up with them, and it did last week against United.
Tottenham v Cardiff
If I get it right and Liverpool win, Tottenham will have to win here to stay in the race for fourth - but they will. Cardiff are gone. Shipping four at home to Hull tells you that. I think they made a ricket by appointing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, someone who doesn't know what to do in a relegation battle.

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Join the Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park (FoTBP) volunteer Adopt-A-Tree program and help keep the park's newly planted trees alive through their precarious first four years when their root systems are still shallow.
It's easy – sign up for a specific young tree and from spring to fall make sure it gets five gallons of water each week when there's been no or insufficient rainfall for its first four years. It's a terrific thing to do with kids or while walking the dog. There are taps in the park and FoTBP provides bundle buggies and plastic jugs to carry the water to your tree.
Interested? Contact Katherine, the AAT Coordinator using the FoTBP contact form.
Alternatively, come out during the spring or fall "park days" which are announced on the website and in FoTBP's eNewsletter and sign up.
Adopters generally sign up for four years but some move out of the neighborhood or their situation changes. There are also new trees planted on an ongoing basis. Take care of a young tree and become a proud parent, like so many before you! Gratifying to contribute to your neighbour environment and the simplist skills of 'parenting' required ;-)
See the google map below for more specific locations -- red volcano icons are the orphans.
And if you're not in our neighborhood, why not start a program where you are? We're thrilled to hear that over the past couple of years this good idea is growing and Friends of McCormick Park, Friends of Withrow Park , Friends of Alexandra Park, Woodbine Park, Friends of Dieppe Park, and Friends of Roxton Road Parks have all started Adopt A Tree Programs. Either just start watering those trees or get together with some of your neighbors, contact your local Councillor and Parks Supervisor and you're on your way. If you'd like more pointers or encouragement don't hesitate to contact Katherine -- use the FoTBP contact form. Or have a read of a "how to" that previous AAT Coordinator, Michaelle, wrote:
The FoTBP's AAT program -- the first in Toronto -- has become the inspiration for Park People & LEAF's Adopt A Park Tree program! FoTBP was happy to share its experience and expertise for their how-to brochure.
Like a well-watered tree, good ideas grow!
The Trinity Bellwoods Park's canopy of shady trees is a big part of its appeal and majesty. The FoTBP's Adopt-A-Tree program was established in 2006 byFriend of the park Jenna Hofbauer when she and
other park neighbors realised city staff was often stretched too thin to maintain suffient watering in the young trees' first years. It takes three to five years for the saplings to develop deep enough root systems to survive a lack of rainfall. Since so many of us are in the park regularly it was an easy decision to "adopt" a tree and water it regularly in order to help ensure the survival of succession trees and the continued renewal of the magnificent tree canopy. Jenna moved out of the neighborhood and in spring 2008 Michaelle McLean took it on until spring 2014 when Laura Jamer became the new AAT Coordinator and now Katherine.
What's Involved:
- Five gallons (20L) of water a week from May to October,
- weeding around the tree's base to avoid competition for the water,
- and a spring and/or fall mulching which helps slow water evaporation, prevents the mowers from damaging the bark and keeps the weeds down.
The city's Parks Department has opened several taps around the park for the AAT program where we keep water containers and bundle buggies.
1. On the east side of the park there is an open tap on the ice house just south of the ice-rink.
2. Dundas just east of Crawford by the path there's a tap in the ground.
3. In the bowl by the Parks building - also much appreciated by the dogs.
4. During the summer from July to the end of August there is also a water outlet and water containers on the west side of the park in the grounds of the vibrant Art in The Park program.
5. In the community greenhouse in the south end of the park.
The Friends of Trinity Bellwoods Park organise, in cooperation with City Parks, a mulching day in the spring or fall.
A map of the trees currently in the Tri-Bell AAT program can be found below:
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Late Show host David Letterman has said he will retire next year.
During a taping of today's show, Letterman said he has informed his CBS bosses that he will step down in 2015, when his current contract expires.
He told his audience that he expects his departure will be "at least a year or so" from now.
Letterman turns 67 next week. He has the longest tenure of any late-night talk show host in US television history, nearing 32 years since he created Late Night at NBC in 1982.
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So, what's the weather going to be like in Denver today?
Accuweather says it's currently 12° Fahrenheit. The high today is 16°, and the temperature is expected to drop back down to 8° by the evening, when the game will be finishing up. There will be snow, too, if not blankets of it: Flurries fell around noon, just to make the field nice and frozen for warm-ups, and more are expected around 4 and 5 p.m. as the game is kicking off. At 6 a.m. this morning, it was -6° in Denver. and if the game goes to overtime, we may see
football FOOTBAW at 26° below freezing.
How does the weather affect the vaunted "thin air" advantage for the Broncos in Denver?
Denver teams boast (and they do boast) an extra home-field advantage because the air in the Rocky Mountains is thinner (less dense, with fewer oxygen molecules packed into each of whatever unit you feel like measuring air with) than the air closer to sea level. At least one person (Champ Bailey) has claimed that Peyton Manning is well-suited to the unique conditions: "You could see the fatigue," Bailey told ESPN, after the Broncos beat the Steelers in Week 1. "Peyton has really opened up our offense. If we're in a shootout, it definitely works in our favor."
Maybe less so today, though: Cold air is denser than warm air, and not only will the Ravens have the luxury of breathing as if they were closer to sea level, the ball may not sail the way it does on a warm day in Colorado. Why did the Broncos even try for home-field advantage? (Apart from next week, I mean.)
Can you make some vague predictions about how the weather might affect the game?
Can I! If the Ravens have a clear advantage in this game, it's in their rushing attack, which averaged 118.8 yards per game despite the popular perception that Cam Cameron (and subsequently Jim Caldwell, after Cameron was relieved of his duties midseason) forgot about Ray Rice for long stretches of each game. Not including Week 17, for which all but seeding was sewn up for the Ravens, Rice averaged about 17 carries per game, and every Ravens defeat resulted in jeremiads from fans about why the Ravens coaching staff was ignoring their star running back. In a game like today, maybe the Ravens will finally unleash the sure-handed (1 fumble in 257 rushes during the season—we'll forget about his two last week against the Colts) Rice, and all will be well.
And then there's Peyton Manning: A coddled domer for the first 13 years of career, he's played infrequently in cold weather and played badly when he's had to. As Jamison Hensley notes:
Manning has never won a playoff game when the temperature at kickoff is below 40 degrees, losing in the postseason at New England (twice) and at the New York Jets. He threw one touchdown and seven interceptions in those games for a 46.2 passer rating, according to ESPN Stats & Information.
To adjust to the colder weather, Manning will wear an orange glove on his right hand, a decision that stems from his spinal-fusion surgery last year. The nerve damage has caused weakness in his right arm after the surgery, and the glove helps him improve his grip on the ball, especially in the severe cold weather.
Inspired yet? Manning is no Brett Favre in this respect, and while it won't be an easy game for the quarterback on either side, Joe Flacco has had positive experiences in cold-weather games—the Ravens are 10-7 in them since the Flacco-Harbaugh era began in 2008.
This is a game between two teams playing at conspicuously different levels, so any confusion or sudden adjustments required probably works in favor of the Ravens, who would be expected to lose by double digits all things being equal. Vegas isn't exactly quaking in its collective shoes—the line hasn't changed—but people in Vegas don't understand weather, because casinos don't have windows.
What kind of faces can we expect Peyton Manning to make during this game?
Maybe sort of an incredulous one? He played in a dome for so long that he thinks snow falls when he loses, not the other way around.
The field may be slippery, and old people don't do well in cold weather. Is it possible that America's final glimpse of Ray-Lewis-the-football player (as opposed to Ray-Lewis-the-studio-analyst) will be him writhing on the frigid ground, having re-aggravated one of his sundry injuries?
Yep, seems more likely than if the weather was warm and dry. Here's a mock-up of what that writhing might look like. (Tilt your head so he's horizontal.)
Oh, what's the worst that could happen?
Deadspin contributor Sam Eifling:
Playing outside in weather this nasty is no joke. A few Januaries ago I went skiing with friends north of Denver, on a plum freezing day, at the top of an 8,000-foot mountain. After the sun left it got even colder. Before my last run of the day I remember hearing a report at the top of the mountain that it was 4 degrees out, before wind chill, before the additional wind chill incurred by flinging oneself down a hill at daredevil ski speeds.
In hindsight I probably didn't have the best gear, because for the rest of the night, my fingers tingled. Then they tingled for about two more weeks. The tips and pads of nearly all my fingers were blighted with eerie numb spots; when I typed, I could feel pressure but not sensation, like a fainter version of when your hand falls asleep. Eventually it cleared up, but in the meantime I had time to Google around and find out there's such a thing as "frost nip," a precursor to frostbite.
Frost nip, people. Two weeks to regain feeling in his fingers. And no one even tackled him.
What do players do to keep warm in conditions like these?
The same thing beauty pageant contestants do to keep their smiles frictionless: Petroleum jelly and plenty of it. In 2005, USA Today reported that players often apply "a thin layer of petroleum jelly" to their arms to keep the heat in, and possibly to stay slippery, though there are NFL rules against that and players must use the jelly surreptitiously. A product called Warm Skin also gets passed around locker rooms, as does Tiger Balm. Neither will be enough to really stay warm today, and most players like to wear as little as possible to give opponents less to grab onto.
Players also sometimes wear mittens on the sideline, so keep an eye out for that.
This will probably be a terrible game, won't it?
Sure, probably, but shut up. The beauty of games like these is how ugly they can get—how the disruptive forces of nature can make a boring game into a great one by forcing teams to play against the elements. It's in bad weather that football really earns its stripes as America's best test of toughness (besides war), and it's no coincidence that one of the sport's most legendary games was the Ice Bowl, the NFL Championship played in Green Bay at about −13 °F. A fan died from exposure! 11 marching band members had to be taken to the hospital! And in the arctic conditions that day, football was at it's elemental best. Here's how Packers offensive lineman Jerry Kramer described the Packers' penultimate drive to us recently:
I see that sneak as a responsibility. Whenever I think of it, I think, "Thank God I was able to get the job done." And when I talk about my team, my favorite topic is the drive in the last four-and-a-half minutes of that game. We had the ball for 10 possessions, a total of 31 plays prior to that drive, and we had gained negative nine yards. So as we go on the field with four-and-a-half minutes to go, we're 65 yards away.
And I later asked Bart, I said, "What possessed you to think you could score when we hadn't made a yard in the previous 15, 20, 30 minutes, pretty much the whole second half, and it's now 57 below zero?" And he said, "The look in your eyes, the look in Forrest's eyes, the look in Ski's eyes." He said, "I started to say something when I came on the field but I looked at you guys's eyes and you were all looking at me and I knew I didn't need to say anything, so I just said, 'OK, let's go.'"
It may be ugly today—negative nine yards in 10 possessions!—but that means every yard gained will be heroic, instead of just another notch on the stat sheet. And if it ends up being a snoozer, you can still watch the players and feel warm by comparison.


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|Me and my teammate Jon Lillis
|My teammate Alli Lee with everyone building the kicker in the back
|Team USA chopping the hill!
|Team USA chopping the hill!
Although the calendar says we're nearing winter, it sure doesn't feel like it out in Park City, Utah. With temperatures in the mid/high 40s every day, it's a little difficult being a freestyle skier! The U.S. national team and development team did start jumping the day before Thanksgiving! We built the site and started doing single flips!
Building an aerials site is no easy task though. It takes about three days of snow blowing, when there is no snow and several days of CAT work (those machines that groom the ski hills) before we can even start building the jumps. The single kicker, the jump we do one flip off of, is about two meters high. The double is 3.5 meters [3.5 meters = about 11.5 feet] high with 65 degrees of slope at the top. We do two flips off this jump! The biggest jump we have is called a triple kicker. We do three flips off of this jump and it's 4 meters high with 70 degrees of "kick" at the top.
In order to make these jumps we put up wood forms and blow really wet snow into them. We pack down the snow and let it set until it is hard enough to take down the forms and "shape" the jump. In order to shape the jump we take these crazy instruments called 'Grizzlies' and smooth out the jump by hand to the correct degrees of pitch up the entire jump. The coaches do this and try and make sure that the jump is really smooth and has a steady curve. Too much curve, or too little curve, is bad for jumping. We have some pretty crazy specific specs for our hill construction. Click on Aerials on this page to see a visual of our hill specs! The landing hill also has to be a certain pitch, between 38-40 degrees. We "chop" the landing every day to make sure it is soft, or soft enough. Basically, all the athletes line up on the landing hill and use shovels to break up the snow. It's great bonding time and is a pretty good upper body workout!
We always start off on the smallest jump, doing single flips. We work our way up, but I'm pretty sure if you took a poll from all the athletes on the hill, they would all say that the first single jump is scarier than the first triples jumps of the year! After you get rid of those first jump jitters, it's all business, which really means 'play' in our sport!
My first jumps of the season were especially nerve-racking. The last time I jumped on snow, I had a pretty obscure crash and tore my ACL. But I went up there with my sweet new blue POC helmet and did my speed check (a test run to see how fast you are going before you hit the jump, we try and get about 45 km [45 km = just about 28 mph] for singles) and went. I figure that if you pretend to be confident it almost translates into actual confidence. I landed my first jump and was super stoked. We do about 10 jumps per session. Since that first day I've done five days of singles.
Once you become confident on singles you move up to the double. This is the medium sized jump that you do two flips off of. We go between 55 and 58 km [58km = 36 mph] into these jumps. The first double, like I said, was less scary than the single, contrary to popular belief. I do a lay-tuck for my first doubles, which means a straight flip then a tucked flip. Once I get up to harder tricks I don't do this trick anymore, but it's a good easy first trick, that I've been doing for four years. Over the next week I'll be increasing my degree of difficulty on the double. In another week, or so, we will build the triple and start training triple flips!
Wish me удачи ("ew da chi") – good luck in Russian!
You can also follow my journey on Twitter @AshleySkis.


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The Nightmare's hold on Kenny has become so intense that the sacred fire that gave him to life is on the verge of going out. As a result, Kenny has had no choice but to flee the town in an attempt to stay alive and regain his strength. As for Rhed, she's amassed so much treasure during her adventures with the Piranas that she'll never want for anything again. Instead, a much-deserved retirement awaits her...
From Monday, September 17th 2012, Kenny and Rhed will no longer be available in the shop's packs. However, players who already own them can continue to use them as normal. Sales of the two characters on the Market will be blocked until the morning of Wednesday, September 12th.
Thoazol Moderator Wise Men Distracted Tuesday 25/09/2012, 07:40
So you're saying that we could have up to 10,6 CRs a year with the current rate? (26 fortnightly 4 card releases + 1 Miss + 1 Noel)
mahawirasd Imperator Immortality Tuesday 25/09/2012, 12:17
I said at most
i acknowledge that i spouted out an arbitrary number
but i was just building on the discussion of whether or not UR needs more Cr releases, and i feel that any more than 10% would make it somewhat less special
how about you, Thoazol? What would you deem to be a proper rate for Crs?


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So you thought you wanted a yarn store in Budapest, did you? A snap judgment in progress.
My life is full of snap judgments, too many to even tell, perhaps the capacity for rapid change is even a genetic inheritance, as I am the direct result of 2 people libel to make a snap judgment. The road to my formation started when both my parents, individually, seeing a rally forming in the streets of Budapest in 1956, went to check it out on their respective lunch breaks and wound up escaping the country days later not to return to Hungary until the coast was clear some 20 years later. Their main beef with the government at the time was mainly that they couldn't party as they saw fit, they couldn't go visiting other nearby countries to make use of their language skills and or go to the opera in Vienna or make practical jokes without being arrested. So, when they had the opportunity to split, being in their early 20's, they made a b-line for the Austrian border. My Mother ended up in Kansas City, but the day after receiving a check from a small car accident bought a bus ticket to New York, and with the remainder of the funds got a nose job the following week. My father went instead Australia, and once was visiting friends in NYC, when he applied for an engineering job. In the part where you assert your pay request he put the amount the Australian prime minster earned at the time. Well, he got that much, and decided to stay. They then got fixed up on a blind date through their mutual friends from the old country and eventually eloped in Las Vegas. Aahhh, the American dream in short-form snap judgments brought to you by Hungarian refugees living it UP!
Back to my story: Starting in 2002 many important figures in my life up and died on me, leading ultimately to my inheritance of the family flat in Budapest that one relative or another has lived in for decades. The only apartment that made it through wars and revolutions, this place is PACKED with family treasure. I arrived in BP in August of 2004, my teeth a wreck, and recovering from a mild Oxycodone addiction I acquired because of all the painful dental work I had just endured while under the so-called care of my father; who only allowed me to come visit my dying great aunt (who was a truly great personage, and by the way, so much for the good times of NYC in 1968) under the condition that I "subjugate myself to him." And after my boyfriend of 5 years dropped off all my shit in front of my door declaring we are "finished." Well, here I go then. I scrape my last pennies and buy a flight back to Hungary to at least to hang out with Bori néni untill she ultimately meets her rest at the age of 93.
My first order of business was to find the yarn stores in town, as knitting is my thing. Firstly to get situated on my throne as knitting queen, then ultimately to open a yarn store, as has been my plan since long before it was cool. Of course there was nothing of the sort one could find in western city, however, there was this one place. Although not an actual yarn store it seemed the perfect boutique, in an awesome location, charming, lovely, and dealing in hand knitting and crochet already, perfect - and I never forgot it. However I was new here, and it IS different, even though I speak the language I can easily come off as a callus bitch much of the time because I don't know all the many levels of platitudes that people take as automatic from someone with such fantastic pronunciation. So their was no chance then of me opening a store for many many reasons
Anyway, time flowed by, got married, got a dog (both man and dog are awesome), checked out Iceland for a couple of years, and finally came back in April of 2010. Around X-mass that same year I had cause to look up this charming store and make some inquiries. Within moments of my making an offer to buy the place Valeria noted that as she was going to close the store down anyway I could move in there virtually rent free and we would partner in a new venture. I would design stuff and market it, and she would make it a realty, at least organize the knitting ladies and handle quality control, plus be around a lot to hold down the fort since she lives in the building. I had a job working at that moment to make 100 pairs of slippers for Japan and it seemed like a good first joint project as the manufacture wouldn't start until the spring. Here I mention that Vali is insane. A fitness freak who if she didn't jump around at Zumba at least 10 hours a week would explode. She takes pills to calm down, but I think her dosage needs to be adjusted upwards to have any noticeable effect. Many people warned me against working with her, and I was really quick to fly to her defense, fully acknowledging her faults I chose instead to highlight in what she was very good and I wrongly thought things would work out, taking as evidence that things were starting to ramp up and go well. I was featured as a designer wherever possible, got a few new boutiques to sell my fashion collection, became a Rowen designer, and started to come out with one good idea after another. I even started to design crochet for her benefit and I thought she was noticing my efforts - even if she was largely an obstacle to any real work.
I started there with a small but robust marketing strategy to sell off the old things so as to make way for the new. I made posters, fliers, had sales on the street, payed my assistant to put her old stuff on an e-bay-esque craft website for sale, carefully photographing and cataloging her things so she could make money while I was getting my own things together (plus I was constantly pressing my own cash into the register drawer, where she was free to take from as long as she wrote it down). I also cleaned, a lot. Vali is an explosion heals, a veritable Tazmanian devil, and always throwing stuff around, can't handle having a basket where her projects live and insists on messy piles right in the middle of the floor, and most annoying, she loves to jam things between you and your work, like an ear of boiled corn for example, or she will slam her keys right down on your organic Peruvian cotton yarn, the one you are working with!! I hate this!!! Then yell in your face that she is constantly cleaning after me. Anyway.... As the weeks progressed it started to become more evident that she was truly mentally ill. It was impossible to get any work done while she was around and more and more frequently she would burst in and yell at me. It meant nothing to her that I even have a potential investor just waiting for things to smooth out before dropping some big cash on us and I had started talks with the local yarn business power-chicks to join forces, so Vali can largely have a studio instead of a boutique. I was well aware that things were not working out as I had envisioned them, and was already working a new angle that would please everyone and bring in more cash for us all. She could be as messy as she wants and do what she is best at, and the money could come in from that angle as it wasn't happening through yarn sales (which after less then 2 months from the official opening party is frankly to be expected).
Last Wednesday Vali tore into the shop while I was meeting with knitting ladies and photographer screaming "WHERE IS MY MOTHER FUCKING BELT YOU BITCH!!!" It was very early in the morning. We all looked at each other, and when no one said anything for a microsecond Vali started furiously yelling and stamping her bejeweled sandal-ed feet, demanding that we all drop everything and look for this belt. Her tantrum escalated so fast we didn't even have time to react on this stupid belt thing, within seconds she was standing in the middle of the room screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!'" Just to let you know, she looses everything, not a day has gone by when she couldn't find her keys, or her project (which was always placed in a tidy basket under the couch) or something that she felt the need not only to tear the store apart looking for, but had to yell at me or Barbara that we directly hide things on her. I went out for a meeting and by the time I got back she had made an enormous mess and insisted on getting up in my face calling me a filthy Jew, saying I was badly raised by a filthy Jew of a mother, and that I constantly steel from the register, haven't done anything but rob her, and on, and on, and on. I thought it was probably time to end this relationship and spent the rest of evening thinking about how to gracefully do so. Around 9 I get call from my assistant, Barbara, saying Vali called her that I should pack up and go. Great! I will take a week to finish my business and then scram. Vali doesn't even actually appear on any contract, and I was loading the register with my own family's money to keep her happy and the business going, and at least I will stop hemorrhaging cash to pay for her trashy used clothing habit.
Everyone says, you should sleep on it, maybe this or that will be different in the morning. Besides, she told Barbara that she will not even come in so as not to see my horrible face. However on Thursday she came right down and started again directing her racist slander at me, belittling my work, style, and person. Mind you this is all very sudden, so I have appointments and important (to me) work lined up for the whole day, so while she is yelling at me, (or Barbara), at a distance of 5 centimeters from the face we are silently labeling clothes for delivery, talking across her with knitting ladies, and signing over post, and even talking to the occasional customer. We just finished what we needed to as fast as we could, called off the rest and by noon were packing up the entire store from back to front. My man showed up with my trusted stead, a red Toyota pickup that has seen the world and born away more households to distant lands then I care to mention.
By then we are 4 packing up the store. Vali would go upstairs and drink alcohol then come down and start being insane. Sometimes putting on a sugar sweet voice and asking for this and that, and when completely ignored would snap into venom-spitting mode and start calling me a stingy Jew for taking the curtains that I brought, and the 'hooks display' which is very much mine. She also destroyed a bunch of hard won displays that were meant for delivery to another store and then, the icing: she slapped me - in the face, unbelievable. We were all very surprised at just how very much stronger then her I was, and at any time I could beat her 54 year old ass, fitness club or no I am still big, and young. With all this she still didn't push me to that point though, really I am more of a silent menace when angry and can icily ignore someone for a long long time before getting physical. I have only ever hit one person with a closed fist, and that person was a dentist, and that, is another story. But as I grabbed her arm to push her away I could see the recognition of the facts as our eyes locked, I could kill her, I should kill her. I could also feel it in the ruthless way I squeezed that arm, fingernails in I could feel her flesh crushing as Bela and Barbara pulled her away from behind. However she took it upon herself to scream even more about how I went to beat her, without any recognition that perhaps she might deserve it, and that next time perhaps I wouldn't be so zen about it.
While we were packing Vali was standing in everyone's way, yelling her venom, occasionally disappearing upstairs to drink a few beers and come back even more belligerent (if possible), getting more and more upset as no one was willing to even say a single word to her. This, I know is even more infuriating to someone who wants to fight, but none of us could even get a word in anyway, and besides, what is there to say, really? Vali thought I was evil because I had plans to make an organic and fair trade yarn store, and then what? I'm just glad she didn't have some kind of stroke and die on the spot. I can see it now, she keels over and everyone looks right at me, the stinking Jew that killed Vali.
She changed the locks on the door in order to take my beautiful embroidered couch hostage until I return the big ugly retro pod chairs, the exact chairs mind you, that I sold in February, sold on agreement with her. I am thinking I might meet a locksmith on the spot, as I have a contract for the place, rented it from her x-husband and she doesn't even appear on any document. That is if I am willing to make another big scene, which I might just do.
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AIG Announces Exclusive Distribution Relationship with HSBC in Turkey and France
AIG Announces Exclusive Distribution Relationship with HSBC in Turkey and France
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- American International Group, Inc. (NYS: AIG) today announced that it has entered into 10-year bancassurance agreements with HSBC Group companies under which AIG will become the exclusive provider of non-life insurance products to HSBC Group customers in Turkey and France, as well as in other countries in Continental Europe as may be agreed. AIG expects to pay a total consideration of approximately US$55 million for the exclusive distribution access in Turkey and France, and expects to launch the partnerships in the first half of 2013.
Turkey represents one of AIG's strategic business expansion countries. The distribution arrangement will allow for the significant advancement of this strategy through a bancassurance relationship providing enhanced access into the country's consumer and commercial SME non-life insurance lines.
Dan Doherty, President of Consumer Insurance for AIG's EMEA region, said, "We are pleased that this long-term collaboration will allow us to expand our existing distribution arrangement and operations platforms with HSBC in Turkey, while offering the opportunity to develop new capabilities over the life of the relationship. We are particularly excited about our increased access to offer Accident & Health products to this key market."
The relationship also includes the acquisition of HSBC's French non-life subsidiary, HSBC Assurances IARD (HAI), for total consideration of US$14.5 million, consisting of a completion purchase price of US$13.3 million and a contingent deferred payment of up to US$1.2 million based upon written premiums in 2013.
Mr. Doherty continued: "Our strategic partnership with HSBC in France will allow us to deliver value added insurance solutions to HSBC's customer base. We are delighted with the enhanced capacity to further the growth of our core consumer platform in France."
The partnership is conditional upon the parties agreeing country-specific agreements in France and Turkey and the completion of the HAI acquisition is conditional on receipt of customary regulatory approvals.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a leading international insurance organization serving customers in more than 130 countries and jurisdictions. AIG companies serve commercial, institutional, and individual customers through one of the most extensive worldwide property-casualty networks of any insurer. In addition, AIG companies are leading providers of life insurance and retirement services in the United States. AIG common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Additional information about AIG can be found at www.aig.com | YouTube: www.youtube.com/aig |Twitter: @AIG_LatestNews| LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/aig |
AIG is the marketing name for the worldwide property-casualty, life and retirement, and general insurance operations of American International Group, Inc. For additional information, please visit our website at www.aig.com. Products and services are written or provided by subsidiaries or affiliates of American International Group, Inc. (AIG). Not all products and services are available in every jurisdiction, and insurance coverage is governed by actual policy language. Certain products and services may be provided by independent third parties under contract with AIG or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Insurance products may be distributed through affiliated or unaffiliated entities. In Europe, the principal insurance provider is AIG Europe Limited.
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SAN FRANCISCO — When the Boston Red Sox called Orlando Cepeda in December 1972 to inquire whether he would like to be their first designated hitter, the unemployed, future Hall of Famer signed up immediately.
"Boston called and asked me if I was interested in being the DH, and I said yes," Cepeda recalled Wednesday, attending the series finale between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. "The DH got me to the Hall of Fame. The rule got me to the Hall of Fame."
He just had no idea exactly what he would be doing in the new gig out East. The experiment worked out beautifully for Cepeda, who played in 142 games that season -- the second-to-last in a decorated 17-year major league career. The Athletics had released Cepeda only months after acquiring him from Atlanta on June 29, 1972.
The DH is 40 years old this season, and Cepeda is headed to Boston next month to help celebrate the anniversary. He will be recognized at Fenway Park on May 8. The Red Sox are flying him cross country for the ceremony. They had invited him for their first home series of the season but his former Giants franchise was honoring the reigning World Series champions at the same time.
"It means a lot," Cepeda said. "Amazing. When you think everything's finished, it's only the beginning." He recently attended the Hollywood red carpet opening of the movie '42,' about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier.
Cepeda was the first major league player signed expressly to be a designated hitter, according to the Red Sox.
"I didn't know anything about the DH," Cepeda said.
The 75-year-old Puerto Rican star nicknamed "Baby Bull" also will visit Boston-area hospitals to support victims of the marathon bombings, though he hopes many will have made great improvements by then.
"Whatever they need me to do, I will do," Cepeda said, acknowledging perhaps he could brighten someone's day or bring on a smile.
Cepeda said then-A's owner Charlie Finley sent him a telegram to call him within a 24-hour period or he would be released. Cepeda didn't meet the deadline. He played in just three games for Oakland after the A's traded for him on June 29, 1972, for pitcher Denny McLain -- who happens to be the majors' last 30-game winner. Cepeda was placed on the disabled list with a left knee injury, and both of his knees would bother him for the remainder of his career. He underwent 10 surgeries in all on the knees, sidelining him four different years.
Cepeda had been a first baseman and outfielder before joining the first class of baseball's designated hitters under the new American League rule.
"They were talking about only doing it for three years," he said. "And people still don't like the idea of the DH. They said it wouldn't last."
The addition of the designated hitter opened up new opportunities for players such as Cepeda and others from his era who could still produce at the plate late in their careers but no longer played the field with the spot-on defense of their primes.
Cepeda was thrilled to have a fresh start, and he certainly thrived in the new role. To be part of history as the much-debated designated hitter position made its debut was another special part of it that year.
Cepeda batted .289 with 20 home runs and 86 RBIs, starting off strong with a .333 average and five homers in April. He drove in 23 runs in August on the way to DH of the Year honors. On Aug. 8 at Kansas City, Cepeda hit four doubles.
"That was one of the best years," Cepeda recalled, "because I was playing on one leg and I hit .289. And I hit four doubles in one game. Both my knees were hurting, and I was designated hitter of the year."
Cepeda topped Baltimore's Tommy Davis (.306, 7 home runs, 89 RBIs) and Minnesota's Tony Oliva (.291, 16 HR, 92 RBIs) for top DH honors, saying Wednesday: "It wasn't easy for me to win the award. They had some great years."
And it wasn't until after the season that Cepeda could look back and appreciate all he had accomplished that year -- along with the big part he played in history and change in the sport.
"I just did it," he said of learning the DH. "Every day, I say to myself, how lucky I am, how fortunate I am, to be born with the skills to play ball."


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Join us for the first ever Turkey Run Trail Bash 5 miler to be held on the spectacular new trails in Turkey Run Park. The Turkey Run Park trails are the most extensive set of trails in the new Parklands of Floyd's Fork development. Race amenities include a custom embroidered race beanie, finisher/overall awards, professional […]Find out more »
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The gates appear to be similar to gates at the JR station (Kansai Airport). Probably not at airport, but could be another JR station in Osaka. (Doesn't match any Osaka Subway gates I've googled, yet.) JR = Japan Rail
As much as I would love for them to go to Kyoto too, I think that the "train station" comment probably was referring to the train station as in subway train...
OK, lets analyze this vidcap, shall we. Cris is not wearing her backpack, and she has an (unopened) clue in her hand. She can't open/read the clue without her partner close by. Maybe she just finished a task, got her clue and looks toward Ron. What she's doing in a subway/train station is anyone's guess, but probably not going anywhere far without her backpack. OK, my brain is overheating again, got to stop.
Didn't I see a GE of the Osaka airport on an isthmus in the bay? How do racers get from the airport to downtown? Subway train?
First time that I've been able to get on email since we got back to Osaka and unfortunately it is Friday night and we are leaving on the bullet train first thing tomorrow morning to get back to Tokyo and catch our plane. I've kept my eyes open and we've hit quite a few temples and shrines, but have not seen the drum. Wish I had time to get by the Kitamaido Shrine, but it is not possible. Sorry.
OK, let's get serious.... Looking closely at those "windows", looks like it's slightly arched. It's rather large, as we only see about half the arch. The yellow "seeing impaired bumps" on the pavement suggest a "public" area such as a train/subway station. The opening is quite wide. Not that we haven't figured all that out already. Nothing like beating a "dead horse".BTW: what's up with that guy in the red jumpsuit with a "hoover" strapped to his back?
Check out this episode synopsis:I Just Hope He Doesn't Croak on Us: One racer is too tired to perform at a roadblock; another racer is livid when the taxi drivers lets the team out in the wrong spot; one team is eliminated.All those that say this episode is a nonelim, please note that the description clearly states a team will be eliminated.
It doesn't at all, since the airport arrival times I have are 1750 and 1905. By the following afternoon, I expect teams to either be in Taipei or in a pitstop in Osaka.
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Placebo effect: Also called the placebo response. A remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo -- a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution -- can sometimes improve a patient's condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will be helpful. Expectation to plays a potent role in the placebo effect. The more a person believes they are going to benefit from a treatment, the more likely it is that they will experience a benefit.
To separate out this power of positive thinking and some other variables from a drug's true medical benefits, companies seeking governmental approval of a new treatment often use placebo-controlled drug studies. If patients on the new drug fare significantly better than those taking placebo, the study helps support the conclusion that the medicine is effective.
The power of positive thinking is not a new subject. The Talmud, the ancient compendium of rabbinical thought, states that: "Where there is hope, there is life." And hope is positive expectation, by another name. The scientific study of the placebo effect is usually dated to the pioneering paper published in 1955 on "The Powerful Placebo" by the anesthesiologist Henry K. Beecher (1904-1976). Beecher concluded that, across the 26 studies he analyzed, an average of 32% of patients responded to placebo.
It has been shown that placebos have measurable physiological effects. They tend to speed up pulse rate, increase blood pressure, and improve reaction speeds, for example, when participants are told they have taken a stimulant. Placebos have the opposite physiological effects when participants are told they have taken a sleep-producing drug.
The placebo effect is part of the human potential to react positively to a healer. A patient's distress may be relieved by something for which there is no medical basis. A familiar example is Band-Aid put on a child. It can make the child feel better by its soothing effect, though there is no medical reason it should make the child feel better.
People who receive a placebo may also experience negative effects. They are like side effects with a medication and may include, for example, nausea, diarrhea and constipation. A negative placebo effect has been called the nocebo effect.
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When a treatment is based on a known inactive substance like a sugar pill, distilled water, or saline solution rather than having real medical value, a patient may still improve merely because their expectation to do so is so strong. To eliminate the effect of positive thinking on clinical trials, researchers often run double-blind, placebo-controlled studies.
Sources: Placebo Effect, Robert Todd Carroll, The Skeptic's Dictionary, Skepdic.com, The Mysterious Placebo Effect, by Carol Hart, American Chemical Society, Modern Drug Discovery, July/August 1999: The Healing Power of Placebos, by Tamar Nordenberg, FDA Consumer magazine January-February 2000
The sympathetic nervous system activates our survival reflexes to fight or flight. The impulses of this system take control of many of the internal organs when we do things such as exercise strenuously and when we are over come with very strong emotions like fear, anger, hat, anxiety. This system helps the body cope with stress. It causes things to change so the body is able to adapt to the stress such as the heartbeat increases, blood vessels constric, glands secrete more, and salivary and digestive glands secrete less.
Any type of lung irritant or perhaps even an emotional stimulus may trigger the desire to cough and can easily make you feel irritated. A study proposes that coughing can be relaxed from a simple placebo, which leads one to believe if this begins all in the mind, we may have the power to stop what might be a physical stimulus with a mental thought. Eureka! How innovative.
University of Queensland, Australia researchers asked a group of participants to breathe in a small amount of spicy chili peppers that typically triggers a cough reflex.
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Twenty-one subjects who were given a placebo medicine and told they were getting "lidocaine" anesthetic before breathing the capsaicin had a reduced urge to cough. (45% ) On the other hand, those who were told they were receiving an inert gas substance that would not effect their cough response were compared to the group given the positive suggestion.
All 21 subjects received the inert gas, the only difference was what they were told they were receiving. The conclusion that the mind or brain could react and make a difference in the nervous system response to stimuli.
Important to note that one group was actually given a 'negative' suggestion, which may have even made the impact and differential greater than if they were just given the inert gas without a verbal suggestion.
On average, the participants had a 45% reduction in the urge to cough and rated the intensity of desire from about a 2-4 on a ten point scale.
Other placebo research on pain, urinary tract and depression have also proved positive results.
The beneficial effect in a patient following a particular treatment that arises from the patient's expectations concerning the treatment rather than from the treatment itselfThe American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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(Medicine) Med a positive therapeutic effect claimed by a patient after receiving a placebo believed by him to be an active drug See control group
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placebo effect - any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugsconsequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"
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Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS. More recently, the idea of Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing (or Grazing Lists / Glists) has been kicking around.
Its likely that Reading Lists support will become a common feature of Feed Readers / Aggregators.
I think this space is getting interesting, so does Joshua Porter. So we thought we'd invite two people who've been giving plenty of thought to this area, Danny Ayers (I can spell his surname correctly these days) and Adam Green to join us for a podcast on the topic (.mp3 43 mins, 11mb) . We also invite James Corbett, who's been doing a great deal with Readings Lists and Feed Grazing, but unfortunately could not join us.
I've been following Danny Ayers' blog (Raw) for some time. Danny is a Semantic Web developer and technical author and co-author of Beginning RSS and ATOM Programming (which you'll find at practically every bookstore that has a Computers / Software section). We touched on the Semantic Web in the podcast.
Adam Green started programming in 1980, is co-founder and CTO at Andover.Net (later acquired by VA Linux in 2000 - hey Adam, buy me a beer...;-) and now a full time technical blogger at Darwinian Web. Thanks to Danny and Adam for their time today.
As usual, notes and links to related stuff below. Enjoy.
Reading Lists (OPML) podcast : Danny Ayers and Adam Green with Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett
- download (.mp3 43 mins, 11mb)
- What are Reading Lists?
- Why are we getting excited about Reading Lists (04:23)
- Dynamic Reading Lists (06:50)
- Feed Grazing and River of Feeds model (08:30)
- Danny on OPML - here under false pretences
- Feed Readers as Data Browsers (12;20)
- Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing based on Attention data - Attention intersection has to come soon (14:15)
- Dynamic Reading Lists and Grazing Lists are the same thing (but different) (16:35)
- Hierarchies, feed lists in RDF and the Semantic Web (Let's re-invent Gopher!) (18:50)
- OPML Sampling: J Wynia's OPML Sampler (23:30)
- Reading Lists as programmed content by others - Top 10 Sources (25:00??)
- Dynamic Reading Lists as Attention-based recommendation system (27:30)
- The Web as a data web, Semantic Web
- RSS readers/aggregators as Semantic Data Web browser (SPARQL / RDF) (33:00)
- OPML, RSS, Reading Lists and simplicity (35:30)
- Where's the Semantic Web Demo? (37:30)
- Summing up (41:00)
- Bonus links: It's going to be a big year for OPML and It's going to be a big year for HTML.
- End (45:30)
(I didn't cut the bit at the end of the session as I got a chance to ask Danny about Italy and Derbyshire - these two places rarely mentioned in the same sentence so I thought I'd keep for posterity 😉
Update: Joshua has blogged it.
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Black Mesa is a fan-made mod for Half-Life. It recreates the entire game of Half-Life in the latest version of the Source Engine, with vastly superior graphics. Made with the approval of Valve, Black Mesa has been in development since shortly after Half-Life 2 was released in 2004. It's actually been in the making for longer than Half-Life 3 and both of the episode expansions for HL2.
The Black Mesa team have added a caveat however: the game will only go up as far as the Lambda Core level (at the end of which you teleport to the planet Xen). The team is still working on the controversial Xen levels (most fans' least favourite part of the original game) and looking for a way of making them more compelling. Still, even shorn of the game's climax (the highlight of which is the confrontation with a giant mobile bollock spider monster), this is a pretty large game (about 10 hours).
You will require a copy of Half-Life 2 and the original Half-Life to enjoy Black Mesa, with no further payment required.
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How do Management Consultants Contribute to Innovation Processes?Houman Andersen, Poul; Ellegaard, Chris; Kragh, Hanne (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In step with an increasingly knowledge-based competition firms increases their innovation activities. For this purpose integration, of external inputs from management consultants increasingly comes fore. However, the value of management consultants in general and to innovation processes in particular has been challenged. From some perspectives, management consultants are being criticized as dressing up mundane truths in fancy concepts and doing nothing but telling customers what they already know. The purpose of this paper is to try to understand the value of management consultancy from a sensemaking perspective, using a case study of concept development processes in a leading European Kitchen manufacturer. As will be showed, redressing what customers already know may in fact comprise a valuable input for their clients' ability to identify a conception of reality which entails an actionable conception of reality. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8226
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