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China is now officially the world's second largest economy, overtaking Japan in the quarter that ended in June and likely for all of 2010. While the story has been widely reported (more than 1,500 articles on Google News this morning), it is less significant than it first appears.
The news will probably ruffle the feathers of the China hawks, who will see in it a threat to America's influence in the world, but China's rise to no. 2 is really another sign of the world returning to normal.
China is home, after all, to one‐fifth of mankind. Its population of 1,330 million is more than 10 times that of Japan (127 million) and more than four times that of the United States (310 million), according to the CIA Factbook. So even though China's gross domestic product is now larger than Japan's, its GDP per capita is still only one tenth that of its east Asian neighbor.
If China sticks to its path of market liberalization, it's close to inevitable that its GDP economy will eventually surpass that of the United States in overall size. That news event is likely to grab headlines in 15 to 20 years based on current rates of growth. Even then, China's per capita GDP will only be a quarter of what we enjoy in the United States.
China's rank as no. 1 will be nothing new in history. According to the late British economic historian Angus Maddison, China's economy had been the largest in the world for most of the past two millennia. In his magisterial 2001 book The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, Maddison estimated that as recently as 1820 China's GDP was 30 percent larger than the economies of Western Europe and the United States combined (p. 117).
After centuries of war, civil strife, and self‐imposed isolation, China is only now rightfully reclaiming its rank as one of the world's largest economies. That development is nothing to be feared.

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Depression (PDQ®)NCI PDQ Summaries for Patients
General Information About Depression
Diagnosis of Depression
Treatment of Depression
Suicide Risk in Patients with Cancer
Palliative Sedation
Depression in Children
To Learn More About Depression
About This PDQ Summary
General Information About Depression
Depression is different from normal sadness.
Depression is not simply feeling sad. Depression is a disorder with specific symptoms that can be diagnosed and treated. About one-fourth of cancer patients become depressed. The numbers of men and women affected are about the same.
A person diagnosed with cancer faces many stressful issues. These may include:
- Fear of death.
- Changes in life plans.
- Changes in body image and self-esteem.
- Changes in day to day living.
- Money and legal concerns.
Sadness and grief are normal reactions to a cancer diagnosis. A person with cancer may also have:
- Feelings of disbelief, denial, or despair.
- Trouble sleeping.
- Loss of appetite.
- Anxiety or worry about the future.
Not everyone who is diagnosed with cancer reacts in the same way. Some cancer patients may not have depression or anxiety, while others may have high levels of both.
Signs that you have adjusted to the cancer diagnosis and treatment include being able to stay active in daily life and continue in your roles such as:
- Spouse.
- Parent.
- Employee.
This summary is mainly about depression in adults with cancer. There is a section at the end of the summary about depression in children with cancer.
Some cancer patients may have a higher risk of depression.
There are known risk factors for depression after a cancer diagnosis. Factors that increase the risk of depression are not always related to the cancer.
Risk factors related to cancer
Risk factors related to cancer that may cause depression include the following:
- Learning you have cancer when you are already depressed for other reasons.
- Having cancer pain that is not well controlled.
- Having advanced cancer.
- Being physically weakened by the cancer.
- Being unmarried (for certain types of cancer).
- Having pancreatic cancer.
- Taking certain medicines, such as:
Risk factors not related to cancer
Risk factors not related to cancer that may cause depression include the following:
- A personal or family history of depression or suicide.
- A personal history of alcoholism or drug abuse.
- A personal history of mental problems.
- A weak social support system (not being married, having few family members or friends, having a job where you work alone).
- Stress caused by life events other than the cancer.
- Health problems that are known to cause depression (such as stroke or heart attack).
There are many medical conditions that can cause depression.
Medical conditions that may cause depression include the following:
- Pain that doesn't go away with treatment.
- Anemia.
- Fever.
- Abnormal levels of calcium, sodium, or potassium in the blood.
- Not enough vitamin B12 or folate in your diet.
- Too much or too little thyroid hormone.
- Too little adrenal hormone.
- Side effects of certain medicines.
Depression and anxiety are common in patients whose cancer is advanced and can no longer be treated.
Patients whose cancer can no longer be treated often feel depressed and anxious. These feelings can lower the quality of life. Terminally ill patients who are depressed report being troubled about:
- Symptoms.
- Relationships.
- Beliefs about life.
Depressed terminally ill patients feel they are "being a burden" even when they don't depend very much on others.
Family members also have a risk of depression.
Anxiety and depression are also common in family members caring for loved ones with cancer. Children are affected when a parent with cancer is depressed and may have emotional and behavioral problems themselves.
Good communication helps. Family members who talk about feelings and solve problems are more likely to have lower levels of anxiety and depression.
Diagnosis of Depression
Major depression has specific symptoms that last longer than two weeks.
It's normal to feel sad after learning you have cancer, but a diagnosis of depression depends on more than being unhappy. Symptoms of depression include the following:
- Feeling sad most of the time.
- Loss of pleasure and interest in activities you used to enjoy.
- Changes in eating and sleeping habits.
- Nervousness.
- Slow physical and mental responses.
- Unexplained tiredness.
- Feeling worthless.
- Feeling guilt for no reason.
- Not being able to pay attention.
- Frequent thoughts of death or suicide.
Your doctor will talk with you to find out if you have symptoms of depression.
Your doctor wants to know how you are feeling and may want to discuss the following:
- The normal feelings cancer patients have. Talking with your doctor about this may help you see if your feelings are normal sadness or more serious.
- Your moods. You may be asked to rate your mood on a scale.
- How long the symptoms have lasted.
- How the symptoms affect your daily life, such as your relationships, your work, and your ability to enjoy your usual activities.
- All the medicines you are taking and other treatments you are receiving. Sometimes, side effects of medicines or the cancer can look like symptoms of depression. This is more likely during active cancer treatment or advanced cancer.
This information will help you and your doctor find out if you are feeling normal sadness or have a depressive disorder.
Checking for depression may be repeated at times when stress increases, such as when cancer gets worse or comes back after treatment.
Physical exams, mental exams, and lab tests are used to diagnose depression.
In addition to talking with you, your doctor may do the following to check for depression:
- Physical exam and history: An exam of the body to check general signs of health, including checking for signs of disease, such as lumps or anything else that seems unusual. A history of your health habits, past illnesses including depression, and treatments will also be taken. A physical exam can help rule out a physical condition that may be causing your symptoms.
- Laboratory tests: Medical procedures that test samples of tissue, blood, urine, or other substances in the body. These tests help to diagnose disease, plan and check treatment, or monitor the disease over time. Lab tests are done to rule out a medical condition that may be causing symptoms of depression.
- Mental status exam: An exam done to get a general idea of your mental state by checking the following:
- How you look and act.
- Your mood.
- Your speech.
- Your memory.
- How well you pay attention and understand simple concepts.
Treatment of Depression
The decision to treat depression depends on how long it has lasted and how much it affects your life.
If you cannot adjust to the cancer diagnosis after a long time and you have lost interest in your usual activities, you may have depression that needs to be treated. Treatment of depression may include medicines, talk therapy, or both.
Treatment of major depression usually includes medicine.
It's important to use antidepressants only under the care of a doctor.
Antidepressants help relieve depression and its symptoms. When you are taking antidepressants, it's important that they are used under the care of a doctor. You may be treated with a number of medicines during your cancer care. Some anticancer medicines may not mix safely with certain antidepressants or with certain foods, herbals, or nutritional supplements. It's important to tell your healthcare providers about all the medicines, herbals, and nutritional supplements you are taking, including medicines used as patches on the skin. This can help prevent unwanted reactions.
Many antidepressants take from 3 to 6 weeks to work. Usually, you begin at a low dose that is slowly increased to find the right dose for you. This helps to avoid side effects.
Check with your doctor before you stop taking an antidepressant. You may need to slowly reduce the dose of some types of antidepressants. This is to prevent side effects you may have if you suddenly stop taking the medicine.
There are different types of antidepressants.
Most antidepressants help treat depression by changing the levels of chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain. Nerves use these chemicals to send messages to one another. Increasing the amount of these chemicals helps to improve mood. The different types of antidepressants act on these chemicals in different ways and have different side effects.
Three types of antidepressants are commonly used to treat depression in patients with cancer:
- SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors): Medicines that increase the brain chemical serotonin.
- Tricyclic antidepressants: Medicines that increase the brain chemicals serotonin and norepinephrine.
- Central nervous system (CNS) stimulants: Medicines that increase the brain chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine.
There are other types of antidepressants that may be used:
- Bupropion.
- Venlafaxine.
- Trazodone.
- Mirtazapine.
- Benzodiazepines.
- Psychostimulants.
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).
The antidepressant that is best for you depends on the following:
- Your symptoms.
- Your medical problems.
- Possible side effects of the antidepressant.
- The form of medicine you are able to take (such as a pill or a liquid).
- Other medicines you are taking.
- How you responded to antidepressants in the past.
Counseling or talk therapy helps some cancer patients with depression.
Your doctor may suggest you see a psychologist or psychiatrist for the following reasons:
- Your depression is getting worse.
- The depression keeps you from continuing with your cancer treatment.
- The antidepressants you are taking are causing unwanted side effects.
- Your symptoms have been treated for 2 to 4 weeks and are not getting better.
Most counseling or talk therapy programs for depression are offered in both individual and small-group settings. Some of these include:
More than one type of therapy program may be right for you. Therapy programs for cancer patients teach about the following:
- Cancer and its treatment.
- Relaxation skills and ways to lower stress.
- Coping and problem-solving skills.
- Getting rid of negative thoughts.
- Social support.
Patients in therapy often form a close personal bond with an understanding health care provider. Talking with a clergy member may also be helpful for some people.
Suicide Risk in Patients with Cancer
It's common for cancer patients to feel hopeless at times.
Cancer patients sometimes feel hopeless. Although few cancer patients are reported to die by suicide, talk with your doctor if you feel hopeless or have thoughts of suicide. There are ways your doctor can help you. Getting treatment for major depression has been shown to lower the risk of suicide in cancer patients.
Risk factors for suicide may be related to the cancer or other conditions.
General risk factors for suicide include the following:
- A history of mental problems, especially those that cause you to act without thinking.
- A family history of suicide.
- A history of suicide attempts.
- Depression or feeling hopeless.
- Drug or alcohol abuse.
- Recent death of a friend or spouse.
- Few friends or little family support.
Risk factors that are related to cancer include the following:
- A diagnosis of oral, throat, or lung cancer.
- Advanced stage cancer and poor prognosis.
- Confusion or being unable to think clearly.
- Pain that is not relieved with treatment.
- Physical changes such as the following:
- Being unable to walk and move around on your own.
- Loss of bowel and bladder control.
- Loss of a limb (amputation).
- Loss of eyesight or hearing.
- Paralysis.
- Being unable to eat or swallow.
- Extreme tiredness.
An assessment is done to find the reasons for hopeless feelings or thoughts of suicide.
Talking about thoughts of suicide with your doctor gives you a chance to describe your feelings and fears, and may help you feel more in control. Your doctor will try to find out what is causing your hopeless feelings, such as:
- Symptoms that are not well controlled.
- Fear of having a painful death.
- Fear of being alone during your cancer experience.
You can find out what may be done to help relieve your emotional and physical pain.
Controlling symptoms caused by cancer and cancer treatment is an important goal in preventing suicide.
Having constant discomfort or pain can cause you to feel desperate. Keeping pain and other symptoms under control will help to:
- Relieve distress.
- Make you feel more comfortable.
- Prevent thoughts of suicide.
Treatment may include antidepressants. Some antidepressants take a few weeks to work. The doctor may prescribe other medicines that work quickly to relieve distress until the antidepressant begins to work. Patients usually are given only a small number of doses at a time. For your safety, it's important to have frequent contact with a health care professional and avoid being alone until your symptoms are controlled. Your health care team can help you find social support.
Losing a loved one to suicide is especially hard for the family and friends.
The shock and grief felt after the loss of a loved one to suicide is very difficult. Family members and others who loved the patient may feel like they have been left or rejected. They may feel guilty or angry or they may feel responsible for the suicide. Talking with a professional or a support group can be very helpful for family members and others who loved the patient. Support groups can:
- Offer friendship.
- Give you time to talk about feelings.
- Help you find ways to cope with the loss.
It may help just to know that these feelings are felt by others.
Palliative Sedation
Sedation may be considered for comfort.
Patients with advanced cancer or near the end of life may have:
- A lot of emotional distress and physical pain.
- Difficult and painful breathing.
- Confusion (especially when body systems begin to fail).
Sedation can be given to ease these conditions. This is called palliative sedation. Deciding to use palliative sedation may be difficult for the family as well as the patient. The patient and family can get support from the health care team and mental health professionals when palliative sedation is used.
Choices about care and treatment at the end of life should be made while you are still able to make them.
Your thoughts and feelings about end-of-life sedation may depend on your own culture and beliefs. Some patients who become anxious facing the end of life may want to be sedated. Other patients may wish to have no procedures, including sedation, just before death. It is important for you to tell family members and health care providers of your wishes about sedation at the end of life. When you make your wishes about sedation known ahead of time, doctors and family members can be sure they're doing what you would want.
Depression in Children
Most children cope well with cancer. A small number of children may have:
- Depression.
- Anxiety.
- Trouble sleeping.
- Problems getting along with family or friends.
- Problems staying on treatment.
These problems can affect the child's cancer treatment and enjoyment of life. Children with severe late effects from cancer treatment may be more likely to have symptoms of depression. A mental health specialist can help children with depression.
Assessment for depression includes looking at the child's symptoms, behavior, and health history.
As in adults, normal sadness in children is not depression. Depression lasts longer and has specific symptoms. The doctor may assess the child for depression if a behavior problem goes on for a long time. To assess for depression, the doctor will need the following information about the child:
- Home life with family.
- How the child faces illness and treatment.
- Age and stage of development.
- Past illnesses and how the child responded to them.
- Sense of self-worth.
- Behavior, as seen by the parents, teachers, or others.
The doctor will talk with the child and may use a set of questions or a checklist that helps to diagnose depression in children.
A diagnosis of depression depends on the symptoms and how long they have lasted.
Children who are depressed have an unhappy mood and at least 4 of the following symptoms every day for 2 weeks or longer:
- Appetite changes.
- Not sleeping or sleeping too much.
- Being unable to relax and be still (such as pacing, fidgeting, and pulling at clothing).
- Frequent crying.
- Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities.
- Lack of emotion in children younger than 6 years.
- Feeling very tired or having little energy.
- Feelings of worthlessness, blame, or guilt.
- Unable to think or pay attention and frequent daydreaming.
- Refusing to go to school.
- Trouble learning and getting along with others.
- Aggressive behavior.
- Anger towards self, parents, and teachers.
- Frequent thoughts of death or suicide.
Treatment may be therapy or medicine.
Talk therapy is the main treatment for depression in children.
Individual and group talk therapy are the main treatments for depression in children. This may include play therapy for younger children. Therapy will help the child cope with feelings of depression and also understand the cancer and its treatment.
Medicines for depression may be used with care.
The doctor may prescribe antidepressants for children with severe depression and anxiety. Children taking antidepressants must be watched closely.SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are a type of antidepressant that usually have few side effects. However, in some children, teenagers, and young adults, SSRIs make depression worse or cause thoughts of suicide. The Food and Drug Administration has warned that patients younger than age 25 who are taking SSRIs should be watched closely for signs that the depression is getting worse and for suicidal thinking or behavior. This is especially important during the first 4 to 8 weeks of treatment.
See the section on Depression and Suicide in the PDQ summary on Pediatric Supportive Care for more information.
To Learn More About Depression
For more information from the National Cancer Institute about depression, see the following:
About This PDQ Summary
About PDQ
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Purpose of This Summary
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The information in this patient summary was taken from the health professional version, which is reviewed regularly and updated as needed, by the PDQ Supportive and Palliative Care Editorial Board.
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Set apart from the street by walls and a gate, the 1930 Spanish Colonial Revival faces in on a courtyard with a fountain. Among original details are peg-and-groove oak floors, stenciled beam ceilings, colorful glazed tiles and wrought ironwork. The master suite features a sitting room and a balcony overlooking the inner courtyard. There are five bedrooms, five bathrooms and 7,157 square feet of living space.
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I have changed the opening line, but the premise is there.
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'Twas but a journey half way cross the land, to the woods where the beauty lay sleeping and where he dried her tears and they lay on the swing of her porch and watched the stars for a near eternal life.
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We have seen pictures for at least 32 figures now. There are a few more from the Deluxe and/or other lines. So far these are probably going to be must haves for me. Chewbacca (I actually like the rage action feature) Grievous Bodyguard Grievous with 4 sabers Emperor (Because of the lightsber)Vader (I doubt I can pass him up) Dooku (I am sure it will have the spoiler feature) Bail Organa (I am looking forward to him) Padme (Gotta get a pregnant Padme figure)Agen Kolar (I don't have any Eeth Koth figures) Taful (Looks great and it's a wookie!)Aayla Secura (looks nicer than Saga one) Yoda (Kind of debating but will probably get him) Kenobi #27 (Looks great!) Anakin #28 (again looks great!) Luminara (again looks much better than Saga version) I will most likely get some others but those I am looking forward to the most right now. 15 of 32.
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Online shooters are awesome if you enjoy killing twelve-year-olds, Level 80 is the ultimate anti-mating call of online achievement, and you can't win at RTSes because you're reading this in English. So where can the modern gamer go to win a little glory? The fighting game is the modern world's gladiatorial combat, a true clash of champions that corrects ancient Rome's critical lack of fireballs and "swimwear posing as combat attire."
Just make sure you're not fighting against the following, characters so broken and unbalanced they're often confused with half a shopping trolley, each so ugly and out of place they'd make John McCain welcome at a student orgy.
Seth's the cheapest fighter in Street Fighter, but that's like complaining about a guy arriving to arm-wrestle with a machine gun - he's obviously an asshole and your best bet is getting out as quickly as possible. We'd also talk about Akumabusers but every time we try they run away while bouncing up and down firing projectiles, apparently playing Scramble instead of Street Fighter. But for the very cheapest in fighters, you need Sagat -- not because he's overpowered, but because his advantages became known and now every no-talent whiner online uses him in hopes of gaining an unfair advantage. His range is slightly longer than the average ICBM while his high standing kick could have defended Britain from the Luftwaffe. But most would-be-abusers have no idea how to actually use him: When you're cheating that badly in a videogame that's meant to be fun, you're not just Disney villains. You're Disney villains in a kids' movie about videogames. There's a word for how lame that is but you can only pronounce it while somebody's breaking your legs.
One of these things is not like the other: dragon punch, flying body press, butcher thrust, instant-unblockable-stunning-eye-laser-with-infinite-range. That last one was Tekken 2's contribution to the wonderful world of "It's a legitimate strategy!" whining, aka "People who not only need a punch but are subconsciously working to get it."
The unlockable Devil and Angel characters had instant laser beams. In a game where other characters didn't even have fireballs and a Sonic Boom would have been a devastating weapon the likes of which had never been seen. One's an infinite horizontal beam, another's a fly-up-and-rake-half-the-arena-in-nearly-unavoidable-death beam. Neither had much windup, post-use-delay or limit on use, and were instantly triggered by pressing two buttons at once. It's like arriving at a chess match and finding your opponent's bishops are tactical nuclear warheads.
Killer Instinct: masturbation for people who wish they could combo. Popular back when "even PRETTIER pictures" was the only selling point, we can now admit it was about as fun as Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots. The digitized fighters were as balanced as an alcoholic after an inner-earectomy and less original than a knock-knock joke in a photocopier. Who can forget "the robot," "the girl," "generic Ryu," not to mention "the fire one" and "the ice one"? These fighters were so stereotyped they actually transcended genres to bring platformer cliches into a game without platforms.
The game emphasized combos, in the same way a copy of Playboy emphasizes having sex. A single special scores multiple hits or -- translated into not-idiot -- one hit with a stupidly long animation. But even in a game where character balance was afforded less importance than choosing a cool font for the box art, Eyedol was cheaper than trading in Tetris for the Game Boy Color.
Eyedol players can trap the opponent in a permanent air-juggle, an infinite combo. The final proof that Rare was taking the piss is that the damage dealt in such continuous combos decreases exponentially with each strike -- turning the combo into an excruciatingly long punishment for playing the damn game. Even better, in a game where the main selling point was giant combos, this one wasn't intended -- it's a glitch. "Make an actual fighting game" was clearly far below "Advertising" and "Make Orchid a horrifying parody of the female form, and Sharp-Nippled Queen of the Uncanny Valley" on Rare's list of priorities.
The Dead or Alive series is known for two things, and without significant back support neither of them are balanced. The fact any DoA character can exist without falling forward (and bouncing off the ground) is a testament to a mind-bending suspension of both disbelief and other improbably proportioned items. But the most broken character of all was Dead or Alive 3's Omega, the only unplayable character on this list and more annoying than spam offering free yeast infections. Apparently the devs thought he was insufficiently lame even with long-range priority attacks (aka "let's turn fighting into a rhythm mini-game where you press 'block' whenever he does anything"), so they then tilted the camera.
You spend the whole game training up with your character, then the controller gets rotated 45 degrees for the final fight. It's like taking a physics course, only to be told on the day of the final exam that the test is via interpretive dance and the theme is "Morocco." It's impossible to get across just how incredibly stupid this is without installing malware on your computer. And when the controller tilts another ninety degrees should he get on your other side it's past "poor design decision" and into "they are actually laughing at you."
It's clearly designed to turn the entire fight into an extended clip of your character's ass, meaning DoA may be the first game to both truly understand its target market and include the ending reward cinema in the final fight.
The very concept of fair fights becomes impossible when half the characters come from a world which only continues to exist because they keep forgetting how easily they could blow it up. Marvel vs. Capcom 2 pits two teams of three against each other, drawn from a total roster of 56 -- that's two match-ups per person in the entire United States, yet cheapologists still found the ultimate combination almost instantly.
Capcom didn't even try to balance: Cable shoots a gun instead of punching, we don't remember the comic where Magneto was a lightning-fast rotating blade of punches (though that does explain where Quicksilver got it from), and Iron Man can fill his half of the screen with a gun and the enemy's half with what comes out of it. Add Cable's ability to cancel out of super moves (for those who don't play fighters, that's like studying for an MBA and halfway through the final exam you can switch across and qualify as doctor and pass the bar as well) and you've got a non-stop flow of projectile beams which make the finale of "Star Wars" look like cavemen arguing.
Complaining about broken fighters in Mortal Kombat is like lamenting how checkers pieces can't pilot jetfighters. Unless it's "Dude A ripping out Dude A-in-a-different-hat's organs," neither Midway nor its fans give half a ripped-out kidney. Noob Saibot proved that whatever malnourished monkey the company employed for quality control died in 1996, and no one noticed or cared.
Noob Saibot has the "Disabler." It's a fireball. A fireball which stuns you, which is as broken as it's possible for a fighting move to get without becoming allergic to electricity. He runs over and punches you for a while, and then fires another Disabler. Assuming by some bizarre fluke that you're an MK player with actual "reactions" and "the ability to play real games" (on par with finding a Scientologist who can cure cancer through sensual massage) you can escape the trap -- unless you let him ever hit you with another. Which he can launch at any time. The only real counter is to do a quarter circle + "Eject cartridge" button.
Ken vs. Ryu were the eternally balanced rivals of Street Fighter II, where "eternally" meant "until Turbo" when Ken permanently won the hell out of it and ascended to minor godhood. The game was only renamed Turbo at the last minute, replacing the previous title of "Street Fighter II: Ken Wins Edition." Dragon-punchers have always been top-tier, but when Capcom started milking SF2 like a farmer with Parkinson's the fierce shoryuken became the solution to all mankind's ills. (It remains the military's primary contingency plan for alien attack.)
If Ken had been faced with a sick mother and spiraling credit card debt he'd have dipped his shoulder, dropped his fist to his knee, set it on fire and jumped into the air while spinning. And it would have worked. It went through air moves. It went through grabs. If someone had coded an M1 tank into the game the burning uppercut would hit for three and set it up for a deep heavy kick/throw/corner-trap. By Street Fighter III it got to the point where choosing anyone else meant "I'm just doing this for fun!" and tying one arm behind your back.
If someone selects Eddy you can shoot him in the hand and he's still the cheating scumbag. Eddy Gordo is the worst thing to happen to fighting gamers since repetitive strain injury. Armed with the mythical art of "Movie Capoeira" he's an unstoppable whirlwind of chained attacks as long as the user remembers to press kick two tries out of three. As opposed to real Capoeira, which has a habit of getting punched in the face for instant knockout (check YouTube), or real real Capoiera, where the whole point was to distract your opponent for a second or two before permanently messing them up and not looking like you were fighting to begin with.
Even in Tekken 3, a game where annoying novelty characters almost outnumber the real ones (and it doesn't count as murder if your victim chooses Gon more than once), Eddy's the worst. He makes Doc B look like Guile. Eddy is Jar-Jar Binks, a floppy-limbed aberration staining a beloved classic. Keep hitting buttons and his invincible whirligig of ass-kicking could defeat General Grievous in a combine harvester. But if you do you'll lose the true struggle of the warrior: to find your true self and hope it's not a loser.
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Inman Returns to EKU for Regular Season Finale
The Tennessee State University women's basketball team will close out the regular season on Saturday, March 1 on the road. The Lady Tigers will face the Colonels of Eastern Kentucky at 4 p.m. ET in McBrayer Arena. TSU Head Coach Larry Inman coached at EKU for 20 years, compiling a 319-244 record and leading the Lady Colonels to two OVC Tournament championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances.
Tennessee State is coming off a much need road win at Morehead State on Thursday. TSU defeated MSU, 71-66, in Johnson Arena. The victory improved TSU to 11-17 (8-7 OVC) and secured an OVC Tournament berth for the Lady Tigers. TSU also snapped a four-game road losing streak with the win.
TSU is averaging 69.0 points per outing while shooting 38.2 percent from the field. Chelsea Hudson leads the team in scoring with 15.8 points per game while Rachel Allen (11.4 ppg), Jayda Johnson (7.5 ppg) and Alana Morris (7.2 ppg) round out the top scorers for TSU.
The Lady Tigers, under second year head coach Larry Joe Inman, returned four letterwinners from last year's squad and added eight newcomers, including seven freshmen, to the roster. TSU finished last season with an overall record of 13-15 and a 9-7 conference mark. In an Ohio Valley Conference preseason poll that was released in October, TSU was predicted to finish fifth in the East Division standings.
Tennessee State used a rally late in the second half to take control of the game against Morehead State on Thursday. The Lady Tigers had to fight the Eagles off down the stretch to claim a, 71-66, victory on the road. Chelsea Hudson led TSU with 21 points and seven rebounds while Jayda Johnson and Alana Morris scored 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Eastern Kentucky is coming off a close, 76-74, loss to Tennessee Tech at home on Thursday night. The Lady Colonels fell to Belmont prior to that game and have lost two straight.
In the loss to Tennessee Tech, Miranda Maples led EKU with 19 points while Marie Carpenter added 16. Pilar Walker (14), Shelly Harper (12) and Michaela Hunter (10) also registered double-digits for the Lady Colonels
Overall, EKU is led in scoring by Marie Carpenter's 21.5 points per game. Shelly Harper (10.9 ppg) and Pilar Walker (9.1 ppg) round out the top three scorers for the Lady Colonels.
As a team, the Lady Colonels average, 69.3 points per game while shooting 40.3 percent from the field and 33.8 percent from long range.
TSU vs. EASTERN KENTUCKY
Tennessee State will match-up with Eastern Kentucky for the 52nd time in the series history with EKU holding a, 36-17, advantage. In the first meeting of the season, TSU defeated EKU, 78-63, in the Gentry Center. TSU has won two straight over EKU. The Lady Colonels' last win over the Lady Tigers was a, 62-54, win on Jan. 28, 2013.
TSU defeated EKU to hand the Lady Colonels, at the time, only their second league loss of the season. TSU led by 15 before EKU pulled to within three. The Lady Tigers maintained their composure and used a 12-3 run to regain control. TSU led by as many as 21 before going on to win.
Chelsea Hudson recorded her seventh double-double of the year, third consecutive, with 14 points and 14 rebounds. Alana Morris scored in double-figures for the fourth straight game with 13 points while Briana Morrow (12) and Rachel Allen (10) also finished in double-digits. Allen also recorded five assists and two steals in the contest.
Eastern Kentucky was led in scoring by Marie Carpenter's 18 points. Miranda Maples added 12 while Michaela Hunter scored 11. Shelly Harper chipped 10 points and eight rebounds.
Updates on the game will be available throughout the game on the official twitter page via @TSU_Tigers. Live stats and video will also be available for the games. Links can be found on tsutigers.com under the schedule.


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For two decades, Earthwatchers studied the restoration of waterways in the Jizera Mountains of Czechoslovakia.
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Acid rain nearly destroyed the waterways of the Jizera Mountains; now, thanks to cleaner industry, both the waterways and their surrounding forests are on the mend.
In the Jizera Mountains of Czechoslovakia, acid rain has had a devastating effect on the waterways. In recent years, however, efforts to restore forests, lakes, and rivers have borne fruit. Earthwatch volunteers studied the restoration of fragile waterways in an effort to help develop a comprehensive management plan to ensure the future of this beautiful region.
Over many years, over 400 Earthwatch volunteers contributed to this research. Some collected rain and fog samples from stream and reservoir sites; others worked with local fishermen to catch, measure, and weigh fish; analyze gut content; and take samples of fish scales, tissue, and organs for further analysis. Earthwatchers also collected bottom-dwelling organisms from streams and reservoirs and sampled the vegetation and the soil.
In their recreational time, Earthwatchers hiked or biked in the beautiful Jizera Mountains, or visited nearby castles, museums, botanical gardens, glass factories, cafes, and restaurants.
These researchers assessed how the ecosystem in the Jizera Mountains has degraded due to acid rain.
Earthwatchers investigated how management strategies could help restore waterways damaged by acid rain.
By gaining an understanding of exactly how acid rain impacted the ecosystem in these mountains, the researchers could contribute to management plans to help restore the waterways and sustain them for the future.
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This project benefitted the local community by improving their environment and water quality and fostering larger fish populations in some streams. Research results were communicated to both local and regional government agencies to help foster freshwater resources throughout the area.
The Jizera Mountains region, in the northern part of the Czech Republic, is a tourist destination featuring centuries-old buildings and picturesque forests of beech, silver fir, and Norway spruce. The upper plain of the Jizera Mountains is popular for hiking. It is easy to reach the highest tops, which are Smrk (1,124 meters) and Jizera (1,122 meters). The slopes are also convenient for cross-country skiing during the winter.
Since the 1980s, the waterways of the region have deteriorated due to acid rain. By 1989, two-thirds of forested headwaters had been damaged, resulting in reduced water quality, death of forest trees and loss of fish from mountain streams. Mountain ecosystems are now recovering as Czech industries attempt to meet EU air pollution targets.
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Earthwatchers hiked in the mountains to take samples from rain gauges and fog gauges installed at several different sites: about thirty stream sections and six reservoirs. They then analyzed samples for temperature, acidity, conductivity, and oxygen content. Working on boats with professional fishermen, volunteers also sampled phytoplankton and zooplankton, and helped catch, measure, and weigh individual fish, sample fish scales, analyze gut content, and sample muscles, liver, and reproductive organs for further analyses of heavy metals and other pollutants.
On shore, these intrepid amateur researchers sampled soil and vegetation, and measured the leaf area. They also assessed drainage networks for stability and ecological characteristics. They recorded the density of the forest canopy and evaluated the health of different stands of trees.
During recreational time, volunteers traveled hiked or biked in the Jizera Mountains, or visited castles, museums, and botanical gardens in neighboring areas.
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According to the official SQL Server Documentation, the use of "Solutions, Projects, and Items" is deprecated. A conspicuous (though somewhat cryptic) warning banner at the top of the MSDN page states:
"This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature."
Unfortunately, no suggestions for alternative storage/container strategies are offered. So what is the recommended way for storing and packaging the various scripts, queries, and files that make up your database application? I would also be very interested to know if any of you are acually using the Solutions or Projects framework in your current work, and what you use them for.
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EnBW (Energie Baden-Württemberg AG), Germany's third-largest electric utility, has been actively engaged in mobile and Internet businesses, particularly through corporate venturing. With full support from BCG, the company has taken steps to build on its successes by launching a digital program to be implemented in three phases.
During the first phase, EnBW sought to define and pursue digital initiatives in all its business units and across units. The initiatives have been built around its business models, new offerings, processes, and required capabilities.
In the second phase, the company wanted to bring the program to life by scaling up a different way of working (using agile methods). It also sought to renew its IT landscape and the role of IT in the business and build cross-company analytic capabilities.
BCG helped the utility establish the digital program, collaborating to complete the first two phases.
EnBW and BCG are about to embark on the third phase, deliberately opting not to establish the digital effort as an additional corporate program. Instead, the third phase focuses on embedding digital elements in an intelligent way into the utility's existing programs. This approach will build the foundation for a full digital scale-up at EnBW.


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