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- arteriosclerosis, also called atherosclerosis
- heart attack
- stroke
- enlarged heart
- kidney damage.
Causes and symptoms
- age over 60
- male sex
- race
- heredity
- salt sensitivity
- obesity
- inactive lifestyle
- heavy alcohol consumption
- use of oral contraceptives
- normal blood pressure: less than less than 120/80 mm Hg
- pre-hypertension: 120-129/80-89 mm Hg
- Stage 1 hypertension: 140-159/90-99 mm Hg
- Stage 2 hypertension: at or greater than 160-179/100-109 mm Hg
- medical and family history
- physical examination
- ophthalmoscopy: Examination of the blood vessels in the eye
- chest x ray
- electrocardiograph (ECG)
- blood and urine tests.
- diuretics
- beta-blockers
- calcium channel blockers
- angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors)
- alpha-blockers
- alpha-beta blockers
- vasodilators
- peripheral acting adrenergic antagonists
- centrally acting agonists
- reducing salt intake
- reducing fat intake
- losing weight
- getting regular exercise
- quitting smoking
- reducing alcohol consumption
- managing stress
Key terms
hy·per·ten·sion (HTN),(hī'pĕr-ten'shŭn),
Because of its wide prevalence and its impact on cardiovascular health, hypertension is recognized as a major cause of disease and death in industrialized societies. It is estimated that 24% of the U.S. population, including about 50% of all people over age 60, have hypertension, but that only about one third of these are aware of their condition and are under appropriate treatment. People who have normal blood pressure at age 55 still have a 90% lifetime risk of becoming hypertensive. The treatment of this disorder and its complications in the U.S. is estimated to cost $37 billion annually. Hypertension causes 35,000 deaths each year in the U.S., and is a contributing factor in a further 180,000 deaths. It is associated with a threefold increase in the risk of heart attack and a seven to tenfold increase in the risk of stroke. The prevalence of hypertension and the incidence of nonfatal and fatal consequences are substantially higher in African-Americans. Essential hypertension is currently recognized as a group of syndromes, induced by a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors, which may also include obesity, abnormal glucose and lipid metabolism, insulin resistance, diminished arterial compliance, accelerated atherogenesis, and renal disease. Some features of the hypertensive diathesis (left ventricular hypertrophy, decreased arterial compliance) may occur even before blood pressure measurements detect significant elevation. Although people with extremely high diastolic pressure may experience headache, dizziness, and even encephalopathy, uncomplicated hypertension seldom causes symptoms. Hence the diagnosis of hypertension is usually made by screening apparently healthy people or those under treatment for another condition. Risk factors for hypertension include a family history of the condition, African-American race, advancing age, the postmenopausal state, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, excessive use of alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, and chronic emotional stress. Treatment options include lifestyle changes (maintenance of healthful weight; a diet low in saturated and total fat and rich in fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products; at least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise several days a week; limitation of sodium intake to 2.4 g daily and of ethanol to 1 oz daily; consumption of adequate potassium, calcium, and magnesium; and avoidance of excessive emotional stress) and a broad range of drugs, including diuretics, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, α-1 adrenergic antagonists, centrally acting α-agonists, and others. One large study found a thiazide diuretic superior to a calcium channel blocker and an ACE inhibitor in reducing cardiovascular mortality in people with hypertension and one additional cardiovascular risk factor. In recent decades, early detection and aggressive treatment of hypertension have reduced associated morbidity and mortality. Control of hypertension lowers the risk of stroke by 30-50%. Current practice standards call for diligent efforts at prevention through avoidance of known risk factors, particularly in people with a family history of hypertension, and control of cofactors known to increase the risk of cardiovascular damage in people with hypertension (smoking, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus). Some studies suggest that the goal of treatment should be a diastolic blood pressure of 80 mmHg or lower.
hypertension/hy·per·ten·sion/ (-ten´shun) persistently high arterial blood pressure; it may have no known cause (essential, idiopathic, or primary h.) or may be associated with other diseases (secondary h.) .
hypertensionHigh blood pressure Cardiovascular disease An abnormal ↑ systemic arterial pressure, corresponding to a systolic BP of > 160 mm Hg and/or diastolic BP of 95 mm Hg and graded according to intensity of ↑ diastolic BP; HTN affects ± 60 million in the US Workup Evaluation of HTN requires clinical Hx for Pt, family Hx, 2 BP determinations, funduscopy, ID of bruits in neck & abdominal aorta, evaluation of peripheral edema, peripheral pulses and residual neurologic defects in stroke victims, chest films to determine cardiac size and lab parameters to rule out causes of secondary HTN Risk factors Race–blacks more common, ♂, family history of HTN, obesity, defects of lipid metabolism, DM, sedentary lifestyle, cigarette smoking, electrolyte imbalance–eg, ↑ sodium, phosphorus, ↓ potassium, tin Treatment Diet–eg, sodium restriction, ↓ calories, alcohol and cigarettes–the weight gain accompanying smoking cessation tends to offset the minimal ↓ in BP, calcium supplements, lifestyle manipulation–eg, biofeedback, ↑ exercise; antihypertensives–eg, diuretics–benzothiadiazines, loop diuretics, potassium-sparing diuretics, sympatholytic agents–central and peripheral-acting α-adrenergics, β-adrenergics, mixed α- and β-blockers, direct vasodilators, ACE inhibitors–the preferred agent to use ab initio, dihydropiridine CCBs. See ACCT, ACE inhibitor, Borderline hypertension, Borderline isolated systolic hypertension, Calcium channel blocker, Drug-induced hypertension, Essential hypertension, Exercise hypertension, Familial dyslipemic hypertension, Gestational hypertension, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, Isolated systolic hypertension, Malignant hypertension, MRC, Obetension, Paradoxic hypertension, Pill hypertension, Pregnancy-induced hypertension, Pseudohypertension, Pulmonary hypertension, Refractory hypertension, Renovascular hypertension, SHEP, STOP-Hypertension, TAIM, TOHP-1, TOMHSTyramine hypertension, White coat hypertension.
hy·per·ten·sion(HTN) (hī'pĕr-ten'shŭn)
hypertensionAbnormally high blood pressure. A pressure of 135/85 or less is considered normal. A sustained pressure of 159/99 or over that fails to respond to weight loss, salt reduction, dietary adjustment and smking and stress avoidance, requires drug treatment. Hypertension seldom causes symptoms until an advanced stage is reached in which secondary complications affecting the arteries, kidneys, brain or eyes develop. The condition is, however, potentially dangerous as it can induce a vicious circle of arterial damage resulting in higher blood pressure. Hypertension is a principal cause of STROKE and cardiovascular disease and of DIABETES. Everyone should have regular routine checks of blood pressure. See also KOROTKOFF SOUNDS.
hypertensionabnormally high arterial blood pressure.
hypertensionpersistent raised blood pressure, i.e. >120/80 mmHg (e.g. >150/94 mmHg, recorded over three consecutive occasions)
drug treatment of hypertension Table 1
essential hypertension hypertension without pre-existing renal disease or other known cause
malignant hypertension rapidly progressive, severe hypertension; poor prognosis
|Drug type
|Thiazide diuretics
Chlortalidone (Hygroton)
Cyclopenthiazide (Navidrex)
Indapamide (Natrilix)
Metolazone (Metenix 5)
Xipamide (Diurexan)
|Indicated for hypertension in elderly patients
Tend to exacerbate diabetes, gout, systemic lupus erythematosus
May cause postural hypotension
|Beta-blockers ('.…lol')
|Propranolol (Inderal)
Acebutolol (Sectral)
Atenolol (Tenormin)
Bisoprolol (Cardicor)
Carvedilol (Eucardic)
Celiprolol (Celectol)
Esmolol (Brevibloc)
Labetalol (Transdate)
Metoprolol (Betaloc)
Nadolol (Corgard)
Nebivol (Nebilet)
Oxprenolol (Trasicor)
Pindolol (Visken)
Sotalol (Beta-Cardone)
Timolol (Betim)
|Should not be used by patients with asthma or bradycardia or hypotension
Should be avoided in patients with a history of Raynaud's
May cause distal paraesthesia, impotence, dizziness and exacerbation of psoriasis
|Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors ('..…pril')
Cilazapril (Vascace)
Enalapril (Innovace)
Fosinopril (Staril)
Imidapril (Tanatril)
Lisinpril (Carace; Zestril)
Moexipril (Perdix)
Perindopril (Coversyl)
Quinapril (Accupro)
Ramipril (Tritace)
Trandolapril (Gopten)
|Used only with care in patients taking diuretics, or those with peripheral vascular disease, generalized atherosclerosis and kidney disease
May cause profound hypotension, persistent cough, renal impairment, angioedema and pruritic rashes
|Angiotensin II receptor antagonists ('.…sartan')
|Candesartan (Animax)
Eprosartan (Teveten)
Irbesartan (Aprovel)
Losartan (Cozaar)
Olmesartan (Olmetec)
Telmisartan (Micardis)
Valsartan (Diovan)
|Used only with caution in patients with aortic or mitral valve stenosis, or renal artery disease
Tend not to be effective in Afro-Caribbean patients with left ventricular hypertrophy
|Calcium-channel blockers ('.…dipine')
|Amlodipine (Istin)
Diltiazem (Calcicard)
Felodipine (Plendil)
Isradipine (Prescal)
Lacidipine (Motens)
Lercadidipine (Zanidip)
Nicardipine (Cardene)
Nifedipine (Adalat)
Nimodipine (Nimotrop)
Nisoldipine (Syscor MR)
Verapamil (Cordilox)
|May cause abdominal pain, nausea, flushing, oedema, headache, dizziness, constipation and sleep disturbance
|Alpha-blockers ('.…zosin')
|Doxazosin (Cardura)
Indoramin (Baratol)
Prazosin (Hypovase)
Terazosin (Hytrin)
|Should not be used in patients with urinary incontinence
Tend to cause hypotension, dizziness, vertigo, headache, fatigue
Where antihypertensive drugs are used in combination, a rule-of-thumb guide indicates:
A + C (ACE inhibitors + calcium channel blockers)
B + D (beta-blockers + diuretics)
hy·per·ten·sion(HTN) (hī'pĕr-ten'shŭn)
n an abnormal elevation of systolic and/or diastolic arterial pressure. Systolic level is generally related to emotional stress, sclerosis of the aorta and large arteries, or aortic insufficiency. Diastolic level may result from obscure causes (essential), renal disease, or endocrine disorders. See also blood pressure.
Patient discussion about hypertension
Q. What Is the Treatment for Hypertension? I have a slightly elevated blood pressure. What is the initial possible treatment?
Generic Accupril (Quinapril hydrochloride)
Generic Aldactone (Spironolactone)
Generic Altace (Ramipril)
Generic Atenolol-Chlorthalidone
Generic Avapro (Irbesartan)
Generic Betoptic (Betaxolol)
Generic Bisoprolol (Bisoprolol Fumarate)
Generic Caduet (Amlodipine)
Generic Calan (Verapamil)
Generic Capoten (Captopril)
Generic Lisinopril
Generic Lisinopril-HCTZ
Generic Lopressor (Metoprolol)
Generic Lotensin (Benazepril)
Generic Lotrel (Benazepril and amlodipine)
Generic Lozol (Indapamide)
Generic Micardis HCT (Telmisartan - hydrochlorothiazide)
Generic Microzide (Hydrochlorothiazide)
Generic Monopril there are still lot more medications used
You can find information the side effects of these drugs at
Q. Does Ameal BP lower high blood pressure?
You may try it and see if it works or not.
Q. What Are the Complications of High Blood Pressure? My wife suffers from high blood pressure. What are the possible complications that are so dangerous? Why is it important to keep high blood pressure under balance?


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Defense leads Panthers past Jetsby Alain Poupart
SUNRISE, Fla. - It was a big night all around for the Florida Panthers defense.
Dylan Olsen scored his first NHL goal and had an assist, and Erik Gudbranson also had a goal and an assist as they led the Panthers to a 5-2 victory against the Winnipeg Jets at BB&T Center on Thursday.
Mike Weaver, Dmitry Kulikov and Tom Gilbert each added an assist as the Panthers defense finished the night with seven points.
"I thought our whole team really stepped up defensively today," Gudbranson said. "We really stepped up and took care of our own end first and really forced them into nothing. That was really huge for us today."
Tomas Fleischmann also had a goal and an assist as he continues to break out of his scoring slump. The goal was the first in 15 games for Fleischmann, Florida's leading scorer in each of the past two seasons, and came two nights after he snapped a nine-game pointless streak with an assist in a 4-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators.
Nick Bjugstad and Jimmy Hayes also scored for the Panthers, who snapped a three-game losing streak and wrapped up a five-game homestand with a 2-3-0 record.
Acquired in the trade that sent Kris Versteeg to Chicago on Nov. 14, Olsen was playing in his 33rd NHL game. Hayes, the other prospect acquired in the Versteeg trade, scored his second goal in a Panthers uniform when he made it 5-2 with 2:44 left in regulation.
"It's awesome," Olsen said. "It's your first NHL goal. It was obviously exciting, but it's even better to get the win and get off that three-game losing streak. That's what we're excited about, and we've got to keep rolling from here."
Gudbranson used a little finesse and a little brute strength to be the driving force behind the two goals that turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead the Panthers would never relinquish.
He tied the score 1-1 at 14:02 of the first period with a blistering slap shot from the top of the right circle.
He then picked up the second assist when Olsen gave Florida a 2-1 lead at 3:31 of the second period. Gudbranson delivered a big check on Jets defenseman Tobias Enstrom behind the Florida net, then pushed the puck forward to start a 3-on-2 rush while two Winnipeg players shoved him to show their displeasure with the hit.
"I think they were both trying to fight me," Gudbranson said. "I was just trying to get up the ice. I didn't expect that. I saw a little break for our guys and Olly jumped up, saw the play and had a great shot. It's great to get that monkey off the back, get that first one and definitely move forward in the right way."
Scottie Upshall fed a cross-ice pass to Olsen, who fired a wrist shot from the slot that beat Ondrej Pavelec high to the stick side.
"Guddy made a big hit behind the net and everyone just kind of seemed to focus on Guddy and the puck was just laying there," Olsen said. "I picked it up, broke it out, went down 3-on-2 and we got that goal. It was huge. It turned the tide of the game."
Tim Thomas, making his 13th consecutive start in net, stopped 29 shots. One of his saves in the first period was the 11,000th of his NHL career.
Andrew Ladd and Olli Jokinen scored for the Jets, who had won three of their first four games on a season-long six-game road trip that concludes Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Jets had moved over the .500 mark with an impressive 5-2 victory against the New York Rangers on Monday.
"The game wasn't very good," Jets coach Claude Noel said. "It wasn't really the score; obviously, the score is the area, but for me it was the way we played. We didn't have very many good players, we didn't play very intelligent. For as good as we were in New York, we played way different tonight. We had a hard time getting guys engaged in the game."
Pavelec made 21 saves for the Jets. Winnipeg was already without forward Evander Kane and also had to play without forward Michael Frolik, who was a late scratch because of flu-like symptoms.
Upshall added two assists for Florida as he extended his point streak to five games (2-4-6). His first assist was the 100th of his career.
It's the fourth time this season the Panthers have scored four or more goals; they've won all four games.
After Olsen's goal, Fleischmann made it 3-1 at 17:59 of the second when he stood in front of the net and put home the rebound of Weaver's wrist shot from the point. It was Fleischmann's first goal since Nov. 2, when he scored against the Washington Capitals.
"I did not expect to go through a month like that, but it happens," Fleischmann said of his drought. "I'm happy it's behind me."
The second assist on Fleischmann's goal went to Kulikov, who was back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch Tuesday against Ottawa. The Panthers also welcomed back veteran forward Tomas Kopecky, who missed five games because of an upper-body injury.
Rookie Aleksander Barkov did not play in the last 12 minutes of the third period after sustaining a lower-body injury, but the injury isn't believed to be serious.
Bjugstad made it 4-1 at 5:37 of the third period, eight seconds after the end of a power play. Upshall's tip of Gilbert's shot went just wide, but Bjugstad retrieved the puck behind the net and his wraparound attempt as he fell to the ice bounced off Pavelec and into the net.
Jokinen, who turned 35 on Thursday, scored at 12:45 when he one-timed Devin Setoguchi's pass from behind the net. The Jets kept up the pressure after Jokinen's goal and Chris Thorburn hit the post about a minute later.
Ladd opened the scoring 5:27 into the game with an easy tap-in after Thomas stopped Blake Wheeler's shot from the wing and Bryan Little centered a pass from the side of the net.
It would pretty much all be downhill from there for the Jets, who had allowed seven goals in their previous four games.
"It's very disappointing," Jokinen said. "Every single one of us feels we could have played better. We have to fix that fast. You've got to be 15, 16, 17 games over .500 to make the playoffs. If you're not ready to battle and stick with the game plan, you're not going to win."

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When I was raking leaves in my back yard awhile back, two of my next-door neighbors' boys were playing in their own back yard. All of us were minding our own business, but sometimes the boys' conversation became a bit loud, so I couldn't help but notice. I don't remember the exact context, but one of them became agitated and said something like, "Alright, already! Geez, you sound like a broken record!"
This amused me, because both of these boys were less than ten years old, so they probably had never even seen a record, much less heard a broken one. I concluded that one of their parents used this term from time to time, and they adopted the term after hearing it frequently.
This isn't unusual, because most words we all use were just picked up from conversation. We were coached along the way, but no one actually taught us to talk. This is fine for informal conversation. If someone misuses a term, dire consequences generally don't result. For example, I once heard a crtic say, "Her performance was so spellbinding, she literally held the audience in the palm of her hand." Either the performer had a hand the size of Godzilla's, or the audience consisted of ants. Of course, the critic meant figuratively, not literally, but I guess she thought literally sounded intelligent.
Perhaps I'm nit picking — figuratively, of course. However, after becoming a technical editor years ago, it was drilled into me (figuratively, of course) that we must write what we mean. Sure, some of the best lessons are learned though experience. But the best way to gain a thorough understanding of a subject is through professional training. After all, think about where you'd be today if all you knew about the birds and bees was what you learned from your buddies in grade school.


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LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient are cross-platform C
libraries that allow you to easily implement VNC server or
client functionality in your program. If you don't know VNC
and what it's good for, read about it here.
See the documentation for an API reference, the build howto for info on how to compile the libraries on your platform and the project news for a list of recent changes.
To give an example, the simplest server looks like
#include <rfb/rfb.h> int main(int argc,char** argv) { rfbScreenInfoPtr server=rfbGetScreen(&argc,argv,400,300,8,3,4); server->frameBuffer=malloc(400*300*4); rfbInitServer(server); rfbRunEventLoop(server,-1,FALSE); return(0); }
This sample creates a 400x300 frame buffer in true colour. There are 4 bytes per pixel, because 3 (which are only used instead of all 4) is such an odd number. Then the server is initialized and a blocking event loop is started.
Of course, this program only shows rubbish (whatever is in the frame buffer you malloc'd) and does not do any error checking at all, but it proves that writing a server can be very easy.
For more in-depth information (especially if you want to write a real server or client) look into the provided examples and into the documentation for LibVNCServer and LibVNCClient.
LibVNCServer and LibVNCClient are free software licensed under the GPL. If you use them, you must adhere to the terms of th GPL.
Looking for help or want to participate in the active development of LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient? Subscribe to the libvncserver-common mailing list.
LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient now have a new website (inspired by the FFmpeg one) including API documentation.
LibVNCServer now sports a brand new method to extend the protocol, thanks to Rohit Kumar! He also extended the library to support RFB 3.7. Furthermore, he contributed TightVNC file transfer protocol support to LibVNCServer!
LibVNCClient now features ZRLE decoding!
Another round of valgrinding completed. This time it is augmented by changes instigated by using Linus' sparse. In the course, the complete sources were converted to ANSI C.
The member socketInitDone was renamed to socketState, and no longer contains a bool value. This allows us to quit a server cleanly from the event loop via rfbShutdownServer(), so that the structures can be cleaned up properly. This is demonstrated in examples/example.c.
The function rfbMakeMaskFromAlphaSource() applies a Floyd-Steinberg dither to approximate a binary mask from a cursor with alpha channel. A demonstration can be found in test/cursortest.c.
Renamed this page to reflect that LibVNCClient is actually very usable.
Karl Runge has done awesome work to support cursors with alpha blending! You can try it with x11vnc as in CVS, or wait a few more days for x11vnc to be released officially!
Happy new year! It begins with a new macro recorder based on LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient using perl as script language. The macro recorder is itself written in perl, and writes out perl scripts, acting as a VNC proxy, so that you can connect a vncviewer to it, and it records all your input, possibly looking for a certain button, image, word, etc. before continuing. I called it VisualNaCro, and it's in CVS.
Just before christmas, a new release! Version 0.7 brings you the first non-beta of LibVNCServer...
Finally MinGW32 support. I only had problems with a vncviewer which wouldn't connect to localhost: I use SDLvncviewer...
LibVNCClient is getting better and better... Expect a very powerful client soon!
LibVNCServer has automated test, thanks to LibVNCClient (included). It doesn't do ZRLE yet, and exposed some bugs, the only remaining of these is CoRRE (not sure yet if it's a bug in the client or the server).
Added Success stories.
The API was cleaned up. The structures and functions now have a prefix (mostly "rfb", sometimes "zrle" or "sra") in order not to clutter the namespace, while the structure's members don't need such a prefix.
I finally came around to fix mouse behaviour in QEMU's VNC frontend for Windows 98. Please find the patch here. If mouse behaves strangely, try to wiggle the pointer to a free spot on the desktop, hit Ctrl+Shift and release them. After that, the mouse should behave nicely.
After silently being added almost a year ago, libvncclient's API was modified for real use, and three examples were added: ppmtest (a very simple demo), SDLvncviewer, and vnc2mpg (which lets you record your VNC session to a movie). Automated regression tests of the libraries are planned.
x11vnc-0.6.1 was released! This reflects the long way the original, small example has gone, improved in many possible ways and having a broad user base.
Some patches were created for QEMU, a FAST! emulator by Fabrice Bellard, to control those sessions with a vncviewer.
LibVNCServer is listed as a project using Valgrind!
Version 0.6 is out! x11vnc performance boosts! You no longer need a c++ compiler in order to have ZRLE coding! LinuxVNC was added (This is to the text console what x11vnc is to X11)!
rdp2vnc is in rdesktop's CVS.
A preliminary patch for rdesktop (CVS) to make rdp2vnc, a translator from Windows Terminal Server's protocol to VNC's protocol, is available. It needs a new version of libvncserver; try CVS until I release 0.6.
Version 0.5 is out! Features include autoconf based configure, rpm package (YMMV), cleanup of directory structure, NEW x11vnc! ZRLE encoding! HTTP tunnelling through LibVNCServer's HTTP support! Many bug fixes!
Version 0.4 is out! Biggest feature: NewFB encoding. Quite a few bugfixes also (Thanks to all!).
A new version of rdesktop+vnc is available! (Includes support for other platforms keyboard mapping with plain rdesktop!)
Added a link to my homepage at the end.
I released the rdp2vnc extensions as well as patches for general keyboard handling, working inside Xvnc and process_text2 (the famous "font:" error) to rdesktop. Please find it on the download page.
A snapshot of LibVNCServer and RDP2VNC is now available. You can also download the diff against rdesktop-1.1.0. rdp2vnc also contains the patches for keyboards other than PC keyboards, and you can specify "-k fr" again.
LibVNCServer uses CMake, so you can build via:
mkdir build cd build cmake .. cmake --build .
For some more comprehensive examples that include installation of dependencies, see the Unix CI and Windows CI build setups.
If building for Android (see the NDK CMake guide as a reference):
mkdir build cd build cmake .. -DANDROID_NDK=
-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE= -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL= -DWITH_PNG=OFF # NDK not shipping png per default cmake --build .
That's it....


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1) Don't call this device you use to go hunting on the Wii a "gun," even if you hold it like one. 2) Don't make it look like one either.
Those are some of the notes that the creators of the "hunting controller" for the June-targeted Wii game Bass Pro Shops The Hunt worked with while developing a peripheral for their virtual animal-shooting experience. Pscylone Games' Chip Pedersen, who demoed The Hunt for Kotaku in New York City yesterday, explained that Nintendo prefers that gun-controllers for the Wii aren't called gun controllers (the Wii-maker's own is called the Zapper). And stores and moms, Pedersen said, would prefer the thing doesn't even look like a gun.
So we've got the sci-fi looking rifle instead, an unusual gaming peripheral that lets players take aim at virtual deer in a game that is otherwise largely built for authenticity. Consider that this first-person shooter, which requires the patient hunting of animals and includes authentic fauna and hunting techniques, even lowers your in-game rifle when your character runs, a hunting standard if not a video game one.
As you can see in the video, the Wii's Remote and Nunchuk are embedded in the casing of The Hunt's controller, allowing players to feel the shape and heft of a hunting rifle, if not the kick.
The Hunt's gun controller may look odd, but it's hard to object to this type of design in light of a recent tragedy that involved a Wii gun controller that looked like a real gun.


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Game Developer Magazine's 2012 In Review
January 1, 2013 Page 1 of 4
A reprint from the December issue of Gamaustra's sister publication Game Developer magazine, this feature asks notable developers to contribute what made 2012 significant to them. You can subscribe to the print or digital edition at GDMag's subscription page, download the Game Developer iOS app to subscribe or buy individual issues from your iOS device, or purchase individual digital issues from our store.
From crowdfunding to studio shutdowns, 2012 has been a big year for the game industry. We've seen indie studios surge to the forefront on new and established platforms, new business models and dev tools lower the barrier to entry, and all kinds of major changes that will undoubtedly be felt for years to come. Game Developer polled accomplished industry veterans and indies alike for their respective takes on what we're glad to be done with, looking forward to working with, year-end shout-outs, and more.
Markus Persson (Mojang)
Out with the old: Physical distribution. Finally consoles are starting to catch up to PC and mobile and offer most of their game content digitally. Soon we'll be able to fully cut out this unnecessary middleman between the game developer and game player. The only downside to this is that game libraries in basements will look a lot less impressive when they're just posters of screenshots of your game collections.
In with the new: Personalities. With the rise of crowdfunding and indie games, there's been a stronger focus on the people behind the games again. This is a wonderful thing for me as a gamer, as I get to know whose vision I'm playing through and maybe understand the creators through their work. As a game developer, it also helps to get new heroes to look up to, which is something I miss dearly from the good old days.
Shout-outs: I could go on forever on this; it's been a great year! Brian [Provinciano] managed to release Retro City Rampage, and it is glorious; Terry [Cavanagh] made a game even more frustrating than VVVVVV, and it is wonderful; Firaxis somehow managed to make a worthy remake of X-COM, and it's killing all my free time; and Valve managed to go another year without giving us Gordon.
I told you so: Microsoft's choice of setting up their own store was a very predictable one, and it's a sad one, for a wide range of reasons.
One-sentence review: You know it's been a good year when you end up with a large stack of must-play games you haven't had time to play, and 2012 has been very good so far.
David Helgason (Unity)
Out with the old: Old things don't go away, but rather take a backseat to the new shiny things. It's not like the console industry died in 2012, and Zynga-style social games are still being played.
In with the new: What I had feared (and predicted) was that there would be a strong consolidation on mobile, with a few leaders emerging to dominate the business. This didn't happen, and instead the biggest hits are still being created by new and/or small studios. Remember that even Rovio was a small company until after Angry Birds, and a tiny studio like Boss Alien created CSR Racing with Unity, which is probably going to make between $50M and $100M (!) in its first year. And there are many, many examples of this.
Shout-outs: Madfinger's Dead Trigger: an insanely cool triple-A zombie shooter on your iPad. InXile's Wasteland 2: badass indie development by rock-star developers doing crowdsourcing and running an open-development style. Defiant's Ski Safari: infinitely addictive and polished game, which started as a Unity-based Flash game, and which I still play daily on my iPhone after nearly a year. Endless Space: a visually impressive Unity-based 4X space-strategy game, created in a radically open-development style. Oh, and amazing UI work, too!
I told you so: How the mobile game industry "grew up." Last year, it became evident that small teams could have great successes in terms of ROI, and make a few million dollars with a great game. What became obvious this year is that similar or only slightly larger teams now make mobile hits whose revenues come into the range of console games, but with massively better ROIs. That's a big deal and is leading all of the big studios to jump in with full force (using Unity, of course).
One-sentence review: We finally stepped into a new era full force, where small studios are going to dominate, and where, soon, more players, games, and revenue will be on mobile devices than anywhere else.
Carey Chico (GDMag advisory board)
Out with the old: Gamification: I think we've discovered that this isn't really a game and this word is way too buzzy to convey the next generation of gaming experiences tied with social applications. Ultimately, gamification isn't creating a game -- it's a way to fit a fun experience philosophy into a tiny crack of the social-application universe.
In with the new: Windows 8! I think what they are doing is sublime. They are trying to get the world to transition out of desktop PCs and into something more intimate. I think the idea that the PC is dying is a misdirection that the mobile/tablet world uses as a rally call. In truth, the PC is transforming into a new experience in the same way the first Windows trumped DOS. I get it.
Shout-outs: Hawken. I think Meteor Entertainment showed a guerilla product at the right moment at the right time and are capitalizing on the fury surrounding their upcoming launch. They are an example of a dev startup doing it right. They are also coming out at the height of the session-based gaming craze, most clearly driven by the success of World of Tanks.
I told you so: I saw 38 Studios' closure coming a while ago. From when they first started working on Copernicus, to the ensuing survival strategies of buying Big Huge Games to generate early revenue, this company showed struggle from the beginning. Also, hardcore games on Facebook -- I knew this was the next step in the evolution of social games.
One-sentence review: Stop copying Angry Birds!
Mare Sheppard (Metanet Software)
Out with the old: Prefacing the names of apps, software, books, interior goods, and basically everything with "i," à la "iPad," in a now-awkward attempt to be clever. Oh wait, we haven't stopped doing that yet, have we? Sigh. Maybe next year.
In with the new: There have been a lot of efforts to encourage and welcome new creative people into the world of making games lately, which is great! It's something I personally think is an important part of the vibrant future of this industry -- I can't wait to play these newbies' second and third and fourth games.
Everybody can make games, and it's important that interested people give it a try, but it's equally important that they stick with it and learn and evolve -- as we each refine our craft, that's how our best ideas and concepts develop, so that potential is very exciting to me. It means better games for all of us!
Shout-outs: Queasy Games with Sound Shapes. It was an immensely challenging project for the team, and I was impressed at the way they persevered through the difficulties and focused on their intent to create something beautiful, and then I was doubly impressed at how well they pulled that off. Sound Shapes is gorgeous to look at and easy on the ears, but the best part is how it inspires players to become musicians themselves. Very cool.
I told you so: We at Metanet have been trying to finish a project that we've been working on for... geez, it feels like forever. It was supposed to be finished in September, but the deadline slipped again. I had a hunch. Seriously though, December. It's happening.
One-sentence review: There were so many updates in the last year to projects I'm eagerly anticipating, especially on the indie side!
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Can we find a real and viable solution for women who need banking services?
Since the beginning of time, women have been at a disadvantage when looking for financial loans. One reason is that women have less control over land and assets that can be used as traditional collateral. This puts a real damper on her ability to launch an enterprise or, even when she manages to launch one successfully, to take it to the next level.
In Africa, women's entrepreneurial knack is self-evident to anyone who sets foot on the continent—just look at any roadside! So, this problem is likely quite costly and holding back development. Can we solve it somehow?
As it happens, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, an entity that spun off from Harvard's Center for International Development in 2010, has developed a tool using something called "psychometric testing", which measures personal characteristics such as knowledge, skills, education, abilities, attitudes and personality traits as a means to predict how likely it is a person will pay back a loan. And it is proving quite effective. Could this be a way to finally help find a solution for women who don't have any credit history or hold formal title to assets that are traditionally accepted as collateral?
The World Bank Group's Global Practice for Finance and Markets (GFMDR) started thinking seriously about this, and worked to see it if it could be integrated in a Bank-funded project in Ethiopia (the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project, US$50m). Francesco Strobbe leads the project team, and started to discuss the issue with us in the World Bank's Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL). "I thought this was a great opportunity to test some innovative measures to see if we could reach a real breakthrough with much potential for women entrepreneurs—in Ethiopia and elsewhere."


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How did you get your start at Lowe's?
Tell us a bit about your current role at Lowe's.
What would you say is the biggest challenge retailers are facing?
Are there any IT innovations you are particularly excited about?
As a customer, what's your biggest pet peeve?
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Author Notes: My boyfriend is an overall carb hater (I never thought that was possible), but he's a sucker for sweet potatoes. The bacon gets crisp and the onions get soft and make this gratin super delicious. Individual portions mean I can make a big batch, and reheat it later as a last-minute side dish. —Erin McDowell
Food52 Review: Sweet potatoes are often made even more sweet using ingredients like maple syrup, brown sugar, molasses, and even marshmallows. We like that apartmentcooker goes definitively in the other direction by adding bacon, parmesan, onion, garlic and a crème fraîche bechamel, while still paying homage to more traditional recipes (she adds a tablespoon of brown sugar to the bechamel, with delightful results). Thinly sliced sweet potatoes are layered in the baking dish (we used one dish big enough for two rather than individual ones) with bechamel, crisped bacon, and raw onions and garlic, which infuse the gratin with their fragrance. A sprinkling of parmesan on top helps with browning, but if you want a little more color, pop the gratin under the broiler for a few minutes at the end. We found that 20-25 minutes baking time was perfect for a two-person baking dish. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 2
pieces bacon, diced
cup onion, diced
teaspoon garlic, minced
cups sweet potatoes, thinly sliced (1/8" thick)
tablespoons butter
tablespoons flour
cup whole milk
tablespoons creme fraiche
teaspoon nutmeg
tablespoon brown sugar
salt and black pepper, to taste
parmesan cheese, grated, to taste
- Lightly grease 2 individual baking dishes (I used a bowl that holds roughly 1 1/2 cups). Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small saute pan, cook the bacon over medium heat until crisp. Remove from heat, and toss with onion and garlic.
- In a small pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the flour, and cook until the mixture is well combined but still pale. Stir in the milk and the creme fraiche.
- Reduce the heat to low and bring the bechamel to a simmer. Stir in nutmeg, brown sugar, salt, and pepper.
- Layer 4-6 slices of potato at the base of each of the prepared baking dishes. Top with a few tablespoons of bechamel, and a few spoonfuls of the bacon mixture. Repeat with another layer of potatoes, another layer of bechamel, and more bacon. Top with one last layer of potatoes, and spoon remaining bechamel over the top. Finish with a sprinkling of grated parmesan cheese.
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Fearing that the legal playing field could be tilted against consumers, a group of federal and private consumer agencies have filed briefs in a U.S. Supreme Court case that threatens to shift the cost of a lawsuit to consumers in debt collection cases.
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Collectors have in the past absorbed court costs in "good faith" suits by consumers, even if the consumer loses. It's an exception, written into federal rules, to the usual "loser pays" rules that apply to most lawsuits. Without it, people would be discouraged from suing debt collectors, say the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Board and a group of private consumer advocacy groups in legal briefs filed this month.
In doing so, they say they're attempting to preserve a delicate legal balance between consumers, who sometimes fail to pay their debts, and debt collectors, who occasionally break the law by harassing or threatening consumers who are behind on their bills.
There has been a surge in the number of cases filed against debt collectors under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the 1977 federal law that regulates the activities of third-party debt collectors.
The case before the court
The one that made it to the Supreme Court, though, could discourage such suits, the agencies say. The case, known as Marx v. General Revenue Corp., revolves around the experience of Olivea Marx, a Colorado woman who racked up student debt and failed to pay it, then was contacted by a debt collector. Marx, a single mother with two young children and a low-paying job, claimed the collector's vigor went beyond the limits of the law. It called her several times a day, she said, and illegally threatened to garnish half her wages and sent a collection-related fax to her employer. She sued.
The court disagreed, finding that the debt collector's contact with the woman's employer did not violate the law because it did not specifically mention her debt. The court ordered her to pay $4,543 in costs -- nearly all of which compensated the debt collector for hiring a court reporter and bringing in witnesses.
In a typical lawsuit, that wouldn't be unusual. Ordinarily, the prevailing party in American courts is entitled to recoup the costs of the case -- a venerable legal concept that discourages frivolous suits by making the loser pay, and one which General Revenue Corp. argued was only fair to apply to Marx.
A lawyer for General Revenue Corp. could not be reached. But in a statement, Mark Schiffman, vice president of public affairs for ACA International -- The Association of Credit and Collection Professionals, a trade group, says having the losing side pay in debt-collection cases "is a matter of fairness and consistency."
The association, he says, "supports the position that the law does not prevent a successful defendant in an FDCPA action from recovering costs, even if the action is not brought in bad faith and for the purposes of harassment."
Exception for debt collection cases
The case hinges on the court's interpretation of how the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act applies to the issue of litigation costs: Consumer groups say Congress crafted an exception for debt-collection cases. Industry groups say it didn't.
Debt collectors in the past have had to absorb the costs of cases filed under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) unless the debtor was found to have filed under bad faith or with harrassment in mind. Though the judge in Marx's case ruled her suit was not frivolous or in bad faith, it still ordered her to pay costs. In December, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling. In May, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Arguments are scheduled for November, on the single narrow question of "whether a prevailing defendant in an FDCPA case may be awarded costs where the lawsuit was not 'brought in bad faith and for the purpose of harassment.'"
With the help of the Justice Department, the FTC and CFPB filed a brief in mid-August in support of the woman's position that she should not pay litigation costs. A group of private consumer agencies, including the AARP and National Consumer Law Center, filed a similar brief on the case. Representatives of General Revenue, the debt collector, have yet to file their arguments with the court.
"The need for effective enforcement of the act may be even more pressing today than it was in 1977 when the FDCPA was enacted. Debt loads have increased exponentially and technological advances have transformed the collections industry, exposing more consumers to abuses," the AARP/NCLC brief argues. The "limitation on awards to prevailing defendants avoids the painful irony of vulnerable debtors routinely being saddled with additional debt through the operation of a statute designed to protect them."
Chilling effect on suits?
Peter Barry, a Minneapolis lawyer who files suits on behalf of consumers against debt collectors, says debt collection companies would love to discourage legitimate lawsuits by raising the possibility that the plaintiff would have to pay attorney's fees or other costs if the suit is unsuccessful.
"The debt collection industry is very intent on shutting down Fair Debt Collection Practices cases," he says. "They'd very much like to have a weapon."
Suing debt collectors can already be intimidating, he says, especially for consumers who represent themselves.
Allen Harkleroad, a consumer advocate and author of "Stick It to Sue Happy Debt Collectors" and "Suing Abusive Debt Collectors," says the best advice for people pursued by debt collectors is to set up a credit freeze with the major credit reporting agencies, which will stop collectors from accessing your information and using it against you. (It would also inhibit your ability to receive new credit.)
He says he has filed about a dozen suits under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Georgia Business Practices Act, and that in all but two cases, the debt collectors offered him a settlement within weeks of his filings.
Consumers should not be intimidated, Harkleroad says, whether they are suing or being sued.
"Half the battle is just showing up in court," he says.


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A bit nonplussed with the McLaren MP4-12C? These photoshops of the new car wearing the McLaren F1 GTR's classic racing liveries should fix that.
The problem with the new McLaren doesn't just appear to be the baffling name, but the apparent lack of headline performance figures amid the inarguable impressive level of technology. Remember, when it was released in 1992, it was, by far, the fastest road-legal car ever made, hitting 240 MPH. In fact, since cars like the Bugatti Veyron and SSC Ultimate Aero TT use forced induction, the F1 remains the fastest naturally aspirated car ever. The MP4? It should hit 200 MPH and will likely be more a rival for the Lamborghini Gallardo and Ferrari 458 Italia than it will ultra high-end hyper cars.
McLaren hasn't announced any plans to race the MP4-12C or create a race-ready version of the GTR, but if they do, we hope to see it painted like this. [JonSibal via 0-60]


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CNN Presents: The Women Who Would Be Queen
Aired April 30, 2011 - 20:00 ET
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: A prince looking for love. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Catherine and Prince William have been going up together. O'BRIEN: A commoner destined to be queen. WILLIAM, PRINCE OF WALES: My mother's engagement ring. It's my way of making sure my mother didn't miss out today. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A great day for the royal family. O'BRIEN: One family hoping to get it right this time around. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Princess Diana has died. O'BRIEN: All haunted by memories of a fairytale turned tragedy. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Photographers -- they're paparazzi. PRINCE WILLIAM: I've been trying to rest this (INAUDIBLE) past and I'm looking forward to seeing what the future holds. O'BRIEN: Will this time be different? (On camera): April 29th, 2011, Westminster Abbey, the location of the much anticipated wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Ironically, it was this abbey where his mother Princess Diana was laid to rest in 1997. And in the years between that memorial and this celebration, the legacy of Diana, and the tragedy of her life were critical in Prince William's journey to the altar. JULES KNIGHT, FRIEND OF WILLIAM AND KATE: I think that she's probably never far from his mind. I think he thinks about her every day. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Jules Knight says he's been friends with Prince William for more than a decade. (On camera): Did he give any inklings about the relationship he had with his mother? KNIGHT: I think it was evidenced to everybody that they were incredibly close. He's mentioned on a number of occasions that she was never far from his mind. William going through this sort of right of passage where you're growing up and you don't have that incredibly important figure in your life. It must be incredibly difficult because you think, oh, I wish my mom was here for that. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Rights of passage that were not easy, given the difficulty of growing up in a broken home. KNIGHT: He went through the pain of the divorce. He then went through the agony of his mother's death and it must have had an incredibly profound effect upon the way that he then wanted to conduct his own relationships. O'BRIEN: Despite Diana's best efforts her sons grew up in the same kind of contentious homes she did. Diana was just 7. Half William's age when her family was also shattered by a bitter divorce and nasty custody battle. (On camera): So this is the room where Diana was born. MARY CLARK, PRINCESS DIANA'S FORMER NANNY: Yes, this is where Diana was born. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Mary Clark was Diana's nanny. CLARK: She said I will never, ever marry unless I'm really in love because if you're not in love, you're going to get divorced and I never intend to be divorced. CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON, AUTHOR, WILLIAM AND KATE: She never really had a happy centered home life. I think she spent all of her adult life searching for that. O'BRIEN: Christopher Andersen who's written several books about the royal family says that in Diana's search for a happy home life, she had a unique confidant. William. ANDERSON: As a small boy, William witnessed a lot of this. And William because sort of the fixer. And here's this little boy when his mother locks herself in the bathroom after an argument with Charles. And she's sobbing and he's just little, you know, 7-year-old William slipping tissues under the door and saying I hate to see you sad, mommy. He was always somebody who's just very, very sensitive to other people's feelings. So he walks into this situation with Kate. He meets Kate and Kate exposes him to a happy family for the first time. O'BRIEN (on camera): Stability? ANDERSON: Stability. O'BRIEN (voice-over): A happiness and normalcy that Diana was desperate for her sons to find. Her close friend Lana Marks remembers. LANA MARKS, PRINCESS DIANA'S FRIEND: She wanted to have them experience as much of a normal life or exposure to a normal life as possible. She also wanted to make sure that they shared enormous love. O'BRIEN: But finding love would not be easy for a prince, the heir apparent to the British monarchy. William lived with a kind camera lens keenly focused on his every move. A spotlight that followed him from a very early age. KEN WHARFE, FORMER ROYAL BODYGUARD: I remember William's first day of pre-prep school in north London. O'BRIEN: Ken Wharfe was Diana and the prince's bodyguard for more than eight years. WHARFE: Diana said to him, now William, when we get to school, there'll be lots of photographers. And he said, you know, I don't like photographers in this sort of very just William-esque way. And we arrived at the school and there outside the school about 120 or 130 photographers waiting for William's first day of school. What she was trying to say to William on his first day of school, look, you've got to live with this. You're going to get this for the rest of your life. He now knows that. O'BRIEN: It would be something that William would learn to live with. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Princess Diana has died. O'BRIEN: That is, until his mother's death. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The French Police criminal unit is going -- O'BRIEN: An accident that many, including William, blamed on the aggressive paparazzi. WHARFE: I did think he drew a picture of, I didn't like them, and wasn't prepared even to debate the subject. O'BRIEN: Not long after the crash, the palace and the press forged a gentleman's agreement giving both William and his brother Harry the privacy to grow up. The world got quick glimpses, though. All carefully choreographed by the palace. But aside from that, William seemed to shun the media. And with that distance, he was able to grow up and sew his wild oats. ANDERSON: He began dating some of the more beautiful titled ladies. He tried an online romance with Britney Spears at one point. It never really got off the ground. O'BRIEN: It was in the year between Eton and going to university in Scotland that William worked in Kenya and met the woman many say was his first love, Jecca Craig. ANDERSON: They became romantically involved. He staged a mock engagement. It was kind of a tongue-and-cheek kind of thing. But you know he asked her to marry him jokingly at the foot of Mt. Kenya. O'BRIEN: A place that will ironically play a key role in his engagement to Kate Middleton. But that's later. First, William would have to meet Kate. And that would happen at St. Andrews University. (On camera): Why would he go there? I mean all the other royals had gone there. KNIGHT: I think it was an attempt to get away from the public eye to some extent. I met him pretty much as soon as we arrived. And incredibly quickly, this group of friends formed. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Among his small intimate group of friends, a young woman whose background was anything but royal. KATE MIDDLETON, PRINCE WILLIAM'S FIANCEE: Actually I'm bright red and my hand sort of scuttled off. O'BRIEN: Ahead, when William met Kate. The awkward meeting that almost never happened. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: Fall, 2001, St. Andrews, Scotland. Kate Middleton met her prince. MIDDLETON: Actually I'm bright red and my hand sort of scuttled off, feeling very shy about meeting you. ANDERSON: Not long after William invited a number of friends to his dormitory room, she did this kind of automatically did this awkward curtsy and he reacted by simply spilling his drink on himself because he realized he would do things like this to put people at ease. And from that point on, they became friendly. O'BRIEN: In contrast to Kate, most of Williams' friends were aristocratic with considerable royal connections. Connections that his mother knew throughout her life. Princess Diana grew up in the shadows of the royal family. Her grandmother was a confidant to the queen. Diana was an aristocrat through and through. Kate was what the British call a commoner. She grew up a world away from country estates and Buckingham Palace. JOHN HAILEY, INNKEEPER: It's in an area of outstanding natural beauty. O'BRIEN: John Hailey is an innkeeper at Bucklebury, Berkshire. A small sleepy village 55 miles west of London. He met the Middletons 14 years ago when they first came into his pub, the Old Boot Inn. HAILEY: They're very nice, just very nice family, down to earth. Fairly, easy going, relaxed. Yes, a lovely family. ANDERSON: They were not wealthy. O'BRIEN (on camera): They were solidly middle class? ANDERSON: Absolutely. Solidly middle class. Hard working folks. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Carol Goldsmith and Michael Middleton met while working for a British airline. They married in 1980. Kate was born in 1982. Her early years were as ordinary as you can imagine. Baptized at a picturesque chapel, she was a brownie and liked to perform in plays and musicals. A simple life in the quiet English countryside. Friends say the closest the Middletons got to the royals was watching stories about them on TV. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: A marriage that captivated not just -- ANDERSON: When Charles married Diana in 1981, like the rest of the planet earth, they were glued to the set and watching every minute of it. Of course Carol dreamed someday of having her daughter enter that life but it seemed an impossible, I'm sure. O'BRIEN: Impossible that is until Carol Middleton, a stay-at-home mother stumbled on to a very lucrative career. ANDERSON: She had a talent for making goody bags for children's parties. And she really spun it into this Internet empire. Now the family quickly moved up the ladder. Within a couple of years, they were making millions of dollars a year. Hence, Kate was sent to some of the big most expensive and prestigious schools. O'BRIEN (on camera): Kate was 13 years old when she arrived at this exclusive school in the English countryside called Downe House, a school that catered to nobility and aristocracy. When she stepped foot on campus, she was outgoing girl who loved sports and learning. But soon that'll all change. ANDERSON: She became the victim of the mean girls in the school. There was malicious gossip about her background because she was one of the very girls from a working class background attending that school. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Many said Kate became miserable, shy and withdrawn, much like Diana when she first went to boarding school. PENNY WALKER, PRINCESS DIANA'S FORMER MUSIC TEACHER: She was very shy, though, I didn't really notice her. O'BRIEN: Penny Walker, Diana's music teacher at the West Heath School remembers. WALKER: It was -- full of unrests in her home life. That often affects children in their work. O'BRIEN (on camera): Were her bad grades troubling to her? WALKER: I think immensely troubling. And I think she tried really hard. But I think her concentration was elsewhere. O'BRIEN: On what? WALKER: Family. O'BRIEN (voice-over): With absentee parents, Diana was forced to struggle through on her own. Many say that the insecurity fostered in these years would stay with her for the rest of her life. It was very different for Kate Middleton, though. Her parents immediately switched their daughter to another nearby boarding school, Marlborough College. And the lessons she learned would make her stronger. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marlborough was a big school. I was there from age of 13 to 18. O'BRIEN: Ali Baines (ph) was a student with Kate at Marlborough. Now a performer with the singing group Lake. BAINES: Boarding schools, if they're not happy, are miserable. There's very, very few in between. O'BRIEN: And Kate's first day at Marlborough wouldn't be easy. ANDERSON: All the boys are on the other side of the dining hall and they hold up pieces of paper. And on those pieces of paper are numbers. She asked what's that all about, well, the boy always rate the girls on their looks. O'BRIEN (on camera): What was the numbers? ANDERSON: No guy rated her above -- at two. O'BRIEN: Two out of 10. ANDERSON: Two out of 10. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Carol Middleton once again stepped in. ANDERSON: Her mother actually set out to transform her. She combed out her lush chestnut hair. She got her wearing make-up for the first time and so when she reappeared in school, it was a new person. O'BRIEN (on camera): Kate became one of the most popular girls here at Marlborough. A tremendous athlete, a serious student but she also had a reputation as having a bit of a wild side. One friend said Kate frequently liked to moon the boys from her dorm room window. And it earned her the nickname Kate Middlebum. BAINES: It was reasonably happy school. It was quite fun and she was -- she was a very pretty girl, yes. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Yet Kate didn't date much. And despite her denials, many who knew her then insist she set her sights higher than prep school classmates. ANDERSON: I talked to too many friends who said, yes, she always had this picture over her bed in her dormitory. It was a picture of William. So she did have her sights set on him. O'BRIEN: Eerily reminiscent of another girl, decades earlier. WALKER: She was always known to adore Prince Charles. And her little bedroom cubicle had pictures of him all over it. O'BRIEN: While Diana knew Charles from the royal circles they both traveled in, Kate didn't know William at all. But she nearly had a chance in the winter of 2000. After her graduation from Marlborough both Kate and William traveled to Chile with the same youth volunteer group. But it turns out at different times. Malcolm Sutherland was their leader. MALCOLM SUTHERLAND, LEADER, RALEIGH INTERNATIONAL: I think it's incredible from the start that the fact that William and Kate they didn't even know each other. O'BRIEN: They just missed each other. On two separate trips, just weeks apart, they helped build buildings, teach English, even clean toilets in the same small town in Chile. SUTHERLAND: Kate's tough. She's a sporty, fit lady. She knew what she was about. She knew how to look after herself. O'BRIEN: While Kate missed William that winter he then started preparing for university. And this time, she wouldn't miss her prince. ANDERSON: Originally Kate wanted to go to Edinburgh University. When it was announced by the palace that William would be attending St. Andrews University, enrollment among women in St. Andrews jumped overnight by over 40 percent. O'BRIEN (on camera): Clearly Carol was a very hands-on, present, watchful mother. ANDERSON: In Kate's case, did she nudge her toward a relationship with the future king of England? Yes. And why not? You know? Because by putting her in proximity to William, magic happened. O'BRIEN (voice-over): A close friendship takes a passionate turn, when we come back. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: It's a night that rocked St. Andrew's University every year. A night that eight years ago shook up Prince William and Kate Middleton's friendship forever. March, 2002. The annual charity fashion show called "Don't Walk." A lingerie show where the models were nearly naked. Kate was no exception. Jules Knight was in the audience in that night with Prince William. KNIGHT: She looked great. O'BRIEN (on camera): And were people stunned? KNIGHT: Definitely. She wasn't what you call a kind of risque girl. She was pretty safe bet, quite conservative really in the way that she dressed and the way that she acted. And here she was not wearing that much, looking amazing. And all the guys, all of a sudden realized, wow. O'BRIEN: Kate is hot. ANDERSON: Kate is hot. Yes. He really wanted to start something. It was -- that was the point that William pursued her romantically and very quickly. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Up until that night, William and Kate's friendship had been purely platonic. Prince William remembers fondly. PRINCE WILLIAM: We were friends for over a year first. And it just sort of blossomed from then on. O'BRIEN: They bonded over their shared major of art history, early morning swims in the campus pool and their sense of humor. PRINCE WILLIAM: She's got a really naughty sense of humor, which kind of helps me because I've got a really dry sense of humor, so it was good fun, we had a really good laugh and then things happened. KNIGHT: You know you'd often see them sitting -- on a radiator at a house party and he had a bottle of JD by him and was sort of drinking away and they both sort of conduct their relationship and get to know each other as friends. O'BRIEN: Life with Prince William was quite the party. KNIGHT: I remember, you know, we walked out of a pub. W were quite drunk and we were walking down the street, about 10 of us. I saw a pellet gun on the floor. I picked it up and I started waving it around. And then he grabbed it out of my jacket pocket, and he was holding it in the air, and suddenly even in my drunken state, I was like this is probably not a good idea. What does this look like from behind? And I remember looking behind and there were these bodyguards looking incredibly agitated like what the hell is going on. O'BRIEN: But Kate always managed to stay in control. Richard Denim was another friend at St. Andrews. RICHARD DENIM, FRIEND: I wouldn't say that she was a particularly flighty, over-excitable type person. Very measured. Very controlled. That is perfect. Because you don't want someone who's going to be falling out of the king's road face down wasted sort of these sessions. O'BRIEN: William came to rely on Kate in good times and in bad. CHARLES WARREN, PRINCE WILLIAM'S LECTURER: He had all the same stresses and pressures as every student does. For some people -- O'BRIEN: Charles Warren was one of William's lecturers at St. Andrews. WARREN: He was panicking about approaching deadlines and, you know, struggling with some of it like -- you know, most of my students do. ANDERSON: That first year was really tough for William. He felt completely isolated from his friends and his family. He was so desperately unhappy that he after the first year he was determined to leave. And it really was Kate who talked him into staying. She said look, we'll both stick it out together. And if at the end of sophomore year we feel the same, we'll both leave. O'BRIEN: They stuck it out, though, and in their second year moved into this flat together with a couple of other friends. PRINCE WILLIAM: It sort of blossomed from there really which is -- we saw more of each other, you know, hang out a bit more and did stuff. So yes. MIDDLETON: You like my cooking? PRINCE WILLIAM: Your cooking is all right. It's been better. O'BRIEN: And it was in the spring of that year living together, 2002, that Kate hit the lingerie runway and William saw his close friend in a very different light. They quickly became more than just roommates. PRINCE WILLIAM: I do generally believe now especially, you know, being friends with one another is a massive advantage. O'BRIEN (on camera): The idea of a prince living with his girlfriend was unheard of for the House of Windsor. Diana was just 19 when she started dating Prince Charles. She lived here in a flat in London. He lived miles away in the palace. The entire courtship lasted just five months. And once they were engaged, Diana was whisked away to the Queen Mother's palace. DR. JAMES COLTHURST, FRIEND OF PRINCESS DIANA: She lost her independence. She sent her notes like that. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Dr. James Colthurst, a close friend of Diana's, remembers how abandoned she felt. Despite her aristocratic roots, she never seemed at home in the palace. (On camera): Was she incredibly lonely? COLTHURST: Very lonely. O'BRIEN: Did she tell you that? COLTHURST: Absolutely lonely. I think she wanted the prince to talk to her. She was expecting some romantic, you know, calls, and maybe some of that. And I think there was very, very little communication. And I think she found that very, very difficult. If that's how it was, fine, then she will, you know, bite her lip and hope it gets better after the wedding. O'BRIEN (voice-over): It didn't. And no one knew that better than Prince William. He would do it differently. He would get to know Kate and her family intimately. In those early dating days, William would travel to Kate's home in the English countryside often. ANDERSON: He started visiting the Middleton's home in the Bucklebury and he saw that indeed it was possible to have a happy family and a happy marriage in the Middleton's. And I think it's a big reason that Kate is the one. KNIGHT: She's not an aristocrat. She's not somebody who's grown up in a castle or a palace. She's sort of pretty normal really. And I think he loves going to dinner around the house in Berkshire and he loves being part of something which is actually standard. O'BRIEN: Local pub owner and Middleton friend John Hailey remembers when William would come to town. HAILEY: He just used to come in and book a table or just walk in and people would notice him. But they'd be left alone. O'BRIEN: But soon, that would all change. When the world discovered that these roommates were more than just friends. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Lemon, and here are your headlines this hour. Scary moments Sunday night on an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome. An apparently agitated passenger attacked a flight attendant on Alitalia flight 329 and demanded that the flight be diverted to Tripoli, Libya. Other flight attendants have mobilized the attacker and the plane and its 131 passengers landed safely in Rome. The attacker was taken in police custody. The flight attendant was taking to the airport emergency room for a checkup. Flights are coming and going again at Lambert Airport in St. Louis two days after a powerful tornado tore through the city. The clean up has just began for people living in the pathway. 750 homes were damaged. Some of them totally blown apart. Despite all that destruction, no reports of any deaths. Those are your headlines this hour. I'm Don Lemon. The "CNN PRESENTS" special, "The Women Who Would Be Queen" returns right now. O'BRIEN: The Swiss Alps. A holiday hot spot for the royal family. March, 2004, Prince William was about to let the world in on a secret. ARTHUR EDWARDS, THE SUN'S ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHER: The thing is, they were sharing a house in St. Andrews. We suspected, but you never know. O'BRIEN: For several years journalists like the "Sun's" royal photographer Arthur Edwards were left to wonder if William and Kate Middleton were a couple. Despite denials from the palace and Prince William. But that all changed on that spring day. With paparazzi in tow, William took to the slopes with his new love. EDWARDS: And we discovered that they were, in fact, an item. O'BRIEN: It was ironically on the ski slopes exactly 10 years earlier that Princess Diana had begged the paparazzi for privacy for her boys. DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES: As a parent, could I ask you to respect my children's space? O'BRIEN: Now, a decade later, her grown-up son took charge. Friend Jules Knight. (On camera): Was that sort of intentional -- KNIGHT: Absolutely. Yes. I mean -- O'BRIEN: We're going to let people know? KNIGHT: I mean if you take somebody to close to skiing which is the place that your family has been going for the last how many years, there's a pretty clear sign that he's saying to everybody, this is the girl in my life. O'BRIEN (on camera): Newspapers ran with the story. Headlines like this, finally, "Will Gets a Girl." And for the first time, the palace didn't deny the romance. (Voice-over): The couple would retreat behind the protective walls of St. Andrews. For the next year, they continued to live together, now without other roommates. They quietly spent more time with the royal family and it became clear to many that despite her commoner upbringing, Kate fit in, perhaps even better than Princess Diana. ANDERSON: Kate has shown absolutely no hesitation to accompany them on their hunting trips in Balmoral, to go fishing. Diana could barely tolerate to go to these polo matches of Charles' but Kate has never missed a polo match of William's. O'BRIEN: June, 2005. The private life William and Kate had enjoyed for nearly four years came to an end. The couple graduated from St. Andrews, left their safe, protected world behind, and plunged into a world of prying paparazzi. KNIGHT: There were more photographers than I had seen in my life and -- I mean from around the world, like 100. And the noise of the cameras going off and the flashes was intense. It was just -- you know, unbelievable. And I think everyone realized that the game was over because the protection that they had enjoyed had finished. O'BRIEN: In the months after graduation, the press followed them everywhere, to weddings, to polo matches. There were rumors of a break-up. Fleet Street was on fire. And in January, 2006, it only got worse. William began his royal military training in the English countryside, leaving Kate alone in London. ANDERSON: He was beginning his military career in essence around a lot of other young men who were going to make their lives in the military. And so there was a lot of heavy drinking going on, there was a lot of partying going on. O'BRIEN (on camera): Was he faithful to her? With the drinking and the partying? ANDERSON: Yes, Yes. Indeed he was. There were some indiscreet moments in bars when, you know, girls would come up to him and there'd be kissing. She handled it well. She wasn't happy with it, but she didn't end the relationship that they have. KNIGHT: It was probably difficult on their relationship. She was having that incredible scrutiny from the press. She walked out of her flat and be besieged by 20, 30 photographers. And that really couldn't go on. EDWARDS: And that was just chaos. They'd follow her to work, they'd stop her in the traffic with flashing through the window while she was trying to drive her car. Sitting on the wall at her office waiting for her to leave, waiting for her to arrive. That's when it's really stressful. O'BRIEN (voice-over): All dangerously reminiscent of what happened to William's mother. Just look at the images of Diana and Kate, both taken before they were engaged. For Diana, the pressure was often too much to bear. EDWARDS: I remember once Diana ran into a doorway and was crying. O'BRIEN: For Kate, it was different. Despite her young age, she seemed very smart and guarded with the press. Kate's friend, Richard Dennis. DENNIS: A nightclub that everyone goes to (INAUDIBLE) in south Kensington. And she was famous for always nipping into the bar, and checking her hair and makeup, before she left because she knew there were photographers waiting outside. O'BRIEN: And while Kate publicly held her own, privately, there were serious concerns. ANDERSON: She was not his fiancee, therefore she was not entitled technically to any kind of -- to any bodyguards. William is surrounded by bodyguards essentially at all times. And he realized that, you know, she was pretty much on her own. And he was afraid for her. O'BRIEN: On several occasions, Kate's lawyers, the same as used by the royal family, asked newspaper editors to leave Kate alone. They even threatened lawsuits. It helped a little. But Kate was still a target just like Princess Diana. And according to Christopher Anderson, Prince William who had always had nightmares about the night his mother died now had nightmares about Kate. ANDERSON: The accident that's happening isn't happening in the streets of Paris, it's happening in the streets of London and it's happening to Kate. O'BRIEN (on camera): So he worries about Kate? ANDERSON: At one point, he said, you know, I was born into this, she wasn't. And should I be subjecting her to this? So this was a constant question in their relationship. O'BRIEN (voice-over): A question that would drive the couple apart. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: Times were tough for Prince William and Kate Middleton. The paparazzi in hot pursuit, six years dating, no engagement. The pressure was intense. January, 2007, Kate's 25th birthday. ANDERSON: The inquest into Diana's death is raging. Headlines every day about the circumstances leading to Diana's death. There's this party for Kate at Boujis, their favorite nightclub. They come out and all of a sudden they were descended on by hundreds of paparazzi. And this huge response from bodyguards, they're shoved into the Land Rover. They speed away. But it was a moment at which it became quite obvious that it was just history repeating itself. O'BRIEN: Lawyers for William, the palace and the Middleton's lashed out. Two newspapers responded and stopped publishing paparazzi photos. But the pressure on William and Kate was still mounting. According to biographer Christopher Anderson, everything came to a head on Valentine's Day, 2007. ANDERSON: She thought she'd be getting that proposal. Instead, he gave her an Van Cleef & Arpels enamel compact. They started to quarrel bitterly. She really demanded that he commit, as they say. And William wasn't ready for it. He went to his father, Prince Charles. Prince Charles said you can't keep stringing this girl along. If you're not ready to ask her to marry you, break it off. And unfortunately he listened to his father's advice. O'BRIEN: A father perhaps trying to prevent history from repeating itself. MARY ROBERTSON, PRINCESS DIANA'S FRIEND: Charles would have been probably perfectly happy staying a bachelor indefinitely. O'BRIEN: Mary Robertson was Diana Spencer's boss and friend when she was dating Prince Charles in 1980. ROBERTSON: I think it was a great deal of pressure from his mother and father to get married and produce some heirs for the throne. And I think Diana was just sort of the right girl at the right time and the right place. O'BRIEN (on camera): Insiders say Charles did care deeply for Diana but was pressured to marry before he was ready. No surprise then that their son William would not be pressured to propose. Once spring day Kate was at work, an accessories buyer for this clothing company, when her cell phone rang. It was William. ANDERSON: She gets this call on her cell phone, she goes into the back room. And the other employees can hear what's going on in there. And it's not pretty. I mean she's hearing the news he's breaking it off. She doesn't want this to happen. There's an emotional conversation going on. But it's the big break-up call. O'BRIEN (voice-over): The "Sun" newspaper broke the news, April 14th, 2007. People were stunned. Kate looked grim. She packed up and headed home to her parents. ANDERSON: She's devastated. And Kate's mother, Carol, you know, says well, fight to get him back. I mean don't -- you know don't be defeated. O'BRIEN: Friends say it didn't take her long to rebound. St. Andrew's buddy and singer in the boy band Blake, Jules Knight. KNIGHT: I remember having lunch with her once they -- when they'd split up. And it was so quite evident that she was -- she was being very forthright. She said, right, I'm getting on with my life. Fine. Cool. And, you know, it hasn't worked out. That's behind me. Let's move on. O'BRIEN (on camera): How did Prince William react to the break-up? ANDERSON: He became unglued. I mean he really started to -- you know, drinking too much, he went out with his buddies to various clubs. He was very obviously adrift emotionally. It didn't help to have him see pictures of Kate having a time of her life. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Out on the Thames training for a cross Channel race or out on the town enjoying life as a single woman. KNIGHT: She's a smart girl. She made sure that she wasn't going to sort of run back to him and she very was calm and level headed and strong about it. And I think he thought oh my god, what have I done? O'BRIEN: She's going to go out, she's going to hang out with other people. And -- KNIGHT: Yes. I think he probably thought actually, I really want to be with this girl. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Nearly three months later, there were hints the two were getting back together. MIDDLETON: You find out things about yourself that maybe you haven't realized or I really value that time for me as well all though I didn't think it at the time. O'BRIEN: July 1st, 2007. Princess Diana's memorial concert. EDWARDS: Because I went to the after-concert party and they were, you know, just like normal. And I imagine that's when they -- I think made the decision perhaps that we're going to get married. O'BRIEN: For the next three years the couple would settle into life. William in the military, Kate by his side for graduations, ceremonies and other people's weddings. Then, October, 2010, the wait was finally over. It was a remote spot on the slopes of Mt. 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O'BRIEN: The first time most of the world would hear Kate Middleton speak. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Could you tell us how Prince William proposed? MIDDLETON: It was very romantic. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE) O'BRIEN: St. James Palace, November 16th, 2010. William and Kate's engagement announcement. MIDDLETON: It's quite a daunting prospect but (INAUDIBLE). William is a great teacher. And he'll be able to help me along the way. O'BRIEN: The confidence of a couple who had seemingly worked it all out. PRINCE WILLIAM: We went through a few stumbling blocks as every relationship does, but we picked ourselves up and carried on. And it's just really easy being with each other. It's really fun and I'm extremely funny and she loves that so it's been good. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE) O'BRIEN: A bit of humor in the face of unprecedented media tension. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. (INAUDIBLE) Hang on a second. EDWARDS: There are masses of people in there for that. You know and the questions were being fired. She coped with it very well. And he was so proud. It wasn't like his father and mother. They had about six photographers and two reporters. O'BRIEN: Three decades earlier a shy, soft spoken Diana seemed woefully unprepared for what lay ahead. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Has it been a strain trying to carry out a courtship without anyone knowing? DIANA: Yes, it has. O'BRIEN: And painfully unconnected to her fiancee. The world caught a glimpse with Charles' awkward admission. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And I suppose in love? DIANA: Of course. CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES: Barely in love, really. O'BRIEN (on camera): Diana and Charles seemed miles apart emotionally and physically. In the months leading up to the wedding, Diana was sequestered behind the gates and the guards of this palace, the Clarence House, while Charles was on the move splitting his time between his country estate High Grove, his London residence in St. James Palace. And traveling to places as far away as Australia. Diana was always left behind. COLTHURST: She was floating around in the Queen Mother's house without really a brief on what to do. She could have had some coaching. She could have had some -- this is about to become a world- sized job, you're going to have to learn some stuff, bits of geography, bits of history that would have been valid in the modern age, maybe even some political stuff. There was nothing. ANDERSON: It was assumed that Diana knew what she was walking into because Diana was of their class. O'BRIEN (on camera): She was an aristocrat. ANDERSON: She's one of them. Yes. O'BRIEN (voice-over): Kate would get all the coaching Diana sorely lacked. ANDERSON: Premarital counseling from the archbishop of Canterbury. I can't think of any other royal couple less in need of premarital counseling. They worked it all out. But they're willing to go through the motions of this sort of thing. And I think she's willing to go through the motions of being taught how to behave in front of the press. In terms of sort of specific ceremonial duties, royal etiquette, that sort of thing, yes, of course, there are certain things she's going to have to be taught. O'BRIEN (on camera): Diana got none of that? ANDERSON: No. O'BRIEN (voice-over): February 24th would be Kate's first test. Her first official royal appearance in north Wales, dedicating a lifeboat. William was by her side. EDWARDS: She learned to sing the Welch national anthem. She smiled at the right time. She coped with the wind beautifully. And she shook hands with the old and the young. When they were launching this lifeboat, and after she poured the champagne, William bowed to her with his hands like that in acknowledgement of the fact that this was probably her first public engagement and she did it brilliantly. O'BRIEN: Yet their lives are not dictated by palace and protocol. Unlike past royal couples, William and Kate settled far from London's palaces in a small house in remote North Wales. ANDERSON: William is an RAF search and rescue officer. It's dangerous business. He plucks stranded hikers off mountain tops. Meanwhile Kate is kind of keeping the home fires burning at their little house in North Wales. EDWARDS: There'll be no one cooking the dinner. There'll be no one cleaning the brass. They're going to be a lot different than Charles and Diana. There's going to be no big stately home. Well, not yet anyway. He's going to be -- go to work, do his shift, come home, chill, watch TV, probably get a video, get some pizza. That's the way they're going to live their life. O'BRIEN (on camera): It's the way Kate grew up in rural Bucklebury. Normal. Quiet. Once criticized as too common, it may be the very thing that helps keep this royal couple together. KNIGHT: A lot of the aristocrats are probably the least able to deal with that kind of thing. They don't often have a firm grasp of what it's like to live in the real world. I'd say that she was much better equipped to deal with the pressures of royal life than the average aristocrat was. O'BRIEN (on camera): Ironically. KNIGHT: Ironically. WHARFE: Unlike Diana, of course, Kate Middleton has been with William for nearly eight years. So she's had quite a lot of time to reflect and say, is this the lifestyle I want? This is what I'm going to get for the rest of my life. In that sense, she was a considerable way ahead of Diana in understanding and knowing exactly what was coming her way. O'BRIEN (voice-over): For William, history would not repeat itself. PRINCE WILLIAM: It's kind of almost why I had waited this long. As I wanted to give her a chance to see and to back out if she needed to, before it got too much. Because, you know, I'm not trying to learn from lessons done in the past. 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Let's pull apart Avencore's Pro Audio offering here and see what we get...
We'll start at the middle of this 2m cable. In it you'll find a 24 AWG carrier, with 20 strands of 0.12mm Oxygen Free Copper (OFC). Surrounding this are five layers of materials:
- PE Isolation: A layer of Polyethylene (PE) goes around the carrier to isolate it from exteral interference. PE Isolation also mitigates the Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) produced by current going through the carrier from leaking out. Although not a perfect insulator, PE is better than the cheaper PVC isolation found on a lot of cables and is more than enough to deal with the low voltages used in microphone cables.
- Conductive PVC: Next is a layer of Poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) modified to be conductive. Rather than isolating the EMI coming from the carrier (which is what the PE Isolation does), Conductive PVC, instead, insulates the carrier from outside EMI.
- Cotton Filler: Helps make the cable more round, helps prevent static discharge from inside the cable and absorbs some of the impact from being crushed by various things (chairs, trolleys, stage gear, humans of any kind, etc.).
- TCWB Shield: This is the main shield for the cable and also serves double duty as the grounding connection. Tinned Copper Wire Braid (TCWB) shielding is the best shielding a pro audio cable can have. When the copper is tinned its lifetime is extended. A braided shield has a higher percentage of coverage than a spiral shield while being much more forgiving to being bent than a foil shield.
- Outer PVC Jacket: Super not interesting, absorbs impacts, holds everthing together and helps take the strain off the internal components.
At each end we have some very well made connectors. All Avencore XLR cables feature high quality Yongsheng connectors for extended long term reliability and signal quality. Genuine Yongsheng connectors have superior contact points, higher quality internals and tighter tolerances when compared to inferior products and counterfeits. The pins on all Avencore XLR connectors (male and female) are gold plated for long term, high quality conductivity.
Avencore Platinum Series 2m XLR Cable Specs:
- Avencore 5 Year Warranty
- Well made and thought out, reliable, professional level cables
- Genuine high quality male Yongsheng XLR connector with gold plated pins
- Silver barrelled 6.5mm Jacks with gold plated tips
- 24 Gauge OFC Carriers (20 x 0.12mm strands per carrier)
- PE Isolation
- Conductive PVC insulation
- Tin Annelled Copper Wire Braided Shield
- XLR Connector Wiring:
Pin 1, Ground (wired to shield)
Pin 2, Positive (red)
Pin 3, Ground (wired to shield)
- Comes with a reusable soft cable tie to aid with storage
- Black cable with black connectors for inconspicuous use
Notice for Installing Cables within Wall & Ceiling Cavities: If you are planing on installing any cable inside a permanent fixture (ie: Wall or Ceiling), Cable Chick strongly recommends that you connect and test the cable prior to installation. By following this simple practice you can ensure compatibility and correct operation of all connected equipment before the cable is permanently installed.
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