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Roseanne Barr to Run Presidential Campaign Ads in California
(SAN FRANCISCO) -- One presidential candidate is buying television airtime in California, but it's not Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.
It's former sitcom star Roseanne Barr, who is running as the Peace and Freedom Party's presidential candidate.
Media tracking sources tell ABC News that Barr is spending $4,900 to run television ads in the San Francisco Bay Area from Oct. 9 through Oct. 16. She's purchased time on cable stations like CNN, MSNBC, TBS, the Country Music Channel and Comedy Central.
Solidly-Democratic California typically does not get much action on the TV airwaves from the major party presidential candidates.
No word yet on what the ad will look like, but here's a clue: Barr is running mostly on a one-issue campaign platform -- legalizing marijuana.
"Thank you for breaking through your mind control programming and having some free thought," she told a crowd at an Oakland, Calif. marijuana dispensary earlier this month. "Marijuana really does help you break through that and remember what is important."
Barr captured the Peace and Freedom Party's presidential nomination in August and chose anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan as her running mate. She originally competed for the Green Party nomination, but lost that bid.
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Enumerable.SelectMany<TSource, TCollection, TResult> Method (IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TCollection>>, Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult>)
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Projects each element of a sequence to an IEnumerable<T>, flattens the resulting sequences into one sequence, and invokes a result selector function on each element therein. The index of each source element is used in the intermediate projected form of that element.
Namespace: System.Linq
Assembly: System.Core (in System.Core.dll)
<ExtensionAttribute> _
Public Shared Function SelectMany(Of TSource, TCollection, TResult) ( _
source As IEnumerable(Of TSource), _
collectionSelector As Func(Of TSource, Integer, IEnumerable(Of TCollection)), _
resultSelector As Func(Of TSource, TCollection, TResult) _
) As IEnumerable(Of TResult)
public static IEnumerable<TResult> SelectMany<TSource, TCollection, TResult>(
this IEnumerable<TSource> source,
Func<TSource, int, IEnumerable<TCollection>> collectionSelector,
Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult> resultSelector
Type Parameters
- TSource
The type of the elements of source.
- TCollection
The type of the intermediate elements collected by collectionSelector.
- TResult
The type of the elements of the resulting sequence.
- source
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TSource>
A sequence of values to project.
- collectionSelector
Type: System.Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TCollection>>
A transform function to apply to each source element; the second parameter of the function represents the index of the source element.
- resultSelector
Type: System.Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult>
A transform function to apply to each element of the intermediate sequence.
Return Value
Type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<TResult>
An IEnumerable<T> whose elements are the result of invoking the one-to-many transform function collectionSelector on each element of source and then mapping each of those sequence elements and their corresponding source element to a result element.
Usage Note
In Visual Basic and C#, you can call this method as an instance method on any object of type IEnumerable<TSource>. When you use instance method syntax to call this method, omit the first parameter.
source or collectionSelector or resultSelector is nulla null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
This method is implemented by using deferred execution. The immediate return value is an object that stores all the information that is required to perform the action. The query represented by this method is not executed until the object is enumerated either by calling its GetEnumerator method directly or by using foreach in Visual C# or For Each in Visual Basic.
The SelectMany<TSource, TCollection, TResult>(IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TCollection>>, Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult>) method is useful when you have to keep the elements of source in scope for query logic that occurs after the call to SelectMany<TSource, TCollection, TResult>(IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TCollection>>, Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult>). See the Example section for a code example. If there is a bidirectional relationship between objects of type TSource and objects of type TCollection, that is, if an object of type TCollection provides a property to retrieve the TSource object that produced it, you do not need this overload of SelectMany<TSource, TCollection, TResult>(IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TCollection>>, Func<TSource, TCollection, TResult>). Instead, you can use SelectMany<TSource, TResult>(IEnumerable<TSource>, Func<TSource, Int32, IEnumerable<TResult>>) and navigate back to the TSource object through the TCollection object.
Version Information
Supported in: 5, 4, 3
Silverlight for Windows Phone
Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: Xbox 360, Windows Phone OS 7.0
For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.
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|If you are looking for Irish Mobs from GTA Chinatown Wars, see Irish American Killers.
The McReary Crime Family is a family of Irish-American criminals based throughout Liberty City, headed by the McReary brothers. They operate in Dukes and formerly the West Side in Purgatory, Algonquin. They play a large role in Grand Theft Auto IV.
The gang can be seen in Steinway, Dukes, but used to have influence in Purgatory, Algonquin. The members of the gang wear casual clothes, sometimes with green color, and have ginger hair, since the gang is Irish. They drive modified Übermacht Oracles and green Contenders.
If Niko is attacked by a pedestrian, one of the McReary's may come and assist Niko and will fight the pedestrian. However, they usually will just beat the pedestrian until they decide to run away and not usually kill them. This is also the case with the Jamaican Mafia. On occasion, they may pull out a Baseball Bat to attack the enemy. The McReary clan will only aid the player after the mission Harboring a Grudge. Before it, when Niko fires a gun at Steinway, Irish mobsters may go after him with a pistol or pump shotgun.
The McReary's used to be a powerful force in Liberty City, but its influence has diminished greatly as of late. The gang control Purgatory in Algonquin, as well as most of Broker, but the expansion of the Italian Mafia and Russian Bratva encroached on their empire. Also, most of the gang members have a tendency to spend their money on drugs, alcohol, and women rather than saving it and using it to expand the family's interests. As a result, the gang consists of mostly hired guns.
Gerry has been in and out of prison over the years, significantly damaging any stability the gang hoped to maintain. With Gerry back in prison, the leadership has fallen mostly on Patrick 'Packie' McReary, the youngest brother of the family. Under Packie's control, the gang has been reduced to hired mercenaries for the Pegorino Family, working for the incompetent Ray Boccino, or dealing drugs for Elizabeta Torres. Other members include a former Provisional IRA member named Derrick McReary, the eldest brother, who has been crippled by heroin addiction. He was in charge of the gang but quickly relinquished control to Gerry, and has since alienated former members Bucky Sligo and Aiden O'Malley by allegedly giving them up to the Liberty City Police Department. Other members include Michael Keane and Gordon Sargent. The gang is also discredited by the fact that one of the McReary brothers, Francis, is ambitiously pursuing the job of Commissioner of Police. Such a connection is greatly damaging to the reputation of both parties.
Events of GTA IV
Work with Packie
Niko Bellic meets Patrick McReary for the first time in the Elizabeta Torres' house, when she orders him to oversee the cocaine deal between Packie and members of Spanish Lords. Niko succesfully look after Packie and his associate from the roof across the road, killing gangster attacking them with sniper rifle.
Impressed by Niko's skills and being in need for the good people, Packie calls him and offers a job for his family. His jobs mostly consist of Ray Boccino's hints on other gangs' deals, that Niko and Packie are supposed to break. First, he takes Niko with him to the port in Fishmarket South to the deal between Triads in order to steal the van full of cloned meds from them. They succesfully kill every triad on their way and deliver the van to Ray Boccino.
Second job involves two other members of the gang, Gordon Sargent and Michael Keane. They, along with Niko Bellic and Packie McReary are planning the hit on Ancelotti crime family and their waste management depot to steal the bag of money, which hid in there. After the shootout, Gordon and Michael stay in the depot to fight off arriving forces of the mob, while Packie and Niko escape with the money on the water.
His third job is the biggest and planned along with his elder brother, Gerald McReary. Niko, Packie, his another brother Derrick and Michael Keane are going to rob the Bank of Liberty. Michael, however, is shot in process and the three remaining robbers escape the police forces through the subway after a massive shootout.
Work with Gerald
Gerald McReary, who gets the recomendation on Niko from Packie, offers him a job as well, which is mostly oriented on breaking the peace between Ancelotti Crime Family and Albanian Mob on orders from the gang's employer, James Pegorino. First, Niko rigs with explosives the car Ancelotti's capo, Tony Black, to blow it up on his meeting with Albanians. After that, when the conflict grows, Niko, disguised as Albanian, kills another capo, Frankie Garone. Gerald, however, is under tight surveillance of LCPD and not planning of being free for too long.
Work with Derrick
Packie also asks Niko to help his recently returned brother Derrick with his old problems, since he is in bad condition and spends most of his time in park in Acter. During their first meeting, Derrick tells to Niko that Bucky Sligo, a former associate and friend of Derrick's, wants Derrick and his family dead. Derrick asks Niko to take a Police Car and use the police computer to find Bucky and then kill him and his gang. Niko finds Bucky, and chases him to Bucky's hideout. Niko then kills him and his gang.
Later, Derrick asks Niko to help him in protecting Kim Young-Guk, a Korean mobster who came for business issues, from rivals.
In Derrick's final mission, Derrick asks Niko to silence Aiden O'Malley, who'd been trying to sell the police information on Derrick in exchange for a reduction of his prison sentence. Niko and Packie ambush the prison convoy transporting Aiden to the Alderney State Correctional Facility by blocking its path, killing the police officers and then stealing the truck Aiden is in. They lose the police and later switch vehicle to a more subtle Presidente. After liberating Aiden, Packie tells him they'll be taking him to the cliffs in Leftwood, tricking him into believing he'd be leaving the country on a boat.
When they arrive at the cliffs, Packie reveals the true reason they rescued him and leaves Niko to finish off Aiden alone. In his final moments, Aiden reveals that Derrick had sold him out to avoid prison, suggesting Derrick had not been the innocent victim that he had made himself out to be, but instead was just as crooked and disloyal as Aiden and Bucky were. Ultimately though, Niko executes Aiden, whose body falls into the sea.
Blood Brothers
Another member of the family, who doesn't take part in their criminal activity, chief comissioner Francis McReary also provides Niko Bellic with jobs. When he discovers about Derrick's return, he orders Niko to kill him during their meeting in the park. Derrick, anticipating the hit, asks Niko for help in killing his brother first. Niko, who watches the meeting from the roof with sniper rifle, has a chance to kill one or another McReary. Derrick won't reward him, when Francis promises a good sum of money.
During the funeral of one of the brothers Albanian Mob attacks the family to avenge all hits on them. Niko and Packie escape the shootout with the body and deliver it to the cementery.
While in prison, Gerald still provides Niko Bellic with jobs and his last request is to kidnap the daughter of Giovanni Ancelotti, Gracie. Niko set up a meeting with her, pretending he wants to buy her old car, but kidnaps her instead and delivers her to the appartments in Alderney. Later, he makes a photo of her to send it to her dad.
The purpose of kidnapping is to get the diamonds, which came into possesion of Tony Prince and Luis Lopez, Ancelotti's associates. Niko Bellic and Packie McReary are sent over to exchange with them, but it goes wrong, when Ray Bulgarin and his goons appear, claiming diamonds as their own. Gracie and her saviours manage to escape, while Niko and Packie appear in the middle of massive shootout with Russian Mafia. After the shootout the diamonds fall into the trash truck and are lost for them forever.
If the Revenge ending is chosen, Kate McReary, the only sister in the family, can be killed by James Pegorino on Roman Bellic's wedding, which leads to massive hit on Pegorino Family by Niko Bellic.
After the events of GTA IV, Patrick flies away to Los Santos to start the career of an independent robber. Gerald remains in prison, while Derrick dies anyway, regardless of the player's choice in Blood Brothers. The fates of Francis and Kate are determinant.
Events Post-GTA IV
Although the McReary Crime Family disbands, a new Irish Mob called Irish-American Killers take their place. With a lot of their turf being the same as McReary crime Family. In Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, they make a brief appearance, when trying to take out a member of Liberty City Triads (HD Universe) and also have a drug dealer called Liam (who has different appearance in the Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS versions).
On top of that Patrick McReary makes an appearance in Grand Theft Auto V, the player has the option to help him flee a heist in a random event. After this he becomes an optional party member of a Heist.
- Mr. McReary - Founder/original Boss (Deceased)
- Derrick McReary - Second Boss (Deceased)
- Gerald McReary - Third Boss (Arrested)
- Patrick McReary - Underboss/Fourth Boss (Determinant)
- Gordon Sargent - Underboss/Enforcer.
- Michael Keane - Enforcer (Deceased)
- Bucky Sligo (Deceased)
- Aiden O'Malley (Deceased)
- Maureen McReary - Mr. McReary's wife and associate, mother of the McReary siblings.
- Kate McReary - Sister of McReary brothers (Determinant)
- Niko Bellic - Hired gun and friend.
- Ray Boccino - Pegorino crime family capo (Deceased)
- Jimmy Pegorino - Pegorino crime family Don (Deceased)
- Elizabeta Torres - Business associate (Arrested)
- Stevie - Vehicles dealer.
Mission Appearances
- First Date
- Luck of the Irish
- Waste Not Want Knots
- Three Leaf Clover
- Tunnel of Death
- Blood Brothers
- Undertaker
- Ransom
- She's a Keeper
- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
- The Ballad Of Gay Tony
- The McReary Family own the two Irish pubs in Liberty City: Steinway Beer Garden and Lucky Winkles.
- Some of its members are used in One for All, Cops n Crooks.
- The gang's favorite radio stations are Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 and Liberty City Hardcore.
- The McReary's are mostly likely partly based on The Westies, which were an Irish American criminal organization. Just like the McReary's, the Westies operated in Hells Kitchen, which Purgatory is based on. The Westies too, eventually lost influence in Hells Kitchen due to gentrification, just as the McReary's did. The major members of the Westies were also jailed or killed, similar to the McReary's. Like the Westies, mafia families have employed them as hired guns (in the Westies case: the Gambinos, while the McRearys the Pegorinos).
- In GTA IV multiplayer, one of the male characters uses the same dialogue as an Irish Mob member.
- Packie McReary left Liberty City some time between 2008-2013 and Gerald McReary is presumed to be in prison so it is possible that the group has disbanded, or someone else took it over, most likely Gordon Sargent. The gang may also have become the Irish-American Killers from GTA Chinatown Wars.
- The storyline of the McReary's in GTA IV shared a similarity to the 1990 movie State Of Grace. Much like the McReary's, the movie is based on the Westies gang out of Hells Kitchen. Some of the McReary members seem to even be based off the cast. Packie McReary seems to be based off of Jackie Flannery as he is an emotionally distraught drunken Irish gangster who is a friend and closest to the protagonist, Terry Noonan, who, like Niko, came from out of town. There is even a Francis and a Kate in the Flannery family the former of which is the leader of the gang and seems to be who both Francis and Gerald are based. His similarity to Francis is based on on being treacherous towards his brother including committing fratricide against Jackie while his resemblance to Gerry is based on the fact that he is the leader of the gang and deals with the Italian mafia. The mission Blood Brothers is possibly a reference to this as Niko can kill either Derrick or Francis and in State Of Grace, Terry guns down Francis in revenge for Jackie. Lastly, Kate Flannery seems to be the basis for Kate McReary as she is a redhead, involved romantically with the protagonist, and wants nothing to do with her brother's criminal activities and has moved out of their neighborhood. Much like Patrick McReary, Jackie also wars with the Italian mob much to the dismay of his older brother, Francis.


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Hello, I'm having trouble converting videos to my portable player. Lately, all of my videos look like they've been resampled to low-res using the ugly nearest neighbor technique. My player supports WMV3 (which I never use), Mpeg-4 ASP, and Mpeg-4 AVC. Here's where I think the *real* issue is...
I've noticed that, at least with the XviD encoder, everything looks ok until quarter pixels come into play. Then, aliasing takes over. I have used 4-tap Lanczos to resample the video to my player's native screen resolution (320 x 240). It seems that bitrate is errelavent here. I have also tried a few different downsamplers (bicubic, bilenear, ect.) with the same results. I'm left to assume that my player is not able to *correctly* decode quarter pixels. So, I just use XviD without quarter pixels for a while. That seemed to work okay, butt..
I'd really like to use x.264 instead, as it is capable of achieving higher quality than XviD with lower size. Is there a switch to disable q-pel?
Now, here's some information about my player. It's a Sansa Fuze+ from sandisk. It is able to player a variety of framerates, and a number of resolutions up to it's native screen resolution (320 x 240). It uses the avi, wmv, and mp4 containers, supporting wma v2, mp3, and aac audio (plus Vorbis and Flac, but those don't seem to work except when in playing music/audio). It seems to handle custom Mpeg-4 ASP quantization matrices just fine, but does not support B-frames. Also, for AVC, it supports only Baseline @ Level 2 or lower.
Any help here would be appriciated.
PS: for some strange reason the sample videos included with the device use AVC without problems. Perhaps it has to do with the encoder? (These videos were encoded with quicktime).
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The problem with AVC could be a lot of things. See the table here (scroll down a ways):
QPEL is a problem for most MPEG 4 ASP devices but I haven't heard of it being a problem with AVC devices. But try the subme setting:
I'm not so sure AVC with all those restrictions is going to compress any better than Xvid.
I have tried using the "fullpel" setting, before, without sucess. Everything still looked bad. I think this device is somehow able to use one decoder for both ASP and AVC. So, perhaps maybe that's part of the problem. I've played with every setting I can think of (although I've never used any command lines, just front-end gui programs like XviD4PSP and X-Medie Recode). Partition macroblocks, maximum quantizer delta, maximum quantizer, minimum quantizer, deblocking, bitrate variance, quntizer compression, motion estimation, ect. Nothing seems to work
Did you try using no b-frames? Try the Ultrafast preset. In Xvid4PSP start with something like x264 Q18 Fast, then change the preset to Ultrafast and the CRF value to something more reasonable for your device. In the low 20's?
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As I said, before, my device supports Baseline @ level 2. Hence, it is impossible to create b-frames with any Baseline profile, therefore if I try to play any AVC files with B-Frames, my player will just flash a warning saying that the video is incompatible.
PS: how do I tell if my videos are using the "Baseline" profile or the "Constrained Baseline" profile? Will MediaInfo tell me?
upload a sample video that works
Here is a sample video that came pre-loaded on the device.
Can you test this
Hello, sorry for taking so long to reply, but I was busy with life. However, I have a few interesting things to say.
First off, your video worked fine. A little undersaturated, but my player seems to do that to every file.
Second off, I could have sworn my player only supported on reference frame. I've tried multi-reference frames before, only to be met with a "Unsupported File Type" error. However, I accidentally added a 3-ref video and it played fine (I later realized that, and was quite shocked). So, after a few experiments, I have determined that my player seems to like videos that have no more than seven reference frames.
Third off, I realize I'd done somthing stupid. First I noticed that the files with the worst aliasing were Lucas Film dvd rips. After some experimentation, I realized that the real problem here was the resizing, not the decompression . Stupid me.
Fourth off, after experimenting with reference frames, I encountered another bug, which I meant to mention right from the start, but forgot. There are a lot of blocking artifacts as well as discoloration that appear out of nowhere, and this is only on AVC videos. Sometimes I have even noticed it in the black borders above/below a video, even when the source was not anamorphic (I tend to letterbox everything using the "Black" aspect ration correction option inside XviD4PSP 5). I wish I could make a screenshot of what's happening, but the artifacts do not appear on my computer. So, I have placed a badly photoshopped version, to show what I am talking about.
Notice there is a bunch of green at the bottom, and spots of grey in the middle? If I were watching the video with my device, the grey spots would be square-shaped (GIMP would only let me create round dots), and would change position on the screen based on the motion that is taking place. It must be a motion-decoding bug, since these artifacts tend to suddenly disappear (the video probably reaches an I-frame). Then there is little to no distortion for a while (sometimes never).
The green bar at the bottom is often a result of a decoder that requires certain frame sizes but being given a video that doesn't conform to those requirements. Eg, a decoder that requires mod 16 frame dimensions but being given a mod 2 video.
Here goes the handbrake video setting I use, make sure the audio is aac and the video is resized to 320Xxxx with ANAMORPHIC DISABLED, and the mp4 container set to non-64 bit. the resulting videos plays nicely on my sansa fuze+ with none of the problems you describe @crf18 with decomb, deinterlace set to default and framerate set to source with a max of 29.97fps. and yes make sure its a mod16 resolution
rc-lookahead=50:8x8dct=0:analyse=none:trellis=0:mixed-refs=0:no fast-pskip=1:bframes=0rofile=baseline:level=2:ref=0:cabac=0:weightp=0
after bframes=0 its suppose to be ( colon and the letter p) but the post shows a smileyif all else fails read the manual
I have no idea what you guys are talking about with this mod stuff. Are you referring to resolution? Sandisk recommends 320x240, which I use. Strangely, I have just converted a Youtube video, and got massive artifacts... but they all disappeared when I re-encoded the video without MB Tree. So, I've tried to convert the video a third time, with somewhat extreme settings, and the picture was flawless. File size was incredibly inflated, though.
Here are the settings I used:
cabac=0 / ref=7 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x1:0x31 / me=umh / subme=0 / psy=1 / psy_rd=2.00:5.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=20 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=0 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=0 / weightp=0 / keyint=300 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=22.0 / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=2:2.00.
PS: Dannyboy48888, how on earth did you get a compliant AVC video with ref=0? Unless you used only I-Frames?
mod N means integer multiples of N. Eg, mod 16 = 16, 32, 48, 64... So 320x240 is fine -- both are mod 16.
But, P-Frames use the previous frame as a reference frame, does it not? That's why the call them "Previous Frames". I assume that having multiple reference frames could mean using several previous frames to draw from (and several future frames as well, if you use B-Frames). From what I understand, this is especially useful with videos/scenes that have little movement, such as cartoons/anime.
Anyway, I've returned to this forum to announce that I got overly excited, and am still having issues. It seems that using aq=2:2.00 was a mistake. I will need to investigate further, but I think I've made some progress. Maybe my player just like excessively high bitrates, or perhaps there is some qp it just doesn't like.
AQ settings are unlikely to cause problems with playback . Weightp can cause problems , but you have disabled that. MB-Tree can potentially cause problems only because of bitrate spikes ,but you used a high qcomp =1.0 , so that reduces MB-tree significantly. With 1 pass CRF encoding, you might be surpassing bitrate limitations of your device. I used VBV settings to limit the bitrate issues in the sample file above
Use 1 ref frame, and set the max keyframe interval to 100 . (--ref 1 --keyint 100) . That's what it was in your sample test file.
I also set VBV settings --vbv-maxrate 1000 --vbv-bufsize 1000 . Most devices require buffer settings.
The muxer also used "mp42" not "isom" as used by mp4box, you can see this in the mediainfo report, not sure if that makes a difference - that's why I re-wrapped it with ffmbc
Codec ID : mp42
you are right TSJNachos, thats why I said in handbrake it does this. Don;t know if its a bug or intedned, but if I set ref=0 everthing goes fine, ref=1 enables b-frames for me and I'm not sure why. I do know that my profile does work, without the errors you describe, and figured it would help is allif all else fails read the manual
I had a sansa fuze until two months back (i have given to a buddy)
It was fuze(v1) not fuze+, here is my experience if it helps.
It is an excellent audio player, But video sucks. I have seen green bands as you did. Fuze do not support AVC/X264 only ASP and avi.
qpel and packed stream is not good for any stand alone, I have same exp with creative zen (which is very very better in video).
Fuze is very picky about muxing, I did not do much research here as I was not interested in video on fuze. No avi from any tool including my favorite xmediarecode failed to play.
There is a tool called Video4fuze (search in google) in abi or fuze forums, which has a special muxer called fuzemux.exe which is hosted on googlecode. It also uses mencoder for actual encoding job. The videos converted with this tool played well on fuze.
I am NOT using a Fuze. I am using a Fuze+. The plus sign at the end is important. It is a completely different player (but from the same manufacture) intended to replace the Fuze. Do not confuse it with the Fuze v2. Fuze v1 and Fuze v2 are basically the same thing. You are right... the Fuze does not support anything but mp3 + Mpeg-4 ASP in a specially muxed avi. But the Fuze+ does not play AVI's well, especially long ones. It *should* be compatible with old Fuze videos (even ones created with Video4Fuze), and is less picky about muxing... but it tends to crash with AVI's. MP4's work much better, even with the same a/v streams (I tested this theory by remuxing The Fellowship of the Ring with MP4Box, and it became much more reliable).
Also, another video that came with the device uses a bitrate of 1024, so I doubt that VBV settings can change anything (in fact, i seem to recall once using an iPod preset with XMedia Recode, and it used a vbv of seven hundred-something, I think).
Plus, I once downloaded a video (mp4 format) from youtube that absolutely would not play, even though the streams were supported. MediaInfo told me why: the first stream was the audio, and the second was video. So, i wasn't used to creating MP4's and was experimenting with different muxers. For this video, i decided to play with MP4 Muxer, and remux the streams. The output file was MP42, yet it still had the same artifacts.
I will give the keyint=100 setting a try.
Recently it seems that I have way fewer blocking artifacts, now that I am using less AQ. And after watching a problematic scene on my pc with FFDShow's "visualizations" setting programed to show the quantizers, I noticed that the quantizers on top of anamorphic pictures were more compressed than the pixels on bottom. In fact, the quantizers on bottom seemed to change rapidly on some scenes, while the ones on top were mostly static. That made me realize something: I have never had a problem with the black bars on top, just the ones on bottom. Less AQ made both top and bottom remain similar, and produced fewer artifacts to begin with. Strange, right?
I'll keep experimenting.
Well, I've just converted three more videos recently, and they seem to work ok. One of them was The Two Towers, and it looks great so far, although I am only half way through. If i have more problems, I will post them. Of course, I am still open to suggestions. Thanks a lot, everybody!
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Dolce and Gabbana Convicted of Tax Evasion
A court in Milan has convicted fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion. Christina Binkley reports.
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STAMFORD -- The Badger and Johnson families have set a date for the funeral of the three young girls who died in a Christmas morning fire in Stamford's Shippan neighborhood.
The family of the three -- Lily Badger, 9, and 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah Badger -- have private visiting hours on Wednesday at the Frank E, Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue in New York City. Public services will follow at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Thomas Church on 5th Avenue.
Lily, Grace and Sarah died in an early morning fire at their Shippan Avenue home on Dec. 25, that also claimed the lives of their grandparents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson. The blaze, which has been ruled accidental, left only two survivors: the children's mother, 47-year-old advertising executive Madonna Badger, and her friend, Michael Borcina, 52. In addition to their mother, the Badger girls leave behind their father, Matthew Badger, who was in New York City on Christmas morning.
"It's going to be a large turnout on Thursday. I know the firefighters from Connecticut will be attending," said Frank E. Campbell Vice President Dominic Carella.
All three of the Badger girls were enrolled at the Windward School in White Plains, N.Y.
The 209-student school focuses exclusively on students with language-based learning disabilities.
The girls' principal, Roberta Solar, remembered them as "wonderful and bubbly," and said everyone in the school community knew and loved them. According to Solar, there were 43 students in the twins' grade and 85 in Lily's grade.
"They were lovely girls, just lovely girls. You just loved being with them," Solar said. "We're going to miss them very much."
Madonna Badger has not commented publicly since Sunday's tragedy, though other members of the family have expressed their feelings via social media and other means, including Madonna Badger's younger brother, Wade Johnson.
"The Badger family and the Johnson family want to express our thoughts and prayers for all of the people who have been so deeply impacted by the tragedy on Christmas morning," Wade Johnson wrote on Facebook Wednesday. "We also want to say thank you for all of the prayers and well wishes that have come in from around the country and the world. We can feel the warmth of your prayers surrounding us as we struggle to cope with the tragic loss of our family members."
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A Purim Treat: Poppy Seed Hamantaschen
Poppy seed hamantaschen are a traditional Jewish cookie made for the Purim festival. To make a delicious, creamy filling for hamantaschen, simmer the poppy seeds with milk and honey, and accent the mixture with nuts and raisins.
Fresh poppy seeds are not an everyday ingredient. Here are some hints for finding and using them.
Use fresh poppy seeds. You can find them in Jewish, Polish, and Iranian markets and in some gourmet groceries.
Store the fresh poppy seeds in a cool place. If they have been ground, refrigerate them and use them promptly.
If you prefer a smooth filling, grind the seeds in a spice grinder or coffee grinder. Leave them whole for a more crunchy texture.
This recipe calls for you to make the filling ahead of time — it requires at least two hours in the fridge.
Hamantaschen with Poppy Seeds
Special tools: Rolling pin, 3-inch cookie cutter
Preparation time: 1 hour, plus 2 hours to chill
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Yield: About 2 to 2-1/2 dozen
Keeping kosher: Dairy
1 batch Crisp Cookie Dough (refrigerated)
3/4 cup poppy seeds (1/4 pound)
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup raisins
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup pecans, finely chopped
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
To make the filling:
For the poppy seed filling, grind the seeds in a spice grinder if you prefer a fine texture.
In small saucepan, combine poppy seeds, milk, honey, and sugar and bring to a simmer. Cook over low heat, stirring often, about 15 to 20 minutes or until it is thick. Add the raisins and butter and stir the filling over low heat until the butter melts. Remove from heat.
For a kosher finale to a meat meal, simmer the poppy seeds in water instead of milk, or use half water and half orange juice to complement the orange zest in the mixture.
Stir in the pecans and orange zest. Refrigerate in a covered container for at least two hours before using.
To assemble the hamantaschen:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Grease two baking sheets. To shape the cookies, use one quarter of the dough at a time. Roll it out on a lightly floured surface until it is about 1/8 inch thick.
Using a 3-inch cookie cutter, cut the dough in rounds. Brush their edges lightly with water. Put 1 teaspoon filling in the center of each one. Pull up the edges of each round in three arcs that meet above the filling, covering it. Pinch the dough above the filling to close the cookies firmly. Pinch the edges to seal them. Put them on a greased baking sheet and refrigerate them uncovered while shaping the remaining cookies. Pat the dough scraps together, wrap them in plastic wrap, and refrigerate them also. Save them for making flat cookies.Resist the temptation to overfill the cookies, or they may burst.
Roll the remaining dough and shape more hamantaschen. Refrigerate the cookies at least 30 minutes before baking to firm dough.
Bake for 14 minutes, or until light golden at the edges. Cool them on a rack.
Make sure that you bake the cookies only until they are pale golden at the edges. If the cookies are baked too long, the sugar in the dough may cause them to burn.
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- Circuit type Race
- Circuit Length 5.543kms
- Circuit Turns 15
- Circuit Direction Clockwise
- Capacity 133,000
- Established 1999
- Designer Hermann Tilke
|First race
|Malaysian Grand Prix
|October 17, 1999
|Eddie Irvine (GBR)
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|Last race
|Malaysian Grand Prix
|October 1, 2017
|Max Verstappen (NED)
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In the 1990s Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister, declared that by 2020 the country should be a fully industrialised nation. Part of this plan involved the construction of a race circuit - the result was the Sepang International Circuit.
Designed by "the architect of F1", Hermann Tilke, Sepang is considered one of the most technical circuits on the calendar and is a firm favourite with the drivers. The combination of long, high-speed, straights and tight corner complexes were designed with overtaking in mind.
Situated 60km from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and close to the city's international airport, the circuit also hosts the Malaysian Motorcycle Grand Prix as well as the A1 GP race.
But the government's early enthusiasm waned and little money was pumped into the venue. Nor has the racing ever attracted more than passing interest from the locals.
Shortly before the 2007 grand prix, Bernie Ecclestone hit out at the facility saying it had become "shabby" and describing it as "an old house that needs a bit of redecorating". Circuit bosses admitted it was in need of $60 million to bring it up to scratch.
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'SNL' Mocks Toronto Mayor Rob Ford (Video)
Saturday Night Live took on Toronto mayor Rob Ford in its cold open, with Bobby Moynihan playing the embattled politician.
Ford went on a Canadian TV show to apologize for his transgressions, which include admitting to smoking crack and using vulgar language during press conferences. But as a Canadian TV host (Taran Killam) pointed out, it was becoming difficult for people to believe the mayor's apologies.
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The show cut to footage of progressively more disastrous press conference apologies from Moynihan's Ford. In one he brought ChapStick so the reporters could put it on when "you kiss my fat, [bleep] white ass." During another press conference, a drug dealer (Jay Pharoah) delivered a package to Ford, who exclaimed, "That's a lot of crack!"
Speaking to Killam's TV host, Ford said he needed to go on another TV show, one that would believe him. The Canadian TV host asked what show would possibly believe the mayor.
Moments later, Ford was shown on CBS' 60 Minutes being interviewed by Lara Logan (Kate McKinnon), who in real life has had to issue a series of apologies for her controversial report on the 2012 Benghazi attack.
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Logan introduced Ford by saying, "Mayor Rob Ford. Patriot, hero, role model." She then asked him a series of softball questions, with Ford denying ever doing crack, smoking weed or using alcohol.
Logan took him for his word.
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Chicago midfield calls it toughest loss
Here's some of what the Chicago Fire had to say Saturday after their 3-2 loss to the Sounders:
Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank YallopOn general feeling of the team heading into the World Cup break"Points-wise, not great. Spirit-wise, I thought tonight was good. Difficult circumstances with the red card and all the stuff that went on tonight. What I liked about the team tonight: we fought, and we stuck up for each other. That's the positive out of it. The negative: we didn't get a result at home, obviously. Frustration is probably the word I would say right now."
On if he had saw the reason for Obafemi Martins' sending-off "No, I didn't, I haven't looked at a replay. I haven't seen it yet."
On expecting officiating controversies"I don't know. I thought both teams came out to try and win the game, which is important. Some decisions for us didn't go the right way, and you get frustrated with all that stuff; it spills over to your play a little bit. I'm not going to fault the effort of our players at all; we're not quite able to figure it out yet. We have good moments; we have patterns of play that are good, we look like we're a good side, and then we falter and get punished. It's frustrating. I hate to use the word, I keep saying it, but the balance is not quite there yet. No excuses with the three games in the week, but it's never easy. But I thought we kept going until the end; we could have gotten something out of the game. Obviously that third goal killed the game a little bit. Quincy [Amarikwa] had a great chance I think at 2-1, and then Juan [Luis Anangono] had a good chance at 3-2. That's football. That's the tough part about it. And I'm sitting there just frustrated, and you guys are fans of us, as frustrated as you are; I'm sitting there going, 'why can't we get it sorted out?' But signs are good, young guys are doing okay. Harry [Shipp] did good tonight, so hopefully we can turn the corner."
On creating chances and goals in play"We created some good chances. If you look at the experience on their team, it's a pretty experienced team; and we're a little bit younger and naive, and all the guys we have out...there's no excuses. But I'm not going to fault my guys; I thought they fought right to the end, tried to get something out of the game, but just couldn't quite get something out of it. I'm not going to turn to the excuse of 'we got guys out,' because, I thought the players that played tonight played well for us. Big, important thing is, take the punishment, if you like, and move on. You have to. We have an Open Cup game next, hopefully we can get through that round; I think there's another round of Open Cup, and then we get to get back into MLS. So we're still in the picture, which is always good; although we have to start winning games, obviously. But the progression of the team playing-wise, I thought, showed some fight tonight, which is important."
On the penalty call and ensuing red card against Fire defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado"Anytime you go with two feet, it alarms referees for some reason. I think that Jhon had no other opportunity to block the ball, and to go with his feet sort of showing. It didn't catch the player; give a penalty kick, but don't give a sending-off. Or give a sending-off, but no penalty kick, whatever you want to do, but I just think the double thing was just, for me, not a great decision. I haven't seen it, but it looked like Jhon was just trying to block the ball; it wasn't malicious, it was low, and it looked like he was trying to get his feet sorted out. But, again, the rules are what they are, so I can't really argue with it. But I struggled a little bit all night with the officiating. I thought it was a little bit one-way, but that's my opinion."
On the World Cup break serving as a chance to get healthy"You have two main guys out, Patrick Nyarko and Mike Magee are out at the moment, so you have to help them get ready for play coming in the next couple of weeks. We have the Open Cup, which is in our break. Alex is not 100%; obviously played a little bit tonight, but he's not close to what he can play like at the moment. So we have a little bit of time to get our guys healthy and hopefully start the next MLS game out with a win, because we need to start winning, obviously, to have any chance to do well this year. But I think the emergence of the young players is my focus, and I think they're doing okay. We're not wishing the season away at all; I make sure that we're ready to play each game and ready to go. I thought again, we didn't flop and buckle under in this game, which we could have done against a good side. Each game we've played, other than maybe a couple, we've been right there, right in the match, right and ready to go; but the naiveté of our team, and it's not a slight on them, it's just reality, we can't figure it out quite yet. It's frustrating as a coach, and the players are frustrated. I think that for us, it's making sure that we build on it, and make sure we get positive with it."
Jeff Larentowicz, Chicago Fire MidfielderOn tonight's loss:"This may be the toughest so far. You might want to put it up there with the Real Salt Lake game, but they came at us – Seattle didn't. They were content with their lead waiting for us, but somehow they still got the better of us which is difficult."
On where the team goes from here heading into the break:"We have to decide. Everyone has to go home this week and figure out if they're content with where we are, think about if they're content coming in after games saying, 'Oh well, we did alright – we didn't score or we didn't finish that chance,' or they can make a difference, they can make a change. I don't know what happened around the league, but we're at the bottom of the conference – we have to make a move and we have to stop being content with half chances and one goal losses at home."
On the team's effort:"It's not the effort, it's not the effort. It's critical moments in the game when players make a difference or don't make a difference, and at the moment we're not making that difference.
On how to make that difference:"We can't be content. We can't come in and say, 'We did alright.' There's no attendance award, we have to come and we have to do something."
On the goals for the remainder of the season:"I think the goal is always to make the playoffs. We can't come in and say we're going to be the MLS champs - we have to work for it, we have to fight for it. We have to fight to get into the playoffs period. Then you can move on and rewrite your goals. At the moment - sure we've hung with teams, sure we've played well against top competition, but we haven't gotten over that hump. Like I said it's not about sprinting harder, running faster or jumping higher, it's not about that because we do that. It's about the critical moments when we have to make a difference, that's what we have to focus on."
On the Open Cup as an opportunity to turn things around:"Winning is contagious, I think. You catch it and you want it. We haven't won, it's almost like we enjoy coming in and being content with what's going on. So, sure we win the first round and we play another game before we play a MLS game, so sure we can get the wheels moving, we can get guys healthy and can start pushing on. But you can see we're in games. It's not about personnel; it's just about those little things. Against different competition in the Open Cup maybe we can sharpen those edges."
Quincy Amarikwa, Chicago Fire ForwardOn the chemistry with Harry Shipp:"I think Harry and I are building good chemistry up-top. It's translating on the field and it's turning into goals. We just need to figure it out as a team now, making sure we can prevent teams from scoring multiple goals on us so we can come away with three points. Tonight we can build from it, learn from it and move on."
Harry Shipp, Chicago Fire ForwardOn play leading up to the goal, scoring and the result:"I was trying to show up in places to find the ball, but it was hard. I was getting frustrated, I think everyone was getting frustrated, with our lack of keeping it. Right before the first goal I started feeling a little more comfortable, kind of feeling the touch, and then I hit a good shot. After that the momentum switched and I think we were back in the game. In the second half we gave up that third goal, which killed us, but I think that besides that we really kept the ball, we possessed the ball. We did things we know we can do. We had a chance to tie it up at 2-2 and to make it 3-3, but unfortunately it didn't go in. I scored two goals, but I'm not going to be happy unless I score two more and we win 4-3. That's the difference in this feeling and difference in New York when we won 5-4."
On the chippy play during the game:"I think we have to keep our focus. There was a lot of extracurricular stuff going on after every tackle, there were people complaining, but I think you just have to keep your head and focus. I think we did a good job in the second half of just moving the ball and playing simple – keeping the ball and interchanging especially through the midfield. It was hard for them to keep the ball. I think if we had done that all 90 minutes it might be a different story."


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Tagged: Independence Day
Happy Cliff Lee Win Day!
Yes, it is the 4th of July. But more importantly for the Phillies, it is Cliff Lee Win Day! Appropriately, fireworks and celebration will be seen all over the land!
It only took 3+ months and 83 games, but Lee finally won a game. Hey, you know what Lee's favorite holiday is? That's right! Independence / Cliff Lee Win Day!
Over 8 innings against the Mets, Lee allowed just 2 runs, one of which was a solo homer. He struck out 9 batters and only walked 1. THIS is the Cliff Lee we have all been missing. Finally, he is back!
This day was also the first win for Chase Utley. 7 games ago, Utley played his first game of the year after a long rehab of his shoddy knee(s). In that game, he hit a home run in his first at-bat and then Carlos Ruiz did the same right after. Oddly enough, that combination set off a 6-game losing streak.
But tonight, Utley and Ruiz went back-to-back again, apparently spinning the universe back into the correct direction and producing a Phillies win. The earth is back on its axis and gravity is once again in proper alignment. Whew!
That home run combo gave the Phillies a 3-2 lead which they added onto in the final two innings. Jimmy Rollins no-hit streak ended and he drove in 2 runs. And Ty Wigginton added 2 more RBI with a home run in the 9th.
So both Utley and Lee get their first wins of the year with a 9-2 final score. After the game, Lee had bear hugs for Chooch and was later greeted with a chilly Gatorade bath.
Could this be the big win the Phillies needed to get back on track? We can only hope so. Certainly, we can at least see that this team is still capable of winning.
Game 3 with the Mets starts tomorrow at 7:10pm. Cole Hamels will have to face R.A. Dickey; the knuckleballer has been on fire this season. But in the meantime, sit back, relax and enjoy the fireworks in honor of Cliff Lee Win Day! Whoo hooo!
Oh, and Happy 4th of July, too! :O)
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This is a comment that we did for reading workshop.
I chose to press the success key because if you want to get into good colleges, sometimes high schools look back on OAA to determine if you are smart enough to go to school there. That is what motivates me to give 110% and try the best I can on tests. What ever you get on these tests will follow you for the rest of your life. It can determine if you go to a good college, if you get a good job, if you will make enough money to pay bills and such.
I do good on these test by strategies that my teacher, Mr.McGuire, taught me such as going back in the passage and finding answers. If you don't look back in the passage and check over your work after you are done, you don't get a good grade… simple as that.
Those two boys don't care and aren't thinking ahead of what this test will mean. If they think they can get done in an hour and not check their work, they are just doing themselves harm and will not be the best that they could be. If they goof off on this one test, it makes it easier to goof off on the next test, and the next one and the one after that, until it becomes something important. Then these boys will find themselves unable to pass high school. If they fail that, they stay in high school while every one else goes ahead in life. Usually, these are the kids that drop out of high school and say that they are being home-schooled, when really, they have gotten so far behind in their school work, and they can't catch up. These people are usually the ones that have to do things that they really don't want to do in order to get by in life, like stealing or drugs.
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at home in the water on February 23, 2008.
He joins Dina, Jason and Pica Herring!
Welcome to Women in Charge-- a birth blog project of Wisewoman Childbirth Traditions. This blog is here to empower and encourage women to take charge of their bodies, their babies and their births. Women are powerful and women are strong. We are in charge.
"The more the practice of midwifery grows and succeeds, the more threatening midwives are to the obstetric monopoly, so, predictably, there has been an obstetric backlash." — Marsden Wagner, M.D., former Director of Women's and Children's Health at the World Health Organization.
And so it seems, as of February 6, 2008, that we are seeing this backlash from the
"As midwifery becomes better established in the United States, it becomes more difficult for the obstetric establishment to perpetuate the myth that midwives are not as safe as doctors," says Marsden Wagner in his book, Born in the USA. Posturing and an "our-way-is-the-only-way" attitude will be seen for the empty threats that they represent. American women are strong, capable and smart enough to figure out that what this really represents is a power struggle that really has no place in her own birth experience. Women are capable of doing the research (and 5,000 birthing women across North
So, instead of the backlash, instead of the resistance to change, substantiated by evidence-based research, instead of the defensive posturing, perhaps ACOG could use their dollars to support women's choice, to honor women's process and continue to improve upon collaborative efforts between doctors and out-of-hospital practitioners. Other countries already know that home birth is a cost-effective, safe and satisfying option for women. Will we always be last in regards to infant morbidity and mortality and will ACOG, who arguably directs maternity care in the
Does anyone else feel the resonance with this and how global warming was treated at first. The truth is so threatening to the status quo. ACOG is defending their territory. But guess what? Birthing in America does not belong to ACOG. It does not belong to midwives. It belongs to women—healthy, smart, capable women who can make a choice.


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A perfect low-calorie alternative for when you have the craving for pizza!
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 7 mins
Yield: 1 x "pizza"
Place the mushroom cap upside down on a cookie sheet. Spread the marinara sauce over the mushroom, and top with bell pepper, onion, and cheese - just like a normal pizza.
Bake in 350°F oven until the cheese melts and the "pizza" is warmed through.
Try experimenting with different vegetables or cheeses. (Suggestions are not included in the nutritional analysis.)


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|Palo Alto, Calif.
|High School:
|Henry M. Gunn
|Mechanical Engineering
2014: Starter at second for the Engineers … played in 37 games with 34 starts ... Academic All-NEWMAC … hit .229 with 13 RBI … led the team for a second straight season with nine sacrifices ... seven multi-hit games … ranked 36th in the nation in sacrifice bunts … started the season with RBI in each of the first three games … 2-for-4 day at Clark (3/29) with an RBI … that started a six-game hitting streak … 2-for-6 with a pair of runs scored against Emerson (4/4) … drew a pair of walks and scored four times at Babson (4/12) … 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored against UMass Boston (4/24) … a 2-for-4 outing with two more runs against Springfield (4/28) in the NEWMAC Tournament … perfect 3-for-3 day against Tufts (5/16) at the NCAA Tournament, driving in a pair and scoring twice in the Engineer's victory.
2013: Started in 33 of the 35 games in which he played … starter at second base for the Engineers ... Academic All-NEWMAC … led the team with nine sacrifices ... was hit by a pitch a team best 10 times … 3-for-3 with a pair of RBI against Clark (3/16) … 1-for-3 against Springfield (3/23) with a pair of runs … hit by a pitch twice at Endicott (3/29) … drove in a pair of runs at WPI (4/6) … pair of sacrifices against Babson (4/27) … 2-for-4 with a run scored at Wheaton (4/27) in the NEWMAC Tournament … 1-for-3 with a run against the Lyons (5/4) in the NEWMAC championship game.
2012: Played in 33 games and started 31 as a sophomore ... Academic All-NEWMAC ... .277 average with 23 hits in 83 at-bats ... scored 15 runs and drove in nine runs... successfully laid down five sacrifice bunts which was the seventh most in the NEWMAC ... had two RBI's in a game against Wentworth (3/14) and scored three runs helping the Engineers to an easy 13-4 win ... had two hits in back to back close games against UMass Boston (4/26) and Rhode Island College (5/2) both resulting in wins.
2011: Solid first season at MIT … broke into the starting lineup at second base … led the team in runs scored with 30 … also walked a team best 23 times … topped the squad in steals (12) and hit by the pitch (13) … finished in the top-10 in the NEWMAC in all of those categories … season-high five-game hitting streak … six multi-hit games … went 3-for-4 with a season bests of two RBI and three steals against Eastern Nazarene (3/15) … scored four times against Wheaton (3/20) … 3-for-4 and hit twice against Hope (3/22) … perfect 3-for-3 day against Suffolk (5/8) … picked up hits in each of MIT's NCAA Tournament games.
Off The Diamond at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering … minor in energy studies and economics … internship with Pacific Northwest National Lab … research with the NanoEngineering Lab - Concentrating Solar Thermoelectric Generator … research on new baseball bat technologies in the Center for Sports Innovation, on properties of superconductors in the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory and a field study involving a microbial fuel cell in Uganda with the D-Lab … community service chair and risk manager of Kappa Sigma.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Henry M Gunn High School … played varsity baseball four years … team MVP and first team all-league as a junior and senior … also played basketball … team MVP and all-league as a senior.


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Proton therapy is effective in treating many types of cancerous and non-cancerous tumors.
When considering treatment options, it is important to read studies and gather information about each type of treatment. Studies of proton therapy have shown that it is effective in treating many types of tumors, including cancers of the prostate, brain, head and neck, central nervous system, lung, and gastrointestinal system as well as cancers that cannot be removed completely by surgery.1
Proton therapy is often the preferred option for treating solid tumors in children because protons can be controlled precisely so there is less radiation of normal tissues, helping prevent serious complications and lessening the chance of secondary tumors.2,3 Proton therapy research is ongoing and has shown promising results in the treatment of other tumors.
Life is, quite frankly, absolutely no different than it was two years before I was diagnosed… It's just been great
Our alumnus and ambassador, Bill, speaks about the most important decision he made on his road to beat prostate cancer.
To print out discussion materials for you and your doctor, see our list of downloads below.
The first step in your treatment plan is to discuss your options, including proton therapy, with your doctor to determine the best treatment for you. Your doctor may not be as familiar with proton therapy as other treatment options so be sure to familiarize yourself with the content on this site.
Below are a few questions to help you discuss proton therapy with your doctor:
Less radiation reaches the healthy tissue in front of the tumor, and almost none reaches the healthy tissue behind the tumor, resulting in less damage to healthy tissue.1
General proton therapy questions:
Proton therapy is a form of radiation therapy that destroys cancer cells by preventing them from dividing and growing—just like standard X-ray radiation. However, proton therapy uses protons—positively charged atomic particles—instead of the photons used in standard X-rays. Unlike X-rays, protons can be controlled to release much of their energy directly in the tumor, reducing damage to nearby healthy tissue.1 As a result, patients can often receive higher doses and have few side effects from treatment.1
Listen to Dr. Brian Chon explain proton therapy
Protons release their energy at precise depths, depositing much of their energy at the tumor site. Because of their precision, they can target cancer tumors near the skin surface or deep inside the body. The peak of this proton-radiation dose (called the Bragg Peak) is set so it releases the radiation when it hits the tumor. Immediately after that point, the dose falls to almost zero. So less radiation reaches the healthy tissue in front of the tumor, and almost none reaches the healthy tissue behind the tumor, resulting in less damage to healthy tissue.1 Patients often experience few of the short- and long-term side effects that typically accompany standard X-ray radiation.1-7 In addition, because more energy can be deposited directly in the tumor, a higher dose can sometimes be delivered, leading to more effective treatment.1
Protons permanently damage cancer cells so they cannot divide nor grow. When protons reach the nucleus (or center) of cancer cells, they transfer energy to the cells' electrons causing a series of interactions, or ionizing events, that damage the DNA of the cancer cells.
Proton therapy is not experimental; in fact, it was approved in 1988 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat cancer patients. It has been used as a cancer treatment since its first medical application in the mid-1950s; Medicare and Medicaid began covering the procedure in 2000. To date, more than 90,000 people worldwide have received proton therapy at cancer centers in Europe, Asia, and the United States.
"Proton therapy is FDA-approved" - Dr. Brian Chon
In 1946, physicist Robert Wilson first proposed that protons could be used to deliver an increased dose of radiation to a cancer tumor while simultaneously decreasing the exposure of surrounding healthy tissue to radiation. By 1950, the first research trials were being conducted on patients in the US and Europe. Results were promising, but the inability of imaging technology to accurately "see" or locate many tumors and the inability to direct protons to sites deep within the body meant that only a few patients were appropriate candidates for the treatment. Advances in imaging, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET), now allow physicians to "see" deep inside the body and precisely define the location, size, and shape of tumors. This capability, coupled with improvements in proton technology, brought about today's growing interest in proton therapy as an important treatment option for cancer. The first hospital-based proton treatment center in the United States was built in 1990 at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. As of May 2014, 14 facilities are operating in the United States, with 5 more scheduled to open in the next 2 years.
Proton therapy was first used to treat patients in Berkeley, California, in 1955 in a research setting. While proton therapy was promising, it wasn't until advances were made in imaging technology, such as CT, MRI, and PET scans, that doctors could accurately "see" the location, size, and shape of cancer tumors. Accurately locating tumors made it possible to leverage the precision of protons. The first proton therapy center in the United States opened at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 1990.
Since the first hospital-based proton therapy treatment center opened in California in 1990, nearly 35,000 people have received proton therapy in the United States, and more than 90,000 people worldwide.8 Experts conservatively estimate that about 250,000 cancer patients in the United States could benefit from proton therapy treatment.
Researchers around the world have studied the effectiveness of proton therapy. A growing number of studies report on the effectiveness of proton therapy and its benefits compared to other cancer treatments. The amount of research being conducted on proton therapy is rapidly increasing as more proton therapy centers open and more patient experiences become available.
Proton therapy can be used in combination with chemotherapy, as a follow-up treatment to surgery, and in combination with standard X-ray radiation treatment. ProCure Proton Therapy Centers have joined with several medical centers to provide patients with additional cancer services.
Potential side effects during or after proton therapy treatment are generally minor, less frequent, and less severe than those from standard X-ray radiation therapy. This is primarily because less healthy tissue is exposed to radiation in proton therapy. Depending on the site of your tumor, side effects may include skin irritation in the direct path of the proton radiation, tiredness, and hair loss in the area being treated. Patients should not feel pain or discomfort during treatment sessions. Your doctor will discuss with you the specific side effects that you may experience based on your treatment plan.
The medical community continues to conduct research studies on proton therapy. Major institutions such as MD Anderson Cancer Center and Massachusetts General Hospital have many ongoing clinical trials to help find improvements in treating cancer with proton therapy. As dedicated providers of proton therapy, ProCure Proton Therapy Centers are currently participating in a number of clinical trials. For more information on these trials, please click here. If you are interested in participating in one of these trials, please speak with a doctor or a nurse at a ProCure Proton Therapy Center.
Who is proton therapy for?
Certain types of cancer are more appropriate for proton therapy than others. While research continues to support using protons in more types of cancer tumors, they are primarily used to treat:
Proton therapy is particularly appropriate for treating tumors in children, who typically experience more serious short- and long-term side effects from radiation treatments than adults.
Learn more about tumor sites that can benefit from proton therapy
Proton therapy is not appropriate for all types of cancers or all patients. Proton therapy is most effective in treating solid tumors that are well defined and localized—those that have not spread to other areas of the body. If the tumor has spread (metastasized), proton therapy may still be a treatment option, depending on the extent of the metastasis and other factors. Only a healthcare provider can determine the best approach for a patient's unique condition.
Listen to Dr. Brian Chon describe some of the cancer types that can be treated with proton therapy
Proton therapy is particularly effective for children who need radiation therapy, and is considered the best way to deliver radiation in the pediatric population. Clinical studies indicate that proton therapy reduces the likelihood of growth and developmental problems and of secondary tumors, which can occur years later.3,5,9 Because a child's body is small and still growing and developing, the damage to nearby healthy tissue and organs from standard X-ray radiation can be harmful. This damage can cause growth abnormalities, reductions in IQ, and other complications.10 New tumors can also develop later in the child's life. A growing body of research is confirming the advantages of using proton therapy for children. Learn more »
Proton therapy can be used to treat recurrent cancers that standard X-ray radiation therapy cannot. Patients should discuss proton therapy with a board-certified radiation oncologist to determine if it can be beneficial. Proton therapy can also be a treatment option if you've already had a course of standard X-ray radiation and are unable to receive more.
Comparing Protons and Standard X-ray Radiation
Proton therapy and X-ray radiation therapy both treat cancer by killing cancer cells when they attempt to divide and multiply. However, there is an important difference. Because X-ray radiation releases its maximum dose of radiation quickly after penetrating the skin and continues to release radiation as it passes through your body beyond the tumor, it exposes more tissue to unwanted radiation, potentially causing more damage to healthy tissue and organs than proton therapy. Proton therapy delivers most of the radiation exactly at the tumor site and then stops. There is essentially no radiation exposure beyond the tumor site once the radiation has reached and covered the treatment area. With proton therapy, much less excess radiation is delivered to healthy tissues compared to X-ray radiation therapy.
X-rays and protons can be equally effective in destroying cancer tumors. The difference is that X-ray treatments damage more healthy tissue in the process. X-rays release their maximum dose of radiation soon after penetrating the skin, potentially damaging healthy tissue and organs on their way to the tumor and again as they pass through the body beyond it. Protons can be precisely directed to release much of their energy only when they reach the tumor. Because there is much less exposure to healthy tissue with protons, a higher dose often can be delivered, leading to more effective cancer treatment.1
Because proton beams deposit more of their energy directly in the tumor, less radiation reaches the healthy tissue in front of the tumor, and almost none reaches the healthy tissue behind it.1 This reduces the risk of short- and long-term side effects. In addition, because more radiation can be deposited directly in the tumor, a higher dose can be delivered when treating certain tumors with proton therapy, leading to more effective treatment.1
Coverage for Proton Therapy
Proton therapy is covered by Medicare and many private insurance providers. Each ProCure center has financial counselors who are dedicated to guiding you through the insurance process. Please contact us if you have questions about coverage.
Consultation at ProCure
We do our best to have you come to our center and speak with a physician as soon as possible, and most patients are able to schedule a consultation within one week of contacting us.