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An old Japanese saying claims that every time you eat a new food you add 70 days to your life. OK, then what might you get if you grow a totally new food? These pro gardeners have an eye-opening list of vegetable varieties to try.
Garden Experts Share Their Favorite Unusual Vegetable Varieties
That's the fun part — you never really know what you're going to get. Raising new vegetable varieties is like opening a surprise package. You can't predict beforehand what special grace it will bring to your garden or what distinctive taste to your table. And the suspense is delightfully prolonged during the weeks and months it takes the maturing novelty to "unwrap" itself.
Unfortunately, sometimes novelty is a new vegetable's only virtue. It may be difficult to grow, not much to look at and awful to eat. So to help you choose the seed packages that will provide the most pleasurable surprises, we've asked a group of adventurous gardeners to describe some of their favorite "unusual" vegetable varieties — the ones that have won permanent places in their gardens and hearts. Just reading over their lists and comments has reawakened the gardening fever in our winter-locked spirits. We bet that, after you savor these tantalizing descriptions, you too will start filling out seed orders for crops you never knew existed.
By the way, for complete information on how to raise and use these, and many other, novel crops, watch your newsstand for the February issue of our ongoing series of special publications. The entire issue is devoted to a home gardener's encyclopedia of over 50 unusual vegetable varieties.
One more thing: The addresses for the seed companies mentioned here are listed in "Mother's 1988 Seed Company Wishbook Guide".
Kent Whealy
Whealy is the director of the Seed Saver's Exchange, a nationwide group of gardeners dedicated to sharing and maintaining "endangered" vegetable varieties. The SSE is keeping alive thousands of family heirlooms, traditional ethnic crops and outstanding standard (nonhybrid) varieties, many of which have been ignored or dropped by commercial seed companies.
Whealy himself helps maintain the SSE Preservation Garden, a four-acre plot with over 1,500 vegetable varieties. Here are just a few of his many favorites:
Aunt Mary's sweet corn. "W.W. Williams and his father helped breed this in the 1930s in Oregon. It's one of the sweetest nonhybrid corns I've ever tasted. In fact, the sugar content is so high that you can't dry the seeds on the plants — they'll mold first."
Dinosaur gourd. "This spectacular gourd is one of the oddest-looking things I've ever seen. It has a long curved neck, and both the club and bowl are covered with serpentine projections that look like the ridges along a dinosaur's back. It's grown for ornamental use only."
Jenny Lind muskmelon. "The 5 inch-diameter fruit of this melon is oddly shaped; flat with deep ribs, like a turban squash, and with a button on the blossom end. It has green flesh, too — but it's about the sweetest I've ever eaten."
Fleener top set onion. "We'd heard for years about multiplier onions that would produce 3 inch or larger onions when you planted the top sets. We finally tracked down one that does. William Arthur's great, great grandmother Fleener, a widow with 11 kids, brought it to their farm in 1853."
Golden sweet pea. "This American Indian plant produces an edible-podded pea that's very tender and has excellent quality. It's also beautiful. The purple flowers are followed by 3 inch-long lemon yellow pods. Golden is the only yellow edible-pod pea I've ever seen."
Aconcagua pepper. "Named after a mountain in South America, the Aconcagua is a huge, sweet, yellow pepper with excellent flavor. The fruits are as big around at the shoulder as a regular green pepper, but up to 10 inches or 12 inches long."
Green Mountain potato. "This spud comes from northern New England. It flowers early, is very vigorous and gives a good yield. The round or oblong tubers have lightly russeted skin and dry, white flesh."
Rogue Vif d'Etampes pumpkin. "Introduced in 1883, this deeply ribbed French pumpkin is round and flat. It may be 18 inches in diameter but only 6 inches deep. It's a good keeper and its thick, yellow-orange flesh has excellent flavor."
Stump of the World tomato. "From the collection of Ben Quissenberry, a 95-year-old seed grower who died just last year, the Stump of the World was probably the best of the 300 different tomatoes we grew last year. It has a high crimson gene, so it's a bright reddish orange. And its rich, red meat is among the best I've ever tasted."
Mike Kusky's long tomato. "This banana pepper-shaped paste tomato can grow to over 6 inches long. It's red, really meaty and superb for making paste or sauce."
Moon & Stars watermelon. "Henry Fields used to carry this incredibly beautiful garden plant back in 1930. The dark green rind has yellow spots that range from the size of a pea to that of a silver dollar. And its sweet, pink flesh has very good flavor."
Whealy's Seed Saver's Exchange is a gardeners' network, not a seed company, so you can't simply place an order. To obtain seeds, you must first become a member ($12 a year, $9 for senior citizens). You'll get the large winter and fall yearbooks, which list over 9,000 plants. You can then obtain seed directly from individual growers. Whealy hopes that you too will help by saving and sharing seed from the crops you grow.
You can obtain a free brochure that explains the SSE's projects and publications by sending a long SASE to Seed Saver's Exchange, Decorah, IA.
Jan Blüm
Like Kent Whealy, the creator of Seeds Blüm in Idaho has a special interest in heirloom vegetables: varieties developed for gardeners, not for commerce; for flavor, not for shipping. Indeed, Blüm's seed company offers several of the crops Whealy mentioned: Aunt Mary's sweet corn, Jenny Lind muskmelon, Aconcagua sweet pepper, Green Mountain potato, Rouge Vif d'Etampes pumpkin and Moon & Stars watermelon.
Blüm ( the subject of our interview on page 82 of this issue ) is interested in other garden gems, as well. "Primarily," she says, "I'm oriented to color and texture. Some varieties are my personal favorites because they brighten up the garden; some, because I like to serve them on the table; and others, because they're especially versatile in the kitchen. I lean toward vegetables that are multipurpose. If you're going to grow something, you might as well get the most out of it."
Here's just a few of Blüm's choices:
Romanesco broccoli. "While other broccolis are not what most people would consider beautiful, the conical, spiraling heads of Romanesco look gorgeous on vegetable trays. It's lovely steamed, too. It has a different, mild flavor, and the yellow-green color really stands out."
Super Italian paste tomato. "It takes only a few of these large (4 inch by 6 inch) paste tomatoes to make a pot of sauce. You can also harvest them while their shoulders are green, and — like a long-keeping tomato — they'll go ahead and ripen beautifully."
Currant tomato. "It's what the cherry tomato tried to be. You can pop these pea-sized fruits in your mouth, and they won't squirt all over."
Yellow Cheese pepper. "The very thick flesh is extremely sweet — simply wonderful in salads. It's on the early end of the medium-season peppers, so it does okay here in Idaho."
Sucram carrot. "These are like baby carrots — mature when they're just 2-1/2 inches to 3 inches long. And they're very, very sweet."
Bintje potato. "This very prolific plant produces lots of nicely flavored potatoes with pretty, waxy, yellow skin. Also, because of their yellow flesh, you tend not to use as much butter on them. The first time I saw them, my comment was, 'They're just absolutely gorgeous!' And how often do you say that about potatoes?"
Red Striped Leaf amaranth. "It's very attractive in the garden, and you can even bring this amaranth inside as a houseplant. The leaves are just beautiful when served on a plate, and the cooked flavor is quite like spinach. The greens contain more iron and calcium than any other garden green."
Baby sea kale. "In the very early spring, the blanched stalks of this perennial can be used like asparagus. They taste sort of like turnips, and I'm not crazy about turnips, but for some reason I love the flavor of baby sea kale. And it comes in real early, when you're anxious for garden freshness."
Anise Hyssop. "I'm not a tea drinker, but Anise-Hyssop tea has got to be the best I've ever had. I also love the plant's scent, and its blooms are attractive in dried flower arrangements. This multipurpose herb has danced into the circle of my favorites."
Ragged Jack kale. "Good all year round. It's flavorful in the summer when no other kale is. When young, the bright purple, red oak-type leaves are beautiful in salads and sweet to taste. It's beautiful when planted in a border, too."
Sunroot. "You know how knobby Jerusalem artichokes are? Well, our smooth sunroot variety is large and perfectly smooth. Sliced up, this nutty, nutritious vegetable can be served in salads, just like radishes."
All of the varieties Blüm mentions are available from Seeds Blüm, Boise, ID (catalogue $2).
Nancy Bubel
Pennsylvania gardener Nancy Bubel says, "I've been gardening for 28 years, and learning something new each year. I've written six books, five of them on gardening. I still have a list of garden projects to try and new-to-me vegetables to grow. (A green called orach is next.)"
Her latest book, The New Seed Starter'sHandbook, is available from Rodale Press as of January 1988. Her most recent article for MOTHER was our "Seed Saving" guide in MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 107.
Some of Bubel's favorite unusual vegetables are:
Des Vertus Marteau turnip. "When your teenage son says, 'Mother, these are good turnips!' you know you're onto something, right? This variety has good texture and very good, buttery flavor. It really tastes like a different vegetable. Long and white, it's best as a fall crop. From Epicure Seeds."
Mizuna. "A real winner that's very easy to grow. Plants I start in spring produce well until after fall frost. Mizuna is a nutritious green, good either raw or cooked and (hooray!) mild -flavored. From The Cook's Garden and Le Marché."
New Zealand spinach. "This spinach substitute grows well in warm weather (although it germinates best in cool soil). It can also take light fall frosts and volunteers readily from self-sown seed. Widely available."
Adzuki beans. "These fine dry beans are easy to grow and pretty much bug-free (even Mexican bean beetles seem to leave them alone). They do require lots of shelling, though. My favorite variety is Express from Johnny's."
Hakkaido pumpkin. "This is the best-tasting pumpkin I know. Its delicious, sweet, dry flesh is even better than Buttercup's. However, it's not as productive or as disease- and pest-resistant as some pumpkin varieties. From Johnny's."
Romaine lettuce. "Lots of people grow leaf and butterhead lettuce. Few grow Romaine. They should. Its dark green leaves are very nutritious and have good flavor and excellent texture. It's best started indoors and transplanted. Widely available."
Kohlrabi. "The baseball-sized globe of this exotic brassica provides good salad crunch in spring before any cucumbers come in. I plant short rows of kohlrabi every two or three weeks in spring and again in July for fall harvest. Widely available."
Long Season beet. "We count on these for winter eating — they're easy to grow, have good flavor and will keep until the next summer. They're quite large and rough-looking but have a fine-textured inner flesh. From Gurney's."
Kale. "A Bubel family favorite. It has high vitamin value, is very hardy and is easy to grow. It has very good flavor after a couple of fall frosts sweeten it up (before then, it's too strong for our liking). Widely available."
Spaghetti squash. "It's fun to tease out the mild-flavored strands of this versatile 'pasta squash.' Bake it in the oven for 45 to 60 minutes, scoop out the flesh, then enjoy it under sauces or grated cheese. It keeps moderately well (better than Buttercup squash, but not as long as Butternut). Widely available."
Susan Sides
Sides is MOTHER'S own head gardener. She's been raising vegetables, flowers and herbs organically for over 13 years, from the sands of Florida to the clay loam of our western North Carolina mountains. This past summer she raised over 64 unusual vegetables as part of her research for our upcoming AMERICAN COUNTRY guide to unusual vegetables. About half of the crops she mentions here are among those she grew for the first time last summer. The rest are long-time personal favorites.
Jumbo green bean. "These bush beans are prolific and the pods are stringless—even when they're 10 inches long. A mature bean is the size of three or four regular green beans, which makes meal preparation and preserving a snap. I love them cooked with chunks of tomato, basil and garlic. From Johnny's."
Purple-Podded green bean. "I'm fond of these for two reasons. First, they tolerate cool, damp clay soils, so you can plant them early. Then too, the purple color pops right out at you, so you don't miss any and have them go to seed. (They also turn green when cooked two minutes—providing a built-in timer for blanching.) From Shepherd's."
Kentucky North green bean. "If picked when about 5 inches long and 1/4 inch wide, these pole beans (not to be confused with Kentucky Wonder) surpass gourmet French beans for exquisite flavor. I remember thinking when I ate my first serving that surely no one could be eating better than I was that night. From Johnny's."
Green soybean. "We love our bowls of steamed Johnny's Butterbean soybeans. (Steam the green pods eight minutes, then cool, pop the beans out, and finish steaming.) They require little care, almost thriving on neglect — with one caveat: Wild animals love them. This year the ground hogs beat us to our soybeans three times!"
Kinko carrot. "Our all-time favorite. The short, sweet roots of Kinko carrots tolerate hard clay soils and hot, dry summers. They even lived through the mistake-filled care of the 10 apprentice gardeners we had one year. From Johnny's."
Chioggia beet. "I thought this might be just a novelty grown for its beautiful red and white concentric rings. But the first time I tasted a Chioggia, I knew I'd be planting them next year. Even the large ones were sweet and mellow. From Le Marché and Seeds Blüm."
Cutting celery. "Many people think normal celery is hard to grow, but this European variation (also called Leaf celery) is easy to raise. Snip off a clump of the bushy foliage and dice it up for flavoring soups, stews, rice pilaf, potato salad — you name it. From Le Marché and Blüm."
Fine Maraichere frisee endive. "I'd always hated endive — too bitter and tough—until I gave this curly variety a try. Its neat, small, 8 inch heads grew to perfection in the cool of autumn. Even without blanching (which is customary with endives, especially spring sowings), frilly-leaved Fine Maraichere was crisp, lovely and delightful in salads. From Le Marché."
Jicama. "When eaten raw, this vegetable has the crunch and juiciness of an apple crossed with a water chestnut — I've eaten a baseball-sized jicama in one sitting. I started mine indoors in spring, and they grew slowly until late summer, but then the plants and those tasty roots really took off: From Horticultural Enterprises, Nichols and others."
Delicata and Sweet Dumpling squash. "Both these winter squashes are just the right size for one or two servings. The taste is sweet, nutty and rich, and the consistency is creamy. They don't store as well as some other varieties, but it doesn't matter — they're the first ones we eat up! From Johnny's."
Greg and Pat Williams
The authors of our " Seasons of the Garden" column (of this issue), Greg and Pat Williams live on a 115-acre farm in Gravel Switch, Kentucky. They grow and preserve all their own food — except for grain and dairy products. They raise over 80 food trees, including apple, pear and persimmon. They also publish HortIdeas, a monthly research newsletter that encourages back yard garden experimentation. Their selections are based on a great deal of personal experimentation.
Celeriac. "Celery does poorly in hot summers, but celeriac grows well and is not demanding. We use the roots (they store well) in winter soup and stews, and the leaves (sparingly, they're a bit strong) to add celery-like flavor to other dishes. Widely available."
Daikon radish. "These large, long, white Oriental radishes take longer to grow than the popular small globes, but they're milder, keep much longer and are more versatile. You can use this fall crop as a main vegetable instead of as a garnish. From Johnny's, Le Marché and others."
Rat-Tail radish. "Grown for its 9 inch (or longer) seed pods rather than its roots, RatTail pods have a flavor similar to that of hot radishes, but a totally different texture and a downright weird appearance. They're great stir-fried. From Blüm."
Peanuts. "They're fun to grow. The nuts are actually produced from "pegs" that drop down from the plant's spent flowers and dig into the ground. The plants are quite ornamental and not difficult to raise (they do require some extra care if you live in a cool climate). From Gurney's and Park's."
Perpetual Spinach beet. "As the name suggests, this beet is raised for its leaves. The plant grows very quickly and lasts all summer. Its leaves resemble chard, but have a much milder and better flavor. We use them as a main salad ingredient. From The Cook's Garden."
TexSel greens. "Originally from Ethiopia, this spring-or-fall variety of Brassica carinata was developed by Texas A&M University for high yields, high protein, low oxalic acid, wide growing range and mild flavor. Its mild mustard flavor is good raw or cooked — even our kids like it. From Foundation Seed Service, TX (sample $1 plus SASE plus 44 cents postage)."
Orach. "An easy-to-grow spinach substitute, orach is very similar to wild lamb's-quarters, but has larger leaves. If you don't have much of that nutritious weed growing in your plot, give this crop a go. From The Cook's Garden."
Cowpeas. "Traditional Southern fare, cowpeas can be raised in the North, as well—some varieties need only 50 days to reach green maturity. And they're delicious green. (We also raise them to dry.) They fix nitrogen, are little bothered by Mexican bean beetles and don't seem to cause much flatulence. From Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and Park's."
Elephant garlic. "The bulbs and cloves are much larger (and milder) than those of regular garlic. They can be chopped and used almost like onions — they're especially good with oil and pasta. From Gurney's and Blüm."
Garden purslane. "This is a large-leaved variety of the common weed. It has a pleasant, mildly acidic taste and is very high in vitamin C. From The Cook's Garden."
Tomatillo. "If you like Mexican food, you should grow tomatillos. We treat them exactly like tomatoes, except they don't need staking or caging. They're attractive and are a main ingredient in salsa verde and other Mexican dishes. From Shepherd's and Horticultural Enterprises."
Renee Shepherd
Renee Shepherd started her California seed house after the visiting manager of a large European seed company told her that many of his best-tasting varieties weren't marketed here. The American companies generally wanted vegetables bred for commercial use. European varieties, by contrast, were bred for fine flavor, tenderness and the best fresh-eating qualities.
Shepherd began working directly with French, Dutch, Italian, English and other seed companies so she could offer American gardeners the opportunity of growing these choice European vegetable varieties. She's grown and cooked all the crops she offers herself and is wonderfully enthusiastic about them. Indeed, she mentioned over 30 favorites to us — a list we painfully whittled down to 11 for this article.
Scented basil. "Lemon, anise and cinnamon scented basils are ornamental, fragrant and great in cooking. Anise is especially good in tomato, Cambodian and Thai dishes, while cinnamon makes good marinades and is great for sweet-and-sour dishes and fruit salads. Cinnamon, in particular, hooks a non-gardening spouse every time."
Red and White Knight Runner beans. " These are stringless and much sweeter than the popular Scarlet Runners. They attract hummingbirds, are quite prolific and beautifully ornamental — truly one of the best 'edible landscaping' plants. The beans are delicious both fresh and dry."
Violet Queen purple cauliflower. "The head of this compact, quick-growing plant turns green when cooked and has a delicate flavor somewhere between broccoli and cauliflower. It's easier to grow than regular cauliflower and less susceptible to pests and diseases."
Curly cress. "Grow it instead of green onions—it looks like parsley or chervil and is fast and easy to grow. It adds zip and spice to sandwiches and salads."
Radicchio. "This is the tart, slightly bitter red chicory so popular in fine restaurants. I like the variety Giulio because, unlike traditional fall types, it heads in the spring and summer. Add a handful to a salad for color and flavor. Do reserve your judgment on its taste until it is put into a salad, and use only thin vinaigrettes (I like lemon, herb vinegar, olive oil and a half-teaspoon of sugar) to complement the taste."
Finochio. "A cool-season crop that has a celery- and anise-like flavor. I like the root braised with chicken broth or in butter. Be sure to add some of the feathery top growth."
Anaheim pepper. "This 7 inch-long pepper (also called green or California chili) is easier to raise than sweet peppers and has a wonderful mild flavor that is undervalued by Americans. It goes great with corn, squash, beans and chicken."
Wolter spinach. "This smooth-leaved Dutch hybrid has a less metallic taste than regular spinach. It grows rapidly, yields well and is resistant to three races of downy mildew. Wolter will turn the most staunch spinach hater into a regular Popeye."
Sunburst Yellow Scallops squash. "The squash on this prolific plant are deep gold. I like to harvest as a baby vegetable when they're 1 inch to 1-1/2 inches long. The taste is nutty and sweet, and much milder than regular squashes."
Carmelo tomato. "This French variety is a midseason main crop that bears lots of large fruits with unequaled flavor. They're exquisite fresh from the vine, and disease-resistant to boot."
Vernandon Haricots Verts beans. "A heavy-bearing French filet green bean. You must pick the slender, 6 inch-long, sweet-tasting beans every other day. Steam them whole with perhaps a sprinkling of fresh dill and a bit of sour cream or butter for sauce."
All the varieties Renee mentions are available from Shepherd's Garden Seeds, Felton, CA8 (free catalogue).
Related Articles:
Conversation with Jan Blüm A Guide to Garden Wishbooks Seasons of the Garden


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Editor's Summary
Webmasters traditional approach to search engine optimization was long based on matching query terms with word tokens. The result was a machine-oriented reflection of presumed relevance among retrieved items. Yet humans interpret content differently, focusing more on meaning than match, prompting programmers to focus on semantics, applied ontologies and predictive machine learning. Google Panda upended tradition with a focus on internal content quality and user engagement as well as the external influences of social media interaction, comments and reviews. Information architects can support a better search user experience through page layout, a flatter architecture, simpler site navigation and strong semantic connections between content and external authority resources.
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Optimizing Websites in the Post Panda World
by Marianne Sweeny
Journalist Andrew Rice recently commented in the New York Times on the obsolescence of search engine optimization (SEO) as we know it:
Increasingly the online audience for <sites> is coming in the side doors via links on blogs and social-networking websites like Facebook. Probably the most important tool for reaching large audiences, however, is Google. If you can climb onto the top of the sites search results, youre certain to be rewarded with a huge number of clicks. Most publications these days try to harness the Google algorithm through an arcane process known as search engine optimization. Some are more skilled at this than others. [1]
During the last few years since its PageRank algorithm was first victimized by tactics that Google deemed outside of its Webmaster Guidelines, Google has steadfastly marched away from a link-based model of relevance towards one of content and context. In February 2011, Google launched the first of the Panda updates that solidified content quality and user experience as the passports to visible placement in search results. Sadly, no one told the content strategists and user experience professionals how their work influences search results or how the conception of content and design of user experience influences the performance of search engines.
My intent in this article is to fill in the blanks.
How Search Works
Most search engines use foundational methodologies that go back 60 years to the earliest days of electronic document storage. Document text is broken down into word tokens. These tokens are stored in an index that contains the document properties (date created, author, title, associated metadata) and its location. Retrieval is achieved by pulling all matches between query terms and word tokens and determining display based on term density and location.
The problem with machine relevance based on perceived user experience is that humans and machines think differently about what is relevant. Machines are constrained by the application of a prescribed set of rules and conditions that determine outcome. Good means that the criteria have been met. People, however, are contextual. They are influenced by environment and emotion when constructing their queries. Good means pleasing or it feels right.
How Search is Changing
To meet the challenges of mercurial input, search programmers look to semantic and predictive machine learning. Processing power has enabled search technology to determine contextual sameness between linked pages that is then used to validate the link quality.
Increasingly, search engines have incorporated an applied ontology to understand how things in the world are divided into categories and how these categories are related. By better understanding real world context, search engines are now able to designate authority resources for certain subject areas and then use links from authority pages to determine relevance.
Google Panda
In 2009, Google extended this contextual relationship modeling by purchasing the Orion algorithm from an Australian university. The algorithm uses predictive modeling to include more distantly related concepts into search results.
This significant update was originally referred to as the Farmer Update because it was erroneously assumed that Panda was going after content farms. It soon became clear that scope went beyond the location to the quality of the content itself. Quality is determined by the professional care spelling and grammar and by the depth of user engagement with the content as determined by the following:
- Bounce Rate: Does the user engage with the content or do they bounce back to the search results or move on to another site? Some pages should have a large bounce rate, e.g. a Contact Us page with location and contact information. Navigation pages, long text pages or, most importantly, the homepage should draw the user in and through to other pages on the site.
- Click through: Does the user select the result from those presented? If a result on page 3 is selected more often than a result on page 1, the algorithm judgment will be overridden and the results will switch places.
- Conversion: Does the selected result satisfy the users information need or do they select another result from the original set or revise their query.
It is not as though search engines see us thought-processing bipeds as mere recipients of their beneficence. There are human-generated social factors that Google uses to determine who gets in what position in search results. The following are among these:
- Social media interaction: On the page opportunity to like, tweet or recommend the content through interacting with a social media button, logging in to the channel and completing the action.
- Article Comments & Reviews: Information consumption is seen as such a passive activity that the simple action of responding is seen as an indicator of significance. Discourse through commenting is a strong signal of engagement.
Why Do We Care?
Computer scientists, developers and mathematicians have finally come around to define searching as a user experience. They use algorithms and programming to determine whether information is relevant based on its design. We care because we are the ones that create the information structures, page layouts and designs that inform the perception of relevance. The work we do as information architects and user-experience professionals influences how information is retrieved and presented to our users. Our choices when developing information structure help search engines determine relevance and, ultimately, influences whether our users even get to experience our work.
Search User Experience (SUX)
It is not too late for the IA and UX communities to seize the semantic high ground in determining what is relevant to an information need. Heres how:
- Develop flat information architectures. Search engines see distance from the homepage as an indicator of how important a page is in the greater scheme of things. Get rid of as many folders within folders within folders. Flat is back.
- Design page layouts that have semantically distinct regions with the most important information in the center section of the page. Google eye-tracking studies supported George Furnas concept of the Fisheye View or Mark Hursts concept of the Page Paradigm.
- See content as part of a strategy before it becomes an artifact. Consider these strategic actions:
- Use online resources like Google Insights for Search and Yahoo Clues to find out how users look for your product or service. Bake these references into your content. Develop semantic relationships between content items on your site as well as authority resources off the site.
- Adopt the newspaper model of an opening paragraph summary that goes on to deep subject-specific content. Ditch the newspaper maxim of the fold. Even Jakob Nielsen believes that the fold is dead in the virtual world [4].
- Describe your content in a machine-readable fashion with a <title> of 72 characters (including spaces) and a metaDescription of 150 characters (including spaces).
- Help users to remain oriented on the site. Give them recognizable navigation and an indication of where they are in the site structure. Include inline text links and make them clearly visible if scanning the page. Encourage users to explore with related link components.
- Think beyond the site. Build in program links to contextually relevant information outside of the domain.
Be confident that users will return to the site because they will, they always do, using the back button if necessary. Visibility is about relevance and relevance is based on relationships.
Search engines are not smart. They are programs that following instructions in an exacting way. They know the user through the query only. We are smart. When we take time to consider how the technology understands content, we become more adept at using technology to get information to those who need it. Remember, searching is an experience, not just an activity.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Rice, A. (May 12, 2012). Putting a price on words. New York Times. Retrieved September 15, 2012, from www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.html?pagewanted=all.
[2] Furnas, G.W. (1999). The FISHEYE view: A new look at structured file. Murray Hill, NJ: Bell Laboratories. Retrieved September 16, 2012, from http://furnas.people.si.umich.edu/Papers/FisheyeOriginalTM.pdf.
[3] Hurst, M. (February 19, 2004). The page paradigm. Good experience [blog]. Retrieved September 16, 2012, from http://goodexperience.com/blog/2004/02/the-page-paradigm.php
[4] Nielsen, J. (March 22, 2010). Scrolling and attention. Jakob Nielsens alertbox. Retrieved September 16, 2012, from www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html.
Marianne Sweeny is a search engine optimization specialist at Portent Interactive. She can be reached at Marianne<at>portentinteractive.com.
Articles in this Issue
Information Architecture Overview
Information Architecture in the Age of Complexity
The Architecture of Information
Optimizing Websites in the Post Panda World
A Metaphor for Content Strategy
A Conversation with Eric Reiss, Author of Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
Sustainability: Scholarly Repository as an Enterprise
Spelunking in the Archives: Or How I Learned to Love the Art of the Unexpected
IA; Attending to the Existing Landscape
RDAP: NSF DMP Content Analysis: What Are Researchers Saying?

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Last week, a state senator told a newspaper publisher to shut up at a committee hearing in Raleigh.
Well, that�s not exactly what the senator in question, Tommy Tucker, a Union County Republican, said, but it amounted to the same thing when it comes right down to it.
�I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet,� is what the North Carolina Press Association quoted Tucker as saying in a heated moment over a debate that not only impacts a prominent business enterprise in the state but anyone who wants open access to government information but has no Internet access.
Let�s run that line by again, since there is no video.
�I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.�
Full disclosure? I�ve wanted to tell a publisher or two to �be quiet� in my day. In fact, I worked for one whose speech sounded to me exactly the way adults are characterized in Peanuts animated cartoons on TV. About once a day I wanted to tell this guy to, well shut up. I wanted to tell him so with extreme prejudice.
But I never did even one time. Know why?
Because I worked for him.
Now let�s run that quote from Sen. Tommy Tucker of Waxhaw by one more time.
�I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.�
Sounds like someone in Raleigh needs a reminder of just whom he works for.
SAY ONEthing about the Republican politicians that now inhabit the General Assembly, they certainly know how to squash freedom, liberty and all that other jazz this nation was founded upon. The Constitution? No need for this state to follow it when it comes to establishment of religion. Divorce? Let�s chain two people who hate each other together for an extra year and see how that works out. Access to local government? P�shaw, let the elderly or poor boot up computers even if they don�t have one or even know how to get online. Voting? Let�s make that an exclusive club, too.
Believe me, I�ll never complain about state lawmakers designating a state dog ever again.
In the good news department, at least House Speaker Thom Tillis put the kibosh on that state religion deal. But it�s equally significant that neither he, nor his Senate counterpart Phil Berger, has done much about the other rather loose cannons firing at will in seemingly random directions in the General Assembly.
This session of the Legislature, more than any other in memory, reminds me of the week I spent at North Carolina Boys State back in the summer of 1976. Boys State, for those who don�t know, is an American Legion-sponsored camp for rising high school seniors. While there � and in my day it was held at Wake Forest University � teenage boys from all over the state gathered in dorms sectioned into cities and counties. We elected mayors, councils, commissioners, senators, representatives and a governor. We also had nightly water balloon fights, but that�s another story.
Those elected to our version of the General Assembly proceeded to write the kind of bills people might logically expect from a collection of teenage boys. We immediately called for a merger of Boys State with Girls State, co-ed living arrangements on college campuses, laws that would almost mandate smoking marijuana. We scuttled the sales tax, ruled that fast food operations couldn�t sell cold French fries and lowered the age to legally purchase alcohol to 16.
It was a dizzying array of mindless legislation grounded in the kind of reality we had gained by watching Bullwinkle cartoons on TV.
I see similar activity going on in Raleigh these days. My only question is whether they have nightly water balloon fights.
AS FORthe esteemed senator who put himself above a state citizen in a public forum, well, he received so much flak about it he shut down the commenting function on his Facebook page. Brave soul, he.
The conflict arose from a committee meeting over the publication of legal notices � about meetings, foreclosures, etc. � in newspapers. At the moment, local governments must do so in order to ensure the public has easy access to the information. It�s First Amendment thing. A bill now would make it OK for governments to only publish the information on its web sites. At the moment it�s just a few counties, but a few usually sprawls to all.
For newspapers, especially smaller ones, there�s money at stake. From my perspective personally, though, it�s about access to public information � or more to the point, who would have no access at all.
Anyway, things got tense when Tucker called for a voice vote on the matter that had a questionable result. Asked about it, he bristled. Hal Tanner, publisher of the Goldsboro News Argus, told Tucker his actions seemed inconsistent with Republican values of open government. He also told him he was acting like Jim Black, a former Democratic House speaker jailed for corruption. That�s when Tucker allegedly said . . .
�I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.�
Tucker�s still got it all wrong. We are the people. You work for us.
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|2010-08-25, 18:31
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Excessively jovial fellow
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: ISDB-T
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The point was that trying to apply the "moé" label to a josei manga makes no sense. That being said, in my experience josei is by far the least retarded demographic. (Yes, least retarded. Unfortunately not even I can really generalize it to "shounen is bad"; every demographic contains pretty much 90% bad (Sturgeon's Law), it's just that josei tends to have the least amount of pure retardedness.)
so I could let Yamakan run it over and hate him even more
|2010-08-25, 19:17
|Link #23
Join Date: Dec 2006
Also, if you've ever read any of his interviews, you'll see that he isn't all about otaku-pandering at all. If this series fails, you'll be happy because he announced that he'll retire from anime if that happens. He'll probably just keep going with his live-action directing career XD
And for the record, So-ra-no-wo-to also had good animation, with a high number of drawings per episode. Unless you're making the basic mistake of confusing art and animation, you'll recognise this. I didn't watch Senkou no Night Raid, but episode 1 featured a really well-executed action sequence. Also Birdy the Mighty Decode is broadly recognised as a good example of a 'sakuga' anime by animation fans. Season 2 had some seriously amazing animation work, especially Hiroki Tanaka's stuff. And don't forget that an animation studio doesn't neccesarily imply how something will turn out, they are an ANIMATION studio (although there are exceptions). If A-1 Pictures is given a good original series to work on, there's no reason to say it'll be otaku-pandering, and there's a high chance it will be well-animated.
But I'll agree that Mari Okada's involvement isn't too inspiring.
In future, if you want to dissmiss something offhand, that's fine, but don't jump on someone who disagrees.
|2010-08-25, 19:36
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TheFluff, if you have nothing to say about the show itself, I suggest you create a thread in the General Anime section so you can rant all you want about "moé".
I would appreciate it, some people would appreciate it, if you don't continue the flame-bait/troll-bait, which is leading to nothing more than a rather silly, pointless and off-topic "discussion".
to everyone else still thinking in replying to his posts, either ignore him or pester him through PM's.
|2010-09-10, 18:00
|Link #26
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
probably not something you would expect after looking at the concept illustration.
I have liked a similar style in the past, so it's fine for me. good things to say: it's a bit minimalistic but does a great job addressing form/space (and foreshortening); and you can easily tell each of the characters apart. I imagine the colors are going to be much brighter than the scan. oh and also liked the fact it's addressing the pupil of the eye.
|2010-09-11, 01:11
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Location: Pacific Northwest
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|2010-09-19, 22:34
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Rest of the staff be damned, this is the only part that's needed for me to watch this. Uso-tsuki Mii-kun to Kowareta Maa-chan and Tamako-san to Kashiwa-kun both have REALLLLLYYYY awesome character design (especially Tamako to Kashiwa, which has an awesomeeee volume 1 cover).
After briefly browsing the website (which I thought the characters look a ton better than that mag scan) I'm definitely in. Regardless, I have good faith in this until proven otherwise when the show airs.
|2010-10-02, 12:11
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Hey, good news! There's a manga that's going to start before the anime airing. You can read chapter 1 at GanGanOnline.
Hell, if you don't understand Japanese (like me!), you might as well read it anyway. Art is much better than the mag scan posts earlier. Too bad the official website kinda spoiled part of the story, but hell Furyune looks , Kurein/Kurin doesn't look half bad either.
|2010-10-08, 16:27
|Link #33
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
Presentation of the major characters. I love the original character design.
|2010-10-27, 19:58
|Link #37
I kill you
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Location: In your brain
You guys do know that Yamakan said he will even risk retirement when this anime fails. Since Yamakan himself is putting too much hype on it, I'm slightly worried. What if it REALLY fails? This might be his final farewell.
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|2011-01-25, 18:50
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Tenshi's Defense Squadron
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Location: Fighting against those who oppress the system
Anti-BPS? what's that?
|2011-01-26, 12:38
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|2011-01-26, 17:58
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
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I see... *nods like Houki* So that's how it is...
Guess the Battletech strategy of having a lot of Elementals stick to a mech while sawing (in this case blasting) away will be the solution.
It was supposed to be anti-ADS, I stuttered mispelled. That meant anti-Absolute Defense System.
|2011-01-27, 15:34
|Link #24
A Humble Proposal
Phew, this was a load off my shoulders. It's about time I got all this angst on paper, so I don't have to put up with it anymore. Ah, but I digress. Here, folks, is my proposal for an Infinite Stratos AU. I would most appreciate constructive criticism, but do realize that the suspension of disbelief is required here, despite my best efforts to reproduce some semblance of verisimilitude.
How these changes will affect the core Romantic Love Comedy at the heart of IS is anyone's guess, but should I go to produce a fic, rest assured I would never part with that distinctly Japanese whackiness. ...Even if Ichika should find himself thrown into a real warzone every other weekend or so, and-or finds himself having to fight for his pride in the IS League, lest he be emasculated for life. It'd be like Valkyria Chronicles 2, but with MECHA! ...Har har har!
Ahem. Now, Before you read on, do brace yourselves for a darkly humorous info dump, tons of kudos, and some serious beeswax. You have been forewarned!
Spoiler for Infinite Stratos: For Answer - Foreword:
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|2011-01-27, 21:32
|Link #25
Augumented Paranoia
Join Date: Nov 2003
Very interesting introduction to your series.
Spoiler for Mecha Choice:
Also more on the whole affair of the First Raven.
Spoiler for First Raven, and the rivals for control.:
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|2011-01-28, 03:48
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|2011-01-28, 10:29
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Cool, Bro.
Now, on the subject of mecha, well, to begin with, I was not trying to hijack the series by bringing in some new super mecha that upsets the entire power balance, considering IS themselves are already ridiculously "OP". IS ARE the NEXTs of the IS universe. Bringing in ACs short of a NEXT would be a total waste of time against an IS; hence, the drive for conventional mecha in IS: For Answer is building things smaller and making 'em more cost effective.
Massive casualties in the 80 to 90th percentile are expected any time an IS is involved in an conventional battle. Conventional forces can be equipped with reversed engineered / derivative energy shields and energy weapons, but these are still much too inferior to genuine IS weaponry / tech to be worth the investment. This is confirmed in canon, by the way.
Another reason energy-based tech is not favored in the mecha is power limitations. Conventional mecha just don't have the same absurd power generation as IS, because they are powered by banks of nanobatteries (to reduce weight and increase internal capacity for other important things) that make their artificial muscle packages work in the first place, plus all of their on-board vectronics and so on. You won't be seeing anyone running around here with a miniature palladium reactor or micro fusion reactor, no sir. Remember the objective is to be cheap and cost effective, because you will most likely die if an IS even looks at you funny.
Hell, short of throwing an Arms Fort at an IS, you are going to lose and bleed hard just about every time. Why? Let me quote a novel reader here...
"also from reading a bit more of the IS novel. the reason for the IS global domination in terms of power is because of this:
Apparently the IS could move faster than ICBMs, pilot can see everything in slow motion(similar to vanquish), they not affected by G-force so no fear of black-out/red-out and a 100% optical camouflage system. So when IS was first unveiled A single IS was able to stop a war by shooting down 2437 missiles, 207 fighter jets , disable/immobilize 5 aircraft carriers and all their naval escorts and vaporized 8 spy satellites that was tracking its movement."
100% Optical Camo, No Fear of Blacking Out / Red Out from G forces, Extrasensory 360 Vision (I'll bring up this reference too, if you like), and they have Bullet Time?
Dude, Normals / Old Gen Armored Cores are a joke. They would need strength in numbers just to take down one IS, which is the equivalent of a NEXT squeezed down to 2+ meters without the nasty after effects of Kojima Radiation.
Hey, I am not knocking on your verse here. I am just telling you that if an AC does show up in IS: For Answer, it will not be a Normal; it would have to be a NEXT, which would pretty much put the living fear of god into IS pilots. The difference in scale, despite making the NEXT a bigger target, also affords the NEXT a totally different magnitude of power and survivability that the present generation of IS just can't match.
Now, what does this all mean in in-universe terms for IS: For Answer? Lots of brutal, bloody, lop-sided battles because a single IS can turn the tide of battle. In fact, your chances of living through the day are all but decided by how many IS each side is fielding, or they are substituting the above IS with an Arms Fort. After a fashion, it's like the good old days when battles were won because X side had this famous Knight / Samurai / General on their side, while Y was S.O.L. because Y Knight / Samurai / General was at another battle.
And that my friend is a lesson in verisimilitude.
Oh, and if you don't mind, allow me to correct you on just one thing: the Electronic Counter Measures fitted on OWLs does not render them invisible. If they looked invisible to you, it's because your AC didn't have night vision capability for the head part when you fought them for the first time in AC: Nexus, where Dual Face appears to kill a couple of 'em very smexily.
Now, what their ECM does do is jam sensors and disrupt fire control systems that have poor ECCM / ECM defense, meaning you can't see 'em on radar and you'll only get a few seconds to take a good shot at 'em before your FCS goes down again and has to system recover. What does this mean for an IS?
Well, those OWLs are dead meat, because the IS pilot can just Aim-Down-Sights and gun them down anyways. Sure, they can't use auto-aim, aim assist, or beyond line-of-sight guided munitions, but I imagine Infrared or Laser guided anti-tank missiles in visual range work just fine - unless the FCS for those get scrambled too. And if you decide to upgrade their ECM to the levels of Full Metal Panic's ECS, I believe that system is still vulnerable to infrared detection.
Melee specialists would have a ball making like Daizengar and "THERE ARE NONE MY SWORD HATH NOT CLEVEATH!" on OWLs. Then again, they'd do the same thing to MTs, PTs, ATs, ACs, and what have you all the same, because they are just that awesome like that, right? BADASS BOAST!
...But I am getting off-topic and nitpicky here. It's your universe, your rules, but me coming from a pragmatic, common sense oriented middle ground here, I just facepalm, man.
You gotta get your technobabble, military jargon, and vice-versa, straight. Otherwise, you just got these big gaping plot holes, and last I checked, we were not in the Naruto / Bleach fandom where that sort of thing is accepted as the norm. I understand, you want ACs to be cool, but let's practical here, you're gonna have to wait until Kojima Technology gets developed before Magi really becomes The Last Raven, probably have him settle down in Anatolia too, where he'll meet the most lovely Fiona Jarnefeldt, and get this - he'll be the first to pilot the true White Glint.
Of course, I am curious as hell how IS tactics and combat arms will have to adjust to combat NEXTs. That Primal Armor, Kojima Radiation, and so on is going to be a serious pain in the you know what. I'd say the norm for taking on a NEXT is that the IS side must have at least a 3:1 advantage, considering they can probably be instant killed by weapons with a high "Primal Armor Attunement" or "Primal Armor Piercing", since IS do not invest in honest to god armor at all.
The reason being, if the weapon in question is powerful enough to pierce the "Godly" energy shield of an IS than any armor to speak of would be utterly worthless.
Me? Well, I'd like to believe some GODLY reactive armor would buy me a few extra seconds against a hail of 30mm Kinetic Energy Penetrators, don't you?
|2011-01-28, 13:20
|Link #28
Augumented Paranoia
Join Date: Nov 2003
I can see some plotholes with that, that was actually addressed in another forum. The whole idea is that Magi's enemies rarely have an IS on their side, maybe Phantom Task would help but given their feminist agenda and belief the IS is the only thing they need for world conquest. So at the moment, Magi's AC is "Adequate" by military standards, he can take down MTs without a problem thanks to the OP-I which gives him much more firepower than the average Bipedal AC in battle (Who are usually stuck with missiles or Radar as back units. A good thing when you are facing off against OWLs and other ECM using enemy units). This is why combined arms for MTs are stressed in battle the MT85s provide tanking for the other units. MT07s/MT91s for artillery support.
This goes straight to hell against IS but is often a challenge for Ravens unprepared for their combined arms tactics that some groups will employ to different levels of skill.
And I won't have Magi piloting White Glint (strong believer of only O'Brian can use the NEXT), maybe a modified Global Arament NEXT customized to remind him of his old AC, but that was what he came in with.
|2011-01-28, 14:34
|Link #29
Glad to see you are a reasonable fellow, and I believe there is no glaring faults in your reasoning. Plot wise, though, I am sorry to say, but I think Magi is going to be eating a lot of humble cake around the IS Academy with his observer status, and the fact he is essentially an 8-meter tall guard dog. IS pilots and his kind live in totally separate worlds, not that it means he can't teach 'em a thing or two and the opposite applying to him as well.
On the subject of NEXTs, each to our own, I suppose, in how we choose to honor our dead. But if ain't a White Glint... I am personally more partial to Rayleonard's AALIYAH and Rosenthal's TYPE-HOGIRE and TYPE-LANCEL lines. GA's Sunshines always struck me as clumsy brick houses that I just had to systematically dismember piece by piece. The New Sunshines are a bit better, but still oafish. Sadly, my final AC ultimately relied upon Interior Union's LATONA line of all things; then again, I always was a lightweight / middleweight AC man. Mobility and DPS all the way. Screw armor. If I can't be hit, then I won't be killed, right?
Abu Marsh's White Glint was only good for the novelty. Performance-wise there are still much better NEXTs out and about.
|2011-01-28, 14:55
|Link #30
Augumented Paranoia
Join Date: Nov 2003
I always felt that Global Arament was the Ersatz of Crest, plenty of ballistic weaponry and heavy NEXTs/ACs for combat. While it is nice to be using energy weapons. Sometimes a good old fashioned depleted uranium bazooka shell can hit as hard as a Kurosawa and I have an interest at making "Purebred" ACs, ACs made with only one series of parts
Spoiler for Info On Empyrean, the second AC Raven:
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|2011-01-29, 03:59
|Link #31
Swordy Turkey
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Where turkeys can actually fly
Age: 25
Hmm character creation... It'd be nice if someone could make a male character as the main for their fic.
The fact that he wouldn't be able to put up a fight via power-armor would score some originality.
Oh! Ideas... Coming... Maybe... I'll use this as an excuse to practice my writing skils...
Let me try to work on this.
|2011-01-29, 20:29
|Link #33
~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
Only problem is that why would a male character appear on IS campus if he can't pilot one of those things.
And Phantom Task gives me plenty of reason to pull a dark one on the plot.
As for RPing, I was thinking of running one on Spacebattles, just that no one there seemed to know about IS in the first place...
|2011-01-30, 00:03
|Link #34
Augumented Paranoia
Join Date: Nov 2003
Also, Vertex is bankrolling the Academy, who can say no to a lot of dosh coming their way? They pay 25% of the costs to the Academy, in exchange for Ravens to operate here of course
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|2011-01-30, 03:56
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Swordy Turkey
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Age: 25
And I'm no good when it comes to fanfics; it usually turns out to be a side-story of sorts with anything canon related appearing as camoes, easter eggs or references.
|2011-01-30, 06:51
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Why Not?
|2011-01-30, 17:01
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|2011-01-30, 22:16
|Link #38
Dramatis Personae
Well, I guess, it's my turn, huh?
Spoiler for Orimura Ichika's Wingman ~ Arrives?!:
Constructive criticism is appreciated as always. In practice, this fella is gonna be a pretty funny combination of, well, just about all the traits you expect in a Whacky?Ace!Buddy-Bro-Mentor. I'm drawing influences in all sorts of places from Kousaka-sempai from Minami-ke to the obvious Galactic Pretty Boy himself of Star Driver fame.
But now that I've shown another number from my hand, I suppose, all there is left to do is follow through with a pilot episode. I kinda wanna do an action / theme heavy prologue first to set the "mood", or should I use that idea as a cool backstory moment, instead?
We'd get an early appearance by Laura Bodewig, y'know? Any takers?
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|2011-01-31, 02:31
|Link #39
Augumented Paranoia
Join Date: Nov 2003
Magi more grounded in Armored Core's roots, being personification of the corporations that run it for example. He doesn't upset the social order but understands certain things need to be done to maintain Crest's relevance to the world. He knows that the AC advertisement project is a do or die thing. Trying to replace IS as the "End All Weapons" could ruin his relationship with the I.S. Academy and get himself killed. The I.S Academy is also the only safe sanctuary the Lynx and Ravens have, considered neutral territory. They can safely accept missions and not really choose sides in a war. In exchange, he pays "Rent" to the Academy through donations. Which pleases the Japanese government a lot since it is nice to have someone lining their pockets.
Spoiler for Magi's AC: Death Mask:
More details on Empyrean's AC: Prophet
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|2011-01-31, 07:46
|Link #40
VxR Productions
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*Warps in*
*looks around*
Why am I not Surprised that this thread appeared...
Might as well think out something for my Home Country of the Philippines
One, maybe 2 Personal IS units, one Publicly Owned by the state and the other Privately Owned.
And probably a Mediaman or something.
*holds position*
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I havent had the chance to see them in action..pretty much just read it online, but Novak said something pretty interesting for an interview..
"NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I was just saying in the question before, the bottom line is this is more or less a mental game in the end. Everybody's physically strong, prepared, hitting the ball clean and well, and working, you know, couple hours a day.
If you go out there and watch the matches of the players who are 60, 50, 60, 70 in the world, they are striking the ball as well as top 5, but the difference is the mental strength and the ability to, you know, cope with pressure and just be stable and consistently dedicated and professional in every sense of that word.
I have been always really dedicated to the sport and working really hard with my team. I'm lucky enough to have a great team of people who is surrounding me and supporting me in every way on and off the court. I think they are doing their jobs great.
It was just a matter of time for me to feel good again on the court, to really have a self belief that I can, you know, win Grand Slams and that I can, you know, push it to the last limit.
It just clicked right now. I knew it's a long process and I knew it took time. It's not easy, because you have to deal with the different kinds of things, you know, in your professional life, in your private life. It's really hard to separate those things if you are emotional. And of course we are all humans, and there are some things that are affecting your professional life.
But it all came up well, and right now it's all good. So hopefully it's going to stay like that."
I think he could surprise us even more this year..cant wait for the french open and wimbledon!
He still won't win Wimbledon. No way. And I have a hard time believing he does anything at the French. That is Rafa's play ground.
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Remember those times when you find yourself in one of the awkward financial moments where no outcome seems like the right one? It's happened to all of us at one time or another and often the way we navigate these situations is to take the financial hit ourselves, but is that really the best way? Here are some uncomfortable money situations that you may face, along with a few helpful tips on avoiding the awkwardness.
How Much Do You Make?
Or any "how much" question that seems just a little too personal. We've all faced that question in one form or another and the best way to get around the not-so-tactful question may be with a joke. Answering with a vague one-liner like, "A lot less than I wish it was" or "I found it for cheap at a thrift store" may be enough to send the message that you don't want to talk details.
Friend Did a Bad Job
Your friend is an interior designer who offered to do some work for you at a substantial discount. The problem is, in your opinion, the design is awful. Hiring friends and family is rarely a good idea for just this reason. If you paid full price, telling them to redo the work would be expected, but taking a discount makes the conversation tough.
The best way to avoid a difficult situation such as this is to set very clear expectations from the beginning. Do not only discuss the specifics of the job before they get started, but write them down as well. A formal contract may be awkward, but a list of bullet points laying out the specifics of the job will probably be appreciated by the friend who wants to do a great job for you.
SEE: Master The Art Of Negotiation
Evenly Split The Uneven Check
You don't drink and you didn't order an appetizer and desert but your friend did. At the end of the night, they ask if you want to split the check evenly, although your check would be far less. If it's a one-time meal with somebody, splitting the check evenly may be the best way to avoid an uncomfortable conversation.
For large tables, splitting the check evenly, regardless of your personal total, may be the best way to not look cheap and it will probably even out over time if you dine with these people again. If you're a 20-something college student trying to save as much as possible, nickel and diming the check is OK, since your college friends are probably doing it too.
"Donate to My Charity"
You know how the office goes. Everybody wants money for their child's fundraiser or community charity, and that can get expensive. Setting a yearly budget for these types of donations is well-advised, but how do you tell some people, no?
The unofficial pecking order may go like this: If they bought cookie dough or a holiday candle from you, it's time to return the favor. Next on the list might be close friends, bosses or others that could help you to climb the career ladder, then come your work acquaintances, and finally, if there's money left over, the person lacking social skills who left the form in the break room hoping people would sign up.
"Can I Borrow …"
"Don't lend to friends and family," is one of the basic mantras that we hear from financial experts. Relationships are often lost when payments aren't received, and if you know they aren't responsible with their money, there's a good chance you aren't going to see the money again.
Instead of loaning money to family and friends, give them a gift of a smaller amount. Ask them what it's for and offer to pay a portion of the bill with no obligation to repay unless things get better in the future.
Along with offering to help with their bills, take them to work or invite them over for dinner a few nights per week. Instead of making things awkward by expecting payment from somebody who is already in a financial emergency, find creative ways to help them through their difficult time.
The Bottom Line
Money conversations are awkward and when situations like these occur, it's difficult to know what to do. We have to have boundaries but we don't want to offend or make family and friends feel uncomfortable either. When all else fails, being honest is the only way to handle situations like these. Trying to tell a white lie to get out of an uncomfortable conversation probably won't solve the problem and may result in further bad feelings that may impact the relationship in the future.
SEE: 5 Reasons Why You Hate Money
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In regards to your suggestion of the Clevite 77's. Are they that much better than the Sealed Power?
My best guess is the guy's son did the work and either ran the tap too fast or used a dull one and the heat build up cracked it. I pulled them out but didn't notice the cracks at that time. Thanks for the recommendations and I'll see if I can get this sorted out and order some parts today.
surprised to believe a dull tap caused that much heat to cause cracking or the cause was tapping too fast, but I've been surprised before.Now, I do not know anyone who rebuilds those mouse motors with that weak link still intact, i.e. pressed in studs. You stated a balance issue but not sure how bad that was and how you found out or the crank was not machined properly, are you referring to the past engine build where you ran it for 4 years or recently they machined it incorrectly. What was wrong with the crank? Now I'm not picking as you sound just like me some years past.


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WiGLE is an online database of Wireless Access Points (802.11A/B/G) that is contributed to by folks using Netstumbler, Kismet and other war driving tools. WiGLE has a web interface of its own as well as Java desktop client called JiGLE. There is also a Google Maps interface for the data made by Meblah, but rendering a map with DHTML can be slow. That's why I wrote a PHP script that can take the cached data from JiGLE (found in the \JiGLE\WiGLEnet\data directory after you do a query) and turn it into a KML (Keyhole Markup Language) file that's easy to import into the Google Earth desktop application. With the generated KML file and Google Earth it's easy to view and parse the access point found by WiGLE users.
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Oklahoma Grapples With Storm's Carnage
Rescue Efforts Continue in Flattened Neighborhoods as Death Toll Revised to 24; 'I Think This Is My Street,' Resident Says
MOORE, Okla.—Rescuers pored over demolished neighborhoods on Tuesday as this battered area began to regroup and assess the carnage a day after a massive and deadly tornado tore through towns just south of Oklahoma City, killing dozens, injuring hundreds and obliterating structures in its path.
At least 24 people died, nine of them children, according to a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. The death toll, which had originally been reported at 51, was revised because victims were initially double...


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First if someone could explain a little bit about what that means to me. But most importantly I need to know how to code those withevents variables into the 3 different sections of the part of the code that needs it. I am pretty new so I don't know much really at all.
Here are the bits of code that need the variables. I've underlined the parts which VB Express underlines and then when you put the cursor over it it shows the error. Also all their errors except for one is this:
Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types.
The other error is PCPrint is not defined which I kind of understand but have no idea how to fix, so if someone could help me with that one after these WithEvents things are resolved that would be great!
First bit of code:
Private Sub NewWindowToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles [u]NewWindowToolStripMenuItem[/u].Click Dim f2 As New Form WebBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.sbhweb.co.nr") f2.Show() End Sub
Second bit of code:
Private Sub printToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles [u]printToolStripMenuItem[/u].Click Dim printer As New [u]PCPrint[/u]() printer.PrinterFont = New Font("Verdana", 10) printer.TextToPrint = TextBox1.Text printer.Print() End Sub
Third error is like I said PCPrint is not defined, and it is the underlined word in the section of code above.
Fourth and final bit of code:
Private Sub SourceToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles [u]SourceToolStripMenuItem1[/u].Click Me.Show() End Sub
I'm sorry if this is a lot but I'd really like to get these errors solved. I don't understand it and would really like to if someone could teach me. I'd like help as fast as anyone could help me and I don't care who does. Sorry if it's a lot!
If you need anything else let me know.


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Company Press Releases Back
CytoSorbents Corporation Awarded $488,958 Grant from the Federal Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project Program
Tuesday November 2, 2010
Monmouth Junction, NJ – (November 2, 2010) – CytoSorbents Corporation (OTCBB:CTSO), a critical care focused company using blood purification to treat life-threatening illnesses, announced the award of a cash grant of up to $488,958 from the Federal Qualifying Therapeutic Discovery Project (QTDP) Program for two products in its pipeline, including the development of CytoSorb™ for the treatment of sepsis and other critical care illnesses.
The QTDP was established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 with a limited $1 billion fund to be issued as either a tax credit or a federal tax-free grant to qualifying drug, biotechnology, medical device and diagnostics companies with fewer than 250 employees for research and development costs in qualified therapeutic discovery projects for the tax years of 2009 and 2010. Applications were reviewed in a competitive application process by both the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service based on a number of criteria including the potential of new therapies to treat major unmet medical needs and the potential to reduce long-term healthcare costs.
Dr. Phillip Chan, Chief Executive Officer, stated "We greatly appreciate the recognition of the potential of our platform technology to treat commonly seen, yet devastating critical care illnesses such as sepsis, burn injury, trauma, and severe lung injury, for which few effective therapies exist. Most of us have been touched in some way by these conditions and know first hand how little can be done. With the aid of these grants, we hope to advance our potentially game-changing technology to help critically ill people around the world."
About CytoSorbents and CytoSorb™
CytoSorbents Corporation, and its operating subsidiary CytoSorbents, Inc., is a critical care focused therapeutic device company in clinical trials to treat severe sepsis, often called "overwhelming infection", with a novel blood purification device called CytoSorb™. Severe sepsis afflicts more than 1 million people in the United States and an estimated 18 million people worldwide each year, killing one in every three patients despite the best treatment. In the United States, more die from severe sepsis than from either heart attacks, strokes or any single form of cancer. Severe sepsis is typically triggered by bacterial infections like pneumonia, or viral infections like influenza. However, it is the body's abnormal immune response to the trigger that leads to severe inflammation and the unregulated, massive production of cytokines, often called "cytokine storm", that then causes multi-organ failure and often death. CytoSorb™ is a cartridge containing highly porous polymer beads that are designed to filter cytokines and treat potentially fatal cytokine storm. As blood is pumped repeatedly through the CytoSorb™ cartridge using standard dialysis equipment, the beads bind and remove cytokines and other toxins from blood. The treated blood is then returned to the patient. The Company is currently conducting its European Sepsis Trial – a multi-center, randomized, controlled clinical trial using CytoSorb™ to treat up to 100 patients with severe sepsis in the setting of respiratory failure. Pending a successful trial, the Company will seek CE Mark approval and commercialization of CytoSorb™ in the European Union. Importantly, cytokine reduction via CytoSorb™ has broad applicability to a number of other critical care diseases where cytokine storm plays a detrimental role, including burn and smoke inhalation injury, trauma, acute respiratory distress syndrome, advanced influenza, acute pancreatitis and other. CytoSorb™ is one of a number of different resins designed for various medical applications, including improved dialysis, the potential treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, rhabdomyolysis in trauma, removal of chemotherapy during treatment of cancer with high dose regional chemotherapy, drug detoxification and others. Additional information is available for download on the Company's website:http://www.cytoSorbents.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release are not promises or guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions and are naturally subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. We caution you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements herein. CytoSorbents Corporation and CytoSorbents, Inc believe that its primary risk factors include, but are not limited to: obtaining government approvals including required FDA and CE Mark approvals; ability to successfully develop commercial operations; dependence on key personnel; acceptance of the Company's medical devices in the marketplace; the outcome of pending and potential litigation; compliance with governmental regulations; reliance on research and testing facilities of various universities and institutions; the ability to obtain adequate financing in the future when needed; product liability risks; limited manufacturing experience; limited marketing, sales and distribution experience; market acceptance of the Company's products; competition; unexpected changes in technologies and technological advances; and other factors detailed in the Company's Form 10-K filed with the SEC on April 9, 2010, and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which are available at http://www.sec.gov.


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Treehugger | Hollywood Bike Patrol Wants YOU
Treehugger is on a noble quest. Depressed by Steve Carrell's loser cyclist in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and a similar sad sack in Talladega Nights, Treehugger is looking for positive media potrayals of cyclists.
Problem is, well, I'm not sure there are any.
Unless we go back to the '80s movies Breaking Away and (the largely laughable) American Flyers, the best I can come up with is the hot bike cops who starred in five seasons of USA Network's Pacific Blue, a cop drama about the squad of bike cops who patrol Venice Beach.
It's so hard to find Hollywood cycling portrayals that aren't dorky that Treehugger fell back on pictures of Brad Pitt riding with two of the Jolie-Pitt children from Us Magazine.


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None of emulators work. I hope to use SSF or cassini. It's stuck on sega licening logo when I set the area code to EUR, when I set it to japan, it loads the music screen.
Except yabause 0.9.10 but extremely laggy and crashes whenever I click the input tab in the settings.
I've tried,
Cassini <- Same as girigiri problem
SFF (v.10, v.11, v.12) <--- Black screen, detects rom, nothing loads
Girigiri <- Stuck with "Sega LIcensing logo"
Saturnin <--- Music player, but no music.
Satourne <--- plays music
Yabause <--- Runs the game, laggy, no controls. crashes upon clicking input tab
And yes with all the general questions:
BIO = YES , I tried putting it in the same directory, tried different bios,
Setting BIO to Area code = Yes, for everyone
" to country = Yes
Setting The controls = Yes, except for yabause
System requirements? = P4 , 3.2GHZ , 2GB Ram
Directx9.0 = Most updated
what other question is there?
Rom corrupted? = NO, it works with yabause,
Rom Format = Bin/Cue, I fixed the cue file and it works at mounting
CD IMAGING? = Daemon, successfully mounted
Spent 2 days 48 hrs on figuring this out. I really want to play Saturn Bomberman again because it brings alot of memories back.
Can someone upload their working emulator for saturn bomberman so I can play? or working rom 4 sure.


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Integrating Laundry Facilities Into the Bathroom
For those readers lucky enough to have a working laundry setup in your apartment bathroom, you may or may not care that the hulking washing and drying machines can sometimes be an eyesore. After the jump are five strategies for incorporating this luxury function into your beautiful space.
1. Wedge your machines into an existing nook created by the bathroom walls, so they feel like they have a predetermined place and only their front sides are exposed into the room.
2. Obscure the machines behind screens or fabric, and use these to add a decorative accent.
3. Place the machines inside specially-sized cabinetry to hide the fact that they're there completely, unless your guests decide to snoop.
4. If you have a wall of built-ins, try to purchase machines that can fit within them.
5. Leave machines exposed, but build cabinets around them so they're better incorporated into the room plan.
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When I first began writing for the Warwick Beacon in 1983, John Howell and I discussed the feasibility of writing about Warwick's historic homes. We worked to plan out a series that we hoped would attract the attention of many of Warwick's interested citizens. Fortunately, the stories were well-received and, as a result, we published two booklets in 1985 with a number of Warwick's historic houses in them. The most important thing I can remember from that early period is that when John told me, "You know the greatest satisfaction you will get will be from the people that you meet when you do these stories." These were very true words.
Now, more than 25 years later, John asked me if I would take some of these same stories that I had written back then and bring them up to date. As I was already visually-impaired, my daughter, Terry Spencer, volunteered right away to help with the writing and putting these stories together. I have to say that Terry has found the same rich satisfaction that I have in seeing these beautiful homes and the wonderful people that we have interviewed.
Since we began we have found that we have interviewed Jean and Steve Tyson (the Greene-Bowen-Tyson house), Jeanne Smith Haronian (Sunnybank), Patrick Berek (the Remington House) and Paulette Turcotte (Aldrich Mansion). Now we have conducted interviews with Adele Anthony and Dennis Pacheco and we are bringing the Peter Greene house up to date.
The Peter Greene house, built circa 1751, is at 1124 West Shore Road, on the corner of Economy Avenue. It is one of the most significant historic houses in Warwick and we received great pleasure in the recent interview, which took place on Oct. 22, 2011.
My first contact with the Peter Greene house came in 1983 when the home was owned by the Hebert family. I found out quickly that Michael Hebert was a great font of knowledge not only about the house itself but also about archeology, the Early Colonial Period and Native Americans and he really gave me a new sense of history and understanding. Since Michael's ownership the house has had a number of different owners. Unfortunately, not too long ago, the home was abandoned and, as a result of the ravages of time, wind, rain and vandalism took its toll.
Fortunately, in 2008, Adele Anthony became very interest4ed in it and found out the house had been abandoned and was up for foreclosure and contacted the necessary people to purchase the home. Interestingly enough, one of the bank representatives saw the house and stated that he thought it should just be destroyed. Fortunately, Adele and Dennis did not agree and have put in many long hours of hard work to bring it back to pristine condition and restore an important part of our heritage.
<*C>Peter Greene house, circa 1983
@T_Basic:Thanks to Mike Hebert, we got our first insight into the house and the early part of the history of Warwick dating back to the 18th century and even further back in some instances. The following is part of the interview that took place in 1980 with Hebert.
The easiest way to get to Conimicut Point is to travel along West Shore Road and turn down Economy Ave. When you do, you will most likely notice a large colonial farmhouse with a classic center chimney with the date 1751 painted on it.
In 1983 this house had just recently become the home of Michael and Arlene Hebert and their 18-month-old daughter, Elise. Mr. Hebert was overjoyed at being able to own a two-century-old home. At the time of this interview, he was an archaeologist and the field director for archaeology at Wilbur Smith and Assoc. Part of Michael's work was to evaluate various historical sites in the state. When new roads are built or when old ones are upgraded to meet the demands of our times, areas of historical importance may be in jeopardy. So much of our heritage has been lost in the names of progress and practicality that it is very important to preserve what is left. That was Michael's job.
The Heberts have found one of these important historical sites in their house and property here in "Old Warwick." They live close to Conimicut Point and to what was once called the "Tenement on Conimicut." The term had a much different meaning back in the 1650s, for then it was used to designate one of the original 51 shares of the "four-mile common." The original purchase of Shawomet (Warwick) by Samuel Gorton and his followers included all the territory between two parallel lines. One line was drawn from Occupasapatuxet Cove and the other from the southerly end of Warwick Neck. These lines extended west for about 20 miles to the present day Connecticut border. The eastern portion of this land, excluding Warwick Neck but including Apponaug, was called "four-mile common."
This area was divided among 51 men who qualified to be "proprietors." All lists of these proprietors began with the name Samuel Gorton and ended with the "tenement of Conimicut." This share was granted to Thomas Thornicraft. According to the first book of Warwick records, he received "8 acres of land on Quinemoke…upon condition that he shall maintain a sufficient fence." This fence, often called a "water fence," was to extend across the head of the neck at Conimicut Point from Mill Cove for about 900 feet north to the shore of Narragansett Bay. In this fashion it fenced off about 200 acres of excellent meadow land. This area was very important for survival in the early period as it provided the Gortonists with an area to graze their cattle in comparative security from the marauding Indians and wolves.
Stephen Arnold, one of the largest landholders in Warwick, bought this land in 1680 and four years later willed it, along with all his land at Conimicut Point, to his daughter, Elizabeth. She was the wife of Peter Greene, captain of the "Train Band" of local militia. The "tenement" in 1684 was next to the land that originally belonged to Greene's grandfather, John Greene, the surgeon. John was one of the "purchasers" who, along with Gorton, founded Warwick. The marriage joined the tenement lands to the Greene property, where the house stands today. While it is possible that Captain Peter Greene (1654-1723) may have built a house on this property as early as 1714, it was more likely built by his son, Major Peter Greene (1682-1767) or by his son, John Greene (1711-1800).


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I loved this pattern when making my Plum Wool Skirt so I made another in black. This will get a lot of wear at work!
I'm not exactly sure what the fabric is. It feels cotton based but it's quite heavy like a blanket? I chose it to make a warmer skirt anyway so I like that it's heavy and warm.
Pattern: $1
Fabric: $10
Zipper: $2
Total: $13
This is a great little basic skirt pattern that's really easy to follow. The second time around with it I think I had it done in about 2 hours!
And since I made my Plum Wool Skirt from the same pattern but I didn't get a decent shot with it on I've put one below.


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Rugby sevens is sanctioned by the World Rugby, and is played under substantially the same laws and on a field of the same dimensions as the 15-player game. While a normal rugby union match lasts at least 80 minutes, a normal sevens match consists of two halves of seven minutes with a one-minute half-time break. The final of a competition can be played over two halves of ten minutes each, with a half-time break of two minutes. (In the World Rugby Sevens World Series, only the Cup final, which determines the overall winner of an event, is played with 10-minute halves; all finals for lower-level trophies are played with 7-minute halves.) This allows rugby tournaments to be completed in a day or a weekend. However, sevens scores are generally comparable to union scores; scoring occurs much more frequently in sevens, since the defenders are more spaced out.
On October 9th, 2009, the 121st International Olympic Committee Session in Copenhagen voted almost unanimously to recognize sevens as an Olympic sport to debut in 2016 Rio de Janeiro.
The World Rugby strategic plan intends for the re-entry of Rugby to the Olympics via sevens to be instrumental in taking the game to new territories and regions around the world.
Click here for more information on sevens in the Olympics.
Every four years the worlds best sevens athletes compete in the Rugby World Cup of Sevens.
Click here for more information on RWC 7s.
Each year, World Rugby has a global tournament that is competed for by the best nations in the world. The eight-stop competition takes in countries such as Dubai, USA, South Africa, Scotland and New Zealand.
Click here for Official HSBC Sevens Website.
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The beige d:screet Heavy Duty Omni Microphone, Hi-Sensitivity with MicroDot Connector from DPA Microphones is a miniature microphone for capturing audio. It is used in various environments in applications where you require the maximum amount of security such as in theater, television, and more. This microphone features the 4060 high sensitivity capsule. It is used where visual size is of less importance. It features an omnidirectional polar pattern and has a frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz.
This d:screet omnidirectional microphone is built with a heavy-duty stainless steel housing, a heavy-duty cable relief, and a thick 2.2mm cable. With a large selection of optional accessories available it can be used for wireless or hardwired applications. A carry case, soft boost grid, and a high boost grid are included.
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Soft boost grid: 20 Hz to 20 kHz, 3 dB soft boost at 8 to 20 kHz
High boost grid: 20 Hz to 20 kHz, 10 dB boost at 12 kHz
|20 m V/Pa, -34 dB re. 1 V/Pa (+/- 3 dB at 1 kHz)
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Typ. 23 dB (A) re. 20 µPa (max. 26 dB (A)), A-weighted
Typ. 35 dB (max. 38 dB) ITU-R BS.468-4
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|71 dB (A) A-weighted, re. 1 kHz at 1 Pa, 94 dB SPL
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|30 to 40 Ω
|Cable Drive Capability
|Up to 984' (300 m)
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For Wireless Systems: Min. 5 V - max. 50 V through DPA adapter
With DAD6001-BC/DAD6024/DAD4099: 48 V phantom power ±4 V for full performance
|Positively increasing sound pressure produces positive going voltage on MicroDot pin
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|Relative Humidity
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Length: 6" (1.8 m)
Diameter: 0.09" (2.2 mm)
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|Microphone: 0.5 x 0.2" (12.7 x 5.1 mm)
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