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I received an inquiry from a reader about updating the outside of their home - and it opened a whole world of possibilities, including some I didn't know about. I found it extremely interesting - and I hope you will too:
Hello, I just recently stumbled upon your blog. I have learned so much about color from the little bit of perusing I have done already! Thank you for sharing! Would you mind helping out with an exterior paint recommendation?
My husband and I bought our house a year and a half ago and have wanted to repaint the outside trim since the first day. I have attached a picture of our house and as you can see it is a brick, tudor style house with a few dormers.
We would love to update the green trim (and probably the white, too) and have been wracking our brains (and the internet) to come up with a fresh combo that would bring the house into the current century. Mostly what I have seen as I've looked around is the dark brown trim and white, which I don't mind but it feels a bit too traditional for us, or the lighter brown-green combinations, which I don't like at all.
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I feel pretty confident in finding a specific color that will complement the brick once we can find a good direction (since I know brick varies so much and it may be hard to recommend a specific color that will work with our brick) so your help in finding some general options for color combinations would be awesome!
If it's helpful, colors that look great with the brick we have are Martha Stewart 'Burl' and Benjamin Moore 'Stormy Sky.' Thanks so much and let me know if there is any other info you would like.
Hi Ashley,
I love your house. The gables are so charming, it gives it a sort of storybook charm! I have a few suggestions for your red brick home. A soft gray/beige (Bennington Gray/Benjamin Moore) is a good
choice to relieve the heavy dark green. I would still go dark with the front door and the shutters, window and gable trim.
I love Stormy Sky for its gray-ness and I'm sure that gray and charcoal are probably the way to go with the red brick. Throw in a shiny black door, and you will have a winner! I would use something along the lines of Sandy Hook Gray on the white trim areas, and the darker charcoal color (Kendall Charcoal is also good) on the green areas.
My favorite look is this one below. I love the pop of white as trim color around the windows and gable and door. The door should be black or charcoal, as well as the trim and shutters
I also love this color palette with the red brick... (white, black or charcoal with Hampstead Gray - Benjamin Moore)
If you get tired of the limitations of the red brick, you could also paint the brick. That opens up a whole other world of possibilities...
It's a little more costly..., but look how beautiful...
White and charcoal
Beige and Gray
White and Gray
Tan, Gray and White
Darker Gray
Cream and Sage
And while looking at the painted brick options I found another option for painting brick I hadn't heard of, but I kind of like this. Its a Southern thing... white washed brick.
white wash, or lime paint
with just a little of the red brick still showing
as if time worn...
Most importantly - make your door stand out
glossy paint and a color that makes a statement
and good luck!


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There is an updated post, written in August 2016: https://www.stum.de/2016/08/24/thoughts-on-orms-2016-edition/
It's hard to imagine a world without OR/Ms anymore. The old days of making a query, getting a reader, looping through it, getting every column into an object…
I'm a Linq2Sql user. I like it's relatively easy setup and good flexibility, and it has a really good query generator. However, I'm running into some issues with Unit Testing it, because you can't really emulate all the features that it has (EntityRefs with a composite Key or fields that are DbGenerated are a nightmare). Since it is a one-off technology for SQL Server, it doesn't work with any other database (not even SQL Compact 4, which sucks as it would be the perfect Unit Test drop in).
Some people are saying that OR/Ms are an anti-pattern, to which Ayende had an interesting reply. I don't fully agree with any of them. I think that OR/M is solving two different problems, one that it shouldn't solve.
The first problem is getting data from and to the database – the second problem is the mapping of the result to objects. The second problem is a good one, the first one is not a problem and thus doesn't require a solution.
Somehow, people seem to frown SQL, as if it were some evil or outdated concept. You know what? SQL is the language of your database, so you better learn it. Oh sure, it's nice to chain a gazillion Where/Select/ToDictionary/GroupBy calls together and don't have to worry about coming up with the SQL yourself. It's not so nice that the chance to produce a SELECT N+1 is pretty high. When was the last time you looked at the SQL that your OR/M generates and optimized it?
Speaking of optimizations: When was the last time your DBA improved your OR/M Code? Most DBAs I know speak one language very well, and that's the SQL Dialect of their database. They know these hidden tricks and tweaks, they can tweak the query plan and come up with ways to speed up your queries, thus lowering the load and therefore the cost of the system. I don't know many DBAs who would look at a piece of C# code and suggest moving the select outside of the foreach loop in order to turn a SELECT N+1 into a single select. They know the difference between the different JOIN Types (I use LEFT JOIN 99.99% of the time – who knows if there are better ways?) and are able to suggest putting in a READ UNCOMMITTED into a query that is okay to retreive slightly stale data. When was the last time you tweaked the TABLE LOCK setting on your OR/M query?
Granted, most developers don't seem to have access to DBA people and thus have to wear a DBA hat quite often. But you know what? If you have to know about DB stuff anyway, you can as well learn SQL. Even though you may not get everything highly optimized, in the moment a DBA looks at it and optimizes stuff you just have to change your query and call it a day. Maybe you two decide to create a Stored Procedure instead, in which case your SELECT becomes an EXEC – big deal, not.
Yes, I am aware that some queries can get pretty harsh. I have a query with 14 subselects (mainly because it has to do paging on the database) and I am glad that I can write it in Linq2Sql, creating an IQueryable and passing it through a dozen methods that apply more Where clauses based on some ridiculously huge filter class a user passes in. Not having to generate that through StringBuilders or other stuff is a great thing.
But you know what? That query is the one anomaly in a sea of standard CRUD queries. I can write those CRUD queries in my sleep, blindfolded. And I can look at them and immediately understand what this thing is doing. I can read up the T-SQL manual, run it in SQL Management Studio while the SQL profiler is running, look at the Execution plan, tweak the query, put it on Stack Overflow to get some input – I am talking to the DB in a language it understands and have no limitations in how I tweak it.
Really, all I want is the Mapping. I want to write a (parameterized) SQL query, but I don't want to do the ExecuteReader/foreach loop crap, because that's stupid work. I want to be able to insert a Parent Row and it's child rows in one go, without having to use client-side generated GUIDs for the primary key so that I can add it to the child rows. I love the EntitySet/EntityRef stuff in Linq2Sql, and that's what I want. Create an Object and it's children, put it in the database and not worry about capturing the @@IDENTITY and populating it on the children. I don't want an OR/M, I want an Object Mapper.
Luckily, there seems to be a small (but truly existing) movement into it, Dapper and Massive being two of the better known ones. Massive uses the new dynamic functionality in .net 4, a technology that could revolutionize OR/Ms once they start embracing it (rather than trying to stick to their Java roots or stay compatible with .net 2.0). I don't fully like how I have to create "empty" classes and it seems that it doesn't do "real" SQL but rather a DSL that looks like SQL. That would kinda suck.
Dapper is currently used as the OR/M for Stack Overflow, It's very bare bones (doesn't manage your connection, no UPDATE helpers), has some not-so-nice syntax quirks (Having to pass IsAnsi = true when querying a non-unicode – but that's an edge case I'd argue) and although I have not yet had a chance to use it, if Jeff Atwood is willing to use it on the thing that puts food on his table and rock band songs onto his Xbox, I'd assume it's stable.
I think it's time for an OR/M that is to other OR/Ms what ASP.net MVC is to ASP.net WebForms: A Framework that allows and requires us to get deep into the guts, but does not limit the tweaking we can do, while still handling a lot of the stupid work, and I think it's great to see projects move into that direction. Just as MVC and WebForms both sit on top of an ASP.net core stack, ADO.net serves as a rock solid foundation for multiple philosophies of OR/M systems that can happily co-exist and serve both the people able and willing to write SQL and the people who'd rather spend money on an OR/M, profiling tools, and maintenance costs.

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Lithomex is a modified lime-based mortar designed specifically to repair or simulate brick, stone, and terracotta surfaces. Unlike other products that trap moisture in the host stonework, Lithomex is flexible (with a very high modulus of elasticity), porous, and breathable; allowing water vapor to pass through the masonry to the atmosphere for long-lasting repairs. When applied by skilled craftsmen, Lithomex can simulate the color and texture of existing stone and brick while maintaining similar thermal expansion and weathering characteristics of the host material. Lithomex may be worked, tooled, dressed, and finished with traditional masonry tools, trowel edges, sculpting tools, sanding blocks, tungsten carbide abrasive sheet, and scratch floats. This comprehensive workshop will enable participants to go beyond the basics and learn techniques to hone their skills and elevate their craftsmanship. Technical knowledge and expertise are reinforced with lectures addressing the potential causes of brick and stone deterioration, design considerations, recognition of the aesthetic qualities of Lithomex, and understanding the properties that ensure compatibility with the host masonry. During handson demonstrations and extensive practice on mock-up surfaces, students are guided through the steps to apply the product properly and efficiently to deliver high quality work including carving details with small tools or chisels, tooling and finishing procedures, and color and texture simulation tips and techniques. Each student must successfully complete the hands-on skills and pass an end-of-class written exam to receive the Lithomex Installer Certification which is valid for 5 years. Prior masonry experience is required.
After completing the workshop participants will:
- Understand the science behind breathable natural hydraulic lime.
- Be able to prepare the host masonry.
- Be aware of the steps to mix, blend, and apply Lithomex for optimal durability.
- Know how to simulate stone and brick features, surface finishes, and false joints.
- Be acquainted with using the edge of a trowel or steel float to shape and form details and corners.
- Recognize how to achieve polished finishes by troweling after initial set.
- Appreciate how to rub down the repair to its final shape and profile by using abrasive pads, blocks, knives, or straightedges.
- Realize how to simulate an aged patina for the repair.
- Become a Certified Lithomex Installer (successful completion of the hands-on skills and written exam is required).
The workshop will be held at the historic Millhafen Farm—the headquarters of Craftwork Training Center and LimeWorks.us—located at 3145 State Road, Telford, PA 18969. A nonrefundable deposit of $100 is required two weeks in advance with the balance due at the beginning of the workshop. All the necessary materials and tools will be supplied and a light lunch is provided for your convenience. The program will start promptly at 8:00 am. Please arrive 15 minutes early to complete the check-in process and come appropriately dressed and prepared for hands-on training. To ensure an exceptional learning experience, the class size is limited. However, a minimum of 3 participants is required to hold the workshop.
Please note, last minute registrations (within 48 hours of the workshop date), are not valid until a confirmation email or phone call is sent from our staff.


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Gambro Ultrafilter U9000 microbial water filter – updated instructions due to leaks during use resulting in risk of hypovolemia.
Manufactured by Baxter Healthcare – undetected leaks may occur during use after repeated disinfection cycles causing hypovolemia
For all healthcare staff
- When using the Ultrafilter U9000, be aware of the potential for fluid leakage to occur from the cap of the Ultrafilter, particularly when high risk patients are being treated.
- Be vigilant when using the AK96 or AK 98v1 be aware of the potential for undetected leaks from the Ultrafilter cap.
- Be aware of the updated advice on maximum lifetime usage in the manufacturer's Field Safety Notice
- Ensure home patients are aware of the risk that fluid leakage may occur and they are informed on how to safely manage any leaks.
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- Check current machines using the Ultrafilter to see whether they require replacing as per the updated maximum usage criteria listed in the manufacturer's Field Safety Notice
- Update processes for replacing Ultrafilters in line with manufacturer's updated guidance, until counter maximum is corrected at next manufacturer service.
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Renal nurses, renal technicians and staff supporting patients receiving haemodialysis at home
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Baxter Healthcare has updated the maximum usage lifetime of the Ultrafilter U9000 to reduce the occurrence of leaks. This applies when the Ultrafilter is used with the AK96 and AK98 v1 machines. The lifespan remains unchanged if the Ultrafilter is used with AK98 v2 and Artis machines as they have a leak detector sensor. The updated advice is listed in the manufacturer's Field Safety Notice.
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Danish Daycare "A Story of Hurt" free download
Since his main band Emerald Park released their album "For Tomorrow" in February as free download, the Swede Daniel Jönsson follows up with his solo project and will release the album in fall as a free download under a Creative Commons license at afmusic and 23 Seconds as well.
In addition to the 10 songs there is a bonus track on the reissue – the single-B-Side "The Man In White". The download is available from 10/05/2010 at Bandcamp an email address is provided, so the fan can choose between versions in MP3, FLAC, OGG, and iTunes-compatible AAC.


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I like to use QMAX, a system developed in the days of the Big Bad baseball Annual, itself a lineal descendant of Bill James' old abstracts. QMAX is helpfully thought of as a means of distinguishing the varying quality of quality and non-quality starts. I have always found it especially useful in helping to understand minor-league outings, even though it was designed with Major-League statistics. It looks at two components of pitching, the ability to miss bats (stuff) and the ability to pitch in the zone (command). Outings are categorised by where they fall on a matrix, such as 'the Success Square', 'the Hit Hard region' and some don't fit into any category at all. The 'Power Precipice' is a zone where pitchers who successfully overpower hitters still find themselves teetering on the brink of a fall because they walk too many. For young players, that's a hopeful sign, because improved command will supplement good stuff. Here's a list of Robbie Ray's performances
27 May Uncategorised 1 June Hit Hard 12 June Uncategorised 17 June Uncategorised 22 June Success Square/Power Precipice 27 June Success Square 2 July Uncategorised 7 July Uncategorised 13 July Hit Hard 20 July Success Square 25 July success Square 30 July Hit Hard 4 August Success Square/Power precipice
Now what we know about minor-league baseball is that for pitchers, a lack of command at AAA will mean problems walking batters in the big leagues. We also know that AAA fielders aren't quite as good as major-league ones, so pitchers will suffer a few more hits than they might. In terms of hits given up, the Toledo Mud Hens look to be around league average.
The minor-league outings suggest that Ray is going to have some problems at the big-league level this time round. His command is wayward and he gives up too many hits to say he can get by on his stuff. His K/9 is really down this season, compared to when he was a National. In his uncategorised starts he is almost always let down by his walks. On the bright side, and something not measured in QMAX, is that he keeps the ball in the park. His HR/9 is 0.6 in AAA. If he can get a few "at 'em" balls, and continue to keep the ball in the park, he might serve as a useful stopgap for the Tigers in the present crisis. Tigers' fans need to keep an eye out for ground balls, and the Tigers turning the double play behind him. If that doesn't happen, the slack will have to be picked up by the hitters and the bullpen, and that hasn't been working out too well lately.


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For all Rick Owens lovers and those curious about him. He discusses inspiration, relationships, a bit about himself and I still think he is the coolest guy ever. What he creates is extraordinary.
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Late night blues and the Black Keys
By NICK TAVARES
STATIC and FEEDBACK Editor
I've fallen back into the habit of going to sleep to music via my headphones and iPod, picking something to help me wind down from the havoc of everyday life and back down to a spot where I can fall asleep early enough to not wake up a nearly brain-dead zombie the next morning.
What I pick depends on what I've been listening to and what kind of mood I might find myself in, and volume seems inconsequential to this. Sometimes it's loud stuff, sometimes quiet. Sometimes punk stuff gets the job done, sometimes one voice with a guitar will do the trick. And in the spirit of one voice with a guitar, lately a lot of blues have crept into that late-night rotation.
It's a throwback to the familiar and all the time spent listening to these old masters from college up to now. It started with Muddy Waters and Elmore James early, but usually my tastes keep bringing me back to Son House and Lead Belly and their vocal tones set over acoustic instruments, casting a spell of loneliness that's so real and authentic as to defy time. My Son House stuff was recorded in 1965 after his rediscovery, while Lead Belly sang into this particular phonograph between 1942 and '44, but it doesn't really matter. It all sounds as haunted and timeless as ever.
Junior Kimbrough was another late-discovered blues artist who didn't get his due until his golden years, but his work on Fat Possum records in the nineties has become every bit as essential as the established legends who preceded him. His 1993 album All Night Long is a beacon for anyone into that aesthetic, with dark, gloomy songs coming from his electric guitar and heavy voice, only mildly adorned from there by a drummer and bass player.
In spinning around for something to listen to the other night, though, a familiar landing point popped up in Chulahoma, the six-song EP the Black Keys recorded in tribute to Kimbrough and, by proxy, every monumental blues artist who preceded him. Chulahoma, as Dan Auerbach writes in the liner notes, was essentially a thank-you and acknowledgement of the impact Kimbrough's music had on the young guitar player. "Very suddenly, I was skiping class to play guitar," Auerbach writes, on his discovery of Kimbrough. "Shortly thereafter, I'd be dropping out of college altogether. Setting out to find my own way. The bar had been set impossibly high and there was nothing more those professors could help me with. I'd found a new teacher."
That gravelly tone that the Black Keys had on their early albums carries over to this record, and the lineage from Kimbrough to the band was apparent even before this tribute. Auerbach's guitar is primal when its at its best, and that tone doesn't flow in the music here as much as it bites. Flip to the second side for "Nobody But You" and what's found is that open-tuned guitar stabbing and darting while Patrick Carney's drums stomp underneath. It sounds like it was recorded live (it likely was), and it keeps that feeling and energy that made Kimbrough's own recordings so powerful.
In addition to that snarling guitar that punctuates so much of their music, the Black Keys have a potent weapon in Auerbach's voice. His is the bluesy growl of a man twice his age and it carries with it the soul of someone who feels it. That howl on "Work Me," for example, rolling over Carney's boom-thack-boom is as primal as it is heartfelt. It sounds real and unadorned and, even if it was recorded decades after the old guys' work and 15 after Kimbrough's, fits right alongside it all on the timeline.
It doesn't sound as archaic as those ancient recordings and, beyond the natural ambiance of not recording in a professional studio shared with all their early work, it's not necessarily meant to emulate that, either. But it is a faithful interpretation of Kimbrough's music that's meant to pay homage and not make waves that the music wouldn't have already made.
Because they had the skill and taste to pull it off, it works. It works on the stereo and at the gym and in the car and late at night with the lights out and headphones on, the same as all these great old blues records. It's understandable if this doesn't extend past the reach of the Black Keys' hardcore audience — it's a cover project, after all — but the perception doesn't change the music itself. It's slow, nasty and it makes an impact. And now, it's timeless.
So, on a night where some old blues is required to drift off into the next day, there's Kimbrough and House and Huddie Ledbetter waiting. And there's also the Black Keys' Chulahoma, as natural a choice as anything else, and that's a testament to its greatness.
Oct. 6, 2013
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Ultratrex has been awarded to supply 4 units of AT200ER amphibious excavators within a tight delivery deadline in May 2017. We had successfully delivered & meeting the deadline in June 2017.
It is for a project of three 18-hole golf courses designed by Golf legend Jack Nicklaus, a hotel and infrastructure to be built in Gelang Patah,Johor,Malaysia .
The current project site is the second biggest mangrove area in Asia. The main application of amphibious excavators in this project are swamp land clearing at mangrove swamp, removing mangroves and golf course pond construction.
The first golf course has a total land area of 200 acres and will be completed by the end of 2017.
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Last week, the Senate finished the first 25 percent of the 2018 Legislative Session with the conclusion of the 10th legislative day on Thursday. It was a busy week for me, as one piece of legislation I sponsored last year, Senate Bill 161, was brought back on the Senate Public Safety Committee's agenda. Although there was no hearing on the bill at the time, a lot of questions have surfaced about the true intention of the legislation.
In its current draft, Senate Bill 161 would address licenses for people who are not citizens, but are legally living in the state. Currently, most licenses are horizontal for anyone who applies for one, whether they are a citizen or legal alien, unless they are under the age of 21. SB 161 would require that licenses for non-citizens be switched to a vertical format. This change is not intended to discriminate against anyone. It is simply an adjustment to protect those who are here legally but are foreign to our national and state laws.
As many of us know, voter fraud is a problem that plagues our country and is often times difficult to detect.
This simple provision would make it much easier to detect non-citizens before they are unintentionally allowed to vote. Voting as a non-citizen is a felony, so doing what we can to keep these people from mistakenly breaking the law is not just good for poll officials and election results, it protects non-citizens, too.
Some people might say that this doesn't happen enough for it to be a major issue. I know that many elections, especially at the local level, are often decided by as little as one vote. We are ensuring that your vote truly counts and elections won't be skewed by illegal, accidental votes.
This change would also assist our police officers when they pull someone over for minor traffic violations. If there is a question about whether the driver knew state law or not and their license was vertical, it would assist the officer in knowing that this person might be from a foreign country and not as familiar with Georgia's driving laws.
Claims that this is an anti-immigration bill could not be further from the truth. Many of you know as a brand-new freshman senator seven years ago, I hired a young lady who was a war refugee from Bosnia. She spoke English as a second language, worked to become a citizen and earned two degrees from UGA. I often joke that she speaks English better than many of my Senate colleagues and me. Additionally, my wife and I have hosted numerous international students in Georgia for decades through our local Rotary Club. I truly believe that we are a nation of opportunity and that our differences make us who we are. I greatly respect those who come to this country in pursuit of the American Dream. Their hard work to ensure their pathway to citizenship and the benefits that come with it truly mean something for those who take the route legally.
If you have any questions, concerns or feedback about SB 161 or any other legislation, please do not hesitate to reach out. My office is always open to visitors and if you can't make it to the Capitol, my phone lines are always open.
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Tom Wood from Year 7 is training hard this winter in his bid to follow in the footsteps of home-grown Formula One superstars Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton by landing British Cadet Karting Championship title glory next year.
Tom, who enjoyed his most successful season to date in 2013, will be working on both his driving and fitness, including racing at club events and travelling to Spain for testing in February, in preparation for the start of what is set to be a big season for him at the end of March.
Tom is part of a new Young Racing Driver Academy (YRDA) programme, backed by Arden International and partners and launched in May this year focussing on mentoring, managing and marketing the cream of Britain's emerging motorsport talent.
This year Tom lived up to his early promise, being crowned top rookie at both the British Iame Cadet Championship and National Comer Cadet Championship – finishing third overall in both – which earned him a special award he will be receiving at the prestigious Autosport International Show at the NEC Birmingham in January.
Tom has been driving since he was just three-and-a-half years old, whizzing around in electric karts at local leisure centres during school holidays. He moved into petrol karts aged six, and competed his first Motor Sports Association (MSA) - the sole motor sport governing body for the UK - race when he was eight. Now it's all about putting in the hard yards to keep his F1 ambition on track.
Tom is still seeking sponsorship for his 2014 campaign. Anyone interested in supporting him should contact firstname.lastname@example.com and or visit his website at www.tomwoodracing.com
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Mucinous Cystadenoma of the Appendix in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erthematosus
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology - Volume 12 1998, Issue 8, Pages 573-576
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Department of General Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Department of Internal Medicine , University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Department of Pathology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Received 13 January 1998; Accepted 18 August 1998
Copyright © 1998 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This open-access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License CC BY-NC http:-creativecommons.org-licenses-by-nc-4.0-, which permits reuse, distribution and reproduction of the article, provided that the original work is properly cited and the reuse is restricted to noncommercial purposes.
A 38-year-old female with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with abdominal pain, diarrhea and iron-deficient anemia. Computed tomogram showed a 2x4 cm inhomogeneous lesion of the right adnexa. An unusual mass was identified extending from the appendiceal orifice at colonoscopy, and an 8 cm tubular appendix, apparently prolapsed into the cecum, was identified at celiotomy. An appendectomy with cecectomy was performed. On cut section, mucin was extruded from the lumen of the appendix. A mucinous neoplasm of the appendix with mucinous dissection to the serosal surface was reported at the time of frozen section. No gross ovarian pathology or peritoneal implants were noted. Cystadenoma with associated mucocele formation was verified by permanent histology. Mucocele of the vermiform appendix is a rare condition associated with neoplastic transformation in approximately 75% of all cases. Benign mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix should be differentiated from cystadenocarcinoma by frozen section at the time of celiotomy to ensure appropriate treatment. While systemic lupus erythematosus can lead to cutaneous mucinosis, an association with mucinous cystadenoma of the appendix has not been previously reported. Surveillance for metachronous colonic neoplasms is warranted in patients diagnosed with a mucinous neoplasm of the appendix.
Autor: Debrah A Wirtzfeld, Lorne M Price, Maire A Duggan, Shaun AC Medlicott, and Francis R Sutherland
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Iterative Tracking: General Information
The general iterative tracking steps are outline below. Only steps 0-4 are used in the online version of iterative tracking.
0: prompt tracks, high pT
seeds: pixel triplets
1: prompt tracks, low pT
seeds: pixel triplets
2: prompt tracks, high pT (recovery)
seeds: pixel pairs + vertex
3: displaced tracks
seeds: pixel triplets
4: displaced tracks - barrel
seeds: pixel-strip mixed triplets
5: displaced tracks
seeds: TIB, TID, TEC pairs
6: displaced tracks (more displaced)
seeds: TOB, TEC pairs
9: Muons
seeds: standalone muons
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Happy Valentine's Day!
I know it's every single girl's least favorite day, but I love Valentine's day. Everything is so cute and it's an excuse to do this makeup tutorial ;)
Most Valentine's Day makeup tutorials I see are a sultry eye, but I prefer to take the opposite end of the spectrum and go with a really classic look.
This look is super easy to re-create, the most important parts are a matte face, smooth liner, and the bold lip.
[I'm sorry for the horrible quality photo]
Products I used-- L'Oreal Studio Secrets Magic Perfecting Base. L'Oreal Magic Smooth Soufflé Foundation in 516 Nude Beige. Clinique Blended Face Powder in 02 Transparency. NARS Bronzer in Laguna. Elf Powder Brush. Maybelline Concealer in 10 Light. Ecotools Foundation Brush. Clinique Touch Base for Eyes in 10 Canvas. Maybelline Eyeshadow in Vanilla. Sephora Eyeshadow in Exciting Safari. Sephora Eyelash Curler. Wet N Wild Eyeliner in White. Bare Escentuals Eyeshadow Brush. Covergirl Lashblast Mascara. Maybelline Gel Liner in Brown. Revlon Lipstick in 657 Fuchsia Fusion.
Wow, that was a lot of products.
Basically, here's what to do. Make sure to apply moisturizer and use a foundation primer to insure your foundation goes on smoothly. I applied my foundation, concealer, and powder, then did some contouring with the bronzer [tell me if you guys want to know how to contour]. Next, I primed my eyelids and applied a neutral color and highlighted under my brow with the white. Next is the most crucial part. I slightly pull my eye so the skin is taught and slowly work from the outer corner to the inner, keeping the line thicker on the outside and getting thinner. I exaggerate the wing up, and I make it kind of a little V. I hate when I see people do a wing and it's just an extension of the liner. Really make sure to fill in the rest of the V, if that makes sense. I applied white eyeliner to my water line to make my eyes appear more open. Next, I applied several coats of mascara and combed out my brows. Be very careful when applying such a bright lipstick, don't drag it accross your lips but rather dab it on to build up intensity.
And there you have it! It's really simple and classic.
I'm not doing anything exciting for Valentine's Day. I'll eat the mini box of chocolates my mom got me and wallow in self pity.
Are any of you doing anything exciting?
XO Kara


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The CEO of Volkswagen of America, Michael Horn, testified before the U.S. House over site committee last Thursday. I watched most of the testimony as he answered questions put to him by members of the committee. It is obvious that this testimony comes very early in the investigations into what happened, who knew and why. He was unable to answer many of the questions due to the "on-going internal investigation". He made it clear that an outside, U.S. law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP had been hired to investigate this debacle. He also distanced the U.S. arm of operation from those in Wolfsburg
Incentives on sales and bonuses on CSI are apparently being paid with no regard to sales goals or CSI reports. In addition, Volkswagen wired "discretionary" funds to the dealer body to be used as they see fit to deal with customers and help with their operating expenses. The amount of money apparently depends on the volume of the dealership. Larger dealers got more monies than smaller operations.
Unfortunately, for the dealers this really solves nothing. Customers are feeling cheated as are the dealers themselves. Trying to resolve the issues by trading customers out of their diesel cars using the discretionary funds to bolster the deal will only cause further problems for the dealers. Taking the diesel models back on to their lots, unable the sell them, would lead to dealers to find storage for vehicles, monthly maintenance expense, flooring expense, and a whole bunch of other expenses while the dealers wait for the fix that will allow them to again sell the diesel that frankly the U.S. car buying public may not want.
Personally, I think everyone should sit tight until VW comes up with a solution or a buyback. Of course it is only a matter of time before California or some other emission checking state will tell diesel owners they can't drive their non conforming Volkswagen.
Someone at Volkswagen AG did this. Not Volkswagen of America. Not your local Volkswagen Dealer. Not the thousands of Volkswagen employees in the U.S.


text: Cape Town - At just 22, it seems like Kagiso Rabada has already mastered his craft. This week, following South Africa's 72-run win over India in the first Test at Newlands, Rabada replaced James Anderson as the No 1 ranked bowler in Test cricket. He was just the seventh South African to do so, and the youngest in the history of the game. Just 24 matches into his Test career, Rabada has already claimed 110 wickets in the format and if he keeps going at this rate then there is no end to what he can achieve. Ever since he burst onto the international scene back in 2015, Rabada has commanded attention with his raw pace, smooth action and abundant skill setting him apart. Now, with Dale Steyn out injured for the second Test against India at Centurion, Rabada's role in this Proteas team becomes even more important. More than that, the wicket in Pretoria is expected to offer the bowlers pace and bounce as opposed to movement, and that will also make Rabada particularly dangerous. Rabada spoke during the Cape Town Test about how he wasn't quite at his best and, if that is indeed the case, then opposition batting line-ups should be worried. Captain Faf du Plessis agrees, though, and he believes that Rabada will just get better and better the more that he plays."He is an incredible athlete and I think that's his strongest attribute," the skipper said of one of his biggest assets on Thursday. "He's just such a strong bowler and he can bowl the whole day. He doesn't get tired and that's a great thing to have as a captain. "I still believe that KG's best is still to come. "I think he's learning a lot as a bowler and he's a very young bowler still. With his body so strong and with a good head on his shoulders, always looking to improve, I think his best is yet to come."Rabada will be joined by Morne Morkel and Vernon Philander in the line-up for the second Test while one of Duanne Olivier, Lungi Ngidi or Chris Morris is expected to operate as the fourth seamer.


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This month the Penobscot Fly Fishers (PFF) celebrated its 20th anniversary. The Bangor-area fishing club held a banquet for members and guests at a local events center.
Following dinner and a social hour, PFF President Ed Dailide offered some opening remarks. Charter members of the organization were recognized as well as past presidents. The anniversary cake was cut by past recipients of the Gray Ghost Award and guest speakers, including myself; John Holyoke, outdoor editor of the Bangor Daily News; and Rod McGarry from the Federation of Fly Fishers, entertained guests with reflections and fishing stories.
Since its inception in 1997, the Penobscot Fly Fishers has become a recognized community resource when it comes to fishery conservation efforts and the promotion of fly fishing and fly tying. The group mentors aspiring fly fishermen and offers basic fly tying courses every winter for a nominal fee. In early spring, the chapter sponsors a Cabin Fever Reliever weekend at the Brewer auditorium. During this event more than 50 exhibitors represent a multitude of outdoor interests, including demonstrations of fly tying and fly casting.
Penobscot Fly Fishers also support fly fishing and fly tying educational programs at summer youth camps as well as scholarships for youngsters. The club also conducts an annual fly-tying symposium during which well-known fly tyers demonstrate special tying techniques for the general public.
In 2014, the Maine Chapter of the Wildlife Society honored PFF with a recognition award for its excellence in wildlife stewardship through science and education.
Throughout the year, PFF holds monthly member meetings at local restaurants. The meetings include guest speakers on a variety of outdoor topics.
Although not talked about a lot, the club had an interesting beginning that was actually a product of conflict.
In 1997, twenty-one members of the local chapter of Trout Unlimited (TU), which is a national organization, grew disenchanted when TU headquarters advised the local chapter that its position on a state dam licensing controversy was unacceptable. To its credit, the group refused to be dictated to and elected to split off from the national fishing organization — and the Penobscot Fly Fishers was born.
The platitude applies. It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody some good. To its credit, the Penobscot Fly Fishers, in its reconstituted form, has probably made a more substantive and meaningful contribution to fishery conservation and fly fishing mentorship than it ever would have as a local TU chapter.
The charter members, whose vision and devotion to principles, led to PFF's founding are, in no particular order: Joe Bertolaccini, Janice Blake, Harold Brown, Ed Bruno, Ron Carr, Michael Caruso, Don Corey, Earl Eastwood, Ron Eddy, Robert Field, Alan Gray, Marcus Hale, Ronald Landry, John Lent, Fran Montville, Joe Partridge, Michael Roy, Bill Smith, Jim Snow and Paul Thibault.
Congratulations Penobscot Fly Fishers on your 20th anniversary and a job well done.
The author is editor of the "Northwoods Sporting Journal." He is also a Maine guide and host of a weekly radio program — "Maine Outdoors" — heard Sundays at 7 p.m. on "The Voice of Maine News – Talk Network." He has authored three books; online purchase information is available at www.maineoutdoorpublications.com.
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You may recognize this family from previous sessions, like their maternity photos at Crescent Beach in April. Wes and Lindsay and Lynden welcomed Lukas into their family a week ago and he's adorable!
Here's just a couple sneak peeks from their session... More coming on the blog soon!
Congratulations Wes, Lindsay and big brother Lynden!
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This is a public service announcement: It's time to confront that dread reminder of all the recent fattening frolic you had--New Year's tush. Here at Out & About, where we specialize in canape consumption, we know just how hard that can be. So we offer for your arsenal of incentives more than mere guilt--pure, unadulterated shame.
If Estelle Getty can do it, so can you.
Getty, who's a mere 74, is doing her reps on the Hammer leg press under the eagle eye of His Buffness, Raphael Picaud. Picaud, proprietor of L.A.'s Body Maxx, earned a master's degree in physical conditioning in Strasbourg, France, was a weightlifting champ in his home country and has coached athletes in judo and soccer. More to the point, the guy has biceps the size of Scarlett O'Hara's waist.
OK, in a corset, but still.
In peak Picaud season--June through
August--Saudi princes pay $250 an hour to buff up with Picaud. When they're here, two of them train with Picaud six days a week. Do the math yourself. His prices start at $125, but those nutty princes bid against each other for his scarce time.
"I'm not here to make a buck," Picaud says as he guides Getty through 12 reps on each leg. "My clients just offered me more money."


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I am so glad that nobody's looking at me. I am so glad that nobody follows me around with a camera or is curious to know who I'm dating. Like everyone else, I also have the fantasies of being rich and famous, walking around town looking hot with my handbag worth thousands of dollars from some chic designer house, with my half decaf non-fat cappuccino in my hand, browsing through boutiques for the 'it' jeans of the season while receiving text messages from my ultra buff athlete boyfriend. I think everyone has that daydream while they're riding the bus to work on a gloomy, gray Monday morning or standing in line at the grocery store behind the tired mom of three who's struggling to get her wallet and reusable bags out while not losing one of her brood.
But who would really want it? When you get the reality check and start reading the rag mags (I don't have to list them off, you know who they are because I'm sure you're guilty of reading them too!), you start to realize that it takes a supporting cast of 44 people to get any one star looking hot for the day. It's like the 19th century ladies with the corsets and powdered wigs and shoes so small that you had to be squeezed in by two people with another two people propping up your arms like a scarecrow as you half levitate off the floor so that your feet can be reduced to 2/3 of their size. And then the corsets takes one person to lace and another to hold your arms and keep you in position as your ribs start to bend and crack into the perfect pleasing V. Let's not even touch the lead-filled makeup and the nightmarish Bride of Frankenstein hair.
I do admit that progress has been made and that the process has been streamlined so as not to be as painful, cumbersome or humiliating, but nevertheless, the body perfect today still requires more manual labour than the pre-fabricated houses that most companies are getting away with selling to first time buyers.
I sometimes try to visualize what it's like to be a super hot celebrity getting ready for the day and it honestly exhausts and exasperates me. Most celebrities wake up and work out for 2 hours a day, either with a personal trainer or doing some trendy exercise on their own like pilates or yoga. So starting from this, you would have to roll out of bed every morning and prep for a solid 2 hour workout to keep yourself toned and firm. The average hair and makeup setup for a model is probably about a half hour to an hour depending on the complexity of the look. So if you just wanted to have perfect blow away waves and an 'au naturel' makeup look of mostly nude tones, this would likely take half an hour or so by conservative estimates and assuming, of course, that you're also having a good hair day. So it's already taken you 3 hours to get ready and you're not even dressed yet.
Most celebrities have personal stylists who ensure that they're wearing the latest and greatest clothing so that they stay current, but also to avoid embarrassing outfits that can land them on the What were they thinking? page. So you would then need about a half hour consultation to get dressed and to make sure that everything fits and falls in the right places.
But don't forget all the little beauty treatments. The wraps, the creams, the scrubs, the little brush things that rejuvenate. You can get steamed up like a carrot in a relaxing sauna. Or you can get wrapped in seaweed or get your face and body smeared with minerals. There are all sorts of ridiculous beauty aids and they represent a huge industry that you help propagate by sharing your beauty 'regime' with others. I don't know if I would personally want to turn into maki as part of my regime, but if it takes 5 years off my face, well, I guess you can't argue with that.
After 3 hours of this, there's food. Most celebrities have chefs and people who prep the food, but for this great service, well, I'd have to say it's the celebrities that are getting short-changed. You would need someone to handle your food as a busy person, but luckily, there's not much food to be handled. I find it crazy that you would need a personal chef to cut up your grapefruit and cook a tiny piece of fish the size of the palm of your hand and steam your veggies. But this is also part of the body perfect: just the right food and the right fats to keep you healthy.
After the 150 calorie breakfast, the real work of the day starts and it's generally something like a 14 hour day, with Blackberries buzzing and people milling all around you, tucking in stray hairs and touching up makeup. Then, if you actually had a gorgeous athlete boyfriend and wanted to go out to dinner with them, it would either have to be a celebrity fan circus around the exclusive $80 salad restaurant surrounded by photographers or if it was still under wraps, it would be a covert Soviet era mission with lots of back entrances and code words.
Who really wants their life to look like this? Sure, you get the millions of dollars, the special attention, the shopping sprees, the exotic trips. But all that effort to maintain that lifestyle and that image is exhausting and can't possibly be good for a person's psyche. What happens if you have a crap day? Do you really think that most of us want to come home and eat a piece of miniature fish? Hell no. We want to go out for burgers and beers with our friends or wallow in a big bowl of buttery microwave popcorn. And sometimes it takes us a world of effort just to roll out of bed in the morning, let alone run a mini-marathon while pretending we're Jane Fonda. And who wants to look good when it takes most of your energy to just look good? Most of us have other things to do and to take care of and it's not all about who or what we're wearing or how much makeup we've put on. And when our lives are over, won't it be nice to have people remember the things we do rather than the way we looked?
I can handle the joys of mediocrity, just getting up in the mornings, throwing on some clothes and tackling the day and having nobody gossip about me or talk about where I got my pants. I can handle making my own real meals and twice a week workouts. I could handle all of this just as well with a thousand dollar designer bag too. But the rest of it sounds like too much of too much.
Monday, April 5, 2010
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I could handle being a C-list celebrity. lol.ReplyDelete
No one knows who you are, so no one hassles you and there's only a small amount of gossip. And you only have to look good when being seen, usually at night (and if you're an edgy c-list celebrity, you don't actually have to look good then either. haha).
But you're still earning enough from your pointless life to get to spend the majority of it jetsetting, socializing and NOT working, all while being offered free things because a C-list celebrity is still a celebrity on some microscale (and it's not always cheap stuff - see Friends of Chanel).
As you can see, I have spent far too much time considering this ... "career path". :o)
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This is in response to How to write a bloom filter in C++, which has good intentions, but is ultimately a less than ideal bloom filter implementation. I put together a better one in C in a few minutes, and I'll explain the advantages of it.
The important differences are:
- You bring your own hashing functions
- You can add arbitrary data types, not just bytes
- It uses bits directly instead of relying on the
std::vector<bool>being space effecient
I chose C because (1) I prefer it over C++ and (2) I just think it's a better choice for implementing low level data types, and C++ is better used in high level code.
I'm not going to explain the mechanics of a bloom filter or most of the details of why the code looks this way, since I think the original post did a fine job of that. I'll just present my alternate implementation:
The implementation of this is pretty straightfoward. First, here's the actual structs behind the opaque bloom_t type:
The hash functions are a linked list, but this isn't important. You can make that anything you want. Otherwise we have a bit of memory called "bits" and the size of it. Now, for the easy functions:
These should be fairly self explanatory. The first interesting function is here:
Given a hashing function from the user, this just adds it to our linked list of hash functions. There's a slightly different code path if we're adding the first function. The functions so far don't really do anything specific to bloom filters. The first one that does is this:
This iterates over each of the hash functions the user has provided and computes the hash of the data for that function (modulo the size of our bloom filter), then it adds this to the bloom filter with this line:
This just sets the nth bit of the filter where n is the hash. Finally, we have the test function:
This function is extremely similar, but instead of setting the nth bit, it checks the nth bit and returns if it's 0:
That's it! You have a bloom filter with arbitrary data types for insert and user-supplied hash functions. I wrote up some simple test code to demonstrate this, after googling for a couple of random hash functions:
The full code is available here.
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Definition of the noun Alydus eurinus
What does Alydus eurinus mean as a name of something?
Alydus eurinus is a species of Alydus, described by Say in 1825.
- synonyms: species Alydus eurinus / Lygaeus eurinus / species Lygaeus eurinus
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Hemiptera
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Note: The survey has closed. The results of the 2015 Loss Survey and 2014 Pollination Economics Report are now available!
The OSU Bee Lab, in our continuing documentation of PNW beekeeper overwintering losses and the business of pollination, conducted survey among larger-scale (commercial and semi-commercial) beekeepers seeking loss information and rental fees. If you did not receive a survey please contact Dewey (email@example.com) or Ramesh (email@example.com) and one will be sent. We ask all those willing to provide this information to return the survey in the postage-paid envelope provided before end of April.
Smaller-scale (backyard) Oregon beekeeper loss survey. I will be distributing a paper survey for smaller-scale beekeepers to at March/April association meetings. If you miss me or prefer to do complete a overwintering loss survey as an online survey instrument go to http://bit.ly/2015PUBSurvey. It will take but a few minutes. We appreciate past involvement and ask that you help us make this information available once again this spring. If you prefer to do a paper survey, please download the pdf version of the survey located after this article, print it, and mail it to the address provided in the survey.
Our Oregon survey should not interfere with the great response of Oregon beekeepers to the National BIP survey. The survey is electronic and this year will be available during the entire month of April (as last year). You can sign up for a reminder by visiting the www.beeinformed.org website. In 2014, 222 Oregon beekeepers managing 50,691 colonies, had a 17+1.7% overwinter colony loss rate and for the entire season 30.2+2.4% colonies (a full report will be in an upcoming Apidologie and is available on the beeinformed.org website). Thank you all for sending this information and please continue to send us your information this spring.


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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
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Beautiful. Can't wait for more. And isn't it good timing to have the little distraction of reconstruction to help keep the enormous emotions involved with this beautiful event from overpowering you? Congratulations on both major milestones at your little bit of earth. Holding you in my heart as the summer continues.ReplyDelete
......and breathe! - it has been a whirlwind few months hasn't it?! Beautiful fabric! I look forward to seeing more pics of such a special day.ReplyDelete
So special that you shopped for the fabric together and that you made Gretta's dress, Karen. Can't wait to see photos of it finished. Hope the construction isn't driving you crazy!ReplyDelete
I cannot wait to see more photo's. Take a breath and another one. I hate haveing men around for working......ReplyDelete
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There are a variety of ways that we can treat a bony growth on the bottom of your heel and one of the effective, conservative treatment methods is to use orthotics for heel spurs. When a heel spur has developed due to a biomechanical imbalance, these customized inserts can help correct the issue. It is important to note that these foot supports are not the same as the mass-produced shoe inserts that you can buy at retail stores and nationwide pharmacies. Those inserts can provide cushioning, and possibly arch support, but are not prescribed, medical devices that are created specifically for your feet.
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- djreAsked on June 10, 2015 at 03:00 AM
Hi Charlie,
Is it possible to send the client to a new page that will show the form with their details and a print button for that when its printed it retains its formatting?
e.g. the form has fields + submit button. after the submit button is pressed the client is send to /shown his/her form with the responses and original formatting + a print button. At this stage the form is submitted and its up to them if the click print or not.
- CharlieAnswered on June 10, 2015 at 03:31 AM
I believe that's possible, here's a sample form that I did, see if that what's you were expecting: http://form.jotformpro.com/form/51601578949971.
Here's how I did mine.
1. First, I added a text box with name "Print", it is hidden and the value of it will be passed using the URL on our Thank You page.
2. Add two submit button, one will be use to submit the form while the other will be used for printing only. How do we removed the submit button and only show the "Print" button instead?
3. We can do that by using a custom CSS code to hide the specific submit button and only display the print button. In my case, I used the Form Designer tool, double click the submit button and add the attribute "display:none" to hide the specific button.
4. Next, we will show and hide the specific submit buttons depending on the field text box "Print" that we added earlier. Here's mine, I've set two conditional logic.
IF Field text box "Print?" is equal to "Yes" THEN SHOW the 2nd submit button (the one with a hidden submit button).
IF Field text box "Print?" is not equal to "Yes" THEN HIDE the 1st submit button (the one with the submit button only).
5. After that, we want to redirect our user to the same form but the fields are prepopulated and there's only a print button, at this time, they have already submitted the form. Here's a guide on how to prepopulate a form: http://www.jotform.com/help/71-Prepopulating-fields-to-your-JotForm-via-URL-parameters
In the "Thank You" setting, choose "Custom URL", and I added this link:
Form URL structure:
Green highlight: my Form URL
Blue highlight: This is the field name of the text box "Print?", we'll add a value "Yes" here.
Yellow highlight: These are the fields in the form, we'll fetch their field name and their field value and prepopulate that link.
I hope that helps. Do let us know if you need more information on this.
Thank you.


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Finding good deals on new games
By Alex Kierkegaard / July 03, 2006
The theory of supply and demand describes how prices vary as a result of a balance between product availability at different prices (supply) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand).
It is unfortunate that the prices of new games can fluctuate so wildly throughout their limited shelf-life. Sometimes, looking for certain titles feels like playing in the stockmarket, and quite unlike the routine shopping experience it is supposed to be. Companies proudly display their backlist of titles on their websites, with eloquent descriptions, arresting screenshots and sharp cover art, but when you visit the major retailers to look for them, they are nowhere to be found.
And why should it be impossible to find a new copy of Ico (a game that's barely five years old), when new copies of nearly all DVDs released during the past decade are widely available?
My long search for that game ended five months ago, when I finally resigned myself to buying a used copy for about 5,000 yen. Worst thing was, even though I had spent a great deal of money on that occassion, and even though the spending of money is supposed to engender in us feelings of instant gratification, however short-lived, I did not even experience a shred of satisfaction that day. There was a certain relief, yes -- I had at last plugged that gaping hole in my PS2 collection, I could move on to the next one -- but little more than that.
The fact is, I rarely enjoy myself when buying used games. Of course, when I get back home and start playing them I enjoy them as much as anyone else: whether I am playing a just-opened copy, or a dirty-and-scratched-disc-from-hell borrowed from a friend, or even a pirated DVD-R, the playing experience is the same. But the buying experience -- the walking in the shop with a bunch of notes in my wallet, and the walking out of that shop with a game inside a little bag -- leaves me cold and dissatisfied. I want a brand new copy dammit, so I can tear off the seal and open up and read the crisp manual, and stick the shiny, perfectly reflective disc inside the goddamn console. Is that an unreasonable expectation? Am I asking for too much, considering that I am asked to spend the equivalent of several DVDs worth of money for the privilege?
But I am often cheated out of this experience, so important to me as the oxygen in the air I breathe; browbeaten into buying a used copy because I am given no other choice. (Yes, there's self-depreciating sarcasm in this paragraph, you can go on reading now.)
More importantly, with the game industry being what it is these days, buying a new game has also become a way to make a statement, and is more or less your only method of influencing the kinds of titles that will get made in the future. In this case, I would have loved to give my money to SCEJ, and in that way support Fumito Ueda's and Team Ico's upcoming projects. But my cash, instead of being used as fuel for creative individuals, who would go on to make the kinds of games that I want to play, ended up enriching mere... merchants. What a deplorable waste.
And you know, I fully realize that secondhand game shops serve a noble purpose. You can often find games there at half the price that new copies go for; if you are hard up on cash then these shops are your only choice.
But in Ico's case, and in countless other cases, it doesn't quite work out that way. I certainly didn't get any discount on my used copy of the game -- I paid more or less its full price, as I mentioned. In fact, secondhand game shops are a last resort for me because the kinds of games that I go there looking for are never half price. People go to these places to buy cheap games -- I go there, against my better judgement, to buy expensive ones.
It's perverse, really; it doesn't make sense for the companies that produce the games, and it sure as heck doesn't make sense for the gamers who buy them. With a few clicks on Amazon I can order a huge variety of movies, many of them released decades ago, beautifully restored and updated with lots of extras and snazzy packaging. But if I were to ask them for any game released over a year ago, I'd most likely be directed to their marketplace of small game shops and scammers. These people often advertise new copies of games, and six times out of ten they send you used, shoddily re-sealed ones, or budget re-releases (six times out of ten is my current score, averaged over dozens of purchases during a period of several years). What a wretched, miserable buying experience these places can give you. You'll occasionaly come across a decent seller, and get what you are looking for, but for me at least the rewards are often not worth the expense and trouble.
In Japan, where the used game market is more widespread and developed than anywhere else, this situation often leads to absurdities. One day I go into a secondhand game shop in Akihabara and see Homura going for 4,900 yen; a few moments later I walk into a Sofmap and see it new for 2,000. I see things like this every other day in Tokyo. It's nuts.
All this has got to change, it will change, one way or another, maybe by more regular and higher quality reprints, but most probably by a digital delivery format (at which point we'll all have to say goodbye to cool-looking boxes and shiny discs and crisp manuals, and get used to flavorless streams of 1s and 0s and pdf files). In the meantime, however, there is a certain art to snatching new games in Japan at their lowest price point, before they go vanishing into a murky world of secondhand game shops and auction profiteers. It took me a while to figure it all out. Here's how it works.
Round and round we go, in never-ending circles
The day a new game gets released every shop carries it at a price point slightly below the suggested retail price. If, for example, the suggested retail price is 6,800 yen, most stores will sell it at a price somewhere between 6,200 and 6,600. This is NOT the time to buy a game, no matter how much you'd like to play it. I paid full price for Biohazard 4 on release day and a few months later it was going for half price. Of course I enjoyed playing it, but I would have enjoyed it just as much six months later, and I would have saved enough money to buy ice cream for the ending (ice cream can be prohibitively expensive in Japan, especially the good-quality, imported kind).
Same thing happened with Killer 7, Genji, Devil May Cry 3, Fire Emblem GC, etc. etc. With the money I spent on those five games alone I could have bought more than a dozen titles, had I waited and picked the right moment to grab them.
In any case, if you absolutely have to have a game the day it comes out, there are specific shops which undercut everyone else by a small margin. I know of several such places in Akihabara. In the case of the example above, if most shops are selling the game for between 6,200 and 6,600, I guarantee you there will be a shop somewhere selling it for 5,990 -- even on the first day of release. Not a huge difference -- only 200 yen less than the cheapest shops -- but a great deal if you were initially planning to buy it from Tsutaya who, god help me, would be the first place to sell a game for more than the MSRP if it was possible. Just look hard enough and you'll eventually identify the one or two joints that consistently undercut everyone else on the day of release.
Now, after the initial couple of weeks have passed, and the bulk of copies for most titles have been sold, interesting things start happening to the price of games. How interesting depends on the specific game and its initial sales performance.
The trick when going shopping for new games is NOT to look for particular titles. You simply make a round of all the game shops in your immediate area (it helps if you have easy access to an area with lots of games shops, like Akihabara or Osaka's Den Den Town), spending a few minutes in each one, scanning all the shelves and paying particular attention to the bargain bins (almost every shop has a bargain bin, or some sort of sale shelf or corner).
Some titles get discounted pretty quickly. I picked up Viewtiful Joe Scratch! for less than 2,000 yen within a couple of weeks of its release. Other titles take months to come down in price, and yet others are never, ever discounted. Final Fantasy X International is one such game. It was going for over 7,000 yen when I first arrived in Japan, in February 2004, and it still sells for the same amount. (In general, Squeenix and Nintendo games hardly ever get discounted. These are the sorts of things you will start picking up after a while.)
Viewtiful Joe Scratch! and FFX International are extreme examples, however. Most titles can usually be had for half price or less within a few months of release if you know where, how and when to look.
The where is something you quickly figure out. There is no magical shop which always has the best deals; though some are better than others. You have to identify five or ten good game shops and spend some time every week checking them for new deals. The main point here is that you have to keep doing your rounds regularly. So the answer to when is simple: constantly. If you stop doing it for a while, chances are you'll miss your chance (once and for all) of scoring some great titles at ridiculous prices. For example, I've been away from Tokyo for just over three months now, and I am perfectly aware of the good deals I am missing out on. A huge number of first- and second-generation DS games were going on sale just as I was leaving. I had hardly bought any before because I had been waiting for that exact moment, but then I had to leave the country...
As for the how... well, the answer to that would have to be 'thoroughly'. Scanning the shelves of a dozen game shops twice a week can get repetitive, but the one shelf which you decide to pass over can hold the deal you've been waiting for. I've often found single copies of games at great prices, languishing on a shelf in some half-hidden corner. I can only guess at the number of good deals I've missed when I hadn't been paying attention.
Being constantly on the ball is critical. Sometimes deals last for a while; other times you go for a shit and they are gone.
I once went into a shop (it was Messe Sanoh, right on Chuo-dori) and found the PS2 port of Espgaluda going for around 2,500. I didn't buy it at the time, since I had already bought two other games that day and was feeling guilty getting a third one. I was still a newcomer back then and I figured it would still be there the next week. I happened to pass by the day after and to my extreme surprise discovered they had none left, and every other store in the area was selling it at full price. One working day is how long that offer lasted -- less than twenty four hours. I kept going back to that shop incessantly, but when they eventually replenished their stock of Galudas the game was back at full price. I waited for months for a good deal on it, but gave up eventually when supplies where starting to run low and I had to just buy it at full price or risk not being able to find a new copy. (There is a way to judge when supplies of games are starting to run low. More on this later.)
This is only one story regarding lost opportunities but I have many more, though I won't relate them here because I'd rather not remember them. The moral is you always should have cash on you when doing those rounds and, just as importantly, you should be prepared to spend it when you see something on sale which you know you'll eventually want to buy. Even if you are not planning to play the game within the next year, you should still get it. It's either that or pay twice as much for a used copy in questionable condition somewhere down the line. I said that Squeenix and Nintendo games hardly ever get discounted, didn't I? Well, that means the moment you see one of their titles that you want on sale, you should immediately, physically, violently grab it.
I think I was the last person in Japan to buy the original version of Katamari Damashii from a physical store location. I looked for ages and ages and ages, and I finally found, will you believe it, a single copy in a giant Sofmap (which, incidentally, I'd been visiting on a weekly basis). I don't even remember how much I paid for it -- it could have been a good deal or it could have been full price. I simply handed them all the bills in my wallet and let them sort out the change. That's how grateful I was to have found it. You'd have thought it was a previously lost work of Aristotle I had unearthed, and not a goddamn video game that was released only months before!
In any case, the initial print run of KD was tiny, and if there are any sealed copies left you'd have to look on Yahoo! Auctions Japan for them. Or get the cheapo re-release. Or buy a used copy for twice as much as I paid for the new one. Ha!
Yeah, buying new games can often be distressing (as it was the 99 other times when I had looked for KD and hadn't found it). That's why we should all stop doing that and play roms until the publishers get their shit sorted out.
And yes, I am just kidding.
Now things really start to get complicated
Each publisher has their own sale policy, and you eventually get to figure each one of them out. Capcom, for example, discounts the fuck out their games if they sell below expectations. I have built a huge library of Capcom games, many of them purchased for the rocking price of 1,000 yen. Here's a small selection: Biohazard (the GC remake), Biohazard 0. Chaos Legion, Auto Modellista, Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter, Onimusha Buraiden, Onimusha 3, Genma Onimusha, Devil May Cry 2. All these titles would have cost a fortune to buy full price, but I only spent 1,000 yen here, 1,500 yen there, or 2,000 yen tops, and hardly even noticed.
Now one essential trick to this crazy business is being able to discern when the remaining stock of a game starts running low. The process is not terribly complicated but, like most everything else I mention here, it takes a lot of grunt work.
At first, all shops carry every single one of the newest releases. Eventually, some shops run out of stock of a particular title. When that happens, they either re-stock in a couple of days, or they don't. Now in your rounds, you should keep a mental inventory (I am not going to go so far as to write these things down, I do have a life you know) of which shops still carry which games. As the number of shops that stock a particular game starts decreasing, it means the game is slowly being depleted. This is the period to make some quick decisions: that copy of Gradius V you saw for 3,900 yen might be worth getting now -- there are only two other shops that still carry it for 5,800, and it's highly unlikely it will be discounted further at any of them before all new copies disappear for good.
There's another important complication you need to be aware of, at least if you dislike budget re-releases with cheap covers and b&w manuals, but not correspondingly cheaper prices.
Once a game gets a budget re-release, virtually all remaining copies of the original still in circulation seemingly vanish overnight. I've seen this happen many, many times, with Sega, Capcom and Konami games in particular. I was really caught unawares with Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix. The original versions of both games were widely available for years, always going for full price, as most Squeenix games do. I waited and waited for their price to come down in those days, since there was no way I'd spend upwards of 6,000 yen for a game I knew to be fairly mediocre. One day there were stacks of KH and Final Mix to be found everywhere, the next day Squeenix comes out with the budget versions and all the original ones disappear. I am still not sure where all those original copies went; though I have several ideas. Wherever they went, they'll one day surface somewhere, and I guarantee you they won't be cheap.
Take another example. Several Sega GameCube games (Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Skies of Arcadia Legends, Billy Hatcher, and the monkey ball games) saw budget re-releases. The original titles didn't sell as well as Sega had expected, so for a while you could pick them up for around 2,000. And then the budget versions came along, the originals suddenly disappeared, and the price was jacked up to 2,500. People ended up paying more for less. That's how it often is in the world of video games, and there's not much else you can do than suck it up and beg for more.
I'll close this by explaining with a bit more detail the absurdities I mentioned at the beginning of this article.
Secondhand game shops take several factors into account when deciding on prices for their games. They start by setting the price a set percentage below MSRP, and then factor in condition and rarity. With recently-released games, rarity is never an issue. These titles can be found in any major chain, after all. So the price of a recent release with an MSRP of 6,800, which normally goes new for 6,200 to 6,600, would be set at around 5,000 to 5,500, depending on the shop. But the owners of secondhand game shops do not take into account sales happening at the shops that sell new games. So when Sofmap decides to slash prices for dozens of PS2 titles and flogs them for 2,000 yen each, seemingly incomprehensible situations can arise when the used copy of game is much more expensive than the a new one.
The basic idea behind all the above is that you are trying to get hold of the games while the large chains are still carrying them -- before the last remaining copies fall into the hands of the tiny mom-and-pop shops and the online auction people. There is a boundary which you should be aiming for, a short time period that separates these two states, while stocks have shrunk and the large retailers are trying to get rid of an old title in order to make space for new ones. That's when you have to be there, money in hand, to score that new copy of the game you want to play, for a bargain price.
The only problem is that to do all these things I am explaining here you have to live in Japan, preferably in a large city with many game stores, and be willing to spend quite a bit of your time going around various shops, usually buying games which you won't end up playing for months.
And yes, it can get obsessive sometimes. I mean, hell, just the idea of making regular rounds looking for cheap games to fill a collection -- one that never ends, I might add -- can be described as obsessive. I do have several stories of compulsive game-buying to relate, especially from my early days in Japan, when I hadn't yet grown accustomed to the mind-bending abundance of games, consoles and accessories. These things can be had for such crazy cheap prices here that skimping on food (which, by comparison, can be exhorbitantly expensive) can become a valid approach to building a collection (I, um, did this too for a while. Way back when.)
If this process I've just described seems to you boring and a waste of time, you couldn't be further from the truth. If you love games, chances are you will love doing this too. For one, it doesn't really take as much time as you think. I can canvass all of Akihabara in less than an hour if I am going alone (if I have company it takes more time, of course, but it's usually more enjoyable), and browsing such brash, loud, colorful game shops never gets old.
And then there's the surprise, addictive element to the whole thing (which can lead to obsession if you fail to exercise self-control). Since you never know what cool deals you'll come across, every trip you make can land you unimaginable treasures (well, not exactly, but you get my point). Maybe today will be the day DOA 4 gets discounted, and you'll finally get to play it. Or maybe the day will come when FFX International comes down in price (if only) -- you never know what you'll bring home with you. And as you are probably aware of, it's twice as much fun playing a game you bought for half price; in fact, even titles that subsequently turn out to be *holy crap* can become playable in this way. At least for a short while. Maybe.


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Pedro Rosales, 45, of Brooklyn, New York, was reportedly cleaning his Colt .45 when it accidentally fired and shot his 9-month-old daughter in the stomach. The handgun was unregistered. The baby's mother, Jessica Aguilar, 24, wasn't home at the time of the shooting, however when she returned she saw her baby girl with blood all over and crying. So the couple decided to get on the subway with their bleeding baby and lie about everything.
Everything is wrong here. Why did this man think it was okay to clean a loaded gun in front of a child? Why was the gun loaded and pointed in the baby's direction? Why did he have an illegal gun in the apartment? Why didn't he rush her to the hospital right away?
We can make assumptions. But what is being reported is that the couple got on the subway in East New York where they live with their bleeding baby girl Jessica (named after her mom). They didn't tell that to authorities though. What they initially said is that they were on the subway, got off at Myrtle Avenue, and that's when they realized their child was bleeding. It seems they were trying to cover up the illegal gun at home situation and try to say their baby was shot on the train without them realizing. They headed to nearby Woodhull Hospital and that's when the truth came out.
The gun was found at the family's apartment. Pedro was arrested and charged with assault, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon, and acting in a manner injurious to a child -- he also has a history of gun arrests. The child's mom has also been charged with reckless endangerment and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
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Baby Jessica was shot in her hip and the bullet went out her back. She is in stable condition after being transferred from Woodhull to Bellevue Hospital for surgery. I'm praying for her full recovery.
There have been too many accidental shootings in the home lately. These are preventable situations if people practiced proper gun safety. Many people aren't just questioning why there was a lapse in time from the child being shot to being rushed to a hospital or why this dad was cleaning a gun in front of his child. Some wonder if he was cleaning his gun at all. Right now the case is in the hands of investigators but I am hoping that this terrifying story makes people realize the importance of gun safety and that we cannot ever be too cautious when it comes to kids and guns.
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