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BravoErotica's Opinion: POVD members' area looks just as good as it appears on the free tour, done with the same neat and sober design in black and grey. The home page is pretty straightforward, taking you directly where all the hardcore pussy action resides, although you'll need to scroll down a little bit because the first thing you see is an ad of a bunch of different porn sites (Casting Couch-X.com and other network-related sites with special offers). The numerous thumbnails displayed show you the latest updates and can help you choose the one video you like the most. However, you can narrow down the video search by sorting by the release date, the girl(s) starred or the popularity (most popular, more viewed and title of the scene).
Finally, on "Deals" you'll find some very good offers and advertisement of other network-related porn sites that aren't included with the POVD membership.
There are a total of 42 videos available on the site for your absolute enjoyment and pleasure. The videos have different length times, ranging from 20 to 59 minutes depending on the scene. The videos also come with a one-minute trailer, so you can give it a quick look to find out if it is of your taste before running the full movie.
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I'm working with a PageComponent and wanted to know if there was any way to read how many pages are in the PageComponent? Currently, I'm adding a page to the PageComponent on a click event and want to be able to read the number of pages for use in a conditional statement. Thanks for letting know!
Something like pageComponent.content.subLayers.length?
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A Logo for the European Pirates – A Call For Designers
This is a reminder about the European Pirates looking for a logo for their international organization. Proposals need to be submitted before the 31st of December to firstname.lastname@example.com
By taking part in the selection process, designers refuse financial compensation. They sign over the rights of public communication, direct and indirect reproduction, distribution and transformation to European Pirates for the use of the work in every communication mode and in any network, for an unlimited period of time. Designers also state that they are the only authors of the submitted work and any pre-existing content has been used with an appropriate permission.
The submission deadline is December 31 2013. However, it is highly recommended to submit proposals before December 15. That way, the creative committee will assess the submissions and prepare recommendations so that participating designers can improve their proposals before the deadline.
Logo and corporate identity proposals must include in some way the usual pirate party logo: a ship sail in the form of a 'P'. The concept of Europe must also be present. The creative interpretation of this concept is flexible (not limited to the stars or a map). Submitted logos must include the name of the party and allow the adaptation to any of its legal forms, acronyms and translations (European Pirates, European Pirate Party, PIRATES, PPEU).
The parties that intend to found the European Pirates will assess the pre-selected proposals and decide their preference internally. Their votes will be made official at the European Pirates Founding Conference in Brussels (March 2014).
Take a look at the full guidelines.
The logo winner will be compensated through recognition and the creator's name and website (provided it portrays their work, not political content) will be shared to a combined audience, of more than 300.000 followers present on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts of several Pirate Parties.
Apart from the logo and corporate image designers, they are looking for professional creatives who would be willing to be a member of the creative committee. The committee would be in charge of selecting the 5 final logos (6 if a tie is reached) that European Pirates members will vote upon to decide final winner. The parties that intend to found the European Pirates will assess the pre-selected proposals and decide their preference internally. Their votes will be made official at the European Pirates Founding Conference in Brussels (March 2014).
Any questions around the competition or to participate take contact with firstname.lastname@example.com
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Our cruise ship pulled into Honningsvag, Norway, and we took a bus to the North Cape: where Europe ends.
Despite being avid tourists, we hadn't heard of either place. Francesco Negri, however, visited the North Cape, the northernmost spot on continental Europe, as a tourist in 1664.
English navigator Richard Chancellor named the North Cape in 1553. Europe ends at a sharp high cliff, but the warm Gulf Stream meeting Arctic waters mean it is often foggy. Perhaps, it wasn't just the distance that kept tourists away.
The future French King, Louis Phillippe of Orleans, visited in 1795. Tourism picked up a little after King Oscar II climbed up the cliff in 1873. By 1907, even the King of Siam had stopped by. A visitors center was built in 1988 with a movie theater, museum and restaurants. I was told they have over 200,000 visitors a year now.
It was the only disappointing tour we had on our Pacific Princess cruise. A bus driver took us there and dropped us off in the fog for three hours without providing any information about the area or its people. But the museum and film were interesting. It would have made a nice visit for an hour or less. A clear day probably would have made the stop worthwhile.
Sister-in-law Michelle and her friend Carol had a much better time fishing for Alaskan King Crab which seem to have migrated across the Arctic.
Undaunted, Alie and I enjoyed walking around the tiny town of Honningsvag. There was no traffic on a quiet Sunday morning, but I doubt the town of 2500 has much traffic anyway.
I took this photo of a statue of Bamse, a St. Bernard dog. Standing on the front gun turret of his ship during battles wearing a specially made helmet, he became the sailor's hero. Bamse means teddy bear in Norwegian. Bamse was his ship's mascot but eventually became so well-known he was the official mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces who escaped Norway after the World War II Nazi invasion. Bamse also was an actual hero who saved more than one man [and was known to break up fights and retrieve crewmen from bars.].
Honningsvag is a primarily a fishing village but also has cafes and shops featuring furs, knitted and woven articles, wood carving, pewter and silver. Because it is at the end of the Gulf Stream, the weather is more moderate than one would expect, but we noticed fences on the hillside above the town to break up avalanches.
Professing to being an artist, I am somewhat snobbish about tourist trap art. But entering the West of the Moon gallery, we encountered the work of local woman Eva Schmutterer. She pieces together scraps of paper in a manner similar to stained glass. Her use of color is fantastic, and her pictures are almost luminous. Fortunately, a framed print cost us less than the frame would have been in a Florida store. I love it and have it in my studio. You can see some of her work at her website: www.evart.no.
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Today our instructor assigned our class to "go out and shoot a feature picture on deadline with a very short turn around" of people studying, enjoying the weather or participating in a campus event.
Nervous, I dashed outside with my fellow classmates and searched the area around the WWU Communications building for photo ops. There were several great photo ops within sight of the building, but several of my fellow classmates were already taking photos of students studying next to or upon the grassy green near the unique art thing entitled, I believe, "The Stairway to Nowhere."
This was not good, I needed to be "far from the maddening crowd" of student photojournalists and headed toward the infamous Red Square to ferret out unsuspecting students. My first victim, I mean photo-op, was of a young female student sitting on a bench with her notebooks, laptop and books spread all over the top of the table in front of the bench. From then on it became, for me, more like a game as well a great way to meet people I would not ordinarily meet.
What I learned today in today's feature picture deadline as is that I love the thrill of going out and finding photo ops. Also, it is fun and exciting (yes, I live life in the fast lane) to download my photos and make adjustments using Adobe Photoshop to make my pictures "pop!"


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The old town of Niagara is a well preserved architectural gem surrounded by vineyards and fertile fruit orchards which reflect back to the days when fruit and passengers left the old town by steam boats for Toronto and Buffalo.
The modern visitor will find many activities available including winery tours, bicycle tours, roller blading along the Niagara river, 28 golf courses, tennis, swimming, and horse drawn buggys. Niagara Falls is just 15 miles away and as well its usual attractions boasts a new casino.
The Niagara Parkway which runs alongside the Niagara river for 32 miles between the old town of Niagara and Fort Erie is used by cyclists, joggers, walkers, and motorists alike and is considered by many to be one of the prettiest avenues in Canada.
On the waterfront there are steamboat cruises, and jet boat excursions through the Niagara Whirlpool.


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Journey Deeper
Sound recording for series of videos aimed at youth groups across Chester.
Sound recording for series of videos aimed at youth groups across Chester.
SpriteKit iOS game written in Swift, to teach Morse Code
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Multi-camera shoot of amateur theatre, DVD production and output through a duplication house.
Infinity background talking heads interspersed with contextual footage
Wedding photography for service, reception and evening entertainment, including a ceilidh.
Promotional video production with supporting animation for awards ceremony signage.
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Music track & video recorded with Kristen Rigby. Planned and filmed for online delivery.
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5-day Autumn Colors of Scenic Sedona & the Verde Canyon Railroad
"What a fabulous 5-day tour to the beautiful red rock country of Sedona and Verde Canyon! We rode the rails into Arizona's "other" grand canyon on a historic four-hour journey from Clarkdale to the ghost ranch of Perkinsville and back aboard the historic Verde Canyon Railroad; spent two nights at the Sedona Resort & Spa amidst the spectacular beauty of red rock formations surrounding Sedona; took a private trolley tour of Sedona with a visit to the world renowned Chapel of the Holy Cross, and enjoyed a chuckwagon dinner and musical show at the Blazin' M Ranch. We also drove through beautiful Oak Creek Canyon, visited the historic mining town of Jerome, spent a night at the London Bridge Resort in Lake Havasu."
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i dont know the codes for 7 segment and for different sounds..
How to create a quiz program ?
Help me with my assignment.
Write a C program to perform the role of a quiz master. It can display questions, record user's answers, keep the time, record the scores and more. You must use the Parallel Interface Board (PIB) as the device for the user to input the answer, display information etc.
Execution of the program should be similar to this:
1.Read questions and answers (solution) from text files.
2.Display information about the quiz, eg. theme of quiz, how many questions,
how to answer, how the scoring works etc.
3.Display first question.
4.Get answer from user (or wait until timeout – 15 seconds).
5.Update user's score if he answered correctly.
6.Display next question.
7.Repeat steps 4, 5 & 6 until the final question.
8.Record user's total score (or/and detailed answers) into a text file.
1. The question file can be created using a text editor (such as gedit). The program must be
able to read the contents of the file and display one multiple-choice question at a time.
For each quiz, all the questions must be placed in ONE single text file. The
description/information about the quiz is also in this. If you have more than one (set of)
quizzes, they can be in separate files, but only ONE file for each (set of) quiz.
The correct answers can be put in its own file (answer file). Each set of correct answers in
one file.
When writing to the user score file, older scores should be left intact.
A question should not be restricted to a single line. Possible answers should be offered as
multiple (at least 4) choices. The program should indicate clearly (on screen) how the answer
should be selected using the switches and/or push-button.
6.Only the PIB can be used for user input. The PC keyboard can ONLY be used to start the
7.Time limit for each question/answer is 15 seconds when the question is displayed. After five
seconds, the PIB will beep once. After a slightly shorter interval, it will beep again. Then
again and again. The interval should get shorter and shorter as the time limit is approached.
When the time is up, the PIB will give out one long beep. LEDs and 7-segment display should
be used as visual aid for the same purpose.
8.If the user answered correctly, the PIB will display exciting animation (using LEDs and/or 7-
segment display) or/and play interesting series of beeps. If the user answered wrong,
another set of animation/beeping should be performed. For time-out, again another set.
9.The PIB displays the current score of the user after each question/answer. The display must
be able to handle more than one digit numbers.
1. Use struct to store the multiple-choice-questions and correct answers.
- Use fgets() to read the file contents. Limit each line to 80 characters.


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Early Years Toddler Program
Rocky Mountain Deaf School and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind host the Early Years Toddler Program for families with toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing and their siblings. Last spring, families learned several animal signs while reading the Silly Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, created finger painting masterpieces, played musical instruments and sang/signed songs.
The group also toured the Denver Zoo and learned about the animals. This was such a fun event, the fall kick-off event will be held again at the Denver Zoo, Friday, September 11, 2015, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
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Painted Mini Hanging Lanterns/Vases
I always think it's a shame to throw away glass jars. I don't know, maybe I am weird but I always think there HAS to be a project where you could use them! I guess this week I was on a mission to save jars from going to the landfill. So, I turned Miles' baby food jars into bright Springy lanterns/vases!
I used my trusty Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch as a stencil. I then paired my stencil with some vibrant Martha Stewart Gloss Opaque Glass Paints. To pull my little jars together, I added wire so they can be hung. I then finished the look with some raffia (you can never go wrong with raffia!).
Here'e what you'll need:
- Old Jars (I used Miles' old baby food jars!)
- Wire
- Martha Stewart Gloss Opaque Glass Paint
- Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch (or any border punch/stencil you have)
- Goo Gone
- Paper
- Pliers
- Paint Dauber
- Washi Tape
Let's get crafty!
Step 1: Remove the label from your jar. I ran mine under hot water, then removed any remaining glue with Goo Gone.
Step 2: Tape your border to your jar.
Step 3: Pour a little bit of paint out and put your dauber in it (be careful not to over saturate your dauber). Begin pouncing over your stencil.
Step 4: After you have gone all the way around your jar, remove your stencil and let your jar dry.
Step 5: Once your paint is dry, wrap your wire around the top of your jar. Twist the two ends together and trim them down.
Step 5: Cut a piece of wire that is 10 inches long. Put one end of your wire under the wire around your jar and bend it up 3/4 inch. Twist the ends together and trim. Repeat this step on the other side of your jar. Then, to finish it off, wrap a piece of raffia around the top of your jar and tie a knot. That's it!


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Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
Sweet Baby James
1970, 8/10
James Taylor recorded his debut on The Beatles' Apple label, but it failed to make him into a star, partly because Taylor was spending time institutionalised, trying to break free of his drug habits. Taylor turned these experiences into 'Fire and Rain', and re-launched his career with Warner Brothers. Taylor is joined by Carole King on piano, future Eagles' bassist Randy Meisner, and session musicians Danny Kootch and Ross Kunkel, who steer the record in a country direction, underscored by the album's opening line "there is a young cowboy/he lives on the range."
Sweet Baby James is helped immeasurably by the presence of the classic 'Fire And Rain', which is the album's outstanding song. There's emotional pull in the lyrics, about the suicide of a friend which shook Taylor out of his own depression, also referencing his and Kootch's former band The Flying Machine in the final line "Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground." The other key track is 'Steamroller', where Taylor demonstrates a sense of humour on a gentle blues parody. There's also a great cover of the Stephen Foster standard 'Oh, Susannah', and solid album tracks like 'Lo And Behold', 'Country Road' and 'Anywhere Like Heaven'. The only real filler is the second blues parody 'Baby Don't You Loose Your Lip On Me', while the maudlin 'Sunny Skies' makes for uncomfortable listening sometimes.
Sweet Baby James is an effective work and a time capsule of a certain period, even if Taylor lapses into sentimentality too often to allow the album to appeal to music snobs.


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I believe that one of the signs of a good tester, is somebody who makes the job of software tester indispensable to their company, but does not make themselves indispensable.
Sharing information is key to a testers role. If you find yourself garnering information that is not being shared with others, you probably aren't being an effective tester. With a myriad of quick and easy ways to share information, from wikis and instant messengers, to e-mails and blogs, as well as good old talking to someone, you should have no excuse not to.
Remember as well, if you make yourself indispensable you limit your own chances of moving forward and learning new things because the company cannot afford to have you do anything else. That is not my idea of career satisfaction, but YMMV.


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Posted by mvbarracuda in Misc on November 17th, 2009
Sometimes there seem to be an endless number of obstacles to jump over in the course of developing a large scale game from scratch. In the end it all comes down to persistence to work through all of this. This said: heya and welcome to yet another PARPG news update!
Project management department
As a bunch of interested community members have checked out the SVN versions of PARPG, here's a somewhat important announcement. The FIFE development team recently released a new version of their Win32 DevKit (which has been formerly known as the Win32 compile SDK). In case you're running an SVN version of PARPG on your Windows system, you should switch to the new DevKit as soon as possible as the old 2008.1-r1 compile SDK will stop to work as soon as you update your FIFE checkout. The new DevKit addresses a very annoying guichan utf8 issue and furthermore introduces Python 2.6 support. That also means you'll actually need Python 2.6 to run FIFE-based games on Windows and furthermore you'll also need PyYaml for Python 2.6 to run PARPG.
I don't want to go into any details here at the blog. If you run PARPG on Win32 right now, check out these two articles:
In case you can't get PARPG working with the new DevKit, head over to our forums.
Programming department
As this is a _very_ image heavy update, I'll keep programming-related remarks rather short in this time. amo-ej1 created a dialog checking tool that helps the writers to validate their scripts. Saritor started to refactor our GUI code and created an architecture proposal for the GUI module at the wiki as well.
Graphics department
Let's welcome new artist comscar on the team! His handdrawn snow shoveler concept has been digitalized and refined by veteran Gaspard:
Gaspard also created a snow panomara concept entitled Alone in the wilds:
Fallout modding veteran Continuum created a set of rusty barrels. The model together with the textures that have been taken from burningwell.rog can be now found in SVN as well:
Unfortunately I forgot to cover the creations of new artist on the team EGO in the last news update, so let's take care of it this time. He created a mockup of the techdemo mall location that can be used as source of inspiration by our 3d artists:
EGO furthermore also created a lone explorer concept art piece. Enjoy it:
I promised a whole bunch of new images in this update, so you'll get a whole bunch! Let's also welcome Q_x on the team who created this main menu mockup:
We introduced a screenshots section at the gallery in the last news update. In the course of the last two weeks we've updated it with a couple of older shots that hadn't been added yet. Feel free to check it out.
I know that I sound like a broken record but we're still short of 3d artists who could model objects for the upcoming techdemo with their modeling tool of choice. In case you're interested in getting involved, please introduce yourself at the forums.
As we are still short of 3d artists right now, concept artist Zeli had a stab at 3d modeling and created his first model for PARPG: a multi level building. Looks like he has a hand for this:
That's all for today. Next news update scheduled for Monday, 30th of November. See you then 🙂
Taylor-made (sic!) strategies
Posted by mvbarracuda in Misc on October 20th, 2009
Heya and welcome to yet another PARPG news update. Two weeks have passed since the last regular one and I have to say that they were rather eventful for the development team. Let's jump into the news update right away.
Project management department
We've published our first official press release at the blog recently and sent it out to two websites, hoping that they would pick up the story in their news sections. Fortunately the old school Fallout fansite nma-fallout.com covered it and we're quite grateful for their support to help spreading the word about PARPG. Feedback has been generally positive, if you're interested in the details check out the news discussion thread at their forums. We thank NMA admin Brother None for his continued support of the project!
Programming department
There are a bunch of potential topics to cover in the programming department but I want to focus on the prolly most important one first: PARPG developer or1andov ported the FIFE map editor for PARPG so it's now possible to create and edit PARPG-specific maps via the editor instead of doing it by hand. The editor has been working since quite some time on Linux but it took us a few days to figure out some specific win32 problems that held us back from using it on this platform. Fortunately Kaydeth found the culprit in the end and fixed the issue.
The FIFE map editor is a great tool but it's not the most user friendly one; there is definately room for improvement in this field. We're currently working on a map editor tutorial but there are still a lot of aspects of the tutorial that we will have to flesh out in the course of the next weeks. I'm rather short of time right now but hopefully I can continue to work on it, especially on the weekends.
The last two weeks have been quite productive for the entire programming department. New Python programmer amo-ej1 created a tool to automatize XML animation file generation for agents (=(non-)player character(s)). You can grab a copy of it at our Subversion repository. In the meanwhile Kaydeth continued to clean up the code base to ensure that it's compatible with the PEP 8 Python coding standard proposal.
I can't cover all of the recent developments in the department in detail. So if you would like to know more, please check the full project timeline of the last two weeks at Trac.
Writing department
The work on the techdemo is coming along quite nicely in the writing department. Game mechanics designer zenbitz and community member shevegen decided to step up by starting to flesh out the techdemo quests article at the wiki. Feel free to lend them a hand by contributing. Both of them can be often found at the IRC channel of the project so you've got a good chance to get a hold of them there.
Graphics department
Despite the small workforce in the graphics department at this point, there is quite some progress to report in this field. Fallout modding veteran Continuum created a junkhouse residing on a fundament of barrels:
3d artist Sirren created the first building for the upcoming techdemo – a guard tower:
You surely remember Sirren's agent animations that have been covered in some of the recent news updates? Russian Flash developer Dragon created a little web application to show the animations in action. In case you haven't checked them out yet as you didn't want to build FIFE from SVN sources, feel free to give his app a test: http://lab.dragonnoid.ru/flash/isometry/
Last but in no way least, concept artist JustinOperable created a first character portrait for the upcoming techdemo. Check out his awesome drawing of the female guard character that will be used as portrait for the dialog interface:
That's all for today. Next news update scheduled for Monday, 2nd of November. See you then 🙂
All I ever want …
Posted by mvbarracuda in Misc on July 13th, 2009
… is just to overthrow the government. Heya and welcome to yet another weekly PARPG news update! This weeks update is heavily packed with the results of IRC developer meetings that took last Friday.
Programming department
The original plan was to report the results of the programming department IRC meeting that was meant to take place today. Unfortunately not all programmers did make it in time, so the meeting is postponed for now. We can hopefully find a new date for it soon as there are a lot of code design-related questions to be discussed. As soon as we've agreed upon a replacement date, I'll post a short notice at the blog!
Graphics department
But now our visual magicians! At first we would like to welcome a new concept artist on the team: Seothen. He recently found us via our advert at the gamedev.net forums and decided to create a first character portrait for us. Enjoy Dr. Felix Weir:
Seothen is currently looking for suggestions what kind of outfit Dr. Felix Weir should wear for a full body shot. In case you would like to provide suggestions, head over to our forums and let us know!
3d artist Continuum decided to donate a bunch of his models that he had originally created for Fallout mods to PARPG. Some of them feature textures from cgtextures.com so we'll need to retexture them to avoid license trouble. The cgtextures.com assets are released under a license that is incompatible with our chosen favourite CC 3.0 BY-SA. Anyway, here's a shot of one of his models, more can be found at a thread at the forums:
Concept artist Gaspard created three new character drawings over the course of the last week. Here's an Ex-Soviet soldier, now working as a hunter; more at the forums as well:
Blender modeler Lamoot got inspired by Zeli's improvised weapons and started to work on an ice axe melee weapon. Still untextured, but there you go (and of course, there is a thread about it at the forums):
And here's yet another visual teaser for you: 3d artist Sirren created a Nagant revolver for you and he's open to all kinds of feedback:
The vast majority of the new 3d models can be already found in our Subversion repository. However not all assets are properly documented with LICENSE files at this point. You can get an idea which models are problematic due usage of cgtextures.com assets by taking a look at the trac changelog though.
As we had so many new 3d models and pieces of concept art that were created by our graphics department over the course of the last week, we couldn't show you everything in this news update. If you don't want to miss anything, check out the updated gallery at the wiki.
Game mechanics department
The IRC meeting that took place last Friday was originally meant to be a pure writing department one. However as writing and game mechanics can be closely linked together, we discussed a couple of game mechanics-related questions as well.
We've argued about the potential appearance of children in the game and if the player character and NPCs should be able to kill them. As the most of us are fans of RPGs that feature choices and consequences, we agreed upon an approach similar to Fallout: there are children, you can kill them but there will be (sometimes rather severe) social consequences of such kind of behaviour. Furthermore also usage of drugs as game mechanic was discussed. PARPG will not feature any superpower drugs; drugs will rather give you a small egde in a specific situation at cost of rather drastic disadvantages. We think we can balance things pretty well and avoid overpowered drugs e.g. by giving them a high addiction rate. There will be rather few chemical prewar drugs; home-distilled pre- and postwar alcohol (moonshine) will be a lot more common.
For the ones of you who played a pen and paper session of Call of Cthulhu: we're currently exploring how well stress as gameplay mechanic would work. At the moment this is still in the brainstorming stages so don't get too excited but in case we decide to actually implement it in the game, it could work similar to the sanity points system of CoC. You could combine this with choice and consequence in dialog as well: a totally stressed character might lose temper and freak out, dramatically changing his options in dialog with other characters.
Besides the brainstorming at the meeting, Zenbitz started to work on a proposal of the state of the game world as well as what kind of characters stats should be featured in PARPG. Fell free to join the discussion at the forums.
Taking a shot at contributing to a new field of work, artist Gaspard started a thread how barter economy should work in PARPG.
Writing department
As already mentioned above: the first game mechanics and writing department meeting took place recently. As we've discussed quite a lot of aspects and I can't cover all of them to full extend, please check out the results as well as the full meeting log if you're interested in any details.
Most important newsworthy piece of information concerning the writing department: we currently have two promising storyline proposals in the works. One of the main differences between them is the nature of climate change and how the postwar societies (fail to) cope with it. One storyline proposes that the climate is getting colder and colder, while the other one focuses on thawing and how it affects the game world.
As we have to decide for one or another storyline in the end, the plan is to have a public discussion at the forums about both proposals. Each side should have the chance to present their proposal with pros and cons and furthermore elaborate on the gameplay that they would like to implement following this proposal. Furthermore I'll try to get in contact with a climatologist to get some feedback which storyline might be more realistic; it might turn out we can't find a climatologist or that neither scenario is scientifically realistic, but it's worth a try. In the end the opinion of the to be found climatologist will be one argument amongst several others; while we care about realism to a certain extend, the storyline should be interesting and challenging for the player so realistic gameplay is not meant to be a principle for its own sake.
The proposed roadmap concerning the storyline is: give each side two weeks to flesh out their their proposals and present them to the community at the forums. After that we'll give everyone one week to explore pros and cons of each one and to make up there mind and will try to agree upon one storyline after that. The next step will be trying to incorporate compatible aspects of the storyline that was not chosen if possible.
Last but not least: mvBarracuda (read: I) found out that you can actually do something worthwhile with a degree in modern history. As we're currently exploring how World War III broke out, he volunteered to use his super history skills to come up with a historically somewhat realistic storyline for the branching of history in PARPG and how WWIII emerged. Stay tuned 🙂
That's all for today. See you next Monday (or maybe Tuesday, in case the programming department meeting is rescheduled for next Monday) 🙂


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Life's Snapshots
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Also, Jared returned from Argentina with a beard. We had fun Monday night when he shaved it off first into a goatee, then handlebars, then into Ron Burgundy {or Chester, but Ron is more hilarious so let's stick with that}. So glad to have the man back!!
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- Sarah
no sweets interventions from me :) you guys look like you are having a fun summer! your daughter is such a smiler :)ReplyDelete
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I absolutely ♥ Crayola washable paint.
I babysit on occasion. We decided to do a craft project. I picked the under the sea theme and let everyone make their own little creature and then they made the lobster together!
A crafty mish-mash of everything we do at home, products I like, books I read, and just our everyday adventures.


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That's all from me tonight. I'll be back tomorrow with coverage of the women's quarter-finals, plus the end of Juan Martin del Potro versus Gilles Simon. Thanks for reading and commenting. Bye!
The men's quarter-finals are almost set and will be played on Wednesday:
Roger Federer (1) v Kevin Anderson (8)
Milos Raonic (13) v John Isner (9)
Novak Djokovic (12) v Kei Nishikori (24)
Juan Martin del Potro (5) or Gilles Simon v Rafael Nadal (2)
First, though, it's the women's quarter-finals tomorrow
Dominika Cibulkova v Jelena Ostapenko (12)
Daria Kasatkina (14) v Angelique Kerber (11)
Kiki Bertens (20) v Julia Goerges (13)
Serena Williams (25) v Camila Giorgi
Novak Djokovic speaks. "I'm very pleased. He started off with a break. He made a couple of great shots but I managed to break and get back into the set. He's got weapons, a big first serve and a big forehand, but I managed to get serves back and make him play another shot. It was really difficult conditions to play in. The last couple of games, I couldn't really see the ball very well. Hopefully I can carry today's win into the next match."
Novak Djokovic will play Kei Nishikori on Wednesday. He's looking very impressive at the moment. He hit 29 winners, converted seven of his 14 break points, got 71% of his first serves and was always in control after dousing Karen Khachanov's early fire. Djokovic still has much to prove given that there have been plenty of false dawns with him in the past two years, but he looks fit and is a definite contender for the title.
Novak Djokovic beats Karen Khachanov 6-4, 6-2, 6-4!
When Novak Djokovic is returning well, you know he's feeling good. Karen Khachanov saves two match points, but Djokovic wants this done now. The Russian nets a backhand on the third and this is over. Djokovic gives the crowd on Court 1 some love. He's all smiles tonight.
Play has been suspended on Court 2 because of bad light. Juan Martin del Potro leads Gilles Simon 7-6, (1), 7-6 (5), 5-7 and will hope to get the job tomorrow. It isn't ideal for either player. It means that the winner won't be able to rest before a quarter-final against Rafael Nadal on Wednesday.
The fading light on Court 2 has worked against Juan Martin del Potro. Facing set point at 5-6 in the third set, he batters a serve at Gilles Simon, who returns with interest. It's close enough Del Potro for him to continue the rally, but he leaves it, thinking it was out. Nope. Bang on the line. Del Potro challenges, but the third set belongs to Simon, who trails 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5), 5-7. I don't think Del Potro could see it properly. Both players are telling the umpire and referee that they're happy to call it a night and come back tomorrow.
On Court 1, the outstanding Novak Djokovic is homing in on victory. A sharp return forces another error from the erratic Karen Khachanov on break point and Djokovic leads 6-4, 6-2, 4-2.
Gilles Simon holds. He leads 5-4 in the third set. Juan Martin del Potro will serve to keep it alive. This has been a draining match, with so many long baseline rallies. Simon knows how to hang in there, even though he doesn't have Del Potro's force.
Juan Martin del Potro breaks back! He keeps Gilles Simon darting back and forth across the baseline and eventually the stubborn Frenchman blocks a ball into the air, allowing Del Potro to slap a volley past him. Del Potro leads 7-6, 7-6, 3-4 and will serve in the fading light on Court 2.
Novak Djokovic is pulverising Karen Khachanov. His 20th winner is a vicious backhand down the line for 0-30. Khachanov's head is spinning and a backhand error hands Djokovic two set points. At this point it's a surprise to see Djokovic net a backhand. He keeps probing, though, and a forehand into the right corner makes Khachanov lose his footing, allowing Djokovic to plonk a forehand into the open court. The 12th seed breaks and leads 6-4, 6-2. It's been a supreme display from the three-time champion, who's starting to look a lot more like his old self.
Gilles Simon isn't going down without a fight. The scrappy Frenchman has broken a slightly dozy Juan Martin del Potro at the start of the third set. Del Potro leads 7-6, 7-6, 0-2. If he isn't careful, he'll need to come back tomorrow.
Novak Djokovic is dealing with Karen Khachanov. He's absorbing and neutralising the Russian's power and turning it against him. He's in complete control now and leads 6-4, 3-0 on Court 1.
Juan Martin del Potro moves into a 6-3 lead in the second-set tie-break on Court 2. Mr Grumpy's already had four set points. Here are three more. He spurns the first with a rubbish drop shot. Gilles Simon saves the second with a good serve. But Del Potro won't be denied for ever. A big serve carries him into a 7-6 (1), 7-6 (5) lead and moves him a set closer to a quarter-final with Rafa Nadal.
Karen Khachanov leaps to reach a backhand volley, only to tee up Novak Djokovic for a simple putaway for 0-15. Suddenly Djokovic is three points from the first set. Khachanov is under pressure and it shows when he nets a slice at 15-all. A ballooned forehand hands Djokovic two set points. Khachanov nets a forehand. Oh dear. Djokovic wins the first set 6-4. One down, two to go. Can he get it done tonight?
Q. You tweeted about the football the other day, your three lines emojis. You said something to feel special. Obviously England won the other day. Do you think football is coming home to win the World Cup?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Oh. Well, it's not coming home to America.
It's interesting because when I'm here in London, Wimbledon, it's the atmosphere, seeing all the English just get so excited. You can't help but root for the team. Oh my God, what a game that was. Those goals were just incredible. They were playing so aggressive. Man, they really brought a power game to that. I thought that was really cool.
Q. Is there any particular player that stands out for you? Got a favorite? Do you know any of them?
SERENA WILLIAMS: Not this time around. Just been enjoying it. I just love it. So fun to watch. World Cup is a special time of the year. I just get almost depressed. I'm like, Oh, only two more matches, then one more. What is going to happen to my life after that?
I don't know what I'm going to do for a couple of months. I'm going to be a little bit low. Hopefully I'll recover and just wait for the next World Cup.
Novak Djokovic tosses his racket away after netting a backhand slice to hand Karen Khachanov a simple hold. This first set's on a knife-edge. Djokovic will serve at 4-4.
It's a right old ding-dong on Court 1. Novak Djokovic sprints into a 4-2 lead in the first set. So Karen Khachanov punches back and breaks to 15 when Djokovic nets a forehand.
Juan Martin del Potro has played some strange tennis this evening. At 5-5, he balloons a forehand to trail Gilles Simon 0-30. Then Simon earns two break points with a lovely piece of volleying. Time for Del Potro to wake up. He does, serving brilliantly to force deuce. He closes it out with an ace. Maybe he'll cheer up a bit now. He leads 7-6, 6-5, with the set still on serve.
Juan Martin del Potro stomps into a 0-40 lead. He wastes the first two break points with a poor drop shot and limp slice, but he takes the third with a trademark forehand to break for 4-4 in the second set on Court 2.
Now Juan Martin del Potro's really annoyed. After all those missed opportunities in the previous game, he finds himself under pressure on serve and he can't keep Gilles Simon at bay. The Frenchman breaks to lead 4-3 in the second set. On Court 1, meanwhile, there have already been some vicious rallies - and Novak Djokovic's response to being broken in the first game by Karen Khachanov is to break the impertinent youngster to love.


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Lectures have started and things are getting real, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. There are still events being held to keep the Fresher Spirit flowing and the Wessex Scene is here to help you!
SUSU Market (9am-5pm): Get down to the concourse for the student favourite, the weekly Market. Pick up some lovely fresh food and a few treats with the Fruit & Veg Sale, Muffin Lady, New Forest Butchers, Carlin Seafood, Artemis Olive and Riviera Bread.
WESSEX SCENE CONTRIBUTOR'S MEETING (7pm-8pm): Shameless self-promotion, but if you want to see what we do here or even want to get involved and join us then head down to Building 46, Room 3001. It would be great to see you so get involved guys!
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Live Music Mondays (8pm-Midnight): The Bridge is back with more great live music. Come down and listen to some acoustic awesomeness and get inspired!
Glen Eyre Rubix Cube (8pm-2am): Don as many of the Rubix Cube colours as you can and chat, flirt and beg your way to just one colour by swapping your clothes, what better way to break the ice?
Connaught and Erasmus Park Quiz Nights (8pm-10pm): With lectures starting today, might be a great time to engage the brain and prove your smarts to your fellow freshers.
Huge Freshers' Foam Party (9pm-3am): Yet another massive fresher event being held at Oceana. The perfect way to let your hair down and submerge yourself into some good old-fashioned freshers' fun after a day of lectures. Just be warned, you will get wet!
Foam Party (10pm-2am): Another foam party, this time at the Union – Winchester. Head down for a great night of bubbles and banter at the first ever foam party held on campus! You will definitely get wet.
As always, remember to check http://www.susu.org/fresh/2012/ and your JCR's Facebook pages to get more information on their events. Have a great Freshers' guys!


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There was a lot of discussion about how to handle Rich's nutrition as he moved into hospice. Both hospice organizations we worked with don't offer TPN as part of their services. It's not part of their philosophy. Hospice is about escorting someone peacefully through the end of life, not extending it.
Because of the emotions involved in all that, our hospice group agreed to step down Rich's TPN over the course of two weeks. Rich was receiving 2500mL of milkshake intravenous nutrition. We stepped him down to 1800, 1600, 1400, 1200, 1000. And we kept him at 1000mL through February 1.
Ever since Rich left the hospital at the beginning of December, he had horrible edema (swelling) in his feet and lower legs. His calves and thighs were the same diameter. We tried raising his legs and using compression socks. There wasn't a medication the doctors were willing to use for fear of it causing other issues for Rich with his heart or blood pressure.
On Wednesday, February 1, the hospital bed arrived. That was the last morning that we hooked up Rich's 1000mL of TPN. It was still an emotional thing for those not dying. I'm not sure that Rich said anything about it himself. I was on the phone with my mother and she started crying, "So now he's going to starve to death?!"
"No, Mom. He's going to die of cancer. Because he has cancer. He's going to die of sepsis. That's how this works."
I've mentioned before that Rich has had wild fluctuations in his temperature. It would roll between 94 and 107 every day. It was miserable and stressful for all of us.
We hooked up Rich's last TPN at noon on the 1st. His temp went up to 107.3 at 2:15pm. And ... That was the last time he had a significant fever. He took 1 Tylenol on February 2nd to bring it down from 100.6. All day yesterday (the 4th), his temp was between 96 and 98.
Also, Rich's feet are back to normal! They look like his feet again. They don't hurt for us to touch them. I could actually put lotion on them yesterday without it bothering him.
Rich is only getting 500mL of IV fluid a day. No more TPN. And yet, his health has significantly improved. He agreed to the bed and he's sleeping better. As living people we all assume that we need to "keep Rich alive" as long as we can and that taking things away is giving up on him. But all that protein and sugar in the TPN was literally poisoning Rich because he couldn't process it anymore. The fluid pooled at his feet and the sugar fed the bacteria for his infections to make them go crazy.
I was in the kitchen this morning and Rich called out to me. I walked in and he said, "I just wondered where you were." I told him I was making bacon for breakfast and I'd give him some if he wants it. Extra crispy like he likes.
"Ooo, yeah. .... Hey, can I have a piece of toast?"
"Do you want plain toast or cinnamon raisin toast?"
"Ooo. Cinnamon raisin please."
He ate it all, napped for a bit, and then picked up his phone to try to read messages. Look at him, all not starving to death.
Up next, we're gonna watch "Blazing Saddles" while we wait for hockey to come on at noon. He also just asked for something else to eat for lunch. I offered strawberries.
"I will have ... one ... strawberry."
He's eaten a whole bowl so far.


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Sometimes you happen across a marketing campaign that really makes you sit up and think… now that was genius. This is such a time. Old Spice have launched an online campaign that has taken the Internet by storm in the last few days and will surely be used as a case study in how to create a major buzz online.
As always with this type of campaign, the simplicity is astounding, there must be marketing agencies around the world saying "how the hell have we not thought of that!".
The campaign
Old spice had their celebrity actor Isaiah Mustafa film several commercials and asked viewers online to tweet questions. The filming of the initial commercials would have took several weeks but the genius was in the follow-up.
When questions were tweeted they filmed responses from Isaiah in a bathroom with just a towel and bottle of old spice shower gel responding to the question. This was posted within an hour of it being asked. Now that's no mean feat. Especially as they also injected some humour into the responses.
The impact was, as could be expected, huge. They have had over 4m YouTube hits, 70,000 Twitter followers and countless video responses and web bloggers like me responding to this campaign. Proctor and Gamble are laughing all the way to the brand awareness bank!
The fact they responded so quickly was the key to this success. Even Demi Moore asked for a response via her tweets!
It's an example of how agencies are really pulling out all the stops to create the next best campaign and using online media to do it. Online enables such a quick response and has done for a few years now, so it's a wonder something like this hasn't been tried before. You can bet your bottom dollar it will be again now!


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Set up my first email account with Sky broadband this week. Turns out Sky is using what appears to be the standard gmail system , I suppose a 'white label' solution. Nothing special you might say. But the client needed pop access via Outlook Express. Cutting a long story short it transpires that such a solution doesn't allow one to send emails via the email client (via smtp) to yourself! Any other emails will come in just fine. Documented on Gmail's help pages but not Sky's at first glance. That unfortunately is my standard test for checking satisfactory operation. I thought it was broken but it wasn't! So now you know.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Code Talker
Part of the Native American festival in Maryville included a very special speaker. The gentleman in the chair is one of the Navajo Code Talkers from World War II. The Code Talkers served in the Marines and sent vital data to American troops in the Navajo language. Very few people outside of the Navajo Nation understood this complex language, so it became an unbreakable code. The Code Talkers helped America win the war in the Pacific, including the battle of Iwo Jima. Out of 400 Code Talkers, only about 40 are still living today. It was inspiring to hear this old warrior tell his story.
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I bet it was inspiring to hear. I hope somebody recorded it. Nice photo.
- April 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Jacob said...
Great capture...the Code Talkers were vital to the war in the Pacific! Nicholas Cage starred in a movie about them a couple of years ago.
- April 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM
- D said...
Wow! What a great experience to get to meet a code talker. History personified.
- May 2, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Babooshka said...
I'm thinking X Files, that's where I heard about these guys first. As you can see I have been neglecting blog duties and playing catch up.
- May 5, 2009 at 10:08 AM
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IM Global packaged female spy thriller with James Bond producers EON.
Paramount has acquired worldwide rights to the Blake Lively spy vehicle The Rhythm Section that is being produced by Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli of James Bond producers EON.
The move comes a week after Tang Media Partners ousted IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford less than a year after it acquired a majority stake in IM Global.
Paramount chiefs will regard the transaction as a coup. Lively proved her action chops in summer 2016 hit The Shallows and The Rhythm Section is being eyed as a potential global franchise. IM Global retains a handful of territories.
The Handmaid's Tale executive producer Reed Morano will direct. When the project was announced last month, production was expected to begin later this year in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and the US.
The Rhythm Section is based on Mark Burnell's 'Stephanie Patrick' espionage novels. Lively will play Stephanie Patrick, who adopts the persona of an assassin to track down the people responsible for killing her family on a flight she was meant to be on.
WME Global brokered the deal with Paramount and IM Global.


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IOTD: Female Elf Warrior
Female Elf Warrior, by Paul whoknows
I am still playing with this almost-finished head model.
A true eye added in my little free time, I hope to finish it soon, so I can begin with the rest of the body.
I am going to use this character in my game, a 2d side-scrolling RTS & RPG, with pre-rendered sprites.
I don't know if those Dumbo's ears looks good, so comments & critics please.
In my personal opinion, the ears make the elf look more like "Bat Boy" from that weird tabloid magazine. My advice would be to tone it down a little bit, and make the ears shorter and less pointy. Maybe make them look like normal ears, just pointier and sticking out slightly. That's just my opinion though.
Great 3d model!
-Evan Wilson - Evan Wilson
The problem with night elves, is that I can't find reference images, I have only a few blizzard NE low quality
images, and those NE ears are not so easy to model without good references images.
I'll google for Spock's photos!, good idea!
Thanks for the comments - Paul whoknows
Evan && Sirocco, Tell that to Blizzard.
Night Elves IIRC are Dark Elves (or close too them). And those are freakin every where. - phate
Do a Google Image Search for "Drow". - Sirocco
Done, I don't know who/what Drow is, but I have found www.darkwelf.org and that is exactly what I needed!
Thanks Sirroco.
dark elves == black skin + white hair, Night elves == weak blue skin + dark blue hair. - Paul whoknows
Night Elves IIRC are Dark Elves
They are fantasy characters, thus having a very big difference in appearence from game-to-game, even though named the same. For example, in The Elder Scrolls, the dark elves are dark blue/green skinned with (usually) red hair. - Avenger
If I'm not mistaken, Drow is the dark elves from Never Winter Nights campaign world for old skooling AD&D. Made popular by the moody Elric-esue Drizzt D'urdin from the NWN novels. - Mandrake Root Produc
The ears don't look good, but the rest is great! I agree with Sirocco, Spock ears are as pointy as you should go. You could make them bigger though. - Kauhiz
Yeah, that's the main problem. They need to be up and back a ways, not just out to the side.
I personally think the ears are fine in length and design. The main problem I see is that they stick out almost sideways from the head. If you angle them correctly and make them point more "backwards" I think you'll notice that she won't look so weird anymore
Otherwise, really nice work. - 23yrold3yrold
nice work but the dumbo ears need to go.
umm, it's fictional, why do you need a reference? Go on your own interpretation. - Michael Jensen
references images
It's based on a pre-existing fiction, it should be based on pre-existing references. Otherwise, why bother? - 23yrold3yrold
Nice model! I would change the ears into something a bit less drastic. Of course, if I would do it it would look like crap. But your model proves that you have a high skill level in modeling! / Kent "Napoleon Dynamite" Larsson - Kent Larsson
I have found a few good profile images of elves, and the ears points "backwards" like Ultio and 23YO said, it seems that you both
know elves very well :-)
I agree with 23yo, I am trying to model an elf(well, a NE) , they have a defined anatomy,
umm, it's fictional, why do you need a reference? Go on your own interpretation
anyone who knows elves can say in just one second something like "That humanoid thingy does not look like an elf".
Thanks for all the comments and crits! - Paul whoknows
If it's pointier than Spock, it's probably too pointy - Sirocco
I personally think the ears are fine in length and design. The main problem I see is that they stick out almost sideways from the head. If you angle them correctly and make them point more "backwards" I think you'll notice that she won't look so weird anymore.
I like Blizzard's ear style for Night Elves. The longer, the better. Otherwise, they race looks just like a blue skinned human with slightly pointy ears. You'll notice that their "high elves" have what some people might call more traditionally shaped ears (Spock ears). - Ultio
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Schild Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Programs for the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI
July 16, 2014
David J. Russomanno, dean of the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, has announced the appointment of John Schild, Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering, as the associate dean for graduate programs. Schild recently served as acting associate dean while associate dean for research and graduate programs, Razi Nalim, Ph.D., was on sabbatical.
"During Dr. Nalim's sabbatical, we elected to experiment with splitting the responsibilities of his associate dean position into research, with Deb Burns serving as the acting associate dean, and graduate programs, with John Schild as the acting associate dean." said Russomanno. "Given that our School's research and graduate programs portfolio has substantially increased over the last few years, this allocation worked well." Therefore as of July 1, 2014 Nalim has resumed the responsibilities as the associate dean for research and as of August 1, 2014 Dr. Schild will transition from 'acting' to 'permanent' associate dean for graduate programs.
"I am appreciative for the opportunity to continue to work with my colleagues in advancing our plans for growth and development of our graduate programs in engineering and technology." said Schild.
Schild received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Case Western Reserve University (biomedical engineering) with graduate study involving RF power and communications circuit design for implantable functional electrical stimulation systems restoring hand and arm control in paralyzed individuals. Interests in neural control of motor function were further developed in a clinical neurophysiological research facility quantifying residual motor control following spinal cord or closed-head injury. As a Shell Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Schild then completed his Ph.D. (concentration: bioengineering) at Rice University. Before coming to IUPUI in 1998, he was a postdoc in the departments of Physiology and Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine and Oregon Health Sciences University under an NRSA Fellowship from the NIH. Broad interests surrounding neural control of the heart has led Schild to purse clinically relevant questions concerning sexual dimorphism in autonomic control of cardiovascular reflexes. At IUPUI these efforts have been funded through grants from the American Heart Association, The Whitaker Foundation and most recently the NHLBl of the NIH.


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RayJay Recruits from J.P. Morgan in Atlanta, RBC from Wells in Conn.
The same day that Raymond James Financial CEO Paul Reilly last week was waving the flag for the firm's broker-centric recruiting strategy that it says lets advisors leave with their client lists attached, one of its offices in suburban Atlanta opened its doors to a 12-year veteran most recently working at a local office of J.P. Morgan Securities.
Matthew Stucke joined Raymond James' employee channel in Alpharetta last Thursday, setting up a practice he's calling Macrocarpa Private Wealth Management with another advisor and a registered sales associate who RayJay has introduced him to, he said in a brief interview. The other adviser is Brian Arthur, who has been with Raymond James for five years after an eight-and-a-half year stint with UBS Financial Services.
Stucke, who Forbes listed last year as a "Top Next-Gen Wealth Advisor," had joined J.P. Morgan in November 2013 with Roland Pritchett, a UBS veteran in the Atlanta area. Their partnership at J.P. Morgan fizzled in recent months, according to two sources. Prtichett did not return a call for comment.
Stucke declined to discuss his reasons for leaving J.P. Morgan, which earlier on Monday confirmed that it had hired an experienced Morgan Stanley broker, the latest in a wave of recruits it has attracted from wirehouses that recently left the Protocol for Broker Recruiting.
Stucke produced around $800,000 in the previous 12 months at J.P. Morgan, said a person familiar with practice, with perhaps 10% coming from company retirement plans.
Stucke worked for the first five years of his retail brokerage career at Edward Jones and at Wells Fargo in Fargo, North Dakota, according to his BrokerCheck history, before joining UBS in Atlanta in 2010. His business name, Macrocarpa, comes from the scientific name for the Monterey cypress tree reflecting his durable West Coast origins, he said.
Separately, RBC Wealth Management said that it recruited a team in Farmington, Conn. that was managing about $600 million in customer assets at Wells Fargo Advisors and that is led by 35-year industry veteran Joseph Troy and 23-year advisor Robert Caiaze, each of whom is a senior vice president. The pair had been with Wells since 2005, after beginning their careers in 1982 and 1995, respectively, at Advest, the former Hartford-based brokerage firm.
Joining them are former Wells advisors Adam Reed, a vice president who is the team's third name partner and James McNair, a vice president with 24 years of experience.
"RBC Wealth Management has the size, scale and sophistication to serve the needs of our high net worth clients," the advisors said in a prepared statement. "We were also incredibly impressed with RBC's reputation of always putting the needs of clients first, and its well-respected leadership team."
Reached at his new office, Troy said he was too busy trying to respond to his former Wells clients to discuss his move.
A spokeswoman for Wells confirmed the departures but declined further comment.
Their shift was announced the same day that former RBC Wealth CEO John Taft, who retired in May 2016, said he has joined the parent company of Milwaukee-based broker-dealer Robert W. Baird as a vice chairman.


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What is overclocking?
Overclocking is configuration of computer hardware components to operate faster than certified by the original manufacturer, with faster specified as clock frequency in MHz or GHz. It refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. Your computers CPU comes from the factory set to run at a certain maximum speed. If you run your CPU at that speed with proper cooling, it should be perform well without giving you any problems. This is usually applies to the CPU or GPU, but other components can also be overclocked.
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If you divided, "over-clocking", this term will found in two parts of the split.One is "over", and the other is "clock". We all know what that, clock means watch. And over means, increase the value or quality of the upper change anything. The "over-clocking" is that change and increases the value of the clock. Now, the question is what kind of clock it is? Yah! Of course, i am saying about your mobile, laptop or computer's processor clock.
Each processor has a clock that is fitted. And this watch is placed inside the chip.Clock repeatedly output by Zero and one. Thus, the clock constantly providing value of one and Zero. The processor clock is working at a furious pace. Modern processors are the two GHz or 4 GHz, which works on frequency million times per second that can be off or on.We use the GHz or MHz unit in order to measure the processor clock speed.
Here is the most basic unit is Hertz. If the processor speed is 500 Hz,that means that it works on and off 500 times in 1 second. If it's speed has 500 kHz, it will work on and off in 5 million times.If it is 500 MHz, it will work 500,000,000 times. The present-day 2 GHz processor can work 2000000000 times.
What is the processor clock's on or off?
Once the clock On- and Off-being said a cycle.Once the clock On- and Off means, it's completed one cycle.Now, the one cycle depends on the processor's performance that how much the processor can do the job. And the work depends on the type of command.The difference between an advanced processor and a less advanced processor is
How to do overclock on Mobile?
Overclocking can be possible in mobile, laptop or computer. Let us first discuss how to make it on mobile. But remember carefully,Don't try to jump to a 30 percent increase in clock speed straight away in your mobile. Take it slowly and evaluate how stable the system is with each increase.Otherwise, by increasing the clock speed of your CPU, it's generate more heat and drains more power. It isn't likely to set your phone on fire or kill your battery, but excess heat production can create instability and affect your battery life.So, overclocking your phone CPU comes with some risks. You have to mind this.
If you have a root android phone, you can do it easily. After root your phone, you may see many kind of apps on google play store. Which you can easily carry your phone's CPU or processor clock over.Just go to Play store and search "over clock". You will find many apps. Install one of them. Then you may able to over clock just one or two click.By these, you can easily increase frequency of your CPU or GPU.Clock speed is usually directed as frequency.
Think that, your processor works at 1.5 GHz speed, you can increase it 1.6 GHz to 1.7 GHz by over clocking. Clock Under the circumstances, you can do it 1.2 GHz, 1.0 GHz as your wish.Now, if the frequency done by less or jump, Of course it will be affect on performance. Increasing frequency will increase efficiency and reduce the frequency will lowering efficacy. And will change immediately on power loss. If you have more frequency than the processor will start to work, and will decay more battery power. If reduce the frequency will be reduced Battery corruption.
How to do overclock in laptop or computer?
Every CPU is different, and every motherboard has different BIOS options. Its not possible to provide a guide for overclocking that will work for everyone.Most over clockers, especially the experienced ones will tell you to overclock through the BIOS.This is often recommended as you won't have any software conflicts and more so, have total control over all the settings on your motherboard and processor can offer.
You can generally overclock your processor through your BIOS Setup utility. For this, at first you'll need to go into your computers BIOS and increase the CPU clock rate and/or voltage. Then increase it by a small amount, then boot your computer. Now increase the amount you're overclocking by- bit by bit until it becomes unstable or the heat is too much. Then drop back down to a stable level. Overclock little by little to ensure its stable, don't just increase your CPU's speed by a large amount at once. It can be damage your CPU. So, be careful.
There is a warning for you, Remove the battery when you're overclocking your machine. If the laptop becomes unstable, pull the power plug immediately. Heed the repeated warnings in the Intel and AMD overclocking manuals.And use a laptop fan-driven cooling base or similar cooling system whenever you can do it. Make sure the air intake on your laptop is clean and dust free.
If you are doing all the right way in your mobile, PC or laptop,slightly more than the power loss you can enjoy a lot more performance.This is a wonderful thing but as well as dangerous. So, you have to careful, when you're doing it. Thanks for reading. And stay with us by subscribing. Next time, again i will come to you with new issue for presenting to you. Thanks again for staying with us.
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Over 20 tourism providers took part in Carrickfergus Enterprise's first seminar in the innovative Coastal Tourism Hub programme.
The Tourism Social Media masterclass, facilitated by Bill McCartney of Netwise Owls, drew participants from Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey.
In a highly interactive event, those in attendance learnt how to use social media such as Facebook and Instagram to market and boost their business. It also helped them understand how to engage with new audiences and encourage visitors to share their travel stories, experiences, interests and passion through posts, photographs and videos.
The programme is one of seven in Northern Ireland funded by Coastal Communities Fund (Big Lottery) and was developed by Carrickfergus Enterprise in response to feedback from local businesses.
Kelli Bagchus, manager of Carrickfergus Enterprise, said: "The Coastal Tourism Hub is designed to equip local tourism providers with the 'know how' and 'know who' in order to take advantage of the many opportunities tourism can offer.
"As well as the seminars, the package of support includes one-to-one mentoring in area such as marketing to increase awareness of the business. There is also an opportunity to develop social media or upgrade their website. Participating businesses will also benefit from access to WorldHost customer care training and mystery shopping.
"A key aspect of the programme is the development of a joint marketing approach that will include a visitor map of the coastal region as well as a joint website."
We also aim to develop linkages with complementary businesses in order to enhance the overall tourism experience'."
This approach, Kelli added, fits in with the draft Tourism Strategy for Northern Ireland which aims to attract visitor numbers in excess of four million and generate revenue of £1 billion per year by 2020.
Recruitment for the programme, which aims to promote the 'hidden gems' in the district, began in March and the last few participants have just been enrolled with a total of 30 on board. Support available is free and further seminars and WorldHost training will take place in the Autumn and early 2016.
Preparations are currently underway to design the visitor map and website and these will be launched later in the year.
The Coastal Communities Fund which supports the hub is funded by the Government with income from the Crown Estates Marine Assets. It is delivered by the Big Lottery Fund on behalf of the UK Government and the devolved administration in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Indian reveals new Chief Dark Horse model
Indian Motorcycle has revealed a new model for 2016, the Chief Dark Horse.
Based on the Chief Classic, the new model is a matt black version where the classic chrome inserts have been replaced with matt black touches.
While the Dark Horse model is similar to the Chief Classic, it does come with a wide range of customisable options.
According to the American manufacturer, there are 40 different accessories available on the new Dark Horse, including fender struts, slip-on exhaust options and ape hanger handlebars.
The Cruiser is built as a one-person ride so passenger seats and additional foot pegs need to be requested if you're keen to take a passenger.
It's powered by the same 111 engine as the Chief Classic and keeps the ABS system, keyless ignition remote key fob and electronic cruise control of its stablemate.
It does however differ in other ways with Indian keen to make the Chief Dark Horse more dynamic and aggressive than the Classic.
Gone is the analogue fuel gauge of the Classic, as well as the oil cooler and driving lights.
It comes with a two-year unlimited mileage factory warranty and pricing in America starts from $16,999. In the UK, riders can expect to buy the Chief Dark Horse for around £12,000 when it goes on sale this year.
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T-shirt, a fabric shirt which is a unisex fabric and is named after the T shape of the sleeves and the body and it has short sleeves with no collar. It is made of inexpensive, light, and easy to clean fabric. Cotton textile is used to make it in a jersey knit. When compared to a shirt, it has a distinct pliable texture. Today some of the MMA T Shirts Manufacturers use laser or water jet to cut the fabric. The most interesting and not known fact is that t shirts got evolved from undergarments in the period of late 19th century and mid-20th century.
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There are so many types of t shirts which are available in today with the MMA T Shirts Manufacturers such as the V-neck and what not. T-shirts have evolved with time and that is what also happened now. Hip hop fashion came in trend after the hip hop dance became famous and hence there was long t shirts in the market which were sometimes also worn by woman as night gowns. There was also a trend in which the t shirts got short enough to expose the midriff in the 1990s and it is still famous among the woman societies. With the emerging online shopping, there were many changes which came in the designs of t shirts and this also popularized them even more and that is the reason we wear t shirts as casuals and it became a fabric to be worn for style and to relax too. In addition to this, now people can also design their own t shirts with the emergence of so many DIY tutorial websites.