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* Make three dishes for one meal. Ma a separate protein, vegetable and starch. Hint: pay special attention her to how long things take to cook. To get everything out at the same time, you'll have to be good at using a timer.
* Make three dishes for one meal. Ma a separate protein, vegetable and starch. Hint: pay special attention her to how long things take to cook. To get everything out at the same time, you'll have to be good at using a timer.
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Simple Meals is the junior-level legacy badge in the Cook category. Junior Girl Scouts are those scouts in grades 4 and 5. Scouts should complete one activity in each of five steps to earn this badge.
Tips before takeoff:
- When you cook, do it with an adult! A family member or Girl Scout volunteer should help you in every stop toward earning your Junior Cook badge.
- The kitchen is lost of fun, but here can also be lots of accidents. Stay staff! Never turn on the stove or oven without an adult's permission
Step 1: Step up your skills with a pro
There are lots of important skills to learn before you start cooking up a maser piece. Ask a great cook to tell you about cooking tools, safety, and cleanliness; what makes a nutritionally balance meal; and how they present food to look nice on a plate.
Choices: do one:
- Visit a restaurant. Get a tour of a professional kitchen and talk to the chefs there. You might also visit the prepared foods section of a grocery store and talk to the staff who make those foods.
- Invite a great cook to your Girl Scout meeting. It might be a chef, a cafeteria cook, a parent, or a Girl Scout adult. If you have the space, ask for a demonstration!
- Tour a kitchen. With acknowledgeable adult, tour the kitchen of a friend or neighbor, a caterer, your school, or your very own kitchen.
Step 2: Whip up a great breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day - it gets you going! Work on improving your breakfast making skills with on of these activities. Use what you learned in Sept 1 here - and in the rest of the badge - to choose dishes that give you the nutrition you need and taste great, too.
- Make easy weekday breakfasts. That doesn't mean popping a pastry in the toaster! Figure out five school-day breakfasts that are quick, easy, and good for you. Hint: Fruit is a healthy start. You could try a fruit-and-yogurt parfait, or a slice of wheat toast with bananas and peanut butter.
- Create an egg dish. They seem simple, but eggs can be a tricky food to master. Find out how each family member likes their eggs and make an egg for everyone for breakfast one day.
- Make a weekend breakfast. Now that you don't have to rush off to school, try experimenting with a bigger breakfast, like French toast, pancakes, or homemade muffins. Include as many good-for-you foods as you can. How many are in banana walnut pancakes?
Step 3: Fix a healthy lunch or dinner
Now it's time to tackle some of the bigger meals of the day. Follow a recipe that you have at home, or ask an adult to help you find one online or in a cookbook. Does a neighbor from another country or one of your relatives have a great recipe they could share? Choices: do one:
- Flatbread. Lots of cultures have foods that are made with a flattened version of bread, like tortillas, chapti, blini, or lavash. Try a Mexican quesadilla, a French crepe stuffed with peanut butter and fruit, or a Kenyan stew that you dip the chapati in.
- International sandwich. Sandwiches aren't just deli meat or peanut butter and jelly - they can include almost anything. Try making a sandwich from another country. What about a croquet monsieur from France, a bank mi from Vietnam, or a panini from Italy?
- Pocket food. Some meals are mysterious because al the ingredient are inside. you might now know what's in there until you take a bite! Make a food full of fun mystery, like a pita stuffed with falafel, a Chinese dumpling, or an Australian meat pie.
Step 4: Create a delicious dessert
Dessert is a fun treat for ending special meals. Try making one of these sweet treats to share with friends and family on a special occasion. Choices: do one:
- Make a dessert you've never tried before. have you always wanted to make your own ice-cream cake, or to try a recipe for a French eclair full of pudding and covered in chocolate?
- Make a favorite dessert healthier. For instance, alther a favorite cookie recipe by using whole-wheat flour instead of shire, or boost nutrition by adding dried fruit or raisins. In some packaged muffins or cake mix you can use applesauce in place of oil.
- Make a holiday dessert. desserts really take center stage around holiday times. Try a recipe for a family holiday, or for a holiday from another culture. For example, during Mardi Gras in the American South, they make a cake and bake a tiny doll inside! The person who find the doll is said to have good lucy-and gets to make the next year's cake.
Step 5: Make your own meal
Now that you've followed other people's recipes, come up with your won healthful meal. Create a meal (it's okay to get help from an adult for this step). Then share your meal with friends and family. Choices-do one:
- Make a salad meal using a protein, a vegetable, and starch. Try adding meat to a sale, and then adding crunchy noodles or potatoes. ore serve bread as a side-and bake it yourself!
- Make soup, stew, or other one-pot meal. you might want to make this with a slow cooker-a big electric pot that can be set to cook things for a long time at a low temperature. Hint: Add flavored broth to some mean, veggies and noodles.
- Make three dishes for one meal. Ma a separate protein, vegetable and starch. Hint: pay special attention her to how long things take to cook. To get everything out at the same time, you'll have to be good at using a timer.
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I'm no Apple fanboy, just a happy Mac user. Comparing Jobs to Stalin is heinous.
I mean, come on, Reg. Stalin? Seriously?
Yes, readers, it's that time of year again. Time to remember our favorite moments of the year in tech. No, we don't mean the debut of Windows 7. Or the arrival of the iPhone 3GS. We mean that moment when Vladimir Putin bitchslapped Michael Dell. Or when Eric Schmidt officially turned Google into public enemy number one. Here's …
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Read my post - here, I'll walk you through it
Means = sending people to gulags or killing them,
Motivation and Ends = eliminate personal competition, competition with the ideology, and remain aloof as a supreme idol.
I said the comparison to Stalin was NOT about means as much as about Motivation and Ends and, as such, it's an apt comparison..
[ I'm guessing you typo'd Psystar, rather than that you're nominating the ATM/payphone rental business that was recently accused of fraud by its investors. If there's another Paystar, google aint showing it to me.]
They may have been a bunch of no-hopers, useless chancers pathetically kidding themselves that they could "get away with it" by coming up with some sub-dog-ate-my-homework-level excuse in court, but that's really just a pretty ordinary workaday combination of the standard human foibles of greed and stupidity; what they're attempting to do, however - manufacture cheap clone computers - is fundamentally a rational and coherent thing to attempt to do: sane. Had they succeeded, they would now have a real business manufacturing and selling computers, and be earning money from it. They were trying to do something sensible, but went a stupid way about it.
Steorn have a similar degree of business spivviness and outright shonkery, but what makes them special is the fact that the thing at the center of it - the thing for which they're going to all this trouble - is fundamentally insane looony gaga deedle-deedle-queep pfrrbbbbblbbbllbblt *raspberry* nonsense. Had they succeeded, they would still have *nothing*. They were trying to do something completely beyond and below pointless, something that was utterly not worth doing at all in the first place - *and* they went a stupid way about doing it. And they kept on and on at it, and are still trying even as we speak, having just last week launched /yet another/ model of perpetual motion machine. (This one even comes with a battery attached to keep it turning, brillant! Who but a genius could have thought of such a simple way of solving the problems that all the earlier models showed?) So they aren't just trying to do something impossible, they are going about it a stupid way, and on top of that they are showing persistence and endurance in the face of all the observable facts about reality that goes way far beyond and above the call of duty.
That's full-blown flat-out in-yer-face nutjob crank science kookery. And *that*'s special.
I can see this thread is going to be full of "what about...?" and "aren't you forgetting...?".
So, what about asking us first next year? (Well, not me, specifically, as I have the memory capacity of a politician, but...) Then pick the best out of that lot. After all, you Regsters are few, and we are legion and many hands spoil the... oh well, you know what I mean.
I read that a post has been deleted by a moderator, nonetheless can we have an access to this post?
If not, does El Reg plane to release an anthology of all these censored post?
If not, do you think that Google has cached all this nasty stuff or has ripped it from their database accordingly with El Reg (or without your consent)?
"This approach appears to have been used in the Netherlands when small-area tabulations of population data by religion from the 1930 Dutch census made up one of several data sources used in the development of the so-called 'dot maps' of Amsterdam," he says. "These maps, which showed areas of the city where the density of the Jewish population was the highest, were used in planning Nazi-inspired attacks on some of these neighborhoods in February 1941."
At least let us know who's post was considered unworthy - and perhaps you could have some categories for rejection, here are a few suggestions:
1. Pathetic attempt at humour, so abysmal as to be embarrassing for the poster so removed as an act of humanity.
2. Unimaginative use of curse words that disqualify this post from being considered a good enough turdspurt for publication.
3. The lawyers are frit and consider this post to be defamatory enough that we daren't give it house room.
4. Overly sycophantic post deleted by the Moderatrix as a punishment, you naughty little heel scraping.
I have an XM Satellite radio (North America). A few weeks ago there was a message on the screen that said something to the effect that the Terms and Conditions had changed, and they were remotely disabling some features associated with accessing and organizing recorded tracks. When I checked my radio's menu, some features had indeed disappeared. I could no longer access any recorded tracks except those few that just happened to be in a play list. Well, to say the least, I was utterly shocked. There had never been so much as a hint in the public domain that they had the capability to disable features in the absence of a firmware update. Thankfully, just as I was considering my legal options, the features mysteriously returned. Must have just been a glitch. But this strange little glitch revealed that XM Satellite radio has an ability to disable key hardware features.
I wonder if they realize the unintended consequences if they ever dare to activate that remote disabling of key hardware features again?
Just a small point, but Russia didn't invade Georgia. Georgia violated a decade old peace treaty with ingushetia and invaded it. Russia then sent peacekeepers and drove the Georgian soldiers out.
This is pretty much what the west did when Kosovo was invaded by Serbia
Russia was actually the good guy in this whole this saga
I reckon the Phorm (and others) story as well as The Pirate Bay (and others) thing will have much, much more impact in the future than any of the ones you cited, while being very funny too (both Kent Ertugrul and Peter Sunde are very good at this shooty-footy game; the comparison stops there though).


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Belmont Park interrupts a string of seemingly endless stores, most of them tiny and old, a lot of them vacant. There are Taco Bells and Wendy's, of course, but little sub shops and ethnic joints, too, run by people who care about the quality of their meatballs or lo mein. Even as the Hampstead Turnpike delivers you to the gates of the facility, it is impossible to fathom the enormity of the place. There's literally a park guarding the grandstand, a place with trees and fountains where maybe you'd rather sip your beer if, say, the next race doesn't interest you, or maybe the horse you bet scratched at the last minute. But once inside, once you've taken in the broad infield with its two bodies of water, it becomes clear that, yes, it makes sense that this place could, when the circumstances are right, be the center of the sporting world.
On Saturday, a horse was supposed to try to circumnavigate the mile-and-half dirt track here. That horse, I'll Have Another, had the chance to do something not done in a generation; the much-coveted 20 and early-30 somethings that help drive the economic engine of sports can't remember a Triple Crown winner.
But I'll Have Another has a bum tendon, a tiny tear that doesn't even really bother the colt until somebody squeezes it.
So instead he'll show up in the winners circle to have his saddle removed one last time, a hobbled athlete left to make a final appearance as the competitors left unscathed prepare to race again.
And there will be subtle things about how I'll Have Another's day unfolds, clues to tell him that, no, he won't get to run. But the horse, really, is none the wiser about any of this; he hadn't a clue that he could make history.
So this was the solace taken by many on Friday when chances for a Triple Crown floated off like the wispy morning fog, a day before they could even hold a race trumped up by some as possibly the best Belmont ever: I'll Have Another will go somewhere now – they haven't decided yet – and spend most of his days frolicking in a field while earning his owner millions as a stud.
For horse racing – the sport and betting vehicle – the path forward leads to no such happy place. I'll Have Another's run was charming, thanks to several of the characters involved. Doug O'Neill, the trainer, never took himself too seriously. The jockey, Mario Gutierrez, had come from nothing.
But there were just as many reminders of how sullied the sport's reputation has become. O'Neill's past was dragged out, and a suspension for running a horse with a bad blood test levied. In New York, the governor seized the racing operation, and his people took immediate, drastic action by sequestering the Belmont colts in one high-security barn mean to show how seriously they took the safety of the horses. They overcompensated.
Not long after I'll Have Another was scratched, the conspiracy theories started. This is natural, of course. We know how complex all of this is – and how much money is tied up in it – and don't have to guess too hard about something more nefarious than a tendon injury that many, many horses would have run through. Down on a bench near the paddock, they were saying it with certainty. Doug O'Neill couldn't doctor the horse the way he needed to because of the detention barn and decided to scratch.
The state has released a statement saying that blood drawn from all of the horses on Wednesday came back clean. So there's that, but it doesn't tell us a whole lot.
Before yesterday's press conference about I'll Have Another, I spoke with Dr. Nick Meittinis. A Long Island native whose father trained standardbreds, Meittinis runs the Maryland Veterinary Group and examined I'll Have Another frequently while the colt was at Pimlico.
Far as I can tell, the only skin Meittinis had in this race is one shared by many: the belief that a Triple Crown winner would help the sport of horse racing. He has no reason, other words, to be anything but straightforward.
He'd been in contact with some of O'Neill's assistants, who'd sought his feedback. Upon hearing that the horse was feeling pain in his left ankle when the vet squeezed, he concurred with the decision to scratch. Lots of horses run through some pain – they're no different from human athletes, except for being more complicated and fragile in some ways – but it wasn't worth it with a horse of this caliber in a race of this magnitude.
When the news of I'll Have Another's injury became public, I was working on a story about how a Triple Crown run might bolster the horse racing industry in Maryland. I'd talked to many stakeholders who thought the star power of I'll Have Another would entice more casual fans to be interested in spending time and money at the track.
Cricket Goodall, the executive director of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association, said the response she's encountered to the near-Triple Crown run was familiar.
"Whenever horse racing is in the news like this for a little bit, you get a lot more people asking questions," she said. "They don't really understand the game beyond what they see on TV, and we're one group that needs to be there to be able to give them answers. That's how you convert them."
Goodall was also one of many people who said that the emphasis on Doug O'Neill's medication problems has been unfair.
"These are really complicated issues that are hard to understand or explain in five minutes," she said. "The focus should be on the horse and the chase for the Triple Crown. The other issues have been taken care of by California, and Doug O'Neill has dealt with it. I'm not trying to sweep it under the rug – this needs to be dealt with – but there's a lot to it."
She's right. Since O'Neill won the Derby I've been trying to understand what his past indiscretions really mean. He's now been suspended and/or fined four times for TCO2 violations. The first three, he did not fight. The cost to appeal would have been more than the fine itself, he said. He fought the most recent incident, which happened in California in August 2010 and landed him the 45 day suspension set to begin later in the summer. Of course the California Horse Racing Board ruled that he'd done nothing explicitly wrong. He hadn't "milkshaked" the horse. The TCO2 level had merely gotten too high, and he was responsible.
O'Neill believes TCO2 levels can be raised naturally, or by using the anti-bleeding drug Lasix. His quest to clear his name probably has not ended. Doctors will testify. People will point to trainers with large stables -- like Graham Motion -- who've never had one TCO2 violation.
But the fractious debate, along with so many different rules in so many different states, will make it difficult for O'Neill to have one set of facts reach the public. That's one of the reasons why he is one of many who has pushed for a national commission to codify oversight of the sport.
That, it seems, is the right idea. This goes to what Goodall said: a national group would offer more constant, clear and present "answers" to those seeking information about horse racing. There'd be one voice explaining what a raised TCO2 level means and why it is or isn't a bad thing.
Resistance will come from the entrenched. Much of the money spent and made on horse racing comes from or goes to the individual states.
It's reminiscent of the Bowl Game or playoff debate that has raged on and on in college football. I've long favored a playoff format – it just seems to be the most honest way to do it – but those who are benefiting from the bowl games like the status quo. I even understand fans nostalgic for the nearly mystical way in which we named a national champion. Your team had to make its way through its schedule and win enough games but also hope that whatever combination of voters or formulas or whatever was in place would spit them out as one of the top teams in the country.
There's a parallel in horse racing. The sport operates in enclaves and only at Triple Crown time do horses emerge on the national stage. And that's part of the appeal: in a way, to the public, they're all underdogs. They've all gone through a process involving some luck and some talent and some other things we don't understand to get to this point.
But I doubt a governing body would impugn that element of these couple of weeks when horse racing charges onto the national stage.
Tom Mullikin, the manager at Sagamore Farm, often talks about the operation's goal of being "professional." When the jockey they had hired to ride for them in the Preakness, Kent Desormeaux, failed a Breathalyzer test the day before, they moved quickly to replace him. "We just can't have that," Mullikin said at the time.
So it makes sense that he sees all the attention paid to O'Neill's troubles as an opportunity.
"I really think there's been a groundswell of people saying, 'We need to get this figured out,'" he said. "Let's legitimize this as a professional sport, so people don't view us as gypsies running doped up horses. I think we've got to be cognizant of how the public views us because, though it might be cliché, perception becomes reality."
What horse racing needs -- as O'Neill and others have said -- is a unified body changing the reality of the sport. Only then can the perception change.


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Corona Project - Tool Services Framework
Corona is about tool integration. It Corona will enable Eclipse constructs, such as a "project", to be shared in a distributed environment. Corona will provide an Eclipse based server-side runtime environment that will provide web service access to allow manageability to SOA components deploy within Corona.
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|Posted: June 23, 2008
Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper
|(Nanowerk News) More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks. The Nobel Prize-winning finding holds tantalizing promise for medical science, but so far it has been difficult to apply the technique, known as RNA interference, in living cells.
|Now scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle and Emory University in Atlanta have succeeded in using nanotechnology known as quantum dots to address this problem. Their technique is 10 to 20 times more effective than existing methods for injecting the gene-silencing tools, known as siRNA, into cells.
|Each of these jars of water contains the same substance. The difference is the size of the particles. Quantum dots, suspended in liquid, absorb white light and then reemit it in a specific color that depends on the particle's size. Each quantum dot is about one ten-millionth of an inch in diameter and is composed of a few hundred atoms of material. (Image: Xiaohu Gao, University of Washington)
|"We believe this is going to make a very important impact to the field of siRNA delivery," said Xiaohu Gao, a UW assistant professor of bioengineering and co-author of a study published online this week in the Journal of the American Chemical Society ("Proton-Sponge Coated Quantum Dots for siRNA Delivery and Intracellular Imaging").
|"This work helps to overcome the longstanding barrier in the siRNA field: How to achieve high silencing efficiency with low toxicity, said co-author Shuming Nie, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, jointly affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
|Other co-authors are Maksym Yezhelyev and Ruth O'Regan at Emory and Lifeng Qi at the UW.
|Short pieces of RNA, the working copy of DNA, can disable production of a protein by silencing, or deactivating, a stretch of genetic code. Research laboratories regularly use the technique to figure out what a particular gene does. In the body, RNA interference could be used to treat conditions ranging from breast cancer to deteriorating eyesight.
|The recent experiments used quantum dots, fluorescent balls of semiconductor material just six nanometers across (lining up 9,000 dots end to end would equal the width of a human hair). Quantum dots' unique optical properties cause them to emit light of different colors depending on their size. The dots are being developed for cellular imaging, solar cells and light-emitting diodes.
|This paper describes one of the first applications of quantum dots to drug delivery.
|Left: A fluorescent image of the cell taken 15 minutes after introducing the quantum dot-siRNA complex. At this early stage the particles are in the cell membrane. Right: A fluorescent image of the cell taken four hours into the same experiment. At this time the quantum dot-siRNA complex is distributed throughout the cellular fluid. The dark region in the middle of the cell is the nucleus. (Image: Xiaohu Gao, University of Washington)
|Each quantum dot was surrounded by a proton sponge that carried a positive charge. Without any quantum dots attached, the siRNA's negative charge would prevent it from penetrating a cell's wall. With the quantum-dot chaperone, the more weakly charged siRNA complex crosses the cellular wall, escapes from the endosome (a fatty bubble that surrounds incoming material) and accumulates in the cellular fluid, where it can do its work disrupting protein manufacture.
|Key to the newly published approach is that researchers can adjust the chemical makeup of the quantum dot's proton-sponge coating, allowing the scientists to precisely control how tightly the dots attach to the siRNA.
|Quantum dots were dramatically better than existing techniques at stopping gene activity. In experiments, a cell's production of a test protein dropped to 2 percent when siRNA was delivered with quantum dots. By contrast, the test protein was produced at 13 percent to 51 percent of normal levels when the siRNA was delivered with one of three commercial reagents, or reaction-causing substances, now commonly used in laboratories.
|Central to the finding is that fluorescent quantum dots allow scientists to watch the siRNA's movements. Previous siRNA trackers gave off light for less than a minute, while quantum dots, developed for imaging, emit light for hours at a time. In the experiments the authors were able to watch the process for many hours to track the gene-silencer's path.
|The new approach is also five to 10 times less toxic to the cell than existing chemicals, meaning the quantum dot chaperones are less likely to harm cells. The ideal delivery vehicle would have no effect; the only biological change would be siRNA blocking cells' production of an unwanted protein.
|The exact reason that the quantum dots were more effective than previous techniques is, however, still a mystery.
|"We believe the improvement is caused by the endosome escape, and the ability of the quantum dots to separate from the siRNA," Gao said.
|Quantum dots are not yet approved for use in humans. The authors are now transferring their techniques to particles of iron oxide, several types of which have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in humans. They are also working to target cancer cells by attaching to specific markers on the cells' surface.
|Looking forward, this work will have important implications in in-vivo siRNA therapeutics, which will require the use of nontoxic iron oxide and biodegradable polymeric carriers rather than quantum dots, Nie said.
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lol if so then thanks Rollie. Can't have GDP per capita without a headcount.
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First, thanks for all your hard work with this site, and drawing out census data from WoW for the rest of us to use. THANK YOU.
As far as I can tell, the data dumps are current data, and the only thing that looks back is the 6-month activity chart (http://www.warcraftrealms.com/weeklyactivity.php?serverid=-1) of weekly activity.
Is there a similar chart showing weekly/monthly/whatever player activity for the lifetime of WoW or at least Warcraftrealms.com?
I'm genuinely curious if WoW has peaked, and your data set seems to be the only way to get an objective picture.
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Rollie is the only one who can tell you whether older information is still available somewhere (offline, that is).
As for WoW peaking... I am afraid WCR data is insufficient to make that objective picture you are looking for. A lot of heavy census users have quit or are doing very little and especially EU side is full of gaping holes of 0 current data.
Blizzard might afford to lose 500, 5000 or even 50000 users... but to be blunt, WCR losing even 5 of the "heavy hitters" hurts the figures like hell.
As of right now...
EU English realms: 8 with reliable (more than 100 entries in past 30 days) data on both sides, French: ZERO realms with reliable data on both sides, German: 3... and Spanish: also ZERO.
That's a total of 11 out of almost 300 (295?).
The only objective conclusion that can be drawn from that is the sad fact that there are way too few people running Censusplus and submitting actively.
Now a completely subjective conclusion based solely on my personal experiences and counts I tend to get. There was a very heavy upwards peak in activity as Cataclysm hit the stores. Now, it seems most places are pretty much back to the values they had shortly before Cataclysm or very slightly down from those.
Balgair, Fuxie, Gmmmpresser, etc... If you are reading this, please toss in your thoughts as well...
EDIT: Corrected a couple of typos.
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Thank you.
My feeling was pretty much the same, I have played largely on Eldre'Thalas, and while it could just be a server-issue, I suspect that the numbers now are somewhere down around pre-cata numbers.
Of course, this could be because everyone's drifted off to gear the umpteen alts they created in the WotLK doldrums of easy epics, but I dunno, it just feels like it's on a downhill curve, and that the Cata bump- while significant - was neither as high nor as long lasting as the WotLK bump.
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I don't usually take much notice of the 'actual' figures that I upload. Plus living on the opposite side of the planet where everybody lives, my figures are usually pretty low because everybody is sleeping instead of playing.
But I have noticed that, even in the middle of the night, or early morning server time, the numbers do seem to be down quite a bit.
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Missed this thread until now but I'm inclined to agree - I'm not really censusing that much but numbers on my home server seem low to me, I'd even say below pre-Cata levels, maybe around the slump 2-3 months before Cata time. But then I'm not playing so much so may only be on at the wrong times of day.
I do know it's been weeks if not months since I saw anybody online on my friendslist, which, while I don't have a massive friendslist, certainly says something about how much the people I (used to) know are playing. And I'm playing far less myself, burnout/boredom seem to have hit a bit. I expected the new expansion effect to last much longer than it has; everyone I knew seemed to disappear after 3-4 months, and usually it takes nearer a year for that. Haven't been on much since 4.1 (been on holiday, and Portal 2 is eating my time
) so maybe that's helped matters, but it'll take 4.2 to bring the raiders back, since longtime raiders won't really think of ZG/ZA as "new" content, for all it's nice to see them again.
I'll take more careful note of the census figures I see and see if it is noticeably lower - maybe I can help with those 0's, as well, unfortunately I have a small lack of character slots issue, and it's a pain to delete a character I know I'll want again soon (since nobody ese censuses the server!), so I don't tend to do the delete/create cycle much, unless it's clear somebody's started censusing a server regularly, so I'm no longer needed.
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Thank you for input...
As I noted on my post of 29.4., it's really hard to make any reliable overall observations as we simply don't have sufficient data. Especially since the data that I personally get is conflicting. Some realms have more people than a year ago (like EU-Magtheridon that really benefitted from being turned into a PvE realm), others remain about the same and yet others are obviously down.
Also... since the most wanted lists are a total disaster on EU side... we are actually in a situation where we will be getting a higher new count than last month simply because we are losing data like there is no tomorrow... and at the same time, the updates figures have generally gone down. Unless I manage to get very lucky during the rest of the month, I am actually going to get my first ever under 300k updates month... and that after 30 months of above that in a row.
In light of April's figures... I can fairly safely say I already know that I won't drop out of the top 7 new ones and am already almost guaranteed the number 1 spot on the monthly updates... even if I score my worst ever result. That feels a bit weird. :/
No, scratch that... That feels very weird. Until now, being in the top 3 of both monthly lists has taken quite a bit of effort... This month... in theory, if I quit complety right now and everyone else would exactly double their results (since 50% of the month will be gone very soon
), I would drop to 3rd on the new list and retain my 1st place on the monthly updates list.
If I quit and everyone pushed hard and tripled their current figures? I would still be 7th on the new list and 2nd on the updates list. If everyone else could quadruple their results? I would most likely barely get pushed out of the new ones top 10 and still retain 4th place on the updates list.
x5? At that point, yes the new ones list would be just a dream... With my 25 511 losing to Nickdman's theoretical result of exactly 34 000 at 9th spot and someone else's results taking 10th, 11th, etc spots ahead of me... But even at that rate, I would still score 7th on the updates list, just ahead of rji who would have 132 170 updates against my current 132 988.
I hope my text doesn't sound too much like a brag... because I really can't brag about likely getting my worst ever updates results. However, it should point out that general result levels are really low.
US side is still somehow surviving... but the EU side figures are... just sad.
Epic Censi signing off for now and returning to play and census...
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I would wear this mountaineer Donald on a t-shirt, I would. I scanned these from a 1973 "Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge" book. It's a picture book about animals- along the lines of Walt Disney's True Life Adventures films.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
New blog: 21st Century Flapper
Harlean's Heyday is now 21st Century Flapper!
After blogging at Blogger since 2009, I figured it was about time for change. I wanted a new name, a new address and a whole new blog to reflect the fresh direction that I wanted to take: the shift from what ended up being a fairly regular vintage style blog to also include my other early 20th century interests. Most importantly, film.
I hope you'll come and check out my new blog at 21stCenturyFlapper.com!
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Monday, November 4, 2013
Queen for a day!
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Oh, hey! I was crowned Vintage Queen no 130 at Queens of Vintage! Click on the link to check out my interview if you're curious.
Wishing you all a fabulous start of the week! :)
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Historic Hollywood Restaurants
I love food and I love history - and Hollywood history, first and foremost! Naturally, one of my very favourite things to do in Los Angeles is to visit its unique historic restaurants, all of which with strong ties to the film industry, and many that still look the same as they did back when my favourite stars used to wine and dine under their dim lights.
Without further ados, here are my favourite historic Hollywood restaurants.
Musso & Frank Grill
6667 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California 90028
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There's really no other place to start than with Musso & Frank Grill when it comes to historic Hollywood restaurants. The first and oldest restaurant in Hollywood has been serving the town since 1919 - and it still looks the way it did back when everyone from Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Rudolph Valentino to Greta Garbo, Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe dined here. Sitting in the red booths of the otherworldly Musso's is about as close to stepping into another time as I have ever experienced. Even their menu has gone virtually unchanged for nearly 100 years! Alas, for a vegetarian like myself this can be the only drawback of the place but I did find the grilled cheese sandwich yummy.
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1999 N. Sycamore Av., Hollywood, California 90068
Yamashiro is quite possibly the most beautiful restaurant that I have ever visited. Overlooking Hollywood, it has a view dazzling enough to leave anyone breathless! And the interiors are just as beautiful. Originally a mansion built between 1911 and 1914, the Japanese gourmet restaurant has been a favourite since it opened in 1948. Since 1920, Yamashiro and its gardens have served as "Japan" in many a film. In the late 20s, the mansion housed the exclusive 400 Club, which was frequented by the Hollywood elite of the day. The food and service are equal to the restaurant's gorgeous setting. Not only were they able to make any sushi vegetarian - but it was the best sushi I've ever had, too! So unique, so beautiful and oh so yummy - Yamashiro is easily in my top 5 list of things to do in LA!
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Formosa Cafe
7156 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California 90046
When the Formosa's first owner, prizefighter Jimmy Bernstein, opened the converted trolley car as a lunch counter in 1925, he called it the Red Spot. Then he tacked on the kitchen and the main room where the bar now sits and decided to name the expanded space the Formosa. Located just east of the Pickford-Fairbanks Studios lot (devastatingly now largely demolished), star after star has slipped out of the studio next door and into the cafe's red booths. Decade upon decade, the Formosa truly is "where the stars dine." Although the Formosa serve Chinese food, I decided to go for an after-dark cocktail, which the restaurant is best known for. Super atmospheric, the Formosa Cafe is LA noir at the very best!
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Hollywood Starland, 1937
Hollywood Starland
Official moviegraph of the land of stars, where they live, where they work and where they play
I came across this fun and fascinating map of Los Angeles circa 1937, which details the homes and haunts of the shiniest stars of the day, from Charlie Chaplin to Ginger Rogers to Cary Grant and Mae West. As sad as it is to see that many of these spots are long gone, I find it most interesting to spot all of those places that still stand today - and it is quite incredible for me to think that I got to visit several of these iconic locations less than a week ago. But more about all that soon!
You can view a larger version of the map below and be sure to check it out in glorious full resolution over at Big Map Blog.
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The intent of this application is to provide an example on how OpenAL (via OpenTK) can be used for voice communication utilizing the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) IEEE Standard 1278.1 while running under Mono. The motivation for writing this article was due to my quest to find examples for both of these technologies. As there were not many or any examples found on the internet in using either OpenAL (under the .NET Framework) and DIS, I felt that providing this example might be helpful for other developers. Note that this technology is similar to using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) but does not use "session control" to handle calls, therefore this application is just voice encoded data being transmitted over the internet.
Open Audio Library (OpenAL) is a cross-platform 3D audio API that several game developers have used successfully in the past. The Open Tool Kit (OpenTK) developers provided a wrapper around the OpenAL API (along with OpenGL and OpenCL) which then provides the functionality to work with any Mono/.NET language.
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) or IEEE 1278.1 has been around since 1995 and is mainly used by military organizations for conducting simulations. This protocol was chosen due to the work done by the MOVES institute at the <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Naval <placename w:st="on">Post <placename w:st="on">Graduate <placetype w:st="on">School in developing the Open-DIS implementation. As a contributor to that project, for the C# effort, my intent was to capitalize on the work done and create a product encompassing both OpenAL and Open-DIS.
The code provided shows only one of the ways in which the OpenAL API can be used to capture and transmit audio over the internet. There are four modules and one main form application.
This is the main form for generating the GUI and the start point for all initializations. From the RadioTestSuite constructor, all initializations are started.
public RadioTestSuite()
This method starts a StopWatch that will be used to set the timestamp of all outgoing PDUs. The timestamp data is not used in this application and only provided for completeness.
This method sets up the sockets for UDP Broadcast Receive and Transmit. A random port of 9737 was chosen. In this method, the Transmitter properties are provided default settings. In DIS, the Transmitter PDU contains the frequency of the Radio transmitting and whether or not the radio is on, on and Transmitting, or on and not Transmitting. This information is stored in a collection by each receiving radio to determine if the audio should be played (if it matches a receiver set to the same frequency). As each radio should be unique and have only one transmitter, the Entity ID was chosen to contain the last octet of the IP Address of the system it is running on. Therefore if two of these applications are running on the same machine, there will be conflict unless the RadioID or EntityID is changed. The Transmitter PDU is broadcast out every 5 seconds (heartbeat) to allow all receivers to update the status of that radio transmitter.
The Signal PDU also has some default values set. In DIS, the Signal PDU contains the actual digital audio voice data. The Signal PDU contains the sample rate, number of samples and the encoding type along with the encoded audio. There are several types of encoding schemes outlined in the IEEE standard, but in this example application only uLaw (implementation provided by LumiSoft) was used.
Finally the microphone and the audio out features are initialized. The Microphone is set to read in Mono16 therefore 2 bytes of data will be read in at a time which accounts for the buffer size being double the number of samples.
StartMicrophone(audioSamplingRate, microphoneGain,
AudioCapture.DefaultDevice, ALFormat.Mono16, numberOfSamples * 2);
This method scans through the form controls until it finds a usercontrol that matches 'Radio'. Once found, a uniqueID and Name are provided. This uniqueID will be used to identify which Radio control was pressed to set up the frequency and speaker selection.
The method OutputMicrophoneSoundToSignalPDU() is a separate thread which is used to poll the microphone for data. This method was chosen to alleviate the overhead of stopping and starting the microphone. In this method, if the Transmit button on the form is pressed (isPTTActivated = true) a Transmit PDU is sent out specifying that the "TransmitterOnTransmitting" and then any microphone data that is collected is sent out over a Signal PDU. A Queue is used to collect any microphone data.
isPTTActivated = true
private void OutputMicrophoneSoundToSignalPDU()
while (continueSendingMicrophoneData)
if (microphone.MicrophoneData.Count > 0)
//Remove data from the Queue
byte[] raw = microphone.MicrophoneData.Dequeue();
//If PTT is true then data will be sent out on the PDU
if (isPTTActivated == true)
byte[] encodedData = uLaw.Encode(raw, 0, raw.Length);
raw = uLaw.Decode
(encodedData, 0, encodedData.Length);
signalPDU.ExerciseID = transmitterPDU.ExerciseID;
signalPDU.EntityId = transmitterPDU.EntityId;
signalPDU.RadioId = transmitterPDU.RadioId;
signalPDU.Data = encodedData;
signalPDU.Samples = System.Convert.ToInt16
signalPDU.Timestamp =
DISnet.DataStreamUtilities.DataOutputStream ds2 =
new DISnet.DataStreamUtilities.DataOutputStream
The audio out portion of code occurs when a packet is received from the socket. If it is a Transmitter PDU, then the appropriate frequency and IDs are stored in a collection. When a subsequent Signal PDU comes in and its ID and frequency are compared to that of the Transmitter collection, if there is a match then the audio is played back. In the case of this application, the users can select which speaker to output the sound. This allows for two different conversations to take place (left or right).
//Play back unencoded data
playAudio.PlayBackAudio(unEncodedData, ALFormat.Mono16,
(int)signalPDU.SampleRate, retrievedFreqSpeakerTransmitterReceiver.SpeakerLocation);
The actual playing back of the audio is provided by the OpenAL API which is listed in the following code snippet. This sets up a unique int to a buffer using AL.GenBuffer(). This buffer is then used to copy the data (unencodedData) to that buffer using AL.BufferData(....). The speaker position is then set using ALSource3f.Position (note that if using a surround sound speaker system vice headset, there might be some sound coming out of the center speaker due to the 3D nature of OpenAL). After the buffer is loaded, the audio is played back and buffers are cleared out.
/// <summary>
/// Playback the audio
/// </summary>
/// <param name="unencodedData">Raw byte data</param>
/// <param name="recordingFormat">OpenAL sound format</param>
/// <param name="sampleFrequency">Frequency of the samples</param>
/// <param name="speakerLocation">Speaker location</param>
public void PlayBackAudio(byte[] unencodedData, ALFormat recordingFormat,
int sampleFrequency, SpeakerLocation speakerLocation)
//Determine if sources needed to be switched
if (sourcesLeft == 0)
sourcesLeft = sources.Length;
//Used to rotate the sources being used.
int buf = AL.GenBuffer();
AL.BufferData(buf, recordingFormat, unencodedData,
unencodedData.Length, sampleFrequency);
position = SetSpeakerPosition(speakerLocation);
AL.Source(sources[sourcesLeft], ALSource3f.Position, ref position);
AL.SourceQueueBuffer(sources[sourcesLeft], buf);
if (AL.GetSourceState(sources[sourcesLeft]) != ALSourceState.Playing)
Prior to using, the following library OpenAL must be installed. For Windows, use the one titled "OpenAL installer for Windows". When I tested with SUSE Linux, there was an issue/bug with the version provided 1.10.622, so the steps that I took were to install the OpenAL from SUSE's YAST and then download the following OpenAL source code version 1.11.753 and followed the instructions on that site for compiling. After compiling, overwrite the binaries that Linux installed. The version 1.11.753 or greater is needed for it to work on Linux. The OpenTK does not need to be installed as the binary is provided with the source code of this project. But for your own development, there are examples that come with the download. For the development environment, either the Windows Framework (version 3.5 or higher) or the Mono-Project framework 2.6.1 or higher needs to be installed. To compile the source, either use a Windows IDE (Express or Professional) or MonoDevelop version 2.2.1 or higher. Note that MonoDevelop works with both Windows and Linux and was used for my openSUSE testing. Once these are installed, then the test application provided can be compiled and run. There is an issue with using a USB headset with Linux and OpenAL. There are some headsets that will not be recoginzed so it appears not to be working. A search on the internet might turn up a solution. I had this problem with Open SUSE and I decided to use the onboard audio card instead. I did not have this problem with OpenAL running on Windows.
The following are screen shots and information on how to use the test application provided. This screen shows three Radio controls, a Transmit button and a check box for audio loop back. The bottom status bar shows the broadcast IP address being used for transmit and receive, along with the count of the number of packets received.
Single click the first Radio control (shown as a medium gray box surrounded by a light gray box). Once clicked, the following will pop up:
For this test case, put a checkmark in the Transmit/Receive box. This will set this first Radio Control to be a Transmitter and Receiver. Then enter a Frequency, use 1 for this example, in the box provided. Select Apply. Once completed, the main form will display the frequency entered.
At this point, put a check mark in the Loop Back Audio checkbox. This will allow any audio transmitted to be played back to the speaker. Press the TRANSMIT button and talk into the microphone, audio should be heard from the speaker.
The color indicators are as follows:
My goal was to provide a quick example of how to implement voice playback using the OpenAL API. There are a lot of other features of OpenAL that were not covered, but this example should at least start you down the path. Also this application was developed using Visual Studio 2008, as a result the Windows Forms do not appear in MonoDevelop (maybe in the near future) therefore any development in using that product should use the GTK# Visual Designer.
During testing of the audio, I enabled the Push-To-Talk to always be transmitting. After a few days, I noticed that on the Windows system the audio buffer was significantly lagging, such that when someone spoke on the Linux transmitter it would be heard many minutes later on the Windows box. In similar applications, I have developed for just Windows using the WaveInOpen (Win32 Audio) this problem was also there. As there most likely will never be an active transmitter on all the time, I do not foresee a problem, however, as a fix I created two sources and switch the incoming audio between them. This allows the buffer time to clear and as the data coming in is serial (do to the nature of the sockets and locking of incoming data) the chance that one audio packet being played before its predecessor should not happen.
I was never able to test a USB Headset with the Linux setup due to the issues outlined above with OpenAL. There are fixes outlined in searches I had done but as I am not an expert in Linux I decided to just use the onboard sound card, which worked great. I was only able to test with three systems (two windows and one Suse Linux) so I do not know how well this software scales.
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