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Steam Summer Sale 2017 ends this week: here's our pick of the best shooters on PC
The Steam Summer Sale is a great opportunity to pick up some of the best shooters available.
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Steam Winter Sale dates leaked by PayPal
PayPal has once again outed the dates of this year's Steam Winter Sale early.
PayPal adds distinction between crowdfunding and pre-sales
PayPal has updated its policies pertaining to releasing funds earned through crowdfunded projects.
PayPal looking into overhauling it policies pertaining to crowdfunding
PayPal has said it will do better in the future when it comes to releasing monies earned from crowdfunding.
PayPal and Attack on Cataclysm devs resolve issue surrounding release of Indiegogo funding
PayPal has issued a statement to VG247 stating it and Nyu Media have resolved the issues surrounding the release of fund gained through the Indigogo campaign for Yatagarasu Attack on Cataclysm.
Skullgirls crowdfunding stymied by PayPal
PayPal has put the brakes on the Indiegogo campaign for Skullgirls, leaving Lab Zero Games unable to pay its staff.
PayPal can now be used to fund PSN wallets online in North America
PlayStation Network users in North America can now use PayPal to fund their wallets online through Sony Entertainment Network. Already available in Europe, the option is only available online at the moment, and not through PS3. All you have to do is log into the website, click "add funds to wallet" through the account management […]
PLEX purchase with PayPal available again in EVE Online
Just a heads up: EVE Online once again accepts PayPal in order for players to to purchase PLEX. CCP had suspended the option to investigate a potential issue with the payment service. The firm said the investigation has completed and PayPal service has been restored. For those who have no idea what PLEX is, it's […]
PayPal for Diablo III and Battle.net announced by Blizzard
Blizzard has announced that PayPal will be its payment-service partner for the Diablo III auction house, in most regions. It will allow players who trade with real-world currency the ability "to cash out the spoils of their battle-torn adventures via a PayPal account." PayPal will be added in several regions soon as a payment option […]
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LulzSec published a filed yesterday which supposedly contained login and password information for users of Facebook, PayPal, Twitter, "dating sites," and Xbox Live.
New 360 update introduces PayPal, auto-standby
Major Nelson's announced the availability of the first of a four-part dashboard update for 360, which introduces PayPal as a new form of payment.
PayPal teams up with Blizzard to stop Gold sellers in WoW
The war against Gold sellers in WoW just got hotter, as Blizzard has sent notice to sellers through PayPal claiming their actions are "intellectual properties violations."
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Blimey. Nelson's confirmed that American 360 users can now buy Live content with PayPal. You can't actually buy stuff through your 360, but you can associate your PayPal account with your Xbox.com account and do it that way. Hit the link for full details. No word on whether or not this is going to make […]
Metal Gear Online SCENE Expansion gets details and trailer
Konami's released a trailer showing off first game footage from SCENE Expansion, the latest Metal Gear Online booster pack. SCENE includes: Maps Outer Outlet – An Industrial Wasteland, made up of buildings and underground/above ground areas. Suitable for medium to long range attacks. Hazard House – An enormous three story mansion. Suitable for close to […]
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Yesterday's installment of Dan Le Batard's ESPN podcast featured a segment in which Le Batard is joined by Wizards guard Jordan Crawford. The ensuing conversation isn't anything special, save for this anecdote about Crawford's experience matching up against Kobe Bryant (transcription courtesy of DC Sports Bog):
When I first played with Kobe—they call him the Black Mamba—but then he was doing like a little snake sound when he wanted the ball. It was crazy. It was crazy. It's like tsssss, tsssss. Like fishing. Tsssss, tssss. He do that. Everybody tells you he's gonna do it before you play him—like, 'Wait till you hear him do this.' And then he [does] it, and it's like, what? He's really a mamba. It sounds like some kind of snake.
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Long snapping may not be the sexiest part of football, but one collegiate player is proving how cool it can be.
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Molly Raphael - Libraries: Essential for Learning, Essential for Life
American Library Association President Molly Raphael explains why current social and economic conditions are forcing libraries of all types to change rapidly in order to survive.
How can libraries be positioned not just to survive but to thrive? What difficult choices will have to be made in the next few years so that patrons continue to value the services libraries provide? How can libraries ensure that they are seen as both essential for learning and for life in the communities they serve?
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An Uncertain Thing: Volume II
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What was childhood like in the past? How did adults regard children and treat them? This new book examines how our ideas have changed from ancient times through to the twentieth century. Written for the general reader, it is the first comprehensive survey of its kind, and includes hundreds of quotations from everyday comments to profound philosophy. This is the second volume of three.
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Caterina Fake crashes ladyblogs' "digital slumber party"
Women do rule the web, Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake told the New York Times, but with a "crushing sameness." Loads of blogs aimed at the moneyed portion of the lady demographic are launching, including Jezebel (published, like Valleywag, by Gawker Media) — ostensibly part of the "sameness" Fake alludes to. A BlogHer study even deems blogging now mainstream among women. Fake is not swayed:
"The lack of evolution is disappointing to me. Back in 1996, it was going to be this brave new world where women were finally going to take control of their stories."
The girl utopia the early women of the Web have been holding out for? It's arrived, sandwiched neatly between tampon and diet ads. The only question is why we ever expected anything different. (Photo by Caterina Fake)


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In your choice of length, this charm station necklace is just that—charming! Each dangle charm holds a beautiful, bezel set synthetic ruby or simulated gemstone. It's crafted from gorgeous 14K gold embraced™ sterling silver and the cable link chain comes equipped with a practical 3" extender to adjust the length.
Vermeil Plating:
Pronounced "vermay," vermeil is an electroplating process in which 14K gold or higher is coated over sterling silver. Officially designated by the jewelry industry, items may only be sold as vermeil if they have a minimum thickness of 100 millionths of an inch (2.5 microns) of gold over the silver. Regular gold plating is less than 2.5 microns.
The "vermeil" technique of plating sterling silver with gold originated in France in the 1750s. It differs from "gold filled" or "gold plated" in terms of the thickness or thinness of the microns over sterling silver. "Gold filled" pieces have a much thicker layer, between 15 and 45 microns, which is mechanically bonded to the base metal with heat and pressure. Vermeil is a more expensive version of "gold plated". It does not wear off as quickly as gold plating does. However, over time, vermeil wears off and therefore will require re-plating.
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Rapper B.o.B is currently in the studio cutting tracks for his upcoming album, which is due out later this year. The Atlantic Records artist responsible for the hits "Nothin' on You" and "Airplanes" has recorded a song with producer Jim Jonsin titled "Rule the World," which the producer told rap-up.com had a reggae feel to it.
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Not many things make me feel as smug about my cooking skills as making my own chicken stock from a chicken I roasted myself that we ate for dinner two nights previously. Although, if I had actually raised the chicken and then slaughtered and plucked it before roasting it, that might increase my smug factor. Yes, I realize it's unwarranted. Anyone can throw a chicken carcass into a pot with unpeeled vegetables and let it simmer on the stove for four hours. But tell that to the homemaker in me and it will go unheard. So, sometimes I open the freezer and survey the individual containers each containing one cup of frozen homemade chicken stock and I sigh in satisfaction. We might get take-out pizza once a week, but those frozen containers mean I could whip something homemade and fabulous out of nothing at a moment's notice. I just choose not to.
Friday, October 26, 2007
I could if I wanted.
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Enough Said
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Weekend Project
Luckily, this was not my weekend project for it ended up being very involved and disgusting. It all began when I put some spaghetti down the disposal. (Note to self: not a good idea.) It clogged the pipes (or so we thought) until we (and by that I mean, my husband and his father) got under the house and saw that a pipe had rusted out. So, for who knows how long, everything that went down the drain was ending up in a sludge pool under our house. My husbands tells me, "I almost vomited under there." Anyway, after much dirty toiling, it was fixed. I am grateful that the cesspool that we were unknowingly fostering can now dry up and that we weren't forced to call an extortionist, er...plumber.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I try.
These candy filled "witches broom" bags are featured in the Martha Stewart Halloween special magazine this year. I think they are darling. I am making them for some of my friend's children who I know will be stopping by to trick or treat on Halloween. I'd make them for every child who comes by (as we don't get an exhorbitant amount), but I've failed to devote enough time or energy to finding much smaller brown bags. This broom is my test attempt. We are lucky to have a cottonwood tree in our front yard that liberally drops small branches.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
My plant seems to be confused. It's Fall. It's cold and rainy, yet one of my gardenia plants has this blooming. I'm not complaining, I love gardenias, but last I knew they bloomed in warm weather. Perhaps this is simply a testament to my success as a gardner. However, I suspect it's simply a fluke, a lovely smelling one.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007
I costume the only child I have, okay?
It's likely that my cat plots my death while I am away at work because of things like this. He is large enough to wear clothing that is targeted at small dogs and I mistakenly think he will wear it with the ease of a dog. How I got a photo where he actually looks sleepy with this thing on his head, I'll never know, for he leapt up straightaway after the shot and started flailing his head until it came off. Two years ago, we got him a dracula cape which was pretty hysterical, but he deigned to wear that as well. I suppose I should admit defeat now and for every future Halloween, or else get a small dog so these costumes don't go to waste.
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Gwinnett County Courthouse, Lawrenceville, Ga
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Yesterday we went to a post-Thanksgiving Dinner, or Thanksgiving Phase II, with relatives in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
We drove through downtown Lawrenceville I couldn't help but admiring the regency beauty of their old Gwinnett County courthouse.
I made a mental note to take a picture of it on the way back home. By then it was even better, because more of a fog moved in to make the big building stand out even more.
By the way, in 1978, Larry Flint was shot down here by an unknown assassin, paralyzing him for life. Larry was on a lunch break at his trial for obscenity charges that was published in his HUSTLER magazine.
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Peggy Cumming, is a wife, mother, grandmother of 6, sister, niece, cousin and friend, as well as a teacher - retired after 34 years in the classroom - and an athlete. This is her last blog, a year on from her diagnosis of lung cancer.
My last CMAJ blog was written and posted in April, 2015, when I was anxiously waiting the results from a CT scan of my lungs, following surgical and oncology treatment for non-smokers' lung cancer. I'm overjoyed and relieved to write that the CT scan shows that my lungs are clear, that there is no evidence of disease. Now, I am emotionally free to get on with my life, to try to overcome the residual side effects of chemotherapy, and to regain some of the strength and fitness that I have lost.
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The Birth of a Lubricant
I frequently am asked where we get ideas for new-product development. Many of the ideas come from our customers asking for a better lubricant. This is the story of one such idea—a new lubricant developed as a custom formulation to meet the requirements of a metalforming customer.
Understanding the Customer's NeedsIn 2005, Orchid International, Monroe, WI, asked us to take
Orchid came to us hoping to use one die lube for all of its pressroom applications. This would better-suit its central mixing station piped to each press, designed to deliver one product. Using only one lube also would solve problems with its recycling program—it had been mixing both lubricants together in recycling, and could only use the recycled mixture on certain jobs.
The plant had been satisfied with tool life using its previous lubricants, so the new product needed only to provide equal or better tool life, as well as be compatible with the carbide tooling used in its high-speed lamination dies. Rusty laminations presented a costly problem for the plant, and occurred randomly throughout the year, so Orchid looked to improve corrosion protection. Laminations are annealed at 1600 F for 6 hr., so the firm requires that the lubricant residue burn off clean and not cause the laminations to stick together.
The facility does not clean its stampings, so lubricant residue must be compatible with its customers' manufacturing processes. Materials processed include laminations from M-33 cold-rolled steel, M-6 and M-9 grain-oriented, and silica steels. Other materials stamped include black, white, brown and green prepainted steel, galvanized steels, hot-rolled steel and tin plate. In every case, lubricant must provide corrosion and stain protection, and leave an acceptable residue.
Product Development
Our lubricant-development laboratory decided to use a synthetic, since Orchid wanted to avoid having to wash the parts, and it needed a clean burn-off during annealing. Next on the priority list was to develop a lubricant to handle the most critical application—the motor and electrical lamination stampings. Here the lubricant needed to protect the tool for millions of hits between sharpenings; be compatible with the carbide tooling; not interfere in the annealing process; and provide rust protection to lamination stacks.
The lab concluded that a new lubricant would have to be developed to meet all of these requirements, under the guidance of a senior product-development chemist. The resulting lubricant has a newly developed corrosion-inhibitor package that proved successful during lamination-stack stain and filter-paper stain tests, using test coupons cut from M-33 cold-rolled steel, M-6 grain-oriented steel, and galvanized and black prepainted steel. This formula, initially dubbed LS-P-388, was proved out via laboratory testing, and also put through a product-authorization process and tested for, among other properties, product stability at various temperatures and dilutions; stain and corrosion protection on a range of materials; and wetting, cleaning and physical properties.
Finally LS-P-388 was given to a chemist with expertise in safety, health and environmental regulations, who evaluated the chemicals used in the formula along with any possible chemical reactions that might occur between them.
Product Trials and Evaluation
To evaluate the new lubricant in a production environment, Orchid loaded the lube, at a 17:1 mix, into a recirculating roll coater feeding a laminating press. In short order, the toolroom became comfortable with the new lubricant, after noting how well it could handle and clean the dies. Employees also liked the fact that only a light residue remained on the dies.
Careful attention was paid to tool life, although measuring improvement here posed a challenge due to frequent tool changes and the stamping of different parts. In general, Orchid's production and toolroom personnel felt that tool life had improved, even doubling on some dies. Also, when switching from stamping high-silica steel to cold-rolled on the same die, which had previously required adjustment of the die and the lube, they were able to avoid making any adjustments, minimizing downtime during changeover.
Along with increased tool life, Orchid also has been able to reduce the amount of lubricant applied to the stock. Before the switch in lubes, the pressroom used a float switch to sense lubricant level in the sump. A rising level during operation indicated a lube failure because all of the fluid in circulation was draining back to the tank. During testing with LS-P-388, Orchid employees noted that flow had reduced so much that the level of the tank never changed enough to trigger the float switch. The plant installed a new sensor in the return line to monitor lubricant flow back to the tank.
Also, employees noted that LS-P-388 burned off cleanly during annealing.
Proof-Positive on Prepainted
Testing was expanded to drawing and forming prepainted steel used to make ballast boxes. Orchid found that LS-P-388, used at the same dilution of 17:1, improved wetting and lubricity on painted surfaces compared to the previous lube run at a 10:1 dilution. In fact, since lubricating properties were improved, tests showed that Orchid could reduce the amount of lubricant used by more than 50 percent.
Also tested with the lube: stamping of brackets of galvanized steel and cold- and hot-rolled steels, to 0.90 in. thick. Finally, early in 2006, Orchid's customers for ballast boxes and brackets approved the change to LS-P-388.
Customer Benefits
In March, 2006, Orchid charged its central mixing station from a tote of the new lubricant, dubbed Lamstamp 3488, allowing the metalformer, for the first time, to feed the same lubricant to all of its presses, mixed at the same dilution. It went with a mix ratio of 15:1 to optimize performance as well as create a cushion for variations in the mix ratio.
After 18 months of using the new lubricant, Orchid noted that the amount of lubricant applied to its dies could be reduced due to the improved lubricating properties of Lamstamp 3488. The health and safety of Orchid's employees also improved, since application of the previous die lube created a mist in the air around the presses running prepainted steel. Now, thanks to reduced lube consumption with Lamstamp 3488, any residual mist, as well as slippery floors from settling residue, has been eliminated. Lastly, dermatitis, which posed a serious problem with the prior lubricant and required operators to wear special gloves and apply skin creams, also has been eliminated with the new lubricant.
As for production, Orchid has not experienced any issues with its carbide tooling after more than two years of using the new lubricant, while application of lubricant has been reduced to where the lamination stampings exit the presses dry. This gives optimum results for the annealing process but makes it difficult for the stackers to wire the lamination stacks together. Now Orchid applies just enough lubricant to allow the laminations to stick together coming out of the die, making it easier for the stackers to insert the wires.
Part Quality Improved, as are Packaging and Recycling
The ballast boxes stamped from pre-painted steel now run better than ever since the change to Lamstamp 3488, say Orchid officials. The lubricant also has improved part quality by eliminating scratching and water marks on painted parts. Customer complaints about adhesive stickers not sticking have been eliminated. And, the packaging boxes no longer are soaked with lubricant, making for a better-looking product going out the door.
To recycle the lubricant, used die lube is sucked from a pan under each press and is taken to a recycling station were tramp oil is removed and solids filtered out. In the past, the shop mixed two types of lubricants together and then treated the mixture with as many as three different and expensive additives to control microbial growth, pH and corrosion. And then, it could only use the reclaimed mixture on certain dies. Now, only one lubricant—at a much lower volume—is collected and requires the use of only one additive for microbial control. Orchid uses reclaimed Lamstamp 3488 in all of its presses. MF
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And then there is the OLPF convolved with the Airy pattern before it gets to the box blur of the sensels. It all makes me suspect that a Gaussian is going to be a reasonable approximation in the end, given all the inaccuracies introduced all along the way.
Do you think that the difference between using the precise PSF and Gaussian is going to be noticeable?
Ok but let's not forget special-purpose deconvolution.It's not only about inverting diffraction or box blur; it's also about spherical aberration, coma, defocusing, motion blur.That's why we need a way to comfortably explore different PSFs.
I have this small utility that, at the moment, can accept hardcoded kernels, but I can extend it to load a kernel from file.The problem is having meaningful PSFs to experiment with.
Right now I have an Excel sheet which can compute a 9x9 diffraction kernel (input parameters are pixel pitch, f-number, wavelength), but that's too limited.
I have a few question regarding how to get discrete kernels from these continuous functions.1) Do you just evaluate the function at the grid points? This would be like using a rectangular filtering window for the sampling. Doesn't this lead to issues? Or are you using more sophisticated ways to get the samples (triangular windows, Chebychev windows etc.)?
2) For Airy patterns which emulate strong diffraction (F/32 and beyond), even a 9x9 kernel leaves out a certain percentage of the total signal intensity.Are you just truncating the function at the edges of the kernel, or do you perform some kind of smoothing? I think that just truncating could lead to ripples -> ringing on the image.
3) Expecially for "tight & pointy" PSFs (think small-radius Gaussians), I have the feeling that a grid with a pitch of 1 pixel is too rough. Too much approximation from the continuous function to the kernel. I think we're going to need sub-pixel accuracy to avoid some artifacts (mosquitos around high-contrast details, ringing, edge overshooting, noise amplification, hot pixels).What do you think about it?
Second picture: same images, sharpened with R-L deconvolution.f/5.6 on the left, f/22 on the right.The f/5.6 shot is still sharper, but look at aliasing artifacts.The lens transmitted spatial frequencies far beyond the Nyquist limit and the AA filter could not do much about it.
Smaller pattern are totally destroyed by aliasing.The f/22 is a bit softer, but almost entirely aliasing-free; I'd say that almost all the useable details are there, and smaller patterns are much more gracefully handled.
That sounds interesting!So - thinking about scanning negatives it would probably make sense to manually defocus a bit to reduce the gritty sky and then use deconvolution later to get back details.I have a Nikon LS 9000 scanner which allows for controled, manual defocusing,but I'm always fighting with pseudo-aliasing (film grain/scanner CCD interaction).
I have a Nikon LS 9000 scanner which allows for controled, manual defocusing,but I'm always fighting with pseudo-aliasing (film grain/scanner CCD interaction).
Did this subject die out? haven't seen an entry since September 2010.
It was until you started grave-digging
1. I've taken a crop of a shot taken with my 1Ds3 (6.4 micron sensel pitch + Bayer CFA) and the TS-E 90mm af f/7.1 (the aperture where the diffraction pattern spans approx. 1.5 pixels).0343_Crop.jpg (1.203kb) I used 16-b/ch TIFFs throughout the experiment, but provide links to JPEGs and PNGs to save bandwidth.2. That crop is convolved with a single diffraction (at f/32) kernel for 564nm wavelength (the luminosity weighted average of R, G and B taken as 450, 550 and 650 nm) at a 6.4 micron sensel spacing (assuming 100% fill-factor). That kernel was limited to the maximum 9x9 kernel size of ImagesPlus, a commercial Astrophotography program chosen for the experiment because a PSF kernel can be specified and the experiment can be verified. That means that only a part of the infinite diffraction pattern (some 44 micron, or 6.38 pixel widths, in diameter to the first minimum) could be encoded. So I realise that the diffraction kernel is not perfect, but it covers the majority of the energy distribution. The goal is to find out how well certain methods can restore the original image, so anything that resembles diffraction will do. The benefit of using a 9x9 convolution kernel is that the same kernel can be used for both convolution and deconvolution, so we can judge the potential of a common method under somewhat ideal conditions (a known PSF, and computable in a reasonable time). it will present a sort of benchmark for the others to beat.Crop+diffraction (5.020kb !) This is the subject to restore to it's original state before diffraction was added.3. And here (945kb) is the result after only one Richardson Lucy restoration (although with 1000 iterations) with a perfectly matching PSF. There are some ringing artifacts, but the noise is almost the same level as in the original. The resolution has been improved significantly, quite usable for a simulated f/32 shot as a basis for further postprocessing and printing. Look specifically at the Venetian blinds at the first floor windows in the center. Remember, the restoration goal was to restore the original, not to improve on it (that will take another postprocessing step).
I have supplied a link to the data file.
I hope no one minds my entering this a bit late. I've written a small C program that does deconvolution by Discrete Fourier Transform division (using the library "FFTW" to do Fast Fourier Transforms). To me this seems to beat all the other deconvolution algorithms that have been presented in this thread... I'd like to see what others think.My algorithm currently only works on square images, and deals with edge effects very badly, so I added black borders to Bart's max-quality jpeg crop making it 1115x1115, then applied the convolution myself using his provided 9x9 kernel. I operated entirely on 16-bit per channel data. The exact convoluted image that I worked from can be downloaded here (5.0 MB PNG file). My result, saved as a maximum-quality JPEG (after re-cropping it to 1003x1107): 0343_Crop+Diffraction+DFT_division_v2.jpg (1.2 MB)My algorithm takes a single white pixel on a black background the same size as the original image, applies the PSF blur to it, and divides the DFT of the blurred pixel by the DFT of the pixel (element by element, using complex arithmetic); this takes advantage of the fact that the DFT of a single white pixel in the center of a black background has a uniformly gray DFT. Then it takes the DFT of the convoluted image and divides this by the result from the previous operation. Division on a particular element is only done if the divisor is above a certain threshold (to avoid amplifying noise too much, even noise resulting from 16-bit quantization). An inverse DFT is done on the final result to get a deconvoluted image.This algorithm is very fast and does not need to go through iterations of successive approximation; it gets its best result right off the bat.


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February 15, 1776, Nova Scotia governor sends word of a potential American invasion. From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience.
Legge found himself in a precarious position. He had alienated many of his constituents through a zealous anti-corruption probe. Now he reported that Nova Scotia had spawned a nascent revolutionary movement. Some of those whom Legge accused of corruption in his drive to clean up colonial politics had allies in the imperial capitol who were insisting that he explain himself in person.
Fortunately for Legge, little notice was taken of his subjects' letter to Washington. The Continental Congress decided on February 16 to allow General Washington to investigate the "expediency and practicability of an Expedition to Nova Scotia," but cautioned that Washington should "by no means accept the plan proposed. for the destruction of the Town of Halifax." After Benedict Arnold retreated in May 1776 from his six-month long siege of Quebec, which included the disastrous attack Quebec on December 31, 1775, the Continental Army gave up its hope that Canada would join the rebellion. Still, Governor Legge received orders to return to London in February 1776 and departed Halifax in May.
Although Canada ceased to be a direct military target, it continued to play an important role as a haven for Loyalists and slaves fleeing from Patriots less concerned with other peoples' liberties than their own. On December 18, 1778, a force of New Jersey and New York Loyalists, The King's Orange Rangers, traveled to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to help in its defense against Patriot privateers, privately owned ships that used pirate tactics to disrupt British shipping. The Rangers remained until August 23, 1783. Nova Scotia ultimately attracted 30,000 American Loyalists, one-tenth of which were fleeing African slaves. Of the slaves, one third eventually resettled in Sierra Leone. White Loyalists moved to Canada to flee the abuse of Patriot neighbors, African slaves came to British Canada in order to gain freedom from their Patriot owners.


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Emeryville, Calif., June 10, 2013 - Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the Company's Phase 2/3 EASED™ (Extended Release Amantadine Safety and Efficacy Study in Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia) clinical trial of ADS-5102 (Nurelin™; amantadine HCl extended release) met the study's primary endpoint. ADS-5102 is an investigational extended-release formulation of amantadine intended for once-nightly administration that is being evaluated for the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID) in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.
"I am pleased to report our Phase 2/3 EASED study of ADS-5102 for the treatment of LID in Parkinson's disease met the study's primary endpoint with statistical significance," said Gregory T. Went, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Adamas. "We look forward to sharing the clinical results from the EASED trial of ADS-5102 at the upcoming International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders."
Data from the Phase 2/3 EASED clinical study of ADS-5102 have been accepted for presentation at the 17th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders taking place on June 16-20, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. Rajesh Pahwa, M.D., Professor of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center and an investigator for the EASED study will present the final results during the "Parkinson's Disease: Clinical Trials" session in a poster entitled Randomized Trial of Extended Release Amantadine in Parkinson's Disease Patients with Levodopa−induced Dyskinesia (EASED Study) (abstract #443) on June 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm AEST.
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The EASED study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial that enrolled 83 Parkinson's disease subjects at 31 study sites in the US (NCT 01397422). The study's primary efficacy analysis compared ADS-5102 to placebo for reduction in LID over 8 weeks as assessed by the Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale (UDysRS). Secondary efficacy outcome measures included changes in a standardized PD diary, including "ON time" without troublesome dyskinesia; overall PD clinical status as assessed by the MDS-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS); and fatigue measured using the Fatigue Severity Scale. The EASED trial also included an assessment of dose response for ADS-5102. The study enrolled male and female subjects aged 30 to 85 years who had Parkinson's disease and were experiencing troublesome LID. Study participants were randomized to receive a low, medium or high dose of ADS-5102 or placebo once-nightly for eight weeks with a two-week safety follow-up. Safety measures included adverse events and routine safety laboratory tests that were reviewed during the study by an independent data monitoring committee. Additional information about the study will be presented in the poster.
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ADS-5102 is a proprietary, investigational, extended-release formulation of amantadine HCl in development for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, including LID in Parkinson's disease. Designed for once-nightly administration, ADS-5102's unique "chronotherapeutic" profile is characterized by a slow increase in amantadine plasma concentrations, expected to result in high plasma concentrations during the daytime hours when LID can be troublesome, and low plasma concentrations overnight. The low overnight amantadine plasma concentration may reduce the insomnia, sleep disturbances, and vivid dreams occasionally associated with amantadine. Due to its altered pharmacokinetic profile, ADS-5102 is being investigated in clinical studies at daily dose strengths greater than those typically used with immediate-release amantadine.
About Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia
Levodopa (also known as L-dopa) remains the gold standard for the treatment of the debilitating motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. An unfortunate side effect of prolonged treatment with levodopa is the occurrence of levodopa-induced dyskinesia (LID). LID is characterized by involuntary non-purposeful movements of the head and neck, arms, legs or trunk. With continued levodopa treatment, and as PD progresses, LID can become severely disabling and has been associated with a decrease in the quality of life for Parkinson's patients.1 LID affects approximately 30% of patients taking levodopa2, and is particularly problematic among young-onset Parkinson's disease patients. There are currently no medications approved for the treatment of LID. Reducing LID and improving "on time" without troublesome dyskinesia are among the greatest patient unmet medical needs in the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease.3
About Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Adamas Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by central nervous system (CNS) disorders by optimizing the pharmacokinetic profiles of approved drugs to create novel treatments for use alone and as components of fixed-dose combination products. The Company is currently advancing a pipeline of aminoadamantane-based drug candidates for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other CNS disorders. The Phase 2/3 EASED study investigating ADS-5102 (amantadine HCl extended release) for the treatment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease has recently been completed. MDX-8704 (memantine HCl ER/donepezil, US) and ADS-8704 (memantine HCl ER/donepezil, ex-US) are fixed-dose combination products in late-stage investigation for the treatment of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease. In November 2012, Adamas entered into an agreement with Forest Laboratories, Inc. for the development and commercialization of MDX-8704 in the United States. Adamas plans to advance its product candidates through approval and commercialize products in the United States through a specialty CNS sales force. For more information about Adamas, please visit www.adamaspharma.com.
1Encarnacion, E. V., Hauser, R. A., "Levodopa-induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease: etiology, impact on quality of life, and treatments." Eur Neurol , 2008. 60(2): 57-66.
2DATATOP: A Multicenter Controlled Clinical Trial in Early Parkinson's Disease. Archives of Neurology, 1989. 46(10): p. 1052-60
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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted having a love child with a household staffer 10 years ago, a development that prompted his split with wife Maria Shriver.
Shriver issued a statement Tuesday morning regarding the revelation:
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The actor turned politician fathered the child before he turned to politics, but kept it a secret until recently from Shriver, his wife of 25 years, according to the Los Angeles Times, which broke the story Tuesday morning. Shriver moved out of their Brentwood mansion after Schwarzenegger revealed paternity of the child some time after his final term as governor ended.
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"After leaving the governor's office I told my wife about this event, which occurred over a decade ago," Schwarzengger said in a statement to the Times. "I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family."
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Stop asking me how I'm doing. I'm doing fucking great.
"How're you going to do comedy with Obama in the White House? How're you going to make jokes about him? Is the state of comedy going to change? Are you worried, as a comedian? Are you filling your laugh-diapers with fraidy-poo?"
Stop. It.
You know the last time someone was worried about the "state" of comedy? 9/11. And comedy did just fine. Comedy warped and evolved and stumbled forward, like it's always done. Comedy's come out of Dealy Plaza, Altamont, the Mai Lai Massacre, Kent State and the balcony of a hotel in Memphis. It's all context and approach and blah blah goddamn blah I'm so sick of explaining this non-topic to people who are bored with their lives and selling wolf tickets so they can hit their TGH without exercising.
Hey, remember how when Bill Clinton got elected, and everyone started getting jobs and the economy improved and everyone was in a great mood? Yeah, remember how comedy died a big, honking death 'cuz of that?
I don't remember, either, 'cuz it didn't. Saturday Night Live went through its third renaissance, alternative stand-up exploded, South Park and Mr. Show and Chris Rock ascendant. Things were fine, comedy-wise and now they'll just get better.
"Man, you're really going to miss Bush. You comedians are going to be hurting."
Tell you what, worry-warts. I'll happily give back the 15 minutes of "our president's a sociopath who can't speak and believes in angels" material I wrote if we WEREN'T TORTURING PEOPLE ANYMORE. I know everyone thinks Bush was some sort of comedic Everlasting Gobstopper but believe me, history's going to look at these last eight years and think, "I don't know if teetering that close to the brink was worth the funny YouTube impressions."
Obama is president. Barack Obama. We just elected a Jamba Juice supplement to the White House, and I couldn't feel better. Make everyone happy, you articulate black bastard. I welcome the challenge.
It's historic we elected a black President. But it's miraculous we elected the calm, intelligent guy over the guy who was stoking the warm fear we've been nuzzled against these last 8 years. That's what amazed me so much about this last election. Not the race thing – that was inevitable. Just like, someday, we'll have the female president and then the gay, Muslim, Mormon cross-dresser. And, God willing, Dakota Fanning.
How does it feel to be John McCain? Will he and the elder George Bush (and, come to think of it, Jimmy Carter) ever sit down and hash around what it felt like to be the obsolete model when the new, shiny version rolled up? Fuck it, McCain ought to sit down with the guys from Queensryche, and talk to them about that tour they did in the early 90's, when Pearl Jam was opening up. Hair metal died during those months, and grunge exploded onto the landscape. How must it have felt, being in Queensryche and, night after night, looking out onto your massive crowds and seeing the Spandex and gelled-up hair slowly replaced with flannel and unruly, Northwest mops?
Is that how it felt for Carter, Bush I and now McCain? To see the Spandex turn to flannel? And isn't it weird how, in all of this, Bush II plays no part? It's almost as if he came along, crashed the car, burned down the frat house, and raped a sophomore, but everyone knows his daddy built the football stadium so we're just waiting for him to graduate with his "Gentleman C" and leave everyone alone.
Go away, W. We've accepted the fact that we're not going to get a satisfying, Nixon-in-the-winter-of-his-humiliation brooding from you. You're going to amble away and play video golf and drink out of range of the cameras and smirk and watch each of your yesterdays fizzle away, and always feel like you're winning. We're fine with it. We just want you away from our nukes, schools, soldiers and money. Run along, now. You're a big strong cowboy, yep.
I wanted to write this on November 5th but I was too wrung-out and pixilated with glee.
I remember, watching the election returns, actually tensing up when they called Ohio and Virginia. Mathematically, that was the moment McCain could not win. So, I figured, this is where the shenanigans start.
But they didn't. Maybe it was too big. Maybe they'd wasted all their shenanigans in the months leading up to the actual election. Or maybe…
Wait, wait a second. Before I articulate the "or maybe" part, let me do a quick run down of all the pre-election tactics, and how they failed. Here are the ones that really stuck out for me:
1. Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Sure said some craaaaazy shit up on that pulpit. Oh fuck, it got filmed! Oh shit, the film is on YouTube! Now it's on FOX. Obama's staggering!
But then – whoops! Hannity and the rest of the TV Pun-dicks started barking about how, "Obama went to this guy's church every Sunday for 20 years."
Yikes! You just lost the evangelicals.
What a lot of Republicans, and especially neocons, can't seem to grasp is the actual, church-going culture of America. They talk endlessly about Jesus and church and morals but they don't actually walk the walk. Does W. attend a weekly church? Did Reagan or Bush I? If Karl Rove set foot in a church, his skin would start to smoke, and then slough off and free a swarm of sightless grubs with skull-faces.
They simply use Christians, especially evangelicals, for their voting and organizing power. And then, behind their backs, laugh about what a bunch of gullible, simpleton hayseeds they are.
So when the mass of evangelicals heard that Obama went to Wright's church every Sunday for 20 years, that sealed the deal. Every Christian's suffered through a sermon or two that didn't…quite…sit right. And you argue with your pastor or minister about it, but you show up the next Sunday. I've seen some Scorsese, Coen Brothers and David Gordon Green films that weren't exactly up to snuff, but you can be damn sure I'll be there opening day for their next one.
2. Bill Ayers: No one's scared of an old hippie.
3. Obama's a Muslim! But…but..didn't you just say he went to a crazy Christian dude's church for 20 years? Pick one.
Oh, and let's review the Muslim Plot to Destroy America:
Mohammad H'ward ("Moe"): In order to take over America, we must install a president who will bend to our will, and promote radical Muslim ideas.
K'irleye Abbas ("Curly"): Perhaps a blond, all-American football star or war hero?
Moe: No. Our surest path is a half-black Harvard graduate with a background in community service, whose middle name is Hitler.
Lawrence Buddston, radical American Taliban ("Larry"): We've got one, but his middle name is "Hussein".
Moe: Close enough.
They all start hitting each other with wrenches, fireplace pokers, and a large fish.
Poor Sarah Palin. McCain had to watch the game change before his eyes. Facebook and YouTube and The Daily Show changing the landscape. Spandex into flannel.
But Sarah showed up using the old playbook. It's as if, at the height of gangster rap and smart hip-hop, a white boy showed up with Vanilla Ice beats, instead of laying it down like Eminem.
And by the way, I don't think Sarah's stupid. Like Rush and Coulter and George F. Will, she's learned to say the things stupid people want to hear, and talk in a way that comforts them. That's always been a good strategy, whether you're running for office, or trying to convince a comedy audience you're just a reg'lar, down-home mope just like them.
But then the economy tanked. Once the money's on fire, it's not cute to be stupid.
Now stupid is ugly. It's still visible, but now it's ugly and sad. There's going to be a lot of ugliness during these four years.
So let's go over what I have to work with these next four years:
A crumbling, chaotic Republican party with an entire cable news channel on which they can have weird outbursts. Nice.
A smug, self-confident Democratic party, now with a filibuster-free Senate, and their innate ability to fuck things up for themselves. Yay!
A handsome, articulate, brilliant President who takes himself a wee bit too seriously. Terrific straight man.
I'm going to be fine. We all are. I still get to be funny, and the country doesn't need to go down the toilet for me to get laughs. Isn't it better this way?
It will be. Comedians have a harder time adjusting to joy than they do despair, but it's what we'd ultimately choose for ourselves and our friends. Having a sure-fire killer 10 minutes on a dangerous, sub-literate president when you're headlining Shit Eat & Grins in Gary, Indiana pales next to everyone you know being active, working and useful. So I'll take Obama these next four years. A thoughtful, dynamic president. What a novelty!
I was thinking of this the morning after the election. 7:41 a.m. on November 5th, to be exact. I checked my watch after seeing my daughter on a sonogram. The wife and I had some serious misgivings about bringing someone into the world George W. Bush was forming, but we opted for the same sort of goofy optimism we got married under. I wonder, now that Bush is on the way out, how many "Obama babies" are being made. Not a bad generation to be a part of. Bush showed the world the importance of luck and indifference. Maybe Obama will bring back hard work and engagement. Either way, here's hoping little Victoria GG Allin Lo Pan Oswalt has way too much joy to adjust to.


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Jay Z & Beyonce Bodyguard Tasered to Death
Norman Oosterbroek -- a bodyguard who served the likes of Jay Z and Drake -- was killed earlier this week after being tasered by Miami police.
According to the Miami Herald, on Monday night (Sept. 2), Oosterbroek was found naked in the midst of a violent altercation inside a neighbor's home while simultaneously ingesting unknown substances -- apparently thought to be drugs.
officers say they had to subdue the bodyguard with a taser because of his resistance to arrest. He was taken to Baptist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Oosterbroek was an expert in the security business. The Dutchman served as a bodyguard for Nelson Mandela and later founded RAD, an international security firm, in his homeland and opened a branch in New York City in 2006. Since then he's be photographed silently guarding multiple celebrities including Lady Gaga and Beyonce.
He is survived by his wife, April McDaniel, and his two children. Oosterbroek was 43.


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While the previous reports whittled the best-franchise list down to 10, this year we're homing in on 12 different brands in three size categories: The Hungry Upstarts, which focuses on smaller, emerging concepts; The Rising Stars, spotlighting more established brands seeking national penetration; and The Powerbrokers, well-established concepts with more than 300 units.
The Hungry Upstarts
Emerging concepts laying the groundwork for growth.
Tin Drum AsiaCafé
Total U.S. Unit Count: 11 (9 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $35,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $299,000–$477,000
Royalty: 5% of net sales
Renewal Fee: 50% of then-current franchise fee
Marketing Fee: 4.5% of net sales
With its street-inspired Pan Asian cuisine, energetic atmosphere, and self-ordering kiosks, Tin Drum is ahead of the fast-casual curve, throwing in bold flavor profiles, high-quality food, customization options, and convenience, to boot. An AUV topping $1 million, meanwhile, signals its appeal to a widening consumer base.
The Atlanta-based concept's menu combines 15 signature sauces with more than 35 made-to-order items carrying Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indian influences. The result, Tin Drum founder Steven Chan says, is dynamic flavor profiles that satisfy guests' desire for more exotic food and promote repeat visits.
Tin Drum has menu items approved by HealthyDiningFinder.com—an alluring feature to health-conscious guests—as well as state-of-the-art, self-ordering kiosks equipped with health-based software that lets patrons order based on dietary goals, including gluten-free and vegetarian options.
For the franchisee, Tin Drum's compact design reduces construction and operating costs, while the chain's debt-free business strategy signals its ongoing effort to pursue strategic growth with the necessary infrastructure to help its franchise partners flourish.
An Outside Perspective: "What makes Tin Drum a win for a franchisee is not only the attractiveness to consumers, but the value-engineered cost of entry and strong AUV," says Lynette McKee, CEO of McKeeCo Services, a franchising and development strategic advisory firm. "It could be a nice target for a multibrand franchisee looking for a second or third diversification opportunity."
Total U.S. Unit Count: 12 (10 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $40,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $313,750–$627,083
Royalty: 5.5% of gross sales
Renewal Fee: % of then-current franchise fee
Marketing Fee: 3.5% of gross sales
Count eco-friendly BurgerFi among the latest entries into the burgeoning better-burger category.
Though BurgerFi's menu is highlighted by all-natural, grass-fed burgers, the Florida-based fast casual also serves up numerous specialty items, including Kobe beef hot dogs, quinoa burgers, hand-cut fries, and frozen custard. Craft beer and wine service further boosts sales potential and differentiates the concept from a swelling list of competitors.
BurgerFi's corporate office places a premium on providing consistent support to its franchise partners. In addition to providing assistance in such areas as field operations and lease negotiations, the company assigns each franchisee a personal business adviser to work with the operator on an ongoing basis.
The three-year-old chain, which has an AUV of $2 million, will soon debut stores in New York, Michigan, Washington, California, and Texas.
An Outside Perspective: Eric Simon, head of the business intelligence services team at Virginia-based FRANdata, says BurgerFi hits on an important trifecta with its variety, humanely raised meat, and environmentally conscious positioning.
"Nowadays, the public expects more than just another burger joint," Simon says.
Fresh To Order
Total U.S. Unit Count: 7 (3 franchised)
Franchise Fee: $35,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $550,000–$720,000
Royalty: 5% of net sales
Renewal Fee: 10% of then-current franchisee fee
Marketing Fee: 4% of net sales
A pioneer of "fast-fine" dining—a restaurant blending upscale dining's quality with the operational platform and price points of fast casual—Fresh To Order (F2O) features a chef-inspired, line
cook–executed menu of freshly prepared entrées, panini sandwiches, soups, and salads, all ready in less than 10 minutes for about $10.
Forty percent of the seven-year-old, Georgia-based concept's daily business stems from dinner sales, a number that underscores f2o's ability to please guests and provide strong ROI to franchisees. Within the next five years, f2o plans to expand beyond its Southern base by opening 50 new stores and adding 50 more to its development pipeline, including in nontraditional venues.
"With average unit volumes of $1.7 million and year-over-year comparable sales growth of 10 percent, our financial foundation is formidable," says f2o chief development officer Jocelyn Blain.
An Outside Perspective: Simon likes f2o's ability to attract business during different dayparts, its strict franchise requirements, and its development that features both franchised and corporate-owned locations. He says corporate stores show that the brand is committed to growing alongside its franchisees and to understanding "the reality of what is happening on the street level of its business."
Taquerias Arandas
Total U.S. Unit Count: 27 (all franchised)
Franchise Fee: $45,000
Total Start-Up Costs: $98,000–$649,000
Royalty: 6% of net sales
Renewal Fee: $20,000
Marketing Fee: 1% of net sales
Since the original Taquerias Arandas opened in 1981, this Houston-based concept has dazzled patrons with its authentic, street-inspired Mexican cuisine.
Taquerias Arandas president Judy Camarena says the concept emphasizes a sense of community among its franchisees, one rooted in trust and systemwide success.
Years of steady growth throughout Texas and double-digit sales and traffic increases at stores across the system have readied Taquerias Arandas to take its name and its $1.3 million AUV beyond the Lone Star State. Camarena says the timing is right now given the company's comfort with opening new stores and its role as franchisor. The growing taco trend, rising interest in the brand outside of Texas, and limited presence of national chains serving authentic Mexican cuisine have also encouraged its growth.
An Outside Perspective: McKee credits Taquerias Arandas for establishing trust with its franchisees and building a solid regional base before taking the brand to new markets outside Texas.
"What is also equally important is that the ROI for [the brand's] franchisees is very healthy, and sales continue to climb with a nice—and low—price point and a truly authentic, real-Mex menu," she says.
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Consider Emacs: it is extremely muaoldr and extremely extensible by virtue of it's embedded Lisp interpreter. This is a strange thing to say in a paragraph talking about the Unix Philosophy, since Emacs comes from a completely different culture (MIT/ITS/Lisp vs Bell/PDP/C) and is virtually the antithesis of the Unix Way (everything in one process, communicating by function calls with rich data types).I love Emacs as much as anybody, but I wouldn't claim it has anything to do with Unix. We even had a funny name for the Unix port of Emacs ( Gosmacs ) way back when that wasn't the common place to run it!P: Have you ever tried building a medium-large-scale application (say, a project with 50-60 classes) with emacs and gcc? I'm sure it's possible, with persistence Yes, I'm working on a large system right now not in C, but it has over 600 classes, and I don't know what an IDE could do for me that Emacs can't. find-tag is just as fast with 600 classes as with 6. Macros make O(n) editing tasks into O(1) editing tasks on any size project.What specific feature of an IDE helps you here? Everything I can think of that IDEs brag about, I do in Emacs every day.


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MSVC 6.0 Serve Pack 3.
If the official build is done using cygwin, that's probably where the slowdown comes from, although I'm pretty sure the official window build is compiled with MSVC too.
Please fix the Armatures Speed !
Animation tools, character animation, non linear animation
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I don't know - I didn't even know there was a problem with them. All I know is that they worked well for me when i was working with them over the last 2~3 weeks
For those sorts of small things, I find the NLA too messy. It's much nicer to just rotate the controller bone to the position I want (the amount that the hand is closed) and then just keyframe the controller bone. It gives instant feedback within the 3D view, and it's easy to manipulate the timing etc. within the action window, with the rest of the bones. Its also much harder in the NLA to blend just partially - i.e. if I just wanted the hand in between completely flat, and a closed fist.
Here's a quick .blend file I found in my pile of tests - may help clarify what I mean: http://reblended.com/www/broken/etc/act ... .blend.zip
Thanks Matt! This is really helpful! You are a very kind person uploading these great files! However it still doesn't change my oppinion that IK is too slow. It is good to learn about other ways of doing finger animation, but what if you had a six armed man where you would want IK for each arm? It is too big a limitation to not be able to use IK more than for a few bones because of speed problems.
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Nistrup Madsen, Bodil; Erdman Thomsen, Hanne; Halskov, Jakob; Lassen, Tine (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In our paper we present a project, the aim of which is to develop innovative and advanced methods for dynamic and automatic extraction of knowledge about concepts from texts and for automatic construction of ontologies. The project builds on and further develops the results of the CAOS project - Computer-Aided Ontology Structuring - which was carried out at Copenhagen Business School in the period 1998-2007. Terminological ontologies differ from other types of ontologies by comprising feature specifications and subdivision criteria. We have formalised subdivision criteria that have been used for many years in terminology work, by introducing dimensions and dimension specifications. In the CAOS prototype, facilities for semiautomatic checking of inconsistencies were developed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8283
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Abstract: The research object of this thesis is the so-called knowledge patterns and their usefulness in automatically extracting specic semantic relations from unannotated and uncategorized text on the WWW so as to facilitate semi-automatic updating and extension of existing ontological and terminological resources. The main contribution of the thesis is the implementation of a com- plete ontology extension framework called WWW2REL which is 100% based on a knowledge-poor, domain-independent processing of WWW text snippets and includes the three stages of pattern discovery, pattern ltering and relation instance ranking. Unlike most comparable systems WWW2REL is special in that it is both highly portable, can be applied to any semantic relation type and operates directly on uncategorized WWW text snippets. The system is tested on the biomedical UMLS Metathesaurus for four dierent relation types and manually evaluated by four domain experts. It is demonstrated that high precision in the task of knowledge discovery from a noisy text source can be achieved using a very simple instance relevance measure and two ranking heuristics. In contrast, many comparable systems operate on richly annotated academic text and tend to apply heuristics which are custom-tailored to a specic domain and/or relation type. When selecting the overall best ranking scheme, average system performance across all four relation types ranges between 70% to 65% of the maximum possible F-score by top 10 and top 50 relation instances, respectively. Finally, the thesis experiments also examine the portability of individ- ual knowledge patterns and of the ranking heuristics. It is concluded that synonymy KPs are the most domain independent closely followed by ISA KPs, whereas patterns for "may_prevent" and especially "induces" are more dependent on the domain. Empirical experiments also suggest that a ranking heuristic which penalizes relation instances whose arguments occur frequently in a general language corpus can be highly eective, but may need to be adapted to the domain in question. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7731
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