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A few weeks ago the folks at http://www.gearbest.com/ contacted me to see if I would review a few products. Once it was made clear I was free to give an honest review I agreed. Also as a bonus they agreed to a discount for SotP members for a period after the review was posted.
The first thing I have been sent for review is the SJ4000 Wifi Action Cam, see here http://www.gearbest.com/action-cameras/pp_77096.html These clearly started as a GoPro copy, however, they have developed a strong following and have begun to develop in their own right. So much so that you now get clones of the SJ4000. The SJ does have some features the GoPro does not, like Motion Detection and they had a screen before the GoPro, also they come with way more accessories. However I am getting ahead of myself.
I was going to use the camera for a few weeks before posting the review but as the clock is ticking on the discount I am doing the review fairly quickly and will come back with more details as I test the camera more.
First off you can see the specs from the link above so I won't repeat them all here. A couple of things worth clarifying. It will record in full 1080 HD at 30 frames a second. The 60 frames a second at 720 is a waste of time as it just copies each of the frames to double up from 30 to 60, so stick with the 30 fps setting.
Also this is only a 3 megapixel sensor so ignore all the photo resolutions above this. They are just interpolated up and wasting memory space and processing power. This lower resolution sensor may actually help with low light recording and picture taking as each photosite will be larger than a higher resolution sensor of the same dimensions.
So what do you get. This is how it arrives.
And this is what is inside.
There are various mounts and brackets for fitting the camera to pretty much anything. There are also different cases for the camera for allowing better sound recording or the one that makes it fully waterproof. I have built up a similar set of OEM mountings for my GoPro and probably spent about a third of the price of this camera in doing so.
It is also worth mentioning these mountings are almost all compatible with the GoPro. I say almost all as while the SJ4000 will fit in all GoPro and aftermarket mountings the GoPro original buckles will not fit in the two baseplates supplied with this camera. Not an issue unless you are going to mix and match this camera with a GoPro.
Lets take a closer look at the camera. First in the waterproof housing.
And out of the housing.
Before you start using the camera you need to add a Micro SD card and charge up the battery. While the camera is charging you can use the camera and look at the settings. This brings me to the first topic I want to cover.
Ease of Use
Bare in mind through all of this the only previous experience I have of Action Cameras is using a GoPro Hero 4 Silver which costs 5 times the SJ4000 WiFi. This is worth remembering when I say the ease of using the SJ4000 menu for settings etc is way better than the GoPro. My GoPro does have a touch screen that makes things easier but using the physical buttons is a pain in the bum. The SJ4000 is logically set out and easy to navigate by comparison.
My only slight complaint is that so far I have not found where to change the default setting that the camera turns on with. It defaults to video but perversely I prefer photo to be the default. It does remember all the settings you have for resolution etc but if you are taking pictures and power it off. It will be in video mode when you turn it on. It is easy to switch onto photo mode but you do need to remember to do so.
Wifi / App
I have only tested this with the Iphone IOS app but understand the Android app to be similar in form and function. Again from a connection point of view I found this more reliable and quicker to connect than the GoPro. The lag on the feed from the camera seems less too. That said there have been a couple of times when it has frozen for a few seconds before picking the feed up again. You can change settings on the camera and start, stop recording, picture taking all from within the app. You can also transfer pictures and video straight to your phone from the app. Handy for some quick editing or posting to your favourite canoe forum
There is a non WiFi version of the SJ4000 which is functionally identical to this model except there is no WifI and so no connection to the phone apps.
Well the quality of the build of the camera is not quite up to the standard of the GoPro but the example I have is perfectly functional and not badly made. The quality of the cases and accessories is all good with everything looking as if it will take plenty of abuse. I certainly have no concerns about the waterproofness of the case.
Photo quality? At this point it looks good to me. It is 3 megapixel which sounds bad these days but is really good enough for any normal sized printing and allows loads of scope for cropping for online use.
Here is the first photo I took just in the kitchen. This, as with all the pictures, is full frame but resized and compressed by Photobucket.
And another example in my office this morning
And from lunchtime when I nicked out to Glasgow Green to sit in the sun and have a coffee, as well as to play with the camera.
Video quality seems good. You do not get the high frame rates available with the GoPro but for normal use this is not an issue for me. As soon as the battery was charged I took some very random footage in the garden and loaded it up last night. Again YouTube will have compressed this. It looked clean and bright on my monitor. As I use the camera more I will revisit this. Anyway the test footage.
Uses and Value for Money
I've combined these two as it is the range of uses that makes this such good value for money. Without discount this is currently £65.60 including postage from http://www.gearbest.com/ although you may have VAT on this when it comes into the country. It is worth mentioning this to Gearbest when ordering
For this investment you get a capable waterproof video and stills camera. Using the motion detection setting you can rig it as a trail cam for day and twilight use. The same function can be used as a security function. You can take time lapse photos.
The possibilities are near endless. Before I got my GoPro I was not sure about action cameras and if they were worth having. Since getting it I am quite the convert and at this price it is not a huge investment to see if it works for you too.
There is a tendency to keep going for the really high resolution, fast paced cameras but ironically as the resolution of photos has increased the required resolution for use has dropped. In my case 99.9% of my pictures are for online use probably no more than 800 pixels wide (compared to the 2048 pixels wide this camera is taking). Yes you can crop more with more pixels but you could just get closer too and with this wide angle lens you need to be close anyway. With video 100% of my use is YouTube or FaceBook and once they have finished compressing the film I'm not going to be able to tell if this was footage from the SJ4000 or the GoPro unless i it slowed down footage that I shot at a high frame rate. I knew this when I bought my GoPro but I was splashing out for the seamless way it deals with doing time lapse movies but have since found that it is easier to just film and then speed up the film.
So in return for doing the review I received a discount code to be used for members if they want to buy one of these cameras. The discount code is SJ4000 and should bring the price down by about 15% ish. It seems to vary a little with the exchange rate. The discount code is valid till the 10th June 2015 so a little under 2 months from now.
As mentioned I will be testing the camera further and will report back with any further thoughts. In the meantime I'd be interested to hear how others have got on with these cameras and any tips they can give.
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With its emphasis on its enlisted troops and its creed that every Marine is a rifleman, the Marine Corps is the military service that keeps the smallest ratio of brass to troops. But for a brief moment —actually only until Wednesday—there are, for the first time, six four-star officers in the Corps.
Earlier this month [April 19], the officers gathered at the Home of the Commandants at the Marine Barracks Washington, the only time six active-duty four star generals have gathered together, according to the service. Except for a handful of five-star admirals and generals in American history, four-stars is the highest attainable rank in the military. And for the Marines it is unusual to have four or five, much less six.
The Corps thinks of the gathering as historic. But for the generals, the April get-together was simply a reunion of a group of men who have worked with each other and off for four decades…


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Blow out: Don't burp while lighting up
Q. Well, excuse us, but when might stomach or intestinal gas have explosive consequences? –J. Carrey
A. Forget those flame-throwing flatulators of college campuses of the 1960s. For this one, you can just ask your doctor: surgical teams must take precautions to ensure that fires and explosions do not occur near or within a patient, since some 40 percent of the gas in the large intestine may be hydrogen and methane, says Jearl Walker in The Flying Circus of Physics. Procedures such as removal of polyps require extreme care. Any heating or sparking during electrical cauterization can cause the gases to blow up, burning and rupturing the intestines.
During one colonoscopy, there was a loud explosion, and a blue flame shot out of the colonoscope for about a meter. Current protocol calls for the patient to fast for up to a day so that the intestines are empty. (Surgical fires today are rare, estimated at less than 1 in a million.)
Flammable gases can also be produced in the stomach when it doesn't empty properly. In one case, a man lit a cigarette just as he belched uncontrollably: the cigarette shot from his mouth like a rocket, and his lips and fingers were burned. In another, when a guy lighting a cigarette belched, "the gas came up through his nostrils with a flare shooting out of each, making him look like a medieval, fire- breathing dragon."
Q. No point asking a scorpion about the math involved, but it sure knows how to apply some in hunting down a beetle. Explain.–J. Wayne
A. The moving beetle inadvertently sends two sets of pulses along the sand's surface, one in the form of longitudinal waves that oscillate forward and backward at 150 meters per second (m/s), another in the form of transverse waves that go side to side at 50 m/s, says David Halliday in Fundamentals of Physics.
That's a big difference, apparently detectable by the scorpion, which is nocturnal and can neither see nor hear the beetle. What the scorpion does is stand with its eight legs roughly in a circle so that now the faster pulses are felt first, then the slower ones. The direction to the beetle is given by the first leg to feel a vibration; the distance is given by the time interval between the arrival of the two pulses. Having mastered the mental math (distance = 75 m/s x the time lapse), the predator scorpion turns toward the beetle and mad-dashes for dinner.
Q. "Stay on the ice and pay the price" runs the old hockey adage. Who's paying what and why? –J. Frost
A. For this fast-paced game, exhaustion is often a problem at the uncoached amateur level, as some players hog the ice time even to the point where a good player can be outpaced by a mediocre defenseman, says Alain Hache in The Physics of Hockey. Hockey's energy drain is greater than other team sports like basketball and baseball, with National Hockey League players skating at speeds in excess of 25 mph (40 km/hr). The legendary Bobby Hull, fastest of his time, was once clocked at 29.2 mph (47 km/h), and after he had spent 29 minutes on the ice during one game, sports scientists figured he had skated a total of about 8 miles (13 kms). So it's not surprising that during 60 minutes of regulation time, a player can burn several hundred calories and lose up to 10 pounds.
Typically, players hold their speed at about 75 percent of maximum, budgeting their energies as they wait to see how play will evolve. "We can now understand why NHL athletes take many short shifts on the ice (usually less than a minute each) rather than fewer long ones," says Hache. "This is the best way to operate at optimal capacity."
Q. Why are there five spikes on stars on the American flag, six on the Jewish Star of David? That's certainly not what you see in the sky on a starry night. Or is it? –B. Ross
A. It's true, real stars have no spikes but are almost perfect spheres which from a distance should appear as tiny dots, says Indiana University vision scientist Arthur Bradley. Corneal scratches are not the cause of the spikes, as some have asserted, but imperfect eye-optics is.
Probably it has something to do with the lenses of the eyes, which sit right behind the corneas. Since these grow and change throughout life, "It turns out that individuals have their own characteristic star-imperfections that change with age." Thus, you're seeing your own private spiky "Starry Night," though not apt to rival van Gogh's.
On a clear night, poke a small (2 mm) hole in a piece of dark card and look at a star. Move the card around, and you will make the spikes appear and disappear.
"Basically, the card blocks light from passing through the part of the eye optics that generates the spikes," says Bradley. "Try it, and you'll see for yourself."
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Environmental group Friends of the Earth has launched ACCC complaints accusing two Australian manufacturers of sunscreen for various brands – Antaria Limited and Ross Cosmetics – of misleading and deceptive conduct for marketing sunscreens as "non-nano" and "nanoparticle-free' when they contained nano-materials.
It claims some of Australia's biggest sunscreen brands are affected, including products such as Cancer Council 'Classic', Invisible Zinc 'Junior' and 'Body' sunscreens, Coles 'Sports' and Woolworths 'Clear Zinc'.
What are nano-materials and are they dangerous?
Nano-materials in sunscreens are tiny, invisible-to-the-naked-eye particles of the metals titanium dioxide and zinc oxide that are thousands of times smaller than a strand of hair.
According to the consumer watchdog CHOICE, they exhibit different properties compared with larger particles of the same material, due mostly to the high surface to volume ratio. This can make the particles very reactive.
Whether they're harmful to human health or not is an area of great controversy and one which Friends of the Earth says needs much more research. The basis for most of the concerns around nanoparticles is their small size and potential to penetrate cells with relatively unknown impacts on how they interact with biological systems.
"Alarmingly little research has been conducted into the health risks associated with nano-ingredients in sunscreen. However there are growing health concerns among scientists and skin specialists, including fears that nano-ingredients in sunscreens could lead to cancer," says Dr Crocetti. of Friends of the Earth's Nanotechnology Project.
"Dermatologists and toxicologists have made public warnings that people with damaged skin, young children, and people who use sunscreens very regularly are at greater risk of exposure to nano-materials and should avoid using nano-sunscreens. It is deeply concerning that people trying to avoid nano-ingredients have been misled in this way."
When it comes to knowing if they're in sunscreens (now that it seems the labelling is allegedly misleading), Friends of the Earth says that any sunscreens that contain the active ingredients zinc oxide or titanium dioxide and also rub on clear may contain nano-ingredients.
Cancer Council: Nanoparticles do not pose a risk
The Cancer Council Australia, whose own sunscreens have ended up on the list of those that contain nanoparticles despite being marketed as free of them, has a page on its website, updated in May this year, saying that nanotechnology has been used in sunscreens for many years.
"To date, our assessment, drawing on the best available evidence, is that nanoparticulates used in sunscreens do not pose a risk," the Cancer Council says, citing a 2009 review undertaken by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration.
"There is plenty of evidence, however, proving that sunscreen can help reduce the risk of skin cancer, in particular non-melanoma skin cancer."
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In each episode of DiResta, artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. In this episode, Jimmy designs and casts his own signet skull ring. I want one! -Gareth Branwyn
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Ring making is something that's very accessible to makers. Carving wax is a very personal experience and one that requires practice. Luckily, the wax is cheep. My idea was to make a "stamp" so I can leave my mark. This made the carving easier because the face was flat. I used silicone to cast my ring and poured hot white metal into the silicone mold (the melting point is approx. 400 degrees). It's the type of metal used in costume jewelry. I found it online for sale by the pound. The silicone can take a few castings but soon begins to break down. Ultimately, I took a good casting in resin, cleaned it up, and brought it to a casting house in NY (Roni Casting) and had the ring made in sterling silver. The process was under $150.


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You will also have to add references to all those libraries and OpenMetaverseTypes library,
You will also have to add references to all those libraries and OpenMetaverseTypes library,
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Hello World
This brief tutorial is intended to get people started with developing applications with/for opensim using region modules and the opensim API. This approach to developing virtual world applications, unique to OpenSim, is a powerful alternative to the well-known inworld scripting approach. The very simple module available here writes "HELLO" with prims on every region of your opensim instance, and makes them move every 2 seconds or so. Please note:
- The opensim API is rapidly changing. The code available in this example has been written and tested for opensim release 0.6.0, which corresponds to SVN 7176. The example has also been tested for a more recent stable version, SVN 7320. You are encouraged to use 7176, if possible.
- You are also encouraged to try this code on the default standalone region first before running on a grid.
- The resulting dll will run both in Windows and Linux, but the building environment is assumed to be VC# on Windows. Users of other operating systems will be able to follow, though.
To get started:
- Download and install opensim (preferably 7176), and build it as normal. Run it once, so you create a default region and a default user. Then shut it down.
- Get this zip file: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/opensim/HelloWorld-current.zip. Unzip it somewhere.
- Before you go changing the code of the application, see its effect inworld by doing this:
- Grab HelloWorld/bin/Release/HelloWorld.dll and dump it in opensim/bin
- Start opensim as normal, and login to it.
You should see the word HELLO spelled out in prims, and moving every so often.
Are you ready to explore the code now?
Hold on. Before we do that, let me give you the 30-second introduction to Visual C#. Visual C# is similar to Eclipse, if you ever used that. When it builds, it places the resulting dll or exe in whatever folder you tell it to (right-click on the project->properties). By default it places them in bin/Release. When you compile it with debugging, that goes into bin/Debug. In spirit, the dll is equivalent to a jar file. That's what you want to produce and pass around. The PDB file can be ignored, unless you want to debug. The HelloWorld example uses the defaults of VC#, so every time you build it without debugging, the dll is placed under HelloWorld/bin/Release. To build without debugging information, simply right-click on the solution in the Solution Explorer window and choose Build.
Another note: the solution file included in the zip is for VC# 2005. If you have VC# 2008 that's fine too. Just double-click on the solution file, and VC# 2008 will convert the whole thing.
And now for the linux/mac/unix folk: We now have a nant default.build file included in the tutorial zip - just drop it in the same directory with the source. Note that for everything to go well, you will need to park your module source directory inside opensim/bin/. When you are ready to build, open a shell, change to the module source directory, and then run 'nant' without any args.
OK, now we're ready. Go ahead and double-click HelloWorld.sln.
The only class in this example is called HelloWorldModule. I know you're eager to get to the part where objects are created and moved around, but I'm afraid that's the easy part. In order to be able to write those functions effectively, you will need to understand a lot more of the engineering of these modules, and that's the part that's not so trivial, especially if you aren't familiar with VC#. So let me go through the code very slowly.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Reflection; using log4net; using Nini.Config; using OpenMetaverse; using OpenSim.Framework; using OpenSim.Region.Environment; using OpenSim.Region.Environment.Interfaces; using OpenSim.Region.Environment.Scenes;
This first part consists of a collection of "using" declarations. If you come from Java, those declarations are equivalent to "import" declarations. And you know what that means in Java: the jar files must be reachable for compilation to succeed. Same here: the dlls for those elements must be reachable for this project to build. Luckily for you, I have included those dlls in the zip file, so you don't need to add them. They are all happily bundled in HelloWorld/bin/Release. Go ahead and look there. However, as you start getting cozy with this code and you start wanting more, more, more, you will need more from the OpenSim API and even from other libraries. When that comes, you will need to add more dlls to your project. That is done through VC#, not on the file system directly! To add libraries ("References"), right-click on "References" in the Solution Explorer, and choose "Add Reference". A small window will pop up with a few tabs. If the library you need is under the System namespace, you want to interact with the .NET tab. If the library you need is from OpenSim you need to interact with the "Browse" tab; then, navigate to your installation of opensim bin, and pick the dlls you need.
namespace HelloWorld { public class HelloWorldModule : IRegionModule {
This second part is the namespace and class declaration. The only noteworthy thing here is the ": IRegionModule" part. What that means is that our class HelloWorldModule implements the IRegionModule interface, which means that we have to implement the 5 methods of that interface, namely: Initialise (yes, it's the British spelling...), PostInitialise, Close, Name, and IsSharedModule. But that's not all. OpenSim treats IRegionModule classes in a very special way. When OpenSim starts, it looks into all the dlls it can reach (under its bin) in search for classes that implement the IRegionModule interface. All of those classes are then acquired and run by OpenSim as if they were part of OpenSim.
And this is the key to OpenSim application development: you can add your own code, or somebody else's code, as a plug-in that runs natively on the server. Yeepie!
private static readonly ILog m_log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
This third block above is the declaration of the m_log variable. This variable helps us output messages into a log. I'm just using a common idiom that is used all over OpenSim and that uses log4net. If you come from Java, I'm sure this rings a bell... if you've never seen this, you don't need to understand it, just use it to output messages both onto the console and onto the OpenSim.log file.
List<Scene> m_scenes = new List<Scene>(); Dictionary<Scene, List<SceneObjectGroup>> scene_prims = new Dictionary<Scene, List<SceneObjectGroup>>(); int counter = 0; bool positive = true;
The fourth block of code is the declaration of a few instance variables for our HelloWorld example, and this is where we start getting acquainted with the OpenSim API.
- m_scenes will hold references to all the scenes. "What's a scene?", I hear you asking. A scene is OpenSim's representation of the contents of a region. If your opensim has only one region, there will be only one scene object; if it has more, there will be as many.
- scene_prims is a dictionary that associates scenes with a list of objects of type SceneObjectGroup. In the Java world this would probably be a Hashtable; in the .NET world it's a Dictionary. scene_prims will hold references to the prims that we will instantiate for constructing the world HELLO in each scene. An important note: if you look inside OpenSim's Scene class, you will see that it has a list of entities corresponding to all objects and avatars present in the scene. As we place prims in scenes, including these HELLO prims, they will be placed on that list. However, what we are doing here is constructing a set of prims that are special for our application and that we want to track throughout our application; they are our managed prims. As such, we want to hold references to those, and only those. That's what scene_prims is for.
- The other two variables, counter and positive, are explained later.
#region IRegionModule interface public void Initialise(Scene scene, IConfigSource config) { m_log.Info("[HELLOWORLD] Initializing..."); m_scenes.Add(scene); } public void PostInitialise() { m_scenes[0].EventManager.OnFrame += new EventManager.OnFrameDelegate(OnTick); foreach (Scene s in m_scenes) DoHelloWorld(s); } public void Close() { } public string Name { get { return "Hello World Module"; } } public bool IsSharedModule { get { return true; } } #endregion
The fifth block is the implementation of the IRegionModule methods. There's nothing much here, and this is how it should be: encapsulate all of your code in your own functions. Let's go through the most important of these methods:
- Initialise (I still can't get over this British spelling): this method is called by OpenSim when it is discovering all the IRegionModule classes in dlls. OpenSim sends us two parameters: a scene object and a configuration object. The configuration object allows us to browse through the OpenSim configuration, if we need that info. The scene object is the very important scene information that we want to hold on to; the scene object is our code's main link to OpenSim, it's how we get to access and modify things in the world and beyond. So the main thing our Initialise method does is to hold on to the scene object that OpenSim sends us.
- PostInitialise (argh, British spelling again): this method is called by OpenSim once everything is ready to go, that is, after OpenSim has properly set all the internal things it needs to set. You should look at PostInitialise as the Main method of our application modules. In this case, we are doing two things:
- We are subscribing to an OpenSim event called OnFrame. This event is the Heartbeat of the simulator, so if our module is to do things periodically, we may want to tag along this heartbeat. We are going to move the word HELLO periodically, that's why we're subscribing to this event. Note that this is not always the best approach, though. The simulator is a busy bee, and has to do lots of things already without our module being there. Tagging along the simulator's heartbeat means that we're making it do more stuff. If you're planning to develop modules with your own simulations, you're much better off defining your own timer object, because that will make the tick function run on a different thread than the simulator's heartbeat. But in this case, this is just HelloWorld, so we can abuse gently.
- For each scene, we are constructing the HELLO word.
- Close and Name are trivial -- see the documentation.
- IsSharedModule is very important, and may be a source of much grief. Here's the deal: OpenSim can either (a) instantiate our HelloWorldModule class exactly once, a singleton, independent of the number of regions; or (b) instantiate our HelloWorldModule class as many times as the number of regions, creating a different HelloWorldModule instance for every scene. These two modes are captured by the IsSharedModule method. If you want OpenSim to create a singleton, make this method return true ("yes, OpenSim, my module is shared"); if you want to create different instances for different regions, make this method return false ("no, OpenSim, my module is not shared among the regions"). Depending on your application, you may want one thing or the other. In this case, I want to centralize the management of my specially constructed prims, so I made it be shared. (In reality for this simple example, it wouldn't matter). But here's the important idiom: when you have a shared module, you want to have a list of scenes, just like the m_scenes variable in this example; when you have a non-shared module, you want to have only one scene variable declared in your module, so that would be "Scene m_scene;" instead of "List<Scene> m_scenes;"
Alright! If you read up to here, and followed the story, you're now ready to move on to the fun part.
void DoHelloWorld(Scene scene) { // We're going to write HELLO with prims List<SceneObjectGroup> prims = new List<SceneObjectGroup>(); // First prim: | Vector3 pos = new Vector3(120, 128, 30); SceneObjectGroup sog = new SceneObjectGroup(UUID.Zero, pos, PrimitiveBaseShape.CreateBox()); sog.RootPart.Scale = new Vector3(0.3f, 0.3f, 2f); prims.Add(sog); ... // Add these to the managed objects scene_prims.Add(scene, prims); // Now place them visibly on the scene foreach (SceneObjectGroup sogr in prims) { scene.AddNewSceneObject(sogr, false); } }
This method creates 12 SceneObjectGroup (SOG) instances corresponding to the 12 segments that constitute the word HELLO. BIG WARNING: SOG is currently under heavy redesign, and may be replaced with another class altogether in future versions of opensim. But for 0.6.0 SOG is tha man. SOG represents a linked group of objects, the linksets in SL, with root part and all. If you have your VC# open with HelloWorld, go to this method, and type, somewhere: sog. -- just like that, stopping at the dot. VC# will show you everything that is inside SOG instances. And that is A LOT! It's one of those monster classes! (and that's the reason why it's being redesigned) You should spend some time exploring what's inside SOG. In this example, I'm only using a couple of things: one of the constructors and the RootPart. For the RootPart, I'm only setting its Scale, i.e. the size of the prim.
At the end of this method, when all prims are instantiated, they're added to the list of managed prims (scene_prims) and they're finally made visible on the scene, by calling scene.AddNewSceneObject. The second argument to this method, false, means that we're telling OpenSim not to back these objects up on the DB; we want them to be non-persistent.
And finally we come to the end of the application:
void OnTick() { if (counter++ % 50 == 0) { foreach (KeyValuePair<Scene, List<SceneObjectGroup>> kvp in scene_prims) { foreach (SceneObjectGroup sog in kvp.Value) { if (positive) sog.AbsolutePosition += new Vector3(5, 5, 0); else sog.AbsolutePosition += new Vector3(-5, -5, 0); sog.ScheduleGroupForTerseUpdate(); } } positive = !positive; } }
This is the worker method in our application for every heartbeat of the simulator. Notice that I have a counter there so that things only move every 50 heartbeats. I also have a direction (positive) that can be true or false, so that the prims move back and forth. As you can see, the way to move prims is to set their AbsolutePosition property directly. After that, we tell opensim to schedule the object for an update, so that we can see it move. Note this last bit, the scheduling for updates, is still a fragile piece of the opensim API; we may need it here or not, depending on the version of opensim you're using.
Running on custom configurations (grids, alternate terrain) should work fine if you take into account the following:
- Make sure that the Z value in the C# code is above the terrain. Instead of 30,you may wish to raise or lower this value. Make sure to also modify 29 and 31, similarly.
- Change UUID.Zero to your a UUID for an avatar that has build rights on your region. You can replace "UUID.Zero" with "new UUID("your UUID string here")"
- This C# module will place "HELLO" on each region in your grid. If you want to make it so that "HELLO" appears in only one region, try this quick replacement:
foreach (Scene s in m_scenes) if (s.RegionInfo.RegionName == "YourRegionName") DoHelloWorld(s);
What Next
This is an example of 100 continuously moving blocks.
Here are some other suggestions for what you can do next, on your own:
- Change the Color of the prims
- Complete the example by creating prims for the word WORLD. For the W you probably need our beloved quaternions...
- Add more regions to your opensim and see what happens
- Change this module from shared to non-shared and see what happens (nothing much different, one hopes, in this simple case)
- Be more creative with the movement and make the prims move in circles
- ...
Remember, every time you make changes to the application code, and you build it, its dll is placed under bin/Release, so you have to copy it to opensim/bin. If you want, you can change the build settings of your application, so that it places the dll directly in opensim/bin.
Have Fun!
There is very little documentation about the OpenSim API. One of the reasons for that is that it is still evolving and therefore unstable. A reasonable place to look at the API is http://docs.opensimulator.org/namespaceOpenSim.html; in there, the most interesting place to start is the Region.Environment.Scenes namespace http://docs.opensimulator.org/namespaceOpenSim_1_1Region_1_1Environment_1_1Scenes.html.
The code itself is full of information, if you can cope with looking at too much information. Here's what I do and recommend: when you're developing these modules, have 2 VC# open, one with your application and the other with opensim. My experience with opensim is that the names of things are quite reasonable. So whenever you want something that you don't know exactly how to get, go to the opensim code and make heavy use of the Search functions, especially Edit->Find and Replace->Find in Files. VC#, just like Eclipse, also has those wonderful navigation facilities that take you to definitions from calls, etc. Just right-click on things in the code.
Update for OpenSim 0.6.4.1
To compile and run this example in OpenSim 0.6.4.1 you have to change using statements to this
using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Reflection; using log4net; using Nini.Config; using OpenMetaverse; using OpenSim.Framework; using OpenSim.Region.Framework.Interfaces; using OpenSim.Region.Framework.Scenes;
You will also have to add references to all those libraries and OpenMetaverseTypes library, or you can download updated project from my blog.
--Robert d
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Check out my article about accessing OpenSim classes from the MRM script.
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Found all 3 in my college library today, are they any good?
I've borrowed the first one, "Tales from the Mos Eisley cantina", and so far its pretty good.
Deepcrush wrote:Problem is that SW generally lacks scope and scale.
Thats the difference between SW/ST and 40k/DocWho.
Captain Seafort wrote:Huh? Deep, have you taken a look at the Death Star recently? Or Coruscant? Or thought about the term Galactic Empire? Sure, Wars tends to concentrate on the actions of a small group of individuals, but it's got fantastic scope and scale behind it.
Captain Seafort wrote:I'd lump Who into the first category. Sure, the possibilities for settings are literally endless, but the stories themselves are heavily focused on a small group of characters, more so even than Wars.
Deepcrush wrote:With Doctor Who there has always been information about the larger scale. The Doctor's refer to others taking part in grander things. The imagined scaled is reinforced by the characters even if the show doesn't show them. Much like DS9 did in the Dominion War.
Deepcrush wrote:The problem is as I stated that is always them and only them.
Captain Seafort wrote:I'm pretty sure the first one she encountered on the Tantive IV would beg to differ, as would quite a few on the Death Star, Bespin and Endor.
Tsukiyumi wrote:I remember reading somewhere that she's actually the most accurate shooting main character in the OT, percentage-wise.
I'll try to look that up again.
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Re: Basic Equipment rifles with Autofire... 1, 2, or 3???
Since the cost in EP is based on what the power would cost in PP, it's safe to assume one rank of Autofire.
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Bisons finish in 10th place in Murray Invitational
The Bisons golf team finished in 10th place in the the Murray State Invitational at Miller Memorial Golf Club. The second rounnd on Tuesday was canceled due to rain.
Alex Cox and Andrew Brock were leading the Bisons after the first round. Both were tied for 14th with rounds of 72.
Brock finished the second round with a 73. His 145 tied him for 18th. Cox shot an 80 in the second round. His 152 score tied him for 52nd.
Blanton Farmer tied for 34th after shooting a 74 in both rounds for a 148.
Brandon Mundie tied for 37th place with scores of 77 and 72 for a 149.
Samuel Marcrom are tied for 58th with scores of 77 and 79 for a 156.


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The U.S.-Iranian diplomatic train is rolling fast, with President Hassan Rouhani talking in an interview Wednesday about a three-month timetable for a nuclear deal. But Rouhani was also cautiously insistent about staying on the single track of the nuclear issue — perhaps fearing that if this becomes a runaway, it will derail.
The U.S.-Iranian diplomatic train is rolling fast, with President Hassan Rouhani talking in an interview Wednesday about a three-month timetable for a nuclear deal. But Rouhani was also cautiously insistent about staying on the single track of the nuclear issue — perhaps fearing that if this becomes a runaway, it will derail.
It was a careful Rouhani who sat down for a one-on-one interview here Wednesday morning, following a lengthy session with several dozen journalists and news executives. He appeared wary of using chits he may need in the negotiations or of complicating the diplomacy by raising issues of normalization, such as reopening embassies in Tehran and Washington.
Rouhani, wearing a white turban and his clerical robes, spoke slowly and deliberately; though he's fluent in English, he used a translator. As in other recent interviews, he wanted to show a new, moderate Iranian face — speaking at length with the larger group of journalists, for example, of the "crimes" the Nazis committed against the Jews.
This is a man who wants to "make haste slowly," as the Latin aphorism puts it. Here are some highlights of the interview:
Rouhani stressed that he is "fully empowered to finalize the nuclear talks" by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, a claim confirmed by Western intelligence reports. Analysts say Khamenei was surprised and rebuffed by the popular wave of support for Rouhani's moderate policies, and has given him a chance to cut a deal. The Iranian president wants to move very quickly to resolve the nuclear issue, through the "P5+1" negotiating group. Rouhani said his "choice" would be a three-month timetable, and that six months would still be "good," but this should be a matter of "months, not years." The speedy timeline may reflect the pressure of sanctions on the Iranian economy, or Rouhani's fear of a political backlash from conservative rivals. Whatever the reason, the time is short. Rouhani said he was prepared to offer extensive "transparency" measures to reassure the West that Iran doesn't intend to build a bomb. He likened these measures to what Iran allowed from 2003 to 2005, when he was Iran's chief negotiator, including acceptance of intrusive "additional protocols" from the International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as inspections to assess what the IAEA calls "possible military dimensions." Rouhani said Iran wants to join a new round of Geneva negotiations for a political transition in Syria, so long as there are no preconditions on Iranian participation. The Obama administration has tentatively decided to offer Iran a seat at these talks, reasoning that a stable political transition will be impossible if the Iranians aren't a co-guarantor. He said that in terms of a future government in Damascus, Iran would let Syrians decide at the ballot box; that's the standard Iranian formula. He stressed his desire to first resolve the nuclear issue, where he has the most expertise and authority from Khamenei. After that, he said, the U.S. and Iran can discuss broader issues of normalization.
I asked Rouhani what he would have said if he had met with President Obama this week, as the U.S. had wanted. He offered a blandly upbeat statement that "we would have talked about opportunities and hopes." But surely he avoided the Obama meeting because he knows he has limited time and scope, and doesn't want to make an early, overenthusiastic mistake.


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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has come out strong for passing a federal shield law. And maybe that's the one good thing — the only good thing — to come out of the recent controversy over the Justice Department's seizure of phone records at The Associated Press and the surveillance of Fox News reporter James Rosen.
The word "scandal" gets thrown around loosely in politics. But the fact that the government would intrude on the private communications of journalists merely seeking to do their jobs — to pursue the truth and tell it to the public — is scandalous. It is outrageous. It is the kind of government action one would expect in a banana republic or other totalitarian state, not America.
Shield laws are on the books in the great majority of states; in Virginia, a reporter's legal protections are established by case law. Shield laws help to protect the identities of reporters' confidential sources. They generally require that before demanding that a journalist reveal a source, the government must ask a judge to weigh whether the information should remain confidential. The government must issue a subpoena and give the reporter notice and a chance to be heard.
But there is not a current shield statute to cover any matters that arise under federal law. And despite the actions of Justice in seizing private phone records and keeping tabs on reporters' movements, Holder now wants to see one passed. Federal shield law proposals have been languishing in Congress for several years. A bipartisan group of senators and representatives already has the bill in the hopper.
The Free Flow of Information Act of 2013 (H.R. 1962/S. 987) was introduced this month in the House by Reps. Ted Poe, R-Texas; John Conyers, D-Mich.; and Trey Radel, R-Fla.; the Senate version was sponsored by Sens. Chuck Shumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsay Graham, R-S.C. The FFIA would ensure, at the federal level, that reporters could continue to do their jobs and the sources could disclose confidential information without the imminent threat of exposure and prosecution.
The FFIA does not give an unquestioned green light to report with impunity. Instead, it establishes a qualified privilege for reporters. If the government demands information, a judge would weigh whether to require a journalist to testify about confidential sources, including when the information relates to terrorism or some other threat to national security.
Passing the FFIA would put an end to inconsistency in the courts. In 2008, when a federal shield law proposal was before Congress, attorneys general in 41 states backed adoption of a federal standard.
The fact that there were state laws but nothing on the federal side caused uncertainty for journalists and sources. A federal law is needed.
And ultimately, the FFIA does not protect just reporters. It protects every citizen in this country. It preserves the public's right to know, one of the cornerstones of our freedoms. If a whistleblower fears that reporters will be compelled to reveal his identity, then he never will come forward. The important ability to hold the government accountable will be lost. Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the AP, said that Justice's seizure of the AP phone records already has had a chilling effect on journalism. He said officials who normally talk to AP reporters have become reluctant to do so. The reason: "They fear that they will be monitored by the government," Pruitt said.
The message for Congress is clear: Pass the federal shield law. Now.


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Injection into hip joint
Can you tell me how they do a steriod injection into the hip joint?
By "steroid injection," I'm going to assume that you mean a corticosteroid injection. The term "steroid" refers to a chemical that has a specific chemical structure that is similar to cholesterol. Corticosteroids are natural or man-made drugs that have a steroid chemical structure and are similar to the hormones made the cortex (outer part) of the adrenal gland. They are not at all the same thing as the anabolic steroids that we've heard about so much in the news lately. Anabolic steroids are natural or man-made versions of the male sex hormone testosterone.
Corticosteroids are used for a variety of reasons, many of which rely on these drugs' powerful anti-inflammatory effects. If your physician has suggested a corticosteroid injection in your hip it is most likely to control inflammation. If you are not sure why an injection has been recommended, you should discuss it with your physician until you understand your treatment clearly. Corticosteroid injections should only be performed by qualified and experienced physicians who are both familiar with the technique and with the guidelines for the uses of these medications.
There are actually several different kinds of problems that could be treated with these injections either in or around the hip joint. It's impossible to guess which is the one that fits your question, so I'll talk a little bit about some common ones. A very common "hip" injection is not for the hip at all. If your pain is on the outer part of your hip and if the outer side of your hip "snaps" when you walk, then your physician might be planning to inject a fluid filled sac called that greater trochanteric bursa. Bursae act like lubricating pads around muscles and joints and the one on the outside of the hip often becomes inflammed (bursitis). Corticosteroid injections often relieve the symptoms long enough for the bursitis to be treated with either rest or controlled exercise. This is done with a simple injection to the side of the hip.
If your pain in mostly in your groin instead of on the outer part of your hip, then your physician might be considering an injection of the hip joint itself or injecting around a nerve or tendon in the hip area. These injections are done for both treatment and also for diagnosis of certain hip problems. Corticosteroid injections for osteoarthritis (OA for short) of the hip are common. In fact, a paper released last summer in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatism showed that corticosteroid injections for hip OA reduced pain by 50% and pain relief lasted up to 3 months in some patients.
The injection into the hip joint itself is a little more tricky than the bursitis injection mentioned already. It is often given during fluoroscopy (live X-ray) or some other means of imaging. The physician use the imaging to guide the placement of the needle into the hip joint itself. While the injection only takes a few minutes, the whole procedure may take around a half-hour to an hour. A common way to do it is to have you lie on an X-ray table. The physician may want you to have an IV so they can give you medication to relax your muscles. They clean a small patch of skin on your hip and inject a small amount of numbing medicine. Then, while watching with the fluroroscope they guide a very flexible needle into the hip joint and release a little bit of contrast agent (dye) that they can see with the fluroscope. The dye helps them confirm that they are in the hip joint and not outside of it. The very flexible needle (called a spinal needle) is used to help prevent any damage to the cartilage in your hip joint. After the dye confirms that they are in the hip joint, they inject a mixure of corticosteroid and anesthetic (numbing medicine). Once the injection is done, they usually have you rest on the table for a little while (around 20 minutes). It often takes a few hours for the medicine to reduce your pain.
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Dell Earnings Not So Much a Beat in Analyst Eyes
Dell Inc. topped expectations for its fourth-quarter on Tuesday, a report that some felt boosted the arguments of shareholders who feel they are being cheated by an agreed-upon buyout.
But analysts on Wednesday are not so sure the results are anywhere near as good as they might have appeared.
The big item that the Street wasn't expecting was $250 million in "vendor settlements" which Dell didn't exactly elaborate on. Analysts didn't explain the settlements either, but did credit them with inflating margins and profits.
That didn't stop shares, which added another 4 cents on Wednesday and rose to $13.84, above the $13.65 offer price.


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Imagine the atmosphere as your team enters a toyshop full of giant sized construction pieces - a set of metal and plastic components, parts, nuts and bolts, ready to be made into mechanical models! The objective is to build a series of large contraptions which, when placed in the right sequence, perform an amazing chain reaction of events where each device triggers the next in an ingenious way.
Execution of every element of a plan needs to be perfect to create a knock on effect to other teams working towards the same goal. Working within time constraints means that good communication between teams is essential for the seamless integration of every team's efforts, leading to success in a spectacular finale.
Learning and development outcomes
If teams get everything right the final piece is triggered, the one tonne weight drops and the rat gets it (well not literally).
Rat Trap is a team building event where groups work collaboratively to achieve a common goal.
Rather than being led by instructions, teams use their own ingenuity to work out what goes where and who does what. This means the end result is a pure representation of their endeavours, resourcefulness and communication.
The trick with Rat Trap is for teams to be conscious of the bigger picture, as each structure has to be built in the right way and be placed in the right position for everything to work.
The end result, which started life as a room full of 'bits', never fails to inspire groups and show them what they are capable of when they apply a little teamwork and lateral thinking.


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CBS Corp. has officially taken control of TV Guide Digital, a property that includes TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile.
In March, CBS purchased half of TV Guide Digital from JP Morgan's One Equity Partners, forging a partnership with Lionsgate. CBS has now acquired Lionsgate's remaining 50 percent share in TV Guide Digital.
Also read: CBS to Acquire Stake in TV Guide, Share With Lionsgate
As part of CBS's full acquisition, TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile apps will become part of CBS Interactive's Technology, Games and Lifestyle group, which includes TV.com, CNET, GameSpot and Last.fm.
"TV Guide is one of the most-enduring and iconic brands in the world of television and video, and we're proud to welcome TV Guide Digital to the CBS Interactive family," CBS Interactive president Jim Lanzone said. "TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile have the biggest and most-engaged audiences in the valuable TV information category, making them a perfect fit for our portfolio of premium content brands."


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Christina Aguilera has confirmed No Doubt front woman Gwen Stefani will join the talent show "The Voice" as a coach.
Rumors that NBC wanted the "Don't Speak" singer to replace Aguilera while she takes time off during her pregnancy began to circulate earlier this month, and the "Dirrty" star appears to have now confirmed the news.
Aguilera wrote on her Twitter.com page on Tuesday, "So excited to have you join #TheVoice squad @GwenStefani! Welcome to our crazy fam (family)!"
Pharrell Williams is set to replace judge Cee Lo Green for the next series of the talent show competition, while singers Adam Levine and Blake Shelton are expected to keep their spots on the panel.
The seventh season of the show is due to start filming in June.
So excited to have you join #TheVoice squad @GwenStefani! Welcome to our crazy fam! Kisses- xoxo #blondesdoitbest
— Christina Aguilera (@xtina) April 29, 2014


text: Very young children are sometimes the hardest children to find books for. Their attention spans are very short, and their conceptual experience is limited. They like to chew on things. We are pleased to present to you some of the very best books of 2013 for babies, toddlers and young preschoolers. They are not all chewable, but they all meet the needs of this very important slice of the reading public.


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We are delighted to say that several of our wines won medals at the International Wine Challenge awards this year.
Bodegas Fariña had an especially good year, with the Gran Colegiata Reserva 1996 awarded Bronze while Gran Colegiata Campus 2000 and Gran Colegiata Roble Francés Crianza 1999 were awarded Seal of Approval. Valenciso Reserva 1999 (Rioja) from Compañia Bodeguera de Valenciso was also awarded Seal of Approval by the judges.


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I have a 5 gallon air pig that I want to use as a reservoir for vacuum bagging, so the vacuum pump isn't cycling on and off so much.
It's a standard one with a gauge, hose and a bleed valve for letting out the pressure. I removed the hose and put a straight connector for allowing excavation of pressure (vacuum) into the container.
Am I correct in assuming that when I removed the hose that there is no valves or anything between the opening and the tank?


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Given a homogeneous ideal I in a polynomial ring R over a field, one can compute a minimal graded free resolution of I (or R/I). The length of this resolution, called the projective dimension, is finite and at most the number of variables of R by Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem. When I has few generators in low degree, one expects that projdim(R/I) cannot be arbitrarily large, even when R has many variables. Stillman asked precisely for a bound on projdim(R/I) in terms of the degrees of the minimal generators of I. In this talk I will survey the history of this problem and recent developments toward a solution, including the exponential bound of Ananyan-Hochster in the case of ideals generated by quadrics, specific bounds for three-generated ideals in low degree by Eisenbud-Huneke and Engheta, and families of ideals with large projective dimension.No Notes/Supplements Uploaded No Video Files Uploaded


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With the Nov. 8 elections set to shuffle the ranks of the U.S. Congress, efforts to speed up the flow of federal oil money to coastal states could see new life.
With the Nov. 8 elections set to shuffle the ranks of the U.S. Congress, efforts to speed up the flow of federal oil money to coastal states could see new life.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., has long supported measures that would dedicate more tax money the federal government collects from the oil and gas industry to coastal states.
Landrieu co-authored a 2006 law that will send 37.5 percent of off-shore oil and gas royalties to the coastal states in which they are collected starting in 2017.
Landrieu and other supporters said such a system is only fair since coastal areas are investing in the infrastructure and taking on the risks necessary to support offshore energy production. It makes sense that some of the money that production brings in should help cover those costs, they said.
Last year, Landrieu pushed to accelerate the law so the money would reach coastal states faster. But her proposal failed to come to a vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, of which Landrieu is a member. Several members, including committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., argued the proposal would cost the federal government millions of dollars in lost revenue at a time when many legislators are focused on fighting the federal deficit.
Landrieu is still campaigning to have the law implemented sooner. With the elections set to reshape the committee's power structure, she said the chances of that happening might improve.
Earlier this month, Landrieu led Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on a tour of Southeast Louisiana. The visit included a helicopter trip over eroding coastlines and a tour and meeting at Port Fourchon.
Throughout the trip, Landrieu tried to hammer home a message to Wyden — the oil industry can't operate without the huge web of infrastructure housed in places like Fourchon. And unless Louisiana can get more resources to prevent huge coastal erosion, that infrastructure is in danger.
"Without Port Fourchon, we can't produce the oil and gas. It's as simple as that," Landrieu told Wyden during a bus tour. "Doesn't it make sense for some of the money that comes from oil production to come back here?"
Wyden is an important person to convince. If Democrats keep the U.S. Senate in November, he'll chair the committee. Should Republicans take the Senate, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, would head the committee.
Landrieu said both senators are more supportive of revenue-sharing than Bingaman. Murkowski, for example, helped Landrieu push for the revenue-sharing law to be moved forward.
While in Fourchon, Wyden said he was going to "do the due diligence" before taking any action but said he supported revenue sharing in principle.
"I think the argument is a good one," Wyden said. "Especially coming here and seeing how huge and complex this infrastructure is — it makes you appreciate what goes into it."
Local leaders said they're encouraged by signs Landrieu might be gaining ground on her proposal.
"My whole theory as parish president is the more money we can get to spend on improvements, the better off we are," said Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet. "It's my understanding that the money should be going toward coastal restoration, which is certainly something that would benefit us."
Claudet said many of the details have yet to be worked out. There are no plans yet for exactly how much each parish would get or how the money would be administered.
"So much depends on so many different actors," Claudet said. "But the news is certainly optimistic."
Chett Chiasson, port director at Fourchon, said he understands federal officials are hesitant to lose money. But he pointed out the energy sector collects more money for the federal government than any sector outside the Internal Revenue Service, so the government must invest more in the oil industry if it hopes to continue reaping rewards.
"Just like a business, you need to invest in the areas that are making money," Chiasson said. "And the federal government hasn't done that well at all."
In Fourchon's case, for example, Chiasson points out that land erosion has put La. 1, the only road into or out of the port, in a precarious spot.
"If we get a hurricane, all of a sudden we don't have reliable access to the port that provides services to almost the entire Gulf of Mexico," Chiasson said. "That's just a dangerous position for the industry to be in, and there should be money available to fix it."
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at email@example.com.


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Not long ago, I declared that the administration would soon have to decide whether to attack Iranian nuclear facilities or accept a nuclear Iran. The Washington Post reports, however, that the administration is concentrating instead on diplomatic initiatives.
The administration has succeeded in advancing the ball on the diplomatic front. As the Post notes, it has brought the issue to the Security Council, which is expected to declare Iran in violation of nuclear traaty obligations and demand that it suspend uranium enrichment. If Iran fails to do so, the next step would probably be an attempt to impose economic sanctions. Here, however, difficult questions arise — will Russia and China support tough sanctions; would even tough sanctions be enough to cause Iran to forego the development of nukes?
I continue to believe that the decision comes down to a choice between military action and accepting a nuclear Iran. But that doesn't mean that the diplomatic actions the administration is taking are misguided. Arguably, we will be in a better position to take military action against Iran if we have pursued our diplomatic options, as long as we don't wait too long.
The Post article concludes with an unnamed "Senate Republican leadership aide" claiming that, in light of the intelligence failures in Iraq, President Bush is constrained to the point that "it's hard to see [the Iranian situation] getting resolved under the Bush administration." I disagree. In my view President Bush will not pass this crisis on to the next administration, in part because that's not his style and in part because it's hard to see some of those with the best chance of succeeding Bush resolving the situation.
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