The current citadel on kastellholmen was built in 1845 to replace the original citadel when it was destroyed by an explosion. It was used to manufacture and store gun powder and ammunitions.
Since 1655 the Swedish naval ensign has been flown from top of the citadel to show that Sweden is not at war and is a free state. At least that is the story... At one time someone substituted the flag with a Norwegian one as a prank on the Norwegian national day.


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Art Space Tokyo is an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world by Ashley Rawlings and Craig Mod and a very beautiful book describing the buildings and neighbourhoods of 12 distinctive Tokyo galleries. There are maps for each of the areas, illustrations of the galleries by Nobumasa Takahashi (the cover is a composite map of Tokyo by Craig Mod) alongside interviews and essays.
Although here they were referring to the people who work in and with galleries and art they also applied this philosophy to the creation of Art Space Tokyo. Originally printed in 2008 the book was sold out by Spring 2009. In 2010 Ashley and Craig decided that they would like to update and reprint the book as well as create a free web edition for the iPad extending the original concept with videos of the spaces and interviews with local characters, sound-recordings that reveal the ambience of the neighbourhoods and rich interactive maps.
In the spirit of shared making, it was at this point that they turned to Kickstarter as a way to raise the money necessary to achieve their goal. Kickstarter allows people to advertise their project and ask for contributions towards realising it. Requested contributions for any project range from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars – with your reward increasing alongside your contribution. For example, a pledge of $25 Art Space Tokyo would have got you a PDF of the book plus access to all project updates. At the other end of the scale for a pledge of $2500 you would have received all of the rewards of the other pledge amounts (e.g. copy of the book, original artwork) plus a 1-day tour of the art spaces of Tokyo with Craig Mod.
Is this shared making? Well, yes, I think it is.. As they write in the preface art – or making – is a process not just a product and through Kickstarter Ashley and Craig were offering the opportunity to become part of this process. And I hope the benefits were mutual – they got to reprint the book, contributors got a tangible reward (and presumably a warm fuzzy feeling from helping out two artists).
p.s. If you were thinking of contributing you're too late… Ashley and Craig wanted $15,000. By 1 May when the pledges closed they had 265 backers and had raised $23,790!


Pool closings have been an issue for parks and recreation facilities over the years, with some of the reasons for the closures being that communities have had to make budget cutbacks or have delayed necessary upgrades to their pools.
"We started tracking pool closings around 2008. We found that it was becoming more than just an occasional thing," said Mick Nelson, facilities development director, USA Swimming, Colorado Springs, Colo., in a recent interview. He added that 1,800 pools have closed in the past six years.
There are a variety of reasons why pools close, including the fact that "Some [pools] may have lived their lifespan," Nelson said.
Pool operators and owners need to be aware that "you have to really put some money back into them and fix things when they start to go," Nelson said. "If you don't fix the $30 problem, next year it will be a $300 problem, and [could turn into] thousands and thousands of dollars," he said, adding that renovations and upgrades are not always planned for. "It's gonna happen if you ignore it."
Overall, park districts will have to look at things in a different way.
"Basically, the income is not enough. You can't just charge $5 and be able to cover pool maintenance. It doesn't come close to reaching [what you need]," Nelson said. "It's about income, the total budget, the whole business plan."
Nelson added that some pools also struggle because they might only be open successfully in June and July. "That's hard with only the two months that you can get a return on investment," he said.
A 2014 blog by Nelson stated that within a two-year period, between 2011 and 2013, USA Swimming found that nearly 1,100 commercial or intuitional pools were closed.
Older pools ignoring or delaying upgrades and repairs to the point that the pool cost more to fix than any budget could handle.
Pools relying on simple "day pass" income and water rental rather than offering total aquatic programming options.
Budget cutbacks by cities and schools, where rather than revamping the aquatic program offerings for the community, the "people in charge" of the budget simply close the pool.
Educate the people responsible for the "fate of the pool" about programming offerings and pricing and maintenance escrows in budget.
Offer advice and assistance in the best practices for pool operations and renovations.
Supply an Aquatic Programming Manual (at no charge) to help increase the pools community value and revenue.
Try to make sure all new facility designs have at least two pools, the main pool and a warmer-water, smaller pool for teaching aquatic programming. Programming precedes design.


As we progress in rank it would be really nice to be able to sell off our old/useless equipment in bulk. At Prestige 2 Gold 3 one no longer has any use for the stacks of Military (green) gear recieved from supply boxes and Gang Fights so it would be nice to be able to select a rank of equipment and sell all. Otherwise it just sits and clutters the inventory as the idea of sliding things to the corner of the screen for half an hour every couple days is rather unappealing.
Are you serious? Sliding things in corner takes no longer that 10-15 seconds for regular daily rewards (including watching ads for more boxes).
In one of previous All Stars events where rewards included 10 GIANT boxes or so with 24 parts each plus magic toolboxes, that indeed took closer to 1/2 hour and was a bit painful to get rid most of them but not this!
Perhaps I can suggest you when a new box is opened, throw parts away (or fuse them) rather immediately than build up the garbage and in that case I have a question, do you do things equally in your home too? Just clean up the mess before it is grown up to the point it takes several hours to fix for god's sake!
What's with the trash talk? Why are you commenting on how people live? Not everyone plays or lives the same way as you. Are you like that at home too?
I wouldn't mind having a way of mass selling items either. It is tedious. I have my own reasons of why I let them build up and I don't feel inclined explaining them to the likes of you.
Well, if some people are too lazy to do a few swipes a day and consider it awfull time wasting (in the same time spending hours to do other useless things) then I have nothing to add.
Kinda reminds me of some websites who put useless crapbutton (taking up screen space) on bottom corner of the screen to do an autoscroll because some lazy people can't reach the home button on keyboard or a few websites who do autoscroll to the last post (on mobile browsing), again, to please a few lazy people.
Get the point? How many people are like you or the OP? Why create an option that only some will find usefull? Besides, how you will manage to exclude items that you do not want to sell (ideal bodies, +120%'s, etc.), if you are too lazy sliding items then finding right ones in the mess will be easier? Yeah, right.
Why are you even bothering to post in Ideas? I would never allow that kind of attitude in my product development group. It stifles creativity and innovation while adding nothing. It further shows a lack of imagination and problem solving capability.
Why do you assume that people are lazy? Perhaps they are playing more actively than you and wish to increase efficiency in a way that matches their playing style? Again, what's with your toxic unproductive attitude? That's the real clutter. You could've just said nothing.
There's no requirement to post perfect flawless ideas here. That's not the point. It's unlikely that the developers would take any idea from the forum and implement it exactly as stated. Instead, it's a place where they can get a feel for what people want and collect ideas on how they might improve their product. Most of the ideas posted are never going to happen. The developers know what they are doing and ignore many ideas because they are aware of the challenges and pitfalls of trying to implement them. They don't need someone to come in and try to stop the flow of ideas for them.
Don't tell me what to do. The reason I'm quoting your post is so that you can't go back and edit it and pretend that you weren't being arrogant and close minded. If you want to stop the clutter, stop disparaging people that you don't know.
Guys, let's settle down. Differences of opinions are natural but remember to keep it civil and respectful.
@GreedyCat it's OK to disagree with someone but this should be an inviting place for people to share ideas. If you have something constructive to say, feel free. But please avoid being confrontational.
As for the original idea, I don't think it's so bad. I would have used it before prestiging to sell all my parts for gold to buy outfits, before I already bought all the outfits.
To build on the idea, it might be nice to be able to "favorite" some parts and group those together. Then the option to sell all non-favorited parts would be appealing.


CES 2009: Seagate has announced that it has begun shipping its new 1TB Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive, which packs an impressive 500GB per platter for the first time.
The company has achieved this feat thanks to achiving an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch on its latest platters - the highest the industry has seen to date.
The higher areal density should mean higher performance and potentially lower power consumption from fewer platters. Seagate claims the drive hits sustained data rates of 160MB/sec, up from the 115MB/sec of its previous 1TB drive.
This new platter technology will also be available in drives with 750GB and 500GB capacities with 32MB and 16MB cache options as well. Curiously though, there is no word on when we can expect to see a three-platter 1.5TB 7200.12 drive to replace the four-platter Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB drive we reviewed last week.
We suspect a four-platter 2TB drive won't be far away, either - we'll be keeping our ears to the ground over the next few days.
There's no word on pricing yet, but we suspect it'll hit a similar price point to Seagate's current 1TB offering. Do you think it'll be able to challenge the Samsung Spinpoint F1's crown? Share your thoughts in the forums.
Seagate has announced plans to launch a HAMR-based hard drive with double the storage capacity of PMR-based models.
Seagate announces its first hard disk drive with individual platters offering 1TB of storage.
Hitachi, in conjunction with NEDO, has developed a technology for producing 24TB HDDs.


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product > Support or downloads.
install them using the supplied software CD.
Make sure that the machine is powered on.
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The driver is automatically installed from the Windows Update.


I have a well documented love of Inca cotton yarn – it's a thick slubby cotton yarn with a good amount of stretch (well, for a cotton yarn) and a very soft feel. So I was very pleased to learn that the Woodstock Wool Company makes a hand painted version called Cotton Candy. Yay! This site is in frames (grumble) so to get to the page for the yarn click on the Our Stuff button at the top, then scroll the lower right menu until see the label of the nekkid lady, like you see pictured over there <--.
I was a little afraid that the soft hand of the yarn might be lost in the dying, but it wasn't. The yarn maintains that soft feel, and none of the springiness was lost either. The colors were brighter than I was expecting too, a very pleasant find. Cotton Candy yarn comes in seven color versions and I don't think the picture of the baby kimono they have on the site does the yarn justice. This hat was made using Tinker Street.
The pattern uses a tubular (Kitchener Rib) cast on because I'm learning about it. I used the instructions for hte Cross-over for 2×2 Rib on pages 22 and 23 of the Big Book of Knitting. Use a regular cast on at your own risk. This pattern is in two sizes: smaller[larger]. I used #8 needles, a 16″ circular to begin with, two circulars at the start of the decreases, and switched to dpns at the tippy top. I also used some straight #6s for the tubular cast on.
Using your spare yarn cast on 37 (you will end up with 72 stitches when you're ready).
Work the tubular cast on for the four rows, do the row making the cross over adjustments then join. This join is the center back point, you won't lose this since the little tail is there, but I refer to the center back later on. When you start the first row of 2×2 rib you'll start the join, at the join point you'll have an extra knit stitch, knit two together here to get rid of that.
Work in 2×2 rib for 24 to 28 rows, err on more rows. I found 34 rows to be about 4 rows too many for the largest head in this house.
Continue working in round, slip the marker, then ssk, then continue in pattern. You'll be creating three decrease points.
Work until 6 stiches are left. Yes, six. You might need to switch to dpns to get this far. I always get that Irritation Knitting feeling getting up this far but it's worth it.
Now, thread the yarn end through the six stitches and pop the tail through to the inside of the hat. You should have a relatively tidy point. Using the tail at the center back point, join the extra little area left from the cast on and tuck the tail into the inside stitches of the hat.
You're done, and you're cute!
** You could use k2tog for your decreases instead, but you'll need to remember to place the marker so that you don't knit through it, meaning, place the marker somwhere after the k2tog will actually happen so that you would work like this: k2tog, k, slip maker, p, p, etc… I found this too fidly to try to explain, and I kinda like doing ssk, so I used ssk for this pattern. If any of this makes sense to you feel free to make your own modifications.
Lovely,and so easy to make ,great idea to use your left over yarn.
OMG! This is adorable. Love the pattern and the colors!!!!
Hi! I know this was knit quite a while ago but do you remember if the pattern used the entire ball of yarn?


Do you know how amazing you could feel?
Do you know how awesome you would feel if you were consistently optimizing every area of your life?
First, to be clear, I didn't make any assumption; I simply asked questions. Folks who listen to the podcast know that I'm a huge believer in the power of questions. I value the questions a whole lot more than I value the answers.
I am fully aware that someone can say, "Yes! I do know how amazing I can feel!!" Awesome!
Even in that case, we're never too good to be better!
I also know that some people don't know how amazing they can feel and I want them to start thinking about what they can do today to create that feeling.
Some people might know how great they can feel, but they aren't doing the work.
I want to get everyone in all categories thinking about how they can make every day a great day.
If you know how amazing you can feel, there's opportunity for you.
If you don't know how amazing you can feel, there's opportunity for you.
No assumptions, just questions and opportunities.
While I absolutely give myself the benefit of the doubt and I'm absolutely proud of how far I've come, the truth for me is I don't think I know how amazing I can feel. I'm still learning. I'm still getting better every single day and I work to encourage myself to keep getting better.
It's not a critical perspective. It doesn't reflect doubt. It's not negative in any way. I personally want to continue to get better and better and I find that exciting.
I respect that not everyone feels the same way, but all I can do is share my thoughts from my perspective.
I've been listening to your podcast while running and have lost twenty pounds and improved my life in a ton of ways…..Thanks from Colorado.
Congrats on your amazing progress! That's so exciting! I haven't done an episode on bee pollen yet but I'll add it to the list!
Yes!!!! What you said EB!!! Your listeners are very grateful that you share your thoughts from your perspective. Your thoughts and perspective help positively shape us every day. Thanks for all you do.
I get glimpses of how amazing I can feel. I'm learning what it takes for me to feel that. Now what I need to work on is consistency and going after that feeling every day!!
Thank you EB for your daily motivation.


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Adventure Comics #522 Review
Some guy called Sun Killer tries to spring Saturn Queen from the ship taking her to Takron-Galtos. Mon-El shows up and stops him. Also some kind of blue space baby is there; Saturn Queen prays to him in her sleep, but he leaves when he sees Dyogene (who's there accompanying Mon-El). Dyogene and the blue space baby are apparently some kind of old enemies.
Dawnstar's still comatose on Medicus One and Dr. Gym'll says it doesn't look good. There's also something going on with Harmonia Li, who's on her way back to Earth.
Look at what Levitz has done here. With Dawnstar, I mean. The plot requires that the Legion not be able to find Mon-El, and that they not be able to find Chief Zendak. Therefore Dawnstar's powers can't be available to them. Therefore Dawnstar has to be in a coma.
This is the whole trouble with Dawny. Her powers are just too useful for her to be allowed to use them. DnA had it right when they made up Shikari: the power to find a place is a lot easier for a writer to cope with than the power to find a person.
Anyway, it's kind of clumsy, don't you think? Put her in a coma to patch a plot hole? Levitz shouldn't let me see him palming a card like that.
Adventure Comics continues to be neither fish nor fowl. This issue, while a complete comic book superhero story (don't get me wrong), seems like an appendix to the main LSH title. Maybe Adventure will get an identity of its own once the Legion Academy stuff starts; I hope so.
Anyway, while it was complete--Mon-El, in his first act as a Green Lantern, stops a prison break, and obviously needs a lot more training with the ring--it doesn't seem entirely standalone. If we only had two issues of Mon-El's initiation with the GLC, shouldn't they have taken us further into it? It feels like the start of something that's not going to be finished. Oh, and the stuff with Saturn Queen and her LSV is fine... but it's also something that's going to be resolved in the main LSH title, not this one.
Imagine if you were only collecting Adventure and not paying attention to anything else DC was doing. Do you think you'd find it a satisfying experience?
I feel like I'm dancing around the point. What was the meat of this issue? I guess it was Sun Killer himself. He seems like an interesting sort of a supervillain. He's motivated, he's got a clear sense of his limitations, he's got something intriguingly nonstandard about his powers (taking the light from the cold world of Orivan?), and he's very polite. I think Levitz has a keeper here. (Despite the fact that the Legion's had more sun-powered villains than any two superhero teams can use.)
- Sun Killer is the latest in a long line of Japanese solar-themed supercharacters. Isn't it just as easy not to be stereotypical?
- Tellus has hands again in this issue.
- I'm not sure if Sun Killer is supposed to be the thing that launched itself out of the Olduvai Gorge last issue and took out Wildfire and Dawnstar. Somehow I think he isn't.
- Or maybe the space baby is the thing from Olduvai. I like that better.
- That's Sun Killer on the cover of the LSV special coming in March. I wonder if Cryo-King will also put in an appearance.
Panel Count: 84 panels/20 pages = 4.2 panels/page. One single-panel page. The art this month is provided by Geraldo Borges and Marlo Alquiza, and it looks okay. Not the best, but fine. I liked the Harmonia Li parts most of all.
Oh! Let me talk about the cover! I just realized something. The Legion symbol that's used on the cover? Circle, inside of which is a letter L, and in the crook of the L is a shooting star arcing down?
Has anybody ever speculated on just what that shooting star represents?
I put it to you that it represents a small rocket carrying the young Last Son of Krypton down to the surface of the Earth.

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On October 16. Just got the email. Sweet!
Hah, you beat me to it!
La la la la lay!!!!
anyone going to the IBC? .... they will be showing Fusion 7 live!
someone record the IBC session, please!
Hell yeah, have some record like Xmare says ?


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Ericsson Needs Better Info
Arindam Nag and
Matthew Curtin
Updated Oct. 29, 2007 12:01 am ET / Original Jan. 20, 2020 10:05 am ET
Dow Jones Global Indexes | Global Stock Markets
TWO THINGS HAVE HAPPENED since Ericsson warned in mid-October that third-quarter profits would be lower than expected. Investors have received more detailed numbers from the telecom-infrastructure company, and Ericsson (ticker: ERIC) has replaced its chief financial officer.
Together, both developments lead to one conclusion: After 18 months of quarter-to-quarter stability, the company's weak internal controls and selective disclosure have come home to roost, damaging its reputation with the many investors and analysts who had been taken in. What we're talking about here are the controls that enable the CFO's financial team to get an early warning of weakening profitability, allowing it to alert the board and investors in good time.
At the heart of Ericsson's problem is its failure to grapple with a history of lax management of its working capital, in particular its receivables, combined with the decision to slash prices on its network gear to undercut the competition in recent quarters. Ericsson's working-capital management has been below par for some time. Its cash-conversion cycle -- essentially, the time it takes to transform inventory into cash -- is down from 188 days in 2002 to 135 days at the end of the latest fiscal year. But that is well above Nokia's (NOK) 24 days and Alcatel-Lucent's (ALA) 51 days.
Drilling down further, Ericsson's problem is with its receivables. The cycle is running an average 115 days, improved from 171 days in 2002 but higher than the industry average. Nokia's, in contrast, is 50 days. At Nortel Networks (NT), which also has a poor cash-conversion record, the receivables cycle is 92 days.
Alcatel-Lucent's receivables are higher than Ericsson's at 136 days, but then Alcatel-Lucent also takes longer to pay its suppliers, with days payable at 175, offsetting the time it gets customers to pay their bills. The bottom line is that Ericsson is paying out cash far more quickly than it comes into the business, which is a sign of weak management in the best of times.
The situation is even worse when management has been so ready to sacrifice profit margins on some products. Consider mobile infrastructure: In the third quarter of 2006 Ericsson generated sales of €26.7 billion, and €5.6 billion of operating profit. That's a margin of 21%. A year later on broadly similar sales, the margin was just 8%.
That suggests there have been some big changes in the product and price mix at Ericsson, little of which the company has told the market. The profit warning and CFO change follow an investor day a month ago when the company was upbeat about its prospects.
The margin differences in mobile infrastructure were exposed this quarter because Ericsson's sales of software and higher-margin upgrades disappointed, another indication of how the company has overlooked bad news and played up better news. Its acknowledgment that it was aware of the squeeze on profit only a few days before it issued a warning again points to slack work in the CFO's office.
The big challenge new CFO Hans Vestberg faces is restoring confidence among investors. He has to put in place a robust system of getting more granular information about Ericsson's business, and not be shy about telling his investors about it. In other words, he needs to shine some light into what has become an Ericsson black box.
ING is one of the institutions yet to tell its full story about exposure to the subprime crisis. Investors no doubt will focus on that when interim results are released early next month.
ING (ING) might be lucky if that's all they look at, since the company has more to worry about. Several supposed growth engines, including its U.S. retirement services and part of the Asian business, have been sluggish lately.
When ING released second-quarter results Aug. 8, the credit turmoil hadn't yet worsened. Since then, the ABX BBB-07-01 index, a bellwether for subprime mortgages, has fallen 45%. At the time, ING said it had €3.2 billion in assets backed by subprime securities, of which 93% were rated high investment grade. The ratings agencies since have downgraded residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Only two weeks ago, Moody's slashed ratings on $33.4 billion of 2006 RMBS.
ING's problems go even further in the Alternative-A segment of mortgages, which require less documentation than straight loans. On its second-quarter call, it said it held €2.6 billion of such assets in its insurance portfolio. ING Direct had another €25 billion of what could be categorized as Alt-A. Moody's said a few days after ING's second-quarter call that it was revising its ratings method for Alt-A mortgages, a change that would raise estimates of cumulative loan losses.
Then there's the leveraged-finance portfolio. ING said Aug. 8 it had €5.2 billion on its books, spread over 210 deals. It was looking to syndicate €2.3 billion in 14 transactions. The syndication market hasn't fared well since.
Loyal investors might prefer to focus on long-term growth. But ING doesn't look as healthy here as some think. The sluggish growth prospects in Benelux banking and insurance are widely known. ING has enjoyed a premium rating over Benelux peers because of its international footprint. But some of its international operations are looking anemic.
Asia Pacific annual premium sales in the second quarter, at €384 million, were the lowest in four quarters. Sales of annual premiums, single premiums and annual-premium- equivalent sales were sluggish in most areas outside of Australia and New Zealand.
ING is a big player in the U.S. pension industry, due to an acquisition-fueled growth strategy. But competition is biting. U.S. variable-annuity sales fell 5% in the first quarter, before growing 2% in the second. Aegon's (AEG) grew 2% in the first quarter and 12% in the second, while AXA (AXA) saw 12% growth in the first quarter and 18% growth in the second, suggesting that ING is lagging its peers. Net flows of assets have weakened as well.
ING's shares currently trade for 1.78 times the company's book value, a premium to some of its peers. There are plenty of reasons to see that multiple as threatened.
Investors pushed Vivendi shares up almost 5% Friday on news the company (VIV. France) bought an extra 2% stake in Maroc Telecom (IAM.France). But the enthusiasm may be too much, too soon.
As sound as Maroc Telecom is, Vivendi still hasn't proved it can tidy up its portfolio. It trades at an estimated 10% discount because of its conglomerate status. Buying out some minorities and selling other stakes is the only way to remove that penalty, but Vivendi isn't likely to do so. Its most important unit by revenue is SFR, but its minority partner, Vodafone (VOD), has little incentive to sell its own SFR stake. And Vivendi can't afford to sell its stake.
Lagardere (MMB.France), a junior partner in Canal Plus (AN.France) to Vivendi's 65% senior-partner role, isn't saying how committed it is. Vivendi has little option but to wait for Lagardere to make up its mind. It could buy up some small stakes held by TF1 and M6, France's leading terrestrial broadcasters, but that doesn't fully tidy up the ownership. Vivendi also is a minority owner of Neuf (NEUF.France), the fixed-line operator, but the controlling shareholder isn't selling.
Vivendi's stake in Poland's telecom sector -- valued at nothing on its books -- remains compromised by an acrimonious dispute with Deutsche Telekom (DT) over who owns Elektrim. The French company can hardly buy or sell something it may not possess.
Before Friday's move Vivendi shares had fallen about 8% since July, when the credit crisis started unfolding. Its performance is in line with Europe's media sector, but out of line with telecoms, and Vivendi gets two-thirds of its operating profit, excluding minorities, from its telecom units.
Vivendi is a broad-based, highly cash-generative media group with strong industrial positions and a dividend yield of around 4%. It is the world's leading recorded-music and music-publishing company, and France's top pay-TV company. The good fortune it had in buying the developers responsible for the hit online-videogame World of Warcraft has given the company some unexpected gloss. But getting excited about management's willingness to buy out minority shareholders overlooks the obstacles to actually doing so.
ARINDAM NAG, who writes from London, and MATTHEW CURTIN, in Paris, contribute to The Skeptic, a Dow Jones Newswires column on which this European Trader is based.
E-mail comments to: editors@barrons.com


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Rio 2016 Olympic Previews: Australia Chasing WR in Women's 400 Free Relay
As we head into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Australia looks like the team to beat in the women's 4x100 free relay. This year, the Aussies have 3 women under 53 seconds, with Cate Campbell (52.06), Bronte Campbell (52.58), and Emma McKeon (52.80) sitting 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the World Rankings. Archive photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
2016 Rio Olympic Games
Event PageEvent Previews Watch on TV Men's Entry List Women's Entry List Official Rio Website Olympic Trials Watch 2012 Women's Races Watch 2012 Men's Races Athlete Social Media Links Lane Assignments Day 4 Prelims Live Stream Day 4 Finals Live Stream Day 5 Prelims Live Stream Day 5 Finals Live Stream Day 6 Prelims Live Stream Day 6 Finals Live Stream Day 7 Prelims Live Stream Day 7 Finals Prelims Live Stream Day 8 Finals Live Stream
Olympic Swimming Schedule
Saturday, August 6th 2016
9:00 A.M. Pacific / 12:00 P.M. Eastern
NBC Stream (US Only)
CBC Stream (Canada Only)
M 400 IM
W 100 Fly
M 400 Free
W 400 IM
M 100 Breast
W 4 x 100 Free Relay
6:00 P.M. Pacific / 9:00 P.M. Eastern
W 100 Fly Semi
M 100 Breast Semi
Sunday, August 7th 2016
W 100 Back
W 100 Breast
M 100 Back
W 400 Free
M 4 x 100 Free Relay
M 200 Free Semi
W 100 Breast Semi
M 100 Back Semi
W 100 Back Semi
Monday, August 8th 2016
M 200 Fly
W 200 Free – Semi
M 200 Fly Semi
W 200 IM — Semifinal
Tuesday, August 9th 2016
M 4 x 200 Freestyle Relay
Wednesday, August 10th 2016
W 4 x 200 Freestyle Relay
W 100 Free Semi
M 200 IM Semi
M 50 Free
M 50 Free Semi
Friday, August 12th 2016
W 50 Free
M 1500 Free
W 4 x 100 Medley Relay
M 4 x 100 Medley Relay
W 50 Free Semi
Saturday, August 13th 2016
There are no preliminaries on day 8.
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Women's 4×100 Free Relay
2012 Olympic Champion: Australia (Coutts, Campbell, Elmslie, Schlanger), 3:33.15
2015 World Champion: Australia (Seebohm, McKeon, B. Campbell, C. Campbell), 3:31.48
World Record (2014): Australia (B. Campbell, Schlanger, McKeon, C. Campbell), 3:30.98
Cate and Bronte Campbell (Photo: Tim Binning)
At the last Olympics in 2012, a heated battle between Australia and the Netherlands in the women's 4×100 free relay saw the Aussies come out on top, setting a new Olympic Record to win the race by tenths. As we head into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Australia looks dangerous to repeat and we could see a World Record go down.The Aussies dominated this race at last summer's World Championships, coming within half a second of the World Record with their 3:31.48.
On that relay, sisters Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell ran away with the back half, rolling to 51.77 and 52.22 splits respectively. The duo will team up again in Rio, and they've been looking even better this year. Just a month ahead of Rio, Cate Campbell broke the World Record in the 100 free, posting a 52.06 to clip the old record by a hundredth. As they go after the Olympic gold, we could see both sister split sub-52 to help the Aussies get to the wall first.
This year, Australia has 3 women under 53 seconds, with Cate Campbell, Bronte Campbell (52.58), and Emma McKeon (52.80) sitting 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the World Rankings. Their next fastest is Brittany Elmslie, who is currently tied at 10th in the World Rankings at 53.54. With 4 women in the top 10 this years, the Australians are, without a doubt, the favorites heading into Rio.
Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Photo: Tim Binning)
Looking to knock the Aussies from the top of the podium will be the women from the Netherlands, who were 2nd in this race in London and at the 2015 World Championships. Olympic veterans Ranomi Kromowidjojo (53.12) and Femke Heemskerk (53.72) will make the dutch women hard to beat, sitting 5th and 15th in the world this year, respectively. Kromowidjojo swam the flat start leg of the race last summer, but she's proven herself as a valuable anchor before with a sub-52 split in London, closing the race in 51.93. Heemskerk has also posted scorching times from a rolling start, anchoring last summer's relay with a 51.99 split to move ahead of Team USA.
The Netherlands' medal chances depend heavily on their other two legs, which will be filled by Inge Dekker, Maud van der Meer, or Marrit Steenbergen. Van der Meer and Steenbergen swam the middle two legs of the relay at Worlds last summer, with splits of 54.50 and 53.88, respectively. To get a top 2 finish in Rio, they'll likely have to have all 4 women swim sub-54.
Abbey Weitzeil (photo: Mike Lewis)
Coming off a bronze at the last Olympics, Team USA will be looking to move up on the podium. This summer, Abbey Weitzeil and Simone Manuel bring fresh sprint talent to the American table, having finished in the top 2 in the 100 free at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials. Weitzeil has been inching closer to the 52-mark, posting a personal best 53.28 at Trials. Manuel has a similar best of 53.25 from 2014, but her season best so far is a 53.52 from Trials.
Joining those two will be Lia Neal, Allison Schmitt, and Amanda Weir, who were all a part of this relay in London. All 3 women finished in the 53.7-53.8 range at Trials, and should be able to improve those times from a rolling start. Also on the squad will be Dana Vollmer, who swam a textile best time in the 100 free this year with a 53.59 at Charlotte PSS. The Americans have the potential to be significantly faster than they were last summer, posting a 3:34.6 with a pair of 53-highs, a 54-low, and a 53.09 anchor from Manuel.
Sarah Sjostrom (Photo: Tim Binning)
Also a medal threat in this race is the team from Sweden, which will bring in Sarah Sjostrom, Michelle Coleman, and Louisse Hansson. Sjostrom and Coleman give the team two 100 freestylers ranked in the top 10, with Sjostrom at 3rd and Coleman (53.54) tied for 10th. Sjostrom has a season-best 52.78, and rolled to a 52-low on the relay last summer. Hansson hasn't broken 55 yet this year, but she's proved herself as a valuable member of the relays, splitting a 53.84 on the 2nd leg at Worlds.
The big difference maker for Sweden will be their 4th swimmer, as they'll need their next fastest member to swim at least a 54 split. Anchoring the relay at Worlds was Magdalena Kuras with a 55.04, but she won't be on the relay as she didn't make the roster this summer. The most viable options on the roster are Ida Marko-Varga and Ida Lindborg. Marko-Varga is their 3rd fastest so far in 2016, with a 55.14 from the Swim Open in Stockholm that puts her a couple tenths ahead of Lindborg (55.36). With 55-low flat starts, we could see either of them split sub-55 on the relay, which would go a long way in helping the Swedes to a medal.
Penny Oleksiak (Photo: Chris Tanouye)
Also in contention for finals spots in Rio are the teams representing Canada, Italy, China, and France. Each of these 4 nations were in the final at the 2015 World Championships, with Canada leading the way in 5th. Canada will bring Chantal Van Landeghem, Michelle Williams, and Sandrine Mainville to Rio after all 3 were a part of that Worlds relay. The fresh face joining them this summer will be up and comer, Penny Oleksiak, who is the fastest Canadian this year with a 53.31 for 8th in the world rankings. Van Landeghem has also been sub-54 this season, posting a 53.91 at Canadian Olympic Trials.
The fastest French swimmer in the 100 free this season has been Charlotte Bonnet, who currently holds a season-best time of 53.80 from the Monaco stop of the Mare Nostrum tour. Bonnet will head to Rio with Beryl Gastaldello, her teammate from the Worlds relay. Gastaldello currently sits in the world's top 30 with a 54.10 from the 2016 French Championships.
Federica Pelligrini, (Photo: Tim Binning)
Italy will bring in Olympic veteran Federica Pellegrini on this relay, who makes a dangerous relay weapon for the Italians as she's currently 6th in the world with a 53.18. That time, which she swam at the Settecolli Trophy, was a new Italian National Record for Pellegrini, breaking her own previous mark of 53.55. One of the women joining her in Rio will be Silvia Di Pietro, who had the fastest split for the Italians at Worlds last summer with a 53.63 on the 2nd leg.
Interestingly, China will not bring their fastest 100 freestyler of the year, Qiu Yiuhan, to Rio for this relay. Qiu has been the only Chinese woman to swim sub-54 in 2016, posting a 53.90 at the 2016 Chinese National Championships. Instead, the Chinese 4×100 free relay roster includes Shen Duo, Tang Yi, Sun Meichen, Tang Yuting, and Zhu Menghui. The fastest of the group so far this year is Menghui, who holds a season-best 54.19 from the 2016 Aquatic Super Series meet in Australia.
Women's 4×100 Meter Free Relay Top 8 Predictions:
Place Team Predicted Time
1 AUS 3:30.7 WR
2 USA 3:33.2
3 NED 3:33.5
4 SWE 3:35.0
5 CAN 3:35.4
6 FRA 3:36.4
7 ITA 3:36.6
8 CHN 3:36.8
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Abbey Weitzeil
Allison Schmitt
Amanda Weir
Brittany Elmslie
Bronte Campbell
Cate Campbell
Chantal Van Landeghem
Charlotte Bonnet
Dana Vollmer
Emma McKeon
Federica Pellegrini
Femke Heemskerk
Lia Neal
Penny Oleksiak
Ranomi Kromowidjojo
Sarah Sjöström
Simone Manuel
5wimmer
USA will miss the podium by 0.06
Irviner
Predictions:
1st – Australia
C Campbell – 52.0 (goes first to get some clean water)
McKeon – 52.5
Elmslie – 53.0
B Campbell – 51.8
2nd – USA
Manuel – 53.3
Neal – 53.0
Weir – 53.2
Weitzeil – 52.5
3rd – Netherlands
Kromowidjojo – 52.7
Steenbergen – 53.6
Decker – 53.7
Heemskerk – 52.5
Correction: 3:32.0 for the Americans
McKeon and Heemskerk will be much faster than Weitzel
Aus WR, sub 3.30
USA misses the podium by 0.06
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SBC FreedomLink will unwire California state parks: Ack, we'll never escape the Wi-Fi menace. Just try to find some nature without electromagnetism. But, more seriously, people who spend time traveling or need a link to home or office now have a less invasive method than cell phone calls. Maybe we don't need to send email to say, "It's beautiful here," but human nature is about communication.
The first park unwired will be outside of San Diego, San Elijo Beach Park (pictured), and 84 other parks follow during the next six months. Interestingly, the cost for a day's use is $7.95 for non-subscribers versus $4.95 in other venues. The parks will offer free access to state-operated Web sites, which might be a real treat when you're trying to find a campground and can use their online reservation system or check weather and roads.
California has 700 SBC hotspots, according to the press release. SBC users have access to well over 6,000 locations through Wayport managed services (UPS Store and others) and Wayport roaming (McDonald's, hotels).
For a dissenting view on park-Fi, dig this camper's comment: "We'll stay out for three months, and I manage just fine without it," said camper Gypsy Donachy.
It'll probably be nice just to build a hotspot where you don't have to worry (as much) about gobs of interference.
No microwaves or 2.4Ghz phones to knock you off all the time.


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We have no snow yet. it is warm and cold and warm again, sun and rain and most of all: mud! Two carts make training better, but one has a problem with the rear wheel, so the sound when we go is pretty annoying. Has to get it fixed! Mechanics and me!!!!
My two grandchildren Augustin & Gaspar have visited, and we went for serious timberwork and dog walks. I have travellen some (the Gambia and Belgium) but Sanne & Marte have trained the dogs.
We have let Ravna get a new home as her back was still sore and she did not want to be a sleddog (actually, she has often said that maybe she is a better house dog than sled dog – she has a new home with Kathrine in Lier now….), so we have borrowed Beda, a 2 year ole lady from Siv& Trond (nearly pure Vargevass lines). She came home with us yesterday, after a hectic day helping out at the dog fair Dogs4all. We were at the stand and also ran dogcarts with kiddies. What a dog ball! Some dogs are just FUNNY looking, and some owners too …….All our dogs were pretty happy to see so many other dogs and get so many different tastes of dogfood samples! Beda has adjusted fine!
After that fair we saddled up two teams and some gear and some pigknuckles (frozen goodies) and met Thor in the woods near a lake – some 23 km from home, past Trehørningen on the way to Sandungen. I tried out my new and roomy tent (Moutain Equipment Trango 3) and we had a campfire, and Gammeldansk for my cough, and the usual dog talk……No world problems seem solved so we burned the newspapers and quenched our thirst on beer. We had 10 dogs and Thor had 8 and they all slept nearly through the night! Good doggies.
Going home was cool: lots of cyclists and hikers and loose dogs and sunshine and hard uphills, and thirsty dogs and two ladies that had to go off and push.
Sanne has never tried the sled, and we wait for snow. Marte and Augustus are duly signed up for races, but Augustus is very busy trying our a junior-Monsen movie and maybe stage show or something…….No lowcarb diet in that boy! Not even any food at all. But we, the mushers of Granskauen, enjoy a good meal. That's why we have signed up for dinner at Oda & Elin tonight.


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Porter Plays Porter (feat. Nancy King)
Thirsty Soul
A Midnight Clear
Eight Little Feet
Modern Reflections
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What Randy covers in Lessons/Workshops
An in depth look at jazz music's most important elements:
feeling and playing time with more freedom and control
studying musical tension and resolution (over the bar, polyrhythm, odd meters)
drilling the basics and implementing the more advanced and exotic
looking at harmonic leaders such as Bill Evans, Barry Harris, George Shearing, John Coltrane, Richie Bierach and others
setting a higher standard for creating a new song within a song
getting beyond chord/scale theory and "playing what you hear"
exercises to balance various note durations with space
finding ways to tap the melodic wisdom of masters such as Charlie Parker and apply some general principles to all styles
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Randy has seemingly boundless information to give. Every lesson I've taken from him has left me thinking about new concepts, each of which have added depth to my improvising. He is able to build on a player's own strengths while recognizing and addressing weaknesses at the same time. I highly recommend that those who want to take their playing to the next level on any instrument check Randy out.
Tree Palmedo, trumpet, 9/22/11
I had my first private lesson with pianist Randy Porter today. It's been years since I had a formal lesson with anybody. Randy has one of the deepest harmonic and rhythmic concepts I've ever encountered, plus he is my favorite saxophonist's (Charles McPherson) favorite pianist. We looked at a couple of standards and he gave me some new ideas to think about. Randy seems to be able to play anything over anything and still sound great. These harmonic devices seemed to be true classical BeBop.
David Valdez, sax, 9/29/06 http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/2006/09/randy-porters-be-bop-harmonic-devices.html
(Randy) is able to pass his eclectic and deep wealth of knowledge on to the students in a way that applies to each of their individual tastes, while still teaching them the basics of their craft. He's the best and everyone should take lessons from him.
Ryan Wolfe, piano, 9/18/11
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Do People Drive Business? You Bet Your Assets
By John Gibbons, i4cp
I can't tell you the number of times I've sat in a presentation delivered by a senior executive who invariably uses a phrase that really gets under my skin. As the speaker begins to extol the importance of innovation and talent, I can feel it coming. As he continues on to talk about the importance of having engaged and dedicated employees I look around the room and see faces beginning to light up—in particular those of my colleagues in Human Resources. Finally, as the speaker reaches the crescendo of praise for the workforce, I have actually found myself gripping the edge of my conference room chair as those inevitable words are uttered:
"People are this company's most valuable asset."
Don't get me wrong. I agree with them. In fact, I have dedicated my career to pursuing the notion that people add value to their companies. I also believe that a large part of my responsibility as an HR professional—and as a business leader in general—is to demonstrate just how important they really are. My problem with the phrase lies in the fact that we HR professionals collectively have not done an especially good job at demonstrating that value in a meaningful way.
Let's be honest: Can we—let alone our CEO or CFO—confidently demonstrate the true financial value that exceptionally talented and motivated people provide to our company as opposed to employees of average talent or motivation?
Most of us can't, and in fact, many of us don't know how to begin.
Fortunately, Evidence-Based Human Resources, a movement that has been little more than a whisper in intellectual circles and among geeky HR analytics types (I include myself in this category) for the past few years, has begun to mature and become engrained in how high-performing companies are managing themselves. Moreover, evidence-based approaches are extending beyond simply the use of HR metrics and human capital analytics to inform how these companies are approaching their overall human capital strategies in general.
So what is Evidence-Based Human Resources? EBHR simply is the use of human capital analytics and scientific standards of causation to build a case for how people management practices drive operational and financial performance of the business.
While it sounds sophisticated—and admittedly, there are some very smart practitioners who are applying EBHR in very sophisticated ways—the concepts are fairly simple. There are two things that you should know to really understand what EBHR is all about:
First, measure what matters. Many organizations approach HR metrics the same way the classic befuddled drunk looks for his lost keys under a street light (even though he's pretty sure he lost them a few blocks away)—simply because the light is better. We measure what's easy. In an effort to demonstrate that our functions add value to the company, we spend a lot of time measuring things like time to fill positions, turnover rates or evaluation scores from participants in training programs. While these measures are a nice start, they don't capture whether or not the new hires are actually performing well, if turnover rates in certain positions are more closely related to profitability of the company than turnover in other positions, or if training programs are actually changing the long-term success of business units whose managers participated in them.
The second concept is a little more complicated, but nothing we weren't all taught in high school chemistry class…then promptly forgot because we all went into HR. If you reach deep into your dusty memory of science you will remember that there is a clear and simple three-part test for demonstrating that one thing actually causes a second thing to happen. And, isn't that what we are trying to do in our efforts to demonstrate the value of talent and managing talent well? As a refresher, those three parts are:
1. Correlation: simply put, when one thing happens, the other does too. (This also works in reverse—when one thing doesn't happen, neither does the other.)
2. Temporal Relationship: this is just a scientific term meaning that the first thing happened before the other thing happened.
3. Control for Other Variables: this means that you've made an effort to control for other explanations for why you came up with the outcome you got.
Finally, it's important to understand that, while the application of evidence-based approaches may involve data and analytics, number crunching isn't what's at the core of EBHR itself. Evidence-Based HR is about knowing your business and what measures are used by stakeholders to determine its operational and financial success. It's also about learning (or relearning) a disciplined way of demonstrating facts and applying critical thinking to make the case for HR. HR has always had an important message to communicate regarding the value of people. EBHR simply allows HR practitioners to tell that story in a manner that is just as compelling to the people sitting in a boardroom as those being told by our peers in marketing or finance.
I firmly believe that people are valuable and that their efforts and contributions drive business performance. I also think that if you are reading this, chances are you believe that too. With evidence-based approaches to building talent strategies and testing our assumptions about what works and what doesn't work, I believe that we collectively can come closer to demonstrating that value.
In other words…it isn't just me.
John Gibbons, i4cp, is Vice President and General Manager of Research and Development at i4cp. He has been a human resources practitioner, researcher, and thought leader in human capital strategy for more than 20 years. His work has been featured in hundreds of publications and news outlets around the world.


I'm very well AWARE that my picks are most people's worst dressed picks.
I really don't know why, but I really don't care.
I've been watching the Oscars since I was 8 years old.
The Oscars is to me what the Superbowl is to most people.
I love cinema, I love films.
It will always hold a dear place in my heart.
a good, well-written, well-acted, quality film.
I am a fan of the bold and daring look.
Yes, classic style is beautiful, but it can get boring.
Especially if you always go for the classic look.
Same goes for Halle Berry's dress.
It suits her very well, and I love the bold design.
Many said Catherine Zeta-Jones dress was tacky, overkill, etc etc.
and I believe she pulled it off well!
It's a bold dress but she wore it well!
I applaud her for wearing that bright yellow gown.
She looks great in it.
instead of something "boring" and "safe".
I really like Salma Hayeks outfit, xoxo.
Love them ALL. Anne Hathaway on the other hand... haha. Still cracks me up.
LOL! How many wardrobe malfunctions has she had? Poor girl.


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IFComp 2015 release
In The Friend Zone
by Brendan Vance
(based on 8 ratings)
A horror-parody in the tradition of Franz Kafka. Many regard 'the friend zone' as a metaphorical penal colony in which well-intentioned Nice Guys™ frequently find themselves trapped. But what if it were a physical penal colony?
And what if you became stuck in there with the Nice Guys™?
First Publication Date: October 1, 2015
Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Twine
IFID: 86A019F7-8952-48BB-B0AE-A78BB0B016A4
TUID: q9zneoht31u5z8cx
38th Place - 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2015)
Probably not the penal colony you're expecting, November 20, 2015
by CMG (NYC)
If you are "in the friend zone," what this means is that you have been relegated to being "only" friends with someone (usually a woman) who you actually just want to sleep with. If you are a "nice guy," what this means is that you consider yourself an upstanding personality, but in relation to the person you want to sleep with, all your "positive" attributes are really just ploys to get them into bed. Both the "friend zone" and "nice guy" concepts are used seriously by people who feel they're unjustly treated, and satirically by people who think they're being babies (and misogynists).
In the Friend Zone takes these concepts as the basis for its story. Actually, it doesn't have much story. It's more concerned with deconstructing the concepts and fleshing them out into a surreal allegory.
It bills itself as "a horror-parody in the tradition of Franz Kafka," but I don't think this is accurate. Of course the game does owe something to Kafka. The Nice Guys™ in the game's world feel that they're being persecuted by obscure forces beyond their control, like many characters in Kafka's fiction, and one passage is inspired directly by the parable "Before the Law" from The Trial. But the piece is otherwise not similar to Kafka. You have nothing like Kafka's bureaucratic prose, circling around as it eats itself; you have nothing like Kafka's off-kilter absurdity; in fact, you always know exactly where you are with In the Friend Zone. The allegories are obvious, monstrously obvious. They smack you over the head and invite no alternative readings.
I don't think that this is precisely a problem. It just means the game is not advertising itself correctly. It's got much more in common with Pilgrim's Progress. The entire thing involves wandering around an allegorical landscape, and the protagonist is even referred to as "Pilgrim." Kafka fans are not necessarily going to enjoy what's being offered here.
When I went into the game, what I expected was snark in industrial quantities. I wasn't eager for this. What I got instead wasn't snark at all. Make no mistake, this game is critical of its material (criticism that I happen to agree with), but it's not interested in taking cheap shots. It really does dedicate itself to the allegory, painting a surreal hellscape that has been carefully constructed. More than that, it goes a step further and truly considers events from the perspective of the Nice Guys™, trying to walk in their shoes and unravel why and how people exist with such attitudes. They aren't being used as punching bags, which is what I was certain was going to happen.
I also admit that I expected the writing to be dismal. It is not. There are some typos here and there, but for the most part it's smooth, sometimes it's shiny, and the author has a knack for chipper dialogue.
In other words, I was pleasantly surprised by the whole thing, but at the end I was also left thinking, what's the point? Who is this written for? What is it actually doing? It's not written for the Nice Guys™. It won't change their minds. It's not written for their critics. It won't change their minds. Rather, it's simply using the "friend zone" and "nice guy" ideas as jumping-off points to create a fantasy nightmare world.
But this is an unstable nightmare world that's anchored to something ephemeral in pop culture. In twenty or thirty years, will people still be thinking with this game's terminology? Many people right now don't even know about "nice guys" and "friend zones." They hover around in the same space as internet memes. They're more persistent, yes, but In the Friend Zone is essentially an entire game written to deconstruct a few passing linguistic fads.
Pilgrim's Progress and Kafka are still around because they're universal. I don't see In the Friend Zone sticking around. Maybe it's ridiculous to apply criteria like that to a Twine game -- to ask, will this be universal, will it withstand the ages? -- but that's actually something that I ask about every game and book and movie that I consume. Something like howling dogs, I can safely say, is universal. It strikes deep, major veins in humankind. In the Friend Zone doesn't, but the author certainly seems to have the writing chops to produce something more substantial in the future.
Lost in a surreal, violent world, November 6, 2015
by verityvirtue (London)
Related reviews: IFComp 2015
This Twine game plays on the oft-repeated phrase 'friend zone', using it as a literal prison for Nice Guys. It brands itself as a horror-parody 'in the tradition of Franz Kafka', but I'm not sure Kafka could have topped this level of bizarre imagery.
What is by far the most distinctive thing about this game is its writing and mythos, really. There are apocalyptic scenes galore, and Lovecraft inches his way into each scene. It feels like the game Neka Psaria. It feels like a slimy version of Stross's Rule 34. It feels like some kind of regional gothic, made interactive. This game reads like Porpentine… kind of, with more effigies and less cyberpunk.
The story appears to be set in an elaborate mythos with Priapus (in its original form, a Greek god of fertility and protector of male genitalia) worshipped as a kind of malevolent deity.
It's no surprise that there's sexual imagery throughout, though the imagery seems less erotic than violent. There is also quite a fair bit of violence, though at that point it felt more abstract than visceral. This was partly because the targets of the violence were nameless and, for all purposes, not distinct.
Apart from that, I found it hard to get my bearings. The way to progress through the game isn't really clear - you start off naming a person you're looking for, but exactly what has happened to that person is very unclear. It made it frustrating for me, half because I kept 'walking' in circles, half because I didn't know how to advance the story.
Nevertheless, Vance's writing is sound. It never veers into Lovecraftian purple prose, despite its influence, and putting aside my misgivings, this is an able piece of genre writing.
An allegorical journey exploring the role of 'Nice Guys' in relationships, February 3, 2016
Related reviews: IF Comp 2015
In the Friend Zone is an allegory like Gulliver's Travels or Alice in Wonderland, but centered around the plight of the Nice Guys who get stuck in the Friend Zone by women.
Although the love interest and PC can have their gender chosen, it seems to be centered around men; after all, the entire world seems to be (Spoiler - click to show)a woman, where you explore her arm, eye, mouth, anus, and vagina, getting progressively more disturbing.
Gameplay is linear at first, turning into exploration later on. The game directs towards different 'questions', which you hunt through to find. I enjoyed this part of the game, as well as parts of the openings.
The overall theme is something I don't quite identify with, and as a prudish person, there are more sexual references than I would like. The general feel seems to be that women are torturing men by placing them in the Friend Zone, but the subtext is that the men are torturing themselves. Nowhere, though, does it suggest open dialogue or communication as ways of developing relationships.
So I had mixed feelings about it. I loved the execution and writing, and I'd be very happy to see more from this author.
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I 1800-tallet var Birkende Sogn anneks til Marslev Sogn. Begge sogne hørte til Bjerge Herred i Odense Amt. Marslev-Birkende sognekommune blev ved kommunalreformen i 1970 indlemmet i Langeskov Kommune, der ved strukturreformen i 2007 indgik i Kerteminde Kommune.

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Christoph Stampfer is currently Professor of Experimental Solid State Physics at the RWTH Aachen University and researcher at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is primary interests include graphene and 2D materials research, mesoscopic transport, and micro electromechanical systems. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Technical Physics from the TU Vienna and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the ETH Zurich. He was a staff member at the Institute for Micro and Nano Systems of the ETH Zurich from 2003 to 2007 and staff member of the Institute for Solid State Physics (ETH Zurich) from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 till 2013 he was JARA-FIT Junior Professor at the RWTH Aachen and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He has been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant to work on "Graphene Quantum Electromechanical Systems" in 2011, was member of the Young Scientist community from the World Economic Forum from 2014 to 2016 and he is spokesperson of the Aachen Graphene and 2D Materials Center since 2017.


Abraham Lincoln's Blue Pills: Did Our 16th President Suffer from Mercury Poisoning?
It is well known that Abraham Lincoln took a medicine called "blue mass" or "blue pill," commonly prescribed in the 19th century. What is now hardly known is that the main ingredient of blue mass was finely dispersed elemental mercury. As his friends understood, mercury was often prescribed for melancholy or "hypochondriasis," a condition Lincoln famously endured. Mercury in the form of the blue pill is a potential neurotoxin, which we have demonstrated by recreating and testing the recipe. We present the testimony of many of Lincoln's contemporaries to suggest that Lincoln suffered the neurobehavioural consequences of mercury intoxication but, perhaps crucial to history, before the main years of his presidency; he was astute enough to recognize the effects and stop the medication soon after his inauguration.


Many don't realize that living with snow is harder than it looks.
1. We can see the snow without having to struggle through it every day for months on end.
Big Bear, Brian Head, and Mt. Charleston are close, and allow you to get a dose of the winter experience.
2. We aren't stuck with the daily task of scraping ice off of our windshields and driveways.
Oh, and the five feet of snow.
3. We don't have to heat up our cars 10 minutes prior to driving them.
... therefore ending up looking like a walking marshmallow.
5. There aren't sneaky patches of ice waiting for us to bruise our tailbones every 10 steps.
If there's one thing we should be grateful for, it's that!
7. We don't have to worry about getting snow chains on our tires.
8. We don't have to worry about the brutal, biting, -5 degree weather that the east coast has to offer.
9. We don't have to deal with the unsightly, brown, mushy snow that people tend to forget the white stuff turns into.
10. We don't get snow days!!
..... just kidding. That's not a positive. But I'll take the lack of snow days over shoveling my driveway any day!
So if you ever feel like you're missing out because you don't live in a place that has a true winter, just remember that it's not a life as dazzling and picturesque as some people make it out to be.


If you're looking for a vehicle that is affordable, comfortable and fun to drive, then be sure to consider a used Subaru Legacy. The Legacy offers great performance that makes it stand out, along with a comfortable ride. And when you choose a used model, you can enjoy an even more affordable price. We have a variety of used Legacy models available at our Ann Arbor dealership serving the Brighton area, and we would be happy to tell you all about them.
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There are a lot of benefits to buying a used car. First of all, used cars are available at lower prices, so you can save up front. They can also help you save in the long run. Insurance costs and registration fees are partially based on the full value of your car, so these expenses are often lower when you buy a used car. And since cars lose their value the fastest during their first year on the road, the value of used cars depreciates much more slowly, allowing you to save when it comes time to sell.
Subaru models like the Legacy are a great option to buy used. Subaru models offer long-lasting reliability that you can count on for years to come. 96% of the Legacy models sold in the last ten years are still on the road today, so when you choose a used Legacy, you can expect to enjoy a great ride for many more miles.
Additionally, we only offer high-quality used cars at our Subaru dealership in Ann Arbor. We carefully inspect each vehicle to make sure it's in excellent condition and can provide a safe and reliable ride for customers like you. So when you buy a used car at our dealership, you can expect a top-notch pre-owned vehicle.
When you shop at our Ann Arbor dealership serving the Adrian area, you'll find a wide select ion of used Subaru Legacy models. We have a wide variety of models available, including a variety of model years ranging from 2003 to 2018. You'll also find a variety of different trim levels with various powertrain and feature options. With so many vehicles to choose from, we think that all kinds of drivers can find their perfect fit at our dealership.
Our staff would be happy to help you find the Legacy or any other Subaru model that's perfect for you. We are happy to answer your questions, recommend models that you might like and offer any other assistance you might need in finding the vehicle that's perfect for you. We would be happy to show you our available models and arrange test drives so you can find the vehicle that's perfect for you. Stop by at any time and we'll help you get started!


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Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Liberty County. The population was 7,675 at the 2010 census.
In 1854, a church and convent were built by Father Peter La Cour near the town's present site. The town began forming in 1878 when Charles Lander Cleveland, a local judge, donated 63.6 acres (257,000 m2) of land to the Houston East & West Texas Railway (now part of the Union Pacific Railroad) for use as a stop, requesting that the town be named for him. Since 1900 Cleveland has served as the junction of this line and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe (now the BNSF Railway). The town was not incorporated until 1935.
The forests around Cleveland, including Sam Houston National Forest, which is located just to its north, are a resort for many inhabitants of the Houston area, who come to camp, hike, hunt, and fish. Cleveland has several historic sites and public recreational facilities, including two parks. The Austin Memorial Library Center offers a wide range of services to the community, and the Texan Theater and the annual livestock show and rodeo, Dairy Days, provide entertainment. Commercially, Cleveland has been a shipping point for timber, lumber, and lumber byproducts since the 1870s. A large medical community, oil, gas, cattle, farm products, and sand and gravel are important to the town's economy. The general trend toward urbanization of the entire area is reflected by the fact that in 1965 Liberty County was added to the Houston Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of Cleveland grew from 1,200 in 1930 to 7,605 according to the census of 2000.
In 2011, 19 young men and teens from Cleveland were arrested for gang rapes of an 11-year-old girl. Ultimately, 21 persons were found or pled guilty and received sentences ranging from life in prison to probation.
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For most people with even a passing interest in innovative urban problem-solving, the words Jaime Lerner and Curitiba, Brazil will hold special reverence. Lerner is the urban planner and three-times mayor of Curitiba who transformed the once traffic-congested, economically and environmentally challenged city into one of the world's most livable urban spaces. This Wednesday at the British Film Institute, London, a documentary exploring his innovative approaches for "transforming problems into solutions" in the city will be shown, and following the screening I will be joining Jaime Lerner on stage to discuss his approach and visionary techniques.
The talk will be hosted by Peter Jenkinson OBE, an exceptional individual himself for his work with creative solutions in the face of limited resources. For those of you in London Wednesday 4 November, please come join us at the BFI for this exceptional opportunity. More information on the evening can be found here. For those unable to attend, please watch the trailer above and go see the film as soon as you can. It is a game-changer for urban strategies.


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I managed to enable the HSM but now the board is stuck in a reset loop and after 2 resets S32 asks for jtagpassword, which i dont know.
I didnt do anything fancy, I unlocked the utest area and wrote the DCF record(using some of the code from program and erase example). The utest area is now locked again.
The issue is that i would like to get the board back up and running since i dont know what went wrong. I managed to get my hands on a spare Lauterbach and from what i can see everything is fine, the utest area is locked, DCF is written, HSE and HSB both = 1.
Update2: the part at which it fails is the destructive reset register.
Well it looks like you don't have correct RCHW programmed.
As the BAF is not able to find valid program bootable start address.
Thanks for the reply, how can i do this, do i need to program the hsm baf record(the one that has no documentation at all) on page 2833 or a normal one like shown on page 2839 of the reference document.
I also noticed there is a bootloader example in s32 and it's .rbf file sets the 16kb hsm block area, should i use that as a guide?
Well, this is quire sensitive theme and I cannot share information from security reference manual here.
So for correct HSM boot you need to have valid boot header in the correct bootable location. All HSM bootable locations are described in security reference manual.
How do you enable the HSM? I want to enable HSM in my board. I am using MPC5748G LCEVB. Can you help me for enabling HSM?
You have to program HSM enable DCF record into UTEST flash memory in first available space starting from 0x400300 address. HSM enable record is described in security reference manual.
I cannot share it here on community as it is confidential.


According to CBC News, distracted driving tickets saw a decline in Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015, based on data revealed through access to information.
Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers issued 322 tickets for distracted driving—at $110 a piece—in January alone, but only issued 17 in September.
The decline looks to be due to the RNC's Operation Ringtone, launched a year ago to target distracted drivers, which put officers in plain clothes or as construction workers to spot drivers using any wireless device behind the wheel–not just smartphones or cellphones.
During February and March of this year, around 200 tickets were issued, but dropped to about 50 per month in July and August, then to 17 in September. Overall, 1,144 tickets were issued between January and September of 2015.
Last month, The Co-operators announced they would fund research on distracted driving in Canada with the Canadian Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF).


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Frank Lampard aware Everton need to improve their striking options
Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin, © PA Wire/PA Images
11/11/2022 | 11:24 AM
By Carl Markham, PA
Everton manager Frank Lampard will target attacking reinforcements in January as he sees to find a solution to their goalscoring problems.
Injury-plagued striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin is currently dealing with three issues and while the hamstring problem sustained in last weekend's defeat against Leicester will keep him out of Saturday's trip to Bournemouth, a previously dislocated shoulder and, more significantly, a knee injury from the start of the season are ongoing issues.
Everton have scored just 11 goals in 14 Premier League matches – their top scorer is Anthony Gordon with three – and it is an area which Lampard knows needs to be addressed.
"We are certainly considering it in the squad," said the former midfielder when asked whether attacking signings were a priority in January.
"When we looked at the (summer) window I knew we had to strengthen throughout the squad in different areas and the priority was to stop conceding and be more solid through midfield.
"It (attack) may be the next step, considering we haven't had Dominic as well for a big portion of this season so far, to give ourselves more options in an attacking sense to help the squad.
"Leicester (last weekend's 2-0 defeat) is a prime example: it was tightly-contested, 50-50 possession, they have got some really good players and a threat and we missed two really big chances and they scored two amazing goals. Those things in both boxes can be really critical."
Calvert-Lewin has managed just 339 minutes of football – and completed 90 minutes just once – so far after a knee injury on the eve of the season sidelined him for two months.
Lampard hopes the break for the World Cup will give them chance to sort finally sort his issues.
"The hamstring is a small injury, it is a 10-day injury as such which is slightly irrelevant now," added the Toffees boss.
"The shoulder was a whack he took against Newcastle (a month ago) and he had a recurrence against Fulham. He has been strapped up a lot and it was something which was looked at by a specialist yesterday and doesn't need any surgery.
"He has been getting through with some issues but the knee is probably the most prominent injury that we want to get right, which is a similar to what he had before and it's been aggravated so this period gives us time to get it back right.
"We hope the break comes at a good time for him and we expect him back for Wolves on Boxing Day."
Everton head back to Bournemouth where, on Tuesday, a side registering 11 changes capitulated 4-1 to essentially a Cherries second-string.
Lampard criticised the players after the game but he will not hold it against his wider squad, while insisting the result will have no bearing on this weekend which could end with Everton being in the bottom three.
"I don't think we should make an absolute declaration on an individual off the back of one game," he said.
"It's one game and we go back to fighting in the league. That's it.
"It (the result) makes no difference. It might give us more desire, determination, I don't know. Of course we'll make some changes and it'll be a different game."
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