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Nvidia Shield Portable es una videoconsola portátil desarrollada por Nvidia, lanzada el 31 de julio de 2013.

Shield Portable funciona con Android Lollipop 5.1, con una pantalla táctil de 130 mm (5 pulgadas) y con una resolución de 1280×720. El dispositivo es similar en forma a un Xbox 360 Controller y similar en configuración de control a un controlador DualShock, con dos joysticks analógicos, una cruceta y otros botones. Es el primer dispositivo que utiliza el procesador Tegra 4 de Nvidia. Originalmente se llamaba Shield o Nvidia Shield, pero desde el lanzamiento de Shield Tablet, se llama Shield Portable. Debido a que está agotado durante muchos años, se piensa que se descontinuará, pero aún no ha habido ningún anuncio oficial de Nvidia.

Características
A través de la suite GameStream de Nvidia, Shield Portable permite la transmisión de juegos que se ejecutan en una PC de escritorio equipada con una tarjeta de video GeForce GTX 650 o superior (anteriormente conocida como GeForce PC Streaming). La actualización de Android 4.4.2 para Shield Portable agrega el Modo de consola, que permite que un Shield Portable se conecte a un televisor con una resolución de 720p, 1080p o 4K (ya sea mediante una conexión inalámbrica o MicroHDMI) y se controle con un controlador Bluetooth y software para asignar botones de control en pantalla a los botones de hardware del dispositivo para juegos de Android que no los admiten de forma nativa.

Junto con los juegos exclusivos disponibles a través del propio mercado TegraZone de Nvidia y el servicio de transmisión de juegos GeForce NOW, Shield Portable también puede acceder a la tienda Google Play, como con la mayoría de los otros dispositivos basados en Android.

Actualizaciones de software
Nvidia lanzó SHIELD Portable Software Upgrade 103 el 23 de julio de 2015, que agregó Android 5.1, soporte de Chromecast para conectarse a un televisor y elimina algunos juegos que no funcionan con Android 5.1. También se eliminó el soporte de Miracast.

Nvidia lanzó SHIELD Portable Software Upgrade 106 el 3 de septiembre de 2015.

Nvidia lanzó SHIELD Portable Software Upgrade 110 el 6 de julio de 2016.

Recepción de la crítica
Nvidia Shield Portable ha recibido una recepción mixta de los críticos. En general, los revisores elogiaron el rendimiento del dispositivo, pero criticaron el costo y la falta de juegos que valgan la pena. Scott Lowe, de IGN, calificó el Shield Portable con 6.8/10, señalando el "costo poco práctico y la escasez de juegos atractivos". La revisión de Engadget observó los "juegos de PC extremadamente impresionantes" del sistema, pero también debido a su alto precio, el dispositivo era "difícil de vender como una consola de juegos portátil", especialmente cuando se compara con dispositivos de mano similares en el mercado. Eric Franklin, de CNET, afirma en su revisión del dispositivo que "Nvidia Shield es un dispositivo extremadamente bien hecho, con un rendimiento que prácticamente destruye cualquier producto móvil antes que él; pero como la mayoría de los nuevos lanzamientos de consola, actualmente hay una falta de juegos disponibles que valgan la pena tu tiempo."  La revisión exhaustiva del dispositivo realizada por Eurogamer proporciona una descripción detallada del dispositivo y sus características; concluyó diciendo: "Aquí y ahora, la primera generación de Shield Portable es un producto de lujo gloriosamente nicho, el sistema Android más poderoso del mercado por un tramo claro y que posee un enlace único para juegos de PC que es realmente impresionante en forma beta, y sólo puede mejorar".

Véase también
Shield Tablet

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 NVIDIA Untethers Gaming con el Project SHIELD

Productos introducidos en 2013
Dispositivos Android
Videoconsolas portátiles


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May 21, 2008 by dandelionsalad
Snakes and Superdelegates By Lori Price
By Lori Price
www.legitgov.org
While the US media obsesses on delegates, superdelegates and whether or not Hillary Clinton is using math formulae hallowed by MSNBC, we learn that US interrogators used snakes to torture prisoners (that's right, PentaPost –torture, not 'interrogate' and prisoners, not 'detainees') at Guantanamo Bay – while the FBI watched.
Today, we learned form NEWS.com.au, an Australian news and information site, that US interrogators – at least on one occasion – used a snake (in addition to military dogs and pornography) on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We also discovered that "[Australian detainee Mamdouh] Habib alleged that 'Mike' a private-contract interrogator with Lockheed Martin, had hit him during an interrogation." Further, we discovered that, "of the more than 450 FBI agents who served at Guantanamo… almost half 'observed or heard about various rough or aggressive treatment of detainees, primarily by military interrogators'."
Snakes used in interrogation sessions?! This is Nazi tactics territory, folks – using our dollars and under our name! I don't care about Democratic superdelegate totals or nomination math formulae. The US media is using the election itself as a distraction for war crimes that are being carried out in our name, every day!
Lest we forget: U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants 16 May 2008 The United States has imprisoned approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a report filed by the Bush regime with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Is there anyone out there besides me who wants the Bush dictatorship gone – and I mean gone – and I mean now? Impeachment – even if it were miraculously to transpire – is no longer enough! Bush – and his sadomasochistic henchmen – need to stand trial for *treason* and for *war crimes.*
Permitted demonstrations in Washington DC by people wearing pink and sporting clown noses – that the media refuses to cover, anyway – ARE NOT GOING TO CUT IT and NEVER WILL, with this regime!
The Second American Revolution should have began 13 December 2000, the day Al Gore 'offered his concession' to George W. Bush.
People: Bush is using snakes to torture cab drivers and other innocents – people held for years without charge in KBR-built prisons – and we're tallying Barack Obama's superdelegate count!
FBI watched Guantanamo abuse – report 21 May 2008 An FBI agent watched Australian prisoner [former Sydney taxi driver] Mamdouh Habib repeatedly vomit during a marathon interrogation session at Guantanamo Bay in 2004, according to a long-awaited US Justice Department report released today. Details about Mr Habib's confinement at Guantanamo, including an alleged assault inflicted by a private-contract interrogator with Lockheed Martin, were included in the 370-page report that took the Department of Justice more than three years to compile… Of the more than 450 FBI agents who served at Guantanamo, the report found almost half "observed or heard about various rough or aggressive treatment of detainees, primarily by military interrogators". "The most frequently reported techniques included sleep deprivation or disruption, prolonged shackling, stress positions, isolation and the use of bright lights and loud music," the report said. Other abuse allegations include the use of a snake, dogs and pornography on detainees… The US Justice Department report details how Mr Habib told an FBI agent he was tortured in Egypt before being transported to Guantanamo where he was assaulted. "(Mr)Habib alleged that 'Mike' a private-contract interrogator with Lockheed Martin, had hit him during an interrogation," the report said. Mr Habib also claimed "detainees were beaten when guards searched their cells".
Report: CIA Pushed Torture Envelope –Justice Department Says FBI Warned Spy Agency, Military, That Their Tactics Were "Borderline Torture" 20 May 2008 CIA and military interrogators bucked repeated warnings from the FBI that methods used to question terror suspects were in some cases "borderline torture" and potentially illegal, the Justice Department's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. Agents repeatedly asked FBI headquarters for guidance, but didn't get it, as prisoners at Guantanamo were threatened with growling dogs, had their thumbs twisted back and heads wrapped in duct tape.
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators —Alleges Guantanamo Personnel Softened Up [Tortured] Detainees at Request of Chinese Intelligence 20 May 2008 U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up prisoners at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there.
Excerpts from Justice terror interrogations audit (AP) Excerpts from the Justice Department audit of terror interrogations at overseas military bases 20 May 2008 'The range of permissible DOD (Defense Department) techniques was expanded after the September 11 attacks and was modified over time. These military policies permitted techniques that were inconsistent with the FBI's long-standing approach towards witness interrogations.'
Other allegations of detainee abuse contained in the report include:
SNAKES – One FBI employee reported a detainee told him that he found a snake in his cell and he suspected his "interrogators" had something to do with it. The employee indicated in his survey response that he also suspected an interrogator from another agency might have been responsible for placing the snake in the detainee's cell.
DOGS – Several FBI agents reported that military dogs were used at Guantanamo for purposes other than interrogations, including for the purpose of controlling or intimidating detainees when they arrived at the Cuban base.
PORNOGRAPHY – Several FBI agents reported incidents involving the exposure of a detainee to pornography. One observed two military intelligence interrogators showing homosexual pornographic movies to a detainee.
MOCK BAPTISM – An FBI agent said "he heard" the military had someone dress up as a Catholic priest and pretend to baptize detainee Yussef Mohammed Mubarak Al-Shihri.
PLACING WOMEN'S CLOTHING ON DETAINEE – Four FBI agents at Guantanamo reported they heard about military personnel placing women's clothing on detainees, although none of them personally witnessed this conduct.
TOUCHING OR ACTING TOWARD A DETAINEE IN SEXUAL MANNER – More than 20 FBI agents reported they had seen or heard about female interrogators touching or acting towards a detainee in a sexual manner.
US says detains 500 juveniles in Iraq, 10 in Afghanistan –Civil liberties groups denounce detentions as abhorrent, and a violation of U.S. treaty obligations. 19 May 2008 The U.S. military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. A total of 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been imprisoned, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to a year or more in President [sic] George W. Bush's anti-terrorism campaign since 2002, the United States reported last week to the U.N.'s Committee on the Rights of the Child.
U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants 16 May 2008 The United States has imprisoned approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a report filed by the Bush regime with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. 2,400 of the juveniles were captured in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003; 500 are still held in detention facilities in that country. As of last month, 10 juveniles were still being held in Bagram, Afghanistan.
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Q: Evento TextChange solo ejecuta instrucciones dentro de else: c# y asp.net Tengo 4 textBox, hago una consulta a mi BD y dependiendo de lo que se seleccione en un DropDownList me debe ejecutar una multiplicación ya sea Txt1 * Txt3 ó Txt2 * Txt3 y me muestre el resultado en el Txt4.
El método es el mismo para todos los txtBox:
 protected void TxtImporte_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    OdbcConnection cd = new OdbcConnection("xxxxx");
    cd.Open();
    DataTable dtc = new DataTable();
    OdbcCommand cmd = new OdbcCommand("SELECT T0.ItemName FROM OITM T0 WHERE T0.TreeType = 'T' and T0.ItmsGrpCod in (110,119) and T0.ItemName Like'%?' group by T0.ItemName", cd);
    cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("codigo", DropDownList1.SelectedItem.ToString());
    OdbcDataAdapter da = new OdbcDataAdapter(cmd);
    da.Fill(dtc);
    if (dtc.Rows.Count == 1)
    {
        Double sueldo = 0;
        Double.TryParse(TxtPiezas.Text, out sueldo);

        Double remuneracion = 0;
        Double.TryParse(TxtPrecio.Text, out remuneracion);

        TxtImporte.Text = (sueldo * remuneracion).ToString("N2");

    }
    else
    {
        Double kilos = 0;
        Double.TryParse(TxtKilos.Text, out kilos);

        Double remuneracion = 0;
        Double.TryParse(TxtPrecio.Text, out remuneracion);

        TxtImporte.Text = (kilos * remuneracion).ToString("N2");
    }
}

Pero cuando corro la página solamente ejecuta la instrucción después de else para todos los elementos del DropDownList. Mi consulta está bien formulada pues si yo ejecuto desde sql server me dice si el producto pertenece al rango (110,119) o si no existe.
En SQL server:
SELECT T0.ItemName FROM OITM T0 WHERE T0.TreeType = 'T' and T0.ItmsGrpCod in (110,119)

Siempre se repiten algunos valores.

A: Para objetos locales no me gusta utilizar un DataAdapter para leer información, sobre todo si el datatable va a ser temporal y local (Mucha Arquitectura para algo muy simple)
en su lugar par lecturas sencillas prefiero utilizar un datareader o un ExecuteScalar
     OdbcCommand cmd = new OdbcCommand("SELECT T0.ItemName FROM OITM T0 WHERE T0.TreeType = 'T' and T0.ItmsGrpCod in (110,119) and T0.ItemName Like'%?' group by T0.ItemName", cd);

    OdbcDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
    bool hayDatos=reader.HasRows; //para saber si hay resultados
    while (reader.Read())
    {
        //Obtuvimos Datos!, ahora a extraerlos
        //como es odbc puede que hasrows nos diga false hasta que ejecutemos el metodo Read
          hayDatos= true;
          reader["T0.ItemName"].ToString();// (aunque recomendaria ponerle alias al resultado por que esto puede que falle dependiendo del driver...
    }

if (hayDatos == true )
{
    Double sueldo = 0;
    Double.TryParse(TxtPiezas.Text, out sueldo);

    Double remuneracion = 0;
    Double.TryParse(TxtPrecio.Text, out remuneracion);

    TxtImporte.Text = (sueldo * remuneracion).ToString("N2");

}
else
{
    Double kilos = 0;
    Double.TryParse(TxtKilos.Text, out kilos);

    Double remuneracion = 0;
    Double.TryParse(TxtPrecio.Text, out remuneracion);

    TxtImporte.Text = (kilos * remuneracion).ToString("N2");
}

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Mike Oldfield Forums » Albums » Islands » Masterpiece?
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Topic: Masterpiece? < Next Oldest | Next Newest >
Rileman
Posted: Mar. 15 2004, 08:26
Last week I bought this album 'Islands', because someone said that TWC was a masterpiece. But the first listening to the track was a bit of disappointment. I was ready to hear
some guitars but the track, for me, TWC has the style of classical music.
I don't think that TWC is a masterpiece, but it's quite good. And the only one of the vocaltracks I liked was
'Flying Start'.
It's not easy going where no-one goes, and no-one knows...
Hi, Rileman. I'm the guy that said that TWC is a masterpiece.
Well, I'm sure it'll take you only a few more listens to agree with me, I didn't like it a lot the first time as well, because you know Mike's the kind of music that grows on you the most you hear it. Try as well to listen close to 'Northpoint' and 'Magic Touch', they're a beautiful ballad and a great rocker, and you'll like them for sure.
Enjoy a lot that nice album, and I hope you're answer will come soon that you like it much more with time.
Delfín>
The most precious thing I possess, is knowing the answer's yes
Ok, delfin...
I've listen to TWC a few times since last, and...well.
it's not so bad. It's good to relax to after a hard day.
But STILL, I don't think it's a masterpiece. Mike has done
better instrumentals. The music repeats to much all over
the track and sometimes it sounds like Mike does'nt know
what he shall play. I think Crises or the Lake is better...
amarokian
Joined: Dec. 2004
Posted: June 01 2005, 10:14
TWC is nice,but not spectacular...
The rest is only for completists...
One of the weakest albums in my opinion...
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familyjules
Quote (Delfín @ Mar. 21 2004, 16:53)
Try as well to listen close to 'Northpoint' and 'Magic Touch', they're a beautiful ballad and a great rocker, and you'll like them for sure.
I agree about North Point (and I also really rate Flying Start and The Time Has Come) but there's no way I could call Magic Touch "a great rocker". I think my description would be closer to "one of the most toe-curlingly awful songs in Mike Oldfield's entire discography", but, hey, it wouldn't do for us all to agree, would it? Heh.
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I think there are many other albums weaker than "Islands" in Mike's catalogue. Say, "Islands" has a couple of strong points that justify somewhat the weaknesses. "Flying Start" is one of Mike's most perfect songs, and "North Point" and "The Time Has Come" aren't hard to like (I admit I didn't care for them on first listens). I don't like the title track much, "When The Night's On Fire" is too monstrous to be likeable, and "Magic Touch"... well, I hated that one right from the start.
I guess "The Wind Chimes" isn't as immediately lovable as the smoothly industrialised, packaged and labelled "Taurus II", so you'll have to give it some time. Granted, I'm not in love with the entire thing. The introduction should be scrapped fof entirely, and for the ending, a satirical George Bush speech would have been way better. But other than that, there are some highly treasurable moments in it. It's also quite original.
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Quote (familyjules @ June 01 2005, 15:20)
I think my description would be closer to "one of the most toe-curlingly awful songs in Mike Oldfield's entire discography", but, hey, it wouldn't do for us all to agree, would it? Heh.
No but I find I often do agree with you, Jules. I agree with quite a lot of what you say here for instance: 'one', 'toe', 'songs', 'in', 'Mike', and 'entire'. I can't quibble about any of those.
We've thrashed out Wind Chimes pretty thoroughly elsewhere haven't we? I found it stood up to an enormous amount of listening, after a relatively slow start. My only wish would be for it to be longer, so the other stuff would fall off the edge of the album. (OK, I'd leave space for 'North Point' )
Quote (Sir Mustapha @ June 01 2005, 15:31)
The introduction should be scrapped fof entirely, and for the ending, a satirical George Bush speech would have been way better.
*solidly refusing to take the bait.....
Quote (Alan D @ June 01 2005, 10:35)
Would you go so far as to say that Magic Touch is "ONE of those SONGS that MIKE should have INdeed veTOEd ENTIREly"?
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At this time, I like every song on "Islands" better than "The Wind Chimes", with the likely exception of "When the Night's on Fire", which I have not really counted as an "Islands" song anyway...
"In the land of the Dacotahs,
Where the Falls of Minnehaha
Flash and gleam among the oak-trees,
Laugh and leap into the valley."
- Song of Hiawatha
Well that would be extreme, but I'd certainly endorse 'of', 'those', 'that', 'should', 'have', 'deed', 've...d', and 'ly'. Yes, can't quibble with those.
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I pretty much agree with Rileman. The Wind Chimes has never set me on fire. I really love Flying Start, but the rest of the album ranges from "I don't mind this" to "I really don't like this". It's one of my least favourites.
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Posted: April 17 2006, 11:27
No, I think The Wind Chimes is an very good piece and even the shorter compositions (which are usually a heavy flaw in Mike Oldfield lps from the 80s) are actually pretty good with exception of the underperforming title track.
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I like this album a lot, and also Wind Chimes, but I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, although it's got lots of stunning moments. The loud bits with the weird chainsaw-like sound (terrible description, but you know what I mean) and the loud bit with vocals at the end is just as nice. But there are a few things that make it not a masterpiece. I feel the melodies and arrangements in the middle of the piece could have been more interesting and melodic, and it sometimes sounds a little bit dated. Not that that is a problem for me, but it's not a timeless piece, I guess...
The songs are cool and nice to hear, but they're just fun... they've not got so much relevance...
NorthPoint is maybe the best of those songs...
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What's wrong with Magic Touch?
It's a nice pop song, it has a catchy chorus and a good guitar solo... and it has maybe the best videoclip of the whole Oldfield's videography. Directed by Alex Proyas, If I'm not wrong...
I really like that song!
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Quote (Wayfarer @ April 18 2006, 02:38)
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
If I were music, I would be Enigmatism.
and it has maybe the best videoclip of the whole Oldfield's videography. Directed by Alex Proyas, If I'm not wrong...
Totally agree with that... It's the best and least dated video on the WindChimes video. I always read people strongly prefere that vocalist to the one on the cd/lp. I never quite got that though... they sound both good in my opinion
I've never seen the video (would never wish to do it, on that matter), so all I have is the music. And it's incredibly overblown and cheesy, has one of the stupidest guitar riffs Mike ever wrote and/or played, has a vocalist running out of breath over no melody at all, and the worst backing vocals I've ever heard, at the end of the song.
Let's not talk about the lyrics.
Quote (Sir Mustapha @ April 18 2006, 19:43)
Why do I have a feeling that you don't agree with us?
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For me, setting foot in a new place is quite an emotional experience. Not in the crying sense, but in the sense that I'm excited about an accomplishment. And truthfully, most of that "accomplishment" belongs to the pilot flying us there. Rarely can I take much credit for an achievement like this. Landing in Antarctica, however, was a bit different.
In all of the previous episodes, I've been writing about what brought other people to Antarctica.
It turns out I found great joy in each of those reasons. But the reason I came in the first place was [insert cheesy drumroll]…Stepping onto the Seventh Continent. After this trip, I'll have been to every continent. That means this was to be the final time I'd step onto a continent for the first time.
We were along the Palmer Peninsula in the top right corner of this map. Image courtesy of Google.
Believe it or not, defining "Antarctica" is actually a somewhat controversial topic. Surprising, I know. There are many, many islands in this part of the world. We began our journey, for example, on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. It would be easy to consider a visit to one of these islands as my first step on Antarctica. But some folks would argue that an island doesn't count. There are still others who say you haven't made it to Antarctica until you've crossed the Antarctic Circle, which is at 66° 33′ 39″. We only made it as far south as 65° 08′. Now, there's a third camp occupying the middle ground who say you haven't arrived until you've set foot on the Continent itself. I'd tend to agree with them.
So, on the fourth day of our trip, it was time to settle the argument for good. We dropped anchor at Orne Harbor and were given two options. We could either take a relatively straightforward walk or we could opt for a snowshoeing expedition. Obviously, I chose to snowshoe. The day before at the British station at Port Lockroy, I'd had a very lovely (cold) experience snowshoeing across a gently rolling hill. How could this be much different, I thought?
Sure, the first day's trek was cold. I think the picture shows that. But it was pretty easy, too! That's our ship over there in the corner.
Allow me to explain some geography. One of the most visually appealing aspects of the Continent are the massive cliffs that mark the edge of the Palmer Peninsula. I can't understate the sheer nature of these cliffs and fjords. It turns out that those cliffs are so prevalent that there are very few places where people can get onto Antarctica proper. I didn't know that when I said I'd be happy to showshoe. So, we got onto a zodiac and motored away from the ship.
Again, I was wrong. Dead. Freaking. Wrong. The zodiac driver went straight for that giant practically-vertical cliff. Only thing was, he couldn't quite get us onto shore. He tried one spot, but the rocks were to craggy. Another spot and the ice was too thick. A third, and both the ice and the rocks got in the way.
Finally, on our fourth attempt to find a place to park the zodiac, I realized this was going to be difficult. Really difficult. We gave up trying to get the zodiac onto shore. The ice was simply too thick and the rocks just too close to the surface. The zodiac got as close as it could and we walked the last few steps onto the Continent through the ice-laden sea.
Achievement earned: I'd literally carried myself onto the Seventh Continent!
There's my Antarctic Plymouth Rock. My first step on the Continent was on that spot. In hindsight, I should have gotten back into that zodiac and headed to the warm ship.
Finally there, I looked straight up at a cliff that was probably 500 feet high and about 65 degrees of slope. Not vertical. But remarkably close.
"Are we going up there?" I asked, tentatively.
My harness wouldn't stay on.
My trekking poles wouldn't lock in place.
My lack of coordination, which is ordinarily a slight challenge, became a violent disadvantage.
As we climbed, I'd fall, on average, every five or six feet.
The worst part? I didn't ask for any help. Why would I do that? That would make too much sense. I'm a man! I don't need anybody to show me how to do anything. I'll figure it out. Or look like a fool doing it!
Sorry I don't have more pictures, but I was struggling up there. In fact, I've probably never been so uncomfortable in my life.
Thanks, in part, to the fact that the guide finally realized I was having problems and — without me asking — gave a quick lesson. Apparently it's important to "double tap" every footstep and dig your feet in. Who knew? I wish I'd known sooner than halfway up the cliff. As I was gingerly implementing the new technique, I looked to my left and saw a pair of penguins leisurely walking along like it was no big deal. Damn you penguin!
That little dot down there is our ship. You know, the one you probably can't even see.
We finally reached the top and it occurred to me that we'd need to figure out a way to get down. But, no. We weren't leaving yet. Our guide had other plans. He took us across the ridge — into the 30 mph wind — to yet another penguin rookery. The penguins that passed us on the cliff were headed there.
Apparently there's a crevasse in this picture that I failed to notice. Do you see it? Didn't think so. When we were all done, our guide expressed genuine fear that I hadn't noticed it, either. It could have swallowed us all.
When we finally reached the penguin rookery, the guide explained to our group where to go to get the best pictures. Then, he looked at me and told me where to go to get off the mountain. He said, "The exit is over there." Exit? That was a nice way of describing the long, barely contained fall that got me back to the ship.
So, my final first step on a new continent was quite possibly my most challenging. Although in all honesty, I don't remember my first step on North America. But, unlike that one, I'll never forget my first step onto Antarctica mostly because it was so personally painful.


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Politics Decades after war, Vietnam and the U.S. battle a legacy of bombs
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Decades after war, Vietnam and the U.S. battle a legacy of bombs
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US pledges $10 million for landmine clearance in Vietnam
Fungi farming brings safe money to bomb-addled Quang Tri
NGOs continue to push UXO clearance in Quang Tri
The 17th Parallel Revisited (part 2)
A prayer for peace, a history of war
Red skull-and-crossbones markers dot the horizon in a barren patch of land in Vietnam where missteps could be fatal.
The signs warn of landmines and bombs, the legacy of a war with the United States that claims casualties even today, four decades after hostilities ceased in 1975.
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) has since killed 42,000 people and wounded 62,000 in Vietnam, according to official data. Three in every 10 casualties were children.
Quang Tri province, once the demilitarized zone between the communist North and the Washington-backed democratic South, remains one of the world's most dangerous places.
Much of it is wasteland and like five nearby provinces, its vast swathes hide leftover explosives. Ten percent of the 15.4 million tons of ammunition used during the war never detonated.
After diplomatic relations with Vietnam were normalized in 1995, the United States has spent $80 million in helping clear war-era bombs that leave survivors blind, deaf or missing limbs.
"It's important to remember how important it is to get rid of the results of war as fast as we can," U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller told Reuters.
The goal is to reclaim 52 million square meters (62 million square yards) of Quang Tri farmland, unused for half a century in one of the world's top agriculture exporters.
Signs reading "Caution! UXO clearance in progress" are a fixture. Bamboo poles with red ribbons mark locations earmarked for clearance, hooked up to cables and readied for detonation.
This week, Gottemoeller pushed the button and four simultaneous explosions sent plumes of debris into the air.
But clearing efforts could take generations. Just 2.5 million square meters have been reclaimed since Britain-based Mines Advisory Group (MAG) started working in Quang Tri 15 years ago.
"Vietnam is the most contaminated place I've worked," said Daniel Dobb, a MAG field manager. "We're finding items all the time, possibly over 100 items a week."
The United States will spend some $10 million on UXO efforts this year, part of a diplomatic offensive on a former enemy that includes health and education programs, a soft power campaign for a new Asian alliance to offset China's regional influence.
Gottemoeller said collaboration seemed unlikely a few years ago.
"It would have been really hard for an American like me to envision we would be working so closely together," said Gottemoeller, whose brother served in Vietnam. "I can only see it continuing."
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 212. Infanterie-Division (Wehrmacht), Großverband des Heeres der deutschen Wehrmacht im Zweiten Weltkrieg

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Produced by London Weekend Television, the sitcom, Mind Your Language, featured the comic antics of a group of students and staff at a fictional London adult education college in the 1970s.
Language teacher Jeremy Brown teaches English to immigrants – but with students from all over the world, there are many misunderstandings, due to the language barrier. When students from as far afield as France, China, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Greece meet in the classroom, Brown, played by Barry Evans, usually ends up with a headache.
There were four seasons in total, the first three running from 30th December 1977 until 15th December 1979 on the ITV network. The show was briefly resurrected in 1986 for 13 more episodes.
However, despite attracting 18 million viewers on average, the sitcom, created by screenwriter Vince Powell, was cancelled at the peak of its success in 1979 by LWT director of programmes, Lew Grade, who cited its "racial stereotyping" as offensive.
When LWT filmed Mind Your Language in the 1970s, there was a very different social and political climate. Whereas no broadcasting company would consider making a sitcom today that deliberately poked fun at people's culture and accents, it didn't seem out of place 40 years ago.
Racial stereotyping and sexism were rife in the British comedy shows of the 1970s. Sitcoms such as Love Thy Neighbour focused on the racial conflict between bigoted white socialist Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst) and his black neighbour Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker). It ran for seven series, between 1972 and 1976.
Meanwhile, On the Buses featured two sleazy male bus drivers, Stan Butler and Jack Harper (played by Reg Varney and Bob Grant) who preyed on younger female conductors, known as "clippies". Butler and Harper were ageing would-be lotharios, while the female staff were usually portrayed as empty-headed and ditzy.
The show, which also ran for seven series, between 1969 and 1973, featured plenty of sexist gags, which would go down like a lead balloon today. The very premise of the show would be deemed sexual harassment!
So, in terms of racism and sexism, Mind Your Language was pretty tame compared with some of its counterparts of the era, although Grade (who originally commissioned the show) did eventually recognise that it could be offensive poking fun at people's language and culture.
English teacher Jeremy Brown, an earnest and good-natured single man in this thirties, graduated from Oxford University with a Bachelor of Arts. He is hired as the English language teacher after being warned his predecessor was driven insane by the students!
The college principal, Dolores Courtney, (played by Zara Nutley) is stuffy and thinks she's superior to everyone, especially men. She frequently pops into Brown's classroom unannounced for an impromptu check on his progress, but invariably leaves feeling disappointed.
The students include Italian chef Giovanni Cupello (George Camiller) who is the loudest student and frequently gives the wrong answer to questions, although it's revealed he often does this on purpose to make his classmates laugh.
German student Anna Schmidt (Jacki Harding) is an au pair who is a hard-working scholar, believing in efficiency, but who has trouble with her English, peppering her sentences with German words. Spanish barman Juan Cervantes (Ricardo Montez) is always willing to laugh at himself, knowing that some of his answers are totally wrong.
London Underground worker Ranjeet Singh (Albert Moses) is from Punjab in India and is always arguing with Ali Nadim (Dino Shafeek) from Lahore in Pakistan, especially after Brown sits them next to each other and inadvertently calls them "fellow countrymen".
Jamila Ranjha (jamila Massey) is an Indian housewife from Shimla, who barely speaks any English at the beginning of the series. However, she eventually learns to speak the language, although she can often be found knitting at the back of the class, rather than concentrating.
Aside from the basic ongoing jokes provided by Brown's frustrations and his students' mispronunciation of words and disagreements with each other, each episode had a specific stand-alone plot.
The humour was very gentle and although the characters were later labelled stereotypes, none of it resembled the blatant racist humour popularised in Love Thy Neighbour.
In an episode called An Inspector Calls, broadcast in January 1978, Brown mistakes an education inspector for a new student, leading to comic mayhem, while The Best Things in Life, broadcast in the same month, sees Brown and his students secretly returning items that Ranjha has inadvertently stolen, after misunderstanding a promotional offer.
Some of the jokes are literally "toilet" humour – for example, in The Cheating Game, broadcast in February 1978, Cupello tries to use an English colloquialism for going to the toilet. However, he mentions he is going to "spend 2p", so Brown pulls him up and explains the phrase is "spend a penny".
Cupello explains his logic, that if two students are using the toilets at the same time, surely they are spending two pence? Brown finds it hard to argue with that!
Show's relaunch
After the show was cancelled by Grade in 1979, it was resurrected in 1986, with some of the original cast returning to reprise their roles. However, it ran for only 13 episodes and couldn't recapture the popularity of the first three series.
The show has found global fame and despite its run on UK television coming to an end, it has been sold across the world and has been broadcast in Australia, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and more.
With the script slanted towards local culture, it continues to be popular overseas and many countries including India, the United States, Japan and Sri Lanka (to name but a few) have created their own version.
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The Championship 23 July 2012
Goal of the Season 2011-12
IT is sometimes argued that Scottish lower league football is full of cloggers who do not have the touch or technique to play good football or score memorable goals.
If there is any merit in that argument, then it can be countered with examples of the following five goals, in reverse order of brilliance (in the eye of this particular writer):
5) Liam Tomsett v Ross County 18/02/12 (Week 24 on SFL TV) @ 1:09
Central midfielder Liam Tomsett joined Ayr in the January transfer window on loan from Blackpool, along with left-back Adam Dodd. Tomsett re-enforced the United midfield, contributing positively towards a run of only two league defeats in 11 league matches through February and March 2012.
Tomsett's only goal in his time at Ayr is one that he will not forget.
An ominous amount of space was created from Rocco Quinn being dragged towards whom we think is Adam Dodd on the left flank (It could have just as easily have been left-midfielder Adam Moffat, but with the light snow-fall, together with the video resolution, it is difficult to be certain). The square pass towards Tomsett takes Quinn out of the play, leaving Tomsett with five-to-ten yards to dribble into. With decoy runs ahead from Keighan Parker and Gareth Wardlaw, Ross County's defence couldn't step out and invited Tomsett to shoot.
The joy of the goal was with how immaculately struck the ball was. A straight trajectory towards Michael Fraser's top-left hand corner belied the perfect technique of the shot.
Ayr right-back Tiffoney was shown a red card shortly afterwards, but Ross County were numb after conceding in 79 minutes, when County had dominated for much of the game before then. Ayr held on for a 1-1 draw that helped consolidate the second-bottom place in the league.
4) Steven Milne v Hamilton Academical 03/12/11 (Week 15 on SFL TV) @ 0:53
Steven Milne scored an impressive hat-trick in dreadful conditions against at New Douglas Park. The match was eventful for a number of quality of goals, as well as being a good example of Dundee's resurgent form before Christmas, with Milne and particularly Nicky Riley playing their best football of the season.
It was the second goal of the hat-trick that stands out over the others.
Dundee's Gary Irvine had the ball in his typical right-back position. With the wind behind him, Irvine drove a long pass towards Milne in the centre-forward position. The wind nearly took it beyond Milne and perhaps even away from the Hamilton defenders, but, with a soft touch with his right foot, Milne managed to guide the ball down from over his shoulder and on to the floor in front of him. The football took a couple of bounces, which gave Milne enough time to re-position his body and use his right foot again, to lob Hamilton goal-keeper Hutton from 20 yards.
Other goals of note in that match are:
Milne's third, with a flicked finish inside inside his standing leg from a mis-hit shot by Jake Hyde, sending David Hutton the wrong way; and
The last goal, which was a consolation for Hamilton by Dougie Imrie. It was another goal assisted by the wind, where the ball was whipped viciously into the far corner from just outside the box and adjacent to the 'D'.
3) Stephen McKenna v Greenock Morton 26/11/11 @ 4:06
Queen of the South had a season to forget, ending in relegation from the First Division after substantial budget cuts in the summer of 2011. One highlight was the quality found in captain Stephen McKenna's long-range strike at Cappielow.
The goal was simple in concept, but brilliant in execution. McKenna trotted towards the left flank to receive a throw in. He took a couple of glances over his shoulders and realised Morton had left a lot of space in the central midfield area in front of their defence. He then took a couple of touches of the ball, after receiving the throw, to have the ball at the optimal distance away from his feet to strike across the ball. And how he struck it.
Whereas Tomsett's goal was a good example of how to hit straight through the ball towards the target, McKenna's goal was a result of hitting the ball with the outside area of the player's laces. The resulting trajectory had the ball swerve away from all of 1.98m of Greenock Morton's stand-in goalkeeper Dominic Cervi's out-stretched body.
2) Iain Vigurs v Partick Thistle 05/11/11 @ 1:36
Iain Vigurs recently signed a new one-year contract with Ross County, which means the SPL will soon come across his unique style of effortless technique and biting temperament.
Vigurs scored the only goal of Ross County's first of two 1-0 wins at Firhill during the season. Vigurs scored five league goals, but this was easily the most enjoyable to watch.
Ross County deliberately played with two separate narrow banks of four, in front of their own penalty area, to nullify Partick Thistle's strength in passing and running beyond opposing defences. This led to Vigurs collecting the ball just in front of the left-back area, more than thirty yards within his own half. Vigurs drove forward with the ball toward the centre-circle, before passing to Kettlewell, who passes to Gardyne close to the 'D' of the Thistle box, who then spreads play to the right for Brittain to cross-first time. Meanwhile, Vigurs drifted behind the play and was in the perfect position to receive Thistle defender Balatoni's clearing header, 25 yards from goal. Vigurs chested the ball down and cut through the ball on the up-bounce to arrow the ball into the top corner.
1) Paul Cairney v Falkirk 10/03/12 @ 2:00
Partick Thistle enjoyed the benefit of Paul Cairney having his best season for them. Cairney's all-round attacking play has been admired by many – including this site – but it is his goal-scoring (eleven goals from 35 starts) that has set his performance in 2011-12 season apart from others.
Paul Cairney recently claimed on the Jagscast (his interview being around 34 minutes in to the podcast) that this is his favourite goal that he has scored. It is difficult to disagree.
Once more, it is a goal that has resulted from space opening up in front of a defence, for a midfielder to attack in to. In this instance, one would expect Cairney to smack home a screamer into the top or bottom corner, or possibly for Falkirk's perennially excellent goalkeeper McGovern to save it. However, on this occasion, it is clear from his body language (with his head and body leaning over the ball almost from the moment Cairney receives the in-field pass from Chris Erskine) that something else was intended.
When watching the floated chip drift inside McGovern's top-right corner, it is worth remembering a quote from Dennis Bergkamp, in David Winner's inspirational interview with the retired superstar in Issue One of The Blizzard. Bergkamp was asked by Winner if, a goal like the one he scored to help the Netherlands beat Argentina in the 1998 World Cup quarter-final, is a spiritual moment:
Yeah. What can you compare it to? Different sports? Like running the hundred metres and you know this is going to be a good time But you're in that moment. That's the feeling. After the first two touches… that moment! You give absolutely everything in that movement. It's like your life has led up to this moment.
For being able to make that kind of comparison, if nothing else, Cairney's clip beyond McGovern is the undisputed goal of the season.
http://jagscast.jellycast.com/files/audio/End%20of%20Season%20Special.mp3
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Q: Bulk Import from CSV to SQL Server using Excel VBA ADODB I am trying to import a large number of data from a CSV file to a SQL Sever database table. I am able to write line by line but that takes too long. What I have below fails on "FROM [C:\Temp\tblOPTExportData.csv]" during oComm.Execute. Any help would be appreciated.
On Error GoTo err_me
Dim locComm As New ADODB.Command
Dim locConnection As New ADODB.Connection
Dim locRst As New ADODB.Recordset
Dim ee As Boolean
Dim su As Boolean
Dim strSQLQuery As String
Dim shtDash As Worksheet
Dim shtData As Worksheet
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With Application
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    su = .ScreenUpdating
    If ee Then .EnableEvents = False
    If Not su Then .ScreenUpdating = True
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With ThisWorkbook
    Set shtDash = .Sheets("Dashboard")
    Set shtData = .Sheets("Data")
    Set shtOP = .Sheets("OP")
End With

With locConnection
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    .Open
End With

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'    .Font.Color = 8421504
'    .Characters(Start:=29, Length:=9).Font.Color = 10192433 'Blue
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With shtOP
    endRow = .Cells(.Rows.count, 2).End(xlUp).Row 'B (2)
End With
If endRow < 3 Then Err.Raise Number:=vbObjectError + 20002, Source:="exportData_Excel", Description:="No data found: 'OP' sheet, column 2 (B)."
If Not rangetoCSV("B3:K" & endRow, "tblOPTExportData", 201, , , "OP") Then Err.Raise Number:=vbObjectError + 30001, Description:="rangetoCSV, 'tblGates'"

strSQLQuery = "INSERT INTO optData (opsType, opsUID, opsDesc, opsProgram, opsFlight, opsProductAreaL1, opsAssignee, opsGenDate, opsECD, opsStatus) " & _
              "SELECT Type, UID, Description, Program, Flight, L-1 IPT, Assignee, Generated, ECD, Status FROM [C:\Temp\tblOPTExportData.csv]"

With oComm
    .ActiveConnection = locConnection
    .CommandText = strSQLQuery
    .Execute
End With

A: You need to use BULK INSERT rather than INSERT INTO. Try something like this:
strSQLQuery = "BULK INSERT optData " & _
              "FROM C:\Temp\tblOPTExportData.csv " & _
              "WITH (FIRSTROW = 2, FIELDTERMINATOR = ',', " & _
              "ROWTERMINATOR = '\n', TABLOCK)"
    With oComm
        .ActiveConnection = locConnection
        .CommandType = adCmdText
        .CommandText = strSQLQuery
        .Execute
    End With


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public class AntModel extends Model {

	private static final int EMPTY_STATE = 0;
	private static final int NEST_STATE = 1;
	private static final int FOOD_SOURCE_STATE = 2;
	private static final int HOME_PHEROMONE_STATE = 3;
	private static final int FOOD_PHEROMONE_STATE = 4;

	private static final int ANT_STATE = 5;

	private int myNumAnts;

	AntModel(int width, int height, double percentAnts) {
		super("AntModel", width, height);
		int total = width * height;
		percentAnts = (percentAnts < 0) ? 0 : percentAnts;
		int numAnts = (int) (percentAnts * total);
		myNumAnts = numAnts <= total ? numAnts : total;
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	}

	public void setModelParameters(double evapRate, double diffusionRate){
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		Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
		int total = mat.length*mat[0].length;

		double percentNestWidth = 0.3;
		int nestWidth = (int) (getWidth()*percentNestWidth);

		int t = rand.nextInt(total);
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		if(mat[x][y]==EMPTY_STATE){
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		int numFood = (int) (total*percentFood);

		int j = 0;
		while(j < numFood){
			int t1 = rand.nextInt(total);
			int x1 = t1 % getWidth(), y1 = t1 / getWidth();
			if(mat[x1][y1]==EMPTY_STATE){
				mat[x1][y1] = FOOD_SOURCE_STATE;
				j++;
			}
		}

	}

	@Override
	public List<Map<String, String>> getCells() {
		int mat[][] = new int[getWidth()][getHeight()];
		fillCells(mat,myNumAnts,NEST_STATE);

		List<Map<String, String>> list = new ArrayList<>();

		for (int x = 0; x < mat.length; x++) {
			for (int y = 0; y < mat[x].length; y++) {
				list.add(createCell(x, y, mat[x][y]));
			}
		}
		return list;
	}

	private Map<String, String> createCell(int x, int y, int state) {
		Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<>();
		map.put("x", Integer.toString(x));
		map.put("y", Integer.toString(y));
		map.put("state", Integer.toString(state));
		return map;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString(){
		return getClass().getSimpleName()+"_"+getWidth()+"_"+getHeight();
	}

}