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#601 Ninja Gaiden
Posted: 8th June 2012 by Mulholland in Games
Tags: 2004, action, adventure, team ninja, xbox
153rd played so far
Platform: Xbox
Developer: Team Ninja
Publisher: Tecmo
People tend to moan about how games have been getting easier when compared to many of the games released in the eighties and early nineties. To be fair this is a fair comment with save points being mostly dismissed for convenient in-games saves. Same goes for the abundance of in game hints that can be seen in games like Zack & Wiki.
There are a number of games that buck the trend, but not as many as you would have thought. Today's game was one of the benchmarks before the likes of Demon's Souls… this is Ninja Gaiden.
It's a dual-edged sword when you start a game that you expect to be monumentally hard. After a long week it can be a bit daunting to start a game that you know is going to, eventually, frustrate you in more ways than you could imagine. Then when you start playing it… it is not THAT bad.
Granted we played this on normal difficulty (because we are not masochistic) but for a game which, according to the book, had such a hard first boss that many players quit and never played again it wasn't too difficult. Maybe it's because after relishing the challenging games on this list like Viewtiful Joe and Flywrench this did not feel too bad. I mean a good game should challenge the player and if every game allowed us to defeat everything on the first attempt it would be so boring and gaming would have not developed the way it has. There's certainly an experience element here, with Peter having fairly good beat em up based skills, but I didn't feel like I was that far behind, managing some fights the first time where Peter needed a few more goes. The game actually felt fairly balanced.
So let's break it down. As with most games involving a hero it starts with a village being burnt down. We saw this trope in Jeanne D'arc, it's been mentioned in Xenogears as well as many other games that we have both played and are due to play. It's a trope I'm already getting slightly annoyed with. Your character is Ryu Hayabusa and as a kick-ass ninja your job is to save the world because (as is the case in many Japanese games) there is a demon sword that needs protecting/destroying/stealing (delete all that don't apply). To do this you fight your way through demolished villages, temples, airships and even an Aztec pyramid.
As with many good action/adventure games which feature a somewhat linear hack n' slash dynamic, the key is a good story and a sleeveless leather ninja outfit. To be honest I have never found Hayabusa the most relatable character whether it be in Ninja Gaiden or Dead or Alive so that does colour my feelings somewhat. What does work is that the ending does lead towards the expectation of a sequel… something so cinematic that I have not seen in as many franchises as I would have hoped.
What also helps is the fighting system. The jumps and attacks feel so incredibly fluid that it each battle contains graceful moves with slashing action. The combat itself is part of the Devil May Cry and God of War style apart from the abundance of charge up moves. In many ways this makes the Ninja Gaiden system slightly more difficult to handle but the sight of graceful hack n' slash combos are so very rewarding. At this point the controls do get in the way sometimes. Yeah, it's possible to keep up with the attacks and you don't need them, but the charging, where present, is slightly imprecise and easily broken. There are spells you can use, but I couldn't always get the combination to do so to work, which undoubtably got in the way in a few more difficult fights.
On a personal level there really is not much to criticise. The sound and graphics have aged remarkably well with them being better than the majority of titles on the Nintendo Wii. The one thing I am going to cry out against is the camera which can be abominable. Whilst having a button to centre the camera makes up for it a little bit there are sections where you fight in such claustrophobic areas that you can die because all the action is happening off screen and it is labour intensive to get the camera just right. This is something rectified in the updated Ninja Gaiden Black but for now I am still slightly frustrated at a battle against two men on horseback where the enemies were so quick that they moved out of frame by the time I was able to centre the camera!
Fast, furious, fun and with magical fire, ice and electrical powers I have to admit that I was shocked at how much fun Ninja Gaiden was. Thankfully it is completely backwards compatible on the 360 so there is no excuse to not pick up a copy of this game… it's rather cheap!
I suppose the remakes and rereleases will have had its effect on what this game would be like, this game holds up incredibly well. Don't get put off by the comments about the game's difficulty – yeah, it's tough, but once you get your first save point, things will get easier to keep up with. You'll need to redo certain battles once or twice – you need to figure out the attack patterns and work out a strategy – nut it's not as annoying as many make it out to be.
With that, most of this is a tight game, and in the end its climbing and jumping environment makes for better freerunning than Free Running, so surely you can give this a go?
#850 Ninja Gaiden II « Pong and Beyond says:
[…] frustrating features of the list are the near-duplicate games. I feel I have only played a single Ninja Gaiden game, but did it twice because of the Ninja Gaiden Black upgrade – same engine, same […]


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Q: improving speed of Python module import The question of how to speed up importing of Python modules has been asked previously (Speeding up the python "import" loader and Python -- Speed Up Imports?) but without specific examples and has not yielded accepted solutions. I will therefore take up the issue again here, but this time with a specific example.
I have a Python script that loads a 3-D image stack from disk, smooths it, and displays it as a movie. I call this script from the system command prompt when I want to quickly view my data. I'm OK with the 700 ms it takes to smooth the data as this is comparable to MATLAB. However, it takes an additional 650 ms to import the modules. So from the user's perspective the Python code runs at half the speed.
This is the series of modules I'm importing:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
import scipy.ndimage
import scipy.signal
import sys
import os

Of course, not all modules are equally slow to import. The chief culprits are:
matplotlib.pyplot   [300ms]
numpy               [110ms]
scipy.signal        [200ms]

I have experimented with using from, but this isn't any faster. Since Matplotlib is the main culprit and it's got a reputation for slow screen updates, I looked for alternatives. One is PyQtGraph, but that takes 550 ms to import.
I am aware of one obvious solution, which is to call my function from an interactive Python session rather than the system command prompt. This is fine but it's too MATLAB-like, I'd prefer the elegance of having my function available from the system prompt.
I'm new to Python and I'm not sure how to proceed at this point. Since I'm new, I'd appreciate links on how to implement proposed solutions. Ideally, I'm looking for a simple solution (aren't we all!) because the code needs to be portable between multiple Mac and Linux machines.

A: You can import your modules manually instead, using imp. See documentation here.
For example, import numpy as np could probably be written as
import imp
np = imp.load_module("numpy",None,"/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy",('','',5))

This will spare python from browsing your entire sys.path to find the desired packages.
See also:
Manually importing gtk fails: module not found

A: Not an actual answer to the question, but a hint on how to profile the import speed with Python 3.7 and tuna (a small project of mine):
python3 -X importtime -c "import scipy" 2> scipy.log
tuna scipy.log

A: 1.35 seconds isn't long, but I suppose if you're used to half that for a "quick check" then perhaps it seems so.
Andrea suggests a simple client/server setup, but it seems to me that you could just as easily call a very slight modification of your script and keep it's console window open while you work:

*

*Call the script, which does the imports then waits for input

*Minimize the console window, switch to your work, whatever: *Do work*

*Select the console again

*Provide the script with some sort of input

*Receive the results with no import overhead

*Switch away from the script again while it happily awaits input

I assume your script is identical every time, ie you don't need to give it image stack location or any particular commands each time (but these are easy to do as well!).
Example RAAC's_Script.py:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
import scipy.ndimage
import scipy.signal
import sys
import os

print('********* RAAC\'s Script Now Running *********')

while True: # Loops forever
    # Display a message and wait for user to enter text followed by enter key.
    # In this case, we're not expecting any text at all and if there is any it's ignored
    input('Press Enter to test image stack...')

    '''
    *
    *
    **RAAC's Code Goes Here** (Make sure it's indented/inside the while loop!)
    *
    *
    '''

To end the script, close the console window or press ctrl+c.
I've made this as simple as possible, but it would require very little extra to handle things like quitting nicely, doing slightly different things based on input, etc.

A: You can use lazy imports, but it depends on your use case.
If it's an application, you can run necessary modules for GUI, then after window is loaded, you can import all your modules.
If it's a module and user do not use all the dependencies, you can import inside function.
[warning]
It's against pep8 i think and it's not recomennded at some places, but all the reason behind this is mostly readability (i may be wrong though...) and some builders (e.g. pyinstaller) bundling (which can be solved with adding missing dependencies param to spec)
If you use lazy imports, use comments so user knows that there are extra dependencies.
Example:
import numpy as np

# Lazy imports
# import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def plot():
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    # Your function here
    # This will be imported during runtime

For some specific libraries i think it's necessity.
You can also create some let's call it api in __init__.py
For example on scikit learn. If you import sklearn and then call some model, it's not found and raise error. You need to be more specific then and import directly submodule. Though it can be unconvenient for users, it's imho good practice and can reduce import times significantly.
Usually 10% of imported libraries cost 90% of import time. Very simple tool for analysis is line_profiler
import line_profiler
import atexit

profile = line_profiler.LineProfiler()
atexit.register(profile.print_stats)

@profile
def profiled_function():

    import numpy as np
    import pandas as pd
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

profiled_function()

This give results
Line #      Hits         Time  Per Hit   % Time  Line Contents
==============================================================
    20                                               @profile
    21                                               def profiled_function():
    22
    23         1    2351852.0 2351852.0      6.5          import numpy as np
    24         1    6545679.0 6545679.0     18.0          import pandas as pd
    25         1   27485437.0 27485437.0     75.5          import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

75% of three libraries imports time is matplotlib (this does not mean that it's bad written, it just needs a lot of stuff for grafic output)
Note:
If you import library in one module, other imports cost nothing, it's globally shared...
Another note:
If using imports directly from python (e.g pathlib, subprocess etc.) do not use lazy load, python modules import times are close to zero and don't need to be optimized from my experience...

A: you could build a simple server/client, the server running continuously making and updating the plot, and the client just communicating the next file to process.
I wrote a simple server/client example based on the basic example from the socket module docs: http://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#example
here is server.py:
# expensive imports
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
import scipy.ndimage
import scipy.signal
import sys
import os

# Echo server program
import socket

HOST = ''                 # Symbolic name meaning all available interfaces
PORT = 50007              # Arbitrary non-privileged port
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(1)
while 1:
    conn, addr = s.accept()
    print 'Connected by', addr
    data = conn.recv(1024)
    if not data: break
    conn.sendall("PLOTTING:" + data)
    # update plot
    conn.close()

and client.py:
# Echo client program
import socket
import sys

HOST = ''    # The remote host
PORT = 50007              # The same port as used by the server
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.sendall(sys.argv[1])
data = s.recv(1024)
s.close()
print 'Received', repr(data)

you just run the server:
python server.py

which does the imports, then the client just sends via the socket the filename of the new file to plot:
python client.py mytextfile.txt

then the server updates the plot.
On my machine running your imports take 0.6 seconds, while running client.py 0.03 seconds.

A: I have done just a basic test below, but it shows that runpy can be used to solve this issue when you need to have a whole Python script to be faster (you don't want to put any logic in test_server.py).
test_server.py
import socket
import time
import runpy
import matplotlib.pyplot

HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 50007

serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
    serversocket.bind((HOST, PORT))
except:
    print("Server is already running")
    exit(1)

# Start server with maximum 100 connections
serversocket.listen(100)

while True:
    connection, address = serversocket.accept()
    buf = connection.recv(64)
    if len(buf) > 0:
        buf_str = str(buf.decode("utf-8"))
        now = time.time()
        runpy.run_path(path_name=buf_str)
        after = time.time()
        duration = after - now
        print("I received " + buf_str + " script and it took " + str(duration) + " seconds to execute it")

test_client.py
import socket
import sys

HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 50007

clientsocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
clientsocket.connect((HOST, PORT))

message = sys.argv[1].encode()

clientsocket.send(message)

test_lag.py
import matplotlib.pyplot

Testing:
$ python3 test_client.py test_lag.py
I received test_lag.py script and it took 0.0002799034118652344 seconds to execute it

$ time python3 test_lag.py

real    0m0.624s
user    0m1.307s
sys     0m0.180s

Based on this, module is pre-loaded for fast usage.

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Black political dilemma
By James Clingman
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There's nothing wrong with testing students and identifying schools in which students appear to be making good or poor progress in comparison to other schools serving students with similar backgrounds, as long as this is just used as information to identify areas of need. What is damaging about accountability is the use of test scores for draconian consequences, such as firing principals and closing schools. The problem is that terror is just not a very good strategy for professional development. Teachers and principals afraid of punishment are more likely to use questionable strategies to raise their scores--teaching the test, reducing time on non-tested subjects, trying to attract higher-achieving kids or get rid of lower performers, not to mention out-and-out cheating. Neither terror nor the hope of rewards does much to fundamentally improve day to day teaching because the vast majority of teachers are already doing their best. There are bad apples, and they need to be rooted out. But you can't improve the overall learning of America's children unless you improve daily teaching practices for the top 95% of teachers, the ones who come to work every day, do their best, care about their kids, and go home dead tired.
Improving outcomes for the students of the top 95% requires top-quality, attractive, engaging professional development to help teachers use proven programs and practices. Because people are more likely to take seriously professional development they've chosen, teachers should have choices (as a school or department, primarily) of which proven programs they want to adopt and implement.
The toughest accountability should be reserved for the programs themselves, and the organizations that provide them. Teachers and principals should have confidence that if they do adopt a given program and implement it with fidelity and intelligence, it will work. This is best demonstrated in large experiments in which teachers in many schools use innovative programs, and outcomes are compared with similar schools without the programs. They should know that they'll get enough training and coaching to see that the program will work.
expanded opportunities to make wise choices for their children. Just as evidence in agriculture informs but does not force choices by farmers, evidence in education should enable school leaders to advance children's learning in a system of choice, not compulsion.
Moving to a focus on evidence-based reform will not solve all of the contentious issues about accountability, but it could help us focus the reform conversation on how to move forward the top 95% of teachers and schools--the ones who teach 95% of our kids--and how to put accountability in proper proportion.


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Q: Vue/Vuetify: Showing/hiding dialog from parent component. Esc key not working I use vuetify library. I want to show a dialog from child component to parent component. I finished it. But ESC key not working when the first time dialog open. Looks like I'm making a mistake somewhere. Can someone help me?
Parent component:
HTML code
<template v-slot:top>
  <v-card-actions id="action">
    <v-btn color="primary" dark class="mb-2" @click.stop="showDialog">
      <v-icon>post_add</v-icon>Add
    </v-btn>
    <div class="mx-1" />
    // call dialog from child component
    <ItemCreationDialog
      :valueDialog="valueDialog"
      @updateValueDialog="updateValueDialog"
    />
  </v-card-actions>
</template>

javascript code:
<script>
import ItemCreationDialog from "./Dialog";

export default {
  components: { ItemCreationDialog },
  data: () => ({
    search: "",
    valueDialog: false,
  }),

  computed: {},

  watch: {},

  created() {},

  methods: {
    updateValueDialog(val) {
      this.valueDialog = val;
    },
    showDialog() {
      this.valueDialog = true;
    },
  },
};
</script>

Child component:
HTML code
<template>
  <v-dialog v-model="itemCreationDialog" max-width="800px">
    <v-card>
      <v-card-title> </v-card-title>
      <v-card-text> </v-card-text>

      <v-card-actions>
        <v-spacer />
        <v-btn color="primary" text @click="close">Cancel</v-btn>
        <v-btn color="primary" text @click="save">Save</v-btn>
      </v-card-actions>
    </v-card>
  </v-dialog>
</template>

javascript code:
<script>
export default {
  props: {
    valueDialog: Boolean,
  },
  data: function () {
    return {};
  },
  watch: {},
  computed: {
    itemCreationDialog: {
      get() {
        return this.valueDialog;
      },
      set(valueDialog) {
        this.$emit("updateValueDialog", false);
      },
    },
  },

  methods: {
    close() {
      this.$emit("updateValueDialog", false);
    },
    handleOpenPopup() {},
    save() {
      this.$emit("updateValueDialog", false);
    },
  },
};
</script>

A: I think you should add ESC event to the dialog. something like:
<v-dialog v-model="itemCreationDialog" max-width="800px" @keydown.esc="close">


It's not a great month for Chrysler, as they have now had to add a new model to their ever-growing recall list this year, this time round the recalls concern the 2003-2004 Dodge Viper models. However, we have been informed that they have yet to announce a remedy for the issue.
Not all versions of the 2003 and 2004 Dodge Viper are affected by this recall, so if you have any doubts then you can check by entering your VIN HERE. Those units affected would have been manufactured from the start of November 2001 to June 30, 2004.
The reason for the Dodge Viper recalls is due to the airbag or seat belt pretensioners being activated involuntarily while the vehicle is in motion, which is due to a faulty air bag module. If this were to happen then this could cause the driver to lose control of the vehicle because of the shock or the air bag restricting your view of the road.
According to Chrysler if your Dodge Viper is on the recall list then your nearest dealer will repair the issue free of charge, although owners should be notified in writing in due course.
The only problem here is that Chrysler has yet to announce when they will begin to fix this issue, although they have said is that it will be later this year. This will not fill those affected by this full of hope, as they are uncertain if they should drive their Viper or not.
If you have any worries then we would suggest you call Chrysler on this phone number 1-800-247-9753 or if you have trouble getting through then call the NHTSA on 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153).


Drinking rum before breakfast, the saying goes, doesn't make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate. Eating pain perdu that's been steeped in rum for breakfast, as I did the other day - actually, as I did every morning for several days while staying at Villa Marie in St Barth's - makes you an extremely spoilt and cheerful pirate.
Spoilt and cheerful is the only kind of pirate that St Barth's has ever had anything much to do with. And none more so than Rémy de Haenen, the moustachioed roué who put the island on the map.
De Haenen came to the Caribbean in 1938 after quitting the French merchant navy. Perceiving that a world war was imminent, he took stock of his options and decided to become the biggest smuggler in the region. Ships were too slow and conspicuous for his purposes, so he learnt to fly - in a single hour in Miami, he boasted. He was the first person to land a plane on St Barth's, having cleared a makeshift airstrip for that purpose. His near complete lack of flying experience may have been an advantage. If he'd known what he was doing, he might not have done it at all. The airstrip on which he landed is still, astonishingly, in use, one of the shortest and most awkwardly positioned commercial runways in the world, with a sheer, jagged hill-face at one end and the ocean at the other. Arriving by plane at St Barth's today is as much a source of childlike delight and abject terror as it has ever been.
After the war, and in between sabbaticals behind bars (but before becoming mayor of the island), de Haenen built a house just around a picturesque bend in the coast from his airstrip. He called it Eden Rock. Various friends and friends of friends came to stay with him there - Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Greta Garbo, Howard Hughes, the Begum Aga Khan. By the beginning of the 1960s St Barth's was well on its way to becoming quite the chicest island in the Caribbean.
Socially speaking, it has continued, if not exactly to evolve, at least to broaden its appeal to the international rich and famous. As one long-time resident, quoted in Vanity Fair, put it: 'It's like the whole island is Studio 54 at its peak.' Like Studio 54 at its peak, St Barth's is a broad church. There's room, and rooms, here for all types - except, perhaps, those on a budget. Villa Marie occupies a sweet spot at the small and intimate end of the spectrum: pretty and cosseting, not flashy or forbidding. Although the serried sun loungers of the Isle de France on Flamands beach are clearly visible from the hilltop around which Villa Marie curls near the north-western tip of the island, all that seems light years away in terms of style and scale.
Here the 21 suites and villas are woody, whitewashed and shuttered, with an abundance of ceiling fans, seashells and Emmanuelle-style rattan armchairs. Beds are vast and canopied, with elaborate headboards. Soft furnishings are printed with pineapples (which I found unfailingly happy-making), parrots (likewise, though something in their expression made me think they were laughing at me behind my back) and palm trees (dark, moody and weirdly haunting). Other features suggest influences from more distant shores: sideboards inlaid with mother-of-pearl; dreamcatcher-y wall hangings; Slim Aarons prints. This spirit of playful eclecticism comes directly from Villa Marie's co-owner, Jocelyne Sibuet. Together with her ex-husband Jean-Louis, and latterly with their children, she has built up the Sibuet brand into something of a mini-empire. It started in 1989 with the rustic-deluxe Les Fermes de Marie, in Megève. Now there are a dozen or so Sibuet properties scattered across France - and, of course, in the immaculate little French overseas collectivity of Saint-Bartélemy.
Villa Marie has an identically named sister hotel in St Tropez. 'Why so many Maries?' I asked Jocelyne over a glass of rosé by the pool in St Barth's. 'Alors, it was my grandmother's name, and it just seems right,' she said with a Gallic shrug. The rosé, I noticed, came from a Sibuet-owned vineyard, Le Domaine de Marie.
The ace up the hotel's sleeve is its restaurant. I loved its airy open-plan design, which makes it seem bigger than it really is, and the fantastic attitude of the staff, who are mostly French and all clearly delighted to be on the island. And the superlative pain perdu. But whatever you do, don't miss the banane flambée. It, too, is cooked in generous quantities of rum. Here's to you, Rémy de Haenen, you crazy banane, and your crazy-beautiful island. Santé. Arrrr!
Doubles at Villa Marie Saint-Barth cost from £400, including breakfast and transfers. British Airways flies daily from Gatwick to Antigua. Tradewind flies daily from Antigua to St Barth's.


In 2005, as I was finishing up my master's thesis, I was approached by the then recently opened publishing house Normal (the name, of course, being ironic). They were the first queer publisher in Scandinavia and were scouting for young authors who had edgy subjects that would fit into their mission statement, which included publishing LGBT-oriented literature that challenged heteronormativity. I decided to rewrite my master's thesis over the course of a couple of months, and the result was La Dolce Vita, which came out in October 2006.
The book is in Swedish and is divided into two section. The first is an account of the history of After Dark (their website), a famous Swedish drag troupe that had, when the book came out, almost been performing for 30 years and is now considered an entertainment institution in Swedish popular culture. The second part of the book is a critical analysis of the queer politics of the troupe's aesthetics. One of my main observations in the book is how the troupe is navigating gender and sexuality binaries (man/woman and heterosexuality/homosexuality) and even more so, how they have impacted gender norms and queer politics in a Swedish context.
After finishing the book, I continued some of the audience research I had found been lacking on a website created from the material used for the book: www.afterdark.nu. I had intentions to continue the website, but since moving to New York City, I haven't had the time.
My current dissertation is taking the conclusions from La Dolce Vita and contextualizing them further in relation to Swedish drag culture and its history, more generally, as well as critically considering how the attachment to After Dark might have entailed a certain pinkwashing of Swedish politics.


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Rice Owls vs UTSA Roadrunners 1/16/2023 Picks Predictions Previews
January 16, 2023 January 16, 2023 by Tonys Picks Staff
The Rice Owls will go against the UTSA Roadrunners in NCAAB action at UTSA Convocation Center, TX, on Monday, January 16, 2023, at 8:00 PM ET.
The Rice Owls, who are performing exceptionally well, defeated the UTEP Miners at home 83–82. They were successful in scoring as they amassed 45 points in the game's second half.
They shot the ball exceptionally effectively as well, making 19 free throw attempts and going 29 of 51 (56.9%) overall, 10-of-23 (43.5%) from three, and overall.
Quincy Olivari, a junior guard, served as the team's captain and ended with 23 points, 9 rebounds, one assist, and two turnovers in 40 minutes.
They need to play much better defense because they surrendered 50% shooting from the floor but only 22.2 percent from beyond the arc in this game.
Rice performed admirably, finishing the game with seven steals and one block.
The Rice Owls are unstoppable this season, ranking 20th in the US with 81.7 points scored per game, shooting an impressive 48.8 percent from the field, and dishing out 17.4 assists per game.
They are 298th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 74 points per game. They must improve upon their 2.1 blocks and 6.2 steals per game.
The total went OVER in 6 of Rice's previous 7 meetings.
The Rice Owls are 10-3 SU in their last 13 matches.
The Owls are 3-7 ATS in their last 10 games with the UTSA Roadrunners.
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It does not help that the UTSA Roadrunners let up 38 points in the second half of their difficult 72–54 away loss to the Charlotte 49ers.
Japhet Medor, a senior guard, led UTSA with 18 points, 5 rebounds, one assist, and one block in 33 minutes of play.
They had some issues on defense as the 49ers shot 48.3 percent from the field, 34.6 percent from beyond the arc, and 10 free throw attempts. The Roadrunners were able to register only 2 steals and one block over the entire match.
The UTSA Roadrunners are 296th in the nation in scoring offense with 67.4 points scored per game, and they also average 10.8 assists per game. They are doing well thus far, shooting 40.3 percent from the field.
This year, they attempted to increase that aspect of the game but only managed to register 2.6 blocks and 3.9 steals per game.
The UTSA Roadrunners are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 matches.
The Roadrunners are 1-6 SU in their last 7 matches.
The total went OVER in 5 of UTSA's last 6 games with the Rice Owls.
Rice Owls vs UTSA Roadrunners. The NCAAB pick for this game is the Rice Owls.
Rice is currently ranked 183rd in the country by KenPom's modified efficiency margin, whereas UTSA is all the way down at 323rd in college basketball with a -12.93 rating thus far.
This shows a significant discrepancy between the two programs. With the Owls generating 77.2 points over their previous five matches and the Roadrunners posting just 58.3 points per game over their last three contests, these offenses are currently miles apart from one another.
In conclusion, pick the Rice Owls to win this game on the road. The Rice Owls will win to a predicted score of 79-70.
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"All-wheel-drive" ray sperm inspire a better swimming robot
As if the ray fishes weren't unusual enough already, it turns out that their sperm is also unique. Scientists have now created a robot inspired by those sperm, which may someday lead to smaller descendants that swim within the human body.
Skin-buzzing sensor detects psoriasis, and potentially other disorders
When someone has a problematic skin condition, the affected skin is typically either stiffer or softer than normal. A new sensor has been shown to detect such differences, potentially allowing doctors to diagnose problems more quickly and easily.
Ice microneedle patches deliver drugs, then melt away
Nobody likes needles, but they're a necessary evil. Microneedle patches are emerging as a painless alternative, and now researchers in Hong Kong have developed a new version of the tech that's made of ice, for easier manufacture and use.
Tiny wing-flapping drone gets tougher by going softer
Although wing-flapping micro-drones do already exist, the things tend to be quite fragile – and thus not ideally suited to real-world use. An experimental new one, however, utilizes a softer mechanism for greatly enhanced durability.
Invisible "dark matter" stars may explain puzzling gravitational waves
Last year gravitational waves were detected from a massive black hole collision. But now astrophysicists propose a new explanation: a collision of two boson stars – hypothetical, invisible objects that could help untangle the mystery of dark matter.
Scientists stretch diamond to improve its electronic properties
Diamond is a famously hard material, but now scientists have managed to stretch it further than ever before. Why? Stretching nanoscale samples changes their electronic and optical properties, which could open up a new world of diamond devices.
Magnetic spray turns objects into robots that walk, roll and crawl
Scientists at the City University of Hong Kong have developed a new type of spray-on coating they say can give regular objects the capabilities of magnetically controlled robots, with particular potential in biomedical applications.
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When natural ocean shoreline is replaced by an artificial seawall, a lot of precious intertidal habitat is lost. A new study, however, indicates that by covering those walls with specially designed tiles, a substitute habitat can be created.
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An international team of scientists has created a new type of solar flow battery that's efficient and long-lasting. The device is made up of a silicon/perovskite tandem solar cell, paired with a redox flow battery, with organic chemical electrolytes.
"Epidermal VR" brings a new sense of touch to virtual reality
Although VR tech may allow users to see and hear computer-generated environments, the extent to which people can feel those worlds is still quite limited. That could be about to change, though, thanks to what's being called an "epidermal VR" system.
Tiny "flying whale" robot is made to move within the human body
An ever-increasing number of research groups are developing tiny robots, capable of performing targeted drug-delivery inside the body. One of the latest such devices incorporates a flapping whale-flukes-like tail, along with wings that fold up or down as needed.
Will this creepy robotic caterpillar one day deliver drugs in the human body?
In the future, tiny robots of all kinds of shapes could be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or patching up wounds. The next robot to join those ranks is a caterpillar-inspired device, which gets around with ease on hundreds of tiny, pointy legs.


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MBIA Drops Suit Against Bank of America
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After a contentious suit against ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ and Merrill Lynch, ""MBIA Inc."":http://www.mbia.com/ ended a lawsuit against the mortgage giant over $5.7 billion in bad credit default protection the insurer underwrote for the bank's mortgage-backed securities.
According to the filing, ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/ and ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ both agreed to voluntarily withdraw the claims and cover their fees for their separate cases.
As filed by ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/, a proposed amended complaint attached the filing held that ""numerous detailed allegations making clear that Merrill possessed exclusive and unique knowledge of the defects in the collateral underlying the complex financial instruments that Defendants touted to investors and insurers.""
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The filing goes on to say that ""Merrill Lynch, through its loan origination subsidiaries, was aware of and involved in rampant underwriting failures in its own mortgage lending portfolio, and thereby knew, well ahead of the market├â┬ó├óÔÇÜ┬¼├é┬ª that significant defaults on the mortgage collateral underlying the CDOs were likely imminent.""
According to Reuters, ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/ had sued Merrill in April 2009 with accompanying allegations that the bank committed fraud by overstating the quality of poorly written mortgage-backed securities. The original motion leveled accusations against Merrill that it ""offload[ed] billions of dollars"" in bad subprime mortgages and other risky debt.
The ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/ said that it was in pursuit of several hundred million dollars that it accrued in losses over the subprime mortgage fallout.
A ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/ spokesperson declined to comment.
A spokesperson for ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ could not be immediately reached for comment.
Reuters reported that ""MBIA"":http://www.mbia.com/ shares jumped 8.2 percent to close at $9.15 Tuesday, shortly following which ""Bank of America"": announced that it would cover settlements by paying bond insurers. The bank more recently settled with ""Assured Guaranty Ltd."":http://assuredguaranty.com/ to the tune of $1.6 billion.
This comes on the heels of reports that ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ will accelerate attempts to close on legal claims related to faulty mortgage-backed securities, according to ""_Dow Jones Newswires_"":http://www.dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N. ""Bank of America"":https://www.bankofamerica.com/ shares fell 8 cents to close at $10.27.
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Contains: 19 grams of protein, 65 grams of fat and 4 grams of carbs.
Contrary to popular belief, Eggs Are Not a Likely Source of Salmonella Contamination.
If you have digestive problems, i.e. upset stomach, acid reflux, heartburn, gas, bloating, etc. it is important that you cook the all spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, stevia, etc.) prior to adding them to this recipe in order to break down their cell walls, that are fibers, called cellulose, that humans cannot digest, as explained in Raw Versus Cooked Carbs/Plant Foods – see the Alternative Preparations below this recipe.
Also see important notes below.
3 large whole eggs (or 4 medium size), preferably "organic" or "certified organic" free-range.
Other spices can be added to suit your taste, i.e. ground clove, allspice, ginger, etc.
All spices and dried herbs must be organic or certified organic from the health store, because all commercial products are irradiated (zapped with radiation) that change and damage the body's cells if consumed.
For people with digestive problems see the "alternative preparation" below.
Put all ingredients in a blender except the water.
Carefully pour in boiled water [the amount of water can be more or less, depending upon whether you like a thin or thick drink], but be careful not to put too much in the blender or food processor since it will spurt out the top more easily. Filling it to not more than 3 cups seems to work well.
Close the cover well, pulse it at first, and then blend it for 15-20 seconds.
This drink keeps well in a thermos for several hours, and it can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Since it tends to separate it may need to be stirred well or blended again before drinking it.
If you prefer the drink cold, put it in the refrigerator to cool it down. Stir well before drinking it.
Heat water in a pot or kettle until it is steaming.
Pour a small amount of steaming water into the bottom of a small saucepan, and add spices, i.e. cinnamon, nutmeg, stevia, etc., mixing them into the water with a small whisk or fork. It will be thick.
Turn another burner on high heat and let it get hot.
Add enough steaming water to the spice mixture so it is about 1 cup total, and mix it well.
Put the spice mixture on the hot burner.
Once it starts to boil, turn down the heat a little (to #8 on the stove dial), and cook it for 4 minutes. It will be gelatin-like and gloppy like egg whites, which means the cell walls are getting broken down. Keep mixing it with a fork or whisk while it is cooking.
Turn off the burner under the pan or kettle of water since it has boiled by now.
Meanwhile, put the eggs, unrefined coconut oil and butter in the blender or food processor.
When the spice mixture is done, pour it into the blender—it will be thick and goopy, so be careful when you pour it in.
Add more hot water, up to no more than 3 cups, so you can easily blend it without it spurting out the top.
Eggs, unrefined coconut oil, butter, and spices are healing foods that create natural healing and detoxification reactions in some people, particularly if you are unhealthy. You cannot avoid such reactions, however they can be more tolerable by starting with small amounts of butter and coconut oil, and slowly increasing them. Start with 1 teaspoon of each (or less) in this Egg Drink, which is one meal, to a maximum of 2 tablespoons of each. The maximum "therapeutic dose" of unrefined coconut oil for unhealthy people is 5.5 tablespoons per day, always split between 3 meals per day. To understand this see Healing Foods, Herbs & Spices Create Healing Reactions.
The reason some people react to eggs is because they are high in sulphur (a mineral), and sulphur is very important for the body's detoxification processes that increases natural healing and detoxifying reactions in some people. You cannot avoid such reactions, however they can be more tolerable by starting with 1 egg yolk or 1 teaspoon of an egg yolk 3 times a day with meals, and by slowly increasing them.
Unrefined coconut oil goes into the bloodstream quicker than other fats and oils because it does not need digestive enzymes, nor bile, in order to be absorbed into the bloodstream like other fats and oils do. Some coconut oil is absorbed through the mouth and some in the stomach, but most of it goes from the first part of small intestines (duodenum) through the lymphatic system directly into the bloodstream. That is why unrefined coconut oil increases natural healing and detoxification reactions quicker than other oils or fats. Note: If you start with small amounts and slowly increase them your reactions will be more tolerable.
All ingredients can be lowered, if needed. If you are unhealthy and just starting on unrefined coconut oil or get healing reactions to eggs, start with 1 egg (or 1 teaspoon of egg yolk), 1 teaspoon of coconut oil, 1 teaspoon of butter, less water and spices, and slowly increase them until you are adding the full amounts in the recipe above.


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Jean-Jacques Annaud, född 1 oktober 1943 i Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, är en fransk filmregissör, manusförfattare och filmproducent.

Annaud utbildade sig vid La Fémis i Paris. Han inledde sin karriär med att regissera reklamfilmer för tv under 1960-talet. Annaud slog igenom med den Oscarsbelönade filmen Seger under sång (La Victoire en chantant eller Noirs et blancs en couleurs, 1976). Han har sedan dess spelat in ett flertal storfilmer, och arbetat med Hollywood-stjärnor som Sean Connery, Brad Pitt, Rachel Weisz och Ed Harris.

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Clarence Thomas Suggests That Permanently Losing Your Gun Rights Is No Small Thing
Maybe Congress needs better reasons to bar people from owning firearms.
Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2016 8:01 AM
Yesterday, when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke during oral argument for the first time in a decade, it was to raise an issue that even defenders of the right to armed self-defense often ignore: Under what circumstances can someone lose that right?
The case, Voisine v. United States, poses the question of whether reckless behavior is enough to qualify as a "misdemeanor crime of domestic violence" under 18 USC 922, which prohibits people convicted of such offenses from owning firearms. The two men who are challenging that interpretation of the law, Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, were convicted under Maine assault provisions that cover an offender who "recklessly causes bodily injury or offensive physical contact." Among other things, they argue that reading the federal law to include mere recklessness makes it more vulnerable to challenge under the Second Amendment.
Yesterday Thomas seized on that point and expanded it during an exchange with Assistant Solicitor General Ilana Eisentein. "You're saying that recklessness is sufficient to trigger a  misdemeanor violation of domestic [assault] that results in a lifetime ban on possession of a gun, which, at least as of now, is still a constitutional right," he said. "Can you think of another constitutional right that can be suspended based upon a misdemeanor violation of a state law?" Eisenstein could not.
Thomas noted that Voisine and Armstrong, assuming they're covered by 18 USC 922, would permanently lose their Second Amendment rights, even though their crimes did not involve guns or any other weapons. Then he posed a hypothetical: Imagine that a publisher commits a misdemeanor by violating a ban on using children in certain kinds of advertising. "Could you suspend that publisher's right to ever publish again?" he asked. Eisenstein thought not.
"So how is that different from suspending your Second Amendment right?" Thomas asked. Eisenstein replied that Congress had "the compelling purpose" of preventing escalating domestic violence by people with a demonstrated propensity to commit such crimes. She also noted that misdemeanants can seek to recover their Second Amendment rights by petitioning for a pardon or expungement.
Although the resolution of this case probably will not hinge on the issue raised by Thomas, federal courts will need to contend with it if they take seriously the constitutional rights recognized by District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 decision that overturned a local handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds. Depending on who chooses a replacement for Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion in Heller, that decision could be reversed or applied so narrowly that it has little practical impact—a prospect to which Thomas alluded when he said owning a gun is a constitutional right "at least as of now." But even assuming that Heller continues to impose restrictions on gun control, it is not at all clear what those restrictions will be, especially when it comes to rules about who is allowed to own firearms.
Although Heller itself blessed "longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill," those categories include lots of people who, unlike Voisine and Armstrong, have demonstrated no violent tendencies at all. If a misdemeanor assault conviction does not justify stripping someone of his Second Amendment rights, why would a felony conviction for selling marijuana or involuntary treatment for suicidal thoughts? Other disqualifying criteria listed in 18 USC 922, such as illegal use of a controlled substance or unauthorized residence in the United States, seem even more tenuously related to the goal of protecting the public from violent criminals. If the right to armed self-defense is guaranteed by the Constitution, Thomas is rightly suggesting, perhaps Congress should not be so quick to take it away.
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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.
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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is one of my favorite places to visit in Pittsburgh, so when my very best friend and college roommate landed her dream job as their internal events coordinator I was thrilled. That is the exact reaction I had when she called me to offer me the opportunity to do a food demonstration at the Phipps Tomato and Garlic Festival. The festival is a celebration for two of western Pennsylvania's tastiest summer crops, tomatoes and garlic; (which just happen to be two of my favorite ingredients!) Of course I said yes!
After much consideration I decided to go with a simple tomato and bean salsa recipe that is always a big hit with my family. I was also thinking about making a delicious tomato pie recipe that I received (via) Tom's mom, Diane, but the festival was outside and I was limited on key kitchen supplies (hello, no oven!) so I went with the salsa recipe instead.
The demonstration went great, I had a nice sized audience and everyone seemed to enjoy the tomato bean salsa I whipped up for them. It was a lovely Sunday afternoon filled with family, friends and tomatoes! I don't think it gets much better than that. I enjoyed meeting fellow tomato and garlic lovers and I also picked up a few items from the farmers market while I was there.
Becky helping me pass out samples, she makes a lovely assistant!