Foerster CR1, Turgulov A2. Prehospital endovascular occlusion of the aorta is now a technically feasible strategy for improving haemodynamics in CPR. Resuscitation. 2015 Aug;93:e25. PMID: 26049132.
The CHEER trial that showed that patients with refractory VF cardiac arrest who previously would have been pronounced dead in the field can survive with a good neurological outcome if they receive effective circulatory support and definitive intervention in hospital. This suggests that we need to rethink our approach to resuscitation to consider whether we can make CPR more effective to improve the chance getting our patients to definitive care while still potentially viable when defibrillation has been unsuccessful. This is the thought that led to the proposal recently published in Resuscitation that the resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) technique could be useful in prehospital medical cardiac arrest. By occluding circulation to non-vital areas of the body and improving perfusion to the heart and brain, it may someday play a role in the treatment of refractory cardiac arrest.
There are barriers to seeing this idea implemented, even if the intended physiological impact is seen. These are primarily technical challenges having to do with the need to achieve femoral artery access for endovascular occlusion of the aorta, which to our knowledge has not yet been done during cardiac arrest. Widespread use of the technique would also be limited by the need to have practitioners in the field who are competent in the technique and perform it frequently enough to maintain the skill.
Despite these challenges, this novel resuscitation strategy is worth exploring further to determine feasibility, later to be followed by an assessment of efficacy if it is found to be technically feasible. Please read the full letter and share your thoughts in the comments below.
Chris is a paramedic with Lambton EMS in Ontario, Canada and is active in paramedic education and research.
A great topic close to my heart!
I think certainly the animal data is very compelling, and as you say shows great improvement in cardio-cerebral perfusion in those models. I think as catheter technology evolves, and as we recently discussed in our paper (http://www.resuscitationjournal.com/article/S0300-9572(15)00398-6/abstract), REBOA will have a place in non-traumatic arrest potentially as a bridge to ECMO or other techniques. I think what will be particularly fascinating is the evolution of work by people like Dr Jim Manning on selective aortic arch perfusion (SAAP) and incorporating that into cardiac arrest algorithms. The future is very exciting!
You mention in your piece the technical aspects of femoral access. I think this is a critical point, and certainly with the currently used equipment in North America, this emphasizes the great importance of appropriate training. The technology here is evolving and will soon allow the use of smaller sheaths and catheters, but this is still a little ways away. Internationally however they are already using smaller sheaths, and we can certainly all learn from their experience.
Additionally, although REBOA placement in arrest in the prehospital setting has not yet been reported (or to my knowledge been done), we have done it in hospital in traumatic cardiac arrest. In the arrest state, the artery is primarily accessed via a groin cutdown technique, although ultrasound can also be utilized.
Thanks for your contribution to this topic.
Thank you very much for your comments and for sharing a link to your review, Dr. Qasim. The future certainly is exciting! Did you experience any unexpected challenges in using the REBOA in your patient in traumatic cardiac arrest?
Anuar and I have also not yet heard of a case of REBOA placement in a patient in cardiac arrest in the prehospital setting but we are interested in the possibility of this taking place. It seemed like our European colleagues might be the best situated for this with their more widespread use of critical care physicians in the field than we generally have in North America. Do you anticipate that there might be an American EMS system where there is direct field involvement of physicians who would be able to apply this technique for a patient in medical cardiac arrest?
Thank you again for taking the time to share your insights!


Because the vast empire of the Soviet Union is dead and gone, it's hard sometimes to remember how pervasive, influential, and terrifying it once was. I grew up during the Cold War, when the ongoing struggle between communism and capitalism as exemplified by Russia and the United States was a fact of life. It screamed at us through novels and films such as the James Bond series, The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, and many other works. Not only that, but it hit the young men of my generation in a personal way through the war in Vietnam and the draft, which had been interpreted to us by those who promoted the war as one more arena in the continuing battle against communism. We saw people like Khrushchev and Brezhnev on the news, and they seemed like ambassadors from another planet. The truth was, though, that these public figures were rulers in a land in which the common people, supposedly in the name of reform but actually to keep the ruling elite in power and privilege, were being enslaved, tortured, and murdered.
Remnick's book focuses on the last days of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and the nonviolent revolution that brought about the end of the union, the independence of the various satellite republics, and the democratization of Russia. Its main arc begins around 1985 when Gorbachev initiated perestroika, which means restructuring, and glasnost, which means openness, to bring to light aspects of Soviet history that had been long hidden such as Stalin's purges of millions of citizens through execution or exile to labor camps. This aroused the ire of right-wing factions of the communist party who were staunch supporters of Stalin and the one-party system of absolute rule. It turned out that most of these people worked to retain the existing system not because they gave a damn what happened to the workers that it was all supposedly for, but rather because they wanted to retain their opulent lifestyles, their luxurious offices, their holiday villas, their private limousines and planes, and other perks that the top men received. Remnick details the fine line that Gorbachev walked, especially in the beginning, to open up the country but at the same time pacify the reactionaries.
As perestroika and glasnost became more prevalent, liberal factions of the media in the country reacted and made brave steps to get the truth out to the common people. Miners and other groups of workers went on strike to protest their squalid work and living situations. The situation escalated until satellite republics broke away from the union and Boris Yeltsin became Russia's first elected president. Hard liners in the Kremlin, the KGB, and the military attempted one final coup out of desperation; when it failed, Russia and the rest of the countries in the erstwhile Soviet Union had truly become changed lands.
All of this may sound like tedious and boring history, but Remnick brings it to life so that it reads like a fictional political thriller. Remnick, who at the time worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, arrived in Moscow in 1988 with his wife, lived through these tumultuous events, interviewed all the major players, and traveled throughout the country to get perspectives from isolated areas. He earned my respect when he describes that, during a visit to a coal mining region in Siberia, he strapped on equipment and lights and went deep into a dangerous mineshaft so he could see firsthand the horrendous conditions under which the miners worked. I got acute claustrophobia just reading about it.
This book was first published in the early 1990s and won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. It deserved the prize. It's meticulously researched, full of firsthand information, and very well written. One might suppose that it is irrelevant to our present era, but it isn't. In fact, as I read it, I had a sense of immediacy and a feeling that governments are volatile entities and things can change fast in national and international politics. Before Gorbachev initiated the changes that brought about the fall of the communist party, the Soviet Union was bankrupt and many of its people were suffering and starving, but very few would have thought it possible that in a few short years, Russia would change on such a massive scale. This book is a great read and highly recommended.
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Blu-ray Review: The Lion King: The Circle Of Life Edition
By eelyajekiM | @ | Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 at 2:00 pm
The Circle Of Life Edition
Blu-ray | Digital
Walt Disney Signature Collection
Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Screenwriter: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton
Cast: Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings
Distributor: Walt Disney Home Video
Like a lot of Walt Disney animated films, The Lion King has stood the test of time in its own way. The celebrated piece is a powerful film that has beautiful animation, resonating themes, catchy songs, and plenty of charm to boot. It's no wonder that it is among our favorite films. Now, The Lion King gets, yet another, re-release in "The Circle Of Life" edition as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection. Like many of these re-releases, this one is chock full of bonus extras that will have fans fall in love once more and introduce this lovely film to a new generation who may have never seen it before. Check out our review here below.
The Lion King is a timeless classic that is filled with humor and heart, with a live-action adaptation currently in development from The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau. It's a breathtaking animated tour de force filled with joyful and snappy songs – including the 1994 Academy Award-winning classic "Can You Feel The Love Tonight." It's no wonder that many of us find ourselves glued to the film whenever it comes on television or if we have the itch to see it again. It's that good of a film.
In The Lion King, we follow a young lion cub named Simba who learns about his destiny in the great Circle of Life. Drawing inspiration of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the film was surprisingly emotional if not downright dark for a Disney animated feature. At the time, it was strange to see a Disney film handle such a dark subject matter like family betrayal, and yet it worked out, and for the better.
The film seems more appropriate for adults than kids. And yet, it still retains a lot of that Disney humor with humor and heart. "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" and "Hakuna Matata" seem to be the songs that resonate with younger audiences, with the latter still being a fun mantra to live by, with the "Circle of Life" being an eye-opening song that teaches us about where living things stand within the grand circle. Finally, "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" is probably one of the most romantic of all the Disney romance songs. I mean, it did win an Academy Award.
Here are a list of the bonus features on the Blu-ray:
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Brand New Sing-Along Version
Audio Commentary – View the film with commentary by producer Don Hahn and co-directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff.
Visualizing a Villain – Against a backdrop of live dancers and the animated "Be Prepared" sequence, artist David Garibaldi paints a masterpiece of evil.
The Recording Sessions – Watch rare footage of the actors recording their roles, matched with the final animation. Intro by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff.
Nathan and Matthew: The Extended Lion King Conversation – Nathan Lane (Timon) and Matthew Broderick (Adult Simba) offer candid and hilarious insights into their Lion King experiences.
Inside the Story Room – Co-directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff present archival footage of five original story pitches.
Circle of Life – See how color creates emotion and meaning in the film's iconic opening.
Simba & Nala – See how elements proposed in story meetings evolve into what appears onscreen.
Simba Takes Nala Out to Play – …And, sometimes what seems funny in story meetings never makes it into the film!
Hakuna Matata – Co-directors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff sing, act and dance their hearts out as they pitch the "Hakuna Matata" sequence.
Rafiki and Reflecting Pool – Co-directors Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff pitch a sequence that became the emotional heart of The Lion King to Producer Don Hahn.
Music & More – Sing along to your favorite songs from the movie!
"Circle of Life"
"I Just Can't Wait to Be King"
"Be Prepared"
"Hakuna Matata"
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"
Visual Development – Explore a gallery of striking artwork that inspired the movie's look and feel.
Character Design – Trace the development of the film's unforgettable characters through early concept art drawings.
Storyboards – Examine storyboards created in the development of "The Lion King."
Layouts – Feast your eyes on layouts created in the development of "The Lion King."
Backgrounds & Layouts – Journey through a gallery of landscape paintings that shaped the world of "The Lion King."
Classic Bonus Features (Digital Only) – These offerings from prior home entertainment releases include hours of bonus material, such as bloopers, audio commentary, deleted and alternate scenes, and in-depth journeys into the music, film, story, animals and stage show.
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2013 was an amazing year for me, in many ways. One thing that happened to me was I got sucked into fantasy sports. Bad. I always knew I was susceptible to it: sports, data, sports and data together. I suppose I was preconditioned in my early years by the countless hours spent pouring over and memorizing the stats on the back of my baseball cards. For some reason, I hadn't taken the plunge into the world of fantasy sports (addiction) until a fellow little league father invited me and my oldest son Aaron to join a father-son fantasy football league.
My sincerest apologies to my wife, Sarah, for the handful of weekends this past fall that were utterly ruined by a certain someone in the house incessantly checking his ESPN app and getting grumpier by hour. It wasn't Aaron.
To make things even worse, I started an NBA fantasy league in November. A handful of my friends & family from L.A., some new ones from Seattle, and a Aussie joined, and we were off and running. We call our league the "Shot Callers", and my team is known humbly as "Dunk on You". It's all fun, really. When I win, that is.
It's a labor of love, really. It took a while of playing the game to even know what should be on the dashboard, and it requires constant updating. Thanks to the folks at basketball-reference.com for doing the hard work of providing each day's stats in such a timely fashion. I love it that former UCLA Bruin Kevin Love is leading the pack. Your patience is appreciated as I continue to find and add the player profile photos, as many aren't included as of yet.
Lastly, if you, too, are a fantasy sports addict like me, I'd love to hear your tips, tricks and even maybe some recovery methods you've found helpful. Into basketball fantasy sports? How could this dashboard be even more useful?
what is the name of the graph shown under 'Players: Fantasy points' on the left and how do you set that up in tableau?
Hey Ben, how did you get individual URLs for each player's headshot? In the data, I can see you've got an individual URL for each image. You could do it manually, in theory, but did you have a way of automatically finding each URL? I've got a fantasy baseball dashboard I'd like to set up something similar on.
Yes, it was a very manual process, unfortunately. You might be able to use a web scraping tool like import.io for something like this. I'd send them a tweet to @importio. They're super helpful and will probably respond with a day or so at the most. Good luck! If you figure it out, could you let me know?


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Fin 2017, les organisateurs annoncent la fin de la course en raison d'un manque de couverture télévisée et d'un conflit dans le calendrier UCI.

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One killed, one injured in Ho Chi Minh City hotel fire
Friday, September 25, 2020, 18:40 GMT+7
A hotel in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City is sealed off after a fire broke out on September 25, 2020. Photo: Minh Hoa / Tuoi Tre
One person was killed and another was injured after a fire erupted at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City early Friday morning.
The flames broke out on the fifth floor of a hotel on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street in Ward 12, District 10 at around 5:20 am, according to preliminary information.
People inside the hotel and local residents tried to put out the blaze but the situation spiraled out of control.
Tens of firefighting officers and many fire engines were dispatched to the scene and they eventually extinguished the fire.
L.T.T.T., 25, who was from the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, was killed, and P.T.S., 50, who hails from the central city of Da Nang, was wounded following the incident.
A 12-square-meter room and many assets were burned down.
Local authorities are working to determine the cause of the fire.
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Hanoi police to ensure around-the-clock security for 13th National Party Congress
The Hanoi Department of Public Security will mobilize 100 percent of their personnel to ensure order and security during the grand event
India's Bharat Biotech seeks Bangladesh trial for COVID vaccine approved at home
India's Bharat Biotech has applied to conduct trials in Bangladesh for its coronavirus vaccine recently approved for emergency use at home
A twin suicide bombing killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 30 in a Baghdad market on Thursday in the first such attack in years, security and medical sources said
Japanese court rejects expatriates' bid to cling to citizenship
Conservatives in Japan are largely opposed to dual citizenship
Hanoi to host exhibition next week to celebrate Beethoven's 250th birthday
The display will take place from January 26 until February 4
Armed with love, nothing is impossible for the pair
Tangled bunches of wires, engraved in people's mind as an integral part of Ho Chi Minh City's hustle and bustle, have been gradually disappearing. The removal of the city's iconic yet troubling scene has taken decades, involving dozens of agencies.
Meet creator of mini 'fire engine' designed for Saigon's narrow alleys
The local fire brigade gave approval to the improvised fire motorcycle and has allowed Thanh to use it to help battle several blazes
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In Vietnam, the plant is primarily found in the northern mountainous resort town of Sa Pa
Apart from teaching for extra hours, Ton Nu Quynh Huong spared a part from her humble monthly salary to provide them with notebooks, clothes, and textbooks
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the Art The Threepenny Opera
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The Lensic Presents National Theatre Live in HD: The Threepenny Opera
Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 20th at 10AM
A darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill's raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre. (Note: Viewer discretion advised. Adult themes, language, and content.)
Mack the Knife is back in town.
London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, the whores on the pull, the police cutting deals to keep it all out of sight. Mr and Mrs Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn't come home last night and it's all about to kick off…
With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond), as Macheath alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs Peachum.
This bold, anarchic production is brought to you by a creative powerhouse; adapted by Simon Stephens, (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), and directed by Rufus Norris, (Everyman, London Road).
Tickets: $22 Reserved Seating
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time is a darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill's raucous musical, this bold, anarchic production is brought to you by a creative powerhouse; adapted by Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), and directed by Rufus Norris, (Everyman, London Road). With Olivier Award-winner Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Othello, James Bond) as Macheath, alongside Rosalie Craig (As You Like It, My Family and other Animals) as Polly Peachum, and Haydn Gwynne (The Windsors, Drop the Dead Donkey) as Mrs Peachum.
Mack the Knife is back in town, and London scrubs up for the coronation. The thieves are on the make, and the police are cutting deals to keep it all out of sight. Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are looking forward to a bumper day in the beggary business, but their daughter didn't come home last night and it's all about to kick off.
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I was doing some online "window shopping" on Target the other day and saw that there was a list of "must haves" for Spring/Summer. I thought it would be fun to do my own collage of some of my favorite things to have in my closet in the warmer weather- Target Edition!
These are some of the things I have to have in the Spring/Summer. A cute swimsuit, tons of tshirts, sandals, skirts (it gets so hot here that pants and sometimes even shorts are too hot), a cute purse with a bright color (like this one I just bought), and a neutral wedge heel.
I love that little chevron skirt and those wedges! So cute!
Love the skirt & the purse! I'm headed out shopping today & can't wait to find some cute skirts to wear for the spring/summer!
Those wedge heels are so cute! I love them!
I like! I really want that skirt!
I got that suit in blue! I love it, Looks super cute on you!
I LOOOOOVE that skirt! Super cute!!
ohh i love that skirt!
Those espadrille wedges are adorable!
Love the wedges! I have a pair just like that in dark brown.
On a side note, the bathing suit you're wearing in the photo is so pretty.
I love all of these! I want a new purse so bad. I am so tired of my old one.


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Q: Switching the order of summations. Why is the below statement true?
$$\sum_{j=0}^{n}\left(-\sum_{t=0}^{k}{{k+1}\choose {t}}j^t(-1)^{k+1-t}\right) = -\sum_{t=0}^{k}{{k+1}\choose {t}}(-1)^{k+1-t}\left(\sum_{j=0}^{n}j^t\right)$$
More generally, under what conditions are we allowed to bring the outer summation inside, and if possible maybe a simple example to provide an intuitive understanding of why it works under those conditions (if any).
I know that when a term in the inner summation doesn't depend on the index of the inner summation, we can bring since it is like a constant, but this is not the case since $j^t$ depends on both $t$ and $j$. The only other questions I have found related to this topic were regarding infinite sums, so help would be appreciated. Thanks!

A: Let's simplify your question first. What you have is:
$$\sum_{j=0}^n \left(-\sum_{t=0}^k f(k,t) g(j,t)\right)$$
for some function $f$ (in your particular case: $f(k,t) = {k+1\choose t}(-1)^{k+1-t}$ and $g$ (in your case, $g(j, t)  = j^t$.
Let's forget what $g$ and $g$ are for the moment because it's not relevant.
The sum $$S=\sum_{j=0}^n \left(-\sum_{t=0}^k f(k,t) g(j,t)\right)$$
can be first rewritten as
$$S=-\sum_{j=0}^n \left(\sum_{t=0}^k f(k,t) g(j,t)\right)$$
Now, let's reverse the order of summing. In the original case, you sum something from $j=0$ to $j=n$, and for every $j$, you sum the inner sum from $t=0$ to $t=k$, which means you cover the whole square $\{(j,t)\in\mathbb Z^2| 0\leq j\leq n\land 0\leq t\leq k\}$.
You can cover the same square by summing first over $t$ and then over $j$, so you get
$$S=-\sum_{t=0}^k \left(\sum_{j=0}^n f(k,t) g(j,t)\right)$$
Now, for every value of $t$, you can see that
$$\sum_{j=0}^n f(k, t)g(j,t) = f(k,t)\sum_{j=0}^n g(j,t)$$
because you are just factoring out the common factor $f(k,t)$. It becomes ogvious if you write it as
$$\sum_{j=0}^n f(k, t)g(j,t) = f(k,t) g(0,t) + f(k,t)g(1,t) + \dots + f(k,t)g(n,t) = f(k,t) (g(0,t) + g(1,t) + \dots + g(n,t)) = f(k,t)\sum_{j=0}^n g(j,t)$$
So now you get
$$S=-\sum_{t=0}^k \left(f(k,t)\sum_{j=0}^n g(j,t)\right)$$
which is what you wanted to have in the first place.

A: Both expressions simply give you the sum of all terms of the form
$$-\binom{k+1}t j^t(-1)^{k+2-t}$$
for pairs $\langle j,t\rangle$ such that $j\in\{0,\ldots,n\}$ and $t\in\{0,\ldots,k\}$. You can think of these numbers as being arranged in an $(n+1)\times(k+1)$ matrix with rows indexed by $j$ and columns by $t$. Ignoring the minus sign, the first expression calculates the sum of each row and then adds up these row sums; the second calculates the column sums and then adds them up. Clearly the totals will be the same.
What makes this work is that the limits of the inner summation are constant: they don't depend on the outer index variable. You have essentially the same thing in calculus when you change the order of integration over a rectangular region:
$$\int_a^b\int_c^df(x,y)\,dxdy=\int_c^d\int_a^bf(x,y)\,dydx\;.$$

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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26, 2019 – The USA Gymnastics Trampoline and Tumbling program will identify two member clubs to participate in the Trampoline Development Center (TDC) program 2019. One of the TDC opportunities is for a club to develop or expand a trampoline program at the facility. The second is to develop a club for the Elite Trampoline Development Center (ETDC). These opportunities are only available for member clubs of USA Gymnastics, and the deadline to apply is Friday, Feb. 8, 2019.
For the traditional TDC opportunity, interested clubs may have an existing T&T program or want to establish a new trampoline program. To be eligible for consideration for the Elite Trampoline Development Center opening, a member clubs currently must have a competitive trampoline program with athletes competing at Level 8 or above this season. Clubs may have been a previous TDC, but this is not a requirement.
To apply either 2019 TDC opportunity, please click here for the TDC Application. The completed application is due Friday, Feb. 8.
The TDC program debuted in 2013 to further develop trampoline and tumbling in the United States by incorporating the sport into the curriculum in gyms across the nation, expanding its Olympic pipeline. Since the launch of TDC program, the trampoline and tumbling program has grown and the Elite TDC option was added in to enhance the program.
Joy Umenhofer-Stovall, a member of the national trampoline staff, makes three visits to each TDC club to educate the gym, its coaches and athletes about trampoline. When Umenhofer-Stovall visits the TDC clubs, she hosts clinics to educate club staff on scheduling, coaching and teaching trampoline, basic skills, conditioning and flexibility, and progressions; talent identification development programs; and interactive coach and athlete training sessions. Each club also receives marketing materials, operational guidelines and curriculum support. In addition, other clubs in the area are encouraged to attend the coach education sessions and learn about expanding their programming to include trampoline.
Athletes of all ages and body types can enjoy and benefit from trampoline, which also enhances skill development across all gymnastics disciplines. Trampoline may also retain athletes who are looking for something different or need to adjust to accommodate outside scheduling challenges. The artistic gymnastics and trampoline competitive seasons complement one another, which makes it is possible for an athlete to participate in both. Many U.S gym clubs already have trampoline as part of their programming.
The 23 clubs that have been designated as Trampoline Development Centers are: AcroSports in League City, Texas; Branch Gymnastics Academy in Kalamazoo, Mich.; California Sports Center in San Jose, Calif.; DC Gymnastics and Tumbling in Wildomar, Calif.; Desert Gymcats in Las Vegas, Nev.; DeVeau's School of Gymnastics in Fishers, Ind.; Gymfinity in Fitchburg, Wis.; International Gymnastics Centre in West Sacramento, Calif.; Legacy Training Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Massachusetts Elite Gymnastics Academy in Millis, Mass.; Mills Gymnastics USA in Southgate, Mich.; Mini Hops Gymnastics in Plymouth, Minn.; Montgomery County Sports Performance Center in Harleysville, Pa.; Oconee Gymnastics & Cheer in Watkinsville, Ga.; Orange County Sports Club in Florida, N.Y.; Platinum Sports Center in Simi Valley, Calif.; Roots in Westfield, Mass.; Suncoast Gymnastics Academy in Odessa, Fla.; Summit Sports Center in Nolensville, Tenn.; United Gymstars and Cheer in Montgomery, Ala. Wendy Hilliard Foundation in New York City; Williamsburg Indoor Sports Complex of Williamsburg, Va.; and World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas.
For more information, please visit USA Gymnastics Trampoline Development Center Program.


The first two weeks of the 2015 Glades2Gulf expedition has seen us traverse a series of severe bottlenecks in the Florida Wildlife Corridor, crossing interstate highways, slipping past strip malls and moribund housing developments. A wild animal might experience these unnatural gauntlets in the same way a schoolboy would, the first time he's handed a football and told to plow headlong into a line of scrimmage; staring up at hulking immovable linemen, headhunting linebackers lurking beyond, filling gaps, snagging anything that manages to dart through. These are the kinds of obstacles we've built for wildlife with roads and sprawling retirement communities.
We've now navigated to the Nature Coast of Florida, which includes a place where the loss of habitat and the impact of highways has left a small population of Florida black bears stranded in a shrinking envelope of habitat, squeezed between the Gulf salt marshes to the west and big roads and strip malls to the east. This is where we find the Chassahowitzka black bear.
The Nature Coast comprises the inside curve or Big Bend area of the western coast of the state, encompassing the counties stretching almost from Tampa to Tallahassee (see our map identifying the Big Bend here). For the most part the area lives up to its moniker, with several large stretches already under protection as wildlife refuges and water management areas, and timber operations filling in gaps in between small coastal fishing towns like Yankeetown, Cedar Key, Suwannee, and Steinhatchee.
My interest in this section of the expedition is in checking out the linkages in and around remaining bear habitat. With so much habitat left along the Nature Coast, it's curious that the bear population hasn't re-colonized much or any of it.
Bears in the "Chass" population are challenged just to exist, and appear to be restricted to public lands west of the town of Crystal River, at the very southern extreme of the Nature Coast. It's the same condition they suffered under fifteen years ago, when the population was first investigated. In 2011, state biologists reported that Chass may include only 11 individuals, showing signs of severe genetic isolation.
Expanding the range of the Chass bear is unlikely. According to the biologists studying the population, the key to survival is to establish resident bears elsewhere along the Nature Coast to the north, such as at Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, and then, to improve and restore bear habitat in potential wildlife corridors. The idea is that those animals will use corridors to find the Chass bears and breed there, providing at least a boost to the genetic health of those few remaining individuals.
With a spate of bear attacks over the last two years, talk of bringing back a Florida black bear hunt is making headlines in recent days. The larger conservation community in Florida is wrestling with how to handle bear-human conflicts, and I feel it's important to recognize the role that wildlife corridors play in reducing negative bear-human interaction. One of the adverse effects of habitat fragmentation is that it brings human beings and wildlife into close contact (one case in point here). Reducing the chances for human conflicts that emerge when wildlife habitat is fragmented is considered one of the benefits of wildlife corridors.
Of course protecting the natural landscape of the Nature Coast is vital not just for the state's black bear population, but for the continued vitality of hundreds of freshwater springs that are found here, and the small, local economies of the towns scattered up the coast, which rely heavily on timber, seafood, and eco-tourism (particularly where there are opportunities to see the West Indian manatee). This close linkage between little towns and the surrounding land and water is an under-appreciated fact about Florida, but it's hard to ignore here. In recent years changing land uses and more intensive agriculture along the uplands to the east has worried the residents downstream, along the Nature Coast. Ask them about it and they will tell you that they can't lose any more of what's now in timber, and that what's there now must be kept going. What will happen here in the coming years is unclear, but the Florida Wildlife Corridor expedition is here because we think this is a place that unquestionably matters for wildlife, but also because it has a distinct, old character that belongs to the Gulf.
I'm a conservation biologist focusing on wildlife movements and corridors. My current project is the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition, a 70-day expedition from the Everglades Headwaters in Central Florida to the Alabama border. I'm joined in this expedition by two fellow explorers, Mallory Dimmitt and Carlton Ward, Jr.


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package put.io2.nerdlounge;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

public class SeleCannotInviteSelfIT {
  private WebDriver driver;
  private String baseUrl;
  private boolean acceptNextAlert = true;
  private StringBuffer verificationErrors = new StringBuffer();

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    baseUrl = "http://localhost:8090/";
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  }

  @Test
  public void testSeleCannotInviteSelfIT() throws Exception {
    driver.get(baseUrl + "/");
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Meetings")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Players")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Invite player")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.id("nick")).clear();
    driver.findElement(By.id("nick")).sendKeys("user");
    driver.findElement(By.id("password")).clear();
    driver.findElement(By.id("password")).sendKeys("pass");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@type='submit']")).click();
    driver.findElement(By.id("nick")).clear();
    driver.findElement(By.id("nick")).sendKeys("user");
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@type='submit']")).click();
    assertEquals("You cannot invite yourself.", driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[2]")).getText());
  }

  @After
  public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    driver.quit();
    String verificationErrorString = verificationErrors.toString();
    if (!"".equals(verificationErrorString)) {
      fail(verificationErrorString);
    }
  }

  private boolean isElementPresent(By by) {
    try {
      driver.findElement(by);
      return true;
    } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
      return false;
    }
  }

  private boolean isAlertPresent() {
    try {
      driver.switchTo().alert();
      return true;
    } catch (NoAlertPresentException e) {
      return false;
    }
  }

  private String closeAlertAndGetItsText() {
    try {
      Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
      String alertText = alert.getText();
      if (acceptNextAlert) {
        alert.accept();
      } else {
        alert.dismiss();
      }
      return alertText;
    } finally {
      acceptNextAlert = true;
    }
  }
}


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Asaba bubbles as 21st NSF ignites business activities at Games Village
From left: The Minister of Youths and Sports Development and Representative of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr Sunday Dare, Delta Governor, and Vice-Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa (2nd left); his wife, Dame Edith Okowa(middle); the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, ( 2ndright) and Bayelsa Governor, Senator Douye Diri (right) at the opening of 21st National Sports Festival : Delta 2022 at Stephen Keshi Stadium, Asaba on Wednesday night PIX: SAMUEL JIBUNOR
By Olanrewaju Akojede
Business activities are now booming around the Games Village at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba as the 21st National Sports Festival (NSF) gets underway in the state capital.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the games village is already witnessing a large crowd with the arrival of athletes and officials for the sports competition.
Chairman of the Asaba 2022 Local Organising Committee (LOC), Tonobok Okowa, had said the state was expecting about 13,000 athletes from 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The sports festival had started off on Monday with the arrival of athletes and officials, while the opening ceremony took place on Wednesday.
However, early arrivals at the games village include contingents from Kano, Lagos, Ekiti and Nasarawa states, as well as Kwara, Ogun, Bayelsa, Osun and Kogi.
They were all camped at the Delta State Polytechnic.
Others include those from Enugu state, as well as Imo, Rivers Cross River, Akwa Ibom, among others.
The games village is already busy with business activities as traders display their wares to make quick sales owing to the large number of athletes and officials.
The traders, service providers such as POS operators, Quick Point Sales, food courts and other businesses have their various makeshift kiosks and stands around the games village.
One of them, a POS operator, Deborah Ofuale, told NAN that the NSF was a good opportunity for her to make brisk business.
"Although I am an athlete, I will not be competing at this year's event. Nonetheless, I will be making some money through the POS business.
"I am happy to be experiencing this NSF because the organisers did not allow for its postponement, unlike the other one hosted by Edo.
"I know that the people around may need money. So, that is why I am here to provide the service which comes with a cost," she said.
An energy drink distributor, Anthonia Agbon, said she was hoping for a bumper sale because of the popularity of the drink among the youths.
"Energy drink is a brand popular among the youths. So, I am expecting good sales from here. I also thank the organisers for giving us the chance to have our kiosks here.
"When the games start proper, we should be expecting good sales," she said.
A sports wear seller, Egima Daniels, also said the necessity of her business had placed her in a good advantage for sales.
"Many athletes will need good outfit to train and exchange. So, I am expecting the athletes to come and buy," she said.
Goodness Ifeanyi, a food court operator, told NAN that he had been having good sales from the first day.
"I have been here for about two days now and I am happy with the sales. People are already buying food.
"Food is essential. So, we are expecting more people to come and buy because we are at an strategic place," he said.(NAN)
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Laparoscopic and telemedicine components have been built into the new operating rooms, notes pediatric surgeon Fizan Abdullah.
Pediatric surgeon Fizan Abdullah makes no bones about it. The current operating rooms used by Children's Center surgeons were designed and built for adults and well before the era of minimally invasive procedures increasingly being performed for pediatric patients today. But all that changes, he adds, when The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center—featuring 10 dedicated and spacious state-of-the-art pediatric operating suites—opens in May. Features of the new ORs include overhead booms designed to better position audio, video and medical equipment, including minimally invasive instruments, during procedures.
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The operating rooms—the first pediatric operating rooms in the state of Maryland—are also customized for the treatment of specific conditions, including cardiac, neurologic, oncology, orthopedic, pulmonary, and urologic disorders. Single occupancy rooms in the new hospital, Abdullah adds, will allow surgery patients to recover without being disturbed by a potential upset neighbor.
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Prep: 45 min. + rising Bake: 10 min.
Place potato in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid. Mash potato; set aside 1/2 cup (discard or save remaining potato for another use).
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the sugar, milk, shortening, 4 tablespoons butter, egg, salt, reserved cooking liquid and mashed potato. Beat in 2 cups flour until smooth. Stir in enough of the remaining flour to form a soft dough.
Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes.
Turn onto a well-floured surface. Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Flatten to 1/2-in. thickness. Cover and let rise for 15 minutes or until almost doubled. Melt the remaining butter.
Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indentation in the center of each ball; brush with butter and fill with a rounded teaspoon of filling.
Bake at 400° for 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from pans to wire racks. Combine confectioners' sugar and milk; drizzle over warm rolls.
This recipe was tested with Solo brand cake and pastry filling. Look for it in the baking aisle.
1 kolachke: 161 calories, 5g fat (2g saturated fat), 17mg cholesterol, 110mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.


Today I decided to record a super short bonus episode for you because we just wrapped up a full week of podcast episodes for The Get It Done Challenge. This episode offers 4 quick tips to help you maintain the momentum you created last week.
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Ironbridge Residential Trip
26/04/2012 12:22 pm St Johns
Pupils in years 4-6 had a fantastic time on a residential trip to Ironbridge. Some of the children have written about the trip in the comments below.
They stayed in the Coalbrookdale Youth Hostel, an impressive building with superb staff ideally situated and providing excellent accommodation.Their itinerary for the 3 day trip included visits to Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum, Enginuity Science museum and the museum of the Gorge.
Elliot on 26/04/2012 at 1:38 pm said:
Ironbridge was the best trip with the school that I have ever been on. Although the coach journey was long, it was still worth it. On the first day we got there we unpacked our clothes and settled in to the youth hostel. Then we went to Ironbridge and had a proper look. On Tuesday, we went to Blists Hill museum and had to dress up as Victorians and have our picture taken and then went to the shop. When it got to the last day we went to a design and technology called Enginuity museum where you got to use the things that were in there. My best time there was at Enginuity becuase I really found it fascinating.
Jake on 26/04/2012 at 1:43 pm said:
The trip was epic! We went to The Museum of the Gorge, Blist Hill (Victorian Town) and Enginuity. The museum told us about who built the bridge (made from iron). The Enginuity place was full of experiments that you could try out. Blist Hill was a Victorian town that we went to and we changed 3 pounds into old English money which was 7p and a ha'penny. We went around the town and saw people doing various trades from makers of iron to candle makers.
Although the beds weren't has soft as the beds at home I loved the food and the games that we played in the evenings; musical chairs, charades and pin the name on the person.
Reece on 26/04/2012 at 1:43 pm said:
We had a fantastic three days in Ironbridge. We watched a little clip all about Ironbridge to get us started. Then we actually stood on the iron bridge. The best part was when we went to Enginuity. There was loads of things to do like watching a robot play a piano.
Archie on 26/04/2012 at 1:43 pm said:
In Ironbridge we went to three different museums. One was a design and technolgy museum where we were allowed to walk round on our own or in a group. We saw lots of mechanisms and we got to solve puzzles. The second was called the Gorge museum where we went to see a video. This linked with our trip the net day to Blists Hill Victorian town. During the trip we also saw the actual iron bridge; it was amazingly big. In the evenings we played games such as charades, pictionary and, last but not least, musical chairs. The only down fall was that the beds were a bit uncomfy but the lovely dinners and huge breakfast made up for that!
TansyM on 26/04/2012 at 1:46 pm said:
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip to Ironbridge. We had a fantastic 3 days! We went to 3 museums the Blists Hill museum, the gorge museum and Enginuity. My favourite museum was the Blits Hill museum because it was so unique. We had a look around the town and I bought a quill with ink and a slate with chalk.
jakub on 26/04/2012 at 1:50 pm said:
On the trip to Ironbrige we went to two different museums. At the first museum we saw a model of Ironbrige and then afterwards we watched a really interesting film. On the second day we went to a Victorian Town. In the bank we exchanged our money to Victorian money. We used the money to buy things in the Victorian shops. I had a great time.
Hannah on 26/04/2012 at 1:52 pm said:
We got to Ironbridge and unpacked at the huge Coalbrookdale youth hostel. Afterwards, we went to a museum about the history of Ironbridge. The next day,we saw the River Severn and went to Blists Hill Victorian town. When we got there, we exchanged our money to Victorian coins. Finally, we went to a science museum called Enginuity. When we were there, we tried different experiments and activities. We had a great time.
monika on 26/04/2012 at 1:53 pm said:
I went to Ironbridge. I had a great time. I liked the Victorian museum.
Joanna on 26/04/2012 at 1:57 pm said:
In Ironbridge we went to several great museums. Blists Hill was the Victorian museum with old fashioned shops. We changed modern money into victorian money and we dressed up as Victorian school children. I was scared of the teachers in the school. We also went to Enginuity, I think it was favourite.
I had a great time. My favourite thing was dressing up in Victorian clothes.
Harrie T on 26/04/2012 at 2:05 pm said:
Ironbridge was an amazing trip! Even though it took us an eternity to get there I thoroughly enjoyed it. First of all (after we got to the immense hostel) we went to one of ten museums in Ironbridge; the Gorge museum. We looked around for a while and looked at a small scale of the whole of Ironbridge. The evening food and games were a great way to end the day. As morning came we got dressed and had a lovely breakfast and headed off to Blists Hill mueseum which was brilliant; it was like being transported back in time. After a short victorian school lesson we had a look around some of the amazing shops. Then we all had real money changed into Victorian coins (seven pence ha'penny). We all looked around and I won a pick up sticks game on an old victorian arcade also I spent some money on a old victorian ride.In the evening I won musical chairs. In the morning we went to enginuity museum which was amazing because there were so many machines to look at and play with. Once we left we went back to school. I loved this school trip I cant wait until next year!
mia on 26/04/2012 at 2:05 pm said:
On the trip I enjoyed our time at Blists Hill museum (the Victorian town). We dressed up as Victorian children and had a Victorian lesson from Mrs Smith and Mr Quirk. We sung a hymn, prayed and learned about a potato. It was very different to the lessons we normally have.
Sandra on 26/04/2012 at 2:06 pm said:
Ironbridge was really cool! I would like to stay there for maximum of 5 days. I was in room 17 and the bedroom was quite big (bigger than mine at home). The 3 days went so quickly. When I was back, my family wanted to see the pictures that I had taken. We went to the amazing iron bridge and when I was standing in the middle I thought about far it would be to fall into the dirty river. I enjoyed changing our money into the old Victorian money. We bought a beautiful quill with ink.
Nicola on 26/04/2012 at 2:06 pm said:
Ironbridge was one of the best trips I've ever had! When we came to our hostel we chose partners and I had a fabulous room. Every night at 20:00 we went to the hall (games room) to spend time all together and play different games. On Tuesday we went to Blists Hill the Victorian museum it was fantastic! When we went through the back door we went in an old Victorian town where we had a lesson (in those days lessons were boring and children learned nothing I cawe confirm). It was so cool to change our english money into Victorian coins. I can say only one thing about the museum called Enginuity – fantastic! A perfect trip. I would recommend it.
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Home MMO News SOE begins documenting Planetside 2 optimization efforts
SOE begins documenting Planetside 2 optimization efforts
Since its release, the three-way struggle for Auraxis hasn't been the only war waged in Planetside 2. The battle for Optimization has been a long fought one, filled with low frame rates and performance issues which have plagued countless players.
On the one hand, who can really blame SOE for the issues? Planetside 2 is a technical marvel, capable of housing two thousand concurrent players on a single persistent continent filled with physics and thousands of rounds of ammo being fired on a second by second basis. The very fact that it even works at all is a testament to SOE's engineering prowess. On the other hand, as a Free-to-Play game, the entry requirements for playing PS2 at an even moderately decent frame rate are steep, like REALLY steep.
As reference, the current PC I use to play Planetside 2 contains an quad core I5 overclocked to 4.2GHz, 16 gigs of Ram and a GTX670. For most this would be considered a very high-end PC, yet it struggles to maintain 45 FPS in fights involving 40 players and anything beyond that brings the FPS to a sub 30 crawl. Reducing the game's graphical quality does not appear to have a very noticeable impact on performance.
Back in August, SOE's president John Smedley, took note of the issues and had the PS2 team shift their priorities to focus purely on optimization. It was according to Smedley "unnaceptable as it stands". Two of the main issues SOE confirmed they would be tackling revolve around PS2's poor performance with AMD chips and the implementation of Multicore support.
Since then there has been little word as to how the optimization efforts have been going. However, SOE recently unveiled "Operation: Make Faster Game!" a documentary style series of videos whereby SOE plans to show first hand their efforts to correct the performance problems. The introductory video is fairly dry, filled with lots of technical mumbo jumbo, but the gist of it all is; there are a lot of moving parts and each part has various things that can be done to it in order to improve performance.
SOE isn't saying how much they expect to improve Planetside 2's performance, but it is clear the developer is taking the job seriously and wants players to get to know the people behind the efforts as well as get a glimpse at the types of technological challenges and creative solutions that the team discusses and implements.
Razer September 29, 2013 at 10:54 pm
Always nice to hear when a company has it's priorities in the right place.
NastyBen September 26, 2013 at 7:35 am
I have one simple question. When will come the update with these optimizations?
Reavermyst September 25, 2013 at 4:25 am
I'm glad they're being a bit more transparent on these issues. As it stands, a vast majority of the game's player base have complained about performance on their forums at least once. and they've taken some serious flak from the community over whether or not they'll fix the problems or not. The ignorance of whether they are aware of the problems in-game alone, causes their player base to go into a misdirected rage, even more so when a couple of their development team become confrontational about the issue! Knowing that they are keeping notes on issues as they come along does help to put minds at ease(at least mine anyway), as well as bring them a step closer to not only improving the game itself, but the engine as a whole for future releases.
chefmadness September 25, 2013 at 2:07 am
Just gotta say STEAM OS! Check it out. AWESOME!
I wish gaming deves would take into consideration how big gaming has become. It is not just for kids any more. My dad is 65 & plays DDO every Sunday w me for 5 hours when I have the time. I have 6 high end PC's in my house & we all game online. & I have LAN parties every 3 weeks in my garage. 35-45 people, we are all 30+ years of age. Deves all ready know how big their game is going to be before release so why not smooth things out before that release date. I think open beta for like 1 year should show hard your servers are working & you can smooth out all the bugs then. I think War Frame is taking the right step in the open beta they have. They are pushing the servers as hard as they can & very little lag, if none at all & the graphics are very nice. Game deves should worry about game play & push the envelope & stress the crap outta the servers before release. Gamers will have a better time gaming that way. Since PS2 has so many issues they should go back to open beta status & revamp or shut it down for maintenance.
Game devs are full aware of how big gaming is, as well as the varied age groups that now play games.
Open beta is just a marketing gimick nowadays, notice how open betas these days all make big $$$ whereas a decade ago there was really no financial gain to the publishers/developers until the game went gold. This is why games get pushed out the door like PS2 before they are really polished and run well, simply because launching them into open beta opens the gravy train and by labelling their games as "open beta" the can use this label as an excuse for the game running like crap/lacking polish and still turn a huge financial profit in some cases.
Also, about warframe, I'm pretty sure the actual action game is hosted peer to peer and not based on a central server that handles all the games. I haven't looked into this much, but I did notice while playing that sometimes when someone leaves the game "reloads" while displaying the message "host migration in progress" which leads me to believe that the players are hosting the game and not a developer server.
aghy September 24, 2013 at 4:23 pm
SHIT! if they pull it through… i might be able to play it on low rofl! *fingers crossed*
Cobraeik September 24, 2013 at 11:31 am
This really feels like people are hating Ferrari for taking up too much fuel..
Cacalips September 24, 2013 at 4:24 am
PEople should pay for being right. I said this since OB. The game demands to much for what it is offering or has to few optimization options. I run every game available both on and off line. PS2 was the only game chugging on my system. It was trying to render all that dead space no one uses. Graphic options just made it super foggy. One of the worst graphic options in game I have used…years later…they decide to change it. Guess have to lose a little money, get riddled by hackers, and then decide to make changes XD
Azure Le Rook September 23, 2013 at 10:02 pm
Finally i can't even run PS2, my pc even struggles to get 45 fps on low settings and the gpu is a GTX 660 ti twin frozo and cpu is intel 3-2120. Some times i thing wtf is wrong with my pc but it was the game the whole time
Gear September 23, 2013 at 5:10 pm
"had the PS2 team shit their priorities" teehee
progz September 23, 2013 at 5:06 pm
This is happening because of the PS4. It uses a AMD CPU…
& what's wrong with AMD? My AMD's are AWESOME!!!! I have 4 high end AMD PC's.
Bob September 25, 2013 at 12:31 pm
its been proven numerous times that intel has faster processing power when it comes to single threaded performance. Although AMD flexes it's "8-core bla bla bla", most games and/or application do not use more than one or two cores. Also from personal experiance of owning both chips, Intel chips are rock solid. I have beat the shit out of those chips when it comes to overclocking and transferring them to different mobos and they just wont die. I had an older AMD FX that died out in 4 years (OC'd for 2 of those years). My older i7 is still kicking 6 years later. AND it's been OC'd for 3 years straight.
Just take a look at this chart and see what chip dominates the board.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
The one thing AMD has on Intel is price. Thats where they are beat. And it is a pretty significant difference. Like $100 cheaper than Intel.
But buying Intel means you get longevity and durability. Fact; most businesses with some sort of computer server, use Intel chips. There's a reason for this.
chefmadness September 25, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Well Bob, I love my AMD CPU's & will continue to support them. INTEL has gone way overboard in price 350 for a starter haswell chip, way to much for my blood & all of my AMD's are overclocked by 25% all most 5Ghz out of a 4.2Ghz. Been overclocked for like 3 years & still runing strong. Also my PC in my chef office is an old school AMD dual core socket AM2+ CPU 2.6 Ghz overclocked to 3.2Ghz & an ASUS Mobo I got from C.L. Been running smooth & I game when I have the time at work. So for me AMD dose the trick & are very strong long lasting chips for the price & performance has never been an issue for me. All of my PC's Scream.
zoren September 23, 2013 at 5:05 pm
damn time too
gazawisay September 23, 2013 at 4:52 pm
"shit their priorities" nice…
spunkify September 23, 2013 at 5:11 pm
Well they did eject their previous development plans in favor of this 😉


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Q: How can I prove this vector algebra statement I am not sure this is true by the way.
Given two vectors in D-Dimensional space, A and B
is the square of the euclidean distance between them A.A + B.B - 2 A.B ?

A: Yes, this is basically just Cosine Law:
\begin{align*}
\|\vec a - \vec b\|^2
&= (\vec a - \vec b) \cdot (\vec a - \vec b) \\
&= (\vec a \cdot \vec a) - (\vec a \cdot \vec b) - (\vec b \cdot \vec a) + (\vec b \cdot \vec b) \\
&= (\vec a \cdot \vec a) - (\vec a \cdot \vec b) - (\vec a \cdot \vec b) + (\vec b \cdot \vec b) \\
&= \vec a \cdot \vec a + \vec b \cdot \vec b - 2(\vec a \cdot \vec b) \\
\end{align*}


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Q: Any advice/idea/howto on implementing multiplayer with Unity3D and Tango? I was wondering how to implement "sharing" tango's spatial information with other tango to create a multiplayer game. I just can't figure how to start.
I found this demo by Johnny C. Lee, and without the VR stuff, is just what I need to do.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.johnnylee.multiplayervr&hl=es_419
I need to place an object in the space in one tablet, and get the other tables see it on their own space, and to see each other position too.
Please, anything helps. I really need some advice here.
Thank you, and sorry for my bad english.

A: You want to share an area definition file between all participants - given they all have this file loaded and are in that area, that will handle in scene objects - to see positions, you need to exchange pose between participants using ADF relative pose information - then everybody has the same coordinates - do NOT send device start relative coordinates to others, as every device start is unique.

A: What I'm doing is setting up a phase of game play prior to the actual game beginning where the players walk around their game space and the device records which floorplan areas they can reach.  it also keeps track of which samples are floor, walls or irregular.
I have not implemented multiplayer yet but the plan is to allow each player to walk around their game space as described, to create a footprint of where they can get to and then create a multiplayer play area where everybody's game space is mutually compatible.  some players would have portions of their game space marked as not usable in order to keep their larger areas compatible with players with smaller areas.
With this approach the only information being shared between players is very generalized and less prone to privacy concerns.

A: You need to learn more about ADF: https://developers.google.com/tango/apis/unity/unity-codelab-area-learning.
According to the Tango docs, ADF (area description file) could be shared with other users, though there is no API that can do it for you.
I would make users follow these steps in order to be at the same page in Augmented Reality:

*

*User who is starting the game should create ADF and upload it to the cloud.

*Users who are connecting to game should load ADF and localize.

*After localization users should be able to access their coordinates in the same coordinate space as ADF creator.

*User should share his/her coordinates with other users through the Internet.

*Any actions that user does or any objects that are created should also be shared.

The only problem is it is now quite clear how to make ADF improved by the all users. Let's say all of them have area learning enabled and they have improved version of ADF, how should they update existing ADF without conflicts? Who is taking priority in updating ADF?


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Arab Seafaring
George F. Hourani
Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times - Expanded Edition
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In this classic work George Hourani deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries. The book comprises a brief but masterly historical account that has never been superseded. The author gives attention not only to geography, meteorology, and the details of travel, but also to the ships themselves, including a discussion of the origin of stitched planking and of the lateen fore-and-aft sails. Piracy in the Indian Ocean, day-to-day life at sea, the establishment of ancient lighthouses and the production of early maritime guides, handbooks, and port directories are all described in fascinating detail. Arab Seafaring will appeal to anyone interested in Arab life or the history of navigation. For this expanded edition, John Carswell has added a new introduction, a bibliography, and notes that add material from recent archaeological research.
George Houran (1913-19840 was Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. John Carswell is Director of Islamic Department at Sotheby's.
"All in all, this brief account is rich in the depth of its analyses and in the authoritative sources cited, both Western and Arab. . . . It is not likely that this superb work will be superseded in the near future."—Digest of Middle East Studies
"This reprint of Professor Hourani's elegant monograph forty-five years after its first publication is a tribute to the soundness of his original conception and the excellence of its presentation. Hardly a word seems to need emendation."—Asian Affairs
"In Arab Seafaring George Hourani reviews—crisply, comprehensively and authoritatively—the story of Arab trade routes and the ships that plied them, from earliest times to the Middle Ages. His book is as indispensable today as it was when first published forty years ago; there is no other that covers this significant martime history."—Lionel Casson, author of The Ancient Mariners
The Arab Winter
Noah Feldman
The Last Muslim Conquest
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Turkish Kaleidoscope
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Iran Rising
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Brazil's Senate Committee Publishes AI Report and Draft AI Law
By Evangelos Sakiotis, Anna Oberschelp de Meneses, Nicholas Shepherd & Kristof Van Quathem on January 27, 2023
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Consumer Protection, Data, Emerging Technologies, International, Policy and Legislation, Technology
On December 1, 2022, a committee of the Brazilian Senate presented a report (currently available only in Portuguese) with research on the regulation of artificial intelligence ("AI") and a draft AI law (see pages 15-58) ("Draft AI Law") that will serve as the starting point for deliberations by the Senate on new AI legislation. When preparing the 900+ page report and Draft AI Law, the Senate committee drew inspiration from earlier proposals for regulating AI in Brazil and its research into how OECD countries are regulating (or planning to regulate) in this area, as well as inputs received during a public hearing and in the form of written comments from stakeholders. This blog posts highlights 13 key aspects of the Draft AI Law.…
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In a new post on the Inside Tech Media blog, our colleagues discuss the "Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act," which President Biden signed into law in the final days of 2022. The Act recognizes that current encryption protocols used by the federal government might one day be vulnerable to compromise as a result of…
Consumer Privacy Hearing Focuses on Expanding FTC Resources, Creating Federal Privacy Law
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On September 29, 2021, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing entitled "Protecting Consumer Privacy." The hearing centered on strengthening consumer privacy rights, including by increasing the FTC's resources and creating a comprehensive federal privacy law.
To explore these issues, the Committee invited David Vladeck, Professor and Faculty Director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law and former Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection; Morgan Reed, President of The App Association; Maureen Ohlhausen, Partner and Section Chair (Antitrust & Competition Law) at Baker Botts and former Acting Chairman of the FTC; and Ashkan Soltani, Independent Researcher and Technologist and former Chief Technologist of the FTC.
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New Bill Would Revoke Section 230 Liability Protection for "Health Misinformation" Promoted During Public Health Emergencies
By Lindsey Tonsager & Andrew Longhi on August 23, 2021
Posted in Congress, Health Privacy, Uncategorized
To add to the growing number of bills that would amend or revoke Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, last month Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Health Misinformation Act of 2021 (S.2448). Senator Ben Lujan (D-NM) cosponsored the bill.
The bill would amend Section 230 to revoke the Act's liability shield…
New Privacy Bill Provides Opt-Out Rights and New Data Security Requirements
By Libbie Canter, Jayne Ponder & Andrew Longhi on May 26, 2021
Posted in Congress, Federal Trade Commission
To add to the growing list of federal privacy frameworks introduced this year, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has re-introduced the bipartisan Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2021 (S. 1667). Senator Klobuchar introduced the bill originally in 2018 and 2019, although it did not advance to committee in either instance. Senators Kennedy (R-LA), Burr (R-NC), and Manchin (D-WV) have co-sponsored the bill.
Key provisions in this bill include:…
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Bill Introduced Would Preempt State Laws and Strengthen FTC Enforcement
By Kurt Wimmer & Andrew Longhi on March 11, 2021
Posted in Data Privacy, Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Federal and State Legislative Initiatives, United States
As the push for Congress to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation increases, Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) has re-introduced the Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act, a compromise proposal that contains provisions sought by both parties. This bill would create national data privacy standards and increase the enforcement authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general. …
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SAFE TECH Act Would Limit Scope and Redesign Framework of Section 230 Immunity
By Jayne Ponder on February 24, 2021
Posted in Congress, Emerging Technologies, Social Media
A number of legislative proposals to amend Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act ("Section 230") have already been introduced in the new Congress. Section 230 provides immunity to an owner or user of an "interactive computer service" — generally understood to encompass internet platforms and websites — from liability for content posted by a third party.
On February 8, 2021, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism, and Consumer Harms Act ("SAFE TECH Act"), cosponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI). The bill would narrow the scope of immunity that has been applied to online platforms. Specifically, the SAFE TECH Act would amend Section 230 in the following ways:…
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Inside Privacy Audiocast: Episode 3 – Emerging Data Privacy Issues in Brazil
By Dan Cooper on August 27, 2020
Posted in Cross-Border Transfers, Data Privacy, International
On our third episode of our Inside Privacy Audiocast, we are aiming our looking glass at Brazil's new data protection statute, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (or LGPD), and are joined by Ronaldo Lemos, a partner at Rennó Penteado.
In our episode recorded earlier this week, Dan Cooper and Ronaldo discuss the…
Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act Introduced
By Alexander Berengaut, Jim Garland & Chloe Goodwin on July 6, 2020
Posted in Congress, Electronic Surveillance and Law Enforcement Access, Surveillance
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, a bill that would require tech companies to assist law enforcement in executing search warrants that seek encrypted data. The bill would apply to law enforcement efforts to obtain data at rest as well as data in motion. It would also apply to both criminal and national security legal process. This proposal comes in the wake of the Senate Judiciary Committee's December 2019 hearing on encryption and lawful access to data. According to its sponsors, the purpose of the bill is to "end[] the use of 'warrant-proof' encrypted technology . . . to conceal illicit behavior."
The bill has three main provisions:…
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Brazil Senate Approves Bill Delaying LGPD Enforcement
By Inside Privacy on April 3, 2020
The Brazil Senate unanimously approved a bill today that would delay implementation of the Brazil General Law for Data Protection, or LGPD, until January 1, 2021 and enforcement of fines and penalties until August 1, 2021. The LGPD is currently scheduled to take effect on August 15, 2020.
The draft bill — one of four pending in the Senate that propose to delay implementation of the LGPD — is broad in scope, encompassing not only the LGPD, but also statutes of limitations and sanctions for certain anti-competitive conduct. Senator Antonio Anastasia, the sponsor of the bill, explained that the bill is intended to give businesses an opportunity to focus on other urgent matters arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A notice period or "period of notice" within a contract may by defined within the contract itself, or subject to a condition of reasonableness. In an employment contract, a notice period is a period of time between the receipt of the letter of dismissal and the end of the last working day. This time period does not have to be given to an employee by their employer before their employment ends. The term also refers to the period between a termination date or resignation date and the last working day in the company when an employee leaves or when a contract ends.

The duration of a reasonable notice period depends on the particular facts of a particular case.

Notice periods in employment law

Statutory redundancy notice periods in the UK
In the United Kingdom, the statutory redundancy notice periods are:
at least one week's notice if employed between one month and two years
one week's notice for each year if employed between two and twelve years
twelve weeks' notice if employed for twelve years or more.

These statutory periods constitute the minimum notice period to be given by the employer; however, some employers may opt to give employees longer notice periods, in order to give the employees a better opportunity to find alternative employment.

Notice periods in Poland
In Poland the same notice period applies regardless of which party (employer or employee) withdraws the contract. The statutory periods apply, unless both parties agree on other terms:
 2 weeks if employed below 6 months
 1 month if employed below 3 years
 3 months if employed 3 or more years.

The week-measured period ends on Saturday. The month-measured period ends on the last day of calendar month—for instance, if 1-month period applies, a resignation or dismissal produced between 1st and 30 April results in contract termination on 31 May.

Notice periods in the United States
Because most employment in the U.S. is at-will, no notice period is required. In practice, most employees provide two weeks' notice.

Notice periods in Denmark
Notice periods for white collar workers are defined in the Danish Law on Salaried Employees or "Funktionærloven", which are:
 1 month if employed below 6 months
 3 months if employed below 3 years
 4 months if employed below 6 years
 5 months if employed below 9 years
 6 months if employed more than 9 years.

If the employee resigns, he/she has to give a 1-month notice period.

Notice periods in Switzerland
Notice periods in Switzerland are governed by the Code of Obligations, which sets the default time scales. The notice period depends on the employee's length of service within the company as follows:

 7 days during the trial period
 1 month if employed below 1 year
 2 months if employed below 10 years
 3 months if employed more than 10 years

The default trial period is the first month of employment, but may be extended up to three months. After the trial period, the notice period may be amended by a written contract, but not under one month, unless set by a collective labor agreement and only for the first year of employment.

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I am in love with these earrings.
The pearl is a great size at 10mm in diameter, the silver framework is just gorgeous, plus the hook has a clasp to keep the earrings secure.
The total length of the earrings is just under 3cms including the silver hook.


Every time I hear "human rights" I wince. Of all the catch-phrases that clutter our language, it's perhaps the most abused. It's a pat little phrase that engenders sympathy more than understanding, and for that reason it is harmful. People can profess support for its noble precepts, yet succumb to the most egregious woolly headedness.
This is especially true of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Commentaries on its 50th anniversary elicited the standard mix of praise (for its very existence) and regret (at continuing abuses of said rights), but none addressed the real reason for this chequered legacy. For all of its noble promise, the declaration is a feel-good mission statement that exists only on paper.
While reading Gee's column you become acutely aware of the moral blinkers that liberal-internationalist cheerleaders wear when they moralize about other countries' problems.
The first blind spot is his selective use of examples. The extradition hearing of Gen. Pinochet, and the attempt by Haitians to procure the arrest of Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier are undoubtedly positive, but so what? These are safe examples of redress against despicable men who led repressive regimes. It's hardly a ringing endorsement of the declaration. These events might have happened anyway; after all, international ethics wasn't invented out of a puff of smoke on Dec. 10, 1948.
One could argue that the declaration made them possible, but Gee doesn't build a good enough case. Instead, he makes the common error of equating human rights with democracy: "Since the end of the Cold War, things have been looking up. The United States, the only remaining superpower, has started leaning on its former clients to behave more decently." How thoughtful.
This statement reminds me of Lenin's bald assertion that imperialism is a problem unique to capitalist countries. Socialist countries, because they are the champions of workers everywhere, would never do such a thing. For Gee, human rights is a problem that afflicts countries like Iran, Malaysia and Vietnam, which are not bastions of democracy like the good ol' U.S. of A.
Ironically, Gee's column endorses human rights abuses precisely because he exempts the U.S. from the standards he feels free to apply to other countries. One look at America's renewed bombing of Iraq—to say nothing of its repeated interventions in Southeast Asia, Central America and elsewhere—is enough to undermine Gee's argument.
The U.S.-led military bombardment and refusal to lift crippling economic sanctions (lapdog countries Great Britain and Canada need not be mentioned) amount to collective punishment against a civilian population for the actions of a government. Furthermore, the U.S. has not promised to lift sanctions if and when the UN inspection team finishes its work.
The campaign to beggar Iraq is being perpetuated for its own sake and has become de facto U.S. policy, which has led to the following perversity. Voices in the Wilderness, a U.S. human rights organization, is being fined $120,000—individual members $10,000 to $20,000—for violating the economic embargo against Iraq. The crime? Sending donated goods, including medical supplies and toys.
Is Gee blind to this atrocity because the perpetrator is a democracy, or is he just uninformed on the matter?
The campaign against Iraq proves the impotence of the UN declaration, because it shows that the UN has become little more than an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Yet this should not be so surprising: there is no such thing as an international world order without a dominant, enforcing country or group of countries.
In our case, we live under a Pax Americana, in which only countries hostile to America and her allies are singled out for punishment, with or without the consent of the Security Council. Because of the overwhelming dominance of the U.S., and to a lesser extent NATO, is the Security Council even relevant? Contrary to Gee's claim, the end of the Cold War has not been universally beneficial.
Gee would have been on firmer ground if he had defended a world order based on American self-interest, instead of one based on an ethical chimera.
"Human rights" exists at the sufferance of the dominant power; therefore, the declaration is a mirage, as is the notion of a global "human rights culture." The first step towards building a genuinely ethical world is to acknowledge the empty promise of liberal-internationalism and to banish "human rights" from our political lexicon.


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Q: Android unable to get current location using GPS when device is not moving I want to get current latitude and longitude of device even when it is not in movement.
Tried both requestLocationUpdates() and requestSingleUpdate() but my location is still null. LocationManager.onLocationChanged() seems to be called only when location gets changed. I want to post this location details but fails with NullPointerException every time.
Here are my code samples:
Activity:
startButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        LocationManager locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
        locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, myLocationListener);

        if (location == null) {
            try {
                locationManager.requestSingleUpdate(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, myLocationListener, Looper.myLooper());
            } catch (SecurityException e) {
            }
        }

       //MyLocationListener
       public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
           activity.setLocation(location);
       }
   }
}

Manifest:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_GPS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

A: If the user has not used GPS for a while, there will be no last known location, hence the GPS provider will not update at all unless you move outside. Its better to use the new FusedLocationApi to get updates as it selects the best source for you and gives you the best possible location.
https://developer.android.com/training/location/receive-location-updates.html
LocationServices.FusedLocationApi.requestLocationUpdates(
        mGoogleApiClient, mLocationRequest, this);

A: Trying putting your code in AsyncTask.


I'm slowly but surely catching up with A Lab On Fire, a New York-based "niche" line that hasn't always been easy to find, even in New York. Liquidnight, developed by perfumer Carlos Benaïm, was released in 2012. It was inspired by "the hidden depth of the night in New York City" and it includes notes of bergamot, lime, saffron, sage, lavender, hinoki wood, incense, vanilla and musk.
Just when I think Liquidnight might be a little too masculine for me to pull off, its base notes change my mind. There's a warm, non-foody vanilla in there that feels comforting and sophisticated at the same time, and the musk meshes beautifully with my skin. Liquidnight has mild sillage and above-average staying power. It's not as "me" (i.e., floral-sweet and traditionally feminine) as What We Do in Paris is Secret or Rose Rebelle Respawn, but I enjoyed experiencing its evolution and spending several afternoons (and nights) in its company.
A Lab on Fire Liquidnight is available in 60 ml ($110) Eau de Parfum. For purchasing information, see the listing for A Lab On Fire under Perfume Houses.
Thank you for the review. have you smelled the CdG x Monocle Hinoki? If so, how do they compare?
Hi, M-toe — it's been a little while since I sniffed the CdG Hinoki, but I remember that one as being more cedar-woody, where this one has the lavender and the subtle vanilla and incense smoke.
I'm still peeved off at myself for purchasing off eBay 15mls of Rose Rebelle having mistaken it for Rose Rebelle Respawn, the one I love.
I'd like to try Liquidnight – great name and I do appreciate lavender notes.
Darn — all those permutations of 100% Love/RR/RRR *are* confusing!
I love lavender and non foody vanilla. I've wanted to try this but like you said its not a line that's easy to find. It does sound like it leans a little masculine but maybe layered with something a little more floral would make it more you.
I bet some of the decanting services would have samples available by now…? It's been available online for a while (Luckyscent, etc.) but I'm spoiled and I like to smell things in actual stores.
Have you tried Brecourt's Mauvais Garcon? It is a lavender/vanilla scent.
I had a small sample of this at one point that I used up in one go. I recall really, really liking it but I think it veered sweeter and less masculine on me.