Broozer's sprite from New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
Broozers are large, gray Boos found in the Ghost House levels of New Super Mario Bros., New Super Mario Bros. Wii and New Super Mario Bros. U. These monsters have large boxing gloves that can punch through solid Question Blocks as well as other blocks and deal a great amount of damage to Mario and Luigi. They attack in a random flailing pattern and charge Mario when they see him. They take three jumps to be defeated. Mario and Luigi can even use them to get to impossible-to-reach places. These enemies can also break unbreakable bricks prior to Mario and Luigi, making them a bit useful.
Broozers make their first appearance in New Super Mario Bros., they appear in the levels World 5-Ghost House and World 5-C. Broozers blindly run into the direction of Mario (or Luigi), punching at anything in their way. These enemies can be useful, and they can punch otherwise unbreakable bricks, allowing Mario to reach items and Star Coins that could not otherwise be reached. Mario must jump on a Broozer three times to defeat it. However, a Ground Pound, being hit by Mario doing a Shell Dash, a Fireball or walking through them as Mega Mario can defeat these enemies in one hit, with the latter making the Broozer spinning erratically while falling defeated. Also, because of their bad traction, Broozers often can be forced to fall into gaps in the floor by running past their target and being unable to stop.
Broozers make another appearance in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, they appear in World 7-Ghost House. They have the same function as they did in New Super Mario Bros., only this time, in addition to breaking bricks, it can also knock over barrels and cause them to roll down stairs. They are imperative to finding a shortcut to World 7-5, as Mario must lure one to bust open a hidden, unseen door so he can take the secret exit and unlock the level. Although they can be frozen by Ice Mario or Penguin Mario, Broozers cannot be picked up afterwards. Unlike in the first game, where they have a smirk, there is now a frown in this game and every game after.
Although despite absent from New Super Mario Bros. 2. Broozers reappear in New Super Mario Bros. U with the same behaviour they had in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They only appear in two Ghost House levels, Which-Way Labyrinth in Soda Jungle and Spinning Spirit House in Meringue Clouds.
Broozers appear in New Super Luigi U in the level Broozers and Barrels, the first level of Frosted Glacier.
Broozers make their Paper Mario series debut in Paper Mario: Sticker Star. Two of them appear in Bowser Jr.'s Flotilla, where they are battled alongside a Boomerang Bro, their only appearance in-game. They attack by hitting barrels into Mario, and floating up to him and punching him. After taking some damage, they will start flailing their arms around, dealing damage to Mario if he tries to attack them up close, therefore preventing Mario to do any direct attacks. The Rampage mode ends in a few turns. Then they revert back to their normal attack pattern. After winning the battle, there is a high chance that the player may earn a Barrel stickers.
Broozers make their Mario & Luigi series debut in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. They appear as enemies in Neo Bowser Castle in both normal and paper form. A Broozer's main attack is to stand in front of its target and punch them, which knocks them off-screen and unable to act (or be targeted by attacks or items) for several turns. Normally the Broozer punches immediately upon moving into position, but it can also do a fake-out and pull its punch; if its target jumps too early, its delayed punch always hits. The player can tell when a fake is coming because the Broozer swings its arm up and down as it approaches, instead of the regular arm spin. For either punch timing, the target can jump to dodge and counter. Paper Broozers instead throw multiple barrels at the trio, between 2 and 5 per attack. The direction the barrels face before being thrown indicates who they will target. The barrels must be hammered, which can cause their contents to be sent back towards the enemies' side of the field and cause damage. Sometimes, Paper Broozers will spin while throwing the barrels, switching which barrels will target Mario and Luigi. This doesn't affect the barrels that target Paper Mario. Both forms of Broozer receive a Power boost when they are attacked, including first strikes but not counterattacks. They also share a barrel attack where they drop a barrel in front of themselves and ram into it, causing it to fly into their target, and then follow it for an arm-flailing hit. The barrel's trajectory depends on whether it is a paper barrel or not. If the barrel matches the Broozer, it must be jumped just after it is bumped. If a normal Broozer hits a paper barrel, it soars over the target's head, and so is dodged by not jumping. If a Paper Broozer hits a normal barrel, it gets barely nudged forwards and is basically pushed along the ground. Either way, the Broozer itself must be jumped over to complete the dodge and counter.
Broozers make their first Mario Party appearance in Super Mario Party. They appear in Croozin' for a Broozin', they chase after the players. Playeres lose in the minigame if they come contact to the Broozer. At the end of the minigame, they are seen chasing the players except the winner.
Broozer is derived from the word "bruiser" and "Boo", the ghost enemy.
Broozer has some relation to Chargin' Chucks as they break bricks, charge after Mario quickly, and take three hits to defeat.
In New Super Mario Bros. Wii and onward, Broozers have a different more evil expression on their face.


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This very useful machine language routine is well worth its weight in gold when it comes to using your PET/CBM wth ASCII devices such as MODEMS and printers. It's short length (56 bytes) and ease of use make it very easy to add to any existing programs. The assembler listing included is for BASIC 3.0 ROM's. The changes needed for BASIC 2.0 ROM's and BASIC 4.0 ROM's are listed below.
For BASIC 2.0, change COMMA to $CE11 from $CDF8, change EVAL to $CCB8 from $CC9F, and change PTR to $96 from $44. For BASIC 4.0, change COMMA to $BEF5 from $CDF8 and change EVAL to $BD98 from $CC9F. The PTR location is the same for BASIC 4.0 as it is for BASIC 3.0, as Commodore promised it would be.
The machine language program works as follows. It is invoked with a SYS(NNN),A$ statement. The (NNN) is the first location of the ML routine and the string variable A$ is the string to be converted. The ML program then jumps to the routine COMMA, which checks for – you guessed it – the comma which seperates the SYS(NNN) and the A$. The next jump is to a subroutine called EVAL which looks at the variable A$ and puts its location in PTR and PTR + 1.
CBM/PET identifies characters somewhat differently than the industry standard, the ASCII code. In ASCII, the number 65 means uppercase "A," as it does to PET BASIC. However, if you POKE 32768,65, the screen will either display a spade or lowercase "a," depending on whether you are in "text" or "graphics" mode at the time. Everything is kept straight for you by BASIC, but when you try to communicate with a device outside the computer (a MODEM or a printer), some adjustments may need to be made. This is why wordprocessors like WordPro always first ask you to indicate whether you are using a Commodore printer, an ASCII printer, etc. Mr. Niessen's machine language program does the translating. It takes the CBM/PET character codes and modifies them to conform to ASCII. Within the article, he provides the necessary changes to make the program work on all CBM models: Original (2.0), Upgrade (3.0), and BASIC (4.0).
By using an indirect indexed addressing mode, you can get the length of the string by loading the Y register with zero and executing a LDA(PTR), Y. The length of the string is then transferred into the accumulator and saved into location STRLEN. Next, the Y register is incremented so it has a value of one, and another LDA(PTR), Y is executed. This time the LO byte of the beginning of the actual string in memory is returned. This is saved in the location STRLO. Again the Y register is incremented and the LDA(PTR),Y instruction is executed again, returning the HI byte of the location of the string, which is saved in STRHI.
Characters above $7B have no ASCII equivalent and are left as is.
The subroutine then returns to BASIC, with the contents of the string A$ converted to ASCII. The string can now be printed normally.
which will cause the string to be stored away in high memory.
I hope this will prove as useful to others as it has been to me. It was tested on the EPSON MX-80 printer.
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Planned Parenthood is extremely good at what it does. After all, according to the organization, millions of Americans have been swept into its web of deceit. Most people may never learn the facts about PP because they are blinded by a desire to experience sexual satisfaction without accepting any responsibility. But that is precisely the way Planned Parenthood likes it.
These anti-abortion extremists spent three years creating a fake company, creating fake identities, lying, and breaking the law. When they couldn't find any improper or illegal activity, they made it up.
These people broke the law to spread malicious lies about Planned Parenthood in order to advance their extreme anti-abortion political agenda.
Such disdain for work that simply confirmed PP's ghoulish practices tells us a lot about who the folks at Planned Parenthood really are.
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I have seen so many pictures of ambulances at abortion clinics that I lost track long ago. . . . It is time for regulators to take their jobs more seriously and protect the public from being injured, maimed, and even killed at American abortion facilities, as we have seen happen all too often. Right now, women are fodder for exploitation and harm by unscrupulous, profit-centered abortion businesses. Enough is enough!
Yes, and the only public statements we hear from mainstream media and pro-PP politicians is total support for Planned Parenthood and its deadly ways.
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Former Michigan governor and 8 others face charges in the Flint water crisis that left 12 people dead
Twelve people died and more than 80 were sickened during the Flint water crisis, and now authorities are holding Michigan officials responsible.
In a news conference Thursday, prosecutors announced charges against nine officials for their roles in the crisis, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, who faces two counts of willful neglect of duty. Snyder has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Eight others also face charges, including members of Snyder's staff, officials from the city of Flint and state public health officials.
"The Flint water crisis is not some relic of the past," Michigan Solicitor General Fadwa Hammoud, one of the prosecutors leading the investigation, said.
"At this very moment the people of Flint continue to suffer from the categorical failure of public officials at all levels of government who trampled upon their trust and evaded accountability for far too long," she said.
In a statement, Snyder's attorney Brian Lennon said the charges were "wholly without merit," adding Snyder's lawyers were "confident" he would be "fully exonerated if this flimsy case goes to trial."
"Today's charges do nothing to bring justice to the people of Flint," Lennon said. "These unjustified allegations do nothing to resolve a painful chapter in the history of our state. Today's actions merely perpetrate an outrageous political persecution."
Flint has been exposed to extremely high levels of lead since 2014 when city and state officials switched the city's water supply from the Detroit Water System to the contaminated Flint River in an effort to cut costs.
The switch was supposed to be temporary while a new supply line to Lake Huron was completed. When the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality failed to treat the corrosive water, it ate into the city's iron and lead water pipes and leached into the drinking water.
The contaminated water led to two outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, a serious type of pneumonia caused by bacteria.
Charges include involuntary manslaughter
Under Michigan law, prosecutors were unable to present evidence that led to the charges. Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy, who is leading the case, said the team was "confident" in the charges
"Like any other case, we charge cases that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt," Worthy said. "We do not charge cases that we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt, so we are confident in all charges that we have meted out today."
Like Snyder, former Flint Public Works director Howard Croft pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of willful neglect of duty. The charges are misdemeanors, punishable with up to one year in prison or a fine of up to $1,000, according to the state's penal code.
Jamie White, an attorney for Croft, said he took the misdemeanor charges as a sign of weak evidence against his client.
"You don't go to a grand jury to ask for a misdemeanor," said White. "Whatever evidence they presented to the grand jury, they weren't buying it."
Among the others who face charges is Nicholas Lyon, the former director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, who faces nine counts of involuntary manslaughter — each a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison — and one count of willful neglect of duty.
Eden Wells, the state's former chief medical executive, faces nine counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count of willful neglect of duty and two counts of misconduct in office, each punishable by up to 5 years in prison.
Darnell Earley, former state-appointed emergency manager for the city of Flint, faces three counts of misconduct in officer.
CNN is reaching out to each of them for comment.
Several other officials face prosecution, including two members of Snyder's former staff, one of whom faces a series of charges including misconduct in office, perjury, obstruction of justice and extortion.
All nine of those charged turned themselves in, prosecutors said Thursday, and have been arraigned.
Lawsuits and a $600 million settlement
Snyder, who served from 2010 to 2018, apologized in 2016 for the state's role in the crisis.
Court documents for Snyder, a Republican, show the offense date as April 25, 2014, the same day Flint switched its water source.
Lennon, an attorney for Snyder, said earlier Wednesday that his client was being made into a scapegoat by a politically driven special counsel. Lennon called reports that his client would be charged "meritless" and part of a "political escapade."
In a statement, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel praised Worthy and Hammoud's records as prosecutors and said, "I trust today's announcement reflects their professional responsibilities and ethical obligations as the prosecuting authorities in this matter, and that their decisions are based solely on the facts, the law and the evidence."
Flint residents had been complaining about the poor quality of their water when the Environmental Protection Agency tested water going into homes there in 2015, finding dangerous levels of lead, which can cause serious health issues.
More than a dozen lawsuits, including several class-action suits, were filed against the state, the city of Flint and some state and city employees involved in the decision to switch the source of the drinking water and those responsible for monitoring water quality.
Last year, the state reached a $600 million settlement with victims, and a court-monitored compensation fund was established.
The Legionnaires' outbreak led to criminal charges against state officials, including Nick Lyon, then-director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, in 2017.
Prosecutors dropped all criminal charges in 2019 and said the investigation would begin again from scratch, citing concerns about how the special counsel had conducted its probe.
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Kate Middleton is constantly dominating motherhood.
Kate Middleton doesn't let constant royal engagements stop her from being a hands-on mother.
The Duchess insists on doing everything on her own rather than relying on a nanny to take care of her children.
From protecting her kid's privacy to snapping adorable photos, here are 9 parenting lessons we've learned from Kate Middleton.
Kate Middleton, you modern mom, you. Whether Her Royal Highness is doing the school drop-off or managing at-home screen time, it's clear that she's crushing it when it comes to raising those adorable kiddos. Here, nine parenting tips we've picked up watching her in action.
Bucking Royal tradition, she said no to a maternity nurse for Prince George and dragged her world-famous heels while hiring a nanny, insisting that—together with William—she could handle mom duties on her own. And even though her family has grown since then, Kate still insists on covering playdates and doing everything within her royal power to maximize time with the kids.
Look, she gets the public interest in her children, but Kate will stop at nothing to protect these babes from peeping paparazzi. In fact, following the birth of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kate and William issued a friendly reminder to photographers saying, "Hey, give us our space—or else."
Kate proved she has mad photography skills with the release of Charlotte's first-day-of-school pictures—shots she took herself. It's not the first time, either. The Duchess also took Charlotte's first official portraits.
A basketball game in New York, a romantic midweek movie, a low-key dinner at their local pub—Kate and William nurture their relationship with a regular dose of kid-free nights.
Prince George is already taking after his sporty parents—on a royal tour of Scandinavia, Kate Middleton and Prince William visited the Holmenkollen ski jump and revealed that little George had his first ski lesson at just 2 years old. Will Char take up field hockey, we wonder?
Kate makes one thing clear: Her role as mom comes way before royal protocol. This means she let her hubby drive her and the future heir and heiress home from the hospital after she gave birth instead of hiring a chauffeur. They've spent Christmas dinner at her parents' place instead of with the Queen. She even had a baby shower.
When in doubt, Kate calls Carole. George hearts QT with his grandmother, too.
Her secret? One-on-one bonding time with George.
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Location: Norco
California (CA), United States
Incorporated: December 28, 1964
• Type: Council-Manager
• Total: 14.00 sq mi (36.25 km)
• Land: 13.77 sq mi (35.67 km)
• Water: 0.22 sq mi (0.57 km) 2.22%
Elevation: 640 ft (195 m)
• Total: 27,063
• Estimate (2016): 26,714
• Density: 1,939.45/sq mi (748.84/km)
Time zone: Pacific (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST): PDT (UTC-7)
Area code(s): 951
FIPS code: 06-51560
GNIS feature IDs: 1652819, 2411265
Website: www.ci.norco.ca.us
Top Things to do in Norco
1. Planes of Fame Air Museum
2. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir
3. S&D Horseback Riding
4. River Walk Park
5. Fender Guitar Visitor Center
6. Yanks Air Museum
7. Mount Rubidoux Park
8. Galleano Winery
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3. The Black Horse Tavern
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9. Sweet Basil Thai Bistro
10. In-N-Out Burger
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I was surprised to see this nice of a collection of planes at a small airport like Chino. They do monthly talks about different planes and the difference from this one and others is that they actually fly. This is also a great venue for special events. We rented the facility for a surprise 50th Birthday party for my son-in-law. The staff were friendly and helpful and the were happy to answer everyone's questions about the planes.
15100 Fairfield Ranch Rd, Chino Hills, CA 91709-8856 +1 909-614-5000
The Inspired by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj, a handful of devotees began conducting weekly assemblies in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In 1984, His Holiness inaugurated the first BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Whittier, California, a small suburb just outside of Los Angeles. With the guidance and blessings of His Holiness, the congregation grew from just a handful of families to a strong group of dedicated devotees who yearned for spiritual growth. In 2000, His Holiness visited the current site of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills and invigorated the congregation's desire to build a traditional Hindu Mandir. The congregation completed with Haveli building (more commonly known as the Visitors Center) in 2007. In 2012, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills was dedicated and opened with great joy. This Mandir is the fifth traditional Hindu Mandir in North America.
Reviewed By Scott S - Los Angeles, California
This is a beautiful Hindu temple. Perhaps one of the most expansive religious, learning centers in the entire United States. The fact is, it is simply awesome.
I have been coming to this shrine since it opened. Throughout these years, it has constantly been under construction and reconstruction. At some point, perhaps it will finally be completed. Which I'm sure will just be beautiful. This fact is just something to let you know what is going on, as when you go here, it is not uncommon that you will see workmen working on the various amenities throughout these grounds.
The main focus of these grounds is obviously the temple itself. But, there is also other facilities throughout the grounds: a large banquet facility, a cafeteria, a food store, a youth learning center and gymnasium, and even a gift shop. So, all of your needs are taken care of.
One thing to note, and something to keep in mind when you come here, this is not a tourist destination as some people seem to think it is. It is a religious shrine. So, when you come here, even if you are not a practicing Hindu, please respect the sanctity of this location.
All this being said, this is a beautiful temple facility. Hindu or not, coming here, you will definitely feel the out reaching spirituality.
4886 California Ave, Norco, CA 92860-1613
S&D Horseback Riding has been in business for over 20 years. Our Friendly Professional staff looks forward to taking you and who ever you would like to bring on a Private Trail Ride. We are located next to amazing riverbed riding trails through the hidden valley wild life preserve. We recommend setting a reservation but are happy to take you on a ride any time if we have horses and staff available so please just give us a call any time. Thank you
Reviewed By Jessica S - Fullerton, California
My boyfriend and I went on their 2hr lesson trail ride earlier in the year and we have since purchased a riding block so we can keep coming back. 4 trail rides later and we can't get enough of this place! We've had Luis and Raul as guides and both have been excellent. All trail rides are private for your group, whether you have 1 rider or 10, so if you/your group is more experienced then the guides will take you on a faster paced ride. They also allow (and actually prefer) riding side by side, which is unusual for trail riding in this area and is great if you're riding as a couple. The guides are great about taking pictures and are always attentive to your comfort level as well as the horse's safety.
7674 Soaring Bird Ct, Eastvale, CA 92880-3618 +1 951-685-7434
Reviewed By la123brat - Ontario, California
First time here and I was super impressed! I will definitely be back!
The area is absolutely beautiful.
The trails are split.. one side dirt for horses and the other concrete for walking, running & biking.
Beautiful Frisbee Golf area.
Nice separate area with a small jogging circuit area interspersed with exercise equipment.
The area was like some kind of wildlife sanctuary?
Parking areas available
Saw lots of little lizards, butterflies and bunnies!
People using the trail all seemed friendly.
No bathrooms anywhere in sight.. not even in the kiddie park area!
Not much shade over trails.
I wish there were a few benches spread about because sometimes I like to take a break so that I can go further.
I don't particularly feel that this is totally safe to walk alone?
They need a map. We had no idea where we were going, how far we walked out where the trail on the opposite direction led?
301 Cessna Cir, Corona, CA 92880-2521 +1 951-898-4040
Reviewed By Sam V - Chula Vista, California, United States
Wow it's been over a year since my brother and I took the Fender tour.I live in San Diego so it was only an hour and a half trip.If you play guitar or just play air guitar,you need to take this tour. I don't remember how much it was or even if I paid anything at all. The tour was at different times,we took the 12 noon tour. We were taken to all fazes of this working warehouse.We were shown how the various types of guitars were made.Then we were taken to the Famous custom shoppe !We saw pretty awesome guitars.Some of these guitars are going to some pretty famous people.This is a real gem in Corona ca
Yanks Air Museum houses one of the largest and most historically significant collections of American aircraft including the World War II fighters, dive and torpedo bombers. The aircraft collection begins with the 1903 Wright Flyer (only replica in collections) and continues through the 1980s era represented by the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon and Blue Angels F-18 Hornet. The collection now numbers more than 190 aircraft and continues to grow, many are the last surviving examples of their kind. Yanks restores all aircraft to airworthy condition, in the restoration of these rare aircraft, only original factory specifications & materials are used.
Reviewed By Stunts777 - Chino, California
There are two air museums at the Chino airport but this one is certainly by far the best!! They even have open cockpit days where you can climb inside and see for yourself what the pilots and crew see first hand. Put yourself in an F-15 strike eagle, or a B-25 bomber from WW 2. They have it all and best air museum I have ever been to.
4706 Mt Rubidoux Dr, Riverside, CA 92501
Reviewed By benner4 - Riverside CA
Great walking for the whole familyfamily. Beautiful views, pet friendly, stunning sunsets, wear your walking shoes!
4231 Wineville Ave, Jurupa Valley, CA 91752-1412 +1 951-685-5376
Reviewed By Bill B - California
The only wineries still open to the public in this area are Galleano, San Antonio, and Joseph Filippi. The other two are newer tasting rooms, this one is the most historic and picturesque. Also cheap! Wine tasting is $5 but they waive the fee if you buy something, even a $14 GALLON of cheap but drinkable zinfandel and other wine, or the $10 delicious peach and raspberry champagnes. I always try to stop here when traveling between LA and the IE.
5555 Hamner Ave, Norco, CA 92860-1205
Reviewed By pdocter - Simi Valley, California
This park is well maintained & has just put in new sod in certain areas. Nice built in bathrooms except the far fields they had porta potties. It was really hot but this is expected in Norco. Between all the easy ups belonging to parents on the team we had shade.
9400 Dufferin Ave, Riverside, CA 92503-6328 +1 951-780-6222
A 377-acre park dedicated to the preservation of California's citrus heritage. Docent guided grove tours (Tour & Taste) start PROMPTLY at 1030, 1200, & 2pm on weekends (depending on docent availability). Not all docents give grove tours. No reservations required. Tour group size limited to 15 guests. It is advised that you call the Visitor Center to make sure tours are available on the day you plan to visit the park.
Reviewed By BeachGrandmax4 - Seneca, South Carolina
California Citrus State Park was on my list of things to do while in Southern California. We were not disappointed! This park preserves some of the rapidly vanishing cultural landscape of the citrus industry and tells the story of this industry's role in the history and development of California. The visitor center/museum was full of informative exhibits and all of the volunteers are informed and engaging. Be sure to call ahead to take part in the guided tour through the grove. From the initial tastings upon entering to the samples our guide gave us fresh off the trees, we had generous samples of most of the fruit grown there. This is certainly one of our favorite hidden gems we've discovered while traveling and recommend you take time to visit if in the area.
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My son, Robert William, is a junior in high school and he's participating in student government.
Everyone in student government has to dress up once a week; for boys, that means wearing a shirt and tie to school. In a sea of sweat pants, shorts and T-shirts, someone in a shirt and tie really stands out.
During our monthly shopping trip for new clothes that fit a growing young man, a pink shirt caught my son's eye. His first thought was, "Oh, the girls will really like that." I confirmed Robert's thinking, but then he became concerned about what other boys might say about it. We bought the shirt. It's to impress the girls. Robert has decided he doesn't care what the boys say or think about what he wears.
When I was creating my first info-marketing product, I thought a lot about the people who might say bad things about it. I had worked with my association clients to publish products on their behalf several times, but this was the first time a product would have only my name on it.
My first product was about how associations can do better membership marketing, how they can sign up more new members and how they can retain those new members longer. I know the subject well, but I was concerned about what others would say.
I thought about the people who had a lot more time in the industry than I did and what they might criticize. I also thought about my peers, wondering if the people I knew within the industry would see me as "full of myself" because I had published a product. I also worried about my peers at larger associations or in the big association cities like Chicago or Washington, D.C., looking down at me because I am from only the fifth largest city for associations.
These worries held me back, slowed me down and kept me from publishing my product as quickly as I should have. It's a common mistake, but it's one I hope you will avoid. Launching your product quickly is crucial. Making your product available opens you up to valuable feedback so you can improve what you have to offer.
What got me through my fear of what others would say about my product was a focus on my customers. Just like my son only focused on what the girls at his school would think about his shirt, I focused my attention on my prospective customers. My only worry was to provide my customers with the tools and the support that would help them in their daily lives.
If you are allowing potential critics to slow you down, you are costing yourself money as well as the confidence and pride that come from producing a product you care about. Even more important, you are withholding breakthroughs and support from the customers you've dedicated yourself to serve.
What do you think? Am I right, or do you have something to add? Let me know your thoughts. Scroll down and leave your comments at the bottom of the page. I read every comment and reply when appropriate.


We would like to congratulate and recognize the state of Mississippi for being a leader in reforming civil asset forfeiture. We applaud the Mississippi legislature for allowing administrative forfeiture's sunset provision to become law this July, ending administrative forfeiture in Mississippi and safeguarding the property rights of innocent Mississippians.
Conservatives rightly understand that private property rights are the bedrock of a free society, and the bar must be high for a government to take property from its citizens. Ending the process of administrative forfeiture places Mississippi among the leading states making progress on civil asset forfeiture reform that protects these fundamental rights.
As you may know, civil asset forfeiture is a controversial practice that can result in innocent people losing their property to the state. While the law can be used to deprive convicted drug dealers of their ill-gotten gains, cases of abuse throughout the country indicate that the practice has resulted in untold numbers of innocent property owners losing their cars, guns, and cash to government agents without ever being charged or convicted of a crime.
A growing number of states have crafted legislation to rein in the process of civil asset forfeiture and protect private property owners, and the leaders in reforms, New Mexico and Nebraska, have ended civil forfeiture and replaced it with criminal forfeiture.
On the heels of these commendable changes, Mississippi continued its efforts to protect innocent property owners this year by ending the process of administrative forfeiture. This particular practice has come under increasing scrutiny due to its circumvention of judicial safeguards. Administrative forfeiture allowed agents of the state to take property valued under $20,000 and forfeit it by merely providing the individual with a notice. In order to appeal the ruling, an individual was required to file a petition in court, incurring significant legal fees. For these reasons, administrative forfeiture was viewed as a particularly pernicious policy that placed lower income defendants in the impossible situation of deciding whether to pay a large legal bill to get their property back.
This change does not impact the ability of state agencies to seize assets using the judicial civil asset forfeiture process. Each of our organizations support further reforming this process to protect the property rights of innocent citizens. The intent of these provisions, separating convicted criminals from their ill-gotten gains, is a laudable one that will remain available to state agencies through the proper judicial channels. But no person should face the threat of losing their property without ever being charged and convicted of a crime and without judicial oversight of the forfeiture of property in the same criminal process. We applaud the state of Mississippi for this step forward to protect the property rights of all Mississippians.


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Last Published NAV, 150.97 p as at 11/07/2019
Share price (bid), 140.00 p (delayed)
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Key information June 2019
Launch Date: 29 January 2001
(based on capital only) £136.09m
Market capitalisation £125.58m
(incl income)
152.81p
Share price (bid) 141.00p
Discount to NAV
7.72%%
No. of holdings: 66
Fund Managers: Paul Jourdan
Anna Wilson
Investment Management Fee: 1.75% of net asset value per annum
Trail commission:
Payable by the manager to execution only, non-platform intermediaries.
Performance Fee: Nil
Administration Fee: £76,000 per annum (index linked)
Termination: 12 months
List of Amati AIM VCT dividends paid to date
Payment Date Amount Paid per Original Share Amount per consolidated Share
21 June 02 1.70p 4.03p
Merger S&F 1 & 2 into ViCTory VCT in Nov 2005
03 July 07 2.00p 4.74p
02 November 07 2.00p 4.74p
24 October 08 0.50p 1.18p
Merger AVCT 2 into ViCTory VCT on 8 Nov 2011
Consolidation of shares on 10 Nov 2011
26 October 12 1.06p 2.5p
15 July 13 1.48p 3.5p
Merger AVCT into Amati AIM VCT on 8 May 2018
Total 32.75p 77.59p
List of Amati VCT dividends
Payment Date Amount
14 June 06 3.30p
4 July 07 4.25p
7 December 07 2.00p
15 February 08 4.25p
14 August 09 2.00p
11 December 09 1.50p
27 July 18 3.14p
23 November 18 2.10p
Total 62.54p
Post merger dividends for Amati VCT are provided for illustrative purposes only, to enable former shareholders of Amati VCT to keep track of the dividends that would have been paid had the merger not taken place.
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Amati AIM VCT
Amati AIM VCT incorporates shareholders from the three Singer & Friedlander AIM VCTs, Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT and, most recently, Amati VCT. Prior to changing its name on 4th May 2018, Amati AIM VCT was called Amati VCT 2 and followed a merger between Amati VCT and Amati VCT 2, the latter which was itself the result of a merger by scheme of reconstruction between ViCTory VCT and the former Amati VCT 2 (originally Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT). The details of the corporate history of the Amati VCTs are as follows:
Original Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT holders, who then held shares in the former Amati VCT 2, received 0.621926751 shares in ViCTory VCT for each share they held previously, with the resultant holding being round down to the nearest whole share. Thus if you held 10,000 shares in Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT, you would then been issued with 6,219 shares in ViCTory VCT.
ViCTory VCT then changed its name to Amati VCT 2, and in the reconstruction of the share capital each shareholder received 0.4220842 ordinary shares for each share held previously with holdings rounded down to the nearest whole share, such that the NAV per share rose from 42.06p to 99.8p and at the time marking the effective relaunch of the company. Thus if you held 10,000 shares in ViCTory VCT you would have held 4,220 shares after this. If you had started with 10,000 Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT shares, and then had 6,219 ViCTory shares, you would have held 2,624 shares in Amati VCT 2 after this reconstruction.
Following the merger with Amati VCT, Amati VCT 2 changed its name to Amati AIM VCT. Amati VCT shareholders received 0.598787 shares in Amati VCT 2 for each share they held previously, with the resultant holding rounded down to the nearest whole share. Thus if you held 10,000 shares in Amati VCT, you would have been issued 5,987 shares in Amati AIM VCT.
As a result of the various mergers and share reconstructions all share certificates have been re-issued. These are either in the name of Amati VCT 2 or, in the case of shares issued to former Amati VCT shareholders in respect of the merger between Amati VCT and Amati VCT 2, in the name of Amati AIM VCT. Share certificates in the name of Singer & Friedlander AIM 3 VCT, Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT, Noble AIM VCT and Amati VCT are no longer valid, and should be destroyed.
For questions regarding your shareholding or dividend payments, please contact Share Registrars on 01252 821390 or by email at enquiries@shareregistrars.uk.com. For questions relating to applications for new shares or any other matters, please contact Amati Global Investors on 0131 503 9115 or by email at info@amatiglobal.com.
So that original shareholders in the Singer & Friedlander AIM VCTs, Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT and Amati VCT can trace where their holdings have come from a brief outline of each is given below.
What are VCTs?
Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) were introduced by the Government in 1995 and were designed to encourage investment in early-stage companies by offering attractive tax benefits in return for the additional risks involved. The legislation has changed over the years, but at present the main tax reliefs available are as follows: income tax relief of 30% on subscriptions for new shares up to a value of £200,000 in each tax year, providing that the investment is held for five years; tax free dividends; and a capital gains exemption on disposal. VCTs are broadly similar to investment trusts and are listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, with independent Directors whose responsibility is to protect the interests of the shareholders in the VCT. read more...
Overview of the tax reliefs available for VCT investors
Income tax relief can be claimed to the value of 30% of your investment subject to a VCT investment limit of £200,000 in each tax year, which can be set against any income tax liability that is due, whether at the lower, basic, higher or additional tax rate.
If subscription shares are sold or otherwise disposed of within five years the income tax relief will be lost, although this does not apply to transfers between spouses or in respect of deceased estates.
Dividends paid by VCTs are tax free, subject to an investment limit of £200,000 per year. This applies to dividends in respect of subscription shares as well as shares bought in the secondary market. Amati AIM VCT normally pays its final dividend in July (interim in November) and has a target annual dividend yield of 5%-6% of the year-end net asset value. Under the current tax legislation these dividends are free of any tax liability, subject to the investment limit of £200,000 in any tax year.
Shares in VCTs are exempt from Capital Gains Tax when they are sold, subject to the permitted maximum of £200,000 in any tax year. This applies to subscription shares as well as shares bought in the secondary market.
As an illustration of the effect of the tax reliefs available, and assuming that you are able to claim 30% income tax relief on your investment and that you paid the full 3% offer costs, a 5% dividend yield equates to a 6.9% yield on net investment, and a 6% dividend yield equates to an 8.3% yield on net investment.
The summary above is for illustrative purposes only and any potential tax benefits to investors will vary according to individual circumstances. Income tax relief can only be claimed against income tax due to be paid in the same tax year as the share subscription. Prospective investors are strongly advised to seek independent advice as to their tax position and as to the suitability of any VCT investment before proceeding. For detailed information provided by HMRC on VCT tax reliefs please click here.
Overview of the conditions for 'Qualifying Holdings'
VCT funds receive special tax benefits because of their role in supporting the UK economy, but they must meet a number of conditions, many of which are similar to those for Investment Trusts. The main test unique to VCTs is that within three years of raising funds, and at all times thereafter, a VCT must ensure that 70% of its investments (by value recorded at cost, or last price paid per share) are 'qualifying holdings', that is shares or securities in companies which meet the conditions of the VCT scheme.
The rules governing qualifying holdings are complex and have been subject to many changes over the years. Funds raised through share issues during different periods are be subject to slightly different rules governing qualifying holdings. In this context it is worth noting that older VCTs, including the Amati AIM VCT, may benefit from being able to maintain pools of money which were raised under older sets of rules, and which allow them to continue to make new qualifying investments under those older rules, where it is advantageous to do so.
The main conditions that companies must meet in order to issue shares that form part of a VCT's qualifying holdings are as follows:
The investee company must be unquoted, which for the purposes of the legislation includes companies whose shares are traded on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
It must be carrying out a qualifying trade, which for the purposes of the legislation excludes the following: dealing in land; financial activities; leasing assets; farming or forestry; hotels; shipbuilding; producing coal and steel; generating electricity.
Its gross assets must not exceed £15m prior to the investment, and £16m afterwards.
It must be independent.
It must control all its subsidiary companies, and own more than 50% of each of them.
At least 10% of each qualifying holding must be in ordinary shares of the investee company, and at least 70% of qualifying holdings in aggregate must be in ordinary shares.
The investee company must also satisfy all of the conditions set out below as well.
For more detailed information provided by the HMRC on the conditions for VCT qualifying holdings please click here.
Overview of new conditions relating to EU State Aid Risk Finance
As from April 2014 VCTs may lose their tax-advantaged status if they invest in new shares in a company which has raised more than £5m from state aided sources over the twelve months prior to and including the date of investment. During the summer budget of July 2015 new conditions were announced, which became effective from Royal Assent in November 2015, with the stated intention of ensuring that state aided funding becomes more targeted as well as fully compliant with EU rules. These conditions in effect impose stricter limits on the nature and extent of investments which may be made by VCTs, and can be broadly summarised as follows:
In addition to the existing annual investment limit of £5m, no investment may be made by a VCT in a company that causes that company to receive more than £12m (£20m if the company is deemed to be a Knowledge Intensive Company) of state aid investment (including from VCTs) over the company's lifetime. A subsequent acquisition by the investee company of another company that has previously received State Aid Risk Finance can cause the lifetime limit to be exceeded.
No investment may be made by a VCT in a company whose first commercial sale was more than 7 years prior to the date of investment, except where previous State Aid Risk Finance was received by the company within 7 years (10 years in each case for a Knowledge Intensive Company) OR where both a turnover test is satisfied and the company is entering a new market or commercialising a new product.
No funds received from an investment into a company can be used to acquire another existing business or trade.
Two important exemptions have been introduced into the legislation to allow VCTs to manage their liquidity effectively through certain types of non-qualifying investments. Investments in UCITS funds and in shares purchased on a Regulated Market (for example the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange) are both exempt from the new restrictions placed on investments made by VCTs. This means that the Amati AIM VCT can broadly maintains its strategy of investing in the TB Amati UK Smaller Companies Fund (which is a UCITS fund), and of investing in certain individual stocks listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Non-qualifying investments in AIM traded shares will, however, be subject to all of the new restrictions, as AIM is not, for the purposes of the legislation, a Regulated Market.
Please note that what we have provided above is not an exhaustive summary and should not be relied upon when considering an investment in Amati AIM VCT. For further details please refer to the policy paper published by HMRC, which can be found here.
In early 2016 HMRC is expected to provide more detailed guidance on the application of the new rules, at which time we will update this area of the website with any information of relevance to the Amati AIM VCT.
Why an Amati AIM VCT?
We believe that AIM provides VCT investors with access to some of the UK's most outstanding growth companies, and that these are well represented in the Amati AIM VCT portfolio.
Amati brings together a highly experienced team of fund managers whose sole focus is on UK smaller companies.
AIM based VCTs typically have a more diversified portfolio than other types of VCT, likely to be invested in larger more established companies, with transparent market pricing and reasonable liquidity.
Background on Amati VCT
Amati VCT was launched in 2005 as the First State AIM VCT by Dr Paul Jourdan, whilst at First State Investment Management (UK) Limited. This VCT moved with Dr Jourdan to Noble Fund Managers in 2007 and the name changed to Noble AIM VCT. On 17th October 2008 Noble AIM VCT acquired Noble Income and Growth VCT via a scheme of arrangement. For each share in Noble Income and Growth VCT shareholders received 0.646 shares in Noble AIM VCT. Following the management team taking over Noble Fund Managers in 2010 the VCT changed its name to Amati VCT at its AGM on 2 July 2010. David Stevenson joined as a Fund Manager of Amati VCT in 2012 along with Anna Wilson in 2018 (Douglas Lawson co-managed this fund from 2008 to 2018).
Noble Income and Growth VCT was launched in March 2002 as T&G AIM VCT, which also issued "C" shares on 8 October 2003. The Company changed its name to Noble Income and Growth VCT on 22 June 2005, and the "C" shares were converted to ordinary shares on 21 December 2005 with a conversion ratio of 1.136 ordinary shares per "C" share.
Background on ViCTory VCT
ViCTory was previously known as Singer & Friedlander AIM 3 VCT plc ('S&F 3') having been renamed in June 2009. On 22 February 2006 S&F 3 completed a merger with Singer & Friedlander AIM 2 VCT plc ('S&F 2') and Singer & Friedlander AIM VCT ('S&F 1'). S&F 1 shareholders received 0.419882 S&F 3 shares for each S&F 1 share held, and S&F 2 shareholders received 0.737883 S&F 3 shares for each S&F 2 share held. Thus if you held 10,000 shares in S&F1 you would then have held 4,198 shares in ViCTory. If you held 10,000 shares in S&F2 you would then have held 7,378 shares in ViCTory. In each case you would have held a share certificate for S&F3, which would have remained valid for ViCTory shares.
S&F 1 launched in the tax year 1998/99. It paid dividends of 2.6p on 16 Feb 2000, and 29.8p on 3 July 2000, giving a total of 32.4p prior to its merger into S&F 3. Since the merger a further 6.5p of dividends have been paid.
S&F 2 launched in the tax year 2000/01. It paid dividends of 1.3p on 19 September 2001, 0.6p on 27 September 2002, 0.35p on 17 September 2003, 0.5p on 1 September 2004, 0.5p on 14 June 2005, and 2p on 1 February 2006, giving a total of 5.25p prior to its merger into S&F 3. Since the merger a further 6.5p of dividends have been paid.
S&F 3 also launched in the tax year 2000/01. It paid dividends of 3.25p prior to the merger with S&F 1 and S&F 2, and has paid dividends of 6.5p since.
Between 31 March 2005 and 11 May 2005 S&F 3 issued 402,023 C shares at 100p each. These shares were converted into ordinary shares on 18th November 2005 with shareholders receiving 1.1368 ordinary shares for each C share held.
On 22 March 2010 the Board of ViCTory announced the appointment of Amati Global Investors as fund manager. Following a significant amount of portfolio restructuring, and a re-alignment of the investment policy closer to that of Amati VCT, a proposal to merge with Amati VCT 2 via a scheme of reconstruction was put to shareholders in October 2011 and was well supported.
Background on the former Amati VCT 2 (originally Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT)
The Company floated on 30 July 2004 as Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT plc. Its initial offer, in which investors subscribed for shares at 100p, lasted until June 2005, raising around £25m. The starting NAV was 95p. It raised further funds amounting to around £21m in a new share offer between February and April 2006, at a range of prices from 111.40p up to 117.02p. The Company initially operated a Dividend Re-investment Scheme, under which shares were allocated only once on 21 February 2006 in respect of the 3.5p dividend payable on 18 January 2006. Subsequently it was decided by the Board that the VCT rule changes meant it was no longer in the interests of the company to operate the scheme and it was closed. The Company maintained a share buyback policy until August 2007, but subsequently decided that the changes in the VCT legislation were such that this was no longer in the Company's long term interest. During 2007 the Board also adopted a policy of paying dividends amounting to 5p per share each year as a means of returning capital to shareholders.
On 11th February 2011 the Board of Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT plc announced the formal appointment of Amati Global Investors as the new fund manager. The name was changed at the EGM on 17th February 2011 to "Amati VCT 2 plc" ("the Company"). Following a significant amount of portfolio restructuring, the proposal to merge with ViCTory VCT via a scheme of arrangement was put to shareholders in October 2011 and was well supported.
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The State of the NFL – Guest Post by Knox McCoy
November is a special month. Along with some awesome, awesome posts about facial hair in celebration of No Shave November, The GBOAT is also featuring a collection of guest posts on Fridays.
Last week, Stanton Martin provided what appears to be an inarguable history of sports.
Today, we welcome Knox McCoy, A.K.A. somebody who actually knows something about sports but still wants to be funny about it.
A.K.A. stands for Ambitiously Killed an Aardvark, which is a truly special accomplishment.
So football, right?
So good. I love it. You love it. Basically, everyone loves it except Europeans because they play the "real" version or something. Yeah. Good job guys. Fainting because some guy built like Clay Aiken grazed you with his celery stick thin legs is so BOSS. You totally deserve to be the real football. NO REALLY. I'll tell people like Ndamukong Suh and Ray Lewis that they are such Streisands for being obscenely fast and strong and colliding with other massive, athletic human beings 100 times a game. I mean it's like, go have a tea party, or watch Gossip Girl or something Ray Lewis.
Which brings me to the point of this post, which is about the state of the NFL today.
Essentially, the most compelling part about football today is the collisions. It's hard-wired into our DNA to love body shots and it's why America's Funniest Home Videos is STILL on: because EVERYONE loves a good testicle tackle.
I played football in high school. I was a linebacker and it was fun. In high school, you have a freshman team who plays a season and then the varsity who plays a separate season. This is the place where guys like Matt Saracen and Smash Williams exist. Our varsity team was not great but our freshman team was all cleareyesfullheartscan'tlose. We were undefeated and pretty fantastic. So after our season, a few of us were asked to play varsity. So the coach approaches me and is all like,
"We'd like you to come play on the varsity team for the playoffs."
And I was like, "Ok. Do you want me to play quarterback like Jason Street before paralysis?"
And he was like, "Um no."
And I was like, "Do you want me to play running back and talk EXCLUSIVELY in the third person like Smash Williams?"
And he was like, "No."
And I was like, "Do you want me to kill a man trying to rape my unattainably hot girlfriend and then dump his body in some kind of Texan ravine even though I clearly killed him in self-defense?"
And he was like, "Hahaha LOL wait whuut? Who did that?"
And I was like, "Landry. Didn't you watch Season 2?"
And he was like, "No I heard it was awful."
And I was like, "You're right. It was. Don't EVEN get me started on Santiago."
And he was like, "Ok, I won't."
And I was like, "Do you want me to play linebacker like Tim Riggins and be like 'DURN IT, BILLEE. TEXAS FOUREVAR!'
And he was like, "Kinda sorta."
Come to find out, he wanted me to be a wedge buster. Do you know what a wedge buster is?
QUICK LESSON
A wedge buster is now outlawed, but in 1998, it was a position on kickoffs where the wedge buster sprinted downfield and hurtled himself into the "wedge" (a wall of opposing players built to obscure the kick returner) in hopes of knocking it down like a wrecking ball so that the wedgebuster's teammates could find and destroy the kick returner. If the word 'kamikaze' is leaping to mind, then treat yo' self.
END OF QUICK LESSON
Essentially, this was awesome. This hurt a lot. But it was awesome. You don't really hear a lot about wedge busters, because as I mentioned, they are outlawed now. That position is the asbestos of football because at the time, everyone was like, "YOU GUYS. It's TOTALLY safe for high school-aged boys to run full-speed and launch themselves at a wall of other teenage boys running full speed. It's things like Splenda that are REALLY troubling."
Now, we realize that human missiles aren't great ideas. Which is progress. But at the same time, the game is changing to reflect this enlightenment and it's changing the way we perceive the game. Essentially, toughness and massive collision are being legislated into oblivion.
Basically offensive players are like, "Don't touch me there!" about everywhere except for a few inches on their torso, where they can be tackled.
Defensive players are like, "For serious?"
And refs are like, "HAHA OMG TOTALLY. FLAG! EXCESSIVE MANLINESS! INFINITY TOUCHDOWNS!"
And the commissioner is like, "LOL You just got fined, Son. How much does you make?"
And the defensive players are like, "X Million. Why?"
And the commissioner is like, "What a coincidence! That's the exact amount of your fine. Please pull through and pay at the first window."
And that's basically the state of the NFL today.
11 responses to "The State of the NFL – Guest Post by Knox McCoy"
Mandie Marie says : November 18, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I didn't read this because it's about sports, but I'm upset with both of you.
1. Knox guest posted here first, even though we had a guest post agreement MONTHS ago that he backed out of JUST BECAUSE his friggin' cute DAUGHTER was born. Knox, you still owe me a guest post. I see you have chosen sides. You may or may not regret this.
2. I sent Craven a guest post WEEKS ago, and it has yet to appear. I can only assume it's because he's saving the best for last.
3. You're both jerks today.
4. I didn't read this because it was about sports.
The Joseph Craven says : November 18, 2011 at 2:44 pm
1. It's not a matter of choosing sides. It's just a matter of ethics. Knox doesn't have to chose. He's just drawn to what is RIGHT.
2. Sure. Also, it just sort of makes sense to have the pattern go Stanton – Knox – then IWE. Also, I'm pretty sure I told you it would be next week anyway.
3. Don't soil Knox's name. I mean, yeah, I'm well aware that I'm a jerk. But Knox was just helping a jerk out. At WORST he's a jerk by association.
4. It's cool, we don't want you here anyway.
Jessica says : November 19, 2011 at 6:38 am
I played soccer my whole life because girls can't play football. As the defensive midfielder I spent ninety minutes smashing into their forwards trying to get the ball. There was nothing dainty about my HULK SMASH.
Can I also tell you about the times I played flag football and was the designated one to rush the qb because I'm small but fast and the gigantic tools who declared themselves qb of the intramural flag football teams never even saw mini me coming?
Cool. Thanks.
The Joseph Craven says : November 21, 2011 at 10:42 am
Because I'm uncoordinated and lack anything resembling fine motor skills or hand-eye coordination, my entire basketball career consisted of rebounds and blocked shots. I was pretty much just the enforcer of my high school team.
I COULD dunk, though. That was fun.
educlaytion says : November 19, 2011 at 7:13 am
We could totally do some crossover stuff on football Mr. Knox McStreisand. We've also got that whole "who's gonna win the NFL picks thing" going. I was thrilled when the Broncos won the other night then saw I picked the Jets and was all like "whaaaat"?
And as a Steelers fan, yes, the league is ridiculous. When Ray Lewis sticks up for Pittsburgh safety Ryan Clark against NFL fines you know Goodell has gone too far.
While I agree with everything said about fines here, I also agree with the idea that James Harrison should be in a straight jacket.
Ricky Anderson says : November 19, 2011 at 10:40 pm
I was always afraid to play football.
So I played baseball.
My high school didn't have a baseball or a football team until after I had graduated. Besides basketball, I got suck with tennis.
gabriella says : December 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
this was funny : )
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Hydrographic Climate Database
The Ocean Science Hydrographic Climate Database (Climate) is a comprehensive, open access collection of temperature and salinity data for the Northwest Atlantic and Eastern Arctic, an area defined by 35°N - 80° N and 42°W - 100° W. The data come from a variety of sources including hydrographic bottles, Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) casts, profiling floats, spatially and temporally averaged Batfish tows, and expendable, digital or mechanical bathythermographs. Near real-time observations of temperature and salinity from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS) are also included. The database currently consists of approximately 850,000 profiles and 35 million individual observations from 1910 to January 2010. Vertical resolution varies from 1 m (for CTDs) to ~ 10-100 m for traditional bottle casts. Climate was updated monthly and approximately 20,000 new profiles were added each year.
Initial validation is carried out by the originating institute or organization. All data, whether from Canadian or foreign sources are also validated by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS), the national data center for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The primary validation procedures at MEDS are described in the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) publication Global Temperature-Salinity Pilot Project (GTSPP) Real Time Quality Control Manual.
At the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), the data are subjected to a set of final tests before being incorporated into the database. One of the primary functions of this validation is the determination and elimination of duplicate profiles.
For climatological purposes, we have defined a duplicate as any profile which is within 0.02° of latitude and 0.03° of longitude (roughly 3 km.) and 30 minutes time of another profile.
Determining which duplicate to select is based on a data type hierarchy. A CTD down cast is at the highest level, down through bottle casts, the various Bathythermograph (BT) types, and finally the low resolution Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) Tesac and Bathy messages. Low resolution Bathy and Tesac messages get replaced with the higher resolution CTD or eXpendable Bathythermograph (XBT) data as they become available after having worked their way through the collecting agency, national data center if outside of Canada, and finally to MEDS. This process may take a number of years before we receive the final version of the data to replace the near real-time IGOSS data. If data type does not reconcile duplicate selection, selection is based on a progression of selecting Canadian data over foreign, selecting the profile with the greatest number of observations, and finally, selecting the profile with the greatest depth.
Profiles which have been flagged as having failed the MEDS quality control are individually examined to determine if any may be salvaged. There is no attempt to correct erroneous data, however individual data levels may be discarded and a portion of a profile retained.
In addition, the entire database is subjected to various ongoing subjective and objective tests to improve the overall confidence in the data. Stations with individual observations three standard deviations outside of the mean value derived from a 1° grid averaged over depths ranging from 25 meters at the surface to 500 meters for the deep ocean on a seasonal basis have been individually examined and removed when deemed appropriate.
Interpolated values
During the early 1970's, data was sent to MEDS from BIO as inflection points based on a liner regression tolerance of 0.01° or 0.01 psu. Also during the period 1969-89, MEDS had a limit of 99 levels for a single CTD profile which they ensured by using a similar reduction technique. As a consequence, much of the CTD data during this period was at a much reduced resolution. As a one-time correction, all CTD data in the database with an average depth resolution (maximum depth/ # of observations) of less than 5 meters were interpolated to include values at standard oceanographic depths.
Gregory, D.N. 2004. Climate: A Database of Temperature and Salinity Observations for the Northwest Atlantic DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2004/075
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Marine Environmental Data Service web site, Manuals and Guides #22, GTSPP Real-time Quality Control Manual
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This application extracts information from the Ocean Sciences hydrographic database according to user specified spatial and temporal criteria. Output results can be either statistical summaries of the data or the actual data stored in the database (for input into your own analyses). The query is performed off-line. You will be contacted by email when your results become available. Results should normally be available within a few hours (depending upon the size of your query and the number of requests ahead of you). If you haven't had a reply within 24 hours, contact us and we will try to determine what happened.
The query screen is the "home base" for the application. Most of the fields on the query form are linked to help text that can be displayed at any time.
Processing options include the ability to select only those records that contain both temperature and salinity observations and an option to average the values within a profile according to the depth specification. This reduces the resolution of highly sampled data to more closely resemble observations sampled much less frequently.
Users can request a number of different data products which include a station index of latitude, longitude and date/time for each profile selected, individual observations making up the profile, time series based on monthly averages within the latitude, longitude, depth volume, or a seasonal cycle based on averages over all months from the time series statistics.
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(A) Query Identification
All of your queries are assigned a unique query number and saved under your user name. You can re-run existing queries or edit them and submit them as new queries. You can assign a name under TITLE. This name is saved internally in the results files for your reference.
(B) Area Selection Type
You may define a geographical area in one of three ways;
choose from a list of predefined polygons (multiple selections are permitted). The pre-defined polygons are shown on the System Polygons page.
provide your own polygon definition by latitude/longitude co-ordinates. To do this, select the Define Area button at the top of your screen, follow the instructions to create a new polygon, and then select it from the list of predefined polygons.
define a rectangle by latitude/longitude coordinates. The blocks parameter permits one to subdivide the entire rectangle into x by y blocks. For example, specifying latitude from 42° to 45° and longitude from -62° to -65° with 1° blocks in both latitude and longitude would result in defining 9 separate 1° grid squares for which statistics would be generated.
Note that the convention for longitude is positive East. Latitude and Longitude must be specified as decimal degrees, but we provide a converter if you prefer degrees, minutes, seconds.
A note on blocking (gridding):
If latitude longitude blocking is not requested (i.e., the lat_block field and lon_block fields are left blank) the output will contain all the data within the search rectangle, including points that lie on all the boundaries of the rectangle.
If blocking is requested then the following algorithm will be used.
The bins of user specified size will be created originating from point (0,0). The data that belong to the user specified rectangle will then be distributed among these bins. Data on the left and upper boundary of the bin are excluded. These points are assigned to the adjacent bin. The final output will only include the data that belong to the bins whose centers are within or on the boundary of the rectangle.
As a result, depending on the rectangle co-ordinates and the block size, the output may exclude part of the data that belong to the specified rectangle.
Scenario a, b and c
For example, in scenario (a) of the above diagram, the boundaries of the specified rectangle align exactly on the gridlines. The points along the dotted boundaries are excluded because the centers of the bins that contain these points lie outside the rectangle.
In example (b), the boundaries of the rectangle are on the center of the surrounding grid. All the points that are within the rectangle as well as those on the boundaries of the rectangle will be included. However, it is important to note that the bins that are along the boundaries would include only the data for the section of the grid that are within the rectangle.
In case (c), the output would exclude the data on the dotted lines and in the shaded area as the centers of the bins that contain these points lie outside the rectangle.
(C) Time Specification
Specify a continuous time period from (month/day/year) to (month/day/year) and/or a seasonal window. Months are inclusive. Months six to nine means June to September. Months 12 to two would select only December to February. Default is all months for the entire time period for which there are data.
(D) Depth Specification
Depth ranges are specified by entering a string of comma-separated fields defining; First_bin, Bin_size, Bin_interval, Last_bin.
The string is read as "Starting with First_bin, plus/minus Bin_size, repeat every Bin_interval until Last_bin". Multiple depth specifications can be included for each query.
0, 5, 25, 100
150, 10, 50, 250
This will generate statistics for the bin ranges 0±5, 25±5, 50±5, 75±5, 100±5, 150±10, 200±10, 250±10
If not specified, the last two values (Bin_Interval and Last_bin) default to 0 and First_bin. e.g. 500,500 will extract all data for 500±500 metres. This is the same as the old specification.
The numbers do not have to be integers. Real number entries will be rounded to the second decimal place during query processing. If you are specifying multiple depth specifications, separate each set by pressing the enter key, ensuring that each set appears on a line by itself.
(E) Processing Options
There are two optional selection criteria. One or both may be selected.
The TS Only option selects only records with contain both temperature and salinity observations. Because we have a lot of XBT data, there are many more temperature observations than salinity. The statistics for sigma-t are based on individual computations. There are not based on the overall statistics of temperature and salinity.
The Bin Averaging option is appropriate only if you have requested the complete profile data. This option averages the values within a profile according to the depth specification. What this does is reduce the resolution of highly sampled data to something more closely resembling observations sampled much less frequently. Suppose for example that you intended to use the individual observations to optimally estimate temperature. CTD data, sampled at every metre, would dominate bottle data sampled every 25 meters. Specifying bin averaging and depth ranges of 10 or 20 meters would result in getting a single average CTD observation for the 10 (or 20) metre level, much closer to the 25 to 50 resolution you would expect from a bottle.
(F) Product Selection
The result set files returned to you depend upon what options you request.
The standard deviation is calculated using the "nonbiased" or "n-1" method using the following formula:
s = ( 1 n - 1 ∑ i = 1 n ( x i - x ¯ ) 2 ) 1 2
The Seasonal Cycle, Timeseries options will get both the Timesseries of monthly statistics (average, minimum, maximum and count of observations (T,S,sigma) for each year and month and depth level for which there are data) and Seasonal Cycle (average, minimum. maximum, standard deviation, count of observations and count of months in average). The values are determined by an un-weighted average over all months from the time series statistics.
The Complete Profile opiton extracts every value of temperature and salinity referenced to depth, latitude, longitude and date. These files can be very large. Many people request it simply because they can. Make sure it is what you really require before requesting it. There are also some file size restrictions. See Caveats.
The Station Index option lists latitude, longitude and date/time for each profile selected.
The complete result set can consist of up to five ascii text files. All files are of the form qry_xx.txt, where xx is your unique query identifier. Files are comma delimited with a header label for easy import into a spreadsheet or database application. The definition for each file and explanation follows (see detailed file description).
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After the query specification is complete, selecting Run will submit the query.
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