![]() ![]() While these challenges will give players a new appreciation for Jordan's greatness, the whole exercise feels a little like its primary purpose is to stroke Jordan's ego into a licensing deal, sell some Air Jordans and allow him to reassert himself in the Bryant/James era. I must admit, I'm a little torn on this feature. Players can take the 'Jordan Challenge' and seek to replicate 10 of Jordan's greatest feats, from dropping 63 on the Celtics in 1986 to the Bulls' game 6 triumph against the Jazz in the 1998 finals. Along with a host of old Bulls teams (and their famous rivals of the 90s) to stir nostalgia, NBA2K11 presents an array of Jordan-specific gameplay. Sure, it takes a while to become a world-beater when compared to equivalent options in many other games, but it's made well worth the effort.Īnd then there's Jordan. You will be tested pretty thoroughly in the lead-up to the draft and through the Summer-League before taking your player into an NBA career complete with post-game interviews that add a real depth to the feature. ![]() The 'My Player' mode has moved another step closer to reality too. At times things get a little too tricky, with some pretty infeasible interceptions awaiting anyone who dares to throw too many long-passes, but take a smart, realistic approach to game-play utilising your whole team and you will find the game replicating that NBA buzz better than any before it. Do any of those things too regularly and you'll be deep in a hole before you know where you are. Gone are the days of driving to the hoop time and again with whoever happens to have the ball at the half-court, kicking it out for endless threes or blithely passing in the rough direction of a team-mate. Defences are tough, and the AI intuitive enough to shut down most things that wouldn't work in a real game. My well-worn copy of NBA Live 2010 now looks distinctly like yesterday’s game.īeyond looking great, it plays superbly well. Player motion is incredibly fluid, with the personal moves and styles of individual stars captured in amazing detail. In a genre of games, NBA 2K11 is as close to a basketball simulation as has been created. So does NBA 2K11 live up to the hype generated by its cover-star? In short, yes. It's an attention grabbing start in a genre of gaming where atmosphere and tension are normally an after-thought.Īt the end of the day though, as exciting as the inclusion of Jordan is, it's still the game that counts (particularly, one suspects, for younger players and New York Knicks fans). ![]() ![]() The game itself plays this up excellently upon loading, as five silhouetted figures slowly diminish to one and the man himself turns to ask the player if they're ready before taking to the court for his classic Chicago Bulls intro and launching straight into game 1 of the 1991 NBA Finals against the LA Lakers. So far beyond his peers was Jordan that his name was seldom linked to regular games and for years playing against the Bulls on your console meant an unsatisfying match-up against 'Player 23'.Īs such, the presence of Jordan in a major game for the first time in several years and the promise of all manner of Jordan-specific gameplay already makes NBA2K11 the most intriguing sports title of the year. Other than Tiger Woods (before the groupies and porn stars) no American sportsman has been held in higher esteem internationally than Michael Jordan, and certainly no name looms larger in basketball than his. Thankfully for all of us, however, someone at 2K has obviously decided that, this year at least, the same old same old wouldn't cut it. With EA Sports' NBA Elite 11 delayed and unprecedented interest in the Miami Heat’s new dream-team, they could just throw Lebron, Wade and Bosh on the cover of NBA 2K11 and start making money. Still, at least things were easier for the folks at 2K this year. So established is the pattern that there's not really much to be done on the marketing front beyond throwing together a catchy slogan, putting the reigning NFL MVP or World Player of the Year on the front cover and assuming enough people will bite. Graphics and gameplay are tweaked a little (normally, if not always, for the better) and the new season’s team rosters are included. It’s not like the major yearly titles change that much is it? Developing exciting marketing angles for the new edition of a sports game can't be the easiest thing in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0 Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes) Calibrating delay loop (skipped) preset value. please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=64 to nr_cpu_ids=6. Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation. PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Kernel command line: initrd=initramfs.gz console=ttyS0,9600 BOOT_IMAGE=bzImage Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 1:77afb001, primary cpu clock setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 nr_cpu_ids:6 nr_node_ids:1 smpboot: Allowing 6 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) IOAPIC: apic_id 0, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 1:77afb001, boot clock kvm-clock: Using msrs 4b564d01 and 4b564d00 Command line: initrd=initramfs.gz console=ttyS0,9600 BOOT_IMAGE=bzImage (WARNING: ALL DATA ON DISK 1 WILL BE LOST) Peter AnvinĬisco SFR-BOOT-IMAGE and CX-BOOT-IMAGE for SFR - 6.6.1 Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network Status: Mapping host 0x7fca2c400000 to VM with size 67108864 WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/mnt/disk0/.private/meta_vm_data' and probing guessed raw. ![]() WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/dev/md0' and probing guessed raw. Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions. WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/mnt/disk0/vm/vm_3.img' and probing guessed raw.Īutomatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted. (process:1802): GLib-WARNING **: /local/jenkins_engci_sjc/workspace/team_SSP/fxplatform/Builds/release_2.6.1_fcs_hammersmith/build-smp-compile/fxos/linux/wrlinux/bitbake_build/tmp/work/corei7-64-wrs-linux/glib-2.0/1_2.54.3-r0/glib-2.54.3/glib/gmem.c:483: custom memory allocation vtable not supported *** EVENT: Start Parameters Continued: RegEx Shared Mem: 32MB, Cmd Op: r, Shared Mem Key: 8061, Shared Mem Size: 64, Log Pipe: /dev/ttyS0_vm3, Sock: /dev/ttyS1_vm3, Mem-Path: -mem-path /hugepages *** EVENT: Disk Image created successfully. *** EVENT: The module is being recovered. This is the second time we're doing it and its still stuck in recover modeĭisplaying Console Log Information for Module sfr: The console is still not accessible, as its in recover mode. ![]() ![]() Rubberbanding in online games like Twin Saga is caused by different factors. You might think this is because of your network connection or your ISP - although this can be true, that is not always the case.Rubberbanding can also be caused by improper installation of the game or if your game has corrupted files. Having old drivers installed in your PC (specifically for your graphics card and/or network adapter) can also be one of the causes.If you are connected through a WiFi connection instead of a wired connection, chances are you may likely to experience a rubberbanding problem. Another potential rubberbanding cause is a poor internet connection. It is mostly seen in MMOs - a large number of players means there are more cases of rubber banding either the server is overloaded, or players have high ping.When rubberbanding happens, a player appears to be thrown backward from the start of the action after they executed that certain action. It feels like being caught in a rubberband - players get thrown back after moving forward, making it look like your character teleported or warped from one place to another.This rubberbanding problem is extremely frustrating, especially when you are in a crucial stage of the game.You’re hiding from your enemy and just about ready to shoot. Then for just a couple of seconds, you suddenly appear in front of the enemy and BAM! You're the one who gets shot and killed instead. This is the rubberband effect in action.Your action may also appear differently to other players. ![]() While you see it as a rubberbanding effect, other players may see your character as idle or motionless, which is commonly seen on players who are experiencing heavy lag. ![]() ![]() Instead, it was designed to handle large quantities of data shuttling between places in the most cost-effective way possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() I would also like to add that it was a major personal win when I realized after reading my first book (Archy’s Puzzle) that I realized there were almost a dozen more books waiting for me. Never before have I enjoyed reading such descriptive narratives that really do paint a full picture in my head of the life Im absorbing through words. Sanders’ ability to use foreign language words now and then is a treat, as they usually add some humor as well his ability to spend time describing Archy’s attire and menu. ![]() ![]() Lawrence Sanders, is extremely well acclaimed within the mystery genre having other award winning series – Commandment and Timothy Cone books – to his resume. In fact, he eats too much, drinks to much, and always seems to get in trouble with the wrong sort of gal, much to the dismay of his unofficial girlfriend Connie Garcia. Archy loves wine, women, and song–not necessarily in that order. These “discreet inquiries” allow you to lose track of time and imagine the life of dashing about in his red Miata, hanging out at the Pelican Club and in his spare time solving sensitive cases for his father’s richer-than-God clients down in Palm Beach, Florida. But after Darling’s Husband Number Seven sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party, McNally needs to shine a spotlight on the killer before it’s curtains for somebody else.For those of you who are not familiar with the Archy McNally series by Lawrence Sanders – Archy is the son of a prominent Palm Beach, FL attorney and is the sole member of the Department of Discreet Inquiries. McNally gets roped into directing while he’s discreetly investigating who’s blackmailing the actress. McNally’s Folly: Golden Age Hollywood diva Desdemona Darling makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. The tempting Veronica is quite a handful, but more troubling is that her story and her mother’s don’t match. Socialite Melva Williams confesses to offing her cheating spouse but wants her old friend Archy McNally to do her a favor: keep the press and paparazzi away from her beautiful daughter. McNally’s Dilemma: In this New York Times bestseller, the Palm Beach tennis season starts off with a bang when a pro is shot by his wife after she catches him with another woman. Now the detective will have to scramble to lay a trap for someone who’s counting dividends before they hatch. But when widow Edythe Westmore’s children become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally cracks open a case of lust, greed, and murder that stinks like a rotten egg. McNally’s Gamble: In this New York Times bestseller, McNally is enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg. In his long-running, New York Times–bestselling mystery series set in South Florida, Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Sanders gave readers “his most delightful character”-a charming playboy turned Palm Beach PI by the name of Archy McNally ( Chicago Tribune). More murder, greed, and secrets for the Palm Beach private eye created by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and “master of suspense” ( The Washington Post). ![]() ![]() ![]() Kilcoyne RF, Cope R, Cunningham W, Nardella FA, Denman S, Frantz TJ, et al. Retinoid induced ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament. Diffuse hyperostosis associated with etretinate. This should prompt further radiographs of the region in question.ġ. Thereafter follow-up examinations should be performed if there is clinical suspicion of skeletal involvement. They are HLA B27 negative and their iliosacral joints are normal, and this excludes the diagnosis of Bekhterev’s disease.īased on our present knowledge, we propose a baseline skeletal survey of the forearms, pelvis, knees and spine before a planned long-term retinoid treatment in patients with congenital lamellar ichthyosis. We are convinced that their bamboo spines are caused by the drug. Because of the excellent effect of acitretin in the treatment of their ichthyosis, our patients have preferred to continue with acitretin even after detecting the spinal hyperostosis over 5 years ago despite the stiffness of the spine is a major problem. Their cumulative doses of retinoids are 300–500 g. Our patients have used retinoids orally continuously for about 25 years. In patient 2 baseline X-rays were not performed. In patients 1 and 3 we had baseline X-rays of their spines before etretinate was introduced in the late 70s, when the patients were between 35 and 45 years old, and these radiographs just showed minor changes interpreted as normal. In our department we therefore routinely performed X-rays only of the forearms, pelvis and knees and not of the spine of the patients on long-term retinoid. Kilcoyne (11) found X-ray abnormalities of the spine in 86% of the patients at the start of therapy in 236 patients treated with acitretin. In our previous study (5) radiographs of the spine were of little practical value because skeletal abnormalities are frequently found in people over the age of 50 years. We experienced two clearly abnormal calcifications (5) in the forearm of a patient with X-linked recessive ichthyosis and a laminar hyperostotic process in the forearm in a 66-year old woman with pustulosis palmoplantaris. In our department we have, during the last 20 years, routinely performed X-ray surveys of the skeleton at baseline and every second year in patients on long-term retinoid treatment. Whether this is explained by the lack of skeletal monitoring or genetic differences between groups of patients is not known. Interestingly several centres have not detected hyperostosis in their patients on long-term retinoid therapy. Some centres do not make X-ray skeletal investigations, while others do. She was HLA B27 negative and her iliosacral joints were normal.ĭifferent dermatological centres monitor patients on long-term retinoid therapy differently regarding bone toxicity. She experienced increased stiffness of her spine since 2001 and X-ray examination showed hyperostosis-like bamboo spine (Fig. Since 1978 she has used etretinate 0.7 mg/kg/day and, from 1992, acitretin 0.5 mg/kg/day continuously. Patient 3 is a 45-year-old woman with lamellar ichthyosis. His iliosacral joints were radiographically normal and he was HLA B27 negative. X-ray examination showed extensive hyperostosis-like bamboo spine. ![]() During the last years he has complained of lower back pain and increased stiffness of his spine. He has used retinoids approximately 0.5 mg/kg/day continuously since 1978. Patient 2 is a 69-year-old man with lamellar ichthyosis. The diagnosis of Bekhterev’s disease was therefore ruled out by her rheumatologist. However, X-ray of her iliosacral joints was normal and she was HLA B27 negative. X-ray examination of the spine showed extensive hyperostosis-like bamboo spine and initially the diagnosis of Bekhterev’s disease (spondylitis ankylopoetica) was suspected. In 2001 she complained of increased stiffness in her spine and lower back pain. She was given etretinate 0.75 mg/kg/day from 1979 and later switched to acitretin 0.5 mg/kg/day continuously, and she is still using this medication. Patient 1 is a 60-year-old woman with lamellar ichthyosis. We here report on 3 patients with lamellar ichthyosis who have been treated with acitretin for several years and developed spinal hyperostoses. Osteoporosis caused by acitretin (9, 10) has also been discussed. ![]() Other investigators do not report radiographic changes during either short-term retinoid therapy (7) or prolonged treatment in adults (8). Some centres report development of skeletal hyperostosis due to oral retinoids (1–6). During the last 20 years several papers have been published regarding the skeletal toxicity of long-term retinoid therapy. ![]() ![]() Our product portfolio extensively covers human proteins in cells, tissues, and organs. These two synergistic areas of business focus provide researchers with a seamless transition from discovery to diagnostics.Ītlas Antibodies is a Swedish biotechnology company driving leading research worldwide through providing affinity-purified monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, and control antigens. In addition to continuing to extend the applications for the nCounter system in the discovery, target validation and routine testing segments of the genomics research market, the company's goal is to become the platform of choice for diagnostic testing based on multiplexed gene signatures that can be offered in hospitals and pathology laboratories worldwide, following appropriate regulatory approvals. The nCounter system is uniquely positioned to support translational research because it provides more reproducible results than methods requiring amplification, and generates high-quality data from the difficult sample types common in clinical research, including Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tissues. Leading researchers and institutions are finding that NanoString's nCounter system provides the ideal platform on which to validate their discoveries and translate them into clinically useful diagnostic assays. By providing simple, multiplexed digital profiling of single molecules, the NanoString platform represents a natural, digital downstream companion to next-generation sequencing and enables researchers to embark on studies that were previously inconceivable. Organizations performing cancer research, biomarker validation and screening, and next-generation sequencing validation are rapidly adopting the nCounter® Analysis System. In 2010, the company launched new applications for the system to support microRNA analysis and copy number variation detection, and in 2013 launched Prosigna®, its first in vitro diagnostic product for prognosis of early stage breast cancer. In 2008, NanoString launched its first commercial instrument system and began international sales operations with its first multiplexed assays for gene expression analysis. The company was founded in 2003 with an exclusive license to develop and market the technology. NanoString's products are based on a novel digital molecular barcoding technology invented at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle under direction of Dr. The company's technology enables a wide variety of basic research, translational medicine and in vitro diagnostics applications NanoString Technologies (NASDAQ: NSTG) is a publicly held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostics. ![]() ![]() It does not store any personal data.Īnalytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. This cookie is native to PHP applications. 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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.Ĭloudflare sets this cookie to improve page load times and to disallow any security restrictions based on the visitor's IP address. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Other features include task capture, processing modeling and simulation, workflow accelerators, and integrations. The platform also includes process data ingestion to enable users to capture current-state process workflows that can help drive automation, and automation export, which automatically generates automation scripts for any major RPA platform. Key features include the process hub, which offers people in an organization a meeting point to identify and design process improvement initiatives. “For process automation initiatives to be successful, organizations need to start with process improvement, a discovery that ultimately helped drive development of our Transformation Platform.” Through our work, however, we found that organizations which were focusing on process automation were encountering upstream problems that Blueprint was uniquely suited to fill,” says Dan Shimmerman, CEO of Blueprint. “Blueprint’s initial use case in the automation space focused heavily on simplifying and supporting RPA design processes for large organizations. The platform delivers process intelligence that enables enterprise organizations to analyze and assess process value, identify hidden inefficiencies, and execute on data-driven improvement strategies with speed and precision. ![]() Blueprint Software announced its new Business Transformation Platform which is designed to be a command center for company-wide process improvement initiatives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() National Weather Service Doppler radar in nearby Shreveport, Louisiana captured the path of Columbia as it broke up over the region. The Emergency Alert System has been activated with a civil emergency message instructing residents of the area not to touch space shuttle debris. After working the late evening newscasts the night before, I was sleeping in that Saturday morning when my NOAA weather radio sounded an alarm.Ĭonfused at first of why my weather radio would sound an alert on a clear morning, I quickly realized this was not a weather alert. I was a meteorologist working in the Lufkin and Nacogdoches area of Texas at the time. However, weather technology was used to track debris from the shuttle as it disintegrated in the sky over East Texas and western Louisiana on the morning of February 1, 2003. The Columbia disaster was not weather-related. The Challenger disaster has been linked to unusually cold temperatures in the days leading up to take off. December 8 - A private company named SpaceX launched a spacecraft into orbit. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just after take off on January 28, 1986. January 15 - NASA spacecraft Stardust returned safely to Earth in a desert. ![]() The path shown on radar was used to recover debris from the accident across eastern Texas and western LouisianaĬolumbia was the second NASA space shuttle disaster.What Is The Name Of Nasa’S Fourth Space Shuttle During the first flight ofSTS-51J in October 1985, Atlantis was the fourth shuttle operated by NASA.Doppler radar from nearby Shreveport, Lousiana captured the shuttle's path as it disintegrated.Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into earth's atmosphere over Texas on February 1, 2003. ![]() ![]() Amarok comes with many features, like support for community-developed scripts, dynamic playlists, context views and more.Īmarok contributor: The people who love Amarok are those who want to dig more deeply into their music they want to know about the artists, want to rate and tag their music, and have statistics about their listening habits. ![]() Amarok users want to be able to stream music as well as listen to their collection on disk. Note: Amarok uses the Qt toolkit and will pull, relatively, many dependencies when installed on Xubuntu. Installing Amarok on a clean Xubuntu installation will use about 500Mb of additional disk space. AudaciousĪudacious is an audio player based on XMMS. Like its predecessor, it’s designed to be light but configurable and supports Winamp skins. Bansheeīanshee is designed for the GNOME desktop it can, amongst other things, import and burn audio CD’s, synchronize music to and from media devices.Įxaile is a music player with a simple interface and powerful music management capabilities. It is easily extensible via plugins and is distributed with over 50 plugins adding extensive functionality. Features include tabbed playlists, smart playlists, advanced tagging, album art and lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, podcasts, ReplayGain, secondary device output support, and more. Guayadeque is a lightweight audio player that supports smart playlists and large music collections. Amongst other things, it features extensive labeling tools as well as a smart play mode that adds similar tracks to the queue. Quod Libet is especially popular with power users, with support for very large libraries, Replay Gain, regular expression & conditional logic searches, Unicode, command-line usage and advanced tag editing. It supports podcasts, internet radios and nearly all music formats and comes with over 80 plugins. ![]() Rhythmbox is an audio player designed to be easy to use. Inspired by iTunes, it supports internet radios and podcasts, media device integration, music sharing and more. Tomahawk is a music player that plays and manages not only your local collection, but also streams from SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, Amazon Music, music lockers and many more. You can even connect Tomahawk with your friends via Jabber, Google Talk or Tomahawk’s new online community, Hatchet, to share your tastes, playlists and collection. Tomahawk contributor: Tomahawk is basically a music metadata player. In short, given the name of a song and artist Tomahawk will find the right source based on the users available streaming music services and collections. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The update puts a hard block on the application. This table also describes the behavior of these applications after you install the update.Īpplication compatibility updates trigger several changes in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The following table lists the applications that were added to the cumulative update package. The primary functions of the game, of the application, or of the firmware do not work correctly.Īpplications that experience a change in behavior after you install this update The game, the application, or the firmware causes system instability. ![]() The game, the application, or the firmware is installed incorrectly. When you try to install and run certain legacy games or applications in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms: More Information The kinds of problems that are resolved by application compatibility updates Microsoft regularly releases Windows 7 and of Windows Server 2008 R2 application compatibility updates. The Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Application Compatibility Update is a software update that improves the compatibility experience in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. If this article does not answer your question, click this button to pose your question to other community members at Microsoft Community: Windows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard More. ![]() |
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