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Know nothing about Database? Never mind! You can still have your own powerful Information Management System. By means of UIIMS, you can customize personalized management system basing on all kinds of information or archive.
(1)As being in professional database system, you can ADD, EDIT, DELETE or INQUIRE records.
(2)UIIMS provides many powerful tools, such as System Switch, System Backup, System Restore and System Erase etc.
(3)You can generate multi information management systems on single computer, which will save great cost for user.
(4)UIIMS can basically meet the need of individuals and small enterprise. For example, you can customize Contacts Management System, Book Management System, Items Management System and Salary Management System and so on through UIIMS.
(5)UIIMS provides many common built-in Information Management Systems(Asset List, Contacts, Events, Faculty Information, Issues, Marketing Projects, Opportunities, Project List, Tasks). User can import these templates directly.

Free download from Shareware Connection - Know nothing about Database? Never mind! You can still have your own powerful Information Management System. By means of UIIMS, you can customize personalized management system basing on all kinds of information or archive.

Publisher: our-soft.com | License: Shareware | Price: 19.99
Version: 3.1 | Size: 5687 KB | Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Business x64, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Enterprise x64, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Basic x64, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Home Premium x64, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Ultimate x64, WinOther
Released Date: 23-02-2007 | Rating: 0 | Title: U&I Information Management System

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Program Info Url: http://our-soft.com/uiims.aspx
Download Url: http://our-soft.com/Documents/uiims.zip
Screenshot Url: http://our-soft.com/images/UIIMS1.jpg

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When a prosecutor must share exculpatory evidence

When an individual is charged with a crime in Texas, the prosecutor is obligated to share any exculpatory evidence uncovered during their investigation of the defense. Unfortunately, some prosecutors skirt this responsibility, which could lead to the conviction of an innocent person.

Exculpatory evidence is defined as something that may be favorable and material to the defense. It could be outright proof of innocence or simply be information that casts doubt on a portion of the prosecution's case. Prosecutors have been required to share such information since Brady v. Maryland in 1963. However, modern prosecutors still try to ignore this obligation by claiming they didn't know about such evidence or didn't realize the evidence was exculpatory.

Examples of prosecutors violating the Brady ruling could include hiding a photo that proves a defendant had shorter hair than the perpetrator at the time a crime was committed or failing to reveal an individual other than the defendant was present at a murder scene. Frequently, a prosecutor will excuse such behavior by claiming the information doesn't fit their theory of the case. However, withholding exculpatory evidence is unethical and unconstitutional. Currently, prosecutors face no personal penalties for failing to share exculpatory evidence, but some criminal defense attorneys are calling for courts to start keeping a record of Brady violations to shame prosecutors into doing their duty.

Individuals convicted of a felony may face severe consequences, including heavy fines and incarceration. However, a defendant may be able to avoid conviction by retaining a criminal defense attorney as soon as possible. An attorney could protect a defendant's rights during police questioning and throughout the legal process. Legal counsel could also search for evidence that casts doubt on the prosecution's version of events and build a strong defense based on the circumstances of the case.

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Sprite Tools UISprite Tools is a free MAXScript that you can run inside 3ds Max. At the moment, you can download it form this page. In the future, it will also be included in Wall Worm.

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What Are Sprite Tools

Sprite Tools consist of several functions:

  • Convert sprite card bitmaps to animated bitmap nodes
  • Convert animated bitmap nodes into IFL files
  • Convert animated textures or IFL files into sprite cards
  • Place Sprites into a 3ds Max scene which are always facing a look at target

The Sprite Tools have a few different functions. The general workflow is to Select a pre-existing sprite material with the Get Existing Sprite Material button or to create one with the Choose Map button. Once you have done this you can proceed depending on the type of Material/Map you've selected.

Convert Sprite Sheet Into Animated Bitmap

If you have an existing sprite sheet that you want to animate, you should take these steps:

  1. Click Choose Map
  2. Browse for your Map (which ought to be a Bitmap with a sprite sheet file). Remember to choose Instance if you want the animation to cascade to materials in the scene that already use this node, or choose Copy if you want a new map/material.
  3. Enter the number of rows and columns there are in the sprite sheet into the Sprite Tools UI.
  4. Click the Animate Sprite Sheet button.
  5. Now the Bitmap node you selected is animated.

Convert Animated Map Into Image File List (IFL)

  1. If you do not already have an animated map in the UI, select one with the Choose Map button.
  2. If the selected map is not already animated, animate it with the steps detailed above.
  3. Enter the number of columns and rows in the current sprite sheet. If the existing map is not an animated sprite sheet, but instead an animated texture of another sort, make sure that the rows times columns equals the number of animated frames in the map's animation. (For example, if your animated map is 64 frames, you could enter 1 and 64 in the columns).
  4. Choose a bitmap width/height with the Cell Dimensions spinner. This will be the actual height/width of the generated IFL bitmaps.
  5. Click the Make IFL From Sprite button.
  6. Now choose an output path and bitmap name for the images.
  7. If you want to assign the generated IFL to the Sprite Tools UI (to be placed on sprite objects you create), click the Assign IFL button.

Convert Animated Map into Sprite Sheet

This function will convert an animated map into a single sprite sheet.

  • Add an animated map to the UI with either the Get Existing Materials or Choose Map button.
  • Enter the rows and columns you want in the sprite sheet.
  • Choose a cell height/width with the Cell Dimensions spinner.
  • Click the Make Sprite Sheet button and save the file.

Sprites in the 3ds Max Scene

The Sprite Tool has a pseudo-sprite function that will place sprites in the scene. These sprites are simply planes that always face a single look-at target. The look-at target is generated by the tools; you can use position constraints to attach the look-at target to other objects in the scene such as cameras.

For added functionalist, you can buy the Detailer plugin. When you have Detailer installed, the sprite tool will insert Prop Detail sprites into the scene that have many controls.

Creating Sprites

Whenever you create a sprite in the scene, the current sprite material in the UI will get applied to that sprite. Changing the current Sprite Tool material does not affect existing sprites but sets the material used in sprites yet to be generated.

There are two buttons for creating sprites.

  • Create Sprite - this button creates a sprite at the world origin.
  • Place Sprites - this button allows you to pick a point in the scene to place a sprite.

Note that the size of the sprites added to the scene is controlled by the Cell Dimension spinner.

Known Issues

At the moment, you can only work with sprite sheets that have square cells where each cell is the same dimension. This limitation may/may not change in the future.

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Here are some other useful sprite scripts that I have used. Some of these do things that this tool does not do and vice versa.

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Lip Paint Battle: Jcat Beauty vs. La Girl Cosmetics

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       I have a love hate relationship with lip paint products. Sometimes I feel like lip paints are the perfect addition to add some more color and shine to my makeup look. Having a glossy lip always looks so good when you're working a dewy look that's all about looking refreshed and hydrated. Although lip paints are a nice change from the matte finishes we all know and love, it comes with its problems as well. There are other times where I feel like a lip paint is too runny and I'm constantly licking my teeth to make sure it hasn't smudged which is a massive con of mine. Having lip products on my teeth is damn near a phobia of mine, it just does something to me, *shudders*.

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 What I Look For in a Lip Paint

    I look for a lip paint that's going to be hella pigmented, goes on smoothly, has a slight thick texture, a little tackiness simply so it can hug my lips instead of  hugging my teeth. I want a lip paint that's going to have a bit of lasting power even though I know due to the texture of the lip paint(very smooth, fairly thin) that making the lip paint last will probably always be out of my grasp. I also prefer a lip paint that doesn't leave my lips dry afterwards and if it leaves a pretty stain behind that's even better.

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   Considering what I'm looking for in a lip paint,I decided to start comparing a few brands to see whether or not they rise to my expectations and needs. There's nothing wrong with having expectations in a product, you work hard for your money get the most bang for your buck. Speaking of bang for your buck, both of these products are under 5 dollars! Allow me to introduce the opponents to the stage, LA Girl Lip Glaze and JCat Wonder Lip Paint. I've reviewed products from both of these brands and they are both on my love list.

The Battle

Lip Product Review | LA Girl Makeup Review | Jcat Beauty Review

    The battle will take place on none other than my lips! The top lip is displaying the LA Girl Lip Glaze in Daring and my bottom lip is home to JCat Wonder Lip Paint Spoke Fancy.

LA Girl Lip Glaze Pros:
  • The texture is very smooth, there's a slight thickness to the formula.
  • The initial application is quite opaque considering it's supposed to be primarily a gloss, if it were anymore opaque it would certainly be in the lip lacquer fam.
  • There's a light peppermint smell that I like, but if you're not a fan then you've been warned boo.
  • The formula is moisturzing and lightweight.
LA Girl Lip Glaze Cons:
  • Honestly I can't think of any cons for this product besides the applicator. The top of the product has a contoured tip for your lip like a squeeze bottle of lip gloss would have, which isn't ideal for a product with this much slip. You want to apply this with a doe foot applicator or a lip brush because using the applicator on the tube would get messy, very quickly. With lip paints you will want to use a lip brush for a precise application, I use the ELF brand one because of the cheap price.
JCat Wonder Lip Paint Pros:
  • The texture of the formula is very silky and smooth.
  • The color is very pigmented.
  • The color range for this product is outrageously large, from rosy tones to yellow, blue and green.
  • The formula has a peppermint smell (I guess there's a peppermint oil trend in lip paints).
JCat Wonder Lip Paint Cons
  • The lip paint is pretty opaque but it takes a little work to get a strong full impact with the color.
  • This lip paint is a bit runny hence why the application was easy but it also has teeth smudging capabilities *shrieks*.
  If you're looking for long wear then I'd go for LA Girl, if you're interested in the variation of color and really enjoy the idea of a lot of slip in your product I'd go for JCat Beauty.The winner for me is... LA Girl Cosmetics but the real winner is...
YOU because both of these products are 5 dollars and under.
  You guys know I'm nosey, do you have any beauty battles going on? Let me know in the comment section below.


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The name Marven is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Marven is: Form of Mervin.

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People with this name have a deep inner desire for a stable, loving family or community, and a need to work with others and to be appreciated.

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People with this name tend to initiate events, to be leaders rather than followers, with powerful personalities. They tend to be focused on specific goals, experience a wealth of creative new ideas, and have the ability to implement these ideas with efficiency and determination. They tend to be courageous and sometimes aggressive. As unique, creative individuals, they tend to resent authority, and are sometimes stubborn, proud, and impatient.

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Kim Fields' RHOA co-stars reportedly have some serious issues with her

Kim Fields' reported diva behavior is affecting the rest of the RHOA ladies

Kim Fields reportedly thinks she's too good for reality TV.

Fields apparently already has her co-stars Kenya Moore, Phaedra Parks, Porsha Williams, Cynthia Bailey and Kandi Burruss fuming over her diva behavior.

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Perez Hilton reports that Fields comes and goes from the set as she pleases, but also suspects that her co-stars' anger could stem from jealousy.

Other sources who are close to Fields tell the outlet that she has been on time for every scene and is always in a good mood.

Still, Fields apparently disregards producer's directions. For example, TMZ reports that when the cast was filming in Jamaica, Fields showed up with her kids even though she was specifically told not to bring them prior to the scene.

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She also was rumored to have left during a taping of Burruss' baby shower because she needed to help her kids do math homework.

It's great that she seems like such a hands-on mom. And we totally support her putting her kids first. But there's a fine line between priority parenting and unprofessionalism. It seems that maybe Fields is still searching for that balance as she settled into her RHOA role.

Meanwhile, on the show last night, Fields had her first real cry fest over her lack of female friends.

But Parks was there to help a girl out by helping Fields realize that she needs to find some inspiration through some new hobbies. Maybe these two could bond over time.

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Somewhere over the rainbow, this black ice cream reigns supreme

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Forget the rainbow food trend with a little taste of this emo black ice cream

If you prefer your sweets on the Johnny Cash side of things, then this black ice cream will be right up your alley.

It's not just dark like a dark dark chocolate, it's actually pitch black thanks to one surprising ingredient.

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There's an ice box where my heart used to be #droolrating: (Coconut Ash Ice Cream with toasted coconut @morgensternsnyc )

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It's activated coconut ash, of all things. Coconut ash is made from charred coconut shells, and it makes this ice cream the perfect antidote to those of us who have just about had it with the recent rainbow food trend. I feel like moody high school me would have loved being able to eat Goth ice cream while brooding about, well, everything.

You can grab a scoop at Morgenstern's in New York City, pairing it with its other fancy flavors, like raw milk and strawberry balsamic. The result is a very modern-looking, monochromatic cone.

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The other great thing? Coconut ash is apparently good for you, ish. Activated charcoal can be used for everything from reducing flatulence, lowering cholesterol and more.

Any excuse to enjoy some fancy ice cream, right?

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Mika’s journey into the world

“In half an hour we are going to repeat the test. If the (PH) value has decreased, it will mean that the baby will have to be born by c-section”. These were the words of the gynecologist that are still in my mind. A c-section wasn’t the way I wanted my baby to be born, but unfortunately sometimes there’s no other choice as the baby heartbeat was continually decreasing with each wave (or contraction for those not familiar with the hypnobirthing language). At that moment, I asked myself if I should have accepted an earlier labor induction, I mean, during last week’s check everything was fine and in one week almost all the amniotic fluid is gone, which was the reason for inducing my labor, but it seems it’s in many cases the reason for a c-section.

I was exactly 39+6 weeks during the last check, when my gynecologist said we’re going to admit you tonight and start to prepare you for inducing your labor,  I even asked “can we wait until tomorrow?”. I wanted to have the time to get used to the idea of an induction, as the induction for Liam’s birth didn’t go so well. His answer was clear “what do you want to wait for?” and I knew I should trust him. He had let me wait for this long despite my medication for the blood pressure, while another gynecologist was already speaking of induction during the 37 weeks check. I was really hopping for a spontaneous start and as soon as I left his office I called my acupuncturist to make an appointment. Two hours later I was sitting down with 10 or 12 needles in different parts of my body. Afterwards there was some activity in the womb, but it wasn’t strong enough.

I spend the rest of the afternoon getting ready and packing the car with all our staff. Normally I’m a “travel light person”, but in this case I filled the car up to the roof 😀 well, mainly because of the birthing pool (two big bags with the pool and all accessories). We were in the hospital at 19:30 and it was quite a long evening/night. I had first a CTG, then they checked the cervix: one 1cm and “it feels soft” (better than nothing I thought). Next was the catheter for the ripening of the cervix and another CTG. The second CTG took much longer than planned as a couple of times Mika’s heartbeat decreased. I had almost to stay connected to the CTG the whole night, but at midnight I was moved into a room to sleep for a couple of hours.

Around 6:30 the nurse came for the checks and an hour later I was back in the delivery room. This time I had the room nr 2, this is the biggest and the only one where you can set up a pool. At least being induced had an advantage, I had the room reserved for me!! One hour later, the midwife was breaking my waters (even thought not much water came out if I compare it with Liam’s waters) and the oxytocin through an IV was started. At that moment, Nelleke, our doula, arrived and Paul started preparing the pool, which to my surprise was ready rather quick. I cannot really tell how long it took, because I didn’t check the clock and I started loosing the sense of time.

Soon came a nurse and told me that Mika’s heartbeat was decreasing with each surge. She suggested me to use the pool and so I did. Not much later (for my feeling) the midwife came in and told me that they have to take a ph-test (taking blood from Mika’s head). With this test they will know if he is getting enough oxygen. As soon as the sample was taken, I went back into the pool. I was feeling worried about the little one and I even feel I should be more relaxed. My head was having all kind of thoughts and I was trying to find a better position.

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Next thing I know it’s that the gynecologist and the midwife were standing next to the pool. The ph- test was fine, but “in half an hour we are going to repeat the test. If the (PH) value has decreased, it will mean that the baby will have to be born by c-section”. C-section is the last thing I wanted, honestly I felt disappointed. All the work and the “fighting” to end up with a c-section. On the other hand, I accepted that if it has to be that way, it will be that way. What it really matters it’s to have a healthy baby and at that point I had only 4 cm, so it seemed still a long way to go. I asked Paul to stop the music and put the hypnobirthing affirmations. I stopped myself from getting worried and focused on breathing. And I really needed to focus on that, all of a sudden the waves were much stronger and coming with almost no break.

In the mean time Miranda, our birth photographer, arrived and I wasn’t even able to say hello. I was only telling Paul when he had to put some pressure on my lower back. That in addition with moving my hips (I was standing on my knees) and breathing in as long as I could were the only things that relieved the pain. Yes, at that point I was really feeling pain and I even asked myself for how long I would be able to hold on. At that moment, the midwife came in again.

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I had forgotten the test, she asked me to lay on the water to check my progress. Before I could turn, I had the urge to poop. I told her so and apologized for not wanting to go out of the pool. Our hypnobirthing practitioner, who is also midwife, said once “midwifes don’t mind the poop because that means that the right afterwards the head will also come out”. So  I was thinking that I needed to empty the way for the baby first. I just followed what my body was asking me to do while (for my feeling) I was turning and searching for another position. To my surprise there wasn’t any poop coming out and even thought the pressure was still there, it was already less.

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During the following break, the midwife checked my progress and first I couldn’t believe her words “feel it yourself, the head is already there!!”. I mean, half an hour ago I had only 4 cm and now the head was already crowning. I reached with my hand and I felt his head already crowning. I felt so relieved, he was almost there!! The midwife told me to do my best to let him be born in the next surge (in my birthing plan I wrote I didn’t want to push but breath the baby out, so I guess she was gently asking me to push).

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I waited until the next surge keeping my hand touching his head as I didn’t want to break the contact with him. The next surge came and I cannot tell whether I push or not. I just followed the lead of my body and his head came out easily and a second later his body was also born. No pain, not even having the feeling of the “ring of fire” and no sutures needed afterwards thanks to the warm water and being relaxed.

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I picked him up immediately and realized how lucky I was. Half an hour before I was thinking I will have a c-section and at the end I was even able to give birth inside the pool, which has been my wish from the very beginning. I’m still amazed about how my body was able to take it over and in just half an hour going from 4cm to give birth. I also realized afterwards that it was ok to feel the pain, but that I should be proud of myself as I remained calm and (mostly) relaxed the entire time.

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I really want to thank you everyone that was supporting me before, during and after the birth of Mika: Paul, Nelleke, Miranda, Anne, the hospital stuff and specially Marieke, our midwife, for being supportive and respecting my wishes.

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  1. What an intense experience, and how beautiful to have birth photographer. I am so glad Mika and your body knew what to do, and you got your water birth. You all look beautiful. thanks for sharing your story.

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      We were doubting about the photographer, but the few pictures I had from Liam’s birth helped me afterwards with the negative feelings I had (I had quite a bad luck with the medical stuff unfortunately)

  2. Wow, quite an experience, Shere! I would have opted for a C-section without thinking twice. I had a pretty rough delivery 30 years ago when my son was born and just the memory of that pain gives me the chills! I’ve heard however that water birth is less painful. You gave birth to such a beautiful baby!

    1. shere

      Liam’s delivery was also pretty rough and the recovery (both physical and emotional) took quite a while. I also thought of a C-section, but I wanted to have as less medical interventions as possible and therefore I went for a water birth.

  3. Mika’s eerste reis! Dat er maar veel mogen volgen. Jeetje, wat hadden jullie goed over alles nagedacht en geregeld… zelfs een fotograaf… wel wat anders dan die paar wazige plaatjes die wij hebben. 🙂 En wat een mooie baby is Mika! Gefeliciteerd alle 3 met zoontje en broertje erbij

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Eight female badminton players from China, South Korea, and Indonesia have been disqualified from the London Olympics over charges that they tanked a pair of doubles matches. Why were they trying to lose on purpose in the first place?

It’s basically all Denmark’s fault—but we’ll get to that in a second. First, a word on the badminton tournament structure. Like many Olympic sports, badminton has a preliminary round that’s used to determine seeding and a knockout round that decides who wins gold, silver, or bronze. As the AP explains, “The round-robin format can allow results to be manipulated to earn an easier matchup in the knockout round.”

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That pathetic display from the Chinese and South Korean pairs set the stage for another round of tanking. In the South Korea-Indonesia match an hour later, both teams again had good reason to do their worst. If the South Koreans won, they’d have to face their countrymen in the quarterfinals; if the Indonesians were victorious, they’d have to play the powerful Chinese team that had just succeeded in losing.

All that lack of effort came to nothing when all four of the not-so-lovable losers were expelled by the Badminton World Federation for "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport.” With those four teams now eliminated, the big winners are the Chinese team of Zhao and Tian, whose loss to Denmark kicked off the disgraceful cascade that ended up clearing the draw of all the top contenders. They now seem likely to cruise to the gold medal.

Some American sportswriters have seemed surprised that wimpy old badminton—“an obscure, easily mocked sport,” as Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg put it—finds itself caught up in a major scandal. But the sport has a long history of match-fixing. In 2008, for instance, the South Korean national team admitted to tanking against England and Malaysia in the first round of the Thomas Cup to increase its chances of being matched with a weaker team in the quarterfinals—Denmark. “We formulated a strategy before we arrived … and that means not finishing top of the group," said South Korean coach Kim Jung Soo at the time. (Later that year, Kim was suspended over allegations that he embezzled money from a badminton organization.)

Badminton-centric blogs and online message boards are riddled with cheating allegations, some more substantiated than others. Chinese players are often at the center of these claims. As Tarek Hafi put it in Badzine (“The World’s No. 1 Badminton Webzine”), “crowds and badminton fans around the world have become accustomed to some trepidation before any match between two Chinese sides.” At the world championships in 2003, Chinese doubles players Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen were accused of tanking a match so their opponent—another Chinese doubles team—would have a better chance of advancing. In the women’s semifinals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, China’s Zhou Mi was allegedly instructed by her coach “not to work too hard” in her match against teammate Zhang Ning. Zhang went on to win gold. The same thing is said to have happened at the 2000 Sydney Games, when Ye Zhaoying was told to lay down against Gong Zhichao. Gong eventually won gold.

Silly, innocent-seeming badminton is no stranger to doping controversies, either. In 1998, Indonesian doubles’ star Sigit Budiarto tested positive for nandrolone. In 2010, Zhou Mi tested positive for the steroid clenbuterol and was suspended after the Badminton World Federation didn’t buy her explanation that it must have come from eating some tainted pork.

The scandals also extend to the officials who oversee the game. In 2008, the controversial Punch Gunalan was fired as vice president of the Badminton World Federation after an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the organization’s president. And in 2011, the badminton world got hot and bothered after the BWF, in an attempt to draw more attention to the sport, attempted to implement a rule that would require female players to wear skirts during major tournaments. Female players revolted and eventually won the right to wear non-skirt attire. At this Olympics, they proved that they didn’t need to wear flattering uniforms to get the world’s attention. All they had to do was play really, really, really badly.

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Death in space: The ethics of dealing with astronauts’ bodies.

What to Do With Dead Bodies in Space

What to Do With Dead Bodies in Space

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April 7 2015 12:10 PM

To Boldly Go Where No Body Has Gone Before

What to do when an astronaut dies in space.

George Clooney in Gravity.
George Clooney in Gravity.

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This article is part of Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, New America, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture. On Thursday, April 9, Future Tense will host an event in Washington, D.C., on the future of space exploration. For more information and to RSVP, visit the New America website.

It’s raining in Washington on July 24, 1969. The weather seems appropriate, given the tragic events that have just transpired that evening. Richard Nixon stands before a tense press corps gathered at the White House, and a silence envelops the room. “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace,” he begins. “These brave men know there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.”

So goes the speech commemorating the deaths of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin following the first moon landing. Written earlier in the year by William Safire, this requiem was created as something of a contingency plan in the highly probable event that the brave souls aboard Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon, left for dead in the Sea of Tranquility. Happily, this speech was never read publicly and only resurfaced in 1999 as an interesting historical footnote. Now that there is a serious push for manned space expeditions beyond Earth’s orbit for the first time since the end of the Apollo era, space agencies and private ventures are increasingly forced to grapple with all the novel potential disasters that exploring new frontiers entails.

Astronauts already spend extended periods of time on the International Space Station—the record is almost 438 days, set by a Russian cosmonaut in the mid-’90s, and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly just embarked on a yearlong stay in space —but a trip to and from Mars would take about 14 months (not including time spent on the planet), and there wouldn’t be other visiting spacecraft that could bring an ailing astronaut (or dead body) back to Earth. While we probably won’t see boots on Mars for at least another 15-20 years, those concerned with planning the early missions are already beginning to consider the host of unique methodological and ethical questions that such a journey will surely entail.

How should crew members deal with a colleague’s death on long duration missions? At what point do mission prerogatives outweigh considerations of an individual astronaut’s safety? Is it OK to use the bodies of Martian settlers’ corpses for composting? If NASA learns that a mission is on the precipice of disaster, should it inform the crew members? These are just a few of the questions that must be dealt with prior to launch and keep people like Paul Root Wolpe awake at night.

Wolpe, a professor at Emory University and senior bioethicist at NASA, deals with all kinds of unexpected issues pertaining to manned space travel, including the challenges posed by death and dying in microgravity. In theory, dealing with extraterrestrial fatalities shouldn’t differ much from handling deaths in some of the more remote regions of Earth, such as Antarctica or Chile’s Atacama Desert, both of which have been used as space-analog research environments. According to Wolpe, however, deaths in the void boast one fundamental complication not found on Earth-based analogs: the nature of the living crew members’ responsibility to the deceased. For instance, if someone dies six months into a multiyear mission to Mars, are the astronauts expected to store the body for burial back on Earth?

While it would be simple to suggest that we start incorporating some sort of mausoleum into spacecraft design, the costs would be rather prohibitive. At the moment, it costs about $10,000 for each pound a space agency puts into orbit around Earth, which means that something as simple as storing some coffins on board a spacecraft could amount to a multimillion-dollar proposal. Then there’s the psychological impact that such a morbid use of cabin space might have on the surviving astronauts.

Nonetheless, NASA has attempted to address the problem of storing bodies in space. In a conceptual study in 2005, the agency commissioned Promessa, a Swedish company that specializes in organic burial solutions, to advise on engineering spatially economic astro-coffins. The result was the Body Back, which is essentially a vibrating Gore-Tex sleeping bag for the deceased.

The Body Back makes use of a process called promession, an ecologically friendly method of burial developed by biologist Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak, who founded Promessa in 2001 to capitalize on her idea. The promession process was slightly modified for the Body Back to meet the requirements of space travel, but the core ideas remain the same: First, a body is placed in an airtight bag and exposed to the freezing temperatures of space. (On Earth, this freezing is accomplished by placing the body in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of about minus 200 degrees Celsius.) After about an hour, the now-frozen body is brought back into the cabin from the airlock and vibrated at a high frequency, effectively shattering it and reducing it to a fine powder. Subsequently the powder is dehydrated, resulting in roughly 50 pounds of body dust. This dust is then stored in a container outside the craft until it is time to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, at which point it would be retrieved and stored in the cabin for the few minutes it takes to descend to the Earth’s surface from space.

Wiigh-Mäsak says she believes the Body Back could conceivably be aboard missions for Mars in the next few decades, although there is quite a bit of fine-tuning to be done before it goes orbital. “It was [NASA’s] task to come up with suggestions for adopting [promession for space], and they never went that deep into details,” she told me. “If and when it becomes a reality, we will have to go into the details together with a team of engineers. There will be a number of challenges to solve, I am sure.”

As macabre as this process may sound, it is really the only realistic method for organically dealing with bodies in space. Nonetheless, promession still seems like a lot of effort when one might simply strap the body to the craft and call it a day. According to Wiigh-Mäsak, however, that would raise a host of other issues—chiefly that there would not be much of a body left after re-entry.

The more frequent suggestion for the disposal of bodies is to simply open the airlock and send them off into the cosmos, à la Dr. Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The problem here is that, as Body Back designers Karin Tjerrild Lund and Mikael Ploustrup found out, a U.N. charter forbids littering in space. This includes corpses, even if the astronaut’s expressed wish is to have his or her body launched into open space. This is probably for the better, Wiigh-Mäsak told me, given that these bodies could potentially become hazardous impactors for other spacecraft or end up contaminating pristine extraterrestrial environments—also like Dr. Poole who, following his death in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, “became the first of all men to reach Saturn.”

It is this latter scenario that Wolpe finds most worrisome, although in a slightly different context. He’s not concerned with rogue bodies finding shelter on Saturn so much as the intentional disposal of bodies on early missions to Mars. At this point in our exploration of the red planet, a massive amount of intensive research is being conducted to understand the planet’s microbiome—was there ever life there, and if so, what was it like?

Disposing a body on Martian soil would probably introduce extraneous variables into further probes of the planet’s microbial life (or lack thereof), making it very difficult to determine whether subsequent discoveries are of organisms native to the planet or introduced by way of decaying earthlings. If humanity is serious about establishing a permanent presence on Mars, Wolpe concedes that at some point the burial of bodies, and environmental contamination, becomes inevitable. This, however, is a long way off, and in the interim the disposal of bodies for the first Martians (at least, human ones) raises interesting methodological questions for those planning initial missions.

A radical idea is that the bodies could perhaps be used as fertilizer for the Martians. Certain colonization models, such as those proposed by NASA and Mars One, involve Martian colonists growing their food locally rather than importing it from Earth, which would require fertile soil. But neither Mars One nor NASA has made any suggestions that body-based fertilizer will ever be formally incorporated into mission design. (That doesn’t preclude using human waste however, which has been favorably discussed as a mission component.) This is probably for the better, according to Wolpe, who is skeptical regarding the feasibility of using bodies for fertilizer for both biological and social reasons.

“I'm not sure human bodies make particularly good fertilizer. I mean, no society has done that on Earth that I know of,” he told me. “There are societies that desperately need fertilizer, and even they don’t use their dead bodies for the purpose. There's always been an extremely strong taboo for using dead bodies for instrumental purposes.”

A further, far more perverse concern for future astronauts and their Earthbound commanders is whether to inform the astronauts of their impending demise should Houston learn that the astronauts are in a situation where their deaths are unavoidable. This very situation arose in 2003 with the Columbia shuttle crew, who were re-entering Earth’s atmosphere with a damaged wing. Ultimately, the decision was made not to inform them of the potential for disaster, although this may have been more the result of lack of certainty rather than any steadfast ethical policy, according to both Wolpe and Wayne Hale, a NASA flight director at the time of the disaster.

In Wolpe’s opinion, choosing such recourse to action in the future would be entirely out of step with astronaut ethics. “I think [informing them about impending disaster] is part of what it means to be a professional in those circumstances, to give them the dignity of letting them know they're going to die and maybe they can get some last words out to their loved ones,” he said.

This also raises questions of what to do in the event that an astronaut becomes terminally ill during a mission, or as is more likely the case, sustains a life-threatening injury. A mission to Mars will cost billions of dollars and have required decades of effort from people around the globe—would astronauts have an obligation to turn back when one of their own discovers a lump?

This is largely a question of priorities set by NASA and other space agencies. If astronaut safety is priority No. 1, the question is easy. But when astronaut health and safety only becomes one of a number of competing priorities, such as mission success, it is less clear what should be done. In Wolpe’s opinion, this ambiguity in mission priorities is something NASA is going to need to sit down and discuss ahead of long duration space flight.

Astronauts at NASA are civil employees, which means there is no court-martial if they refuse to obey orders from command—at worst, their flight permissions will be revoked. So on a mission to Mars, where communications between the spacecraft and mission control can carry up to a 20-minute delay, these decisions between life and death will often devolve onto the astronauts themselves. Unfortunately for NASA, this seems to be a decision that no amount of training can ever completely prepare you for.

The good news is that there have been only 18 deaths during space flights, a small fraction of the more than 500 people who have gone into low Earth orbit or beyond in the past half-century. All of those deaths have happened either while a spacecraft was lifting off or returning to Earth.

While the space fatalities of the future are unlikely to be as dramatic (or physically impossible) as George Clooney’s death in Gravity, they are likely to retain the overwhelming sense of tragedy that is felt as Sandra Bullock watches her partner drift into the cosmos. Astronauts have left behind friends, spouses, parents, and children to risk their lives exploring the final frontier for the sake of our species. In this sense, the experience of losing a loved one and the grieving process that follows is not unique to space and is all the more reason to give special attention to the impact death and dying has on space travel in the years leading up to the next giant leap for mankind.


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Game of the Month, May 2011: Order & Chaos Online

May was yet another killer month for iPhone game releases, meaning that we’ve bestowed Must Have status on more games than usual. But only one can be Game of the Month, and this month we’re giving the crown to Order & Chaos Online, by Gameloft.

Like nearly all of Gameloft’s iOS games before it, Order & Chaos Online wears its inspiration on its sleeve. In this case the muse is Blizzard’s World of Warcraft. But no company attempts an MMORPG without putting a lot of work into it, and it’s clear that Gameloft didn’t cut corners here. Like in most MMOs, you gather quests, complete them, level up, and repeat the process: it’s a tried-and-true formula, and it works. But they’ve nailed it in the details, too– from the graphics and the script, to the ease of picking up group quests– making Order & Chaos Online the best MMO on iOS yet.

Technically, Order & Chaos Online came out at the end of April. But it’s a huge game– the first “M” in MMO stands for “massive,” after all– and we didn’t feel comfortable writing a full review until we’d had time to fully dive into the game. We posted the review in May, and we couldn’t consider it for Game of the Month before we’d reviewed it. But we’re glad we waited, and we’re glad to have experienced such an impressive game on iOS.

Our runner-up for Game of the Month is Storm in a Teacup, a gorgeous and expertly crafted side-scrolling platformer from Cobra Mobile. Storm in a Teacup uses a clever jumping mechanic, brilliant level design, and a goal-based structure to keep you coming back for more– and it works wonderfully.

Congratulations to both Gameloft and Cobra Mobile for making two top-notch games. Also, be sure to check out the other 4/4 Must Have games we reviewed in May: The Heist, To-Fu: The Trials of Chi, Firefly Hero, Chaos Rings Î©, Bumpy Road, Vampire Rush, and Frisbee Forever.

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Order & Chaos Online Review

The greatest thing about massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft is that they never end. Disregarding the fact that developers often continue to add new content over the months and years, expanding level caps and introducing new races and classes to try, the fact that they are online– and thus communal– means you can continue to have new experiences until they shut off the servers. Before Order & Chaos Online, though, you had to be chained to a computer to play. Say goodbye to the rest of your life.

Order & Chaos Online is not a perfect game. It’s very much a copycat of World of Warcraft, innovating only in the realm of UI and control scheme, but that’s okay. Gameloft, the game’s developer, is notorious for this sort of imitation, and they do it very well. They’ve copied Halo, Call of Duty, StarCraft, Final Fantasy, Uncharted, and many more, and while these “imposters” are never near as good as the real deal, they bring reasonable facsimiles to the mobile gaming sphere of franchises that wouldn’t otherwise be ported over. For this they should be praised.

Clone or not, Order & Chaos is just a joy to play, assuming you get into the whole MMORPG scene. You pick a server, race, and class, and immediately you commence the questing. The quest variety is completely standard, featuring fetch quests (“Go get this item and bring it to Person X”), kill quests (“Assassinate Evildoer Y or 10 wolves”), or courier quests (“Deliver this message or talk to this person”). That’s pretty much it. But Order & Chaos is at least written well enough to make the quests interesting.

Round one’¦ fight!

In fact, the game’s script is probably its most surprising aspect. While Order & Chaos’s world is generic, the characters you interact with are plenty interesting, with stories to tell that are worth pursuing to their end. You can still skip all this dialogue and move straight into the level grinding if you wish, but for those who like to be absorbed into the mythology, it’s here in spades.

The graphics are equally impressive, at least for an iOS game. Taking another cue from World of Warcraft, the character models look nearly identical to the designs employed by that game, only with a lower polygon count. Still, animations are fluid and, even with a much smaller number of classes available (there are only four right now to choose from), the game feels diverse enough. Draw distance is severely limited, even on higher end devices, so buildings and mountains often magically appear before your eyes, but thanks to the game’s navigation system, you aren’t likely to get lost.

In fact, getting from point to point is pretty straightforward. Pick up a quest, make it active from the menu, and you’ll see an arrow at your character’s feet telling you which way to go. It can be frustrating at times, especially when it sends you straight to an impassable mountain, but it’s not the end of the world. The overall play area is much smaller than something like WoW’s Azeroth (although we’re sure it will grow over time), but the areas are diversified enough to give them a unique feel and give you a sense of progression through the game.

The usual suspects.

The overworld map is useful, but the lack of ability to set waypoints is an annoyance. In general, the map needs an upgrade, but it suffices for casual play as is. The rest of the UI is pretty ingenious. Rather than filling up your limited screen space with rows upon rows housing your spells and actions, you’re given a scroll wheel in the bottom right of the screen, allowing you to quickly locate and select a spell. In general, there are fewer spells and abilities than in WoW, so you don’t need all those rows, anyway.

Upgrading your skills and talents begins at level 5. With each level, you get a talent point that upgrades your existing abilities, and every couple of levels you can pay to upgrade a spell or ability via a class trainer. You’ll also find that you’ll spend less time buying items from merchants, as the best weapons and armors will be collected from quests or drop items. As in WoW, you can further specialize in areas like making clothes and armor, and the mostly (and oddly) deserted cities have auction houses, but the game economy feels less important than in other major MMOs.

The camera system is competent and for the most part transparent. It’ll get stuck at times when you’re indoors, but outdoors it’s a non-issue. Moving it around is easy, although you have to pinch and zoom from the center of the screen, lest you risk accidentally activating the virtual analog stick on the left side. We wish it would zoom out further than it does, but it’s plenty capable, as is.

Is it hack and then slash, or the other way around?

There’s several of minor visual hiccups– getting stuck in walls or floating, characters briefly disappearing, and lag– but nothing so serious as to jolt you out of your state of leveling zen. The game actually runs smoothly, even with tons of other players on the screen.

The game, thus far, has been pretty popular on our server, which is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it makes picking up a group for a quest outing incredibly easy. You’ll never want for a buddy (long-or short- term), and there are already tons of guilds to join, should you want to make those temporary alliances more permanent. On the other hand, though, there are many quests that feature an enemy or item that disappears upon death or use, meaning you have to wait for a respawn. As was the case with us, you may find a dozen or more players hanging around waiting for the respawn, which makes it a game of “who can click the character or item the fastest.” It’s incredibly annoying, and given the smaller scale of this game when compared to WoW, a definite design flaw.

Should you encounter this, though, there are likely plenty of other quests that you can complete while you wait for the crowds to disperse, and most can be done solo (assuming you are at a sufficient level to handle it).

And that pretty much sums up the game. MMORPGs are rarely that complex, once you learn the mechanics. Pick up quests, complete them, level up, repeat. Order & Chaos features around 500 right now, with more surely on the way, so it’ll keep you busy for a long while. If you’re not spending all of your free time already addicted to WoW, you’ll definitely want to give this a shot. It’s not as good, of course, but it’s by far the best mobile offering in the genre. It looks good, plays well, and is fun. Oh, and it’s cheap. What more needs to be said?

Order & Chaos Online Accounts Hacked

If you have played Order & Chaos Online, Gameloft’s take on World of Warcraft, it’s time to change your password. Earlier today on the game’s official forums, word got out that some accounts had been hacked, and our friends over at Pocket Gamer have confirmed the situation with Gameloft. There’s no word on how many people this affects or how it happened, but Gameloft says they’re looking into it.

Nearly every Gameloft game with an online component also uses the Gameloft Live service, but at this time no other games seem to have been affected by the security breach. But even if you don’t play Order & Chaos Online, now is a good time to change your password if you have a Gameloft Live account. Better that than to potentially lose all the experience points you gained in Modern Combat 2 by mastering the art of the headshot.

[Via Pocket Gamer]

    Order & Chaos Online: First Impressions

    WoW. That simple exclamation took on a new meaning with the advent of World of Warcraft, the single most popular MMORPG in history. With Order & Chaos Online, Gameloft may have ripped off every element from that titan of a game, but they did it on iOS. And it works. For that reason alone, we are already walking away with one word escaping our lips: wow.

    Gameloft gets no points for originality. From the character races to the environments and art style; from the endless quest grind to the level progression system: this is a World of Warcraft clone. And that’s nothing new. For well over half a decade, almost every MMORPG to hit the market has tried to copy WoW’s formula for success, but no one has done this at the mobile level. Some have tried (such as the admirable Pocket Legends), but nothing has felt quite as deep and intuitive as the games proliferating on PCs.

    Now, as Order & Chaos Online was just released, and there are untold hours of gameplay packed into the game world, we have just begun to scratch the surface. However, if you’ve played WoW or any of its many imitators, you know what to expect. We’ll give you a more in-depth run down of the game next week in our full review, but from our first several level grinds, we can tell you this is one of Gameloft’s most impressive feats to date.

    The look and feel of World of Warcraft is uncanny.

    Much like World of Warcraft, this is not the best looking game on the platform. Nevertheless, you likely won’t care simply because the network code appears to be beautifully written: you’ll witness over a dozen characters on the screen at once with nary a visual hiccup. In our play time so far, there have been two noticeable instances of lag, but nothing drastic or game-breaking.

    Game textures are fairly low resolution, but the game still comes through crisp and clear on a retina display. Playing the game on an original iPad (it’s a universal binary) also looks great, although obviously not as gorgeous. Some of the menu artwork looks fuzzier on the iPad, but the game runs at about the same speed, so we aren’t complaining. Given the iPad’s extra screen space, however, you’ll probably enjoy it more than on your iPhone.

    Granted, having a game like this to play anywhere is part of the draw, so you might find yourself wanting to finish a few quick quests on your lunch break. Be aware, though, that the game currently requires a Wi-Fi connection. That’s right, the game does not support 3G (even though unconfirmed tests on jailbroken devices say it runs just fine over a cellular network).

    We can’t help but feel that if you loved WoW, you’ll really get into this.

    Even with this (hopefully temporary) drawback, if you’ve come for WoW-style gaming, you’ve come to the right place. Familiar landscapes abound, and you go from NPC to NPC collecting quests (which are surprisingly well written), battling hordes of animals, creatures, and evildoers. The game comes with four races (elves and humans are the good guys, orcs and the undead are the bad guys), several classes (standard fare stuff), and loads of loot, weapons, and armors to collect, wear, or sell. Spells are unlocked (with multiple paths) once you hit predetermined levels, and experience is gained by completing quests and offing enemies.

    The game currently has no player-versus-player combat, although you can initiate duels for fun, if you wish.

    The control scheme, as usual for Gameloft, works. We’re not saying your camera is never going to get caught on walls, or that you won’t try to run and instead swipe the screen to the camera: these things will happen. But except in tight spots like inside buildings, you shouldn’t have a problem maneuvering around the environment. Chatting is easy enough, although you shouldn’t expect to be able to multitask (battling while typing) as easily as you can on a PC or Mac.

    Again, we’ve just begun our epic quest (as an elf monk), and there could be plenty down the road to disappoint. With just 500 quests in the game right now, how long will it last? Are the classes balanced? Is there a decent end game? Will guilds and the player community match the quality found in World of Warcraft? We can’t wait to find out, and you’ll be the first to know.


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2014 Sam and Marilyn Fox Atlas Week

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Fair Food St. Louis is a student, youth, and community-led committee working in solidarity with the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)to eliminate sweatshop conditions and demand social responsibility in the global food system. The CIW's Fair Food Program creates a unique relationship between farmworkers, growers, and the corporations who buy Florida tomatoes. As a part of the program, corporations agree to only buy from growers who uphold strict standards of working conditions, including a zero tolerance policy for forced labor and sexual assault. Locally, Fair Food St. Louis is promoting this movement by focusing on the current target of the campaign, Wendy's, and the recently announced "Boot the Braids" campaign.

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