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A Scales of War Adventure Path adventure. This short adventure bridges the gap between the heroic and paragon tiers of play for your Scales of War campaign if your PCs aren't quite 11th level. The Cult of Exquisite Agony -- a cabal of insane devotees of the Far Realms -- has grown in power recently, spurred on by a local sect popping up almost overnight in Overlook. Now the cult is looking to expand its sphere of influence, using the recent chaos in the city as a springboard for its own agenda. An adventure for 10th-level PCs.
Winter of the Witch
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In this epic adventure, the Winter Witch -- a legendary archfey -- has launched a campaign to send eternal winter cascading over large portions of the world. After a summons to Winterhaven, the characters find a land locked in ice and an old ally in need of aid. A trek to find an artifact known as the Sun's Sliver ensues, the only force potent enough to defeat the Winter Witch and banish her from the mortal world once more. An adventure for 22nd-level PCs.
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The Madness trilogy continues with "Depths of Madness." After saving the town of Wellspring, the heroes find that their efforts have not stopped the assault on the town. A new threat has emerged, seeking to capitalize on the re-emergence of the Tear of Ioun. The heroes must seize the Tear and defeat this threat, or the entire region could be swallowed by chaos. An adventure for 11th-level PCs.
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— MILTON — The Milton Model Train Museum volunteer committee held its annual drawing for prizes awarded to children under 12 who registered free while attending the annual Christmas Season Open House. The first place winner of a Lionel set, donated by Milton Moose Lodge 171 and Women of the Moose, was Barrett Beckley, of Grand Lake, Colo. The second place winner of a Lionel crossbuck bank was Jacob Russell, of Middletown. The third place winner of a Lionel blanket was Chloe Springman, of Muncy. Over 2,500 people attended this year's open house held Nov 23 through Dec 30. The Milton Model Train Museum is a program of TIME, The Improved Milton Experience, located on the third floor of the Milton Moose Family Center, South Front Street, Milton.

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Palin: "The Tea Party Movement is the Future of Our Country"
by Charles Lemos, Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 04:19:37 AM EST
In a rambling, often incoherent 40 minute speech, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin addressed the faithful at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville. She covered topics from national security to health care to budget deficits often deriding and mocking the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party though she took a moment to praise Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak for his anti-abortion stance.
In her speech she praised Ronald Reagan effusively on the day that would have been his 99th birthday. Oddly enough, she didn't mention his role his tripling the national debt nor did she acknowledge the erosion of the middle class that began under the 40th President. Somewhat surprisingly, she said her now trademarked "commonsense conservatism" stock phrase a mere seven times.
Still other empty stock phrases peppered her speech. "This is about the people, and it's bigger than any one king or queen of a tea party, and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter," she said.
As the New York Times noted, Sarah Palin gave the lily-white Tea Party Nation exactly what they wanted to hear, declaring the primacy of the Tenth Amendment in limiting government powers, complaining about the bailouts and the "generational theft" of rising deficits, and urging the audience to back conservative challengers in contested primaries. "America is ready for another revolution!" she belted.
Apparently, America is also ready for a martyr. "I will live, I will die for the people of America," she cried as if she were some American Jeanne d'Arc ready to be burned at the stake.
More interesting to watch was the 20 minute question and answer session with Judson Phillips, the founder of a group called Tea Party Nation. There she informed us that the Tea Party Movement was the future of the country. She encouraged people to run for office but I'm sure the irony was lost on her when the "I quit halfway into my term" former Governor noted that Americans have to do more than just "talk the talk but walk the walk." Again clichés aplenty but complete sentences seemed as endangered as polar bears in Alaska.
Asked her three top legislative priorities when the conservatives regain the House and Senate - that's the modest plan in 2010 - she offered reining in spending and then looked at her left hand to read the cheat notes (at the 46:30 minute mark) to offer up the other two ideas: jumpstarting energy projects and "allowing America's spirit to rise again" by which she means that it "would be wise to start seeking divine intervention again in this country so that we can again be safe, secure and prosperous." I must say that's going to be one hell of a bill.
The "renowned Marxist" Dave Weigel of the "socialist" Washington Independent has several more reports. His Twitter feed provides additional hilarities. Dave, I have to say, what ever they pay you, it's not enough.
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The Westside Winter Shelter program opens this weekend and, for the first time, will offer supportive services for those who want to live life off the streets of Los Angeles, according to Councilman Bill Rosendahl.
The shelter opens Dec. 1 and will utilize a pick up and drop off location at the Los Angeles Police Department Substation in Venice Beach (1530 W. Ocean Front Walk).
The bus will pick up between 4:30 and 6 p.m. and will return the next morning at 7:30 a.m. The shelter is located at the West L.A. Armory (1300 Federal Ave.) and will have 160 beds.
The program ends on March 1.
First to Serve outreach ministries will manage the shelter program for the city and, this year, offers two on-site case managers who will assist those who are homeless in the transition to permanent supportive housing, offer medical services and healthcare resources and help with job placement.
"I've pushed for supportive services for the homeless for years," Rosendahl said. "I'm thrilled that shelter clients will finally get the quality services that they need, while at the same time I remain optimistic that those who want the help will take advantage of this opportunity."
Last year the Winter Shelter opened six weeks early to help deal with a sudden and dramatic increase in homelessness in Council District 11. An extra shelter, as well as an additional pick up/drop off location, were added to provide relief.
According to Rosendahl, support services that began in places like Westchester Park ended the services for an extra shelter this year.
Rosendahl reminded that those interested in taking part in the program must go to the Venice Beach pick up location. The armory does not take walk ups.


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August 1, 2014
Tony Stewart held off a last-lap challenge from Kyle Busch and won the NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday at Daytona International Speedway.
It was the two-time Sprint Cup champion's fourth Daytona
victory. He won the second-tier series' season opener last year,
Stewart passed 23 cars in 11 laps to get back into contention,
then hung onto the lead as Busch, Carl Edwards and Clint Bowyer
fought for position.
The victory was especially sweet after a rough morning, when
Stewart and his new Stewart-Haas teammate Ryan Newman crashed in practice for Sunday's Daytona 500.
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Keli Rylance
The Head of the Southeastern Architectural Archive (SEAA) is responsible for managing the SEAA, coordinating and supervising the processing of its collections, cultivating donor support, and promoting the SEAA through exhibitions, public engagements and instruction programming. Additionally, the department head manages the Tulane School of Architecture Library and serves as chief bibliographer for architecture and historic preservation publications.
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Ms. Rylance has written essays for Archivaria, ARLIS/NA Reviews, Public Art Review, Tampa Bay History, The Dictionary of Artists' Models, The Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture, and Utopian Studies.
She has presented papers at the International Congress of the History of Art (Amsterdam), and at annual meetings of the College Art Association (Toronto), the Media Ecology Association (Boston), the Renaissance Society of America (Miami), and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (Helsinki).
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Hands-on with Galaxy on Fire: Alliances
Be sure to check out the fifteen-minute Extended Edition Director's Cut below!
Fishlabs was quietly showing off an alpha build of their upcoming free-to-play galactic empire game, Galaxy on Fire: Alliance at GDC 2013, and we got some time to play around with it.
If you've ever played Mob Wars or anything like that, you'll be familiar with the idea of building up a persistent force of troops and taking the fight to other players in the game. Galactic commanders have to form alliances, harvest planetary resources, build ships, and improve their character's skills to cut out their territory in the stars.
Usually, these base-building games that rely on long cooldown periods are very starkly text-based, and at best have well-created icons, but Galaxy on Fire: Alliance turns that notion on its head by implementing some exceptionally great graphics. The version of Galaxy on Fire: Alliances that we were shown was still in the very early stages, but the concept screenshots that we were shown of what's coming looked extremely promising. Even on the mechanics front, Galaxy on Fire: Alliances looks like it will be doing some unique things with coordinating attacks among other alliance members. It sounds like in-app purchases will be employed exclusively to speed up tasks, so nobody should have to worry about being steamrolled by a ridiculously massive star destroyer just because some dude was willing to pay five bucks for it.
Though I'm hesitant to apply the real-time strategy or the MMO label on this game as liberally as Fishlabs has here, Galaxy on Fire: Alliances will very clearly be raising the bar for these types of games, whatever you want to call them. Keep an eye out on this one in the third quarter of the year.
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I have never played Galaxy On Fire but the video of the game here in this article reminds me a lot of the game called Galactic Civilizations from Stardock. I quite enjoyed playing that game. I'll have to remember to try this one when it comes out.
I'm not sure if this is a game I would play, but it looks interesting.
Very interesting. I'll be sure to check it out.
I never played Galaxy on Fire, but this game looks interesting. The graphics look amazing; however, I think it might require a gyroscope which means my iPad 1 is out in the cold. Shame. This game looks too big for iPhone. Oh well.
this game looks nice, kind of like a simple version of eve
I love the look of the the Alliances app. I am a 2nd generation Pilot Trader for this Galaxy on Fire genre type game (Elite C64, GOF, GOF2 with 2 add ons). Alliances looks interesting but I am going to be very disappointed if Fish labs does not put me in charge of an upgradable ship with awesome weapons because although I would love to put fleets into battle, I am not a General that does not ride up front into battle.


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The Lake County Public Safety Department is encouraging residents to sign up for the Smart911 Network, which allows people to proactively provide crucial information to first responders before an emergency occurs.
July 28, 2014
Housing Services offers mobility ramps for eligible households
Lake County's Housing Services Division, with the support of federal funding, is offering eligible citizens help with obtaining mobility ramps for their homes.
July 28, 2014
Unincorporated Lake County homeowners to soon begin receiving trash, recycling carts
Lake County's residential curbside garbage collection is changing on Monday, Oct. 6 for all unincorporated areas of the county. As part of the new program, households who currently receive collection services from the county will be given free county-issued trash and recycling carts between August and October. Below are the delivery dates by service area and hauler:
July 24, 2014
Wings & Wildflowers Festival announces host hotels
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July 23, 2014
Household hazardous waste to be collected on July 24 in Lady Lake
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Vincent Kaydahzinne believes it is his destiny to create and preserve his Apache heritage through music and art. He was born and raised on the Apache reservation in Mescalero, New Mexico. He was greatly influenced by his strongly traditional Mother and Grandmother. His sisters and brothers are basket weavers and artists. His mother, Pauline, is a renowned basket weaver with profound traditional knowledge. He is proud to be a descendent of Cochise and the warrior scout, Chatto. He spent the first eleven years of his life with Helen Chatto, wife of scout Chatto. For 27 years she was a prisoner of war along with Geronimo and the rest of the Chiricahua people. She inspired and nourished Vincent with her knowledge. This knowledge remains with him today and provides inspiration for his music and art. He is cognizant of his oral history, also an inspiration for his work.
His music and art are emotional, expressive of culture, language and history. They are an extraordinary blend of traditional and contemporary work. The sculptures have strong lines of movement, grace and balance, are narrative and portray authentic native life and customs. In sculpture, he lets the stone tell what it wants to be and allows the spirit to dictate the finished product.
His music and art incorporate an aspect of story telling and convey a message and emotion in a very simplistic yet moving manner. Vincent has been described an "international" man. He hopes to appeal to people of all backgrounds. His ultimate goal is to provide a vessel and a bridge between his people and others, and to preserve his own tradition and culture.


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+Editor's note: Exactly 100 years later the Crossville Chronicle remains in great demand. Last month we published over 5,000 extra copies of our "hailstorm" edition to meet the demands of our readers. It is gratifying to know that after all these years the Chronicle is just as much in demand today as it was a century ago.
+The Owl Roost Road has been worked out on the Crab Orchard side of the mountain and is in better condition than it has been in twenty years.
+Dr. Rockwell comes up to the mark in cabbage this year and presented us with one that weighs 16 and a half pounds and measures three feet in circumference.
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+J.J. Castleman has bought a home in Monterey and plans to move there in a few weeks. He goes there to take a position as a sawyer for a firm that is getting out golf sticks for the general public.
+Mrs. Grace Reed announces as a candidate for Trustee subject to the action of the Republican Party. While Mrs. Reed is the first lady candidate to come before the people for election she does so strictly on her merits and ability to discharge the duties of the office. Her mental attainments for the office are very high.
+Crosby Harrison has recently purchased the lease held on the Mecca theater building and will soon put in a new stereoptican machine and screen at a cost of $600 or more. It is his purpose to furnish high class pictures and with a clearness and uniformity that will render it easy for old and young to see and understand them.
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CARY — The Wake County school board's policy committee on Tuesday recommended updated guidelines for handling student fights and searches.
The policy tweaks were prompted by new state mandates, rather than a local incident. The first is a directive on how teachers and administrators should deal with fighting students.
The proposed rules require that school employees "take reasonable measures to maintain a safe school environment" – whether that's speaking to the students, immediately reporting the clash to security and administrators, or getting bystanders out of harm's way. Employees also have the option to use "reasonable force," defined as "limited physical contact or restraint," to restore safety.
That's how most employees have always handled the situations, but it hasn't been spelled out in a policy before.
"We don't want to dictate that a staff member jump in between two students that are trading blows, but it's not OK to do nothing," board attorney Jonathan Blumberg said.
Interim Superintendent Stephen Gainey said on-campus violence is a hard issue to tackle.
"Having these situations occur is probably the worst thing I dealt with as a principal," he said. "It's just so unsettling."
The committee also pushed for more student-friendly rules on searches. The initial proposal called for altering which high-level district administrator must approve strip searches, but board members had other concerns with the current search policy.
"I'm kind of surprised at how stringent this is," board member Christine Kushner said. "I would like to see more statements of student rights. … To me, our students are at a disadvantage."
Under the policy, students can be searched "whenever a school authority has reasonable suspicion to believe that the student is in possession of illegal or unauthorized materials." Pat-down searches must be done privately with a same-sex school employee and adult witness; strip searches are allowed only when a suspected item is "imminently dangerous." The latter category, a target for lawsuits in other districts, requires an OK from the district's senior director of security.
The policy doesn't specify what students must do in a strip search, describing it as a "more intrusive search" than a pat-down.
Board members recommended slight changes that wouldn't necessarily require a suspension for students who refuse to be searched. And they said students should be informed of their options, either through a "student bill of rights" or an educational video shown each school year.
"I think teaching kids about advocating for themselves is part of them being successful in life," board member John Tedesco said.
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He began his second season on the PGA Tour in January with conditional status, a kind way of saying he ranked near the back of the line on tournament entry lists.
Thursday, two months later, Scott Brown joined Matt Kuchar and Michael Thompson in the Tampa Bay Championships featured pairing that included winners of three of the Tours most recent events. He shot a 1-under 70.
Im still a little bit excited, Brown said earlier this week before leaving his Aiken home for Tampa. Winning (the Puerto Rico Open, an event played opposite the WGC tourney at Doral) is a dream come true for a guy who has been playing golf since I was 4 or 5 years old.
He jumped from conditional status to a full exemption through the 2014-15 season, a berth in the PGA and Players championships and moved to 28th in the FedEx Cup standings.
Im not surprised he won, and hes not through playing well this year and in the future, said Michael Carlisle, Browns coach at USC Aiken. He has the ability to win majors, and once he learns the courses, he will be a very solid performer for a long time.
Brown, who will be 30 in May, earned his first PGA title in the best way, with a final-hole birdie. He teed off on No. 18 tied with Jordan Spieth, who had finished, at 19-under and one stroke behind Fabian Gomez. But Gomez bogeyed the par-5 and Brown capitalized.
I like the class he showed, Carlisle said. One of the first things he said was recognizing (Gomezs) misfortune on the final hole. His showing empathy was very classy and also very typical of Scott. Thats the way he is.
In a way, Brown called his success. After his tie for 30th at Pebble Beach in his only PGA Tour start of the year prior to Puerto Rico, he declared his game in good shape and looked forward to the Puerto Rico tournament, an event in which he finished fifth a year ago.
Brown finished 148th in earnings in a feast-or-famine 2012, his rookie year. He earned three top-10s, but he also missed 16 cuts in 24 starts. He lost one payday by withdrawing from the Greenbrier tourney before the final round to race home for the birth of Ellie, the first child for him and wife Allison.
Brown grew in Augusta, moved to North Augusta for high school and starred on USC Aikens national championship teams. He earned his place on the 2012 PGA Tour by finishing eighth in earnings on the 2011 Nationwide Tour, capping the year with a second-place finish in the Tour championship.
Since the Puerto Rico event did not carry full FedEx Cup points, the perks did not include an invitation to the Masters.
Earning (a spot in the Masters) is something to work on, he said. Since I grew up in Augusta about 500 yards from Augusta National, I know all about it and obviously thats a tournament everybody wants to play.
He will follow Tampa Bay with a stop at Arnold Palmers tournament at Bay Hill. But for a guy who loves to play at every opportunity, having exempt status creates a problem.
To remain fresh rather that following his have-clubs-will-play-every-week philosophy, I have to make a schedule, he said.
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Montgomery County will host a public forum tonight in Rockville about proposed changes to the county's Ride On bus service.
The forum will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria on the terrace level of the at 101 Monroe St.
Reservations for speaking spots closed Sept. 22, but written comments are being accepted through 5 p.m. on Monday. Mail or deliver comments to: Division of Transit Services, Ride On Public Forum, 101 Monroe Street, 5th Floor, Rockville, MD 20850; email: firstname.lastname@example.com; or fax: 240-777-5801.
Ride On has proposed changes to six Ride On routes and one Metrobus route operated on Saturday by Ride On. The proposed changes seek to better serve "areas that have been recently developed and to eliminate sections of routes that are underperforming," according a statement from the county.
The following changes, which would take effect in January, are being proposed:
- Route 38: The route would be restructured to split at White Flint Station, creating two separate routes. Route 38 East would serve a new area in Connecticut Estates. Route 38 West would serve Park Potomac, a new residential and business development. The two routes would share the same end location at White Flint Station.
- Route 47: The new revised Rockville and Bethesda route would also serve Park Potomac.
- Route 52: The route would be restructured to add more frequency and serve a new subdivision in Olney, but would eliminate service along Headwaters Drive and reduce service on Olney-Sandy Spring Road (MD108) between Prince Phillip Drive and Georgia Avenue.
- Route 53: The route would be restructured to improve on time performance and serve the Intercounty Connector Park and Ride Lot. It would eliminate service in the reverse direction of the rush hour from Olney to Shady Grove Metro.
- Route 58: The route would serve the new Kaiser Permanente medical facility on Watkins Mill Road and would orovides improved connections with other Ride On routes.
- Route 98: The route would extend to the Kingsview Park and Ride Lot from the Germantown Transit Center via the Cinnamon Woods community during the peak hour and extend to the SoccerPlex on weekends. It would serve the new Father Hurley Blvd extended and add new midday and Sunday service. It would eliminate service to Seabreeze Court and along Wisteria Drive.
- Route Z2: A Metrobus route operated on Saturdays by Ride On would be discontinued. This service with low ridership duplicates existing service on Metrobus C8 and Z8.
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Conflicting reports about how many people were killed, some say multiple children dead.
UPDATE 5:10 p.m.: The Connecticut Post has created a detailed timeline of the shooting as it unfolded on social media. Nick Ivey tweeted, "heard the shots from a mile away."
UPDATE 3:55 p.m.: A Connecticut law enforcement official says 20 children were killed, along with six adults and the gunman. Eighteen children died in the school, two died in transit to the hospital.
UPDATE 3:40 p.m.: The New York Post is reporting that the alleged shooter was 20-year-old Adam Lanza, not 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, as was previously reported. Ryan Lanza is currently held by police, but according to the Post, is not considered a suspect.
UPDATE 3:20 p.m.: "Our hearts are broken today," said President Barack Obama, who spoke around 3:15 p.m. from the White House on the shooting. "As a country we have been through this too many times." Obama appeared to be fighting back tears as he spoke.
[Read: How to Protect Yourself in a Mass Shooting]
UPDATE 3:00 p.m.: A source has told the Associated Press that the gunman's younger brother is being held by authorities.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has ordered that all flags at the U.S. Capitol are to be lowered in tribute to the families and victims of the shooting.
UPDATE 2:45 p.m.: 1010 WINS Radio in New York City is reporting that Lanza apparently targeted his mother and her kindergarten classroom. CBS News is reporting that most of the shooting occurred in that one classroom.
UPDATE 2:35 p.m.: NBC News' Pete Williams says federal officials have identified the shooter as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza.
UPDATE 2:30 p.m.: Both CBS and NBC News are reporting that the shooter's mother, who was killed in the shooting, was a teacher at the school.
UPDATE 2:20 p.m.: NBC News' Pete Williams is reporting that a parent of the gunman was found dead in a home in New Jersey.
Hartfords' WVIT-TV reported the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary was the target of the shooting. The News Times' Libor Jany, and WVIT are citing witnesses who are saying the school's principal was killed.
An official with knowledge of the details behind the Connecticut school shooting has told the Associated Press that 27 people are dead, including 18 children, after a gunman entered a school Friday and opened fire.
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The shooting took place at around 9:30 a.m. at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, a town about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 60 miles northeast of New York City.
The shooter was killed and apparently had two guns, a person with knowledge of the shooting told the AP. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still under way.
A law enforcement official says the attacker in the Connecticut school shootings is a 20-year-old man with ties to the school.
[READ: Are Mass Shootings A Fact of Life in America?]
The official said that a gun used in the attacks is a .223-caliber rifle. The official also said that New Jersey state police are searching a location in that state in connection with the shootings.
WABC-TV in New York City is reporting that the shooter was armed four weapons and was sporting a bullet-proof vest.
Both CBS and NBC News report that a second person is in custody, but it is not yet known if the person was involved in the shooting.
According the Hartford Courant, one whole classroom is still unaccounted for.
A dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps said a teacher had been shot in the foot and taken to Danbury Hospital. Andrea Rynn, a spokeswoman at the hospital, said it had three patients from the school but she did not have information on the extent or nature of their injuries.
The superintendent's office said the district had locked down schools in Newtown. Schools in neighboring towns also were locked down as a precaution.
Photos from the scene showed young students — some crying, others looking visibly frightened — being escorted by adults through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders.
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RIP, Windows XP
After April, 2014, Microsoft will no longer support Windows XP.
I currently have XP Pro. Just recently my motherboard fried so I brought it to a local puter guru to deal with. He gave me a Dell Dimension 4700 with XP Home to get by while I shop for a new puter.
I was going to shop at a Computer Recycle shop (something with Windows 7 or Vista) or Best Buy. I heard Windows 8 had issues and they are coming out with Windows 8.1.
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Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has ever released. That's what I'd go with.The views expressed in the above post are the sole opinion of the author and do not reflect any official position by the author's employer and/or municipality.
09-13-13, 01:08 AM #3Pleasing nobody, one person at a time.
That which does not kill me, better start fucking running.
If I lived every day like it was my last, the body count would be staggering.
I intend to go in harm's way. -John Paul Jones
Hunt the wolf, and bring light to the dark places that others fear to go. LT COL Dave Grossman
Mint Linux with the GUI set to look like Windows: lightweight, fast and secure. If it was a kickboxer it'd be a woman of 98lbs who beats Mike Tyson up for fun. I'm used to the heavyweights though, so still Windows too.
Gopher's right, 7 is nice. 8 in encumbered with a bunch of pseudo-tablet nonsense. Some friends of the folks got a Win8 machine and couldn't tolerate it after a week of trying to figure it out. I stopped by, installed Classic Shell (donationware) to bring back the Start Button/Menu and tweaked a couple other things to make it more traditional Windows. (boot to desktop, etc) It's 90% of 7 at that point, with 5% missing (WMC being my DVR - comes in Win7, not 8) and 5% improvements under the hood that should make it slightly better somehow that I couldn't detect. Can even make it look almost exactly like XP if that's your preference, and it was mine when I first saw 7. Now I dig the glass elements they killed in 8.
Put simply, Win8 is moronic, but as MicroSoft iterates slowly it's easy to roll it back to what you're used to.
Chromebooks are interesting. IF (notice the big if) you live in the browser and the cloud it's an easy way of computing. Nothing to maintain, easy as signing in to your Google account when you switch machines. I can see the niche, and hope it stays just so, otherwise it's the saddest dystopia I ever saw.
But do give it a look for yourself.
As for hardware these days, doesn't much matter; we've been plateaued at the 1080P challenge point for years. Just to be safe, i3 or higher, 4 gigs of ram or higher. Don't buy a package unless you really like the monitor too. Don't buy a laptop, even cheap as they are now, if you never move your computer. Whatever you do, don't use the new keyboard just because it's new if it sucks.
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Phair's universe was fertile territory for a bright, inquisitive child. She was adopted at birth by a physician father (he's chief of infectious diseases at Northwestern Hospital) and an art-instructor mother (she teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago). Phair will not be embarking on a quest for her birth parents. "The only thing the adoption did was make me feel a little more liberated from my background than most people," she says shrugging. "I can invent my own legacy, because I don't really have one."
Phair was raised in the upper-middle-class suburb of Winnetka, Ill. (Lest a visual picture need be painted: Remember the house where Ferris Bueller took his day off? That was in Winnetka.) It was a galaxy far, far away from the angst-ridden upbringing of your stereotypical rock star. Phair's parents were nurturing and supportive. "They loved me to death," she reports. "Maybe because I'm adopted, they didn't want to mold me. They encouraged me, they were interested in me. I always had a weird net of safety around me."
Phair is seated at a picnic table outside the Lincoln Park Zoo. It's late afternoon, and a balmy, animal-scented breeze lifts her hair. Pressed for dirty laundry, she says, "They've got a little bit of WASP, appearance-oriented, academic prejudices, stuff like that. In a way, it's not a normal cross section of a family." She has an older brother, also adopted. She went to summer camp with Julia Roberts (cited in Whip-Smart's "Chopsticks") when she was 13. "She was tall and bossy and fun. I always had tall, bossy friends." Alas, the friendship waned. "We stopped speaking because she was always calling me collect, and it pissed me off. I'm like 'What are you fucking calling me collect for? Your parents are rich enough.' She only did it a few times, but she was enough of a power player. Tall, bossy friends get you in the best kind of trouble, though."
In high school, Phair endured an awkward stage, but it passed. "I got my glasses and braces off and got my hair cut. Suddenly I was like 'Hell, yeah! I can do this!' " Transformation intrigues Phair – it's a subject that also touches on a strong fear of disfigurement that began in her early years. "Because my father's a doctor, I've always known about the foibles of the body," she says. "I had access to those medical textbooks." Two images in particular terrified Phair – before-and-after shots of a boy with leprosy. "In one picture he looked cute in a teen-age way, standing there, bored. Next to him was a picture of him a year and a half later, and he was a monster, a freakish thing. You could see his eyes in the first portrait, and to think those same eyes were there in the second portrait – it freaked me out." Throughout college, Phair's art projects consisted of charcoal drawings of diseased faces.
Phair's original calling, in fact, was art. At Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio, however, she walked into a thriving band scene. Bands from there that went on to greatness (and near greatness) include Codeine, Bitch Magnet, Seam and Come. "Everyone had a band," says Phair. "It was exactly like Chicago – in fact, a lot of them moved there. There was a lot of rock & roll spirit, but it was an intense place. Neurotic overachievers who want to be hip." It was there that she began writing songs.
Chris Brokaw, Come's guitarist, first met Phair at Oberlin but grew close to her on a jaunt to San Francisco, where Phair had drifted after college. "I was visiting a woman she was rooming with," Brokaw says, "but I ended up mostly sitting around playing guitars with Liz. I had been sort of unaware that she played or wrote songs. Then she plays me these amazing tracks. I think one was called 'Fuck or Die,' and one was 'Johnny Sunshine,' which ended up on Exile in Guyville."
When Phair decided to head back to Chicago, Brokaw urged her to make him a tape. "A couple months later she sent me this tape of 14 songs that she had done on four track, then a month later, she sent me 14 more equally amazing songs." The tapes, dubbed Girly Sound by Phair, began circulating on the East Coast underground tape scene. "I started telling people, 'I've got this friend named Liz from Chicago, and she's like the great new American songwriter,"' says Brokaw. "Everyone was like 'Yeah, yeah.' "
Phair, who has been making up songs "since I was little," will not release the tapes anytime soon. "I go in there and rip stuff off – it's like a library," she says. "There's about 50 songs. A lot of it is juvenile cleverness. There's verses, there's choruses, there's subchoruses. It just goes on and on. There's a certain naive sound, more breathy. It's more me." Nonetheless, the collection proved enough of a treasure trove to pique Matador Records' interest, which nabbed her in the summer of 1992. Exile in Guyville was soon under way.
In the studio with her drummer and co-producer Wood, Phair let drop the idea of a female answer to Exile on Main Street. "When she first brought it up, I was like 'Oh, really? You mean you can't get into that album like I do?' " says Wood. "Because it is a real guy thing. Her logic started to make sense." The result wasn't so much a song-by-song response to the Glimmer Twins' he-man posturing – it was more in the songs' sequencing and thematic content. Phair and Wood's low-fi production was entirely on purpose. "We didn't want it to sound like a retro record, and we didn't want it to sound real '90s," says Wood. "I wanted it to sound really personal, trademarked like the Stones record sounded, so that as soon as you heard a note off it, you said, "That's the Rolling Stones.'"
Wood and Phair succeeded, aided, of course, by Phair's remarkable lyrics – an intimate, conversational meld of longing, sex, strength, power struggles, asshole guys and humor – sung in a voice that isn't entirely different from Everywoman's.
Beverly Sills she's not, but that's OK. Phair does nothing the conventional way – she deliberately didn't fall within her given range, didn't bother with traditional song structures (she has a legendary aversion to verse chorus verse) and didn't even attempt to play traditional guitar chords. "She just comes up with goofy chords because she makes them up herself," says Wood.
"People never talk about her guitar playing," says Bach. "But she's brilliant on guitar. The work that she puts into this shit is not discussed like someone else's work method might be discussed. She does a lot of normal things that famous guy musicians do, but that's not part of the Liz Phair conception."
The conception started forming in mid-1993 when Guyville was released. Critics were beside themselves (picture the Chimp Gone Wild scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey and you'll get the idea), heaping her with accolades and comparisons to Polly Harvey, Chrissie Hynde and Madonna. Rock scribes were less kind when Phair faced an audience, something she had never done in her life. At early shows, she suffered from debilitating stage fright, which made her voice crack like a 13-year-old boy's. It didn't help matters when famous faces started dotting the audience at her shows. ("God, I was so tongue-tied when Winona Ryder and Rosanna Arquette came to one show," moans Phair. "I was a complete dweeb.") Although she used to claim that she would never attend one of her own shows, she seems, lately, to be conquering her fears. "I actually enjoy myself onstage now," she says, although she hasn't yet seen her tour schedule out of "total avoidance."
What calmed Phair were the adoring faces, especially those of women, in the audience. "It's weird, though, when 12-year-old, cute, happening girls want to be introduced to me, because talking to me would be a coup," she says as she walks toward her car. "The objectification of your person is very bizarre. You become the same thing as the right pair of shoes." Still, droves of other women are die-hard fans, quaveringly asking for hugs backstage, whispering that she has saved their lives, mouthing every word to songs like "Fuck and Run" ("Whatever happened to a boyfriend/The kind of guy who tries to win you over?") and "Flower," with lyrics that would make Rick James blush. ("Every time I see your face/I get all wet between my legs.")
A word here, if we may, about the flurry of attention Phair has received due to her strident focus on her naughty bits. She rightly maintains that her songs are directly reflective of conversations that most young women are having across this great land right now and that those chats are as frank, casual and often clinical as those of men. "It scares guys," she says cheerfully. "I've had more male friends freak out."
Phair has been accused of being a shockmeister, using sexual bluntness as an attention-getting device both in her lyrics and in her conversation. She's certainly not shy. "Women dissect," she says. "About giving blow jobs, for example – you talked to your friends like 'What are you supposed to do? Where? How do you know if he's going to come?' Then women will have really sexual names like 'old purple dick' or something."
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Center for American Progress Attacks Howard Dean
by Bob Brigham, Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 04:53:12 PM EDT
In the latest sign Bizarro World is the new normal, Center for American Progress Policy Analyst Ian Millhiser took to Think Progress to attack Dr. Howard Dean. The slam on Governor Dean came up during a discussion on Proposition C, a ballot initiative in the battleground state of Missouri against the individual mandate that just passed with over 70% of the vote.
Here's how Millhiser quotes Dr. Dean:
[T]he truth is the mandate's not essential to the plan anyway. It never was essential to the plan. They did it in Massachusetts and had a mandate, but we have universal health care for kids in my state without a mandate. … I made this prediction before and I'm going to make it again: by the time this thing goes into effect in 2014, I think the mandate will be gone either through the courts or because it's unpopular.
To make the case against Dean, Millhiser claims that Dean is wrong in that a mandate is essential and that he is wrong that a mandate might be thrown out by the courts. But look at how he quotes Dr. Dean, see those ellipses? Here's what Dean said directly before Millhiser continued his selective quotation:
I thought the President was right in the campaign. Academically, you want a mandate. The American people aren't going to put up with a mandate.
The line Millhiser decided not to quote undermines his entire slam. While "analysts" like Millhiser favor a mandate, the fact is the American people hate the idea of the government forcing them to pay tribute to a private company. Dean acknowledged that to come to his conclusion. Not just on the right, there is no philosophical argument that holds water with the left on how you can have a mandate absent a public option. This is why the left fought against RomneyCare (mandate being the essential feature), the same reason why California progressives fought against the end package in the "Year of Health Care Reform" once AB-8 became AB-1x.
Don't believe me? This was one of the key points of contrast between Obama and Clinton that helped him win the primary.
As was shown in the key state of Missouri just this week, the individual mandate is a 70-30 issue. It is not popular and is a clear political and rhetorical winner for anyone fighting against it, whether from the left or from the right.
Instead of looking at the mandate in the context of pre-existing conditions, it needs to be seen in the context the public option. Without a public option, mandates aren't just hated by the right, but by many on the left too. Since mandates are what made HCR a giant gift to insurance industry profits, a future GOP congress may choose donors over voters, and lay off seizing this great issue. But Dean was right, Obama was right before he was wrong, the individual mandate is disgusting policy.
It would be nice, if CAP is going to go after Dr. Dean, to go after his conclusion, not selectively quote him for straw man wankery.
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GOODYEAR LAKE — Ella L. Barlow, 91, passed away peacefully at her home on Route 28, Goodyear Lake, on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013.
She was born March 19, 1921, in her parents' home in Hobart. Named Ella Eudora after her maternal grandmother, she was the daughter of Frank D. and Anstis Alvira (Vida) Foote Lamport.
Ella was a member of the last graduating class of Hobart High School and enjoyed a senior trip to the 1939 New York World's Fair. During her high school years Ella was an outstanding basketball player, having made the Delaware County Girls Basketball All-Star Team two years in a row.
She exhibited horses at the Delaware County Fair for many years. After graduation she attended Miss Linington's School of Equitation in Milton, Mass., studying horsemanship and how to instruct others in learning how to ride. She participated in numerous horse shows at the collegiate level. After graduating she returned to Hobart to train and exhibit American Saddlebred show horses for her cousin Edward L. Foote II.
In 1945, Ella traveled by train to California where she married on March 5, 1945, Michael Barlow, also of Hobart, who was in the armed services. In 1951, after the war, they bought a farm where they raised several thousand chickens and had a dairy of registered Holsteins. The marriage ended in 1972. Ella worked tirelessly and her love of farming always remained with her throughout her life. After having raised three children, she proudly saw them graduate from college. She always took pleasure in her children's accomplishments and attended as many of their events as she could, including sports, concerts and horse shows. One of her greatest pleasures was watching her son, Mike play Major League Baseball.
Ella instructed many young people in the sport of riding and enjoyed seeing her students win at various shows throughout New York and Massachusetts. She was especially proud of the accomplishments of one of her students who exhibited at the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden and the Grand National Morgan Horse Show in Oklahoma City.
Having grown up during the Great Depression, Ella had great admiration for President Franklin Roosevelt, a reverence for hard work and a deep respect for others. She was a staunch Democrat and worked many years on the election board for the Town of Milford. She always believed in honesty and fair play. Her love of the land continued throughout her life. She was proud of the farm, Lakeland, where she had lived for the past 62 years enjoying Morgan horses and helping her daughters with the Morgans. Ella was a longtime member of the New York Morgan Horse Society.
Ella is survived by her three children, Patricia of Oneonta, Michael (Kathleen) of Cazenovia, and Sally also of Oneonta; four grandchildren, Matthew (Ellen), Andrew, Christopher (Jenny), and Elizabeth; four great-grandchildren; two nephews, Frank F. (Jackie) Lamport and James (Nore) Lamport of Hobart; and their children and several cousins.
She was predeceased by her parents and her brother, Frank Foote Lamport and his wife, Mary B. Lamport of Hobart.
Ella's family wishes to sincerely thank her caregivers from Round the Clock Nurses and the staff of the Catskill Area Hospice.
Donations in Ella's memory may be made to the Milford Emergency Squad, P.O. Box 359, Milford, NY 13807, or to the Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.
A private service in the spring will be at the convenience of the family. Interment will be in Locus Hill Cemetery in Hobart.
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The article, Windows 8 with VMware View, covers the important aspects of VMware View. This article by Ramesh Geddam and Prasenjit Sarkar, authors of the book Instant VMware View Virtualization How-to , covers the deployment of VMware View on Windows 8, and also explains the steps necessary to build a virtual machine on Windows.
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If you want to get a hands-on experience with Windows 8 on VMware View and get ready for future View deployments, this should be a must-take guide for deploying it.
Getting ready
Let's keep the following requirements ready:
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To create a Windows 8 Virtual Machine, perform the following steps:
- Create a standard virtual hardware version 9 VM with Windows 8 as the guest operating system.
- As this is a testing phase, keep the memory and disk size optimal.
- Edit the settings in VM and under Video card , select the Enable 3D support checkbox (this step is to make sure graphics, and adobe Flash content works with Windows 8 using VMware driver).
- Mount the ISO image of Windows 8 in the virtual machine and proceed with the Windows 8 Installation. Enter Windows license keys appropriately available with you.
- Install VMware tools in the VM; Shutdown and restart the VM.
- Install a VMware View 5.1 agent in VM, uncheck Persona Management during agent installation.
- Power-on the VM, set the network option to DHCP, and disable Windows Defender.
- Create a snapshot of VM and power the VM down.
- Now, we are ready with Windows 8 Parent virtual machine with Snapshot.
To create a pool for Windows 8 in View Admin console, perform the following steps:
- Launch the Connection Server Admin console and navigate to the Pool Creation wizard.
- Select the Automated pool type (you can use either Dedicated or Floating ).
- Choose a View Composer linked-clone-based pool.
- Navigate through the rest of the wizard accepting all defaults, and choosing the snapshot of your Windows 8 VM with the View Agent installed.
- Use QuickPrep for instant customization. You may require to manually restart the VM if Quickprep doesn't get initiated by itself once the VM boots.
- Allow provisioning to proceed. Make sure you set Allow users to choose protocol: to No , else 3D rendering gets disabled automatically.
- If you want to set Allow users to choose protocol: to Yes , make sure you stick to the RDP protocol and not PCoIP in the Default display protocol: field, else you will end up with a black screen.
To install View Client, perform the following step:
- Install View Client 5.1 on any device with iOS/Android/Linux/Windows. To view a list of supported clients, visit http://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
How it works...
Once all the preceding steps are performed, you should have Windows 8 with VMware View 5.x ready. You should be able to see the VM in ready status under Desktop Resources in VMware View Admin console.
You should be able to launch Windows 8 with View Client now.
Please note that you have to entitle the users to the respective pools before users can access the VM.
More information
You can even refer to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2033640 to know more on how to install Windows 8 in a VM.
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CADILLAC — Revival Center Church is hosting its Fall Kidz Fest early this year.
Activities will be held from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the church, 984 Plett Road. Attendees are encouraged to dress like scarecrows to enjoy carnival games, cake walks, hay rides, and more. Admission is free.
Breakfast served
FIFE LAKE — The Walton Junction Sportsman's Club will serve breakfast from 7-11 a.m. Saturday at the club, 11207 E. County Line Road. Prices are $7 for adults, $2.50 for ages 5-11, and free for children 4 and younger.
Benzie Symphony
BENZONIA — The Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra will present a concert on Sunday featuring local players, local high school singers and local composers.
The concert starts at 4 p.m. in the Benzie Central High School auditorium on Homestead Road.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and students 12 and older, and free for children 11 and younger.
They may be purchased at the door. For details, visit www.benziesymphony.com.
Scary pool party
EAST JORDAN — The East Jordan Community Pool, 101 Maple St., is holding a Halloween Pool Party on Saturday.
The event will be held from 5-7 p.m. with an open swim, floating pumpkins, a Halloween Cupcake contest, refreshments, drawings and more. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children. For details, call 536-2250.


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AUSTIN -- In 1990, the Capitol City was much different than the Austin, Texas of 2013. Then, the city had virtually no skyline. Now, it is ranked by Forbes as the fastest growing city in the county, and that's thanks in part to mayors who shaped the city over the last 35 years.
Wednesday, those history makers gathered at an event to raise money for the Austin History Center Association. Each one had a hand in helping Austin grow.
Carole Keeton Strayhorn was mayor from 1977 until 1983.
"We revitalized downtown Austin," said Strayhorn. "Brought in, like the Hyatt came in downtown, got people living downtown for the first time."
Lee Cooke served as mayor from 1988 until 1991. When asked what his greatest accomplishments were, he said, "The convention center, taking the lead on moving the airport to Bergstrom, the right of way for Ben White and 183 so we could build those freeways."
Bruce Todd, who was being honored at Wednesday's event, was the mayor from 1991 until 1997. He said completing the airport project was his biggest accomplishment.
"The airport because that was a big decision, and it took a lot of courage from the citizens of Austin to approve the funding, which they did overwhelmingly," added Todd.
Will Wynn was mayor from 2003 until 2009. "Those years were pretty instrumental in changing the skyline, bringing residential downtown. Now the retail is following that," said Wynn.
The mayors all seem to agree that in order to continue moving Austin forward, there's one thing the city has to work on -- transportation.
"It is the big issue. That's what everybody talks about," said Todd.
"For years people thought, 'Don't build it, and they won't come,'" added Wynn. "But people kept coming, and they're going to keep coming."
Current Mayor Lee Leffingwell is working to establish an urban rail system through not only Austin, but the region, but some of his predecessors think more will have to be done.
"Alternative transportation is great, but people are going to stay in their cars, and I do believe we are going to have to use tolls in this area, in Central Texas, more aggressively," said Lee Cooke.
Mayor Leffingwell said which ever transportation solution Austin goes with, it will have to be one that the voters approve of. He is hoping to lay the groundwork for that solution during his term.


text: Receiver T.J. Graham has signed with the Buffalo Bills, who have now locked up all nine of their rookie draft picks in time for the start of training camp. Graham was selected in the third round, 69th overall, in April, when the Bills traded up two spots to draft the North Carolina State product. He's a speedy receiver who is expected to compete for a regular spot on a Bills offense that's lacked a downfield threat to complement starter Stevie Johnson. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 188 pounds, Graham had 99 catches for 1,453 yards and 12 touchdowns in college. He was also a return specialist, and finished with 5,225 all-purpose yards to rank second in school history. Source: Associated Press


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By Wanda Billbe
The Moore American
MOORE — Over the past two weeks there were many days when the sun failed to shine. It was cold, overcast, snowy and rainy. To sum it up in one word: gloomy.
Now don't get me wrong, I know there are states where the sun rarely shines all winter, where the robins never appear until spring (our robins started singing and begging for food two weeks ago,) and the days are long and cold. We are much better off than these, but we still miss the sun when it fails to shine.
It is truly amazing how the sun affects our demeanor. We've lamented over the time change that took hours of sunshine out of our day as winter came. Now, we rejoice at even one more minute of sunlight at the end of the day — sometimes even staying light until six o'clock. Oh, what bliss.
Today it was almost 70 degrees. When we let our dog outside she lifted her face to the sun and as in days gone by, she actually looked like she was smiling.
The sun warmed; energized and helped soothe her arthritic bones. Just another reminder that our furry friends need the sun as much as humans do.
Imagine a world without the sun. Dark, cold, dreary and full of sadness.
That's just how it was before Jesus came. He brought light into the world and today, we have opportunities every day to share this light.
With this light brings hope. Hope for a better tomorrow. Hope for positive changes. Hope that we can make it. Maybe that person in the checkout line ahead of you needed a smile and that little gesture lightened their load.
Ah, the opportunities to share His light are endless. May we find ways to spread the light to everyone we meet and brighten someone's world.


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What do you do with a deep retrofit of a 5,900-square-foot, two story Manhattan penthouse in Tribeca? If you're Vantage controls and parent company Legrand, you grab a bunch of your company's high-tech goods and have local custom electronic installer Kraus Hi-Tech of Long Island City, N.Y., install them. Then invite a bunch of your friends over to play.
The star of the show is the Vantage's InFusion control system that in this sweet spread operates five zones of audio, five zones of video switching, lighting, shading and makes it all seamless for the end user.
"Simplicity is a big deal here. You should be able to walk through a space and see what to do," says Andrew Wale, Vantage's vice president of marketing. "We are trying to create experiences for homeowners that mean something for them."
Though the penthouse isn't completely integrated. Recent events at the 55 Warren St. duplex were largely intended to showcase Vantage products for dealers. But here you can get a peek at what some of the systems can do.
Check out the slideshow for more views inside the penthouse.Follow Electronic House on Facebook and Twitter.
Bluetooth and integrated subwoofers make this Yamaha soundbar a nice package.
An 18,000-square foot house goes over-the-top with extreme home automation.
The new Wink smart home platform available from Home Depot is promising close to 60 smart products for every room in the house.


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COAS: A Flexible Approach to System Administration Tools
The first thing that will probably strike you as odd about this example is that it has no label strings anywhere. Nevertheless, the dialog is supposed to have a title, edit fields are supposed to have a label to their left, etc.
The answer is that COAS generates NLS strings for you out of the information it has. For instance, when creating the prompt dialog, we inconspicuously passed the string mouse into the function. As a consequence, COAS will create tags such as |":MOUSE_TITLE:"| for the dialog's title and attempt to look it up in the module's message catalog. (The message catalog name was specified in the class constructor.) Likewise, for the protocol edit field, it will generate the tag |":MOUSE_PROTOCOL_LABEL:"|. All you need to do is write the message catalog, mapping these funky strings to intelligible English (or French, German, etc.) and install the file.
Looking at the sample code above, you may also have thought: I understand where they put the data in the dialog, but how do they put it back into the data model?
This is the interesting part about the data editing process. If you have ever programmed Motif, you know how tedious it can be to extract the value to be edited from the data model, put it into the dialog and write the resulting value back to the data model when the user hits the OK button.
The approach taken by COAS is to tie data model nodes into the dialog directly and let the dialog select an appropriate widget type (string, combo box, toggle button, spin button, etc.). When the user provides a new value, the dialog will automatically check the value's syntax against data model constraints and write it back into the data model.
In our example, the dialog would create a simple string edit field for deviceName, a pop-up list for protocol (since it is limited to a set of choices) and a toggle button for emulation.
What's more, this mechanism offers you easy-to-use context help for each input field, bound to the f2 key. Adding this type of help to a data item is as easy as adding the HELP attribute to the data definition in the schema file:
device RECORD { model STRING HELP "HELP_MODEL" protocol MouseProtocol HELP "HELP_PROTOCOL" ... }
These help messages will be looked up in the message catalog associated with the schema file (remember the MSGCATALOG keyword in the schema file?) and displayed in a pop-up dialog whenever the user presses f2.
Of course, every scheme you devise has a drawback. In this case, it is how to cancel changes made during the execution of the dialog. When the user presses the Cancel button, he wants all changes to go away.
This is where the marker object comes into play. The data node's getMarker method obtains a marker for the node's change log (called a journal in COAS lingo). When the user requests a discard of all changes, the CLAM base class invokes self.mouse.cancel(marker), which reverts all changes made after the marker object was obtained.
I have to admit that the above example, in its simplicity, is a bit deceptive. What I'm showing here is the simplest version of a dialog. In fact, what you see here is just a glorious interface to the configuration file because it does not offer the user any help or guidance. A good dialog would automatically choose the appropriate device file when a selection is made (e.g., a bus mouse) and keep the user from enabling three-button emulation for mice that already have three buttons. As a consequence, your average COAS module will have a lot more than those 20-odd lines in the example above.
However, the greatest advantage COAS offers in this context is that it relieves you of the usual hassle when working with a GUI and lets you concentrate on the data flow instead.
If this article has piqued your interest and you would like to take a closer look at COAS, you can find out more about it on http://www.coas.org/ and http://developer.coas.org/. If you want to participate in the development of COAS, don't hesitate to contact me.
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