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Your love is fadin', I feel it fade
Ah, your love is fadin', I feel it fade
Ah, your love is fadin', woman I feel it fade
Ah, woman, woman your touch, your touch has gone cold
As if someone else controls your very soul
I've fooled myself long as I can
Can feel the presence of another man
It's there when you speak my name
It's just not the same
Ooo babe, I'm losing you
It's in the air
It's there everywhere
Baby, baby, babe, I'm losing you
When I look into your eyes
A reflection of a face, I see
I'm hurt, down-hearted and worried, girl
'Cause that face doesn't belong to me
It's all over your face
Someone's takin' my place
Ooo baby, I'm losing you
You try hard to hide
The emptiness you feel inside
Oo babe, I'm losing you
I can't bear the thought of losing you
Ah woman, can't you see what I'm goin' through
I'm losin' my mind (losin' my mind)
And it's all because of you
I can't bear the thought of losing you
I'm losin' my mind (losin' my mind)
And it's all because of you
I can't stand the thought of losing you
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Planet's Premiere Party
The planet might be in peril, but the Hayden Planetarium in New York was alive last night for the screening of CNN's 4-hour documentary Planet in Peril. The 45-minute highlight reel brought viewers to five countries on three continents. The special investigation airs over two nights, October 23 & 24 at 9pmET.
Planet in Peril anchor/reporter, Anderson Cooper
Planet in Peril reporter, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Chevy Chase and Gupta (talking brain surgery, no doubt)
The crowd at the Hayden Planetarium reception
The NYTimes' Brian Stelter and CourtTV's Ashleigh Banfield (yes, Brian was reading up on the NYTimes archives)

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Rain ends, but some rivers continue to rise
Published On: Dec 24 2013 08:25:48 PM EST
Updated On: Dec 22 2013 08:39:56 PM EST
Updated On: Dec 22 2013 08:39:56 PM EST
The rain is mostly over, but some area rivers are continuing to rise.
Warnings and advisories were issued for several area rivers on Sunday.
Interactive Radar / Videocast / Traffic / Alerts
Some flooding on creeks and streams is possible. Basement flooding may be a common problem.
Clouds will persist overnight and through part of Monday. Some sun is expected during the day, but it will do little for much colder temperatures.
There is a possibility of a round of flurries or snow showers on Tuesday, but no accumulation is expected.
Despite all rain and warm weather over the weekend, it will feel like winter for Christmas.
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RCS - Crimson Tide PLC - Contract Extension
21 June 2012
Crimson Tide PLC
("Crimson Tide" or "the Company")
Servest Group Limited has extended its smartphone application (mpro) contract, worth £132,000,with Crimson Tide for a further three years. The client, whose customers include Tesco, Debenhams and M&S, has been a strong and loyal partner of the Company for a number of years, having first started using mpro back in 2008.
Servest is a major provider of multi-services, specialising in cleaning, waste management, pest control, maintenance and security. The company employed Crimson Tide to replace its existing paper-based auditing method with an mpro smartphone application.
Servest staff now complete mobilised versions of this paperwork on smartphones. Digital capture of customer sign-off at the end of form completion, along with automatic GPS audit trails of work undertaken with date and time stamp, provide Servest with the real-time data that previous auditing methods lacked. The dynamic nature of mpro forms means that form filling is much quicker, and since all data captured on the smartphones wirelessly synchronises with Servest's web-based server (hosted in the cloud by Crimson Tide), staff productivity has significantly increased.
The powerful job scheduling, alerting and reporting tool included in the mpro Gemini software has also been conducive to this rise in productivity and efficiency. Jobs are scheduled directly to the smartphone of each user and the introduction of mpro's reporting system has transformed the way Servest can scrutinise data. Confirmations of audit completions are emailed automatically to predefined users. Alerts have also been configured if a user fails to complete an audit or if a value is entered on a form, which is below a critical level.
With mpro, Servest is far more adaptive and responsive to its customer's needs. The removal of paperwork has not only improved the efficiency of its staff but has also enabled the company to significantly reduce its annual paper, post and fuel costs. The past four years have given rise to numerous new contract wins for the company and Servest certainly believe that mpro holds the key to further successes in the future.
Crimson Tide's Executive Chairman commented "We have a true partnership with Servest and the contract extension means we will have developed a relationship lasting at least 7 years. Our mpro solution flexes with Servest's needs and we're proud to deliver solutions that are used in so many household name environments"
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Sorry I couldn't make the 25th Jan telcon. It was Australia day holiday so naturally I didn't work and slept in. I'll be back for Thursday telcon. Cheers, AnthonyReceived on Wednesday, 27 January 2010 22:20:06 GMT
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Primary care in the Asia-Pacific region: challenges and solutions
- Richard Hays,
- Lam Tai Pong,
- Zorayda Leopando
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Asia Pacific Family Medicine aims to provide a forum for the dissemination of high quality regional research and to enhance the standards of family medicine by focusing on best practice. The ultimate goal is to enhance the provision of primary care to our patients.
Regional diversity
Geographically large and home to a substantial proportion of the world's population, the region includes substantial diversity in culture, language, economic maturation and demography. Most nations share problems such as ageing populations, increasing complexity of disease, workforce shortages, a need for increasing technology and accelerating costs. Some project substantial growth in middle class affluence and aspiration, which are major drivers of demand for improved quality. Some still struggle with high child mortality and infectious disease prevalence, particularly with Malaria and Dengue fever. While some show potential to be the economic powerhouses of the near future, a few have substantial poverty, ...
- Wong SY, Kung K, Griffiths SM, Carthy T, Wong MC, Lo SV, Chung VC, Goggins WB, Starfield B: Comparison of primary care experiences among adults in general outpatient clinics and private general practice clinics in Hong Kong. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:397. CrossRef
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government: Healthcare Reform Second Stage Public Consultation Document "My Health, My Choice". Food and Health Bureau. 2010. http://www.myhealthmychoice.gov.hk/en/fullConsolDoc.html
- Hays RB, Morgan S: Australian and overseas models of general practice training. Med J Australia 2011,194(11):S63-S66.
- Osman H, Romani M, Hlais S: Family medicine in Arab countries. Fam Med 2011, 43:37–42.
- Prueksaritanond S, Tuchinda P: General practice residency training program in Thailand: past, present, and future. J Med Assoc Thai 2001, 84:1153–1157.
- Sturmberg J, Heard S: General practice education in Australia. Current issues. Aust Fam Physician 2004, 33:353–355.
- Wun YT, Lam TP, Lam KF, Li DK, Yip KC: Family medicine training in Hong Kong: similarities and differences between family and non-family doctors. Hong Kong Med J 2011, 17:47–53.
- Guides to Vocational Training. The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. http://www.hkcfp.org.hk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=77&lang=en
- Jones R: Accurately assessing candidates for general practice. Aust Fam Physician 2009, 38:225–227.
- Sturmberg JP, Atkinson K, Farmer EA: Research and Development Subcommittee, Board of Examiners, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Standards and performance— attainment and maintenance of professional capabilities. Aust Fam Physician 2005, 34:371–373.
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- Montegut AJ, Cartwright CA, Schirmer JM, Cummings S: An international consultation: the development of family medicine in Vietnam. Fam Med 2004, 36:352–356.
- Nieman LZ, Kvale PJ, Fu X, Gu Y, Strobel HW: Bringing a family practice model of health to the People's Republic of China. Fam Med 2001, 33:696–701. Review
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- Title
- Primary care in the Asia-Pacific region: challenges and solutions
- Open Access
- Available under Open Access This content is freely available online to anyone, anywhere at any time.
- Journal
Asia Pacific Family Medicine
- Online Date
- October 2012
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Additional Links
- Authors
- Richard Hays (1)
- Lam Tai Pong (2)
- Zorayda Leopando (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- 2. Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, The University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, Hong Kong
- 3. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines


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2014 Research News
department of psychology
Michelle Hurst has received an NSF-sponsored award in STEM education research for her poster, "Working Memory Involvement in Rational Number Processing," to be presented at IMBES conference in November. Posted 10/15/14.
Alexa Veenema was awarded a five-year, $1.75 million NIH grant to study the neural circuits underlying social play behavior in juvenile rats and how these neural circuits differ between males and females. Social play is a highly rewarding behavior and has been shown to be important for the development of social skills in humans and rodents. Knowledge about sex-specific regulation of social play in rats may help understand social play deficits seen in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that shows a strong sex bias in prevalence. Posted 9/26/14.
Larisa Heiphetz and Liane Young have been awarded a grant from the The John Templeton Foundation, titled "A Social Cognitive Developmental Approach to Folk Representations of God's Mind." The investigators are Liane, Larisa, and Adam Waytz (Northwestern University), with a consultant, Jonathan D. Lane (Harvard University). Posted 9/26/14.
Four of our students—James Dungan, Laura Niemi, , Josh Rottman, and Jordan Theriault—were awarded travel awards by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). M.E. Panero was awarded the SPSP Diversity Fund Travel Award, a competitive award intended to increase diversity within the personality and social psychology field. All of these awards allow recipients to travel to and present research at the upcoming SPSP annual convention. Posted 9/16/14.
Brendan Gaesser, Liane Young, and Elizabeth Kensinger have been awarded a Templeton Science of Prospection grant for their project, "Harnessing Episodic Simulation to Facilitate Prosociality." This award from the University of Pennsylvania and the John Templeton Foundation provides support for studies at the intersection of prospection, memory, and moral psychology. Posted 8/21/14.
Jim Russell's new work on disgust is featured in Boston College Magazine. Posted 8/19/14.
Michael Numan, professor in Psychology until 2012, has published a new book, Neurobiology of Social Behavior. Posted 8/15/14.
Sindy Cole, a postdoctoral fellow in Gorica Petrovich's Neurobiology of Feeding lab, has been awarded a NARSAD Young Investigator grant. This award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation provides support for the most promising young scientists conducting neurobiological research. Posted 8/15/14.
Liane Young's Morality Lab is featured on WBUR's Common Health program in a series called "Beyond Good and Evil: New Science Casts Light on Morality in the Brain." Posted 8/7/14.
Jessica Karanian had two articles published/accepted recently: "The cortical basis of true memory and false memory for motion" in Neuropsychologia and "False memory for context activates the parahippocampal cortex" in Cognitive Neuroscience. Posted 7/1/14.
Nadine Weidman, who teaches our graduate seminar on the history of psychology, has just accepted the editorship of the APA journal, History of Psychology. Congratulations to Nadine! Posted 6/11/14.
Elizabeth Kensinger has been appointed to serve on the Cognition and Perception Study Section, Center for Scientific Review at NIH,pl from July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2020. Posted 6/4/14.
Research on creativity and the arts is featured in the June 2014 APA Monitor. Studies by Sara Cordes, Jen Drake, Thalia Goldstein, Laura Niemi, and Ellen Winner are described. Posted 5/30/14.
Laura Niemi and Liane Young published a paper, Blaming the Victim in the Case of Rape, in Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory. Posted 5/23/14.
Liane Young provides an overview of her research in the February 2014 issue of the APS Observer. Posted 3/12/14.
Gene Heyman is featured in Science News and a New York Times debate about the nature of addiction. Posted 3/10/14.
Drew Linsley and Sean MacEvoy have published a paper in the journal Cerebral Cortex entitled "Encoding-stage Crosstalk Between Object- and Spatial Property-Based Scene Processing Pathways." Using perceptual experiments and fMRI, they show that two types of visual information people commonly use to recognize their whereabouts, scenes' 3D layouts and their object contents, are consolidated at a surprisingly early stage of scene processing. Posted 3/10/14.
Alexa Veenema has been awarded a three-year NIH Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15): Sex and Age Differences in the Neural Regulation of Social Recognition. Posted 1/13/14.
Josh Rottman, Deb Kelemen, and Liane Young's research on our moral response to suicide featured in The Atlantic. Posted 1/9/14.


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Gold Prices Settle Above $1,400
Silver is also shining along with gold as a "cheaper" hard currency. Prices have rallied to 30-year highs settling up 68 cents to $27.43 while copper was flat at $3.95.
Both metals were stronger after the Labor Department said Friday that 151,000 jobs were added in October, which was better than expected. The news along with strong corporate earnings have painted a modestly optimistic picture of a global economic recovery, which means more demand for industrial metals.
Gold mining stocks, a risky but profitable way to buy gold, were rising Monday. Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) was up 0.27% to $105.10 while Yamana Gold (AUY) was 0.94% higher at $11.82. Other gold stocks New Gold (NGD) and Gold Fields (GFI) were trading at $8.70and $17.10, respectively.
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Sweet A Capella Proposal Will Renew Your Faith in True Love
Here's a proposal that's so cute it may have you breaking out in song.
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A bride-to-be whose name hasn't been revealed emailed out a lengthy missive to her ten potential bridesmaids, telling them exactly what would be required of them if they accepted her invitation to be in her wedding party. The demands were so outrageous, causing it to go viral.
Would you call this unique? Or Outlandish?
Save-the-date wedding announcements are getting bigger than the biggest blockbuster movies.
Looks like this woman is already married...to her phone.
The traditional mother-son wedding dance gets a makeover in this fantastic video.
Grab your sunglasses, PopCrushers! Our favorite stars are blinding us with their gorgeous engagement rings!
You could say these newlyweds were flying high after tying the knot.
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THE COMMUTE: Last week, a one-and-a-quarter-mile afternoon trip took my friend one hour and 20 minutes using two buses. He waited 28 minutes for the B68 and another 30 minutes for the B82 in Coney Island. Three B68s came at once, and he just missed the B82. BusTime obviously is not being used to regulate the buses. What the MTA is doing, however, to help buses adhere to their schedule is putting pressure on bus drivers not to be late. What other explanation could there be for the following?
Archive for the 'Opinion' Category
THE COMMUTE: The big news headlines this week were that subway ridership reached a new record level on September 23rd, with more than 6.1 million paying swipes, and the budget shortfall in the MTA's new capital plan. (Notice I did not say paying customers as the MTA did, because I consider a customer as someone making a round trip. The correct term for someone making a one way trip is "passenger." However, the MTA refuses to use that term as if it were a dirty word and now considers everyone a "customer.") The headline only refers to subway riders; bus ridership reached its peak ten years ago.
THE COMMUTE: New Yorkers must wait until 2023 for the completion of East Side Access, a project that will improve LIRR access to Manhattan, free up trackage at Penn Station to improve rail service to the Northeast Bronx, but degrade LIRR service for Brooklynites. It is a project first conceived in the 1950s and will have taken 70 years to complete by the time it opens. Its budget, originally $4.3 billion, now exceeds $10.8 billion. The scaled back Fulton Transit Center, a project costing
$4.2 billion $1.4 billion is also way behind schedule and should finally be fully completed in December of this year.
THE COMMUTE: In parts 1 and 2, we specifically discussed routing deficiencies in Brooklyn and hinted at similar deficiencies in Staten Island and Queens that are even more severe. This week, we will discuss…
Routing Problems In Borough Park And Bensonhurst Go Back To The 1940s!
There has been a need for through Fort Hamilton Parkway and 13th Avenue routes since the 1940s. Instead, one route fulfills the need for two. However, there was an obstacle that prevented a through 13th Avenue route. There was no bridge over the Sea Beach cut at 62nd Street until 1937, which separated the two portions of 13th Avenue. A trolley line operated over the former B1 route along 86th Street, 13th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue to access the ferry to Manhattan since the 1890s. The B16 bus route was added in the early 1930s along Fort Parkway and 13th Avenue to Ocean Avenue, a logical route back then. Israel Zion Hospital, a small institution located at 49th Street and 10th Avenue, did not require a north-south bus route. However, during the last 70 years it has greatly expanded, serving all of southern Brooklyn and changed its name to Maimonides Medical Center. Still, it has no north-south bus service.
THE COMMUTE: Last week, we discussed bus routing inefficiencies in Sheepshead Bay. I am going to venture a guess that Sheepshead Bay residents have a need to leave the area on occasion (although Ned may disagree) and are interested in routing deficiencies in our adjacent neighborhoods.
The Bus Routing System Was Never Planned
Many of the routing problems exist today because the bus system just incrementally developed over time by route combinations and extensions and absorption of former trolley lines. This is what caused today's inefficient and indirect bus routing. In fact, while doing research for my Master's thesis, I learned that when the B21 was created in 1946, bus riders protested in front of Coney Island Hospital on the first day, that the new route did not meet their needs.
Yet it remained in place for 32 more years, and if not for me it may have still been in existence today, 68 years later not serving our needs. More likely, had it not been incorporated into the present B1 and B4, it would have either been discontinued without a replacement or else become a shuttle route between Ocean Parkway and Kingsborough Community College, thus reducing mobility even further.
Other areas still have non-functioning routes, such as the B21. That is because the MTA does not do comprehensive bus studies, because the ones they have done in the past failed due to their unwillingness to compromise with communities. It was always the MTA's way or the highway. Only recently have they restarted that effort with studies in Co-Op City and Northeast Queens at the behest of local elected officials.
THE COMMUTE: Regular readers of The Commute know that my favorite topic is the need for better bus routes. I have written about this on numerous occasions. We also often hear about reliability issues, a subject we have also addressed.
The big push now by the MTA, the mayor, and New York City administrators is to greatly expand Select Bus Service (SBS), conceived more than 10 years ago, and first arriving in Brooklyn last year on the B44. The MTA recently sponsored a discussion at the Transit Museum about their plans to greatly expand SBS. I did not attend because I heard their spiel many times before. That SBS makes service better for everyone. Buses travel faster and everyone benefits. Ninety-nine percent of the SBS riders love it. We can't afford to build any more subway lines (except in Manhattan, of course), so this is the answer for the next generation. I knew there would be no opportunity to challenge these claims.
THE COMMUTE: Last week, we discussed the switch to condensed and light (or thin) font along with the switch from uppercase to uppercase and lowercase lettering. While uppercase and lowercase lettering may increase sign legibility of the street name, legibility of the street suffix often suffers if a two-line format is used. The switch to uppercase and lowercase was well publicized, but the switch to narrow and / or thin font was not.
THE COMMUTE: Last week, we took a brief look at the history of New York City's street signage, which, traditionally, has been all uppercase. Several years ago, studies were conducted that showed, supposedly, that the use of upper and lowercase lettering is more visible than uppercase. Perhaps since we now live in an internet society, in which the use of uppercase letters is considered tantamount to shouting, we made the switch to lowercase.
I do not believe that upper and lowercase letters are easier to read. There are several disadvantages to using upper and lowercase letters as opposed to all uppercase. This is especially true when using sans serif fonts. Sometimes lowercase i's can appear to look like lowercase l's if there is too small a space between the dot and the base of the letter. There is also no distinction between a capital I and a lowercase l. For example, in the name "Illinois," you have what appears to be three of the same letter adjacent to one another.
These are minor problems. The biggest problem with using upper and lowercase letters within a constricted space, such as on a small sign, is that some of the letters go above and beneath the guidelines, meaning that a smaller-sized font must be used, and smaller fonts reduce visibility. The most important factor in determining visibility of a sign is not that the letters are uppercase, or uppercase and lowercase, but the size and width of the fonts.
Given the same size fonts and font widths, I don't doubt that uppercase and lowercase fonts are more visible. However, a straight change from uppercase to uppercase and lowercase is not what the DOT has done. They also have switched from a regular font to a condensed or narrow font, making the newer signs less visible than the older signs — not more visible as originally promised.
Reader Mike N. wrote to point out what he believes is a waste of NYPD resources: catching fare-beaters on the Voorhies Avenue side of the Sheepshead Bay subway station.
Do you know that since the token booth, which became a non-selling booth, was removed from the Shore Parkway entrance, police stand at the other entrance watching the TV monitors, and when someone jumps a turnstile (no high gates here) they then walk up to the platform and surprise them with a ticket.
Often there are two to three officers watching at one time. Yes, it's a violation to avoid a fare, but wouldn't it be more prudent to put gate-style turnstiles that can't be jumped at all unattended stations?
This would 100% solve the fare avoidance problem…however, it would stop the sweet flow of $105 tickets into the MTA coffers. And why are there no policemen ever stationed at the unattended turnstiles? Wouldn't it make more sense for public safety to have officers where the 'eyes and ears' of the booth clerks are absent? (I know…the booth clerks aren't much help).
Briefly, rather than the practical use of officers to guard an unwatched, potentially dangerous entry (I do understand that they technically are watching, but nobody sees them, so they do not deter crime), the officers are used to generate revenue.
It doesn't sound like Mike believes the problem is going after fare beaters – who should be caught for stealing from all taxpayers. But he thinks the problem can be solved more easily and those NYPD resources redeployed for something more useful. What do you think?
Is there an issue you'd like to sound off about, or a problem you want to shed light on? E-mail editor [at] sheepsheadbites [dot] com and we'll consider publishing it!
THE COMMUTE: However, it is all the same to the MTA.
In using the transit system in New York, there are rules one must follow. When they are not followed, there are and should be ramifications. The rules, however, need to make sense; the process for fighting summonses needs to be a fair one, and the punishment should fit the crime. However, not all the rules make sense, the process is not fair, and the punishment is not always just. Worse yet, you can be fined or even arrested for doing nothing wrong and not breaking any rule or law, yet you can also be found guilty! That is just wrong.


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NextWave in trouble again, three years after emerging from lengthy bankruptcy
WiMax is a contender to be a crucial technology for 4G – the "fourth generation" of wireless, after analog voice, digital voice and digital data. Each generation of mobile wireless is based on new networks running new technology.
WiMax is like Wi-Fi on a larger scale. Instead of creating a network in a single home or coffee shop, WiMax has the potential to light up a large urban neighborhood or an entire rural county.
In the United States, Sprint has embraced WiMax as its likely network technology. But the technology's future is clouded by competition from LTE, or Long Term Evolution, which is backed by Verizon and AT&T.
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"We anticipate that we will shut down the semiconductor business if a strategic transaction is not achieved, thereby avoiding an event of default under our indebtedness," the company said in SEC filings.
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My little girls and I went to see this at a special screening with other Pony fanatics and I gotta say the whole event made for a very unique and memorable entertainment experience. The best part of the movie for me was the main message is about how you really don't need to try to fit in and how you should just be yourself and go forward treating others the way you want to be treated. I think this is a very important message for little girls and boys all over the world to learn, especially in today's age when there's so much pressure to conform. I thought it was bad when I was young but it's so much more intense for my kids. On the whole, this is easily the best family entertainment you can find out there this weekend. Some will gripe at the fact that it's based on a toyline, but so what? So is Toy Story and even Superman is made to sell comic books. As my kids would say, come to where the magic is, where it all begins! Follow follow my little pony, my little pony and friends!
I might be almost 18 but so what? I loves me some My Little Pony! They're fun and sassy and magical - and who wouldn't want all of that?! The thing I love most about the ponies is that they are all such strong characters and use their powers for good to bring joy and laughter to all who know them. If you ever watched the original series from the 80s it's a lot darker and more sinister than this reboot. There they contend with magic dragons and evil kings and dastardly demons. This time they're mostly concerned with who can throw the best slumber party, lol. It's what I call My Little Pony meets The Powerpuff Girls. The new movie is a big improvement on the series itself since it goes into a lot of issues that the series just cant get into because of time constraints. I think little kids all over the world will enjoy this movie and their parents will too so get your tickets today!!!
Ok, confession: I may be a 35 year old male but I am unabashedly one of the rare BRONIES in the world who live and die by the code of My Little Pony! Yes, it's true. You should be so luck lol. I have to admit that when I first saw the trailer for this animated romp through Ponyland I was a bit underwhelmed. I mean who wants to see their favorite ponies turned into teenage girls who hang around locker rooms in high school? Isn't that kind of lamer than lame? I thought so. But I was wrong. The movie is actually super cute and imparts a lot of good morals to the youngsters in the audience without being cloying or preachy. I would say that that's a good reason to watch it. It isn't going to change the life of anyone who sees it, but for fans of the toyline and fans of animation in general, it's fun and frivolous and can be seen as one of the more family-friendly ventures in theaters this weekend. I took my little niece and we both loved it!


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Good pesto chicken sandwich and Dutch Crunch bread: Good place to pick up fresh bread or for lunch. I like their pesto chicken sandwich...
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I love going to this place for my lunch break though I cannot all the time because of the price. I think the service is great and the cashiers that I
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i love le boulanger!! been eating there for two decades. i still get the same combo. LOL. i recommend the half sandwich and half so
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They have a good selection of bread, however as far as their lunch time fare I would only say it is OK. Typically the wait is long and there are ot
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This was my initial visit here, but it probably won't be my last. I work half a block away from this sandwich shop so I'll continually update my revie
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Upping to 3.5 stars. I have recently decided to exclude animal fat from my diet and have found vegan options here! Their vegetarian sandwh
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Very active eatery. Unfortunately, it is very pricey for the type of restaurant that it is. Seemed to be capatilizing on the whole DTLA re
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Wanted something quick for lunch, so I popped in for a sandwich. Ordered the the beef sandwich on some sort of seeded bun. What a mistake! The beef wa
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What the, 3 star average? "Why what what why? Be more constructive with your criticism." (who gets it?! ;)) Reuben. Succulent, nicely panin
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While I like the quality of breads/sandwiches/pastries at Le Boulanger in general, this location always seems lacking. The service can be ex....
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With several outlets all over the South Bay, this establishment has the best bread, and serves the best sandwiches and salads around.The service is fa
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GDC09: Massively previews Earthrise
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The futuristic game Earthrise is one of the upcoming sci-fi massively multiplayer games that we can see on the horizon. It's the first MMO developed by Sofia-based Masthead Studios and features the post-apocalyptic setting of a world divided between utopian idealism and revolution. Massively had a chance to sit down with Masthead Studios CEO Atanas Atanasov at the Game Developers Conference 2009 where he gave us a walkthrough of Earthrise, shedding some light on what this new title may bring to the MMO world.
When you think of a post-apocalyptic setting, it's likely the first images that will come to mind are a barren, burned out wasteland. Masthead Studios is putting their own spin on the genre though, with some areas being technologically advanced while others remain lush and green -- places of natural beauty unspoiled by the global devastation beyond Enterra. Of course you can't set the tone for a world after the burn without ruins, and Earthrise will have those areas as well. They aim to deliver on a large, seamless world with no loading screens, where players will be able to move quickly from location to location. Atanasov says, "The map is quite big compared to most current MMOs. It's as big as World of Warcraft with all its expansions and there are even some smaller islands which add to the size of Earthrise."
Masthead Studios plans to continue expanding the world as time goes on. Atanasov estimates Earthrise will release one expansion per year, each adding more content to the current territory while opening up new areas for exploration. In true 'sandbox' style (where players are given free reign to explore and conquer the world), territorial control and sieges is a defining feature of Earthrise. Guilds will hold regions and make land grabs for what their rivals occupy. You'll be able to establish your guild in a location with economic and military advantages and dig in, because it's certain that opposing guilds will want to take it from you.
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During the walkthrough, Atanasov showed us Earthrise in its current stage of development, with particular emphasis on the interplay between skills, abilities, and "tactics." There are 27 core skills presently, he explains, with specific abilities linked to each skill for a grand total of 270 abilities that players can try to obtain. In broad terms those abilities center around damage and damage-over-time, defense, and healing, but Earthrise's use of skillpoints is a different twist on the standard MMO system of leveling up. Indeed, Earthrise doesn't actually have levels or classes for that matter. The game uses a mix of real time skillpoint gains and offline character advancement.
Skillpoints are earned through killing monsters (mutants) and completing quests, and players can then pump their earned skillpoints into abilities within skill trees. Once a player spends those points, abilities become active but go into a type of 'abilities container'. This is because you can customize or modify your skills with tactics, Atanasov says.
There are 50 tactics in total, in 5 categories with 10 tactics per category. Tactics provide additional effects to your skills. For example, increased damage, faster cooldown and use of skills, and healing bonuses. While the extensive skill (27), ability (270), and tactic (50) choices could seem like a mini-maxer's wet dream, Masthead Studios doesn't want the combinations to become too powerful and are reigning in some of them for the sake of balance.
"Stances" are another dimension to gameplay, particularly in combat. Once chosen, a stance becomes a permanent aspect of your character, non-upgradable because it's powerful in its own right. A battle stance will impart combat advantages but there's a tradeoff, such as being unable to call upon other abilities while the stance is active. A healing stance would come with the drawback that the character remains stationary while healing up, adding to the risk of being attacked.
While Earthrise doesn't have a standard class system, the skills and abilities (complemented by tactics) will allow for different roles, akin to classes, but a character won't be bound into a particular role. Atanasov mentions a few of the possibilities open to Earthrise players: skills related to support and supply will be used in healing, while drone control will allow players to control pets (*violent* pets). He adds that ranger skills will allow for stealth, cloaking, and disguise. Solo players rejoice!
Simply possessing the requisite skills isn't enough to perform all tasks, though. It's really about the gear. If you're a skilled drone user and are geared up for turning your steely pets upon your opponents, you won't be able to heal others even if you possess the skills needed. Likewise, if that same character is equipped for a healing role, their drone control skills won't come into play. You need to choose your gear carefully because that determines what you can accomplish out there.
Earthrise's system of pairing your gear with your skills means that players don't necessarily need to roll specialized alts, as the game's system doesn't restrict players from gaining abilities in different skill categories.
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Posted: Mar 29th 2009 4:15PM (Unverified) said
that really looks amazing, thank god i got my money back for darkfall...
Posted: Mar 29th 2009 4:25PM (Unverified) said
what? darkfall is terrible...Reply
Posted: Mar 29th 2009 5:41PM (Unverified) said
Hmmm Tabula Rasa with a different name?
Good luck devs :)
Good luck devs :)
Posted: Mar 29th 2009 7:22PM (Unverified) said
There are many Neocron overtones with this game. I like that. Lets just hope they can make it technically work...
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Posted: Mar 30th 2009 10:44AM ed anger said
Tabula Rasa? Sounds more like Eve on the ground... holding territory, skills over time, could be very cool.
Posted: Apr 2nd 2009 9:52AM Eryxx said
Not necessarily the system, but the game itself does sound reminiscent of TabRasa, may it Rest In Peace. /sigh
The screenshots also recall a lot of the TabRasa "flavor", with some elements of GuildWars Factions tossed in.
The screenshots also recall a lot of the TabRasa "flavor", with some elements of GuildWars Factions tossed in.
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Doc Rivers meets with Los Angeles Clippers media at introductory press conference
Doc Rivers held his introductory press conference with the Los Angeles Clippers today, and I have to say, I'm a little offended at how happy he looked the whole time.
Just kidding, he looked like someone stole his puppy right after he trained it not to poop in the house anymore. He looked, for all the world, like he was extremely unhappy with his new digs.
Our editor emeritus Jay King tweeted that Doc "looked sick." If by sick, you mean he came down with a case of the sadz, Jay, I quite agree.
Poor guy. I can only assume his somber demeanor means he had his first ever conversation with Donald Sterling. It probably went about as well as you'd expect.
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To D23 or not to D23
Hi all,
I know you may be thinking that this is not the right board for this - and maybe it isn't - but bear
with me and I think you'll see why I posted it here.
Anyway, ever since reading about last years D23 expo I promised myself I'd go to the next one. With all of the (deserved) criticism of D23 I thought that the expo at least was well thought of. But lately I've been reading bad things about the expo too. So, I'd like input on the following...
First, to kind of give you a level set, my main interest is in the parks and Disney history. To that point, if I can't get into things like seminars with long time Disney legend imagineers (think Marty Sklar) then honestly I think that it would not be worth it to me. And I should add that, while I will pay attention and get event tickets as soon as I can, if these are things that sell out "in seconds" then I don't think I'll be able to get in.
So here are questions and how it relates to this board.
Should I instead think in terms of doing a DIS Unplugged sponsored "Backstage Magic"? Would this be something that is likely to include "special guests"? (As I recall there have been in the past) I know it would be more expensive, but if it's the type of thing that would likely include exclusive experiences then I would be into that.
Am I being pessimistic to think that I would not get into events with imagineers etc at D23?
Is the expo worth it regardless of the special events?
Bear in mind I am not interested in a cruise.
Any thoughts appreciated.
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I have not been to any of the D23 events as I am not a D23 member (I don't live in SoCal and as a shareholder, I think we should have been given free or discounted memberships).
I have heard that there is an upgraded level of pass you can get to the D23 Expo events that will guarantee you get in to the lectures you want. This might be less expensive than going on an ABD tour.
I did experience the ABD BSM Tour with the DIS and it was incredible. ABD guests are treated in First Class fashion. However, the tour wasn't as detailed or geeky as you'd think. We did get a brief glimpse of Imagineering and the Studios, no access to Marty Sklar etc there. The DIS treated us to lunch with Mr Sklar, but that was not part of the regular ABD Tour. You would get more of the "access to celebrities" at a D23 Expo or Destination D if they offer that again.
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It sounds like you would have loved the two Destination D events that they put on:
Destination D: Walt Disney World 40th
Destination D: Disneyland '55
These are the kind of events that I love. In fact I'm going to one this weekend (shameless plug). This year's is not centered on the Parks though, it's about 75 years of Disney animation.
In my opinion, the Expo tries to do too much. We'll see how it goes this year, but I'm still not sure they've learned the lessons of the past. D23 has put on some great events, including the first Expo, but I was underwhelmed with the last Expo.
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Last year we did the DisUnplugged July Backstage Magic ABD (Kermit hands) and then the D23 expo. No hesitation, I would do another DisUnplugged trip before going back to the D23 expo. I did not have the super duper, go anywhere $1000 D23 expo ticket, so there was a lot of standing around. There was differently neat things to see and do at the D23 expo, but the experience we had with our ABD group was 1000 times better. We're bummed we can't make a DisUnplugged ABD trip work into our schedule in 2013, but we're crossing our fingers for 2014!
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There is a fairly long thread about D23 currently on page 1 of Rumors and News which discusses if it will last.
My personal opinion, having been to the first Expo, was I was seriously underwhelmed. Of course I had been to all ten of the Disneyana Conventions and have been a member of the National Fantasy Fan Club (name change about four years ago to Disneyana Fan Club) and have seen what a true fan group can run. For more information go to www.disneyanafanclub.org and see what they do. Last major event I attended was when 50 of us went to DL Paris for the 20th Anniversary this April.
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My DH got me a D23 subscription the year it started and I've kept it up because I like the idea of being a charter member of a Disney thing...
But let me tell you, I went to the expo last year expecting it to be the COOLEST DISNEY THING EVER and I've never been so disappointed in my whole life.
Let me preface by saying we are AP holders, go to WDW at least 1x a year, own at 2 DVC resorts, have been to both WDW and DL and LOVE all things Disney. So I think I'm being fair here.
I don't think D23 is worth it if you don't live close to the parks. The events sell out quickly and tend to be exclusively at or near the parks.
The magazine is great, love the merchandise, but all in all, it's just not worth it. My membership renews soon and I'm still trying to decide if I want to keep it or not.
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Personally, I found D23 to be a terrible disappointment. I signed up for a year (charter member) and was extremely underwhelmed. Membership might be more worthwhile for those living in California, where most of the perks/events are, but it wasn't for me. I have also heard of many D23 members being disappointed by the expo and what they were able to see and do.
Based on what you described, it sounds like an ABD trip might be more of interest. I went on one last summer and enjoyed spending a lot of time in Walt Disney Studios, Imagineering, Archives, etc. It really was an amazing experience and not something that you'll get with D23.
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When first hearing about D23 I was excited. I thought it was just right for me. My DW got me a charter membership and I was ready to enjoy. After 2 years of membership I did not renew. The Magazines are wonderful and the few free items are good but I never felt like I was getting my money's worth. I live in Louisiana and teach so attending the D23 events never were possible due to the dates. I may once again become a member but not right now.
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Grokster, the FEC, Apple and Me
"Whos in charge?" they demand. "In this new networked world, who runs the show?" The networked, of course, can only smile knowingly. But that doesnt mean that the answer is an easy one for anyone to live with. Thats why tech-related questions are becoming political and legal debates.
MGM v. Grokster, heard Tuesday by the Supreme Court, asks this pesky question for the record business. If listeners can swap music with the press of a button, whos going to make sure that industry runs with the smoothness (and immense profitability) that its demonstrated since its creative geniuses began pressing vinyl?
The suit is a critical juncture in the long war between the recording industry and the new technology that allows its customers (and, its worth adding, the artists) to share music easily, simply and cheaply. Regardless of how the court rules, these issues are heading to Congress, where questions of authoritywhos in charge?will be debated anew.
But questons are being asked not just in Washington, D.C. For months, salaried journalists have been examining the work that "bloggers" do. Most recently, Slates media critic Jack Shafer took Los Angeles Times critic David Shaw to task for his Sunday column on bloggers and legal protections.
Shaw derided bloggers, saying all the usual things: Theyre inaccurate, theyre not edited, theyre careless, theyre not like him and they shouldnt enjoy the protections of the law that he does.
Hes asking the same question that the Grokster case does: Whos in charge? Whos going to make sure that reporters, working by themselves on the Web, dont upset the careful code of ethics and practices that "professionals" have crafted at newspapers and traditional publishing outfits?
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Shaws comments came as part of some observations about the Apple Computer case. The company is asking a California court to rule on the legal standing of a group of bloggers (one of whom, by way of disclosure, is represented by my attorney). Apples asking the same question Shaw is: Whos in charge? Which of those thousands of voices out there online do we have to take seriously? Are they all journalists?
These questions arent just being asked in the commercial arena, however. Theyre being asked in political circles, too. The Federal Election Commissions recent comments on bloggers and online advertising and campaign advocacy go to the heart of the conversation taking place between Big Media and political bloggers: Whos in charge? Whos going to make sure that freedom of speech isnt misused by folks who are willing to sell their endorsements of candidates or causes?
In each and every one of these cases, the answer is pretty much the same: The reader. The consumer. The voter. The music-lover. The computer nerd. Or, more likely, some combination of all of these joined by a network that allows them to communicate instantly, forge alliances and work together.
For tech types, particularly those in Silicon Valley, this isnt new. For the rest of the world, its not an easy adjustment. So a lot of this suing and arguing and filing, lobbying and demonstrating is a fight over authority, an attempt to keep things the way they were: ordered, neat and controlled.
Thats not to say that all of these conversations about responsibilitybecause thats what being in charge means when you take it seriouslyare without merit. The FEC should be taking a good hard look at online fundraising and the relationship that many bloggers have with campaigns. Thats a blurred line that needs to be more sharply drawn.
Another blurred linethe one between stealing and sharing of anything audio, video, written or spokenneeds to be more clearly defined, too. As for the line between bloggers and Big Media? Thats not as deep a moat as David Shaw wants to think. Blogginglike file-sharing and online fundraisingis a tool; its what you do with it that matters.
This new world of instant and instantly available choice isnt easyremember when there was only one phone company?but its pretty exciting. Its new. Its different. And we all get to be in charge.
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Can anyone recommend a quick way of seeing the differences highlighted
visually between two channels in a stereo sample...sort of like a
graphical 'diff' for waveforms?
I think I may have some Akai MPC2000 samples that somehow were saved by
the Akai as mono samples even though they actually contain two channels
and are really stereo:
Using 'sndfile-info' on them reports them as mono, but it's just looking
at the 22nd byte in the file, which should contain 0x00 or 0x01 to say
if it is mono or stereo. The file contains 0x00 in that location, so
sndfile-info believes that it's mono because the file header says so.
However, if I flip the bit in a hex editor and resave the file, now I
can load the file in a sample editor and it seems to have two channels
which play at double speed. I'm still not positive I'm hearing stereo
(if I am, it's very subtle), but I'm definitely seeing two channels
visually, and I know this sample was sampled on the Akai in stereo.
Any way to do a graphical comparison that will highlight even small
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The enterprise network security equipment market is forecast to grow at a 7.0 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the next five years and reach $11.4 billion by 2017, according to Gartner i. With more than 7200 employees and its dedicated focus on security, McAfee already has a substantial presence in the network security space. With the addition of Stonesoft, the company expects to rapidly emerge as the leading provider of enterprise firewall technology. Organizations can benefit from McAfee's Security Connected strategy, as Stonesoft's products become integrated with other products from McAfee's broad portfolio.
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This is the current development branch with an initial focus on document= ation.=20
This release made a number of improvements to usability; with the introd=
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number of Java g= enerics used in the new feature model. This release also folds the org.open= gis interfaces back into the project marking the end of our formal involvem= ent with GeoAPI.
Work started initially to work on style interfaces (in collaboration wit= h GeoAPI). This work stalled out due to developers working with distributed= version control; and losing their mandate to work with the community.= =20
The change away from an research and development project continues; with= the unsupported module and change proposal procedure taking complete respo= nsibility for project communication. This removed the need for weekely IRC = meetings (a real cultural shift) and lead to some staffing changes as one o= f the founders from the SEAGIS project dropped away returning = to a research and development agenda.=20
The GeoTools 2.5.x release was a very long time in coming - featuring a = new feature model produced in collaboration with the GeoAPI project. This i= ntroduced the concept of a rich feature model; finally offering the ability= to represent more interesting content the simple flat features. While none= of the datastores in this initial release make use of the full power of th= is model; it represents the first chance for the "complex features&quo= t; branch started in GeoTools 2.2.x four years previously) to start to come= home.=20
The release was branched just prior to work on style interfaces in order= to stay focused on a single change at a time.=20
During this time period GeoTools graduated as an OSGeo project! As part = of meeting the requirements for this process the GeoTools User Guide was created.=20
During this time period we introduced the concept of an "unsupporte= d" module in a bid to both attract new developers with an easy way to = get involved that promoted the feeling of belonging to a larger library and= responsibility for a section of code. This also offered a way to hold onto= work that did not have a module maintainer and would otherwise be dropped.==20
This represents the last gasp of the original GeoTools Feature model (re= search started on this one back in GeoTools 2.2.x). This is one of the best= releases of GeoTools ever; benefiting from performance tuning and years of= effort.=20
This release marks the integration point of imageio-ext offering access = to OGR geometry formats.=20
In the interest of maintaining traceability of API changes we started in= troducing the change request procedure; this marks an important turning poi= nt of the project acting like a stable library rather than just a research = and development curiosity.=20
The GeoTools team was able to meet in person for the first time at FOSS4= G 2006 (See Birthday Coders= a>) marking the 10 year anniversary of the project).=20
The GeoTools 2.3 project was the first attempt to transition to a new Ge= oAPI interface. The geoapi filter interfaces were produced with a couple ke= y differences from the GeoTools one. They were not mutable. This transition= was smooth from a user perspective; they could now produce expressions usi= ng a much easier to use filter factory resulting in easier to understand co= de. Many of the intended benifits were not realized as the mutable implemen= tations were still used under the covers; which did not force the internal = implementation of the datastores to make the transition.=20
The production of GeoAPI Geometry implementations was completed under co= ntract by Refractions Research during this time period; this work was an im= plementation only and was not intergrated into the rest of the library. It = offers a fork of JTS 1.7 onto GeoAPI Geometry abstractions (ie ISO 19107); = this code is easier to follow then the jts-wrapper implementation which was= also donated to the library during the 2.3.x timeframe.=20
GeoTools joined the OSGeo foundation during this time period as one of t= he initial projects in incubation. Graduation from this process took a long= time as we needed to hunt down and assign copywrite to the foundation for = each of the files. Our practice of marking each file as (c) GeoTools PMC di= d not quite work as the PMC was not a legal entity! This work was completed= for GeoTools 2.5.x some three years later.=20
This is the oldest version of GeoTools still in use; it is used by the u= Dig 1.1.x stable series and still has a release scheduled! This is a very s= uccessful version of GeoTools; and the first produced with an interactive a= pplication in mind.=20
On a research and development front the aim of Geotools 2.2 was to suppo= rt the GeoAPI Geometry model and the idea of a GeoAPI Feature Model was bei= ng considered. These ideas did not land until much later in the GeoTools 2.= 5 stream; showing that good development takes time and dedication.=20
For more information please see the Road Map to 2.1 and Nightly Builds=20
This release of GeoTools marks the start of an out reach project in the = form of GeoAPI . The GeoTools community has had a long standin= g commitment to cooperation with other projects involved in Java GIS Develo= pment. The GeoAPI project marks an oppertunity to collaborate with the broa= der Java GIS community, and the OGC standards body. The idea is to create j= ava interfaces capturing the information contained in the standards so they= can be implemented by multiple projects to facilitate collaboration.= =20
This release provided some new Directions in development:=20
Some Research and Development ideas that were experimented that did not = pan out:=20
The original GeoTools 1.0 codebase was the work of only two main develop= ers - James Macgill and Ian Turton of Leeds University. As the project grew= in complexity and in popularity it became clear that further development w= as becoming unsustainable: partly because so few people were involved in th= e design process and partly because the code had evolved rather randomly. I= t was time for a clean start with a better design and a larger development = community.=20
The second generation of GeoTools has been fundamentally redesigned to t= ake advantage of the full power of the Java platform. GeoTools is contribut= ed to by an international group of developers and is run in as decentralize= d a manner as possible. Because of this, GeoTools strives to cooperate with= other efforts, to modularize the decision making process, and to foster an= open community.=20
In 2002, code from the SEAGIS project was merged into the= geotools 2.0 project, providing coordinate transformation services, grid c= overage and rendering implementations.=20
The overall maintenance and future directions of GeoTools 2 is managed b= y the GeoTools 2 Project Management Committee (PMC). Currently this compris= es 8 active developers who take joint responsibility for design and impleme= ntation decisions. The team welcomes and encourages others to become contri= butors and ultimately become part of the GeoTools 2 development team.= =20
It is a long term goal of the GeoTools 2 project to refine its core API = and promote its use so that it can become a recognized and standard API for= Java GeoSpatial development.=20
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Work began on the GeoTools library in 1996 at the University of Leeds = as part of a masters project to viusalize the results produced by the = Geographical Analysis Machine (GAM) over the w= eb. Not long after the first simple map display was up and running a sepera= te project within the Geography department at Leeds, which was looking at w= ays to develop and research Public Paricipation GIS (PPGIS), used the libra= ry to create an online map of the village o= f slaithwaite to allow the locals to discuss their thoughts about various p= lanning issues.=20
The library was developed rapidly in response to the needs of this secon= d project and the resulting toolkit, which was targeted at the Java Applet = API, still exists as GeoTools-Lite . GeoTools 1 was not built with = OpenGIS standards in mind (or any standards for that matter).=20
GeoTools 1 aimed to provide a toolkit of resources to enable the creatio= n of interactive geographic visualization clients. GeoTools 1 was built usi= ng the Java 1.1 environment so as to enable the execution of applets on as = wide a range of clients as possible without the need for a plug in. It was = developed in a rather ad-hoc manner, with new features being added as and w= hen needed.=20
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BILOXI, Miss. (July 27, 2009) In Hook City, two of boxings dominating left hookers, 8-time world champion Roy Jones Jr. and 2-time world champion Jeff Lacy, go to battle on Saturday, August 15 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi to determine the most powerful hooker and the NABO Light Heavyweight Champion. Hook City, will be broadcast live on pay-per-view.
At the July 15 press conference to announce Hook City at Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, Roy Jones Jr. stated that both fighters will come to fight and the fight will definitely not go the distance. Thats been weighing on Lacys mind as he returned to his camp in St. Petersburg.
I'm a puncher and if Roy says its not going to go 12, then so be it! With the way I feel right now I agree with Roy, this fight won't go the distance. I plan on bringing everything into the ring August 15th. The fight will end in a KO and Roy will not hear the last bell.
Lacy also wants to deliver a message to Roy Captain Hook Jones Jr Tarver nor Johnson hit as hard as I do!
This fight is a huge challenge for me and it is a huge challenge for Roy. He knows that, too, said Lacy. I am very motivated by this fight and Ive been training very hard for Jones and Ill be coming to Biloxi in the best shape of my life.
Said Lacy trainer Roger Bloodworth, Both Jeff and Roy know what this fight means for each of them. Jeff is training very hard and will be 100% prepared for Roy Jones Jr. on August 15.
Tickets for Hook City, presented by Square Ring Promotions in association with Left Hook Promotions and Beau Rivage Resort & Casino, are priced at $150, $125, $100, $75, $50 & $25 and on sale and available at the MS Coast Coliseum Box Office, all Ticketmaster locations, by calling Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000 or on-line at Ticketmaster.com.
The Hook City pay-per-view show is being distributed by Square Ring Promotions, Inc. at 9:00PM ET/6:00PM PT in North America on cable and satellite via iNDemand, TVN,
DirecTV and Dish Network for a suggested retail price of $34.95.
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