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Zenergy, Time Traveler and Yours Truly are color palettes that serve to restore spirits with a return to simplicity, reconnect us to cultures and customs gone by, and reinvent style with expressions of creativity. Colors in the palettes range from serene cool hues to grounded earthy tones to bold traditional colors, offering a wide variety of color choices to refresh any room in the home.
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Progress and Fun Times
Jessica: Its really amazing to be able to be back in my favorite place in the world. Ive really missed it, and things are going great. Today was especially amazing because I feel like we got a pretty good amount of work done on our project and we got to relax and go to Crysto Ray to cool off (a lake with lots of waterfalls and trees to jump off of). We had some really tasty food today including fresh coconuts as a snack tonight.
Ben: Because of the local internet, we wont be able to post pictures while were here, but we plan to upload them once we return home. The construction is going quite well; we have completed the walls, poured the beam over the door, and made the form for the header (the concrete beam going across all the blocks). We plan to begin building trusses and pouring a sidewalk to the kitchen tomorrow.
Sabbath was a wonderfully relaxed day, spent worshiping with the local Belizean church members and swimming in a river.
On Friday, we finished the west wall, the two beams for the overhang part, and of the east wall. After working hard for the morning and filming a short video for Mission: SONlight, we drove to Crysto Ray Falls, a set of local swimming holes, to go swimming. The cool water felt wonderful after the extremely hot day.
VBS has been a success. The teachers and many of the students remember us and are glad to have us back. We enjoy playing with the students during recess and look forward to each days VBS program. We hope that all is going well for our family members and friends back in the United States and that we will arrive home safely on Sunday evening.


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Black Friday rolls through Lake of the Ozarks area stores
Sunday, December 1, 2013
The Lake of the Ozarks has long been a Black Friday shopping destination. For shoppers like Beth McCracken, it's a tradition.
McCracken, of Greenville, Ill., has spent Thanksgiving — and Black Friday — at the Lake with friends for the past seven years; and the shopping is always serious.
"We've been going since 5 p.m. yesterday," she said as she left Walmart in Osage Beach around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning, arms loaded with discounted LEGO sets for her children's Christmas gifts. "This by far was the best deal yet."
McCracken and friends had already made their way through Target and the Osage Beach Premium Outlets, and were on their way to check out the more locally owned businesses at The Landing.
Some stores opened earlier than ever this year at 6 or 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night. The Osage Beach Premium Outlets held its annual Midnight Madness sale event, but some of its 110 stores opened as early as 8 p.m. as well.
The shopping was steady at smaller businesses like The Landing's Shabby Chic Boutique as well, with shoppers making morning visits to the store even while sales at larger chain stores were still going, said store owner Brenda Cribb.
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Hood's 'reach for the stars' leaves lasting impact
I had to pull into a hotel parking lot.
It was a rainy summer morning. I had just dropped my mom off at the airport when the words that flashed on my phone sucked the wind from my lungs and left my stomach feeling inside out, like when you're at the peak of a roller coaster preparing for the drop.
The cause: a text from an area sports writer: "Any idea how Saron died?"
No, I thought. This isn't real.
With that distinct first name, there was no question who he was talking about. Former UB wide receiver Saron Hood, who completed his fourth and final year at UB this spring, collapsed and eventually passed away June 6 while working out at Texas A&M, where he was finishing his engineering degree.
I've had the pleasure of getting to know some UB athletes very well, but Hood was not one of them. I did not lose a close friend with his passing; instead, I felt sharp disappointment knowing a life filled with potential had been cut far too short.
"Every time I step onto the field, you'll be able to see my passion for this team," Hood told me in 2011. "Our potential is endless. Why not reach for the stars?"
Hood, an undersized, speedy receiver with dreadlocks from San Diego, was not a major contributor on the field, totaling just four catches for 33 yards in his four years. I once wrote in a column that fans should expect him to be a breakout performer, but that never happened.
In the face of adversity and on-the-field struggles, Hood remained fully himself. His unyielding optimism continues to impact his teammates.
"I learned how to treat people even when things aren't in your favor," said senior cornerback Najja Johnson, who led the Mid-American Conference in interceptions last season. "He was cool because he never got mad about anything and always - I mean always - had a smile on his face."
About two weeks before Hood's death, I ran into him grocery shopping at Wegmans. It was the last of many times I saw him late at night around Western New York; he could often be found sweeping the floor at Wal-Mart. His job there always took me aback, given that he was a Division I athlete.
As I passed Hood's packed grocery cart, I considered all the athletes who have finished their careers at UB and gone on to do great things. They've completed a chapter in their lives as Bulls and progressed to bigger and better things. Three players from last year's team, for example, are in NFL training camps right now.
Hood was headed for a successful post-football life. He was friendly and well educated - and, above all, resilient and selfless.
Oddly enough, it's not always the on-the-field stars who sports reporters root for the most. We most enjoy the athletes who remember our names or the young men who stand out by making an impression as people rather than athletes. Saron Hood was that kind of man.
He shot for the stars, and while he never won a championship or had a huge statistical season, if you talk to the people who knew him, you'll know he reached that astronomical level. His potential was endless, and he actualized it - not by football standards, but by personal standards. By simply being a good person.
We can all learn a thing or two from Hood.
The irony of our generation's YOLO philosophy is that we completely misinterpret a simple acronym with profound importance. It is essential to constantly remind ourselves that we do, in fact, only live once, else we forget our own mortality, but it is also important to examine what that means.
Why does only living once mean we should indulge in self-gratifying? Why does this philosophy mean "you should go have as much fun as you can and please yourself in the moment, because you might not be around tomorrow?"
If we really think about it, shouldn't we aim to make an impact with our one life? Shouldn't YOLO mean we do things that touch other people so we leave behind a legacy that speaks not of our selfish nature but instead of what we did for others?
We recognize our time on earth is brief, and for that reason, we do not think of ourselves first. We live like Hood.
"Overall, he matured much faster than the rest of us and tried to explain that life was more than just the bubble that we assume revolved around us," Johnson said.
Johnson is pursuing his Master's in education, but he was learning in this case. Hood taught his teammates. We should all emulate that behavior.
Remember what Johnson said Hood tried to do in his time at UB: explain that life was more than just the bubble that we assume revolved around us.
If I've learned anything in my first three years at UB, in my two as an editor at The Spectrum and one as editor in chief, it's that I don't know much of anything except that it pays to be good to people.
Some of the friends you make during your freshman year will die before you graduate; that is not an opinion but a fact. I tell you that to encourage you to love everyone you meet with all the emotion you can muster.
Remember names; you'll learn lots of names. Smile a lot, no matter how you're feeling.
Here is my biggest piece of advice for college, something I think Saron Hood would agree with:
Just be good to people. There is more than the bubble.
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ABC News' Joshua Miller reports:
On a debate stage in New Hampshire, an iconic moment of the 2008 presidential campaign played out. Then-Senator Hillary Clinton was asked about her deficit of "likability" and joked that the question hurt her feelings but she would "try to go on." The audience laughed and Clinton, looking over at fellow candidate for the Democratic nomination Barack Obama, admitted "he's very likable – I agree with that."
"I don't think I'm that bad," Clinton said, smiling.
Obama barely looked up from his notes. "You're likable enough, Hillary," he said.
Ah, karma. A brand new Gallup poll shows Secretary of State's Hillary Clinton's favorability eclipsing President Obama's by a substantial margin. Sixty-six percent of those polled said they had a favorable opinion of Clinton versus only 54% who said they have a favorable opinion of the President.
Clinton scored her record favorability rating of 67% not long after the House of Representatives impeached her husband, President Bill Clinton.
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63 that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah. | 63 Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign LORD.' " |
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Video Game Time Versus Real Life Time
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Take-Two's Financial Results Better Than Expected
October 29, 2014 - Revenues for the quarter are largely thanks to familiar properties, and expectations for the next quarter are even better.
Who's Your Favorite Borderlands Character?
October 10, 2014 - From Claptrap to Moxxi, Borderlands has a colorful cast of characters. Who's your favorite?
September 2014's Best-Selling PSN Games
October 9, 2014 - Want to see what the best-selling games on PS4, PS3, and Vita were last month? Look no further.
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Has Gone Gold
September 29, 2014 - The latest entry in the Borderlands series has been completed and is ready to hit store shelves.
The 'Extremely Deep Hidden Theme' of Borderlands
September 25, 2014 - Cat herding, world building, and Robocop: Gearbox's Matt Armstrong outlines the origins of Borderlands' massive universe.
What Are Your Favorite Co-Op Games?
September 24, 2014 - With so many co-op games available, we wanted to figure out which one was your favorite.
Borderlands 2 SHiFT Codes and Golden Keys
August 23, 2014 - With Borderlands 2 free to play on Steam this weekend, find out how you can get crazy skins and loot for your character.
NBA 2K14 Is the Best-Selling Sports Game Ever for Take-Two
August 5, 2014 - Along with the great sales for NBA 2K14, Take-Two gives updated shipment numbers on Borderlands 2, BioShock Infinite, and Civilization V.
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I think Tim's comments are pretty much on the mark. Now if Fuji could just make FP100C in 4x5" and 8x10" sheet formats that would be ideal, at least for proofing.
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- Exiting the airport follow signs to I-95 South Heading SOUTH on I-95, cross the Fuller Warren Bridge RIGHT lane- EXIT SAN MARCO BLVD 350B LEFT at SECOND traffic light north. STRAIGHT to roundabout Museum Circle. RIGHT and hotel is 0.25 mi on the left.
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- west on Craig Blvd. toward St. John's Bluff Road N. Left at St. John's Bluff Road N right at Atlantic Blvd. Continue onto Arlington Expressway Left at FL-5/North Main Street right at S. Main Street left at Museum Circle Continue on Riverplace Blvd.
- Distance from hotel: 6.1 MI/ 9.82 KM East
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Stay was SoSoByJFOSR January 25, 2015 Sorry about the delay....believe it or not...I just saw this email. Read More
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Great room bad customer serviceByJaz904 January 15, 2015 When I called in to reserve my room I asked for a River Front one bed room and I was told that, that was the room that I would be receiving. When i arrived 20 minutes later the receptionist informed me very rudely that the room that I reserved was no longer available. So I explained to her that it was my birthday night and that I really wanted the room that I had already reserved and paid for. She looked at me and said so do you want the two bed non river front room or not? It was late and I really did not want to drive around a find another hotel so I ended up spending my birthday night in a double bed room that I did not want. The room was very nice but the customer service was horrible.
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Thanks for your feedback on the hotel. Rest assured that customer service is of paramount importance at the hotel. I will address your concerns with the front office, so that we can improve our service delivery.
I apologize that the customer service was not to yours or my standard.
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A weekend away with my wifeByRitchdirt January 15, 2015 Beautiful view of downtown Jacksonville, good service, just older hotel. The hotel is in the process of being renovated it appears. Great food options and access inside to hotel. Read More
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will never come back to this hotel.Byorelus January 15, 2015 Crowne plaza is just name, other hotels cross the street have better service than your
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BioWare's new IP has been unveiled as Shadow Realms, an online multiplayer title that pits four players against one. Will you be one of the heroes, or the clearly much cooler Shadowlord?
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BioWare's new IP has been unveiled as Shadow Realms, an online multiplayer title that pits four players against one. Will you be one of the heroes, or the clearly much cooler Shadowlord?
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Okay, this sounds kind of amazing. Attempting to turn a traditional tabletop experience into a video game, complete with a "dungeon master" is something I don't think has ever been tried before.
This is definitely something to keep an eye on.
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and this isn't on wii u because...
Third party developers have no confidence in the WiiU.
Any idea why that is? http://www.vgchartz.com/ <- more installed base than X1 but less than PS4. Doesn't that inspire some confidence?
the tablet sits on my coffee taunting me the design possibilities of asychronus multiplayer, and then i just play more mario kart.
I designed some asymmetric multiplayer games when I was younger. For example I made a Thunder Force fangame where the second player could play as the "Claw" (when bullets touch it, the bullets disappear and it has a weaker shot) rather than it automatically rotating around your ship.
I also made a scenario map for Starcraft where 4 players with normal base building in the corners had to fight against one player with more benefits.
Players actually seem to like asymmetric multiplayer quite a lot, even just telling them about simple ideas like that usually makes them go "Hey, that's interesting". Still hardly anything like this ever gets made. Maybe because balancing it is too hard?
If it becomes a new developer fad then that would be cool.
I am definitely intrigued by this. It's different and original by the sounds of it.
I remember watching the teaser emails going "wtf?"
I dont believe EA is going to be releasing any more games on Wii U.
It will actually be interesting how this game works out. I wonder how players will react on it, because it is likely that players will prefer one side eventually. Eventually either everybody wants to be the dungeon master or nobody wants to take the job.
They had an event for this at PAX today and I got the chance to see the alpha build. So far it looks okay, if in need of balance. The the 1 has been reliably beating the 4. Also, I hope the final game doesn't have just the "kill everything in the room, then go to the next room and kill everything, ad nauseam" gameplay pattern that was demoed. I can also see the potential for awesome fan mods if they release a mod tool set.
Ughhhh.... Nah I'm good. This sounds like something many of my fellow RPGamer board members will like, but I can pretty much say this is a flat out no for me.
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The Best Blu-ray/DVD Releases of the Week: 'Cutie and the Boxer,' 'Night of the Demons' and the Acting in 'Dallas Buyers Club'
Features By Rob Hunter on February 4, 2014 | Be the First To CommentWelcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. Cutie and the Boxer Ushio Shinohara and his wife Noriko have been together for 45 years, but it hasn't been the easiest of roads. He was a 41 year old art sensation in NYC when the 19-year-old art student met and fell in love with him, and while the time since has seen them struggle and live the life of starving artists, he has always remained at the top of the relationship. This doc looks at the couple, their love and art, and the sacrifices that are sometimes necessary in pursuit of your dreams. Zachary Heinzerling's intimate documentary began life focused on Ushio's life and art, but somewhere along the line, Noriko's story, both of her art and of her love for her husband, took over the narrative. The result is not only a fascinating look at two artists' lives but also an incredibly honest exploration of the cost of love, creativity, and persistence. Ushio is a real character, but Noriko is a real person. I'm now in love with a 64-year-old Japanese woman. [Blu-ray/DVD extras: Deleted scenes, featurettes]
Scream Factory and Kevin Tenney Bring '80s Horror Classics 'Witchboard' and 'Night of the Demons' to Blu-ray
Disc Spotlight By Rob Hunter on January 29, 2014 | Be the First To CommentMost home video releases are mass produced and marketed by faceless conglomerates interested only in separating you from your hard-earned cash. If you look closely though you'll find smaller labels who love movies as much as you do and show it by delivering quality Blu-rays and DVDs of beloved films and cult classics, often loaded with special features, new transfers, and more. But yes, they still want your cash, too. Scream Factory continues to mine past decades for horror gems worthy of resurrecting onto Blu-ray, and while they make the occasional misstep the vast majority of their releases make for fantastic additions to your library. They have four titles hitting shelves in February with the first two streeting next week. In addition to releasing on the same day, Witchboard and Night of the Demons also share the same director in Kevin Tenney. They're his first two films (of thirteen total) but remain his most well known. This is as it should be seeing as Demons is also his best film, but it's a shame if only because Demolition University, starring Corey Haim, really deserves to be seen by more eyes. Keep reading for our look at Scream Factory's new Blu-rays of Witchboard and Night of the Demons.
Join us each week as Rob Hunter takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. And remember, these listings and category placements are meant as informational conversation starters only. But you can still tell Hunter how wrong he is in the comment section below. This week sees two titles worth buying that couldn't be more different… DisneyNature: Oceans and the goofy and gory Japanese flick Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. There are also several DVDs worth renting or avoiding all together including Assault Of the Sasquatch, Giallo, Predators, Please Give, Forbidden Lies, and more. Oh, and don't miss the feel good release of the year in our first installment of "WTF Of the Week"… Forgive Me For Raping You. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases!
Night of the Demons Set to be Remade
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Holy Parents, Not Rabbits and Colonizers
January 22, 2015 By Guest Contributor Leave a Comment
By Timothy VillarealDiscussing the Catholic Church's prohibition on artificial contraception and its promotion of Natural Family Planning (NFP) on his return flight from the Phillipines, Pope Francis told reporters, "Some people think -- excuse me for saying this -- that to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits."Well, I have an extended Catholic family, some from small families and others from large - meaning 6 to 10 children. Having grown up with these families, I can say this … [Read More...]
Trust Me, Church: Why I'm Not That Interested in "Letting You Know I'm Here"
January 20, 2015 By Erin Lane Leave a Comment
When I graduated from divinity school, I was homeless. Not in a literal kind of way but a spiritual one. I had been living in the same city for two years without a church to call my own. Sure, I had dated a few congregations on and off but nothing serious developed. The only names I remembered were the ones printed in the bulletin and if anyone remembered mine, well, I didn't give them a lot of chances to prove it. If I wanted to find a church where I could know and be known, I'd have to take som … [Read More...]
When God Hides: An Interview with Author Tony Kriz
January 16, 2015 By Deborah Arca Leave a Comment
Have you ever felt like God was hiding from you?Have you ever wondered how you're supposed to be a faithful Christian when God feels absent so much of the time?If you've ever asked these questions or others related to God's presence or absence, author and speaker Tony Kriz wants you to know you're not alone."It's a fairly universal experience of everybody," Kriz says. "Some of us are more attuned to the divine than others, but almost all of us have had seasons where God felt distant. … [Read More...]
Two Conversations Christians Need to Have in 2015
January 14, 2015 By Ellin Jimmerson Leave a Comment
America is coming apart at the seams. Greed, corruption, fear, and violence are among our defining qualities. We Christians must confront the fact that we have done a poor job of proclaiming Good News in America. As such, there are two conversations we must have in 2015. This first is, "what is sin?" The second is, "what is the purpose of the church?"The opening verses of John's Gospel provide a biblical basis for such conversations. Paraphrasing, they say that "In the beginning was Logos (Wo … [Read More...]
Some Assembly Required: A Church Without God
January 13, 2015 By Jim Burklo Leave a Comment
On January 11, I drove down the hill to the Musicians Union hall at 817 Vine Street to attend the monthly Sunday Assembly Los Angeles, described at its website as "a godless community that meets monthly to hear great talks, connect for service projects, sing songs and generally celebrate life. As … [Read More...]
Trust Me, Church: How Your Bulletin Makes Me Feel Like I Do (or Don't) Belong
January 12, 2015 By Erin Lane Leave a Comment
In my search for a church home during graduate school, I attended over ten churches in two years, each with their own different style of communication. Some handed out a tan, tri-fold piece of paper by which I could follow along, nose down, during the service. Others projected announcements on movie … [Read More...]
Trust Me, Church: Five Micro-Resolutions That Make a Big Difference
January 8, 2015 By Erin Lane Leave a Comment
"You've got to be kidding me," I said to myself as the storm door pumped behind me to a close. I carried the day's mail in on the flat of my forearm, like a waiter bussing dirty dishes. A letter from my former church lay on top of the junk addressed to "The Beam Family." I took a deep breath. It was … [Read More...]
Where Is God? A Sermon on Why It's Not Necessary to Believe that Jesus is God
January 7, 2015 By Chuck Queen Leave a Comment
John's prologue is actually a poem that introduces major themes that will be developed in the unfolding of the story that follows. It is a beautiful poem about the mystery of incarnation.I love the story about two mischievous boys, Tommy the oldest, Jimmy his little brother. One summer the two b … [Read More...]
Advent, Christmas, and the Messiness of Wombs
December 23, 2014 By Susan Pitchford 1 Comment
I never had children; never wanted to. So I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about my womb. I never really had to keep track of its schedule, so I just let it do its thing, tended it as necessary without giving a lot of thought to what it was there for. I don't even like the word "womb," which … [Read More...]
Yes, Mary Did Know. But Do We?
December 22, 2014 By Guest Contributor 10 Comments
By the Rev. Jude HarmonChartbusting this holiday season is Pentatonix's cover of "Mary Did You Know?" Rich vocal harmonies fused with the group's fresh, dynamic flavor make this version really pop. It has rightly been hailed as "haunting," "breathtaking" and goosebump-inducing. Written by Mark Lo … [Read More...]
When Jesus Stopped Believing in Santa
December 18, 2014 By Jim Burklo 7 Comments
The day after the first Shabbat in Advent, Mary and Joseph took Jesus, who was eight years old, To the Great Mall of Bethlehem. There, in the middle of the huge indoor shopping complex, Was a stately Christmas tree surrounded by wrapped gifts. "I don't believe in Santa anymore," Jesus … [Read More...]
Gold, Circumstance, and Mud: Living in the In-Between (Isa. 40:1-11; Mark 1:1-8)
December 17, 2014 By Chuck Queen Leave a Comment
Advent reminds us that we live in an in-between time. In between the historic coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the future coming of a new world of peace and righteousness. The prophet in Isaiah 40 is addressing a people in exile who are preparing to return home, but they are not home yet. And when … [Read More...]
"Welcome to America"? Praying Through Anger, Loving Through Racial Storms
December 11, 2014 By Claudia May 2 Comments
A balm for the soulBlues artists, the slaves who composed the spirituals, psalmists, and practitioners of the spoken word have much in common. These artists sing and rap about, and testify to, the pain and joys of those inhabiting their songs. They live out raw, jarring, messy, brutal, … [Read More...]
The Virgin Monologue: A Poem for Advent
December 10, 2014 By Jim Burklo Leave a Comment
"'God did it' isn't an explanation," said Joseph. He got no account for the baby's chromosomes, No description of the mechanism that Transmuted the divine shadow into royal blood. "'The devil made me do it' would have sounded better to me," said Joseph, Though it never did him any good When he … [Read More...]


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Near asteroid 2004 BL86 has a moon (BBC)
When Mushroom Clouds Were All the Rage (Time)
Unlocking the Puzzle of China's Neutron Bomb (The National Interest)
Payout for Fiji veterans of UK atomic test (3News)
Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99 (UC Berkeley Newscenter)
Moscow says North Korean leader Kim confirms Russia visit – Yonhap (Reuters)
Seoul, Washington, Tokyo hold talks on N.K. nukes (Korea Herald)
Seoul, Washington to hold disarmament talks this week (Yonhap News)
Iran-Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus (Frontpage Mag)
U.S. military to hold seminar on N.K. nukes, missiles (The Korea Times)
In Reprieve to Obama, Senate Democrats Agree to Wait on Iran Sanctions (The New York Times)
Iran Nuclear Deal Prospects Fade as Israel Opposes Terms (Bloomberg)
Dems give Obama 2 months to reach Iran deal (Politico)
Lindsey Graham: Nuclear Iran Will Be Biggest Mistake of Obama's Presidency (News Max)
Salman to Obama: Don't let Iran get nuclear bomb (Daily Star)
Iran, US, France, Germany to Attend Roundtable Nuclear Discussion in Munich (Tasnim News Agency)
Iran urges EU to play "more active role" in nuclear talks (Xinhua News)
Pentagon wants $350b nuclear upgrade to deter aggressive Russia, China (Washington Examiner)
Pakistan opposes US-India civil nuclear deal (World Bulletin)
Indo-US nuclear deal to impact deterrence stability in South Asia: Pakistan (The Economic Times)
Russell Brand Trident attack prompts invitation to Barrow (BBC)
MP slammed for not voting on Trident issue (Milngavie Herald)
Burghfield atomic weapons site: flood plan better late than never, says NAG (Get Reading)
Hibakusha: Daughter of A-bomb survivor learns strict mom cared for her future (Mainichi)
Henry Kissinger and the China-North Korea Reality, by Joseph Bosco (The Diplomat)
Iran-Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus, by Majid Rafizadeh (Front Page Mag)
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 2:04 pm | Don Franks
Lunging boldly towards John Key, shouting "Cut the crap!" - Andrew Little was great, wasn't he? Labour's new leader spoke for many people fed up with Key's flippant arrogant deceit. Andrew Little nailing the Prime minister on lying about contacting a rightwing ... More >>
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Friday, 7 November 2014, 2:14 pm | Don Franks
They confirmed yesterday they won't allow Pike River mine re-entry to recover bodies of 29 workers killed in November 2010. More >>
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Wednesday, 29 October 2014, 3:28 pm | Don Franks
National's tea break busting bill will pass through parliament this week. What will this mean? The Government's Employment Relations Amendment Bill makes several changes, including removal of guaranteed tea breaks and meal breaks. More >>
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There are times when whitebait is all over a particular flat you're on but for some unknown reason, they just won't come to your chum. You can use a gallon of menhaden oil, but all that happens is big shiny schools of four-inchers are moving under your boat at 100 knots. You can see the schools moving, but you can't get them to eat. If this happens, first try a sabiki. If those don't work either, try a technique we call "run-and-gun".
- Have one person (the runner) run the boat slowly, while the person throwing the net (the tosser) is on the bow.
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Hey guys, I have run into a couple of problems while trying to finish up my design. I used inventor to move and allign materials (I am using the Carbon Fiber texture from the Autodesk Material Library) and I got it looking how I wanted it to and then I imported it into Showcase and the texture does not show but instead is replaced with a gray default texture. I then tried using the material library in Showcase to apply the textures but I cant move and allign them as easily as I did in Inventor.
I noticed when you use the Showcase materials they have an Autofit option which seemed to work well, but you seem to not be able to do this with Autodesk materials. Since I don't like the Showcase carbon fiber texture is there a way I can take the carbon fiber texture from the Autodesk Library and use it in place of the Showcase version so I am able to autofit it? Another solution to my problem would be if I am able to import the textures exactly how I had them in Inventor, I tried this but it only imports with a default gray texture.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you ahead of time!
If you used the IV2013 Autodesk Material Library, it should be consistant with the Showcase Autodesk Library. Make sure you are current on the Showcase SP's, Showcase 2013 is on SP3.
Ok so I updated to SP3 which made the texture show up on import! Now my only problem is that it didnt save the modifications I made to the texture in Inventor, such as rotation and scaling. Is there a way to import the model as is from inventor?
Did you create a new texture in Inventor with the changes or did you just modify and save an existing one? There was some updates to the Materials and Appearance with the SP's for IV2013 as well.
Not really sure what else to suggest of than try posting to the Showcase forum.
Well in Inventor the materials for each part I modified show up as CarbonFiber(2) and CarbonFiber(3) and so forth. Is this okay or is there another way I should be handling materials?
Showcase may be looking at the Appearace and not the Materials. This was changed in Inventor 2013. Materials contains the physical properties such as mass and density, whereas the Appearance is only the finish.
I bet you that Showcase looks at only the Appearance.
Think of Materials and Appearance in Inventor this way.
Materials: Steel, with a default apperance of Grey. You can still have the Materials: Steel with an appearance of Blue or Green.
Showcase dosn't care about the physical properties such as Mass or Density, only the appearance.
Okay sorry I have been reffering to the wrong thing then because I am using the appearance modifier, not the materials one. So even in that case Showcase should be using those materials with the same settings correct? Because as of right now I allign everything in Inventor then when I import it to Showcase everything is rotated back to its original position.
If you have modified the Appearance item in Inventor, when you import the model into Showcase, it's looking for the closest match in Showcase.
You might want to post this in the Showcase forum. You might get better help.
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The goal of patents is to encourage innovation. It does this by granting an inventor a temporary monopoly over his invention. This gives the inventor the security of knowing that he will have time to recoup his research and development costs without someone taking his invention and marketing his work against him. Conversely though, it prevents competition and promotes a monopoly. Patents attempt to balance the evils of a monopoly and the need to encourage investment in innovation. So how does this all play out in reality? More specifically, how does it play out in reality with regards to software patents?
In the last post, I pointed you to an article by former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz. In the article, he discusses how Apple and Microsoft came to him threatening to sue Sun for violating their respective patents. Scwartz didn't deny that Sun was most likely infringing, but instead he responded with the claim that Apple and Microsoft were both infringing on Sun's patents as well. This is the mutual assured destruction (or M.A.D.) approach to intellectual property and we might get to see the effects of this type of an all-out patent war with the Apple and Nokia lawsuit. Nokia is suing Apple for patent infringement claiming that the iPhone infringes on several of its patents. In response, Apple has filed suit against Nokia for patent infringement claiming that its phones violate patents Apple obtained for the iPhone. From this and other cases, it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to assume that big software companies infringe on the intellectual property of other companies all the time. With this in mind, let's discuss the effects that patents have on software innovation.
My general view is that state-enforced monopolies are a generally bad idea and can only be justified with good reason. While the government most certainly has the authority given to it by the U.S. Constitution to grant these monopolies for a limited time, the question should be whether these rules promote innovation or stifle it? In some industries that have massive research and development costs to produce a product that could easily be copied once it is on the market, I believe the answer is that patents help promote innovation. But what about in the case of software? First of all, software already has copyright protection, preventing competitors from being able to just duplicate existing products. This protection goes beyond just verbatim copying, giving software authors protection of the binary, structure, and design. So software developers don't have to worry about the competition stealing their work. However, copyrights don't protect the key process or algorithm of the software. Competitors can just recreate the algorithm themselves without having to do the hard work of determining how to create it. To put it a different way, all solutions seem easy… once somebody else figures them out. The protection of the algorithm is where the patents come in. Would software companies continue to innovate if anyone could take its algorithm? It depends on what percentage of the software development process the particular algorithm creation constitutes. To clarify, I would like to limit this to those algorithms that are patent worthy (non-obvious, novel, etc.). In my personal experience, I would have to say – it depends. If we are discussing what I consider to be patentable algorithms, then algorithm creation constitutes a good portion of the development time. If we are discussing all algorithms that the patent office has accepted, then algorithm creation time for most of the accepted patents probably doesn't constitute a significant portion of the development time for any marketable application. I'll discuss bad software patents and eventually what I think the bar for patentability should be later, but for now let me just say that I believe that most development companies would continue to create new software regardless of software patentability.
We know that large software companies will continue to create new software knowing that other big software companies will infringe on its patents. Companies will do this because it knows it is or will be infringing on the patents held by the original infringing companies. Given the number of software patents and the wide swath of technological areas they cover, it would be practically impossible (as well as time and cost prohibitive) to ensure that a large software product does not infringe on any existing patents. Large companies don't seem to care because it has its defensive patent "war-chest" to protect it against claims (this does not apply when they are sued by "patent trolls" which I will discuss later). However, small developers do not have this protection. To make it worse, there is no exception for innocent infringement. It might seem fair to give immunity to a developer who discovers an algorithm all on his own, ignorant of the existence of a patent. In fact, one can argue that the fact that another developer independently discovered the algorithm makes the it non-novel and therefore unpatentable. The problem with this line of thinking is that novelness is determined at the time at which the discovery occurred. I reiterate, all solutions seem easy… once somebody else figures them out. So the current patent system seems to give preference to large, established companies while making it extremely difficult for small companies to create software.
Much like an abusive boyfriend who beats his girlfriend with one hand while gently wiping away her tears with the other, software patents hinder innovation while at the same time provide much needed protection to the innovation that occurs. The first inquiry asks whether or not developers would continue to create software if they were not afforded patent protection. I said most developers would continue. I stand by that. The problem is the few that wouldn't continue. The developers who could continue are the ones who improve on the existing paradigm. The ones who wouldn't are the ones who change the paradigm. They are the ones who dedicate teams of scientists and engineers to figure out problems. They are the ones who dedicate months and years to perfecting a process. As much as software patents hinder those who wish to improve upon the current state of software, they encourage and protect those who take software in a new direction. The second example demonstrates how small businesses are at a disadvantage when it comes to creating software because of software patents. However, those same patents provide small businesses with the only protection it has against its larger competitors. Imagine a small company that creates a word processing application. Imagine further that they add some productivity feature that no other word processor has implemented before. If the company is able to patent this feature, it now has a marketable product. Without the patent, Microsoft could take the feature and incorporate it into Word. Some would say that this is good, let the market decide the better product, give the people choices. But they fail to consider that Word is entrenched in corporations and Microsoft likely has a much larger advertising budget than its small competitor. Without patents, the small company would spend all of its time and money on innovation only to have the entrenched competitor steal its innovations. This leads to permanent monopolies, not the temporary ones that patents provide for.
One last note before I finish this post: it is the process that is patented, not the result. If a software mapping company patents a process by which geographical starting and ending points are converted into directions, it is the process by which it does this that would be patented. This means that another software mapping company can still create a process that converts the two points into directions, it just can't use the same process to do so as the first company. This leads many to believe (e.g. Gene Quinn – but I can't find the post where he said so) that patents encourage innovation by forcing competitors to find different ways to solve the same problem, hopefully coming up with better and more efficient methods along the way. If the bar to getting a patent on software was where I believe it should be, I would completely agree. Unfortunately, it is not there yet, more on this in a later post.
Monday I will discuss the effects that bad patents and patent trolls have on innovation. Then I will wrap this whole thing up with what I believe should happen to the software patenting process and what I believe the bar to getting a software patent should be. I will leave you with this tangent to think about, and if you know anything about corporate tax law, please comment. If a company refuses to enforce its patent rights against a competitor because the company is also infringing on that competitor's patent rights, and this is construed as a barter, how would that affect its taxes? I know that when people barter goods or services, they are supposed to report the fair market value of the good or service to the Internal Revenue Service. I wonder if the IRS were to look into this more closely, would it effect the way companies report these patent standoffs.
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How popular do you think Prime Minister Maliki is these days?
Well, it is not for me to answer this question - it's for the polls.
But that must be part of the political calculation in inviting him into your coalition?
Well if I say he's popular, I'll make publicity for him. If I say he doesn't have popularity, I would be unjust.
Do you think he was hurt politically by the bombings in Baghdad?
Yes, I think so, but he is still a very good candidate and he still has popularity.
How much of a setback were the suicide truck bombings of Aug. 19?
For those of us on the outside, it seemed to indicate there are serious problems with security and serious problems with ministries fighting.
We were always arguing that we still have a security problem, while others were saying that we were finished with that. We thought, we have to see the security issue as attack and counterattack - they [insurgents] had the initiative, they had the control the first three or four years the government took the control, and the initiative starting from the end of 2007, but we should not minimize their action or their power. We should still see that they will find our weaknesses here and there, and that they will hit once again, more attacks. So minimizing their importance was a big mistake, and advocating that everything is now well, that was a false message given to the people. We should have kept institutions on alert, in the security ministries especially, and within the people.


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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gives a thumbs up to the fans cheering... Nieuwsfoto's 159439306AFC Championship Wedstrijd,Duim,Fan,Footballveld,Foxborough - Massachusetts,Geven,Juichen,Massachusetts,NFL,NFL Playoffs,New England Patriots,Play-off,Quarterback,Sport,Succes,Tom Brady,Verenigde Staten,Verlaten,Verticaal,VolgenPhotographer Boston GlobeCollection: Boston Globe 2013 - The Boston GlobeFOXBOROUGH, MA - JANUARY 13: Patriots quarterback Tom Brady gives a thumbs up to the fans cheering him on as he leaves the field following New England's 41-28 victory that propelled them to the AFC Championship. The New England Patriots hosted the Houston Texans in an NFL Divisional Playoff Game at Gillette Stadium. (Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)