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Multifilesink is an element that is designed to write individual buffers to sequentially named files. Unlike most other elements, multifilesink is meant to be most useful in scripts and gst-launch command lines.
Create 100 files (00000 to 00099) containing the raw video frames generated by videotestsrc:
gst-launch videotestsrc num-buffers=100 ! \ video/x-raw-yuv,format=\(I420\),width=320,height=240 ! \ multifilesink
Dump a video to a series of PNG files:
gst-launch uridecodebin uri=file:///path/to/some/file ! \ ffmpegcolorspace ! videoscale ! pngenc snapshot=false ! multifilesink location=output-%05d.png


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Personal detailsName: Jackie Chan
Born: 7 April 1954 (Age: 60)
Where: Hong Kong, China
Height: 5' 8"
Awards: No major awards
All about this star
In childhood, he suffered terrible poverty and the most painfully rigorous of educations. In his early career, he was almost cast aside as just another in a long line of failed Next Bruce Lees. In perfecting his craft, he's broken his nose three times, and also cracked his ankle, most of his fingers, both his cheekbones and his skull (patched together with a steel plate). You can't say Jackie Chan hasn't paid his dues. But finally, after nearly 40 years in the business, the guy's reached worldwide stardom. As he always wanted, pretty much everyone knows his name.
Jackie Chan was born Chan Kong-Sang (meaning Born In Hong Kong) on the 7th of April, 1954, naturally enough in Hong Kong. He was the only child of Charles and Lee-Lee Chan, having, reports say, spent 12 months in the womb, finally being removed surgically and weighing 12 pounds (his mum nicknamed him Pao-Pao, meaning Cannonball). Charles borrowed money from friends to pay for the operation, turning down the doctor's offer to take the child in payment. The family lived in a mansion in the exclusive Victoria Peak district. Not that his parents owned the mansion - Charles worked as a cook for the French Ambassador, while Lee-Lee was the housekeeper.
Jackie attended the Nah-Hwa primary school on Hong Kong Island, often spending his travel money on food and walking home, fighting on the way with Caucasian kids attending special schools in the area. He was not academically bright, failing to pass Primary 1 as his peers moved on to Primary 3. This was noticed by Charles, who decided to enrol the boy, now 7, at the Peking Opera School, operated by Shu Master Yu Jan-Yuen. Walking in with his dad, Jackie saw tens of kids, between 7 and their early teens, somersaulting and playing with swords and sticks. He recalls that he felt like kids must feel today on entering Disneyland. He would never return to academic education. Though he speaks 7 languages, he still cannot read or write with great proficiency, and has someone else write his scripts for him.
It didn't stay like Disneyland. Charles now moved to Australia to work at the Chinese Embassy, and Jackie, now named Yuen Lo, saw the true nature of the Peking Opera School. The training in music, acrobatics and many martial arts lasted 18 hours a day. Exercises were brutal, the kids performing headstands for hours on end. Beatings were commonplace, both at the hands of the Master and the other boys. Eventually, Jackie's mother left too, to join Charles in Australia, Jackie being adopted by the single-minded Master.
Being something of a prodigy, Jackie was introduced to public performance early. He belonged to a school troupe known as The Seven Little Fortunes, other members including Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung and Yuen Wah, all of whom would go on to be big names in Hong Kong cinema. In 1988, Sammo would star in Alex Law's Painted Faces, about their early lives together - the Jackie character being called Big Nose! The film would show them as young stars of the traditional stage, yet still grooving to the new sound of The Beatles.
Painted Faces also featured the kids' efforts to break into cinema, not easy, as everyone treated them as schoolboy non-entities. But Jackie was lucky. At age 8, he was cast in Big And Little Wong Tin Bar, with the great Taiwanese star Li Li-hua as his mother. She took to the boy and had him appear in her next series of features. Good experience, though his Master took his paychecks.
Leaving school, having been protected from reality for so long, Jackie took time to adjust. Having studied hapkido, tae kwondo, judo, wing chung and many other martial arts, now he took to soccer, then boxing, then gambling, then pool. There were many 24-hour pool-halls in Hong Kong and Jackie played hard, often sleeping at the halls. This was a potential disaster, as these were hang-outs for the Triads, who'd often attempt to recruit the young boy. Seeing some of his friends join, and deal drugs, he attempted to distance himself from the gangs, often by playing dumb and innocent (his dad's sternest advice had been "No Triads, no drugs"). There were fights, though. Once he recalls he and two friends beating up six motorbikers. Fleeing down the street, he heard his slipper slapping on the ground. Looking down, he saw it was soaked in blood. His hand throbbing, he noticed a white thing protruding from his knuckle. Thinking it to be his bone, his tried to push it back in - to no avail. When it later fell out, he realised it was one of his opponents' tooth.
Fortunately, he soon got into bowling, the alleys being Triad-free. Despite great pressure, he would never join them, even when they attempted to muscle in on the film business. He famously challenged them to come break up his office, and led a march against them. By then too famous to be touched, he won the heart of Hong Kong, being henceforth known as Big Brother.
Jackie's extraordinary athleticism and inventive stunt-work quickly brought him a lead role, in Master With Cracked Fingers. This role, where he learns kung fu and eventually uses it to battles an extortion ring, would set the stage for many to follow. But for the next couple of years, Jackie would play second fiddle to the man credited with bringing kung fu to the West - Bruce Lee - appearing as an extra in both Chinese Conection and Enter The Dragon. When Lee died, though, in 1973, the path was open. There were many pretenders - Bruce Li, Bruce Le, Dragon Lee - and Jackie was at the forefront. It didn't work.
Having searched for a screen persona, as a villain in Rumble In Hong Kong and a spear-fighter in Hand Of Death (an early John Woo effort), he took off to spend time with his parents in Australia. This was where he found his present screen name, having previously been billed as Yuen Lo, Chen Yueng Lung and Sing Lung (meaning Already A Dragon). Taken down to work on a construction site by a friend of his dad's, named Jack, he was asked for his name by his co-workers. Thinking they'd have trouble pronouncing it, his dad's mate replied "He's called Jack too". So now he was Jackie Chan.
Returning to Hong Kong, he signed up as lead actor in Lo Wei's film company, purveyors of fairly poor material (he also signed up with Willy Chan, still his manager to this day). First there was another attempt to make him the New Bruce, with the rather obviously titled New Fist Of Fury. Again, it was a wretched failure. After a few more features with Lo Wei, he was loaned to Ng See Huen's Seasonal Films for Snake In Eagle's Shadow. Combining comedy with furious action, this revealed Jackie's previously unutilised comic strengths and was a hit, followed by another in the famous Drunken Master, which broke box-office records in Hong Kong and made Jackie a star across Asia.
Jackie now had power. He co-directed and choreographed Fearless Hyena for Lo Wei, directed the fast and tellingly silly Young Master on his own, then signed to the Golden Harvest Company, whose Raymond Chow had also discovered Bruce Lee. Now it got messy. Threatened both by Lo Wei and the Triads, he was sent to the US to make The Big Brawl (by the director and producers of Enter The Dragon), then joined the star-studded cast of Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run. Having by now been bought-out from Lo Wei for 10 million Hong Kong dollars, he returned to learn the directing craft and create ever more fantastic stunts. Jackie is a stunt historian, explaining how Hong Kong stuntmen had always used traditional punches and parries till Steve McQueen's The Sand Pebbles was filmed there, using many local workers. It was then that the HK pros learned a new style of hitting and being hit. Soon, led by the likes of Jackie and John Woo, they would elevate the stunt to undreamed-of levels and would, of course, be ripped off by an American industry that inspired them in the first place.
Having, while in the US, discovered the works of silent stars Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, now Jackie concentrated on a mix of slapstick comedy and terrifying stunt work. Again he attempted to break America, with 1985's The Protector (co-starring Danny Aiello) but, again coming over too mean, he failed once more.
In terms of cinema history, this failure was vital. Films are cheaper to make in Hong Kong and, with insurance companies less paranoid, more death-defying stunts can be attempted. Jackie's new picture, Police Story, certainly tested that limit.

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The only problem is when a developer takes GPL code and tries to make a derivative program using that code and then make that derivative program closed source. That is the no-no. The copyright owners of the GPL'd code have expressly forbidden that ... the GPL code is meant for the freedom of the end users, not for them to get ripped off by some downstream proprietary developer sponging of the efforts of the original GPL code authors.
What you and your company is doing is nothing like that ... you are writing your own code and using LGPL libraries in a way that they were intended to be used. I am sure everyone would join me in wishing you every success (even if we ourselves would not be interested in using yor code or your company's proprietary product).
The entire purpose of the FSF is to encourage as many people as possible to use the GPL v3 and thereby protect as many users of software as possible from being abused by tivoization or patents. Given that, Michael, why the hell would FSF relicense their software to a license that can be abused by patents and Tivoized? I swear, people don't think this shit through before writing it.
The reason that the projects in question don't relicense under the GPL 3 is most likely because they don't have control of the copyright for all the code that they contain. They can use it in a GPL 2 product to their hearts' content, but they probably don't have the option of relicensing all the code under the GPL 3. Of course, this issue is the reason that the FSF insists on having copyright control signed over to them for all the software that they accept stewardship of.
@CFWhitman, it's not "probably", it's a fact
They can also take a page from the BSD's playbook and whine about the existence of licenses with more protections built in, but that's really just an annoying execution of option 3.


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Our GCA SCUBA divers are in the Shark SeaTube exhibit every day. They maintain the exhibit by cleaning it thoroughly to ensure the comfort and safety of its inhabitants. Keep in mind; although they're working, they love to have fun on the job. We encourage guest interaction with our SCUBA divers and although they can't hear you underwater, they are excellent lip readers. A Guest Experience Associate is located at the exhibit entrance and carries with them a slate for guests to write on. On your next visit, ask them a question using this slate! Our SCUBA divers have a slate with them inside the exhibit and love writing messages back and forth with our guests.
*Please note: For safety precautions, there will be no GCA SCUBA divers in the Shark SeaTube during bad weather with thunder or lightening present.


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FLASHBACK: George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' Hits Number One
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
It was 42 years ago today (December 26th, 1970) that George Harrison scored the first Number One hit by an ex-Beatle with his single "My Sweet Lord," which went on to top the charts for four weeks. The tune, which he had first produced as a gospel song for good friend Billy Preston, was the first single from Harrison's triple album All Things Must Pass -- which itself went on to top the album charts on January 2nd, 1971 for a whopping seven weeks.
Harrison recalled recording "My Sweet Lord" in his 1980 "song biography" titled I Me Mine, admitting, "I thought a lot about whether to do 'My Sweet Lord' or not, because I would be committing myself publicly (to my beliefs) and I anticipated that a lot of people might get weird about it. Many people fear the words 'Lord' and 'God.' (It) makes them angry for some reason."
It's recently been revealed that "My Sweet Lord" turned out to be a mini-Beatles reunion of sorts. Ringo Starr and future Derek & the Dominoes member Jim Gordon drum on the track, along with Apple band Badfinger on acoustic guitars and none other than John Lennon strumming along himself. In a recent Beatlefan magazine interview, Harrison's longtime friend and bassist Klaus Voormann stated that Lennon actually performs on the track.
Harrison's widow, Olivia Harrison says that some critics and fans misinterpreted George's spiritual lyrics as being so serious that they bordered on preachy. She says that George often used his songs as his own form of spiritual guidance: "He also wrote these things to remind himself. People sometimes accused him of preaching (laughs). But you know, he was really preaching to himself. He wasn't trying to say, 'You be like this because I'm already like this.' No, he was always trying to remind himself. And that's the reason he liked India so much, because he said that, 'Everywhere you went, there was a reminder.'"
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Why a roadside stand?
For those of you that know me you'll agree that I am a work-a-holic. When I got back from Florida in 2009 I started working 4 jobs as well as promotingThe Honey Jar and keeping bees. Needless to say I was very busy. And I felt bad when our loyal customers drove all the way out to our little slice of heaven only to find no one home. I knew something needed to be done.
I remembered visiting a self-serve honey stand in Florida. I spent a couple of late nights researching roadside stands and self-serve stands. We thought about making something custom and cutsie stand but the costs were prohibitive. Fiinally we stumbled upon a rubbermaid cabinet that would work and fit the budget.
How does your self-serve stand work?
Its actaully really simple. We stock the honey every morning. With the self serve
stand people can stop by on their way to work at 6 in the morning or on the way home from a party at Midnight. It doesn't really matter because the porch light it always on and people are welcome to stop by anytime.
Just 3 easy steps:
- Select the itmes you want.
- Total up the purchase (prices are on the item and include sales tax)
- Pay in cash, check, or by credit card over the phone.
Checks can be made out to: The Honey Jar or there is sufficient cash in a "change jar" to accomodate smaller purchases.
What items do we stock in the stand?
We stock Honey Sticks, Clover Honey in 2.25 oz sampler jars, half pints, pints, quarts, and gallons.
We worried about the potential for theft but after 3 years we've never had any money or honey come up missing. It has been a testament to the honesty and integrity of people. A social experiment that is restoring our faith in humanity.
We hope you enjoy using our stand as much as we enjoy having it available for you.
Best Wishes,
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Today, at 15:00, the spring-summer 2014 ready-to-wear show by Kris Van Assche for Dior Homme takes place. Follow the show live on Twitter.
It's a big first for the house of Dior as it broadcasts, direct on Twitter , the looks as they come down the runway.
Connect to #Dior and follow the fashion show from Kris Van Assche for Dior Homme as if you were there in person.


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Santa scheduled to arrive a little later Friday
Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus previously informed the McMinnville Downtown Association that they were going to take a little longer to make the trip to town this year for the community's post-Thanksgiving Day festivities.
So, Santa's Parade, the annual downtown event that launches the holiday season in the community, will start at 4:30 p.m. Friday. It's the latest start ever. The parade has started either in the early morning or early afternoon in previous years.
The MDA staff and board decided to make do with the decision by Santa and Mrs. Claus. The group sees this as an opportunity to combine the parade and tree lighting ceremony in upper City Park into one event.
"The parade and the tree lighting have always been at separate times," said MDA staffer Kendra Lindell. "Some people had to pick one or the other."
The two events are being combined this year.
"We'll have the parade and then we encourage people to walk over to the tree lighting," Lindell said. "It'll be like a starlight parade this year. With the downtown lights and everything, we think it will be more fun."
Another significant parade change this year is that there will be no "Stars," or honorees, who will be featured among all the entries.
"Santa will be the star," Lindell said.
If he's traveling more than 2,000 miles to get here, he probably deserves some preferential treatment.
Staging for the parade will start at 3:30 at Northeast Fifth and Galloway streets, in parking lots behind the McMinnville Community Center and Yamhill County Jail. The parade will move out an hour later.
It will travel east to Irvine Street, to Third, west on Third to Cowls, then to Fourth and back to the staging area on Galloway. The deadline to submit entry forms has passed, but Lindell said no entry will be turned away right up to staging time. About 25 entries pre-registered.
For anyone thinking about participating in the parade, entries may include bands, church groups, equestrian groups, floats, riders, scout groups, vehicles and walkers.
Due to insurance-related restrictions, the only animals allowed are donkeys, horses, mules and ponies, according to MDA officials. Spectators are asked not to bring their dogs to the parade.
The MDA is also requesting that Santa Claus and/or Mrs. Claus-like entries not be included in the parade. The couple will be in town for everyone's enjoyment.
The parade traditionally takes about a half-hour to wind its way through the downtown.
"It's a fun opportunity for people to come together and kick off the holidays," Lindell said.
As part of McMinnville's effort to celebrate the season, the Trail Band Christmas Concert will again be held, at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 in the community center.
Tickets are priced at $22, reserved; $16, adults; $13, seniors (65-older); $13, students, and $6, children (12-under). They are available at NW Foods & Gifts, Oregon Stationers and Third Street Books, all located on Third. They may also be purchased at the MDA office in the historic Cozine House on the corner of Third and Baker streets. They can be ordered by phone by calling 503-472-3605.
The Oregon Trail Band is an eight-piece group that plays a variety of traditional and original holiday music. The band has been performing since 1994, and has done more than 300 shows.


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Description: Logic Controls Pole Display, RS232 interface, DB9F Connector, 2 line x 20 column, Green Vacuum Fluorescent Display, 11.25mm Character Height, with Logic Controls Command Set, Manual, Mounting Plate, 120 VAC Adapter, Beige
Interface: Serial
Color: Beige
Price: $189.00
The part number PD6000-BG is associated with the Logic Controls PD6000. For more information on the Logic Controls PD6000 click here.
PD6000 General Downloads:• Manual• PD6000 Data Sheet
Logic Controls PD6000 General Description:
The PD6000 is a 2-line 20-character Pole Display that solve the classic "I wish I had an extra I-O port" problem by using our data pass-through data capabilities. Logic Controls' data pass-through process allows connection of multiple pole displays cash drawers printers and other devices to a single output port. In the pass through mode a pole display monitors the incoming data then decides to display the data or pass it to the next down-stream device. Bright blue - green vacuum fluorescent characters are enhanced with an optical filter for better contrast and easier viewing. All standard Displays support moving sign advertisements during periods of inactivity with a single message download eliminating constant application software refreshing.


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Pirate Galaxy
Pirate Galaxy is a 3D browser based Sci-Fi MMORPG that runs on Java. Play on a web browser or download the small client for added graphic feature. Pirate Galaxy has amazing visuals and huge star systems to explore. Complete missions, battle for control of planets, and visit space stations across the galaxy.
Publisher: Splitscreen Studios
Playerbase: Medium
Graphics: High
Type: MMORPG
EXP Rate: Low
PvP: Clan Wars / Optional PvP Flag
Filesize: optional – 20 MB
Pros: +Great graphics. +Optional PvP mode that grants exp bonus. +Plenty of missions to complete. +Varied environments. +Battle to control planets!
Cons: -NPCs offer no challenge during early game. -Replenishing energy is tedious. -Can't fly freely, only four directions.
Pirate Galaxy Overview
Pirate Galaxy is a visually impressive science fiction game built using Java. It can be played on a web browser or run as a stand alone program after a small download. Pirate Galaxy does an excellent job translating the classic, quest-driven MMORPG experience into an action packed browser game. Players control spaceships and gain ranks by destroying droids that belong to the evil Mantis race. Complete missions to earn crystals, and use them to purchase new parts and ships at space stations scattered across the galaxy. PvP is entirely optional, but players who turn their PvP flag on are rewarded with increased experience off NPCs. Late game PvP content includes clan wars in which large numbers of gamers fight for control over planets.
There are dozens of ships available that can be roughly categorized into 6 groups:
Newbie Ships - Available to players below rank 10.
Damage Dealing Ships - Specialized in dealing heavy damage, includes the powerful STAM S-Lightning Storm
Tanking Ships - Includes vessels equipped with heavy armor that can absorb lots of hits, useful in squad and clan battles. The STAM S-Mega Armor is an example.
Speed Ships - Ideal scouting vessels that specialize in hit-and-run tactics. Includes the STAM S-Thunder Shock.
Engineer Ships - The supportive ships of Pirate Galaxy. Engineering ships focus on healing and repairs. Includes the STAM S-Stellar Engineer.
General Ships - Multipurpose ships without a specialization. Can't be classified as 'newbie ships' due to high rank requirements. Includes the Anin-12 Parsec
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Pirate Galaxy Full Review
By, Erhan Altay
Pirate Galaxy is a spaced theme browser MMORPG developed by the Germany based Splitscreen Studios. Available through many channels, including the Gamigo gaming portal, Pirate Galaxy offers stellar graphics and out of this world gameplay. Defend humanity from the tyrannical Mantis race while exploring the galaxy. The Pirate Galaxy engine uses Java to produce some of the best looking visuals seen in browser gaming, and the ability to download a small client allows for even better graphic options.
Praying Mantis
The game's lore portrays the human race in a sorry state. The insect-like Mantis have dominion over the supply of cryonite, a valuable mineral that is required for nearly all aspects of space travel. Humans are reduced to scavenging for this resource by secretly mining Mantis-controlled planets. Mantis drones and ships continuously raid these miners, and it falls on players to join armed pirate organizations to help reclaim humanity's lost pride and liberty. Compelling stuff, but it can be dull at first. New players start by running through a short tutorial, movement and the basics of combat are explained. The incredible graphics quality is made evident during this tutorial and the option to move with either WASD or the mouse came as a relief. The tutorial goes on to explain how to attack and how to harvest energy before allowing players to move on. The next step is to select a server. There is currently only a single American server along with five European ones. There's no character creation in Pirate Galaxy, all players simply start with the same beginner ship. Players cannot get off their ships and there's no avatar to create. Simply chose a name for your pilot and you're good to go.
Viva la Vega 2
Players start their journey near the mining colony on Vega 2. The area is infested by Mantis drones that must be destroyed. A series of NPC prompts instruct the player on what to do. These instructions serve as the first mission line and introduce players to the game's interface. MMORPG veterans shouldn't have much difficulty figuring it out, especially since the interface is similar to those found in most other games. A hotkey bar stores the character's skills and abilities, a minimap can be opened by clicking the right panel, and the act or targeting involves a simple mouse click. Gameplay feels real-time, players must click to fire and there's a short cool down between shots. Aiming and switching targets feel very fluid. The problem, however, is the complete lack of challenge during these early stages. The Mantis drones don't even fight back. Worse still, the next AI target players are asked to fight, Mantis Scouts, actually run away when fired on! Another let down is the limited degree of movement. Rather than flying freely around a planet, players basically hover above the ground and can only move in four directions (forward, back, left, right.) This makes the gameplay experience more similar to a classic MMORPG rather than to a free-roam game like Ace Online. The restrictive movement is not so much a flaw as it is as a failure to live up to my inflated expectations. Is it just me or are sci-fi games held to a much higher standard in terms of features?
After the first series of missions, players can leave the surface of Vega 2 and enter orbit around it. Each planet in Pirate Galaxy that is explorable will have a station around which players can use as a docking base. It is in orbit that players receive additional missions which give the game direction. More importantly, these missions are the best way for players to earn cryonite crystals which are used to purchase new ships and ship parts. Players are taught how to purchase and install components like boosters to their ships. While the customization is no where near the same level as Eve Online or Black Prophecy, it does allow a degree of specialization. Progression is generally pretty slow in Pirate Galaxy. Levels are referred to as 'ranks' and players will spend their first play session hovering around rank 3-6. The current cap seems to be around 60 and new ships become available along the way. Ships come in various types that generally fall into the classic RPG archetypes. Some ships are designed to take hits, others to deal damage, and others serve the supportive healing role. Unlike most games, the map in each area doesn't start revealed. Instead, each area is charted as players explore it. The urge to discover 100% of each planet is irresistible to completionists and should provide another timesink. A much less optional timesink is the game's energy system…
Energy Buildup
As players fire their weapons, activate their boosters, or perform most other activities, their energy will be depleted. Recovering this energy involves steering towards floating blue balls and harvesting it. Collectors are used to harvest energy, and the speed at which they harvest depends on their quality. The collector players start with is rather slow at the task, so players will have to spend a great deal of time monotonously harvesting energy. The game does offer a shortcut, players can purchase instant energy from the cash shop using the premium currency, gold. Gold is available in four packages with the cheapest being $4.99 for 2500. Replenishing 336 energy instantly costs 300. Not being a fan of division, I'll let you do the math. There are many other advantages for sale at the item shop. Players can purchase temporary experience boosts, speed boosts, and increased item drop rates. Weaponry and Armor boosts are also available, but these only apply when attacking or taking hits from Mantis ships, so PvP remains balanced. There are also three tiers of 30 membership up for sale including Standard, Enhanced, and Elite. Each offers increases in energy caps, buddy list size, clan size, and even gives ships the member controls a special glow! The cash shop certainly offers plenty of progression shortcuts, but doesn't seem to imbalance player vs player gameplay.
Space Pirates
Like BigPoint's similarly themed Dark Orbit, Pirate Galaxy relies on PvP as its main gameplay hook. Players are encouraged to turn on 'Pirate Mode' which is the game's PvP flag. While in Pirate Mode, players can attack and be attacked by other pilots that have it activated. While in this mode, players are granted additional experience off the NPC Mantis drones and ships they destroy. This system incentivizes risk taking and leads to many small-scale PvP encounters. For larger, more organized PvP, players can turn to the game's clan-based planetary conquest system. Player-run clans can wage war for control of certain planets by purchasing Conquest Ships and racing to activate all beacons on that planet before rival clans can. Each star system has at least one planet up for grabs, though the beginner ones are off limits. Being effective at PvP requires having a powerful ship, but its also necessary to have the right ship parts. Most new parts can't just be purchased at a hanger, players must farm Mantis NPCs for special blueprints which unlock the manufacturing of a particular part. The blueprint and Pirate Mode features force players to experience the PvE and PvP elements Pirate Galaxy offers simultaneously. The game is still quite new and additional content and features will undoubtedly be added in the months ahead, but Pirate Galaxy already has enough worth checking out.
Final Verdict: Great
Despite being a browser game, Pirate Galaxy offers a complete MMORPG experience. Missions are always available to give players direction and there are plenty of PvE and PvP elements to explore. The graphics are very impressive and an optional download allows players to play in full screen on the resolution of their choice. Play Pirate Galaxy as a casual web game, or full-screen space MMORPG.
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- Bigpoint Celebrates 300 Million Registered Users Worldwide - Posted on December 5, 2012
Bigpoint has announced today that it has exceeded 300 million registered players on its gaming site, Bigpoint.com.


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What Should I Feed My Dog?
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Smith Brothers Shaped Ear Headstall
This one ear headstall features quality Hermann Oak leather with solid brass hardware. A great value western headstall! Throatlatch helps keep the headstall secure. Tie ends. Dusty medium light finish. Read more...
Smith Brothers is proud to carry this line of quality leather headstalls. Crafted in Hermann Oak harness leather, this shaped ear headstall features a throat latch and tie ends. Crafted in Hermann Oak harness leather, this one-ear headstall features solid brass hardware, burnished edges and skilled workmanship that promise years of use. Dusty medium light finish.
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I love this headstall. i wanted to find something that was slit one ear but i wanted a throat latch. When i got it it was quite stiff but after putting my bit onto it and putting it on my horse, it was soft as butter already. ive had it for 5 years now and its never let me down! Ive boughten 3 more since!
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Teo75 Great product Received on-time and product is looking good. What I love about this is I can select my size. January 13, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by TexasStatePT Slim Fit and Tapered Finding comfortable and durable dress pants for an athletic build and active style for a reasonable price is extremely hard. The slim fit and taper allows me to wear a pant size that fits me and that my wife loves. My lifestyle keeps me active, but I still want to and have to look nice. Love these pants. It is a shame they ran out of my size. January 5, 2015
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Mine is 75, then the injury bug hit (Low Back Fusion and Knee Replacement), now I've settled back into the 80"s and that might be all I can get with my restrictions now. But I love the game and I love my Titleist equipment.
My best ever is 71 on a par 71 course. I played in the late afternoon with my wife and everything just worked. Shots to greens bit and stopped and putts went in. That, though, was pushing 30 years ago. Since then, my best is 73, both from the senior tees and from the regular tees. Of course, GHIN asked me if I was sure that I wanted to post that score since it was out of my normal range. I keep trying to get it down lower, and would like to shoot my age before I turn 70.
67.. shot it 4 times last year and looking to beat it this year!
75 2 x in a 3 day Pro-Am, hiccup in the middle round 90. All 14 clubs were Titleist and still are.
Shot 67 at Plumbrook Golf Club in Sterling Heights, MI with my first hole in one as part of that round...
68 from the middle tees......5 or 6 yrs ago. only time breaking into 60's, and at the time it was only my second time breaking par.
I had just finished getting a bunch of stuff done, that had to get done, and I had problems with getting it done. I was so relieved, my mind was calm, and everything was just so good.
Finished the front and the guy I was playing with said hey you're 1 under.....I said don't worry I can fix that on the back. We got to 17 tee and he said you're 2 under, I thought great all I have to do is bogey out and I have an even par round, birdied 17 and 18 to finish 4 under.
It was a year before I broke par again.
My low score on 18 last year was 74 twice (par 72). Oddly enough the front 9 scores were both -2 with +4 for the back 9, different courses. Hopefully I can learn to hold it together longer during my rounds and shoot par or better this year.
35 on a par 34 2200 yd course (two birdies and 3 bogeys).
42 for 9 holes on a par 37 3200 yard course (I could probably break 40 at the front 9 of Adm Baker since it has three par fives and all the par 4s are under 350 yards). I pretty much score between 84-87 on 6100 yard par 72 courses.
Best score in any 18 hole round: +6 (+2 on front 9 and +4 on back 9 - par 60 course with 200+ yard par 3s).
A few years ago, my friend and I played Otter Creek in Columbus, IN. I played the round of my life and shot 76 from the tips. I missed 2 fairways and 3 greens in the round. It was also the day after a rain storm, and the couse was wet and playing long. Before that, my lowest score was 78 on a much easier course. When I went to enter 76 into the handicap system, the computer argued with me. I wish I could find that swing again.
I have shot 64 twice at River Place CC in Austin TX.
65 with the ProV1X...
Low Score for me is 68 twice at Balboa Park GC in San Diego (Full bag of Titleist gear)
Low score in competition was 73 at Torrey Pines North
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Low Score for me is 68 twice at Balboa Park GC in San Diego (Full bag of Titleist gear)
Low score in competition was 73 at Torrey Pines North
Haven't played Balboa Park in a long time (about 2010 with the wife on the exec course; played the 18 hole course once).
85 with 2 birdies. It's not the best, but so far it is my best. I've been playing about a year and a half.
65. I knew I had a good round going but no idea that it was that low. Shot a modest 35 on the front then blew up the back for a 30. Still have the ball and signed card from the entire group.


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A room humidifier can help you make the dry air in your house fresh, enjoyable and healthy. Since dry air leads to constant coughing, headaches and oftentimes more severe health problems, you need to ensure you install a humidifier in your home to prevent such problems from happening. The following guide will help you pay attention to the most important factors and choose the perfect choice for your home.
Humidifiers are used in homes that are built in desert areas or in rooms that use forced air heating. Since dry air affects people equally, despite their allergies or other health conditions, you can buy one humidifier and use it in every room of your house.
First thing to consider when choosing a humidifier is its type. There are various devices that differ by the method of humidification, size and design. For example, two most common methods use cool or warm mist to moisturize the air. The technologies that distribute the steam from the device also differ. The moisture can be distributed from a humidifier by an evaporator or an ultrasonic device that are installed inside the humidifiers' body. Both types are safe and have almost the same effect. To choose the type that will suit you the most, pay attention to additional features and options that a humidifier can offer.
Next factor to consider when choosing a room humidifier is the style of the device. Specify a place for your future humidifier and then look for the option with compatible design. With a wide variety of options that exist today, you can find a portable, wall- or ceiling-mounted, console and flow-through bypass humidifier. Portability is a helpful and very convenient feature in case you want to use the device for multiple rooms. In other cases, choose the device that will give the best performance and will be easy to install.
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(CNN) — President Obama used his weekly address on Saturday to once again address Americans' frustration with policymakers in Washington, saying, not for the first time, that "there were no winners" in the protracted conflicts over the debt ceiling and the partial government shutdown.
"At a time when our economy needs more growth and more jobs, the manufactured crises of these last few weeks actually harmed jobs and growth," the president said. "And it's understandable that your frustration with what goes on in Washington has never been higher."
Obama did not directly call out Republicans for their role in the shutdown as he has in other recent statements, but rather he used the address to push forward on his second term agenda. Specifically, the president called for Congress to pass a budget that promotes economic growth, to move forward on immigration reform and to pass a new farm bill.
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"There is no choice between growth and fiscal responsibility," Obama said. "We need both. So we're making a serious mistake if a budget doesn't focus on what you're focused on: creating more good jobs that pay better wages. If we're going to free up resources for the things that help us grow -- education, infrastructure, research -- we should cut what we don't need, and close corporate tax loopholes that don't help create jobs."
The president's appeal for immigration reform also will fall on deaf ears for many House Republicans who are unwilling to support any plan that would provide a pathway to citizenship for the nearly 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, a director of Global Industrials, who must decide whether to recommend an investment in ABB India. The decision pits economic development - supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage - caused by the use of coal-fired power plants.
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- Nicotine patch releases nicotine through your skin and into your bloodstream.
- Nicotine gum is chewed slowly, and then stored between the gum and cheek so that the nicotine can be absorbed through the lining of your mouth and into your bloodstream.
- Nicotine lozenges are allowed to dissolve slowly in your mouth to release nicotine at a slow rate.
- Nicotine nasal spray contains small doses of nicotine that are sprayed into your nasal passages and absorbed into your bloodstream.
- Nicotine inhaler contains nicotine that is inhaled through the mouth and is absorbed in the mouth and throat.
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Smoking Cessation Success
American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org
Smokefree.gov http://www.smokefree.gov
Canadian Cancer Society http://www.cancer.ca
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Fiore MC, Jaen CR, Baker TB, et al. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. Clinical Practice Guideline. Rockville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services. Public Health Service. May 2008.
Guide to quit smoking. American Cancer Society website. Available at: http://www.cancer.org/healthy/stayawayfromtobacco/guidetoquittingsmoking/guide-to-quitting-smoking-types-of-nrt. Updated January 17, 2013. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Nicotine. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/. Updated January 18, 2013. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Nicotine lozenges. Colorado QuitLine website. Available at: https://colorado.quitlogix.org/preparing%5Fto%5Fquit/nrt/lozenge.aspx. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Nicotine replacement & other pharmaceutical therapies. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center website. Available at: http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/2553.cfm. Accessed March 8, 2013.
NRTs. Tobacco-Free website. Available at: http://www.tobaccofreeqc.org/quitting/nrts/. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Quit guide. Smokefree.gov website. Available at: http://www.smokefree.gov/qg-index.aspx. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Smokeless tobacco and cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/smokeless. Accessed March 8, 2013.
Using the nicotine patch and lozenge to help you stop smoking. University of Wisconsin Heart and Vascular Center website. Available at: https://www.healthdecision.org/assets/patient%5Fedu%5Fdocs/Nicotine%5FReplacement.pdf. Accessed March 8, 2013.
10/14/2008 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php : Shiffman S, Ferguson SG. Nicotine patch therapy prior to quitting smoking: a meta-analysis. Addiction. 2008;103:557-563.
12/16/2008 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php : Strandberg-Larsen K, Tinggaard M, Nybo Andersen AM, Olsen J, Gronbaek M. Use of nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy and stillbirth: a cohort study. BJOG. 2008;115:1405-1410.
11/13/2009 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php: Piper ME, Smith SS, Schlam TR, et al. A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of 5 smoking cessation pharmacotherapies. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009;66(11):1253-1262.
11/30/2010 DynaMed's Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/what.php : US Food and Drug Administration. Propoxyphene: withdrawal—risk of cardiac toxicity. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/ucm234389.htm. Published November 19, 2010. Accessed November 30, 2010.
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For many, creating a Powerpoint presentation is at the bottom of a long list of things we'd rather be doing, falling somewhere between preparing taxes and being attacked by a Honey Badger. Because of that, many webinar presentations end up looking like this:
Its layout is simple, it provides data in a bullet-list fashion, has incredible clip-art and more importantly, uses Comic Sans. However, if you've been on the audience side of a presentation (virtually via a webinar or in person) using slides like the above example, then you know the problem: the information while at its core is exciting (2012 Marketing Goals, 70% increase in Webinar traffic, etc) but these messages are often buried in text that, while important, isn't usually the key message the presenter is trying to convey.
To give an example of how you can make your PowerPoint presentation more visually attractive while maintaining your message, I wanted to start with a simple guide on some PowerPoint basics to showcase what you can do with PowerPoint if you know some simple tricks. Through future posts, I'll show more complicated tricks in regard to laying out more complex information, but to start, I wanted to showcase some simple and easy tips with the assumption that if you're reading this, you've used PowerPoint to some degree in the past.
Below, I'll show you how you can take the above slide and split it into a title slide using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.
Finding a relevant background image.
Creating a presentation with visual impact isn't just about using fancy background images. Your slide should speak in simple terms, through both written content and imagery. This doesn't mean that your images have to beat your audience over the head with obvious imagery to match your text. A slide about Dog Ownership with a background image of a chewed-up remote communicates a different message than one with a background image full of adorable puppies.
The goal, when finding a suitable background image, is to find one that both speaks to your slides message and is simple and clean, providing an obvious area where your text or data can be placed in a legible fashion.
As we're looking to make a title slide for ACME's 2012 Marketing goals, I decided to go with a stock image purchased from iStockphoto of a dartboard with a large dark gradient background that provides ample room for text. As well, it being a dartboard makes me look incredibly clever.
Cropping and positioning.
Once you've decided on a background image, import your image by:
- Selecting the Insert tab.
- Click on Picture.
Position your background image on your slide, keeping in mind its relation to the PowerPoint slide frame below it. In this example, I made sure my stock Dartboard image would cover the entire slide so that I'd have some liberties in regards to positioning and how far in I zoomed my image. Depending on the size of your background image, you may need to spend some time scaling your image until you find a suitable size that makes the full use of your available slide-canvas. (Presentation Zen has a great article on using the Rule of Thirds in your image positioning ).
Once you've determined your layout, you'll want to crop your background image to remove any overlap of your image. To crop your image:
- Click on your background image.
- Select the Format tab.
- Under Size, click Crop.
- Grab the Crop Handles that appear around the edges of your background image.
- Crop your borders until they snap to the slide canvas in the background.
- Once satisfied with your adjustments, click Crop to finish.
Tip: Cropped background images can quickly make your PowerPoint file become bloated in terms of file-size based on how PowerPoint crops images. PowerPoint allows you to compress your presentation file to help reduce its size which becomes especially crucial if you need to email your finished presentation. To compress your images:
- Click on the Format tab
- Under Adjust, click on Compress Pictures
Text formatting and layout.
The trick to creating a powerful slide is to resist the urge to data-dump. As in this guide, we're just making a title slide, this may seem less an issue but you'd be surprised in how often people feel pressure to over-inform. Keep your text simple and to the point so your audience will focus on the message of the webinar, not digesting a page of text.
When creating your text layed over a background image, you'll want to pay close attention to contrast. Obvious examples to avoid are white text/white backgrounds but also keep in mind that depending on your background, the busier the background, the harder it will be to find both a size and color that allows your text to be legible as well as pleasing to the eye.
As my Dartboard background has a dark blue area, I went with the Tahoma typeface using a white font color.
Alternating layouts often gets overlooked when entering text. Usually, its easier to use a large text box and enter your text in at the same size and move on. However, if you have the time, providing slight alterations in size, emphasis (bolding, italics) and colors can help with making a slide more engaging in terms of design.
PowerPoint also has some helpful layout features that make on-the-fly alignment easier. In the below example, I added a second text-box with Tahoma at a smaller size, dragging the text box until it aligns with the 2012 above it correctly, using the auto-align guides in PowerPoint to help.
Something you may have noticed in PowerPoint is that text can be oddly spaced when entered by default. To combat this, PowerPoint has a spacing option under the Home tab that gives a set of quick spacing pre-sets that can help when your text spacing just doesn't seem right.
Breaking up your text using shapes. To break up the text, I decided to add a background rectangle below 2012 Marketing Goals where I wanted to place the name of Company and Team giving the presentation.
However, I wanted to make the background rectangle subtle and instead of using a stark white background, PowerPoint allows you to adjust the transparancy (opacity) of a shape using the Format Shape menu. To format your the transparancy of a shape:
- Right click on your shape.
- Select Format Shape from the menu.
- Under Fill, adjust the Transparency slider to the % desired.
- Click Ok.
Layering in PowerPoint.
Something to keep in mind with PowerPoint is that items added to your slide (images, text, shapes, etc) exist in a certain layer order. Because of this, a shape added after text can mean that the shape itself, even if opaque, will sit on top of your text. While not always an issue, if your background shape is transparent white, it can dull the text below it by overlapping colors. In PowerPoint (versus programs like Photoshop), adjusting the layer position of a selected item exists through sending an item forward or backward. To send your background rectangle backward:
- Right click on your shape.
- Select Send to Back.
- Select Send Backward.
- Repeat this process until the shape or item is in the layer position you desire.
Sizing to match.
While you can enter text into a shape, I prefer to separate my elements in case I decide at a later time that I want to change a specific element (ex: Deleting a background shape, adding more text, etc). This allows your elements to act independantly which can save frustration down the road.
Final thoughts.
While of course, I only covered taking a busy slide and separating a part of into a title slide, the same practices shown above can be used to create additional slides from our original. Again, the key take-away should be identifying the key message in your slide and making it prominent and simple. Below is an example of taking our original slide and one of the powerful statistics mentioned (70% increase in Webinar attendance) and making it a prominent message not buried in text. The below example was created using the same tricks above but shows that often, with PowerPoint presentations, less is often more.
Brandon Hess works at ReadyTalk as a Product Marketing Manager. Starting his initial career as a web designer, Brandon eventually decided that the web could design itself just fine and that his true interest was in marketing. Following his passion through the agency, startup and newspaper industries, he eventually found his way home inside the wonderful walls of ReadyTalk. In his free time, he enjoys debating why Lord of the Rings is superior to Harry Potter, collecting all things Batman and answering questions about his height (6'8" by the way).
Name: QuoraTime: Thursday, February 16, 2012How do I make PowerPoint slides look elegant and designy?... One of the tips we give our customers is to keep it simple. Some times it makes sense to make a slide for each bullet rather than one slide with a bulleted list. You might be interested in this blog post: http://www.readytalk.com/blog/2012/02/14/how-t...
Name: ReadyTalk Blog » Blog Archive » Take ATime: Wednesday, March 7, 2012[...] marketing manager like me, with a deep respect for all things Batman, kicked off a series on making your PowerPoint presentation more impactful. The most important goal of any PowerPoint presentation should be to get your key message across, [...]


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