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Exploring Protein Functional Relationships Using Genomic Information and Data Mining Techniques
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Anapproach that uses both supervised and unsupervised learning methods for exploring protein functional relationships is reported; we refer to this as Maximum Contrast (MC) tree. The tree is constructed by performing a hierarchical decomposition of the feature space; this step is performed regardless of complex nature of protein functions, i.e. it performs this decomposition even without knowledge of the protein functional class labels. In order to test our algorithm, we have constructed a library of Protein Phylogenetic Profiles for the proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae with 60 species. Results showed our algorithm compares favorably to other classification algorithms such as the decision tree algorithms C4.5, C5, and to support vector machines.
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- Exploring Protein Functional Relationships Using Genomic Information and Data Mining Techniques
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- Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing — ICANN/ICONIP 2003
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- Joint International Conference ICANN/ICONIP 2003 Istanbul, Turkey, June 26–29, 2003 Proceedings
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Hola amigo de la musica,
stunning job. These are well deserved sales. I wonder where you've been the last 1 1/2 years since you are here? Working on the track? haha, just kidding
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Well with the servers down for the rest of the night, now is a good time for me to dicuss what I personally think about the game. I've always been a fan of World of Warcraft. I often find that many MMORPG developers seek to emulate the success of WoW but either do it shoddily, or they fail to fully encapsulate all of what makes WoW so successful. Being a huge Star Wars fan since I first got the movies (the original original trilogy) for my 5th birthday, I've always thought a traditional MMORPG set within the Star Wars universe would be something amazing. When BioWare finally announced The Old Republic, I was ecstatic. Knights of the Old Republic is one of my favorite games of all time and an MMORPG version of KOTOR meant that I could now combine two of my favorite passions into one activity. All previous beta experiences aside, after playing through level 26, I can now say that I am very pleased at what BioWare has given us; however, I'm not so naive as to say the game is flawless. In fact, that is far from the case. The Old Republic has a number of issues that will impact one's ability to enjoy the game if they aren't already fans of the source material.
For starters, the quests and cutscenes are all very well done. If you can stomach sitting through cutscenes and heaps of dialogue, those additions really change the way you think about questing. No longer are you running to faceless camps filled with NPCs all in a nice line with exclamation marks over their heads with nondescript stories telling yout o go out and kill 10 rats. You engage in a dialogue with every quest NPC which gives them life and a character not seen in any other MMORPG. While some quests are fairly standard, many side quests are tiny self contained stories with moral choices similar to those found in the main story. Most of the standard kill/collect quests are in the form of bonus quests which you get in each area. They are totally optional to progression, and after the starter planet, I skipped them entirely. Every planet has a large amount of group quests which, in some cases, are like miniature flashpoint instances that take place within group phases. Given that the main story quest is the one questline which pushes you from area to area, you are not required to finish all sidequests in a linear sequence in order to progress. You may chose to entirely ignore certain side missions if you have made up the XP loss in PvP or if you simply are ready to get off a certain planet. Occasionally, new quests will pop up in old areas which reference your past deeds which you may miss entirely if you don't know where to look. Each archtype has its own storyline, so each side has a total of four main stories. Of course, all side quests are the same for each respective faction.
While the main story for each archtype class is different, the fact that all side missions are the same per faction may pose an issue when leveling alts. I would like to experience all the stories, but I'm not sure I want to be bothered with grinding through the same plethora of side missions over and over and over. As a result, more than anything, I'm tempted to role a member of the oposing faction for an alt. Of course, if I do that I won't be able to be in contant with my guild or anyone on my buddy list, and after I finish a character on the opposing faction, what then? SW:TOR and all new MMORPGs need multiple leveling paths even if it's just two potential zones per level range. Going through each zone is fun the first time, but repeating the same content so soon after completing it the first time is going to get old.
One thing though -- the running. Oh my goodness, the running! Contrary to the beliefs of most people, I feel as if BioWare got it right with the scale of the starter planets. They're the perfect size for the quests you must complete. Every planet after that is needlessly big with nothing but filler hallways or (in the case of planets like Tatooine), empty space. You'll constantly get quests telling you to go one direction and another from the same quest hub telling you to go somewhere across the map. I wouldn't have an issue with this if the planets were fun to explore, but as a matter of opinion, the planets are all relatively generic. Once you step foot on the planet, you've pretty much seen all there is to see. The rest of the planet is just the same generic tileset spread out over 2, 3, or 4 different maps. It's almost as if BioWare heard the cries of jaded sandbox fanatics and decided to make every planet after the starter worlds large just for the sake of having large worlds. Of course, you do get a spring skill at level 14 and a speeder at level 25, but the running is still annoying and it reaks of old school WoW. In regards to the speeder, riding training is expensive and harkens back to the days of WoW where you had to save up tons of money at that level in order to afford a mount. I did not like that then and I don't like it now. While people are saying they're leaving the starter planet with upwards of 25k gold, I have to question what they are doing. Having never purchased a single bag upgrade, I've only had about 31k even at level 26, and I don't usually have that much for very long due to skill upgrades being so frequent and so expensive.
The cutscenes are storylines are BioWare's major innovations, but that could be an issue. For those of us who are drawn into the game through the cutscenes, this is nearly a genre changing feature; however, not everyone cares so much about storylines and quest NPCs with personality. I'm sure there's a lot of players out there who are wearing out the spacebar as I write this, and for those people, I wonder if SW:TOR will truly hold their interest for a long period of time. Perhaps it's easy to say that the game simply wasn't made for them, and perhaps that is exactly the case, but it could create a problem for BioWare if most of the players currently clogging the login servers are the ones that love spamming the spacebar. The problem is that when you take out the voice acting and when you take out the cutscenes and story, you're leff with World of Warcraft ,minus a few key exceptions, in a Star Wars setting, and I can't imagine those people sticking around very long.
A couple of the key exceptions I am refering to are companion characters and crew skills. I find these phenomenal additions to the WoW formula. In SW:TOR you have three major "crafting" skills. You can gather materials and craft items using those materials, but you can also send your companions on certain "missions" which bring materials, credits, and rare loot drops. Your companion characters can craft, do missions, and gather materials all while you're adventuring, making this a huge step forward in traditional crafting mechanics. Taking a page from KOTOR, most items have slots where they can be modified with additional loot items. In theory, you can take a statless piece of gear and make it entirely equivalent to some of the best equipment in the game through modification. When a companion character is running errands for you, he, she, or it is fighting by your side akin to a henchman from Guild Wars Nightfall. You can even outfit your companion with armor and weapon upgrades exactly like you do your player character. Add those two things to the WoW formula and would that make the difference for people deciding whether to stay or to go back to WoW to await the panda invasion? Only they can say.
Space combat is another exception to the WoW formula, but it's such a minor part of the game that I doubt people will judge whether or not they stay or leave based on how great it is. Honestly though, I enjoyed the on-rails space combat. Panzer Dragoon II is another one of my favorite games of all time, and Star Fox is one of the most widely acclaimed video game franchises in history, so I'm not sure where all the hate comes from in regards to the space mini-game especially when you consider none of the KOTOR games ever had spaceflight. All they had was a turret minigame. That said, I honestly believe on-rail shooters present cinematic action better than a flight sim or even a more arcade style space flight game like Rogue Squadron ever could. Complete more than just the first mission to get a real feel for how fun it is. The battles are intense and all look phenomenal. In fact, space combat is probably the best looking portion of the entire game. You can earn badges and purchase equipment upgrades for your ship in order to more easily complete additional missions as well. I look forward to seeing how much BioWare expands upon this mechanic.
So far, I have completed every flashpoint for my level at least once, and so far, they are all extremely fun. The first flashpoint had a hefty amount of group dialogue and cutscenes which, I think, caused a lot of people to think all flashpoints would be that way; however, that isn't the case. Think of the first flashpoint as an introduction to the fun that is multiplayer conversations. The rest of the flashpoints that I have completed weren't all that different from what you would find in WoW or Rift, though I'm sure future flashpoints do have additional story content. Bosses were appropriately challenging and required strategies similar to what you see in WoW.
Quest and dugeon rewards are largely appropriate. At times, I feel as if they throw too much at you where I'm constantly asking myself "Ok, do I upgrade my own armor, do I upgrade companion 1's weapon, do I take this new chestpiece for companion 2, or do I take this commendation so I can buy something really nice later?" I would prefer if companion gear upgrades were given in addition to gear upgrades for youself. Speaking of commedations, badge grinding starts early in SW:TOR. Every planet as commendation badges which you can loot of random mobs, gain as quest rewards, or obtain from flashpoints. There are commendation merchants for gear and for modifications and the gear quality is at least the equivalent of blues in WoW. I enjoyed the flashpoints, but I foresee an issue with the way they are set up. Currently, all flashpoints are accessed through a singular location -- the fleet center which is basiclally the closest thing SW:TOR has to a faction capital. It's a great idea; however, it can be a pain getting together a group for a flashpoint unless every person who wants to run it is also waiting around in the fleet center. There's no galaxy wide LFG channel, and most players see fit to grind out the levels on the individual planets rather than wasting time trying to form groups in the fleet center. if there's not going to be a dungeon finder in the near future, BioWare should at least add a galaxy wide LFG channel to facilitate locating groups.
In terms of graphics, I'm not quite sure what's going on with SW:TOR. The textures in-game look low resolution and pixelated; however, the graphics in cutscenes are as smooth and vibrant as we've seen in all the screenshots. Given that BioWare has made no official statement regarding this, many people believe that this is how the game is supposed to look, and perhaps they are correct. While trying to examine this issue, I turned my textures from high to medium and noticed absolutely nothing happened whereas a change from low to medium required a re-load. This leads me to believe that high quality textures are, for some reason, missing from the game or at least disabled except for when in the middle of a cutscene. Why this is the case is anyone's guess, but I would assume there's a problem with the game engine. SW:TOR is a resource hog when it shouldn't be. There's a nasty trend where many MMORPG developers sacrifice graphics quality to allow the game to be played on a variety of systems, yet World of Warcraft remains pretty much the only MMORPG released without some game engine related issue. Playing this game using two different video cards at different occasions, SW:TOR causes the cards to run much hotter and if I'm not mistaken, a day spent in Taris nearly caused me to overheat. Framerates are all over the map. In some cases, I'll get around 30 FPS then rotate the camera ever so slightly and suddenly be upwards of 60. I would assume many of these issues are related to why we can't use the high quality textures in normal play. Because of this; however, the game can go from looking acceptable to good to downright awful depending on the area you're in. Certain areas tend to highlight the ugly textures more than others, and to make matters worse, an option foranti-aliasing has been removed and this game is in real need for it. While it can be enabled via an ini file tweak, this may cause additional graphical issues.
Aside from that SW:TOR has numerous tiny issues that have been eating at me lately. For one, it isn't polished. It's actually incredibly buggy. I haven't encountered anything game breaking, but the number of graphical glitches are astounding. Many times in a cutscene, the camera will randomly shake as if the planet is in the middle of an earthquake. Strange neon green lines jot out from the ground and shoot across the map in certain areas along with some red lines and other glitchy graphics. It's doubtful this is just my system as, once again, I've encountered these issues across two different video cards, and for the green lines at least, many players in an earlier beta reported seeing them as well. While I haven't gotten stuck in combat yet (the bane of Rift), my character and my companion are often stuck with our lightsabers on as we run across the map for several seconds. On occasion, a mob will slam my companion into the ground and she will stay there, magically teleporting next to me face down in the dirt as I move through the area as if I was playing Everquest and dragging someone's corpse. In Tatooine, I ran across a valley where nearly all Sand People were glitched where I could only remain in combat with them for about 3 seconds before they would revert back to full health. I'm sure there are others, but they are numerous and tiny. It would be difficult for me to recount every instance of a glitch given that I haven't exactly been keeping a log. Secondly, SW:TOR is fresh out of the box without numerous features that I consider to be standard for MMORPGs. The UI cannot be resized. There are no guild banks. There is no add-on support. There's not even little icons beside the quest tracker for when you need to use an item for a quest. Like in oldschool WoW, you have to manually place that item on your hot bar to use it. In my mind, the biggest offender is going to be the lack of a respec option. This isn't such a big deal for me since all I have are DPS talent trees, but for classes who can spec between tanking/dmg or healing/dmg are going to hate this system. Certain skill trees are better for PvP when they may not be entirely viable for PvE as well. Sure, there are respec NPCs in fleet centers, and the first respec is free, but the price for a respec ramps up quickly, and I doubt it will be viable to continually switch between specs. I'm not sure what BioWare was thinking with this, but that sort of omission is truly unacceptable. Other players have other issues as well, and perhaps I do, but because none of them are coming to me at the moment, they must not have concerned me as much as the lack of the features listed above.
I think, however, at the end of the day, whether or not SW:TOR is a huge success is going to depend largely on how many people buy into the BioWare formula within an MMORPG. Millions of people logged thousands of hours into KOTOR, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age; however, this is an MMORPG not a single player game. Will it become a problem for people going from quest NPC to quest NPC listening to the traditional BioWare style dialogue system? At what point will players get bored with this and begin treating it as WoW with lightsabers? Will they ever? Honestly, I don't think any of us can say at the moment. SW:TOR is a great game and is most likely going to be a success if for no other reason than the fact that it gives Star Wars fans a new MMO to call home. After all, if all those people can play the garbage that was NGE SWG for all those years, surely they can play and enjoy SW:TOR for a long time to come. Additionally, it's probably the most well funded MMORPG on the market outside of WoW published by a developer of considerable reputation which will draw an audience. If BioWare can sell SW:TOR's playerbase on the game's story mechanics, if they can fix the numerous bugs, and if they can add all those common features found in other recently created MMORPGs, I predict the game will be a success. If not, at the worst, I feel as if this game will perform similarly to Rift, LotRO, and EQ2 all who posessed and continue to posses a healthy subscriber base for quite some time.
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What are your system specs? I run an ATI 5770, 8gb ram and an X4 965 BE and haven't encountered any of those graphical errors so far (fingers crossed). Nor does my card over heat, I feel that BW have nailed down a basic foundation of an MMORPG formula that nutrtured properly will grow to become an awesome game. Let's hope they took note of the SWG debacle which BTW is shutting down today!
Nice write up though.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
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AMD Phenom X6 1090T
Happened on an XFX 5870 as well.
I monitor my GPU temps now, and I haven't seen the GPU go over 84 degrees (Taris may have been a different story), but the fan seems louder when playing SW:TOR than it does in any other game. When I had the 5870, it was pratically screaming.
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The only thing I can suggest is to check the drivers and update if needed but I'm sure you already did that.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
Originally posted by Kalfer
I'm not pushing an agenda either for or against hte game. That much should be clear after reading my write-up.
It's how I "honestly" feel about this game.
Gotta love this community...
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Next time you gonna make such a topic put a WARNING : Wall of Text, in front.
I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it
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Thank you for that excellent review.
I'm not a star wars fan and am more than happy running around in Lotro for my lore fix, but if I was a star wars fan your review would certainly motivate me to give it a try.
Sometimes playing: GW2, Lotro (lifetimer), ESO, SWTOR
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Good review. Thanks.
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Originally posted by Kalfer
I would agree with you that it is up to everyone else to decide if he (or any speaker) is being honest. However, unless there is some kind of genuine question about his honesty, then (and I mean this politely) I just see your whole point as moot.
Is it our job, not his, to decide if his review is honest? Yes. Does that mean he can't use a commonly used phrase in a thread title? No. Let me back this point up though with the rest of this post...
The two are not mutually exclusive...just because "he is not the one to call himself trustworthy," doesn't mean that he shouldn't use a phrase such as "honest opinion" if he was just trying to say, "Hey, here is my opinion, it is a genuine opinion that I put a lot of thought into. I am trying to give it to you straight."
The context matters here. He isn't a member of the community that is under suspicious for being dishonest or scandalous. When he typed "honest opinion," I bet he wasn't trying to invoke the most loaded form of the phrase possible...i.e.: "I AM AN HONEST GUY. I DO NOT LIE. HERE ARE MY OPINIONS, WHICH YOU SHOULD TRUST AND ADOPT AS YOUR OWN, BECAUSE I AM TRUSTWORTHY AND WANT THIS GAME TO SUCCEED/FAIL."
I just don't think he meant all that. It's just a common, fluffy phrase. You're reacting as if he meant it as more than that/as if he meant to use the super loaded form of the phrase.
Originally posted by Kalfer
This community is filled with anal retentive people who take stupid crap too seriously. You're a prime example.
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Holy wall of text Batman!!!! Nothanks
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"The one you call messiah is a lie"--- Gary Numan
Originally posted by Kalfer
Kind of a self defeating hypothesis isn't it? Who are you to say you're entire point isn't a heap of bantha poo?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
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Great review i'm almost expriencing those green lines althought they are far less than they were in the thanksgiving beta.
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I am a gamer not because I have no life, But because I choose to have MANY
It took me 2 mins just to scroll down to the bottom of the post,
I'm lazy can anyone sum up what OP said in one sentence?
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"The one you call messiah is a lie"--- Gary Numan
Originally posted by thedealerx
Decent game that has managed to reproduce the WoW formula unlike others before it, many faults but none are game breaking. He is experiencing graphical errors and his GPU's have been overheating causing trouble, he still has yet to discover the source of these errors but overall is pleased with the game.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
Originally posted by Agricola1
How is that a hypothesis? And how am I arguing that? Because I'm not, silly.
Only difference is that I am not wearing a tag going all like "ohh here is an unbiased opinion TROLOLOLOLO".
People are going to judge me anyway, so f**k it. meh. Doesn't matter if I try to reasure them with crappy slogans and statements about how my opinion is valid due to my gaming expertise.
But I certainly am convinced that I am better than 95% of all of ya who fly around the points, and let your emotions run amok. I'm like a real life fat jedi - I'm not affected by emotions and all that. I don't care, and that is why I win!
It might sound arrogant but it ain't really. It's just me making my claim that him labeling himself as honest, makes me more suspcious of him. That's all what I'm about in this thread - And I am 100% right. Everyone else is just arguing semantics I think.
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Originally posted by Kalfer
Bare facts - He's posted his opinion about a game he's just played, letting people know what he thinks.
You've joined the thread to have a go at him about his thread title and using the word 'honest', then turned the thread into a flame war, then said you arent arrogant but that you are 100% right and better than everyone else.
You are a prime example of the complete nobs on this forum who feel that making 'posts' is an art form that only you understand and you have the right to pull everyone else down. You've made this entire thread about you, and it was about a game originally.
Funnily, you ignored the only post so far that actually highlights what you are;
"This community is filled with anal retentive people who take stupid crap too seriously. You're a prime example."
Have a long hard think to yourself... 'I just saw a thread and decided I needed to criticise the poster for his title..." Then read the previous quote again.
Im sure you will pick holes in my post too, and try to reflect my own comments back at me to "win the day!". But seriously, you need to get a life mate
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Originally posted by Kalfer
Or, maybe most people who use the expression "honest opinion" are really trying to give a more honest opinion than usual? Only super-trolls use "honest opinion" as means to give a less honest opinion.
As for "Everybody lies. First rule of House": yes everybody lies, but far from always and the extent of the lies does not need to be large either.
Originally posted by AndyPreston
You're greatly mistaken.
He posted his opinion in a thread on a online discussion board to get feedback. I gave feedback regarding a statement he made. One I thought was silly. One which made me more suspcious of him. He retorted in anger - Claiming that his own thread was stupid crap (I won't presume to know) and that I am anal retentive. I don't even know what that is.
I could have been one of the many posters in this thread who dismissed the OP due to his wall of text. That's not very informative . That's not very good for having a discussion.
You give me too much credit. It takes other people to make the thread, or subject about me. The OP was the one who made it about me, and then you further indulged him. I don't need to make the thread about me. I know myself. I would rather help the OP, to fix the error of his ways. His ways of withdrawing other people. The way he choose to handle this thread has not worked out so well for him, and that is nobody elses fault than his own.
In fact I am one of the best posters on this board. I say what comes to mind, even if it's not the popular opinion, and that is much more healthy for a discussion. I have not called anyone names, or labelled anyone anything. I merely distanced myself and questioned the morale compass of a person who proclaims himself honest.
Your pee is boiling because you're are on a trainwreck, and I am right. I was not the one with my hands in the cookie jar. You sir, are the wrong one!
Originally posted by InFaVilla
That is true. I can't disagree with this. I guess, by your example, I read the OP's thread title as a "super troll".
I won't dispute this at all.
But let me asking you this friend - When looking at the state of this forum, and the way it is being moderated - by both fanboys and haters, would you really truly, fault a man(or a woman) for taking such stance?


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As of 1989, the organisation acknowledges a Patron - the Head of the Commonwealth; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - and a Vice Patron, the head of state or of the government of the branch holding the upcoming conference. The association's supreme authority is the General Assembly, constituted by delegates to the annual Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. The business and activities are managed by an Executive Committee, which reports to the General Assembly. The association's funds are obtained from membership fees paid by its branches, as well as from two trust funds and various other sources.
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ESCONDIDO -- The Escondido Sports Center is forming an indoor soccer league for boys and girls ages 10-14. Registration starts Jan. 12 at the center, 3315 Bear Valley Parkway. Cost is $349 per team. Call (760) 839-5439, or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com .
GFWC Poway Woman's Club meets Jan. 13
POWAY-- The GFWC Poway Woman's Club will meet at 10 a.m. Jan. 13 at Templar's Hall, Old Poway Park, 14134 Midland Road. Guests welcome. Call (858) 748-4492.
Book club to meet at Escondido library
ESCONDIDO -- The Escondido Public Library will host its 2nd Tuesday Book Club meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 13 in the main library's board room, 239 S. Kalmia. This month's selection is "House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton. The book club will continue on Feb. 10 with a discussion of "Beneath a Marble Sky" by John Shors. "Little Black Book of Stories" by A.S. Byatt will be the book for March 10. Call (760) 839-4839 or visit library.escondido.org .
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ESCONDIDO -- The East Valley Association will meet at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 14 at 2247 E. Valley Parkway. Visit eastvalleyassociation.org .
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VALLEY CENTER -- The Pauma Valley Community Association and the Lions Club will present Edgar Cruz in concert at 7 p.m. Jan. 14 at the Maxine Theater, 31322 Cole Grade Road. All proceeds will be used in the community. Tickets cost $20 for adults and $10 for students, and can be purchased at the door or online at maxine.vcpusd.net .
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LOS ANGELES -- Cal State Los Angeles is one of six colleges statewide where teachers will walk off their jobs for two days if negotiations fail to produce a new contract with the 23-campus California State University system, union officials announced today.
The list does not include Cal State Fullerton or Long Beach.
The union agreed to a 10-day cooling off period on Sunday, but officials said if a pact is not reached by the new April 6 deadline, rolling strikes will begin April 10 at Cal State Los Angeles and the California Maritime Academy.
Faculty at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State East Bay, Cal State Sacramento and Cal State San Marcos plan to strike April 11 and 12 if there is no new contract.
Lillian Taiz with the California Faculty Association said about 600 of the 1,100 faculty members at Cal State L.A are expected to walk a picket line.
CSU and union officials have been negotiating for the past 22 months to resolve issues including salary and parking fees for faculty. The current contract has been extended several times.
Fulltime faculty make an average of $43,000 a year, while tenured professors make an average of $71,000 a year, according to the union.
Last week, CSU teachers voted to authorize a strike if negotiations fail. Union officials said if there is a walkout, it would be the largest university strike in U.S. history.
"We believe it is in the best interest of everyone, including Chancellor (Charles B.) Reed and his administration, to settle this contract," Taiz said.
"We have been disappointed before. We've been pushing this particular rock up the hill for two long years. We are 10 feet from the top, we simply can't stop now."
Union officials hope students will join faculty members on the picket lines.
"We believe this is an incredibly teachable moment," Taiz said.
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A federal arbitrator spent several weeks talking with both sides and issued a "fact finder" report with recommendations including a significant pay hike for faculty, which is the major sticking point for the teachers.
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CSU Chancellor Reed said Skratek was trying to be fair to both sides, and system officials said they would use the report as a basis for a settlement agreement.
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One-on-one with Rondo
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"I was very competitive growing up. I hated to lose," said Rondo. "Always wanted to win at no matter what I did, whether it was Connect 4 or on the football field. Everything I played, every sport I played, I wanted to be number one. I never settled for two. I was a sore loser . . . I played everything growing up. Basketball, baseball, football, soccer, track, Connect 4, cards, tic-tac-toe. I didn't want to lose anything, and I think that's where my competitiveness comes from. I always wanted to be the best."
In the video above, he also expounds on his relationship with coach Doc Rivers:
"It's come a long way from my first year. It was rough, yeah. Especially with me getting drafted and thinking I'm going to play my first year because this is a young team . . . [but I] didn't play much, and we were losing, so I figured I could help the team.
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NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart Hits and Kills Another Driver at Race
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NASCAR driver Tony Stewart hit and killed another driver who was walking on a track during a dirt-track race in New York on Saturday, CNN reports.
According to authorities, Kevin Ward Jr. died from injuries he suffered at the Empire Super Sprints series event at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
After his sprint car hit the outside wall during lap 14 of the 25-lap race, a video of the incident shows Ward out of his crashed car and walking on the track toward the race cars, which had slowed for a yellow flag. Ward appears to be yelling as he points a finger, and one car swerves to avoid Ward on the track.
Stewart's car then passes close to Ward and it looks like the right tire hits him. An ambulance then took Ward to a hospital, but he died before the ambulance arrived.
Ontario County Sheriff Philip C. Povero told reporters that Stewart has "fully cooperated" with the investigation and that he "acknowledges the collision with the driver."
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Posted: 11/05/2008 - A small city in Japan is celebrating Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election.
Posted: 11/05/2008 - There's an elementary school in Indonesia that's celebrating Barack Obama's victory in the Presidential election.
Posted: 11/05/2008 - Barack Obama has accepted John McCain's concession and has asked his Republican rival for help in leading the country.
Posted: 11/05/2008 - House Democrats solidified their control of the northeast and made gains in the South on Tuesday by defeating Republicans from Connecticut to Arizona as they pushed for historic gains in their majority.
Posted: 11/05/2008 - Hundreds of supporters at an uptown restaurant spilled into the streets with the election of Barack Obama.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - Several counties here in Eastern North Carolina topped 70% voter turnout for this year's presidential election.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States, the first African-American elevated to the White House.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - As Republican John McCain's election night rally wore on, organizers temporarily stopped broadcasting the returns overhead and announced few results, as if not to put a damper on the party.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - Republican Rep. Walter Jones has won his eighth term representing North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District by defeating Democratic challenger Craig Weber.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - Democrats have ousted incumbent Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina and John Sununu in Hampshire on Tuesday. They also have won two other seats held by retiring GOP senators in Virginia and New Mexico.
Posted: 11/04/2008 - Rep. G.K. Butterfield has defeated Republican challenger Dean Stephens in North Carolina's 1st Congressional District.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - Unofficial election results show Obama with 12,106 votes more than Republican rival John McCain.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - NBC News and The Associated Press both are projecting that Kay Hagan wins the senate seat currently held by Elizabeth Dole.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper will keep his job for another four years.
Updated: 11/05/2008 - Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory has conceded the North Carolina's governor's race to Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - Many Americans endured long lines to vote. Tim Robbins had to get a court order before he was allowed to cast his vote for president.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - Democratic former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner breezed to victory in his bid for the Senate on Tuesday, snagging a southern seat long held by Republicans.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - John McCain has taken four of the five electoral votes in Nebraska. North Carolina, Virginia and Florida are among the states that are still too close to call.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - North Carolina's largest counties reported little or no waits at polling sites throughout much of the day, and some precincts only had a trickle of voters coming to cast a ballot.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - An Associated Press exit poll finds six in 10 voters across the country picked the economy as the most important issue facing the nation.
Posted: 11/04/2008 - Democrats sought to pad their House majority at the polls Tuesday in heavy early congressional balloting.
Updated: 11/04/2008 - Voters in 11 states were choosing governors Tuesday, deciding close contests in North Carolina and Washington as Republicans tried to chip away at the Democrats' slim majority of gubernatorial seats.
Posted: 11/04/2008 - A ballot tabulation machine broke down for a few minutes at the Pactolus Precinct in Pitt County this morning.
Posted: 11/04/2008 - Both political parties want it in Raleigh. Here's a look at where it stands.
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Coaches blast ARL commission decision to ban shoulder charge
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- November 21, 2012
RUGBY league's leading coaches, including Wayne Bennett, Geoff Toovey and Ricky Stuart, have condemned the ARL Commission's brazen decision to outlaw the shoulder charge.
A season of ugly incidents convinced the commission to stamp out the controversial tackle - whether it is high or not - from next year.
Like the long-standing law in rugby union, any shoulder charge will now earn an immediate penalty at all levels of the game.
And as always, any shoulder charge that makes contact with the head will be severely dealt with by the match review committee.
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ARLC football operations director Nathan McGuirk made the recommendation to ban the tackle at a board meeting in Sydney yesterday.
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On the birth anniversary day of the 'Father of the Nation,' the Congress reiterated its commitment to empowerment of the rural people through strengthening of the Panchayati Raj system. The party president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson, Sonia Gandhi, herself came down to this district town to announce her faith in the grass-root level democratic processes in the country on the day which also happened to be the golden jubilee of the launch of the Panchayati Raj system on October 2, 1959, by the first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, at the very venue.
"The Congress believes in empowering the people through democracy. Strengthening the Panchayati Raj system is empowering people," Ms. Gandhi said addressing a massive gathering in the unusually hot afternoon.
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It was the second visit of Ms. Gandhi to the town in the past five months and there was even a sense of familiarity with the place and people in her tone. "India is the country of villages. If only the rural people feel that they have the power in their hands to take decisions on their own development we can say that the country is fully democratic," Ms. Gandhi said.
While major announcements of the day including a hike in the remunerations of the elected members of the panchayati raj bodies including panch, sarpanch, pramukhs and pradhans, were left to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj C.P. Joshi, Ms. Gandhi confined herself to the theme of empowerment, the deficiencies in the system and the party's commitment to diversification of powers. The sapling planted by Pandit Nehru in Nagaur 50 years back survived but it went through a series of trials and tribulations, she noted.
The Congress president, who reiterated the views of earlier speakers, senior party leader, Ramniwas Mirdha and former Union Minister for Panchayati Raj Manishanker Aiyar—who is now in charge of the Congress cell on Panchayat Raj—that the system had its enemies and did not deliver the way it was expected by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru said: "The Panchaayti Raj got weakened due to deficiencies in the system such as power politics and bureaucratic interference. The elections were delayed in some States for inordinate periods," she said recollecting the amendments which the late Rajiv Gandhi brought about as Prime Minister to make it mandatory to have time-bound elections to the Panchaytai Raj bodies.
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Several months ago, when the legendary Chicago indie-rock club Lounge Ax closed, I asked roots-scene fixture Chris Mills to share his favorite memories of the place. He proudly recalled getting his face bloodied by a drunken, stage-diving Waco Brother, then wistfully recounted the Built to Spill show where two different women dumped him. That's Mills--equally quick to wallow in self-pity or revel in the cathartic power of rock 'n' roll. And in a nutshell, that's his new album too. The ten songs on Kiss It Goodbye stack heartbreak like cordwood, then burn it all away in a blaze of strumming and roaring.
From its title on down, Mills's 1998 debut full-length, Every Night Fight For Your Life (Sugar Free), announced the arrival of a raw talent equally adept at slurred country-folk ballads and roughneck stomp (he played in a speed-metal band before the influence of southern Illinois homeboys Uncle Tupelo began to take). The singer's engagingly literate lyrics, meanwhile, revealed characters torn between cockiness and remorse. When Mills sang, "We're two crawlers in the same patch of dirt," on the love song "Fire for You," he sounded both reassured and doomed.
Now Mills leaps into his bracing new Kiss It Goodbye (Sugar Free) with both fists clenched: As feedback squeals and drums clatter, he seems to brush aside fears of sophomore slumping with the declarative howl "It's gonna be a brand new day!" And yet he has never sounded more restless or desperate. As if to bury the Sting song, "Brand New Day" closes with a self-disgusted couplet worthy of Westerberg: "Friends come around/Pretend that you're glad to see them/You hate your heroes most because you could never be them."
Mills has earned a rep as a wordsmith on the order of alt-country song savant Richard Buckner, and he sits atop the stack of rising roots writers alongside fellow Chicago transplant Neko Case. But to define his talent by such narrow parameters is a disservice, not to mention inaccurate: Like Twin Cities hero Mason Jennings, Mills uses the country-folk idiom as a base but forays far afield: "All You Ever Do" is Velvety garage punk; "Signal/Noise" is dense, Spectorish pop. These songs, and even the steel-guitar-driven "Watch Chain," show how much he has sharpened his hooks--which are vital, given the dreary subject matter (domestic violence, suicide, lots of drinking to forget). Mills's snotty humor helps too. Try not to chuckle at his rendition of Herman Jolly's "Crooked Vein," a well-chosen cover that sneers at self-destruction: "My eyes are blurry/If I had friends, they'd all be worried."
The best of Kiss It Goodbye comes when Mills turns his unblinking gaze to the ambiguities of romance, a subject he addresses with more passion and nuance than anyone east of Elliott Smith. In these songs, crushes are all-consuming: "You've got bad teeth in your filthy mouth/I want to touch your face /I'm gonna suck them all out," he vows in "Lips Are Like Poison." Commitment comes a bit harder: "I've been stealing your breath/And you've been watching me fade," he confides in "Tooth and Nail."
Never mind the singer's wised-up smirk: By album's end, he's still too hopeful (or hopelessly lovestruck) to give in to cynicism. On the epic closer "Signal/Noise," the strings, horns, and Kelly Hogan's harmonies swell into plush retro-radio soul, and Mills simply sings along: "Tonight there are people falling in love/All over the world/For just one night/Why can't we be them?/Don't you want to be like them?"
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In straitened circumstances, Ibbetson moved in 1798 to Liverpool. From that year until his death he lived in the north, at Edinburgh, Rosslyn and the Lake District, finally settling at Masham, N. Yorks, in 1805. He married his second wife in 1799 and was unsuccessful as an ARA candidate the following year. Ibbetson's large Lake District oils show a sinuous handling of line that has more in common with 17th-century Dutch paintings than the sparer compositions of Romantic art. Ibbetson's finest achievement is in his highly individual watercolours: blue-toned and delicate, they are characterised by astutely balanced elements of landscape, atmosphere and human incident. His eldest son, Julius Caesar Ibbetson the younger (1783–1825), was a drawing-master and innkeeper at Richmond, N. Yorks.
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Open Formats, Open Editors
E-books are currently quite a hot topic in the publishing world. Heck, for the past few months, it's been quite a hot topic here as well! Thankfully, digital publication doesn't have to mean proprietary formats and DRM-laden files.
If you want to delve into the world of e-book creation, you should check out Sigil. It's a cross-platform WYSIWYG tool for creating EPUB-format e-books. It supports images, table of contents, and all the other features that make e-books so powerful. If you have a book you want to convert into EPUB format, or if you just have a text file you'd like to add markup language to for e-readers, Sigil is a powerful tool you won't want to miss.
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There are Sigil packages for version 0.5.3 for various distros available. Some are official and some not, but they do exist. I doubt they will be the last versions. If anything I expect there to be more official packages available as time goes by.
The Sigil developers have probably just decided that it makes more sense for distro makers to create packages than for them to release general binaries for Linux.
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: It turned out to be a Black Friday for a Madurai school as four of its children were drowned in sea here while on an excursion.
Two others were saved by fishermen. Part of a batch of 113 students, including 71 girls, the victims strayed into the sea, leaving the group that was standing on the shore, when they were washed away by big waves.
On seeing the students struggle for life, fishermen in the vicinity rushed to their rescue.
While they managed to save two children, only the bodies of Sathish (17) of Harveypatti, P. Devanand (16) of Thanakkankulam and R. Vishnu (16) of Tirunagar could be retrieved in the afternoon. The body of S. Parameswaran (16) of Tirunagar was recovered by 5.45 p.m.
The survivors — G. Balaji of Alagappan Nagar, a X Standard student, and S. Balamurugan of Harveypatti, Plus-Two student — were shifted to the Tuticorin government hospital.
The children, studying in class X and XII of C. S. Ramachary Memorial Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Tirunagar, in Madurai, were accompanied by five teachers on the excursion.
They arrived here in two buses to visit the Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Snows on Beach Road and the V. O. Chidambaranar Port before moving to the adjoining beach around noon. They had planned to proceed to Tiruchendur later in the day.
D. Kannan, Additional Superintendent of Police, enquired about the incident with the fishermen. Immediately after the tragedy, the students and teachers were taken to Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Memorial Community Centre on the port trust premises.
The grief-stricken children refused to have food arranged by the port authorities.
According to T.V.K. Hari Kumar, Economics teacher, the children were taken on an excursion to Tiruchendur, through Tuticorin, as a holiday was declared for the school on account of a two-day programme for the alumni. The group was sent back to Madurai in Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation buses.


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The dangerous cold is prompting Tri-State shelters to open their doors to make sure needy families and the homeless stay safe.
CINCINNATI -- The dangerous cold is prompting Tri-State shelters to open their doors to make sure needy families and the homeless stay safe.
The New Prospect Baptist Church announced Monday that it was staying open for a few nights to offer hot food and warm shelter. The church is located at 1829 Elm St.
The House of God church at 131 S. Wayne Ave. in Lockland also opened its doors Monday night from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Those who needed it were allowed to transfer to the New Prospect Baptist Church at closing.
Church leaders said they plan to open their doors again Tuesday night, as well.
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The church said it has seen a spike in people looking for shelter recently.
"We'd like for all the people that don't have some place to go to know that there is some place in Over-the-Rhine that they can come to," said Ray Andrew of the New Prospect Baptist Church.
Church leaders said they hope to open a new location in April that will seat 600 to 700 people. The new church will be located at 1580 Summit Road in Bond Hill.
The current church seats about 500. Parishioners said they plan to keep both locations open on the coldest nights.


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