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The deadline to file for an exemption from the Alameda Unified School District's Measure A parcel tax is June 30, 2014.
Under the terms of the ballot measure, the school district can grant two types of exemptions to Alameda residents:
Senior Citizen Exemption: The applicant must turn 65 years old on or before June 30, 2015, and own and occupy his/her property as a primary residence.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Exemption: The applicant must receive SSI and own and occupy his/her property as a primary residence.
If a resident received the Senior Citizen or SSI Exemption in 2013-2014 and is still the homeowner and currently resides at the same address, he or she does not need to renew your tax exemption. (It will automatically be renewed.)
If a resident sold a home and purchased a new home, however, he or she must re-file for a Senior Citizen or SSI Exemption for the new property.
The Measure A parcel tax rate is $0.32 per building square foot, with a maximum rate of $7,999.
Revenues raised by Measure A help fund the educational programs and activities specified in the ballot text, including small class sizes, neighborhood schools, enrichment classes (such as art, drama, and music), high school athletics and AP classes, technology, and innovative and magnet programs.
There are several ways to access the exemption forms:
– Electronically (senior citizen exemption forms are available online (on the district's website); SSI exemption forms are online, as well.
– By telephone (call SCI Consulting Group at 800-273-5167 for an application by mail).
– In person at the AUSD offices (2060 Challenger Dr., Alameda) from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Thursday (summer hours).
Questions should be directed to the Parcel Tax Administrator: SCI Consulting Group at (800)273-5167.


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Dean's Message
Welcome to the St. Edward's University School of Natural Sciences' web site. We hope you will take the time to investigate the pages within and learn what each department in the Natural Sciences has to offer. While exploring this site, you can meet the faculty, tour the building, and view the instrumentation housed within John Brooks Williams North. By visiting the departmental sites, you can learn more about the vast opportunities awaiting graduates from the School of Natural Sciences.
The School of Natural Sciences supports the Mission of St. Edward's University by providing you with excellence in teaching within the classroom, cutting edge research and scholarship with faculty, opportunities to participate constructively in the social and educational environment, and support for your pedagogical and moral growth.
The culminating experience for a major within the School of Natural Sciences is Senior Seminar where you will present your own research to faculty, students, and guests of the community. The Senior Seminar builds upon the entirety of your work at St. Edward's and ties together all of your learning experiences (academic, social, moral) in a final project. You will have the opportunity to present your research project on campus at the Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE), and at regional and national professional meetings.
When you enter the School of Natural Sciences, you become part of a learning community built upon the Holy Cross heritage which promotes an understanding of the human person and the world. A science degree will prepare you for careers in a plethora of areas, including industry, medicine, research, and academia. In collaboration with the School of Education, we also offer degree programs in teacher certification.
In our community, you will find support and guidance as you reach the highest goals of your education, while becoming a true member of our "family." As a student within the Natural Sciences, you will have the opportunity for casual community interactions such as participating in a study group or a school club, mingling with others at School social events, and having a true dialogue with faculty on a myriad of topics. These extracurricular activities serve to enhance the already strong classroom atmosphere and research opportunities in which you will participate.
Delve into the School of Natural Sciences web site and examine our strong academic component, while learning about our robust community of education and social interaction. Whenever you visit St. Edward's University, please stop by the School office located in John Brooks Williams South JBWS 168. We will be happy to tell you more about our learning environment, and the enthusiastic faculty that make it so distinct.

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Navy chief calls US ships ready for any Syria plan
09/05/2013 9:25amThe Navy's top admiral says the four U.S. destroyers off the coast of Syria are "fully ready" for a wide range of possible action.
Kerry to go to Europe to discuss Syria, Mideast
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Bangor Ghost Hunters Association
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Harold Murray, director
Harold Murray had a paranormal experience when he was
young, but that is not what turned him into a paranormal
investigator. "Watching the Travel Channel, the Discovery
Channel, the Learning Channel — this is what did it," Harold
says. "Every year, they have these specials on. I'm a retired magician,
and I wanted to see what it could do. I wanted to see if this
stuff could be explained. So I started taking pictures and started
using tri-field readers and we started picking up stuff. The next
thing we know, Maine Paranormal contacted us. They liked what
we had, and they offered us their northern branch in 2000. As we
were learning, we were finding out that much of this stuff could
be explained, but it was the unexplained stuff that really got us
into it."
Harold founded his team in 2000. Most of his investigators are
family members. "My son, John Murray, is the co-director. He
started out with Northern Maine as a cameraman. He did video
interviews with people," Harold said. Recently, Harold has looked
outside of the family for talented people. "We are always looking
for somebody who can do it better," Harold said. "We just brought
in a new team member who is a professional photographer." One
of his members, Spike, is a gold prospector. He uses his dowsing
rods to measure the electric and magnetic fields of the earth. Harold
believes Spike is more accurate than the team's tri-field meters:
"He's been with us for a year now. He uses rods made of copper,
steel, iron, bronze, and a couple of other metals. He makes them
himself. It's pretty impressive what he does."
Harold, who is an
ordained minister, carries holy water and the Bible with him on
investigation in case the team runs into a demonic entity. Harold
has no psychics in his group. "I have had some psychics apply to
be on our team," Harold says. "I tell them I'll take psychics. I give
them a psychic test I have at home. 'If you can tell me what is in
each of these envelopes, I'll take you along as a psychic. Otherwise,
you're just a field investigator.' For some reason, they don't come
back. Actually, this test does not exist. I just made it up." From
Harold's viewpoint, Sylvia Browne is probably the only genuine
Harold maintains that the team members are the most important
members of the team: "The Ghost Hunters television show makes
it look like the director is the most important part of the team, but
that's not true. You have your field investigators, you have your
lead investigators, you have your researchers, you have your cameraman,
you have your technical support, you have your computer
guy. These people are not mentioned in all the stories about TAPS (The Atlantic Paranormal Society). The team is important to me. I can't do it alone. It's not a two-man operation." The group holds its monthly meetings at the Bangor Museum. All of its meetings are open to the general public.
Sometimes, overly enthusiastic members can jeopardize the validity
of an investigation. Several years ago, Harold's oldest son accompanied Harold and a reporter on an investigation. "My son thought he was doing good for us," Harold said. "He faked an EVP (electronic voice phenomena). This did not go over too well with me, and I exposed him in
front of the reporter. And he is not allowed to be a member of the
team because he pulled this stunt. This is how serious I am about
ghost hunting."
Harold's son John also fabricated evidence. "He sent two videotapes to the head office in northern , but he was practicing magic. He took an orange seed with a prop that we use, videotaped it, sent it down to them and told them it was a ghost. They believed it and posted it on the Internet. My son finally went down with me and showed them how the trick was done. They felt like asses, but they couldn't retract it because they didn't want to look like fools," Harold says. Because Harold knows how
easy it is to fake evidence, he does not take EVPs or videotape or
pictures off the Internet. "Anything that comes to me has to be in
negative form or the actual videotape because we don't want any
hoaxes," Harold says.
Bangor Ghost Hunters Association uses a variety of scientific
equipment in their investigations, including tri-field meters, digital and analog cassette recorders, analog VHS and digital VHS,
infrared thermometers, digital Hi8, booster mikes, and laptop
computers. The group also uses metal detectors, cell phones, and
walkie-talkies. Most of this stuff is donated to the team, but Harold
has picked up some old videocassette recorders (VCRs) and
cameras at yard sales.
Most of the group's clients find out about Bangor Ghost Hunters
Association through word of mouth. "If people in town say a
house is haunted and new people move in and know nothing about
the house, the first thing they're going to hear is a neighbor telling them, 'Oh, you live in a haunted house. I heard someone died there.' Then the power of suggestion takes over, and every noise in the new house, the people think the house is haunted," Harold said. A large number of the group's clients seem to feel that an investigation by a group of paranormal researchers is a quick fix to a serious problem. Harold blames TAPS for giving the general public this impression: "We see TAPS and the other ghost hunters on TV, and they only spend one night there. We tell our clients that we could be here for a day or we could be here every weekend
for six months. It took us six months to catch something in a house in Old Town. Up here in , we have strong weather. A good, strong wind will make a house creak. A lot of the stuff they have here like the old stone wall basements have minerals that will affect the electromagnetic fields. Electromagnetic fields do affect brain waves and make people hear and see things that they can't explain."


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A number of bug fixes again but the main changes are enhancements to the way that the properties work. The P button on the action panel now works in the same way as the G button in that it provides a quick way to give a module a properties panel. To show the properties panel you click on the P button in the bottom-right corner of the module border. By default, properties automatically close when you deselect a module but there are options in the settings for changing this behaviour if you wish. You can pin a property panel open by holding CTRL as you click to open the panel.
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The Sports Network
DATE & TIME: Saturday, December 1, 7 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Raymond James Stadium (51,811) -- Tampa, Florida.
Television: ESPN2. Home Record: Pitt 4-2, USF 2-3. Away Record: Pitt 1-4, USF
1-5. Neutral Record: Pitt 0-0, USF 0-0. Conference Record: Pitt 2-4, USF 1-5.
Series Record: Pitt leads 6-3.
GAME NOTES: The postseason hopes of the Pittsburgh Panthers hang in the
balance as they travel to Raymond James Stadium for a Big East clash with the
South Florida Bulls, who are looking to play spoiler.
Consecutive road losses to Notre Dame and Connecticut had Pittsburgh reeling
as it returned home to host Rutgers last weekend. However the Panthers showed
a ton of resiliency and handed the conference leaders a 27-6 defeat. The win
puts Pittsburgh at 5-6 overall this season and just one win away from bowl
eligibility. If Pittsburgh is going to accomplish that feat it will have to
buck its road woes where the Panthers are just 1-4 this season.
There will be no postseason for South Florida as after back-to-back road
losses to Miami-Florida and Cincinnati, the Bulls dropped to 3-8 overall this
season. It has been a very disappointing campaign for USF after a 2-0 start,
as the Bulls have dropped eight of their last nine contests, including the
last two by a combined 48 points.
These teams first met in 2001 and have had nine matchups in that time.
Pittsburgh leads the series 6-3 and is coming off a 44-17 rout of the Bulls at
Heinz Field last season.
Few would have thought that against the dominating defense of Rutgers that
Pittsburgh would have had a ton of success last weekend. However the Panthers
did just that led by Tino Sunseri. The quarterback threw for 227 yards and a
pair of scores on 21-of-39 passing and was named Big East Offensive Player of
the Week for his efforts. Sunseri has excelled this season in transforming
Pittsburgh into the third best passing offense in the Big East (267.7 ypg).
Sunseri has completed 65.8 percent of his pass attempts for 2,892 yards and 18
scores. More importantly his turnovers have been few and far between with just
a pair of interceptions.
Pittsburgh can also turn to the run game with Ray Graham in the backfield.
Graham ranks third in school history in rushing yards currently (3,177) and is
nearing his first career 1,000-yard rushing season. On the season, Graham has
rushed for 948 yards and nine scores, while also picking up 36 receptions, 340
yards and two touchdowns through the air. Rushel Shell (509 yards, 4 TDs) is
a serviceable backup.
The pass-catching duo of Mike Shanahan and Devin Street have been strong in
the Panthers' offense. The pair rank second and third in the Big East in
receiving yards per game with Street (74.5 ypg) the leader. Street has hauled
in 60 passes for 820 yards and four scores, while Shanahan (49 receptions, 810
yards, 5 TDs) has produced at a high level as well.
On defense Pittsburgh has also been near the top of the conference, despite
what its record may imply. The Panthers ranked third in total defense (344.8
ypg) and are right in the middle of the pack in scoring (21.2 ppg). The team
has not created a ton of turnovers (16) but has a +8 turnover margin, the
second best in the Big East, thanks to the ball security of the offense.
Jason Hendricks (69 tackles, 4 INTs) and Jarred Holley (67 tackles, 2 INTs)
are the top two stoppers and the most dangerous pass defenders on the roster.
Aaron Donald (58 tackles, 14.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks) is the leading
pass rusher.
Although the whole season can't be blamed on an injury the last two weeks
certainly weren't improved by the loss of starting quarterback B.J. Daniels to
a broken left ankle. Filling in for Daniels has been Matt Floyd who has been
nothing more than serviceable. Floyd has completed just 53.6 percent of his
pass attempts for 373 yards and a pair of interceptions and has yet to throw a
touchdown for the Bulls. That gives him a quarterback rating of just 86.11.
That puts a lot of pressure on the running game, which while solid, is nowhere
near productive enough to carry this squad. Demetris Murray (652 yards, 6 TDs)
is the top rusher while Lindsey Lamar (475 yards, 3 TDs) has been a bit more
explosive with a stellar 7.2 yards per carry average. Murray has also been a
favored option in the passing game with 20 receptions, although those catches
have equaled only 134 yards.
Only two receivers on the roster have more than 20 catches this season led by
Andre Davis (44 receptions, 522 yards, 6 TDs), who is averaging only 47.5
yards per game. Terrence Mitchell (31 receptions, 414 yards, TD) is the other
pass catcher to have equaled 20 or more catches.
Scoring has largely been a problem for South Florida as it ranks second to
last in the conference in points per game (22.2), while ranking fifth in total
offense (390.3 ypg).
If the offense has been a mess than it doesn't say much for the defense. The
Bulls are the second to worst defensive team in the Big East in both scoring
(27.5 ppg) and total yards (408.6 ypg). They are one of two teams in the
entire conference to be surrendering more than 400 yards of total offense on a
regular basis.
Kayvon Webster (75 tackles) and Sam Barrington (73 tackles) have each hit the
70-tackle plateau, while DeDe Lattimore (3.5 sacks) is the top pass rusher on
a unit that has struggled to get consistent pressure on opposing quarterbacks.
The defense also doesn't make enough plays on the ball with just nine forced
turnovers this season which has led to the worst turnover margin (-16) in the
Big East and third worst in the nation.
Pittsburgh plays a fundamentally sound game and rarely makes mistakes. South
Florida has not been so fortunate this season and although it will benefit
from playing at home, there isn't much else to point to in terms of
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Vote for Service Leadership Program in 'Grow St. Louis' Contest
Voting ends Sunday, Oct. 16.
The Service Leadership program at the John Cook School of Business has entered Monsanto's "Grow St. Louis" contest.
To enter the contest, SLU was required to tell Monsanto, in 300 words or less, how their project (7th Annual John Cook School of Business Service Day) will help grow St. Louis.
The purpose of the annual Service Day is to build community and to fulfill the Jesuit Mission of service to others.
Each year students, faculty, and staff in the John Cook School of Business volunteer to provide various services to the St. Louis community.
The 7th Annual JCSB Service Day will take place Friday, March 30, 2012, and the contest award money would be used to help the tentatively chosen site, Caroline Mission, spruce up its facility.
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Ten years have passed since the Corvette C5-R first appeared at the 1999 24 Hours of Daytona. The C5-R and C6.R have since won multiple 24-hour races and championships, successes that ultimately helped bring an end to their amazing career. But while the C6.R will no longer compete in the ALMS series, five ex-factory C6.Rs are still being raced by private teams in Europe. These teams include DKR Engineering, Luc Alphand Aventures, PK Carsport, and SRT. A sixth C6.R is currently for sale and is being stored at Phoenix Racing headquarters at the Nürbürg-ring in Germany. These private Corvettes are competing in the remainder of the FFSA, LMS, and FIA GT Championships. All have major sponsorship packages, top-flight drivers, and professional pit crews.
The Total 24 Hours of Spa is the longest and toughest event on the FIA calendar. Nine GT1 cars were among the 39 entries for this around-the-clock grind through the Ardennes forest in Belgium. Seven-three Corvette C6.Rs, three Maserati MC12s, and one Saleen-were current GT1 cars that will retire at the end of the season. Two other entries-a Nissan GTR and a Ford GT-were 2010-spec cars.
Qualifying started out in dry conditions that quickly turned wet. The Maseratis were able to capture the top three positions before the rain started, with the No. 2 car taking the pole. As conditions deteriorated, the No. 8 Corvette of the newly formed Brazilian Team Sangari managed to secure fourth. This C6.R was driven by Maassen/Streit/Bernoldi and crewed by DKR Engineering. The No. 3 SRT Corvette, driven by Longin/Ruffier/Soulet/Gavin, captured fifth, while the No. 4 PK Carsport Corvette of Hezemans/Kumpen/Menten/Mollekens was seventh.
Season regular drivers Mike Hezemans and Anthony Kumpen came to Spa only three championship points behind the No. 1 Vitaphone Maserati team. As a further incentive for the team, the race would start on Hezemans' 40th birthday. It was shaping up to be an epic battle between the Corvettes and Masers.
The green flag fell at 4 p.m. under cloudy conditions. The No. 8 Corvette quickly passed the three Maseratis for the lead but fell behind the SRT Corvette on lap five. Heavy rain began pelting the track on lap 17, but the front-running drivers elected to keep running on their slick tires. The first Corvette drama occurred on lap 56, when Roberto Streit crashed the Sangari C6.R heavily into the barrier at the top of the Eau Rouge turn. The driver was unhurt, but the front and rear of the Corvette was badly damaged, and the car could not continue.
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Plant Patent #8956 (Oct. 25, 1994) to Ron D. Peters, Reedley, CA. Ripens mid August. A mutation of Summer Lady. Large, firm with excellent color. Has a slight tip. Heavy cropper. Best of season. Very firm. Susceptible to bacterial spot. From Burchell Nursery. The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of peach tree which is denominated varietally as "August Lady" and more particularly, to such a peach tree which bears a freestone, late maturing, high quality fruit which has a firm, crisp flesh texture at commercial maturity, and which further is principally characterized as to novelty by a date of ripening of approximately August 2 through August 8 at Dinuba, Calif. Fruit growers have recognized for some period of time that the relative dates that various varieties of peaches become ripe for harvesting is of extreme importance. In particular, it has long been known that it is desirable to provide a peach tree that bears fruit during a portion of the season later than other varieties of peach trees with which it most closely resembles, whereby the fruit produced by such trees can be sent to market at a time when competition is at a minimum and the best price can be negotiated. Further, large scale agricultural businesses have long understood that additional economic benefits can be attained if the harvesting period of a period orchard is spread out over a longer period of time inasmuch as the capital expenditures required to harvest and transport produce from the orchard can be extended over the same period of time thereby resulting in an overall lower cost of the final product and simultaneously increasing the uniformity of production throughout the entire season. The new and distinct variety of peach tree disclosed herein is characterized as to novelty by producing fruit which are somewhat similar in their physical characteristic to the "Summer Lady" peach tree [U.S. Plant Pat. No. 5,865], of which the new variety is a chance mutation, but which is distinguished therefrom by producing fruit which are mature for harvesting in shipment approximately two weeks later than the "Summer Lady" peach tree at the same geographic location in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California.
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PANAMA CITY— Learning about the environment with hands-on activities was the goal of the 2013 Emerald Coast Regional Envirothon.
The fun was an added benefit for the students.
"We were all for it; it's more hands-on activities and a lot of things you may not get in class because in class you just kind of read a book," said Krysten Pazik, a Paxton AP Environmental Science student.
She also said it went beyond learning new things.
"Now we get to see how all of this applies to the world around us," Pazik said. "We live in such a community, next to the beach, we don't realize how much goes into it. We don't realize how much biodiversity we have with us."
Coordinator Dale E. Cronwell said the hands-on nature of the competition is deliberate; they don't want to simply hand out a written test.
"It's more enjoyable, really, for us to prepare [the hands-on activities] and I think it's probably more enjoyable for them to take it this way — a little more excitement and interest," Cronwell said. "We're trying to introduce them to and reward them for environmental interest."
The competition was hosted at Florida State University Panama City this year. Cronwell said Envirothon officials prefer to rotate competition locations so the same teams don't have to drive so far every time; last year the competition was in Walton County.
The Envirothon consisted of five testing stations, soils, aquatics, wildlife, forestry and a current issue; each station had a written test and a hands-on component. This year's current issue was Sustainable Rangeland Management: Achieving a Balance Between Traditional Agricultural Uses with Non-Agricultural Uses in Florida.
Cronwell said the participating teams are provided with study materials a few weeks prior to the competition and all test questions come from those materials.
The competition not only gives the students a chance to learn something new, Cronwell said, but it also gives them interaction time with professionals in the industry, as several agencies were represented Friday, including the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Forest Service.
The top team from each county is eligible for the state competition April 27 at Hillsborough River State Park. They are the Buccaneers from North Bay Haven Charter Academy from Bay County, Top of the Soil from Paxton High in Walton County and KC & the Sunshine Band from Chipley High in Washington County.
Envirothon winners
– Grand Prize Overall: KC & Sunshine Band, Chipley High
– Soils Division: KC & Sunshine Band, Chipley High
– Aquatics Division: Buccaneers, North Bay Haven Charter Academy
– Current Issue Division: KC & Sunshine Band, Chipley High
– Wildlife Division: Vernon Jackets, Vernon High
– Forestry Division: Vernon Jackets, Vernon High
List of Teams:
Bay County
Fonzi's Apostles, Deane Bozeman School
TIASAMAREI, Deane Bozeman School
Newpoint Rocks, Newpoint Bay High School
Buccaneers, North Bay Haven Charter Academy
Eco-Spartans, Rutherford High School
Ram Pride, Rutherford High School
PamPhibians, Rutherford High School
Walton County
Top of the Soil, Paxton High School
500 Miles, Walton High School
Heroes, Walton High School
Team Green, Walton High School
Washington County
KC & Sunshine Band, Chipley High School
The Crew, Chipley High School
VernonJackets, Vernon High School


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Fantastic to find a forum about Terry and his books, I have been a fan for ages - probably since before some of you were born ( I am not that old really, just feel it)
I have a dreadful memory so am unable to be knowledgable about the books and charactures, or anything else come to that
I would also love to sound really witty and clever but always sound a real loser whenever I write anything on a forum so end up giving up after a while - no staying power.
I live in Hameln Germany(British ex pat), is anyone going to the German meeting this August?
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Posted: 27 Sep 2012
"There's a majesty to the way this car drives. And it feels like it's got a soul, too." That's how Jeremy Clarkson described the Maserati GranTurismo MC Stradale - the coupe version of this, the new hard-core soft-top Masser.
Only the Grancabrio's not actually that hard core. It does use the same 4.7-litre 454bhp and 384lb ft V8, only it's got a six-speed ZF automatic gearbox, not the Stradale's really very good robotized manual (well, good in Race mode), making it a bit... pillowy. If that wasn't bad enough, there are four seats - the tin-top's only got two for extra RACE.
In fairness, it does look the part. The main change from the cooking Grancabrio is a big boot spoiler, which you can get painted body colour or left in naked carbonfibre. But thanks to the aero package, it's now 48mm longer than the Grancab', making it an absolutely huge 4929mm long - that's only 4.3cm shorter than a Range Rover.
Alas, there's not much we know about it until its official debut at the 2012 Paris motorshow, but we'll keep you updated as and when we are.
Do you think this, the seventh edition of the Granturismo family, will be majestic and soulful, TopGear.commers? Or will it be like the Granturismo, which Jeremy described as "A soft, floppy, very enormous barge for people that can't drive"?


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There's a management aphorism attributed to Peter Drucker that goes something like this "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." This was on my mind, as I read Liz Gannes' great article on AllThingsD today covering Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi's call for an end to Bullsh*t Metrics. His basic point is that technology companies have not innovated enough on how they think about measuring their businesses. He's calling BS.
Pageviews, installs and total installed base are out. Engagement and retention are in. This makes a lot of sense.
When I meet with very early stage startups, as I did last week at AppNation for VC Office Hours, I find myself repeating a few of the same points again and again. Very early stage companies (i.e., pre-product or pre-product-market fit) tend to want a sense for how many installs or pageviews they need to attract an investor.
My answer heads a different direction. To me, the first thing I want to see is evidence of what I think of as early product market fit. Rather than showing me installs, show me that any small number of users that truly, with concrete evidence, really want your product. This is actually more difficult to do than you might think. It requires that the startup can show engagement and retention over a period of time. And it requires that the startup is thinking about what how it measures user engagement in a manner that's specific to that specific company.
This perspective seems aligned with Doshi's feedback. One thing that I liked a great deal in his post was his recommendation that startups focus on One Key Metric (OKM). The idea is that tracking 1 actionable metric that "they can literally bet their business on." Companies picking OKM have to deeply understand their business and what is driving growth and success in order to do so. This reminds me of discussions that I've read of Facebook and Twitter's early growth, where FB started to realize that if a user added 7+ friends, that the likelihood that that user would become a retained user went up dramatically. Similarly Twitter found some number (I don't recall what the number was) of followers where, when attained, a user would be much more likely to be retained.
This mode of thinking and focus on OKL is smart–it focuses the leaders of a company on understanding, deeply, what users are doing on their service and what drives value to the user. Hard to argue with this.
BRV portfolio company, Thumb, where I serve on the board, has been drilling in on it's on OKM. (I can't disclose what the metric is.) It's been exciting to watch how the focus is leading to increasing retention and engagement, which as publicly reported is already quite high.
In any case, if you're a startup in the tech space, I recommend reading Doshi's post and contemplating what your OKM is.


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Jingo was my first "favourite" discworld book. I'd already read some when I started Jingo and liked them all very much (except "Equal Rites" - but that might be because I read it in German), but with Jingo I felt there was something special.
It probably was the fact that this book not only was funny, but also was the first I read that went deeper, that was not only funny/ a good read but also reflected on human nature and its nastier sides, in this case xenophobia, racism and jingoism.
Now I haven't read Jingo for some time, but from what is posted here I think I can offer a hypothesis on the Leshp/Leonardo problem.
We (seem to) that Leonardo has seen Leshp several years ago and made sketches. No one else still living seems to have seen Leshp in recent years, else they'd know it'd soon vanish again. Some claim that Leonardo must have made his sketches below the surface of the water (however he achieved that), whereas others say this can't be because he must clearly have been under the island, so it must have been afloat.
Depending on this, some say that the submarine was built by Leonardo before he was imprisoned or that it was built just after Leshp reemerged.
So, my hypothesis:
The submarine had been built by Leonardo before his first trip to the then sunken island Leshp. Somehow he heard the legend, perhaps also heard that Leshp has sunken more than once and that made him curious. Since at the moment Leshp wasn't on the surface, Leonardo would need to invent a device that allowed for submarine research. No problem for a mind like his. He then dived in the approximate area where Leshp was supposed to be and found it submerged. He could make his sketches in the relative dryness of his submarine. As for the the issue how he got under the island if it was submerged: Either it was floating several feet above the ground, which is possible in water if there's enough gas to hold it there, or he found a tunnel that brought him into island where he then could see that there is a huge dome which is now mostly water filled but will fill up with gas sooner or later and float the island.
He did not dismantle his boat then because he clearly states that he dismantles his inventions because Vetinari wants it so; but at this time he wasn't a prisoner. After his imprisonment he couldn't do it anymore and probably had his mind on something completely different anyway.
It is also possible that Leonardo WASN'T below Leshp and only deduced that there must be a cavern that periodically filled with gas and made the island float.
Be that as it may, I agree with those who think that Leonardo has seen the submerged Leshp.


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Flagging America's Cup Receives Lift as Louis Vuitton Expands Sponsorship
Louis Vuitton, long the sponsor and namesake of the America's Cup challenger series, has signed an agreement to expand its role in the next Cup in Bermuda in 2017.
May 28, 2015, Thursday
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Those Not Looking to Own an Island Can Share One
Bermuda tops the Candy GPS Report's list of desirable islands for the superrich who are searching for properties, according to a survey.
February 10, 2015, Tuesday
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Ireland's XL Group Agrees to Buy the Bermuda Insurer Catlin for $4.2 Billion
The deal, if approved by shareholders, would bolster XL's property and casualty insurance and reinsurance portfolio, and create a combined company worth more than $12 billion.
January 9, 2015, Friday
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XL Group Approaches Bermuda Insurer Catlin About Possible Takeover
The deal, if completed, would bolster XL's property and casualty insurance and reinsurance portfolio and create a combined company worth more than $12 billion.
December 17, 2014, Wednesday
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To Buoy Tourism in Bermuda, a Campaign Turns to Social Media
Marketers flew popular users of networks like Instagram and Tastemade, whose users make videos about restaurants, to the island to foster promotion.
December 4, 2014, Thursday
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U.S. Holds America's Cup but Won't Be Host
Instead of meeting the challenge on its home waters, the United States team elected to do so in Bermuda.
December 3, 2014, Wednesday
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Bermuda Mending After Hurricane Gonzalo
Although the Category 2 hurricane hit Bermuda directly, the small island was spared major damage and the police said there were no fatalities.
October 19, 2014, Sunday
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Hurricane Gonzalo Hits Bermuda, Causing Widespread Power Failures
The hurricane weakened slightly as its eye passed over Bermuda, but the National Hurricane Center warned that "damaging winds will return quickly."
October 18, 2014, Saturday
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Much of Bermuda Is Without Power as Hurricane Gonzalo Arrives
Power was knocked out to 80 percent of Bermuda's electricity grid due to Hurricane Gonzalo, the island's only power company, Bermuda Electric Light Co., said on Friday evening.
October 17, 2014, Friday
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Bermuda Prepares for Hurricane Gonzalo
Hurricane Gonzalo, a Category 4 storm, is one of the strongest on record to menace the island.
October 17, 2014, Friday
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Good Morning Shetland! It's Game Day and since I know you'll be cheering for Mississippi State, here's something for you. Enjoy! -Amanda B.
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Hey dennis, thanks for the add. have a good week and stay safe. and may you never forget the fallen 9-11-01
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Thank you for the invitation Shetland! And please, thank your son for his service as well.
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Dropping in to say hello Brother, Have a great one, Stay Safe. Remember 9-11-01, All gave some-SOME GAVE ALL. GOD Bless America and all of us.
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These are my favorite type of product reviews – beauty products! If you know me, you know that I love my makeup. Love, Love, Love. And there is no exaggeration there at all. I am completely serious.
Warning: The following review contains graphic photos of me without any makeup. View at your own discretion. Just kidding! =)
As a BzzAgent, I was accepted into the Covergirl and Olay Campaign, which means I was provided the Covergirl and Olay Tone Rehab 2-in-1 Foundation and Pressed Powder for this review. As always, the opinions expressed herein are my honest opinion of these products.
I started wearing makeup when I was 12. I would sneak it to school and put on makeup in the bathroom before school started. Nothing major, just eyeshadow and blush to begin with, but the makeup monster within was born. From then on, I knew I was in love with makeup. Not because I thought I needed it, but because I liked it. I liked (and still do) the the way makeup enhances your natural features.
When I was 16, my best friend and I started wearing foundation. We liked the Covergirl liquid foundation and pressed powder. It had this distinctive scent that I can still remember. I loved it.
Fast forward a few years, and my makeup skills and needs have evolved. These days, I typically use a mineral powder foundation – I have found the mineral powder foundations to generally have a better coverage and more natural look than liquid foundations. And it's easier to avoid that "line" along your chin with the mineral foundations (which by the way, you shouldn't have if you have the correct color foundation). But I thought it would be fun to try a liquid foundation again, especially since its Covergirl.
Covergirl has teamed with Olay to produce Tone Rehab 2-in-1 Foundation that combines foundation any hydrating serum that covers fine lines and wrinkles and helps to hydrate skin to improve it over time. The Covergirl & Olay Pressed Powder helps to brighten skin while softening the look of imperfections in a unique formula that doesn't look heavy or cakey.
Now, for the review.
First, a photo of me, clean face, sans makeup, with only moisturizer on my face.
Next, I applied the Covergirl & Olay Tone Rehab Foundation with a foundation brush. When applying liquid foundation, I suggest starting with your forehead working from the center of the face out, then under the eyes, again from the center of the face out. This helps to avoid that "line" I was talking about before. There has always been the debate between using your fingers, a sponge, or a brush to apply foundation. Here' my take: if you use your fingers, you are guaranteed to get an uneven application, if you use a sponge, you lose a bunch of your foundation to the sponger (it just soaks it up), not to mention sponges are known to harbor bacteria, so I prefer a foundation brush. You can get a nice, even application of the foundation, and brushes are easily washed (and should be on a regular basis). After the foundation, I lightly patted a thin layer of pressed powder all over my face. Here I am with the Covergirl & Olay foundation and powder only:
To finish, I applied a little bronzer, blush, a few shades of eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, and lip tint. Here's the finished me:
My thoughts on the Covergirl & Olay Tone Rehab foundation: It applies well, has a good, thick, silky consistency, and applied very easily and evenly over my face. It had good coverage, and the color matched my skin tone perfectly, so there was no issue the the "line."
My thoughts on the Covergirl & Olay Pressed Powder: I found the powder puff applicator that came with the compact to be a bit cheap, so I bought another one that was better quality and used that with the powder. That made all the difference in the world in application. I really like the pressed powder, it comes off onto the applicator in light layers, so application is very light and translucent. And it finishes off the foundation very well.
My conclusions: I think the foundation is very good quality and works very well. For me however, it has too much coverage and is a little too thick for my needs. The pressed powder however, has found a permanent home in my purse. I love it for touch ups. I would recommend both products to friends and family.


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Jan wrote:Reverse the roles in pooh's statement TL and you'll have your answer I think
Yeah I got Pooh's 'subtlety' in that post I was confused because I thought that the fact he used all his votes in one go in the previous post meant that he had solid information of a different kind.
But, if you think that it is more than just a hunch I'm happy to use my last 2 votes. It's just if we are relying on hunches alone then I would rather give Crys a chance to say something tomorrow morning when she is online.


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LP Hartley in The Go-Between wrote:the past is a foreign country and they do things differently there
Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland wrote:It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
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captainmeme wrote:Thanks for the birthday messages!
This will definitely (I think) be my last post here, so I probably need to give an apology.
When I look back at my posts on this forum, I think 'Was I ever that young?' - even though it was only two years or so ago. I feel like I came here, ranted a lot about my beliefs, got upset that people didn't agree with me and then left without even a farewell message.
You're all a great community, and I feel like I failed to realise that when I was active here, and I regret that, but I can't really post here anymore without thinking back to all those posts I made.
The main reason I'm posting now is to give you all the farewell and respect I missed out on giving you the first time round. I'm going properly now, and I won't be coming back, but I want you all to know that it's not your fault and that you are a great group of people.
So, keep it up, and farewell!
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Classified of the week: E36 AMG
Buy the new E63's granddaddy. This one's a museum piece. Literally
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If you strongly dislike rear tyres but can't quite stretch to the 70-odd thousand that it'll cost to buy the new rubber-melting E63 AMG, here's a rather handsome alternative. It's a 1995 E36 AMG coupe, and it used to belong to Mercedes itself, which used it as a display car at Mercedes-Benz World in Brooklands.
So, why has this got TopGear.com's root fizzing so fiercely? Firstly, just LOOK at it. It's wearing a full compliment of AMGery, which includes be-finned bumpers front and rear, state-of-the-nineties side skirts, a three-piece rear spoiler, and a set of AMG three-piece 17-inch split-rim alloys.
Its innards are just as handsome. Well, in a 90210 sort of way. The black leather chairs are heated, electric and remember stuff, it's got a wood/leather steering wheel, and even a wood-finish Pioneer radio. There's also an electric rear blind, factory fitted fire extinguisher, outside temperature gauge, headlamp wash wipe, rear headrests, and a front centre armrest.
Then there's the oily bit. It's got a 272hp, 284lb ft 3.6-litre straight six. It's good for 0-62mph in 7.2 seconds, and it'll keep on going till 155mph, which considering it's coming on for a 20-year-old car isn't half bad.
Finally, there's the rarity. This is one of just 24 UK cars, so the chance you'll run into another stand at comfortably long odds...
Yours for £17,995. Any takers?


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The good news was that the lost witness who prevented the solicitation for murder trial of James Harvey Tipler from being concluded Saturday was located over the weekend.
The bad news was that at the end of the day Monday the case still hadn't gone to the jury.
It should wrap up today, however, with closing arguments, expected to last about four hours, scheduled to get under way at 9 a.m.
"It seems to me I've apologized more in this case than in any other," County Judge T. Patterson Maney told jurors as Monday's day of court began.
He apologized to them once more at shortly before 5 p.m. as all eight nodded their willingness to show up one more day.
Timothy Albaugh, who didn't show up to testify in Tipler's defense Saturday, was brought shackled into court Monday and informed he was facing a charge of criminal contempt.
He was released from the charges and from custody after testifying.
A six-time convicted felon, Albaugh told the court that he "tried to show him (Tipler) the ropes in jail." He said he protected him and cleaned up for him while the two were incarcerated together.
In return, Albaugh said, Tipler wrote him a $400 check that was handed to him one day after chapel services at the jail.
Albaugh's role in the Tipler saga was not nearly so important as the testimony's implication that Tipler had access to checks, and therefore money, while incarcerated on charges of racketeering.
Prosecutors contend that the defendant laid out his plan to have Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar killed to fellow inmate R. Scott Whitehead because he needed access to Whitehead's money.
Defense Attorney Clyde Taylor also elicited testimony from Randy Crowder, who investigated Tipler on behalf of the State Attorney's Office, that Tipler had money in a checking account that he could have paid another inmate.
Prosecution evidence indicates that Tipler believed he was paying another inmate, Dion Lowe, $1,500 of Whitehead's money to travel to Atlanta to hire a hit man to kill Edgar.
The biggest brouhaha of the day developed as prosecutor Bobby Elmore questioned Crowder about a storage shed containing Tipler's business documents. Or, more specifically, the disappearance of four boxes of documents deemed by prosecutor Bobby Elmore "the smoking gun boxes" that Tipler allegedly paid another inmate to attempt to locate and burn.
Taylor called for a mistrial after Elmore had taken Crowder's testimony.
He said Elmore, in pointing out that an employee of the Taylor and Taylor law firm had visited the storage facility where the "smoking gun boxes" were supposed to be housed, had attempted to implicate his firm in "wrongdoing."
"That bell can't be unrung," he said.
"All the state has done is suggest an alternate explanation," Elmore argued in return.
Maney denied the motion for mistrial.
Tipler, who told the court Saturday that he was considering taking the stand in his own defense, but couldn't decide to do so without hearing Albaugh's testimony, chose ultimately not to testify.
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Here is a very wrinkly closer look at the Skipping Squares quilt for those of you that asked:
The fabrics are from the Denyse Schmidt collection now at Joann's. The only other fabrics I added are the grey and white polka dot, the Sherbet Pips red with tiny white squares (my favorite red basic to date), and the bright blue and white polka dot.
I've heard a lot of positive and plenty of negative about this collection…but I really love it. I don't love every single print…but I never love ever single print in a collection. Plus it's at Joann's….leave it up to Denyse Schmidt to make everybody run into Joann's again. Love that. Now if she could just do something about the wait at the cutting counter? :)
I made 13 quilt backs yesterday for the humanitarian quilts we are finishing up on Saturday. My bed became quilt back central…and a huge mess.
My husband told me that if he never sees another piece of fabric it will be too soon….and can't blame him one bit. It's taking over the world. I'm really excited for all these quilts to be done and out.of.my.house!


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so to thank Sony for finally making a move to push forward, end the seven year drought (just kidding), and for getting me all excited about PS4, i decided to at long last become a Plus member. got a one year membership, of course not cheap, but they weren't kidding when they said it pays for itself with all those free games. hahaha i basically downloaded all of them. why the heck not? for some odd reason that gold plus on my gamercard now really makes me feel good.
i hope this is a new beginning with Sony. in the dark days of 2006-2010 they really annoyed the crap out of me with some of their nonsense, and as some remember i got into quite a few stupid arguments over what now seems ridiculously passe. As they say, today's crisis may be tomorrow's joke. I am truly looking forward to this new phase, while my gaming time is down to like 10% of what it was back in the heyday of the current gen, i am still a gamer at heart and always will be.
Now i hope Sony add more free games to the Plus list, coz i got all of them! Even Ratchet and Clank. if you told me in 2007 that i'd have Ratchet and Clank on a hard drive i'd want to shoot you in the face.
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Halo: Combat Evolved (commonly known as Halo or Halo 1) is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Bungie Studios. The first game of the Halo series, it was released on November 15, 2001 as a launch title for the Xbox gaming system, and is considered the platform's "killer app." With more than five million copies sold worldwide as of November 9, 2005, Microsoft released versions of the game for Microsoft Windows (developed by Gearbox Software) and Mac OS X in 2003, and the surrounding storyline was adapted and elaborated into a series of novels. The game was later released as an Xbox Original for download onto an Xbox 360 HDD.
In Halos twenty-sixth century setting, the player assumes the role of the Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced "SPARTAN" super-soldier. The player is accompanied by Cortana, an artificial intelligence who occupies the Master Chief's neural interface. Players battle various aliens on foot and in vehicles as they attempt to uncover the secrets of the eponymous Halo, a ring-shaped structure. The game has been called "easy to learn", and has been praised for its "engaging story".
Many game magazines have praised Halo as one of the best and most important games of all time. The game's popularity has led to labels such as "Halo clone" and "Halo killer", applied respectively to games either similar to or anticipated to be better than it. In addition, the game inspired and was used in the fan-created Red vs. Blue video series, which is credited as the "first big success" of machinima — the technique of using real-time 3D engines, often from video games, to create animated films.
The player character is equipped with a damage-absorbing energy shield, in addition to hit points. The shield's charge appears as a blue bar in the upper-right hand corner of the game's heads-up display. When the shield is fully depleted, the player is highly vulnerable, and further damage reduces the character's health level. However, the shield will recharge if no further damage is sustained for a brief period.
Halo's arsenal consists of weapons from science fiction. The game has been praised for giving each weapon a unique purpose, thus making them useful in different scenarios. For example, plasma weapons need time to cool if fired too rapidly, but require no reloading. Instead, players are forced to discard them after depleting their batteries. In contrast, conventional firearms cannot overheat, but require reloading and ammunition. All weapons may be used to bludgeon enemies, which allows a player to silently kill opponents without alerting other nearby enemies. Players may carry only two weapons at once; thus, a strategy is required when using and selecting firearms.
The player can carry up to eight grenades at a time: four fragmentation and four plasma grenades each. Like the game's other weapons, the two types of grenades differ; the fragmentation grenade bounces and detonates quickly, whereas the plasma grenade adheres to targets and takes longer to detonate. A controller button assigned to grenades eliminates the need to holster firearms before throwing.
A secondary enemy is The Flood, a parasitic alien life form that appears in three main variants. Infection Forms, the true form of the Flood, are fragile, but often travel in swarms; they do little damage individually, but the swarms often number in the hundreds. Combat Forms result from humans and Covenant Elites who are infected by Infection Forms, and have hideously deformed bodies. Bloated Carrier Forms serve as incubators for new Infection Forms, and when wounded or near a potential victim, they explode to damage other nearby life forms and to release their spores. Battling the Flood, Covenant and player are the Sentinels, robotic drones designed by an extinct race called the Forerunners. Sentinels lack durability, but use powerful beam weapons and are immune to infection by the Flood.
The artificial intelligence in Halo has been favorably received. Enemies take cover and use suppressive fire and grenades. Some enemies retreat when their superiors are killed. The player is often aided by United Nations Space Command (UNSC) Marines, who offer ground support, such as manning gun turrets or riding shotgun while the player is driving a vehicle.
Although the Xbox version of Halo lacks official support for online multiplayer play, XLink Kai, GameSpy and XBConnect's packet tunnelling software provide unofficial ways around this limitation. The Windows and Macintosh ports of Halo support online matches involving up to 16 players and include multiplayer maps not in the original Xbox release. However, co-operative play was removed from the ports because it would have required large amounts of recoding to implement. On March 15, 2004, Gearbox Software released Halo: Custom Edition for Windows, which enabled players to use custom-made maps and game modifications.
To prepare for a mission to discover the location of the Covenant homeworld by boarding one of its starships, SPARTAN-II soldiers were recalled to Reach for further augmentation. Two days before the mission was to begin, Covenant forces attacked Reach and destroyed the colony. A starship, the Pillar of Autumn, survived the onslaught and initiated a random jump to slip space (similar to hyperspace), hoping to lead the enemy away from Earth.
The titular Halo is an enormous, ring-shaped artificial space habitat/planet, which (according to Bungie Studios) has a diameter of ten thousand kilometers. Halo sits at a Lagrange point between a planet and its moon. Centrifugal force created by the rotation of the station provides the ring's gravity.
Keyes survives the Autumns crash landing, but is captured by the Covenant. In the second and third levels of the game, the Master Chief and Cortana gather human survivors and rescue Captain Keyes, who is imprisoned on the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation. Once rescued, Keyes orders the Master Chief to beat the Covenant to Halo's control center and to discover its purpose. The Master Chief and Cortana travel to a map room called the Silent Cartographer, which leads them to the control room. There, Cortana enters the systems and, discovering something urgent, suddenly sends the Master Chief to find Captain Keyes, while she stays behind. While searching for his commander, the Master Chief learns that the Covenant have accidentally released the Flood, a parasitic alien race capable of spreading itself by overwhelming and infesting other sentient lifeforms. Keyes falls victim to them while looking for a cache of weapons. The release of the Flood prompts 343 Guilty Spark to recruit the Master Chief in retrieving the Index, a device that will activate Halo and prevent the Flood from spreading beyond the facility. After the Master Chief retrieves and begins to use the Index, Cortana re-appears and warns him against the activation. She has discovered that Halo's defense system is a weapon designed to kill all life in the galaxy. When confronted with this information, 343 Guilty Spark states that the installation technically only has a maximum radius of twenty-five thousand light-years, but that its pulse would trigger other similar installations as well, killing all sentient life in the galaxy.
While fighting the Flood, the Covenant, and Guilty Spark's Sentinels, the Master Chief and Cortana attempt to destroy Halo before 343 Guilty Spark activates it. Cortana discovers that the best way to destroy Halo is to cause the crashed Pillar of Autumn to self-destruct. However, Captain Keyes' authorization is required to destroy the ship. By the time that they reach Keyes, he has been infected and turned into a Brain Flood. The Master Chief retrieves Keyes' neural implants directly from his brain, and Cortana activates the Autumn's self-destruct sequence. However, 343 Guilty Spark reappears and deactivates the countdown, discovering the record of human history in the process. The Master Chief manually causes the Pillar of Autumn's fusion reactors to begin to melt down, and the Master Chief and Cortana narrowly escape the destruction of the ring via a fighter.
O'Donnell has remarked that he "sat with the level designers and 'spotted' the level as though it was a movie, with the knowledge that the music would have to be malleable rather than static.... [T]he level designer would tell me what he hoped a player would feel at certain points or after accomplishing certain tasks". Based on this information, O'Donnell would "go back and develop appropriate music cues, then have the designer script the cues into the level, and then we'd play through it to see if it worked as desired." He explained that the use of music in Halo is sparse because he believes that "[music] is best used in a game to quicken the emotional state of the player and it works best when used least", and that "[if] music is constantly playing it tends to become sonic wallpaper and loses its impact when it is needed to truly enhance some dramatic component of game play."
At E3 2000, the first trailer of Halo was well-received. The version shown there differed greatly from the one exhibited previously, marking the first major overhaul in the game's development. At this point, Halo was a third-person action game, in which a transport starship crashlands on a mysterious ring world that orbits a star. Early versions of Covenant aliens appear in great numbers and loot what they can, and war erupts between them and the humans. Unable to match the technologically advanced alien race, the humans on the ring world resort to guerrilla warfare. This version of the game featured Halo-specific fauna, which were later dropped because of design difficulties and the creatures' "detract[ion] from the surprise, drama and impact of the Flood."
As rumors had predicted, Microsoft announced on June 19, 2000 that it had acquired Bungie Studios. Halo became an exclusive game for Microsoft's Xbox video game console, and Bungie Studios rewrote the game's engine, heavily altering its presentation and turning it into a first-person shooter. Originally a key element, the game's online multiplayer component was dropped because Xbox Live would be unfinished at the time of Halos release. While a playable demonstration of the game at Gamestock 2001 was well-received, critics had mixed reactions to its exhibition at E3 2001. The game was released in North America simultaneously with the Xbox, on November 15, 2001.
On July 12, 2002, a Halo port for Windows was announced to be under development by Gearbox Software. Its showing at E3 2003 was positively received by some critics, with skepticism by others. It was released on September 30, 2003, and included support for online multiplayer play and featured sharper graphics, but had compatibility issues that caused poor performance. Halo was later released for Mac OS X on December 11, 2003. On December 4, 2007, the game became available for the Xbox 360 via download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 1200 Microsoft Points.
On its release Halo broke sales records; by April 8, 2002, one million units had been sold: this pace was faster than that of any previous sixth-generation console game. During the two months following Halo's release, the game sold alongside more than fifty percent of Xbox consoles. Halo's retail price remained at US$49.99 until November 30, 2003. By July 14, 2003, the game had sold three million copies worldwide, and by January 28, 2004, it had reached four million copies. As of November 9, 2005, Halo has sold over five million copies worldwide.
Halo was critically acclaimed and received an overall score of 97% on Metacritic. Electronic Gaming Monthly observed, "This game has me totally mesmerized ... [It] engages your intellect on a whole different level", and of its multiplayer, "GoldenEye was the multiplayer standard for console first-person shooters... It has been surpassed," awarding the game a perfect score. GameSpot claimed that "Halo's single-player game is worth picking up an Xbox for alone", commenting, "Not only is this easily the best of the Xbox launch games, but it's easily one of the best shooters ever, on any platform." IGN remarked similarly, calling Halo a "can't miss, no-brainer, sure thing, five star, triple A game." Edge called it "the most important launch game for any console, ever", and awarded it a 10 out of 10 score, only the fourth such rating in the magazine's 12-year history. The game received numerous Game of the Year awards, including those of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Edge, and IGN. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awarded Halo "Best Console Game", and Rolling Stone presented it with their "Best Original Soundtrack" award. According to Xbox.com, the game received a total of 48 awards. Among the specific aspects that reviewers praised were the balance of weapons, the role of drivable vehicles, and the artificial intelligence of enemies.
Although Halos overall reception was largely positive, the game received some criticism for its level design. IGN wrote that "the middle third of the game basically has ... the same level over again." GameSpy gave Halo a considerably lower (abeit still positive) rating than other reviewers, later placing the game tenth on its "Top 25 Most Overrated Games of All Time" list. The site stated that the levels often "degenerated into recycling the same areas over and over until you were bored to tears" and were one of the few reviewers to complain about the lack of online multiplayer play, though Xbox Live had not yet been launched and GameSpy offered its Tunnel service to enable SystemLink games over the Internet Noting the level design as a problem, an article on Game Studies.org stated that the game still "triumphs in understanding the anatomy of the FPS," and is "not so much about 'combat evolved' as the subtitle suggests, but about 'genre evolved'."
Halo's PC port garnered mixed reactions and received a score of 83% on Metacritic. GameSpot stated that it was "still an incredible action game ... [and] a true classic", awarding it 9.0 out of 10. It received a score of 8.2 out of 10 from IGN, who stated, "If you've played the game on the Xbox, there's not much for you here." Eurogamer called the game "a missed opportunity", but stated that the online multiplayer component was "a massive draw ... for Halo veterans".
Halo has been featured at both Major League Gaming and the World Cyber Games. In machinima, the game was used as the basis for the popular Red vs. Blue. The game's sequel, Halo 2, made US$125 million with unit sales of 2.38 million on the first day of its release, earning it the distinction of the fastest-selling United States media product in history. Three years later, Halo 3 shattered that record with the biggest opening day in entertainment history, taking in US$170 million in its first 24 hours.
Another adaptation is the Halo Graphic Novel, a collection of four short stories released in July 2006. It was written and illustrated by well-known graphic novelists Lee Hammock, Jay Faerber, Tsutomu Nihei, Brett Lewis, Simon Bisley, Ed Lee and Jean Giraud. Bungie Studios regards Halo's adaptations as canon.


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Last year I had the privilege of photographing Simones family and this year I came back to photograph her entire family. She was hosting Thanksgiving and as a added treat she had a photoshoot for her entire family. She did an amazing job at organizing the entire thing. Her color scheme was perfect (never too matchy but oh so complimentary to each other). The shoot went about as smoothly as a 4 person shoot, it was pretty awesome.
Here is the gorgeous women and mastermind behind the shoot … Simone
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The bibliography describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio and includes names of libraries that own copies of these historical materials to aid in locating originals. Through a partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, many titles formerly owned by the Morgan Library are now in the AAS collections. The Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints is also compiling an Ohio Name and Institution Index of those names and institutions mentioned in the imprints.
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Stories from people who were children during World War II and the objects in this exhibit animate the past and inform us of a time when war took over daily life. "Retrospect is a very interesting thing," says Ruthie Kallnder. "At the time I don't recall any of the information we got as being propaganda," but the government tried to influence children to make "necessary" sacrifices. Propagandists made the war a battle between good and evil, democracy and fascism. They also asked children to share in the war effort. In response, many children took on more responsibilities. Ruthie explains that boys and girls felt "if that's what it was going to take" to win they "were willing to do it." The memories of the people in this exhibit and their wartime actions show the power of propaganda's messages and its lasting affect on their lives. Propaganda posters, children's books, and classroom assignments demonstrate how propagandists reached children and involved them in the national war effort.
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