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Lisa came to Union College in 2011 and joined the Advancement team shortly thereafter. In the Advancement office she performs a variety of tasks ranging from routine clerical work to assisting in event planning and is responsible for gathering and preparing the class notes that are included in each edition of the alumni magazine.
Lisa is married to David Wyatt and they have two sons, Brad and Brett. She enjoys spending time with friends and family and is an active member of Green Road Baptist Church.


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"This is great on potato salad! Adjust the seasonings to suite your taste, and use less mayonnaise if you'd like a thinner dressing."
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2/3 cup
light mayonnaise
1 1/2 teaspoons
white sugar
1/4 teaspoon
1/4 teaspoon
coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 cup
chopped fresh chives
It's a shame that this recipe has gotten such poor reviews in the past bringing it's average rating to only 3 stars. I'm giving it four because you definitely have to play with it a bit, but if you do it's really good! I had some buttermilk to use up and some fresh chives so I gave it a try. I ended up adding more buttermilk and some dried dill weed. I think if you were to add some sour cream (replace half the mayo with sour cream) and keep it thicker it would make a very nice veggie dip.
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I read the first four (the only four) reviews and found they really didn't give this recipe a fair shake, so here's my take. This is one of those recipes that's SO dependent on "seasoning to taste" and it's so easy to adjust that! If you like more or less of something, just do it and please your own tastebuds! In my case I basically flip-flopped the amounts of buttermilk and mayo and added a little sour cream - nothing drastic, but it worked better for me. I eliminated the sugar, not because it shouldn't be there but because it's my preference. I also added a little garlic powder and some fresh dill - again, not because the recipe necessarily needed it but because I wanted it. This is a good start for what will be a great dressing if you just tweak it to suit you. We loved it with my changes. Make this with YOUR preferences till you get it just right and you'll love it too!
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This is a great recipe, but I actually used it as a base. I had some fresh parsley and oregano that I also put in with the chives. I also added some dill, onion powder and garlic powder that I had. My husband likes spicy foods so I also added some crushed red pepper flakes and some Sriracha sauce (or Rooster Sauce as I've heard a few people call it). This added a bit of heat and flavor as well.
I used a mix of reduced fat mayonnaise and reduced fat sour cream and I doubled the amount of chives. I decided to omit the sugar only because we don't like sweet dressings. I think this is what it says it is--it's a buttermilk and chive dressing. I mean, that's what it is. If I wanted more spices, I'd have ranch dressing. As is, it was good. Next time, I'll take Pam-3BoysMama's recommendation and make it ahead of time so it has time for the flavors to meld together.
I halved this recipe, but otherwise followed it exactly as written. It is a mild flavored dressing, but the flavors come alive a bit more after it sits. I made it an hour or so before eating it and the flavor of the chives was more noticable then. I served it over a salad of homegrown baby greens and cukes with grape tomatoes, bacon, and croutons. I will make this again. Thanks for the recipe!
Use scallions (all I had) and was a nice taste on fresh from the garden salad.
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California has a law, California Civil Code section 1748.1, that prohibits "retailers" from adding a surcharge when a consumer chooses to use a credit card instead of paying by cash. A retailer is someone who sells goods or services or anything else of value, but it does not include government entities and public agencies, such as the state, a city, or a county. Electric, gas, and water companies may also impose a surcharge that allows them to recover the reasonable expenses they incur by customers using credit cards and debit cards, but only if the charge is approved by the Public Utilities Commission.
Although retailers may not add a surcharge when you use a credit card, they can provide a discount to customers who pay cash. For example, the California Court of Appeal found that section 1748.1 was not violated when a gas station posted two sets of prices with a lower price for cash customers where the cash discount was related to the extra costs the gas station incurred in credit card sales. (The case is Thrifty Oil Co. v. Superior Court (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 1070.)
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David Holloway's Dubious Miss assumed control approaching the top of the stretch and drew clear to post a two-length victory over Spotsgone in the $60,747 feature race on Sunday's Father's Day card at Churchill Downs.
Ridden by Calvin Borel, Dubious Miss tracked Spotsgone until slipping through along the inside leaving the backstretch. The two horses raced on even terms until Dubious Miss took command en route to his fourth win in five starts on the main track at Churchill Downs.
Dubious Miss, a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred son of E Dubai, covered the 1 1/16 miles on a sloppy main track in 1:42.91. Spotsgone easily held second place under Jon Court, finishing four lengths in front of Antrim County, ridden by Larry Sterling Jr.
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As copyright and trademark owners continue to make their case for stronger laws to go after online pirates and counterfeites, a top executive with Paramount Pictures detailed Wednesday how easy it is for users to find and stream movies and other content online.
With four clicks, Paramount's chief operating officer Frederick Huntsberry pulled up a new movie and began streaming it at a a symposium on online intellectual property theft hosted by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center.
Huntsberry was detailing the growth of "cyber lockers," where pirated movies, music and other content are stored and shared. He said not only do these sites offer recent releases, but they make profits by offering subscriptions or through advertisements.
One of the sites Huntsberry pulled up was solarmovie.eu, which indicates the site is likely based in Europe. The site offered links to files of several recently released movies such as "Bad Teacher" and the latest Harry Potter film.
Huntsberry and federal officials said current law can help them shut down such sites if they are in the United States or are linked to the United States in some way. For example if a site uses a U.S.-based company to register its domain name, U.S. officials can seize the domain name. So far, federal customs and Justice Department officials have seized 142 domain names in six separate crackdowns under their "Operation in Our Sites" effort, which is focused on shutting down websites engaged in piracy and counterfeiting.
"Not all the sites are going away but it is making an incremental impact," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Brown, who noted that more than 80 sites have voluntarily shut down since federal officials began conducting the operations.
"On foreign-based websites, we have absolutely no tools at our disposal, nothing available to us," Huntsberry said.
This is why Paramount and other movie studios, record companies, trademark owners and others have been pushing lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass legislation that would give them more tools to go after foreign websites that offer pirated content or counterfeit goods. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved such legislation in May and House Judiciary Committee leaders are set to introduce their own version of the legislation at the end of this month or in early October, a spokeswoman said.
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Electronic equipment is provided for playing a bingo-like game in a fashion closely simulative of the well known game of bingo played with paper cards. The three main functional components are: a) a central computer that is used both to determine which sets of faces are downloaded into players' game boards and to reconcile cash received by a salesperson with the number of downloaded games authorized to be played; b) players' game boards, each of which is adapted to receive enabling messages from a sales unit, to display enabled sets of playable indicia simulative of a bingo card and to modify that display responsive to a player's input; and c) the sales unit, which is adapted both to send an enabling message to a player's game board responsive to a manual input from a salesperson, and to record each such enabling transaction for later upload to the central computer. Another feature of the system is a switching arrangement for controlling a LCD display in a manner simulative of the use of a conventional ink dauber in marking a paper bingo card. This may be done by using a permanent magnet disposed on a simulative dauber that cooperates with a Hall-effect, or other, magnetic field sensor disposed behind an LCD display cell.
1. A gaming system for use by an operator and a plurality of players for playing at least one selected bingo-like game in a session comprising a first predetermined number thereof, the system comprising a base computer, a sales computer and a plurality of game boards, wherein:
each of the game boards comprises:
a respective game board computer having respective computer memory operatively associated therewith, each of the game board computers operating under control of a game board program stored in the respective computer memory; and
a respective game board display controlled by the respective game board computer;
wherein the base computer operates under control of a base computer program to download data representative of at least the first predetermined number of respective patterned arrays of indicia into the respective computer memory of each of the game board computers, each of the patterned arrays associated with only a respective one of the games in the session thereof, and
the sales computer operates under control of a stored program to communicate a respective enabling message associated with the at least one selected game to a selected one of the game board computers responsive to an input from the operator; and wherein
the selected game board computer controls the respective game board display to display at least one respective patterned array of indicia associated with the selected one of the games after the respective game board computer receives the enabling message, the respective game board display otherwise controlled to not display the respective patterned array of indicia.
2. The gaming system of
3. A gaming system for use by an operator and a plurality of players for playing a bingo-like game wherein each of the players selects a respective number of faces to play, the system comprising a base computer, a sales computer and a plurality of game boards, wherein:
each of the game boards comprises:
a respective game board computer having respective computer memory operatively associated therewith, each of the game board computers operating under control of a stored game board program, each of the game board computers programmed to store data representative of at least a first predetermined number that is greater than one and that is denoted as N, of playable faces in the respective computer memory; and
a respective game board display controlled by the respective game board computer to display up to N playable faces;
wherein the base computer operates under control of a base computer program to download data representative of at least N respective playable faces into the respective computer memory of each of the game board computers; and
the sales computer operates responsive to an input from the operator to communicate a respective enabling message corresponding to a number of faces, M, selected to be played by a respective one of the players to the game board computer associated with that player; and wherein
the game board display of the selected game board is controlled by the respective game board computer to display the M playable faces only after receiving the enabling message.
4. The gaming system of
a respective second display apparatus controlled by the respective game board computer to display a respective additional set of up to N playable faces on a second portion of the respective game board if M is greater than N; and
a switch having an output to the game board computer whereby the game board computer operates under control of the game board program to replace the display of the N playable faces on the first display apparatus with the display of the additional set of up to N playable faces responsive to the switch output.
5. A method of enabling a player to play a bingo-like game that is a selected one of a first predetermined number, greater than one and denoted with the letter N, of bingo-like games in a session thereof, the method comprising the steps, carried out by an operator of the game, of:
providing the player with a game board comprising a game board computer having computer memory operatively associated therewith, the game board computer programmed to store in the computer memory data representative of at least N playable faces;
accepting payment from the player for at least one playable face associated with the selected game and subsequently manually inputting a sales datum into a sales computer, whereupon
the sales computer communicates an enabling message associated with the selected game to the game board computer and whereupon a display apparatus portion of the game board displays the at least one playable face, the game board display apparatus not displaying the at least one playable face prior to receiving the enabling message.
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7. The method of
8. The method of
9. A method of enabling a player to play up to a first predetermined number that is greater than one and that is denoted with the letter N, of playable faces in a bingo-like game, the method comprising the steps, carried out by an operator of the game, of:
providing the player with a game board comprising a game board computer having computer memory operatively associated therewith, the game board computer programmed to store in the computer memory data representative of at least N playable faces;
accepting payment from the player for a player-selected number of playable faces, the player-selected number denoted with the letter M, wherein M is at least two but is no greater than N, and subsequently manually inputting a sales datum into a sales computer, whereupon
the sales computer communicates an enabling message to the game board computer and a display apparatus portion of the game board displays the M playable faces, the game board not displaying more than one playable face prior to receiving the enabling message.
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1. Field of the Invention
The invention pertains generally to electronic gaming systems and particularly to systems simulating the well-known game of bingo.
2. Background Information
The well-known game of bingo commonly involves a group of players and a caller, who calls or announces randomly selected indicia, which commonly comprise integral numbers within a predetermined range. Any called number may match one of the numbers on a patterned array, commonly called a "face", or "permutation" or "perm", that has been sold to a player. The most popular face is a 5�5 array of integers from which the central integer is removed to provide a "free" space. Each players of a conventional bingo game plays one or more such arrays during a given game by marking off called numbers (e.g., by means of a ink dauber that permanently obliterates the called number) that appear on any of those faces. Play continues until one of the players marks off a pre-announced winning pattern of numbers (e.g., five marked indicia, including the free space, in a straight line) and calls "bingo". The caller, or other administrative employee of the bingo operator, then checks to see that the player's allegedly winning permutation is a correct winning permutation, and authorizes a payout if it is. It will be recognized by those skilled in the gaming arts that the actual game of bingo is only one of a number of bingo-like games of chance wherein a player views a proximally displayed patterned array of indicia (e.g., a bingo card) that comprises a subset of all such indicia, monitors a master sequence of indicia from the set of all possible indicia (e.g., the sequence of called numbers) supplied by an operator of the game, marks those indicia from the master sequence that appear on his or her array (e.g., by daubing a printed integer with ink) and receives a payout if a correctly marked subset of the randomly generated sequence corresponds to a characteristic winning pattern of the indicia disposed on his or her local display (e.g., having all four corners covered on a regular bingo card). Generally speaking, in such bingo-like games the operator receives payment for each proximally displayable array of indicia from each of a plurality of players prior to generating the master sequence of indicia.
Many bingo players choose to play more than one face simultaneously, an arrangement commonly called "N-on play", where N is the number of faces selected. Responsive to this practice, some bingo operators sell cards having multiple faces printed thereon, with up to an 18-on card being known. It is generally thought that even a skilled player can not simultaneously follow the course of the game on more than six faces. Hence, playing more than 6-on may inherently require the player to view sets of faces sequentially, which limits the speed at which the player can respond to calls.
Bingo-like games are commonly played in sessions comprising a sequence of games, each of which is played on cards separately designated (e.g., color-coded) for a particular game in the session. To facilitate multi-game play, the bingo game operator commonly provides one or more floor-walking salespersons who sell cards to the players before a bingo session begins and between the games that make up that session.
There have been many attempts in the prior art to provide an electronic simulation of a bingo session, but none have proven popular. These prior art attempts appear to have failed by using design features that were technically convenient but that did not adequately reproduce or simulate the experience of playing a conventional bingo game. Notable among U.S. patents in this area are:
Richardson, in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,007,649; 5,043,887; 5,054,787; and 5,072,381 teaches an electronic bingo system in which a plurality of arrays of indicia, each corresponding to a separately displayable face, are downloaded from a central computer into a memory portion of a player's electronic game board. A floor-walker's validation terminal is used to validate a winning combination by means including receiving a unique game-specific code (which may conveniently be a serialized number known as a "permutation number" associated with a particular algorithm for generating the set of all permutations of allowable indicia) from the allegedly winning game board. Richardson's game board comprises a card display and a keypad. The use of the keypad to enter called numbers is not simulative of the physical marking of paper cards. Moreover, Richardson's game board displays only a single face and thereby fails to facilitate N-on play.
Itkis, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,478,084, teaches a mechanical bingo machine that displays multiple playable faces at one time (e.g., a 6-on card) and that uses a permanent magnet to move suspended ferromagnetic particles from a hidden side of a display board to a visible side in order to make a white-to-black transition, simulative of an ink dauber being used, to mark called numbers.
Frain, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,230,514, teaches an electronic game board comprising 2-on to 18-on card displays and a plurality of player input means, including means to select a special game. Frain provides no way of changing the display on any one of the boards. A player who wants a different set of numbers is required to turn her board in for another one.
Matsumoto et al., in U.S. Pat. No. 5,755,619, show a casino bingo apparatus in which each player uses a touch-screen terminal hard-wired to a central unit. The central unit keeps score and uses conventional bingo balls to generate called numbers. The required wiring makes installation of Matsumoto's apparatus expensive and essentially requires a dedicated facility.
A preferred system of the invention provides electronic equipment for playing a bingo-like game in a fashion closely simulative of the well known game of bingo played with paper cards. This preferred system comprises three main functional components including: a) a central computer that is used both to determine which sets of face-simulative numbers or other indicia are downloaded into players' game boards and to reconcile cash received by a salesperson with the number of downloaded games authorized to be played; b) a plurality of players' game boards, each of which is adapted to receive enabling messages from a sales unit, to display enabled sets of playable indicia simulative of a bingo card and to modify that display responsive to a player's input; and c) the sales unit, which is adapted both to send an enabling message to a player's game board responsive to a manual input from a salesperson, and to record each such enabling transaction for later upload to the central computer. It will be recognized by those skilled in the computer arts that a small system of the invention could comprise only two physically distinct types of components by using a plurality of game boards and a single operator's computer that combined the functions of the base computer and the sales unit.
One of the features of a preferred embodiment of the invention is a player's game board comprising an electronically controlled display and a player input means. The display is preferably a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, adapted to display a plurality of arrays of indicia simulating a printed card. A particular preferred embodiment simulates a 6-on card display. In a further refinement of this embodiment, the apparatus comprises a 6-on display of playable faces, a reduced size and resolution display of at least a second 6-on set, as well as means usable by the player to select which of the 6-on sets is displayed at the higher resolution for active play.
Another of the features of a preferred embodiment of the invention is a switching arrangement for controlling a LCD display in a manner simulative of the use of a conventional ink dauber in marking a paper bingo card. In one preferred embodiment the switching arrangement comprises a permanent magnet disposed on a simulative dauber that cooperates with a Hall-effect, or other, magnetic field sensor disposed behind a display cell in which a selected one of the playable indicia is displayed. Bringing the dauber proximate to the display cell causes the sensor to provide an output to a display controller which replaces the previously displayed indicium with a modified one until the display is reset. This simulates the permanent marking of a printed bingo indicium with an ink dauber. It will be understood that a system of the invention may be configured to use any one of many other sensing arrangements for sensing the proximate presence of a marking device.
An additional feature of a preferred embodiment of the invention that is particularly compatible with the use of a proximity dauber is the use, in bingo game, of a sealed, liquid-tight housing preferably having no metallic electrical connections extending through it. Prior art electronic game boards that have not been sealed have sometimes failed in service when a player accidentally spilled a beverage onto the game board during the course of play.
In addition to the use of a sealed housing, several other features of preferred embodiments of the invention are also directed at ensuring that a game board does not fail during use. In service failure of prior art electronic game board has sometimes led to excited and hostile reactions from players who felt they had been cheated out of a victory. Principal among these other features is the provision of a redundant power supply arrangement in which electric power is normally supplied to the game board by a main, rechargeable, battery, but in which a back-up battery is automatically switched in to operate the game board whenever the main battery is discharged or otherwise becomes inoperative.
Yet another of the features of a preferred embodiment of the invention is the provision of a color-coded or pattern-coded game-indicating indicium or flag on a player's game board. This flag is simulative of the use of different card colors or patterns printed on a paper bingo card and used to denote the game within a multi-game session in which that particular paper card is to be used.
Although it is believed that the foregoing recital of features and advantages may be of use to one who is skilled in the art and who wishes to learn how to practice the invention, it will be recognized that the foregoing recital is not intended to list all of the features and advantages. Moreover, it may be noted that different embodiments of the invention may provide various combinations of the hereinbefore recited features and advantages of the invention, and that less than all of the recited features and advantages may be provided by some embodiments thereof.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of a gaming system of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a top level system flow chart for the three major components.
FIG. 3 is an elevational view of an electronic gaming board of the invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of the gaming board of FIG. 3
FIG. 5 is a partly cut-away, partly schematic view of a magnetic dauber and a display modified by the dauber.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the operation of the magnetic dauber of FIG. 5.
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a preferred game flag changing mechanism.
A preferred system of the invention 10, as depicted in FIG. 1, comprises a base computer 12 that may have associated therewith a docking station 14, a sales unit 18, and a plurality of game boards 16, each having a sealed housing 17. The docking station 14 may comprise means for recharging a battery 20 in each of the game boards 16, as well as means for providing a data communication path 22 between the computer 12 and the game boards 16. The sales unit 18, as will be disclosed in greater detail hereinafter, is configured to communicate both with the game boards 16 (as indicated by the triple-dotted line 24 in FIG. 1) and with the base computer 12 (as indicated by the single-dotted line 26 in FIG. 1).
The preferred system employs a secondary battery 20 in each game board 16 and in the sales terminal. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art of portable computer-based hardware that there are many other means of supplying electric power to this sort of equipment. Because of the low power consumption and intermittent use of the game boards 16, one could also choose to power them by primary batteries, by photovoltaic cells adapted to receive optical power from ambient illumination at a bingo hall or the like, by inductive coupling with coils (not shown) disposed under a table or other horizontal surface at the playing location, or by any other means known in the art. In a particular preferred embodiment of the game board 16, regulated electric power is available from a power supply circuit comprising selection means for selectively drawing unregulated electric power from either a main battery 20 (which may be a lead-acid or nickel metal hydride or other known rechargeable battery) or from a back-up battery 21 (which may be a primary battery with a slow self-discharge rate, a secondary battery electrically connected to and recharged by a photovoltaic cell 23 or any other known battery suitable for standby service). When the game board 16 is turned on at the beginning of a session, which may be done by bringing the magnetic dauber 60 up to a magnetic reed switch 25 sealed within the housing 17, the power supply circuit 27 normally draws power from the main battery 20 and supplies regulated DC power to various components in the game board 16. If the main battery 20 is inadequately charged or is otherwise not able to supply power, this battery condition is sensed by known selection means in the power supply 27, which then selectively draws power from the backup battery 21 and supplies a signal output to a control means, such as the microprocessor 40 (e.g., over a signal line 28) depicted in the drawing, so that the microprocessor can send a battery problem report to the base computer 12 whenever that game board next communicates with the base computer 12.
Although the base computer 12 is depicted as a conventional desktop computer in FIG. 1, it will be understood that many other configurations (e.g., as a point of sale terminal or electronic cash register) are possible. It will be understood from the disclosure hereinafter provided that additional base computers 12 may be present at a playing location for backup purposes or to deal with periods of high activity. Also, as noted above, a small system of the invention could be configured with a single operator's computer that ran a first stored program to perform the base computer functions before and after a gaming session and that ran a second stored program to perform the sales computer functions during the gaming session. Moreover, it will be understood to those skilled in the data collection and communication arts that a local system of the invention 10 could be configured to communicate with a central computer system (not shown) over the public switched telephone network, or by other suitable means, if the operator of the gaming arrangement employed multiple such systems at various locations.
Turning now to FIG. 2, one finds a set of three linked flow charts depicting the operation of the base unit 12, game boards 16 and sales unit 18. In an initialization Step 30 the base unit issues a reset message to each of the game boards 16 and sales units 18, and then generates (in Step 32) a plurality of patterns of indicia, each corresponding to a separately playable face or permutation. As depicted in FIG. 2, if a predetermined number, G, of games are to be played in an ensuing session; if each game board has a maximum number, N, of faces that it can display for play during any one of the G games; and if B game boards are available for use, the base computer 12 generates at least G times N times B faces, and preferably downloads (Step 34) a separate respective subset comprising B times N of these faces into each of the B game boards. Once this download operation has been carried out, the base computer 12 may then be idle until after the end of the session, or may be used for other gaming functions, such as random number generation for the calls, cash accounting, and the like. As is well known in the gaming arts, all such satisfactory arrangements must ensure that no two faces used in a given game can have the same patterned array. In one particular arrangement, the base computer 12 generates called numbers and checks, after each call, to see if any of the possible permutations could be displaying a winning configuration. The base computer 12 can display a list of permutation numbers corresponding to possible winning permutations and update that list after each call. Inasmuch as not all permutations are in play in a single game, it is not expected that the game will end when the first possible winner appears on this display. This list can, however, be used to validate a claimed win by checking the permutation number of an allegedly winning face against the list of possible winners.
As hereinbefore noted, the base computer 12 may communicate with a remote host computer. In this case, it will be understood to those skilled in the art that the plurality of patterns could be generated at the remote location and downloaded into the base computer 12 from the host. It is also possible that a host could supply each of a plurality of base computers with a selected set of initialization parameters to be used by an algorithm for locally generating a set of faces. In this manner a system operator could arrange for each of a plurality of sites to dispense sets of faces.
As previously described, each of the game boards 16 receives a downloaded set of faces after initially being reset. This communication is preferably via non-contact means, such as an inductive coupling 33 or LED (not shown) arrangement, that does not involve metallic connections extending through the sealed housing 17 of the game board. The downloaded faces are stored in a read-write memory such as a dynamic RAM 36. Of the N faces assigned to a first scheduled game, some selected number, n, may be automatically enabled (Step 38). That is, the operator of the system 10 may choose to reduce the floor-walking salesperson's initial workload by passing out a game board 16 having n enabled games to each player who pays an entry fee prior to a session. It will be understood to those skilled in the computer arts that a game board 16 preferably comprises a microprocessor 40 operating under control of a stored program that is conventionally stored, along with some game-related parameters, in a ROM 42. Also, as is conventional in the computer arts, a set of data representative of the downloaded permutations or patterned arrays of indicia may be stored in a RAM 36.
The floor-walking salesperson's apparatus, as indicated in FIG. 2, can be controlled by the salesperson to issue an enabling command (Step 44) to a game board when a player pays for an additional face or faces to be played during one of the games of a session. Transaction data are stored in the sales unit 18 until the end of a session, at which time a set of records comprising at least data on the number of games enabled and payments received is communicated (Step 46) to the base unit 12. The minimum essential data flow between the sales unit 18 and game board 16 is thus a) an enabling message that is passed to the game board; b) a counter (which may be implemented in either hardware or software) in the sales unit that is updated to reflected the total number sold since the immediately preceding system reset; and c) the total number of "enables", which is transmitted to the base unit when the salesperson turns in receipts for counting. It will be understood that these sales data can be organized in many ways and may comprise more detailed transactional information, such as the unique identity of the game board that was enabled at any given transaction and the time of the transaction. Moreover, it is expected that the operating program for the sales unit 18 may be modified to allow for payment by means other than cash (e.g., by use of a prepaid debit card).
Although it is clearly possible to use a computer playing the role of base unit to run a random number generation algorithm and thereby generate the calls in a game of bingo, this is not a necessary feature of the invention. In fact, it is expected that a preferred approach to using the system of the invention will be to use it with conventional means of generating called indicia and validating wins. As is well known, the play of a game of bingo continues until a player covers or marks a winning pattern of indicia and calls bingo. At this point, play stops and the player who called bingo submits his or her winning face to a representative of the game operator for validation of the claimed win. In preferred systems of the invention, both the base unit 12 and sales unit 18 comprise computer apparatus that can be programmed for use in validating a claimed win. That is, if a computer apparatus is supplied with the list of called indicia and data representative of the pattern of indicia disposed on a given card (e.g., which could be stored in a database comprising records relating each face's unique identification number to its displayed pattern of indicia), the computer can be used to automatically validate a claimed win by interrogating the claimant's game board as to the permutations currently being played. On the other hand, it is not necessary that either the base unit or the sales unit be involved in the validation activity. Because the preferred system of the invention simulates the game of bingo as played with paper cards, a claimant need only present the card to an operator's representative for the representative's visual inspection.
Turning now to FIG. 3, one finds a depiction of a preferred game board 16, which allows for simultaneous play on a plurality of game faces. In the example of FIG. 3, the game board 16 comprises at least an active display portion 50 adapted to display an N-on array of playable faces. The active display portion 50 has individually addressable and dynamically alterable cells 52, each of which is adapted to display a single playable indicium. In the depicted embodiment a 6-on arrangement is used. In addition to the playable display 50, a game board may comprise a low resolution display 54 showing additional faces, but not providing a player with the capacity to alter any of the cells currently displayed on the low resolution display or display portion. These additional faces may be shown at a sufficiently coarse resolution that not all the details of individual indicia are discernible, but the pattern of marked cells is visible. In a game board of this sort, an "n-on face-select" switching means 58 having an input to a game board control means, such as the microprocessor 40, can be provided (e.g., one using the "dauber" that will be disclosed in greater detail hereinafter) so that a player can select which of a plurality of n-on arrays is to be displayed in the active, high resolution display 50. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the game board 16 provides a player with thirty six playable faces comprising six different 6-on arrays, where the active 6-on array is visibly marked on the low resolution portion of the display, as shown by the shaded region 56.
It will be recognized to those skilled in the art that many variations on the game board layout are possible. One could select more or fewer than six for the number of faces to be played at a time. Because this would effect the overall size of the active display, both the electrical power requirements and cost of manufacture of the board would be impacted by any decision on the size and complexity of the active array. For example, one could eliminate the low resolution displays and obtain a simpler, cheaper game board that would be satisfactory for players who did not want to go beyond 6-on play. Moreover, it should be clear that although FIG. 3 depicts faces having alphanumeric indicia, other sorts of indicia may be used with a bingo-like game and could be accommodated by the use of a dot-matrix display. Additionally, although the disclosure supra describes the active and low-resolution displays as though they were separate physical components, it should be clear to those skilled in the art that the same functional features could be supplied by using separately assignable regions of a single large display (e.g., by providing a windowed representation on a CRT).
The game board 16 is expected to be a stand-alone device that can be used anywhere a bingo card is used. In most cases, this implies that AC electrical power will not be available for the game board, and that the board will operate on batteries and will use a relatively low power consumption display in order to maximize playing time. Initially, it is expected that the preferred display 50 will be a black and white LCD panel. Many alternate display technologies, such as a color LCD, a seven-segment LED, a plasma panel, or a CRT could be used with the system and might well be used with variations thereof that do not rely on battery power.. In particular, an emerging technology providing an "electronic ink" or "e-ink" display, which is described by Jacobsen et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,930,026, might someday provide an optimal display requiring power only when the displayed data are being changed. The disclosure of Jacobsen et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 5,930,026 is herein incorporated by reference.
Preferred embodiments of the invention provide a player with a marking means, or "dauber" 60, simulative of the ink dauber that is commonly used when playing bingo with paper cards. In a preferred embodiment, the marking device 60 comprises a permanent magnet 62 (which may be made of a rubber body impregnated with a ferromagnetic material) and a handle 64, which is generally selected to be of the same size and shape as is used with ink daubers, and which may be incidentally imprinted with advertising messages 66 and the like. The choice of a rubberized carrier for the magnet is expected to minimize scratching and other mechanical damage to the display panel with which it is used.
In a preferred game board 16, a Hall effect sensor 68 is mounted in a backing plate 70 on which the active display 50 is supported. Thus, when the permanent magnet 62 is brought up to one of the cells 52, the magnetic sensor disposed therebehind provides an output to the microprocessor 40 which controls the display 50 so as to visually alter the appearance of that cell in a suitable manner—e.g., by blacking it out, by changing the background pattern or color of the marked cell, or by replacing the indicium with one having a line drawn through it. In keeping with a desire to simulate the use of ink on paper, the display cell 52 can be maintained with its altered appearance throughout the duration of the game. This may be better understood with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 6, wherein the proximity of a marking device or dauber 60 is detected adjacent a cell 52 (Step 72) and the cell and face identity are stored in memory 36 (Step 74). The microprocessor 40 then checks (Step 76) to see if any of the stored cells is on an active card, and, if it is blacks out (or otherwise visually encodes) the indicium in that cell (Step 78). Thus, even if a marked cell is on a face that is "moved" off the active display, when that face is brought back to the active position the cell in question is still displayed as a marked cell.
In a particular preferred embodiment, the combination of a magnetic dauber 60 and an alterable display can be used in confirming that an alleged win is correctly claimed. In this case a Hall effect sensor is disposed behind the central "free" space on a playable display and the microprocessor is programmed to temporarily blank out the daubed spaces and use a single row of display cells to show that face's permutation number. If this permutation number matches a list of possible winning permutations, then the claimed win is validated.
In a preferred embodiment the Hall sensor is made by Allegro Micro Systems, Inc., and has part number A3240ELH. It will be understood, however, that many other magnetic sensors, not all of which employ the Hall effect, could be used. Moreover, many other proximity sensing approaches could be used to control the display 50 in a manner simulative of marking a paper card with ink. These methods include at least: mechanical or capacitive switches (in which case the "marking means" used by the player could be one of the player's fingers); a passive inductive circuit disposed in a dauber and co-acting with a plurality of tuned circuit sensors disposed behind respective display cells; or a battery-powered optical, infra-red, or RF emitter in the dauber co-acting with a corresponding sensor associated with each display cell. Moreover, although the "daubing" arrangements discussed above are usable with low power LCD displays, if the system of the invention is used with an AC-powered game board, a known touch-screen CRT could be used.
Color coded paper bingo cards are widely used in multi-game sessions. A specific predetermined color is used to indicate which cards may be used in any particular game of the session. The system of the invention provides several means of attaining the same goal of visually marking a card with a characteristic indicium or "flag" so that both the player and the operator know that the card is to be used in a particular game of the session. In some embodiments, a game card 16 of the invention comprises a display window 80 used to indicate the current game. This window 80 may comprise an LCD alphanumeric display used to communicate the game identifying indicium (e.g., by showing "Game 3" or "Green"). Alternately, a patterned or colored indicium may be provided in the window 80 by disposing one or more controllably movable colored or patterned members, such as the endless belts or bands 82, 84, therebehind. These bands 82, 84 are preferably made from a semi-transparent flexible plastic sheet and are driven by respective stepping motors 86, 88 controlled by the microprocessor 40 in the game board responsive to a game select input 89 switch actuated by the proximity of the dauber 60. As is known in the art, the position of each band can be checked by optical, or other, position sensors 90, 92. It will be realized that if only a small number of color or pattern variations are needed, one of the bands 82, 84 can be eliminated to reduce cost. Moreover, one could easily configure a manually operated color changing arrangement in which the player could move a band 82 by manually rotating a roller shaft 94, e.g., by means of a knob attached thereto. In this manually operated version, it is expected that a position sensor 90 would still be employed to allow the microprocessor 40 to determine which color or pattern had been selected so that the correct perms could be displayed.
Although the present invention has been described with respect to several preferred embodiments, many modifications and alterations can be made without departing from the invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all such modifications and alterations be considered as within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the attached claims.
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On Oct. 13, Summerville Police received multiple calls regarding a male assaulting a child in the Bojangles parking lot.
Arriving, the officer observed several people congregated all pointing at a 66-year-old man who was "out of breath and sweating" near a silver Dodge Dakota.
Advised of his Miranda rights, the man agreed to speak to police telling them that his grandchildren had been arguing in the back of the car and he had nearly crashed his vehicle so he pulled into the lot "so people could see" and "I beat her with this hand…in the behind."
He told police he had threatened the beating if they didn't stop arguing. When asked how many times he beat her, the grandfather replied he didn't know but he only hit her on the behind. However, witnesses told police they observed him pulling the 9-year-old child from the car by the neck and arm, then sitting on the curb with the child over his lap, his legs locking hers, and beating her with an open hand all over from the neck down. The child was screaming and crying "stop…help me…help me…I won't do it again."
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People driving by on North Main Street had seen the incident and pulled in to help the child but were told by the grandfather to "mind their own … business."
Witness told police they had seen the child hit approximately 20 to 25 times.
The man told police he had stopped hitting her because he "was tired and…finished."
The child's mother told police, when contacted, that the grandfather lived with them and was wonderful with the children, caring for them, helping with homework and reading to them. He always listened to their problems. She further told police that the girl and her brother, 12, argued a lot "and can drive one insane" and when they argued, the little girl would scream "at the top of her lungs making a screeching sound."
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Topic: Yucatan Restaurants
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Neighborhood: Paseo Montejo in Centro
Telephone: 924-4304
Address: Paseo Montejo #480 x 41
How to Get There from the Centro: Go north on Paseo Montejo. Rosas y Xocolate is the renovated bright pink building on your right, before you see El Triunfo.
Parking: On the side streets
AirConditioned: Yes
Outdoors: Yes
Drinks: Full bar.
Hours: 7 Days a week, 7:30 am to 12 pm, and 1:30 pm to 12 am
Website: http://www.rosasandxocolate.com
Note: Such luxury and so close to downtown! Breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Working Gringos love this place. We've eaten here a lot and the food has never disappointed us. We've discovered some amazing Mexican wines here, as well as others from around the world. The ambiance is lovely (don't the walls inside look like they are MADE of chocolate?) and we love getting one delicious Belgian chocolate after dinner in the chocolate shop. Don't let the closed doors fool you…. just ask the front desk and they'll open it up and sell you whatever chocolate you want. Here's a good review from the Casual Restaurant Critic.


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Quarterback Matthew Stafford had plenty of critics after s subpar season in 2013 that contributed to the firing of head coach Jim Schwartz. Before a national television audience, the No. 1 pick of the 2009 NFL Draft silenced a few critics in guiding the Detroit Lions to a 35-14 win over the New York Giants before 64,401 at Ford Field Monday.
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Lions receiver Calvin Johnson set or tied four National Football League records during Saturday's 31-18 loss to Atlanta.


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The following real estate transactions were the highest and lowest recorded in Erie, Ottawa and Huron counties for the week ending Nov. 2.
Rum Road, Perkins Twp., Erie County, JRSMI, LLC, to Sandboro, LP, $1,312,500.
1315 Fifth St., Sandusky City, Erie County, US Bank National Assoc. to Timothy W. and Marra K. Stookey, $6,000.
For a full listing of real estate transactions, pick up a copy of Sunday's Register.


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Unlock all your System Preferences
This i found on a google search, not my idea
Step 1: What to do
Do a Spot light search for "system preferences"
Drag and drop (copy) SP to your desktop or where ever you want it from the Spotlight search
Step 2: Rename it
to something you want I am going to name it SP2, so you know what is the unlocked version
Step 3: Now to unlock the file
go to Show Package Contents
now navigate to /Contents/Resources
now delete the file NSPrefPaneGroups.plist
now close package Contents and run SP2
Step 4: Using it
you may have to click view more then one time to get it to open
Now you have everything open, but some require a Admin password to save it :(
I use it to turn off the fruity colors on the close, re-size buttons
Now if you have people that check you Mac then hide it some where
and remember don;t do anything that will get you in trouble, not my fault.
Sweet little move that, I just can't believe that actually floats!
Myself, if somebody admins a mac I'm using, I'd just pop in a system disk USB stick, and then give myself full admin access, know what I'm saying. Or just have my own boot drive with my own stuff on it. Hell, I'll just bring my own laptop.
Thank you for helping me hack my computer!


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Joined: 7/22/10
I think, to get the whole picture of what really makes GW2 shine you have to consider a massive point: Most people don't do raids in WoW. If they don't do raids, they aren't doing 'end game', and since the 'end game' gear grind is the only thing some people prefer (based on their preferences) is better, it puts WoW in a real pickle. If most people only want to play the 1-80 content of a game, then, well, GW2 thrashes WoW absolutely hands down while it begs for it's mommy.
Debate about the raiding versus PvP/Dungeon/Exploration end game as much as you want, most of the WoW players don't care about that, they care about the levelling experience, of which we know is a big problem for WoW compared to what we've seen of GW2.
So, a better levelling experience with more variety, epic bosses, more exploration, a more 'alive' feel to world, less 'competition' for mobs, resources ect. and for no sub? Yeah, i think GW2 really threatens WoW more than we probably think here at MMORPG, as many are transfixed by the tiny proportion of the game that many people simply don't play.
Issues which would get in the way of GW2 stealing a massive amount of WoW players who are only after the levelling experience: The game will be too hard for the absolutely terrible players (going from clicking skills and clicking to move in WoW to WASD/Dodge/button usage for skills to remain competant in remotely challenging content in GW2 would be like going from riding a trike to piloting a harrier), and the game won't run on toasters.
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Joined: 4/14/10
if people like wow great but frankly no matter what wow does until the game goes bye bye, it's all the same thing over and over again, so for me it has nothing to offer, however Gw2 has done a better job than anyone ever has with public events ( dynamic events/renown hearts) personally the gear treadmill is where dev's show they think you have no intelligence and you are just a hamster on a wheel. So to me there is only one choice, to move the genre forward and not stick with the same damn formula over and over again.
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Joined: 8/14/10
All of history is a lie. The truth depends on who does the listening, and who does the telling...
I think every expansion WoW releases, more and more people get bored faster and leave. I know I have been talked into coming back for each expansion by friends, and me and my wife both get bored sooner every expansion. GW2 has offered a lot of my friends and guildmates an alternative that was non existent the last couple of expansions and I know the core of our WoW guild will not be purchasing the next one. Now I know I don't speak for all but I can speak for about 10 of us and that is the general feeling regarding the new expansion. While a couple have some doubts about GW2's lack of raiding, we are all excited and happy with what the product has shown us on the BWE and can't wait to leave leave WoW with some fond memories and no more visits.
I don't think GW2 is going to kill WoW in any way and honestly I don't want it to. I'd love for GW2 to wind up being more difficult than some would care for and even a game that some don't adjust to and go back to the game of their choice rather than sitting in GW2 and bitching to anyone that will listen how they think WoW is better because of reason A,B,C. If WoW goes away, a lot of unhappy fans will look for a new home and I shudder at the thought.
RIP Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan and Paul Gray.
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Joined: 7/05/07
If it ain't broke, dont fix it!
Well, GW2 will not be the end all for WOW or any other subscription based game. But it is a sign of thigs to come. Yes I will play GW2 and enjoy it until it runes its course as all games eventually do. For me, I played WOW several times and it has already run its course.
So the obvious choice for me is play GW2 now and see what is comming down the road. What I am almose sure of, the down the road game will be more like GW2 than WOW.
Good read, by the way.
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Joined: 4/18/06
The one thing that makes me devoted to GW2, and will NEVER return to WoW, is that GW2 is designed to help foster a courteous and helpful community.
With the kill sharing game design of GW2, you won't have people going fricking apeshit, when they accuse you of kill stealing, after you help them out with a tough mob.
WoW players suck!
Originally posted by P4YB4CK
GW2 has so much content at the right level...you can relive old stories unlike WoW where the low levels become nothing after max level. How can you expect them to give more content when it's not necessary at all? :D
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Joined: 11/05/08
WoW: Pandamonium is going to be the Pokemon killer.
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Joined: 8/09/12
I don't, I think they purposefully set it a month after the GW2 launch for a reason. Look at it like this, when a new mmo/game comes out you are all excited and its all you want to do as time goes by you get less excited, find things that annoy the crap out of you and look to do something else.
A month is more than enough time for this to happen. There will be some bugs at GW2 launch maybe even a major one and that's where MoP comes in fresh content new race/class and pretty much solid stable content.
Me i'm not buying GW2 yet, can't afford it don't really care for it either (and I am definitely not forking out like I did for SWTOR without a free weekend/free trial) on top of that I have a wonderful WoW guild and i'm just not ready to quit yet.
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Joined: 8/03/12
Originally posted by CtrlF4
By fresh content you mean the same things but with different skins right? I ask that as a frustruated ex-wow player who has had enough of wow (nothing against you man).
WOW will be releasing patch 5.0.1 real close to GW2's release. The patch will contain a lot of the new things which wow players will be excited about; I think this move was wise on wow's part (maybe even desperate) in order to mititgate their losses of players leaving wow for GW2.
As for the release, I believe that MoP will be the worst selling wow expansion since Vanilla. Though there are theories and charts for every taste, only time will tell.
See ya'll in WVW! cheers!
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Joined: 7/28/12
lol Blizzard has the recipe that everyone wants. Even "failing" WoW utterly destroys every MMO out there.
It has been 2 years since I played WoW but I am thinking its time to visit again after playing through the lackluster beta that was GW2. All the COD kiddos love GW2 for its mindless zerg. I can tell the kids that post here because of how much they /think/ GW2 is an RPG. It is a canned game made to produce very fast results - nothing wrong with that.
It is what it is.
I did my 3 years in EQ, 3 in DAoC and of course went on to WoW, Vanguard, CoHeros, AoC, DDO etc etc etc. I am a gamer. An MMO Gamer. These compititions are great, but as gamers (not cell phone owners that think they are gamers) we as the community need to be open to the diversity that is the MMO genre.
I agree with the people that say WoW will be strong in 5 more years. Possibly longer. It is more then a game now; it is a basement full of boxes to @8million people. An atic full of old school book reports and paper mache planets. WoW is grandmas house and a bowl full of old mints.
When (if?) Titan ever comes out, it may well be the first real migration from one solid game (WoW) to a new home (Titan). This will be the equivilant of moving earths population to the Mars. Hats off to Blizzard if they can do it with even a 50% success rate (4 mill subs to a new game anyone?)
"GW2 is the Methadone to WoWs Heroin."
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Joined: 10/20/09
Its fairly simple, WoW will continue to be the 800lbs gorilla and will continue to hold the #1 market share .. period .. nuff said!
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Joined: 4/04/11
Yup those addicted to the nipples of a grossly overweight and ancient donkey will continue to suckle like their lives depended on it. I'll be over here trying something fresh in gw2, see u there!
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
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My Dell XPS M1330 speakers are not working ever since I installed Windows 7. I am also running Ubuntu and the speakers work fine there. The headphone jack works under both OSes. Which driver I should upgrade to sort out this issue?
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You've already made it through most of the troubleshooting. The speakers work under Ubuntu so you know it is not a hardware issue; both the speakers and soundcard are fine. The speakers worked under whatever previous Windows installation you had. It seems to be something related to Windows 7.
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A November 13 press release issued by the UNODC — the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime — stated that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan rose 36 percent in 2013, which is a record high. Additionally, opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by 49 percent since 2012.
Australia's new government, which opposes carbon taxes and global-warming schemes, told UN alarmists: No more "socialism masquerading as environmentalism."
Some of the world's most ruthless Islamist and Communist autocracies were recently appointed to sit on the United Nations "Human Rights" Council.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva on November 8 to join in the ongoing talks between the so-called P5+1 nations and Iran.
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Speaking during talks conducted in Vienna by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — the UN's nuclear watchdog — Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on October 28 that Iran will offer a "new approach" toward settling the ongoing controversy over his nation's nuclear fuel enrichment program.
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Illustration: Elliot Freeman follows a bird across town in this beautiful series
Elliott Freeman is currently studying for a BA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Art where he's refining a process of cutting paper, drawing strange men and water-colour and gouaching his way to some really beautiful compositions. We're incredibly fond of his Bird Watching pieces, a small set of five images following the narrative of a funny-looking pink bird as it flies across the city, taking in office blocks, traffic jams and football matches on his airborne journey. There's no discernible perspective in Elliot's pieces, and the sense of proportion is baffling, but the combination of all these bizarre elements works incredibly well producing something that's wholly charming.


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Through rain, hail, sleet and snow the sport of soccer is always played. On Fri the US national was scheduled to face the Costa Rican, a team they never had beaten before.
The City and Stadium that was chosen to host the event was in Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Denver Colorado. In Denver there are many aspects that add into a soccer game. Two of these aspects are the weather and the altitude. Knowing this the US National team was able to practice in Denver five days before the actual event took place. They did this because they wanted the players to get used to the cold and the Altitude. However, the Costa Ricans arrived Thursday, where they found out the next day this would comeback to haunt them.
The weather on Friday in Denver, was Snow that you could barely see but, when game time came around the field was cleared, playable and the skies was only aspect affecting the game. In the 15th Minute they got the goal they needed when Jozy Altidore took a shot that deflected off Dempsey and the result ball in the back of the net. For the rest of the game the weather factored in for both teams. In fact, in the 55th minute the officials were about to call the game, when all of a sudden all of the players on both teams vouched to play on. This led to the officials canceling their original decision and play continued. In the end the score read 1-0 USA, which left Costa Rican side very unhappy.
The next day ESPN reported that the Costa Rican national team filed a protest based on the weather. This alone is absurd because the Cost Rican players the night before vouched to continue play when the officials wanted to stop. Cristian Bolanos told Reuters "Honestly, it was robbery, a disgrace, I've never played a game in these conditions,". "You couldn't see the ball ... if we had played without snow, we would have won, I am sure." When Sunil Gulati heard there protest on the mere fact that it was about the weather and not on a call he said: "If the thought is that we want to play Costa Rica in a situation where it could snow, then there are some places that maybe could have been better, like Boston or somewhere,". The other aspect that would lead to the Costa Ricans losing there protest is that the crew officials did everything during and before the game to make the field playable. Lastly, had the game have been in Costa Rica it would have been during the day where it is hot and humid.
For two reasons FIFA will see this protest as absurd. One the players agreed to continue play and had the game have been in Costa Rica their weather factor could also lead the Americans in a disadvantage. Lastly, the next time Costa Rica wants to protest maybe it should on play and not the weather.


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Lamb, hogget & mutton
The following description was first published in the White Hat Food Guide Newslletter of 7th August 2008
Firstly we should explain what Australians mean when they say "lamb". This is perhaps best explained by giving an everyday example.
"I'll see you later Mavis, I'm off to the butcher to buy some lamb for tonight's tea. Now, Herbert, that leg of lamb in the window, is it lamb?" "No, Mrs G, that lamb is mutton." "Well what lamb have you got that's lamb?" "We have this nice tender rack here for $12" "$12 - you've got to be joking! What about that carcass over there? Is that lamb lamb?" "No Mrs G, that lamb's hogget. Come over and count the teeth if you don't believe me." "You know I always trust you Harold. I'm wanting a cheap cut so go out the back and get me a decent leg of mutton."
"Hello Mrs,G" " Hello love. I've sent Harold out the back to get a cheap leg of mutton. I've never trusted him you know. He often passes off two-tooth as lamb. Just look at her out there, looking in the window. All that make up and a short skirt at her age - there's mutton dressed up as lamb if ever I saw it." "Well the fellow she's with is no spring chicken but he seems happy enough." "Yes that's all very well, but can she cook? Harold - that took long enough. Now is that lamb mutton or is that lamb lamb? I'm not paying lamb prices you know. It's mutton Mrs G and that will be $11. I'll tell you what, I'll knock a dollar off if you give me a smile." ["That's always a safe bet - she never smiles for anyone.] "Not likely, Harold Morgan - I know your type. First it's a smile for a dollar then who knows what you'll be wanting after that. Just wrap up my leg of lamb and don't try passing off hogget as lamb on me like you did the other week. I can taste the difference you know." ["Well let's see how you go with that leg of goat you old dragon. I've been trying to shift the last of that carcass for a while now"] "Always a pleasure doing business with you Mrs G."
"What's for tea mum?" "Lamb."
So that should clear up the everyday usage of the word lamb in Australia. To be a little more precise, the word lamb is often used in everyday conversation in Australia to indicate any meat coming from a sheep, but in a butcher's shop or a restaurant you are more likely to adopt the precise use of words like lamb, hogget and mutton. The following are not exact definitions and usage varies from place to place and over time but the should serve as a rough guide.
- Lamb refers to meat from a sheep which is less than one year old or has no adult teeth. In certain cuts of meat the younger animal is felt to be more tender and delicate and is therefore more highly valued. Because of the confusion in the usage of the word "lamb" mentioned above, meat from the young animal is often referred to in Australia as "spring lamb" - i.e. meat from an animal born only last spring.
- Hogget refers to meat from an animal between one and two years old and with two or four adult teeth. A common name used in Australia is "two-tooth". It is regarded as being a little tougher than lamb but more flavourful. At White Hat for instance we prefer our lamb neck from animals at this age when they are nice and meaty.
- Mutton refers to meat from an animal that has passed its second birthday. It can sometimes be quite tough (but that is no problem with long slow cooking) and generally has more flavour than lamb and hogget.
Some White Hat lamb recipes:
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Washington Avenue Melee Leaves Teenager with Gunshot Wound to the Head
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|The building at 1204 Washington Avenue where a fight led to a shooting nearby
(This space used to be Club Amnesia and Club Lure - two nightclubs operated by the Trupiano family -- but manager Tony Trupiano tells Daily RFT that Amnesia closed in late summer, and now the family has "absolutely zero" to do with what happens inside the building.)
According to police, the two victims -- both described as black males, one 17, the other 19 -- were ejected from the space along with others at around 10:30 after the fight erupted.
The victims got in their vehicle and drove south on Tucker Boulevard until they hit the red light at Locust Street. At that point, "several gunshots" were fired at them.
A bullet barely missed the head of the 19-year-old, causing only a graze wound. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
The incident seems to have caused a bit of a political misunderstanding.
The Trupianos, who used to operate their clubs in the space, have frequently come under fire from City Hall over alleged liquor license violations and, most recently, alleged forgery of documents submitted to the Excise Commissioner.
After Saturday's shooting occurred, police issued a report listing the location as Club Amnesia, even though that club has closed.
The resulting media reports appear to be what prompted Mayor Francis Slay to tweet the following on Sunday morning:
(He's linking there to a story about the alleged forgery, not Saturday's shooting.)
But later on Sunday, news outlets such as the Post-Dispatch and KTVI Fox2 updated their stories to show that Amnesia and the Trupianos weren't involved after all.
Captain Sam Dotson, operations director for the city, made exactly that point to the PD, then added this (which might cheer some of you loft-dwellers on Wash Ave who aren't crazy about young troublemakers at that location):
"We've talked to the landlord and he said they were not going to do any more private parties," Dotson said. "They are looking for a tenant with a business that is not alcohol-related."
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