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Ida's local ties (besides playing the French horn in the El Camino Youth Symphony) include his stint as a studio assistant for the late abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis in Francis' Palo Alto studio. This was an influential time for the young artist.
"We often talked about the correlation between music and painting, how it is really the same thing just using different senses," Ida says on his website. "I have applied some of the same principles of music theory to my visual practice."
Ida's works are on display May 31 through Aug. 8 at Stanford Art Spaces, together with paintings by Warren J. Hedgpeth and fiber constructions by Aryana B. Londir.
Pictured: "Santa Monica Night" by Bryan Ida
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Volunteer FAQ
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Happy Tail # 293
I rescued a dog back in February, his name is Brody, and he is going on a year soon so for his soon-to-be birthday, so I wanted to send in some photos of him! Thanks for giving me my new best friend! He does EVERYTHING with me.
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- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 tsp lemon juice
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> what do you think about including the apropriate wiki page (if it > exists) in mails to the list? this would allow an easy click to get > the current status and help beeing more transparent. fack. We should start promoting our website as I suggest we put this address on the posters and flyers to look up detailed info as exact location, schedule of the speeches etc. Which address should we promote? ch.wikimedia.org or wikimedia.ch? Here we need quick decision! It would be glad if somebody could remove the Wikimedia Swizerland instead of Wikimedia CH in the from-field of the mails being posted here. (->Michael?) On the ch.wikimedia.org-page there are some navigation problems: *Wikimedia-Portal refers to the dead meta-page *"aktuelle Ereignisse" could be better translated to "Veranstaltungen" and also refer to events in the past. *"zufälliger Artikel" doesn't really make sense in this wiki. *"Spenden" should link to a page of our own saying that donations to Wikimedia CH are not possible right now. People should wait another two weeks or support Wikimedia Foundation which can be found at ... *Let's list the contact page and bylaws in the navigation bar Is there a setting that German is the default language in the Navigation bar and so on? Users could still opt in for other languages. In the target group of de.wikipedia.org users (readers only) many will not have a sophisticated level of English.(Continue reading)


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Δεν ξέρω αν θα ήμασταν πάνω από την μεγάλη πλειοψηφία των Αφρικανικών χωρών στο Web Index του Tim Berners Lee, αλλά είμαι βέβαιος πως το γεγονός πως δεν είμαστε πουθενά στην κατάταξη είναι δείγμα της έλλειψης σοβαρότητας, ενδιαφέροντος και αξίας που δίνουμε στην δικτύωσή μας ως χώρα. Αν μη τι άλλο, εν διαμέσω κρίσης, οι επενδύσεις για την βελτίωση των δικτύων ευρυζωνικότητας φαίνεται να έχουν παύσει, οι επιδόσεις των υφιστάμενων συνδέσεων έχουν παγώσει ή χειροτερέψει για πολύ κόσμο και εκεί που η Ευρώπη περνά ταχύτατα σε δίκτυα νέας γενιάς με ευρεία διαθεσιμότητα VDSL2+ και FTTC/FTTB/FTTH εμείς ακόμη συζητούμε για εγκατάσταση περισσότερων mini DSLAMs έτσι ώστε να μην βρίσκεται η μεγάλη πλειοψηφία των συμπολιτών μας καταδικασμένη σε ταχύτητες κάτω των 5-6MBps. Φυσικά, στα μάτια των πολλών, όταν το διακύβευμα είναι η ίδια η επιβίωση, η ευρυζωνικότητα καταντά ένα γραφικό αντικείμενο συζήτησης. Κι'όμως, αν μη τι άλλο, αν η 'ανταγωνιστικότητα' της Ελλάδος θέλουμε να σημαίνει κάτι παραπάνω από την εξαθλίωση του βιοτικού επιπέδου των κατοίκων της, αν ο στόχος μας δεν είναι η εργατική τάξη, η αποδοτικότητα του δημοσίου ή η διαφθορά της Κίνας ή της Ινδίας αλλά αυτές της Σουηδίας ή της Φινλανδίας, τότε η ευρυζωνικότητα θα έπρεπε να θεωρείται μείζον θέμα στους κύκλους των αρμόδιων υπηρεσιών και υπουργείων. Και προφανώς αυτό σημαίνει πως η Ελλάδα — μάλλον — θα έπρεπε να εμφανίζεται στο ευρετήριο του Tim Berners Lee και δη σε θέση που δεν θα μας προκαλούσε συλλογικά κατάθλιψη.
» Hotmail
In the summer of 1996 hotmail was released to the world and it wasn't much later that I opened my first account there. It was an innovative email platform that promised to liberate people from their ISP provided email. It was one of my first non-ISP provided email addresses and one I still have. Like today, the mid-1990s was an era of walled-gardens, only at the time they weren't called Facebook, twitter or Google, but AOL, Compuserve and loads of local BBSes offered by several small ISPs. Service providers were only beginning to adopt their, still current, position as 'carriers of content and services' not purveyors thereof. And in this environment, hotmail was innovative, in the same way that netflix, skype and all those other unbundled services are innovative for they liberate you from the increasingly threatening grip of ISPs and the few dominant players that keep entering new markets, doing a bad job at it, but winning 'cause their financial prowess kills the competition in the meantime. I used to use my hotmail account quite a bit between 1997 and 1999. I gave up shortly after Microsoft started really changing it — at the beginning they didn't do much to it; it still ran on FreeBSD and Solaris. By 2001 it had already lost much of its 'innovative' features (and it ran on Windows 2000) and under Microsoft's ownership it stagnated as other services rendered it obsolete. By 2002, my hotmail account was only used for a few quasi-dodgy online merchants to whom I didn't want to give a more 'important' email address and since GMail took the world by storm with its 1GB offer in 2004, I practically stopped using it alltogether. As such it is now full of enough spam to feed the world twice over. And now, Microsoft decided that hotmail is to be no more, replaced by the title of its equally mediocre monstrosity of an email client, Outlook, and revamped to look like an app of their Metro environment. Yet another one of those early, pioneering web brands of the 1990s is, even in name, dead. Ah well, at least we still have Amazon =)
On Device Identifiers.
Mere hours after pressing 'Publish' on the previous mini-article concerning walled gardens, an article on TechCrunch, this morning, clarified the situation we have more or less been suspecting for a while now: that Apple, after deprecating UDIDs (one of the things they truly did well in iOS from the beginning), they will start rejecting apps after the backlash caused by lawsuits, noise and a few rogue developers that seemed keen to take advantage of their users and use their private information in ways they didn't agree (and which are illegal in more ways than one).
The situation with unique device identifiers is an important one. On one hand, user privacy should be the number one concern of platform owners/builders like Apple, Google and Microsoft. It isn't, for their software can do pretty much whatever it wants with the users' private information, as we have seen several times these past few years. On the other, developers have many uses for an immutable, unique identifier for devices; from providing metrics for their own use, understanding the patterns of use of their applications, improving ad targeting, enforcing proper use of their applications and communities among others. Of course, it can also be a tool aiding in unsolicited tracking and profiling of users, of a range of personal information violations etc.
When Google came out with Android, they failed to provide any sort of unique device identifier of any significance to their developer community. They did provide several ways for developers to get some seemingly unique identifier, but those were easily modifiable, sometimes were not set at all or set to the same value across all devices sold by an OEM. In addition they would get reset after a factory wipe, etc. Developers resorted to DIY identifiers, scoured and composed from several unique component identifiers available to them by the system, such as the IMEI in phone devices, or the MAC address of the WiFi network interface in others. Then Google released Android 2.3 which included a unique identifier which, while better than the previous ones, was still not 100% robust.
Microsoft has belatedly joined the new-walled-garden era, first with Windows Phone 7 and now with Windows 8. The 'new' API and model for applications, Metro, goes one step further by not providing any single unique device identification capability to developers (there are some exceptions, but they are truly exceptional and as of right now undocumented). The only thing close to user/device authentication is 'Microsoft Account' (formerly Windows Live, Passport etc. etc.) integration which is probably useless for 99% of the cross-platform applications available out there, that have a need for some sort of unique identification of their users/devices.
It's the permissions stupid.
The whole situation boils down to botched design in terms of permission control, abuse by advertising, analytics and developers and extremely late regulatory and social reaction to the above, perhaps combined with a pretty simple way to raise barriers to entry to the competition while 'solving' the issue of privacy. All platforms have some sort of privacy/permission control, but none have a good one. Android has a pretty comprehensive permission system that assumes that before installing an application each user bothers to read a silly list of permissions (many of which they will probably not understand) and once they accept they will perpetually want to grant all those permissions to said application. There is no fine grained permission control post installation, no possibility to grant or revoke individual permissions to applications before they are launched (something like "I would like to allow App X to use my network connection, but not my location or my address book data"). iOS is also similarly badly designed: there is no explicit permission asked or required for using the network connection, a slew of personal data, several APIs, storage etc., except for location, where iOS does a much better job than Android, probably because of the high-profile exposure that their data-collection 'functionality' took a few years ago. At the same time, both platforms actively transmit information gathered by your device, be it nearby BSSIDs (the identifiers of wifi networks, akin to ethernet MAC addresses) or Cell IDs (the unique identifiers of nearby cellular transmitter/antennae) so that they improve their 'network-based' geolocation service. Google fares better in this respect, as they allow you to disable this; Apple doesn't, as far as I know.
Then comes Microsoft, the ailing software behemoth that only recently decided that Balmer's rhetoric about the iPhone's failings, the iPad not gaining any significant traction etc. was totally wrong after all, and that they should jump on the tablet bandwagon, not in the way they've been trying to do for about a decade, but the way Apple did with their own version of a walled garden, doing away with the desktop paradigm and providing a dumbed down, simpler interface that does away with compatibility, file-systems etc and uses a locked down, app store/marketplace based model to ensure software legitimacy and boost profits. So Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 provide new sets of APIs and a new 'application environment' called Metro. In the Windows 8 version, the æsthetics borrow much more than its name from Windows Phone 7, the company's revamped operating system for mobile phones that, while a decent effort, doesn't seem to be doing that great on the market. Metro on Windows 8, however, is not a finished product by any means, and probably won't be 'finished' (that is of a sufficiently high quality) until Windows 9 is released in a few years from now. Metro on Windows 8 also has permissions, like Android, but does away with unique device identifiers and any sort of meaningful API to get any sort of replacement of one. It also allows the user to revoke a permission (say, for the location), but only after the application has be executed, which kind of defeats the purpose.
My experience with the 'next-generation' platforms I have programmed on until now strongly suggests that the companies and people designing them have no idea about the implications of their work. They are experimenting, releasing APIs, platforms and products without thinking them through, or the impact their software has on the users, developers building applications using them or the overall social effect of their design decisions. In the case of Android, many more developers have access to IMEIs, MAC addresses and other, arguably much more sensitive information about devices and their users than they would have, had Google paid some attention and provided a unique, immutable pseudo-random unique device identifier from day one. It is also surprising how bad their permissions system is, given that they at least went through the trouble of designing one in the first place. In the case of Microsoft, the complete lack of such a mechanism, may eventually play its part in hurting the company's efforts to enter the game (they already are extremely late). And finally, Apple, the market leader that did so many things right in the first place, is risking pissing off everybody from small independent companies that helped build the platform, to its greatest non-platform owning competitors that can see through the excuse of legal heat from regulators and the government, their hypocrisy on protecting the users' privacy and who may call their action as an excuse to block them out of their platform. At the end of the day, the three big players in this market still get all your information, and their expansion into advertising, mobile payments, e-commerce and every single part of the software ecosystem possible means that they have the greatest incentive to (ab)use it.
In the end, all of the privacy problems that location, unique device identification and access to other personal information may give rise to are easily solvable by a modern, smart permission system that gives the user the power to deny, revoke or grant permissions to individual applications post installation, including system software/applications, thus creating a level playing field where the user would decide what kind of access to provide to whom. That would be a clear demonstration, on the platform owners' part, that they truly care about users' privacy and not just creating barriers to entry to the competition and their bottom line.
WSJ: Before Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. died, he approached you with a buyout offer. Why did you turn it away?
Mr. Ferdowsi: The problem that we're trying to solve is a problem that only an independent company can solve. We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details. It isn't a problem any of those larger companies is going to be as inclined to solve in the same way we are.
A very very pertinent point, seeing that we're experiencing a renaissance of massive, vertical closed systems, walled gardens and a childish desire to lock people into proprietary platforms that try to offer everything. Look at how Google, Facebook, Apple and now Microsoft are heavily promoting their respective 'authentication' platforms, playing the game of ignoring_the_competition. Facebook would certainly like you to use their APIs to authenticate your users, but they don't have to try much because they have the most powerful database right now. Microsoft heavily promotes their 'Microsoft Account' (previously known by half a dozen names) and will do even more in Windows 8, while Apple makes ever increasing use of their Apple ID, across their products and services. Google, in lieu of their recent privacy terms update, needs no introduction I think with Google+ and every other service tied to a single Google account. The fact that Dropbox fully supports practically every single system platform I can think of using is reason enough for me to prefer it from competing services (Ubuntu One, Microsoft Skydrive, iCloud etc) and a refreshingly sane choice they made contrasted heavily by that of the established market leaders who fear of inadvertently promoting their competition.
Break free, create your own walled garden.
It's ironic, how 'ease' becomes the noose that chokes innovation and development. AOL, Facebook, iTunes, they all offer closed, proprietary solutions to 'problems' that — in more ways than one — are not so hard to solve. Solutions that seem to 'work', that 'succeed' because the 'trend' is to embrace 'easy', as opposed to 'moderately challenging', because the 'smart money' is behind them and because of network effects.
In the last few years, that is after the wave of 'Web 2.0' (ironically, yet another 'trend' exploited by 'experts' that abused it for profit) subsided, Facebook started making serious money. Its real success as an advertising platform is not only arguably minimal, but quite controversial. It took a long time for the advertising industry and the hordes of marketing monkeys to embrace Facebook's walled garden approach and doing what they do best, counting. Only this time it wasn't 'impressions' or 'clicks' or 'conversions' they were counting, but 'likes', another frivolous metric that doesn't really mean anything in the real world. Facebook apps, once touted as the next big thing and a threat for the web, were stillborn, largely because Facebook itself made significant steps to expand beyond the confines of its site, by creating interfaces, programmatic and user, for other platform-owners to embed in or integrate with their platforms. So we got a slew of 'social plugins', more 'APIs', etc. But there were some exceptions, like Zynga, a gaming company living inside Facebook.
Now, Zynga just launched Zynga.com. And it's a big deal, because this is the first Facebook-dependent business of significant scale that expands beyond the confines of this walled garden du jour.
The whole 'frenzy' with Facebook in the ad world is now in its third year. As with AOL's endeavours fifteen years ago, the Facebook frenzy may be past its prime; as a teenager of the early-to-mid 1990s, AOL 'keywords' seemed to me like a pointless exercise, yet another 'top-down', force-fed business model that people never cared about.
Clearly people care about Facebook; they care about the platform that connects them to people they love: their friends and their relationships, news from their social circles, people they'd like to know better or simply keep in touch. They could hardly care less about Facebook pages, Facebook ads, the Facebook business. Sadly, marketers and advertisers, typically the last group to perceive change — and perhaps the most dependent on 'convention' (make no mistake, Facebook is convention, as is Google), will take a bit longer to 'wake up'. That Zynga chose to move beyond Facebook is undoubtedly a wake up call and a sign of maturity in an industry that more than often adopts the strategy of others, instead of coming up with its own.
Πριν από περίπου ενάμιση μήνα 'υποβαθμίστηκε' η ταχύτητα της σύνδεσής μου στο σπίτι, για λόγους που μπορώ να αποδώσω μόνον στην ανικανότητα του ΟΤΕ. Παρ'ότι ενδιαφέρουσα περίπτωση που συνδυάζει τεχνική ανικανότητα και μια γερή δόση Κάφκα — δεν θα μπώ σε λεπτομέρειες (ζούμε άλλωστε μια ιδιαίτερα σουρρεαλιστική εποχή που κάνει ασήμαντη την εν λόγω προσωπική ιστορία), αποφάσισα να ψάξω λίγο online για παρόμοια προβλήματα, την θέση της ΕΕΤΤ για το χάλι των ευρυζωνικών συνδέσεων στην Ελλάδα κλπ.
Στο ψάξιμο βρήκα το εξής: Εν διαμέσου κρίσης, στα μέσα του καλοκαιριού που μας πέρασε ξεκίνησε την πιλοτική του λειτουργία το ΣΑΠΕΣ, το Σύστημα Αποτίμησης Ποιότητας Ευρυζωνικών Συνδέσεων της ΕΕΤΤ, το οποίο καταγράφει την ταχύτητα της ευρυζωνικής σας σύνδεσης και άπεικονίζει τα στοιχεία ως overlay σε χάρτη. Παρ'ότι τα αποτελέσματα είναι ακόμη σχετικά λίγα, η εικόνα είναι ενδιαφέρουσα και οι 'μαύρες' τρύπες, περιοχές με φοβερά κακή ποιότητα ευρυζωνικής σύνδεσης, πολλές.
Εαν δεν το γνωρίζετε ήδη, εγγραφείτε (είναι γρήγορο και σχεδόν ανώνυμο — χρειάζεται ένα email και την διεύθυνσή σας) και κάντε μια μέτρηση της ταχύτητας της σύνδεσής σας, ιδιαίτερα εάν αντιμετωπίζετε πρόβλημα με αυτή. Όσοι περισσότεροι συμμετάσχουν, τόσο περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα έχει η ΕΕΤΤ και ευελπιστώ πως αν υπάρξει καλή συμμετοχή ενδεχομένως να αποκτήσουμε καλύτερες συνδέσεις μια ώρα αρχύτερα.
Guardian.co.uk is switching from Java to Scala. I'm surprised it took so long and that other Java shops are not following en masse — it could be because of how different and esoteric Scala can be, especially to Java programmers. The linked infoQ article contains an interesting discussion with the Guardian folks.
Programming enterprise web applications (or anything, for that matter) in Java is painful for anyone mature enough to have experienced the wealth and breadth of tools out there, given how primitive, verbose and unproductive it is, and how much it caters for the lowest common denominator of a programmer. That's not to say that Scala is the best choice for everyone, let alone those not starting from scratch, but given the Guardian's existing infrastructure and systems, I guess that it's the best choice they could've made.
Amazing work by Google, I hope it expands to other great museums all over the globe.


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If you don't know what the term Google means, there's a leading Internet search engine you can use to find out. Taking its name from "googol" -- the mathematical term for the value represented by a one followed by 100 zeros -- Google offers targeted search results from billions of Web pages. Results are based on a proprietary algorithm; its technology for ranking Web pages is called PageRank. The firm generates revenue through ad sales. Advertisers deliver relevant ads targeted to search queries or Web content. The Google Network is a network of third-party customers that use Google's ad programs to deliver relevant ads to their own sites. In October 2015, Google formally became part -- and by far the biggest part -- of the Alphabet Inc. holding company.


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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans or walnuts
- 1/2 cup preserves or jelly of your choice
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Shape dough into 1-in. balls; roll in egg white, then in pecans. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indentation in the center of each ball. Cover and freeze until firm. Transfer cookie dough balls to a large resealable plastic freezer bag. May be frozen for up to 3 months.
- To use frozen cookie dough: Place dough balls 2 in. apart on baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 17-20 minutes or until set. Remove to wire racks. While warm, fill each with a teaspoonful of preserves. Cool completely. Yield: about 1-1/2 dozen.
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"Tasty. I'll make them again."
"This is a cookie that I often include on holiday cookie trays. They are easy to make and they are so pretty! I love using different flavors/colors of jelly and preserves to make an attractive preesentation. Instead of jelly or preserves, I sometimes pipe colored icing into the centers."
"This recipe was easy! I had them done in less than an hour, and that includes baking time. They disappeared very quickly at the event I bought them too."
"When rolling the cookies in the nuts you do not have roll the cookies in the egg whites before rolling them in the nuts. the dough is so sticky that the nuts stick to the cookie dough really well."
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College Hockey:Western Michigan Records First Shutout
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The Western Michigan Broncos earned their first shutout of the year Saturday night, shutting down the Wayne State Warriors, 4-0, at Lawson Arena.
The Broncos improved their overall record to 3-4 on the young season against WSU, which fell to 1-6 overall and 1-1 in their conference. Freshman netminder Riley Gill got his second start of his young career between the pipes and earned the shutout in his first game at Lawson Arena.
"I was real excited coming into tonight, first home start in my career, just wanted to get the first few saves under my belt to get comfortable in the game and just go from there," said Gill.
"It was a well-played game by everybody," said WMU head coach Jim Culhane. "Starting with the freshman [Gill] in his second college career start and getting the shutout is a real confidence booster for him."
Last weekend, the Broncos dropped two tough games to Nebraska-Omaha, giving up many power play goals in both games, and struggled trying to kill their own penalties.
Culhane said they were disappointed in the number of special team goals they allowed and how many penalties they had go against them.
"It was an issue we addressed in practice this week, though we deal with it every week; hockey today is a real special team game," he said.
Improving on their special teams they did against Wayne St. has the Broncos notched two power play goals in the first 20 minutes of play.
At the 9:05 mark of the first period, junior right-winger Jeff Pierce took the pass from senior Paul Szczechura in front of the net and put it right past the Warrior goalie, senior Will Hooper. Freshman Mark Letestu continued his scoring surge also earning an assist on the goal.
With 2:49 remaining in the first period, left-winger Brian Bicek added what was his first of two goals on the net on another Bronco power play.
As the Warriors trailed 2-0 heading into the second period, WSU came out firing early and often in the period, as they blasted 15 shots at the Bronco freshman stopper.
After giving up two first period power play goals, and missing on three shots on their lone advantage in the period, the opportunities have been there for the Warriors.
"We've had our opportunities to score, especially on the power play, we just can't seem to be able to connect," said Bill Wilkinson, Warrior Head Coach.
The connecting the Warrior head coach is referring to is the current eight period shutout streak that they have been blanked, a span of two and a half games.
"Two games in a row we've been blanked, actually now eight periods in a row we've been blanked," Wilkinson said. "It doesn't seem to be a lack of effort by the players, we are trying. We just need to maybe score a garbage goal, not the pretty ones to help build our confidence."
About half way through the second period, the Broncos added their third goal of the night on senior Kevin Labatte's breakaway steal in mid air from Warrior player, Taylor Donohue, right past the keeper, Hooper. Letestu added his second point of the game with the assist.
The Broncos' fourth and final goal of the night came off a deflection off of the Warrior netminder to Bicek, punching in his second goal of the night. Defenseman Chris Frank and Pierce, who contributed his second assist in the game for a solid three-point performance.
"The guys in front of him [Gill], the defensive core and the forwards did an excellent job at blocking shots tonight and killing penalties," Culhane said.
WMU killed all six power play chances the Warriors threw at them, stopping all eight shots fired at Gill, who stopped a total of 26 shots on the night. Hooper stopped 20 of the Broncos 24 shots.
Both squads hit the roads next week for two games. WSU will travel to Brown on Nov. 10 for a 7 p.m. face off and a 2 p.m. face off on Nov. 11, while WMU will take on the Ohio St. Buckeyes on Nov. 9 and 10th.
"Anytime you win just helps with the confidence and chemistry of the team, everyone can take great ownership of the win against WSU and start preparing for Ohio St. coming up this week," Culhane said.
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m@ze°2 is a computer-based electronic instrument which serves as a realtime environment for composition and improvisation as well. This project is another attempt to realize an old idea that has been haunting me for many years: the vision of a music
This software is written entirely in MAX, taking advantage of Karlheinz Essl's Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib). It is based on an ever-growing database of carefully selected samples. They are processed in realtime by so-called structure generators which are triggered and controlled by the computer keyboard, the mouse, foot pedals, MIDI controllers and a webcam. An elaborated section of DSP routines (including reverb, harmonizer, transposer, pitch shifter, equalizer, LFO, ring modulator, and panning) enables the player to process the generated sound structures on the fly.
NB: This software is not public domain. It is used by its author, the composer Karlheinz Essl, as an electronic instruments for his solo performances and improvisations with other musicians. However, several modules of m@ze°2 are available as freeware or shareware: REplay PLAYer (a generative sound shredder), fLOW (an ambient sound generator), and Amazing Maze (an interactive realtime composition for sampled sound particles).
Karlheinz Essl amidst his m@ze°2 environment:
2x MIDI controllers with 16 faders, 1x MIDI controller with 16 rotary knobs
RME Hammerfall audio interface, Behringer mixing desk
Photo © 2007 by Didi Sattmann
User interface of the m@ze°2 realtime composition environment (1999-2012)
Karlheinz Essl performing his piece DonauEschen on his m@ze°2 realtime composition environment
Precarpathian Art Museum, Ivano-Frankisvsk (11 Jun2016)
Composer Portrait Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl improvising on his m@ze°2 realtime composition environment
Project Arts Centre, Dublin (21 Oct 2011)
Portrait Concert Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl performing Demo Crazy on his realtime composition environment m@ze°2
Pernegg, Parish church (20 Aug 2009)
12th GlobArt Academy
Karlheinz Essl improvising with m@ze°2 together with Gerald Preinfalk and Jörg Engels
Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum (21 Nov 2009)
Karlheinz Essl: free improv with m@ze°2
Klagenfurt, Alpe-Adria-Universität (15 Jan 2009)
A-m@ze-ing - Portrait Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl performing Sonnez la cloche! on his realtime composition environment m@ze°2
Berlin, 401contemporary fine arts gallery (13 Jun 2009)
SOUND MARKS - Solo performance Karlheinz Essl
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Mostly solo/small group with warg and don't tag along with a zerg....
Kills to KBs = 3:1
and averaging over 40 infamy per kill.
Alright! So here's my contribution. Look at the sacrifice I've taken in KB's for healing y'all! It's okay I enjoy doing it.
I'd like to see the wartabs of the new (old) rank 11-12 folks that have recently joined. Kroolbeard, Bobbidooley, Jelloshots, howzaboutit?
I be troll'n
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LIES - Kung Fu Panda 2, while being a fine movie, is not the true source of TDH 1337n355. Here's what Chiron makes us listen to in vent while we chase freeps into EC:
He says they are like Australian Ninja Monks or something.
Oh, why? Why did I watch the video??
Sticky music......................... ........................... /suicide
PS: btw, I did soloed an outpost today
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(Updated for new GPU look and after my morning of Starhugging to hit 1500 for the first time ever on Freepoint, commence killing him again next log on, just wanted 1500)
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Awwww yeeaaaaaah
Freep Itty and my new Creeperstash
Itty, my reaver has more kbs with a bit less inf than you....someone has been pve-ing (j/k)
Holy-o mustache-io!!! 8O
Also, your skill bar looks soooooo weird to me =D
Find me on Steam and ESO, same name.
It's not much to look at, but hey, it's still a wartab!
~Akban Thistlehide
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Come 1v1 me again. I'll bring that rating down for you
Moors done right; PVE all the way....
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has made some excellent signings of young talent from throughout Europe since he arrived at Anfield at the beginning of last season. According to TalkSPORT on Apr. 28, 2014, the Reds' manager appears to be interested in another young rising star.
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Kovacic has the ability to play multiple positions, a trait that Rodgers tends to lean towards in his signings. While being able to play in the midfield and behind the striker, the Croatian prefers to play as a holding midfielder and burst through the ranks of the opposition in a style much like Steven Gerrard in years past.
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Where to find vimax in stores?
Firstly I would like to try to put your mind at easy about online stores that sell vimax. (actually there is only one, as you have to buy vimax directly from the manufacturer). The main argument I would put forward is that Vimax has been selling online for 8 years! You know that if a penis supplement store like vimax has been around for such a long time, that it is a legitimate outfit. The folks at Vimax have been providing male supplements like vimax and other penis supplements successfully from their vimax store, and run it with the utmost integrity and security. They also offer money back refunds on most of their products, so if you want to make sure of quality shop from the vimax online store.
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According to a letter from the Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate, PPL filed the request on March 30.
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Quentin Tarantino Loves Brad Pitt, Lindsay Lohan Is Slowly Becoming A Red Head Again
The celebrities were in full force at the Cinema Society and Hugo Boss screening of Inglorious Basterds. Everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Lindsay Lohan to Chace Crawford came out for the show and showed off themselves.
Quentin just couldn't stop talking about Brad Pitt. Seriously. It's like he wants Brad for himself or something. "For the most part when we were on set he would stay in character," Quentin told reporters. "It was like, 'Why drop the accent when you don't have to?' And I have always liked it when actors do that."
In case you don't know, Brad plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the film set against the back drop of WWII with Aldo, a nice Southern boy, hunting Nazi with his Nazi hunter party. Brad went totally method on this one. He was in character from the moment he got on set to the moment he left and Quentin ate it up. "He'd get into Aldo's mindset and stay there. He could be Brad and make a Brad joke but it was always in Aldo's dialect. Aldo is more crude than Brad. So that allowed Brad to go all the way with that. It was wonderful as a writer to be confronted by my character all day, and to talk to him and ask questions."
While Quentin was busy gushing about Brad, my eyes obviously went to newly hired and recently blonded Lindsay. It seems like she's not doing a good job of keeping that blonde hair up. I'm seeing lots of red roots and it's not cute. Not at all. Lindsay, I thought we talked about this. If you're going to go blonde and look ridiculous, at least manage it better. Thank you.
Most of the celebs at the event looked pretty good though. Chace looked gorgeous as usual. It's like he some sort of super god that was put on this earth so we mere mortals can gawk at his beauty. Right? The other stars of Inglorious Basterds looked lovely as well. Check them out! Brad was a no show though. Maybe all the talk about how amazing freaked him out. Anyone else notice how weird he gets when talking about himself? Watch this interview and you'll see what I mean. Now if you'll excuse me, Quentin is calling. He wants to tell me how much he loves me. Haha. I wish.
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"The Flash" Adds "Harry Potter" Star Tom Felton as Series Regular
In the recent New York Times profile of former Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger, Dave Itzkoff writes that DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio "said it would be 'myopic' to believe 'that servicing a very small slice of our audience is the way to go ahead.'" It's a weird way to structure the quote, but assuming Itzkoff is accurately capturing what DiDio meant, that's a controversial stance for DC to take.
But he kind of has a point. Heidi MacDonald rightly notes that Vertigo books make up roughly one-third of DC's list of essential graphic novels, but if we're just going by sales, Vertigo's slice of DC's pie does look pretty small. According to Diamond Comic Distributors, just 6 percent of DC's graphic novels in April's Top 100 were Vertigo titles. The percentage was a lot higher in March (15 percent), but only 7 percent in February. The number of Vertigo titles in the Top 100 has been pretty consistent in the past three months: two or three. What made the difference in March was that DC had less Top 100 titles overall. Of course, that only covers a short amount of time and only includes direct market sales, but if we look at a list of what DC considered its top-selling graphic novels as of last autumn, only about 13 percent of those are from Vertigo. None of that is super-scientific, but it paints a pretty good picture of how much Vertigo contributes to DC in terms of sales.
The question is whether this suggests that DiDio is right about the short-sightedness of continuing to support Vertigo. As many commenters have pointed out, Image Comics has been getting a lot of attention lately for books that once might have been considered good fits for Vertigo. But it's a very long jump between that observation and suggesting that Image's current roster ever would have been considered for Vertigo.
I'm not even talking about whether Vertigo would have published them. I'm talking about the creators' choices in where to submit. I've heard from creators who've published at both companies and the consensus has traditionally been that Vertigo brings prestige with its logo, but creators pay for that by giving up some control and profits. These days, Image is well on its way to being the new Vertigo, and it's telling that when Brian K. Vaughan wants to launch a comic and doesn't need Vertigo's brand to help him sell it, he goes to Image.
If DC dropped Vertigo tomorrow, I doubt anyone believes that books like Fables or The Unwritten would have any trouble finding new homes. I like Vertigo very much and I have a lot of confidence that the people still working there are very capable of producing great comics that I want to read. I'm not saying that I want Vertigo to go away, but it does seem possible that the market for creator-owned comics has changed enough that, as an imprint of DC, Vertigo's time of doing what it did so well for so many years may be over — whether DC thinks its myopic to support it or not.
What's truly myopic is focusing on short-term gains with a lot of flash and style-over-substance (ie. mega-crossovers, line-wide reboots, shock value by killing off established characters, grim-n-gritty badassery for no good reason for characters that usually don't fit that) rather than establishing perennial classic sellers that may not sell well right away, but will sell well consistently for many years. Dan Didio does not seem to know what the word "myopic" means.
Didio………you dumb such & such
Mr. Smith got it right. A lot of Vertigo titles can be reprinted and resold over and over. They don't get old. Sandman, Y, American Vampire, Fables, The Unwritten. All of these can be enjoyed by new generations of readers. How many of the current New 52 runs will keep selling 10 years from now?
Worth noting that a huge chunk of the Vertigo "graphic novels" (mostly collections) were originally issued in preiodical form under DC proper as well: most of Sandman, all Alan Moore 'Vertigo' work, the characters recently returned to the DCU…as far as proper longterm Vertigo successes, we're really just talking Y, 100 Bullets and Fables at this point.
Apart from the work produced at Vertigo, what about its function as a talent recruiter? Scott Snyder, writer of Batman and Superman Unchained, came up through Vertigo. As did New 52 superstar Jeff Lemire. Would Azzarello be writing Wonder Woman (or, in the past, Jim Lee's Superman run) without having produced 100 Bullets first?
People talk about books & stories that are essentially made for trades, & in that regard, Vertigo serves that purpose, & ONLY that purpose. But DC's job is to sell MONTHLY comics, first & foremost. And in no way is Vertigo built for that.
I love how all the armchair publishers only speak from the POV of what THEY want, & nothing else. Total fanboyism at its best/worst.
So, Sandman being a continuously selling trade for my entire life, isn't worth as much as Hawk and Dove vol 1? Is that going to be selling well 30 years from now?
The Vertigo titles may not be a large percentage of their current sales, but Vertigo titles aren't a significant portion of their current output. On the other hand, they tend to sell well over a longer period of time (and for most probably end up selling more!).
DiDio! You're portfolio needs to hedge short term and long term gains, gamble some on Vertigo titles that might strike successes over a longer period, and find you new talent! If you hadn't given Snyder the Vertigo titles would he be on Batman right now?!
I just want more of a focus on quality and not on quantity. Maybe if there were not 10 X-books and 11 books each for GL, Supes, and Batman, titles like Dial H, Red-She Hulk, etc wouldn't get cancelled so quickly.
Vertigo serves a different market, and it does it better by going for long term investment. It also, arguably helped create the future readers of the present day Image titles. Its also a lot friendlier to women readers. And with the exception of Batman, more of their books will be in print over the long term than anything DC has put out over the last 10 years.
Vertigo's audience is not DC's. Trying to meld the two by taking back all the DC superhero characters that DC had rendered useless and Vertigo drew interest for is ridiculous. Vertigo is a different beast than DC . . . as such it shouldn't be touched it should be exploited or retooled as necessary. Only Didio would see it as something that drags the company down. His inability to see its potential is his problem not the imprints problem. Though I'd say he doesn't have much sight when it comes to regular comics either.
I always thought it was stupid that DC took back their Animal Man and Swamp Thing. Why? Why can't you have a Vertigo version if any creator even wants to do anything with it, and the regular DC version? Why can't you have a kids Superman book and a regular DC book? Why can't you have a multiverse? Why can't you have Elseworlds? Namely because Dan Didio is myopic and can find ways to exploit or use these properties. If he were smart he would at least find creative people who can . . . the point is to sell comics, to grow your audience not to limit their choices which is exactly what the new 52 has done.
Marvel never had any issues with the same characters appearing in both the mainstream books and Marvel Max; it's very condescending of DC editorial to think that readers would get confused over DCU John Constantine and his Vertigo counterpart. Then again, DC editors in the mid-80s thought that readers would be confused by the Earth-1 and Earth-2 Supermen.
DC needs to keep and maintain Vertigo. Marvel should have the same deal really. Short term, you'll lose on the monthly end. Long term you might generate a hit or two and encourage new talent into the ranks. Neither company seem to care about the long term and that scares me about where they'll be 5… 10 years down the road.
It is the exact opposite of myopic. What is myopic is to focus on the same three or four characters and off-shoots and expect that interest in those properties is going to last forever and ever. While there is always going to be Batman and there is always going to be Superman (and there should be), their popularity is going to ebb and flow. It is silly to put all of your eggs in that basket and not look at other genres and stories that could result in NEW properties to maintain DC's future.
From my limited experience, I would say that those that follow Vertigo titles are very very loyal. Why does it seem like DC wants to test that loyalty by threatening their fans so much?
Haw, Haw.. oh didio, you rascal you!
If it was "myopic" for DC to try to service a small slice of the comics-buying population with VERTIGO and its
non-capes-&-tights superhero brand—.
What would DiDio term his company's current attempt to mine every last cent from its REMAINING buyers with
the New DC's (re)cycling of 'event' comics, variants and gimmicky covers… dollar increase on regular titles for the gimmick… and OCD-collectors-abetting decimicalised issue numberings?
"Cataractic" spring easily to mind. Or better yet: "glauCOMIC".
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I think that everyone is completely misinterpreting this quote. DiDio said this in a piece that was paying tribute to Karen Berger's vision – when I read the full article, it seemed clear to me that DiDio was praising her efforts to make comics that were outside of the niche genre of "superhero." He was saying that if DC only published superhero comics and none of the noir, fantasy, sci-fi, or unclassifiable stuff that Vertigo released, THAT would be "myopic."
Not that I'm a huge fan of DiDio (his actions clearly don't always line up with my interpretation of his words), but I think he's getting flack for the wrong reasons here.
Vertigo is "independent comics" for people too lazy to look past the big two to find them. Image has been putting out better books for about 20 years.
Peter, that's an interesting read and I agree that the way Itzkoff structured it could be leading to misinterpretation. But the DiDio stuff follows Karen Berger's quotes that DC is "really more focused on the company-owned characters" and that it and Marvel "are superhero companies owned by movie studios." Itzkoff then says that DiDio more or less agrees with her assessment and offers some snippets to support that. So while I can accept your reading as a possible one, it's not the most natural one.
Why doesn't Vertigo just break off from DC and go independent?
You say that one-third of DC's list of essential graphic novels were Vertigo, but many of those started as DC comics and later became Vertigo. It used to be something like Preacher had to be Vertigo because you had people's faces being cut off, now that's what the Joker does in their mainstream Batman book. The regular books have become so Vertigo in tone that there really isn't a dividing line anymore.
@Lazlo: Keep your focus. Whatever happens at DC regarding Vertigo has ZERO effect on "Red She-Hulk"–a title published (and now apparently cancelled) by Marvel.
@John: Regarding the quality of Image's books vs Vertigo's, that YOUR opinion only. It is most assuredly NOT a fact. If you doubt that, I challenge you to show me a Vertigo book that was worse than "Youngblood" or "Prophet." Image's "quality" has only been better over the last few years but it's still dragged down by a lot of drek that would NEVER have been accepted by Karen Berger.
John: Warren Ellis and Alan Moore took over StormWatch and Supreme respectively in '96, so I make that 17 years of Image publishing decent comics.
The thing about Image is they are the fanciest, shiniest self-publisher in the world BUT they have no quality control. If you have the funds to pay for them to print and distribute your book, they'll take it. The fact that Image have been publishing great books in recent years has nothing to do with any innate quality in the company, it is just a bunch of top quality creatives who have the drive to produce good work, have decided they can get a better deal from Image than DC or Marvel's creator owned lines.
[Image] have no quality control. If you have the funds to pay for them to print and distribute your book, they'll take it.
This is absolutely not true.


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One of the primary functions of RoboViz is allowing other processes or clients to perform drawing of simple shapes inside of RoboViz. This process may be referred to as
remote drawing
. To accomplish this, RoboViz has a simple network protocol for allowing clients to control custom drawing. The primary intention for this is to allow robots running on the SimSpark server to send information useful in debugging their internal state or behavior.
Clients interact with RoboViz by issuing
. For drawing purposes, an example of a command is
draw line,
draw sphere
. Each command is formatted in a specific way that is suitable for it to be sent using UDP packets over a network. The details of how to format each command will be described below, but first it is necessary to understand how drawing works at a high level.
Shapes and Sets
To make remote drawing flexible and simple, all drawing is accomplished by working with a small set of shapes.
More complex shapes must be constructed by using combinations of these shapes. A shape's description has properties such as position, color, and scale. Clients send commands to RoboViz that request it to add such shapes to its rendering; these commands are called
draw shape commands
Each shape is also part of a group of shapes called a
shape set
; these sets can contain one or more shapes. Every shape set is identified by a unique name (a string). When RoboViz receives draw shape commands from the client, it parses the individual shapes and adds them to their respective set. During rendering in RoboViz, each set is visited and its shapes are drawn.
Shapes are grouped into sets mainly so they can be filtered inside RoboViz. For example, each robot may have its own set of shapes so that the user of RoboViz can view only that agent's shapes and hide everything else. A robot may also have many sets for each type of behavior. How the sets are organized is entirely up to the client. However, the recommended to use a hierarchical naming pattern. For instance, a shape set name such as "RoboCanes.1.Behaviors.PathPlanning" might be used to indicate all shapes belonging to the first agent on a team called RoboCanes that pertain to path planning behavior. With this naming pattern, all of this particular agent's sets can be referenced as "RoboCanes.1".
Draw Option Commands
While draw shape commands request that RoboViz add shapes, they are not enough to sufficiently control the remote drawing process. Commands that influence the rendering process of shapes are called
draw option commands
. These commands are used for achieving animation and resolving concurrency issues.
Problems arise if a shape set is rendered at the same time RoboViz is receiving new draw shape commands for that set. To resolve this problem, each shape set has two buffers: a front and back buffer.
When a client sends a draw shape command, RoboViz parses the shape and add it to the back buffer. These shapes will not be visible until the client sends a
swap buffer command
, at which point the back and front buffers swap roles. In other words, the front buffer always contains a set's shapes which may be rendered in RoboViz. It is important to note that as soon as RoboViz executes a buffer swap, the shape set's new back buffer is cleared of all shapes.
Static and Animated Shapes
The type of shapes a client can add to RoboViz may be categorized into two types:
. Static shapes are those that persist after being added and do not need to be refreshed or updated. For example, a grid on top of the field or 3D coordinate axes do not require the shapes to change over time. Animated shapes are those that need to have their properties updated; a vector representing a robot's forward direction is an example.
Inside draw shape commands, there is absolutely no distinction between static and animated shapes. These types merely refer to how a client program treats the draw commands for a shape set. Static shapes have the advantage of only needing to be transmitted a single time and only require a single swap buffer command. Animated shapes must have their values sent repeatedly; each time values are updated the shape set must also have its buffers swapped to display the changes.
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When issuing commands to RoboViz, it is assumed that you will use the coordinate system of the SimSpark simulation server. For SimSpark, the field is on the XY plane and the up direction is Z; RoboViz uses a more standard computer graphics coordinate system where the field is on the XZ plane and the up direction is Y.
The following figure shows the field in SimSpark coordinates. The center of the field is the origin. The current field dimensions are 18 meters in width and 12 meters in height; these values are subject to change!
Note: these dimensions have been changed to 21x14 instead of 18x12.
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A comforting dinner is sure to be had when Melanie Dalbec's casserole is on the menu. Featuring chicken, spinach and two types of cheese, Greek Spaghetti is a crowd pleaser at her home in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
- 1 package (16 ounces) spaghetti, broken into 2-inch pieces
- 4 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
- 2 packages (10 ounces each) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 2 cans (10-3/4 ounces each) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 3 celery ribs, chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 jar (2 ounces) diced pimientos, drained
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- Cook spaghetti according to package directions; drain. Return spaghetti to saucepan. Stir in the chicken, spinach, soup, mayonnaise, sour cream, celery, onion, green pepper, pimientos and lemon-pepper.
- Transfer to a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish (dish will be full). Top with Monterey Jack cheese, bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 10 servings.
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"Delicious!! I gave it a 5."
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A book of self-portraits by Suzy Wimbourne.
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This book contains some of the best photographs taken on our 5 week trip to Hong Kong, New Zealand, Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and San Francisco.
I spent a varied and interesting career in international shipping and logistics, during which time I travelled a great deal. My wife Celia and I also visited many interesting countries on holiday, especially in the Far East. I retired early from corporate life at the age of 50 and had a second career as a self-employed consultant, my final assignment being Town Initiatives Manager for the market town of Alton in Hampshire, probably the most rewarding of my career. I also became a radio presenter in my spare time. I have now retired to Spain, where I live in the town of Orba, on the side of a valley filled with orange groves, in the north of the Costa Blanca.
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Brooklyn singer Sharon Van Etten's voice displays an enveloping haunt and ease somewhere at the intersection of Morcheeba and Lana Del Rey, which we quite love. Listen to "Taking Chances" and take a trip with us.
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From the first arrival to the last star running down the red carpet before the show begins, we'll bring you all the glittering action from the Grammys live this Sunday night during the MTV News Pre-Show. With a crew anchored by MTV News' Sway and James Montgomery, we'll be everywhere you want to be in the run-up to the 54th annual ceremony.
You never know what you're going to see or hear on the red carpet, so we are posting up for a full three hours from 5 p.m. ET until the show kicks off at 8.Nicki Minaj vs. Skrillex: Who will win Best New Artist at the Grammys?
And with the expansive roster of artists expected to perform, present or just hang out, we'll catch up with as many as possible, from Katy Perry, Drake, Fergie, Bruce Springsteen and Adele to Rihanna, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters , Bruno Mars, Alicia Keys, Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj , Chris Brown and host LL Cool J .The biggest shocks and snubs from this year's Grammy nominations.
Once we have them in our sights, we'll ask the nominees how they're feeling about their chances, what performances they're most looking forward to and see if we can't get a peek at what they're planning for the future. Kanye West is the night's most-nominated artist , with seven nods for his joint album with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne, and his own My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, both of which are up for Rap Album of the Year. West is followed by this year's critical darling, Adele, who is tied with the Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars with six nods each. Lil Wayne and dance-music breakout Skrillex each garnered five nods.
Chaos! Profanity! Wardrobe malfunctions! Don't miss Sway and James Montgomery live from the Grammys red carpet this Sunday, February 12, for a full three hours of mayhem, starting at 5 p.m. ET on MTV.com. And the fun doesn't end Sunday: MTV News has you covered until the Grammy hangover wears off!


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"I work 40 hours per week or more, and I know I need to work, but it is not enough to support my family and survive," says Columbus area janitor Sherri Copper. Ohio's minimum wage is currently $7.95 an hour.
Thursday, May 1 is International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. The community coalition Central Ohio Workers will gather in downtown Columbus to celebrate the collective strength of Ohio workers and say with a united voice: "Ohio Needs A Raise!"
The rally and march will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the corner of State and High Streets, the southwest corner of the Ohio Statehouse. Workers will speak about their struggle to support themselves and their families on poverty wages.
Central Ohio Workers will also announce the formation of the Central Ohio Worker Center (Centro de Trabajadores de Central Ohio) in Columbus. Planning for the formation of a community-based worker center in Columbus is under way to support, advocate, and empower workers in Central Ohio.
Worker centers are nonprofit organizations that organize and provide support to communities of low-wage workers who are not already members of a union or have been excluded from unionizing by U.S. labor laws.
"The need for empowerment of workers could never be greater and the Central Ohio Worker Center will be a vehicle for workers to learn their rights, address workplace injustices, and advocate for a better quality of life," said organizer Rubén Castilla Herrera.
Central Ohio Workers is a coalition of community organizations, labor unions, people of faith, people of color, students, LGBTQ community, food and transportation justice advocates, and educators:
- Central Ohio Immigrant Justice
- DreamActivistOHIO
- OhioActionCircle
- Ohio Interfaith Immigration Coalition
- Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio
- Ohio Peace Network
- Ohio Fair Food
- Equality Ohio
- TransOHIO
- SEIU Local 1
- Ohio Education Association
- Ohio AFL-CIO
- Ohio Student Association
- CWA Local 4501
- Jobs With Justice
- International Socialist Organization – Columbus
- Fight for $15 – Columbus
- Move to Amend – Central Ohio
- People's Department of Transportation
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- Advocates celebrate International Workers' Day at the Ohio Statehouse
- Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center empowers the most vulnerable workers
- Ohio Democrats introduce bill to raise state minimum wage to $10.10
- Columbus janitors win 3-year contract
- MLK's 'All Labor Has Dignity' highlights the unfinished work of economic justice


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George William Ratterman
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Height: 6-0 Weight: 192 lbs.
Throws: Right
Born: November 12, 1926 in Cincinnati, OH
Died: November 3, 2007 in Centennial, CO
High School: Xavier
College: Notre Dame (school history)
Drafted by the Boston Yanks in the 16th round (139th overall) of the 1948 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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Here comes the bootyman and I am ready to slap that black butt! I enjoy seeing butt shaking every time I go in clubs. Some people consider me a gigolo and I am proud to be one. I always get the girls I want using my charm because I have to admit that I am not that good looking. I just have that sex appeal that makes girls want me more.
I guess being the only boy in the family makes me understand women more and thus know how to please them. I am also known to be a smooth talker and can get any black butt I want in an instant without them feeling all used up. One night with these ebony girls is one night in heaven for them. I give them the pleasure they want and long for. Some women even get obsessed with me, but I always tell them I am single for life. So they opt for being just a fuck buddy.
I think that fucking is the best butt workout. I actually don't workout, but all the sex has made me become fit. All the pumping and thrusting really tones my butt. Every time I would walk up to a girl and ask if they want a butt workout with me, they never let me down.
Slapping a girl's butt, if done the right way, can really turn the girls on. Make sure that you don't hit it hard. One way of getting a girl in a club is by dancing with them and I have to say I am the king of the dance floor. Once she does some butt shaking, I tap it a little and give it a nice squeeze which would catch her attention. She would eventually turn around and I would smile and wink at her then starting gyrating my body closer to her. After some steamy dancing, comes some bed shaking. That's a perfect night for me.


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September 10, 2013
Start with an eclectic mix of furniture, a cottage-like color scheme and and open home design. Those are the makings of a modern farmhouse even if you live nowhere near farmland. As with maple hardwood flooring found in Anderson's Northern Maple Plank collection, there's an authenticity about farmhouse decor that gets better with time.
One modern farmhouse featured by HGTV was classic in style but didn't sacrifice the modern conveniences that were important to the homeowners. In the kitchen, the traffic patterns were open and a comfortable cooking area was established. White, cottage-style cabinetry and a selection of collectibles allowed the homeowners to combine contemporary needs with traditional decor.
Functional atmosphere
The accessories used in farmhouse decorating should be in keeping with the functional atmosphere of an older home. Bowls and platters placed on open shelves above kitchen counter tops are in a spot where they can be appreciated as well as used on a daily basis.
Instead of a kitchen island, a pine farm table may be placed in the center of the room with a matching chest underneath to provide storage for utensils. If guests are expected for dinner, a table setting that includes crisp linens, painted chairs and antique silver candle holders for a centerpiece would be right at home in a farmhouse-style dining room.
Taking a page from cottage decor, farmhouse decorating also incorporates a natural theme well by including indoor plants and storage baskets made of willow or wicker.
Similar to cottages
Better Homes and Gardens magazine recommended home decorators choose soft, dusty tones and a wide mix of furnishings if they want to bring farmhouse decor into their homes. While farmhouses are generally bigger, they often have similar furniture to those in country-like cottages. For instance, fancy chairs with decorative curves are a good contrast to the more austere lines of a farm table.
For window coverings, soft curtains such as sheers or lace are a traditional choice, but adding shades will provide more privacy. For instance, woven wood shades come in a variety of wood tones that lend a natural look to their surroundings and can be matched to wood floors.
In the HGTV feature, cornices above the kitchen windows were decorated with the homeowners' collection of old school globes and maps. The treasures that homeowners have collected through the years often reflect the tradition of farmhouse style as well as their own personalities.
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Hello again everyone, I have been testing the restoration mod on a new save and I have found a few things(bugs maybe) that I would like to post here.
The first thing is that the game is a little slower than before(I have been running with Anisotropy filter x16 and High graphics, impossible difficulty ) Before I installed the mod everything was going great now it is a bit laggy , very little almost unnoticeable but it's there. Also the cinematics take some more time to load and they are going a bit slower too.
None of those things should've been caused by the demo....
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And another thing is when the sith officer on taris invites you to the party none of the npcs there fall down and the sith officer disappears and the quest is not advancing. I am still on taris and there are considerable changes and I enjoy the mod!
That's a known bug and we are working on fixing it.
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P.S. I have a question with what mods is it compatible? What about mods that alter the points you spend on feats and jedi powers?
It should be compatible with most mods, seeing as it uses the TSLPatcher. However, it is suggested you install this mod first over any other mod.
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