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Santa Clara UniversityThe oldest academic institution of higher learning in California, Santa Clara University is a comprehensive private university established in 1851. SCU offers an enlightening education and undergraduate degrees in arts and sciences, business, and engineering. The university's six graduate and Ph.D programs include law, business, engineering, counseling psychology, education, and pastoral ministries. The university offers a lively arts and entertainment scene at the Center of Performing Arts and the de Saisset Museum of art and history. The Santa Clara Broncos field 20 Division I athletic teams and are known for their successful soccer and volleyball programs.
Hours -Open Daily
Prices -Undergraduate Tuition is $40,572 per year.
- SCU Broncos Games
- Festival of Lights at Mission Church
- SCU Jazz Ensemble at Recital Hall
- Art Gallery & Museum Exhibits
- SCU Music Festivals
- Music at Noon Concerts
- de Saisset Museum
- Sports
- Performing Arts
- Center of Performing Arts
Music at Noon Concert Series
Free Concerts at Recital Hall
During the academic year, the Santa Clara Music Department presents the highly-successful Music at Noon concert series, featuring he world's finest musicians and high profile Bay Area performers. Held every Wednesday at noon at Santa Clara University's Recital Hall, the concerts are free to everyone and promote artistic and cultural diversity through music.
Mission GardensA beautiful venue for public and private gatherings, Mission Gardens is a peaceful spot on campus located behind the Mission Church. Mission Gardens includes the Adobe Lodge and Wall, the oldest structures on campus, dating back to the early years of the Mission Santa Clara de Asis.
What are some activities open to the public?
SCU offers many cultural activities for students and the community, including performing arts, exhibitions, and a speaker series. SCU's Center for Performing Arts, including the Louis B. Mayer Theatre, presents musical, dance, and theatrical productions. The de Saisset Museum is an accredited museum of art and history that presents changing art exhibits that are open to the public. The Music at Noon series features free public concerts by the world's finest musicians.
Where can I park on the SCU campus?
SCU offers many parking spaces and lots for students, faculty and visitors. Visitors may only park in designated visitor or F space with a daily parking pass. Visitor parking is free for the first two hours.
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Over at the team site Chris Silva has some bullet highlights from a post season interview with Sam Presti. There's a lot of stuff in there and it's worth the read, but here is my favorite part:
The Thunder will participate in both the Orlando and Las Vegas Summer Leagues. Westbrook will play only in Orlando. Serge Ibaka and DeVon Hardin, whose rights are owned by OKC, will probably play in both leagues. Shaun Livingston, D.J. White and Kyle Weaver will also play this summer.
Awesome! Both summer leagues are the bigger, better alternative to the low budget less expensive Rocky Mountain Revue that the previous owners always ran the Sonics through. The Vegas league especially is a pretty big deal. Last summer it had 21 NBA teams participate. The Orlando had 6 teams (one of which was OKC-before they were the Thunder) and Westbrook and Green were first teamers. There will be plenty of coverage of our young guys there and our two new draft picks. You can read the rest of the article here.
It's just one short month plus one day until the draft lottery (May 19). I think our luckiest player should go and represent us when the ping pong balls come out of the hopper. After Jeff Green's game winner bank shot against GSW, and his missed free throw putback for the win against Sacramento, Green should be there with a truck load of OU colored rabbits feet.

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Hey Im trying to locate the Avalaunch website, but all the links to it from the stickys seem to be down, and i cant seem to find it on google. Is there a New website for this software, or has its availability been discontinued?
New Avalaunch Website?
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Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Warms to Occupy Wall Street Protesters
To conservatives such as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), they're a "growing mob." But the public feels quite differently about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the issues they're raising.
In a new Time/Abt SRBI poll, 54 percent say they're favorable to the movement that has been protesting policies that "favor the rich, the government's bank bailout, and the influence of money in our political system." Just 23 percent are unfavorable, and 23 percent say they don't know enough to have an opinion. The movement's favorability rating is actually twice as high as that of the conservative Tea Party movement: Just 27 percent are favorable to the Tea Party, compared to 33 percent who are unfavorable and 39 percent without an opinion.
The poll also gauged the public's level of agreement with a number of positions associated with Occupy Wall Street. In each case, the poll found overwhelming agreement among those familiar with the protests: 86 percent agreed that Wall Street and its lobbyists have too much influence in Washington; 79 percent agreed that the gap between rich and poor in the United States has grown too large; 71 percent agreed that executives of financial institutions responsible for the financial meltdown in 2008 should be prosecuted; and 68 percent agreed that the rich should pay more taxes.
Obviously, "mob" is in the eye of the beholder. Conservatives never seemed too worried when Tea Party activists were raising a ruckus, but now that protesters are daring to call out conservatives' rich and powerful friends, it suddenly becomes a different story. If Occupy Wall Street is a mob, what does that make the public—mob sympathizers? It will be interesting to see conservatives try to wiggle out of that one.
Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. To learn more about his public opinion analysis, go to the Media and Progressive Values page and the Progressive Studies program page of our website.
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Of all the natural beauty found here in the Lowcountry, what Willis Sanders loves most for its symbolism and its resilience is the Angel Oak. Maybe it's because he came from a family of eight brothers and one sister that he appreciates the giant trunk and its foundation that still supports such strong limbs.
His dad lived to the age of 92 and instilled a serious work ethic in his children.
Willis, 63, retired just a few months ago from the Berkeley County School District after 41 years. Just so you don't think he's special, he'll tell you that he has four older brothers who all spent 40 or more years at their jobs. The one sister in the group only has 29 years in her job so the other siblings are not quite ready to recognize her for anything beyond the norm, at least for another decade or so.
For most of his career, Willis Sanders was the principal at Sedgefield Middle School. For all of his career, he's been a teacher. For essentially his entire life, he's been an artist, and that's what he loves to do most and still does every day.
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Sanders first memory of drawing takes him to the floor of his father's grocery store in Cross. At the age of 6, Sanders would draw on grocery bags while gazing at a Norman Rockwell calendar.
He thought he had a gift, but while his dad viewed the doodlings as a hobby, he pushed Willis to get an education and a job if he expected to make anything of himself.
Sanders graduated from Benedict College but wanted more. While a teacher at Howe Hall Middle School, he spent spent years driving from his home in Cross to his job in Goose Creek and then to Orangeburg to secure his masters.
He spent 25 years in the county's middle schools. All the while, he continued to draw and he discovered something that he loved more than his art. He started to give those creations to students who committed themselves to making good grades along with achieving perfect attendance.
His pen and ink originals of everything from animals to athletes created an incentive for those middle school kids who appreciated a principal who believed in them.
Sanders has given away close to 6,000 drawings at this point. He's quit counting, but he hasn't quit drawing.
Recently, Terrell Mustover, a student in a gifted and talented art class at Goose Creek High was given an assignment to draw an artist that inspired him. His reply was"Mr. Sanders (his middle school principal) is the only artist I know."
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Sanders spent his final years in the system at the administrative level and retired this spring. He still bumps into students, though, who remember his drawings.
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That family foundation and the supporting limbs have kept him grounded all these years. It wasn't always his art, but the sharing of it, that ultimately has given him so much satisfaction.
A couple of weeks ago, he was invited to his home church in Cross, as they celebrated its 109th anniversary. His grandfather helped build Jehovah AME Church.
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KMB is due to up the dividend in the next few days: it would be nice if they did a 2 for 1 split also.
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Earnings growth hasn't been keeping up with dividend growth the last few years while debt has been increasing. Factor in Falk has sold off assets like pulp properties it doesn't take a village idiot to see the dividend well drying up.
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Why not a 3 for 1 one ? Think about it!
Dividend increase would be SOP for KMB. Paired with a 2:1 split would seem reasonable. Would like to add to position but it's kind of pricey at this level but 3:1 ? mmmmmmmmmaybe.


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Ricketts is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Lebanon and serves on the board of directors of the Youth Emergencey Services of Middle Tennesssee and also serves as a board member for McClain Christian Academy.
Ricketts, a life-long Wilson County resident, and his wife Jamie have two children and reside in the Norene Community.


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Medal of Honor: GPU Fighter
Subject: General Tech | November 7, 2012 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, ea, medal of honor, warfigher, 14th installment, frostbite
Medal of Honor is the game which just refuses to stop, with the arrival of Warfighter which is thie 14th version of this venerable series. It uses the DX11 Frostbite 2 Engine, the same as BF3, which is famous for needing high end graphics cards to get the most out of the effects available to the engine. [H]ard|OCP took three of the fastest AMD GPUs and three of the fastest NVIDIA cards to see how they fare against this new game. You may be pleased to hear all six cards could play at 2560x1600, it was only the MSAA settings which needed to be altered. Neither company was a clear winner, it seems that just about anyone with decent graphics capabilities will be able to play this game and experience the best the engine has to offer.
That is not what PC Perspective will be playing tonight on PC Per Live, we will be continuing our preferred choice of retro gaming with the original Battlefield 1942 game. It is now available for free on Origin, so if you want to play with us tonight you'd better start downloading it now! You should also think about tweaking the .ini files to enable resolutions that were not a choice 10 years ago!
"Medal of Honor: Warfighter uses the Frostbite 2 engine which was made popular by delivering realistic graphics and physics in Battlefield 3. We will be finding out if the image quality has improved or stayed the same compared to Battlefield 3, and what kind of hardware is needed to take full advantage of the game."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- X-COM Co-Creator Julian Gollop Making Chaos Sequel @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot @ Slashdot
- I Want Every Game To Be Made In The Sui Generis Engine @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Alan Wake PC Review @ eTeknix
- Assassin's Creed III Video Review by Kaeyi Dream @ HardwareHeaven
- Abduction Does Gorgeous Stealth In CryEngine 3 @
- Halo 4 Xbox 360 @ Tweaktown
- Halo 4 @ The Inquirer
- Halo 4 Review: Master Chief is Back @ TechSpot
- Street Fighter X Tekken (PS Vita) Game Review @ HardwareHeaven
Limited Linux Steam Client Beta Begins With 26 Games and Big Picture Mode
Subject: General Tech | November 7, 2012 - 02:58 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: valve, ubuntu 12.04, ubuntu, steam, linux, gaming
The developers at Valve have been hammering away at a Linux version of its popular Steam client and software distribution service.While Windows is currently the dominant platform, CEO Gabe Newell has shown his displeasure at with Windows 8 and the Windows Store such that development has been expedited to support the alternative operating systems and port Valve's own titles to the platforms. Last month, Valve announced a limited public beta would start soon, and that it was taking applications.
That beta is now in effect, with a small subset of the total 60,000 applications the company received being invited to participate in the beta build. Intended for Ubuntu 12.04, the Linux for Steam beta includes the client itself, and several surprising additions (that were previously thought to not be included). Big Picture Mode and 26 games will be part of the Linux beta.
Big Picture Mode is Valve's 10-foot interface for the Steam client. It is designed to work well with remote or controller such that Steam functionality and games can be easily accessed from the couch with Steam on the living room TV. (I took a look at Big Picture Mode earlier this year if you are curious about what the interface looks like.)
The list of games includes:
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- And yet it Moves
- Aquaria
- The Book of Unwritten Tales
- Cogs
- Cubemen
- Darwina
- Dungeons of Dredmor
- Dynamite Jack
- eversion
- Frozen Synapse
- Galcon Fusion
- Serious Sam 3: BFE
- Solar 2
- SpaceChem
- Space Pirates and Zombies
- Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
- Team Fortress 2
- Trine 2
- Uplink
- Uplink/Darwinia Pack
- Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign
- Waveform
- World of Goo
- World of Goo Demo
Needless to say, there are a number of games more than the previously expected TF2, though Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 are noticeably absent (as are the rest of the Valve/Source collection). Space Pirates and Zombies is sure to suck some productivity out of Linux users' days, however!
Valve has stated that additional users will be added to the beta from the pool of applicants over time. The company is also looking at making the Linux client available to other Linux distributions as well (even HML?). If you want a chance at getting into the beta, Valve is still accepting new applications via this survey (you need to log in with your Steam credentials).
Have you tried out the Steam for Linux beta?
What does it take to be a Warfighter
Subject: General Tech | October 31, 2012 - 05:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, medal of honor, warfighter
Warfighter uses DICE's Frostbite 2 engine, the same as BF3, and on the PC they recommend having a 3GHz quad-core processor and at least a GTX 560 or HD 6950 to play. TechSpot tried out 29 graphics cards paired with a Core i7-3960X to see if this is true as well as if the top end cards can handle Ultra quality settings. At the moment it is the AMD cards which top their charts, though only by a slim margin, which could change as the game receives updates along with the graphics drivers. Even though this game has been released on numerous platforms it seems that MoH remembered its roots and delivered a much better experience to PC gamers.
"Medal of Honor: Warfighter calls for no less than a 3GHz quad-core processor paired with a GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD 6950. Given those upper-end requirements, we expect the title to be fairly demanding with its visuals maxed out, and we'll be putting a ton of past and present-gen cards through their paces.
It's worth noting that unlike 2010's Medal of Honor which used separate engines for single player and multiplayer, Warfighter uses DICE's Frostbite 2 engine -- the same software that powers Battlefield 3.
We'll be testing 29 DirectX 11 graphics card configurations from AMD and Nvidia across all price ranges with their respective latest beta drivers that claim to improve performance."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Dead Linger Has A Playable Alpha @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Hotline Miami PC Review @ eTeknix
- Football Manager 2013 (PC) Game Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter PC @ Tweaktown
- Afraid Of The Light? Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Trailer @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Top 5 Classic PC Games @Hi Tech Legion
- Top 5 Games that Need to be Revived @Hi Tech Legion
- Assassin's Creed III (XBOX 360) Game Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Dead or Alive 5 (PS3) @ Kitguru
- James Bond: 007 Legends (XBOX 360) Game Review @ HardwareHeaven
The darkness of Doom 3 makes more sense when you are playing a Thief full conversion
Subject: General Tech | October 24, 2012 - 03:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: the dark mod, gaming, Doom 3, thief, mod
The Dark Mod is a total conversion of Doom 3, but not the Doom 3 BFG Edition apparently, not that you should be to worried with the upcoming open sourcing of the Doom 3 source code. It is not intended to be a remake of the Thief series, the world is similar but the main characters and plot do not follow the original games which will help it feel new even to those who've recently replayed the originals. The actual mod story is fairly short but now there are community made missions available for download to extend your play. Drop by Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN for a link to download the mod and to read the extensive change log of the new patch if you already know about this mod.
"With Dishonored reactivating long-dormant stealth glands the world over, now seems a fine time to revisit perhaps its primary ancestor, the Thief games. Doom 3 total conversion The Dark Mod is a mightily ambitious attempt to recreate Thief – its mechanics if not its actual missions – in a more modern, and very much darkness-orientated, engine. It's just had a major update and a promising new mission added too."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Dishonored: A nice change of pace @ The Tech Report
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown Review - Tinfoil Hats Recommended @ Techgage
- Dishonored PC Review @ eTeknix
- SWTOR Free To Play Is Now Free To Play @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Star Citizen Whomps Its Kickstarter Goal In Five Days @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- XCOM: Diary Of Wimpy Squad @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Forza Horizon Xbox 360 @ Tweaktown
AMD and the intelligent design of gaming
Subject: General Tech | October 24, 2012 - 01:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: never settle, gaming evolved, gaming, amd
We don't see much of Ruby anymore the AMD Gaming Evolved screen is becoming a common sight when launching a game, much the the competitions 'The Way It's Meant To Be Played' screen has been in the past. The DiRT series has always been a showcase for AMD, new AAA games like Deus Ex HR and Sleeping Dogs now bear AMD not NVIDIA branding as will upcoming releases like FarCry 3 and Bioshock Infinite. The Tech Report spoke to Peter Ross, the man behind the success of this program, as well as game developers at a meeting in Markham, Ontario where they discussed the benefits of Gaming Evolved for makers and buyers of games as well as the changes which have taken place at AMD recently. Read on to learn about the future of this program as well as the incredible Never Settle card plus games bundle that AMD is offering right now.
"The number of games bearing the AMD Gaming Evolved logo seems to be growing exponentially. Why is that? We've traveled to AMD's offices and spoken to game developers in order to find out what's been happening behind the scenes."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs @ Slashdot
- Nokia, Motorola, RIM may be sold in part amid mounting losses @ DigiTimes
- 'Looming menace' of evil browser extensions to be demo'd this week @ The Register
- CM Storm Joint Giveaway @ NikKTech
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission wasn't designed by Derek Smart, but it could have been
Subject: General Tech | October 17, 2012 - 03:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, battlecruiser, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission puts you in control of an aircraft carrier and all of its assets, at least after an hour of gameplay The Inquirer describes as "like a demo product rather than a final game". However if you can make it through that beginning you end up in a very tough game in which you can not only control the movements of your troops and assets from the bridge you can hop in and manually control anything in the game if you wish. This is a completely open game and will be unforgiving to those who do not plan ahead and consider their attacks carefully. If you are into completely open worlds and insane amounts of troop and research management this will be right up your alley, if you prefer mission based play with clear goals you might want to give this one a miss. It has not been confirmed that you will be permanently banned for daring to ask a question in the forums.
"THE ORIGINAL CARRIER COMMAND game was released all the way back in 1988 offering gamers a comprehensive 3D futuristic aircraft carrier simulation experience.
Sadly, despite positive reviews at the time, outside of a few hardcore circles the game didn't garner mainstream success.
Years later the game has returned, with Carrier Command: Gaea Mission offering the same mix of hardcore real-time strategy and vehicle shooter elements, tasking you to take control of a powerful aircraft carrier and use it to conquer the world."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Steam spawns vulnerabilities, say researchers @ The Register
- Wot I Think: Of Orcs & Men @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Orcs Must Die! 2 Video Game @ Benchmark Reviews
- Dishonored @ The Inquirer
- Torchlight II PC Review @ eTeknix
- Borderlands 2 Defeat The Warrior Farming Guide @ Benchmark Reviews
- Football Manager 2013 Hands-on Preview @ Tweaktown
- Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition @ Kitguru
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2 @ Kitguru
- Just Dance 4 (XBOX 360) Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Retro City Rampage @ Techgage
Corsair Raising Money For Charity With 24 Hour Gaming Marathon
Subject: General Tech | October 17, 2012 - 12:22 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: gaming, extra life 2012, donations, corsair, childrens miracle network hospital, charity
What is better than a 24 hour gaming marathon? A gaming marathon that raises money for a charity that helps kids that need medical help, of course!
Popular memory and PC chassis manufacturer Corsair has assembled a 12 man team of gamers that will be participating in the Extra Life 2012 gaming marathon. Lasting 24 hours, teams will play a game of their choice all day. Much like a traditional run/walk marathon, the teams and members are sponsored by donators. In this case, the "runners" are gamers, and 100% of the donations pledged to Team Corsair go to the member's local Children's Miracle Network Hospital.
Founded in 1912, the Children's Miracle Network Hospital in Oakland provides medical care to approximately 200,000 patients a year that otherwise could not afford treatment.
Senior PR Specialist for Corsair Robert Pearce blogged about the upcoming marathon and is the team captain for the Corsair team. He stated that he found out about the Extra Life marathon through a Reddit post and hopes to beat last year's numbers. Specifically, Extra Life 2011 raised a total of $1.2 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospital and the Reddit team in particular managed to raise $2,740 in donations from its 10 man team gaming for 24 hours. At the time of writing, Team Corsair has 12 members, and has $2,582 in pledged donations – or 52% of their $5,000 goal.
Interestingly, Corsair will be live streaming their 24 hour long gaming session. You will be able to see your marathon gamers in action and know that your donation is going to a good cause (it's actually for the kids heh). The Corsair live stream will begin at 8 am (PST) on October 20th, so be sure to check that out and give the Corsair team a virtual pat on the back. If you want to sponsor the Corsair team with a donation, you can find their Extra Life 2012 team page here.
Chris Roberts doesn't need no steenking console; Star Citizen is proudly PC only
Subject: General Tech | October 10, 2012 - 02:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: wing commander, gaming, star citizen, sqaudron 42
As mentioned a few weeks ago the brains behind Wing Commander, Privateer and Freelancer, Chris Roberts has a surprise brewing for PC gamers and today we have a name, a date and a trailer. Star Citizen will be a huge game with multiplayer support and what looks to be a persistent universe where your actions and the actions of other players will have an effect on the overall scope of the game, for instance the ability to find uncharted warp gates and sell your navigational data for profit to companies and other players. There will be a single player offline aspect as well, called Squadron 42, for those who want to muck up their universe on their very own. You can sign up as of 10.10.12 and donate money to the cause as the game is in pre-alpha and still needs a lot of money and time to finish. Help bring this space sim to fruition and support PC gaming at the same time. Keep an eye on Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN as they may someday release video of what they have seen, in the mean time the trailer is below.
"I'm sitting in a room, definitely not watching Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts playing a new Wing Commander game. No, it's the brand new, totally original Star Citizen [the single player aspect of which is called Squadron 42, for some reason - Ed], and as I watch him fly a fighter with no resemblance whatsoever to the Raptor with a Broadsword turret out of a carrier's launchbay and into the never before seen Vega Sector, I don't for a second pause to notice how he totally isn't flying past one of the Kilrathi's asymmetric Dralthi fighters. Or anything else that might require an expensive license or getting into bed with EA."
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- Crytek shows Crysis 3 multiplayer with new modes @ The Tech Report
- Torchlight II Review: Now With More Multiplayer @ Techgage
- Hands-on: Far Cry 3 (Single-Player) @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- XCOM: Diary Of A Wimpy Squad #1 – Meet The Team @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Dead or Alive 5 (PC) Game Review @ HardwareHeaven
- Borderlands 2 Xbox 360 and PC Review @ eTeknix
- The Basics of Multi-Monitor Gaming @ Techgage
- Borderlands 2 Review @ OCC
- Dishonored (PC) Video Review with Kaeyi Dream @ HardwareHeaven
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List of Games for Linux Steam Client Leak
Subject: General Tech | October 9, 2012 - 09:26 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: valve, tux, steam, linux, gaming
A Steam client for Linux has been a long time in the making, but is definitely getting closer to release with an imminent public beta announced last month.
During the initial announcement, Valve hinted that at least one native Linux game would be available along with the new beta client. Many gamers have predicted that the game will be Valve's own zombie FPS Left 4 Dead 2. Now, thanks to a leaked list of games from Valve's CDR database, gamers can add a few more native Linux games to that list. Among the leaked native Linux games are:
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- Crusader Kings 2
- Cubemen
- Dungeons of Dredmor
- Dynamite Jack
- Eversion
- Galcon Fusion
- Serious Sam 3: BFE
- Solar 2
- SpaceChem
- Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
- Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP
- Trine 2
- Waveform
- World of Goo
Unfortunately, various id software titles with Linux ports appear to be absent as well as several popular Linux-only games such as Tuxracer, Super Tuxkart, and other games popular with a certain penguin. It will be interesting to see what newer games Steam is able to bring on board after the official launch as well. I expect to see games like FTL, for example. Further, I'm curious to see how well received Steam will be versus software like the Ubuntu Software Center!
You can find a full list of games currently on Steam (for Windows) that have native Windows binaries – and will likely make it onto the native Linux Steam client – on this wiki page.
Are you excited for Linux to (finally) get a Steam client?
Help bring Nexus 2 to life and save the local galactic neighbourhood
Subject: General Tech | October 3, 2012 - 06:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Kickstarter, kick ass, Nexus, Nexus 2, gaming
The original Nexus: The Jupiter Incident can be hard to explain to those who believe the only RTS game style involves a base and focuses on harvesting resources in order to produce masses of cloned troops of different styles and tiers. It is similar to Homeworld in that it involves fleet battles and races with differing technologies and spaceships but that is where the similarity ends. There is no mothership nor do you collect resources to spawn more ships, instead you start with a set amount of ships and equipment to outfit those ships at the beginning of the mission and if you happen to lose a ship to enemy fire that ship is gone; if you are lucky you might get a replacement next mission. The ships can be outfitted with a variety of weapons and equipment, from shield destroying beam weapons to hull destroying missiles to close support fighters, your choices are limited only by the supplies available not the amount of money or resources you collected. The pace is much slower but then the missions are unforgiving and simply having a ship out of place could spell disaster for your entire squadron. At $10 on Steam if this sounds even slightly interesting you should pick it up!
The reason it is worth mentioning this 8 year old game is that the Most Wanted Entertainment and most of the original dev team have launched a Kickstarter program to fund the creation of the sequel, Nexus : The Gods Awaken. Keeping the original feel, as they put it "a game for Admirals, not Project Managers", and updating the game to modern specifications with the use of the Unreal Engine, perhaps not an exact match to the two tech demos released over the past few years, in fact perhaps even better. Ship design is planned to be modular which will allow greater customization of your task force as well as enabling the inclusion of larger, better designed space stations and capital ships. You will get full control over the design of your fighters, bombers and gunboats, which may make watching them die while protecting your ships a more personal experience than in the first game. You can also expect to see familiar faces and two new alien races, not to mention the one you already went up against but only if they get enough money to get this project off the ground.
Kickstarter is quickly becoming a way for game companies to finance the creation of a game without needing a large publisher behind them and when tied with a release on Steam it also reduces the need for a distributor. Many will loudly scream that this will lead to a fragmentation of the gaming industry as not everyone will hear about the release of a game, as well as leading to the release of games not destined to be blockbusters. You can safely ignore them, another Halo game should come out soon and they will stop paying attention and let those who like a game for what it is and not what the advertising says get on with supporting projects like this. If you feel the same, head to the Kickstarter site and toss them a few coins!
"The gameplay of Nexus is everything the discerning Space Admiral could desire. Alongside improvements and polish across the board to existing graphics and gameplay, there is also a wealth of new features to expand and enrich the gameplay to ever-greater heights.
The Psis are a new class of NPC, who can be added to the crew of certain ships. Each Psi has a unique power, allowing them to influence the course of battle, and turn a lost cause into a triumphant victory."
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- Tekken Tag Tournament 2 @ The Inquirer
- Borderlands 2 PhysX Performance Review @Hi Tech Legion
- Strung out on Borderlands 2 @ The Tech Report
- F1 2012 PC Review @ eTeknix
- Make Something Unreal Live Is "Genetics and Genomics" @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Feeding The Machine: Gas Guzzlers Demo @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- FIFA 13 PlayStation 3 @ Tweaktown
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American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastimeby Teri Thompson Nathaniel Vinton Michael O'Keeffe Christian Red
It was an epic downfall. In twenty-four seasons pitcher Roger Clemens put together one of the greatest careers baseball has ever seen. Seven Cy Young Awards, two World Series championships, and 354 victories made him a lock for the Hall of Fame. But on December 13, 2007, the Mitchell Report laid waste to all that. Accusations that Clemens relied on steroids and human growth hormone provided and administered by his former trainer, Brian McNamee, have put Clemens in the crosshairs of a Justice Department investigation. Why did this happen? How did it happen? Who made the decisions that altered some lives and ruined others? How did a devastating culture of drugs, lies, sex, and cheating fester and grow throughout Major League Baseball's clubhouses? The answers are in these extraordinary pages. American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime is about much more than the downfall of a superstar. While the fascinating portrait of Clemens is certainly at the center of the action, the book takes us outside the white lines and inside the lives and dealings of sports executives, trainers, congressmen, lawyers, drug dealers, groupies, a porn star, and even a murderer-- all of whom have ties to this saga. Four superb investigative journalists have spent years uncovering the truth, and at the heart of their investigation is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the maneuvering and strategies in the legal war between Clemens and his accuser, McNamee. This compelling story is the strongest examination yet of the rise of illegal drugs in America's favorite sport, the gym-rat culture in Texas that has played such an important role in spreading those drugs, and the way Congress has dealt with the entire issue. Andy Pettitte, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez, and Chuck Knoblauch are just a few of the other players whose moving and sometimes disturbing stories are illuminated here as well. The New York Daily News Sports Investigative Team has written the definitive book on corruption and the steroids era in Major League Baseball. In doing so, they have managed to dig beneath the disillusion and disappointment to give us a stirring look at heroes who all too often live unheroic shadow lives.
The Cardby Teri Thompson Michael O'Keeffe
Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors who have scoured card shows, flea markets, estate sales, and auctions for the portrait of baseball's greatest shortstop. Only a few dozen T206 Wagners are known to still exist. Most, with their creases, stains, and dog-eared corners, look worn and tattered, like they've been around for almost a century. But one-The Card-appears to have defied the travails of time. Thanks to its sharp corners and its crisp portrait of Honus Wagner, The Card has become the most famous and desired baseball card in the world. Over the decades, as The Card has changed hands, its value has skyrocketed. It was initially sold for $25,000 by a small card shop in a nondescript strip mall. Years later, hockey great Wayne Gretzky bought it at the venerable Sotheby's auction house for $451,000. Then, more recently, it sold for $1.27 million on eBay. Today worth over $2 million, it has transformed a sleepy hobby into a billion-dollar industry that is at times as lawless as the Wild West. The Card has made men wealthy, certainly, but it has also poisoned lifelong friendships and is fraught with controversy-from its uncertain origins and the persistent questions about its provenance to the possibility that it is not exactly as it seems. Now for the first time, award-winning investigative reporters Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson follow the trail of The Card from a Florida flea market to the hands of the world's most prominent collectors. They delve into a world of counterfeiters and con men and look at the people who profit from what used to be a kids' pastime, as they bring to light ongoing investigations into sports collectibles. O'Keeffe and Thompson also examine the life of the great Honus Wagner, a ballplayer whose accomplishments have been eclipsed by his trading card, and the strange and fascinating subculture of sports memorabilia and its astonishing decline. Intriguing and eye-opening, The Card is a ground-breaking look at a uniquely American hobby.
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Jessie Stone-Professional WW Kayaker. Doctor. Soft Power Health Founder. Opened and runs a clinic in Uganda - Let's tell her story.
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I grew up in Atlanta, and I can still hear the IOC announcement awarding the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games to "the city of ... Atlanta" clearly in my head. My dad was dropping me off at middle school, and I stayed in the car a few minutes to listen to the announcement on the radio -- and then I heard everyone who was inside cheering their heads off.
In the lead-up to the games, I was part of a group of school kids selected to tour and photograph the then-fairly derelict neighborhoods that were soon to be demolished in preparation for building Centennial Olympic Park, the Olympic Stadium (now Turner Field), the aquatic center and the Olympic Village. It's been 16 years since Atlanta hosted the games, and all of these sites are in use in Downtown Atlanta.
The Olympic Flame still welcomes visitors from its new location, a block from where it presided over the games. Atlanta was incredibly excited (almost universally so) about hosting the games, and it's obvious that we are still proud to have had the opportunity to be part of Olympic history. The games benefited from a somewhat frowned-upon commercialism, but that, coupled with planning in advance what would happen with main venues after the games left town, has a lot to do with why you can still see a lot of major venues and why the Olympic Rings still fly in more places than many would expect.
Centennial Olympic Park, which was built on top of the first crack den I ever saw, is unfortunately most famous for a bomb that detonated in the early days of the games, resulting in two deaths and scores of injuries. However, even days later, and possibly more so now, Atlantans and their families head there to run through the Olympic Ring-shaped fountain on a scorching summer's day or watch concerts with the city's skyline as a backdrop.
Almost right after the Paralympic Games closed, work began on the Olympic Stadium, built in a purposely awkward shape in preparation for its future incarnation (and where I got to watch Olympic baseball, football and a day of track & field events). Now visitors can still see parts of the original in Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves.
Both Georgia State and the Georgia Institute of Technology now maintain former Olympic facilities. The latter took on the aquatic center (which has a pool that can be adjusted by both depth and length, and yes, I went there too, for diving and synchronised swimming) for both its students and local classes. Both universities now use buildings that were once part of the Olympic Village as dormitories for their students.
While the area looks nothing like what it did when I took pictures in 1995 (which makes me wonder, why take a bunch of high school students to photograph crack dens and people about to be evicted from their homes?), much of what was created for the Olympics remains because adoptive parents were found for the facilities before they were even built. That's why, while we are mocked for it by some, Atlantans will still show you the Olympic Rings flying over so much of the city.
Sara Kriegel is the editor of the UK website. In anticipation for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, our UK deal experts are writing about previous Olympic host cities. Other posts in the Olympic series include Barcelona, Los Angeles, Moscow, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Athens.
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The Interview Series: An American Genealogist in Paris
Politicians, stay-at-home dads, academics and businesswomen - they all know the value of family and the joys of keeping in touch. But what is on their family photos? How often do they call their mother, and what celebrity do they secretly admire? Get ready to find out through the MyHeritage interview series!
Anne Morddel is an American genealogist in Paris and the author of the blog ' The French Genealogy blog'. Her interest in genealogy dates back to the young age of 14, when she caught the 'genealogist bug' and decided to interview her grandmother about every single relative she could recall in order to understand her roots.
Since then she's come a long way, not only becoming a professional genealogist, but a librarian, researcher and even children author. She's a globetrotter too, having lived around the world until she found herself in France more permanently together with her French partner and children. In search for her childrens French ancestors, she began to learn about genealogy in France until she felt ready to share her insights in the blogosphere. Started in 2009, her hugely successful blog aims to make sense of the wealth of French resources out there and covers topics ranging from french weblogs to French food and drink and from archives to book reviews. This week, she's celebrating its one year anniversary with a gift guide to doing the preliminary research of French ancestry. On this occasion we set out to ask her a but more about her, her blog and research:
When did you set up your website and why?
I set it up because, while there are many sites explaining how to research on the internet, I found none that explained French resources in English. The purpose of my blog is to provide a sort of manual showing people how to research genealogy in France when they come from an Anglophone background. It has been great fun for me, as I go all over Paris and France to investigate, test and photograph archives facilities.
What interests you about genealogy?
The stories of lives! And the history. I recall being quite young and asking my grandmother to tell me the stories of her childhood and early adulthood. The San Francisco earthquake and fire, speakeasies and flapper dresses in the 1920s, her grandparents' pioneering in Manitoba – to me, it all sounded like the movies come to life. Every family I research still yields the same level of fascination, for everyone is a part of history and has an interesting story.
What makes genealogy in France different from genealogy elsewhere?
The delightful logic of the French mind has meant that documents are kept clearly and logically and so, are quite easy to research. Additionally, records of births, deaths and marriages have been kept by law since 1539, and informally from the mid-fifteenth century. This means that, once an ancestor is correctly identified in France, it is often possible to trace back at least to the 1600s, which makes the work very rewarding and the clients happy.
Is genealogy popular in France? if so why?
For long, genealogy was ridiculed in France as an activity of the nouveau riche trying to claim noble connections. That is no longer the case. To say why it is popular would require a greater analysis of the French psyche than I think I can make, but my personal opinion is that, as traditions and local differences disappear, and as populations become more and more mobile and people lose their roots, genealogy is a way to re-establish one's sense of being connected to a people and place.
What is the most interesting thing you've found out about your family?
That we are not very interesting is, to me, interesting. We come from solid farmers for the most part, people who led simple lives on the land. Only in later generations, as people lived more in cities, did my ancestors move into the professional classes. Yet that farmer gene remains, for my brother and I cannot resist planting vegetables wherever we live. He even has a flock of sheep and llamas as a hobby!
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Miranda Kerr Pictures: Happy President's Day!February 16, 2009 – 7:38 am by Ryan Phillips
Well, it's President's Day and you know what that means…no really, we're asking, what does it mean? We're clueless. We have a day in this country celebrating the fact that we have presidents. So this is basically federal-pat-yourself-on-the-back-for-being-a-Democracy day?
Of course, we're kidding. We know that this is a day set aside to celebrate the birthday's of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Actually, it's really just to celebrate Washington's but someone thought it would be a good idea to paste Lincoln's name on to the holiday a while back. So it's a federal holiday, and we're gonna go out on a limb and say you're not spending the day at the library reading about these two amazing men and what they meant to our country. With that in mind – and the fact that I haven't had any female-related posts on the site lately – I figured I'd throw up my tribute to our wonderful presidents.
Miranda Kerr is one of our favorites around here (for obvious reasons) and putting a group of her pictures up is really prescient today. You see, had Lincoln never freed the slaves – or, er, what I mean to say is, because Washington used federal power to put down The Whiskey Rebellion – uh, I swear I had a point with this but then I got to looking at Ms. Kerr's pictures and forgot it. You see the power she has? If she were president, we wouldn't need a stimulus package! Am I right fellas? Eh? Eh?
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Gov. Jerry Brown gave his signature to a bill Friday aiming to protect voting rights for military members serving overseas.
The bill, which was initially sponsored by Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, directs the secretary of state to implement and develop ballot-marking technology. Secretary of State Debra Bowen is already in the process of reviewing a potential online voting system, to ensure that military ballots are received and counted correctly.
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- Research Interests: Land Change Science; Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; GIS and Remote Sensing; Cultural and Political Ecology; Landscape and Conservation Ecology; Urban social-ecological systems
Representative Publications
- Roy Chowdhury, R. and E.F. Moran. 2012. Turning the Curve: A theoretical, methodological and empirical review of Kuznets Approaches. Journal of Applied Geography 32:3-11.
- Roy Chowdhury, R, K. Larson, J.M. Grove, C. Polsky, E. Cook J. Onsted and L. Ogden. 2011. A Multi-Scalar Approach to Theorizing Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Urban Residential Landscapes. Cities and the Environment (CATE) 4(1).
- Hernandez, M., R. Roy Chowdhury, L. Fleming and D. Griffith. 2011. Colorectal Cancer and Socioeconomic Status in Miami-Dade County: Neighborhood-level associations before and after the Welfare Reform Act. Journal of Applied Geography 31(3):1019-1025.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2010. Differentiation and concordance in smallholder land use strategies in southern Mexico's conservation frontier. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA 107:5780–5785.
- C. Radel, B. Schmook and R. Roy Chowdhury. 2010. Agricultural Livelihood Diversification in the Southern Yucatán Region: Diverging Paths with Implications for Environmental Change. In press, Regional Environmental Change.
- Impoinvil, D.E., J. Keating, C.M. Mbogo, M.D. Potts, R. Roy Chowdhury and J.C. Beier. 2008. Abundance of immature Anopheles and culicines (Diptera: Culicidae) in different water body types in the urban environment of Malindi, Kenya. Journal of Vector Ecology 33(1): 107-116.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2007. Household land management and biodiversity: Secondary succession in a forest-agriculture mosaic in southern Mexico. Ecology and Society 12(2): 31. [online]
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2006. Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(1): 82-101.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2006. Landscape change in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Modeling the driving forces of smallholder deforestation in land parcels. Applied Geography 26(2): 129-152.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. and B. L. Turner II. 2006. Reconciling agency and structure in empirical analysis: Smallholder land use in the southern Yucatán, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(2): 302-322.
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DECATUR, Alabama - The suspect in a shooting Tuesday that put two Decatur schools on lock down turned himself in to police today, according to Sgt. George Silvestri.
Decatur police issued an alert Tuesday afternoon for the public to be on the lookout for Richard Jake Mitchell, also known as "Lil Bok," 36, of 1613 Marion St. SW, Decatur, who was considered armed and dangerous.
When he turned himself in, Mitchell was charged with second-degree assault, Silvestri said.
The shooting occurred at a business at 625 Second Ave. SE at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Because Mitchell had fled the scene, authorities notified two nearby schools, Banks-Caddell Elementary and Long-Term Case, an alternative school. Parents were already in line to pick up children at the elementary school so authorities conducted a "controlled release," escorting children to cars and buses.
The man injured in the shooting was treated at Decatur Morgan Hospital and released. He was struck in the leg after Mitchell allegedly fired multiple shots, Silvestri said.
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Alpha acids grow inside the flowers of Humulus lupulus (hop) plants. Eighty percent of the final bitter taste in beer come from alpha acids. Therefore, it is crucial that hop manufactures and beer brewers have knowledge of the exact percentage of alpha acids in a given batch of hops. Because alpha acids are not made synthetically and rather they come from a plant, every flower produces different amounts of alpha acids. This creates a need for a quantitative analysis of alpha acids before every batch of hops are put in wort during the brew process. Otherwise, each brew may produce changes in bitterness taste and a brewery will not be able to manufacture consistently tasting beer. Analytical methodologies for the extraction of alpha acids from hops are time consuming and impractical for a large brewery that supplies thousands of cases of beer every day.
Sarah has spent the 2011 summer quantitatively determining the alpha acids in hops. She is currently developing the most efficient method of alpha acid extraction using the ASE 200 Accelerated Solvent Extraction System made by Dionex Corporation (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific). After an efficient extraction method is created, HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) will be used to separate and analyze the three alpha in given hop samples. Sarah is also studying the rate of hop acid isomerization as temperature increases from room temperature to 120 degrees Celsius. It is important for brewers to know the best temperature of the wort boil because they want to achieve the highest conversion of alpha acids into iso-alpha acids. Another analysis will determine the alpha acid content at a hop's first stage of inflorescence maturity; the formation of its small hop cone; and finally, the full-grown hop cone. If time permits, a flavonoid uniquely found in hops called xanthohumol, which has been shown to be a powerful antioxidant and anticancer drug, will be analyzed.


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K&C Cellular, which previously was located at 68 E. Market St., has a new location and is under new ownership and management.
Scott Ferguson, who purchased K&C Cellular, said he bought the business to provide customers with better cellular services. He said he wants customers to know, while he purchased the merchandise inside the store, everything else is different, including the location, name and quality of service.
The company now is called Nationwide Prepaid Cellular, Ferguson said, and is located inside Sameday Signs, 80 E. Market St., where the phone number is (419) 448-0123. Ferguson also is the owner of Sameday Signs.
The change of ownership and location happened in early October, he said.
Nationwide Prepaid Cellular offers pre-paid, no-contract cell phone service, including unlimited talk and text with Internet access, Ferguson said.
The network, Page Plus, is as reliable as Verizon, he said, because both networks use the same towers.
Nationwide Prepaid Cellular is a convenient choice for customers who don't want to commit to long-term, expensive contracts, he said, because services can be chosen each month depending on the customer's needs.
"Times are tough," Ferguson said, and Nationwide is able to offer the flexibility other companies do not.
The company will continue to buy and sell cell phones, Ferguson said, including smart phones, and also carry phone covers and other accessories.
In addition to the products carried over from the previous location, he said, Nationwide Prepaid Cellular also now takes utility bill payments. Offering cell service and a utility payment location, Ferguson said, seemed to go hand-in-hand, and is a convenient service for customers.
Also, the company now is able to "flash" cell phones from other providers, allowing them to be used in conjunction with Nationwide's plans, so a customer wishing to change to Nationwide doesn't have to change cell phone numbers or phones.
The previous nearest location able to flash phones, he said, is in Findlay.
Ferguson said he chose to open Nationwide Prepaid Cellular inside Sameday Signs for the convenience of the location. The store is easily accessible to customers within walking distance, he said, and if he decides in the future to have Nationwide in a separate location, the store will remain downtown.
Ferguson said he soon will begin advertising the store, and a special promotion on a new camera flip phone will be offered in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
He said Nationwide will likely have a website in the near future, and will be able to take cellular payments online.


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I thought it would be helpful to explain the significance of the background color to After Effects. This composition has a black background color. The background color indicates which areas are transparent. You can also see which areas of the comp are transparent by selecting the alpha channel from the RGB channels pop-up. Any areas that are solid white are fully opaque. Any areas that are black indicate full transparency. Wherever you see shades of gray, you are looking at shades of transparency.
I will toggle off the alpha channel and turn off the transparency grid. Now sometimes the black background color is not that useful. You can change it in CS5 under Composition settings; in CS4, Background Color is a menu item under Composition. So if I change the background color to white, I can clearly see the drop shadow effects on the video layers and the title. Just to make it clear that the background color is transparency, let me create a new solid layer.
I will make this white, and any size will do. There is my white solid. If I align the solid to the top of the comp, I can't see the difference between the white solid and the white background, unless I turn on the transparency grid, or view the alpha channel. Now, you can see the white solid exists in RGB color space, just like the videos.
So by all means, go ahead and change the background color to whatever color is most useful, but be aware that if you render with an alpha channel, the background color will be the transparent areas. Let me delete the white solid, and show you one more example. In my second composition, I have a row of snowflakes on a blue background. The blue was created with the background color. Now we haven't done nesting yet; we will do that in a later lesson. But all I mean by nesting is that I can take the Snowflake composition in the Project panel and simply drag it to the main composition, just as if I'd drag in a movie.
However, you'll notice the blue background color has disappeared. That's because the blue background is transparency. So when I nest it, it drops out. If I want to see that blue background, I need to create it in RGB color space. I can do that with a solid layer or a shape layer. Now we will get to shape layers in the future lesson, so let's just create a solid layer since you know how to do that. On problem I found with eyedropper-ing a color is that it won't eyedropper the background color.
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Unlike the background color, the solid layer will be visible in the next comp. So I hope that explains a little more about background colors versus solid layers, and when you might need to use one versus the other.
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A 19-year-old Lititz man fell to his death while visiting friends from Temple University.
The school says Landon Nuss fell around 1:30 a.m. Saturday while he was in a stairwell at the Kardon-Atlantic apartments.
The incident has been ruled accidental.
News 8 has learned that Nuss was an organ donor, and another Lititz man was the recipient of his liver.
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The story John told you about the party was so factional, he didn't get laid at all.
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Leave work at home when it comes to romance
While on a blind date, Alexandra Arguelles found herself behaving as if she were interviewing a candidate for a job.
"I caught myself asking him question after question and trying to control everything." Afterward, she said, she felt as if she had been at a business dinner.
"It's not easy for me to be laid-back," said Arguelles, a 42-year-old sales executive at a travel information-technology company in Miami. "But on my next date, I'm going to try."
Women have made huge strides in business. Yet, when it comes to romantic relationships, many still struggle to make it happen in love.
Ask the growing army of high-earning women and they will say men are intimidated by their professional and financial success, making it difficult to date and marry. But relationship experts say we have it wrong. It's not them; it's us.
"Today's women just don't seem to understand you have to leave the office at the office," said Maya Ezratti, a relationship coach and owner of Rewarding Relationships. "You can't treat your husband, boyfriend or date like an employee."
Fewer Americans are married today than at any point in at last 50 years, according to a 2011 Pew Research study. The causes and consequences are the subject of much debate. But what is clear is that as more women have gained economic control over their lives, they need to switch modes when it comes to relationship dynamics.
John Gray, author of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," said keeping romance alive in the age of female empowerment takes getting in touch with your feminine attributes: "In the workplace, to be successful, women have to be independent, self-reliant, focused on solving problems and managing people. Outside the office, those attributes are romance killers."
In dating, Gray said a woman comes across as more attractive when she puts out a vibe she is happy and that a man can make her even happier. "Men want a job. They need to be needed," he said. But a successful women's natural instinct may be that she can do it all herself. "Be in touch with the part of yourself that is looking to have someone in your life that would lighten your load, and be open to receiving what he has to offer."
Ezratti coaches businesswomen to change their approach: "A lot of women are pursing romance like business."
First, she advises that women to lose the pantsuit and show up in more trendy, flirty attire. Next, she suggests they let go of being competitive.


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Student, "Oh my god, that girl is just so shamma."
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Prince gets the last laugh
If the 2003 book "Moneyball" is author Michael Lewis' testament to the upstart baseball wisdom of the Oakland A's organization and general manager Billy Beane in particular, then the portions of it that deal with Prince Fielder are not the passages anyone will use to show just how sharp they are.
The Brewers had the seventh pick in the 2002 draft and the A's, picking 16th, had their eyes on Ohio State first baseman Nick Swisher. The New York Mets were drafting at 15, a spot ahead of Oakland, and chose left-handed high school pitcher Scott Kazmir. (Swisher is now an outfielder for the A's).
"When the Milwaukee Brewers take Prince Fielder with the seventh pick - the room explodes," Lewis writes, referring to Oakland's war room on draft day. "It means that Scott Kazmir probably will be available to the Mets, and he is, and the Mets take him."
Lewis quotes a veteran scout: "Prince Fielder just saved our paint," referring to Milwaukee's choice of Fielder.
Lewis writes: "Even the fat players who don't work for the A's do the A's work."
Earlier in the book, Lewis writes about the Brewers and Detroit: "No one has any idea what the Detroit Tigers or Milwaukee Brewers who pick seven and eight, intend to do. Something not terribly bright."
Well, let's see.
Not terribly bright entered play Saturday second in the major leagues in home runs and sixth in RBI.
"Here's an astonishing fact," Lewis writes. "Prince Fielder is too fat even for the Oakland A's. Of no other baseball player in the whole of North America can this be said."
Let's see again.
Too fat is headed to the All-Star Game as a likely starter at first base and has been chosen by some baseball observers as the most valuable player in the National League for the first half of the season. Of no other baseball player in North America can that be said.
How terrible a burden it must be for Fielder to know that he's too fat to play for the Oakland Athletics.
Just bad policy
Soon-to-be Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn don't think the outcome of baseball's All-Star Game should determine home-field advantage for teams in the World Series.
Both Ripken and Gwynn are analysts for TBS, which is scheduled to carry the all-star selection show at 3 p.m. today, following the completion of the telecast of the Atlanta Braves at Florida Marlins game.
"I don't like it just because I don't think it's necessary," Ripken said, referring to the outcome of All-Star Games determining the home-field advantage in the Series. "I've been to enough All-Star Games, especially in the early stages, where there was a lot of pride in that game and (the players) were there to prove which league was better. The incentive of home-field advantage just doesn't gibe with me." Gwynn agreed.
"I think the regular season has got to mean something," Gwynn said. "If you have the best record in the AL or the NL, that should clinch your home-field advantage."
Harassment suit filed
Commentator Woody Paige and anchor Jay Crawford, formerly of ESPN2's "Cold Pizza," were the targets of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed last week in a New York federal court.
The suit was filed by Rita Ragone, who was a makeup artist on the show from February 2005 to April 2006, according to a story in the New York Post.
Ragone is seeking unspecified damages for a hostile work environment from the two men, ESPN, the Atlantic Video production company and two supervisors.
Both Paige and Crawford denied the allegations.
"This suit is without merit, and we deny the allegations," said Mike Soltys, ESPN's vice president of communications.
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