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Chapter 1: Wardrobes
"Oh Preston, if we could abolish formal dances, would you?"
"Ayne, I was just thinking about the same thing."
The King and Queen of Rifthold sat on their bed massaging their sore feet as they complained. This was the third formal ball in a week and neither felt like moving. There was a soft knock at the door and in walked the couple's closest friend and advisor.
"Getting old are we?" Alek Summers asked of the pair.
Preston Avenici grinned, "Maybe so, but not as old as you though."
Alek shook his head, "I still hardly count being a day older than you much to boast about."
"Alek, what would happen if we abolished dances?" Ayne inquired.
Alek thought a moment before replying, "Your daughter would kill you most likely."
"Oh? And why would this be?" Preston inquired.
"Because she loves dancing with her friends and with the people from the town, but not with her suitor mind you." Alek answered.
"Honestly I can't fault her on the last point. I dislike that boy as well. He's too... stuck up." Preston commented.
"You could take him on a hunting trip dearest. You and your friends could... loosen him up." Ayne suggested.
"Not in a milion years Ayne. He'd scare all the game away with his boasting about his hair and what not." There was a very brief knock at the door before, practically, in flew the princess who immediatly made her way to one of her mother's wardrobes and hid inside.
"I doubt you could have run that fast in your prime old man." Alek joked as Preston shrugged and made his way over to the wardrobe.
"Honey, are you alright?"
"I want him gone dad. He's a selfish, no-good, lazy, stuck-up bum!" replied the wardrobe forcefully.
"Would it help if I told you that your mother and I both dislike him?"
A pause, "Maybe,"
Preston smiled then cocked his head to one side as there was another knock at the door.
"Yes?" He inquired.
"David Faradine, my lord. I thought I saw Jacklyn run this way and wondered if anything was the matter."
"Your daughter is a smart girl you know," Alek said before slipping into one of Preston's wardrobes.
Preston rolled his eyes at the circus that was unfolding before him and then answered the door, "I'm affraid not young Faradine. I have not seen her since the dance."
There was a barely audible sigh from the other side of the door, "I guess I shall continue looking then. Good night my lord and appologies for the intrusion."
A few moments passed before the wardrobe with Jacklyn spoke up, "Is he gone?"
"Aye luv, he's left." Preston replied. At once, both wardrobes flung open and depositied their inhabitants, one of which was smiling.
"Not the first time I've hid in your wardrobe, eh Preston?" Alek joked as he stretched his sore muscles.
"Indeed, and knowing us, not the last time either." Preston replied with a chuckle that had Ayne rolling her eyes. Preston then turned to Jacklyn who was attentively stairing at the door.
"I want him gone." Jacklyn said with finality.
Preston smiled and hugged his only child, "I know Jackie, don't worry, he'll be gone in the morning."
"Good, it's about time." Jacklyn commented. "I'm going to bed, night mum, dad and get lost you old coot." Alek smiled at the last comment as Jacklyn Dawn Avenici slipped out of the room and into the hall beyond.
"She's turning more and more into you with each day Preston." Alek noted.
Ayne groaned as she collapsed flat on the bed, "That's what I'm afraid of Alek."
Both Alek and Preston chuckled at this as both knew that Alek was only antagonizing the poor queen, as he had for many years, "Maybe so. I'd better get to bed myself if I'm going to see everyone off in the morning. Good night you two." And with that, Alek left the room and left Preston and Ayne alone.
"Finally, peace and quiet." Ayne said.
"Too true luv, too true." Preston replied.


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Being "America's most popular statistician" sounds dubious, something like being "the smartest Jäger girl" or "the deepest Kardashian" -- talk about damning with faint praise. But the odds have been in Nate Silver's favor for quite some time. Although the Michigan native achieved mainstream acclaim in November 2008 by accurately predicting the presidential-election winner in 49 states, he'd previously applied his foresight to Major League Baseball with great success before getting Indiana wrong by a single percentage point. (In the 2012 election, he aced all 50 states, to the dismay of Mitt Romney.) Silver's data-driven look at the world earned him a spot as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2009, and a year later, the New York Times was on it. For two years, the media giant licensed his personal political site, FiveThirtyEight.com, to the Grey Lady, though he, his posts and his prophecies are moving to ESPN. As part of USC's Holt Distinguished Lecture series, the best-selling brain behind The Signal and the Noise will tackle baseball, politics and the numbers behind them. Bovard Auditorium, USC, 3551 Trousdale Pkwy., University Park; Fri., Sept. 20, 11 a.m.; free. bedrosian.usc.edu.
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Frontier has built a career out of her talent for spotting treasure where others see scrap, and her charming Arts and Crafts home in Cedarburg is the best showcase for her gift.
She shares the 1,800-square-foot "bungaloid" with husband Tony, daughter Hannah, 13, son Sam, 10, official greeter Benni the spaniel and watch-cat Wesley. Along with partner Julie Mullarkey, she runs Bohemia at the Arts Mill artist co-op in Grafton, offering interior decorating and upholstering. (The partners will open a new Bohemia store in Cedarburg in February.)
Frontier's background in decorating helps her pull together original features and contemporary art in her 1924 home. Her sense of fun and what she calls "whimsy" make the look one-of-a-kind. Her refinishing skills mesh perfectly with "the thrill of the hunt" that she says she gets exploring flea markets, rummage sales and roadside piles of unloved items.
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Walk through the Frontier home, and almost every corner has an item with a story to tell. Her father, George Oteman, a trained cabinetmaker, has joined in to make the home unique. The first Oteman work visitors see: a foyer table made of pine and branches found "after a bad storm near our cottage," says Frontier.
A table Frontier bought for $20 at a flea market and rescued from its powder-blue paint job graces the living room. A 19th-century trunk with glowing wood once hidden under tattered fabric shines at the foot of her bed. A one-time shower curtain now works as a bedroom curtain.
Other recycled pieces have more intricate histories. She salvaged a dresser in her master bedroom from a monastery in Racine. A frame from Tony's grandfather now holds the mirror in the guest bathroom. And her father created the framed abstract artwork hanging in her fireplace room out of upcycled barn wood.
Several painted floral light fixtures have stayed with the house since it was built, along with original stained-glass windows - all true touches of Arts and Crafts style.
The vintage pieces share the home with contemporary artwork that might have roots as close as Milwaukee or as far away as Italy. A foyer painting was based on a photo of a 15th-century Italian monastery that Jenny and Tony took on their honeymoon.
"We try to bring something back every time we go on vacation," she says.
An abstract acrylic by Cedarburg artist Claudette Lee takes pride of place in the foyer. And Tony's own photos of his favorite subject - street musicians - hang throughout the house.
But the Frontier home has also benefited from some 21st-century changes. A previous owner installed the hot tub in the master bath upstairs. And the Frontiers built two bump-outs to add space for their growing family.
The result is a house that invites exploration. The playroom beneath the kitchen addition is a perfect children's getaway. And an enchanting playhouse Oteman built in the backyard is in the process of itself getting repurposed into a colorful potting shed.
Frontier recently talked more about her home and design.
Q. What led you to buy this house?
A. We looked at 80 houses. We knew we wanted to have one with history. We saw so many houses with wacky configurations, carpeted floors. This house had all the original floors and original stained-glass windows, and no woodwork had ever been painted. It had curb appeal. We were originally looking at Whitefish Bay, but we found this in the newspaper and put our offer in and moved in in three weeks in 2000.
Q. What's the home's layout?
A. The living room, the foyer, the fireplace room, the dining room, the kitchen and the half bath are downstairs. There are three bedrooms and a full bath upstairs.
Q. What big remodeling jobs did you tackle?
A. The kitchen was the first major remodeling in 2002. We gutted the kitchen and added the 12-by-10 bump-out with half bath. We did all the painting and staining. We added all new cabinets and all new lighting and exposed the chimney stack.
Then we put in the fireplace room addition with a full basement beneath it in 2005. We had new stained-glass windows custom-designed to match the other original stained glass in the house.
Two years ago we put in a travertine marble shower to replace a white plastic insert.
Q. As an artist, you make color choices all the time. But how did you pick the colors for your home's walls?
A. I like to sit in a room and I want the paint colors in the rooms you can see from there to have some connection between those spaces. In the kitchen, I chose terra cotta because it complements the exposed chimney brick. In the dining room I have orange mat pictures and Roman shades that are burnt orange and a Susan Hale picture that has a pop-out of orange.
I also wanted to stay with Craftsman colors of moss green, rusts and golds. The fireplace room has greens and rusts, and I added in a lot of chocolate browns. More of an earthy feel.
I did the faux painting on the dining room ceiling myself and had a very sore neck.
Q. Do you have any regrets about any of the remodeling you did?
A. I would have vaulted the kitchen roof. It would have been cool to open that up with a skylight. But we did most of it the way I still like. We did wide baseboards, and we've replaced every window but two with windows that are new but look old. It took us 10 years, but we did it.
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Q. What other major projects did your father create?
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A. Whimsy is tying in the playfulness in a room, using the unexpected. Like the dragonfly tiles on the fireplace surround, the stars hanging from my window. I've done children-inspired art on canvas, and I try to keep some of that spirit, too.
Q. You have a piano with some significance of its own.
A. It was inherited from my in-laws' friends for free, and Tony and I refinished it. There's a history of pianos in the house.
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Microsoft fitted out its stands at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona with huge touch screens that offered a taste of Windows Phone Series 7
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BYU researchers claim that improved morality can be linked to Windex. No kidding. Kate Liljenquist and her team tested individuals' reactions when introduced to a room that smells like Windex, the popular blue window cleaner.
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Hello, I am currently 23 years old (24 in June), I have a huge forehead but somehow I adore in whatever hairstyle I choose because it makes me look unique and different. Yet I have thin and sparse eyebrows, at the very near end each of the brows most of the hairs aren't fully grown and alot of absent area are shown. They are uneven, so I am aiming to have fuller eyebrows that would suit my face. However I have thin hair so I don't know how much grafts should be put in? Any Suggestions?
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I would suggest coming in for a consultation as we are located in Toronto as well. We could than give you a complete personal consultation and really decide what would be the very best option for you. Neograft FUE Hair Transplants used for eyebrows is a highly successful and permanent solution for most of these cases. We could also work with a plan on lowering your hairline a bit using FUE if that seems like it might be necessary. It is very important that your transplanted hairs for your eyebrows are done in a way that harmonizes well with your eyes. Once we harvest the hair we will also make sure that is implanted at the right angle to replicate original growth. Because the transplanted hair will come from the back of the head, it also requires us to match natural colour of the area being transplanted. These hairs will initially grow faster and will require trimming for the 1st year or two.We can definitely do something for you. I hope this helps.
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Forehead reduction and facial framing
Proper facial framing can highlight facial features and this becomes critical in presenting ourselves and emphasizing our facial features. The eyebrows are a secondary framing of the facies and also highly important and critical.
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Forehead may appear larger in pictures because the temple angles have recessed as well. This can be restored procedurally and during the procedure, the eyebrows can also be reinforced. Hair growth post procedure will begin at about 2-3 months post procedure.
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Your large forehead can easily be treated with a surgical hairline lowering procedure as shown in the web reference below. Your hairline now only can be lowered, but it can also be rounded much like the actress Catherine Zeta Jones who I show every female who comes to our office for the ideal hairline (go to google images). The hairlines in our website show the type of lowering we do but with very fine hair, it might take two procedures to accomplish your goals. My wife has very fine hair and had her hairline lowered with hair transplants by my partner Dr. Pak and because her hair was very fine, it did take two procedures to accomplish it. Alternatively, you can have the surgical lowering procedure done followed, if necessary, by a hair transplant to refine the shape.
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WOW what a powerful little machine we have here!!
And the rear touchpad would actually better emulate what it feels like to play a guitar!!
Seeing as a PS3 release is unlikely, hands up who else wants K-ON!! Hokagou Live 2!! Game to come out on the PSP2?
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They probably would be able to fit the full versions of the songs with music video on considering that Memory Stick Pro-Duo technology is projected to be able to to store up to Two Terabytes by the end of this year!! An astronomical leap to the already impressive 1.5 Gigabytes of the UMDs we have now, and look what it can already do!!
The true challenge, however, would be whether one would be able to clear the U&I and Tenshi Ni Fureta Yo levels without bursting into tears mid level.
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Wow, finally got around to playing this game. It's quite the unique rhythm game; if only I wasn't such a novice with the PSP button layout, I might be better at it. I "S" ranked all the songs in the first half, but the second half I've been getting "A" ranks only. I'm afraid that there's a Hard Mode, but with practice I can probably do it. I am the Rock Band pro guitarist, after all. XD
|2011-02-09, 03:21
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Smiling beauty
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
Age: 28
|2011-02-09, 03:26
|Link #126
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|2011-02-09, 05:20
|Link #127
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|2011-02-09, 05:33
|Link #128
Smiling beauty
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
Age: 28
|2011-02-09, 05:37
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But as a side note, I heard getting the timing for the buttons is hard to do, it was in Birth by Sleep at one point and thats coming from someone who used to play the drums lol
|2011-02-09, 05:51
|Link #130
Graphic Designer
|2011-02-10, 16:47
|Link #131
Graphic Designer
*whew* I'm learning the ropes and it's getting a LOT easier. I've barely looked into Hard Mode and I've played many of the songs only with certain characters, so I don't have a full experience yet; here's what I have done though:
Normal Mode:
"Watashi no Koi wa Hocchikisu" - Yui (45980 "S"), Mio (35740 "Perfect"), Ritsu (48340 "A")
"Humming Bird" - Yui (58260 "A"), Mio (57940 "A"), Ritsu (60870 "S"), Tsumugi (74050 "S"), Azusa (74290 "S")
"Sunday Siesta" - Yui (63650 "S"), Mio (68310 "S"), Ritsu (58040 "A"), Tsumugi (78310 "S"), Azusa (70930 "S")
"Hello Little Girl" - Yui (42530 "Perfect"), Mio (76840 "Perfect"), Ritsu (69810 "A")
"Fuwa Fuwa Time" - Yui (86200 "S"), Azusa (80430 "Perfect")
"Dear My Keys/Kenban no Mahou" - Yui (110890 "S")
"Jajauma Way to Go" - Yui (87490 "S"), Mio (89360 "S"), Azusa (91250 "A")
"Sweet Bitter Beauty Song" - Yui (79150 "Perfect"), Tsumugi (66020 "S")
"Fude Pen, Boru Pen" - Yui (90040 "S"), Ritsu (114380 "A")
"Let's Go!" - Yui (116610 "Perfect"), Azusa (131170 "S")
"Curry Nochi Rice" - Yui (61640 "A"), Ritsu (66260 "S")
"Mezase Happii 100%" - Yui (124170 "S"), Mio (111530 "A")
"Watashi wa Watashi no Michi o Iku" - Yui (82120 "A"), Tsumugi (81070 "S"), Azusa (99240 "S")
"Giita ni Kubittake" - Yui (128370 "A"), Ritsu (121300 "A"), Azusa (158880 "A")
"Happy!? Sorry!!" - Yui (122600 "S"), Ritsu (145900 "S"), Azusa (115950 "S")
"Heart Goes Boom!!" - Yui (128150 "S"), Mio (116490 "A"), Azusa (153360 "Perfect")
"Girly Storm Shissou Stick" - Yui (103520 "A"), Mio (90230 "S"), Ritsu (90860 "A"), Tsumugi (93650 "S"), Azusa (138020 "Perfect")
"Cagayake! GIRLS" - Yui (147570 "A"), Mio (178380 "S"), Ritsu (151370 "S"), Tsumugi (119190 "S"), Azusa (142550 "A")
"Don't Say 'Lazy'" - Yui (209580 "A"), Mio (180530 "A"), Ritsu (156580 "A"), Tsumugi (135670 "S"), Azusa (156440 "A")
Hard Mode:
"Watashi no Koi wa Hocchikisu" - Yui (80560 "S")
"Humming Bird" - Yui (73190 "A")
"Hello Little Girl" - Tsumugi (99670 "S")
"Dear My Keys/Kenban no Mahou" - Yui (186350 "Perfect")
"Fude Pen, Boru Pen" - Mio (201020 "A")
"Heart Goes Boom!!" - Yui (142810 "A")
"Don't Say 'Lazy'" - Tsumugi (124480 "A")
I need to play more "Hard" songs if I'm going to get any better. XD
EDIT: I'm playing right now too, so I'll probably add any new scores I get here.
NOTE 1: Does anyone subconsciously fling around the analog stick in hopes that there is a whammy bar function?
NOTE 2: I love how these single character songs are played by the entire band. Something awesome that you won't see in the anime.
Last edited by Hiroi Sekai; 2011-02-11 at 05:02.
|2011-02-12, 16:51
|Link #132
:Still Yayoi's Onii~chan:
Join Date: May 2007
Location: in a world of delusions & illusions
Wow, I havent been on this site for quite some time so it seems I missed a lot of discussions here. ^^;
I see a lot people differ in what characters are the easiest to play and whcih ones are harder...personally I think the easiest to hardest is:
Tsumugi -> Yui -> Azusa -> Ritsu -> Mio
I just cannot play as Mio, you can barely hear her parts!! I basically have to MAX her part and lower the rest and then play using ear phones.
If anyone has any questions on how to unlock any of the costumes, events, and/or items then let me know as I've achieved the 100% completion!! (sadly there's nothing special that happens when you do...orz) I didnt put in 70+ hours of gameplay (I literally spent 20 of it trying to get the last 2 MC voices of Mugi) and achieved either an "S" rank or "Perfect" rank on every song with every character. Muwahaha
As far as MC voices go I have to say just keep playing. Though there were some MC voices that require a certain criteria.
-Playing the character songs. Like if you play "Mezase Happy 100%" as any other character then Ritsu then they will call out Ritsu's name for the MC. *in Ritsu's songs they also call her "Buchou" so you actually have to play Ritsu's songs twice for the name calling MC.
-The MC voices that appear at the END of songs. Some MCs only appear when its the end of the song. So you cant attain all the MC voices by restarting songs with MCs at the beginning...though its a good way to get a good chunk of them.
-"Fuwa Fuwa Time", the "Mou Nechaoh~" (Lets just go to sleep!) for all characters apparently only appears on this song.
Last edited by shinku no kage; 2011-02-12 at 20:15.
|2011-02-13, 17:02
|Link #133
The Unknown Artist
Ritsu -> Mio -> Tsumugi -> Yui -> Azusa
Ritsu is easy for me because being a drummer makes it easier to find the beats. For some reason Azusa is the hardest for me. So far I've Perfect'd every song on normal and all songs on Hard except Cagayake, Girly Storm, Lazy and Heat Goes Boom. I did S rank them all though.
|2011-02-17, 18:33
|Link #134
Join Date: Feb 2011
hi, does anyone know if it's possible to watch the songs without the game part, like a music video?
i'm lefthanded and find the drumming parts the hardest, it's like my hands are hardwired to press the kick and snare parts the opposite way round!
|2011-02-17, 19:54
|Link #135
a.k.a. Flammenkrieg
IT Support
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Down under...
There should be someone better qualified than I am to tell you how to do this...
|2011-02-26, 18:39
|Link #138
:Still Yayoi's Onii~chan:
Join Date: May 2007
Location: in a world of delusions & illusions
Thats as close as you're going to get...that, or you can just use the dagashi item for auto play during gameplay.
|2011-03-07, 10:49
|Link #139
Smiling beauty
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
Age: 28
Ok, finally get to play this game in-depth since I recently had my own PSP
Managed to clear all the songs, unlocked every costume and accessories too, but still missing the decoration items.
As for the difficulty of the characters... on the 2nd thought, I think all of them are quite the same. Rather than their playing style, I think the problem lies within the songs' arrangement, especially the speed It became difficult when the speed of the song is too slow (like "Hello Little Girl") and too fast (Curry Nochi Rice).
But if I were to rank them, then:
Mugi -> Yui -> Mio -> Ritsu -> Azusa
Mugi -->> Easiest to use IMO (She's my most fave chara, of course XD). Most of her part are the button holds, but sometimes it became problematic when it came into tapping, even more with the d-pad presses slipped among them. Lose the rhythm, and it'll be a string of bads and misses
Yui -->> I found her on par or maybe even easier than Mugi. Have no specific problems for her.... not too rapid button presses, a bit of button holds. She and Mugi are the only ones I could achieve perfect clears and many S ranks on Hard.
Mio -->> Basically the same like Yui, just inverted same as most people, the difficulty lies in the inversion of the left and right button. Her part itself isn't that hard, majority of rapid tapping just like Yui
Ritsu -->> Feels best when we got the rhythm a good and steady play between the left and right buttons although it's a bit hard when the button presses are stacked too close together
Azusa -->> Spent a long time to adapt with her style I tend to miss when it comes to switching the left button holds.
But really, in the end, I feel that the difficulty gap among them is very thin.
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Need for Speed Shift Patch 2 plus DLC ready for download
The next patch for Need for Speed: Shift has been released for download. The update to version 1.02 fixes several bugs and improvements.
EA has released a new patch for Need for Speed: Shift. The update to version 1.02 is now available for PC (and Xbox 360), too. But for the PC edition EA warns to apply the patch to the Steam version of Shift, because errors might be possible it is rather recommended to use the automatic update option of the Steam client. Besides that the publisher also recommends to apply the patch to a "clean" installation of the racing game only - community mods for example should be uninstalled in advance.
Attention: From now on the Online Mode in the PC version in Need for Speed: Shift works with the new patch applied only. EA was forced to take this step because there had been too many cheat tools been used on the PC.
With Patch 1.02 five new cars (Toyota Supra Mk IV, 1967 Shelby GT500, 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, 1969 Dodge Charger R/T and the 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T) are integrated into Need for Speed: Shift. Furthermore there is a new game mode called Team Racing and the maximal number of players per race has been increased from 8 to 12.
You can download patch 1.02 from the official Need for Speed website. There are two versions of the patch available for the North American version of NfS: Shift and All Other Languages.
Below you can find all the changes applied with the update as they are listed in the EA Forum:
- General game stability and performance improvements
- Improved car handling
- Fix for issue where some cars would bounce on their suspension during high load situations
- Fix for grass sometimes being displayed out of position
- Fix for intermittent incorrect driver duel results
- Fix for inverted balance slider operation
- Fix for online wins and losses occasionally being calculated incorrectly for drift races
- Fixed issue where loaned career car would inherit the player's career car tuning settings
- Fixed various usability issues with the advanced tuning screens
- Fixed lap timing for first lap of rolling start events
- Fixed car tuning settings sometimes not taking effect
- Fix to prevent rewinding past the start of instant replays
- Fixed car livery occasionally appearing all white during driver duel events
- Fixed incorrect screens being shown when player is disqualified
- Fix for occasional invisible opponents appearing during online drift events
- Fix for intermittent hang when skipping quickly through post-race screens
- Fix for intermittent hang when pressing X repeatedly in My Cars screen
- Fix for missing race groove on point-to-point tracks
- Prevented car livery resetting to default after an online race
- Fix for advanced tuning not staying unlocked on reload
- Fixed invitational event cars getting their setups corrupted and becoming
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- Fix for Lamborghini's having a low top speed when upgraded
- Fix for Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper not able to move at the start of some events
- Fix for some upgraded AI cars bottoming out causing some instability over bumps
- Fix upgrade menu bug
- Fix for a force feedback strength settings save bug
- Fix multi-player settings for AI opponents and drift mode
- Fix for vinyls being incorrectly applied on rear wing
- Fix for a hang in lobby when accessing friend's list from car select
- Fix for profile load bug which skips save select menu when holding down Enter key
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- Improved ATi graphics card support
- Improved dynamic vertex buffer usage (performance optimization on all PCs)
- Fixed crashes on certain PC configurations when changing shadow settings
- Fixed intermittent crash during first lap of races on certain PC configurations
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- Fix for intermittent missing surface sounds on certain PC configurations
- Fix for intermittent black skies
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2) Off-site factors: What sites link to your site and to the pages of your site? What keywords are in the link text that is clickable in those links? The most talked about example is Google PageRank. PageRank is a number that Google shows for a given webpage that shows in very rough and generic way how much "link juice" a page is understood by Google to have. Generally speaking, if a page has more links from many different reputable sites, it will have more PageRank and will have a better chance of ranking for searches.
3) "Keyword Agnostic Signals": This is a relatively new addition to ranking factors and in some ways it overlaps with Off-site factors. Keyword Agnostic signals are things like the amount of traffic occurring at the website, the success rate of the website for engaging visitors, social mentions for the website , site speed, the age of the domain, the freshness of the content.
Do you have to score well on all three of these to rank? It depends how competitive the ranking is for the particular term (keyword phrase) you are asking about. Some phrases are much more competitive than others.
How can you tell which factors are the most important? Most professional search professionals learn from trying things and from reading what other people are saying. Matt Cutt's blog (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/) is a very valuable resource since Matt is "on the inside" at Google. SEOMoz.com has an annual survey of SEO luminaries which is an important reference to the leading thinking in SEO. Check it out at http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors.


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No Going Back
Disclaimer: The clock on the mantelpiece could tick till the end of time, but even then, the world of Shakespeare's Macbeth still wouldn't belong to me.
Summary: Just what was Macbeth thinking after he killed King Duncan in Inverness? A little glimpse into his thoughts through the means of a diary. One-shot.
I committed a horrible deed tonight, and I fear I will never be the same again. Killing King Duncan had taken a lot out of me.
My wife had told me that what's done is done, but I am not so sure. Fear of being exposed is still an issue, and I understand now that I will always have to be cautious and on my guard. If Macduff or the others find the truth... I will have to silence them forever, or be destroyed completely. For who would trust me if the truth was known to all? To them, I would no longer be the honored Thane, but a liar, a heartless murderer. But truly, could the King's death have been avoided? No, there was no escaping Fate's will. Duncan would have died even if I had not done the deed. It is not my fault that he is dead; I am only Fate's servant, forced to carry out her will.
Yet, even with the knowledge that I am not responsible, I still feel a great sense of remorse for my actions. The half-choked screams, the violent twitching, the accusing stare as he took his last breath - all these haunt me like a restless ghost. The ghastly images of the last moments of the King's life still plague me relentlessly, regardless of whether I am awake or asleep. Though I have managed to conceal the fact that I am hallucinating, my wife is becoming suspicious of my sudden inattentiveness at times.
My relationship with my wife is also going downhill. She thinks I have just killed an old man, but it is not so. The King - I had vowed to serve him, and I had kept my promise gladly until this night. Duncan was the person I admired, the hero I worshipped. And now I have killed him! Though it was necessary, the shame still weights heavily on my conscience.
I know that once I set down this road, there will be no return. Now I just want it all to end.
A/N: My first story on Macbeth… And most probably the last one too. This was just a little expression thing our English teacher got us to do… Leave a review if you're nice!
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P.S. If any of my readers of "Pickup Lines" are also reading this, I'm so sorry! I've got this gigantic writer's block for the next chapter 'cause I have no idea how to describe Hermione's dress. ARGH! So if you want to give me a helping hand… P.M. me and I'll spin out the chapter! :D


text: "In my own defense, I can point out that I have also written heartwarming books where people return from the dead. Usually to eat the living, it's true, but surely that is a quibble — a miracle is a miracle." -- Stephen King, in his article 'A History of Violence'


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European Empires in North America
From the 15th century onward, European nations invaded the New World and began establishing empires throughout the continent.
Learning Objective
Evaluate the goals of Spanish, British, and French exploration in the Americas
Key Points
- The Spanish Empire between 1492 and 1892, expanded across most of Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and much of North America. In its conquest of the New World, the Spanish subdued and defeated the Inca civilization of Peru, the Aztecs of Central America, and the Maya civilization of the Yucatan.
- England's forays into the New World began in 1497 with John Cabot's journey to North America. British exploration of the New World centered on searching for a Northwest Passage through the continent.
- Sir Walter Raleigh and Henry Hudson were notable British explorers who established early settlements in Virginia and New York.
- The search for a northwest passage to Asia and the burgeoning fur trade in Europe drove the French to explore and settle North America.
- Samuel de Champlain began the first permanent settlement of New France and Quebec City in present-day Canada and created a prosperous trade with the American Indians for beaver pelts and other animal hides.
Maya civilization
A Mesoamerican culture noted for the only known, fully developed, written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for their art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.
A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.
Inca civilization
The Andean population made up a loose patchwork of different cultures that developed from the highlands of Colombia to the Atacama Desert.
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While the Americas remained firmly under the control of indigenous peoples in the first decades of European invasion, conflict increased as colonization spread and Europeans placed greater demands upon the indigenous populations, including expecting them to convert to Christianity (either Catholicism or Protestantism). The Spanish, English, and French were the most powerful nations to establish empires in the new lands.
Conquest of Latin America by the Spanish Empire
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus, the Spanish Empire expanded for four centuries (1492–1892) across most of present-day Central America, the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and much of the rest of North America. The empire also claimed territory in present-day British Columbia; the states of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; and the western half of South America. Colonial expansion under the Spanish Empire was initiated by the Spanish conquistadors and developed by the Monarchy of Spain through its administrators and missionaries. The motivations for colonial expansion were trade and the spread of the Christian faith through indigenous conversions.
Columbus' initial landing and first mainland explorations were followed by a phase of inland expeditions and conquests in the Caribbean and South America, where the first European settlements occurred in the New World. After the forming of Nueva Cádiz in Venezuela and Santa Cruz on the present-day Guajira peninsula, explorers led by Vasco Núez de Balboa conquered areas on the coast of present-day Colombia in 1502. This area was inhabited by the Chibchan speaking nations, including the indigenous Muisca and Tairona people. The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon traveled to the New World on Columbus' second voyage. He explored areas to the north, looking for a Fountain of Youth, and landed on a peninsula on the coast of North America, which he named Florida.
Attack on the Aztecs and Mayas
The conquistadors, believing they held considerable military and technological superiority over the native cultures, attacked and destroyed the Aztecs in 1521. This campaign was led by Hernán Cortés and featured the Tlaxcala and other indigenous peoples allied against the Mexica/Aztec Empire. The Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization—based in the Yucatán Peninsula of present-day Mexico and northern Central America—was a much longer campaign, lasting from 1551 to 1697. The day Hernán Cortés landed ashore at present-day Veracruz, April 22, 1519, marked the beginning of 300 years of Spanish hegemony over the region.
Cortes Conquest
This map illustrates the route taken by Hernán Cortés during the conquest of Mexico, from the Gulf of Mexico to Tenochtitlan.
By the early 16th century, Spanish conquistadors had penetrated deep into Central and South America. European explorers arrived at Río de la Plata in 1516. Buenos Aires, a permanent colony, was established in 1536, and in 1537, Asunción was established in the area that is now Paraguay. Buenos Aires suffered attacks by the indigenous peoples that forced the settlers away, and in 1541, the site was abandoned. A second and permanent settlement was established in 1580, by Juan de Garay.
Attack on the Incas
In 1532, at the Battle of Cajamarca, a group of Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their indigenous Andean Indian allies, ambushed and captured the Emperor Atahualpa of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign—which took advantage of a recent civil war and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated—that required decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas. In the following years, the conquistadors and indigenous allies extended their control over the greater Andes region, leading to the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Perú in 1542.
The brutal practices of the conquistadors (known as the Black Legend), as recorded by the Spanish themselves, were applied through the encomienda, a system ostensibly set up to protect people from warring tribes as well as to teach them the Spanish language and the Catholic religion. In practice, though, it was tantamount to slavery.
Spanish colonization of the Americas
The red in this image illustrates the Spanish Empire under the House of Bourbon in the late 18th century; pink illustrates the regions under Spanish control or influence at various times; lavender illustrates the territories lost at or before the Peace of Utrecht (1714); and purple illustrates the Portuguese possessions ruled jointly under the Spanish sovereign (1580-1640).
The British Empire
John Cabot
England's forays into the New World began in 1497 (just a few years after Columbus' initial voyage) with John Cabot's journey to North America. British exploration of the New World centered on searching for a northwest passage through the continent. Cabot explored the North American coast and correctly deduced that the spherical shape of the earth made the north—where the longitudes are much shorter—a quicker route to the New World than a trip to the islands in the south, where Columbus was exploring. Encouraged, he asked the English monarchy for a more substantial expedition to further explore and settle the lands that he found. Cabot's ships departed, never to be seen again.
England remained preoccupied with internal affairs for much of the 16th century. Cabot's adventures failed to spark much interest, and England's break with the Catholic church in 1533 led to decades of religious turmoil. However, by the beginning of the 17th century, under the rule of Elizabeth I, the empire had consolidated much of the British Isles and was becoming a much more formidable force on the world stage. With the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, England replaced Spain as the dominant world power. This led to the gradual decline of Spanish influence in the New World and the widening of English imperial interests.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh sought to establish an empire in the New World after having gained considerable favor from Queen Elizabeth I by suppressing rebellions in Ireland. On March 25, 1584, the Queen granted Raleigh a charter for the colonization of the area of North America known as Virginia. Raleigh and Elizabeth I intended that the venture should provide riches from the New World and a base from which to send privateers on raids against the treasure fleets of Spain. Raleigh himself never visited North America, although he led expeditions in 1595 and 1617 to South America's Orinoco River basin in search of the legendary golden city of El Dorado. Supplying the colonists became troublesome due to continuing war with Spain. The end of the colony in 1587 is unrecorded; as a result, the Roanoke settlement is referred to as the "Lost Colony." There are multiple hypotheses as to the fate of the colonists, including integration into local indigenous tribes.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective northwest passage via a route above the Arctic Circle. He explored the region around the modern-day New York metropolitan area and is known for exploring the river which eventually was named for him, thereby laying the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region. In 1611, Hudson discovered a strait and immense bay on his final expedition while searching for the Northwest Passage. After wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his son, and seven others adrift, and they were never seen again.
French Exploration
Giovanni da Verrazzano
The search for a northwest passage to Asia and the burgeoning fur trade in Europe drove the French to explore and settle North America. Major French exploration of North America began under the rule of Francis I. In 1524, Francis sent Italian-born Giovanni da Verrazzano to explore the region between Florida and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean. Verrazzano gave the names Francesca and Nova Gallia to that land between New Spain and English Newfoundland, thus promoting French interests.
Jacques Cartier
Later, in 1534, Francis sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St. Lawrence River, to investigate whether Asian lands could be reached from the north. His journey in 1534 retraced many of the voyages of the Vikings and established contacts with American Indians in modern-day Canada. He explored some of northern Canada, established friendly relations with the American Indians, and discovered that the St. Lawrence River region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia. Cartier attempted to create the first permanent European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge (Quebec City) in 1541 with 400 settlers, but the settlement was abandoned the next year after bad weather and native attacks.
Champlain and New France
During the 16th century, the taming of the Siberian wilderness by the Russians had brought about a thriving fur trade, which created a great demand for fur throughout Europe. France was quick to realize that North America held great potential as a provider of fur. Samuel de Champlain began the first permanent settlement of New France and Quebec City in present-day Canada and created a prosperous trade with the American Indians for beaver pelts and other animal hides. Meanwhile, further to the south, French Protestants, called Huguenots, had the opportunity to leave hostile European lands while advancing French claims to the New World. Settlements in present-day Florida and Georgia created tension with Spanish conquistadors, who after conquering Caribbean lands, would begin to expand northwards in search of new territory. From the middle of the 15th century forward, France tried to establish several other colonies throughout North America that failed due to weather, disease, or conflict with other European powers.
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- Alaska
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- British Empire
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- Christianity
- Appears in these related concepts: Settlers and Native Americans, The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium, and Education and Humanism
- Christopher Columbus
- Appears in these related concepts: Spanish Exploration, The Exploration of Christopher Columbus, and Europe's Early Trade Links
- Fur Trade
- Appears in these related concepts: Plymouth, The Western Lands, and Expansion and the Mexican-American War
- Henry Hudson
- Appears in these related concepts: New Jersey, Settling the Middle Colonies, and From New Netherland to New York
- Huguenots
- Appears in these related concepts: Calvinism, The French Wars of Religion, and France and Cardinal Richelieu
- Jacques Cartier
- Appears in these related concepts: French Colonialization and New France and Louisiana
- New France
- Appears in these related concepts: New France and the Native Americans, The French and Indian War, and French Explorers
- New World
- Appears in these related concepts: The New World, Conclusion: European Empires in the New World, and Exploration and Conquest of the New World
- New York
- Appears in these related concepts: The Conquest of New York, Early Efforts in Urban Reform, and The Treaty of Fort Stanwix
- Northwest Passage
- Appears in these related concepts: The Dutch Empire, The French Empire, and The British Empire
- Roanoke
- Appears in these related concepts: The Contraband Camps, Conclusion: Growth and Development of the Colonies, and England and the High Seas
- Samuel de Champlain
- St. Lawrence River
- Appears in this related concept: The War in the North
- The Establishment
- Appears in these related concepts: The Carter Administration, Theatre and Novels, and Student Rebellions and the New Left
- charter
- Appears in these related concepts: The Consumer Revolution, The Coercive Acts, and Formation of the Corporation
- colony
- Appears in these related concepts: Aseptic Technique, Dilution, Streaking, and Spread Plates, English Colonies, and Colonialism, Decolonization, and Neo-Colonialism
- expansion
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- merchant
- Appears in these related concepts: An Empire of Commerce, A Growing Society, and Colonial Cities
- mores
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There are 45 comments on the Orlando Sentinel story from Jan 18, 2009, titled Circuit City's collapse deals blow to Lake's economy. In it, Orlando Sentinel reports that:The demise of the national Circuit City Stores Inc. will have a ripple effect in Lake, dealing another blow to the county's slumping economy.
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#2 Jan 18, 2009
So a company that pays 8-9 dollars an hour will kill a community? I seriously doubt it.
#4 Jan 18, 2009
Yes, it will. Look at the effects Wal-Mart has in any community.:)
#6 Jan 18, 2009
The Villages will one day annex the entire Lake County area all it ever will be good for is old people! After they annex Lake County build a wall around it so the old people can't get out and clog up other parts. Another good thing about it getting cold in North Florida keeps their limits down. I was in Publix it took an elderly women 10 minutes to write a check five people in line behind me walked away. They lost five customers over that one old lady! Mind you the wall doesn't have to be that high.
#7 Jan 18, 2009
Watch out for the liqudation company that takes over CC. They are famous for marking prices way up and then making special "half off" sales.
Do your homework BEFORE you go shopping or you will get ripped off worse than if you walked into Best Buy.
#8 Jan 18, 2009
I'm sure the line moves much faster when you use your government food card, rather than a check, huh?
#9 Jan 18, 2009
Good riddance Circuit City management.
#10 Jan 18, 2009
The area seems to attract losers... Bed Bath and Beyond, Circuit City, Hillary Clinton, South Lake High School, South Lake teachers, South Lake teen hoodlums, 8 percent unemployment rate... the list goes on and on.
An area going down.
Will the last person to leave please turn off the lights.
#11 Jan 18, 2009
DId not go there often, Best Buy and WalMart always had better prices.
#12 Jan 18, 2009
does this mean alot of them will be moving back north, great!!
#13 Jan 18, 2009
low paid employees selling chinese electronics !is this the framework of our so called economy?
#14 Jan 18, 2009
You're so full of crap, not to mention a stupid fool. They just went to another register.
#15 Jan 18, 2009
Gee, Chamber of Commerce, you're upset by the job losses ?
What have you done to monitor the health of the businesses in the county ? Or do you think business closings just HAPPEN ??
#16 Jan 18, 2009
Circuit City died because they had a horrible business plan. They refused to change and improve when competition (Best Buy) came on the scene. I walked into Circuit City several times to shop for big ticket items (HDTV, home theater, dSLR cameras, etc...). Not ONCE did I feel like anyone was there to help me. Instead I'd see a group of employees gathered together playing grab-@$$. When I asked for help once I was told someone would be right over....15 mins later NOTHING. And this wasn't just one location. I tried several locations. Of course when I walk into Best Buy and show any amount of interest someone walks by and asks if I need help with anything. Management at Circuit City was horrible. I just hope those people make a career change and don't bring down another company. (Of course some companies hold their employees accountable for BUSINESS so it shouldn't be a problem.)
#17 Jan 18, 2009
wot else r these dimwits qualified for?
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#19 Jan 18, 2009
hey idiot, this was nothing to do with that specific store.
#20 Jan 18, 2009
Last year, I went to their Colonial store, fully intending to walk out with a desktop computer. I couldn't find anyone to sell me a computer (well, technically I found someone, but she was too busy talking with her friends to help me), so I walked out empty handed.
When you can't bother selling a $1000+ product to someone with cash in his hand, bankruptcy is probably an inevitability.
It's unfortunate that a national retailer has disappeared, but I think this situation was preventable.
#21 Jan 18, 2009
You think it's bad there, you should see Publix in Boca Raton. Get in between old people and a lady giving away free food samples and you take your life in your hands.
#22 Jan 18, 2009
It depends if she was in the express cashier line. If she was a regualr line then that old lady has every right to write her check. If she was in the express lane, like I see so many times, then she is out of line for writing one. Every express line, both Walmart AND Publix, tells customer to not write checks in the express line but yet, you'll have these people, both the elderly and others, write them. These people needs to keep up with today's technology and get a debit card. Debit card works the same way as writing a check and comes out the same account. Checks are just paper trails. There's no need for them in grocery payments for goodnees sake.
#23 Jan 18, 2009
Gee, MORON, neither did MY COMMENT !!
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Agent is sole cause of change Actions have deterministic effects STRIPS representation World = set of true propositions Actions: Precondition: (conjunction of literals) Effects (conjunction of literals) north11 a W0 a W1 north12 a W2 4 STRIPS Actions Action = a function from world-state to world-state Precondition says when function defined Effects say how to change set of propositions north11 a W0 north11 precond: (and (agent-at 1 1) (agent-facing north)) a W1 effect: (and (agent-at 1 2) (not (agent-at 1 1))) 5 Action Schemata Instead of defining: pickup-A and pickup-B and … Variables: ?x. For example, ?ob1 Define a schema: (:operator pick-up :parameters ((block ?ob1)) :precondition (and (clear ?ob1) (on-table ?ob1) (arm-empty)) :effect (and (not (on-table ?ob1)) (not (clear ?ob1)) (not (arm-empty)) (holding ?ob1))) 6 STRIPS vs ADL Positive/Negative conditions Closed world assumption Negated Effects Quantified Effects Goals as conjunctions and disjunctions Conditional Effects (when …) Equality Predicate Typing 7 Examples Air Cargo Domain Spare Tire Problem The blocks world 8 Planning as Search Nodes Arcs World states Actions Initial State The state satisfying the complete description of the initial conds Goal State Any state satisfying the goal propositions 9 Forward-Chaining World-Space Search Initial State C A B Goal State A B C 10 Backward-Chaining World-Space Search Problem: Many possible goal states are equally acceptable. From which one does one search? A B C D E A D B C E Initial State is completely defined C D A B E *** A B C D E 11 Backward Planning Try out http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/Version 4/planning/ at UBC which shows goaldirected planning Shows blocks world planning Idea: find a first subgoal Achieve it by selecting an action Regress to discover new subgoals from the action's preconditions Continue 12 Planning as Search 2 Nodes Partially specified plans Arcs Adding + deleting actions or constraints (e.g. <) to plan Initial State The empty plan Goal State A plan which when simulated achieves the goal 13 Plan-Space Search and Partial Order Planning pick-from-table(C) put-on(C,B) pick-from-table(C) pick-from-table(B) How represent plans? How test if plan is a solution? 14 Terminologies Partial Ordering Linearization Ordering constraints Causal Links Achieves Conflicts Open Preconditions Consistent Plans 15 Planning as Search 3 Phase 1 - Graph Expansion Necessary (insufficient) conditions for plan existence Local consistency of plan-as-CSP Phase 2 - Solution Extraction Variables action execution at a time point Constraints goals, subgoals achieved no side-effects between actions 16 Planning Graph Proposition Init State Action Time 1 Proposition Time 1 Action Time 2 17 Constructing the planning graph… Initial proposition layer Action layer i Just the initial conditions If all of an action's preconds are in i-1 Then add action to layer I Proposition layer i+1 For each action at layer i Add all its effects at layer i+1 Also allow propositions at layer i to persist to i+1 18 Mutual Exclusion (or Mutex) Actions A,B exclusive (at a level) if A deletes B's precond, or B deletes A's precond, or A & B have inconsistent preconds (so they cannot be executed at the same time) Propositions P,Q inconsistent (at a level) if all ways to achieve P exclude all ways to achieve Q 19 Graphplan Create level 0 in planning graph Loop If goal contents of highest level (nonmutex) Then search graph for solution If find a solution then return and terminate Else Extend graph one more level 20 Searching for a Solution For each goal G at time t For each action A making G true @t If A isn't mutex with a previously chosen action, select it If no actions work, backup to last G (breadth first search) Recurse on preconditions of actions selected, t-1 Proposition Init State Action Time 1 Proposition Time 1 Action Time 2 21 Dinner Date Initial Conditions: (:and (cleanHands) (quiet)) Goal: (:and (noGarbage) (dinner) (present)) Actions: (:operator carry :precondition :effect (:and (noGarbage) (:not (cleanHands))) (:operator dolly :precondition :effect (:and (noGarbage) (:not (quiet))) (:operator cook :precondition (cleanHands) :effect (dinner)) (:operator wrap :precondition (quiet) :effect (present)) 22 Planning Graph noGarb carry cleanH cleanH dolly quiet quiet cook dinner wrap present 0 Prop 1 Action 2 Prop 3 Action 4 Prop23 Are there any exclusions? noGarb carry cleanH cleanH dolly quiet quiet cook dinner wrap present 0 Prop 1 Action 2 Prop 3 Action 4 Prop24 Do we have a solution? noGarb carry cleanH cleanH dolly quiet quiet cook dinner wrap present 0 Prop 1 Action 2 Prop 3 Action 4 Prop25 Extend the Planning Graph noGarb carry cleanH noGarb carry cleanH dolly quiet cleanH dolly quiet cook quiet cook dinner wrap dinner wrap present 0 Prop 1 Action 2 Prop present 3 Action 4 Prop26 One (of 4) possibilities noGarb carry cleanH noGarb carry cleanH dolly quiet cleanH dolly quiet cook quiet cook dinner wrap dinner wrap present 0 Prop 1 Action 2 Prop present 3 Action 4 Prop27 Planning Languages PDDL Tutorials FF Planner 28 Robot Architectures (page787) Function Based Architecture: Task Planning and Learning Map based Navigation Vision Inferencing Sensors and Actuators Problem: low level action takes too long to reason about! 29 Behavior-based Robotics (page 788) Rodney Brooks designed behavior-based robotics Agent design should not be function based (I.e., should not be based on learning, task planning, sensing, etc). 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''Do you think it's too much?'' asks Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), looking around at the house he's stacked with flowers in anticipation of his reunion with Daisy (Carey Mulligan), his long-lost love. Gatsby's friend, Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire), gives the only possible reply: ''It's what you want.''
Likewise, this version of The Great Gatsby is clearly the film its director, Baz Luhrmann, wanted to make, even if it satisfies neither as cinema nor as an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's subtle, ambiguous novel.
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Baz Luhrmann's lavish 3D take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novella in which a mid-western war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbour.
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The most madly aspirational of Australian cineastes, Luhrmann evidently sees himself as a kindred spirit to Gatsby, managing his career according to a similar principle of excess. Rarely does he use one shot where 10 will do; his camera is constantly in motion, tracking rapidly towards and away from his actors (who are arranged like bunches of flowers, facing the camera in symmetrical groups).
The film is in 3D because – well, why not? Flashbacks and slow-motion inserts are common. The soundtrack combines period jazz with Kanye West and Jay-Z. Motoring scenes show off an elaborate digital re-creation of 1920s New York, intermittently reduced to a radiant blur.
In the book, Gatsby slips quietly onto the page; on screen, his arrival is heralded with a trumpet fanfare and a fireworks display. As for the flickering green light that famously symbolises his yearning for Daisy, it might as well be a neon sign advertising an emporium of impossible dreams.
For all this, Luhrmann and his co-writer, Craig Pearce, stick closely to Fitzgerald's cunningly constructed plot. Gatsby, a self-made millionaire of dubious reputation, becomes a figure of legend as the host of extravagant parties at his mansion just outside New York.
Privately he thinks only of Daisy, the well-born girl he gave his heart to during the war. In both book and film Gatsby is seen through the eyes of Nick, a bond trader living modestly next door and, as it happens, a cousin of Daisy, who's now married to the oafish Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton).
At its core it's a romantic, even melodramatic, tale – and that's certainly what we get from Luhrmann, who approaches the material with none of Fitzgerald's ironic distance. Nick, originally conceived as a debonair observer, is portrayed as a goggle-eyed naif entranced by Gatsby's glamour (Maguire could hardly be worse if he'd tried).
Mulligan is less miscast than doomed by the film's sentimentalised view of Daisy: one of the book's key lines – ''Her voice is full of money'' – is tellingly left out, though her melodious coo isn't so far from the description.
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This is a set of two replacement CVA bones from Team Associated. These CVA bones connect to the front axles, and lock into the differential out drive cups.
This product was added to our catalog on December 5, 2007.