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Delaware State Lottery Evaluating Option to Sell both Mega Millions and Powerball® Games. Two Game Groups Will Join to Develop Concept for a Future Combined High-Jackpot Game
Dover, DE --The Delaware Lottery responded today to significant news in the gaming industry as the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) and the Mega Millions Consortium cleared the way for development of a future game that may be offered in a combined 42 states, Washington D.C., and the US Virgin Islands. In the interim, and as part of the emerging arrangement, all of the combined member lotteries have been offered the option to sell both of the high-jackpot games, Powerball® and Mega Millions, side-by-side in retail locations.
"While many of the technical details and costs to our individual state are yet to be known, we will be looking very carefully at the near term option of selling both games. Our job will be to determine whether selling the two similar games would be both profitable and convenient to our Delaware players," said Delaware Lottery Director Wayne Lemons. "The additional prospect of selling a combined single game at a later date seems favorable, and we will begin communicating with our network of retailers and customers immediately to identify preferences and to develop a successful strategy that will benefit both the public convenience and increase revenues that support state services," added Lemons.
Prior to the announcement, the Mega Millions consortium and MUSL conducted several joint meetings to discuss the potential of cross-selling and combining the popular games into a single game offering larger jackpots and more prizes. On Oct. 7 the two groups reached an agreement in principle and have since begun identifying the process steps for an implementation that may be completed in early 2010. At the same time, the conceptual work of designing a single game to be available in all states offering lottery sales began, with an anticipated game launch date tentatively established for late fall 2010.
States that currently sell Powerball and other lottery products will have the opportunity to begin offering Mega Millions tickets to their players via authorized lottery retailers, pending the approval of each jurisdiction's governing body. In addition, states offering the Mega Millions game may choose to undergo any required authorization process enabling the sale of the Powerball game as a complement their existing game mix. The 12 Mega Millions states sold more than $2.5 billion in tickets last fiscal year, while the 33 Powerball jurisdictions sold $2.1 billion in tickets.
Powerball offers $1 tickets for Wednesday night and Saturday night drawings,
with players picking five numbers between 1 and 59, and an additional
Powerball number from 1 to 39. Jackpots begin at $20 million for the annuity
option and set prize levels range from $3 to $200,000, which may be multiplied
to a $1 million prize for players selecting the Power Play multiplier
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Published: April 9, 2009 at 12:24 PMEverything I've heard and seen the parks have been packed. Not necessarily more than previous years, but generally around the same. It seems that people are continuing on with their vacation plans despite our weak economic times. I think more and more people are planning well in advance to help offset some of those costs.
We go in June for 10 days and I'm anxious to see what the attendance is like. It was packed when we went before and I'm expecting much of the same. Just gotta take advantage of getting there early, using those FastPasses, Express Passes and Quick Queue passes at other parks, which isn't anything new for us as we always try to maximize our time on vacation.
Glad to see that parks are still doing strong.
Published: April 9, 2009 at 12:44 PMI went to Epcot on Tuesday. The park was the busiest I have ever seen! I tried doing your Epcot 4 hour tour, but failed honorably. Mission: Space had a 65 min wait by 9:30 AM, and Soarin had a wait of at least 2 hours all day, and a 3 hour wait as we were leaving at 8:30 PM.
Published: April 9, 2009 at 12:52 PMI am sitting in my office located in a construction trailer right next to Aquatica.
The sign at the park's entrance announces the park is currently at capacity. The family tube ride looks like it is not operating. The line to the tower for the twisty, colorful. multi-slide attraction is all the way down to the bottom of the stairs.
Orlando is ROCKIN'!
Published: April 9, 2009 at 1:09 PMI-4 past Disney is solid everyday at lunch for the past week
Published: April 9, 2009 at 3:48 PMI drove past the parking lot for Busch Gardens Tampa on wednesday at about 2pm and by then the standard parking lot and the normal overflow parking lots were both filled to capacity, the park was directing cars to a secondary overflow parking lot past Adventure Island waterpark.
Published: April 9, 2009 at 3:58 PMReporting Live From My Orlando Hotel Room:
Published: April 9, 2009 at 4:22 PMJust left Orlando: Hollywood Studios on Tuesday was a nightname with 2 hour waits for Toy Story (go early for this one). Crowds were so big that the park was not enjoyable. Animal Kingdom was crowed on Saturday however it was very manageable. Waited 3 hours for Soarin at Epcot on Wednesday, got in line arond 2:10pm left ride after 3:00pm. Good ride but not worth the wait. Magic Kingdom also was crowded on Wednesday but was able to ride most rides before 9:30 because we got there so early. Went to Epcot and then back to Magic Kingdom around 9:00pm and was able to ride everything but Space Mountain. My advice - be there waiting on them to open the gates and then go back to the room and sleep and visit later in the day when the families with small kids leave. Good luck.
Published: April 9, 2009 at 4:49 PMJust an FYI - crowd expectations for May at WDW are way up as well. Generally early May is a good time to travel to the world, but not this year. Expect crowds just slightly smaller than peak summer time.
All those big discounts sure seem to be paying dividends now.
Published: April 9, 2009 at 5:40 PMUpdate on TH's post:
The Peter Pan line has now reached my home in Kingston, Ontario. Disney is currently collaborating with MIT and NASA to get an approximate wait time. The next available FastPass return time is between 10:05 AM and 11:05 AM Tuesday March 9, 2010.
Published: April 11, 2009 at 3:46 PMI spent from April 3-9 in Disney Saratoga Springs> The parks were ok the firts few days, but worse than ever the last days of our stay. Getting to the parks early, and staying late was the only way to get to top attractions. It is amazing how Space Mountain continues to pack them in after 34 years...Even with the Magic Kingdom open every night this week till 1AM thre are 30 minute lines for it at 12:30!! Sorin at EPCOT is the longest line for an experience that is a tad better than an IMAX film...but certainly not worth the wait. There were two days with rather cold weather (Tuesday and half of Wed) that explains why the water parks were empty and the dry parks FULL> i did not get the impression we are going through the worse economic crisi since the great depression...far from it!
Published: April 12, 2009 at 7:54 AMDisney always gets their line times wrong. Usually if Soarin says there is a 90 min wait, that really means its a 110 min wait. However rides like Test Track will say 60 min wait, but yet its only 45-50 mins. Heck the single rider line at Test Track could say 20 mins, but that really only means 10 mins.
Published: April 12, 2009 at 5:51 PMThe lines were definitely incredible the week of 4/3/09-4/11/09. As experienced Disney travelers, we had difficulties doing all that we wanted even with extra magic. It would be interesting to see statistics related to capacity days for the past few years. Easter overlaps with other spring breaks definitely increase the numbers. We for sure will make alternate plans the next time this happens for us.
Published: April 14, 2009 at 7:16 AMI took my family to Disney World Orlando for our first trip 4/3 - 4/10, and it was the most exhausting vacation of my life. It was hard to walk without stepping on a person! I was told by several veterans that the crowds were the biggest they had ever seen. On the 8th, the Magic Kingdom crowd was 7,000 over capacity, and they started turning people away. (This was told to me by an employee.) We did all 4 parks in 4 days, then slept til noon on Wednesday :) We will never do Disney again at Spring Break. The only thing that saved us from completely unraveling was the fact that it was my son's birthday, so we used the fast passes at Magic Kingdom on the 7th. We were able to use the bday fastpasses to ride space mountain 2x, when there were no fast passes left (yay!) That was the only park that had any worthwhile rides with fast passes available. After our day off, we did Epcott again, and saw the World Showcase--amazing! Disney is definitely awesome, just wish we had done it a different time of the year.
Published: April 14, 2009 at 5:54 PMWe also went for our first time, during this awful week of the 4-11th of April. My wife and I describe it as waiting to go into a large concert, going through the gates, and then turning around and leaving the stadium, again and again all day. This was just getting from one place to another. I can't say I'll ever return- however, and this is what makes Disney special, the kids had a ball. They didn't even notice or care.... But it was a tremendous strain on the parents.
Published: April 14, 2009 at 8:40 PMDam, i rarely go anywhere and figured this would be a good year for Disneyworld etc. I already have to battle claustrophobia to get on the rides, long lines makes it worse. I hope things calm down around there by April 28. Any updates on the crowds? Thanks.

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The Canes hosted their Pro Day on Friday in front of over 30 NFL scouts. Kenny Phillips, Calais Campbell, Tavares Gooden, Darnell Jenkins, Kyle Wright, Glenn Sharpe, Vegas Franklin, Teraz McCray, Andrew Bain, Derrick Morse, John Rochford, Grant Brown, Ross Abramson, Willie Cooper, and Lance Leggett all participated.
The Canes hosted their Pro Day on Friday in front of over 30 NFL scouts. Kenny Phillips, Calais Campbell, Tavares Gooden, Darnell Jenkins, Kyle Wright, Glenn Sharpe, Vegas Franklin, Teraz McCray, Andrew Bain, Derrick Morse, John Rochford, Grant Brown, Ross Abramson, Willie Cooper, and Lance Leggett all participated.
Safety Kenny Phillips only participated in defensive back drills, because Drew Rosenhaus thought it was better if he did not participate. He shined in defensive back drills and had a group of scouts praising him after the drills. He showed great lateral quickness and footwork throughout the drills.
Defensive end Calais Campbell looked sluggish in his speed drills, as he is sill adjusting to some added weight from the end of the season. He had a 29 ½ inch vertical, which was 5 inches improved from his Combine workout. He mentioned that teams were very impressed with his interviews and work ethic.
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Quarterback Kyle Wright continued to shine in his postseason workouts, as he had another impressive display. Wright had great accuracy and touch on his throws throughout the day. He talked about how several teams have informed him that they will be attending his private workout in California . San Diego head coach Norv Turner, and Minnesota head coach Brad Chilldress praised him about his performance at the NFL Combine. He also ran in the 4.6 range in the 40 today, which was improved from his 4.8 at the Combine.
Linebacker Tavares Gooden was also very impressive today as he ran a 4.46 and a 4.50 in the 40 yard dash. He also had a 39 ½ inch vertical leap. Gooden is also nursing some injuries, which had slowed him down the last couple of days. He showed today how special of an athlete he is, and should be picked in the top three rounds.
Offensive lineman Derrick Morse had a solid day and has caught scouts' attention as a 7th rounder/undrafted free agent. He ran a 5.2 in the 40 today and had 24 reps in the bench press. He talked about just getting an opportunity to participate in a training camp. He also downplayed the importance of these kind of drills in evaluating football players.
Wide receiver Darnell Jenkins also did not so these drills as a good indication of football skills. He improved his 40 times to a 4.5 and 4..46 today and was solid in pass catching drills. He said scouts have been impressed with his toughness and game speed. He is a candidate to be selected in the 6th or 7th round.
Defensive end Vegas Franklin and cornerback Glenn Sharpe were two other Hurricanes that stood out. Sharpe ran a 4.6 in his first attempt at the 40, but bounced back with a 4.46. He showed great athleticism in drills, but he was hampered by a leg injury at times. The reality is his health concerns and going to affect his ability to get a legitimate opportunity. He has just not been able to stay healthy throughout his career.
Antrel Rolle, Tanard Davis, Jonathan Vilma, Lamar Thomas and several current Hurricanes were in attendance. Despite suffering through a 5-7 campaign last season, Miami continues to have the NFL's attention when it comes to prospects. The Canes should have four to five players selected in the draft and have several others invited to camps.
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The AnandTech Linux XBOX PC Experimentby Kristopher Kubicki on 11/10/2004 4:00 PM EST
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TimPope - Thursday, May 12, 2005 - linknot bad information but i would have liked to see some kind of real world performance using openmosix.. a single x box on its own as a pc is slow but stick 2-4 together using open mosix could make a reasonably good machine and still be pretty cheap Reply
Halz - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkThe rule followed in the article for the -j option, "number of proccessors + 1", overlooked the logical proccessors of the Xeon's Hyperthreading.. -j should have then been something around 5 instead of 3 Reply
Halz - Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - linkSimply compiling on the Opteron and Xeon with the same number of threads as the full cluster would have illustraighted a difference.
More testing should have gone into finding how many threads was the ideal number for the given platforms. Reply
artifex - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - linkAikouka, can't you just use one of those "HD Loader" type programs WITHOUT a modchip?
I'd be all for modding my PS/2 if I thought I could actually do something useful with it, like stream audio/video from a PC or a ReplayTV or something. Reply
KristopherKubicki - Saturday, November 13, 2004 - linkHalz: what should it have been?
Kristopher Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link23, yes, you can still do just about anything. I know with the software mod that I use, I've been having problems getting the original MS Dash to load up, but I've gotten around that using other programs for the original dashboard's functionality (dvd etc).
You know, you can also replace the HDD with just a software mod, and it's not that hard. So, if you don't want to hardware mod and want more space, you can still put in a bigger HDD. As much as some people don't like the XBOX, in my opinion, it's probably the best console to mod.
24, 2) Modchips also allow hdd loading if you have the PS2 HDD (using HDDLoader.) Also, it lets the warez'ers download and play games on the PS2 that they don't really own. Reply
artifex - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link1) what we really need is a usb-based tv tuner that actually works. That would be excellent for adding functionality both to XBoxen as cheap PVRs (though I'd still just use XBMC to stream from my ReplayTV, most of the time), but also would be great for iMacs. I'm sure if someone came up with a decent open architecture design, the community would come up with drivers for both types of systems.
2) what are modchips for PS2s useful for, other than playing import games? Especially with the new PS2s having no drive (is there still a header on the new board style to add one back?)
3) did I miss the obligatory dnetc test? You gotta do that, you know. Reply
Booty - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkI don't even own an Xbox, but reading this article has me reaching for my wallet...
But first, I want to get this straight - I can mod the Xbox and still use XLink, right? I doubt I'd get a Live subscription anyway, but it'd be nice to have that option possible.
Ideally I'd like to throw a bigger hard drive in there and then run XBMC, without losing the normal XBox capabilities.
So if I can do that, I'm goin' to the store this weekend... :) Reply
Halz - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkThe compile options for the Opteron and Xeon were starving the CPUs; the number of jobs (-j) was no where near optimal. Reply
Halz - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkReply
Nepsir - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkI was just wondering if you will do a test with mental ray on the cluster (I think you mentioned something about Mental Ray in the article). It would be really interesting to see the results of that since me and a couple of friends got modded X-Boxes and I have a 3dsMax6 license (Mental Ray is included). Reply
gibson042 - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkYou might want to look at the "mini-cluster" project (http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/) when planning/designing/building your EPIA cluster. It's a 12-node (originally 6) cluster developed by Glen Gardner, and appears to be the same size or a little smaller than a stack of an equal number of XBOXes. Of course, the frame is custom built and the hardware is exposed to the world. Reply
Aikouka - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkI can say that I love having a modded xbox, because the capabilities are so much greater. As discussed earlier, a software mod can be a great way to do it (although it usually requires a game unless you want to take your HDD out, which is NOT a fun method unless you love swapping IDE cables.)
It's also good to note that you should be careful when modding these or even make a backup of the hdd on your system, because things can go wrong, and if you like to fiddle with things, then your chances will be a lot higher. I know at one point I was stuck in error 16 and had to pull the HDD out and unlock it using the IDE swap method.
Are there plans for an article on modding something such as the PS2? I just recently tried a no-solder modchip in the PS2, and it doesn't seem to be going along too well. Maybe it's time for a flip-top. Reply
Scarceas - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - link"We crimped our own cabling as you can see in the image below."
I'm still looking for the image, I know its there somewhere! Reply
bleugh - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkIf anyone wants their xbox motherboards upgraded to 128 megabytes of memory, I can do it
I'm UK based and use BRAND NEW samsung memory chips
I can upgrade your existing motherboards, sell you ready upgraded boards, or even just the chips!
if one of the anandtech team wants their xboxes upgraded i'll happily do it at cost, please contact me to discuss
Dean Reply
LotoBak - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkFirst, XBox live banning....
Basically this is how it used to work. When your on live it does a hash of your bios. A mod replaces your bios. If you bios is not the retail ms bios the serial (eeprom) is blacklisted. NOW since halo2 has been released it appears that MS has changed a while bunch of shit on us. Preliminary information indicates that MS is banning by hard drive serial+model numbers, xbox serial, and flagging the gamertag as 'potential pirate'. Thus to unban the xbox both a new hdd and eeprom are needed. Then you must cancel and create a new xbox live account. There are more details about how it all works but bottom line is we dont know how it works now. They can throw new stuff at us anytime now. Rumors are flying that hdd capacities are being scanned as well. For all intents and perposes xbox + modded xbox's do not mix.
Yes there is a PS1 emu for xbox. That said xbox DVD drives do not read cd-r (or retail ps1 games) Therefor all games must be transfered to the xbox hdd in bin/cue or iso format
When comparing mods remember, the mod contains no modded bios stuff. They are useless in them selves. You will need to aquire a modded bios for your xbox (online, free). What this means is that every mod can contain the same bios's. Therefor they all contain the same base features (mostly booting unsigned code). Hardware features and support is where you want to base your decision on. If you want cheap + no manufacterer support there are 10$ solutions around for you(enabled/disables with power button). If you want support with a mod with a few extra hardware features (2 bios's, external switch) that'll cost around 30-40. Fancy Shamcy lcd support, 8 bios banks, blah blah blah fancy external thing thoes are up to 75ish. But in the end they all allow you to run the same software on the xbox.
if you want to learn read some beginner tutorials at http://tutorials.xbox-scene.com Reply
Omega215D - Thursday, November 11, 2004 - linkAfter seeing Halo 2, it makes me wonder if they really need Pixel Shader 2.0. Its pretty cool that I can play old games on the XBOx through emulators though but i wanna see when the next XBOX kicks off before spending $200. Reply
ViRGE - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - link#12, probably not. The Xbox's GPU is a GeForce 4 class GPU - the lack of Pixel Shader 2.0 features can really be limiting. Reply
euph - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkis there any way to use the gpu for the pov-ray rendering? Reply
ukDave - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkLittle quote that sums up the SmartXX XBL saga:
Q: just bought a Smart XX mod and I still don't know if i'll be able to play xbox live so please somebody tell me if i'll be able to play it.
A: There is no easy way to answer this question. First of all, it all depends on circumstance. Have you upgraded your hard drive? Has your Xbox ever been banned before? And, for newbs, are you thinking about playing on live while using a bios from the chip.
If you answered yes to any of these questions you've won a lifetime ban from Microsoft!
Sleep time :) And i don't even use XBL :D Reply
ukDave - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkYes the xbox has a PS1 emulator, only one that i know of. Its called "PCSXbox". Good place for emulator info: http://xport.xbox-scene.com/ , obviosuly a subsection of xbox-scene.
And before anyone asks, no there are none for the PS2 (nor will there ever be). Reply
ukDave - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkI'm not 100% sure about the SmartXX, as i have the well known Xecuter 2.3b chip which has DIP switches mountable on the outsode of the xbox so that youc an disable it in order to play X-Box live and whatnot.
From what i've just read over on the forums at xbox-scene, SmartXX is fully X-BoX Live compliant. You simply (as you say Kris) boot back into the MS BIOS. This can be done by turning the xbox on by pressing the EJECT button. To enable the modchip, turn on with the POWER button. (source: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=3...
SmartXX section of the forums: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showforum=6... Reply
ksherman - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - link#3, you said there is mulators for n64 and down. Is there an emulator for PSone games? would love to be able to play FF7 again Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkJeff7181: I think with the SmartXX chip you can actually boot back into the normal MS BIOS and have no problems with X-Link and such. If you install Linux on the last 2 unpartitioned GB of your 10GB drive, your XBOX should basically have no idea that the machine is modded at all.
LotoBak, ukDave, am I correct on that statement?
Kristopher Reply
ukDave - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkOh and Jeff, i believe many mod chips have the facility to simply turn them off with a flick of a switch, so you can continue to use XBOX Live. But as LotoBak says, there is the free X-Link service available too. Reply
ukDave - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkhttp://www.xbox-scene.com is really the only place to go for XBOX related discussion, tutorials, really anything you need to know that isn't covered in this article.
I bought a bodged XBOX mod from someone in the UK, got it professionally fixed and re-modded. It now has a 120GB disk for all my games, its connected to my LAN. With the excellent XBMC i can play literally any media file from any PC over the network, be it standard files such as MP3's or AVI's, or images such as .bins/cue's.
Well worth looking into if you have an XBOX that is currently un-modded.
Also, /me wants 8 XBOX's :D Although, those 'leccy costs, eek! Reply
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkI've been thinking about modding mine to use to play video over the network... but I don't want to lose normal Xbox (and Xbox Live) functionality. Wish that was covered here, but I guess it's not really a "mod your Xbox" article as much as it's a "mod an Xbox to make a cheap PC" article. Reply
LotoBak - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkNice guys... besides your linking problem
Knowing a little more about the xbox scene a few things your might consider...
1) Mods go for as cheap as 10USD retail.
2) Software exploiting the xbox is always an option which results in a 'free' modchip
3) http://tutorials.xbox-scene.com to learn about most anything
4) XBMC dvd menu support is comming!
5) XBMC irc channel on irc.efnet.info #xbmc
6) Online gaming is free through Xlink www.teamxlink.com
7) Emulators for n64 and 'down' are available
8) This is the cheapest htpc with 480p 720 and 1080i available
9) xbmc supports many formats
Audio : wav, aac, ac3, mp3, flac, ra, vorbis
Video : ogg avi mkv rm, mov containers
Codec : xivd, divx, mpeg2, mpeg1, quicktime, realvideo and realaudio (limited) and many others. The video engine is based apon mplayer open source project
Networking :
Shares :Supports ccx, samba (windows file sharing), and replaytv shares.
Streaming : Supports a multitude of video and audio streaming formats. webradio is included which has a 'channel' browser for online shoutcast streams. There is also a apple movie trailer browser.
Scripting :
XBMC has python scripting language implimented so its open to many possibilities
XBMC does have some rough edges but it is maturing quickly. If you are interested in contributing to the project check out www.xboxmediacenter.com and the 'XBMC' project on sourceforge
Feel free to ask questions about xbox stuff here... ill watch it for a while Reply
Marlin1975 - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2271... Reply
Marlin1975 - Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - linkPage 6 has HOME instead of page 7 link Reply


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Well, first take a look at this Microsoft Support document to see if it helps explain how to do it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326536
If that doesn't work the way you are hoping, you will need to write a VBA function that will not use the default numbering function, but instead place a number variable at the bottom of each page in your document. That variable would start with 1, and increment by 2 for each page. If that's the route you are hoping for, let me know how much experience you might have with writing VBA code.
If you're not using MS Word, but a different part of Office, please tell me which program you are using.
I did use Microsoft support and did not get the results I was seeking. I'm not familiar with VBA codes. I simply want each chapter to start on an odd page number. It must be an easy way because one see it all the time when reading books.
Are you using MS Word?
Did you see my question?
We appear to be having problems with the chat system. If you see this, refresh the page in about 30 sseconds while I switch to a Q&A format.
Yes, there seem to be a disconnect. I am using Word 2007.
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Can't reconnect......need to finish session to be satisfied. Why aren't you emailing me since we were disconnected? Tried to refresh several times.
Sorry for the "Poor" rating....I was actually trying to reconnect with you since we were disconnected. Nothing was working so I tried rating with a response......didn't mean for it to be a bad reflection on you. I will definitely change the rating.
It's 3:00 am here. I will check for your response in the morning.
Thanks for your help!
Following the help of MSWord about formula field and this forum post about field typing under MSWord, you can type the following:
Whenever you see curly brackets, type Ctrl+F9 to insert them instead of typing them, else it won't work properly. It is mentioned only as a tip in the Word help also.
You can insert this one as a footer if you want to; inside the page, don't forget to press F9 to update the field values
If it's too much for you, let me know and I'll see what I can do to make it easier to follow.
Thanks J,
The formula is fine but I am not trying to have odd numbers only. I have fourteen chapters in the book. I need each chapter to start on an odd page number.
First of all Chapter 1 would not start with page 1. In this instance it would start with page 11 due to the pages before such as title pages, copyright, dedication, acknowledgment, introduction, and TOC. Chapter 1 has 22 pages, therefore it ends on page 32 and Chapter 2 starts on 33...which is exactly what I want. The page number format is simply "start numbering at page 11". Maybe this is the problem. Maybe I should format it using "Different Odd and Even Pages". Can we test that? If so, I will need your help.
That was my original question...I see in books all the time that Chapters start with odd numbers but how to make that happen, I don't know. I will view the videos now.
The first link you sent I wasn't able to hear anything and it was to small to read once I opened it. The second link is exactly what I used in my document.


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Tom Shadyac Consults A Magic 8 Ball
A new comedy? Outlook good
Tom Shadyac, the man who brought us Bruce Almighty – and is currently working on follow-up Evan Almighty – has teamed with Universal to buy another script.
Magic 8 Ball – which has no plotline available beyond the fact that it concerns the fortune-telling toy – was written by Barry Blaustein and Jason Heffer.
If the comedy develops into something he likes the look of, Shadyac plans to direct it. Right now, though, he's too busy controlling Steve Carrell's massive Evan beard.


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Omar Cummings scored in the 58th minute to help lead the Colorado Rapids to a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Fire on Sunday night.
The teams exchanged scoring chances for much of the game until Cummings found himself alone in the slot. Brian Mullan set up Cummings' second goal of the year. Cummings has six goals in seven games in his career against Chicago.
Kamani Hill added a goal in added time at the end of the game
Matt Pickens earned his second shutout of the year and his 23rd as a member of the Rapids (3-1-0). He trails only Joe Cannon (25) for the career franchise lead.
Pablo Tornaghi had a strong game in goal for the Fire (1-2-1). Tornaghi has given up four goals in three games.
Dominic Oduro, who has scored the team's only goals this season, was denied three times by Pickens.
The road team has won only once in the last 15 games in the season series, and this is the only meeting between the teams this year.
The game was scoreless at the break in a half that began when Pickens smothered a rocket shot from the slot by Marco Pappa in the second minute for Chicago. Tornaghi matched it with a diving stop of a shot by Tony Cascio in the 11th minute.
Pappa set up Oduro for a breakaway attempt in the 37th minute. Pickens came well out of the crease to jump on Oduro's shot. Pickens caught a shot that deflected off several players huddled in front of the net in the 42nd minute.
Colorado failed to convert on a penalty kick from short range after Jeff Larentowicz was fouled. But Martin Rivero's free kick sailed well over the cross bar in the 55th minute.
Three minutes later, Colorado had a 1-0 lead.
Rivero dumped a pass deep into the Chicago zone. Mullan ran the ball down and fed Cummings in the slot, and Cummings sent a shot past Tornaghi.
Pickens kept Chicago off the scoreboard in the 68th minute. Oduro peppered him with two hard shots 15 seconds apart that Pickens blocked with both hands.


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HSBC Holdings' $US7.4 billion sale of its stake in Ping An Insurance to Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont has been cleared by regulators, helping Europe's largest bank by market value revive earnings. Dhanin's Charoen Pokphand Group and HSBC said payment was made in cash after the China Insurance Regulatory Commission approved the sale of 976.1 million Hong Kong-traded shares in the nation's second-largest insurer, ending six weeks of speculation over the deal's fate. Bloomberg
A Vietnamese court sentenced 22 members of an outlawed Buddhist sect to lengthy prison terms for attempting to overthrow the Communist government, in one of the largest such trials in years. Lawyer Nguyen Huong Que said group leader Phan Van Thu was sentenced to life in prison while 21 others, including his son, were jailed for between 10 and 17 years by the People's Court in central province of Phu Yen at the end of the week-long trial.AP
Iran considers an offer to negotiate directly with the United States over its nuclear program as a "step forward" and expects to resume meetings with world powers later this month, the Persian Gulf nation's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said. Talks to defuse tension over Iran's nuclear work will be held in Kazakhstan Feb. 25, Salehi said.The US will offer bilateral negotiations if the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is prepared for "serious" discussions, US Vice-President
Baidu Inc.'s travel-booking website, China's biggest, expects to double sales this year to about 1 billion yuan ($US160 million) helped by an expanding middle class and rising use of its mobile application. Qunar.com Inc. may generate 20 percent of bookings via wireless devices this year, compared with less than 15 percent last year. Bloomberg
The Japanese coastguard says two Chinese government ships entered waters around Tokyo-controlled islands that Beijing claims as its own. The maritime surveillance boats arrived in the waters around what Japan calls the Senkakus and China calls the Diaoyus yesterday. Japanese Prime Minister
The former head of Iran's central bank, Tahmasb Mazaheri, has been found in possession of a cheque worth €54 million ($71 million) by German authorities, Bild am Sonntag reports. Mr Mazaheri, in charge of the central bank until 2008, was searched by customs officers at Dusseldorf airport on January 21 after arriving aboard a flight from Turkey. The cheque, with a value of 300 million Venezuelan bolivars, was confiscated from his hand luggage, according to the report.
Millions of Cubans have voted for parliamentary candidates in elections that critics say are closed and offer no real competition, but that the government defends as part of grass-roots democracy. The elected unicameral legislature will convene on February 24 and pick a new parliament chief for the first time in two decades, with the body's long-time leader, Ricardo Alarcon, not on the ballot. The body is also expected to rename Raul Castro, whom state TV showed casting his ballot in the eastern province of Santiago on Sunday, as president for another five years.AFP
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View from the Beach©
Materia Medica The Goan Forum©
Monday, November 25, 2002
Religious Intolerance in India: History is replete with examples of great civilizations which have been destroyed by the misutilization of religion and religious fervour towards political ends.
Time to take notice: The leaders of the RSS and Bajrang Dal make no bones about the fact that they are the defenders of the faith and will do whatever it takes to ensure that the people "keep the faith".
Why I walked to work: I wonder whether the 'Government of India' has any plans to fight the terrorists within its institutional folds or do they feel that they can guard every temple, car or public place from future 'revenge bombers/terrorists'.
The Travesty at Anjediva! Despite pleadings from Church and Heritage groups, one of the oldest Roman Catholic Churches in the East, is set for desecration by the Indian Navy!
The Siddis of India: Mainly sold by Arab traders as slaves to Indian Princes, some bought by Portuguese colonialists and transported from Africa to Goa as slaves, the descendants of these hapless people remain at the very fringes of Indian society.
Afro-Indian Caribbean conflicts: The East Indian people of Guyana were discriminated against during the regime of President Forbes Burnham. However, Afro-Caribbean people claim that Indians routinely discriminate against them. The fact is that West Indians of African as well as East Indian ancestry are prejudiced against each other; their overt togetherness notwithstanding.
Hinduism's Political Resurgence : India has changed fast after Hindu nationalist rage in 1992 led a crowd of Hindu men to demolish a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya.
India should make the Conversion activities by Christian Missionaries an offence: If a Christian missionary, whilst propagating his own religion, comes to me and calls me a sinner, he is denigrating my own religion and my own belief.
Growing up & Tolerance in a civilized society: The justification of violence because one's religious beliefs are denigrated, cannot be tolerated in a civilized society.
Jesuits in saffron and Sanskrit? Any attempt to pervert it, or to give a wrong rendering of the historical events, will be resisted not only by the Hindus (courtesy Gomantak Times).
Hypocrisy!: A response to the Ashok Chowgule article (above) : One thing that unites all religious fundamentalists and fanatics, is hypocrisy.
Hypocritical Pakistani Hindu & Christian view: Pakistani Christian & Hindu organizations indulge in anti-Indian diatribe merely to appease the Muslim majority.
Don't cry for us, Pakistani Christians: We can take care of ourselves.
The Catholic Church in a Lurch : A few sick & unscrupulous individuals masquerading as priests, rock the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church fights back : After the recent tribulations the Catholic Church has effectively repulsed the well choreographed attack on its very foundation.
Falsely accused Catholic priest cleared of charges : And you wont find much comment about this piece of news!!
The challenges a Catholic faces in India : The recent rise of Hindu Fundamentalism, and the shocking infiltration of the Catholic clergy by sexual predators has seriously disturbed Indian Catholics.
A Catholic's view of Hindus : 'Would you prefer a dishonest and hence nominal Christian over an honest Hindu or Muslim or Sikh......and vice-versa?'
Christian Missionary activities: a Hindu Perspective : Right Wing Hindus associate Christianity with the intolerance of science, the killing of women suspected of being witches, the crusades and the of victims in the Goa Inquisition.
A Hindu view of Muslims : India's Prime Minister Vajpayee claims that Muslims don't want to live in harmony.
Indians killing Indians: There will never be an end to Indians killing other Indians as we saw in Gujarat. Not as long as we let ourselves think of such massacres as "old and outdated subjects." Not as long as criminals are passed off as patriots. (courtesy Rediff.com)
Christian Missionaries are like the Mafia:
Christianity has over the years been destructive of the cultural systems
of many countries; it is the most violent doctrine with its holy book,
the bible, is mainly a gospel of hate.
Not opposed to Conversion, only proselytizing:
I have never opposed voluntary conversions or conversions by conviction.
I am opposed to the proselytizing activities being carried out by the
Christian missionaries
Muslims, not Hindus destroyed Buddhism:
actual decline of Buddhism was largely due to the conquest of India by
the Mohammedans and not due to the intolerance of the Hindu Kings.
Portuguese Hindus commemorate 20 years: Sant Shri Morari Bapu and Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji arrive in Portugal to join in the festivities which mark the 20 years of this community in Portugal.
The place of women in Hindu society - a Sikh perspective : The birth of a female child was a sign of misfortune. So female infanticide came to be practised.
The Caste
System of India :
The Decline and fall of Buddhism : The reason why Buddhism was destroyed but Brahmanism survived, the massacre by Muslims must be understood.
Religious Extremism : They dig up graveyards of history to show how temples were demolished to make way for mosques. If they dig further, they would find scores of Stupas being demolished to build temples.
The Most Unholy Inquisition:
Terrorists come in various garbs and disguises : Like the VHP!
Viva Timor-Leste! : The brave East Timorese gain Independence but only after 200,000 of its people are killed by fighting, famine and disease that followed Indonesia's 1975 invasion and subsequent occupation.
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"It was definitely nice to get to pitch in front of my friends and family," Mitchell said. "But I didn't want to think too much about it and get all tied-up, I wanted to treat it like another day, another outing." Only it was not just another day, outing, or situation. It was the winner's bracket and a victory would put the Bulldogs in commanding regional position. So, why give a rookie righthander that responsibility? Particularly one with the added incentive of this coincidental Atlanta location?
"His last three outings have been outstanding," Coach John Cohen said. "And that's why we put the ball in his hands today."
Mitchell rewarded such faith with a superlative, literally, effort. He not only exceeded his previous long stint of six innings, done way back early in the season. Mitchell (6-1) simply controlled a Governors squad that had scored a Friday headline-grabbing upset by beating host Georgia Tech 2-1. Through his first eight full frames he scattered five APSU hits by stranding seven runners and striking out eight.
"Evan was locked-in tonight and did a super job in front of his home folks, and really he carried us through eight innings," said Cohen. "We only had to use two guys, and that's huge for tomorrow."
The second guy, reliever and fellow freshman Daryl Norris, was called on only after Mitchell loaded the bases without a hit in the ninth. All three of the free-passed batters eventually scored but Norris was able to finish out the evening eventually.
"The coaches wanted me to fill up the strike zone as much as I could and as early as I could," Mitchell said. "Not only with the fastball but the breaking ball, and the changeup a little to the lefties. They wanted to me work away from the lefties and get my two-seamer working away from the barrel. And stay ahead as much as I could."
Even better for the pitcher was after the bottom of the first inning he was pitching from ahead on the scoreboard. The Bulldog offense put up one run in their opening turn, and after stranding a bunch through three put together the game-sealing outburst. Mississippi State pushed seven across in the fourth inning for all the necessary scoring.
Those eight total scores were shared among three Governors pitchers, but it was starter Jeremy Dobbs accepting the loss. The lefthander has been APSU's ace all season, and the Ohio Valley Conference pitcher of the year, but had been held out of the Georgia Tech game on a gamble. It backfired as State got to him for the one early run and then piled it on in the pivotal fourth. By no coincidence, the same frame Dobbs (9-3) was chased.
It wasn't just taking five hits with three walks and two strikeouts that finished him. "He came up with a blister, and any time that happens to a power arm that makes it tough," said assistant coach Joel Mangrum. "But I'm proud of the way he battled through three and two-thirds."
Mitchell had some battling of his own early, with a pair reaching in his first turn on a walk and strikeout, and stranded both with his third strikeout of the inning. In the second, he had the tying runner on third base with just one out. Mitchell coaxed a chopper to the left side that 3B Jarrod Parks fielded and fired home so C Wes Thigpen could tag Reed Harper shy of the plate.
From there he retired seven of eight to protect the one-run margin provided in the first. CF C.T. Bradford singled his way on and with one out hit Parks, which gave the senior the program-record of 20 plunkings this season. 2B Nick Vickerson had to wait for the pitch as Dobbs looked back at second for a while, then delivered one he wished he hadn't. Because State's second sacker lined the fastball off the wall in right-centerfield for a double, scoring Bradford while Parks had to hold up at third base.
Dobbs did well to limit damage as bases were loaded before SS Jonathan Ogden flew out. But that was on the 34th pitch of just that first frame. He was at 50 by the end of State's second inning, then in the third loaded 'em up a second time for Ogden with two outs. On full-count the shortstop took one close-in and a bit up, but the strike was called anyway.
Three innings of relative offensive frustration were forgotten though after the Bulldogs blew it open in the fourth chance. Bradford had gone the other way for his first-inning single. This time he pulled a grounder all the way around, just inside the first base bag and on into the corner for a triple and RBI. After a visit from both his coach and a trainer, Dobbs served up something DH Cody Freeman could drive to leftfield for the sacrifice and 3-0 lead. On a 1-1 count Dobbs was excused for righty Chuck Edlin to finish walking Parks.
Vickerson drew a base-on-balls as well to give Shepherd the RBI opportunity. He cashed it in, albeit oddly as his hot hopper caromed off Edlin and to the right side for an infield hit. Parks was waved around and with a head-first slide got a hand on the plate before the tag came down. And when he popped up, his chest caught the catcher's helmet flush and left the backstop woozy. It also left APSU head coach Gary McClure upset enough to get thumbed on the collision call.
"He did everything he could to keep the runner from getting there," said APSU aide Mangrum said. "And we thought he did."
In the interim Mike Hebert took over on the hill and nailed Brownlee on the hip to load the bases for Ogden, again. This time he swung early and while the shortstop fielded going into the hole Brownlee reached the middle base, probably, before the force attempt. It went for an infield hit, RBI, and 5-0 lead. "I think Brent got me that RBI single beating that throw to second base," said Ogden. Given his second chance in the inning to hit Collins did, this time slashing a two-run double down the leftfield line. Thigpen made it a 8-0 score with his own single.
All the while Mitchell stayed warm tossing in foul ground. "It's definitely nice to get a good amount of cushion in front of you. But you don't want to cruise through it, you want to stay focused like you're up one or two runs." He worked that way, sitting nine of the next ten faced and ending the eighth with an Ogden double-play no less.
The MSU crowd welcomed Mitchell back for the ninth, and even wanted him to stay after putting a pair of pinch-batters on. When another walk loaded the bases he had to leave, with Norris summoned. The rookie righty couldn't save the shutout though as Jon Clinard hit a hard one-hop that first baseman Collins couldn't handle. Two scored on the error, then a third Governor came home on a pionch-single. Norris stopped any further comeback with consecutive strikeouts and a fly ball to rightfield.
"Our kids didn't panic, they put up a three spot and our kids did a nice job of finishing the game out," Cohen said. "Daryl came in and threw the ball in the strike zone and did what he needed to do for us.:
"I didn't want to get too big about it," Mitchell said. "I just wanted to get it over with quick. But I started walking people. I'm pretty happy but I wish I could have finished it off."
Regardless, the 2-0 Bulldog team had completed the key victory in any four-team regional. They advanced to Sunday's 7:00 title game where they await the survivor of an afternoon rematch between the Governors and Georgia Tech, both 1-1 now. The YellowJackets put Southern Mississippi out of the regional 6-2 to keep their tournament going. State can take the regional title by winning Sunday, or if necessary in a Monday evening all-or-nothing finale.
Naturally, the Diamond Dogs would rather seal this deal at the first Sunday chance. "We're definitely going to try to take it one to save our bodies. But we have a lot of confidence going into tomorrow's game and we take every game of the year one by one."
Cohen said pitching plans won't be finalized until the opponent is reasonably certain. "We'll lock down on the game tomorrow in front of us and do as good a job scouting whoever we're going to play. And it could be either one of them. We're going to wait to make a final decision. It could be Devin Jones, it could be Nick Routt, it could be Chris Stratton. We're just not 100% sure, we'll wait until that game unfolds."


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Idrees gets UCI warning for posing as PCF chief
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Earlier this year I interviewed Brooke Fisher Liu with the University of Maryland about her research around how people used social media during natural disasters. She broke it down as this:
During natural disasters people tend to use social media for four interrelated reasons: checking in with family and friends, obtaining emotional support and healing, determining disaster magnitude, and providing first-hand disaster accounts.
I was reflecting upon this interview and how much I saw these four scenarios during the recent Boulder flood, which many in the community are still suffering from the aftermath. The Boulder Flood provided the perfect way to look at how people use social media in natural disasters.
1) Checking in with family and friends
People were using social media to let their friends and loved ones know they were safe, what their current status was, and offering (or soliciting) help. Across the community, there were people offering help to those who needed it whether they be strangers or family. For myself, I tried posting daily updates on Facebook, so I could keep people up to date and then focus on figuring out cleanup.
Boulder folk, I'm a mom – please report in. @eatullis is out of town so need to know you are safe.
— Jay Tullis (@JayTullis) September 14, 2013
Anyone want to make some money ripping up carpet and cutting dry wall? It's fun!!! Contact me. #fb
— Peter McGraw (@PeterMcGraw) September 13, 2013
2) Obtaining emotional support and healing
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram provided enormous amounts of emotional support along with concrete offers of help. The hashtag #BoulderStrong offered great encouragement to those suffering losses.
3) Determining disaster magnitude
Many of the people following the #BoulderFlood hashtag were following some of the official accounts including the @dailycamera (Boulder newspaper), @mitchellbyar (reporter at the Daily Camera), @boulderoem (Boulder Office of Emergency Management), @bouldercounty. As a community we were looking to hear about our homes, our schools, our neighbors and how they fared. We were looking to understand just how damaged our community was and how long it took to recover. One of the more interesting aspects I saw was people focused on determining road closures. While Boulder OEM was publishing their reports, many people were determining how to get in and out of Boulder. I can't help but think how social data can represent more accurate information and real-time reporting than official sources.
For our latest road damage photos check out this album http://t.co/WKyjURYYKh #boulderflood
— BoulderCounty (@bouldercounty) September 16, 2013
RT @meltzere: .@BoulderOEM: Diagonal Hwy is still open, contrary to some reports. 'One of few roads out of town.' #boulderflood
— Mitchell Byars (@mitchellbyars) September 13, 2013
so, is US-36 passable from hwy-287, going west to Boulder? still closed? other known routes? #boulderflood — Tim Falls (@timfalls) September 13, 2013
Rescued today: 242 people, 100 dogs, 2 spider monkeys. Unaccounted for: 183 http://t.co/vhNWuSuaNZ via @AshaleyJill #boulderflood
— Daily Camera (@dailycamera) September 17, 2013
4) Providing first-hand disaster accounts
While newspapers shared collections of horrifying images of the damages happening among Boulder floods, we were looking to our contacts on social media for first-hand accounts too. We were using our networks on Twitter to confirm what we were hearing online or even what we thought we were seeing.
Rescue crew member told me "we can see all houses still standing [eg not wiped out] from Poorman to Canyon along Fourmile" despite road dmg
— Jud Valeski (@jvaleski) September 13, 2013
Does anyone have confirmation on whether we're hearing fireworks, exploding transformers or something else? #boulderflood
— Drew Frey (@FreyDrew) September 13, 2013
Scary. 5 blocks from us. RT @abuvthefold Ground zero of #boulderflood wrath. 190 arapahoe. Mouth of #boulder creek. pic.twitter.com/p7HRlVDY0D
— Grace Boyle (@gracekboyle) September 13, 2013
The end of my block. Road washed out, my intuition says that's a gas line being supported. Bonus, blue… http://t.co/U6ej261JEG — Denise DellaRocco (@eatplaylove) September 17, 2013
Our CTO Jud Valeski posted many shots of the flood on on his Instagram account that were picked up on the media. In fact, Michael Davidson at the Xconomy even wrote an article "Gnip Co-founder Jud Valeski on His Flood Shots Seen Around the World."
The one aspect that really seemed to be missing from Brooke Fisher Liu's research was the coordination that was taking across social media. People were offering to help strangers, organize cleanups, share tools, share bottled water and spare bedrooms, solicit donations, check on other people's houses and a thousand other ways. Resource sharing was one of the major ways that social media played a role in the Boulder flood.


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Earth Day
Print advertisment created by Asha, Oman for Ajit Khimji, within the category: Public Interest, NGO.
Creative Head: Bala Krishnan
Creative Director: Rahul Mathur
Highest Rated
Either this is absolute shite, or I am missing something extremely subtle and clever. Godawful typography, boring, pointless, meandering copy, and a light switch? Quit your day job.
just another boring public service ad. not inspiring. no new news. looks too much like One Show copy ads from the 80's.
i wonder if the copywriter should come up with more interesting execution or at least proof reads. ('havemade' from column 3 line 7).
i like it. yeah, i know im the odd one out. But this seemed simple and to the point to me.
~ old habits die hard, older ones never do ~
I support the Earth Day concept, so I do like this one. Just another step towards saving our planet.
The concept may be there, but the execution falls short. Way, way short.
A beautiful idea... Began well - but somehow lost steam midway, and I guess, concluded way too abruptly.
"A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself." - David Ogilvy
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K4Guitune is a program to tune a musical instrument using your computer and its microphone or line-in input. The pitch detection algorithm is based on finding the first peak in the autocorrelation of the input signal.
K4Guitune offers:
It's a port to KDE4 of K3Guitune.
The compilation from source requires the following libraries:
Checkout the latest stable release from the SVN repository
$ svn co svn://svn.gna.org/svn/qpitch/branches/k4guitune k4guitune
and then start the CMake-based build process
$ cd k4guitune $ mkdir build && cd build $ cmake .. $ make $ sudo make install $ k4guitune
The estimated pitch is displayed on a bar (1). The detected pitch is shown by two triangles (2), showing whether the estimated pitch is lower or higher than the correct one. When they are both shown, as in the current example, the note is perfectly in tune (error < 2.5 cents).
Detailed information about the pitch detection are shown on the left: the estimated frequency (3) is shown above and the estimated pitch (4) is shown below. The program doesn't require to select the note to tune manually, but it will be found automatically.
The waveform of the input signal is plotted over a time scale of 20 milliseconds (5). The autocorrelation of the signal is displayed (6), with a red bar showing the estimated frequency (7).
The tuner uses the default OSS audio device. The desired recording source and the signal recording levels can be adjusted using a sound mixer.