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Time Warner Cable has reorganized, migrating from the traditional MSO structure based on the geographic location of its constituent networks in favor of a structure based on its three main business categories: Residential Services, Business Services and Media Services.
The new organization serves the purpose of elevating the growing business services sector to a level of importance on par with residential services. A TWC spokesman said there would be no layoffs associated with the reorganization.
The restructuring led to a shuffling of executive assignments. The executive vice presidents (EVPs) of the three units will report to Rob Marcus, president and chief operating officer.
The company had previously divided operations into an East Region, run by EVP of operations Carol Hevey, and a West Region, managed by EVP of operations Bill Goetz. Hevey had previously announced her retirement effective at the end of this month.
Goetz will become EVP and chief operating officer of Residential Services. Reporting to Goetz will be Jeff Hirsch, who will become EVP and chief marketing and sales officer for the residential unit, and John Keib, who will assume the new role of EVP and chief care and technical operations officer.
Media Services had been run by EVP Joan Gillman, who will continue to head that operation as EVP and chief operating officer.
Gerry Campbell, the EVP who had been running the business services operation, plans to retire in June. He will continue to oversee the unit while the company conducts a search for a new EVP and chief operating officer for Business Services. Campbell, along with Business Services presidents Ken Fitzpatrick and Craig Collins, will report to Marcus in the interim.
Each of the business units will be supported by newly centralized Technology and Network Operations, Human Resources, and Finance and Communications groups, in addition to the already centralized Law, Government Relations, Programming, Strategy and New Business groups, the company said.
Technology and Network Operations will be headed by Mike LaJoie, who will serve as EVP and chief technology and network operations officer.
The Technology and Network Operations leadership team will include:
- Frank Boncimino, SVP and chief information officer
- Dave Flessas, SVP of network operations center and operations support
- Mike Hayashi, EVP of architecture, development and engineering
- Henry Hryckiewicz, SVP of business/residential field network engineering operations
- Jim Ludington, SVP of technology business operations
- James Manchester, SVP of applications operations
- Howard Pfeffer, SVP of broadband engineering and technology
- Matt Stanek, SVP of core, metro and regional network operations
- Matt Zelesko, SVP of converged technology group.
Kevin Leddy, previously Time Warner Cable's executive vice president of technology policy and product management, last week was promoted to EVP of corporate strategy [1].
"For the past several years, we've been evolving the organizational structure of the company to reflect changes in the composition of our business, in the competitive environment and in our customers' expectations," said Glenn Britt, chairman and chief executive officer at TWC. "Today, we are announcing the final step in our evolution from decentralized, geographic operating units to a more centralized structure with standardized operations."
"Significant changes in our business environment have created the need for significant changes in the way we organize our work," Marcus said. "To deliver our customer, employee and investor expectations, we need a company structure designed for the future – one company, aligned in its objectives from top to bottom. Our new structure will ensure consistency across our enterprise, streamline decision-making, accelerate product development and deployment, enable us to achieve functional excellence, and enhance the capability and reliability of our network. In addition, creating a separate management structure for Business Services reflects its increasing importance and positions us to fully capitalize on this significant growth opportunity."
[This article was edited to include information that there would be no layoffs associated with the re-org, and to include mention of Kevin Leddy's promotion.]
Time Warner Cable has reorganized, migrating from the traditional MSO structure based on the geographic location of its constituent networks in favor of a structure based on its three main business categories: Residential Services, Business Services and Media Services.


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THE tranquil setting of a country walled garden is not where you would expect to buy a sofa – but a husband-and-wife team are offering just that.
Jason and Tracey Grout have opened up their Sofas & Stuff showroom in converted 18th century greenhouses at The Walled Garden, on the Herriard Park estate, six miles from Basingstoke.
The couple, who opened in March, behind St Mary's Church, just off the A339, think the business is unique, being the only furniture showroom in Britain with its own Walled Garden, complete with fountain and four peacocks.
The showroom, which also sells beds, certainly has a 'wow' effect.
"It has the same effect on everyone," said Jason. "I still get that every morning, and I think that rubs off on the customers and puts them at ease, making them feel comfortable."
Jason is keen to point out that customers will not get high-pressure sales tactics at Sofas & Stuff.
"We greet people when they walk in, tell them a little about ourselves and then leave them to their own devices – we don't hassle people," he said.
The experienced business people certainly have a relaxed outlook, having both arrived in the UK from South Africa towards the end of last year, They have bought into the well-established Sofas & Stuff franchise, as Tracey had previously worked with its founder Andrew Cousins.
Prior to opening the business, Jason and Tracey spent a lot of time visiting and working at other Sofas & Stuff barns around the country.
"We went to a fair number of them, getting individual training from the owners," said Jason."That has been invaluable, so by the time we got to opening day here, we had accumulated a lot of knowledge – and that was really beneficial."
It has been a particularly busy time for Tracey as just after opening the business, she gave birth to their daughter Ivy, who is 20 days old today.
Following Ivy's birth, Tracey had struck a deal with franchise founder Andrew.
"I said: 'I'll be at work next week if the next sofa is named after Ivy'," laughed Tracey, who loves the peaceful location of her business. "It's great – customers can come up and explore what we have got to offer."
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Location: Vegetable Crops ResearchTitle: Characterization of early blight resistance derived from the wild potato species Solanum berthaultii Author
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Submitted to: American Journal of Potato Research
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Publication Acceptance Date: 5/6/2011
Publication Date: 2/1/2012
Citation: Haga, E., Jansky, S.H., Halterman, D.A. 2012. Characterization of early blight resistance derived from the wild potato species Solanum berthaultii. American Journal of Potato Research. Paper No. 61. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Early blight (EB), caused by the fungal pathogen A. solani, is a ubiquitous potato disease of world-wide significance. Fungicides are the main method of control, as cultivated varieties offer only a few sources of moderate resistance, most of which are associated with late maturity. Strong levels of resistance have been identified in the wild potato species Solanum berthaultii (2n = 2x = 24) using a detached leaf assay, and breeding efforts to introgress this resistance into cultivated potato offer promise in increasing the sustainability of potato production. In order to understand the genetic basis of resistance in this species, 12 breeding populations were developed through interspecific hybridization of three S. berthaultii individuals to four cultivated haploids (2n = 2x = 24) of S. tuberosum. These populations were evaluated for disease under natural field conditions without fungicides for two seasons in a major potato production area of Wisconsin. Field resistance was rate-limiting, wide-ranging, and continuously distributed, suggesting quantitative inheritance of this trait. Repeatability of population means was low (0.1644 – 0.2398), implying segregation of many genes for EB resistance. However, there were still many indications of strong potential for resistance breeding with this species, including the presence of transgressive segregants within each population and the detection of significant differences among populations. Combining ability analyses revealed that the choice of cultivated parent, not the wild parent, caused these differences among populations. Among the cultivated parents examined, US-W973 had the best combining ability for EB resistance, while US-W4 had the worst.


text: Darkhog 110 Report post Posted June 28, 2013 (edited) Don't get me wrong - C/C++ is great and has many uses, but using it can be sometimes a chore. Why? Because of pointer hell. In C/C++ pointers are used literally everywhere, even where passing by value would be enough. Like here: int WINAPI MessageBox( _In_opt_ HWND hWnd, _In_opt_ LPCTSTR lpText, _In_opt_ LPCTSTR lpCaption, _In_ UINT uType ); That's right. This is WinAPI's message box function. LPCTSTR in case you don't have WinAPI experience, is pointer to string. WTF? This function doesn't even NEED pointer to where string is stored as it doesn't change it. It only show standard Windows message box. Such quirks aren't even specific to WinAPI (which, admittedly, is poorly written). Most of C/C++ APIs I had even "pleasure" to work with are littered with things like that. Like Qt: void QMessageBox::about(QWidget * parent, const QString & title, const QString & text) Same sin as in case of WinAPI. But we want to make games, don't we? Let look into some game API, say, SDL: SDL_LoadBMP Name SDL_LoadBMP -- Load a Windows BMP file into an SDL_Surface. Synopsis #include "SDL.h" SDL_Surface *SDL_LoadBMP(const char *file); Description Loads a surface from a named Windows BMP file. Return Value Returns the new surface, or NULL if there was an error. See Also SDL_SaveBMP (from http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdlloadbmp.html) Why it even returns pointer, when returning value (SDL surface) would be enough? Such approach results in things like memory leaks and other sort of "fun" stuff. Pointers should be only used when you need write access to variable you are passing and can't afford working on a copy (passing by value). Finding joy Above thing which I've dubbed "Pointer Hell" was thing that made me chose Pascal (Object Pascal specifically) as language of choice when developing games. In Pascal you only use pointers when you actually need them. Which is almost never as most things you can do without touching them. Unless, of course, you are interfacing with some c/c++ library, like I'm doing with Allegro. Pascal also provide syntax that any human (or non- human ;)) being who happen to know English can read and in many cases comments aren't even needed to understand what code does. Unless you reading code from some obfuscation contest or written by first-time programmer. Also when coding in Pascal you can really enjoy this. You don't have to worry about memory leaks and for the most part logic bugs are easy to fix. [url=http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/forum.php]There is also helpful community related to game making[/url] ready to help when you happen to have some issues. It's mostly because of them I could progress so far when writing Super Heli Land. Notable games and software written with Pascal: - Original Jazz Jackrabbit (Turbo Pascal 7.0) - RPG Maker 2003 (Delphi, not sure about version) - Resource Hacker - BlockCAD (Delphi) - Hedgewars, the Worms clone - freepascal (engine, rendering) plus some c++ bits mainly because there was no good Qt bindings for Pascal when project was started. - [url=http://www.pascalgamedevelopment.com/showthread.php?13968-Projekt-Weltherrscher-quot-Phase-2-quot]This[/url]. Edited June 29, 2013 by Darkhog 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The investigation of relationship maintenance strategies has received considerable attention in various types of dyads including romantic, marital, and familial relationships. No research, however, has yet investigated the use of maintenance strategies in the coach-athlete partnership. Thus, this study aimed to investigate coaches' and athletes' perceptions of the strategies they use to maintain relationship quality.
The Development of a Typology of Abusive Coaching Behaviours Within Youth Sport
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Why, from a "protection from harm" perspective, is it important for a local club to have policies defining prohibited behaviors, misconduct, etc.?
· The failure to have policies or prevention systems is, in itself, an action by the Club to take no action. In other words and for example, if sued by the victim or her/his family, a court would most likely say "The athlete was harmed by the Club's failure to exercise reasonable care on behalf of the athlete by failing to adopt and administer policies that would have prevented the abuse suffered."
Why should your club adopt Safe4Athletes or similar child safety and welfare policies and procedures?
- Parents want to know that a sports program is safe for their children. Having specific policies that address these issues will increase parent trust and confidence in club leadership, coaches, or ownership.
- Athletes can concentrate on their sports, without second-guessing their "gut feeling" that someone's behavior isn't right.
- Clear rules and a fair process reduce the Club's risk from lawsuits that may be filed by dismissed coaches or the abused victim or her/his family.
- Many national sport governing bodies (NGB) do not yet require their Club members to have comprehensive athlete protection policies, and if they do, these policies may not address bullying or coach/peer athlete conduct that falls short of criminal behavior.
- Even when NGBs have processes that are applicable in cases of athlete sexual abuse, reporting and investigation procedures take a considerable amount of time and because the NGB is not the employer, the NGB in not in a position to address immediate suspension of an employee in the case of serious misconduct.
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South Africa: LGBT Rights in Name Only?
(Johannesburg) – Black lesbians and transgender men in South African townships and rural areas face an overwhelming climate of discrimination and violence despite protections promised them in the country's constitution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
The 93-page report, "'We'll Show You You're a Woman': Violence and Discrimination Against Black Lesbians and Transgender Men," is based on more than 120 interviews conducted in six provinces. Human Rights Watch found that lesbians and transgender men face extensive discrimination and violence in their daily lives, both from private individuals and government officials. The abusers of people known or assumed to be lesbian, bisexual, or transgender act with near-total impunity, Human Rights Watch found.
"The threat of violence that dominates the lives of lesbians, bisexual women, and transgender men, particularly in poorer and non-urban areas, beggars belief," said Dipika Nath, researcher in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights program at Human Rights Watch. "South Africa, at the forefront of the fight for legal equality on LGBT issues internationally, is desperately failing lesbian and transgender people in their everyday lives at home."
The report reveals widespread ignorance about lesbians and transgender men and deep-rooted prejudice against gender and sexual non-conformity. Almost all of those interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they lived in fear of sexual assault.
"He had seen my lesbian friends coming home and he talked about how we all dress like men," 22-year-old Dumisani (pseudonym) told Human Rights Watch. "He dragged me to the bushes. There was no one around. He told me to take off my pants. I was refusing but he was beating me. He raped me until it was late at night. … I saw the guy after that, too. A week later I heard he had raped another girl. He was arrested but he came out three days later and beat her up so badly, she was in hospital for three weeks. I was so scared."
Nearly all of the people interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they were reluctant to approach the police for protection or to report crimes. Of the few cases of sexual or physical violence against lesbians that have been prosecuted, the significance of sexual orientation has been acknowledged in only one.
In many instances, interviewees said, police did not respond appropriately when interviewees sought justice, or even compounded the initial abuse. Virtually all of those interviewed who tried to report physical or sexual violence to the police faced ridicule, harassment, and secondary victimization by police personnel.
Human Rights Watch found discrimination over and above the physical and sexual violence and the lack of redress. Those interviewed said they had been discriminated against in the fields of education and employment and denied services. Lesbians and transgender people who did not follow conventional patterns of dress and appearance and lacked family support were particularly vulnerable to abuse and discrimination.
The existing laws and policies on sexual orientation have failed to protect people or provide redress. Police, prosecutors, and the courts need to make effective implementation of these laws and policies a priority, Human Rights Watch said.
While the report documents the vulnerability of lesbians and transgender men, in particular, their treatment is part of a broader and chronic problem of gender-based violence in South Africa, Human Rights Watch noted.
The report's recommendations include the following:
- To the South African Police Services: separate out data on physical and sexual violence by motive to track incidents of homophobic and transphobic violence.
- To the National Prosecuting Authority: ensure that all cases of sexual and physical violence against women and transgender people come to trial in a timely manner, and that prosecutors make cases involving sexual offenses a priority.
- To the Department of Education: establish monitoring systems to ensure effective implementation of non-discrimination policies, such as a toll free help line for students to report discrimination and verbal, physical, and sexual abuse by teachers and other school authorities.
"Legal rights are important and can be empowering, but they are meaningless in the face of the abuse, intimidation, and violence that people with unconventional gender and sexual expression face on a daily basis," Nath said. "The government's job does not end with passing rights-protecting legislation but also lies in ensuring that the laws translate into substantive rights for everyone, including the most marginalized groups and individuals."
(To read full article, visit this Human Rights Watch link)


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New Campaign Urges Musicians to "Tune Out Tobacco" by Rejecting Tobacco Sponsorships
U.S. band Weezer urged to drop tobacco sponsor for upcoming Indonesia concert
Posted by: Editor | Jan 4, 2013
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is launching a new campaign and web site – called Tune Out Tobacco – urging musicians to reject tobacco industry sponsorships of their concerts.
Tobacco sponsorships of concerts and other events are prohibited in the United States and many other countries. But some countries, including Indonesia, still allow such sponsorships, and many popular international musicians continue to perform at these concerts, which help tobacco companies market their deadly and addictive products to kids.
In the latest example, the popular U.S. band Weezer is scheduled to perform at a tobacco industry-sponsored concert In Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 8. PT Djarum, an Indonesian tobacco giant, has promoted the event using Weezer posters and promotional materials plastered with branding for the company's popular LA Lights cigarette.
Public health groups are demanding that Weezer reject the tobacco sponsorship and pledge never again to appear at a tobacco-sponsored event. You can send a message to Weezer at Tune Out Tobacco.
The Weezer concert comes just several months after other popular international artists – including Robin Thicke and the Scissor Sisters – performed at Indonesia's Java SoulNation Festival, also sponsored by the LA Lights brand.
Tobacco-sponsored concerts are especially common in Indonesia, which has almost no restrictions on tobacco advertising and sponsorships. Indonesia must take strong action to reduce tobacco use and protect kids from tobacco marketing. In the meantime, artists like Weezer shouldn't be helping tobacco companies exploit the country's weak laws to market to kids.
Public health groups are calling for musicians to stop performing at these events once and for all. Tune Out Tobacco includes a Hall of Shame listing artists who have performed, or are scheduled to perform, at tobacco-sponsored events. It also highlights artists – including Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys and Maroon 5 – who stood up to big tobacco and refused to use their concerts as a marketing tool for the tobacco industry.


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THE name of a Nelson soldier killed in Afghanistan is to be added to the town's war memorial.
Lance Corporal Michael Foley died in March 2012 after he was shot by a rogue Afghan soldier at a British base in Helmand Province.
The name of the 25-year-old, as well as 11 others from Nelson who gave their lives serving their country, will be added to the town's war memorial in Market Square this year.
Military historian Fred Stringer had researched 1,368 people from the town whose names were engraved on to the new memorial in 2009.
He said: "Some people weren't easy to find, which is why their names are being added to the memorial now. Of course we also have the name of Michael Foley, something we could never have anticipated and we hoped we would never have to do.
"These names have taken a lot of research. Two of them were serving under an alias and I only noticed their names on family headstones while showing people around cemeteries."
Among the new names (listed in the panel, right), Clementine Addison served in the French Flag Nursing Corps, and was the only one of 250 members to die after picking up a disease. She returned home and died shortly after, near Lancaster.
Mr Stringer said: "The French sent a Tricolour to her funeral and she was awarded two prestigious French medals."
Councillors on the Nelson Area Committee agreed to provide £4,000 in funding for the 12 names to be added to seven new panels. Some of the money could be recouped through grants from organisations.
Mr Stringer said the work should be completed in time for a re-dedication ceremony on August 3, the day before the 100th anniversary of the First World War breaking out.
Names to be added to Nelson War Memorial (left) are:
First World War:
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- Clementine Addison
- A C Hudson
- H Farrow
- H Kirkbright
Second World War:
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- G B Roberts
- S Brown
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- H Smith, died in Hong Kong, 1953.
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By Ryan Miltner, attorney
The Presidential election is today. No news there. And there has been speculation about what the next Congress might do with respect to comprehensive immigration reform efforts. However, little has been written about what the next four years might bring for immigration enforcement, especially with respect to agricultural employers. I thought it might be useful to take a short look at that under-examined area.
When immigration became a hot political issue, about six or seven
With President Obama's election, ICE shifted its strategy to one of audits. Rather than make a show of force with agents and arrests, employers were now served with subpoenas to audit their I-9 records. These subpoenas and audits had the advantage to the employer of being far less conspicuous. Further, if the employer had been in compliance with his or her I-9 requirements, the process of identifying and removing undocumented workers was somewhat less disruptive to the overall business operation.
So, the question for today is, what will the outcome of the federal election have on these policies? In all likelihood, the reelection of President Obama would have little effect. The current policy of audits would continue. The election of Governor Romney, however, is less clear.
On one hand, Republicans have tended toward much stronger enforcement measures. The mantra of secure, deport, then reform, was unbending during the Bush administration. But on the other hand, Governor Romney has strong ties to business, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been very critical of haphazard enforcement efforts that harm businesses attempting to comply with immigration laws. Also, the overall political environment regarding immigration has softened somewhat over the past several years. A strong argument could be made that under a Romney administration, the current policies of audits, combined with the use of Social Security no-match letters, would continue.
For dairy producers looking at enforcement policy apart from immigration reforms, that would certainly be good news.
Ryan Miltner is an agricultural and estate planning lawyer in private practice. His agricultural practice is focused on dairy policy and the economic regulation of the dairy industry. The opinions in this article are his own observations prepared for Dairy Today and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any of his clients. Contact him at email@example.com.
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LAKE JACKSON, Texas - At least eight people were living in filthy conditions in a Lake Jackson rental home, according to the home's 77-year-old owner Nick Carrizales.
Those tenants were two month's behind on the rent according to Carrizales and were evicted early Thursday morning, leaving Carrizales out at least two months rent and sticking him with a huge clean-up tab.
"So far, over $1,000," says Carrizales, who had to pay the city of Lake Jackson to bring massive dumpsters to his home to clean the mess his former tenants left.
If he didn't have the mess cleared by Thursday, he would have faced a $500 for every additional day all the stuff was left outside. Neighbors were shocked.
"We can not believe it," said Terri Carrasco, who lives across the street from the now empty home.
She along with more than 20 other members of the neighborhood helped get all the stuff from the inside of the home to the front where city crews could clear it.
"We had no idea it was this bad until I walked over there...and saw the devastation," said Carrasco.
According to Lake Jackson officials, even though Carrizales didn't make the mess, as the registered homeowner he is responsible for the clean-up and any other charges the mess may bring.
After suffering from a stroke less than a month ago and living on his fixed military retirement, this is the last thing he wanted to deal with.
"I'm not going to rent it no more...I'll give it to my kids or something," said Carrizales.Photos: Evicted tenant leaves giant mess
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The story of the Little Free Library that was vandalized recently in Queen Anne is not just that. It's a story about a veteran's life, his wife's endeavor to honor his spirit and a community coming together.
Seattle's first-ever Little Free Library is on Second Avenue West in Queen Anne, and on June 26, a vandal tore off the message cabinet and stole the notebook.
Michelle Nash created the library in honor of her late husband, Bob Nash. She installed it on April 20, 2012 — what would have been their 43rd wedding anniversary.
It took Nash about a month to build the library. And from the beginning, it was a community effort. She used scrap cedar shingles from her neighbors' remodel to cover the box. An old picture frame borders the window full of books. She found the wood posts in an alley near her house and found a local construction worker to help her cut them.
It's decorated with trees she bought at an auction, to add a little Pacific Northwest decor, and three dragonflies — one for herself, Bob and their daughter.
A plaque on the side reads, "In loving memory of Bob Nash, who walked with grace and dignity and showed me the way."
"It's more than just this little box that has books in it," she said. "It has generated whole discussions with people. It's rewarding for me and overwhelming."
Honoring Bob's curious nature
Bob was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered a spinal injury in the war. Michelle worked part-time for a local library and spent the rest of her day with him. Together, they shared books, ideas and quotes.
He had a quote that he always carried in his wallet, which he read to her when they first met. It was the same quote that he left on a tape before he took his own life.
"It was both the beginning and the end," she said.
As a paraplegic, Bob didn't have it easy, but toward the end, he developed Parkinson's disease, which caused hallucinations — a symptom Michelle believes triggered his suicide.
When Bob passed away, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) denied Michelle her widow's benefits; she had to fight for 10 months to get them. She's still fighting another battle: to get his name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.
In the meantime, her Little Free Library was her way to honor his curiosity and spirit.
To Michelle, libraries have been near and dear, ever since she was first allowed to ride her bike to the library. She loves the kids who get excited about the Little Free Library's books — they're blown away that they get to keep it.
"Who would have imagined?" she said. "It's such a simple thing."
So it hit Michelle hard when a vandal ripped off the library's message box. Inside the box, she kept a notebook for people to leave messages — that was stolen. She hopes someone may see the notebook around the neighborhood and return it to her.
The notebook itself holds no value, but it's the messages Michelle wants. This was the library's fourth notebook; she has kept them all. People will write messages about which book they selected or say things like, "Bob must have been an amazing guy. I wish I'd known him," or "What a great thing to have in neighborhood." Kids will often draw a picture.
On July 6, Michelle installed a new message box and notebook. Soon after, someone wrote something on the cover of the notebook that she had to cut off because its meaning could be misinterpreted. She plans to monitor the library more closely than she has in the past.
The community's library
Recently, a neighbor brought a donation to Michelle. Every week, Red Square Yoga in Queen Anne has a donation-only class on Saturdays that collects money for a local charity or organization. One class collected money for Michelle to buy books for her Little Free Library at the Queen Anne Book Co.
Stacy Lawson, owner of Red Square Yoga, said the story of the vandalism "pulled at me." Lawson uses Little Free Libraries herself. This donation was the studio's way of helping and creating goodwill.
"We really want this person to know what she's doing is really amazing," Lawson said. "This is someone who's doing something for the community; it really adds value."
Michelle has a suspicion that the vandal may be a young kid from the neighborhood, so she went to the bookstore and bought young-adult books for boys.
"The ripples of good will just keep going on," she said of the donation.
Michelle will continue to maintain the Little Free Library "forever." She loves to hunt for books to add to it, and it's not just about her or Bob's memory anymore — it has become the community's library.
There are many Little Free Libraries on Queen Anne, Michelle said, "but some people are affectionately tied to mine, and I am so grateful that they are.
"It started out as a memorial to Bob and just became so much more," she said. "I think he'd be pleased."
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Prismatic Embers
A Collection of Iris Photography
by Curtis Carmen Davis
About the Book
Curtis Carmen Davis has composed a wondrous collection of floral images put together of nothing but the iris flower. Each image conveys a message, much akin to the messages the golden winged goddess of the same name, Iris, the goddess of the sky and the sea and messenger of Olympus, delivered between Gods and mortals. Whether that message be a universal truth such as beauty, peace, power, awe, creativity, or love or a particular element, the messages await the viewer in the pages of this little book. I find in nature an uncanny solace and great inspiration and invite others to partake of nature's solitude.
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Canada vs. Cayman Islands
Canada win's opener
July 18, 2011
Canada's development squad got its ICC America's Division 1 Tournament underway today against Cayman Islands in Florida.
A quickfire 40 (31 balls) from Khuroo Wadia broke Canada out of an early funk and with contributions from skipper Jimmy Hansra (27 off 19) and Usman Limbada (23 off 20) Canada got to 130-8 in 20 overs.
In reply, Cayman got off to a steady start but Canada's spinners, led by man of the match Zahid Hussain (4-7) held Cayman to 66-7 from 20 overs.
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Saskatchewan flood fighters updated their spring flooding forecast today calling for above normal runoff for most the province.
Ken Cheveldayoff, the minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency (WSA), said the new numbers are due to greater than normal amounts of precipitation in certain areas of the province.
"With the additional snowfall in March, the areas in the Souris River and Qu'Appelle River basins have been the most affected," Cheveldayoff said in a statement released this afternoon.
"To help prepare for the runoff, the Water Security Agency has been increasing the outflow of water from Rafferty and Alameda reservoirs as well as holding several meetings with municipalities to address their concerns and inform them of programs available."
Saskatchewan's revised forecast will likely affect Manitoba's as both the Souris River and the Qu'Appelle River flow into the province. Manitoba is expected to release a revised spring flooding forecast later this week.
Officials in Manitoba have already said, depending on the weather, the province could see a flood along the Red River on par with the flood of 2009, one of the worst on record. North Dakotans are also preparing for flooding on the Red and Souris Rivers.
The fear of major flooding in both provinces and North Dakota have grown each day as the spring melt is delayed by colder-than-normal weather. A thick snowpack still sits on the ground in most of the watershed and if combined with rainfall and a sudden surge in temperatures, runoff would increase.
"With the increased snow cover and late melt, I urge all people and communities to look at the forecast and prepare for flooding," Cheveldayoff said in the statement.
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His mother is a renowned conservator, and Sam's childhood was spent surrounded by rare textiles. This upbringing and a keen interest in art and design led Sam to work with antique rugs in London and Los Angeles before he found his true calling when he met The Rug Company's founders, Christopher and Suzanne Sharp.
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Sam's designs in the catalogue are deceptively simple and originate from his belief that a handmade rug should be the very foundation piece of a room; an object of great quality, integrity and permanence that sets the tone for all else around it.


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In this tutorial I'm going to attempted to to build a notespad in stages and describe what each part of the code is doing.
I am using python version 2.7.3, WxPython version 188.8.131.52, and windowsXp.
WxPython site link
Links to existing WxPython tutorials that are probably way better then mine
Lets get started.
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import wx # 1
if __name__ == '__main__': # 2
wx_app = wx.App(False) # 3
wx_app.MainLoop() # 4
- Imports the wxPython module.
- This means only run the following code when you run this module directly, if you import this module, the following code will not run.
- Every Wxpython application needs one wx.App object, the False parameter means don't redirect stdout and stderr to a window.
- The method call MainLoop on the App object starts an infinite loop that checks for 'events', all the while there is a wx window in existence.
we will get to events later, running this code as it is, will just exit the loop as there is no window created yet.
Lets create a Frame so we can actually see something happen, Running this code we should now actually see a very basic window, the mainloop is now infinitely looping, by clicking on the frames X an event will be sent to the App telling it that this window has been closed and as there are no other windows in existence will also exit the mainloop.
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import wx
if __name__ == '__main__':
wx_app = wx.App(False)
frame = wx.Frame(None) # 1
frame.Show() # 2
- To start with we create a wx.Frame, a Frame is a container object that we can add other wx objects to, calling None tells the frame that it has no parent.
- To make the frame visible we have to call its Show method.
Lets make it a little more interesting, rather then just using the basic wx Frame we'll make our own class of Frame and call it Notepad.
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import wx
class Notespad(wx.Frame): # 1
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): # 2
super(Notespad, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) # 3
self.SetTitle('Untitled - Notespad') # 4
panel = wx.Panel(self) # 5
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) # 6
sizer.Add(panel, 1, wx.EXPAND) # 7
self.SetSizer(sizer) # 8
self.Layout() # 9
if __name__ == '__main__':
wx_app = wx.App(False)
frame = Notespad(None) # 10
- Creates a new class named Notespad which inherits from a wxFrame.
- Allows us to pass in any attributes.
- The attributes we passed in are given to the wxFrame.
- Sets the title of the frame.
- Creates a wxPanel object, this is a container object that sits on the frame as a background, we tell it that the wxFrame is its parent by giving it the attribute self.
- Creates a sizer, this is a kind of invisible container that automatically arranges its objects on the sizer's owner.
- Adds the panel we created to the sizer, the second attribute number 1 is the proportion of the of the space in the sizer it will take, and as we set the sizer to be a vertical that's the direction the proportion relates to, for instance if we was to add another object to the sizer with the same proportion, both objects would take up half of the available space each in the vertical direction. The third attribute wxExpand tells the sizer to stretch the object to take up the full width in the opposite direction, the Horizontal in this case.
- the wxFrame is told to let the sizer we created, stretch into the available space it has.
- Calling this tells any sizer to arrange the objects there are controlling the position and size of.
- Now we are creating an instance of our own wxFrame and again passing in the attribute None to indicate that it has no parent
Its not a very good Notespad yet as we cant even type any text into it, lets fix that.
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import wx
class Notespad(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(Notespad, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.SetTitle('Untitled - Notepad')
panel = wx.Panel(self)
txt_ctrl = wx.TextCtrl(panel, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE) # 1
sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sizer.Add(panel, 1, wx.EXPAND)
p_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) # 2
p_sizer.Add(txt_ctrl, 1, wx.EXPAND) # 3
panel.SetSizer(p_sizer) # 4
if __name__ == '__main__':
wx_app = wx.App(False)
frame = Notespad(None)
- Creates a wxTextCtrl and set its parent as the panel the style parameter makes us able to type on more then just the first row
- Because the panel now has controls it needs a sizer to keep them under control just the the frame needed a sizer for the panel
- Adding the wxTextCtrl to the panels sizer with the same parameters used in the previous sizer's add method
- tells the panel to use this sizer


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Topic: Overdue update
Hello dear friends
It's been a while since I have updated you on Mom. Last time I did we were in a tough spot with her as she was in a nasty mood and the urologist appointment was pretty unpleasant.
I have not been able to go to the last 2 chemo appts with her, one due to my son's return from Afghanistan this past week and today because I have picked up a cold/flu which has been really knocking me down. I know I could not possibly take her to chemo with this, but she was only to get Gemzar and be done in about an hour. Well she called me and said she was not able to have chemo today due to her white blood cell count being so low. Now I am even happier I did not take her, knowing she would have been so susceptible to picking up this cold.
I do have more news... Mom is scheduled to have her 3 stents changed on December 10. We also have scans scheduled for December 5. So it will be a busy month by the sounds of things.
I also learned that her oncologist is now talking about continuing the chemo past December. I'm not sure if I mentioned that he had said he would be stopping it in December and we would take a wait and watch approach. I was not at that appointment with Mom so I was not able to ask him why he changed his mind but I will be seeing him on the 13th of December so I can talk to him then about all of it. I am wondering and a little worried that perhaps her tumor markers have changed. I asked her if he mentioned that but she was not sure. So many questions I need to ask now lol
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, (those who celebrate it)!


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo softball team (14-12, 1-3 SSC) fell to the No.11 Barry Buccaneers (21-4, 4-0 SSC), 1-0, Friday evening from Buccaneer Field. The Sunshine State Conference showdown saw Brittany Yates collect the Lions' only hit as Barry remained perfect in the conference.
Megan Still was tagged with the tough-luck loss as she surrendered only four hits and one run across seven innings of work. Still tossed 73 pitches en route to her seventh complete game of the season.
The Buccaneers broke through with their only run in the third inning as Sarah Broeseker lifted a two-out pitch over the right field fence to put the Bucs up 1-0. The hit was the first of the game for the Buccaneers and stood as the eventual game-winner.
Barry's Brianna Smith, who surrendered only one hit to the Lions through the opening six frames, kept the potent Lions' offense off the board in the seventh to post her 10th win of the season.
Saint Leo saw five runners left on base.
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FORMER and current Bath Rugby players will be demonstrating their skills with bat and ball in a charity T20 match at Biddestone on Thursday.
A Bath Rugby Legends XI, including the likes of Matt Banahan, Duncan Bell and new tighthead prop Henry Thomas, as well as Matt Garvey and David Trick will take to the field against a host club XI, the game starting at 5.30pm at Cuttle Lane.
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Pomeroys Compete in National Catholic Cross Country Invitational
September 24th, 2010 |
The Pomeroy Cross Country team is off to a great start this year. On September 17th, the Pomeroys competed against 35 college division teams in the National Catholic Cross Country Invitational. Ranked 20 going into the meet, using some great mental toughness and physical strength, the Pomeroys finished 17th in the college division.
Casandra Barnett, Danika Espinoza, Leiona Noah, Lyndsi Woolems, and Stephanie Runyon ran strong races, improving their times from their first race at LaVern Gibson Cross Country Course on September 10th. Helping the Pomeroys in the lower point score and running past some major packs within the middle of the race were Logan Fry and Katherine Williams.
On Saturday, September 25th, the Pomeroys will face competition from Division II and Division II teams in Westerville, Ohio in the Otterbein Cross Country Invitational.


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12 Monkeys
DaVincie's closed last year.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
DaVincie's closed last year.
That shows you how often I get out.
I read somewhere that the nature center at EWP can be rented out, which might be cool. Or expensive and complicated and non-alcoholic.
50,000 Miles Later
How about Pizza Perfect (Bellevue location) ? Or maybe that would be too busy.
In it for the long run..
What about Buca in Cool Springs? Easier travel than Mt. Juliet for most. Might be expensive.
"It's not who wins the workout..."
BANNED from the LLR (Ladies' Locker Room) forum at age 64. Remember, folks, it's just running.
It is environmental to fear owls.
Monkeys chucking owls!
Holy crap
Walnuts chucking owls!
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There's a new contender, Mirko Pasta on Demonbreun. New place, can seat about 80 of us. And it has "Pasta" right in the name. We have option of menu service or putting together some type of buffet. Probably about $10-$12/ person either way. The seating is similar to what we had at Poppy's last year. Mix of booths and tables. Not what I consider ideal, but not bad. Plus, the owner is a former track athlete (javelin and steeplechase) and ran the Women's Half last year.
There's a hockey game that night which makes most places downtown unavailable. Went in Big River yesterday (not a pasta place per se, but I just wanted to see what they had.) Their layout in their back rooms is ideal, but they wanted a $3700 guarantee. So over $40/person.
Another idea I had was to start dinner a little sooner wherever we have it, and spread the time out a little bit. That way those who go to packet pickup early and then want to eat can right away can do so, and the lollygaggers can show up whenever they want. That may allow a place to seat more people.
Keep the ideas coming.
The tangents are moot.
Mirko sounds good.
Looking into the JCC as well.
JCC certainly would be easiest.
I wonder where The Zoo people/Purity people got their pasta? As I recall there was a mac & cheese option and pasta with marinara option at both.
That or we can descend on Trent's house and let Ellie deal with it
What about Bricks on Nolensville Rd (Between Old Hickory Blvd and Concord Rd) they have a side room as well as an outside patio (with heaters) or Bricks on Franklin Rd in Brentwood.
I am rather hesitant to suggest ... Coco's Italian restaurant and market. It's on 51st avenue North. The prices are reasonable, food is good ... I just think they are in a shitty part of town. It's off Charlotte.
I'm glad I don't have to carbo load. Just have to get my cameras ready and take lotsa pictures.


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NVIDIA Releases 310.33 Beta Drivers; GeForce 6 & 7 Series Moved To Legacy Statusby Ryan Smith on 10/24/2012 8:00 AM EST
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DanNeely - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkI guess it's a good thing than when my 6800 died a few years ago XFX replaced it with an 8500. thankfully they've added a 3rd concurrent video out in Kepler; by the time they retire their 8xxx cards I probably won't need a spare low power card to run an additional monitor. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkHere's what a driver team with their act together does:
" Thanks to Windows 8's new stereoscopic 3D functionality, these drivers add windowed S3D support for a multitude of applications and games, including YouTube 3D, various Blu-Ray players, and all DX9 games. "
LOL - ALL, THAT'S ALL, DX9 games.
nVidia, you freaking ROCK. Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkThis... is... just... why... what... ?!
Like... dude chill man. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkTalk your ghetto trash lingo to someone else loser. Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkGhetto Trash?
I was going for the Stoner and/or Surfer speak. Not sure how you got Ghetto from that. Reply
BallBond - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online(Click on menu Home)
http://goo.gl/ocjwE Reply
lambchowder - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - link"nVidia, you freaking ROCK."
lmao youre such a fan boy. ever benchmark for 2 years youve flooded nvidia cards with emotional praise. i bet you post on reddit Reply
lambchowder - Thursday, November 01, 2012 - linkWOO1!!!1111!1111 MY VIDEO CARD SUPPORTS ALL TWO GENERATION OLD DRIVER USING GAMES!!!!! NVIDIA AND DIRECTX 7, WE DO IT EVERYTIME. Are you also super loyal to energy drinks? I'm, thinking yes Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkAll and all, a pretty good run for nVidia in terms of support. 8 years for a Geforce 6800. The last of the series came out in 2007 though. Even then 5 year support on the short end still isn't bad.
There was likely some pressure to keep support from oddball fields as the Geforce 6800 line was the first card to support two dual-link DVI ports. Several ultra high resolution displays were sold with the Quadro variants since they were the only cards that could drive such resolutions at the time.
One of nVidia's alternative motivations for keeping Geforce 7 series support was that it was the basis for the RSX chip used in the Playstation 3.
This likely means that their next Tegra chip will finally move to a unified shader architecture. One of the little known things about Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 is that it uses separate pixel and vertex shaders, often believed to be inherited from the Geforce 6/7 lineage. Dropping support on the for the Geforce 6/7 series may also mean an end to updates in the Tegra line. I can see this being an issue as Tegra 3 devices are still currently on the market. nVidia isn't dropping support for the Tegra line but it makes me wonder if future updates are going to be focused on maintaining compatibility with OS updates. Reply
DJTryHard - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkGood post, I hope they do move to a unified shader architecture, for there sake and the sake of competition. Tegra 2 and 3 were both slightly underwhelming compared to the competition. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkI think both blew away the competition at the time... Heck, Tegra 3 is still one of the best SOCs out there, and it's been on the market a few years.
Regarding driver support, I doubt ARM socs are related much to them supporting these desktop parts, and I don't know that they do much in new drivers or whatever for ARM SOCs anyway. Reply
wlee15 - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThe first product with a Tegra 3 was the Transformer Prime tablet that was released last November. Reply
lmcd - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - linkUmm, not really. Tegra 2 graphics didn't even beat the PVR SGX 540 on Hummingbird, released prior. Nor the VideoCore IV on Broadcom's SoC line. Reply
eddman - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - link"Dropping support for the Geforce 6/7 series may also mean an end to updates in the Tegra line."
I'm pretty sure that nvidia has a different driver team for Tegra, being it an ARM SoC and not compatible with x86 windows.
Even if it was the same team, still they won't drop support for it, considering that Tegra 3 is used in major android devices like Asus Transformer tablets, Acer Iconia tablets and Nexus 7.
It is also used in MS Surface and some other Windows RT devices like Asus Vivo Tab RT and Lenovo Yoga 11, and more will come for sure.
Dropping support for Tegra at this moment would be stupid. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkIt would be foolish to drop full support but we may not see anything beyond the requisite OS update support with the occasional bug fix thrown in. I wouldn't expect much in terms of driver optimizations in Tegra 2 and 3's future. Then again nVidia has had 8 years of experience developing for this lineage so there may not be anything left to really exploit either. It just seems odd that if nVidia still has a team working on just OS support on the Tegra side they'd still keep support on the PC side going, especially since Tegra 3 is used with Windows RT. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkDoesn't seem odd to me at all...at best the products are somewhat related, but running on completely different OSes. We don't even know for sure that they are (super stripped down) versions of the same hardware.
I really don't see what one has to do with the other at all. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkYes, what we really mean here is: ONE HELLUVA GOOD JOB NVIDIA ! WAY TO GO, SUPPORTING THOSE CARDS FOR SO FREAKING LONG !
See, that's the truth, and compared to amd , nVidia takes the freaking driver crown, AGAIN.
Good job nVidia, the haters are once again ashamed to be freak amd fan boys. Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkUmm yeah..
nVIDIA drivers are so stable they often crash and stop responding. Oh wait this has *never* happened to you eh?
Well I'm not plagued with the AMD driver issues you seem to claim are running wild and rampant. Maybe time to get a refill on that Schizo Prescription of yours eh? Reply
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkLOL - another dumb dumb amd fanboy Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkMy friend... reality for you.
1. I said nothing about favoring AMD
2. You clearly stated you favor nVIDIA
My status as a "fanboy" has not been established. However your status as a "fanboy" clearly has been established.
Simple Logical Exercise. Reply
Urizane - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkIn reality, driver problems are overblown on both sides. Everybody I've seen posting about driver issues have a small number of cards and systems that cause them to have a bias one way or the other (including some poor souls that have constant RMAs involving cards running in one system...and they can't take the hint). I have two Nvidia cards myself, a buddy of mine has two Nvidia cards, a different buddy has an AMD card, and between two cousins there are three more AMD cards. Nobody is having driver issues in this larger (yet still small) sample set. There have been some under-the-hood minor tweaks that weren't available on the AMD side (such as per-game multi-GPU settings, or per-game settings of any kind until recently), but stability isn't really an issue. Reply
Senti - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThis 310 looks nice compared to the totally buggy 30x series. For example EDID override works again.
On the other hand, some ugly bugs are still there, like bluescreen on OpenGL fullscreen with custom resolutions. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThe great turnaround with OpenCL 4.3 support is great. But what about OpenCL 1.2 support?I guess nVidia wants to continue keeping their focus on CUDA as long as possible by withholding OpenCL 1.2 support as long as possible. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkGo buy an amd card, that's probably all they are up to is opencl 1.2 - LOL It's probably what amd was screaming about with it's insane fan boys, and it's all they have, save a weak and partial 2.0, right ? LOL
go amd man, you'll be happy with 1.2 and like Tweety makes Flowerpots for your game. Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkDude... do you realize that you're not making any sense?
"go amd man, you'll be happy with 1.2 and like Tweety makes Flowerpots for your game. "
Now WTF do you mean by "Tweety makes Flowerpots"? What is that? Like what are you trying to say?
Seriously this but job has been posting here for a long time and most of his posts make no sense whatsoever??? Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linknut* Reply
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkAnother amd fanboy who, like other LOSERS "cannot understand".
Post lobotomy, at least your skull tiny shrunken skull is smiling, as ignorance is, no doubt for amd fanboys, bliss. Reply
TheElMoIsEviL - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - linkWell my friend... I'm convinced now. You have clearly demonstrated to us all that you couldn't possibly be a Schizophrenic nut. I mean Schizophrenic nuts would never make this much sense:
"like other LOSERS "cannot understand".
Post lobotomy, at least your skull tiny shrunken skull is smiling"
Yes yes... we all *totally* get what you mean by this.
:p Reply
Hrel - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkI don't want to hear about beta drivers. Their latest full release driver doesn't work in a VERY big way. It makes Power Director (video editing program) completely unusable. I had to go back to 301.42 in order to get everything working again. I'm glad that's all I had to do but it sucks because of the performance/compatibility enhancements in newer drivers.
Hopefully next time they release a stable driver it will work with PowerDirector so I can upgrade. Then hopefully each subsequent upgrade words so I can upgrade more than once/year. Reply
Rookierookie - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - link" If NVIDIA's DX9 GPU support is anything to go by..."
I'm still not convinced that Nvidia ever released a DX9 GPU. Reply
Akrovah - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThe you clearly weren't paying attention. The Geforce 6 was an awesoem line of cards. Loved my 6600GT. Reply
peternelson - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkI still run two of them. They have served me well.
With this announcement, I'll have to start looking for something more modern.
I'd go for a 680 if the 64 bit FP performance wasn't so poor, which pushes me towards a 580. What I'd really like is a Quadro 4000 or two and hope the gaming performance is not entirely awful. Reply
Leyawiin - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - linkI have a secondary PC in the living room that has an Athlon 64 3700+ and an AGP slot. I used it for WoW - not so much to do instances with but to gather resources, do dailies and auction house stuff. It was fine for that purpose while I would watch TV. It had an ATI X800 XT in it, but when AMD pushed that into legacy status in early 2010 I had a problem. Shortly after that Blizzard did a big patch and it caused graphical corruption and locked the graphics on "low". With no updates I was stuck. I popped a 7800 GS AGP that had been gathering dust in it, installed the latest Geforce drivers and I was good to go again. Its still fine for the mundane purposes I use that machine for. I have a better hand-me-down PC to put in the living room now, so this old AGP rig will finally be given away to a relative. Thanks to Nvidia's extra-long support of the 7 series cards I was able to get all the use out of it that I intended. Thanks to AMD's less generous support they lost a customer. Don't really trust them now. Reply
DanNeely - Monday, October 29, 2012 - linkFor your relative's sake, I hope you're planning to swap out the 7800 for a low power PCI card. For anything the 3700 is still suitable for the 7800 is a giant power pig. Reply


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Games Which Seriously Deserve Sequels
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Features, Retro
You ever wonder why some game that you can't stand gets about a dozen sequels, yet the game that you really want more of never gets made? It is a shame. Here is a look at a few games that should get sequels, but aren't.
Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle
Lucas Games created some of the greatest 2D visual adventures ever made. The original Maniac Mansion game created a whole scripting engine and game concept. PC graphical adventures were a highly influential game series in the early 80s and it presented a huge amount of options to the game player. Manic Mansion was a well made spoof of the graphical adventure and the 8-bit Nintendo port was the only game that you could microwave a hamster until Nintendo found out about it. If you made a port of Maniac Mansion to the Game Boy Advance it would rule.
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E3 2005: Gears of War Screenshots
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: First Person Shooters, Xbox 360
While Andru and I were at E3 we saw a trailer for an awesome game called Gears of War for Xbox 360. Unfortunately, out of all the press kits and access that we had there were no trailers for us to give you all. We were able to score some screenshots for you though. I personally think that this game will be the "Halo" of Xbox 360. The gameplay looks excellent and the graphics are amazing. We don't have any storyline details yet, but we'll pass them along when we get them.
Editor's Note: I actually did get a bit of the background on the game during the Microsoft press briefing. Gears of War can best be described as a hybrid third-person shooter and survival horror game. There are locusts which do not like to be in the light. If you can stay near light, you have a better chance of surviving. The trailer shown at Microsoft's conference was truly amazing. These screenshots are in game.
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E3 2005: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi Impressions
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: PlayStation 2
Atari has yet another Dragon Ball Z game called Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi. This game is pretty amazing. In the previous Budokai games, you were limited to a certain area, but in Budokai Tenkaichi it's a free for all. I played this game for 15 minutes and I was blown away. The levels are completely interactive and destructible, more than 4 different gameplay modes, over 60 playable characters, controllable flight ability, and more. This game really grasps the DBZ world and puts it on your console.
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Major Nelson Speaks on Xbox 360 Backwards Compatibility
Posted by Troy Categories: Video Games
First things first, Major Nelson works at Microsoft under the title of "Xbox Live Director of Programming." He has had a blog for many years and his credentials seem to be unquestionable. That said, Nelson believes the Xbox 360 team is trying to insure full backwards compatibility with all Xbox games. Currently the goal is to have the top games playable at launch, and all games playable thereafter. A timetable has not been set, but he believes the rumors about "recompiling" games is plainly false.
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E3 2005: Super Mario Strikers Impressions
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Super Mario Strikers is one of the four new titles which Mario and his crew will be making an appearance in this year. We got our hands on this game, and although it was an early build, it is thoroughly enjoyable. In fact, I am willing to say that this is the greatest Mario sports title ever, period. In this build, two teams were available - Mario and Donkey Kong. Each team captain has a few Koopa Troopa's or Toad-like teammates. Now, the soccer mechanics are just great. If you remember Sega Soccer Slam, I would say that the actual soccer game actually plays a bit better in Strikers. Of course, it wouldn't be a Mario title if there weren't some twists. Unlike what you will find in the latest iteration of Mario Tennis on the Gamecube, the power-ups and distractions in Strikers don't seem too gimmicky.
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The Fish Stick Frying Pan
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Misc. Tech
It is stuff like this that convinces me that the world is going downhill fast - but that doesn't mean that we can't enjoy it. Case in point, this Fish Stick Frying Pan. I mean, you look at it and you can just tell that you won't be able to use this for anything but fish sticks - it is both sad and exciting all at once.
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E3 2005: Killer 7
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: First Person Shooters, Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2
Killer7 from Capcom has been announced and is one of the highly anticipated titles of E3 this year mainly due to that fact that this is the second cell shaded first person shooter game to be released. XIII was the first FPS that was cell shaded, but Killer 7 has a unique twist to it. In the game you are Harman Smith, an assassin who is the dominate consciousness over 7 different personalities. Switching between his seven different personalities, Harman employs each personality's unique abilities to complete their mission. Using each personalities unique abilities, you must destroy creatures released by a kingpin crime boss and make your way to him to end the criminal madness. You can switch through any of the 7 personalities during gameplay to reach your goal. Killer 7 will be released in June 2005 for the PS2 and Gamecube.
Never Be Disrespectful To Prospects
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I just read a great example of how to not grow your company and maintain good rapport with potential clients. Unfortunately, I have seen it too many times. If you are trying to sell a product or service, you need to know that you will more than likely not be the only one selling it. Based on this fact, you will win some - and you will lose some. The key is to be gracious in defeat. If you are trying to pitch to someone, and they choose a competitor, always let them know that you appreciated their consideration of your services. You never know - they may choose to go with you in the future. Whatever you do, do not become another statistic:
One finalist in the process replied with a snide comment to me after I informed the firm that I was moving forward with someone else. I thanked him for his time, and he replied with a curt email that read, simply:
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That's simply bad form.
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Apple is voluntarily recalling certain lithium-ion rechargeable batteries that were sold worldwide, in systems and separately, between October 2004 and May 2005 which are used in 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4, and 15-inch PowerBook G4 notebooks. Looks like the batteries are overheating and posing fire hazards Xbox style. If your laptop battery includes model numbers A1061, A1078, and A1079 and serial numbers that begin with HQ441 through HQ507 and 3X446 through 3X510, you may want to go for the trade. Don't worry - they send first.
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E3 2005: Teen Titans Comes To Consoles
Posted by Jesse Easley Categories: Action, Nintendo Gamecube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
I'm a big fan of the comic and show Teen Titans and Majesco has brought them to the console world. Not much of the story has been revealed, but we know that the game includes more than 10 of the villains from the series including Slade, Cinderblock, Jinx, and more. You start off with the standard Titans team: Raven, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Robin, but you can also unlock at least 10 more characters. You can switch between which Titan you want to play as in real time, which is good because each Titan has unique abilities. There is a multi-player mode where you can either do Co-Op or up to 4 player versus. I haven't gotten a chance to play the game yet, but from what we've seen it looks promising. Teen Titans will be on Xbox, PS2, and Gamecube and is scheduled for release early 2006.
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If you ever wanted to know what would have happened to Winnipeg if Duff Roblin failed to build the Red River Floodway, you need only examine recent flooding in southern Alberta.
A particularly robust spring melt in the Rockies, saturated ground conditions and a deluge of precipitation combined to create the worst flood in Alberta's history and the most costly natural disaster in Canadian history.
It was not long after the floodwaters started to recede that local media reminded Albertans the damage need not have been so severe. Following a flood in 2005, then-premier Ralph Klein commissioned a special report on flood preparedness, containing 16 recommendations on improving flood forecasting and protection, and controlling development in flood-prone areas around Calgary.
You can probably guess the punchline. Despite a big initial push, the report was mostly ignored. Individual municipalities did take protective measures on their own, but there was no concerted effort to protect Calgary and surrounding communities.
The Alberta crisis underlines the courage and vision of former Manitoba premier Duff Roblin for waging the political battle of his life in the 1960s to build the Red River Floodway. We can also commend former premier Gary Doer for expending enormous amounts of financial and political capital in the 2000s to expand the floodway.
The floodway has, even by conservative estimates, saved many billions of dollars in damages to property, GDP losses and long-term infrastructure woes. Few, if any, would criticize the work of Roblin and Doer now. That does not mean it wasn't a tough decision at the time. And it continues to be a challenge to invest money against a threat that has not fully materialized. Even in Manitoba, the province that can boast about the ambitious leaders who protected the capital city from disaster, we show signs of not learning from our own successes.
The NDP government released this spring a multi-year plan to invest $1 billion in additional dikes, outlets and diversions to deal with flood threats across the province. The list included some projects outside of the Winnipeg region that have been on the drawing board for years, but never realized. However, the flood of 2011, the costliest in Manitoba history, convinced the province to pull all necessary projects together.
The province then followed that announcement with a budget that featured a one-point increase in the provincial sales tax, with some of the additional revenues going to flood projects. You can likely guess what happened next.
The Opposition Progressive Conservatives immediately laughed off this assertion that the province needed more money to fund flood protection. The Tories have been resolute that the costs of fighting floods, or planning for future floods, are manageable expenses. They have also been firm in asserting that these costs are not acceptable excuses for running a deficit. They even went as far as to argue that the absence of spring flooding -- the province suffered virtually no significant run-off flooding this year after fearing it would be severe -- was further proof the flood threat was a canard. "(The flood threat) is an excuse for jacking up taxes," Tory Leader Brian Pallister said in late April. "Nothing more." To be fair, the Tories are currently the most popular political party in Manitoba, and some of that support is no doubt due to the NDP's unpopular decision to raise taxes to fund infrastructure. The Tories oppose the PST hike outright, and although they do support strategic investment in flood protection, it's hard for them to find any nobility in anything connected to a tax hike.
The people we pay to forecast natural disasters, when that's possible, and to devise the tools and methods of mitigating their impact live by a simple rule: If you wait until the disaster arrives to protect yourself, it's already too late. However, as we are seeing in Alberta, and continue to see in Manitoba, making investments in flood protection is very difficult unless -- and this is the big "unless" -- you have just suffered a natural disaster or there is clear and present danger of one manifesting.
In Alberta right now, with many communities still suffering flood conditions, there is political consensus to find and spend money to improve flood defences. However, Alberta Premier Alison Redford will have to move quickly because that consensus will begin to recede, much like the floodwaters. If she waits too long, history and human nature dictate that other priorities will be found and necessary flood-fighting improvements will not be made.
It would be great if we lived in a world where we planned ahead and invested in the things that would protect us before we actually needed protecting.
The reality is that, often, we only find the will and support to do the right thing after it's already too late.


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2008 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
Winning entries will appear in Sept. 26 issue of Science
The National Science Foundation (NSF) along with the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), today announced the winners of their sixth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
The winning entries included breathtaking photographs and graphics that reveal intricate details of our world--the three-dimensional path made by a rapidly spinning string cutting through space and the unique anatomy of the half-meter-long Loligo pealei squid whose tiny suckers are 400 micrometers in diameter.
"I wanted to reveal the tiny world we trample through, creating scenes that at first glance are parallel to our macroscopic world, until you look a little closer," said Colleen Champ, a first-place winner with Dennis Kunkel in the Informational Graphics category. "The 'Mad Hatter's Tea' is one scene from many, depicting a quote from the fanciful mind of Lewis Carroll," she added. This scene will be featured on the cover of the Sept. 26, 2008, issue of Science.
Illustrators, photographers, computer programmers and graphics specialists from around the world were invited to submit visualizations that would intrigue, explain and educate. More than 180 entries were received from 21 countries.
The winning entries communicate information about the creation of spontaneous buckling of a poly(ethylene glycol) layer resembling wrinkles that appear on flowers' petals and leaves' edges; the 3D rendering, at nanometer resolution, of a melanoma cell through ion abrasion electron microscopy; the display of microbial biofilm from a stream, explaining its role within the stream's micro-ecosystem; and, more. The Sept. 26, 2008, issue of Science will feature the winning entries, which will also be freely available at http://www.sciencemag.org/vis2008/ and the NSF's website at http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/.
The 2008 winning entries are included in the following five categories:
First Place:
Mario De Stefano, The Second University of Naples
Honorable Mentions (tie):
Andrew Davidhazy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jessica D. Schiffman and Caroline L. Schauer; Drexel University
Ye Jin Eun and Douglas B. Weibel; University of Wisconsin-Madison
First Place:
Linda Nye and the Exploratorium Visualization Laboratory; The Exploratorium
Honorable Mentions (tie):
Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University; Christoph Römhild, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Donald Bliss and Sriram Subramaniam; National Library of Medicine, NIH
First Place:
Colleen Champ and Dennis Kunkel; Concise Image Studios
Honorable Mention:
Andrew Dopheide and Gillian Lewis; University of Auckland
First Place:
Jeremy Friedberg and Tommy Sors; Spongelab Interactive
Honorable Mention:
Janet Iwasa; Massachusetts General Hospital
Honorable Mentions (tie):
Travis Vermilye and Kenneth Eward
Mirjam Kaplow and Katharina Strohmeier; Fraunhofer FIRST
Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry; The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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Hampton & Richmond Borough boss Mark Harper may be happy with srtiker Charlie Moone, but he has warned his other frontmen they are not
Moone notched the winner in saturday's 1-0 FA Cup second qualifying round win at Waltham Forest to set up a trip to Ryman Premier League high-flyers Bury Town next weekend.
The former Woking front man has come into his own since the departure of Dave Tarpey in the summer and shoulder goalscoring duties.
But Harper, who let defender Dean Inman join Blue Square South Farnborough Town on a three-month loan last week, wants more from his forwards – or else.
"Charlie has come in and taken his chance. Most of the time he'll hit the target or work the goalkeeper and he's scoring almost a goal a game at the moment," he said.
"But we are still not scoring enough goals and if the right forward becomes available we'll take him."
Hampton host Hythe Town in the FA Trophy this week, but Harper admitted the game was not a priority.
"I'm only interested in the league and the FA Cup to tell you the truth," he added.
"We did well in the Trophy last season, but the cup competitions probably cost us our place in the league.
"Matt Ruby got injured in one competition and we lost Joel Ledgister in the Middlesex Cup. I've learned my lesson and the cups are not on my radar."


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how is the speed adjusted?
but I'm confused about what connects where -- I couldn't find a shot from the bottom, lol
cool -- i think i'll try making what you posted.(is a breadboard worth investing into?)