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- A company is introducing a motion controller it says is 200 times more precise than current models
- The Leap is a simple motion controller that you can plug into any USB port on your computer
- Its camera can discern all 10 of your fingers individually
You know that bit in "The Avengers" where Tony Stark spreads his fingers apart in mid-air and the stuff on the screen in front of him instantly appears on displays throughout the room?
A company called Leap Motion wants to make that kind of gesture control a reality, and it hopes to take the first step with a new type of motion controller.
The Leap is a simple motion controller that you can plug into any USB port on your computer. Once it's plugged in and you've installed the Leap software, it turns the 8-cubic feet of air in front of it into "3D interaction space" — basically, it'll track any and all motion within that space, letting you use your hands to do whatever you could do with a mouse.
How is that different from Microsoft Kinect? Precision — the company claims the Leap is 200 times more sensitive than current gesture-based tech, able to track movements down to a hundredth of a millimeter. Users will be able to fine-tune the sensitivity, Leap says.
The camera, which is about the size of a business-card holder, can discern all 10 of your fingers individually, and even tell your thumbs apart. Such detailed scanning lets you perform actions like pinch-to-zoom, or zero in on fine details in a drawing app (check out the video below for more applications).
It all sounds a little too good to be true — especially for a device that costs a mere $69.99. The company even acknowledges how far-fetched it sounds on its web page. Leap's goals are anything but humble: The device is all about "changing the world" by making interaction with computers more natural and intuitive.
Can't wait to try it out? You're going to have to wait — the controller doesn't go on sale until the winter, but you can pre-order one now. The company is also accepting requests for developer kits, which should be available in the next few months.
How do you like the Leap? If it holds up to its promises, would you use it? What for? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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Good evening scrappers, if you're still up if not good morning! I hope you are having a wonderful day! I had a quiet day. I drove the hubby to the airport today, he is gone till Friday:( So it's an all girl week… I feeling some rice, chicken and broccoli coming on and maybe even a little shopping!!! Then I made my hour drive home take about 5 hours!! OK so I spent a little time searching for Geo Caches all the way home! I have found 68 caches to date! It's really nice to have some quiet time walking around in the bush looking for junk but the quiet time is the real treasure. I'm also getting ready to launch my own caches soon. I made some super cool cache containers and I'll share some photos next week!
So I was chatting with Amy and she is looking forward to having some quiet time too…. kinda….
Amy is pretty excited that her husband is taking their three year old to the "Big Guy, Little guy and Gal" overnight camping trip on the 10th. She will have one evening with just her one year old (who goes to sleep at 7pm), and the the "big guys" will get a fun experience. (Next year the one year old will be old enough to join them!)
I remember those days!! And look forward to maybe seeing some fun photos!! IDK do dad's take pictures??
Oh and Jodi had a big week…
Tuesday September 7th Jodi started home schooling Rebekah! Rebekah is 3 and will be 4 in December so is in Pre-School. Rebekah was very excited about starting school and asked if it was time for school yet everyday for weeks before she started. The day after Labor Day was the big day and Rebekah was thrilled to get started. She picked out a backpack that she wanted just a few weeks before.
This week Rebekah learned about the letter A, the state of NJ (where she lives), the planet Earth, the number 1, the shapes heart, diamond, circle, and square and the colors red, blue, yellow, and pink. She also learned from her Bible about creation and Adam and Eve. She painted with paint and water colors, colored with markers and crayons, and wrote the letter A and a and the number 1. Boy she's had a full week!
Her Dora desk that she loves so much!
The backpack she picked out…
Painting in one of her daddy's old shirts…
Coloring a heart with markers…
And the letters A she made with cereal (Apple Jacks and Alphabet Cereal)
Jodi realized after she took the picture that she put the lowercase a upside down for the picture. hehe
Wonderful work Rebekah!!! Jodi is such an ambitious mom to take on this big job!! I know there are quite a few of you mom's out there that decide to home school your children…. my hats off to you!! I have no idea how you do it!! I sure look forward to updates along the way and seeing some more art projects!!
While I'm on the topic of school and kids… my sister an I were talking about school uniforms yesterday. I have to say I'm all for the school uniform. I love that everyone at school would wear the same thing and it wouldn't cost parents a small fortune buying all the brands our kids love!! My sister on the other hand is totally against it! Her stance is that a school uniform only comes in limited if not only one style and that we are all different body shapes. So the same outfit doesn't work for everybody!! I can see her point but I have to say that I'm still all for it.
So I'm wondering, did you ever have to wear a uniform and how did you feel about it?? Would you want your kids to have school uniforms??


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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
SSF4AE PC Moveset Swap Tutorial
Here's how you do it:
Step 1: Make a backup of your AE installation. If you mess something up, this will save you a lot of time, I promise.
Step 2: Pick 2 characters: 1 whose moveset we'll be taking (the donor) and 1 who will be receiving those moves (the recipient). For this example, I will use Hakan as the donor and Ryu as the recipient (i.e., Ryu with Hakan's moveset).
Step 3: Go to the resource/battle/chara directory and find your donor's folder, in this case HKN. In this folder, copy all of the files from HKN.cam.ema down to HKN.vfx.ttex.emz EXCEPT for HKN.fce.ema and copy them somewhere (a working folder where we have write permissions is appropriate).
Step 4: Rename all of those files we just copied to match our recipient's character prefix, in this case RYU. Now, go back to resource/battle/chara and copy them into our recipient's folder, overwriting the ones that are already there (it's cool, you backed everything up anyway, right? Right??).
Step 5: Now, this is the key step: navigate to your donor's "latest" moveset files, which are located in dlc/03_character_free/battle/regulation/latest/ for normal characters (I'll update this post with the AE character's locations when I get home). Take the donor's bac and bcm files, in this case HKN.bac and HKN.bcm, copy them to our working directory and rename them to our recipient's character prefix.
Step 6: Finally, we take our renamed bac and bcm files and drop them into our recipient's folder in dlc/03_character_free/battle/regulation/latest/ (assuming they're a normal character and not AE-specific), overwriting what's there.
That's it. All done!
I'm going to explain a little bit about what we've just done, so read over it if you're interested:
The actual moves and animations are stored in the .bac and .bcm files, which were previously components of the *.cmn.emz bundles in vanilla SF4. When they were bundled, we had to open the entire bundle in a hex editor and find the desired files and names to edit manually. However, since Capcom stopped using the bundles, we can just rename the files and be done with it.
Now, you'll notice in step 3 we omitted the *.fce.ema file, which contains the character's face animation data. By doing so, we've let Ryu--our recipient--keep his original face animation data, thus avoiding the monkeyface for the most part.
Last, I wanted to mention the various revisions of moveset files included in the AE installation. The ones included in the resource/battle/chara directory are the regular, non-AE movesets, which are superseded by the ones located in dlc/03_character_free/battle/regulation/latest/. However, during the challenges/trials, the game reverts to using the SSF4 movesets, which access the resource/battle/chara ones.
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hi Hunter K. thank you for the AMAZING guide!!.
However, I will like to ask you, do you have problems using the super special (like Genei Jin) after move swap?
Because after i move swap the characters, all the moveset has changed, normal etc, even the ultra special.
But for some reason, i am unable to use any super special. Is there any solution to this?
- July 7, 2011 at 7:06 PM
Yeah i get same problem fine until i do a super combo etc. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this cos its so dam close.
- July 8, 2011 at 12:02 AM
- Hunter K. said...
Hmm. I haven't had this problem. Is this occurring on any character swaps or just Yun/Yang? I was fiddling around with E. Ryu > Juri swaps last night and could super (demon) just fine.
- July 8, 2011 at 6:12 AM
Cammy and sakura, guy and Hibiki.
I know its going off the beaten track but any you guys know how to edit the subtitles had some good ideas for commical stoylines. I tried saving as i do when reskining (dxt1 or dxt5) but cant save modded subtitles.
- July 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Hunter K. said...
It should be the same process as editing any other DDS, but take the original one and open it with Nvidia's WTV utility to check which DXT compression you should use. Also, be sure whether it has/doesn't have mipmaps.
- July 8, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Still havin probs but no matter early days, thanks for the advice.
- July 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM
hi Hunter K.
Thanks for your prompt reply.
I only have problems with Yun (donor) moves to other characters.
I swap Feilong moves to Makoto, it works fine, and i also able to use super. (have not try other characters)
By the way, i will like to check what these files does?
Apparently, in the foloder,
there is no such files.
Are both of these files necessary for moveset swap?
If so, i am unable to find these files for YUN.
is it possible one of these files content the Genei Jin commands?
Thanks you for your help.
- July 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM
- Coolboy2011 said...
Thank you very much!
I swapped Ryu -> Chun Li, succeeded, everything's all right except the wired face in the battle opening.
I'll try more, so exciting!!!
- July 8, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- Hunter K. said...
Hmmm, yeah, sounds like there's an issue with Genei Jin, specifically...
I have no idea what those files do, Anon. They weren't present in vanilla. I'll take a look and see what's up, though.
If you swap Juri's moves to other people, does her Genei Jin-type ultra work correctly?
- July 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM
- Coolboy2011 said...
Hi Hunter K.
Thank you for your tutorial!
I'm having fun with swapping, and I've tried a lot since my last comment.
However, I still have a problem with the "monkey face" issue.
You see, everything works well during the fight, but at the opening animation scenes, and the closing animation scenes, also, when doing the ultra combos, the characters are having the "monkey faces".
Do you have this problem?
I wish I can get a reply from you to solve this.
- July 9, 2011 at 8:09 PM
- Hunter K. said...
yeah, that happens. I won't go into why, but it's normal. You can get rid of it through a very tedious manual editing of the fce.ema file (open in a hex editor and overwrite x00s over anything related to 'face'), but that method also has the unfortunate side effect of essentially freezing the character's face completely (poker face). I much prefer the occasional monkeyface.
- July 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Coolboy2011 said...
@Hunter K
Thank you very much for your reply.
I'm very lazy, so I give up editing the hex text files.
However, another method just came to my mind, I tried, and succeeded.
While, I just copied ".bst" , ".nml.emb", and other costume files (.col.emb, .obj.emm) from the donor to the recipient, so controlling the recipient looks like controlling the donor character.
This method is easy enough for me, lol.
- July 11, 2011 at 1:03 AM
What happens online when you play the swapped character?
Cause I just asked someone if they saw my Ibuki with an Akuma moveset on their screen, but they told me that they only saw Ibuki doing her normal moves.
Although on my screen, I saw my Ibuki doing Akuma moves. So I'm a little confused, whats really happening.
- August 7, 2011 at 4:10 AM
- Hunter K. said...
Yes, modding of any sort isn't visible to the other player online because the game doesn't send that kind of information to the other client. I'm surprised you were even able to play online with a moveswap, actually. Usually the game desyncs and breaks the connection.
- August 7, 2011 at 6:24 AM
- GeForceFX said...
Are there any news on Yun/Yan (ultra) monkey face issue?
I'd really love to replace that bastard with something else, but the monkey face is a deal breaker ;_;
- August 10, 2011 at 9:06 AM
Is this guide compitable with the tool MonkeyFix?
- February 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM
- Hunter K. said...
Yeah, it should be. Just do the steps and then run the tool to fix the cinematic face animations, I think.
- February 6, 2012 at 7:47 PM
Yeah, it worked. Perhaps you should include that in your tutorial?
- February 8, 2012 at 4:08 AM
The guy who made ultras with the camera angel, do you know how he did?
He refuse to respond.
- April 2, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- Hunter K. said...
I believe it was all done through Dantarion et al's Ono! Editor tool. I believe that was in the 'scripts' part of the tool.
- April 2, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Thanks. I will check it out.
Btw I was kinda unclear about what I wanted plus there was a typo which made it senseless.
I was referring to these:
Thats the one you was talking about to, right?
- April 3, 2012 at 4:05 PM
- Hunter K. said...
oooooh, I see what you mean now. I didn't get it before.
To make that video, he replaced the bac but not the bcm (I think... maybe got it backward). This gives a character swapped moves but keeps their original scripts(?). Regardless, I'm fairly sure it was done entirely through file replacement, without messing around in Ono!
You may have to replace the character's original cam.ema, too, but I'm not sure about that.
- April 3, 2012 at 7:04 PM
Didn't work.
Thanks anyway!
- April 7, 2012 at 4:19 PM


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Friday, November 14, 2008
Be Careful What You Wish For
The doctor took new x-rays and things are starting to heal but the toe is not quite straight. That means that I may be looking at another bunion down the road. *sigh* At least I hope to have a few pain free years. He did tell me that he may still be able to fix the right foot later but I can't make any decisions about more surgery right now.
After he bandaged me all back up I thought I was set and then he told me he was going to give me a boot to wear. I got a size medium for my tiny little foot. I had been doing very well on the crutches - not any more! It weighs a ton. The boot comes up to the middle of my knee so it is hard to bend it. If I bend it so the foot is behind me the toe tends to drag on the floor. If I hold it out in front of me I loose my balance. Just after surgery I had no problem with the steps; today John had to help keep me from falling. I guess I'll figure it out in a day or two. Maybe it won't be as uncomfortable as the splint at night but somehow I doubt it. Next week, if all goes well, I should be able to start putting some weight on the heal.
With lots of time spent just sitting on the couch I've had lots of time to transcribe letters and have started a new series of them at Apple's Tree. Enough Apple Whine, John made steak for dinner and I intend to enjoy it!
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Goodness, that boot does look huge! You have to wear it to bed?? It certainly doesn't sound like fun.....for either of you! I hope you both manage to get some decent sleep soon.ReplyDelete
Be careful on the steps!
How nice to have a husband who cooks. I'm sure the steak was delicious. A little Apple whine is OK considering the circumstances :)
Apple, you and I are in the boot...errrr, boat. I have my left arm in an awkward padded sling because of my shoulder surgery....something I'll have to wear for 6 weeks, ugh!ReplyDelete
I think I'd rather have foot surgery. I have to keyboard with one hand. I'm still in my hospital gown, because it's impossible to wear any top over this thing while my dressings are on. They come off on Monday, when I can finally bathe. Dressing myself, bathing my self, washing and styling my hair, shaving and using deodorant are all impossible right now.
We're a real pair, aren't we? ;-)
Hi Kerri,ReplyDelete
I kept him awake until the wee hours last night and then I slept in after he got up. I cracked up at the thought of him getting out there and planting the last of the bulbs but you know what? I know he would if I asked him to. He did put together the shrub protector I am supposed to try this winter and review in the spring. I had this done now hoping that I'd be off the crutches before the snow starts piling up. I hope I'm not sledding down the steps tomorrow!
Six weeks in the sling and you only get two off from work? You're right that with the foot I can get lots of typing done! Although I imagine that you type just as fast with one hand as I do with two. I hope that after Monday things get easier for you and that your family gives you lots of TLC.
Your foot and mine could be twins! (back in the walking boot again!)ReplyDelete
Hope you feel a bit better each day.
If your tiny foot has a boot bigger than Santa's, I hate to think what would be needed to encase my enormous feet.ReplyDelete
Apple, can you balance enough to take a photo out of a window if your dear husband plants the bulbs? It would make a sweet post!
Sure hope you both get some sleep soon - can't heal well without the ZZZZZZZ's.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Susie - I really hope this is the last time in the boot for you!ReplyDelete
Annie - If John plants my bulbs I will get a picture. I'm actually hoping for a snow free week in December so I can do it.
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Winter Style Inspiration: See Celebs Bundled Up in Cold-Weather Clothing [PHOTOS]
Winter will officially be here on Dec. 21, but it came a little earlier this year, weather-wise. Winter might be bitter and miserably cold, but it's also a time for being fashionably bundled up.
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Case Study: Leah Day Brings Free To The Quilting World
from the arts-&-crafts dept
Having made an award-winning feature film, the next logical step in my career would naturally be...quilting. That's what my Muse says, anyway, and I've learned not to argue with Her. So, for the past 2 months, I've been learning how to quilt, something I've never done before in my life (no family members nor friends quilt) but find fascinating.
Starting from zero knowledge, the first place I sought information was the Internet. Easier said than done: quilts are poorly represented online. Art quilters are extremely cagey about their designs and techniques; online photographs of art quilts are scarce and those that do show up tend to be postage-stamp tiny.
Leah Day is a happy exception to this rule. Through her web site Day Style Designs, she offers countless Free tutorials on quilting techniques, from the most basic (how to iron and starch your fabric - something this beginner found invaluable) to the most advanced. While other quilters cling to their designs and issue threats against copying, Leah goes in the opposite direction, sharing freely, inviting copying, and requesting (rather than demanding) links back to her site.
Leah specializes in Free Motion Quilting, a kind of drawing with a sewing machine. She is best known for her 365 Free Motion Quilting Project, a personal challenge "to come up with a new free motion filler design every day for a whole year."
A quilt is a piece of art and the free motion filler designs add an element of texture and thread to the surface of the quilt that nothing else can. A quilt is simply not a quilt without the quilting stitches. Think of the filler designs as texture created by a painter with a paintbrush. Only instead of paint, quilters are creating that texture with thread.
I searched for a book to teach me creative free motion filler designs. I didn't find one. Maybe I wasn't searching hard enough because when the idea of this project came to me, I couldn't get it out of my head.
Leah makes clear, short videos of creating the designs, which she posts on her blog, along with photographs of the finished designs and the message, "Feel free to use this free motion quilting design in your quilts and send in a picture to show it off!"
The quilting world is apparently rife with copyright bullying. Those sweet little old ladies (average age of 'dedicated quilters' is 62) issue threats against anyone who would copy 'their' designs, which consist entirely of un-copyrightable motifs like squares, circles and spirals. As long as neither the bullies nor the victims know much about copyright law, the quilting community maintains the fiction that ideas are property.
The free model is very, very new to quilting. Most quilt patterns are covered by copyright, so you can't use the design for any commercial purpose. I can't make a quilt from a pattern and sell the quilt without first contacting the original designer for permission. I can't even show that quilt in a national show without permission.
And that's just for the quilt top design! The free motion designs can also apparently be copyrighted (which is insane). How can I copyright "Basic Spiral"? It's a spiral design! Spirals have been around for thousands of years! Am I the first to quilt it on a quilt? Heck no! I'm just the first person to give it a name and teach you how to do it.
Leah monetizes her work primarily through her online Quilt Shop, which stocks only products she uses herself daily. Although the selection isn't broad, it's a great strategy. As a beginner, her recommendations guided my initial purchases; I happily spent over $250 at her shop. If I need more quilting supplies, I'll check her shop first. I'd rather have sale profits benefit her than Amazon, and the prices are the same. That is fan behavior: I'm a fan of her videos, grateful for what she shares, and I want to support her. She makes it easy to do so, by selling supplies. It's Connect With Fans + Reason To Buy in action.
Demand from fans also led her to publish an instructional book and DVD. Even though all the designs in it are free on her blog, fans begged for a printed book they could keep next their sewing machines. Because she's connected to fans, she knows what they want, what will sell, and where to invest her energies.
It is unlikely the copyright maximalists of the quilting world support themselves from copyrighting, or quilting. Quilts themselves are tremendously undervalued and underpriced:
Even the purchase price at major shows (AQS Paducah is probably the biggest) is only $30,000. For the level of work and detail that go into quilts, it's pennies per hour.
This is why I don't sell my quilts. I have sold only 2 since I started quilting and even those two limited experiences taught me that this was a good way to stay broke and live frustrated. Making what other people want, rather than what I want, is not creative, it's slave labor.
Americans spend $3.6 billion on quilting annually (yes, you read that right), primarily for quilting supplies and equipment, followed by conferences, classes, and workshops. Most quilters are affluent and retired. Presumably they cling to copyright due to control issues, not a need to make money. In contrast, Leah Day needs to make money - she is 27 years old and supporting a young family. Is it any wonder that she has embraced Free?
The more fans Leah gets, the more sales she makes, and the higher her profile as an artist and teacher. In its first year, her online shop grossed about $140,000. Prior to the Free Motion Quilting Project, Leah was virtually unknown; she now leads a growing community of fans and customers. Says Leah, "Free is really what's put me on the map."


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In the Crosshairs
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Bulgarin's men arrive to ambush Luis.
|The Ballad of Gay Tony
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In the Crosshairs is a mission in The Ballad of Gay Tony. It is given by Ray Bulgarin to Luis Lopez.
Luis will head to Ray's house. When Luis arrives there, Bulgarin is toting his AK-47 but Timur is nowhere to be found, and appears to be out on a job. Bulgarin tells Luis that he has some business to take care of, and after shooting multiple rounds through the ceiling at his screaming sister, Bulgarin sends Luis on to the place.
Luis is instructed to meet Timur at a building at Columbus Avenue and Denver Avenue. When he enters the building, he finds himself on a rooftop. He phones Ray and is instructed to look inside a box on the roof. The box contains the severed head of The Cook. Indeed, it appears that the Diamonds were stolen from Bulgarin, knowing Gay Tony and Luis set up the deal, he wanted to kill Luis and planned an elaborate setup to do so which involved snipers and cars full of armed men. The plan failed however, and Luis lived on to despise Bulgarin.
- The player should seek out and kill the two grenade launchers first. They are on the roof of a building across the street. They can be very annoying and deadly.
- Avoid doing this mission at night, as the snipers and grenade launchers are virtually invisible against the dark sky, even with a nightscope-equipped sniper rifle.
- As the video walkthrough below suggests, take a helicopter over to Ray's house before triggering the mission and the use it to get to the building to trim some time.
- Although the mission can be done before it, in terms of storyline continuity it makes more sense for this mission to be done after Not So Fast.
See also
Ray Bulgarin shoots Assault Rifle rounds through the ceiling at his sister; Galina Bulgarin.
The decapitated head of The Cook.
One of the assasin snipers, shot by Luis Lopez crashes onto the street below.
Secondary objectives
|Target score
|Time taken to complete the mission.
|Player damage
|Damage attained by the player.
|Number of headshots needed by the player.
|Amount of accuracy needed by the player.
|4 shots, 4 snipers
|Four sniper rifle shots were used on the four snipers (one for each).


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I'm still not quite sure how, but I've managed to acquire a second laptop. It's been sat there for a while, happily running Ubuntu 9.10 but not really doing too much else, so when the opportunity to migrate to the latest and greatest Ubuntu version came along, it just seemed like a good idea to re-christen it "Gullible Guinea Pig" and introduce it to "Lucid Lynx".
So, without any further ado, I fired up update manager ( System Menu, Administration) and hit the Upgrade button
An hour or so later, all has proceeded to plan and the machine has a shiny new version of Ubuntu.
Obviously, there are some cosmetic differences – the default colour scheme is a bit less brown; the Open Office splash screen now has the Oracle logo in place of Sun… and all of the Windows have their control buttons ( Minimize, Maximize, Close) on the left-hand side of the Window title bar.
Hang on, that can't be right, can it ?
One reboot later and the widgets are obstinately clinging to the wrong side of the title bar.
The solution to this little glitch turned out to be rather in keeping with the bug itself. In the System Menu under Preferences / Appearance, simply select another theme. As soon as you do that, the widgets magically revert to their proper place.
After that, everything seems to work as expected. I finally got around to enabling the machine for DVD playback, which is done in exactly the same way as for previous versions ( see here for details).


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GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) -
Another round of rain and storms is forecast to threaten the area Thursday.
FOX Carolina Meteorologist Nicole Papay said a flash flood watch has been issued for all Upstate counties excluding Cherokee and Union. The watch also includes all of Northeast Georgia and Henderson, Polk, Macon, Jackson and Transylvania counties in North Carolina. The watch runs goes until 6 a.m. Friday.
Papay said fog may also be an issue Thursday morning, then scattered rain and storms likely in the afternoon with the possibility of downpours and flooding.
All of this comes after a wet Wednesday, with more than 6'' inches of rain having fallen in the Clemson area, and more than 2'' in Greenville and Spartanburg. Parts of Henderson County also saw significant rainfall, leading to some flooding as well along the Green River where three people were rescued Wednesday.
After 11 p.m. Wednesday, showers had diminished, leaving behind dry conditions, but that won't be the case for long. Forecasters said another 1-2 inches of rain are possible by Friday.
Many places across the Upstate were hit hard, Pickens County and western North Carolina seeing a lot of flooded roads and some damage.
The damage and flooding left a few roads closed Thursday. In Central, Todds Creek Road is closed because of a washed out culvert. In Six Mile, Jones Mill Road is closed because of a bridge collapse and in Pickens, Silver Creek Road is closed because of flooding.
Deputies remind drivers to turn around and not drive through flooded streets. Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark said many people think nothing will happen to them, but following a Central man's death, he wants everyone to remember their cars can be swept off the road.
Clark said the man's vehicle was swept off the road during Tuesday night's flooding and his body was found Wednesday night.
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The Prevailing Church (pt. 2)
As we saw in last month's installment of "Pro Ecclesia," privileges and duties go together. In making disciples, Jesus commanded they be baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and …Read More
The Prevailing Church (Pt. 1)
The word church is fundamentally a Christian word and belongs exclusively to Christianity. Although other religions have terms such as synagogue and mosque, only Christians legitimately call their house of worship "church." There are churches that are named after …Read More
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The show is taking place March 26-29th at The Gaylord Palms in Orlando, FL.
If you're attending Enterprise Connect, visit the Cisco booth #1001 where you can see firsthand all of the exciting new solutions being announced by the Cisco TelePresence, Collaboration and Enterprise Video teams.
In addition to our booth activities, Cisco is participating in a number of speaking sessions and our very own OJ Winge, SVP and General Manager, Collaboration Endpoints, will deliver the keynote on Tuesday, March 27th at 10 am EDT. Follow these links for the full list of Cisco booth activities and speaking sessions. To sign up for mobile alerts on Cisco activities during the show, simply text "CISCO" to 66937.
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I'm interested in the "Tablet Tactics" topic but I won't be able to make the session. Will an overview be available as part of the Virtual Experience?
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SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 21, 2013) - Financial Forecasting and Planning Innovation Summit -- Host Analytics, the leader in cloud enterprise performance management (EPM), today announced its selection as winner of the Best Financial Planning and Analysis Technology award at the IE Group Financial Forecasting and Planning Innovation Summit.
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"Host Analytics is building amazing momentum," said Dave Kellogg, CEO of Host Analytics. "In the past three months, we've raised $17M in new capital, closed out a record 2012, shown stunning improvement in our Gartner Magic Quadrant position, and now have received this tremendous recognition from the IE Finance Group. I couldn't be happier to have joined this great company last August."
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text: September 10, 2002 - Austin, TX - Photodex Corporation a leading graphics software company, today announced the release of Version 6.2 of the popular CompuPic family of digital content managers. Version 6.2 adds dozens of new features and enhancements to the world's fastest digital image viewers and managers. This release of CompuPic 6.2 adds powerful new technology, including support for the rapidly growing JPEG 2000 file format and new editing features, making it a fun and useful tool for digital camera users. Version 6.2 adds support for the new industry standard JPEG 2000 image format and sets a new standard by providing the fastest JPEG 2000 encoding and decoding available. "The best compression quality combined with the fastest image decoder makes the JPEG 2000 and CompuPic combination unbeatable" says Photodex CEO, Paul Schmidt. JPEG 2000 is the new wavelet-based version of the globally popular JPEG format which uses new compression techniques to compress images into smaller files with higher image quality. JPEG 2000's superior quality and compression are helping to increase the format's support and popularity. In addition to JPEG 2000, Version 6.2 adds support for dozens of additional file types, bringing the total to over 100 file types for CompuPic and CompuPic Pro. CompuPic Pro 6.2, the flagship of the CompuPic family, includes new image editing and enhancement features. The all new Border function lets users overlay eye-catching photo borders to their images. Over a dozen image effects, including emboss, despeckle, mosaic, twirl and more let users enhance their images. These features offer fun and fast artistic manipulation for working with digital images. Other feature enhancements in Version 6.2 include enhanced cropping and resizing, over 25 new slide show transitions, and address book support for e-mail. making CompuPic the most comprehensive image e-mail program available. As with all CompuPic releases, Version 6.2 is available as a free upgrade to any registered user who purchased within the last year. In addition, Photodex has reduced the price of CompuPic Pro 6.2 to $79.95, with reductions in upgrade pricing as well. Availability and PricingAll CompuPic 6.2 products are available today for download and purchase. Photodex offers three tiers of the popular digital content manager. The flagship of the CompuPic line, CompuPic Pro ($79.95) is the professional version offering web-design features, batch conversions, Picture CD creation and more. CompuPic ($39.95) is the mid-level version, offering fast viewing and browsing combined with commonly used features such as e-mailing and image editing. CompuPic Express ($24.95) is the entry level viewer for those wanting to view images from e-mail, CDs, digital cameras or the Internet. All versions are available from www.photodex.com as fully functional 15-day trials and can be purchased online at www.photodex.com, or via telephone at 800-37-Photo (800-377-4686). About Photodex CorporationFounded in 1987 and based in Austin, TX, Photodex Corporation develops innovative imaging and media applications helping computer users organize and use their digital camera images, clip art, fonts, videos, and sound files effectively and creatively. The Photodex CompuPic product line has won numerous awards and is a favorite of users working with digital media. Photodex also produces a professional line including Photodex PictureCD which allows professional photo labs and studios to produce full featured picture CDs.


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Washington, D.C. (November 16, 2009) — Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Senior Vice President Ken Johnson issued the following statement today:
"Mark Twain once mused: there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Unfortunately, today's New York Times only tells half a story, using selected statistics to make a flawed assumption that an increase in drug prices must somehow be tied to health care reform.
"In truth, price increases are the natural result of market forces. All companies make their own independent pricing decisions based on many factors, including patent expirations, the economy, and the huge, sunk R&D costs which typically exceed $1 billion for a single medicine.
"But here is a key part of the story that the Times ignored: according to Forbes magazine, 58,000 jobs in our industry have been lost so far this year because of the economy and sluggish sales, due – in large part – to a rapid increase in the use of generics. What's more, financial results for about a dozen of our companies show zero revenue growth in the third quarter and -3% year to date. And, data in one of the same studies cited by the Times shows only a 2% revenue growth over the next five years. Of course, that wasn't reported.
"In fact, revenues generated by our industry help to fund the discovery and development of innovative, life-saving medicines, which benefit patients worldwide and advance medical progress.
"So, focusing only on prices, as the Times did, can present a misleading picture of our sector. In some ways, it's like trying to project annual U.S. auto sales by adding up sticker prices. That's not reality. How many people in America actually pay full price for a car?
"Similarly, drug manufacturers often offer steep discounts and rebates through negotiations with large payers such as insurance companies. In fact, government reports show that rebates in the Medicare prescription drug program are often as much as 20-30% for many brand-name drugs.
"Simply put, discounts and rebates can significantly lower the cost of many brand-name drugs, benefiting patients nationwide. But you wouldn't know it by looking at pharmacy prices – or reading the New York Times.
"Here is another important fact lost in the story: every single one of the pricing reports cited by theTimes relies solely on pharmacy transaction data, which do not capture off-invoice rebates. In other words, the Times is trying to do the political calculus by adding up sticker prices again. It's wrong and it's misleading. Today, prescription medicines account for 10% of health care spending in America – the same as it was back in 1960.
"And what's happened since 1960? For one thing, new cutting-edge medicines have helped to dramatically increase life expectancy rates in America and have allowed patients with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other devastating chronic diseases to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. Unfortunately, medicines are always looked at as a cost and never seen as a savings – even though medicines often reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, help avoid costly medical procedures and increase productivity through better prevention and management of chronic diseases.
"As we enter the homestretch of the health care debate, there are going to be a lot of last-minute political attacks designed to sabotage reform. We believe smart, common-sense Americans will be able to differentiate between the lies, damn lies and statistics."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to inventing medicines that allow patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. PhRMA companies are leading the way in the search for new cures. PhRMA members alone invested an estimated $50.3 billion in 2008 in discovering and developing new medicines. Industry-wide research and investment reached a record $65.2 billion in 2008.
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1955 National Champions
OU History & Tradition | National Championships
Perhaps it was just another of his motivational ploys, but legendary head coach Bud Wilkinson said prior to the start of the season, "I don't think we're going to be nearly as good a football team as people think."
Apparently it took some convincing of the AP poll voters as well. It wasn't until the eighth week of the season that Oklahoma took over the No. 1 spot in the rankings.
By then, the Sooners were 26 games into a winning streak that would eventually reach an NCAA record of 47. If any doubt remained, Oklahoma polished off a perfect 11-0 record with four straight shutouts to end the regular season and a 20-6 victory over No. 3 Maryland in the Orange Bowl.
Wilkinson's guarded outlook before the season could be somewhat understood, as Oklahoma lost 14 letterwinners from the previous year, including three of four starters in the backfield.
Jimmy Harris was the heir apparent at quarterback, while Tommy McDonald and Billy Pricer took over at running back and fullback. Jerry Tubbs was moved from fullback to center to bolster a solid line which included the likes of All-American guard Bo Bolinger and tackle Ed Gray.
Despite all the new faces, the Sooners didn't miss a beat in 1955, leading the nation in total offense, rushing offense and scoring offense. Meanwhile, Oklahoma's defense shut out half the opponents they faced while holding four more to a touchdown or less.
The end result was OU's 10th straight conference title and a second national championship.
In the season opener against North Carolina, Oklahoma scored twice in the second half to come away with a 13-6 victory over the Tar Heels.
The Sooners dropped to No. 5 and hosted No. 12 Pittsburgh the following week. After rolling to a 19-0 halftime lead, OU held on for a 26-14 win.
The 1955 meeting with Texas marked the golden anniversary of the Red River Rivalry. It was Oklahoma's defense that shined in this one by picking off five Texas passes, including three by Tubbs, who also played linebacker. The Sooners pitched their sixth shutout in the series against the Longhorns and their first since 1938.
Oklahoma pounded Kansas the following week, 44-6. The Jayhawks took a 6-0 lead after driving 71 yards on the opening possession, but they wouldn't penetrate past midfield the rest of the game.
No. 14 Colorado was next, and the Buffaloes came in boasting a defense that had allowed only 19 points through their first four games. An innovater well ahead of his time, Wilkinson unveiled the no-huddle offense against CU, or the "no recovery" as he referred to it. The Sooners would quickly line up after the previous play and snap the ball before the defense had a chance to get set. The result was the Sooners running roughshod over the Colorado defense for eight touchdowns.
OU then hammered Kansas State, 40-7, before traveling to Columbia the following week to face Missouri, which was coming off an upset of Colorado. The Sooners would have none of it, however, shutting down the Tigers, 20-0.
Oklahoma replaced undefeated Maryland atop the AP poll, a post it wouldn't relinquish the rest of the year.
After dismantling Iowa State, 52-0, OU traveled to Nebraska with a chance to clinch the Big Seven title. Despite an unimpressive 5-4 overall record, the Huskers were also undefeated in the conference. A day before the game, NU coach Bill Grassford resigned, and the Sooners gave him a 41-0 going away present.
Days later, Oklahoma accepted a bid to play Maryland in the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day. For the Sooners to claim the school's second national championship, however, they would first need a victory over Oklahoma State. It wasn't a problem, as the Sooners blasted the Aggies 53-0.
The Orange Bowl was the only bowl game to feature two unbeaten teams in 1955. The Terrapins came in seeking some revenge after OU ruined their perfect season two years earlier. Instead, Oklahoma kept its perfect record intact with a 20-6 win, leaving no doubt as to who the best team in the country was.
"That's the most satisfying victory we've ever had," Wilkinson said after the game, perhaps finally actualizing what he never thought possible at the beginning of the year.


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New Canaan baseball rides big fifth inning past Fairfield Warde
Junior second baseman Brandon Abate smacked a two-RBI single to cap New Canaan's five-run fifth inning Monday and set up an 8-1 Rams victory over Fairfield Warde at Mead Park. New Canaan (5-1, 3-1) won its third straight game as starter Dan Rajkowski pitched four innings of one-run ball in his long-awaited return to the rotation following Tommy John surgery. The Mustangs (3-3, 3-1 FCIAC) allowed 11 hits, while they only mustered four in the first six frames.
"They had a big fifth inning and capitalized on a couple of our mistakes and walks," Warde coach Mark Caron said. "I told the guys we had to play seven innings to get the win, and we really only played four. They're too good of a team to not play a complete game against and have a shot."
Rams reliever Alex Lapolice (2-0) picked up the win with three scoreless innings of work, as he helped his own cause with three runs scored. However, the story was Rajkowski, who struck out the final batter of every inning with a total of five on the afternoon.
"I just wanted to go out there and throw strikes," the senior starter said. "In my first two innings, I knew I had a pretty good pitch count. But then my teammates backed me up in the field a lot and it helped a lot. It's a great feeling to be back in the rotation."
At the plate, New Canaan captain Matt Toth went 4-for-4 and scored the final run of the game, as part of a two-run sixth inning. The Rams scored first on Rajkowski's RBI single in the opening inning, though they managed just three hits in the following three innings. As Mustangs starter Hunter Hewitt settled in, centerfielder Mike Foley delivered an RBI double in the third to knot the score at 1-all.
Two innings later, New Canaan chased Hewitt by stringing together six consecutive base runners, en route to batting through the order.
"I may have gone a little too long with him in that fifth inning," Caron said. "But he's one of our better pitchers, so I wanted to give him a shot to see if he could get out of it. And they responded. They're a good hitting team all-around."
A Toth single, sandwiched by a pair of walks, opened the frame and helped load the bases for Rams third baseman Erik Jager with one out. Jager then drew a walk of his own to score the go-ahead run, before catcher Zack Smith plated another with an infield single to short. Next, Abate stepped in and smashed a base hit to right, which eventually cleared the bases after a Mustang throwing error.
"We hit the ball the whole game pretty hard," New Canaan coach Mitch Hoffman said. "It finally just started clicking in."
Warde's Billy Money stepped in to relieve Hewitt and retired the final two batters. He went on to allow two more runs before Lapolice closed the door by inducing a groundball double play. Both teams will play home games today at 4 p.m., as the Rams battle Harding and the Mustangs host Greenwich.
New Canaan 8, Fairfield Warde 1
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Records: Fairfield Warde 3-3, 3-1 FCIAC; New Canaan 5-1, 3-1 FCIAC. Batteries: FW--Hunter Hewitt (L, 1-1), Billy Money (5) and Anthony Miller; NC--Dan Rajkowski, Alex Lapolice (W, 2-0) (5) and Zack Smith.
Highlights: FW--Michael Foley collected two of the Mustangs' six hits, including an RBI double. NC--Matt Toth went 4 for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Lapolice picked up his second win and scored three runs.


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The Next Web: For the first time in 14 years, Samsung passes Nokia as top cellphone brand in 2012; Apple in third
For the first time in 14 years, Samsung will pass Nokia in the global cellphone business (on an annual basis). At the end of 2012, Samsung will seize the mobile handset market's top rank, while Nokia will drop down to second place. More specifically, Samsung is expected to move from 24 percent of worldwide cellphone […]
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury leaders are pitching some modest changes they hope will have a big impact on the look of Main Street in front of the post office and on the safety of an increasingly used Merchants Row.
Middlebury officials originally drew up the Post Office plaza makeover last year, in concert with the repaving of Main Street and installation of some new downtown light fixtures.
Middlebury Town Planner Fred Dunnington said the makeover is designed to address some of the current deficiencies within post office plaza.
"One of the trees (in the plaza) has died entirely; the other was in terrible shape," Dunnington said. "The pattern of the pavement in front is flawed, and there is grass growing through portions of it and there are puddles in it. We thought we could improve it with a new surface, of the type that was done at the Town Hall Theater plaza and Middlebury Natural Food Co-op."
The plan calls for, among other things:
• Installation of new surfacing for the area fronting the post office building. That surface will include a small amount of granite leading up to the post office steps. Those steps are currently also made of granite. Dark-gray tinted concrete paving, with saw-cut score joints, will provide a pedestrian-friendly surface leading from the Main Street curb to the granite walkway/steps. An exposed aggregate concrete paving will round out the balance of the plaza.
• Placement of three, six-foot-long benches along two separate strips of perennial plantings in front of the post office building. Along with those perennial patches, the plaza will feature three trees — two honey locusts and a Japanese lilac.
• Relocation, to the border of the new perennial garden strips, of the outdoor mailboxes.
• Reservation of a spot, within the plaza, for the display of public art.
SHOREHAM — This summer's wet weather may have been tough on corn and hay fields, but it has helped produce a bumper crop of apples at local orchards.
"Most people are looking at a good crop," said Steve Justis, marketing specialist for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. "If we can get through the next few days of wind, I think we'll be looking at a good year."
Vermont orchards yielded approximately 800,000 bushels of apples last year, according to Justis. This year could be substantially better.
"I think the numbers could be up 10 percent for this season, if we can avoid complications from hurricane winds," Justis said on Monday, alluding to the remnants of Hurricane Ike that had battered portions of Texas over the weekend. Thankfully, the forecast for Vermont for the balance of this week was for sun and mild temperatures. And another big plus: Most Vermont orchards averted hailstorms this past spring that did significant damage to fruit crops in New York state.
Addison County continues to be the largest apple producing region in the state, according to Justis. Economic pressure, brought on primarily by competition from abroad, has whittled down the state's major commercial apple producers to a solid core of around 25, according to Vermont agriculture officials.
Bill Suhr of Shoreham-based Champlain Orchards anticipates his operation will exceed the 27,000 bushels of apples it produced last year. Not only is there a greater abundance of fruit, but the individual apples are larger and more colorful than last year.
Suhr explained that a dry May helped create good pollination conditions for the crop. The rain nourished the apples, with key periods of recent sunshine helping to give the fruit a particularly vibrant rosy hue.
"We had an ideal growing season," Suhr said.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Addison Northwest Supervisory Union this summer won a U.S. Department of Education grant that could total more than $900,000 in the next three years, an award that officials believe will help transform physical education in ANwSU schools and boost students' academic performance while putting them on the path toward lifetime fitness.
The grant, one of 96 the DOE awarded in 2008, will pay for fitness equipment that will include high-tech heart-rate monitors, low-rope climbing courses at the three ANwSU elementary schools and a high-ropes course at Vergennes Union High School, in-line and ice skates, cross-country skis, snowshoes and dance video games.
It will also fund healthy after-school activities to be offered jointly with community groups that include the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes and the Willowell Foundation.
But ANwSU Superintendent Tom O'Brien said more importantly that the Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant would help create a "culture change" at the four schools.
"Assuming that over the three years of the grant we are able to establish the goals ... it is a culture change," O'Brien said. "It's much more of a focus on personal fitness, and personal responsibility for fitness ... that will last (students) for their lifetime ... And the increased physical activity, at least according to the research, will have some benefit in the classroom. I'd say this is pretty significant."
The grant was fleshed out by ANwSU curriculum coordinator Carol Spencer, VUHS PE teacher Ed Cook and Vergennes Union Elementary School PE teacher Robyn Newton, and then polished by a professional grant-writer, for whose services Newton won a grant.
For Cook and Newton, the DOE grant can help change the focus of PE away from competitive ball sports and to personal fitness activities.
MIDDLEBURY — Officials in more than a half-dozen Addison County towns breathed a collective sigh of relief this week after learning that extensive road and bridge damage caused by a powerful storm on Aug. 6 will qualify for federal disaster aid.
Federal authorities confirmed the presidential declaration of disaster on Sept. 12. That means that repairs to flood-ravaged bridges and roads will qualify for up to 75 percent federal reimbursement — great news to the locally affected towns of Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Bridport, Leicester, Goshen, Hancock and Brandon.
The federal declaration will also give the Mary Hogan Elementary School board the option of seeking reimbursement for an additional school bus that could be put on the road to serve students on Lower Plains Road in East Middlebury. Families on that road must currently provide their own school transportation because the flood damage closed the Lower Plains Road bridge — the only direct route into the rest of Middlebury. Serena Eddy-Moulton, chairwoman of the ID-4 board, said on Tuesday that she and her colleagues will convene late this week to discuss the federal disaster declaration and the role it can play in restoring bus service to students who must currently be detoured to school via Salisbury and Route 7.
"We will send a letter to parents on Friday (Sept. 19) letting them know the progress," Eddy-Moulton said.
Federal, state and local emergency management officials were scheduled to meet at Middlebury's Ilsley Library on Thursday morning to hold a briefing "designed to help local officials understand federal disaster eligibility requirements and the reimbursement process for debris removal, emergency protective measures, and the repair, restoration and replacement of public facilities," according to a memo issued by Vermont Emergency Management.
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz said turnout at last Tuesday's primary election was among the lowest ever, though she expects as much as 70 percent of the state's 440,000 registered voters to cast ballots during the general election on Nov. 4.
Markowitz, who herself faces re-election this fall, touched upon balloting, voter education and a variety of other topics during an interview at the Addison Independent on Thursday. Markowitz also acknowledged that after 10 years in office, this may be her final bid for secretary of state.
While the results were not yet official as of late last week, Markowitz believes the final returns will show the primary election of 2008 could reveal a historical low in terms of turnout. She cited weather and a lack of compelling races as reasons why most people chose not to vote.
Indeed only the Democrats' ballot featured statewide primary races — for congressional representative and lieutenant governor. There were no races on the Republican, Progressive and Liberty Union ballots.
"Generally speaking, turnout gets driven by the top of the ticket, and there just wasn't anything there," Markowitz said. "It's not surprising that people stayed home. On top of it, we had thunderstorms during the prime voting times before work, and so people said, 'Do I want to brave the lightning for a ballot where there is no contested races?'"
But Markowitz stressed she believes democracy is alive and well in Vermont, in spite of the low primary turnout.
"We still believe that November is going to be a very busy election," Markowitz said. "There is unprecedented interest in the presidential race. We're getting more new voter registration requests than we have in the past years."
VERGENNES — One hundred and fifty-four residents of Vergennes filled out the city planning commission's municipal plan survey this summer, and they offered some results that were both useful and surprising, said planning commission chairman Neil Curtis.
Among the surprising results were the strong feelings survey respondents expressed about the "look, feel and scale" of downtown Vergennes, according to a survey summary prepared for the commission by LandWorks, the Middlebury planning firm that is helping the city with its ongoing city plan rewrite.
LandWorks concluded that the current feel of downtown was "resoundingly important" to city residents, a conclusion based on the 92.2 percent of respondents who rated preserving the downtown as either an important or a most important concern for Vergennes in the future.
Curtis noted that 77.9 percent of respondents also supported creating "design guidelines" that would help maintain the character of the city's downtown, adding that guidelines would not include such items as types of windows or paint colors.
Curtis said the response to the downtown questions are a prime example on how the survey will help guide the members of the planning commission and LandWorks in writing the plan, a process that carries a November 2009 deadline and is roughly on schedule.
"I think it's enormously helpful in terms of being able to help us prioritize different issues and action items the city ought to be working on," Curtis said. "People are so attached to the look and feel of those downtown buildings ... When you get 90 percent of the survey respondents saying the downtown is important, it really crystallizes the way you look at the plan. It really is a priority."
By KATHRYN FLAGG
BRISTOL — Seven-year-old Sierra Barnicle ran ahead of her father, Scott, to reach the last placard in Bristol's first StoryWalk last week, eager to reach the end of the story that marches its way, page by page, down Mountain and Spring streets between the Bristol Elementary School and the Lawrence Memorial Library.
The Weybridge residents happened upon the exhibit, on loan from the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier until Sept. 19, in a stroke of good luck. In a series of small, unassuming signposts, the "StoryWalk" depicts the children's story "Leaves," by David Ezra Stein.
While the family dog wagged his tail amiably, Sierra explained that she, for one, thought the StoryWalk was a great idea — and appreciated the seasonal choice of "Leaves." Warm, pen-and-ink drawings and spare text tell the story of a very young bear's confusion when leaves start to fall during his first autumn, and his delight when new leaves welcome him after winter's hibernation.
It's a charming story, beautifully executed — each page is adorned with a lovely pen-and-ink drawing and spare, quiet prose.
"I like it," Sierra said, "because it's welcoming fall."
Once the after-school flurry of activity between the elementary school and the library had died down, Eva Ginalski, a third-grader at Bristol Elementary, chimed in with her own praise for the StoryWalk. Like Sierra Barnicle, Ginalski appreciated the tie to the seasons.
"It's a good time to do it because the leaves are just starting to fall," she said. She said she'd love to see more StoryWalks in the future — and hoped that future stories would also correspond to the seasons.
Welcome to the Brave New World where author Aldous Huxley imagined in his 1932 satire that society would prefer to be kept uninformed and live lock-step in a soma-induced blissful oblivion. Well, close enough. The world is the political orbit of the Republican Party in which no one is allowed to speak critically of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and the media, in particular, is not to pursue questions that seek to flesh out her positions or leadership style were she to be catapulted into the nation's highest office.
Facts in this Republican dystopia (a negative utopia) don't matter; what matters is that supporters swallow the party script. So, if Gov. Palin wants to keep repeating the lie that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere and rejects federal earmarks to states, then the party faithful should excuse the falsehood and just drink the soma-laced Kool-Aid.
John Feehery, a Republican strategist, captured the mood perfectly in a Washington Post story on Tuesday when he told a Post reporter that the campaign was entering a period in which the dominant themes established in the campaign were more important than skirmishes over the facts.
"The more The New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there's a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she's new, she's popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent," Feehery said. "As long as those are out there, these little facts don't really matter."
Wow. Let's think about that.
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Braid is a platform and puzzle video game developed by Number None, Inc. The game was released on August 6, 2008 for the Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service. A Microsoft Windows version was released on April 10, 2009. Hothead Games ported and released the game to Mac OS X on May 20, 2009 and the PlayStation Network on November 12, 2009. A Linux port, created by Ryan C. Gordon, was released December 14, 2010 as part of the second Humble Indie Bundle.
The basic story elements unfold as the protagonist, Tim, attempts to rescue a princess from a monster. Text passages laid throughout the game reveal a multifaceted narrative, giving clues about Tim's contemplations and motivations. The game features traditional aspects of the platform genre while integrating various powers of time-manipulation. Using these abilities, the player progresses by finding and assembling jigsaw puzzle pieces.
Jonathan Blow designed the game as a personal critique of contemporary trends in game development. He funded the three-year project with his own money. Webcomic artist David Hellman drew the artwork, which underwent several iterations until it satisfied Blow's vision. A preliminary version of Braid without the final artwork won the "Innovation in Game Design" award at the 2006 Independent Games Festival; the final version received additional accolades. The game received highly positive reviews from critics, eventually becoming the highest critically rated title on Xbox Live. Some reviewers, however, criticized the game's price relative to its length.
Braid is played by solving physical puzzles in a standard platform game environment.
The player controls the protagonist Tim as he runs, jumps, and climbs across the game's levels. Tim jumps and stomps on enemies to defeat them, and can collect keys to unlock doors or operate levers to trigger platforms. A defining game element is the player's unlimited ability to reverse time and "rewind" actions, even after dying. The game is divided into six worlds, which are experienced sequentially and can be entered from different rooms of Tim's house; the player can return to any world previously visited to attempt to solve puzzles they missed.
Each world has its own time-based game mechanic:
2. Time and Forgiveness plays as an ordinary platform game, except that the player may rewind time to undo their actions. The section includes several challenges that would be unplayable or unfair in an ordinary platform game, but become feasible when the rewind mechanic is available.
3. Time and Mystery introduces objects surrounded by a green glow that are unaffected by time manipulation; for example, switches will remain flipped even if time is rewound to before the action occurred. Rewinding can thus be used to change the synchronization between objects that can and cannot be rewound, the basis of many puzzles in this section. This theme is also used in later worlds to denote objects unaffected by the player's time manipulation.
4. Time and Place links the passage of time to the player character's location on the horizontal axis. As the player moves toward the right, time flows forward, while moving toward the left reverses the flow; standing still or moving vertically will pause time. The player's location must be carefully managed in relation to enemies and objects.
5. Time and Decision involves a "shadow" of the player character appearing after the player rewinds time and performing the actions that the real player character rewound; if the timeline expires, the shadow will complete any initiated falls and jumps but will otherwise stand still before disappearing. Things coloured in violet can interact both with the main character and its shadow at the same time. Puzzles in this section revolve around using this mechanic to carry out multiple actions at once.
6. Hesitance provides the player with a magic ring which, when dropped, warps the flow of time around itself; the closer moving objects (including Tim) are to it, the slower time passes for them. The regular rewind control remains available.
The final world is labeled simply as "1." In this world, time flows in reverse. Rewinding time returns the flow of time to its normal state.
Each stage contains puzzle pieces that must be collected to create jigsaw puzzles that tell the story, and to unlock the last stage. On completing the main game, a speedrun mode becomes available for select levels and the entire game. There are also eight stars hidden throughout the world of Braid that correspond to the stars in the constellation of Andromeda just outside the main character's house.
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Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition
Prometheus Books, 1995 - Social Science - 246 pages
Western philosophy has generated a rich mosaic of theory about the nature of the world and humanity's place in it. Since the ancient Greeks, the search for the fundamentals of existence has led to the espousal of philosophical idealism (unchanging conceptual universals) on the one hand and an equally immutable (irreducible) physical materialism on the other. For centuries the tension between these views of the world has stimulated all philosophical inquiry. Today the debate remains as lively as ever. In Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition Richard C. Vitzthum focuses on one side of this longstanding debate to offer the first comprehensive history and re-definition of materialist philosophy in more than a century. His is the first study ever to identify and analyze in detail the three masterpieces of pre-20th-century materialist literature: Lucretius' The Nature of Things (ca. 50 B.C.E.); Paul d'Holbach's 1770 System of Nature; and Ludwig Buechner's 1884 edition of Force and Matter. What's more, it is the first effort to evaluate 20th-century materialist literature in terms of the tradition as a whole. But Materialism is far more than intellectual history; it represents the first systematic effort to bring traditional materialism in line with the discoveries of modern physics. By substituting relativity and quantum theory for Newtonian mechanics, Vitzthum affirms that everything in the cosmos, including human consciousness, is explicable in terms of natural laws and reducible to fundamental principles of nature. But he posits a probabilistic materialism to replace the mechanistic determinism of d'Holbach and Buechner.
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Nuggets Executive: Carmelo Anthony is the city of Denver
In the midst of a slew of reports that at the very least suggest, and at the most definitively say, Nuggets superstar Carmelo Anthony is as good as gone, new executive vice president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri says the team still wants the high-scoring forward. "I love Melo," Ujiri said. "I grew up in this league with Melo, kind of. It was my first years in the league, and I watched him grow. The Denver Nuggets want to keep Melo, and that's our priority. Carmelo is the Denver Nuggets, he's the city of Denver. He's done so well on this team. So we're going to deal with the issue full force."
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: You're hired. Now solve the Carmelo Anthony quagmire.
Last week, the Denver Nuggets brought in Masi Ujiri as their new head suit on the basketball side of things, and he stepped into the fire with the Anthony soap opera.
The superstar wants a change. He can opt-out next summer, become a free agent, and sign with the team of his choosing.
He'd prefer to force a trade, though, ink a long-term extension, and avoid a reduced salary when the next Collective Bargaining Agreement inevitably scales back the big-tickets superstars can earn.
So the speculation has been rampant. Nothing Ujiri says will be enough to convince Anthony to stay. He's gone. It's a done deal.
However, professing his love for Anthony is smart. It defuses the situation and buys the Nuggets time to get squeeze greater compensation from suitors in a trade.
Hopefully, it works. Ujiri's first test in the Nuggets' front office will be his greatest.
–Oly Sandor.
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