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The reaction to the first screenshot of ZeniMax Online Studios' upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online was not overwhelmingly positive for a few reasons. Its art style doesn't scream Elder Scrolls, really, and series fans have a lot of expectations about exploration, combat and story for an online version of a beloved role-playing franchise that's been defiantly single-player since its inception.

Is it possible to retain many of The Elder Scrolls' strengths in an online environment? That was the topic brought up by Game Informer in an interview with Paul Sage, creative director at ZeniMax Online Studios.

"We have to make our own game," said Sage. "We want to make a good game first. Not a good MMO, not a good Elder Scrolls game, we want to make a good game first, a great experience for the player."

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World Analysis War victor Gama posts March NPD graphs, enjoys armistice
Gamasutra won the graph war. The site's posted up its March NPD analysis feature, having acquired ex-Edge chart-man Kris Graft earlier this month. There will be no more silo face-off in the world of NPD analysis.
All that's left is scorched earth. Scorched earth covered in coloured graphs. Take a look. Remember the good times.
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Former Edge editor Kris Graft joins Gamasutra, IGF
Former US Edge Online editor Kris Graft has taken on the roll of Content Director for the Independent Games Festival, and as Senior Contributing Editor for Gamasutra.
His main focus with the IGF will be expanding the judge panel and providing creative feedback on the event.
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February NPD – Edge in breakneck sales analysis mega-slap-down
Hot shit. Edge has spat straight into Gamasutra's face with the speed of its NPD analysis this month. Find its just-published take on last-night's figures here.
Let's see. The figures were in our inbox at 10.29pm GMT last night, and Edge now has a four-page feature, coloured graphs included, at 8.00am GMT. That probably equates to author Kris Graft crying into his cornflakes.
But still. You won, Edge. You really shoved it up Gama's ass, right? Poor old Matt Mathews won't know what the hell happened.
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Gama's NPD analysis posted
Having been pipped to the January NPD analysis post by Edge's Kris Graft last week, Gamasutra's posted up its exclusive Matt Mathews feature on the US sales numbers.
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"I can safely say that Yu Suzuki is in fact still a Sega employee," he said, adding that Suzuki "is a Creative Officer of Sega Corp."
Jeffery said in the original interview that Suzuki was "kind of his own man right now. Every now and again, he'll come up with an idea, and I don't think anything has come out of that yet, but we're still working with him. He's not an employee any more."
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She sent out an email last week confirming the move, which was effective as of August 1, saying she'd miss her colleagues at Kotaku but was excited about the new job.
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Madame Chair, distinguished members of Congress, I want to commend you for holding this hearing on an important subject that deserves serious attention from Congress. Restrictions on free speech, freedom of religion and belief, and related human rights continue to be issues of critical concern in U.S.-Vietnam relations.
The title of this hearing is a particularly compelling one. The silencing of those who dissent from state orthodoxy-political reformers, free speech and democracy advocates, religious leaders and believers, and those fighting for the rights of ethnic minorities-has invited international scrutiny of Vietnam's human rights record and has made human rights a constant irritant in our bilateral relations.
Religious freedom and free speech are closely related human rights. True religious freedom is when, as described by Article 18 of the United Nation's Declaration on Human Rights, "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
Freedom of religion allows for the freedom to publish ones' opinion as well as publish sacred texts. It allows people to speak their minds or change their minds freely, and without interference from the state.
Vietnam's constitution guarantees both freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but Vietnamese law regulates just what one can say, what information one can have, or what belief one can adopt or practice. That is why advocates of freedom of speech and freedom of religion are arrested for such vague offenses as "inciting social disorder," "threatening national security," "disrupting national unity," or "violating Vietnamese values and traditions."
Yesterday, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien and his delegation lunched with Members of Congress. The Foreign Minister hoped to educate House and Senate Members "about the democratic progress being made in Vietnam." The Foreign Minister wants to expand relations between our two countries. But genuine, long-term friendship will only come about when the government of Vietnam respects international standards of human rights, including free speech and freedom of religion.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has followed events in Vietnam closely since the Commission's inception four years ago. We have traveled to Vietnam and met with visiting Vietnamese delegations. In May of 2003, the Commission issued a report detailing its concerns that the Vietnamese government is engaged in serious and ongoing human rights abuses.
In fact, we found that already poor conditions in Vietnam have deteriorated in the last year. Key dissidents were imprisoned; others remain in prison or under house arrest. In addition, the government intensified its crackdown on religious and ethnic minorities in the northwestern provinces and the Central Highlands.
As a result, we recommended that the Secretary of State designate Vietnam as a country of particular concern (CPC).
The deteriorating human rights situation is particularly disappointing because there were hopes that expanded U.S.-Vietnamese economic ties would improve the human rights dialogue. After the passage of the Bilateral Trade Act (BTA) of 2001, Vietnam's exports to the US increased from $1.05 billion in 2001 up to $2.39 billion in 2002. The figure is forecasted to reach $3.8-4.19 billion this year, representing growth of 57-73% over the last year. We all know the benefits of expanded trade, but respect for human rights and religious liberty should also be an integral part of U.S. relations with Vietnam. Our economic relationship has taken several steps forward, but in protecting human rights, Vietnam has taken a big step backward.
The Commission is not alone in this assessment. The State Department has voiced publicly its concerns about Vietnam's human rights record, so has the European Union. In a recent report to Congress, the State Department admitted being "disappointed" by the lack of "concrete results" in the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral human rights dialogue. The State Department cited failure of the Vietnamese government to respond to U.S. concerns in several key areas, including religious freedom.
Recent events in Vietnam show that the Vietnamese government has not made significant progress to improve its human rights situation. Let me briefly give you some very recent examples that fit into a larger pattern of human rights abuses since the passage of the BTA in 2001.
Despite Vietnam's economic reforms, recent events serve as a cautionary tale for anyone trying to measure the pace of political change in the country. The Government of Vietnam has shown, again and again, that it is determined to maintain strict control over speech, including the media and Internet, and to suppress religious freedom.
The U.S. government should maintain a consistent message-better relations will only proceed when Vietnam lives up to the international treaties on human rights that it has already signed or ratified. Until that time, human rights will always be a difficult part of our relationship.
It is obvious that the current approach of the U.S. government to advance and protect religious freedom in Vietnam has failed to yield concrete results. It is time for us to consider a new approach, one that vigorously emphasizes human rights and utilizes all the tools of U.S. diplomacy.
As you all well know, the Congress is considering several pieces of legislation that would condemn Vietnam's recent record on human rights, cap non-humanitarian foreign aid, improve ongoing immigration programs, and fund educational exchanges and public diplomacy programs.
In its most recent annual report, the Commission made a number of recommendations for U.S. policy toward Vietnam. First and foremost, the Commission supported the language on Vietnam found in the State Department Authorization Act (HR 1950). If the Senate does not take up the legislation this year, it is our hope that members will attach the various provisions to other appropriations bills or introduce them as free-standing pieces of legislation.
The Commission also recommended that Vietnam be designated as a country of particular concern (CPC). CPC designation is an important tool of diplomacy-allowing the Secretary of State and the President to choose from a list of possible actions. But it requires a public action-one that we believe will effectively bring human rights to the front of bilateral relations.
Hopefully, members of Congress will press the Secretary of State to designate Vietnam as a CPC this year.
Along with these immediate steps, the Commission also recommended that the U.S. government take a long-term approach to improving human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam-particularly in the areas of public diplomacy.
Let me take this moment to commend Congresswoman Lofgren and Congressman Royce for introducing H.R. 1019, the Freedom of Information in Vietnam Act of 2003. The provisions in this legislation-overcoming jamming of Radio Free Asia and Voice of America programming and taking steps to safeguard access to RFA internet sites will help provide an alternative source of information to the Vietnamese people. These measures are exactly the type of public diplomacy programs needed for the long-term enhancement of U.S. relations with Vietnam.
We also hope that U.S. foreign assistance and exchange programs will support individuals in Vietnam who advocate human rights, free speech, religious freedom, and legal reform. The U.S. has an extensive network of exchange programs in Vietnam, including the newly created Vietnam Education Foundation. The U.S. government should ensure that these programs support those Vietnamese working to advance human rights.
Madame Chairperson, let me say in conclusions, advancing free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to receive information represents not only core American values but international standards of human rights. Working to protect and promote these basic freedoms furthers the interests of both the United States and the people of Vietnam.
Thank you again Madame Chairwoman for the opportunity to address this panel. I welcome your questions.


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Status: Under development Current Version: 0.2 SynopsisAdd a shopping cart to your xataface application. You can treat any record as a product that can be sold. Includes Paypal connectivity, shipping calculation, and more. Requirements
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Usage InstructionsOnce the Shopping Cart module is installed you can:
Adding Items to the CartIn the View tab of any salable record, you'll notice a little block on the left side of the page with the heading "Add Item to Cart". This includes a field to specify the quantity and a button to add the item to the shopping cart. Viewing Cart ContentsThe Shopping Cart module automatically introduces an action to view the cart contents. This action is named "view_cart". Hence you can always view the cart contents by entering the URL: index.php?-action=view_cart . Checking Out
ActionsThis module adds the following actions to your application.
Blocks and SlotsThis module adds the following blocks and slots to your applications.
Application Delegate Class HooksYou can modify the shopping cart behavior by defining the following methods to the application delegate class.
Table Delegate Class HooksYou can modify the behavior of the shopping cart by defining the following methods to the delegate class of any table that implements the InventoryItem ontology (i.e. any table that is to be used to store products that can be added to the cart).
Internal StorageThis module creates the following tables to store its data: dataface__invoicesThe dataface__invoices table stores the actual invoices for purchases made. An invoice is automatically created as soon as the user "checks out".
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NYDailyNews According to a source close to Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming "Superman: Man of Steel," K.Stew recently met with the filmmaker and his wife, Deborah - who's a producer on the film with Christopher ("Inception") Nolan - to discuss her taking the role of Lane.
The meeting could not have lasted long. The source says Stewart "ultimately passed" on being cast as the intrepid Daily Planet reporter who works alongside Clark Kent and becomes Superman's love interest.
Our source, who works with Snyder, says the director did not offer Stewart the role, but had "definite" interest in her playing the quick-thinking brunette.
Stewart, however, had specific reasons for turning down the part. The source says the intense-eyed actress, whose rumored involvement with "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson set the media swooning, was "caught off guard" by the success of that film franchise and wasn't ready to leap into a similar situation just yet. Instead, the source said, Stewart professed an interest in "smaller, independent films." (Stewart's spokeswoman said only that she "did not read for the part" and declined to elaborate.)
Legitimate reasons, perhaps, but our source says Snyder was left feeling "slighted" by Stewart and that the awkward beauty had "wasted his time. Snyder, whose résumé includes "300," is also reportedly considering Jessica Biel, "Glee's" Dianna Agron, Rachel McAdams, Malin Akerman and Mila Kunis for the role of Lane. (On Sunday, Warner Bros. said that Brit Henry Cavill, best known for his role as Charles Brandon, First Duke of Suffolk, in Showtime's "The Tudors," would play Superman (and alter ego Clark Kent.) Warner Bros. did not get back to us with a comment by deadline.
Despite her desire to do some indie films, Stewart may be willing to reach for the hair dye for one big-budget part. Another insider close to the actress says she hasn't ruled out the title role in director Rupert Sanders' "Snow White and the Huntsman," which is to begin filming this summer.
Production for "Superman" is also to begin in Vancouver this summer - which could have meant a potential conflict for Stewart, had she wanted both roles.
Thanks C and kstewartnews for the heads up.
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Bravo, this is a work of art and I personally love it. If I had the money I would do the same thing, but with more seats!!!!! It makes me sad to see all the people here that hate on this man for designing his dream system. It is rare in life that any of us get to do something like this, and as for the comment of "Wow...someone has a lot of cash, and needs to be donating it to charity, not spending it on rediculous "entertainment" systems" just because someone has a lot of cash does not mean they need to give it away. I have been looking at this system for over a month and I never get tired of drooling at this system. Once again thank you for putting this together for all of us to see. I would like to see what he does next!
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When it comes to home theaters, I thought I'd seen it all. But nothing's come close to this. First, I'm going to try to describe the sheer magnitude of Jeremy Kipnis' theater. His Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen is the biggest I've ever seen in a home, and in the back of the theater, there's a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. I'm looking everywhere, jotting down questions, and Kipnis sounds almost giddy talking about his theater's capabilities. He refers to his baby, the Kipnis Studio Standard (KSS), as "The Greatest Show on Earth." And from the looks of it, he may be right.
While the KSS is technically an 8.8-channel audio system, it uses a lot more than eight speakers and eight subwoofers. Kipnis felt that a lone center speaker sounded a tad undernourished compared with the eight Snell THX Cinema & Music Reference towers, so he opted for three Snell LCR-2800 center-channel speakers. The original contingent of eight subs sounded "really good" but, unfortunately, didn't deliver the full earth-moving-under-your-feet effect he wanted. So, he wound up with 16 18-inch Snell subs! To balance the other frequency extreme, and for the ultimate in transient speed and transparency, the Snell speakers' treble has been augmented with MuRata ES103A super tweeters. Thus, from the deepest deep bass (10 hertz) up to the extreme high-frequency range (100 kilohertz), the KSS is the most full-range system I've ever heard—and felt. The speakers are fed by a well-balanced combination of audiophile solid-state and vacuum-tube amplifiers. The KSS is astonishing in the way it delivers power, but with 11,315 very high-quality watts on tap, that's hardly surprising. Not only can it play ungodly loud, the KSS sounds phenomenal while doing so and never hurt my tender ears. The theater is big but far from huge. Its vaulted ceiling ranges from 8 feet high at the rear end to 16 feet at the screen end of the room (which is 26.5 feet wide and 33 feet long). The 18-foot screen fulfilled my IMAX fantasies, and the projector's va-va-voom color and brilliant light were transformational. I just tried to take it all in as I scribbled notes, afraid I might miss some of the juicier details.
AC power conditioning for the KSS is, again, done to the max. Next to the garage, there are two mammoth General Electric 13,800-volt/800-amp step-down transformers; all of the cabling is audiophile-grade wire, and every aspect of performance and presentation is scrutinized, even down to the 40-amp cryogenically treated circuit breakers for each and every component in the system.
How It Came to Be
I first met Kipnis in the early 1990s when he worked for Chesky Records as an engineer/producer. And later in the decade, I followed his exploits when he started his own classical music label, Epiphany Recordings Limited. Hooked on video at an early age, he was the first on his block to buy a laserdisc player in 1980 and went on to amass a huge collection of players and discs. He watched them on one of the very first projectors in the market, the Kloss NovaBeam Model 1, with a 6.5-foot curved silver screen in his Redding, Connecticut, home, where he still resides. The projector's legendary inventor, Henry Kloss, was a neighbor and good friend of Kipnis' parents, so you might say the seeds of the KSS were planted long ago. The man's passions run deep. Kipnis tells me, "I've been watching movies since I was four on really big screens in movie theaters, and three years ago, those experiences inspired me to design a home theater with the absolute best picture and sound."
But it's more than that. Kipnis sees the KSS as a laboratory, an ongoing experiment to advance the state of the art. And it's not just for himself; he's dead serious about selling the KSS to movie-industry professionals and wealthy home theater aficionados. He sees his huge screen as an intrinsic part of the experience. "It's an unprecedented level of immersion that I'm looking for." The mix of brands and models for his customers' KSS systems will be site specific, and he imagines that, unlike his installation, the componentry and speakers will be stealthily deployed. The KSS pictured here is Beta Ciné, so yes, there's an even bigger KSS, the Alpha Ciné, in the planning stages. It's intended for much larger venues, such as screening rooms or perhaps even actual movie theaters. The Gamma Ciné will be a scaled-down KSS for smaller living rooms, bedrooms, or kitchens. The Gamma Ciné will likely utilize rear-projection techniques. (When not in use, the screen will look like a wall, and all of the equipment will live behind the screen.) The philosophy of all three KSS systems is the same—nothing but the best picture and sound. Price estimates will be site specific, but the cost of Kipnis' home system would be in the $6-million range.
Scaling the Heights
Setting up the Sony SRX-R110 digital cinema projector is a demanding job, and Kipnis has invested a lot of time into maximizing its potential, all in an effort to advance the state of the art. He's an Imaging Science Foundation–certified technician and studied with video-tweaking legend Joe Kane.
The Sony projector doesn't have HDMI inputs that are HDCP compliant, but it upscales Blu-ray and HD DVD players' component outputs to its native 4K resolution. So sure, it might look even better if he could use his HD player's digital outputs, but Kipnis feels the picture quality he's getting right now is "far more outstanding and realistic than any other movie theater I've experienced on the planet." Pressing the question about keeping the KSS' video all digital, he admits that he's also considering commissioning a custom-built scaler from Silicon Optix or Snell & Wilcox. The ultimate goal is to produce a picture that's an open window to the world.
With a bit of luck, Kipnis will get to play the KSS for the likes of George Lucas, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese. And who knows—they each might be so thrilled, they'll buy one on the spot. That would be great, but I wonder out loud, "Would you have done all of this if you didn't hope to turn it into a commercial enterprise? Would you have done it just for yourself?" Without hesitating, Kipnis says, "Just to see what's possible? Yes, I would."
For more information about the Kipnis Studio Standard, please visit www.kipnis-studios.com or call (203) 938-3767.
Partial Equipment List for the Kipnis Studio Standard Beta CinE:
Picture Elements:
Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector
Stewart 18-by-10-foot Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture Screen
Players and Sources:
Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player
Sony PlayStation 3 Gaming Console
Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player
JVC HMDH-5U D-VHS Recorder
SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total)
Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player
Pioneer HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player
Surround Processing and Decoding:
Theta Digital Generation VIII 32-bit 8x Oversampling Dual Processors (13)
Mark Levinson N° 33h Amplifiers (2)
McIntosh MC-2102 Amplifiers (30)
Crown Macro Reference Gold Amplifiers (3)
Snell 1800 THX Music & Cinema Reference Subwoofers (16)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference Towers (8)
MuRata ES103A Super Tweeters (10)
Snell THX Music & Cinema Reference LCR-2800 Center-Channel Speakers (3)
"My Infinity 12' Sub and surround is the dopest ive seen or heard, along with my Kenwood 400 watt Surround HEad, and my Samsung50'' wall hung Plasma....i spent $2,500. Wut an asshat top spend 6 mil and only have to worry about tripping over all the lame amps and front speakers...could have mounted the subs in the floor with isobaric bandpass tubes coming out in all directons for the same affect." This is not car audio land. you sound like a reject talking like that here. I'm an admirer of this system for many reasons and I work in the industry. I have installed numerous Hi-Fi systems my self and know what goes into them. Any man with a set up such as this one knows his stuff inside and out. He's not crazy... he's not doing it to piss you off. He's being HAPPY. This is what he wants to do. I hope to work my ass of for 20 more years and build a Hi-Fi system of my own. Let him enjoy it and stop criticizing him because this is not how you would spend your dime.
Okay, this gives the term overkill a new meaning!First of, a normal, 20/20 vision(not wearing glasses) person cannot make a difference between 2k and 4k resolution picture passed 20 feet on a 30 feet high screen, so even his pet pray bird could could not enjoy the quality bonus a 4k projector gives on such a small screen.Still, this is a pretty cool setup, and he obviously enjoys it, so good for him I say!
doctronic - Thank you for such kind and wonderful words of praise. It is not always that new ideas are so well understood. much less received positively! I hope you, and all that care about picture and sound fidelity, will join me in appreciating and then defining the next generation of presentation standards. In the end - It is up to US! Cheers = Jeremy R. Kipnis Studio Standard , www.Kipnis-Studios.com
David (and others irritated by this extravegance)If you work for your own money shouldn't you be able to spend it on what you want?This idea is also known as "capitalism"In my (and others) opinion, you are simply jealous, perhaps by charity, you meant they should give the money to you?
Well, he *is* more or less giving his money to charity in some way. Much more so than having it sit in a fund, stock, or other large non-materialistic investment. I mean, real people make these products. This guy; he has provided for over a hundred families to have homes, children, vacations and jobs.Does a trust anywhere do anything near what this guy does with his generous support of the arts? Think he has *any* bootleg media? Hello, this is capitalism at its finest.
My dear readers, please do not be led astray by heinous spamming, as found here listed just above by Justin, of this Dallas based HT BS. Kipnis Studios is devoted entirely to custom and hand-tailored design solutions to the question: "What is the Ultimate Screening Room Experience, for ME?".Curious? Try Calling us for a complete demonstration, and be completely amazed!!!(203) 938 - 3767Cheers -JeremyKipnis-Studios
@ Michael. You don't understand the world at all. Your comments are very idealistic and it'd be great if that was the case. What about the man who desperately wants to 'build' but can't even afford the basic materials to allow him to do so. You completely skewed what David had to say and took it out of context. I'm certain that David meant he should give money to a worthwhile charity, not to 'parasites'. Or do you consider the third world to be a breeding ground of parasites?
Meh, the only thing good about that system is the use of McIntosh amps, second only to Crown. But for all it's flair... it is seriously flawed. 1. The auditorium should be THX shaped, no shelves. 2. All that audio equimpent in front of the speakers will be subject to vibrational wear 3. will introduce buzzing into certain frequencies due to resonance 4. will cause strange enhancement and canncelation nodes to appear in the listening area.Once again, it's a case of too much money, not enough education.
$6 million? Surely an installers wet dream. The system is pretty and all but I have seen similar systems by www.copperbox.com at a fraction of the price. But I do like the Submarine ;-)-Joey
i hate when people who know nothing about audio video make stupid comments like the 1st on on this page were the person says this guys wasted all his money on entertainment rather than give it to chariry well i say FUCK charity this is the way to go everyone charity get a job like everyone else. i love high end audio video thats my hobby and i dont care about price if you do get another hobby like stamp collecting.i wish i could get what this guy has, plus he's an older guy with his wife i think thats cool that hes young at heart props for this sick setup
This is an incredible setup no matter how you look at it. Keep the jealous negativity for yourselves. You can see that this rig is all about the equipment. Everything is exposed, no fancy flush mount panels or rose-wood enclosures. When its time for a wiring change he walks to the back of the rack and makes the change. When its time to make a change with the speakers/amps they are right there exposed to do it. It's clear that he's pushing the limits of performance. He's not doing this to wow people that are staring at home theatre. He could spend another huge sum of money on finish work if that were the goal. So, in my opinion based on how he is working with his components, this guy is a gear-head that loves what he does in his HT. He's not a rich dude that hired some over-priced botique store to come in and do all the work so he could look cool to his buddies. I'm feeling the joy right along with him because I identify with his goal. It's impressive, justified, and plain a
why is everyone saying he isnt spending his money right or why not give it to charity?doesnt a person have the right to buy what he wants. especially when he worked so hard to save up for it?even i be pissed is i bought a new tv from bestbuy and have an idiot come up and say, you should of given money to charity instead.its like taking the right to feel good.
(drooling) Love It! I Love cinema and sound. I love picture quality.I'm a poor college student, and I save my dimes and nickels for high end equipment. My car has thousands invested just for sound and I just recently bought a 3000 projector and a HD flat panel and 5.1. This is my passion my hobby. And i'm pretty sure this guy knows what he's doing being this engineer and all that jazz i think he knows what he's buying and he knows how to place it. For those who say you can't tell the difference in qualities or hear certain frequencies...IT DOESN'T MATTER! You want the best, weather you can hear it or not, weather you can see it or not, just to know it's there. For those of you who don't understand, you never will. Relate it to the "jeep" saying..."It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand" Respect Kipnis, respect!
This thing should have been built back in the 80's during the "Age of Excess". I could easily see Robin Leach coming out from behind one of those subs saying: "...and he spent $6 million dollars on the home theater alone!" I just feel that something this costly and wasteful is inappropiate today. It is selfish for us to suck up the planet's resources leaving nothing for the children, not to mention the current Bozo in the White House who is sending us to the poor house! I think we should re-establish the "Debtor's Prison" just for him. The inflated egos that would buy this uber-theater are the same ones that will still be steering Hummers around town when gasoline becomes a boutique fuel at $20 a gallon! Thank God only the Superrich can afford these esoteric energy holes. If the common man were able to do this, we'd all be creating carbon footprints the size of Texas. I agree with one of the posters above that this energy sponge better be powered by photovol
awesome, I hope he gets to sell some systems, just for the fun of it. Ambition and a will to follow thru is what makes mankind move forward, for all you naysayers out there, I got one thing to say; why are u wasting your time reading, if it don't intreague you?
I don't think we should judge anybody for the way he or she spends their own money, after all, we all live the "American Dream" any way we like. But I do agree that if one is to spend all that cash in their "dream" home theatre, the screen should be set-up for projection of PANAVISION films as they were intended to be seen in their original aspect ratio of 2.35:1, and not crop the sides to be seen within the 16x9 aspect ratio at 1.85. This is very "non-cinematic", and you might as well have a static huge flat panel TV, rather than front projection.However, if this is the way you prefer to view your films, then enjoy and disregard all these comments!!
Everyone who ass-umes that he just spent all his money on this, talk out of the darkness of their own heart. for all I know, he may have donated many million$ for all sort of charity, And this is his personal dream. I mean, Bill Gates lives in a 60,0,000$ house. Does this diminish the billions he is giving away? I don't think so. That house is a technological showcase, and so is this system.Anyone that assumes this is not the case, is just saying "this is what I would have done it it were my money, just spend it all on myself". tis how they are able to "see" this behavior in others.
Capitalism isn't about excess.I don't applaud him for his excess, but it's not my place to tell someone who's rightfully earned their money what to do with it. He's entitled to build a $6 million home theatre, even if I think it's a bad decision.That's the heart of capitalism.If you really want to get technical, capitalism is about maximizing marginal utility... and he is most certainly NOT doing that with this rig. I'd be willing to bet something in the $10,000 range provides far better marginal utility than this.
The design of this system is stupid.#1 Three center channels. We use a single center channel for a reason, it works. #2 Acoustics - The placement of speakers and the apperant acoustics of this room would give you a high SPL but no imaging or sense of space.#3 Microphonics - What do you think those SPL levels are doing to the tubes in the tube amps?#4 Fuglyness - No need to say any more on this.#5 What is done with the heat that this system gives off? What kind of sound are the fans needed to cool all this equipment?#6 Compensation - You know what Freud would say!#7 Field of vision - There is a reason we stay away from the front row at the theater.#8 What is the hydrocarbon footprint of the monstrosity? #9 Even the most wealthy mentally challenged denizon of the left coast would find this an abomination. #10 How many children are going to bed hungry while you watch and listen to this monstrocity? Looks like you haven't missed any meals lately.
$5M of it was probably what it cost for him to get the utility to run a 13.8KV line to a residence. Plus all the upgrades he would have had to make to his entire house to be code compliant with a service entrance voltage of 13.8KV.I call BS, I see no wires, not even a hint of one in the equipment rack, let alone any way for those amps on the floor to be hooked up, even if they are wired straight into the floor.


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Jun 26, 2012by Aaron Smith
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Some 88% of U.S. adults own a cell phone of some kind as of April 2012, and more than half of these cell owners (55%) use their phone to go online. We call these individuals "cell internet users" throughout this report, and this represents a notable increase from the 31% of cell owners who said that they used their phone to go online as recently as April 2009.
Moreover, 31% of these current cell internet users say that they mostly go online using their cell phone, and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer. That works out to 17% of all adult cell owners who are "cell-mostly internet users"—that is, who use their phone for most of their online browsing.
Young adults and non-whites are especially likely to use their cell phones for the majority of their online activity:
Additionally, those with an annual household income of less than $50,000 per year and those who have not graduated college are more likely than those with higher levels of income and education to use their phones for most of their online browsing.
When asked for the main reason why they conduct most of their online browsing on a mobile phone, these cell-mostly users point to three major factors:
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These are the findings from a national telephone survey conducted March 15-April 3, 2012 among 2,254 adults age 18 and over, including 903 interviews conducted on the respondent's cell phone. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. The margin of error for all cell phone owners (n=1,954) is plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, and the margin of error for cell phone owners who go online using their phones (n=929) is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
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I must say, this bed has absolutely surpassed my expectations. It was scary ordering a piece of furniture sight unseen, but I am not disappointed. In fact, I'm overjoyed and feel lucky to have found this piece for such a great price! This bed is high quality--- it looks like it could have come from an upscale contemporary store like ZGallerie (but with four times the price tag). As for the upholstery? It's faux, but you'd never know. The "leather" rivals that of the top grain leather upholstery in my luxury sedan. See it, touch it, you'll never know the difference. The bed is NOT a platform, but I believe Overstock has now removed that claim from its product description. I would suggest a low profile boxspring or wood slats to support your mattress so that it will still have that "platform" look. Overall, I have raved about it, family and friends have raved about it, and everytime I walk into the bedroom area of my downtown loft I feel like I'm walking into a modern, luxury suite in Las Vegas! I love it! And it's perfect for someone with champagne tastes but a beer budget... like me.
This bed is a very good value. The headboard is a bit flimsy - ie you can tell it is not hardwood and tufted leather, but of course it not going to be exactly like the beds that cost 5x as much. I am happy with the purchase and recommend this bed - especially if you are not planning on using it forever, if you need a nice looking, good style bed, and dont want to feel bad getting rid of it when the style changes or when you move etc, then I think its an amazing value.
This bed is by far the best item I have ever purchased from Overstock and I've been shopping with them since the beginning. The bed looks great in our guest room. I put this bed together myself with inly the allen wrenches that came with it. Hubby was out of town and I wanted it in the room before he got home. I'm so proud of myself but all the credit goes to the manufactures for making it so easy even a 65 yr old woman could do it.
The bed is great! I just don't like that the color is more off white than bright white. And I don't like the thickness of it all around. There is about 4 inches on the footboard and headboard, so I would not recommend this bed if you are looking to keep it as narrow as possible, but that's what makes it look nice!
The product looks great in my bedroom my girlfriend wants to trade me bed sets becaue ses jealous. Only down side is with no BoxSpring the bed sits below the headboard and i hae a 10" mattress,so a Box Sripng is Necessary
We bough this be frame for our new apartment and it looks completely stunning. I though that the touch or look of the white faux leather might look cheap, but when I got it, it looks amazing. Very happy with our purchase!
Yowser!!!! I'm in total ahhhh of this bed!!! I love the look of the bed once I got it all together. It took about an hour to put together and after that I took a step back and basked in my accomplishment as certified bed builder. JK! I would recommend this bed to anyone looking for a modern change in their bedroom. Ladies, men and children love this bed� A definite smile maker. No reason to hesitate buying this bed, it's a thumbs up! Slats may need some effort adjusting, so that your foundation and bed sit right on the frame�. I actually think I might furnish my entire loft apartment with Overstock's website, I have no negative feedback! (fingers crossed on my next purchase, don't want to jinx myself. :)
Great bed; it is off white but still an AWESOME bed. The bed frame came on time, but in two pieces; the other box came in the next day.
fast delivery. not white white but fits in with my decor. had musty smell from the warehouse which eventually wore off. Backing was bleeding onto faux leather so i attempted to send back which they were prompt in arranging. but i realized i could clean it on my own and cancelled exchange. 1 metal leg was chipped on the base. there was a nick in the leather on sideboard. i really just didnt want the hassle of returning such a large item for those small disappointments...so i'm working with it. It is a beautiful bed and i do use it. so i would say its sturdy. i feel like i got my money's worth overall.
I already knew from the reviews that the slats on the bed would be flimsy, so I was not surprised when lo and behold - this beautiful queen sized bed only had 3 pieces of crappy wood to hold up a mattress (what were they thinking!). Anyways, I went to Home Depot and got 3 120 inch 4x1s and had them cut in half (so it came out to 6 60 inch slats) to put in the frame. Now, my mattress fits perfectly. Aside from that, I'm very happy with this bed...it's pretty and the backrest is comfortable.
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text: PublicationsInternational Activity Report 2011Democratic Republic of the CongoAccessing even basic healthcare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is difficult. In the eastern part of the country, violent incidents occur daily, as a result of shifting alliances between armed groups, and banditry. Medical needs are great in eastern DRC and the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, but general insecurity and crime in the region have at times forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend medical activities. Providing healthcare to victims of conflictAt the end of 2011, more than 500,000 people in North Kivu were registered as displaced, while another 630,000 in South Kivu had fled their homes. MSF runs a number of programs, working from hospitals and health centres across the provinces, to provide healthcare to people trapped by conflict. In North Kivu, teams in Masisi, Mweso, Pinga, Birambizo, Rutshuru, Nyanzale, and in and around Goma and Butembo towns provide basic and specialist healthcare. Last year, some services at Rutshuru hospital were handed over to the Ministry of Health. In total, staff carried out more than 404,000 consultations in the province. In South Kivu, similar services are offered in Kalonge – where the program was extended to three more health centers – Lulingu, Hauts Plateaux and Shabunda, and in a second hospital in Matili. In addition, staff operate mobile clinics for people living in more remote areas – some locations can be reached only by long journeys on foot – and in camps. There is also an MSF team in South Kivu dedicated to emergency response. At five camps on the border between South Kivu and Katanga, MSF provided basic healthcare, including vaccinations, and nutritional support. The team also ensured access to safe water. In September, staff began assisting people in two camps in the north of Kalemie town, in Katanga, providing basic healthcare and food aid. In Katanga and North Kivu, teams of surgeons spent several weeks performing fistula repair operations in MSF programs in Manono, Shamwana and Masisi. Obstetric fistulas are injuries to the birth canal that usually occur as a result of prolonged or obstructed labor. They cause incontinence, which often leads to social exclusion. In 2011, more than 110 women underwent fistula repair surgery. In Orientale province, MSF handed over some of its activities in Bunia to a local organisation, Sofepadi, which offers treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, family planning services and assistance to victims of sexual violence. MSF provides medical, technical and financial support to Sofepadi, and now focuses its work on emergency response and HIV treatment for children under 15. In Gety, a team provides basic and emergency health services and runs a 24-hour therapeutic feeding center. In South Kivu in April, armed and uniformed men opened fire on an MSF car travelling to Marungu, near Hauts Plateaux, robbed the driver and stole everything. Later, gunmen attacked another MSF car on the road between Bukavu and Uvira: two staff members were wounded. In November, a number of armed men forced their way into the MSF residence in Masisi, North Kivu, and opened fire. One member of the team received a gunshot wound to the shoulder. MSF suspended mobile medical activities in the area, but continued to provide a minimum level of emergency support at Masisi general referral hospital. There were 108 attacks involving humanitarian workers in North Kivu in 2011. Responding to epidemicsMSF has a network of emergency teams ready to respond to outbreaks of disease across the country. In 2011, in response to a measles epidemic, MSF staff vaccinated over three million children, and treated more than 13,700 for the disease. Malaria accounts for approximately 40 percent of child deaths in DRC. MSF saw a 250 percent increase in the number of patients with malaria in its hospitals in the east of the country compared with 2009, and treated more than 158,000 people in North Kivu, South Kivu, Katanga, Équateur, Orientale and Maniema provinces. Teams also responded to outbreaks of cholera in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, Orientale, Bandundu, Équateur, and the capital Kinshasa, setting up treatment centers and treating thousands of patients. HIV careMore than one million people are estimated to be living with HIV in DRC, yet antiretroviral (ARV) treatment coverage is among the lowest in the world: some 350,000 are in need of treatment, but do not receive it. Donors are withdrawing funding from HIV programs, and MSF is seeing the number of people in urgent need of treatment grow. An MSF team in Kinshasa runs a hospital dedicated to HIV treatment, and MSF programs at hospitals and health centers across the country also offer HIV care: in total, more than 5,000 patients are registered for HIV treatment with MSF. Sleeping sickness programThe prevalence of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) in the districts of Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé, Orientale province, is considered to be one of the highest in the world. A parasitic disease transmitted by the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness is deadly if not treated. In 2011, MSF staff screened tens of thousands of people through a mobile clinic and in programs in Dingila, Haut-Uélé, and Doruma, Bas-Uélé, and treated around 1,500 patients for the disease. Hospital care in ManiemaMSF took over Lubutu hospital in 2006. By the end of 2011, the capacity of the hospital – which serves 100,000 people – had grown to 160 beds, and mortality in the area had dropped fivefold since 2005. In 2012, MSF plans to hand over activities to another non-governmental organization. Sexual violenceAs well as assisting victims of sexual violence in many of its regular healthcare programs, MSF responded to around ten incidents of mass rape around Fizi, South Kivu, and Pinga, North Kivu. Altogether, more than 2,300 people received medical and psychological assistance. At the end of 2011, MSF had 2,919 staff in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. MSF has been working in the country since 1981. |


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They were a small family -- just Marina, her mother and her mother's father. Everyone else in her mother's family had been killed at Babi Yar, a ravine outside Kiev, where Nazis gunned down nearly 34,000 Jews in two days in September 1941. Marina's father had died of a stroke when she was only 7.
Now it was 1979, and Marina was 19. She had applied for exit visas for the three of them and been refused. With her grandfather gone, she would fight for herself and her mother. She began organizing protests against the government.
She was a small woman, only 5-foot-1, but the Soviet regime considered her activism a threat. She was warned to stop, arrested three times and beaten twice. In 1980, police forced her into a cell, sent in 30 drunken men and told them to rape her.
One of the men recognized her as the daughter of his own girl's beloved kindergarten teacher. He protected Marina from being raped but couldn't stop the beatings, which left her hospitalized for several months. When she got out, she and her mother left town and headed to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, another Soviet republic at the time and now an independent country.
The people there, she said, were kinder and the KGB and police less fierce. Through other refuseniks, she eventually met Lev Furman, an Orthodox Jew 13 years her senior. He was religious in ways she knew nothing about. He taught Hebrew underground when Zionism and teaching the language were forbidden. His first wife had left him when the KGB threats became too much.
"He said, 'Look, I need a wife. I need someone who can help me if I'm arrested,' " Marina remembered. Only immediate relatives could visit someone in prison or make appeals on their behalf. She told him, "Fine, we'll get married on paper. I'll help you." But Lev liked her and wanted a real marriage. She agreed. The two wed within a week, in July 1986, and she moved with him to Leningrad (which has returned to its historical name of St. Petersburg).
"We took big risks in life. Marrying someone you'd known for a week wasn't the biggest risk," she said. "We were both only children and never knew if we'd survive another day. And we'd both found someone crazy enough to marry us."
They continued their fight for freedom and were bolstered by visitors from around the world. Lev was committed to building a Jewish resistance where there was next to no Jewish life. He worked with young people and distributed textbooks and copies of Leon Uris' "Exodus" that had been smuggled in by others. Young women from Finland, which shared an open border at the time, brought Lev books sewn into the linings of their coats.
Almost immediately after they married, Marina became pregnant. The KGB found a new way to threaten her. They said they would kill Marina when she gave birth if the Furmans didn't stop their activism.
She was inclined to listen, but Lev wouldn't have it. The tide was shifting. Gorbachev was now in power, and his policies of glasnost and perestroika -- openness and reform -- were just beginning. Gorbachev had freed Anatoly Sharansky, the poster boy for the Soviet Jewry movement, in February 1986.
Sharansky -- who later changed his name to Natan and became an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author -- had been sentenced in 1977 to 13 years of forced labor in a Siberian prison camp, or gulag. But he was released four years early. Sharansky was now traveling the U.S., speaking on college campuses and drumming up support for a huge rally in Washington. All signs pointed to change. Now wasn't the time to give up.
Marina, who understood the importance of communicating with the outside world, had taught herself English by studying a dictionary and listening to the BBC and Voice of America. She wrote a letter to a contact in Great Britain about the latest threat against her. It was passed to the BBC, which broadcast the letter every day for a week.
This infuriated the KGB as much as it rallied the movement. After the threat became public, the Furmans had visitors from abroad nearly every day. Articles were written about them. Letters poured in by the hundreds, from not just activists but politicians, including U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy. Letter-writing campaigns flooded the heads of the Soviet government, the KGB and immigration officials.
"If your name was known, it was like insurance," Marina said.
Even with all the attention, Marina nearly died when an IV line feeding an overdose of medication, supposedly for a weakened heart, was given to her during labor. A doctor who found her alone in a room, away from the other new mothers, saved her. She remained in the maternity hospital for a week, but Lev was barred from seeing her or knowing what was going on. On a wall outside the hospital, he painted her a message: "Marishka, you are my hero!"
Their newborn baby, Aliyah, seemed to arrive determined not to add to her parents' stress.
She slept through the night from the day they brought her home. The KGB ransacked the family's small apartment when Aliyah was 2 months old, and she didn't even wake up.
"God gives everyone what they can handle," Marina said.
Finding a cause -- and a voice
People had tried for years to get Constance "Connie" Smukler and her husband, Joseph, involved. But the Philadelphia couple already had their causes, and these Soviet Jews were faceless, their issues foreign.
Starting in 1973, their perspective changed when the matter became personal. They were visiting Israel when they met and befriended a man who begged them to help free his brother.
Irma Chernyak had applied for an exit visa and been denied. The request to leave cost him his job. The aeronautical scientist was now operating elevators -- and going on hunger strikes.
Connie tried to bring attention to his story by calling media and speaking about him in synagogue. But she wanted to know more about the man for whom she was fighting. "I can't keep working for him without meeting him," she told her husband. So in July 1974, with the kids off to summer camp, the Smuklers made their first trip to the Soviet Union.
They spent their days meeting with refuseniks in apartments they found by memorizing addresses or referencing information written in code. Believing the flats were bugged, they brought magic slates, the child's toy that lets a person write on a plastic sheet, then lift it to erase the words.
In one Moscow flat, they sat and waited as, one by one, refuseniks came to see them. Having studied their faces, names and bios over the past year, they had become "like movie stars" to the Smuklers. "There's Slepak, Lunts, Prestin, Abramovich," Connie said, remembering that day. "It was an embarrassment of riches. We were seeing all of them."


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The 5th widget competition by the ROLE Project is now open!
The ROLE project opens the 5th competition on the development of widgets useful for self-regulated learning. You have three weeks to submit your widget specifications. The winners will be announced on November 5th and will then have two months to develop their widget, after which they will receive their prize in value of 500€ or an IPad. The winner of this second round will be announced on 22nd January 2013.
The ROLE project is an international initiative centered around the idea of helping teachers create open personal learning environments for their students. The widget competition is based on this philosophy and is aimed at developing widgets that would be useful for employees of a company involved in a self-regulated learning process.
The widget specifications, that should include a description, a screenshot, a use case, and a link to a prototype (if available), can be submitted until October 21st. The jury will select the winners of this first round who will then have two months to develop their widget under the support of a ROLE Partner. Each of them will then receive a prize in value of 500€. The winner of this second round will be announced on January 23rd 2013. The widgets should enhance the learner's experience in activities such as planning and organizing learning process, creating and manipulating learning content, training and testing, reflection and evaluation, etc.
Submission Start: 20 September 2012
Submission Deadline (Widget Specifications): 21 October 2012
Winners Announcement (Round 1): 05 November 2012
Submission Deadline (Widgets): 06 January 2013
Winner Announcement (Round 2): 22 January 2013
More information on terms and conditions can be found at http://www.role-project.eu/WidgetCompetition.
The first ROLE Widget Enchantment
Join the competition – create a widget – win a prize!
The ROLE project has opened an iterative competition on the development of widgets to enchant users and learner communities. Developers benefit from the wide range of the project's test beds and receive valuable feedback as well as access to future market winning technologies. The winner will receive a prize worth 500€, e.g. a webpad, a smartphone or the entrance fee to exclusive events!
Submission deadline: 15 July, 2011
Winner announcement: 31 July, 2011
Responsive Open Learning Environments
ROLE's cross-disciplinary innovative approaches deliver and test prototypes of highly responsive digital learning environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and individualisation. ROLE follows an open approach thereby offering all interested parties to participate in this major endeavour.
ROLE's stakeholders range from learners to teachers, from employers to education service providers and learning material vendors, from university to further-education organisations. Their needs are continuously integrated into ROLE, thereby ensuring that significant benefits arise for the learners, their communities, employers, TEL developers and society in general.
Learning is a highly individual experience. Therefore, ROLE enables learners to create and their personal learning environment, and thus their individual learning experience. The ROLE approach offers adaptivity and personalisation specifically in terms of the contents and services that comprise the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualisation of the components, tools, and functionalities of a digital learning environment. Learning environment services can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities while addressing the needs of the learners as well as of the organisations accrediting and/or certifying the learning activities. This approach empowers learners themselves to generate new tools and functionalities according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience. At the same time, organisations are able to control and stir the assembly of the learning environments to ensure the acceptability of the learning activities and outcomes.
First results are available through the ROLE showcase, available at http://www.role-showcase.eu/ . Here, successful tools and learning environments are provided to exemplify how ROLE can be successfully employed in all stages of life-long learning after leaving high school. Furthermore, learners, teachers and organisations testify about their successful use of the ROLE approach in various learning scenarios. ROLE's generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperable across software systems and technology. Hence, any tool created by an individual is available from a pool of services and tools to all learners via the internet, no matter which learning environment, operating system or device they use or subject matter they learn. A highly active community is continuously promoting new results, ideas and approaches. Join us at the LinkedIn ROLE group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1590487
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