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Apple releases iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV
Apple has jumped the gun and released iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple TV ahead of the previously announced March 11 schedule. The update includes Wi-Fi personal hotspot for iPhone, iTunes Home Sharing, expanded AirPlay support for App Store apps,
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Apple releases iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV
exactly....imma wait till they have a jailbreak for 4.3 before i even consider it
I second that. Losing a jailbreak is not worth the tweaks available on 4.2.1. I'm sure a tethered jb will be released shortly, but will the untethered be used after the iPad 2?
My mistake "4.3"
It is....sometime I get one of those springboard safe mode....and i cant do anything until i get to a computer to tether reboot it.
I think it's worth it with the new keyboard, JavaScript and all are enough for me.
Those of us who don't jailbreak care.
Installing right now for iPhone 4 and iPad to follow!
new devices found! Most Likely iPad 2's
new device found: iPad2,3
new device found: iPad2,2
new device found: iPad2,1
Could not update. Will the Iphone 3G get the update I have 4.2.1 ?
No iOS 4.3 for iPhone 3G. That's end of line :-/
OK... Here's my question. Why no Verizon iPhone for the update??
Was this Apple's idea of Verizon's? if it was Apple's and they just need more time to get CDMA in sync with everyone else then that's OK. But I am praying this isn't a sign of Verizon's typical "we want to test the heck out of everything that runs on our network first so no update for you" mindset.
PLEASE PLEASE DON'T LET IT BE VERIZON's IDEA!!
It's a Qualcomm issue they are waiting for. They have to do something to their baseband first. As for 4.3 overall, I am just glad they shortened most new text tones to something usable.
How do I download the Apple TV 2G 4.3 update? I plugged it into iTunes but there is no option to update only restore. :(
You don't have to plug into iTunes. Just leave it on your TV, go to settings, and run software update right from the device.
Just updated my 3GS flawlessly. But when I went to update my ATV2 it just said my software is up to date at 4.1.1 anyone else?
That's only on the iPad and you have to enable it in X Code.
...and cue p0sixninja, MuscleNerd, Comex, and pod2g. Here's hoping they make quick work of this, particularly related to the A5 chipset with iPad 2
Download only took me two minutes here. Servers are fast and responsive right now. Yes, I'm a jailbreaker. I want to keep my iPhone 4 jailbroken, but my iPad I don't care about. For me, jailbreaking my iPad isn't as valuable as having my iphone jailbroken. Running the update on the Apple TV as I write this. The iOS 4.3 update for my iPad went very smooth.
Downloaded iOS 4.3 like in 10 minutes here at my school
Anyone else expecting GarageBand to be up today? can't wait to try that...
You guys gonna understand the download takes long due to the fact that everyone is trying to download the file at the sametime. I'll wait until later on tonight... I've have the GM version and there is one bug that Apple has to repair. If you go inside of Setting> Sounds>Ringtones. On the very top it's says " Buy More Ringtones" when I press on it. It does not do nothing at all.. Please fix this or take it off...
Hey, i just finished downloading iOS 4.3 today but there's no multitouch gestures?.. I don't understand
Are you F%#KING KIDDING ME?!?!? All this hype about 4.3 having mobile hotspot so you can set up a hotspot with your phone and they want to charge for it!!! WTF when iciest went to it, it made me call AT&T and the plans start at $45.00 for a 4GB plan and also would remove my unlimited data plan from my phone. What a waist of time even updating.
Seriously? You thought it would be free? HAH! And you do realize that Verizon charges for it too, right?
Arrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh....... both my iPhone and iPad wont accept the update... during download, after a while a fault menssage on the Mac shows up saying failed to download as software corrupted blah blah. Everything clean and not jailbroken, all else up to date so can't see a problem. I've tried both devices several times and same error. Any ideas would be reaaaly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Cheers. Will try now.
Just updated to 4.3 first thing this morning; so far, so good. One very welcome improvement I've noticed is that in Safari, pages now appear to be loading about twice as fast as they used to. Nice...
update now, my carrier offers "$0 mobile as modem" on all their iphone (maybe all smartphone) plans so WiFi tethering is clearly going to be free :)
Optus in Australia.. and it IS 11th March here :)
it seems to me that Ping does a bit of caching now though I don't use Ping enough to have noticed this earlier if it was in a previous update
No iPod Touch love?? My iPhone 4 updated without issue. But both my touches say that 4.2.1 is current! They are both 3rd gen, but I thought it was good with that. Meh, maybe later it will work.
Why has my comment been binned?
Civil, polite, on topic?.... what the problem?
Ignore my strop. Screen didn't refresh. Thanks guys to those that replied and helped me out!
The iOS 4.3 on my iPod touch 4g is not as fast and responsive as 4.2.1
i update to 4.3 but no multi gesture or any other changes. just got back the mute switch
I'm assuming this is not for Verizon....
Here's an interesting bit that I noticed. I thought personal hotspot was limited to the iPhone 4? My 3GS is showing the option, and prompts me to call the carrier to activate the plan. Is this known and doesn't really work, or if I'm willing to pay through the nose, can I actually use it?
Is anyone else annoyed by the new vibrate for text messages??
As great as the integrated environment is, why exactly does my mobiel provider want to nickel and dime me for using the Personal Hotspot feature? I have a plan with a fixed data allowance, why would it matter how I use it up? Personally I think it is fraudulent that Apple helps providers to milk clients for something that should be included the moment you subscribe to a data plan.
Something i'd not seen mentioned anywhere but is a huge bonus for me is that the spellchecker now appears clever enough to work out when you hit a letter instead of the space bar between 2 words. for example, I typed "are youvpaying for lunch" and it changed the "v" for the space I missed with my big sausage fingers! I'm pretty sure this didn't happen before and is a nice new feature. They should advertise it.
My first bad update experience: The headphones that came with my iPhone aren't recognized any longer and music won't play through them. Another thing is when no headphones are plugged in the ringer volume bars disapear
I also seem to be seeing slightly improved performance on iPhone 4, in particular Angry Birds used to freeze for a fraction of a second every time I flung a bird (which I believe was from checking for achievement conditions as it would be an even longer freeze when I actually get an achievement) but now it's as smooth a butter
4.3 on iPhone 4 is breaking my heart. Apps launch slowly. Transitions are chunky. I can watch the screen fill with different elements when launching the iPod or Clock apps.
I am NOT jail broken and everything is turned off: Spotlight, phone, wifi, etc.
I guess I will try 4.3 form new.. not updated.
Why do apple fix things that arent broken. My choo choo no longer choo choo's it choo's only. It's a definate backward step shortening the text tones if people want short ones then let then choose a short one not force everyone to have a shortened one

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If you regularly print Web pages, Chrome wasn't the best browser for you because it lacked print preview. Chrome 13, now available in beta, addresses this issue and finally allows users to preview documents before printing them.
Chrome's implementation is special because it uses the built-in PDF plugin to convert the page you want to print into a PDF file. There's no special "print preview" option: when you click "print", Chrome opens a new tab that shows some of the options from the native print dialog and a preview pane.
Chrome generates a PDF file every time you click "print" and when you change printing settings and you can save the file by selecting "Print to PDF" from the "Destination" drop-down. Unfortunately, Chrome's PDF files are huge (the file generated for Google's homepage has almost 1 MB). Google managed to reduce the performance penalty of generating PDF files and now print preview is pretty fast, on par with Internet Explorer 9.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Moultrie Middle School is celebrating its 40th year as a middle school. Last Thursday, the parents, teachers, students and staff threw a birthday party for the school, complete with party games and birthday cake. And as a part of the year-long celebration, second-year principal Anna Dassing would like to ask the community to help her write the history of Moultrie Middle School and Moultrie High School.
"There's such a sense of tradition here," she says.
"The kids grow up in the community and their parents went to Moultrie Middle or Moultrie High."
We want to honor the past while pushing for the future," she adds. "We try to get the students to understand they attend a historic school."
Moultrie Middle School opened its doors as a middle school in 1973. Before that time, the campus at Coleman Boulevard and Simmons Street was the location of Moultrie High School which housed a high school as well as seventh and eighth grades. When Wando High School opened its doors, that allowed the Moultrie campus to become solely a middle school.
The present Moultrie Middle School building opened in 2009, replacing an older set of buildings.
Dassing came to Moultrie for the 2011-12 school year and soon realized that the school would be reaching the milestone of 40 years as a middle school.
To honor the anniversary, the art department and art students designed a school seal which states Moultrie Middle School established 1973, Doctrina Perpetua (always learning).
Symbols on the shield include the math symbol pi, and a globe, stressing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) push; a palmetto tree and a gorget, symbolizing history; sheet music, a musical instrument and a paint brush, symbolizig the arts; and a shrimp, symbolizing the ties to Shem Creek and environmentalism. An oak tree is in the background of the seal and is meant to represent the big oak tree so prominent on the campus today as well as when the original school first opened.
Dassing is working on a school scrapbook where she'd like to display photos of the old school building as well as the new one and whatever other momentoes people would like to have copied or donated. She invites members of the public to share pictures of the old high school and middle school and the tree that's such a prominent campus landmark. She asks that people bring photos and other momentoes by the school or email photographs and memories of the school to her at email@example.com.
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Diving Takes Three of Four Against George Mason
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University diving squads faced off Saturday at the WVU Natatorium against the George Mason Patriots
This was the final regular season meet for the divers before the Big 12 and NCAA Zone Championships.
Sophomore Haily VandePoel won both the 1-meter and 3-meter dives, with scores of 259.80 and 288.67, respectively.
"It was a strong performance today by the women, they have been consistent and look strong as we go into the conference meet," diving coach Michael Grapner says. "Haily has been consistent all year and she finished strong with the victory on the 1- and 3-meter boards."
The third win of the day was by freshman Christian Parker who won the 3-meter with a score of 284.33.
"The men were also strong today," Grapner says. "They showed room for improvement and I'm confident that they are ready to go into the conference championships."
For the women's divers, freshman Tori Taffner placed second on the 3-meter (226.12), and placed fourth on the 1-meter (213.90). Sophomore Jennifer Rey placed second on the 1-meter with a score of 238.65, and third on the 3-meter with a score of 218.25.
For the men's divers, Parker also took second on the 1-meter with a score of 270.30, while junior Richard Pokorny placed third (260.70), with freshmen Ibrahim Ismail and Keith Carmichael following in fifth (239.55) and sixth (237.53), respectively. Carmichael placed fourth on the 3-meter with a 250.27, with Ismail taking fifth (246.90), and Pokorny taking seventh (233.10)
The Mountaineers are off until the Big 12 Championships in Austin, Texas. The competition runs from Feb. 27-March 2, with a full recap of each day's action on WVUsports.com.
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Pah. What I'd like: 1) the other three majors to give us 256 kbps DRM-free on iTMS, or 2) the Amazon UK mp3 store to open sooner rather than later (allegedly it will be sometime this year). The labels do seem to be learning that it's rather a good idea to give customers what they want, but the rate of progress is stupidly slow, in the case of iTMS probably because they're playing politics with Apple.
Rumor: Apple Considering All-You-Can-Eat Music Subscriptions?
People don't want to rent their music. So said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Of course, the Jobsinator also said people don't want to watch video on tiny iPod screens, and we see how far that got him...
So, while 100% unsubstantiated rumor at the moment, The Financial Times (via Apple Insider) is reporting a "tip off" that says Apple is now considering an unlimited music program similar to Nokia's "Comes With Music".
Under the terms of that plan, manufacturers would pay the recording industry a per-device fee (passed on to the consumer, 'natch) that would allow for "unlimited" music over the course of a year. When the year's up, consumers could either renew the subscription themselves or let it lapse and keep "50-60" songs they've already downloaded.
What the cost(s) will be (guesses range from $5 a month to $100 per device), what kind of DRM (digital rights management) will be in place, what quality compression (128-bit like standard iTunes or higher 256-bit like iTunes+ and Amazon MP3) will be used, and basically every and all other details remain to be announced.
It is noted that, because of it's existing cell phone billing arrangement, a more traditional monthly subscription model may also be made available exclusively for the iPhone.
The parties (Apple and the music industry) are reportedly still far apart when it comes to terms, but revenue streams makes for strange bedfellows (hi, AT&T!) so we'll have to wait for another Special Music Event (starring Paul McCartney, of course) to know for sure.
Personally, I wouldn't mind a subscription service. If the music industry had any sense (please, hold your laughter 'til the end...), they would provide radio-like free streams of low bit-rate music with an easy "buy now" button for higher quality. It would allow people to discover music again, just like the iTunes/Starbucks initiative, and give the rapidly dehydrating recording industry their own little sip of water...
What do you think? Buy or die? Rent over spend? How do you want your iPhone music?
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Rumor: Apple Considering All-You-Can-Eat Music Subscriptions?
The labels aren't learning. Did you hear Billy Joel's little speech at the Hall of Fame, when he said he never would have guessed John Cougar Mellencamp (sp?) would outlive the music industry?
They're committing suicide by committee. This Week In Media was discussing how "mix tape" models, letting pod-casters use short intros/outros with "buy now" buttons etc. are all illegal and unavailable, yet would make tons of money for the labels.
The core problem is that the internet has made labels irrelevant. They used to make money by extorting artists (giving them money to put them into perpetual debt) and producing bits of plastic to distribute via brick and mortar. Artists soon won't need labels any more. Labels know this an are desperately clinging with all the old media power they can, but their time is up.
I do think it's a little better it than it was a couple of years ago (when everything was DRMed), but yeah I agree of course that the important relationship is between those making the music and those listening and the labels have an unwarranted level of self importance. They seem to think it's 'their' music, which is only true in the prosaic of ways. The crazy thing is that they could probably make a whole lot more money if they'd just wake up to what people want, like DRM-free music from by far the most popular means of distributing digital music.
To the average consumer? No. They've clearly voted with their wallets and bought billions of 128-bit songs. To a certain level of audiophile? Absolutely. But then again, CD-lovers think all MP3's constrain the range. Vinyl-heads think all CD's lack depth and richness. And live musicians think every recorded not pales compared to being there.
Interestingly, I've been hearing recently that the brain processes digital music differently than analog. Digital music compression is lossy -- it throws out sounds (or color in the case of JPG) that scientists believe the human brain won't notice (because we can distinguish certain ranges well, or because we can't hear one note at the same time as another). However, just like the brain fills in detail on a color reduced JPG to make it look like contiguous tone (or fills in motion in the static series of images that make movies possible), the brain fills in what it thinks it's missing. That, to put it into computer terms, means that it is more processor intensive (brain power) to decompress digital music while listening. Some have said this also effects our emotional response to said music, since our brain is working harder instead of just focusing on the enjoyment.
Wow, tangent-y much? :)
iPhone already streams. I listen to and watch a lot of podcasts via streaming. They open up in QuickTime touch, which strangely even allows for rotation (portrait or landscape) unlike the iPod app.
(Discovered it when I clicked on one of CaliLewis' tinyurl links in Twitter and Geekbrief began streaming!)
It is called "impossible" by those who can follow simple logic. It isn't rocket science.


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From farm to wine to mapleBy KATHRYN EDDY
CORRESPONDENT | March 22,2013CAMBRIDGE Boyden Valley Winery and Spirits, Vermonts first licensed winery, operates on the Boyden family farm in Cambridge. A dairy farm until 2000, it was purchased by the family in 1914, and theyve been working on it for four generations.
The Boydens have diversified, and different members of the family run different businesses on the farm such as Boyden Beef, the Barn at Boyden Farm for weddings and events, the winery and a 200-acre sugarbush for maple sugaring.
In 1996 David Boyden and his wife, Linda, who share a love of wine, embarked on what would prove to be a very rewarding and tasty endeavor that continues to grow. Shortly after opening their winery, they were followed by a couple more, and now Vermont has 15 open to the public.
In 2010, Boyden Valley added and Spirits to its name when it introduced its Vermont Ice Apple Crème liqueur, a blend of cream, its own Vermont Ice Cider and apple brandy. In December it added another liqueur to the lineup, Vermont Ice Maple Crème, a blend of maple syrup, apple brandy and cream.
This weekend, when the states sugar makers host their annual Vermont Maple Open House Weekend, Boyden Valley will hold its own Maple Sugar Festival featuring free sugar on snow, syrup sample tasting and winery tours, as well as special wine and food tasting.
Vermont is hardly known for its grapevines; indeed, it took a few hybrid strains and some experimentation before Boyden Valley established the successful varieties it grows today.
Its a great agricultural growth for the state. It really is amazing its a crop that wasnt here before, said Bridget Jones, Boyden Valleys wine room manager and events coordinator.
They begin pruning in April or May and typically harvest in September.
Its a pretty short growing season overall, but the specific grape varieties are not only winter hardy to withstand our really cold, frosty winters, they do actually produce a lot faster than a normal grapevine would to accommodate that shorter summer, said Jones.
They are not going to be as bold or as full-flavored as a California grape would be for that same reason. Last year, we had a wonderful crop because we had such a long, dry summer, though it affected other crops negatively. The grapes loved it. So well have a lot more Vermont-grown grapes in our wines in the next couple of years, she added.
Frontenac, Sabrevois and La Crescent are all hardy to temperatures below zero and have been grown in Quebec and other northern parts of the U.S. La Crescent is a white variety; Frontenac and Sabrevois are red varieties. Boyden Valley is probably best known for its ice wines Vermont Ice Cider, Vermont Ice and Vermont Ice Red and these grape varieties allow it to leave the grapes on the vine until the first heavy frost and then harvest and press them frozen.
Red ice wines are relatively uncommon, and Boyden Valley makes the only Vermont ice red.
You really have to be in just the right climate to do a traditional ice wine. So theyre very popular in Germany where they originated, very popular in Canada and starting to grow in popularity in the northern U.S., said Jones.
The ice wines are concentrated, a lot like a cordial, and it takes a lot more to make less: A half bottle of an ice wine has five times as many grapes as a full bottle of regular wine. It takes 400 gallons of cider to make 60 gallons of ice cider.
Boyden Valley has 17 products to offer, the more popular of which are available in stores throughout Vermont.
We have a great selection. When people come in who say they arent wine drinkers, I tell them theres going to be something on the list that they will like. Weve got a variety of flavors from the very dry to the very sweet, and everything in between, said Jones.
Boyden Valleys fruit wines cranberry, rhubarb, blueberry, and apple-maple are made in a similar way to regular wines, pressed and fermented and aged.
The stainless steel tank that once housed the farms milk has been fitted for fermentation cycles and aging processes.
As Boyden Valley has expanded, oak barrels and more tanks have joined it in the 1875 carriage barn, which was refurbished about 20 years ago.
They really just tried to reuse as much as they could when they refurbished everything, said Jones. Were a small business, family-owned and -operated. And we try to stay as local as possible. Anything we dont grow on the property, we source from other local Vermont vineyards, orchards and berry farms first.
The Maple Sugar Festival is Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the winery, at the junction of Vermont routes 15 and 104 in Cambridge.
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The Vancouver Canucks have recalled right wing Byron Bitz from the Chicago Wolves.
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State looks for owners of $64 million in unclaimed propertyStaff Report | November 05,2013MONTPELIER — The state Treasurer's office is currently in the middle of fall outreach efforts to alert Vermonters to search for unclaimed property.
There's now more than $64 million in Vermont's unclaimed property fund.
During the last fiscal year, the average claim paid $385 in cash to 13,435 individuals who discovered they had unclaimed financial property.
"Vermonters are finding that taking the time to check each year can really pay off," said State Treasurer Beth Pearce. "At this year's Champlain Valley Fair we had 950 claim form requests made on $173,121 in unclaimed property. The largest amount of a single claim request was $28,793."
Through November 13, the office will distribute its annual publication of new unclaimed property listings through newspapers across the state. Additional advertising will direct people to search for their name at MissingMoney.Vermont.gov.
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By Dane Schiller, Mike Ward : April 2, 2014 : Updated: April 8, 2014 10:28am
Photo By CHRIS JOHNSON/Associated PressTommy Lynn Sells, center, laughs with law enforcement officers after getting off a plane at Central Flying Service in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, March 22, 2000. Sells was brought to Little Rock by Texas Rangers to talk to authorities about two murders he claims to have committed in Little Rock. The killings are among 13 that Tommy Lynn Sells says he carried out in seven states. But Texas authorities have said they are less sure about the accuracy of Sells' Arkansas claims than about some of the other slayings. (AP Photo/Chris Johnson)
Photo By Anonymous/HOPDIn this Jan. 11, 2000 file photo provided by the Val Verde County Sheriff, Tommy Lynn Sells is shown. A judge ordered Texas prison officials Thursday to disclose the supplier of a new batch of lethal injection drugs to attorneys for convicted killers Sells and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, both set to be executed in April, 2014, but she stopped short of revealing the identity of the manufacturer to the public. (AP Photo/Val Verde County Sheriff, File)
Photo By JERRY LARA/San Antonio Express-NewsDeath row inmate Tommy Lynn Sells talks with his newly-appointed attorneys in the 379th courtroom on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001. His attorneys are Jay Norton, left, and Mike McCrum. jerry lara/staff
Photo By BOB OWEN/San Antonio Express-NewsA Bexar County Sheriff Deputy escorts Death Row inmate Tommy Lynn Sells to the Bexar County Prison, Feb. 22, 2001. photo Bob Owen
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Tommy Lynn Sells enters the courtroom to plead guilty to capitol murder charges Thursday, September 11, 2003 at the Justice Center. BAHRAM MARK SOBHANI/STAFF
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Photo By GLORIA FERNIZ/San Antonio Express-NewsTommy Lynn Sells (C) is escorted out of the Val Verde Judicial Center by Sheriff officials Tuesday September 12, 2000. Sells, who claims to have killed dozens of people, is on trial in Del Rio for the rape and murder of a 13 year old girl. Staff Gloria Ferniz
Photo By GLORIA FERNIZ/San Antonio Express-NewsTommy Lynn Sells (C) is escorted into the Val Verde Judicial Center by a Sheriff officer Wednesday morning, September 13, 2000. Sells, who claims to have killed dozens of people, is on trial in Del Rio for the rape and murder of a 13 year old girl. Staff Gloria Ferniz
Photo By ERIC GAY/Associated PressFILE--Confessed killer Tommy Lynn Sells, a 36-year-old drifter and former carnival worker, is led from the Val Verde Justice Center in Del Rio, Texas in this Sept. 5, 2000 file photo. Since his arrest, Sells has confessed to a total of 13 slayings in seven states. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Photo By GLORIA FERNIZ/San Antonio Express-NewsA Val Verde County law enforcement official opens the courthouse as Krystal Surles, 10, hugs her paternal grandmother, Myrna Wright, on her way into the Val Verde County Judicial Center Tuesday morning, September 12, 2000. Surles, who suvived an attack by Sells, will testify against Tommy Lynn Sells in capital murder trial. STAFF GLORIA FERNIZ
Photo By GLORIA FERNIZ/San Antonio Express-NewsKrystal Surles, 11 (L) and her mother Pam Surles (L) leave the Val Verde Judicial Center Monday afternoon, September 18, 2000, after a guilty verdict in the Tommy Lynn Sells trial was announced. The Harris family, Justin 14 (L), Terry and Crystal, walk behind them. Staff Gloria Ferniz
Photo By GLORIA FERNIZ/San Antonio Express-NewsCrystal Harris, left mother of a 13 year old Kaylene Harris killed by drifter Tommy Lynn Sells, in Dec of 1999, arrives at the Val Verde Judicial Center Tuesday, September 12, 2000, for the capital murder trial of Tommy Lynn Sells. Staff Gloria Ferniz
Photo By BAHRAM MARK SOBHANI/San Antonio Express-NewsThe family of Mary Bea Perez comfort each other as Tommy Lynn Sells pleads guilty to capitol murder charges Thursday, September 11, 2003 at the Justice Center. Sells plead guilty to kidnapping and murdering Mary Bea. BAHRAM MARK SOBHANI/STAFF
At least one execution was back on late Wednesday after a federal appeals court overturned a Houston federal judge's ruling that put two deaths on hold until the state of Texas shares details of the drugs that will be used to end the mens' lives.
An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was expected Thursday.
Texas prison officials, who are seeking to keep the name of the drug maker secret due to security concerns, planned to proceed with the executions after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday evening overturned an order issued earlier in the day by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore of Houston.
Tommy Lynn Sells, convicted of stabbing a 13-year-old South Texas girl to death in 1999, is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville Thursday.
Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, a citizen of Mexico who was convicted of beating a Kerrville rancher to death with a crowbar in 1997, is scheduled to be executed next week.
While the opinion vacated the Houston judge's order regarding both executions, it was unclear late Wednesday whether only the Sells execution was back on for Thursday - and whether the Hernandez-Llanas execution was still open to debate, as The Associated Press reported.
Lawyers for the two men are seeking to find out how and where Texas' lethal-execution drug, the powerful sedative pentobarbital, was made so they can determine whether to challenge its use on the grounds it causes cruel and unusual punishment. They contend that in the face of a nationwide shortage, the drug now is being made in a new, unregulated and secretive manner that could result in a product that causes suffering for inmates being executed by lethal injection.
In its decision, the appeals court ruled that speculation about Texas' drug was not enough to stop the executions.
The state used the last of its previous supply of the drug last Thursday when it executed Anthony Doyle for the 2003 death of a food-delivery person.
In her order, Gilmore said lawyers for the inmates should be given the opportunity to scrutinize the drug.
"Until Plaintiffs have full disclosure of their product with which Texas will cause their death, they cannot fully develop a challenge to its process," Gilmore wrote. "The question is not whether some error may cause a significant chance of pain in the execution procedure, but whether even a properly conducted execution will result in intolerable pain because of the standard used."
She further stated that redacted reports released by the state at the last minute deny the opportunity to assess whether the executions would be cruel and unusual punishment, and ordered that Texas confidentially share information about the drug's supplier, as well as how it has been tested.
Gilmore said the executions would remain stayed until the state produces the information.
The Texas Attorney General's Office, which has sought to protect the supplier from threats and public demonstrations, declined comment Wednesday.
Lawyers for the inmates point to recent executions in South Dakota and Oklahoma, in which forms of pentobarbital were used and inmates complained of extreme burning sensations and other pain.
Maurie Levin, an attorney representing the convicts, said that, regardless of what someone may think of Sells and Hernandez-Llanas, the law declares there is a proper way to put people to death. She said an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court would be filed.
"We are a long way from when we would take somebody who has done something like this and tar and feather them, and tie their hands and feet and pull them apart or put their head on a pike," Levin said. "We don't do that anymore. We want to handle things in a way that is better than many defendants may have handled their own lives."
The case ended up in Houston federal court on Wednesday after state officials last week were ordered by a Travis County state court judge and the state's 3rd Court of Appeals to disclose the drug information. The attorney general's office then appealed the case to the Texas Supreme Court and, because of the fast-approaching execution dates, the attorneys for the convicted men filed the federal lawsuit that landed before Gilmore.


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Creative Eckert name inspires Distant Cousinz trackWritten by Jordan Finney | | email@example.com
When you think of freedom, baby names don't often come to mind. But for Army Sgt. Gary "Andy" Eckert and wife Tiffany of Waterville, freedom was a dominating thought when their first child was born 10 years ago.
The baby girl was born during Andy's first overseas tour. Andy, who was killed in Iraq less than two years later, and Tiffany agreed over the phone to name her Marlee Freedom Eckert.
"They wanted her to always remember that Andy was off fighting for her freedom and for people he'd never met. Because freedom's never free," said Scott Fish, lead vocalist for Distant Cousinz.
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Fish met the Eckert family after he wrote a song about Marlee's brother, Myles. When Tiffany told him the story of Marlee's name, Fish decided to write a military-inspired song in tribute to Andy's service.
"Daddy's with you every day, in your heart and in your soul / He fought for Marlee's Freedom and for people he'd never met / He sought to free them … from a cycle of endless debt / He laid his life down / We should never forget …"
"I usually come up with the title first. Once I have that, the song just flows out of me. 'Marlee's Freedom' was a whisper in my ear," Fish said.
Fish wrote the majority of the song while sitting on a forklift at work. He would jam out for hours, repeating the lyrics to himself so he wouldn't forget them.
"I'll admit that I even called my voicemail on lunch and sang the chorus to myself. I just didn't want to lose it," Fish said, laughing. "It was there. We'd have a different song and maybe it'd be good but not as good as this one."
Tiffany told Toledo Free Press the song used to make Marlee cry, but now her daughter loves it. The 32-year-old widow also said she is as "happy as a pig in mud" for "Marlee's Freedom" to be part of the "Red, White & You, Too!" charity CD, because the American Red Cross is an organization that "has done so much" for her family.
"For me, I love that, because we are all about giving back," Tiffany said. "My greatest goal is to continue to give back and the Red Cross has done so much for us. When I had Marlee, Andy wouldn't have known Marlee was born without the Red Cross. I wouldn't have been able to get in touch with Andy when he was injured without the Red Cross. When there were family emergencies he would have never known if not for the Red Cross. … The Red Cross has definitely impacted our life."
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Organizers of the Game Developers Conference® Online (GDC Online) have revealed that Raph Koster, a key industry veteran behind the prodigious massively multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPGs) Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, will be honored with the Online Game Legend Award at the third annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards. Blizzard Entertainment's influential World of Warcraft® MMORPG will be inducted into the Choice Online Awards Hall of Fame during the ceremony, taking place Wednesday, October 10 at GDC Online in Austin, Texas. The special awards categories recognize developers and titles that have had significant impact in the world of online games.
Raph Koster has led a prolific career. As the lead designer on Ultima Online and the creative director on Star Wars Galaxies, his contributions helped lay the foundation for the many massively multiplayer games that followed. Koster's professional credits span nearly every facet of game development, including writing, art, soundtrack music, programming and design.
Raph Koster is considered a thought leader, as a frequent lecturer and published author on topics of game design, community management, storytelling and ethics in game development. His A Theory of Fun, published in 2004, is considered seminal by educators and members of the art game movement, as well as being one of the most popular books ever written about games.
In his youth, Koster taught himself programming on an Atari 8-bit computer that he used to create the first game he ever sold, to a fellow classmate. His early professional years include work on the award-winning multi-user dungeon LegendMUD, which he later parlayed into a position as lead designer on the seminal MMORPG Ultima Online. Koster's varied interests in writing, art and graphic design served him well when he joined Sony Online Entertainment in the role of creative director on Star Wars Galaxies, a game praised for its lush graphics, authentic movie-based soundtrack, expansive in-game world, customization options and sophisticated gameplay mechanics.
After serving as chief creative officer at Sony Online Entertainment, Koster established his own firm, Metaplace, a software platform developer for social worlds and the company behind popular Facebook games Island Life and My Vineyard. In 2010, Metaplace was acquired by Disney Interactive Media Group's online social development arm, Playdom, where Koster currently serves as vice president of creative design.
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The Shadow has nothing on me. This I know.
Raph Koster is a prim example of what people can acomplish from dreams of a child hood to making a living at having fun. He inspired WoW in a way that allowed many people to enjoy counless hours of game play.
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Raph took Richard Garriots world and made a great MMO out of it, he also developed SWG to a good MMO which must of been awesome feat considering how SOE is led by hyper capitalistic investors who only care for short term profit.
Ralph knew, better than many, how to make games that kept you interested in playing for a long time. I guess his biggest problem was making them too complex. At least his games were challenging, not like what we have today.
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Ave, Raph! Couldn't happen to a better man. Anyone interested in game design should read his _A Theory of Fun_ just for the sake of the basic philosophy involved. He's a sage of the field. And interestingly @Ozmodan, it's a book about simplicity, not compexity. Often the smartest people have problems taking their own advice, I guess. ;)
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I am a huge fan of Raphs! His concentration on social game and player content without losing a games theme is really brilliant and I know that we will see a game that better utilize his ideas soon. Themepark AAA games will come and go but until they learn to utilize strong social play and player content the way that pre-CU SWG did and UO of course they won't get the sort of longevity that they need to be a strong long term asset for a company.
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Raph Koster is a fine example of why the MMO genre is stagnant.
Game leaders asking a man that no company wants to hire because he ruins games yet still listen to his ideas about making them. Thats right, I said it...7 years, no company wants him. Why? BECAUSE HE RUINS GAMES.
Oh he was part of UO, yeah he was wasnt he...he was part of a TEAM with THE man, Garrot. And when control was handed over to Koster the game went to crap and what did he do? Left the company and blammed others for it. The expac that killed UO was KOSTERS, he left the company a few months before release which means the entire setup was HIS because it takes 6+ months to design an expac.
SWG? sure it was a good game, not a GREAT one. Worlds made with a random generator, can shoot through the ground and walls, no 3d x/y axis allowing for no jumping and mounts that somehow hover 3ft above the ground yet will stop if you hit a pebble...databases that were so piss poorly designed the game required a reboot EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Oh and how about EQ2...the ball dropped so hard he was EXILED by Sony to make single player console games and it took TWO expansion packs to fix his mess.
So how great is Raph Koster, 7 years...7...no company wants him, he cant even get financing for his own company. The genre needs to move forward and stop listening to this man, a man they wont even hire...seriously, how STUPID are developers. Oh, we dont want you working for us, but please...do talk and we will listen to your advice!
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"A wise man has something to say, but a fool just has to say something."
Congratulations to Blizzard and World of Warcraft for an award well earned! And to Ralph, thanks for your contributions to the genre and congratulations for being inducted into the COA hall of fame.
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Wow bro, you pretty much hit the nail on the head!!
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Originally posted by rdrakken
You seem to make a lot of assumptions based on timing of games going downhill and him leaving companies. 7 years, keep that number fresh in your mind. 7 years of absolute shitty themepark MMOs. 7 years of MMOs going away from the roots of the MMO genre, sandbox games that were bold and complex. It is no coincidence that he is not being hired to be a designer for a MMO when all the MMO companies just want to create story based casual themeparks to try and capture WoWs player base.
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Originally posted by rdrakken
You do not have any idea what you are talking about. Way to post a lot of nonsense. Ralph was long gone when "Age of Shadows" was released and that was the first bad expansion UO had. Ralph had nothing to do with EQ2 either, he left SOE when they supersceded his design with NGE. While SWG had a few bugs, they did not hurt game play.
As to no company wanting him, he formed his own company, he does not want to work for clueless companies. Besides most of these companies are designing themepark games, definitely not something he would associate with.
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Originally posted by rdrakken
To tackle these inaccuracies one at a time... :)
- Yes, companies want to hire me. Currently at Playdom as a VP. And yes, I got other job offers too!
- I love Richard. Richard was not very involved with UO's design. He spent most of his time on U9. Ask him. Or, better yet, go check the video of when UO was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- My tenure on UO ended a while after Second Age shipped, but before work began on Trammel/Felucca. Sunsword (Anthony Castoro) did that change.
- I didn't leave the company then. I worked on Privateer Online, which never shipped (it was cancelled in favor of Earth & Beyond). THEN I left for SWG.
- I have plenty of regrets about SWG, but everything you mentioned is a tech issue except for the procedural code that generated planets. I was heavily involveed with that. There was a handcrafting tool that the artists used, and it won a graphics award. *shrug*
- EQ2? Most of my involvement was critiquing the newbie session and the crafting system. I was not on the team, and certainly nothing I wasinvolved in had anything to do with the expansion packs...?
- 7 years during which I was CCO for SOE, founded a company, created some pretty cool web-based MMO technology, was awarded a patent, and sold the company to Playdom/Disney.
- The company I founded was funded for millions of dollars.
Dude, hate me but don't contradict reality. :)
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Originally posted by Ozmodan While SWG had a few bugs, they did not hurt game play.
Black rot, macro grinding, house exploits (all of them) broken player cities, broken flourish system, broken class quests, severly broken AI pathing in several instaces.
Add to that the complete and total ignoring of several of the launch proffesions (pretty much anything not combat) the complete and utter shafting of the performer proffesion from a PvE standpoint in spite of what was promised... Did i mention macro grinding... I never did pvp but iirc it was not in tip top shape either.
Pretty much the only thing the game had going for it was a rock solid crafting system and a "class" system that you could abuse seven ways to sunday.
Perfectly OK indeed...
When do the good fight turn bad, Smedley is a good example.
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Originally posted by tawess
Gee, I never played a combat profession yet had a great time in the game. What was there to macro, nothing I could see. It was not a perfect game, but it certainly had a ton of things to do in it and the space addition was excellent.
There were no 1-10 ,11-20, areas, you could do whatever you wanted to anywhere. As to housing bugs, probably were some, nothing I noticed. It was a far better game than anything out there right now. Player cities were fine, they were not broken. So what you posted was basically more nonsense.
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If you say so Shirley... Who am i to intrude in to your cottoncandy land of nostalgia.
When do the good fight turn bad, Smedley is a good example.
This have been a good conversation
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Originally posted by Raph
In the flesh! Congrats on your award Raph. You are greatly missed in the MMO space. Save us from this themepark bullshit!
Thanks in advance.
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Originally posted by rdrakken
Why is it whenever this site tries to say something nice about someone, people like you come in with BS and half truths to make him look bad. You speak personal opinion not fact.
Ever wonder why Raph has nnot been hired in 7 years? Because he wants it that way. He does his own thing.
The guy is the brains behind UO, and SWG was a great game, that was ruined by the stupid NGE,
Can't you for once just tip your hat to someone that did a lot for the genre, instead of shitting on him?
Like him or not, you cannot deny his accomplishments.
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Do you remember doing a "podcast", even though they weren't called podcasts back then back in 1998 wth some guy in Hawaii.
I remember you talking about the future and how you wanted to make Orcs, Trolls, and other monsters playable characteres. This was long before WOW, and I was so mesmerized by that interview. I listened to it the night I had the most fun in the history of my MMO experiences, the Halloween shard where we could play monsters. Soooo much fun.
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Originally posted by Kraylor
Hell Yeh !
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Originally posted by TomBaker_fan
I wish that players playing monsters, social types like Orcs and Undead covens as well as lone critters like Sphinxes and Dragons, could be part of an open world PvP system separated by loose/floating territorial controls. The original idea for Horizons was doing that, and it seems like a fascinating idea to me for a much more meaningful world to run around in and make things happen that "leave a mark" on the very game itself. But that's probably too much to ask for.
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The South Carolina Silver Haired Legislature will present three priorities to the Second Session of the 120th General Assembly of South Carolina.
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Saxophonist Steve Cole is one of the most celebrated players in contemporary jazz.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Three hundred million years ago it looked a lot different outside. For one thing, it was a very damp, humid time over much of the earth. Dont worry; there wouldnt have been any dinosaurs to chase you around. (They came a LOT later, as did the cavemen.)
But there was plenty of vegetation, of course. Large forests dominated major portions of the earth's landscape, including much of what is now Europe and North America.
These forests didn't have any oak trees or elm trees, though. Oh, no. This was the age of the ferns, and I'm not talking those little old things you buy in a flower pot to grow in your parlor, Im here to tell you. The ferns back then, and their relatives, were major-league plants, some attaining the size of very huge trees. Whoo-boy! Of course, then, just like today, the trees in forests eventually aged, died, and fell over. Over the several million years of the domination of these giant ferns and their allies, untold tons of rotting vegetation accumulated consistently, and a major result of this was the slow development of enormous subterranean strata of coal. In fact, modern coal beds tend to be an extraordinarily rich source of the remains of ancient plants. Coal really is, literally, a fossil fuel if there ever was one.
Nowadays, though, the ferns around the world are much smaller, only attaining tree-size in some groups. (Well, the tree-ferns, of course.) In North America, there are about 450 species of native ferns and fern-like plants. These are a fascinating group indeed, all reproducing by spores, none ever producing flowers or seeds.
Our Mystery Plant is a common evergreen, herbaceous species, usually thought of as one of the fern allies. It has a long, horizontal stem, flat on the ground, which is usually covered by the leaf litter. This stem sends up a number of fan-like branches along its length, and the effect is of a series of tiny pine trees (or maybe cedars) running in a line along the ground. The leaves on these branches are quite small, shiny and dark green. We say that these branches are sterile, in that they produce no spores. Now and then, though, when the mood strikes, the plant will indeed produce fertile branches, which look much different and bearing, at their tips, slender cones which eventually form the spores. The spores eventually fall or drift away from the cones, and eventually start up new plants. You can find this fern ally in shady woods and also open meadows, from eastern Canada through the upper Midwest, and south to Georgia. Here in the South, it is most often seen in the piedmont and mountains. There are a number of related species which look somewhat similar.
Over the years, this little plant has achieved quite a reputation. It's been used extensively as a Christmas decoration, commonly pulled up by the yard and sold to make wreaths. Move over, holly
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John Nelson is the curator of the Herbarium at the University of South Carolina, in the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia SC 29208. As a public service, the Herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, visit www.herbarium.org or call 803-777-8196.
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