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The Hilbert College softball program is geared up for their 2012 season, the first under head coach Lisa Baker. With a core group of skilled veterans returning, the Hawks are focused in their approach to the season with expectations of challenging for the AMCC championship. The team believes that 'Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success' and this quote has been the backbone to their mental and physical preparation this year.
Seniors Jill Martucci, Halsey Baker, and Allison Hall will lead the team and continue to provide direction in all aspects of the game. Martucci will team-up with junior Emily Ripley as a respectable catching and pitching duo. They present a remarkable commanding presence on the field as a pair. 'Tuc' led the team a year ago with 20 runs after hitting .361 from the plate. Her 83 at-bats and .494 slugging percentage led the Hawks during her second year of collegiate ball. Hall will also provide depth within the pitching circle and will continue to utilize her talents at 1st and 2nd base on defense. Baker looks to close out her final year patrolling the left field. Her great understanding and confidence in the outfield helps the Hawks solidify an all-around strong defense. Baker led the team with 4 home runs and 11 RBIs in the shortened 2011 season.
Besides Ripley on the mound, junior Amber Grosch returns with a chip on her shoulder this season. The stand-out short stop had her 2011 season cut short by injury, and she is itching to get back on the field and have an impact this spring. Grosch provides the Hawks with unbelievable range in the field and is also a huge threat offensively with her bat and outstanding speed. In the 13 games played, her .412 batting average led the Hawks last season (34 at bats with 14 hits). Ripley is expected to see the most action on the mound, but will also contribute to the team's offense as well. Her 25 hits in 2011 combined with a team-best 13 RBIs led the Hawks at the plate.
Also returning in the junior class is Devan Jonathan, Olivia Battle and Rebecca Elensky. As a pitcher and infielder, Jonathan was the Most Improved Player from a year ago, and Battle returns to the mix after one season away giving the Hawks an outfielder who is an offensive threat at the plate. Second baseman Rebecca Elensky returns as a quick fielder and is looking to continue her development at the plate.
There are several rookies who expect to have an impact their first year at Hilbert College. Katie Pettis, a transfer from Genesee Community College brings with her a glove at the hot corner and strong at-bats. The team anticipates that she will save and produce a lot of runs for the Hawks this season. Bayle Cruz is an extremely talented freshman center-fielder who will be another dual threat at both ends of the game. Sophomore transfer, Natalie Whitman will pick up a glove after a season off, looking to play first base with an aggressive approach at the plate. First year, Kateland Ball (catcher/utility) has a natural talent that makes her extremely versatile in this lineup. Third basemen, Elissa Hall and first basemen Rachel Collier should contribute with solid defense at the corners and on offense when they approach the plate with conviction.
Pitcher Vicki Ernst, which after a two-year hiatus, joined the team in late January and has been surprising coaches and teammates alike with her talents not only on the mound but at short stop and second base. Additionally, freshmen Marissa Carvalho and Tiffany Marchiano provide depth in the outfield.
Not only are the players expecting a turn-around season, the coaches alike are ecstatic about the every-day positive attitude the Hawks carry with them. Baker begins her coaching career at Hilbert and is joined by former Niagara University teammate, and 2nd year assistant and pitching coach, Cassie Stone. Assistant coach Jeannette Delaney led the squad in the fall before Baker was hired and will continue to serve in any way possible.
The Hawks open their season with the traditional Spring Break southern trip in early March. Returning to the Fastpitch Dreams Classic in Myrtle Beach, SC, Hilbert will pick up nine games against mainly east coast teams who are not on their traditional game schedule. The blue and white will host two non-conference games (Cazenovia, April 3 and Wells, April 12) before they travel to their other non-conference doubleheader at Morrisville (April 20). Five of the nine Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference games will be played in Hamburg when the Hawks host Altoona (March 31), Bradford (April 11), Franciscan (April 14), Greensburg (April 21) and finally the 2011 AMCC champions D'Youville (April 25). Hilbert travels to central PA to face Mount Aloysius (March 24), to Erie, PA on March 28 to play Behrend, and down to Pittsburgh, PA to face La Roche on April 7 before they finish in North Buffalo against Medaille College April 17. The winner of the AMCC double elimination tourney earns an automatic bid the NCAA Division III softball tournament in May.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Good points. Too many times I've seen products developed that are technically brilliant but they either don't draw in the user or have a cumbersome interface. A little more time spent thinking about the user experience makes all the difference in the world.
The importance of minimum viable products and user focus
Michael Jurewitz, former developer tools evangelist at Apple, has been blogging up a storm this week, with two great pieces on two important subjects for developers. First is the idea of minimal viable products, or how much you need to build in order to be able to start selling your current work, and supporting your future work. Jury says:
You need to get your product out the door and into your user's hands. The very act of someone touching and using your product will inherently change what you think you know about it and how you envision people using it. You will change your mind, you will change your plans, and things you used to think were important will melt away and be replaced by other needs and priorities. Having real users is a formative event for a product and one you shouldn't artificially delay.
The second, not unrelated topic is user focus, or understanding how your product will provide a delightful user experience before you type character one on code. Jury again:
Focus on the user. Focus on their life, their problems, and how you are helping them. Put down that database, put down that web server, put down that Core Data model and think. No, this step doesn't involve code. Yes, for many of you this will feel foreign and scary, but focusing on the user is liberating. It frees you from your technical shackles and puts the world in real perspective. Your focus becomes the things that matter, the things that change people's lives. Technology is a hindrance when it doesn't get out of the way. Technology is a hindrance when it becomes the point, as opposed to the human experiences we are trying to improve.
Back in a past life, when I was working in product marketing, I used to think of roadmaps like season arcs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'd seen how Joss Whedon would graph out major character moments and beats on a white board, and I wanted that same sense of story, of major plot points, and of epic final releases that he brought to television.
In entertainment, you have to grab the audience. In software, you have to grab the user. Each major point release has to have something interesting in it, and it all has to build to the next major version number.
You can't and shouldn't blow the whole story in the first episode, and you can't and shouldn't blow all your features in a 1.0 release. You should create interest and get the job done, absolutely, but you should also leave people wanting more. And you should know how your next act, your 2.0 is going to premiere, and build towards it. (That's also how you attract and maintain press attention for your products, of course, because we're simply an extension of audience.)
Go read Jury's articles, then go make some more great stuff.
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The importance of minimum viable products and user focus
I think where many developers fall short is the user experience, mainly the Graphic User Interface (GUI). They go through all those inner workings to determine a great story and a steady flow of content; however, it sometimes becomes painful to access this content due to a poorly designed GUI. You can apply many tests you apply to a website to a software program such as the click test. I don't want to click 5-12 times in order to find contact info. I want to click no more then three times. It's the little things like this that can make a horrible launch.
Exactly. Performance and idea behind the app is one thing but if the UI/GUI is awful it completely kills the app. I think more developers need to realize this. It seems over the years and even lately more and more great looking and great functioning apps have been coming out which is great to see.
Tapatalk 2 for iOS right there, our 2.0 is Androids 3.0. Building what works and then adding to it and building it around the users. Beta testers are a developers most useful tool.
I made some good points. I think it is always good to know how people are using your product. That can help with improvements and direction of the product. I may have to follow him to keep up with his feeds.
A good GUI and a simple build for a version 1.0 is always a good starting point. Then with feedback you can build from there. The writer is correct

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The missing link in many families today is what is known as "shared democracy" or, in other words, shared decision making.
Decision making sounds simple, but can be life altering and affect those around you. Children must cultivate good decision-making skills to become healthy, mature adults. But one survey found that 40 percent of children felt their opinions did not matter to their parents. Shared decision making is crucial for your children to feel connected. As parents we need to start when children are young to help them develop decision-making skills. Allowing our children to make choices about simple things gives them confidence in their ability to choose well.
As a family it is important to share with our children decisions that we make. For example, if we are going on a family outing we can provide options about where we can go. Do we want to go to the movies, roller skating or bowling? We often will not all choose the same thing, so we will also learn compromise. It is important to note that there will be some instances when adults need to be in charge and have the final say. However, it is up to the adults to also find appropriate times when children can be involved in decision making, allowing them to share power and control over decisions that affect them.
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If you can't kill it, don't make it mad.
Originally posted by ikarrian
If Zenimax makes bad decisions due to such a small (but vocal) group, then they richly deserve to lose their investment. One would hope that they have enough experience to ignore such hysterics. Then of course there are those who are looking for the original DAOC with improved graphics... They are likely more dangerous than the "Haters". The audience has moved on from that time.
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Originally posted by sapphen
You didnt say it was just marketing smoke and mirrors?
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Originally posted by Wraithone
Point of view...
Some think the bad descisions have already been made and are hoping someone corrects them. The hystericals in that situation are the people sticking fingers in their ears singling 'lalala not listenning - still gonna pay for shinnies' when these issues are raised and pointed out.
Again, different points of view.
Originally posted by deakon
You said that anytime someone says something I don't agree with it's just marketing smoke and mirrors. I only said it about the quote you posted. Therefore you have faulty logic and should go in for maintenance.
Originally posted by sapphen
Well every time someone on the forums take a stance that you dont agree with we are labled not true tes fans, I showed that todd howard (the god of tes) has okayed the the world layout and lore, I've also shown that the main guy behind tes is fine with adding restrictions to the ip, but thats all just marketing bs.
It still ammounts to the same thing and thats if someone doesnt agree with you they are somehow wrong, not a "true" fan or lying.
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Originally posted by deakon
Just had a thought about the Todd Howard thing that made me laugh...
Matt Firor (MF)"Hey Todd. You read up my plans for the game?"
Todd Howard (TH) "Sure did matt they look great"
MF "Faction locked races, splitting up the world and restricting exploration, Fixed classes, Gated progression, Gear grind....all sound good?"
TH "All sound great...locking exploration, gated content...thumbs up from me"
MF "Great. Well I will call again next week and let you know how things are"
TH "Take care Matt, speak to you next week"
TH "Ha! When Matt releases that MMO no fan of TES will like it and I am SURE to get the green light for the next installment of TES as a single player game...God I hate MMO's".
Originally posted by deakon
First of all this isn't about my relationships between 'EVERYONE' here, this is between me and you. I have no problem with someone disagreeing with me but I do have a problem with people pestering the shit out of me with nonesense generalizations because we disagree.
Originally posted by deakon
Where in your quote has Todd Howards officially 'okayed' the project? Working with someone is totally different than giving the okay. Considering how flimsy some of the faction relations are, I'm sure there was compromises made and they did not release Todd Howard's opinion on the matter.
Originally posted by sapphen
Don't try and make out your somehow a victim here, you havent been singled out or even pestered. But you cant make comments like this one (Which is'nt the first, and doubt will be the last):
"I'd be happy if they made two different versions of ESO. One for the DAoC nuts that are thinking it's gonna somehow recreate RvR and then one for the actual TES fans with no faction locks for when the first one fails."
and not expect to be called up on it, you talk about generalizations, yet you have been the king of them.
I get that you dont like some of the things in the game, does that make you less/more of a tes fan than me? No it doesn't
The fact that Todd Howard himself, was responsible for redguard, a linier action game, speaks volumes to how much he is fine with changing what the tes ip "is", you may not want to believe it but people do have different opinions to you, yes even todd howard
Originally posted by deakon
HAHA! I liked that one. I figured you DAoC folks would eat that up.What did I need to be "called out on"? I didn't put words in your mouth - I just stated my opinion. Feel free to disagree but what are you hoping to accomplish. You're gonna prove that my definition of a TES fan and yours is different? Why is it so important to you what I think.. are you seeking approval?
Originally posted by deakon
I don't like factions were changed to mimic DAoC RvR system. I figured if you like it then you're more of a DAoC fan than a TES fan. Again, why is it so important to you what I think about you? I'm wondering if you're getting defensive because you're not sure if you're a true TES fan or not.
Oh.. and there is a reason why there was no other spin-offs until ESO. You assume too much to say that me and Todd's opinions are different. Everyone makes mistakes it doesn't mean they support future ones.
Originally posted by sapphen
Yes your clearly not trying to put words into anyones mouth. / end sarcasm
Truth is I played DAoC for less than a month and by the time i played it, it was very dated, I didnt get into mmo's until 2004, I've been playing tes games from 2002 (and have played all the previous ones since), faction locked areas does not go against tes as long as there is an explanation in the lore (which there is), same as dragons flying around wasnt a part of any tes game until 5, and oblivion gates popping up randomly wasnt in any apart from 4.
If you feel that there should be no spin off tes games, fine, dont play them, there will still be tes6 to look forward to. Feel free to spout YOUR opinion all you want but don't expect to make out your opinion speaks for every tes fan and then get all defensive because you get called up on it by a tes fan that doesnt agree.
Originally posted by deakon
If you knew nothing of the game, would you have expected (or wanted) faction locks?
Well tes single player doesn't have pvp.
So they need a pvp model.
In my opinion there's only 2 worth copying daoc and eve.
I suppose they could have made some sort of pve heaven where you voluntarily flag yourself to get pvped (or lol pickpocketed who the hell is going to voluntarily flag that on)
Or they could have shoved some token mini game shite in like all the wow clones.
I wouldn't play the last two.
Originally posted by ShakyMo
Who did DAoC or Eve copy?
That's one thing that frustrates me so much in the MMO industry. MMO's are too busy asking themselves who should we copy. Did you ever figure that maybe they could've came up with something that no one else has done. Why does it have to copy something to be successful?
Well I would say eve is ultimately a more refined version of uo pvp system.
Daoc came from nowhere though.
If they'd come up with something brand new that would be great.
But IF games are going to copy pvp, daoc and eve are the ones to copy, not bloody wow again and again and again and again.
Of course many people would prefer no pvp at all or severely watered down and meaningless setup akin to EQ or swg. In which case I point them at the massive success that was vanguard ;)
Originally posted by ShakyMo
I never said they shouldn't do DAoC type battle in the middle, only that faction locks was not needed to do it.
Me and my team of developers have been tossing around a few ideas. If we go back to the setting I listed earlier (3 houses instead of 3 racial groups) then there would also be rebellion groups. I would set up battles like skrimishes out in the open world.
For instance if you was a Breton and decided not to join the faction you could PvP with a rebellion group. They would call the arms and you would meet another group out in the open world and fight it out. Think of it similar to the battles in Skyrim between the Nords and Imperials. Instead of battlegrounds you que for, you would go to an area and fight it out with another group of players.
These battles could be between factions and rebellion groups, factions and factions (in and around the borders) and could even be against 2 non-affiliated NPC groups not getting a long with each other. Larger scale battles like an actual war would be cool as well (two armies and an open field). Organized open world PvP! Like in vanilla WoW (or even playing off what they tried to do in Burning Crusade with the smaller skrimishes).
It's not perfect but I'm waiting to hear back from the professions. I'm sure once they add to it we may could get something cool put together.
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My biggest concern is that the pvp will be just like gw2, a big zerg fest where no individuals skill can really make a difference, and judging by the videos so far this is how it will be, unfortunately :(
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That it turns out to be like Guild Wars 2.
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If you can't kill it, don't make it mad.
Originally posted by sapphen
One of the reasons is all of the risks involved. First, in designing, then in balancing and then in coding something new. At each point of the development cycle, you run the risk of delays. Thats especially true with new things. Delays lead to missed mile stones.
Missed mile stones lead to investor/publisher panic. Which leads to cut features, and increased pressure on the Dev teams. Increased pressure tends to lead to more mistakes, thus more delays. Its a NASTY feed back loop.
Copying something else, sides steps some of the above, but adds in the howls about clones of this, that, or the other.
Given the millions upon millions (of other peoples money) that these games take to create, and the development process involved, the wonder is that things work out, even as well as they do.
Originally posted by Wraithone
I agree to a degree. Even though they are coping someone they still have to program from scratch to some extent. They usually try to do unique classes so balancing is different as well. I would say that it's considered a risk in the MMO market to do something different but the way things have been going lately, I'd say it's no more risky than making something that didn't copy everyone else. You just can't recreate trends.
It is a wonder things work out as well as they do for some games. People give GW2 a hard time, and it did have it's short comings, but ESO would be so lucky to have a RvR to work as good as GW2. At least GW2 has a head start and with time they could do great things.
People keep remembering what they enjoyed from other MMOs and want to see it in other games but rarely do they realize that one of the aspects they fount so enjoyable was it hadn't been done before.


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A man charged last week with pointing and presenting a firearm led police to thousands of dollars in what is believed to be stolen property in an abandoned home, according to the Aiken Department of Public Safety.
Greg Lamar Amiker, 29, was charged Thursday with pointing and presenting a firearm. The charge stems from a dispute earlier this month between Amiker and a female subject at a home on the 300 block of Maurice Terrace in the Hahn Village neighborhood.
Amiker was placed in the Aiken County detention center, but posted bond on Saturday.
According to a Public Safety report, Amiker talked with officers about several burglaries that happened in the city last week, including four home invasions and a dozen vehicle break-ins that happened in the downtown area in the early hours of Jan. 8.
"He said he knew the location of several stolen gold and silver coins," the report stated.
Officers followed Amiker's directions to an abandoned home on Williams Lane, according to the report. In the house, Amiker showed officers several large plastic bags that Amiker said "belonged to him."
In the bags were nine laptop computers, a backpack with a video game console and controllers, a bag with hair equipment, a backpack with miscellaneous items, a black plastic trash bag containing clothing and a tote bag with numerous collectible coins.
None of the laptops appeared to be in working order, according to the report.
"He got into our investigation during the process of the Tuesday morning burglaries from last week," said Cpl. Jeremy Hembree. "We're still investigating those to determine who all was involved, so we're not sure if he had actual involvement in the burglary itself or just receiving the property that was taken."
Hembree said Amiker hasn't been charged in connection with last week's burglaries and hasn't admitted to taking any of the items.
He added that the property in the abandoned home is believed to be stolen; however, it's not known if it is related to last week's downtown burglaries.
"It's not common practice to store your items in a trash bag in an abandoned house," he said. "Most of the laptops and the electronics weren't in (the National Crime Information Center) because the homeowners, at the original time of reporting their electronics stolen, didn't have serial numbers. In turn, we can't put anything in the computer as stolen if we don't have the serial number to identify it."
Hembree encouraged residents to write down or record the serial numbers of electronic devices.
"It makes it easier for us if the homeowner has their serial numbers for their electronics, because we know it can be tracked," he said. "It's unique to that one item."
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard. He is a graduate of Clemson University and hails from Williston.
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I would like to update my PC a bit and I need to build a PC for my Son's, both are used just for gaming. My PC runs fine except I am noticing a lower Frame Rate now and some lagging in newer games. I tend to play MMO's and FPS for the most part as do my son's. I run my games in 1920x1080 and would like to do the same on the other pc. I have $800 - $900 to spend between the two, I could squeeze more if I needed to but that involves the wife.
First my PC.. this is what I'm running currently. Just looking for any upgrades that would be best bang for my buck.
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My first priority would be to get new RAM. It doesn't matter what components you have, your system will always suck if you have only 4 gigs of lower speed RAM (my apologies but I'm telling it like it is). I would recommend going to Newegg and getting 16 gigs of 1600. Secondly I would get a 240 GB SATA drive and move the operating system and the main games to it and use the remaining harddrive for the rest of the programs and storage that you need.
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Originally posted by Benezetta
For his old system there isn't a point in upgrading the RAM, 4gb is enough for general gaming. 8gb 1600 is recommended for new builds because of future proofing and reasonable pricing. 16gb is almost always overkill for gaming.
By 240 sata i assume you mean SSD, he is on a tight budget trying to build a new pc and upgrade an old if possible. It doesn't fit.
As for the OP, do you have all of the perpherals for the new pc or do you need speakers/monitor/kb/mouse aswell? Also what kind of graphic quality are you expecting? Is medium/high good enough for you?
The good news is that you've got some decent parts, so you'd probably be happy with the results of a simple video card update to roughly double your graphical performance:
That would leave around $700 for your son's computer. If you've already got peripherals for it, and just need a case and everything that goes inside it, that's enough to build something decent. If you have one computer now and need to make it two computers, meaning all new peripherals for the son's computer, then $700 would be tight enough that you'd be better off leaving your computer as is and putting the whole $800-$900 into building a single computer.
Originally posted by Kankan
No peripherals needed on either build, looking to keep it upgradable for the future. Also, is my current mobo going to work if I wanted to pick up an AMD FX 8350 in a couple of months. Son's PC needs to be from scratch, no splitting up current pc.
You get two of the video card: one for yourself and one for your son. That comes to $913 including shipping, before $33 in rebates. The rebates bring it back under the stated $900 budget, so hopefully your wife will be fine with that.
Having two of the same video card means that you'll have the option to someday upgrade both computers by moving both video cards to the same computer in CrossFire and buying just one new higher end card. That doesn't automatically mean you should do that, but it will at least be an option.
As for upgrading the CPU on your current computer, that depends on whether AsRock has released a BIOS update for it. You'd have to check with them.
For future CPU upgrades, you'll be pretty limited no matter what you get today. Richland is lower end (what you'd buy in two months if you were getting integrated graphics), Haswell will take a new socket, and everything that comes after that is likely to use DDR4 memory, which will force a new socket. There's an off chance that AMD will eventually release a successor to Vishera that has both DDR3 and DDR4 memory controllers, like how Phenom II chips had both DDR2 and DDR3 controllers, in order to allow for backward compatibility to Socket AM3+ motherboards. But I'd bet against that, as AMD no longer makes separate chips for desktops, as opposed to making chips that are mainly targeted at servers or laptops and releasing a desktop variant of them. For what it's worth, Intel does that, too.
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Right now i'd suggest going with Win7 over Win8, if you sign upto neweggs email sub you can use their discount bringing it to 84.99.
Also with the GPU's, buy them with seperate orders. If you buy them in 1 order you will only get 1 game bundle. You can either resell one bundle or both bundles and get some cash for upgrades for say an SSD.
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Also, don't forget to ebay/craigslist your older hardware. You can often get a surprisingly high amount for them, and can feed that back into your builds. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get enough out of your 5770 to afford a 120G SSD, and that will make a dramatic difference in the way your computer feels.
Aside from that comment, depending on the game, it's difficult to tell if your video card or your CPU is causing you lag issues - some games really don't like those AMD CPUs for whatever reason (be they poorly coded or not, as Quiz likes to say, it's just a fact of life and at least I tend to pick games that I think are fun, rather than on the merit of their coding ability). A GPU upgrade will get you better performance, no doubt, but there are certain games where you could throw $1000 in GPU at it, and you'll never get away from some amount of lag simply because of that Deneb CPU - it is a 4+ year old design now, and that's ancient for a CPU. I'm not saying it's bad, it has plenty of power, there are just some games out there that don't run as well on it - you can generally get "good" performance out of them, but not MAX ULTRA MAX, and to some people that isn't good enough.
A $120US AMD7770 (or nV 650, which tends to be a bit slower on average, but some people prefer nVidia) would be a fairly appropriate video card upgrade for that system, but aside from an SSD, I wouldn't do much else past that - the system was a nice system when the parts where new, but it is pretty much a 4 year old rig, and that's pretty decent for that system. Another couple of years with these upgrades would be all I would really expect to get out of it -- assuming you want to keep playing "new releases", because they don't get any less hardware demanding. A 7770 isn't quite twice as fast as a 5770, but it will bring new releases up to about the same visual quality and performance that you were seeing when your 5770 was newer.
With that in mind, you may want to consider just throwing your entire budget at the new PC, and maybe just throwing the 5770 for sale to see what you can get, and I bet it can cover the lion's share of a new 7770...
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Honestly there is not much you can do to make the system better then it currently is. You can stick in a FX8350 into this mobo with a bios flash more than likely. Considering the FX8350 is a socket AM3+ it should be a simple drop in and flash bios. However, for gaming purposes an FX8350 should not make a difference in performance. Right now only a couple games really push the processor, and your processor should be able to handle those. The processor outside of typical game usage only becomes a factor when your trying to push graphics on multiple displays and pushing graphics to the point where the user has multiple video cards. I have not seen a review that has the phenom II such a bottle-neck that it becomes an issue for most consumers.
On Memory, even if you get higher speed sticks; they will still downclock to 1333mhz because thats what Phenom II supports.
Now the only 3 areas I can see there to be improvement for gaming on your system is the videocard, an SSD, and peripherals like a good monitor or speakers. With Videocards I would look at an HD7870 if I were to upgrade it. The 5xxx to 6xxx was not really a major jump, so going from a 5770 to a 7770 is not a major leap either. In order to see a sizable enough increase to warrant upgrading, I would definetly look at the 7870 or GTX660 as a minimum for an upgrade until the next generation of video cards are out.
The Western Digital black series for me has been absolutely magnificent in performance and quitness for a storage device. The times of using an HDD for running programs has passed though. The biggest bottle-neck on a system has been the 120mb/s transfer rate from an HDD to memory. So getting a good SSD like the Samsung 840 series to run your OS and programs is a good idea. I would still keep the HDD to store files on as an SSD is not durable or affordable enough at this point to be used for file storage. Also if you do get an SSD, I would upgrade to Windows 8 Professional 64-bit. Not alot of people like its new interface, but it still is where the OS is going.
Originally posted by Ridelynn
A GeForce GTX 650 wouldn't really be an upgrade over a Radeon HD 5770. A Radeon HD 7770 would be a slight upgrade, but not really enough to justify the cost.
The 7770 has 640 GCN shaders, as compared to 800 VLIW5 shaders on the 5770. That's actually a slight advantage for the 7770, but not by much. They both have 40 TMUs and 16 ROPs. The 5770 actually has more memory bandwidth than the 7770, as they're both 128-bit GDDR5, but the 5770 memory is clocked higher. The 7770 is clocked higher than the 5770 (1 GHz versus 850 MHz), which is where most of its advantage comes from. But that's not enough to justify buying a new card.
Most graphics settings don't put much additional load on the processor. If you have poor frame rates in a game, you can try turning everything down to hard minimum graphical settings. See if you're happy with the frame rate at minimum settings. If that makes the game run great, then your processor is probably fine, and your video card doesn't like the higher graphics settings.
The most notable exception is the handful of games with GPU PhysX, which is intended to overwhelm a CPU if you try to do the same computations on the CPU instead. That it runs poorly on the CPU is working as (Nvidia) intended, since the whole point of GPU PhysX is a marketing stunt to convince people that they need an Nvidia video card.
Originally posted by Cleffy
While 1333 MHz is the maximum clock speed that the Phenom II memory controller supports, you can overclock it and run memory higher. Can, but shouldn't. The reason it only supports 1333 MHz memory is that that's plenty enough to feed four Phenom II cores unless you're running something that gets very little use out of CPU cache, such as a synthetic memory benchmark.
SSDs are great, but when you need to build one computer and upgrade another and keep the whole thing inside of $900, they don't really fit the budget.
Hey I just wanted to say thanks for all the replies and great information. I think what I am going to do is just throw the $900 bucks to the kid's PC, my kids are pretty damn good and have been without a PC for a couple of weeks. I'll just wait another 4months till I get another bonus check and then worry about my PC.
I have a question about SSD, so I want to run my OS and then any of my main games off that drive and then everything else off the other drive?
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I have the almost identical build, and i dont really need an upgrade at the moment. My vid card is agin (GTX 260) but the phenom 965 kicks butt. I can play almost everything on High settings (cant hit ultra on games like skyrim of BF3) but its a decent build even to this day (i built mine in 2010).
If anything, i would say get a SSD for the boot drive, and 8 gbs of RAM...but otherwise a solid build.
This is my exact build and its a good gaming rig for relatively cheap costs.
Pixxo CG-8402 Black SECC 0.6mm ATX Mid Tower Computer Gaming Case
ASRock 870 EXTREME3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
Antec EarthWatts EA750 750W Continuous Power ATX12V version 2.3 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified ...
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL8D- (have since upgraded it to 4 x 2 GB)
Western Digital WD Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (i have a 2nd 500gb drive for media)
Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound AS5-3.5G - OEM
Gotta get me a SSD also, but i play Skyrim heavily modded on high graphics, tweaked to max out view ranges and such, no issues, or BF3 on high (cant handle ultra).
Originally posted by miagisan
The problem with your build is that it isn't 2009 anymore. It might have made sense when you bought it, but it certainly doesn't make sense to buy it new today.
Originally posted by Kankan
In that case, the easy choice is to not get a video card for your own computer, but instead, add an SSD to the above build for his. Take your pick:
SSD prices seem to have gone up lately, as it used to be under $100 for that capacity. Maybe NAND flash prices went up.
You want to put the OS and your main programs on the SSD, and bulk data like videos, music, and pictures on the hard drive. Main programs doesn't just mean games; browsers benefit considerably from the speed of an SSD, too. I'd put small programs on the SSD as well, as they might benefit and don't take much space.
If you don't need that much capacity, you could also just skip the hard drive entirely and get a larger SSD in its place. If it really is just for gaming and you're not the type to accumulate dozens of games without being willing to uninstall anything, then a larger SSD and no hard drive might be plenty of capacity for you. In that case, take your pick:
For what it's worth, I'm not just linking SSDs at random. I'm picking out the "good" ones, and then linking the cheapest ones at a given capacity. You could get a 256 GB Crucial V4 for a lot cheaper than those, for example, but it's not very good.
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Originally posted by Quizzical
oh i agree....i am just saying it was an excellent build for its day (even stated i made it in 2010)
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Weight Class Welterweight vs. Welterweight Championship Tournament Final Heavyweight Peter Aerts vs. Rico Verhoeven Heavyweight Daniel Ghita vs. Errol Zimmerman Welterweight Karim Ghajji vs. Aleksandr Stetcurenko Welterweight Championship Tournament Reserve Bout Welterweight Nieky Holzken vs. Karapet Karapetyan Welterweight Championship Tournament Semi Final Welterweight Joseph Valtellini vs. Raymond Daniels Welterweight Championship Tournament Semi Final Heavyweight Remy Bonjasky vs. Anderson Silva Featherweight Yuta Kubo vs. Mosab Amrani Heavyweight Jerome Le Banner vs. Sergey Kharitonov Heavyweight Ewerton Teixeira vs. Hesdy Gerges Light Heavyweight Dustin Jacoby vs. Makoto UeharaFu Hung Hsieh remains Fu Hung Hsieh and Kung-tzu Yu remains Kung-tzu Yu.
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Holtzens final fight was kinda weird, it looked like he was toying with him for most of the fight. i wouldnt do that in a country with japans level of judging, dangerous game.
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It is well documented that I am not a handyman.
I didnt take shop in high school. I know where you stick the ignition key and how to set the dashboard clock when we spring forward or fall back, but my definition of auto repair is having the mechanics phone number on my cell phones speed dial, and I have no clue how to set up speed dialing.
Im not a complete buffoon, mind you. I have skills, and they are manly skills.
I could throw a baseball harder than anybody else and I am a magician with a piece of cooked meat.
But I dont do yard work.
I dont do home repair.
My idea of having five tools is that I can hit for power, hit for average, throw, field, and run fast.
I have two basic rules of home repair: If its stuck and needs to be unstuck use some WD40. If its unstuck and needs to be stuck, get the duct tape.
Ive said this about duct tape enough times I can almost claim it as mine: If the ancient pharoahs had access to duct tape, the Sphinx would still have a nose.
So this week I had the occasion to venture into a Lowes and Home Depot in search of plastic chair pad thingies.
I hate shopping.
Browsing is not a part of my vocabulary. If I cant buy it why am I looking at it?
Thats like watching someone else eat.
I found going to Lowes amusing because never before had a grown man walking into a Lowes or Home Depot have less business being in there more than I.
There is nothing in these stores that I either want or can use.
Theres no Sporting Goods department here. No book section, either. No deli counter or bakery.
And no Starbucks.
My handyman pedigree is this: Ive used a Phillips head screwdriver more often to clean out my ears than I have trying to affix a Phillips head screw.
I do though, cop Man Card points simply by owning a Phillips head screwdriver, and this thing has magnetized reversable heads, too.
Chalk up another Man Card point.
But here I am walking into Lowes looking for plastic chair pad thingies.
Please note, if you have to use the word thingie to describe something, its a given you have absolutely no clue what youre talking about.
After 20 minutes of wandering around Lowes, I realized I was lost; and yes, I get lost in Lowes and Home Depot on a regular basis, which meant my chances were better than half that I would never be seen or heard from again. My purgatory would be to forever walk around the home appliance section of Lowes wondering why these refrigerators had no food.
Eventually, I did happen across a helpful Lowes associate somewhere way back in the lumber department, and asked him where I could find the plastic chair thingies.
He looked at me like I was breathing air he could be breathing, and said, Well for sure not in the lumber department. Lumber is made out of wood. Chair thingies are plastic.
Good point - even if it was sarcasm.
Good news though, I did eventually find the plastic chair thingies at Office Max, but they only had two.
I needed five or six.
You know you could have ordered these online, the sales rep said.
I wonder if Google knows how to differentiate between plastic chair pad thingie or say, picture hanger thingies.
I need those, too.
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Brendan Rodgers is ready to give Luis Suarez the boot if he reckons the Kop bad boy has shamed Liverpool once again.
Michael Laudrup is lining up a move for Kasper Schmeichel if Michel Vorm quits Swansea in the summer.
Fulham boss Martin Jol is eyeing a £4million move for Reading keeper Alex McCarthy.
Manchester City winger Jeremy Helan is set to join Sheffield Wednesday or Watford for £500,000.
Arsene Wenger could be heading for another club-versus-country row over Jack Wilshere.
Luis Suarez could be booted out of Liverpool for his shocking bite on Branislav Ivanovic.
Sir Alex Ferguson is confident Rio Ferdinand will extend his Manchester United contract.
Fulham are lining up a £4million raid on Championship-bound Reading for keeper Alex McCarthy.
Birmingham want to take goalkeeper Steve Harper from Newcastle.
Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino wants to offload as many as 15 players this summer.
Bolton's axed skipper Kevin Davies could be heading to the MLS with Toronto.
Luis Suarez's Liverpool career is hanging by a thread after biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.
Sir Alex Ferguson is confident Rio Ferdinand will sign a new contract at Manchester United.
Harry Redknapp believes the failure to sign Peter Odemwingie is one of the main reasons behind QPR are going down.
Liverpool were last night under mounting pressure to kick out Luis Suarez after he bit Branislav Ivanovic.
Roberto Mancini questioned the attitude of his Manchester City players after defeat at Spurs.
Swansea look to have won the race to sign Jose Canas from Real Betis.
Monaco are weighing up a move for Arsenal's Bacary Sagna.
QPR striker Jamie Mackie is on Premier League new boys Cardiff's wishlist.
Luis Suarez was last night warned by his manager Brendan Rodgers that he could be booted out of Liverpool.
Sir Alex Ferguson wants his Manchester United side to set a new Premier League points record.
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Yesterday I saw my first vapourer male moth hanging out on a rose-bush.
I think this is the 'peacock' of all male caterpillars that I have seen in my life to date.
A warning about the pretty vapourer moth is do not touch to your skin. The hairs can cause mild irritation to most people.
Nature never fails to amaze me.
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EAST BEND - After eight scoreless innings of softball, the Lady Falcons changed all that in the home-half of the ninth.
Knotted in a 0-0 tie, Forbush made a late charge in the bottom of the ninth. Taylor Wooten smacked a lead-off double to deep center, making her way third after the ball was misplayed in the outfield.
Shey Steelman followed with a fielder's choice grounder to the mound before Savannah Henry drew a walk to load the bases.
Savannah Yale then ripped a hard grounder to second that allowed Wooten to race home and slide past Wilkes Central for the thrilling 1-0 victory in extra innings.
"I'm glad we came out on top," head coach Rachel Davis explained. "We just couldn't find the holes today hitting. But that last inning, we were hitting it hard. They gave us a little bit and we took advantage. Overall, it was a great ballgame.
"They gave us a gift there at the end and we were able to execute on it," she added.
With a strong defense behind her, Steelman picked up the win in the circle. The senior powered the Falcons to the victory with a complete-game shutout, limiting Central's potent offense.
"Shey did great today," Davis explained. "She's been mixing it up more lately. Kelly Moran did great behind the plate calling pitches. But the past two ballgames, Shey has really stepped up her game as far as mixing up her pitches and keeping the batters off-balanced, which is key."
With the win, Forbush kept pace in the tight race for the Mountain Valley Conference crown.
The Falcons improved to 6-2 on the year with the win, taking over sole possession of first place among 2A clubs. Forbush trails East Wilkes (8-0) and East Wilkes (6-2) in the conference standings.
"We're in a good position now," Davis explained. "To make it through the first half only losing two games to 1A teams, I'm glad for that as far as playoff goes."
The Lady Falcons host East Wilkes Tuesday night looking to continue their recent surge.
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Gary Cartwright received his B.A. in journalism from Texas Christian University. He has had a distinguished career as a newspaper reporter and as a freelance writer, contributing stories to such national publications as Harper's, Life, and Esquire. He was a senior editor at Texas Monthly for 25 years until his retirement in 2010 at age 76. Cartwright was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 1986 in the category of reporting excellence. He has been the recipient of a Dobie-Paisano fellowship and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Stanley Walker Award for Journalism and the Carr P. Collins Award for nonfiction. He won the 1989 Press Club of Dallas Katie Award for Best Magazine News Story. He also won the 2005 Headliner Club of Austin award for best magazine story. Cartwright has written several books, including Blood Will Tell, Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, Dirty Dealing, and Galveston: A History of the Island, published in 1991. He has co-written three movie scripts, J. W. Coop (Columbia, 1972); A Pair of Aces (CBS-TV, 1990), which he also co-produced; and Pancho, Billy and Esmerelda, which he co-produced for his own production company in 1994. In addition, he co-produced Another Pair of Aces for CBS. Blood Will Tell was filmed by CBS-TV as a four-hour miniseries in 1994. In 1998 his book, HeartWiseGuy, was published.
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
How do you find a folksy town of 7500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Behind the mask is a man of God, a man devoted to the all-American goal of winning the all-American game as few have done before him.
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.


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He has taught as adjunct assistant professor at Parsons MFA in Design & Technology and Parsons School of Art, Design, History, and Theory (ADHT) from 2010 to 2014. He has also taught in the Media, Culture, Communication dept of NYU Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development (2009, 2010, 2011). He has also taught at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) (2007, 2008), and Trinity College's MsC in Interactive Digital Media (2003, 2004). From 2001-2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe and from 2006-2007 he was an R&D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. He received his Masters from ITP in 1999 and was an Interval Research Fellow from 1999-2001.
Jonah's work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes over 80 projects that critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience.
He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group), recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO, and was a 2006 and 2008 Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been presented at events and organizations such as DEAF (03,04), London Science Museum (2008), Future Sonic / Future Everything (2004, 2009), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06,09,12), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Tate Modern (03), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03, 12), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA – NYC)(2008),San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008), and Palais Du Tokyo, Paris (2009). His work has been reported about in The Times, The New York Times, Wired News, Make, Boing Boing, El Pais, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Register, Slashdot, NY Post, The Wire, Rhizome, Crunch Gear, Beyond the Beyond, Neural, Liberation, Village Voice, IEEE Spectrum, The Age, Taschen Books, and more.
He has given lectures about his work at locations and venues such as Intel Corporation, School of Visual Arts, Ars Electronica, Canadian Consulate, NYU, UCLA, USC, San Jose State University, ISEA 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Contemporary Art London, Transmediale, Universität der Künste Berlin, Tate Modern, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Urbis Manchester, CCCB Barcelona, Open Hardware Summit, Contemporary Art Museum Belo Horizonte, Brazil, The Banff Centre, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Rhode Island School of Design, Maker Faire, Royal College of Art, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, Eyebeam, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Pratt Institute, and more.
Locative Media Revisited
Molly Dilworth, 547 West 27th Street (2009). From the series "Paintings for Satellites."
In the early 2000s, as location-aware devices first became commonplace, there was a lot of hype surrounding their potential creative use by artists. However, over time, this initial enthusiasm for "locative media"--projects that respond to data or communications technologies that refer to particular sites--leveled off, even dissipated. Regardless of this drought, geospatial technologies are widely used, and play an important and often unnoticed role in conditioning many aspects of our existence. Responding to this condition of ubiquity, artists have continued to use locative technologies critically, opening up closed systems, making their effects visible, and reconfiguring our relationship with such systems.
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A kind of cold weather antipode of summer's "Love Parade," the Transmediale 2014 media arts festival was a beacon of light in the long dusk of a Berlin winter. As a twist on the usual curated exhibition, this year's festival opted for an ad-hoc "Art Hack Day" (AHD) approach, where submitting artists were expected to create new and original artworks in the span of two days (and nights). Opening the exhibition with a more down-to-earth feel, AHD ultimately resembled a DIY, garage-style party instead of a highbrow exhibition space.
Art In Your Pocket 3: Sensor Driven iPad and iPhone Art Apps
PXL, Rainer Kohlberger, 2012
As the iPhone just celebrated its fifth year on the market, artists have already made a substantial dent in the commercially lucrative world of Apple's AppStore. Despite this success, artists are still pushing forward to build apps that further integrate with the device's sensors and location-based capabilities. Rather than working solely within the context of software art as I have covered in two previous articles on the subject for Rhizome, there is a focus now on artists who are interacting with the physical world by using the device's internal sensors, location capabilities, constant Internet connectivity, and built-in cameras.
"Konfetti", Stephan Maximillian Huber, 2012
Using the camera as a sensor, "Konfetti" by German based designer Stephan Maximillian Huber visualizes the image of its subject into countless dots. In effect, the camera image is translated into virtual confetti that follows any movement and creates an ever changing images based on which camera is selected. The dot's movement is correlated to the detected flow captured by the camera and by repelling other dots, which also move as you touch and drag them. Huber explains over email how the app works as a reflection based art tool. "The app started as an iPad-only app, and on an iPad the app acts like a mirror, showing an abstract reflection of yourself. You'll get a clear image of yourself only when you concentrate on the process of the app, and don't move too fast. It's like contemplating about yourself and the image of yourself. And as your thoughts and emotions aren't static the image the app generates is dynamic and adapts to minimal movements and new ...
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In the summer of 2009, I wrote an article here at Rhizome about the burgeoning activities of media artists creating new works or updating versions of their older interactive screen-based projects for Apple's iPhone and iTouch mobile devices. As the article made its way throughout the blogosphere, comments surfaced ranging from criticism of the "closed world of Apple's App Store and iPhone devices" to a championing of the availability of inexpensive multi-touch technology now available to artists who had been waiting for a platform that could adequately display and allow for the type of interaction their projects demanded. A year after the article came out, the draw of these devices and their potentially expansive audience has become even more irresistible to artists enough so that several more "apps" have surfaced. The following article catalogs several new iPhone works which have emerged over the past year, works that are pioneering the next generation of portable media art.
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Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, professor and writer. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04,08), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06,09), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5),Museum of Modern Art (MOMA - NYC)(2008), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008). He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and in the Media, Culture, Communication dept of NYU Steinhardt School of Culture Education and Human Development.
2009 was an important year for the Internet as a whole. The advent of web 2.0 and "crowdsourcing" initiatives has enabled a much richer array of content from users who might never have ventured onto the Internet in previous years. My top 10 sites for this year cover a wide range of topics from art made for mobile devices with iPhoneArt.org to evidence of both information saturation with Information Aesthetics and physical and pseudo intellectual abundance with This is Why You're Fat and There I Fixed It, to strange observances of mistakes in the public realm with Fail Blog. In addition to these crowdsourced content sites, I also see some ongoing potential with artist-created sites such as Brett Domino's lowtech approach to music making ...


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Couple plan to brighten up Evelyn StreetBy Gordon Dritschilo
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The downtown Rutland building comprising 9-13 Evelyn St. has been purchased and is undergoing a new look.Evelyn Street is about to get more colorful.
Shawn and Jamie Pemrick have bought the building at 9-13 Evelyn St., the main structure on the block, and are in the middle of renovating with plans of filling the mostly vacant spaces.
They are also giving it a bright paint job described by the Downtown Rutland Partnership as a throwback to what might have been seen in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury section.
The Pemricks plan three apartments, space for Shawn Pemricks photography studio and some sort of retail operation. Jamie Pemrick said she will not move her Trace of Lace bridal boutique from North Main Street to the site.
Weve already moved it once and were not doing that again, she said. Were happy with what weve got for that.
The smoke and tattoo shops already in the building will remain put, Pemrick said, and a number of people have looked at the empty storefront that previously housed Chasers bar.
Were looking for more like a restaurant-bistro, baker-type, she said. Were doing a lot of our own marketing.
Pemrick said the building, which has 2,300 square feet available for rental, sold for $135,000. She said they were originally looking to rent space in it for her husbands photo studio, but the price was right to buy.
We got it for a steal, she said. We want to revive downtown. ... For us, its a price thing. Were always looking for something we can fix up, but at a good price.
Michael Coppinger, DRP executive director, said the top level of the building had been used as storage for at least a decade and that the main storefront had been vacant for at least a year and a half.
Pemrick said the color scheme was drawn from a nearby mural.
We wanted to draw positive attention to the building and possibly make it a landmark, maybe draw people to it who want to take pictures, Pemrick said.
The color scheme won approval Wednesday morning from the Architectural Review Board, which is charged with maintaining the historical character of downtown buildings.
The Architectural Review Committee really took into consideration that its a wood structure thats not in the continuous downtown, like Center Street, but a standalone building, Coppinger said, adding that the Pemricks were also restoring some historical aspects of the facade.
I think if it were the Richardson building, next to the Paramount, it would be a different situation,he said. You kind of have a funky-looking neighborhood unto itself over there.
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As long as I've lived in Maine, I STILL have never seen a moose other than in a zoo! Have seen deer, black bears, fox, and other wildlife right in my back yard, and I've seen moose tracks in my garden so know they're around but never been in the right place at the right time to see one up close and personal. Still hoping to someday.
I remember one afternoon a moose and two calves came into our back yard and right up to the door. If I'd been standing on the back steps, I would have been able to touch them.
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Elaborate proposals new trend in engagementsWritten by Brandi Barhite | Community Ombudsman | email@example.com
Related content: Barhite: "It's OK to just pop the question"
Amy Ottney thought she was just touring the USS Missouri on Aug. 30, 2011.
Her sailor boyfriend, Alex Wolff, had won a trip to Hawaii for three people that included a private tour of the ship. Because he was deployed, he chose Amy, his mother and sister for the trip.
Amy was excited because his squadron was making a stop in Hawaii on its way back to San Diego. She would catch a glimpse of him before he was home for a true reunion after seven months at sea.
But first, Amy was taking a tour of the Missouri. She didn't think it was unusual cameras were in her face because it was part of the contest deal. She got on the Missouri with Alex's family and started taking in the history of Pearl Harbor.
As she got farther into the ship, she recognized someone, but she wasn't sure why. It was Matthew Rogers, the host of one of her favorite reality shows, Lifetime's "Coming Home."
"It took me a moment to realize what it meant. I knew what was coming up. Then I was really excited about it."
Alex was there to greet her at the end of a long line of sailors.
"I thought it was such a crazy surprise that I was going to see him. I thought that was the surprise."
But it wasn't. He started to push her away and all of a sudden he dropped to one knee.
"The additional layer was when he asked me to marry him," she said, with a squeal.
Creating the perfect proposal is becoming a huge trend, according to Stacy Tasman, the founder of New York-based blog How He Asked.com. She isn't surprised by a reality show engagement.
"They are getting bigger and better from a details perspective. It used to be a man would pick a romantic place and give a few words and then pop the question," Tasman said. "Now instead of just saying the words, he is planning it all out with a whole day or evening."
In her opinion, the trend started because people were sharing their engagements on Facebook and people wanted to know the details. No one wants to have a lame story. Also, women are mostly in charge of the wedding, and the proposal gives the man a chance to showcase his creativity, she said.
Tasman started HowHeAsked.com after her girlfriend got engaged. She wanted other couples to be able share their engagement stories.
It has since morphed into a business featuring vendors willing to help create the perfect proposal.
"I had a girlfriend get engaged and her now-husband asked me to come to the proposal. I was like, 'I will come to the wedding, but what do you mean the proposal?'" Tasman said.
"My friend was a small-town girl and he wanted to include everyone who was meaningful to her. We flew down to Florida and he took her to the beach in her backyard where she had grown up and popped the question with shells. When she came back to the house, everyone was there to celebrate."
Tasman said popular proposals these days include scavenger hunts and getting family members involved.
"It isn't just saying the words, it is putting them into action," she said.
While planning packages start at $3,000, Tasman said her advice is to focus on little moments in the relationship when you ask.
"When you pull those out of your relationship and put those into an engagement, that is very meaningful," she said.
Jacquelyn Hodgson of Toledo knows about meaningful proposals. Her boyfriend, Zach Garrow, proposed Aug. 17 at a Detroit Tigers game. They weren't even sitting next to each other, so Jacqueline didn't suspect anything. In the bottom of the second inning, a Tigers employee started to organize a trivia game with the mascot, Paws. Zach volunteered to play. Jacquelyn became his partner.
The question was: Who won the Triple Crown last year? When Jacquelyn answered Miguel Cabrera (with help from the crowd), Paws opened his paw. Inside was a baseball that asked her to marry Zach.
"I had no idea," Jacquelyn said. "At first, I didn't even cry because I was in complete shock."
Fortunately, Zach's family was at the game with them and captured the moment on video and film. Tasman said a proposal won't be perfect unless someone documents it.
"Have someone in the bushes or someone to take photos to capture it," she said.
Amy and Alex love having their episode "Undercover Engagement" to watch whenever they want. They ended up eloping Sept. 10, 2011, and live as the Wolff family in Southern California where they met. Interestingly, they grew up just four miles apart. Alex graduated from Genoa High School; Amy graduated from Oak Harbor.
When she was dating him, she never expected such an elaborate proposal.
"Now that I really know him, I know he will go all out. He is zero or 100 in everything. If something is really important to him, he blows it up," Amy said.
On the show, Alex told the host: "A proposal is huge. For a guy, it is saying, 'I am putting it all on the line here. I want to spend the rest of my life with you forever.'"
Since then, he has more thoughts on the topic.
"You only ask someone to marry you once; you don't want any regrets and you want it to be something that she'll replay over and over in her head and still be telling your grandkids."
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