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Software Developers Are Back, SO WHAT?
January 24th, 2000
Disclaimer: There are high risks of frustration associated with consumption of today's column, and software developers who just came back to the Mac platform (in the last 3 months or so) might feel harmed by its content. You may notice foul language too. If you want to see a better side of me, visit some other pages I write.
While reading Macintosh information sites during MACWORLD Expo in San Francisco, I realized that a lot of software developers were coming back to the Mac or had done so in the last few months. Happy happy, joy joy! Isn't that great? I'm not too sure about that, pal.
While we can only appreciate variety in software, this new abundance may not last forever. Knowledge of Apple's past experience with developers - even if limited - will tell you a lot about the attitude of too many major software makers toward the Macintosh.
Let's examine the pattern.
Do you see the problem yet? When I see all those software developers telling us how it's good to be back on the Mac and how great the platform is, I smell freakin' rotten fish.
Where were these people in the Spring of 1997 when Apple was going through its hardest days? Where were these people when only sheer advocacy from dealers and Internet writers, plus sustained fidelity from the Mac's strongest markets, kept Apple alive? Where the HELL were these people when we needed them most?
The smelly rats had left the sinking ship, folks. When they realized that Apple was falling and losing money, they left. They announced an end to their Mac development. "Huh, I don't want no problems. I don't wanna have to market my products myself. Huh."
Why am I so hard on them when they bring us badly needed software to make the Macintosh a credible platform? Because Apple always has to do all the efforts to seduce and please them for a long time to get them to write Mac software again.
When they felt that Apple's situation was perfect, they came out with the slogans. When they saw the warm bed, they jumped in with an attitude. "Stop the bandwagon for me, hhhhhhheeeeerrrrreee I come!" Pathetic, isn't it?
Why should you come back to the Mac at the end of 1999 or early 2000 when the platform has been kicking butt for two stupid freakin' years?
Steve Jobs led his putsch against Amelio in 1997. He brought Bill Gates to us via satellite a little later. In early 1998, he announced that Apple posted its first profits in ages. Wasn't that a good sign already? I have much more respect for Microsoft that decided to stand side by side with Apple to initiate the comeback. It was negotiated but it worked.
But don't get me started with Microsoft.
I have much more respect for Symantec that renewed its commitment to Norton Utilities in Spring 1998 while Apple's new situation wasn't fully stable yet and the iMac was still a secret that even Apple employees didn't know about. The above-mentioned developers are only a couple of examples among dozens. They didn't wait until now, when Apple has posted its biggest sales numbers in years, to write some code for the Mac. They didn't wait for the table to be ready for dinner, they helped to cook the damn pot!
Reality check, people. All the companies that just renewed their Mac activities are here for the easy money, just like they are on the PC side. As long there are blue skies ahead, they're here. If anything goes wrong, look out! They'll be on the first plane.
I don't know about you, but even if Apple shows Titanic tendencies again, I'll be there. I'll stick with Apple and probably intensify my advocacy here in Montreal. If 3 years from now, the sky isn't blue for the platform, I'll do whatever I can to ease the pain and convince people to buy a new Mac instead of trashing their old G3 for a PC. I know I won't be alone because Apple's traditional advocates and most faithful dealers will be there too. The core of the "staff" will never leave.
The best argument to counterattack my thoughts is the bread and butter issue. Developers depend on sales and this is how they pay the bills. Well, I have news for you. A lot of companies developed Mac software during Apple's ugliest period and they made money from it! What a SHOCKER! Even I earn some money because of what I do on the Mac. A few things that I do related to the Macintosh help me pay the bills. But even if hardship renews its relationship with Apple and this gig stops paying, I'll be there. This is not my primary source of income and it doesn't matter because I won't lose money. Developers should see it the same way since Windows software should be the primary source of income. The worst that could happen to software companies is not making easy millions without efforts until better days. Smaller profits aren't that bad, you know.
It frustrates me to see all these people fondling our ego only because they know it is a sure hit during the golden years. I hate to see such idiotic leeches. And while I am at it, I hate Best Buy. Look at what they did. They got a reseller license to attract customers and redirect them toward PCs. Apple had to dump them again.
By the way, I hope Apple doesn't believe that all these software companies are here for good this time. It's just until the next wave of trouble, or the next moment when Macintosh sales slow down a bit.
This reminds me of the kind of friends you hate to have. If you feel a little down and need help, they're busy, they don't answer the phone when they see your caller ID. When you get a new job, become the coolest guy in the neighbourhood and announce a party for Saturday night because you reserved the most anticipated Pay-Per-View event of the year, they knock on your door and want in only to dump you later.
What a load of manure. I am tired of this cycle.
I'm not an SMF (Simple-Minded Fool) and I see through the smoke screen. There are people who choose to be on your side because they believe in you, and there are people who do it only when you can serve them. I have the impression that somebody wrote "Idiot" on the Mac user's forehead.
When it comes to faithfulness, more people should observe this poetic motto:
If you are to commit,
You better respect it,
And if you can't handle it
Go home and suck it!
I'll stick with products made by companies that were there before and during the initiation of Apple's comeback. At least, I know that they won't leave me out in the cold if my type of computer becomes less popular for a while. The funniest part? Microsoft is one of those companies. Their 5-year MS Office commitment helped to kickstart Apple's healing process. I know, it is Microsoft.
I apologize in advance for the mean words, but they were necessary.
*Off the soapbox and back to therapy*
Your comments are welcomed.
Michael Munger is a French Canadian living in Montreal. He discovered the Mac in 1994 while studying journalism, the profession he loves and practices. He also studied history and communications. In addition to his work at The Mac Observer, he authors the iBasics tutorial column at Low End Mac, and cofounded MacSoldiers in 1998.
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Tracy Morgan coming to the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg
Here's a show that's been a long time coming.
Two years after a horrific accident that nearly cost Tracy Morgan his life, his comeback tour will come to Tampa Bay, with a stand-up performance at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg on Nov. 11.
The Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock star hasn't performed in Tampa Bay since a gig at the Hard Rock Cafe in 2013 -- but that was before the crash that left fans wondering if he'd ever perform again. This show is billed as a performance of a one-man show, "Picking Up the Pieces," so it's likely to touch on the tragedy and its after-effects.
Tickets to the show are $35 and up, and they go on sale June 3. Click here for details.
-- Jay Cridlin

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LONDON (May. 14)
Jewish repatriates from the Soviet Union who are being sent to Lower Silesia, in Poland for resettlement, are complaining that local government authorities refuse to give them elementary assistance, passing them on to the local Jewish community for such aid.
These facts are revealed in the latest issue received here of Die Folkstimme, Jewish community newspaper published in Warsaw in Yiddish. The newspaper devotes a special article, written by one of its correspondents, who visited Liegnitz, not far from the former German city of Breslau to see how the Jewish repatriates are being treated.
Nearly 200 Jews who recently returned to Poland from the Soviet Union crowded into the Jewish Cultural Club at Liegnitz, according to the Folkstimme writer, to voice their complaints. One of the repatriates is reported to have informed the local Jewish residents that various governmental and communal officials have refused to help the newly-arrived Jews even to obtain housing for their families, and have refused to aid them in finding work.
"The repatriates were sent to the Jewish Cultural Association," the Folkstimme report continues, "but the Association has no means of assisting these newcomers. All the Association can do is to intervene with government officials to see that something is done for these poor people. They are sent from pillar to post instead of being given the assistance to which they are entitled."
The report states that some of the repatriates had attempted to secure housing in dwellings abandoned "by Jews who have left for Israel." In many cases however, other claimants had already taken over the abandoned housing, according to Folkstimme.
Some of the complaints voiced by the repatriates, the Folkstimme reports, were directed against the older, local Jewish community which had failed to provide religious facilities for the Jews who had come from Russia. H. Goldfinger, speaking as a representative of the local Jewish Cultural Association, is reported to have assured the repatriates that all that is possible will be done for them. Mr. Goldfinger is said to have cited recent government regulations providing for care and assistance for repatriates, and to have promised that the Jewish community "will exploit every possibility for obtaining aid for the newcomers." At Mr. Goldfinger's suggestion, the repatriates at the meeting selected a group of representatives from their ranks to work with the older Jewish residents of Liegnitz for improvement of conditions.
"Moving expressions of their longing for Yiddish culture "came from many of the repatriates, the Folkstimme report declares. "They begged the Jewish community," according to the report, "to arrange for them Yiddish lectures, meetings with Jewish writers and artists. Jewish newspapers and literature and perhaps even attendance ate Yiddish theatre."


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text: So I have been shooting for quite some time but only got into street photography a few years ago. Therefore I was interested in getting some feedback on the photos I took the other day at the Detroit Eastern Market. For those who don't know what the Eastern Market is, it's basically a giant open market where people come to sell produce in downtown Detroit. There are a bunch of antique stores around the area too, everything opened in 1891. It's a pretty cool place because a lot of the chain stores moved out of Detroit when the city took a turn for the worse. As a result Detroit is now considered a food desert and many families are forced to shop for food at liquor stores, gas stations, convenience stores, etc. The Eastern Market provides an awesome (healthy) alternative Anyway, I don't have a lot of friends who are into photography so I am reaching out to my fellow APUG-ers to let me know what I can do to continue improving. All these photos were shot on a Nikon FM loaded with Kodak BW400CN. The lenses used were a 24mm 2.8 and a 50mm 1.8 (both with Hoya Y(K2) filters). 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9


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This probably has been discussed many times, but I haven't seen the comparisons of the subfloor products that are out there.
I have a basement that I'd like to renovate--it's about 1500sqft. Even though weather in Vancouver is pretty moderate, tiles on concrete floors during winter still feels pretty cold. I want to install new tiles and laminate flooring.
So few ways that I've found are: using 2x4 with plywood, DRIcore, Barricade, or DMX 1-Step with plywood.
What's the pros and cons of these? Will I be framing on top of these? Are there better products out there? I'm kinda leaning towards Barricade right now.
Thanks for replying,
Hi Rich,
The way I would go (even for my client) depending on the budjet of course is 12 x 12 plywood board with ruber pading under, this way if it hapens water can go to its drain without any damage, but your floor has to be level or very close. This product is safe and good for all the years of the house, check it out. But again its a bit expensive but you will never have to touch this floor again, (Depending on the knowledge of the carpenter or handyman). Also good for laminate flooring and won't be cold as you said to.
Anyway thats my opinion but would be perfect. Good luck on your project and have fun!
Gaby Lacroix
Amg Renovation.
Amg Building Inspector.
I'll go with barricade. If you are installing tiles on it use ditra first.
I forgot to tell you the price here in Ontario those subfloor are about 6-7$/board. Like I said expensive but no maintenance and for all the wood you want to buy anyway it will come very close the same, and for instalation its just like laminate floor so easy. And just to make sure the joint sould be criss cross just like 12 x 12 laminate.
Again good luck and if you have more questions, well we are here for you bud.
I'll go with barricade. If you are installing tiles on it use ditra first.
If you are installing tiles, you can't put them on Dri-core or DMX. For Barricade you have to install 1/2'
cement board over top of it, then your tiles. That gives almost an inch of extra height to the rest of the floor.
The way I do basements is Planton foundation water proofing rolls, then high compression rated pink or blue ridgid insulation sheets. You can have 1/2",1" or 1 1/2" thick (2" if you can find long enough screws). Lay it over the floor and tuck tape the seams, that gives you the vapour barrier that the others don't other than DMX. Lay down 5/8" plywood and tap con them down every 2' for carpet and laminate. For tiles I screw every 12" and use ditra underlayment.
This system is cost competive, but far superior in everyway. You have more insulation (warmer floor and basement), vapour barrier, moisture and water barrier/drain, you can install any kind of flooring you want, it conforms to any uneveness in the floor better than the rest, you can build every wall on top, except load bearing walls.
All the systems you listed are good and better than nothing, but they do have there limitations and/or extra steps depending on the finished floor you choose.
DRIcore is the route to go for many reasons.
First, the size of the panels and the manner in which they fit together is superior. The made particulate is thick and tough. But most important is the blue plastic product on the underside. It is strong and tough. It will last here other products will break down. And take a good look at the channeling system designed into for water to move quickly and freely if you have a water escape of any kind.
Plus, the product breaths. It is installed 1/2" of the concrete foundation. If you ever have dampness below it can dry. The product is also strong enough to build over. I build walls over the product and then ramset them in through the product and into the concrete.
It's not cheap, but when I have clients willing to spend the money it is always what I use. I am currently finishing about 1800sq" of my own basement with the product now. I am also glueing 2" R-10 foam to the concrete foundation and then applying an air tight seal with tape.
Thats my 2 cents.
Good luck with your project,
James Fram
I agree with James (Phoenix). Rona sells a product similar to the Platon it's called Delta, I usually butt up or over lap joints and tape with Tuck Tape. Then you can install the laminate directly over that. Or you can install T&G 5/8" 4x8.
if you are looking to install laminate flooring, make sure you note that DMX 1-Step does NOT require plywood if the laminate is greater than 10 mm thick.
The foam on the bottom of DMX 1-Step makes the floors warmer because it absorbs the cold from the concrete floors.
You will save clear height and cost, DMX 1-Step is half the price of Dricore and Barricade, with higher compressive strength and R value.
Quite a remarkable product, I have used it myself and it does exactly what it says.
Go to their website, they have great videos and comparative charts.
Hope this helps,
Recently decided to go with DMX 1 Step in my basement, because of cost, insulation for heat/sound and the obvious continuous moisture barrier.
I'm going to install 12mm laminate flooring, which I'm told can go directly over the DMX, but I need to raise my floor by 1>2" from the existing concrete.
I thought that putting 5/8" T&G OSB between the DMX and laminate would solve the problem.
But if I tapcon the OSB, I'm putting holes in the DMX and losing the continuous moisture barrier
Any suggestions?
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Tennessee lawyer Chris Sevier is seeking damages for watching women engaging in sexual acts with the intent to cause vicarious arousal on his Apple devices or in other words, one of the strangest lawsuits that has been filed against Apple. In his 50-page complaint, Seviers proposal claims that Apple should ship its devices in a safe mode that customers would have to take steps to disable if they wanted to be naughty. Sevier believes that its Apples responsibility to shift the burden off of the buyers who do not want to see porn onto those who do want to see pornographic content to take the additional step.
According to the folks at Above the Law:
Seviers complaint makes a simple request: Apple should sell all products with an installed filter blocking all Internet porn. If the buyer, over the age of 18, wishes to unlock the Internet, he or she is free to contact Apple, sign a form acknowledging the ills of pornography, and receive a code to remove the filter. Sevier argues that the burden must be shifted from parents to the manufacturer to sell a locked device. That sounds like a fair enough, even laudable goal. But Sevier also wants these filters installed lest the responsibility be up to *shudder* individuals exercising self-control.
Per the complaint, Seviers problem began after he tried to visit Facebook.com, but accidentally, he says typed F**kbook.com, an adult site that appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male and led to an unwanted addiction with adverse consequences.
UNFAIR COMPETITION AND INTERFERENCE OF THE MARITAL CONTRACT: The Plaintiff became totally out of synch in his romantic relationship with his wife, which was a consequence of his use of his Apple product. The Plaintiff began desiring, younger more beautiful girls featured in porn videos than his wife, who was no longer 21.
Source: Above the Law, The Huffington Post


text: Now before you guys go and blow this idea out of the water mind you it is only a SUGGESTION... 2004 first round we took Dunta with the first pick, we had a shutdown corner in Aaron Glenn to teach the young stud, and we had a defense that was performing better than anything in 2005. Here is my idea and why...i think we could move Dunta into our Free Safety position and this is why, 2004 Dunta had numbers identical to that of pro bowler and stud Champ Bailey. Both had 80 some tackles, 3 picks, and sacks, fumble recoverys, and an ungodly amount of passes defended. 2005 with an awful defense Dunta led the team with 105 tackles, fewer picks, still good numbers everywhere else tho, the difference was he was the only person on the field making plays and tackles. 2006 with our defense beginning to rebuild Dunta had some lapses on oppurtunities that could have resulted in points on defense. Don't get me wrong he is a stud at corner, but if we moved him to safety that would allow our defensive speed demon tackler to use his skills more for every play. Here is how i see it, with Dunta playing the middle of the field he will be able to cover more of the open ground, give him better chances to read and react to the oposing offenses schemes and play calls, provide help against the deep balls.. which we have been burned on all year, and help Demeco be more affect stunting runs and cover pass routes over the middle. This plan hinges on some big issues too, first is going to be a complete over haul of our DBs. I would love to see Clements or Samuel come here, but i know it won't happen both will either be resigned or sign else where, here is plan B. Free Agency: pick up corner Roderick Hood, resign Lewis and McCleon atleast to bring them to camp. Release Faggins he is too slow for our needs now. Draft: After trading the 8th overall pick(i am assuming that is about where we will be picking at) down for more picks...a must in this draft. Rnd 1: Roderick Rogers CB Wisconsin at prolly the 14th pick Rnd 2: Daymeion Hughes CB Cal at 8th second round Rnd 3: Bring in a LB and another WR...Moulds will retire prolly after next year Rnd 4: Add depth all the way through the 7th round. This would bring in Two great prospects and future NFL studs and allow us to get younger and better also eliminate dead money spent on old farts. Our secondary depth would look pretty promising esp with three veterans in Hood, McCleon, and Lewis to help teach the young guys. This is a new approach at solving an old problem.


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Hi, I understand the A* algorithm, but I have some trouble doing it in 3D to suit the needs of my RTS
Basically, in the game I'm making, there will be agents with different sizes of OBB collision boxes.
I can use steering behaviours for avoiding other agents, so I don't need complete dynamic pathfinding. However, there is a problem because different agents have different collision geometry, and structures can be placed in almost any place. This means that there might be a gap between two structures where some agents can go through and some can't.
A solution I have found to this problem is to do a sweep of the collision geometry of the agent from start node of the edge the pf algorithm is currently testing, to the end node of that edge. But this is probably a bit overkill since every edge the algorithm tests would also have to create and test with a collision geometry sweep.
What are some reasonable approaches to this problem?
You could edit a (directed, weighted) navigation graph manually. The A* algorithm isn't really the best for this, though. Look up Dijkstra's algorithm. There are several free implementations you could use.
Otherwise you might want tot try implementing some sort of navigation mesh. It describes the area where your entities can walk, so you could cut holes in it where static obstacles are placed, and make sure no navigation mesh border is smaller than the width of your collision geometry.
Well sure I can remove nodes/edges from my navgraph but that doesn't help anything with the problem I'm having that different agents have different collision geometry. Why would A* not be able to do this? Dijkstra is basically A* without the heuristic cost.
A navmesh might be a more elegant solution (although I struggle to see how this would fix my problem with the different collision geometry) but I'd prefer not to use it, because my entire system is currently relying on waypoints.
I think I would keep the collision size with the character and just request it, or have a table of each unit's collision size. That is, if you were using a spherical collision at the base, which is all I would do.
As geon mentioned, I would fallback to Dijkstra's algorithm. As you know, it's simply A* without the heuristic, but this is a good thing. You want to wrap around the area and find multiple paths, not just one. Then divide and conquer your units. Continue to divide your armies intelligently and create groups that can fit. You can continue to divide it down so 1 group = 1 unit, but that might not be efficient. You may want 2x2 groups or even 5x2 groups (paired lines). Some may travel down the narrow corridor, others might walk around the obstacle, if possible. You will know how many units you can fit in a single line by calculating the areas Dijkstra finds. You will want to implement a priority queue where each group navigates through the corridor in turn. Have your units reunite in formation once they overcome the blockade before you continue to move them as a group. Also, don't use OBB for a single unit. That's way too expensive. A unit in an RTS has a dedicated spot on the ground. All you need is a simple circle check. To speed things up, discard the square root operation and instead square your distance. c\\^2= a\\^2 + b\\^2 instead of c = sqrt(a\\^2 + b\\^2). Just with mesh collision detection, you don't want to check each polygon. Your entire group will form a single box test. As you divide your armies up, you also divide the box, keeping the collision tests to a minimum. In real life, armies don't push or force their way through the line, so you would naturally implement the same behaviour. Keep them in formation. Rotate the formation, then move them. You can "salt and pepper" the formation a bit so it doesn't look too artificial. Take a look at some of the YouTube videos on the Total War series. They're well known to provide epic scale battles, and often times they ignore collisions. For example, calvary running though infantry. It's done intelligently though. The infantry will spread themselves out a tiny bit, giving leeway for the calvary. An astute gamer will still notice runovers, but it's not something you're actively looking for and the spacing is generally good enough to cover up some flaws.


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Suspect threw sodium hydroxide into air on dance floor, but police don't think he was targeting gays
Authorities have identified a powdery substance that was thrown into the air on the dance floor at Station 4 last weekend as sodium hydroxide, or lye, a dangerous chemical that can cause burns, scarring or even blindness.
An S4 employee was treated for a blister on his tongue after he tried to identify the substance, according to police, but no other injuries have been reported. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Ernest Gurulé, who announced the results of testing on the substance Thursday, Dec. 4, said the incident doesn't pose an ongoing health threat to people who were in the club if they haven't experienced symptoms already.
Police said they haven't identified the suspect in the incident, which occurred at about 1 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30, inside the popular gay nightclub at 3911 Cedar Springs Road. The suspect, described as an Asian male in his 30s, was approached by an employee who saw him throwing the powder into the air on the dancefloor.
The suspect left the nightclub after handing over to the employee a glass container with the powder in it.
The suspect reportedly told the employee the powder was rock salt, but another employee called 911 after the powder burned his tongue.
Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther, a spokeswoman for the Dallas Police Department, said Thursday that investigators don't believe the incident was an anti-gay hate crime.
Crowther said the suspect likely would be charged with the offense of "terroristic threat," which can range from a class-B misdemeanor to a third-degree felony under Texas law.
"We don't know why he did it, and we can't find any witness to tell us why or who he is," Crowther said. "We don't perceive it right now as anything anti-gay."
The incident prompted authorities to close Reagan Street between Cedar Springs Road and Dickason Avenue while they removed the substance from the nightclub.
Gurulé, the Fire-Rescue spokesman, said the FBI is assisting with the investigation.
"It's absolutely irresponsible, reckless behavior on the part of an individual to walk around and carelessly or even in a premeditated way to distribute [sodium hydroxide] into the environment and certainly onto individuals," Gurulé said. "I don't think this falls under the category of 'prank' by any definition. This was a malicious event."
Sodium hydroxide, which can be purchased over the Internet, is a caustic metallic base commonly used in chemical laboratories and in the manufacture of various products, including soaps and detergents. The chemical can also be used in the production of methamphetamine.
Rick Espaillat, a spokesman for Caven Enterprises, which owns S4, issued a written statement Thursday.
"In dealing with the situation, local and federal authorities were consulted and extreme precautions were taken to determine the threat level and to ensure the safety of our guests, our staff, and the general public," Espaillat's statement said.
"After hours of deliberation, those authorities determined that the threat of injury was negligible. We received directions from the authorities and instructed those present that they should go home, shower, wash their clothes and report any symptoms to their doctor. We feel strongly that our staff acted responsibly, and we are continuing to cooperate with the ongoing investigation. We are grateful to our patrons for their patience and cooperation."
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition December 5, 2008.


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Eidos Montreal has dropped Quick Time Events from the upcoming Thief reboot after receiving negative feedback aimed at the controversial mechanic.
"We're not implementing them," explained the studio's web content manager Valerie Bourdeau.
"To begin with, there were very few instances of QTEs in the game; in fact there was only one in that whole hour-long E3 demo. However, given the strong reactions it evoked in the press and the community, it was an easy decision to do away with them entirely. So we're not doing it. No quick time."
The news came as part of a new Q&A which also features info on swimming and the game's Hardcore mode.
Thief will be released February 28 for Xbox One, PS4, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Source: Eidos Montreal Community


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Nov 30, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Nice picture chief
Sweet !
Cool chief. Cool pic of best friends. Spend lots of time with him.
Ha chief! I knew who would be in that picture.
That is a great picture chief !
Chief. I went back and looked at that picture again. Like I said. Cool pic of best friends. I went back and looked at it again when I saw that Pallet Pete had responded to the thread. Then I noticed that nice big tree on the ground behind you guys. Is that some good firewood or what? Is that a monster Ash? I can't believe I did not even notice it the first time. Well, yes I can. The picture was about your best friend. So I only say you and your best friend. The second time I did more looking and noticed the UTVs more, and then that monster tree down behind you guys. Are you going to process that thing or what? Please say yes, please say yes.
Gasifier, I wish. I took the picture in the Turkey Bay Off road park in the Land Between the Lakes in KY. Me, my son, and grandson were camping and riding there and actually stopped to look at some deer and that big old red oak. It was a monster for sure,. They had a bad ice/wind storm a couple of years ago and there were a bunch of trees on the ground. We actually cut a bunch for camp fire wood .
You should have cut up the entire thing "for camp fire wood". If asked about the trailer full on your way out, you can just say you cut a bit more than intended and didn't want to waste it.
Your best friend is short LOL!! Great picture, looks like a fun time!
lucky kid...
you just don't get friends like that everyday, Chief. I'm betting he feels the same way. Great pic, thanks for sharing brother!


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About Benedict Cumberbatch: English film, television, and theatre actor Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born 19 July 1976. He attended Harrow, one of the most prestigious public schools in the country. He also trained at the renowned London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Even though he has been hailed for his impressive skill for many years, he appeared in more minor television and cinema roles for close to a decade before he started becoming more wellknown. The international success of the BBC's Sherlock made him a celebrity and has broadened his career, helping him to land larger roles, which are furthering his international fame. Benedict is known for his unconventional goodlooks, his baritone voice, and his portrayal of posh, upperclass figures.
TL;DR Who is Benedict Cumberbatch?
What has Benedict been in? Check out this thread detailing his performances (with links for online viewing) thus far.
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Mercury Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hello and thanks for your question.
Could you describe your problem with a little more detail? Like what the problem is with the shifter and what year and model the vehicle is and whether it is an auto or manual transmission??
So if you move the key to the first detent ( not the run position ) it still won't come out of park? This position is like halfway between off and run.
Did anyone check fuse #7 in the interior fuse panel?
Did anyone check for power at the light green / red wire at the brake light switch
my steering wheel doesnt lock anymore, hasnt for awhile so i know its not that...ok no power at all at the green wire with red stripe....checked both wires, no power...checked all fuses, all of them r running 12 volts...now what?
the 4 ways work the fuses show good...my son cant stay up any longer to do this, he has to get up for work...im distraught over this, and cant do it myself...the shop is a total rip off and i dont know what else to do...i guess he will continue to check the wire like you said, thanks for your time and help...Tina


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Trucks, combine, wheat — memories are made by the bushel
This summer I packed up my family and drove over the mountains and over the prairie to the farm for harvest.
Returning to western Kansas where my great-grandparents homesteaded, my mother's parents and now my uncle grow wheat was something my parents, siblings and I did many summers while I was growing up.
Harvest was a highlight of the year. There was the rush to get the grain in before a storm blew up and rain bogged the equipment in the mud or hail knocked the wheat over by the stem.
My siblings and I bumped along in the wheat trucks, sat in the cool of the combine — often it was the only air-conditioned piece of equipment in the field — played in piles of grain like sand and heard a bazillion warnings about getting run over, hands cut off and keeping both eyes out for rattlesnakes.
I loved it and, when I was old enough, I drove the tractor with the grain cart that would pick up the wheat from the combine on-the-go, then deliver it to the wheat trucks, which we avoided driving into the fields because sparks coming out a truck's low exhaust pipe can light up a dry field in seconds.
After college, though, this thing and that thing got in the way of returning for harvest. The last time I was on the farm was more than 10 years ago. But this summer was different. Harvest was early and created a window for me to get my family to the farm.
My husband, Brian, is a Michigan man. He had never been to the farm and had no idea what to expect from western Kansas in July other than dirt and heat. He much prefers lakes, oceans and cool breezes and wasn't overly excited about this trip.
I have no idea how our 3-year-old son envisioned the farm I tried to describe to him. Most likely he thought of the cows from his Baby Einstein "Baby MacDonald" DVD.
As for our 1-year-old daughter, well, if we could just get her to the farm, then she could crawl almost anywhere she wanted and all would be fine.
Getting from here to there takes at least nine hours, straight. We drove into the "yard," the open area between the barn, garage, corrals and the farmhouse, in a cloud of dust. One or both of the kids were yelling out of frustration at still being in the car.
My parents, who were there to help with harvest, greeted us. My uncle was out in the field in the combine. Brian was about as incredulous as I was excited.
But then he got in a farm truck. Then a wheat truck. Then the combine. Then drove the tractor with the grain cart. Then the four-wheeler. It was addictive.
Our son needed no convincing. It was all exciting. Forget nap time, TRUCKS! TRACTORS! He took long rides in the combine with my uncle, watching the machine gather the wheat into itself and peering into the window behind the driver's seat to see the wheat kernels pile in the combine's bin.
It was hot, dusty and wonderful. I love the smell of the wheat and the fields. Brian liked the way a breeze makes a wheat field roll like the sea.
Each night I rode with my dad in the wheat truck, now upgraded to an older semi, as he hauled the day's last load of wheat into town to the grain elevator to dump it for storage. Conversation was comments shouted over the loud engine as one of the windows was stuck down. He saw a rattlesnake on the side of the dirt road, I braced for the washer board on the curves.
I felt both in and out of myself. I'm a town girl, but my family history is the farm. In fact, on this trip, my husband, kids and I slept in the same room where my grandfather was born more than 100 years ago.
Unfortunately, the memories I have of the farm will likely be just that for my kids. My memories. At 3 and 1, they will remember this trip through photos and the stories Brian and I tell.
At this point, my uncle is our family's last farmer. Each year, harvest becomes a little harder for him to pull off, and the summer is coming when a family harvest won't happen.
I hope it's not next summer. With this short taste of harvest, I want badly to go back with my family.
I want to see again the place where my grandpa sliced open a watermelon on the back of a truck during a picnic break from cutting wheat.
I want to show my kids the spot where my grandma lectured my cousin and me while she stood over a very long rattlesnake she had just decapitated using a garden hoe.
I want to hear my uncle's chuckle while talking to my son and daughter about tractors, trucks and combines.
I want to show them the barn loft, the outhouse, the swing made from bedsprings and the sunken remains of a dugout in the pasture that was my great-grandparent's first home.
I want to gather with my family for a little longer and harvest more memories before the chaff settles and the grain is stored for the winter. One more summer, please.


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So i was curious, and wondering about the boot processs and shutdown process with a CarPC. Well for example its not good to just shut a computer down without the proper shutdown..So how do you go about having the CarPC shut down correctly, even though the power is cut from it when you turn off the car? Secondly, whats the most efficiant way to have your carPC boot? Fastest and most convienent?
No announcement yet.
Proper boot and start up
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dc-dc power supply. they have a startup/shutdown controller built in.My OLD 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT:
"The Project That Never Ended, until it did"
next project? subaru brz
carpc undecided
Ill be using something like this to power my unit http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWNX:IT would i be able to work with that to yet have the controller?
If this is a laptop, then you'd probably want something like the carnetix. No need for the ebay'd car power adapter. This can then hibernate, sleep, or shutdown the unit (and of course start-up) via the usb connection once wired up, and set up properly(wake on usb needs to be set in bios). You will of course still need the proper power connector for your particular laptop to solder with the right polarity to the carnetix's 19v output(once set via jumpers).
See the extended information tab on this page here for videos and further specs and howto's for this particular unit.
The usual method is ACPI via the power button pins on the motherboard (usually mini-itx anymore) used for the carpc application from an automotive DC-DC power supply such as the M2-atx, or in my case an OPUS 360. So long as the polarity on the pins are observed(ACPI proper pin is marked as Pwr button + usually, and any of the others on that motherboard header section marked as ground will do for -), the unit will get it's turn-on and shut-down signals from the automotive power supply the same as if you pressed the button on your desktop. Usually, and in my own case, a momentary switch(NO, normally open) is wired in parallel to this to manually trigger this when needed, same again as the power button on a desktop, or laptop should something funky happen, or futzin' around with something causes it to hang on shut-down. Hope for the best, plan for the worst as the saying goes. It's not needed often, but it is needed on occasion, and sometimes I just don't wish it to power up for a quick trip, a simple tap of the button...done.
All of which usually give you many choices as to how and when it will turn on, and shut-off, including just putting it in standby mode, or hibernation, or fully off. Hard cutting power is not what happens. At least not if thought out and executed correctly.
The fastest and most convenient method is using standby mode of course. This keeps the 5v rail powered as everything is stored to RAM, so depending on how much is being kept powered, this can be a considerable battery drain issue.
Many, including myself have quite a laundry list of usb devices connected, in addition to the RAM, so I opted to just have my own straight shut-down and turn-on. Resuming from hibernation(RAM saved to file) is most times pointless IMO if you use 2gigs or more of RAM, doublely so with an SSD. It might be up by like half a second faster with hibernation rather than straight booting with mine.
I have a remote line turning on all related peripherals, including the audio amplifier, so everything stays on and shuts off with the OPUS PSU. This PSU is set with jumpers to stay on for 10minutes after the ACC(accessory) line is turned off. So with my mustang, as soon as I turn off the car and open a door the timer starts(car has a delayed accessory timer of it's own). This gives me time to get my coffee, make a convenience store run, or pump gas and not have to go through startup/shutdown. As well as letting me just leave the ACC line powered with the key the same as if I had a stock head-unit still. Albeit with a far shorter window of running without the engine going in my case.Last edited by Wayne613; 07-30-2011, 06:32 AM.2008 Ford Mustang GT/CS CARPC(99%)
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Playwright: Michael Bartlett Director: Stephen Rupsch Drama$25-$459/5-10/12When John and his boyfriend take a break, the last thing he expects is to meet the woman of his dreams. This "exhilarating … robust and rollicking" new play (The New Yorker) takes a playful, candid look at sexuality, identity and our obsession with certainty. Tickets and info: (415) 871-8972; nctcsf.org
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After a year of dismal sales, retailers are hoping for a happy holiday. But consumers will be more price-conscious than ever, hunting for deals and looking to stretch diminished budgets. So what will that mean for Christmas yet to come? Look for Christmas Creep to be even more prevalent this year, the return of the homemade gift and the disappearance of Secret Santa exchanges. Here are some other trends to expect.
The season of ScroogeAccording to Accenture, 63% of consumers will set a budget this year, compared to 54% last year -- and in those budgets, there's less room for friends and co-workers. To maintain the amount of money they typically spend on family members, 5% of consumers are cutting out gifts for friends, while 8% are eliminating co-workers from their holiday lists.
Christmas in July ... well, AugustSome 32% of consumers plan to complete the majority of their purchases Thanksgiving weekend, according to Google/OTX. Searches for "Black Friday" began the week of Aug. 2, in fact, a month earlier than last year. Still, thanks to diminished inventory, this season will be "a dance between retailers trying to convince shoppers to shop early because products really are at a premium and consumers expecting big sales and deals," said Ellen Davis, VP at the National Retail Federation.
Making a list and checking it twiceThe focus will be on price and practicality this holiday season, with more people making purchase decisions based on discounts and giving necessities as gifts. Electronics retailers will be hardest hit, with nearly 6% fewer consumers planning to shop there this year. And gift cards, a useful though somewhat mundane gift, continue to dominate wish lists. Gifts of food, meanwhile, are gaining traction.


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Clement Vuarchey posted an update More than 6 month ago
Useful blog to follow on "Florida Biotechnology News"
An useful blog about Biotech news and developmemtn from florida from Melanie J. Poller.
Here is an excerpt from the last article posted:
"Researchers develop easy and effective gene therapy to restore sight
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an easier and more effective method for inserting genes into eye cells that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases ranging from inherited defects like retinitis pigmentosa to degenerative illnesses of old age, such as macular degeneration."
Read more on: http://floridabiotechnews.com/biotech/researchers-develop-easy-and-effective-gene-therapy-to-restore-sight/12119/


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"New Patagonia online now"
In the early days of skateboarding the only options were basic plimsoles but as skate culture grew, new companies were formed to manufacture footwear specifically to meet the needs of skateboarding.
Considering your feet are the most essential part of your body for skateboarding, it's no shock that you'll wear out more pairs of shoes than any other item in your wardrobe. Grip tape, metal and concrete all take their toll on your kicks so most skate shoes are constructed to be a more durable nature than your average sneaker.
Route One have over 500 pairs of skate shoes online – from skater owned companies such as Lakai, Globe, Fallen, Emerica, DC and Etnies to skateboard specific divisions from athletic giants including Nike SB, Adidas Skateboarding and Vans "Off The Wall".
When choosing your new pair of skate shoes think about what you want from them:
Sole:Cupsole or Vulcanised? The sole of your shoes are very important, as they are the connection between you, your skateboard and the ground.
Vulcanised soles are glued and melted onto the shoe. These soles are thinner, and flexible, which provide great board feel. Vulcanised shoes generally aren't as durable as cupsole shoes, but they feel great to skate in.
Vulcanised skate shoes include Vans Old Skool, Adidas Eldridge, DVS Daewon 13, Nike SB Janoski, Lakai Griffin, Emerica Provost and the Etnies Barge.
Cupsoles are stitched to the outside of the shoe, rather than glued. Generally, cupsole shoes provide extra protection, more durability and will take more impact from skating larger drops such as stairs and gaps.
Cupsole skate shoes include Supra The Hammer, Nike SB P-Rod 7, Etnies Marana, DC Ignite, Adidas Busenitz, Converse Cons Skate Pro and Emerica The G6.
If you're a beginner to intermediate skater, we suggest a cupsole, as it will last longer and provide better protection while learning. Once you're improving, try on some vulcs and see if you like how they feel.
Upper: Suede/Leather or Canvas? The next aspect to consider when choosing your skate shoes are the material of the upper, which is the part of the shoe that holds your foot to the sole. A lot of this is down to personal preference but the key elements are that canvas is lighter and more flexible whereas suede or leather are more durable and grippier on the board. With all the dragging of your feet on the griptape, the upper will be one of the first parts of your shoes to wear out. Suede tends to wear out in layers whereas canvas will tend to rip from heavy use.
Cushioning & Technology: Many skate shoes are now taking technology from athletics and basketball footwear and adapting it to suit the needs of skateboarders. Extra cushioning and hidden padding are designed to ease common skaters' problems such as heel bruising and ankle pressure.
Skate shoes are usually the most important, and considered soft goods purchase for most skateboarders, so try out a few styles and you'll soon find your feet!
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Home Remodeling is Surging as Property Values Rise
Confidence Rises, Remodeling Surges
Not that this information should come as any surprise, but investors, flippers and homeowners alike are coming back in full force, as shown by the numbers in remodeling costs.
The National Associate of Home Builders has reported a major jump in their Remodeling Market Index. The index, which measures the amount of the remodeling activity that is taking place in properties across the country, rose 5 points in the last quarter to a score of 50 – the highest it has been since 2005.
The higher level of remodeling activity has been reported most in homes occupied by an owner, proving that more homeowners are responding positively to increased property values and a healthier housing market.
The remodeler's chairman of NHAB, George Moore Jr., said the strength of the housing market and stability or property values has led homeowners to invest in their houses once again. In the middle of the housing crisis, most homeowners were putting off large remodeling projects. Rock-bottom values and decreasing home prices meant that investments would not hold their value, according to Moore, leading to major losses for the homeowner and little to no change in the property's value.
So where is the most money being spent?
The index takes a look at three key remodeling categories. Surprisingly, the biggest jump from the previous quarter was in "major additions and alterations," increase seven points from 42 to 49. "Maintenance and repairs" continued to lead the pack, jumping six points from 50 to 56. "Minor additions and alterations" went up four points to 51.
Although major remodeling projects (those costing $25,000 or more) are still behind smaller projects the index, a jump of seven points in just three months shows the amount of confidence that homeowners now possess. That confidence is seemingly leading to larger investments into their homes, and a greater desire to increase their property value even more.
Kitchen and bathroom modeling are among the most common, with floors and countertops often being projects that need to be taken care of first. Cheaper materials and new ways to save on installation expenses are also beneficial.
Coming out of the housing crisis, property values have stabilized, but it's the investments of homeowners to improve their homes and lend a hand to increasing their property values that may prove to have the greatest effect on the housing market overall. As more homeowners gain back their confidence in a growing market, it will be interesting to see if this trend continues, which I think it will.
What do you think?
This content was posted by Tracy "Royce of Real Estate". You can read other articles on www.RoyceofRealEstate.com/blog or this blog on Bigger Pockets.
Tracy is an Arizona Short Sale Realtor, Investor, Rehabber and Foreclosure Expert. She is also an avid blogger, vlogger, and consultant on all things Arizona Foreclosures.


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Purrmann, Hans
|Johann Marsilius Purrmann
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|Speyer, Germany, 49n19, 8e26
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German artist.
He completed an apprenticeship as a scene painter and interior decorator, and subsequently studied in Karlsruhe and Munich before going to Paris in 1906. It was here he became a student and later a friend of Henri Matisse with whom he set up a painting school. After 1916 Purrmann lived in Berlin and Langenargen (Lake Constance), moving from there in 1935 to run the German art foundation at the Villa Romana in Florence. He lived there until 1943, then in Montagnola (Switzerland). He died in Basel on April 17, 1966. Typical of Purrmann's style are colourful, sensitively painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits. There are large collections of his works in Langenargen Museum and in the Purrmann House, Speyer.
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Sy Scholfield cites birth certificate quoted in "Leben und Meinungen des Malers Hans Purrmann: an Hand seiner Erzählungen, Schriften und Briefe zusammengestellt" by Hans Purrmann (Limes Verlag, 1961), p. 408:
"Vor dem unterzeichneten Standesbeamten erschien heute, der Persönlichkeit nach bekannt, Georg Heinrich Purrmann, Maler und Tüncher, wohnhaft zu Speyer, protestantischer Religion, und zeigte an, daß von der Elisabeth Schirmer, seiner Ehefrau, katholischer Religion, wohnhaft hei ihm, zu Speyer, am zehnten April des Jahres tausend acht hundert achtzig nachts um zwei Uhr ein Kind männlichen Geschlechts geboren worden sei, welches die Vornamen Johann Marsi- lius erhalten habe." [Abridged translation: Before the undersigned registrar appeared today, Georg Heinrich Purrmann, painter of the Protestant religion, who stated that Elisabeth Schirmer, his wife, residing with him at Speyer, on the tenth day of April of the year eighteen eighty, at two o'clock in the afternoon, gave birth to a male child, named Johann Marsilius"].
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Mason Lough, 11, of Wellington wows the crowd at the Zac Brown Concert in Wichita (updated)April 21, 2013 Cueball
by Tracy McCue, Sumner Newscow — Sometimes life has a way of superseding your expectations. So is the case of 11-year-old Mason Lough and his parents, Larance and Carrie Lough of Wellington.
Saturday night, the Zac Brown Band came to Wichita to perform in front of a near capacity crowd at Intrust Bank Stadium.
What the Loughs didn't expect was that Mason would perform his piano solo "Colder Weather" to the Zac Brown Band and its thousands of zealous number of fans in south-central Kansas (see video below).Â
"I don't know if he really knows what hit him," said his mother Carrie Sunday morning. "He's out this morning in the front yard playing basketball, like last night was just a normal evening for him."
Rest assured, it wasn't.
It's been an interesting ride for the Loughs, since placing a You Tube video a year ago where Mason, 10-years-old at the time, played a commanding rendition of "Colder Weather" on a grand piano with no sheet music (see other video below).
The thing about the Internet is you never know what could happen. But the video was picked up by "The Wolf" 100.5 — a local radio station in Wichita, who was sponsoring the concert held Saturday. And members of the band saw the video.
As a result, the Kennedy Elementary fifth grade student and his mother were invited to eat at a VIP pre-concert dinner for 150 of Zac Brown Band's most ardent fan club fans in the Wichita area. It was a dinner of down-home cooking that was actually prepared for the band or at least its entourage.
"That in itself was an incredible experience," Carrie said "We got to meet all the band members and have a great conversation with them."
But then the evening turned into something so much more. Clay Cook, the keyboardist for the band, introduced himself to Mason and said.
"Look here, you are the kid who can play 'Colder Weather' better than I can."
He then looked Mason into his eyes and asked him if he would like to perform the song during the concert.
"Mason's eyes got real big and said, 'sure,'" Carrie said. "I don't think he was ever nervous about playing. He was so excited… Me, on the other hand, was petrified. I couldn't calm my nerves."
Well, as you can tell on the video, Mason performed like a seasoned veteran. People in the crowd, except for a few sliver of Wellington fans scattered throughout, had no idea where this little man came from. But some were said to be moved to tears before Mason was done performing. At the end, Clay Cook lifted Mason in his arms and held him high. Mason threw his hands in his air making the touchdown sign.
This most certainly wasn't planned.
Mason started playing way back when he was 3 playing on a cheap keyboard. By the time he was 5 he was taking piano lessons.
After the family moved away from Wellington, they eventually moved back and eventually got in contact with Scott Williams in Winfield, who has been teaching Mason how to perform using both sheet music and playing the songs by ear.
"It is quite an acquired art," Carrie said about listening to music by ear. "It is something Mason is still learning."
Mason wanted to play songs he heard on the radio and "Colder Weather" was one of his favorites – a country song Zac Brown Band took to the top of the charts in 2010.
And what was the reason for the original You Tube video? The Mason family simply made it so friends and relatives in the Kansas City area and elsewhere could see him play.
How that piece of video led to Mason Lough on stage with the Zac Brown Band Saturday night at Intrust is one of those stories where truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
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In a major update, the Now iPhone app turns live public photo streams into a travel discovery tool
Now is an iPhone app that takes advantage of live public photo streams—such as from Instagram—and helps users find the most exciting parties, concerts, restaurants, and other events at a destination in real-time.
The live city guide launched on May 17, 2012, detecting trending events in a few major cities. It analyzes feeds of photos made public by users of sharing services like Instagram, looking for clusters of photos taken at the same place at the same time.
Last November, the app expanded to cover more than 50 destinations in the US and another 50 worldwide. It also began letting users create their own events happening near them, and letting users explore other destinations outside of their hometown or current location.
At the start of February, the app was featured in the iTunes App Store, which drove many downloads. As of today, it's been downloaded 50,000 times by users in more than 30 countries, according to the company.
Major update
This week, Now received a major update.
Friends notifications is one new feature, showing you if you know people at the events of the app.
A user who connects their Instagram account to their Now feed can discover out if their friends are at cool Now events, kind of like how Foursquare tells you where your friends are but only with Instagram visual data plus Now's filter on cool trending locations. Receiving notifications about your friends' activities is optional.
One other new feature is "Social Activity Search." Users can now also scan for up-to-the-moment social activity at their favorite places, searching by name to see if anything is happening. The app also suggests popular venues at a particular time.
It's as close to real time as possible with APIs. The app find top events happening nearby now. If your Instagram friend snaps a photo at a popular event Now is covering, the app will silently notify you with push notifications — in an optional feature.
Similarly, if another Now user uploads a photo via Now itself to share that they're at an event, that news will also be covered. Once an "event" like that is created by a user, Now will pull crowdsourced photos from other social networks like Instagram and add them to your post.
Plus, if anyone else creates the same event or replies to your event with photos, they will all be added to the same photo album.
The company is currently made up of three people working full time on the product. Ben Broca, CEO and founder, is responsible for the front-end iPhone development. Conall O'Callaghan is CTO and handles all the backend. They recently hired a community manager, Chris Pulliam.
Q&A with CEO Ben Cera:
Describe what your start-up does, what problem it solves and for whom?
Now is an app that let's you see what is happening now based on public photos taken by others around you.
A lot of information is available over the internet on what is happening and a lot of public photos are available but we compile everything in an easy to use app to let you know what is happening now.
We really see Now as a live city guide. Not by recommending places that might be cool, like Foursquare or Yelp would do, but by knowing what's actually happening in thoses places right now, and being able to show you exactly what's happening through the photos taken there and a social activity layer (friend notifications).
Competition includes Foursquare, TimeOut, Thrillist. But they don't operate in the last-minute space. Unlike those tools, Now doesn't recommend places, but instead simply lets users know what's happening through a mix of photos and maps.
Around 50% of users in major cities check the app at least once a week, with a peak of 60% of users in New York City. We are worldwide, but the algorithms currently do the best job of covering 40 US cities and 25 international cities, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Bangkok and São Paulo.
The app creates 1,000 events a day, a big jump from 250 a day six weeks ago. Our top markets are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris and Bangkok.
Are you making money? How are you going to make money?
The site says it doesn't make profits yet but it is talking to big venues in New York City about how we might help them bring more customers through their doors.
Venues are particularly interested in the last minute sales and mobile sales, which are a growing trend that they don't have the technological expertise to tap into (see the success of HotelTonight and other last minute hotels apps).
Also, we want to provide venues with solutions to cover their social media exposure in the photo world. Thanks to our new update, if users click on a venue they haven't heard of before, such as Terminal 5 in Manhattan, they'll see what experiences and events have happened their in the past.
This will accrete automatically, without the venue manager having to supply content to us or Now having to author descriptions or other structured content.
Our mission for the customer is to "find fun nearby." We are getting our customers accustomed to receiving updates about what events are happening in venues in their city. It will be a natural progression to go from what is happening now in their vicinity to actually make that action actionable into a purchase without hurting the user experience.
We have also created a very tight relation between events at venues and customers with Now, at least in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Globally, the market size for local business advertisement is estimated at billions a year. The share taken to digital and mobile advertisement is growing each year, too.
Tell us how you founded the company, why and what made you decide to jump in and create the business.
Now started up as a side project. I'm from Paris but studied engineering at Columbia University in New York. After school, I worked in banking for a few years but got tired of it, so started hacking on nights and weekends.
I launched Now while still working on Wall Street. Given its early success (it was featured on Apple AppStore, received great feedback), I decided to quit and work on it full-time.
It was an easy decision to work full time on the project. Photo sharing was and is on a upward trend and the service is more and more powerful as time goes by.
I raised a little south of $100k short after that from friends and family as seed. We are now building the app with Conall (backend guru) and Chris (growth hacker) out of our Lower East Side office in New York.
Other than going viral and receiving mountains of positive PR, what is the strategy for raising awareness and getting customers/users?
We have a good usage base already, and we hope there's a word-of-mouth effect.
We are working on making the app more viral by giving a social context to where you want to go out. Eventually you go to events with friends, so this makes sense.
Also, we're working with venues to make their social media job easier. We hope to reach out to a wider audience by communicating to their customers.
The site does not have an Android version, and something that it isn't a priority. But that could expand the user base.
How did your initial idea evolve? Were there changes/any pivots along the way? What other options have you considered for the business if the original vision fails?
The initial idea was that the public photos being snapped every second can give you a lot of information on what is happening around you.
We haven't pivoted yet from our initial idea but we're definitely trying to make the app better and more personal by bringing a social layer to it.
Where do you see yourselves in 3 years' time, what specific challenges do you hope to have overcome?
In 3 years, I see Now as a tool to know about any place before going. Literal ubiquity.
People share more and more photos online of where they are, and by connecting these photos together you can know what is happening everywhere.
I forecast it will feel natural to people to have this information before going to a place in the future, whereas it sounds very futuristic right now.
What is wrong with the travel, tourism and hospitality industry that requires another startup to help it out?
The issue with travel guides is that the information is never up to date by definition, since it has been written by someone in the past.
What we do is gathering local information happening right now to tell you about places, so you'll always have very current information on where are the places to be in a city you don't know.
Tnooz view:
First off, what a great example of "the lean start-up building up slowly until one becomes "Ramen profitable."
Second: What an app name to communicate what the product does in a way users can grasp right away.
Now is also a good example of startup founders avoiding premature scaling, which studies and anecdotal evidence suggest is a leading cause of startup failure.
Given that a user of Now is trying to find the latest hot event, a key metric of success will be how well the it helps the user get this job done. Tracking how many people are actually using the product, and keeping that number growing from month to month is another key metric.
A worrisome point is the scalability of the business side. If it turns out that venue relationships are going to be a key to monetization, will Now be able to scale up its business development team without proportionally increasing its cost base?
So far, that's unclear. Dealing with individual businesses, such as, say, a Lower East Side concert venue, that is not familiar with mobile ad sales, could require high-touch salesmanship. Will the contracts produce reliable, recurring revenues?
And if some celebrity starts using Now, will its systems be ready to handle the crush of adoption from viral network effects?
All in all, still early days. But another impressive example that many people would be better off skipping their MBA and starting a Web-based business instead.
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GULFPORT — The city is getting a full-time attorney.
The City Council voted 3-2 to replace the city's part-time attorney, Timothy Driscoll, with a full-time attorney.
The decision to eliminate Driscoll's position, voted on at a special meeting last week, came after years of discussion by the council, which never could muster a majority to make the change.
"I am the one who proposed that we look at a full-time attorney three years ago," said Mayor Michael Yakes, who voted in favor the move.
"The Florida League of Cities said small communities usually don't have a full-time attorney, but we are a full-service water community," Yakes said.
Council members Sam Henderson and Michele King also voted in favor of changing the attorney's status.
Council members Bob Worthington and Judy Ryerson cast the dissenting votes.
"There's not enough work for a full-time attorney," Ryerson said.
Many saw the vote as a move to get rid of Driscoll, who has come under fire for using too much of the city's money on legal fees — most recently in the ongoing Pasadena Properties lawsuit.
"This is about Tim's performance. Nobody wants to say it, but that's what it is," King said during discussion before the vote.
"If any other employee was that cavalier with the city's money, he or she would be fired," King said.
A memorandum from Interim City Manager Jim O'Reilly to the mayor and City Council, dated June 23, said the city has spent $301,483.64 fighting the lawsuit since 2005.
However, Driscoll, reached for comment after the meeting, said he withdrew from that case in 2005 after being accused by residents of not filing proper documents.
He said the bulk of the lawsuit's expenses has been paid to attorneys the city hired to replace him, and he is just the scapegoat as the council looks for someone to blame.
"No question if I had stayed on the case, it would have cost the city way less than one-third of what they have spent," Driscoll said.
Henderson voted to make the change but denied it was because of Driscoll's work.
"This is not about Tim. This is about the economic benefit to the city.
"A full-time attorney does not have incentive to litigate and won't take on work for profit," Henderson said.
Driscoll was paid an annual retainer of $54,000 for nonlitigation work. For litigation work, he charged the city $125 an hour.
Driscoll said the retainer bought the city access to him whenever he was needed. He said he attended City Council meetings and any other board meetings he was asked to attend.
Driscoll, reached days after the meeting, said he does not think the council was trying to get rid of him.
"They are looking at the position. It's not about me," he said.
"The notion that I — or any attorney — would sue anyone because they are being paid by the hour is hogwash.
"It's an indictment of the entire legal system," Driscoll said.
But don't count Driscoll out of the mix just yet.
The city changed the attorney's status, but that doesn't prohibit Driscoll from applying for the new job.
"I haven't decided whether I'm going to yet.
"I have a great affinity for Gulfport. If I didn't, I wouldn't have been here for 20 years," Driscoll said.


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I am 32 years old. I have been taking birth control pills for nearly 16 years. I have only been off the pill twice during this time to have my children. I recently did not get my pills refilled because I frankly did not have the money to do so. During that time, I felt SO MUCH BETTER. It is very hard to explain, but I just felt better. I didn't feel bloated, my mood was great, just overall better. I eventually got them refilled and started taking them again. Once again, I feel cranky and irritable. Is there a connection between the pill and my mood?
– Rhonda, North Carolina
There may be. The birth control pill can affect some women's moods, both for better and for worse. Many women will experience some mood elevation and mood stability from the pill because it basically suppresses ovulation, thereby stabilizing hormone levels from one cycle to the next, and eliminating the normal variability that occurs in your cycle. For women who are very sensitive to these hormonal changes, the stability provided by the pill is helpful. But it sounds like you are not tolerating some component of the pill that you are on.
Ask your doctor to consider changing the pill formulation that you take — some have different forms of estrogen, (the main hormone), and progesterone. Other types of pills are derived from plant-based sources that you may tolerate better, and some pills even contain a low dose diuretic (water pill) to prevent bloating. It seems that your symptoms are related to your pill, but you may not have to give up the birth control pill altogether because of them. Work with your doctor to find the type that works with you. Or, consider using a different form of birth control, such as the diaphragm. My advice: Discuss the options with your doctor sooner rather than later.


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IT'S time for small people to stand up and look the world directly in the knee.
The latest insults, from the lofty heights of academe, belittle our compact and bijou brethren, casting aspersions on their competence, likeability and even their psychological state.
I speak as someone of average height — just over 5ft 9, inching towards 5ft 10, depending on the size of my trainers. But, increasingly, I feel small. I was never, until recently, even aware of my height or lack thereof. However, as young persons continue to shoot for the Moon, I feel, you know, insufficient.
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Suffice to say, I've done the academics a disfavour as, like journalists of old, they're only reporting what they found, not what they believe. The boffins under advisement — Professor Daniel Freeman, of yonder Oxford University, and Jason Freeman, a psychology writer — deployed "immersive virtual reality" to reduce subjects' heights by 25cm (10 inches in old money).
Using simulated tube train journeys at both normal and abbreviated height, they monitored how the virtually foreshortened changed how they viewed other people's intentions towards them. The result? Increased feelings of inferiority, weakness, incompetence and paranoia.
Whoa! Translate these four words into Latin and you have the motto on my family crest. For, if the news is disturbing for our wee comrades, there's naught for the comfort either of we who aspire to be average.
Example: the first thing the authors note is that most men exaggerate their height. Correct. I am exactly 5ft 9in, regardless of wind direction. They also note previous scientific-style findings that tall people are more likely to go on to higher (even the name is biased) education, get bigger salaries and find more sexual partners.
The high and mighty enjoy greater happiness and self-esteem. Basically, they've got the world on a stick. The only good news is that they're more likely to be bitten by midges.
Now, although I believe science has a small place in establishing truth, I've always placed greater store on anecdote and on reality as I find it in my actual life, ken?
Here, therefore, are my findings, shortly to be published in the Journal of Applied Supposition (available in some good supermarkets). Firstly, it's undoubtedly true that women value height in men. If you offered a woman a small man with a lovely personality and a tall man with no personality, not only would they plump unhesitatingly for the latter, but they'd lie about the reason for their choice.
Every choice a woman makes is based on survival of the species. That's an anecdotal fact. You can't argue with it. Secondly, smallness is a cause for insult: "Ya wee so-and-so!" You hear it at the football all the time, only the expressions deployed are less mellifluous than so-and-so.
Mind you, at the football, anyone even slightly stocky is a sumo wrestler and, if there's nothing obvious with which to insult a player, they'll pick some infinitesimal characteristic: "Haw, you with the slightly misaligned eyebrows, ye're mingin'!" But enough of Sir Alex Ferguson's team-talks.
Thirdly, the world is getting taller. Or so it seems. I used to be able to hold my head high, to look out over a sea of similarly sized men, lo, even unto the far horizon. However, last time I stood in a crowded pub, I was at shoulder height to everybody else. I'd become small. It's the tragedy of ageing, and I wish the authorities had warned us about it. Even if you don't get smaller, the emerging young get taller.
But it can't be universal. Sure, the Dutch are tall, as a result of being force-fed calcium-rich cheese when they were weans. But, at the massive university science campus near Wit's End — ma hoose — I marvel at the smallness of the mostly international students.
All sorts of hobbits, dwarves and goblins hirple aboot the place. Science, perhaps, has stunted them. In that sense, competitively speaking, it has done those of us of average height a favour. But its latest findings are of little comfort to the diminutive.
It is my earnest hope that, one day, they will get up on their high horse and fight back.


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UTICA, NY--(Marketwire - March 08, 2013) - CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD) announced today that its Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Company's corporate offices, 525 French Road, Utica, NY 13502 on Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 3:30 P.M. Eastern Time. Shareholders of record at the close of business on April 3, 2013 shall be entitled to vote at the 2013 Annual Meeting.
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Clinton Horton is a Elvis Presley tribute artist from Newport and is the father of Kara-Jay Horton who suffers from a rare condition called Turner Syndrome causing her problems with growth. The family are fundraising for their daughter with a family fun day on June 21 from 12pm to 4pm at the St Patrick Social Club.
If you had to be stuck in a lift with someone, who would it be and why?
My wife because she's good at calming me down
What is your biggest fear?
Going on an aeroplane and flying.
Do you have any superstitions?
Yes I always salute magpies.
If you could have one song on your iPod, what would it be and why?
Elvis Presley's My Way because it's a personal song to my life.
What's the most expensive thing you've bought not including your property?
Replica of Elvis Presley J200 Guitar.
What is the best piece of advice you've been given?
Always be yourself and help others.
What's your indulgence?
Ice Cream.
What item could you not live without?
My PC.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be and why?
My shyness because I would like to be more outgoing.
Where are you next going on holiday?
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As it was in the '90s, the beginning of the new century has seen the United Kingdom harvesting a bounty of promising yet largely generic-sounding guitar bands. These bands are frustrating in that they all have vaguely interchangeable names and images, and would thus remain interchangeable and irrelevant had they not a gimmick or secret weapon. Think the Cribs snagging Johnny Marr, the Wombats sharing their name with a particularly cute mammal and churning out a pretty great cover of Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," and the Kaiser Chiefs being blessed with the fact that a lot of people really like mediocrity.
Delays may possess the purest, and in turn most frustrating, gimmick of all. Lead singer Greg Gilbert has the most stupefying voice of the scene, and on the band's fourth release, Star Tiger, Star Ariel, it's more stunning than ever. This is particularly evident on opener "Find a Home (New Forest Shaker)", in which Gilbert unleashes a falsetto that skims the same heights as Sparks' helium behemoth, Russell Mael. Paired with the song's twinkling and slightly Eastern-sounding backdrop, the result is somewhat dizzying and wholly bewitching.
The remainder of Star Tiger, Star Ariel never quite tops those opening promises, but it does bristle with harmonic Brit-rock decadence throughout. It is sometimes futile to resist a big, stomping chorus, generic or not. Delays have lent their dedicated ears to Manic Street Preachers' post-Holy Bible discography and learned well in the process. "Rhapsody", "Hold Fire", and first single "Unsung" are delivered from lyrical schmaltziness by sturdy hooks and Gilbert's endearingly ridiculous falsetto. Other times, not even a triumphant chorus can temper the heavy, in-concentrate syrupy-ness of Star Tiger's lyrics. Manic Street Preachers, who Delays have cited directly as an influence, at least have the lyrical heft and maturity to counterbalance their more indulgent forays into the anthem. Delays, with such lines as, "We're like soldiers in disguise / we'll run a mission for your smile," rarely go beyond knight-in-shining-armor ruminations.
When not tugging the heart-strings at an attic-high pitch, Star Tiger, Star Ariel stumbles with speedier yet far less memorable rockers such as "May 45" and "Shanghaied". Aaron Gilbert, brother of Greg, takes over eight tracks in, with the altogether different "In Brilliant Sunshine". Although possessing a far more conventional set of vocal chords, his soft, unremarkable voice manages to be the perfect accompaniment for the song, which careens from slow mainstream rock into a subtle rave-out chorus. It is an exhilarating moment and a more worthy closer than the album's ho-hum title track, which follows four tracks later.
Delays are clearly not without talent, and, four albums in, are showing signs of definite progression from their lovely if innocuous debut, Faded Seaside Glamour. If the Gilberts and company can marry a more intriguing lyrical vision to stronger hooks, then they may have something worth swooning over. If that doesn't work, there is always the odd pop cover to fall back on.
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Rescue harnesses potentially saved the lives of two window washers in Northwest D.C. on Saturday after their platform collapsed, officials say.
Fire authorities say that the platform collapse occurred at about 11 a.m. outside the 4th floor of an 11-story building at the IMF building at 1924 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
A D.C. Fire spokesperson says that the workers fell but were saved by their harnesses. An EMS technical rescue team brought them to safety and they were taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.


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This year's symposium is titled "Rising to the Challenge" and is aimed at helping dairy producers excel in today's business climate.
Sessions will focus on topics like the current agricultural credit conditions, industry expansion trends, federal cap-and-trade policies and animal rights issues and legislation. Attendees will also hear about the National Milk Producer's Dairy Income Program, dealing with farm regulations and learn about public relations.
The cost to attend is $175 for DBA Corporate members and $200 for non-members. The special producer rate is $99 per person.
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