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|2008-11-15, 13:16
|Link #61
Butler mitai~
finally able to create my character, although i'm having some problems running here and there until i ran out of time
anyway, for those who have joined already and want to widen their connections toss me in, 雪丸.
\(^__^)/ ~るぅウ
i'm actually having second thoughts where to live, either Clannad or Shuffle! territory.. Primula&Kaede or Tomoyo D:
|2008-11-15, 14:38
|Link #62
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Also you can go to any of the Island, the only restriction is that you can't take your Charadoll to the other two other Islands that are not your home.
|2008-11-15, 15:01
|Link #63
Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 32
There seems to be a whole bunch of items that are totally unaccessible. I'm quite sure I've finished all the quests and explored all 4 islands in my 5 hours of non stop play. I made 26100 from quests, 1000 from daily D npc and 1.5k from Rin in Jyanken.
I dressed up my Clannad default charadoll, the one with short dark blue hair, yellow hairband and purple eyes look. I'm quite determined to let her stay like this lol, she somehow fits my favourite look almost perfectly. I love short hair girls, purple dere eyes and her yellow hairband represents Haruhism lol
Are there places and shops to unlock? Because even if I can't use nico points, I'm quite sure I haven't seen the shops selling what those people are wearing. E.g. Meido dress, black angel wings, lolita skirt, bunny ears etc.
|2008-11-15, 15:11
|Link #64
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
|2008-11-15, 15:14
|Link #65
Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 32
Throwing 2k Ds into the machines got me some really nice stuff, but I think its still sold in the shops. Maybe I should just spend all my remaining Ds in the gashapon machines lol
|2008-11-15, 15:22
|Link #66
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
|2008-11-15, 15:30
|Link #67
Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 32
Shii Ee(C.A. lol) and Caring, always used this name for female characters because its the best sounding word with 'C' and 'A' infront.
While I know Japanese, I can't type, my name was copy/pasted there.
|2008-11-15, 15:36
|Link #68
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Edited: Nevermind, I'm off to bed. We can try meet up another time.
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|2008-11-15, 16:28
|Link #69
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!, I mean, Puerto Rico (sigh, no kyoto yet...)
Ok, now that I bypassed that, I started the client; right now I have the same problem Mister Bushido pointed about the game freezing at the log in and getting the C++ runtime error message.
EDIT: problem solved, now, when my char opens the brochure in the train I have three options
what are those options?
Last edited by Mugen-Hut; 2008-11-16 at 14:43. Reason: adding another issue
|2008-11-16, 01:26
|Link #70
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
I have started doing the quests again on a different account. Just finished all the quests on the Shuffle Island and got 10,000D in total. I realized that I have missed some quests the first time, as some quests only pop up after some other quests has been completed. Gonna do Clannad and DC next, then after that I'd probably pop back on my main account to do the quests that I missed.
Update: Just finished the quests on Clannad Island as well, got another 10,000D. I'm guess if not missing any quest, should get 10,000D from each of the Islands. I'll confirm this when I finished the quests on Da Capo Island too.
Update: Just as suspected, Da Capo Island also give a total of 10,000D.
I already blow all 30,000D on the D Ai PON machine that cost 2,000D each play (15 times), but gotten tones of nice stuffs:
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|2008-11-16, 11:17
|Link #71
Butler mitai~
wow.. you guys have done a lot already, this is my first time to play through the game since i created my chara and got my charadoll which is just yesterday
i'm about to accept some quests and see if i get some nice stuffs on ai pon.
off to play now
btw, i end up in Shuffle! in the end even though i like Clannad's uniform more >__>
|2008-11-17, 12:54
|Link #74
Butler mitai~
me and my charadoll:
- honestly, i'm surprised to get a Nerine. I wasn't really fond of her but somehow i find her all cute all of a sudden
- darn cheap rental shops! they only allow up to 3 minutes of rental and they goes poof!
- watching Shuffle! game opening. We were actually playing gachapon when the movie aired so i had to hurry up and ran up the place, coincidentally i took a picture of Rin-chan
- gachapon hates me..
btw, anyone experiencing a glitch at the "upload" npc? her window won't exit even after i clicked exit multiple times. weird thing is the NPC says "Thank You" and closes but the previous window stays. I have to restart my PC after that since the graphics will be all-mumbo jumbo if i just exit and re-log in. It's a pain because i can't restart my pc due to some important work i am doing at the moment. That's the 2nd time that happened to me today ;_;
|2008-11-17, 13:06
|Link #75
Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 32
I programmed Caring to do say キラッ☆ (Kira ☆) and do they peace emotion when anyone talks to her. Currently she only knows how to do that under my program lol
Edit: Oh I'm behind her wearing standard Otaku lol
|2008-11-17, 14:01
|Link #76
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
As for the problem you were having, I think it's not the problem with the game, but with the graphic card. I had similar problem 1 or 2 times in the pass when I was playing another game, and yet the problem won't go away just by restarting the game...had to restart the PC.
I wish I know how to create and upload the drama to make some D...
By the way, anyone know what decide the appearance and type for the charadoll? Also, from the screenshots you guys taken, the 3D graphic seem kind of rough...have you increased the graphic quality in the option yet?
Last edited by Marine-RX179; 2008-11-17 at 14:15.
|2008-11-18, 05:57
|Link #78
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
The 3 buttons at the top middle: Highest, Medium, Low
Also the 5 option below, the top left one is to select the screen display between Window mode or full screen mode (but note that the game only got resolution of 1024x768, so in full screen mode the quality will slightly decrease as it stretched the 1024x768 to full screen on whatever your monitor size is, but the good thing is it won't look weird even if your screen was widescreen.)
|2008-11-18, 10:46
|Link #79
The Shadow of Twilight
Graphic Designer
anyone please help me, i got stuck by an error (dunno what it's) right after installing the game. The game doesn't launch or update anything
Spoiler for :
Does anyone know what the error means and the way to fix this?
|2008-11-18, 10:50
|Link #80
Absolute Haruhist!
Join Date: Mar 2006
Age: 32
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How can we best set our children up for success and provide them the best learning environment? That answer always will be "consistency." Children thrive on consistency and predictability. They learn what to expect, and what is expected of them.
Children need lots of practice to independently incorporate and actually learn a new skill. It can take a child between 30 to 200 attempted trials before mastering a skill, depending on the difficulty of task and the environment.
How can we best set our children up for success and provide them the best learning environment? That answer always will be "consistency."
Children thrive on consistency and predictability. They learn what to expect, and what is expected of them. They find comfort in sameness. They request the same story, over and over, learning the characters, the story line, the visual clues, until they know it well enough to move on to their next favorite book. They request the same food day after day, because there is great comfort in knowing the taste and texture. After months of only eating mac and cheese, we might buy a few cases, (or consider investing in stock) and then they are ready to move on to the next taste test sensation.
Inconsistency brings confusion, anxiety, chaos and an open door for limit testing. It's the limit testing that wears us down, but that is how a child learns. They ask, we answer. They do, we respond. It is our consistent answer or response that teaches them to understand how things work, so they accept, incorporate, internalize and move on.
When we are inconsistent, they try to figure it out through multiple attempts to see if they will get the same answer. They need to test the boundaries to learn the rules. They cry or tantrum out of confusion.
Setting limits and being consistent is a positive way to parent. Although sometimes difficult, it is a true gift when we say what we mean, mean what we say, but don't say it mean.
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You can minimize resistance and tantrums, and also increase the frequency of desired behaviors, by using The Three Ps.
- Present the information: The information is the new skill. Whether it is an abstract or a concrete skill, teach it over and over with patience. Present the information with consistency and predictability, step by step. Be sure your expectations are realistic and age-appropriate.
- Provide the opportunity: Provide continuous opportunity, perhaps in different environments, at different times of the day, even with different people teaching the skill. Approach it as if you are a teacher, which you are. The more opportunity a child has, the faster he will learn.
- Praise the behavior: All efforts should be verbally and physically recognized, with a gentle, connective touch. If you think of how we might train a puppy to learn to sit, it may be easier to understand how children learn. First, we give the puppy a verbal command, such as "sit." At the same time, we teach what sit means by gently pushing the puppy's behind down. Next, we say "good dog for sitting," pat the dog on the head and give the dog a bone.
Presenting the same information while providing multiple opportunities — with praise for good results — will result in the puppy learning to sit. Why then do we forget to praise our children after they have mastered a skill?
Quick tips
- Don't change the rules, expecting something one day, and allowing the opposite the next day.
- Don't reward bad behavior by giving in to a tantrum. Stay cool and teach the lesson.
- You are your child's most powerful teacher.
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One year after New York made same-sex marriage legal in the state, a report backed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg found that the Marriage Equality Act boosted the economy by $259 million in NYC alone.
At least 8,200 same-sex marriage licenses were issued in New York City in the last year, according to a statement from the mayor. That's more than 10% of the 75,000 total licenses issued by the city since July 24, 2011.
The weddings helped bring the city $16 million in direct revenue, according to a report conducted by the City Clerk's Office and NYC & Co., the official marketing and tourism agency.
"Marriage equality has made our City more open, inclusive and free – and it has also helped to create jobs and support our economy," said Bloomberg in his statement.
Other highlights of the report:
- Same-sex marriage events drew 296,000 guests – 201,600 of them coming from outside the five boroughs
- Guests booked more than 235,000 nights in hotel rooms at a daily rate of $275 per room.
- Only half of same-sex couples had a budget in mind while planning their weddings, which averaged $9,039 each.
- More than two-thirds of same-sex couples held their receptions at restaurants, homes, hotels or catering halls in the five boroughs.
- More than 40,000 wedding announcements were printed and more than 47,000 wedding favors were purchased.
- Of the 7,184 married couples who identified themselves as gay, 3,898 were male unions, 3,286 were female.
The economic overtones of the gay marriage debate have been especially pronounced recently. Kraft's Facebook photo of a rainbow-colored Oreo cookie generated both disgust and praise from customers.
The uproar over Chick-fil-A's stance on the issue has caused the fast-food chain to lose a business partner while also inspiring boycotts from diners as well as extra traffic from supporters. Hundreds have signed up on Facebook to protest outside Chick-fil-A restaurants Wednesday night with same-sex embraces.
Chick-fil-A steps out of public debate on gay marriage
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It was IBM that tried to pay GlobalFoundries for chip business
GlobalFoundries asked for $2B to take over plants
IBM is so desperate to unload its computer-chip manufacturing unit that the company was offering GlobalFoundries $1 billion to take it off its hands, according to a report by Bloomberg News.
That narrative runs counter to previous reports that IBM had put the unit up for sale and that GlobalFoundries was negotiating to buy the division, which like other hardware business units has faced the chopping block, in an attempt by IBM to boost the company's earnings.
The Times Union and other news outlets reported last month that the deal between IBM and GlobalFoundries had collapsed, apparently over price. Many thought that GlobalFoundries wouldn't offer IBM its asking price of $2 billion.
However, according to Bloomberg, it was IBM that rejected demands by GlobalFoundries that it be paid $2 billion to pick up the IBM manufacturing unit.
While the idea of paying someone for a once-lucrative manufacturing business may seem counter-intuitive, it makes sense if IBM and GlobalFoundries were considering structuring the deal as a joint venture where GlobalFoundries would make chips for IBM, while IBM would retain some or all of the patents and intellectual property.
Computer chip making is so expensive that chip companies will shut down a factory the day it starts losing money. Just a second of downtime at a chip factory, from an electrical outage for example, can cost a company millions of dollars.
When at full capacity, operating a chip factory is like printing money. But once margins slide and production dips, owners lose money rapidly, which is why the facilities run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Neither IBM nor GlobalFoundries responded immediately to a request for comment, although neither side has publicly acknowledged talks even existed.
Now that the deal is dead, the real question is what will happen to IBM's chip factories in East Fishkill in Dutchess County, Burlington, Vt., and outside Montreal. The Vermont factory is decades-old and also has an outdated manufacturing process that uses 8-inch silicon wafers instead of today's standard of 12-inch wafers. The East Fishkill fab is only about 12 years old, but by semiconductor industry standards, that also is outdated.
The Montreal facility, however, could potentially be extremely valuable to GlobalFoundries since it specializes in chip "packaging," where many of today's advancements are occurring with 3-D chip stacking.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty had been hoping to get rid of the chip manufacturing business to help her achieve IBM's goal of reaching profits of $20 per share by 2015, Bloomberg wrote.
"With the talks breaking down, the chip-manufacturing business will continue to weigh on IBM's profit," Bloomberg reporters Alex Barinka and Ian King wrote Aug. 5. "The unit loses as much as $1.5 billion a year, a person familiar with the matter said."
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The Henderson County Board of Commissioners passed a series of code changes Monday designed to ease regulatory burdens on businesses and avoid repercussions like those that followed the financial collapse of the Seven Falls subdivision in Etowah.
By a 5-0 vote, commissioners approved several code changes suggested by a Regulation Review Advisory Committee the board created in March 2013 to look for county rules that unduly burden local businesses.
One approved change exempts agricultural workforce housing that is regulated by federal law, or seasonal workforce housing that is not occupied year-round, from the county's minimum housing code. The advisory committee found that code reduced options for local farmers who rely on seasonal workers.
Another change benefiting local farm businesses exempts all agricultural signs from code standards, allowing a maximum size of 32 square feet per face (each signs may have up to two faces, or sides.) Previously, only produce signs were exempt.
Based on the regulation advisory committee's findings, the board also reduced the required road setbacks for businesses in commercial zoning districts by 15 feet. At a March 17 public hearing, commissioners tabled a decision on the code changes after hearing concerns that those revised setbacks went too far.
Matt Matteson, a former county planning director and member of the advisory committee, told the board the existing setbacks save tax dollars by lowering right-of-way acquisitions for road projects, allow room for utilities, increase safety and protect property values.
Matteson also argued that lowering the setbacks would send the wrong signal to existing businesses that had sited their buildings in accordance with the rules. Commissioners seemed to buy some of those arguments, voicing concerns about road safety in particular.
But Senior Planner Autumn Radcliff explained Monday that the proposed setback changes would only apply to a limited number of commercial districts, not countywide. She also pointed out that setbacks are measured from the edge of the 30-foot public right-of-way, making the minimum setback in many places 40 feet wide.
"When this first came to our attention, I had some questions on setbacks," said Vice Chairman Tommy Thompson. "I was concerned about those. I have since met with staff about that and I'm quite pleased with what I've seen and what they're suggesting."
Commissioner Grady Hawkins said the county reviews its Land Development Code periodically and tweaks rules as needed, "which they did here. But in this review and during the planning board, we put special emphasis on a situation that we encountered at Seven Falls to try to preclude that from being a problem in the future."
After developer Keith Vinson defaulted on a 2010 contract that guaranteed Henderson County he would complete roads, water and sewer, the county had to sue in order to recover $6 million in bond monies. It is still working to complete the infrastructure Vinson promised lot buyers.
With Monday's changes, developers are now required to complete at least 25 percent of on-site improvements – including rough grading of roads – before they can get a subdivision improvement guarantee, which allows them to record and sell lots.
The revised guarantees are designed to encourage developers to break subdivisions into smaller phases, which are easier for county staff to monitor and more likely to be funded by local banks rather than out-of-state bond companies, as was the case with Seven Falls.
Project Lifesaver
During public comment, commissioners heard from local businesswoman Eva Ritchey and local mom Candice Matelski, who spoke in support of the county joining Project Lifesaver. The program allows county sheriffs to track autistic children or elderly dementia patients who are lost using a small radio transmitter.
Matelski's child, who was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at 18 months old, wandered away from his former school in West Virginia and "got away two blocks into a four-lane highway," she said. Such wandering is common among those with ASD and it can be "very dangerous," she said, since they often can't respond to calls from rescuers.
Both women urged Henderson County to invest in Project Lifesaver, which has start-up costs of $3,960. Matelski said sheriff's offices in Transylvania, Haywood, Macon and other counties have the technology to locate lost, wandering kids or adults, who are equipped with tracking devices voluntarily by their families.
"Government is about caring, whether you talk about security or you talk about finance or whatever," said Ritchey. "When you boil government down to its very lowest denominator, it's about caring. And I think this is a program... that we should have here because it's about caring; it's about safety."
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The Henderson County Board of Commissioners passed a series of code changes Monday designed to ease regulatory burdens on businesses and avoid repercussions like those that followed the financial collapse of the Seven Falls subdivision in Etowah.


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Increasing Contraception Utilization Among Women Prescribed Teratogenic Medications (TLC)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01624155
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified February 2013 by Christina Chambers, University of California, San Diego.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 20, 2012
Last Update Posted : February 22, 2013
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- How to Read a Study Record
Typically, the CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at the University of California educates pregnant women who call the Information Line after an exposure to a medication that might be harmful to the developing baby has already taken place, and therefore the opportunity for prevention of that exposure no longer exists. Frequently these pregnancies are unintended and occur due to the lack of effective contraceptive use. This study facilitates patient access at UCSD to specialized and individualized contraceptive counseling for women of reproductive age who are currently taking a medication that might be risky in a future pregnancy. This study also measures the impact of individualized contraceptive counseling in changing contraceptive behavior.
Primary Hypothesis: EPIC (EMR)/physician-facilitated referral of female patients of reproductive age to an existing specialized counseling service at UCSD will improve the utilization of more effective contraception among women of reproductive age who are prescribed medications that might be harmful to the developing fetus.
|Condition or disease
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This is a prospective cohort study to evaluate a) the effectiveness of the referral system from Family Medicine to the CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line, and b) the impact of specialized counseling on contraceptive behavior change among the subset of women who accept the counseling and enroll in the follow-up study.
If a woman of reproductive age is seen by a Family Medicine clinician and she is currently taking or is newly prescribed one of the target medications, an EMR electronic alert will be generated for the clinician. The alert will say "This patient may benefit from a referral to the CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line for counseling," click "Accept" or "Decline". If the Family Medicine clinician clicks "Decline" then a reason must be given for declining. If the clinician decides a referral is appropriate, he/she clicks "Accept" and informs the patient that she will be contacted by CTIS. The referral is also included in the patient instructions. Within one week, a CTIS counselor will receive the referral through EPIC/EMR, and contact the patient.
When the patient is contacted by the CTIS Pregnancy Health Information specialist, a brief patient interview will be conducted with a risk assessment and counseling regarding the medication and potential effects if the patient were to become pregnant, using the standard of care practices that are currently used for all callers to the CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line. The patient will also be given information about contraception, efficacy of rates of each contraceptive method and the safety of each method based on the USMEC guidance for the patient's medical condition. She will be instructed that she can return to her Family Medicine clinician for contraceptive service delivery. She will also be offered a referral to Reproductive Medicine at UCSD for further counseling if desired/necessary. The referring Family Medicine clinician will be informed of the outcome of the referral via an EMR report. This report will include the USMEC contraceptive guidance for the patient's medical condition.
After the counseling is completed, the patient will be asked if she is interested in participating in the research study. If the patient does not consent to participate in the study, she will still receive the counseling and an EMR report will still be sent to her referring provider but she will not be contacted at a later time regarding her contraceptive utilization.
If the woman decides that she is interested in participating in the research study, she will be orally consented by CTIS Pregnancy Health Information Line Research Assistant in the Department of Pediatrics at UCSD. If the patient consents to participation, she will be contacted one week, one month and three months after the initial telephone interaction and asked several questions regarding her current contraceptive utilization and any changes from the time of the last interview. Upon completion of the three-month follow-up, participants will also be asked to complete a satisfaction survey.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
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|Official Title:
|Utilizing the Electronic Medical Record to Collaborate With a Community- Based Organization to Increase More Effective Contraception Utilization Among Women Prescribed Teratogenic Medications
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|May 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|April 2013
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|April 2013
Experimental: Women taking teratogens
Women taking teratogens
Behavioral: Education
EMR referral to teratogen and contraception counseling
- Change in Contraception Utilization [ Time Frame: one week, one month, three months ]Does specialized counseling improve (change) the utilization of more effective contraception among women in this population. We will measure the change in contraception utilization via a survey that participant will complete at each time frame.
- Proportion of women identified through Electronic Medical Record who are able to be contacted of Electronic Medical Record Referral [ Time Frame: one week ]Can an electronic medical record referral to a Teratogen Information Line facilitate access to specialized counseling on the medication and effective contraception. We will measure the feasibility of the Electronic Medical Record Referral by assessing how many referrals are requested and how many referrals successfully result in teratogen/contraception counseling.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Age of participants: 18-45 years old
- Gender of participants: Female
- Ethnic Background: No limitation, will include minorities and Spanish speaking participants
- Health Status: no limitation
- Sexually active with men
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently Pregnant
- Not sexually active with men
- History of hysterectomy
- Removal of both ovaries
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01624155
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|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
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The Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism also joins this year, along with other European countries, the European Heritage Days 2013 designed in 1991 by the Council of Europe and the European Commission with the aim to enhance and promote dialogue and exchange in the field of cu lturale between European countries.
In Italy, the event will take place on Saturday, September 28, 2013 and will also include the opening night of 20 to 24 for those institutions participating in the project "Night at the Museum", which in exceptional cases will be open free of charge.
In order to promote knowledge of Italian cultural heritage will be organized numerous initiatives throughout the country and will be open to the public free of charge all the places of culture state. These will be joined by the places of art belonging to other reality (institutions, organizations) that want to join the event.


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Center for the Arts advances; tennis courts to close
Thursday, July 18, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Construction of Pittsburg State University's new Center for the Arts is on schedule and will soon enter a new phase.
"Most of the work that you see from the road has focused on the 1,100-seat auditorium," said Chris Kelly, associate vice president for university marketing and communication. "Crews are now beginning to move to other portions of the site including the 250-seat theater and practice areas. It's pretty exciting to see it moving forward."
As a result of the expanding work area, the university will follow through with plans to remove its tennis courts, which are currently located just north of the Center for the Arts. These tennis courts will be closed to the public on Thursday, Aug. 1. Expanded parking will be built to support the Center for the Arts, John Lance Arena and the future Indoor Event Center.
"The removal of the courts has always been part of the construction plan for the Center for the Arts," explained Kelly. "We know this will cause a temporary inconvenience for some students and community members, but we're working with the city and school district to support municipal tennis courts in Pittsburg."
The city of Pittsburg has been preparing for the closure of the university's tennis courts and has applied for a Pritchett Trust Grant to help it renovate six of its current tennis courts.
"We know our courts will see an increase in use following the closure of the university's tennis courts on August 1," said Kim Vogel, director of Pittsburg parks and recreation. "We think this is the perfect project for a Pritchett Trust grant because it will benefit our entire community."
Pittsburg State University is helping with the project by donating materials from its current tennis courts to the city.
"They're great partners," said Vogel. "We're still working through the details, but we believe we'll be able to reuse the nets, poles and lights at our facilities. It'll really help us out as we move forward."
In addition to community members and students, PSU's tennis courts were also used extensively by Pittsburg High School for its tennis competitions.
"The plan is to use the city's courts as we work through this year's tennis season," said Pittsburg Community Schools Superintendent Destry Brown. "We're currently looking at options for a more permanent home for our tennis teams, but it will take time to finalize any formal proposal."
Pittsburg State University is also planning for the future.
"Progress always involves change," said Kelly. "The key is how you plan for it. We have a great 10-year master facilities plan in place and we enjoy great partnerships with the city and school district. The future is bright at Pittsburg State University."


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Morning Five: 05.18.10 EditionPosted by rtmsf on May 17th, 2010
- From the this-cannot-possibly-be-a-good-idea department, Tennessee forward Emmanuel Negedu — you remember, the Vol who had a freakin' heart attack last fall during a workout — is transferring to New Mexico because the school will let him play basketball again. That option had been closed off to him by UT, so he was looking for another school willing to give him a chance. We certainly understand when Negedu says that not playing basketball made him feel "like he was dead," but he actually was dead for a little while last fall and we certainly hope that the New Mexico doctors who have cleared him earned their medical degrees away from the Caribbean islands. Sheesh. If the NCAA approves his medical waiver, he could play as soon as the 2010-11 season.
- This is going to be an ongoing theme all summer long, but the Big Ten is holding its annual meeting for coaches and administrators this week in Chicago and expansion is on everyone's mind even though it's not officially on the agenda.
- There are reports that everyone's favorite networker, World Wide Wes, has been quietly contacting NBA teams with coaching and salary cap space about the possibility of bringing John Calipari and LeBron James as a package deal next season. Our take on this is simple: if Calipari gets a realistic opportunity to coach the best player in the world during his prime the next five seasons, he's going to take it. The good news for UK fans is that there are many peripheral issues at play here, and the likelihood of such a package deal actually occurring is not all that high. Gregg Doyel, for what it's worth, doesn't believe the hype.
- In a lawsuit pitting former Oklahoma State assistant coach Jimmy Williams against current Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith over a hiring dispute, former OSU head man Eddie Sutton was called as a witness yesterday. Evidently the folksy coach got very angry under cross-examination when questioned about his time at Kentucky in the 1980s, going so far as to ask the judge whether he could ask the lawyer a question, and ultimately apologizing to the court for his behavior.
- Former president Bill Clinton gave the commencement address at WVU Sunday, and Da'Sean Butler was one graduate that impressed the former commander-in-chief, stating that he rooted for the Mountaineers in the Big East Tournament and the NCAA Tournament after Georgetown (his alma mater) was out. Butler tweeted out afterward: Met with the Real Pimp C today—-Bill Clinton. Cool dude n knows his basketball. It kinda surprised me. Oh yea I 4got I'm graduating!!!!!!
- A bonus this morning: the NBA Pre-Draft Camp list of invitees is out for this season, and 53 players will get a chance to improve their stock later this month in Chicago. Here's the complete list:
Solomon Alabi, Florida State
Cole Aldrich, Kansas
Al-Farouq Aminu, Wake Forest
James Anderson, Oklahoma State
Luke Babbitt, Nevada
Eric Bledsoe, Kentucky
Trevor Booker, Clemson
Craig Brackins, Iowa State
Avery Bradley, Texas
Derrick Caracter, Texas El Paso
Sherron Collins, Kansas
DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky
Jordan Crawford, Xavier
Ed Davis, North Carolina
Devin Ebanks, West Virginia
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Tiny Gallon, Oklahoma
Charles Garcia, Seattle
Paul George, Fresno State
Luke Harangody, Notre Dame
Manny Harris, Michigan
Gordon Hayward, Butler
Lazard Hayward, Marquette
Xavier Henry, Kansas
Darington Hobson, New Mexico
Damion James, Texas
Armon Johnson, Nevada
Wesley Johnson, Syracuse
Dominique Jones, South Florida
Jerome Jordan, Tulsa
Sylven Landesberg, Virginia
Gani Lawal, Georgia Tech
Greg Monroe, Georgetown
Daniel Orton, Kentucky
Artsiom Parakhouski, Radford
Patrick Patterson, Kentucky
Dexter Pittman, Texas
Quincy Pondexter, Washington
Andy Rautins, Syracuse
Stanley Robinson, Connecticut
Larry Sanders, Virginia Commonwealth
Jon Scheyer, Duke
Lance Stephenson, Cincinnati
Mikhail Torrance, Alabama
Evan Turner, Ohio State
Ekpe Udoh, Baylor
Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State
Greivis Vasquez, Maryland
John Wall, Kentucky
Willie Warren, Oklahoma
Terrico White, Mississippi
Hassan Whiteside, Marshall
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Former Canadian Olympic teammate Todd MacCulloch was saying the other day that he hoped Nash, a two-time NBA most valuable player, got a ring, "just so no one can say anything bad about his career."
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Evan as the Orlando Magic have rallied in their series with the Boston Celtics – winning twice in a row to trail 3-2 before Friday's game – Carter's reputation as one of the sport's great underachievers won't require revision. Impossibly, at least in the eyes of Toronto Raptors fans, he's made Magic followers lament the departure of Hedo Turkoglu, as Carter has turned into a $16-million (U.S.) spectator when the stakes are highest.
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Reds' skid at five after Brewers walk off
MILWAUKEE -- Obviously, the Reds want to win every game they can, but Tuesday's effort vs. the first-place Brewers qualified as one of the rare times this season they needed to win a game.
Both the want and the need went unfulfilled, however. The Brewers slugged four solo home runs, including two from Jonathan Lucroy, sending the Reds to a 4-3 defeat. Lucroy's second long ball was a walk-off shot off reliever Sam LeCure.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- Obviously, the Reds want to win every game they can, but Tuesday's effort vs. the first-place Brewers qualified as one of the rare times this season they needed to win a game.
Both the want and the need went unfulfilled, however. The Brewers slugged four solo home runs, including two from Jonathan Lucroy, sending the Reds to a 4-3 defeat. Lucroy's second long ball was a walk-off shot off reliever Sam LeCure.View Full Game Coverage
"Let's forget the silver lining tonight," manager Bryan Price said. "We gave up four home runs and lost, 4-3. We just haven't played terribly well coming out of the break. Not a whole lot else to say other than that. We haven't really done enough to go out there and win. We have to step it up."
Coming out of the All-Star break, the Reds have dropped a season-high five straight games and also suffered their eighth consecutive road loss. Now 4 1/2 games behind first-place Milwaukee in the National League Central, Cincinnati needs a victory on Wednesday to avoid going home with a winless six-game road trip.
And to think, this is the same club that had won eight of its last 11 games before the break and was 1 1/2 games out.
"It's weird," shortstop Zack Cozart said. "[We] finished up on such a high note before the break. And we come back, and we haven't played like we wanted to. We're going to keep fighting, and we'll turn it around. We want to start getting hot here pretty soon."
Ending a season-high stretch of four games without a quality outing from Reds starters, Homer Bailey gave up three earned runs and four hits over six innings. All three runs, and three of the hits, came on two-out solo homers.
There were two quick outs in the Milwaukee first when Bailey left a 2-2 fastball over the plate to Ryan Braun, who pushed it to the opposite field for a homer over the right-field fence. Two pitches later, Aramis Ramirez pulled one to left field for back-to-back homers and a two-run Brewers lead.
Bailey, who showed no signs of favoring the right knee he strained in his previous start just before the All-Star break, retired his next 11 in a row. Later in the sixth, Lucroy's homer on a full count pitch made it a 3-1 game.
"The ones that I gave up, I felt, were pretty decent pitches," Bailey said. "They were just a little [in the] bottom of the zone, caught a little more of the plate than I would have wanted. They went out and got them. In this park the ball flies quite a bit once it gets up in the air."
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Ramon Santiago was then hit on the foot by a 1-2 pitch from Brewers right-hander Jimmy Nelson. Against reliever Brandon Kintzler, pinch-hitter Chris Heisey's sacrifice fly scored Ryan Ludwick with the tying run. The inning ended when Cozart was caught in a double play at second base on Billy Hamilton's line drive to Rickie Weeks.
"That was bad baserunning," said Cozart, who exited after the inning for X-rays, which were negative. "In that situation you can't get doubled up, and I did. I had a chance. I didn't read it right."
On this road trip, the Reds are 2-for-34 with runners in scoring position.
Lucroy provided the quick ending when he began the bottom of the ninth by hitting a 1-1 pitch from LeCure. There was no doubt it would clear the left-field fence, and it snapped LeCure's seven-appearance streak without a run allowed.
Price was asked if there is a way to get his feeling of disappointment across to his players.
"They don't need a lecture from me about me being disappointed," he said. "We're all disappointed. Nobody likes it. If you've watched our team in these five games, you've seen guys busting their tails down the line, putting in the work pregame and being invested in what we do to prepare. We just haven't executed."
The Reds are stuck trying to find a way to get the win they need to get out of this mess. How they'll do that remains the mystery.
"I think that's the million-dollar question right now," Bailey said. "Things just aren't going our way."
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon.


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Here's the pepper tea, still steamy.
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Look at mine!
Not done with it yet. You can throw it in like this but you'll be picking pepper skin and seeds out of your teeth forevah! I toss mine in an old fashioned food mill at this point to get nothing but pure pepper goo.
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Just as the browning
is coming to an end, turn down the heat and add your garlic to taste. I loathe the bitter, angular taste of burnt garlic. But I love garlic done right. That's why I always make sure the heat is indirect and not on a bare cooking surface. Now it's time for the bulk of the non-meat items.
Here are the tomatoes, lightly fried onions and the pepper paste. Plus some fresh bits from the garden.
Stir it all up and let it simmer. To thin it, use the reserved pepper tea (will add a richer, spicier effect) or beer ( has an intriguing nuttiness). If your add-in bits of tomato, fresh pepper and such thin the chili too much the only approved (by me) thickener besides slow reduction is masa (corn flour).
Again, use the pepper tea to mix a masa slurry and then dribble/mix it into the chili. Tastes great right away and even better refrigerated and warmed up next day.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. --- Lees-McRae Director of Cycling Tim Hall is pleased to announce the signing of four cyclists for the 2014-15 academic season, the team announced Monday afternoon.
Joining the LMC family will be Phil Kmetz, Justin Parrillo, Timothy Tirado and Michael Zanetti.
"We are thrilled to sign these four new riders, and we welcome them to our program at Lees-McRae. It's a mixture of professional level experience on the mountain bike mixed with up-and-comers in the sport," praised Hall. "We welcome all abilities and each one will make a positive impact on our program."
Phil Kmetz – Keene, N.H.
Kmetz is a pro rider that's focusing on gravity events on the mountain bike. The Keene, N.H., native is a former USA Junior National Championship in dual slalom. He is a two-time winner of the Battle of Hellion and has finished third, twice, at the ProGRT events.
"I am especially excited at what Phil and Michael will bring to our mountain bike team. Both are proven professionals and will be key riders throughout the fall season. I expect they'll thrive on our campus and hone their skills even sharper on our local trails."
Justin Parrillo – Warwick, R.I.
Parrillo will focus on road bike. He's newer to the sport with multiple top-10 finishes in Category 5 and is on his way to Category 4.
Timothy Tirado – Bellaire, Texas
Tirado will focus on road bike. He finished second at the Oak Ridge Velo Classic and Coldspring Classic Road Race. The Bellaire, Texas, native claimed third at the Houston Grand Criterium and fourth at the Tour of Houston.
Michael Zanetti – Santa Rosa, Calif.
Zanetti is an elite level competitor in multiple disciplines. He is a pro on the mountain bike and gravity while sporting an Elite Category 1 status on the cyclcross. The Santa Rosa, Calif., native claimed an overall victory at the 2013 Keyesville Classic event. He finished 17th in the 2013 Bonelli Park Pro XCT in San Dimas, Calif.
"Coach PJ Noto and I are still focusing a lot of time on recruiting more cyclists for the upcoming fall," said Hall. "We are awaiting a response from a few more key riders who stand to make an immediate impact, but we also continue to get new inquiries weekly."
"I am especially looking forward to attending the California State High School Mountain Bike Championship in May. I will be meeting key leaders of NICA as well as many coaches, parents, and riders. After that Coach Noto and I will also attend junior road nationals as well as junior mountain bike nationals," said Hall. "For those unable to visit our campus, we highly encourage anyone interested in Lees-McRae or collegiate cycling in general to visit and meet with us during those times."


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Ryan plan not boost Dems expected
Democrats could barely contain their glee when Mitt Romney selected Paul Ryan as his running mate in August. The Wisconsin congressman's controversial Medicare plan would be an anvil around the necks of Republicans nationwide, they insisted — a "majority maker" for the party, in the words of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel.
Two months later, that's turned out to be mostly wishful thinking.
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While the national landscape has moved slightly in the Democrats' favor since Ryan was added to the GOP ticket — a selection that thrust his budget plan into the center of the 2012 campaign — they're still poised to fall well short of the 25 seats they need to seize control of the House.
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Democrats have showered districts across the country with TV ads showcasing the Ryan plan and portraying Republicans as coldblooded bureaucrats who want to do away with entitlement programs. In August and September, 27 of the 51 ads that the DCCC aired focused on Medicare.
The impact has been scattered, Democrats concede. The Ryan plan has helped nudge some races into their column but barely moved the needle in others.
( See also: Vice presidential debate preview)
"I think it's been helpful to Democrats, but I don't think it's been a silver bullet everywhere," said Dave Beattie, a Democratic pollster who counts several congressional candidates as clients. "It doesn't work everywhere."
Said Pete Brodnitz, another Democratic pollster, "To the extent that Republicans had to spend time shoring things up, it's been a tactical success for Democrats. But I'm not sure it's an issue that's going to swing a lot of races."
That's not to say Democrats have lost the public opinion battle over Medicare. A September Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 52 percent of voters favored President Barack Obama on the question of who to trust in handling the program, while just 32 percent favored Mitt Romney.
But for Democrats, the political environment resembles more of a still sea rather than the cresting wave they predicted when Ryan was named No. 2 on the GOP ticket in August. The Cook Political Report, a widely respected political handicapper, predicts Democrats will seize no more than 10 House seats on Nov. 6 — only a slight uptick from the maximum single-digit gain they were likely to see just before the pick was made.
To some Democrats, the inability to turn the Medicare issue into a cut-and-dried win is emblematic of the broader realities of the 2012 campaign, which has proved — after three consecutive wave elections — to be remarkably resistant to major momentum shifts.
"It's not the be-all and end-all issue," said Paul Maslin, a top Democratic pollster. "I think it's been a pretty good success — it's not a silver bullet. It's not a silver-bullet election."
But other Democrats argue that the Medicare push has been effective, helping to turn what had been a momentum-less campaign slightly in their favor by allowing them to sketch a more definitive picture of Republican policies.
"I'm not sure it's realistic to think that one issue can totally transform the political landscape, but there's also no question that Medicare is helping Democrats engaged in hand-to-hand combat in the battleground districts," said Geoff Garin, a prominent Democratic pollster who is working closely with the DCCC.
The Ryan pick, Garin said, helped to advance a broader argument about Republican candidates, "which is that they favor the rich at the expense of the middle class. And that's been a dominant theme of ours for much of the year."


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Emergency Notifications
How will LCC notify me of an emergency situation?
At the Downtown and West Campus locations, all the classroom buildings have emergency public address paging systems. As quickly as enough is known in order to provide accurate information and instructions after an emergency situation develops, a message can be broadcast over the paging systems.
Notifications may also be made through these means, which allow students and employees at their homes, traveling to the college or who are at other locations to receive messages:
- The LCC home page.
- The Emergency Star Alert System emergency email and text messaging system.
- Televisions in the building lobbies.
- The college's radio station WLNZ, as well as other radio and television stations.
- Campus Communication employee email and LCC student email accounts.
How can I prepare myself for an emergency on campus?
Every classroom should have an emergency information poster near the door. Become familiar with the instructions on the poster. Please notify LCC Police (extension 1800) if the poster is missing from your classroom.
LCC publishes an Emergency Procedure Manual, which is available to all students and employees from the LCC Police Department and the LCC Emergency Management and Safety Services Department. It contains information on safety, crime prevention and emergencies. Be sure to get your own copy. Read it and become familiar with its contents.
There are evacuation route and shelter area maps posted in the hallways of all LCC buildings. Take time to review the map for your area, so you will know the best route to take to leave the building or to seek shelter inside during an emergency.
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Updates from the road - Perfect Balance Tour
Updates from the road - Perfect Balance Tour
We are posting updates and pictures from the Jojo Mayer Perfect Balance Tour frequently on our facebook profile. Like us and see what's happening on the road!!
Next stop: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Czech Republic:
November 19 Ibbenburen, Germany (Venue: Musik Produktiv)
November 20 Hamburg, Germany (Venue: Just Music)
November 21 Neustrelitz, Germany (Venue: Shop2Rock)
November 22 Berlin, Germany (Venue: Just Music)
November 23 Brilon, Germany (Venue: Music World)
November 24 Bochum, Germany (Venue: House of Drums)
November 26 Cologne, Germany (Venue: Yard Club)
November 27 Wittlich, Germany (Venue: Der Musikladen Wittlich)
November 28 Karlsruhe, Germany (Venue: Rock Shop / Crystal Ballroom)
November 30 Ravensburg, Germany (Venue: Musikhaus Lange)
December 1 Munich, Germany (Venue: CO² Club)
December 3 Salzburg, Austria (Venue: Jazzit Musik Club)
December 4 Vienna, Austria (Venue: szene)
December 6 Kriens, Switzerland (Venue: Südpol Musik & Tanz Theater)
December 7 Bern, Switzerland (Venue: Orbital Garden)
December 8 Basel, Switzerland (Venue: Sommercasino)
December 10 Warsaw, Poland (Venue: Olsztyn Club 'Grawitacja)
December 11 Prague, Czech Republic (Venue: Audio Partner)
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The Ten Commandments of winning 'American Idol'
To the 20 young singers who have made the Season 12 semifinals of American Idol: Congratulations, your goal is in sight.
Between now and the May 16 finale, though, all but one of you will be eliminated —- many because you'll make mistakes that any longtime fan of the show knows to avoid. After two rounds of live competition (Fox, Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET/PT), 10 of you will go home Thursday night, in what promises to be one of the most brutally frustrating shows in series history.
But there's good news: We don't expect you to be at your best this week. American Idol always rewards fast learners, the singers who figure out more about the competition — and themselves — each week. You'll have to impress enough of us that we put you in the top half of this week's voting, but the front-runner on Friday won't necessarily win. We expect to see growth.
To help you as you head into the competition's final stretch, we offer the Ten Commandments of winning American Idol, fundamental rules for success in the show's final round.
This year, Idol's Powers That Be seem intent on breaking what for the past five seasons has been the Greatest Commandment: Thou shalt be a white guy. They're doing everything in their power to ensure a female winner, from putting the women on the slightly higher-rated Wednesday night shows the past two weeks to judge Keith Urban identifying two of you, Angela Miller and Kree Harrison, who have particularly impressed him. So we're throwing that rule out this year. You couldn't have done much about it at this point, anyway.
Thou shalt not mimic any other Idols before you. You're not Kelly Clarkson. You're not Carrie Underwood. If you try to sing like them, we'll just compare you — and you won't come off favorably. Singing songs by past Idols shows your roots in the show, but you must give them original twists. Stay away from songs associated with past showstopping performances, like Fantasia's Summertime or David Archuleta's Imagine. That's just basking in reflected glory.
Thou shalt not make old song choices. Keep the music as contemporary as possible. Statistically speaking, the singer with the oldest song will more likely go home than the ones performing newer material. Also, the judges have started tearing apart perfectly good performances simply because they sounded old-fashioned — that's why Isabelle and Bryan Tadeo failed to make the top 20. Plus, the median age of the Idol viewer has dropped about four years this season, meaning there's a higher ratio of young viewers to old than in years past.
Thou shalt take great care when using the name of the Lord thy God. Even if the church taught you how to sing, even if you consider every note that comes out of your mouth an offering of praise, keep the Jesus talk to a minimum. If you're a Christian, be like Season 8 winner Kris Allen and let other people tell us. It's worth remembering that the two women who made a point last week of telling us that being on American Idol was part of God's plan for their lives will be watching the show at home this week.
Thou shalt remember the Whitney Houston catalog, and stay away from it. While you're at it, steer clear of Mariah Carey songs, too, no matter how much you think she'll appreciate your tribute. For one thing, we're kind of over the old-school diva thing. (Remember Pia Toscano? She finished ninth.) For another, do you really think you can out-sing Houston? We didn't think so. A Beyoncé song, you might be able to get away with. But even that's a high-wire act.
Thou shalt honor thy vocal coaches, thy backing band, thy production crew. Though their names are rarely spoken on the show, the people who regularly work with you behind the scenes have the power to make you look like a star on any given night. Alienate them at your peril. When it comes to your band leader, your lighting designer or your stylist, you need to listen to them, work with them and give them ideas. Help them find ways to make you look good. Adam Lambert and James Durbin were masters at this.
Thou shalt not be a jerk. Almost without exception, Idol winners can be described by those who know them as real sweethearts. If you want to go all the way, start by being the nicest, friendliest, most humble person in the room. If you're the sort who gives an aw-shucks routine to the cameras while throwing tantrums offstage, it'll show through.
Thou shalt not talk back to thy judges. Look, lots of us disagree with the judges, especially when they contradict themselves from contestant to contestant and week to week. But if you say what we're thinking, you'll look arrogant. Or foolish. Or both. Last season, Elise Testone started debating with Jennifer Lopez over whether she was showing enough emotion; a week later, Testone was gone. So no matter what kind of nonsense the judges start spouting, suffer in silence. Let the voters stick up for you.
Thou shalt not make excuses. Are you nervous? Good, you should be. Did you screw up? Fine, happens to everybody. Besides, we may not have even noticed. Unless you tell us. Then, not only do you look weak, but we feel stupid. We don't vote for people who make us feel stupid. Earlier this season, Paul Jolley had his head handed to him by Nicki Minaj when he started talking about how nervous he was. Imagine what she'll do if somebody pulls a stunt like that now.
Thou shalt not bad-mouth thy fellow contestant. We remember how you wanted to send Charlie Askew home when he got sick during the group round, Curtis Finch Jr. Don't think it won't factor into our voting decisions.
Thou shalt not covet another artist's image nor another singer's style. During the audition rounds, choosing material by singers you admire tells the judges what kind of contestant they're getting. But you're in the big time now. Pick your songs because they're great songs for you, not because you like pretending you're the person who sang them first. Remember how David Cook surprised and delighted us by creating new ways for us to hear those songs? Do that. Find ways that highlight the best parts of your voice and your personality. Always be your most interesting self.


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9.4 Free Upgrade to 9.x
Posted 20 July 2011 - 12:00 PM
It has been tested with Lion, but we are standing by to fix any minor issues, so please do let us know if you encounter any.
OakTree Software
Posted 20 July 2011 - 01:36 PM
If an RC named "Accordance" is present in the Applications folder and you delete it, installer still asks for serial number but does install the new version.
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Posted 20 July 2011 - 02:23 PM
Posted 27 July 2011 - 09:03 AM
Trying to install 9.4, Installer is asking for a unlock code, after giving the unlock code installing takes place. But if I open Accordance it still says that 9.4RC and Easy Install tells me that I can download the 9.4 Installer. Done this three times, always the same, the Installer downloaded from the Websites does the same.
Thankfull for some help here.
Posted 27 July 2011 - 09:29 AM
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 05:38 AM
OakTree Software
Posted 28 July 2011 - 06:10 AM
We posted some high priority bug fixes in 9.4.1. It doesn't fix all the issues, but we needed to get this one out quickly. We'll have another update soon.
I just tried installing the 9.4.1 update; I currently have 9.3.3 installed. The 9.4.1 installer keeps asking for an unlock code, and keeps telling me that my unlock code is invalid. I tried both using the Easy Update feature, as well as downloading the installer from the Accordance website.
I am using the unlock code I was given when I purchased the "Library 9 Premier Level upgrade from Library 8 Premier level"... is this the correct code? (I was not sent any other code when I updated to Accordance 9.)
Edited by Justin D. Morgan, 28 July 2011 - 06:11 AM.
Posted 28 July 2011 - 06:16 AM
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 07:12 AM
I am having similar problems. When I fist attempted to install the update, I was asked for installation code. None provided.
If 9.3.3 is in Applications, the installer should not request a code. The 9 code should be in your My Products page on the website. I would like to screenshare to see why it's asking for a code, though.
I went thru the download process again, now the installer doesn't run.
Posted 28 July 2011 - 07:35 AM
We'll have a fix for this very soon. In the meantime, remove the current RC, put back 9.3.3 into Applications from your backup (I did tell you all to keep the 9.3.3 around) and try running the downloaded installer again.
Thanks Helen, now it worked. I had to type in the unlock code but then it worked fine.
Posted 28 July 2011 - 04:04 PM
If 9.3.3 is in Applications, the installer should not request a code. The 9 code should be in your My Products page on the website. I would like to screenshare to see why it's asking for a code, though.
I installed successfully 9.4.1, but the installer did request the unlock code, although 9.3.3 was in Applications. Once entered the code, the installation proceeded smoothly.
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Analyzing a Silicon Solar Cell Design with the Semiconductor Module
Caty Fairclough April 27, 2017
You can model a solar (or photovoltaic) cell consisting of a 1D Si p-n junction using the Semiconductor Module add-on. We feature a tutorial model to provide more details.Read More
Bridget Cunningham December 16, 2016
In rapid thermal annealing, a process step in producing semiconductors, measuring the temperature of a wafer is key. Without accurate measurements, overheating and nonuniform temperature distributions may occur, both of which impact the effectiveness of the process. This is why tools like the COMSOL Multiphysics® software give you the ability to analyze temperature distributions within an RTA design. From these results, you can better assess the performance of the sensor component and optimize its configuration to achieve accurate measurements.Read More
Caty Fairclough April 7, 2016
When it comes to creating the next generation of flat panel displays and solid-state area lighting, organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, may be used to help. While recognized for its various advantages, this emerging technology suffers from some weaknesses that reduce its overall efficiency. One such example is light loss, which is partially caused by the plasmon coupling effect. Looking to reduce the effect's prominence in OLED devices, researchers from Konica Minolta Laboratory turned to the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.Read More
Daniel Smith January 14, 2016
I love my Philips Hue lighting system, which I bought over a year ago. The system allows you to set millions of different colors and thousands of brightness levels for up to 18 bulbs using a smartphone. You can also program the system to automatically turn on as you approach your residence, known as geofencing, or at specific times of the day. But how does the light quality compare to that of other lighting technologies?Read More
Matt Pooley May 18, 2015
Thanks to the Semiconductor Module and the Application Builder, developing custom optoelectronic simulation apps has never been easier. In this blog post, we show you how to turn a model of an LED device into a user-friendly application that can be used to assess the impact of different designs on the LED's emission characteristics and performance. We also demonstrate the use of custom methods to manipulate the solution data, enabling the easy creation of bespoke analysis tools.Read More
Matt Pooley January 26, 2015
Simulation of 3D semiconductors has the potential to be extremely useful when developing and improving semiconductor technology by reducing the amount of experimentation and fabrication required to design complex devices. Modeling 3D devices is challenging as the length scales that must be resolved, combined with the nonlinear nature of semiconductor physics phenomena, often require computationally expensive simulations. Here, we share an example simulation of a 3D bipolar transistor and important advice for effective modeling of 3D semiconductors with COMSOL Multiphysics.Read More
Matt Pooley December 3, 2014
Bright light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are revolutionizing the lighting industry and blue LEDs in particular are ushering in a new age of widespread efficient LED lighting. The importance of blue LEDs was marked by this year's Nobel Prize in physics, which went to the inventors. But, because bright LEDs are driven by larger currents, they suffer from reduced efficiency — a phenomenon known as LED droop. Using multiphysics simulations, we can investigate and understand the mechanisms behind LED efficiency.Read More
Alexandra Foley October 4, 2013
When designing products on the nanometer scale, physics interactions that are considered negligible on the larger scale make their presence known. One such case where these forces must be taken into account is in the design of integrated circuits, where understanding and optimizing the effects of van der Waals forces, attractive forces, and surface tension become vitally important to creating a robust design. As technological advancements call for both the size of integrated circuits to decrease and the density of […]Read More
Daniel Smith May 8, 2013
In a paper titled "Choosing a Gate Dielectric for Graphene Based Transistors", the applications of a semiconducting form of graphene are examined. As we have seen before, single-layer graphene is not a semiconductor, it is a zero bandgap conductor (a semimetal). Efforts are well underway to introduce bandgaps to graphene, which would make it semiconducting with a room temperature mobility an order of magnitude higher than silicon. The race is already underway to find applications for such a material once […]Read More


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Have I told you readers how much I love the user interface of Apple's iPhone? Well I do!
There are so many goodies in there that over time I'll reproduce them using Blend and SilverLight 🙂 . Today I'll be recreating the "Battery Recharger".
Here's what it looks like on the iPhone
Now here's my version done using Blend and if you click on the image it will go to the demo page where I have animated it using SilverLight
Apple took such care in painting a true "glass & light effect". The light shining on the battery was done with such detail. I had to improvise with numerous separate "paths" to get the same result. If you look at my source you will see that each face (there are 4, top of the battery, middle of the battery, bottom of the battery, knob of the battery) has several "path shapes" each with complicated gradient brushes to produce the lighting & glass effect of Apple's control.
I love this control 🙂
Below is the tutorial of how I made this control. Enjoy!
"Top" and the "Bottom" are mirror images of each other. It is made up of several path's each with different gradient fills.
Middle is made up of the "Filler" and a series of path's with gradients. There are 2 groupings of paths ("group behind" and "group in-front" ) that surround the "filler path", they were done this way to give a true 3D like affect.
The "Knob" is an exact copy of the "Top" that's just shrunken down.
The "Filler" is a simple path shape that can be any color, which is currently showing as burgundy red.
The "Status" is a textblock that shows the status of the recharging battery.
The "Reflection" is an exact mirrored copy of the entire battery (without the text). Even the "Filler" is copied so that when the real "Filler" is animated we can animate the reflection as well giving an truly real reflection effect (see the demo animation).
The "TOP" part of the battery was achieved as follows, remember the "Bottom" and the "Knob" are just copies of the "Top":
Take the basic "top" shape and make 5 copies, each copy will be the exact same shape but will have different gradients applied to them to give the glass/lighting effect.
First copy : forms the basic overall color of the top of the battery. It's a black themed battery with a tinge of gray gradient at the bottom
Second copy: Lighting effect at the bottom part of the overall top shape
Third copy: Lighting effect in the middle of the overall top shape
Forth copy: Another lighting effect near the top of the overall top shape
Fifth copy: top most lighting effect of the overall top shape
all parts combined results in:
The "Middle" part of the battery was achieved as follows:
Like the "top" the "Middle" is made up of 5 copies of the same shape.
First copy: Basic color of the middle shape. Made up of a gradient
Second copy: Filler that we programmatically slide in width
Third copy: a lighting effect layer
Forth copy: another lighting effect layer
Fifth copy: another light effect layer
Combining all the layers without the filler layer it looks like this:
Add the filler layer to the combined layers above it looks like this:
I don't think I need to go into the showing the rest of the parts of the battery, as I mentioned above they are all just variations of the previously covered 2 groups "Top", "Middle".
As you can see from my demo page this can be animated any way your heart desires. Create a stack of batteries and have them animate in different colors, the options are endless. I love SilverLight 🙂
Source code will soon be added to the "Blend Candy" area, stay tuned.