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ModNation Racers Hands On: Creating and Racing
Kart racing games often get thought of as offshoot projects from successful franchises with popular ch
Kart racing games often get thought of as offshoot projects from successful franchises with popular characters. Even the venerable Mario Kart owes a great deal of its success, or at least its acceptance, to a roster of drivers that includes its namesake, Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi, et al.
ModNation Racers (PS3) doesn't enjoy the luxury of such starpower and built-in fans to draw people in. But it does have its stars, an endless number of them, created by everyone who plays the game and that's only the tip of the customization in the game. Developer United Front Games hopes that turning people loose with the ability to make their own content for pretty much every aspect of the game will make this such an expansive karting experience that it stands on its own.
Giving players the ability to make their own content is one thing; making it fun--and most importantly not frustrating--is another. The two-tier approach they've come up with offers a good response to that. It presented plenty of options when I wanted them and a simpler set that allowed me to quickly bang out parts when I didn't. Diving into the character creator I put a lot of attention into getting my racer's expression just so but then was able to whip through the rest. The result gave me a personalized character I felt pretty good about that took less than thirty minutes.
Track creation poses a little more daunting challenge. ModNation Racers takes it in stride by similarly scaling up to offer both more assists and more precision tools. The process breaks down into three parts (that can be tackled in any order or all at the same time): sculpting the terrain, laying the pavement, and adding in all the details around the track. While some will surely get caught up in replicating real world geography I blasted through raising some hills and hollowing out a lake.
The flexibility in the system really came through when I went to make the track. With a truck to drive around that paves as you go it couldn't be easier. Figure eights, switchbacks, and corkscrews--whatever- all I had to do was steer where I wanted the road to go. The editor also continuously updates the line it would take to complete the track. Once it looked close to what I wanted I just pressed a button and it closed the loop.
A little trick called auto populate then filled out my new track with everything from power ups to foliage. It randomly picks a few elements to get started and then pulls in like items to create theme areas around the track. In about 45 minutes I had a winding race track in the mountains with a covered bridge s-turn that hung out over the switchback that plunged into a tunnel below with a shortcut option that detoured to a jump that shot all the way across the map over both the tunnel and the bridge.
All the creation tools in the world won't matter much if the actual racing isn't good. From the five tracks I got to race ModNation Racers looks in good shape on that front. Even as kart racers go the races were frantic and my position was never certain until I crossed the finish line. The weapons alone played a big part in that. They have three stages that can be filled from pick-ups. At full strength they unleash mayhem, like a worm hole that took me to the front of the pack when I drove through.
United Front Games made it clear to me that they take this karting thing seriously. With the public beta right around the corner you can get a chance to see for yourself shortly.


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A Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc trader colluded with a counterpart at UBS AG to pay almost 211,000 pounds ($330,000) in bribes to brokers willing to help them manipulate global interest rates, regulators said.
Neil Danziger, a London-based derivatives specialist at RBS, helped Tom Hayes, the former UBS employee at the center of the global investigation into rate-rigging, to bribe at least two brokers into persuading other banks to submit rates in line with their own, according to transcripts released by regulators that didn't identify the traders by name. Two people with direct knowledge of the talks confirmed the traders' identities. The regulators didn't identify the brokers involved.
RBS was fined $612 million yesterday for manipulating global interest rates over a period of four years. The bank has also fired two of the most senior managers on its London trading floor following its own internal probe. The settlement highlights the role interdealer brokers are alleged to have played in helping traders rig the rate for profit. It also shows how intermediaries were rewarded with so-called wash trades that RBS managers never identified.
As interbank lending dried up at the start the financial crisis in late 2007, employees at the banks responsible for inputting rates increasingly relied on information from interdealer brokers in determining what figures to submit, giving the intermediaries greater power to influence the benchmark. The brokers, who act as a go-between for banks that trade bonds, stocks, currencies, energy andderivatives, were rewarded with wash trades, where clients place two or more matching trades through a broker that cancel each other out while triggering a payment of fees to the middle man, regulators said.
'A Favor'
"Can you do me a favor," an unidentified broker asked Danziger on Sept. 19, 2008, according to a transcript of the conversation released yesterday by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "You're not going to get paid any bro for this and we'll send you lunch around for the whole desk." As the broker outlined the trade, he said "Take it from UBS, give it back to UBS. He wants to pay some bro," referring to fees.
"Yeah, yeah," Danziger replied.
Later that day, the broker asked Danziger if he could "do another 100 yards" or 100 billion, increasing the size of the transaction. "Flat switch," the broker said. "I know I'm pushing my luck."
RBS then entered into a wash trade with UBS that enabled the Zurich-based lender to pay about $31,000 in fees to the broker for its help in rigging Libor, the CFTC said.
Danziger enabled the corrupt payments "to increase his influence over the broker firms," Britain's Financial Services Authority said.
Wash Trades
Hayes, who worked at RBS between 2001 and 2003, was arrested in December by the Serious Fraud Office along with two brokers from London-based broker RP Martin Holdings Ltd., which isn't being investigated by the FSA.
Officials at RBS, UBS and RP Martin declined to comment. Hayes's lawyer, David Williams, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Danziger didn't respond to an e-mail as well as a request for comment through his lawyer.
Over the 12 months through August 2009, Danziger entered into at least 30 wash trades with Hayes in order to pay the brokers 211,000 pounds, according to the FSA, which didn't identify the traders. In five of those trades, the brokerage payment was made by UBS instead of Danziger.
UBS was fined a record 1.4 billion Swiss francs ($1.5 billion) in December for manipulating rates. According to the bank's settlement, Hayes and another colleague entered into at least nine wash-trades to pay an unidentified broker more than 170,000 pounds for helping rig the benchmark. UBS also paid 15,000 pounds a quarter to a second unidentified interdealer broker over an 18-month period for the provision of a "fixing service" for yen Libor, the U.K. regulator said in December.
Management Failings
After a wash trade in December 2008, Danziger expressed concern that his superiors would spot the deals and query their purpose.
"This will be a f---ing disaster now," the derivatives trader responded, according to the FSA.
RBS managers failed to identify the wash trades, according to British regulators. The bank also failed to implement controls or guidance on the rate-setting process or on what communications between rate-setters and derivatives traders were acceptable, the CFTC said.
More than a dozen employees made "hundreds" of attempts to manipulate Libor over a period of at least four years to profit fromderivatives bets, regulators said yesterday. After finding that 21 out of its 137,000 employees were involved in wrongdoing, RBS began a probe into who should be held responsible for the failure to oversee the traders adequately.
Executives Dismissed
The lender dismissed Jezri Mohideen, head of rates trading for Europe and Asia Pacific, and Paul Walker, head of money- markets trading, in the months before the settlement, said a person with knowledge of the decision who asked not to be identified because the names haven't been made public.
Two more managers have also left, RBS said in a statement today, without identifying them. They are Scott Nygaard, global head of treasury markets, and Kevin Liddy, global head of short- term interest-rate trading, the person said.
Mohideen and Nygaard didn't return messages left on their mobile phones. Liddy didn't reply to e-mails or a message left on his LinkedIn account. Walker didn't reply to e-mails and wasn't reachable through directory assistance.
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When the judges rate the writing challenge entries, the first criterion on their rating sheet is how well did the entry fit the topic?
Finding a way to write to the topic AND be original BUT not be so original as to be off-topic is one of the most difficult things that challenge enterers have to master. However, learning to write to a given topic is a valuable skill, especially for those who enter writing contests, or who will have to write on demand for an employer, a newsletter, or some such assignment.
Let's say, for example, that the topic word was jump.
Some people already have in mind an entry that they want to write, and they write that entry regardless of the topic. Then, in an effort to be on topic, they make sure that at some point, one of the characters jumps. When I was a judge for the challenge, I gave entries like this a simple test: would this entry be essentially the same if the mention of the topic word was eliminated? If the answer was 'yes,' then I would give it a very low score for that criterion. It's not enough to simply mention the topic word.
On the other hand, some people give the topic word considerable overkill. They use the word "jump" or a synonym of "jump" in every other line, or they write something that reads like a student's report on jumping, or they write about several different times in their lives when they've jumped. None of those "overkill" responses to the topic would get a bad rating for the "on topic" criterion, but they are perhaps less creative and writerly than they could be, and might score poorly for the "creativity" criterion (which I'll cover another time).
When I was writing for the challenge, I tried to write a story in which the prompt played a pivotal role—but I did not write about the prompt. I applied the same test to my writing that later I applied as a judge: could I write this entry without the challenge word? So for our hypothetical topic of "jump," I might write a story in which a high school student with a bad reputation is kind to a special needs peer by "missing" some jumps in a checkers game, allowing the other child to win. The story is about compassion and shattering stereotypes, but "jump" is critical to its telling. The word "jump" might only be used once, but the story could not be told without it.
I urge you to think carefully about the topic, and not necessarily to write about it in the first way that comes to mind. I'll write more about this when I write about the "creativity" criterion, but this might be important enough to say here and to repeat it later: look at the challenge topic from as many angles as you possibly can. For example, the word "jump" can mean:
1. to hop or leap
2. a move in checkers
3. a way to start up a dead car battery
4. to attack or to mug someone
5. to come to a sudden conclusion
In fact, one online dictionary has 45 different uses for "jump." Whatever the topic is, do a little bit of research—at the very least, do some brainstorming about possible uses of the word or phrase.
If the challenge prompt is a phrase that is not familiar to you, definitely look up its meaning. Also come back here to the writing forums; often Deb Porter will start a thread that discusses the meaning of the challenge prompt.
Finally, although it you're encouraged to research many possible meanings of a prompt, don't try to sabotage the prompt. For example, simply naming a character "Jump" or setting your story in a town called "Jump" really isn't on topic (unless you also make some aspect of "jump" pivotal to the story). I'll admit doing some overly-clever sabotage when I was still fairly new to the challenge: the topic was "car trip" and I wrote about a person who tripped while carrying a toy car. Not really on topic at all. For many quarters, the topics have a recognizable theme weaving throughout the entire ten weeks, and the judges don't appreciate nimble sidestepping of the theme (or an individual topic).
I'll close with two examples of writing challenge entries for which I applied these tests: Was the topic for the week essential for the story, but not overused and not tossed in just for a mention? Secondarily, did I use the topic in a unique way? (And remember that I link to my own stories because I can find them; if you have an entry that you'd like to link to, please do!)
For the topic "yellow," I wrote about the racial concept of "high yellow" in post-civil war America. It was a subtle use of the topic word, but absolutely essential to the story. http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article- ... p?id=33093
When the topic was "river," I put a river in the story, with a significant role to play, but the story was about baptism and a budding romance. http://www.faithwriters.com/wc-article- ... p?id=10935
1. Read one of the stories linked to above, and comment on its "on-topic-ness." Do you think it could or should have been more on topic? Don't be afraid to criticize; I can take it.
2. Link to one of your own entries, and either make a comment about its being on topic, or ask a question.
For those of you who are on Facebook, I've started a Facebook Writing Lessons page where I post this same material. I know that some of you are more comfortable with Facebook than with these message boards, and that notifications there are more timely. Feel free to "like" the Facebook page, and to refer friends to like it, too.


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Novelist Iain Banks released a personal statement on his website Wednesday morning. "I am officially Very Poorly," it begins. Banks goes on to say that he has been diagnosed with late stage gallbladder cancer and writes that "it is extremely unlikely" he'll live beyond a year.
A nimble writer who has excelled at both science fiction and literary fiction, Banks is the author of the Hugo Award-winning "The Algebraist," "The Wasp Factory," "Stonemouth" and more than a dozen other books.
"I've withdrawn from all planned public engagements and I've asked my partner Adele if she will do me the honor of becoming my widow (sorry--but we find ghoulish humor helps)," he writes with his characteristically dry humor. He says the couple is now on their honeymoon and intends to spend the next several months traveling and visiting friends and relatives.
Banks adds that his publisher, Little, Brown & Co., is "doing all they can" to move forward the publication of his new novel "Quarry," which he says is likely to be his last, by as much as four months, "to give me a better chance of being around when it hits the shelves."
The sad news has caused a rush of visitors to Banks' website, shutting it down several times Wednesday morning, and created an outpouring of sympathy online. Friends of Banks set up a website called Banksophilia, where fans are leaving messages of encouragement and appreciation on its guestbook. Fans on Twitter wrote that they admired his "humor" and "class." Banks writes that a separate site is also being set up for friends and fans to leave messages for him and get updates on his progress. It will be up later this week, and a link will be on Banks' official site.
Banks, who jas sometimes published under the name Iain M. Banks, was recently selected by the Times of London as one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945." At Granta, which chose Banks as one of the best young British novelists in 1993, you can read his story "Under Ice."


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Oman offer??? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Oman offer??? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Saudi Arabia View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message usoolJoined: 11 May 2004Posts: 147 Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:54 am Post subject: Oman offer??? Hi all Just to complicate matters I today received an invite to an interview for a position in Oman that is paying a lot more than these Saudies. But that interview is in June and the guys at Damaam will want an answer before that, any advice anybody can give? Regards Muhammad Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: Two in the bush Dear usool, Ah, the age-old - Do I take the bird in the hand or try for the two in the bush - dilemma. Well, string Dammam along as far as you can. But, if push comes to shove, from what you've posted so far, I'd say take a chance on the Omani job. However, much depends on your "personal situation" - i.e. just how hard up you are at present. Regards, John Back to top Bindair DundatJoined: 04 Feb 2003Posts: 1123 Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: Re: Oman offer??? usool wrote: But that interview is in June and the guys at Damaam will want an answer before that, any advice anybody can give? June isn't all that far away. Come up with some time-consuming questions to fire at the people in Dammam; the more complicated, the better. Ask them questions they can't understand. BD Back to top usoolJoined: 11 May 2004Posts: 147 Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 1:24 pm Post subject: Dear BD Dear BD Thats good advice and brought a smile to my face. Regards Muhammad Back to top CleopatraJoined: 28 Jun 2003Posts: 3657Location: Tuamago Archipelago Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject: As John said, these situations are always difficult, and there is no general answer anyone can give. Much depends on how attracted you are by theDamman job, and how good you think your chances are of getting the Oman job - only you (maybe not even you!) can judge. Remeber than processing a Saudi visa is not done overnight - I'm sure the same is true for Oman. so, you will have to make up your mind at least 2 months before depatrture. Maybe someother posters can correct me if I'm wrong. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Saudi Arabia All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Australia > Ireland
The man, the mountain, the Mathews. The greatest all rounder since Keith Miller. (Y)
Jaffna Jets CC (Battrick & FTP)
RIP WCC and CW Cricket
Member of the MSC, JMAS and CVAAS
Why would a load of posh members of Lord's wanna go and see Australia vs Greece at FootballOriginally Posted by Cloete
Or something.
RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1/11/1990 - 15/4/2006
I have a feeling he'd want to play for a country that qualifies for World Cups!Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
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Blacks ftw
3-2 to Eire there then!Originally Posted by Cloete
Cricket Web's current Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"At this point, the merciful thing to do may be to put up one of those big green curtains they use when a horse falls at a racecourse, to spare the crowd the sight, and afford the man some privacy, for the ruthless but necessary end of his Test career." - The Guardian's Andy Bull on Keaton Jennings
Melbourne Cricket Club. But I'm sure you knew that.Originally Posted by Jamee999
Well you never know...Originally Posted by Jamee999
Mine doesn't, yet I qualify for one. Weird world, eh?!Originally Posted by Craig
TBF I did say might qualify. Although, that said, I'd say for someone born in London with an Irish surname there's a better than 50/50 shout they have at least an Irish grandfather.
Craigos is Irish?Originally Posted by Craig
Heard on the radio today that Killkenny has stated to Graham Arnold that he wants to play for Australia....Originally Posted by Cloete
He has played a bit of 1st team football for Birmingham this season, so will be interesting...
I other news Mark Bosnich is reportedly taking a contract up with Conference Team Gray's Athletic... He has reportedly stated he wants to get back to the Premiership...
Well Guus is going to Russia after the World Cup, so who do you guys think should coach as after the WC, another overseas coach or local. Any of you guys know the coaching background of our current co-assistant coach Johan Neeskens?
Just noticed that bit. I'm pretty sure you can't represent another country after playing under-21 or senior games for one.Originally Posted by Cloete
wow, just saw this, Kilkenny is a real gem, just looks so special on the ball.
IIRC he only played for England U20 btw
Think they changed the rule a while back. Should be called "Cahill's law" 'cos he was the driving force in getting it changed. He played for Western Samoa Under-14s which debarred him from playing for the crims until the change.Originally Posted by steds
It's a bit of a mess tho, with no consistency. Kanoute was allowed to play for Mali despite having played for France U-21s & Ben Thatcher (boo! hiss!) played for our U-21s (IIRC he was captain too) before playing full internationals for the Taffs courtesy of a Welsh grandfather, but JLloyd Samuel can't get permission for a switch to Trinidad now. I think FIFA's ruling was he's too old now (at 24) to switch. Which seems a bit tight.
Reference Samuel, there was a time when those over a certain age could switch.
Jlloyd only found this link after that age, so rules is rules...
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
Beware the evils of Kit-Kats - they're immoral apparently.
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In clinic conversations with young women, I am always surprised by the amount of misinformation out there on oral contraceptives—aka birth control pills.
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In 2015, the governor of Oregon signed a bill (HB 2879) that would allow anyone 18 years of age and older to receive birth control from a pharmacist without a doctor's prescription.
Now, as of January 1, 2016, Oregon pharmacists can officially prescribe and dispense birth control.
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Worked out something in 8 today that had been driving me crazy.
I've started using a few Metro apps (the new Plex one is nice, and quite cheap at only $3) and was always stuck using Metro apps on my main screen, which meant the main desktop taskbar was obscured, which drove me a bit crazy. Winkey+arrow did nothing.
SO I took the time to look it up and found a blog that mentions proper multi-monitor support in Metro. Turns out you can move a Metro app to any monitor if you move the mouse to the top of the window and drag it when it turns into a 'hand'.
Anyone else have any tricks? Seems like there's a fair bit of secret sauce here.
Classic Shell is a collection of usability enhancements for Windows. The main features are:
Posted on Gizmodo a couple weeks ago:
I found this pretty handy, adding a shutdown and restart tile to "metro"
Ive found that Windows Explorer has a great toolbar/ribbon and status bar once you turn it on, in built and gives you fast access to things like control panel.
I have avoided any 'classic' or 'start bar' utility, because that just slows your adoption down, especially when you have to jump on a PC without it for say, a co-worker and you start fumbling around like a fool besides you can just right click where 'start' used to be for almost the same thing.
Win-x Extender (Right click start menu)
I usually use metro, but added power shortcuts to the right click start menu and a few other programs, so depending on what I'm doing I don't get the full screen takeover.
You can make your own icons so you can make it look a little better.
Go to control panel> default programs and give the programs you actually use all of their defaults instead of the 'most of the defaults' they install with (I don't like metro picture viewer for instance).
That's about it.
Winkey + W searches for settings
Winkey + F searches for files
(when you hit winkey and start typing it searches for apps, don't think there is a way to consolidate them yet).
2nd time I've posted this - it's my go-to video for Win 8 newbies..
All these tricks and replacement/addon apps come across as just band-aids for poor UI decisions.
On a related note I installed MS Visio 2013 the other day, and they're going for the Metro look. It felt more like I was browsing Facebook rather than using a professional business application, and the default Save-As destination was their cloud service! I almost had a brain aneurysm.
Unfortunately even if I wanted to, a switch to Win8 won't work for me yet due to lack of driver support from peripheral manufacturers (whether or not they are to blame is irrelevant to the end-user).
You get that with each generation of the OS, so Win7 + IPv4 for now it is ...
I got Win8 a week ago, and I gotta say, it's pretty weird - maybe should have got Win7, but I was hungover as s*** and didn't even think about it :/
That 4 min vid showed some things I didn't know. I might suss some others out....
Not liking Win8. F*****g changes. Luckily the dude that made my system put the task bar and start menu and stuff but i hate it when that overlay pops up or appears for s*** like PDF, AVI etc. Got the file allocations sorted with adobe reader, VLC player etc.
Also, windows seems to often crash when browsing random folders. Screen goes blank then appears a moment later with everything as it was but all windows explorer tabs gone.
To deugly Win8, I have installed:
Classicshell to avoid that Metro bulls*** (which is unusable in a practicle way on a 3 monitor arrangement)
Chrome browser with a nice Lamborghini theme on it
and an OSX them by this guy so I have a nice interface again with drop shadows (its the small things I miss from Win 7)
Are there any tips not relating to Metro?
I don't really use Metro - I can see it would be useful for a class of users, but i am not one of them. I basically never see the Metro interface.
Aside from that I'm finding W8 basically the same as W7 (which I am new to as well at the same time on my home PC). Still adapting from XP.
Not really, apart from metro everything else is pretty much the same as 7. I can remember if it was in xp, but I turn 'combine' on the taskbar off.
When you're in the native PDF/Image viewer, go to the top right with your mouse, then devices and there is where you CAN F*****G PRINT. Nothing normal like pressing CTRL-P or expecting a Print option when you right click.
Here's the best windows 8 tip.
Put the windows 7 DVD into the drive
Reboot the computer
Format C:
Install windows 7.
Fark TicMAn is that where it is. I'd go back to Win 7 but Win 8 is heaps faster :(
Here's my tip Windows 8 is the new vista, wait until the new windows 7.
Modern UI will still be there, hopefully they fix it up a bit, but it isn't that hard to get used to.
Hey hoggy, keyboard shortcut to switch metro between screens is Win+Page up/down.
Are there any tips not relating to Metro?
Not that haven't already been covered by the vids listed I'm afraid.
The only other 'tips' I have are to do almost exlusively with the 'Metro' interface (not that I use it often, but there are a few quirks I've found useful).
Someone mentioned the 'drag and drop' nature of Metro when being used in Multiple monitor setups (that is, if you have a 'metro-app' (if that is the term) up, by clicking and holding the mouse where traditionally the 'title bar' would be, you can switch it between screens (be aware that it'll relocate the entirety of the 'Metro interface' to recurr on that monitor.
Also, to 'close' a metro app (without Alt-F4ing) simply 'grab' where the title bar would be and drag the app to the bottom of the screen. (and then there's the 'right-click' for more options in any 'Metro-app'.)
Other Metro features I've noticed is you can easily 'switch apps' by 'throwing' the mouse cursor into the top right corner of the screen and clicking (aim high, because if you've got a multiple panel desktop setup, you'll simply scroll to the next screen).
Similarly once you find that little gem, you can 'flick' to the top right, and then bring the cursor down to show an 'interactive' App-switching interface.
One 'quirk' I've noticed is that there isn't a straight forward way to 'shut down' in Win8.
The two quickest ways I've found are straight-up 'Alt-F4'ing once all apps are closed (or you 'select the desktop' before doing so);
and the other is to 'lock' the screen (WIN+L) and then select 'shutdown' from there.
There are a lot of Win8 haters ITT, whilst for the most part I can't say I'm stoked at having a 'touch screen interface' jammed down my throat where I'd prefer a more conventional desktop approach, if everyone stopped crying about what MS considers 'progress' and just passed on info about how to use the interface we could all move on.
The sad part is that I think MS have done a stellar job (for a change) at correcting the screwups they've had previously by creating 10 'Windows products' where you only really need 1 (ok, in this case they still have '4' (pro and non-pro, x32 and x64) but there's no more 'Windows mobile' which has gotta be a good thing right?). I'm not fond of MS' retail packaging options or the concept of even remotely trying to use a 'touch screen interface in a desktop setting'.
I kind of envisage that last part as a pseudo 'Minority Report' type way, sitting at my desk and swiping furiously at the 24" monitors I have ~1 metre away from me on my desk looking like more of a 'window licker' than a 'windows user'.
I'm LOVING how quick Win8 is, and both the file transfer and task manager interfaces have had an EPIC overhaul!
This annoyed the tits off me but I've really gotten used to just hitting the power button. On my Win8 VM it's a little bit tedious having to go into the Parallels menu and hitting shutdown but both start a graceful shutdown of the OS.
Still would like a menu item to do it though (and reboot/lock/etc).
Kinda my point exactly Ticman.
If nothing else it suggests how single mindedly MS has pursued this as a 'tablet solution'.
.One 'quirk' I've noticed is that there isn't a straight forward way to 'shut down' in Win8.
I'm on my work computer so I'm going from memory but move mouse to bottom right (or top right) -> settings -> power -> shut down. It's just one extra click than windows 7 *shrug*
other option is just to create a shutdown shortcut.
and I've been prefering windows 8. big change but it took all of half a day to get used to it.
Yeah my trick is I got some app to disable metro and add a start menu. I never use any of the 'apps' either. Save that nonsense for your polyphonic ringtone phone.
I've really gotten used to just hitting the power button.
I have two batch files on both the desktop and metro interface, one for restart and one for shutdown. Its now quicker for me to shutdown Win 8 than it was with Win 7.
I like it except of the f*****g 6 mouse movements to shut down.
Seriously it's freaking annoying.
Gotta be arsed making a batch file I guess.
Use win-x extender so it becomes right click on start tile > shutdown
The biggest thing I liked about Windows 8 was that I only paid 15 bucks for it.. oh and that it was easy to reinstall Windows 7. With my super fast SSD I find that Windows 7 loads no slower Windows 8. The only thing I'd like from Windows 8 in 7 is the File Explorer/file copy dialog.
Looking forward to the version of Windows that is next designed for desktop PCs and keyboard and mouse.
Looking forward to the version of Windows that is next designed for desktop PCs and keyboard and mouse.
Ahh so Windows 8 SP1 :P
(Seriously, this is (and possibly a few exploit corrections) about what I envisage for SP1.)
I really doubt they'll bring the start menu back, best you can hope for is minor improvements.
I like it except of the f*****g 6 mouse movements to shut down.
Shutting down, I like win+d (show desktop) then alt+f4 and enter key.
I'm not a big fan of mousing a lot, have some mild RSI on my mouse hand as it is so avoid touching the thing. This is probably why the lack of a traditional start menu doesn't phase me, the new one is arguably better for keyboarders, certainly not much worse.
You can also create a shutdown button like so and put it wherever you like:
I get the rage at 8 I guess, but I don't find it that bad personally, and as my next work computer is very likely (more like certainly) to be a tablet hybrid the touch features will be quite welcome. For my gaming computer I don't give a f*** as long as it plays games and loads Steam. The improved file copy, performance monitor and task manager more than make up with the lack of the menu, I'd probably install a 3rd party one rather than go back to 7 if I cared that much about it.
I just noticed that you can get an upgrade for $39 until the end of January: http://windows.microsoft.com/EN-AU/windows/buy?ocid=WL_r_january13_na_hero_1_1
I'm considering buying it so that I can whinge about everything wrong with it.
So here's something I worked out today. I caved in to multiple client requests and got Skype. Ugh.
Something I have wanted for a chat / communications window was for it to only take a small part of my screen. I just need to know when people are messaging me, right? Well, Skype in Metro doesn't exist in the Desktop space which is normally a pain in the arse, but has its uses:
This is on my right hand monitor. Because the skype messenger is in Metro, it basically takes a small sliver of my screen when .. leftinised ... and the rest of it works as a full desktop space - maximise, windowskey-snap etc all works properly, just around that dedicated sidebar for skype so I can easily see notifications etc. without my important s*** like QGL being obscured.
I installed Pokki so when I pressed the windows button I didn't get taken back to the stupid metro page, instead I have a start menu!!
I always use skype like that Hoggy. The most annoying thing and somewhat surprising is how much functionality has been stripped from the Win8 version of Skype, can't transfer files, share screens etc. Not sure when they plan to fix this.
Skype on win8 keeps crashing for me even after I updated to latest version.
Yeah installed that Pokki program yesterday, was just getting sick of not being able to just hit one button for shutting down. It is actually quite nice in that it still contains the "favourite" pins so I have everything I need at the click of a button.
also is that what that hand thing is for. I found that out by accident but only have one monitor so I always wondered just what the hell the purpose of it was.
Skype on win8 keeps crashing for me even after I updated to latest version.metrosexual version or desktop version? I deleted the metrosexual version and installed the standalone client, not that I have anyone to talk to :(
I installed Pokki so when I pressed the windows button I didn't get taken back to the stupid metro page, instead I have a start menu!!Classicshell does this too but also enables you to have hotkeys in case you DO want to get back to the metrosexual menu. I've got it set for win key = start menu and shift + win = metrosexual.
I love how you can have a Metro app stuck to a corner of the screen and then the rest is treated like your typical desktop. Almost like its not there.
The only think I would love is if I could customise it a bit more. Notably width and it would be great to be able to have two different things running too.
Not a fan of classic shell (but its good that its there for those that need it).
Had to work with the classic menu on a couple of workstations for a week or so recently and hated it now that I've gotten used to Metro.
Yeh the hand thing allows you to drag the ... Window .. around. Stupidly though after so much gushing about the winkey+arrow snapping stuff in Windows 7 that doesn't work lolol
I think that having one app in the leftinised spot is the only way to show 2 apps on one screen at the same time in metro. Which is stupid I must admit and makes it not appealing for a keyboard / mouse productivity environment. Maybe if/when when they decide to make Metro the Desktop environment it will be less clunky.
Word on the street is Microsoft may be bringing back the start menu and boot to desktop options with Windows Blue (Win8.1) later this year.
I will happy if they do that tspec. I like Windows 8's snappyness it runs quite well for me and my games work well with it too. So I put up with some things, like the stupid app screen and no start button.
I use win-x heaps more than I used to use the start menu, so if they improve that, or make it a more fluid transition would that be enough for you guys?
I always use skype like that Hoggy. The most annoying thing and somewhat surprising is how much functionality has been stripped from the Win8 version of Skype, can't transfer files, share screens etc. Not sure when they plan to fix this.
I just manually downloaded skype from the site and installed it so it runs on the desktop instead of that metro bulls***. Works like the good old days.


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State Supreme Court overturns termination of father's parental rightsBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 17. 2013 5:59PM
CONCORD — A Manchester Circuit Court judge should never have terminated the parental rights of a father who spent time in jail for an armed robbery and never held a full-time job because he never abandoned his son, the Supreme Court ruled last week.
In the unanimous decision written by Associate Justice Robert J. Lynn, the court reversed Judge Susan B. Carbon's ruling that terminated the man's parental rights saying he had abandoned his 6-year-old son and that it was in the child's best interest.
Attorney John J.A. Schrepfer of Manchester, who represented the father, said he could not comment on the decision because of the confidential nature of the case because it involves a juvenile. The New Hampshire Union Leader was unable to reach attorney Edward C. Mosca, who represented the mother.
According to the decision in the case of In Re Deven O., the child was born in June 2006 and lived with both parents until December 2006, when the couple broke up and the father moved out.
Father and son spent a few days each month together until December 2007 when the father was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned until June 2010. The mother visited him in prison on a number of occasions, but brought Deven only one or two times.
In June 2010, the father was released from a halfway house and, during the next three months, visited with Deven a few times each week. He took numerous photos of his son and posted comments about the visits on his Facebook page.
In September 2010, however, the parents had a long telephone conversation during which the mother said she did not want him visiting with Deven until the father "straighten(ed) out" his life.Thereafter, contact with his son decreased because, Carbon found, the mother made it difficult for him to contact his son. Between September 2010 and March 2011, the father called the mother at least once about giving Deven a Christmas gift.
In October 2010, the mother filed a petition to change Deven's surname to her own. Although she knew the father was no longer incarcerated, she listed his last known address as the state prison. As a result, the father did not receive notice of the petition and did not learn that Deven's name had been changed until December, when the mother posted the information online.
Beginning in March 2011, the father tried several times to contact the mother to arrange to visit Deven. He also asked her father for help in arranging visits. When that failed, he filed a parenting petition in December 2011 and also proposed a parenting plan and a visitation schedule.
In January 2012, the mother filed a petition to terminate his parental rights on the grounds of abandonment and failure to provide support.
The judge, in opposition to the guardian ad litem's recommendation, terminated the father's parental rights.
Carbon noted the mother's new partner had become a father figure for Deven, had welcomed Deven into his extended family and provided financial, emotional and other support for the child.
The Supreme Court, however, said a court cannot terminate parental rights unless the petitioning party proves the statutory grounds for termination beyond a reasonable doubt. It agreed with the judge that the evidence in the case was sufficient to trigger the presumption of abandonment but, the jurists said, the finding that there was no communication for a period of at least six months is only the first step in determining abandonment.
The trial court, however, also must consider "the frequency and quality of the communication between the parent and child, the emotional and financial support provided by the parent for the child, and whether the overall conduct of the parent evidences a willingness to take on responsibility and concern for the child's physical and emotional care and well-being."
The Supreme Court said the record shows the father made efforts to communicate with Deven both before and after the triggering period, which is a six-month span of time when a parent has left the child in the care and custody of another without any provision for the child's support or without communicating with the child.
In this case, the father visited with Deven multiple times a week for three months, which is sufficient to show his conduct during this time was more than minimal and evidenced a concern for Deven's physical and emotional care and well-being, according to the decision.
"Indeed the trial court found that the father enjoyed these visits with Deven; he took pictures of the child and posted Facebook messages about visits. The father also made an effort to communicate with Deven after the triggering period. He repeatedly called or sent Facebook messages to the mother in an attempt to arrange parenting time with Deven, and also called or text messaged the mother's father to solicit his help in seeing Deven. When these efforts failed, the father filed a parenting petition requesting visitation time with Deven."


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As you know, the Bible is full of God's promises to carry us through when we need help. According to one person's count, there are 3573 promises in the Bible. The word promise itself occurs over 50 times in the King James Version of the Bible.
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List of promises in the Bible where the word "promise" is found:
Romans 9:4
Romans 15:8
2 Corinthians 1:20
2 Corinthians 7:1
Galatians 3:16
Galatians 3:21
Hebrews 6:12
Hebrews 7:6
Hebrews 8:6
Hebrews 11:13
Hebrews 11:17
Hebrews 11:33
2 Peter 1:4.
Promises to the overcomer:
"To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God" (Revelation 2:7, NKJV).
"He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels" (Revelation 3:5, NKJV).
"He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son" (Revelation 21:7, NKJV).
First promise of the Bible:
Genesis 3:15, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." This was fulfilled in Galatians 4:4; Luke 2:7; Revelation 12.5.
The last promise found in the Bible:
Revelation 22:20, "He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
This one is the best yet to come! Maranatha, the Lord is coming!
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Cain outdueled by Ryu in Giants' loss to Dodgers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Matt Cain should be used to it by now, but it doesn't make defeat any easier. Keeping with a trend that's followed him throughout the years, Cain did his part to give the Giants a win on Tuesday night, but the offense didn't hold up its end of the bargain.
The result? A 2-1 loss at the hands of the arch enemy Dodgers to open the final homestand of the 2013 season.View Full Game Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO -- Matt Cain should be used to it by now, but it doesn't make defeat any easier. Keeping with a trend that's followed him throughout the years, Cain did his part to give the Giants a win on Tuesday night, but the offense didn't hold up its end of the bargain.
The result? A 2-1 loss at the hands of the arch enemy Dodgers to open the final homestand of the 2013 season.View Full Game Coverage
"We're cold right now," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
As good as Cain was, giving up a pair of solo shots on an otherwise effective night, his counterpart Hyun-Jin Ryu was even better. Both pitchers tossed seven strong innings, but it was Cain who shouldered the load of the loss after the game.
"I made two big mistakes and that cost us," Cain said.
Mistake No. 1 came with one out in the fifth inning, when Yasiel Puig launched one in to the center-field bleachers for his 19th home run of the year. Mistake No. 2 came when Matt Kemp drilled one to left field for a no-doubt solo shot in the sixth. Kemp's blast gave the Dodgers a 2-1 lead after Tony Abreu tied it up at 1 with a homer of his own in the bottom of the fifth.
Cain said Puig was able to capitalize on a slider that didn't have much movement, while Kemp was able to drill a fastball that was supposed to be thrown outside but ended up on the inner half of the plate. From that point on it was all zeros, as the teams played at a brisk pace in the latest reprisal of the storied rivalry.
"Cain pitched well, he pitched great," Bochy said. "Our bullpen did a good job, but they pitched well, too. We just couldn't get much going offensively as you saw. Couldn't get guys on base and we logged a few strikeouts."
In all, Cain gave up two earned runs on seven hits and three walks while striking out four, dropping his record to 8-10 and ERA to 4.00. With the victory, Ryu moved his record 14-7 and his ERA to 2.97 as he bolstered his case for National League Rookie of the Year.
"Ryu did a good job of mixing the ball up well," Cain said. "You've got to give credit to him, too. He did a good job and their bullpen did a good job of shutting it down, too. It's not easy to go ahead and score runs against those guys."
The game's score may have been decided by the sixth inning, but that's not to say there wasn't some late-inning drama.
As Gregor Blanco stepped up to the plate as a pinch-hitter to lead off the bottom of the eighth, former Giants closer and current Dodgers relief man Brian Wilson was summoned from the bullpen. As he made the trot from the mound in right field to the mound in the middle of the diamond, he was received with a smattering of boos and standing applause.
"Definitely a little different watching him coming in from over there," said Cain, who was Wilson's teammate for seven seasons. "It's part of the game, guys get moved around and whatever. But we're happy that he's healthy because he's meant a lot to us and what we've done here in the past years."
Wilson made quick work of his ex-teammates, tossing a perfect, 10-pitch inning that included two strikeouts. Blanco was Wilson's first strikeout victim and the two appeared to stare each other down after Wilson tried to control the inside of the plate with a fastball that nearly grazed Blanco, but the Giants outfielder said it was nothing more than competition.
"That's why we're here," Blanco said. "We always want to compete and I know he wanted to compete and I wanted to compete also. That's the battle that we have to have every single time. I think it's fun to see stuff like that."
Likewise, Wilson didn't make anything extra out of the reunion.
"I wasn't expecting anything," he said. "You're not going to get a rise out of me. It's all good. Pitched the eighth, did my job. What I did here. If anything, I showed them exactly who I've been."
The sellout crowd rose to its feet again in the bottom of the ninth, when a wild pitch sent pinch-runner Francisco Peguero to second base with one out. But Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen finished off the save by striking out Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval, dropping the Giants record to 72-85, just a half-game better than last-place Colorado in the National League West.
Following Tuesday night's game, Bochy also confirmed that Barry Zito will make Wednesday's start in place of Madison Bumgarner, who will be shut down the rest of the year.
"I wanted to give him one more start this homestand," Bochy said of Zito. "Looking at it, we decided tomorrow would be the best time to give him this start. It gives Madison a break and he's done a lot. We know what he did last year for us and he's done everything we've asked."
Alex Espinoza is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Agency official details for the first time NSA's role in developing DES
"We're actually pretty good guys," said Dickie George. "We wanted to make sure we were as squeaky clean as possible."
Besides, "I don't think we were good enough to sneak things in that you guys wouldn't have found," he told a crowd of crypto professionals and security officials.
George detailed for the first time, in a presentation at the RSA Security Conference, the role of the NSA in developing and vetting DES, the nation's first commercial encryption standard. Changes were made by the NSA in the Substitution boxes, or S-boxes, which provide the core security for the algorithm that was submitted for approval as a standard by IBM.
"We had to change the S-boxes," to make them strong enough to withstand practical attacks on the cryptography, George said. "We didn't see any need to change anything else."
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The agency's goal was to make the algorithm as strong as possible, he said. "This is going to be used by the U.S. government and the U.S. banks," and not by the Russians, he said. "It had to be as good as advertised."
It was good enough to survive as a standard, in the form of Triple DES, until it began being replaced by the Advanced Encryption Standard that was adopted in 2001, which was much longer than any of the teams evaluating it expected it to last, George said.
"They did not believe DES would be the answer for as long as it was the answer," he said, so provisions were not made to update it by lengthening its relatively weak 56-bit key.
George was a member of one of the evaluation teams that looked at DES in the mid 1970s, and spent the last year putting together the story of NSA's involvement from contemporary documents and notes. The job was a challenge and produced surprises, he said.
"It was amazing how many people were on teams that I didn't know about," he said. "Not all of the notes on the different teams agreed."
But the basic story is that the National Bureau of Standards, the forerunner of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, decided in 1972 that a commercial cryptographic standard was needed, and asked NSA for help because the agency basically had a monopoly on serious cryptographic expertise.
NSA had two goals in vetting submitted algorithms: To assure that there were no attacks against them that were better than brute force exhaustion, and to make no changes that were not necessary. It was decided early on that NSA should not submit a candidate of its own.
"We felt there wouldn't be a lot of trust," in an NSA algorithm, a concern that was borne out by reaction to NSA's involvement in the process.
The initial call for proposals resulted in only a handful of requests for grants to study the problem. A second request produced three submissions, only two of which were acceptable. One of those accepted was based on a one-time pad, which would have been secure, "but the key management would have been horrendous," George said. "So at that point we had a winner," with a few necessary changes.
One of the major contributions of DES was the stimulus it gave to the development of the non-government cryptographic community, George said. After DES, NSA no longer had a monopoly on cryptography.
"We greatly underestimated how the Internet would allow a virtual cryptographic mass to develop" he said. "We benefitted greatly by seeing all the work that was done on the outside" in evaluating and trying to break DES.
That marked a major shift in the use of cryptography in the civilian world and a shift in NSA policy toward it.
"For a politician it was probably very scary," George said of the shift. "For a mathematician it was a lot of fun. DES presented a problem for the world to work on," and gave outside analysts their first big opportunities. And it is not dead yet. "DES is still a viable problem," for analysts, he said.
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Funny--he didn't mention the part about NSA threatening scientists with censorship when they published crypto papers, suppressing export of strong crypto from the United States, attempting to deploy crypto standards with builtin government backdoors, and trying to manipulate the industry into standardizing on key sizes small enough to brute force?
For example, he says NSA approved the 56-bit keys (which are too small for security against brute force) because they didn't anticipate that it would be in use for so long. This is inconsistent with historical record that shows that IBM initially specified 64-bit keys, NSA requested that it be reduced to 48-bit, IBM resisted because that 48-bits was clearly too few to be secure, and they compromised on 56-bit keys. They then prosecuted a decade-long attempt to deter people from using stronger keys and encourage people to use these known-weak keys, in addition to many other strategems which cannot possibly be interpreted as anything other than an attempt to expose vast populations of legitimate users to NSA spying.
They were still at it as recently as 2007 when they suppressed the open sourcing under GPL of the crypto parts of the Ultrasparc T2 processor.
From this description of Dickie George's speech, it sounds like quite a whitewashing. Be skeptical! Compare to analysis from open scholars (Hellman, Diffie, Schneier, Blaze, Young) or from original sources, e.g.:
Since the NSA is part of the "cloak-and-dagger", "smoke-and-mirrors" culture, why should we trust them when they claim they haven't put in a backdoor... Hmmm?
I just finished reading "Crypto"
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy (Paperback - Jan 15, 2002)
The interesting thing for me was how there hits a point where dedicated folks arrive at the same point independent of each other, and this trend holds true throughout history.
Also how the govt managed to piss off enough folks with the resources to fight back - specifically the Clipper Chip.
A good read.
I have some bad news for you re the NSA:THERE IS NO EASTER BUNNY! Another version of this from the NSA: "Trust is a form of mental illness!"
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Naya Rivera covers Cosmopolitan, "Latinas are really great nurturers who are great to our men"
'Glee' actress Naya Rivera is ready to be a married woman! After getting engaged to Big Sean last October, the 27-year-old talks with Cosmopolitan about her hopes for the future.
"I think he's going to be an amazing husband, and he'll make a great father someday," Rivera says of her fiance. "He's so kind to people, but he also wears the pants in our relationship, which I love. We Latinas are very independent and strong, so it's even sweeter that I've found somebody who can let me out of that role for a minute."
"Latinas are really great nurturers who are great to our men; we love hard and we love to cook," she said. "The other morning I woke up and was like, 'I need china — this table needs to be set all the time!' Focusing on those things is where I'm at right now."
They couple hasn't revealed a wedding date yet, but Naya is already wedding gown shopping. She was spotted at the Monique Lhuillier botique in Beverly Hills back in October.
She can't wait to have children, and to be able to teach them Spanish! "It sucks because I have no one to [speak Spanish] to, but it's something I need to learn when I have kids," she says. "They need to be fluent."


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In the late 1800s, Kannapolis was a small mill town, but much has changed since then. Today, the city is home to more than 40,000 people, and represents the 20th largest city in North Carolina. There is a lot to like about the city of Kannapolis. Its quaint, colonial-style downtown recalls days gone by, when life was simple and slow.
But the city is most certainly not mired in the past. Kannapolis is also home to the North Carolina Research Campus, a world-renowned life sciences campus where eight universities are headquartered, along with major corporations such as Dole Foods and General Mills. Many important scientific developments have come from this science education hub.
Kannapolis has had its share of famous residents, too. Pioneering funk musician George Clinton hails from here, as does the legendary Earnhardt racing family. And speaking of music and motorsports, Curb Records owner Mike Curb's Museum for Music and Motorsports is a popular local tourist attraction, where visitors marvel at Curb's extensive collection of music and racing memorabilia.
Famous North Carolinian musicians are celebrated at the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, another must-see local stop. Kannapolis residents love their city's small-town friendliness and rich history, and are proud of its vision for the future. Here, you can truly have the best of both worlds.
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July 30. 2013 10:09PM
Supporters of preserving Durham pool to meet tonight
By GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
— Friends of the University of New Hampshire Outdoor Pool will meet today, with a goal of preserving their beloved historic landmark.
An organizational meeting of the Friends of UNH Outdoor Pool Group, or FUNHOP, will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the new town library on Madbury Road.
Community organizers plan to share updates on the 1938-era WPA pool, and plans will be discussed to work toward the continued preservation of the massive modified flow-through pool, as well as ideas for enhancing it.
Residents are rising up against a statement made by the university earlier this month that they plan to close the pool for good at the end of the 2013 swimming season to make room for an expanded Hamel Recreation Center.
The university said last week that no plans are finalized, and a working group is still meeting to come up with the best solution for a pool.
The university has expressed serious safety concerns about the pool that they say need to be resolved, no matter how the recreation center is expanded.
The town supports preservation of the historic pool.
"The pool is a cherished … state historic resource because it is so unique in its physical characteristics. It brings town and gown together in innumerable ways like few resources can," Durham Administrator Todd Selig said.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services conducts an annual inspection of the Durham Outdoor Pool and it has passed its last two annual inspections.
The university argues that is because the pool is not held to the same standards as modern pools due to its unique design and that safety concerns remain, although water quality is not one of them.
The university said it plans to hold a public meeting this fall to discuss ideas for addressing the safety concerns, which may include building a new, modern, smaller pool on the same site.


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Cue the sad violins -- Max is back.
Not to worry, he's brought his guns and painkillers with him.
"Max Payne 3" is a outstanding update to the 11-year-old series that helped make RockStar Entertainment a gaming juggernaut.
Rockstar Games, maker of the popular "Grand Theft Auto" games released the title on May 15 for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and will follow with the PC version on June 1.
Our favorite boozing, pill-popping, bullet-dodging cop is back in a tremendous follow-up to the series that introduced Bullet Time to the eager gaming masses.
This is an older, battered, self-loathing Max Payne, living his remaining days downing...


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University of Tulsa researchers find new species
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A salamander first discovered by a University of Tulsa doctoral student in 2011 is being hailed as a new species in an international journal for animal taxonomy.
Doctoral student Michael Steffen and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Herpetologist Kelly Irwin discovered the new species in May 2011 while studying genetic diversity of other salamanders in Lake Catherine State Park near Hot Springs, Ark.
The university says the latest issue of Zootaxa will feature the paper and provide details on the Ouachita Streambed Salamander. The school says the amphibian is one of the most "genetically distinct" species of salamander to be identified in the United States within the past 70 years.
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Here are the best games quotes of the week. Once again, we rely on you guys to send us links. Best way is in the Comments or via Twitter.
Don't forget to add your opinion in the comments below. The best one gets picked for next week's edition. You can also see best quotes from the week of April 21st.
Bring Back Mr. Caffeine
"We definitely don't want to make Ubisoft too angry. If we do, they might bring back Mr. Caffeine, and then nobody will be happy."
Alex Navarro on the leak of Ubisoft's Rayman Legends video, which annoyed the company.
Giant Bomb
Typical Ways You Can Die
"They were creative. There's a lot of just hoping for self-death: choking to death, burning in a fire—the typical ways you can die that don't require them to put any effort forth."
Robert Bowling, formerly of Infinity Ward, on fan-penned death threats.
We Do Not
"When it comes to making packaged software digitally available, we do not intend to offer any products that the consumers deem incomplete."
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata draws the line on gougy DLC tricks.
Nintendo Briefing
Humor Disappeared
"While Leisure Suit Larry was one the first humorous games, the late '80s and early '90s were filled with one hilarious release after another: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Space Quest, Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, Sorcerer's Apprentice, and on and on. One day, it stopped. Within a year, humor disappeared from gaming. Why?"
We need more hilarity, dammit, says Larry creator Al Lowe
Bad Choices
"By highlighting the 'good' and 'bad' choices it's possible for players to adopt the stance of playing as a 'good Shepard' or 'badass Shepard' and that can mean that players aren't reading the dialogue options, they're just picking a response based on color to fit the way they've decided to play Shepard."
Game of Thrones Lead Game Designer Sylvain Sechi on choosing the right path.
Pure Survival Horror
"I've found my focus and once again I'm striving for pure survival horror. I am being very hands-on to see that the quality is there. Rest assured."
Be afraid. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami is back.
"There are already people spending $100 million on games, that's not even insane anymore. $200 million and $300 million games, I'm a little scared about that, there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much."
Maybe Disney is one of them Warren Spector?
Digital Spy
I Want the Dog
"I want the dog, our dog icon, which was originally my dog Zynga, I want that icon, that brand, to be what I call a dial tone for play. I want it to be more recognizable than a Nike swoosh."
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and his pet project.
USA Today
We Deserve to Get Paid
"It's really disappointing that there are so many people out there who love our work, and spend countless hours being entertained by it, but don't think we deserve to get paid for that entertainment."
Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson, maker of the hugely popular Football Manager series, on piracy.
Happen Again
"We still have to prove ourselves. There's a lot of people we p****ed off all the way back to November, and we have to show them we are not going to let that happen again."
Activision product director Noah Heller on Call of Duty: Elite
Non-Existing Cities
"With Google Earth, there's very little mystery left in geography. Any kid can check out any place. I really like adventure, I like mystery. When everything is so accessible, let's come up with new worlds. We were going to have this thing happen in a London-like place, but then we said London doesn't look good enough for our game. Let's do something better."
Dishonored Visual Design Director Viktor Antonov wants to find a new kind of neo-Victorian steampunk locale.
Blow Fails
"What Jonathan Blow fails to realize is that every medium out there has no shortage of mediocrity. There are plenty of great games out there, and they aren't that hard to find."
Reader Absolutfreak comment from last week's column, on the indie developer's dismissal of the mainstream.
Still Playing Catch-Up
"I don't want to dodge the question - I don't think they're doing anything super-well yet. They have a bunch of smart people working on it but I think they're still playing catch up to a lot of people who have been working in the space for a while."
Gabe Newell delivers his verdict on Origin, which he says he expects to get better.
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Sit at a Desk
"When you're an entertainment company that's spent the last decade going out of its way to recruit the most intelligent, innovative, talented people on Earth, telling them to sit at a desk and do what they're told obliterates 99 percent of their value."
Wise words from Valve's Employee Manual, leaked this week and widely discussed.
Mission Rehearsal
"He set off a bomb and then walked into a campground and shot a lot of people. That doesn't require mission rehearsal in a video game."
J.C. Herz, author of Joystick Nation, on claims that mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik trained using video games.
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An unpopular genre often ignored by the general public.
What do you think of sports anime?
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Queen of Support
Favourite Sports Anime in no particular order:
1. Prince of Tennis
2. Slam Dunk
3. Hajime no Ippo
4. Eyeshield 21
5. Kuroko No Basuke
You lose the moment you think of sports anime as being only sports instead of anime.
Edit: Oh man, brain is seriously not working at 7am in the morning.
1. Major (Seasons 1-6)
2. Cross Game
3. Hajime no Ippo
4. Kuroko no Basuke
5. Initial D
I love sports anime
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
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Hmm, in no particular order:
Captain Tsubasa
Hajime no Ippo
One Outs
It's gimmicky special powers..... is drag racing a sport?
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I generally like sports anime with cross game among my favorite series. I also really liked Major, and am enjoying Kuroko No Basuke. Your graphic has chihayafuru included, so if you include games Hikaru no Go and Chihayafuru are certainly among my top series.
I hadn't really thought of Chihayafuru as a sports anime, but ok, yeah, I can see how one can consider it that. Of the few sports anime that I've tried, though, Chihayafuru is the only one I like, and I'm hoping to be able to watch a second season. I'll admit I know nothing of karuta except what's portrayed about it in the show. Nonetheless, the show strikes me as being essentially realistic. I'm inclined to believe a skilled player really could memorize the field, strategize at all those levels, keep track of cards and what not, and knock them away that fast. In contrast, what turned me off Prince of Tennis (or what little I now remember of the first episode of the series streamed or maybe still streaming on CR recently) was the naming of supposed special tennis moves, like a cheesy kung-fu movie. I'm no pro, but did play tennis for many years in my younger days, and this naming thing is so far removed from my own experience that I just couldn't suspend disbelief to try and enjoy the series. It just struck me as way too ridiculous. I just couldn't get over that. Similarly with the mystical heart transplant personality assumption thing that seemed to be going on in Knight of the Area. That just doesn't happen! I can't swallow it! I watched the first few episodes and just couldn't go on. For some reason, I can suspend disbelief and enjoy sci-fi and fantasy and magical girls and so on, but not for these sorts of shows! Why, I don't really know.
(Oh, and I liked Bamboo Blade too. Again, the kendo seemed realistic to me, or realistic enough anyway.)
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I'm not usually interested in sport, but these anime look good! I might start watching them if I ever get a chance.
Just because I'm offline doesn't mean I'm dead.
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
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Hmm, in no particular order:
Captain Tsubasa
Hajime no Ippo
One Outs
Where the fuck is Cross Game?
If you'll notice I tend to try and bring new material to a discussion.
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
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All depends on the show. I could care less about sports, but if it has good characters and character development then it can be a good show.
Hikaru no Go - was one of my favorites.
Slam Dunk
Chihaya Furu
... lots of good ones.
Enjoy some, dislike some, just like what I do with other genres.
Kuroko's Basketball is the sports anime that made me try out more sports animes.
That anime is so damn awesome :D
I tried Slam Dunk, but it got boring after 7 epsiodes.
My expectations for Area no Kishi was high for ep 2, becaus a friend who has read the manga said that sad scene for ep 2 was very sad in the manga.
Both me and her didn't think it was sad in the anime, she was really disappointed and we both thought they handled that very bad.
And after that sad part the anime turned weird.
You who likes sports animes should watch:
Taishou Yakyuu Musume.
It's an anime about girls back in 1925 playing baseball. A time when girls weren't supposed to do those things, so you guys can probably think how much resistance they'll get.
And I recently watched One Outs, which was great.
Must watch for sports anime fans.
Anyone watching Ginga e Kickoff?


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B's top Ottawa before breakBy The Sports Xchange
February 08. 2014 8:22PM
BOSTON - The Boston Bruins have hit the Olympic break as the hottest team in the NHL.
Center Patrice Bergeron, a member of Team Canada, scored two goals to power the Bruins to a 7-2 pasting of the Ottawa Senators on Saturday, the final day before the league heads to Sochi.
The Bruins, playing their second straight with defenseman/captain Zdeno Chara having gone early to the Olympics, improved to 8-1-2 in their last 11 games. They are 20-3-2 in their last 25 home games and 23-6-2 at home overall this season.
The Bruins were 1-0-1 without Chara, who carried the Slovakia flag in the opening ceremonies.
Bergeron, registering his first points in six games, also had an assist and scored his 15th and 16th goals of the season. Left winger Chris Kelly scored his fourth goal, first since Oct. 19; right winger Jarome Iginla had No. 17 plus an assist; and left wingers Milan Lucic (No. 17) and Brad Marchand (No. 19, with two assists) and center Carl Soderberg (No. 9, plus one assist) also scored for the Bruins.
Right winger Loui Eriksson, center David Krejci (both Olympians) and right winger Reilly Smith all had two assists in front of backup goaltender Chad Johnson, who won his fifth straight start and is 11-3 on the season.
The seven goals were a season high for Boston, which got multiple points from seven players and had 42 shots on goal.
Right winger Bobby Ryan scored his 21st and defenseman Patrick Wiercioch his fourth for the listless Senators, who did little to help goaltender Craig Anderson. The Sens were down 6-1 when Wiercioch scored on the power play with 4:55 left.
Anderson came in 2-0 against the Bruins this season but never had a chance behind his lackadaisical teammates. He was lifted after the Lucic goal at 3:35 of the third period and Robin Lehner gave up two goals.
The Bruins earned a split of the four-game season series with the Sens, who haven't won a series against Boston since 2005-06.
The porous defense took half of the first period to hit the Senators, but once it came out, it was there to stay.
Ottawa had been a perfect 14 of 14 killing penalties over the last two games, both wins, but the Bruins scored on their first try and were on their way.
Rookie defenseman David Warsofsky earned his first NHL assist with a pass that Kelly redirected for Boston's second goal.
Iginla has 14 points in the last eight games, and linemate Krejci has 14 in the last 11.
Ryan, snubbed by Team USA, scored his first goal in five games, second in 18.
Bruins left winger Daniel Paille left after two periods with an injury.
NOTES: Ottawa C Jason Spezza had an assist and has 14 points in the last 12 games. ... The Bruins have five Olympians - D Zdeno Chara (Russia), Cs Patrice Bergeron (Canada) and David Krejci (Czech Republic), G Tuukka Rask (Finland) and RW Loui Eriksson (Sweden) - and the Senators two - D Erik Karlsson (Sweden) and LW Milan Michalek (Czech Republic). ... Bruins coach Claude Julien is an assistant coach and GM Peter Chiarelli an assistant GM with Team Canada. ... Ottawa C Mika Zibanejad played in his 100th NHL game. ... Sens D Chris Phillips missed his seventh straight game with a lower-body injury, while Bruins D Adam McQuaid missed his ninth straight with a leg injury. ... Eriksson, who has had two concussions this season, needed dental work after taking a stick to the face Thursday night in St. Louis. He played without a cage on his helmet - and apparently got caught again because he was spitting blood during the second period.


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Mark Roberts of the National Police Chiefs' Council is heading to Russia with a team of fellow officers to work with their Russian counterparts to protect up to 10,000 England fans.
"I think people need to be really careful with flags. It can come across as almost imperialistic… and can cause antagonism," Roberts, the national lead for football policing, told Britain's Times newspaper.
"We really urge some caution about people putting flags out and waving them about in public.
"We would not expect people to come across to this country, get drunk and drape flags on the Cenotaph (the memorial to Britain's national war dead) so we need to extend the same courtesy when we go abroad."
After Russian hooligans attacked England fans in Marseilles in 2016, they posted photos of dozens of "captured" St George's flags, the report said.
Roberts warned fans to be particularly careful in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, which hosts England's opening game against Tunisia on June 18.
Tensions are high between Britain and Russia over the poisoning of former double agent Yuri Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury earlier this year. Britain has blamed Russia for the attempted murder, a charge that Moscow has strongly denied.


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Three Nebraska Wesleyan University students have each been awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship, which will send them abroad for one year to develop language skills.
Amirah Ali-Dinar has been awarded a prestigious Boren Scholarship that will send her to Jordan next year to study Arabic. She is the first University College student enrolled in the new criminal justice program to receive the honor.
James Hamrick could be walking the red carpet on May 3, but he's opted for the McDonald Theatre stage instead where he plays Marius in the musical sensation, "Lés Miserables."
The end of Kelsey Arends' semester abroad in Nicaragua last year was really only the beginning.
Two Nebraska Wesleyan University students and a 2013 NWU graduate have each been awarded Fulbright scholarships to teach internationally next year.
Bruce Thummel ('06) is the HVAC technician serving Olin Hall. He knows the ins and outs of Olin's heating and cooling systems better than anyone.
The artistic talents of Nebraska Wesleyan University's senior art majors will be on display for the Senior Art Exhibition.
Rodney S. Markin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Business Development and Chief Technology Officer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center will deliver the annual Fetzer science lecture on Tuesday, April 29.
—By Katrina Sieler ('15)
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Jamie Reed wants to be a high school English teacher. It's likely her future students will learn a little about the Japanese language and culture too.
Paul Rauschenbush, executive religion editor of the Huffington Post, will present the Mattingly Visiting Scholar Lecture at Nebraska Wesleyan University on Thursday, May 1.
About 340 undergraduates are expected to walk across the stage and receive their Nebraska Wesleyan University diplomas on Saturday, May 17.
The country's oldest local sorority is celebrating a milestone.
Nancy Newman, director of Student Health Services, has been named one of the state's "best nurses."
This spring Nebraska Wesleyan University students Alex Langley and Rebecca Brune will begin implementing a new program aimed at empowering middle school girls as they transition to high school.
In just six short weeks, 119 former students of Dr. David Mickey pledged over $26,000 to establish a fund that will provide scholarships to future NWU students.
Nebraska Wesleyan University will screen the documentary "Komora: To Heal." The film follows orphan survivors of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and the people who stepped in to raise them.
In 1982, Nebraska Wesleyan University English professor William Kloefkorn was appointed Nebraska state poet.
Next fall students will be welcomed back with several improvements and changes to our food service program.
Key changes will include:
A group of Nebraska Wesleyan students will experience the rich diversity within the U.S. during an alternate spring break service trip to the nation's capital March 22-27.
Four Nebraska Wesleyan University students with a passion for activism were in Arizona March 21-23 attending the Seventh Annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU).
Nebraska Wesleyan University will mark the upcoming 102nd anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic with a community presentation featuring a journalist, author and descendant of one of the ship's victims.
Lincoln artist Craig Roper brings his take on growing up in the contemporary west to the next Elder Gallery exhibit, "My Western Landscape."
Former students of LaVerne Rudell surprised their beloved professor with an endowed fund in her name during Nebraska Wesleyan University's sixth annual Business Summit, held March 7.
Students from high schools in Lincoln gathered at Nebraska Wesleyan University to participate in a "math circle."
Uliana Furiv follows the turmoil in Ukraine from afar.
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Alex Langley is one of four college students in the country who will spend 12 days in New York participating in the international policymaking process.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson will visit Nebraska Wesleyan University to present the Lambda Pi Eta Honorary Lecture. Her lecture is titled, "Communicating Science in a Polarized Political Environment."
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Touch of Class Jazz Choir will make three performance stops on its spring tour.
The Weary Center will be offering some limited hours over Spring Break (March 18-22). Those hours will be: Monday-Thursday: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm & 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday:
Trey Closter and Clint Baldwin dream of opening a supplement business someday.
Nebraska Wesleyan University professor Mark Stutz has been selected to receive an Athletic Trainer Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA).
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Theatre Department will present a weekend cabaret with the theme, "Once Upon a Time: Music, Magic and Mystery."
It is not unusual to see a rise in illness on campus this time of year. Help yourself and others stay healthy!
Nebraska Wesleyan University communication studies professor David Whitt has been selected to present the inaugural Faculty Scholarship Lecture.
While temperatures in Nebraska reached record-breaking lows in early January, 14 Nebraska Wesleyan University students experienced a different kind of extreme.
A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Sri Lanka, and for Counter-Terrorism will deliver Nebraska Wesleyan University's annual Curtis Lecture on Public Leadership on Thursday, February 27.
Playwriting has always been a passion for senior theatre major Megan Ghorashy. Her talents were recognized at the Region V Festival where she was awarded first place for her one-act play, "Final Moments."
Twelve Nebraska Wesleyan students involved in the student organization, Global Service Learning (GSL), spent their semester break in January at the Iskashitaa Refugee Network in Tucson, Ariz.
Immaculée Ilibagiza's lecture scheduled for Tuesday, February 18 has been postponed due to her canceled flight. The lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m in Olin B Lecture Hall.
Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its Academic Honors List for the fall semester of the 2013-2014 academic year.
Nebraska Wesleyan University's next Elder Gallery exhibit highlights the work of three multi-media artists whose work focuses on common objects.
Nebraska Wesleyan University is growing its graduate degree programs. Beginning this fall, NWU will offer a Master of Business Administration program and a Master of Science in Nursing/Master of Business Administration joint degree.
NWU students made beaded bracelets and played cashier with first-graders at Elliot Elementary to help them learn math.
When Professor Meghan Winchell's African American History class switched from three credit hours to four, she didn't add more reading assignments.
Nebraska Wesleyan University President Fred Ohles joined approximately 100 college presidents on Thursday, January 16 in committing to new and expanded efforts in enrolling and graduating more low-income minority students.
The artistic talents of high school students will be showcased at Nebraska Wesleyan's fifth annual juried art exhibition "Bridge."
Nebraska Wesleyan University student Sean Tomes always knew he wanted to study abroad. But like many science majors, Tomes' schedule didn't leave much room for a semester away.
It's hard to believe the fall semester is nearly done. It seems like just yesterday when you moved your student to campus. Now, the winds of winter are upon us and your child is returning home.


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Night's Watch Tee
A shadow of what it once was
We don't know why you took the black, and we don't want to know. But you know people will speculate so make sure you have your story straight.
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.
- The Oath of the Night's Watch
Did you take your vows in a sept or before a heart tree with the old gods? Doesn't matter, because it's binding either way. You have forsworn your allegiance to noble Houses and bravely dedicated your life to defending the Seven Kingdoms from what lies beyond the Wall. Whatever you were before no longer matters, because now you are a Brother.
Note: This is the oath from the show not from the books. Between "watcher on the walls" and "shield that guards the realms of men" the book adds that you are "the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers."
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Futures rising with lingering hope for budget deal
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock futures are rising as strong corporate earnings and lingering hope for an eleventh-hour deal that will head off a government default.
Hurried negotiations in the Senate may lead to a vote Wednesday, one day before Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says the government will be forced to pay bills only with the remaining cash on hand and incoming tax receipts.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 65 points to 15,160. S&P futures have gained 6.5 points to 1,698.50. Nasdaq futures are up 8 points to 3,248.75.
Strong earnings are also giving futures a boost.
Bank of America, PepsiCo and the toymaker Mattel all topped Wall Street expectations before Wednesday's opening bell.
Also Wednesday, the Federal Reserve issues the Beige Book, its anecdotal snapshot of business conditions around the nation.


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There is a controversy in the Linux world. It doesn't have to do with Microsoft, or anything overtly technical. It may seem, to the outsider, the open source equivalent of the question, "Boxers or briefs?" But it's much more serious than that. More here.