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For the last three years I've avoided holidays. Not the holidays in December. Every single holiday all 12 months of them. This behavior stems from a psychological compensation issue (as most things do).
Some people thrive on holiday hoopla and not only those who are able to grow long white beards or are in possession of a size XL bunny suit. I'm talking, of course, about teachers.
First grade teachers are pros at making a big deal out of Johnny Appleseed Day, Elephant Appreciation Day, National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day and whether March comes in like a lamb or lion. Give a first grade teacher a plain old rock and a big pot of water and she'll make a party out of it. Guaranteed.
My mom was a first grade teacher with unsurpassed talent for holiday hullabaloo. After my sister and I were born, she traded in her classroom of 30 students for two daughters, but continued to display holiday talents at an Olympic level. If they gave medals for holiday triumphs, my mom would have been weighed down in gold.
When I was a kid, this worked out pretty well for me. I basked in my mom's holiday splendor. We looked for shadows on Groundhog Day. We learned about some man with a bucket from Nantucket on National Limerick Day. We swapped the sugar with the salt on April 1.
Obscure holidays were fun, but my mom's sparkle shined the brightest on the biggies. Food, candy, presents and dcor all overflowed often in a literal sense. If two daughters brought out the holiday genius of my mom, you can only imagine what the arrival of grandchildren did to the equation. It was exponential.
I wasn't born with the holiday gene. I didn't have the organizing and planning talents of my mom, but I was happy to follow along and put out the pickle tray, blow up the balloons or hang the garlands wherever she told me to put them.
And so the fun continued, until Alzheimer's disease joined our family get-togethers and holidays became less celebratory and more bittersweet. Those of us close to my mom took on what we could, but hers were big shoes to fill.
Three years ago, my mom spent her last holiday with us. Three years ago, I started avoiding them. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out why.
Three years is a long time and a lot of holidays. Of course I couldn't avoid every one of them completely because I wasn't even conscious of my behavior at first. Once I figured out my motives, I was appalled and a little embarrassed, so I shielded them from others. I became a holiday minimalist doing as little as possible to get by without arousing suspicion.
Time is a universal healer and three years transports a person from one level of grief to another. Thank goodness. Holidays are a part of life; avoiding life is no way to live.
Last weekend, we loaded up our family and made the two-hour trek to spend a holiday with my dad and sister and her family. The event wasn't the super-planned, over-the-top whirlwind affair of my mom's heyday, but my sister did make some killer cheesy potatoes. And we got to spend time together talking, laughing, sharing stories and making memories like families do.
At one point, as my sister related one of her stories, a certain expression and intonation in her voice reminded me of our mom and I realized we are more like her than we think. Perhaps neither of us will ever make it into the holiday hall of fame, but we both carry parts of our mom with us wherever we go. And when we get together to celebrate a holiday, she is there with us. And she is smiling.
Jill Pertler is an award-winning syndicated columnist, playwright and author of "The Do-It-Yourselfer's Guide to Self-Syndication" You can read more columns at the Slices of Life page on Facebook.


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(11) Edmund, July 24, 2008 2:41 PM
Lisa, September 15, 2011 3:36 PM
Are you kidding me?
(10) Carlos, May 21, 2008 12:02 PM
What are we to do ? Do not just show all this.
(9) great1, May 18, 2007 2:06 PM
Also Eastern Culture
I just wanted everybody to know that not just Western culture but Eastern culture also faces this threat. Radical muslims have also caused great destruction in the Eastern countries such as India , Phillipines, Thailand etc. No other country has suffered more at the hands of islamic exterimism then India
(8) Anonymous, April 11, 2007 2:54 PM
The west needs to wake up!
It is imperative that we ALL realize that this is a threat against WESTERN CULTURE - not the Jews, Not the Christians, but against all of us. Please educate everyone you can about this video - also about Steve Emerson's JIHAD IN AMERICA (1994) about the 1993
World Trade Center bombings.
This is NOT new but has been spreading - insidiously - like a cancer, for many years. If we do not wake up, soon, I fear we are doomed.
It is 1938, and they are lacing their bootstraps. THE WEST NEEDS TO WAKE UP!

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Nucleus CMS is Back (Sort of)Despite project close announcement one and a half years ago, some enthusiastic Japanese developers and users have been maintaining Nucleus CMS core.
And today, we are pleased to announce Nucleus CMS 3.70. This is a direct descent of the original Nucleus CMS, supports the same multiple languages.
Major fixes and improvements in this release are including (but not limited to) the following:
- Enforced password security using phpass library instead of md5 hash
- Default character code set is now utf-8, not iso8859-1
- Added new event PreLoadMainLibs
- Fixed vulnerability described in VCE-2011-3760.
- Support for PHP7 (Fixes in installer, embedded wrapper for mysql functions, etc.)
- [New] Duplicate Item button in the item list screen
- [New] Now you can arrange category order
- ... and more!
You are always welcome to post suggestions and questions for Nucleus CMS in the same old English support forum.
Also, all the core and major plugins are now maintained on GitHub. Please feel free to submit issues and of course pull requests.
Beside this code base, LMNucleus a fork from Nucleus by Leo is also available at http://nucleus.slightlysome.net/ and GitHub.
Cheers, and happy blogging!
The Japanese Nucleus Team
Nucleus Project Closed
Per the announcement on the front page the Nucleus CMS project has been closed.
Related Projects
LMNucleus: http://nucleus.slightlysome.net/ and GitHub.
Nucleus CMS core: The core code, as it was last under development, is available at Sourceforge. Version 4.0 was in progress when development was last active. Note: development has not been active on this since 2013 and it does not include updates made to LMNucleus.
Nucleus CMS 3.65 Released
The Nucleus CMS core development team has released Nucleus CMS v3.65. This release includes a few minor bug fixes that are intended to make it compatible with PHP 5.4. It is recommended that only users who are having issues with PHP5.4 support upgrade at this time. There are some bugs with character encoding in the Admin area.The change log can be found here.


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9/11 memorial service to be held at Huber Park
With the tenth anniversary of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, quickly approaching, a memorial service to be held in Borger is in the works. The service is being coordinated by the Borger Area Emergency Services Honor Guard with help from the Vietnam Veterans of America and the Borger Complex Honor Guard. It will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Bob Tiffany, who is a member of the Borger Area Emergency Services Honor Guard, said the service will be held at the site in Huber Park where the 9/11 memorial currently in the works will be constructed. The site of the memorial will be north of the bird sanctuary and north of the Rotary Club flagpole. He said there will be guests on hand to present music at the event, and two or three people will be speaking that day. The keynote speaker will be Judge Bill Smith. People are asked to bring their lawn chairs and blankets for the event. Tiffany said there will be a few chairs provided, but not many. The World Trade Center steel from Ground Zero that will be used to build the monument will be at the service, up close and personal so citizens can see it firsthand. Tiffany said more money is still being raised to bring in an engineer to do drawings for the memorial. Once this is completed, construction can begin. On May 11, 2011, the steel arrived in Borger, escorted by emergency vehicles. The procession started at Rice Construction and then went down Cedar to Zachry Construction, where the monument will be made. The two pieces of steel for the memorial each measure 78" X 34" X 15" and each weighs 1,290 lbs., according to Tiffany. Each beam representing the World Trade Center will sit on top of a rusted steel plate that will sit on top a five-sided base. The complete event is told sequentially on the panels of the five-sided base that represents the Pentagon. On top of the bottom piece will be green stone that represents the field where one of the airliners crashed in Pennsylvania. The story of the 9/11 tragedy will be told in copy that is laser-cut into the stainless steel base platform. The main platform is covered with black granite tile. The pedestal, to be made out of gray unpolished granite, will rise on a five-sided convergent tile-covered column and be capped by a polished stainless steel platform. The World Trade Center beams will rise from a Cor-ten steel pentagon set in the corner of a green granite pentagon. Local dolomite will be used for the perimeter wall to establish local context for the monument. There will also be local greenery surrounding it as well.


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December 25, 2012 > Making wishes come true
Dentoni made it her mission to inspire the school district's students to write letters to Santa as part of Macy's "Believe" campaign, and raise funds for Make A Wish. Macy's committed to donating $1 per letter to the charitable organization, and on a specially designated "Believe Day," would credit $2 per letter.Collecting letters from various local school sites, after work each day, kept Dentoni very busy. Leah Laderas, Corporate Relations Manager for Make-A-Wish, even pitched in with the effort one day to help collect and count. Dentoni says she herself counted each night during the collection period and kept all of the letters at her house for safe-keeping. When she determined the date of "Believe Day," she delivered the letters to the Walnut Creek Macy's assisted by a crew from Fire Station No.1.Dentoni's efforts culminated with two school-wide assemblies held at Azevada Elementary on the morning of December 18. There she announced the amazing totals to excited kids, staff, and parents, adding that the 41,711 letters had earned $83,422 for Make-A-Wish, enough to grant an additional 10 wishes!Principal Carol Diamond said that the majority of Azevada students wrote more than two letters, while Laderas announced Azevada as the top letter writing school in Fremont with 10,000. Quite an incredible feat!As an extra thank you for the school's support and hard work, Joy Deinla, Cause Marketing Manager at Macy's presented a $1,000 check to Azevada Elementary. "You have the power to make a change in your local community, by making Bay Area wishes come true," said Deinla.Among those speaking during the assembly was Jenny Nieto, the parent of six-year-old Tomas, who had his Make A Wish request granted last year, by visiting the San Diego Zoo. Nieto explained that Tomas, who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2008, is in remission and doing well.Laderas was emphatic in stating, "Every eligible child in this chapter gets a wish granted. The criteria are that the youth must be between the ages of 2 1/2 and 17 years of age and have a life threatening medical condition/illness." Furthermore, she explained that eighty percent of Wish kids go on to adulthood, so this is something to look forward to, as part of their treatment process. Last year, the West Coast/Bay Area chapter granted 340 wishes and assisted in another 40 wishes.Also thanking the students for their fundraising letter campaign, were Ralph Zeien and his 17 year old daughter Shelbi, diagnosed in 2008 with Crohn's, an inflammatory bowel disease. She was recently granted her wish to meet Justin Bieber and attend a concert. Zeien is required to eat a special diet and has to endure transfusion treatments of the medicine Remicade every six weeks at UCSF Medical Center.Deinla of Macy's explains, "This is the fifth anniversary of the "Believe" campaign in partnership with Make A Wish, and is one of our favorite campaigns as it demonstrates kids have the power to give back to their community. It is our privilege to support them."Moreover, for Dentoni, there is a personal reason for her involvement with Make A Wish and why she holds it so dear. "When I was a child, I lost my 12 year old brother. I know, first hand, the difficulty in trying to heal when a part of your family had been ripped from you, and the anguish dealing with the crippling pain that surrounds the loss of a child, or even their related illness."Dentoni feels it is important as an educator to teach children to reach out to their community and make a difference. "Through the help of each and every one who was a part of this great effort, we absolutely changed the lives of Make A Wish children, right here in our own communities. I am exceedingly proud of our accomplishments."You can watch the video for this year's Believe campaign at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvyHxl2WOO8


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Andy McNamara, editor-in-chief of Game Informer, also tweeted that the outlet would be publishing a "really kick ass" story tomorrow.
Riot Games butted heads with Valve recently over a filed trademark for "DOTA", leading to speculation that Valve would be releasing its own version of the popular Warcraft III map. Riot's own League of Legends is based around the formula established by Defense of the Ancients.
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Free SlideShow Maker. Visual JavaScript SlideShow
This photo slideshow maker is a demonstration of Flash-like behavior implemented solely in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. You don't need flash to view this slideshow. Use numerous of splendid effects to show your pictures. Create a slideshow and start photo sharing with your friends and family today.
Visual SlideShow is available for Windows and Mac; it is translated by volunteers to 25 languages!
What's New
Visual Slideshow v1.9 (Oct 8, 2015)
- New template - Dark Glass
- Touch-enabled scrolling for mobile devices
- Background audio now plays on mobile devices, uses HTML5 if possible
- Improved "Insert to Page" wizard
- Bug fixes
Visual Slideshow v1.7 (September 20, 2014)
- Improved quality of image compressing
- Fixed bug with aspect ratio on Mac
- Minor bug fixes
Visual SlideShow v1.6 (June 25, 2013)
- New templates are added - Pinboard and Crystal;
- Flickr and Photobucket support. Add flickr or photobucket album or a single photo to your gallery!
- "Auto Loop" option. If unchecked, the slideshow plays only one loop and stops at first slide.
- Bug fixes.
Visual SlideShow JS v1.5 (February 9, 2011)
- New templates are added - No frame and Pulse;
- Now you can create Joomla module for you Joomla website;
- Now you are able to add more than one line of text in the caption;
- Bug fixes;
Visual SlideShow JS v1.2 (October 20, 2010)
- New templates are added - Android and iPhone;
- 'Insert to page' wizard is added. Inserting a gallery to page becomes easier. "Insert to Page" wizard opens a page in a browser view and you simply click inside the page to select where you want the gallery to appear and press "Insert Before". No more HTML editing required!
Notice: It's impossible to insert more than one slideshow into the same page!
- Option 'Sound' is added. Now you can add .mp3 audio file to your slideshow;
- Option 'Transition time' is added;
- Option 'Slideshow delay' is added;
- Now you can add Link for each image in the gallery;
- Option 'Position of controller' is added;
- Now you can add both horizontal and vertical images in the gallery;
- Bug fixes;
Visual SlideShow JS v1.0 (March 10, 2010) - First Release!
How to Use
Part 1 - Adding folders with images or images to website album.
From the Images menu, select Add images.... Browse to the location of the folder you'd like to add and select the images. You can also use Add images from folder..., Add images from Flickr... and Add images from Photobucket... options.
Visual SlideShow Maker will now include these pictures. Or you can drag the images (folder) to the Visual SlideShow window. The image is copied to your pictures folder and automatically added to your website gallery.
If you have included the images that you do not wish to be in the slideshow, you can easily remove them. Select all images that you wish to remove from slide show, and select Delete images.. from the Images menu. You can pick and choose pictures by holding the CTRL while clicking the pictures you like.
You can also use your Visual LightBox projects (.vislb) in Visual JavaScript SlideShow Maker.
Part 2 - Adding caption.
When you select an image you'll see the various information about it, such as:
- Caption - you can enter any comment or text about the image in the website photo gallery. When you add images from Flickr its name will appear in caption automatically.
- Path, Size - for each image, you will see the file name, full folder path; file size and date of last change.
- Url - you can add link for each image in the gallery.
Part 3 - Editing capabilities.
In this slide show maker you can easily rotate your pictures using "Rotate Left" and "Rotate Right" buttons.
Double click the picture to open it in your default graph editor. You can adjust the color of pictures, as well as fix red-eye and crop out unwanted parts of an image.
Part 4 - Gallery properties.
From the Gallery menu, select Properties or use "Properties" button on the toolbar .
On the first tab of the Gallery Properties window you can change the name of your slide show and enable/disable the following properties: Slide Show title, Auto play Slide Show, Loop Slide Show, Show captions, Show controller, Show loader, Play audio file and select . mp3 audio file you want for playing. Also you can choose Position of controller.
On the second tab of the Gallery Properties window you can select the thumbnail you want to use, set the Thumbnails Size, Thumbnails Quality. Select Thumbnails Format (save in PNG or JPG format). Specify the Alignment of thumbnails (Top, Right, Bottom, Left) in your slideshow and the Page color.
On the third tab of the Gallery Properties window you can select the templates, the size and quality of your pictures, select transition effect, transition time, slideshow delay and change the watermark.
You can establish the various sizes for exported images.
Control the quality of output PNG and JPEG format image by defining output "Image quality" and "Thumbnail quality" parameters (0%…100%).
The following transition effects are available:
- Fade effect;
- Flash effect;
- Fold effect;
- Ken burns effect;
- Push effect.
Part 5 - Publishing of the Visual SlideShow Maker.
When you are ready to publish your slideshow online or to a local drive for testing you should go to "Gallery/Publish". Select the publishing method: publish to folder, publish to FTP server, paste slideshow gallery into existing html page using insert to page option or create joomla module.
- publish to folder. To select a local location on your hard drive, just click the Browse folders button and choose a location. Then click Ok. You can also set "Open web page after publishing" option.
- publish to FTP server. The FTP Location Manager window enables you to define a number of connections for use when uploading your slideshow to an FTP.
You are able to add a new FTP site by clicking "Edit" to the right of the "Publish to FTP server" drop down list. FTP Location Manager window will appear. Now type in a meaningful (this is not the actual hostname) name for your site and fill in the FTP details in the appropriate fields. You will have to type in your hostname, e.g. domain. The FTP port is normally located on port 21 thus this has been prefilled for you already. If your web site uses another port, you will have to enter it here.
You might want to change the Directory as well if you need to have your uploaded images placed in e.g. "www/gallery/". You can specify it in the FTP Folder field on the Publish window.
Notice: Write the name of the folder where your slide show will be placed on the server. Notice that you should specify this field; otherwise your slideshow will be uploaded into the root folder of your server!
- insert to page. To select a html page, just click the Open HTML page button and choose page where you want to install web site album. Then click Open.
Click inside the page to select where you want you gallery to appear. Click 'Insert Before' button and 'Publish button'. Notice that it is not posible to insert more than one gallery on the same page.
Notice: It's impossible to insert more than one slideshow into the same page!
- create joomla module. Save Joomla module in any folder. To select folder click 'Browse...' button.
Part 6 - Save your slide show as project file.
When you exit Visual JavaScript SlideShow, you'll be asked if you want to save your project. The project consists of the pictures you choose to put on your slideshow and all your settings. It's a good idea to save the project, because that will allow you to change the project in case you decide to do something different with future slideshows. So click Yes, then enter a name for your project. To select the location of your project, just click the Browse folders button and choose a different location. Then click Save.
Part 7 - Add Visual SlideShow inside your own page.
Visual SlideShow Maker generates a special code. You can paste it in any place on your page where you want to add slideshow.
Export your slide show using Visual SlideShow software in any test folder on a local drive.
Open the generated index.html file in any text editor.
Copy all code for Visual SlideShow from the HEAD and BODY tags and paste it on your page in the HEAD tag and in the place where you want to have a slideshow (inside the BODY tag).
<!-- Start Visual SlideShow.com HEAD section -->
<!-- End Visual SlideShow.com HEAD section -->
... </head>
<!-- Start Visual SlideShow.com BODY section -->
<!-- End Visual SlideShow.com BODY section -->
You can easily change the style of the templates. Find the generated 'engine/css/slideshow.css' file and open it in any text editor.
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A license fee is required for business use. Visual SlideShow Business Edition additionally provides an option to remove the VisualSlideShow.com credit line as well as a feature to put your own logo to images. After you complete the payment via the secure form, you will receive a license key instantly by email that turns the Visual SlideShow Free Edition into a Business one. You can select the most suitable payment method: credit card, bank transfer, check, PayPal etc.
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Possible Clue On Saturn's Hexagon? 70
permaculture sends us to nature.com for a description of new (and old) research that might possibly shed some light on the origin of the hexagon around Saturn's north pole. Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have spun buckets of water, in much the same way Isaac Newton did, and photographed geometrical whirlpools developing. As the buckets are spun up, central holes develop that are first elliptical, then triangular, then square, pentagonal, and hexagonal. A UT Austin researcher is quoted as saying it's unlikely this process is behind the Saturn mystery.


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Stockton , CA
John Kiyoshi "Kay" Yamaguchi
February 9,1916 - March 25, 2013
A native Stocktonian, John Kiyoshi "Kay" Yamaguchi was born to Tsuneo and Kimi
Yamaguchi; the middle child of 5 siblings. He attended local schools while working on the family farm.
In 1942, he
married Teri Tsunekawa at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds Assembly Center before their internment in Rohwer, Ark. He joined the Army in 1945, attending Military Intelligence school, then serving with the 441st Counter Intelligence Corps in Tokyo during the post-war occupation of Japan.
He returned to CA with his family where he managed a large farm in Tracy while attending night classes at the then Stockton College, receiving an AA degree. He went on to become licensed as a landscape contractor, establishing his own business. Over his 30 years as John K. Yamaguchi Landscaping, he landscaped many city and county parks, including Oak Grove and the present San Joaquin Delta College campus.
During retirement, he and Teri traveled widely, always anxious to return home to tend their beautiful yard and flourishing vegetable garden. Together, throughout their lives, they nurtured the beauty and bounty of nature.
A man of dignity, his strength of character and unwavering integrity drew him respect and admiration in his business career as well as in his personal life. A kind, generous and humble man, he was truly dedicated to his family and friends.
Predeceased by his loving wife of 69 years, Teri, he is survived by his daughters Jacquie (Noby) Oshidari and Susan (Kevin) Wong, grandchildren Allyson (Brad)
Sakai, Mark (Lisa) Oshidari,
Alex and Gordon Wong, great-grandchildren Regan and Carter Sakai, Gavin Oshidari, siblings June Arao, Fred Yamaguchi, sister-in-law Alice Tsunekawa,
devoted caregivers Oly Mendoza (whom he called his 3rd daughter), Esther Caballero, Myra Cruz.
He was a member of Stockton Buddhist Temple, Tomonokai,
Fukuoka Nikkeijin Kai, Japanese American Citizens League,
Veterans Military Intelligence
Service, Haggin Museum.
Friends are invited to attend a memorial service April 21, 2:00 Stockton Buddhist Temple, 2820 Shimizu Dr.


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A woman places flowers on the grave of a relative at the cemetery of Benfica, on All Saints' Day, in Lisbon, Portugal on Nov. 1.
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Catholic nuns from the congregation Saint Jose of the Mountain pray as they visit a tombstone on All Saints Day in the cemetery of San Lorenzo in Ronda, near the southern Spanish city of Malaga.
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A woman prepares flowers to be sold at a cemetery during All Saints Day, a Catholic holiday to reflect on the saints and deceased relatives in Barcelona, Spain.
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Children play beside a tombstone as their family visit deceased relatives at Heroe's cemetery to remember their departed loved ones on All Saints Day in in Taguig City in Metro Manila.
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A boy darkens the inscription of a tombstone of a deceased relative during the commemoration of All Saints Day in Navotas City, Metro Manila on Nov. 1.
On All Saints' Day, cemeteries around the world are crowded with people paying their respects to departed loved ones by offering flowers, candles and prayers. In the Philippines, the day is also observed by cleaning and repairing the graves of deceased relatives, but this tradition is slowly dying.
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An elderly woman prays near a grave at a cemetery in the village of Ivenets, 31 miles southwest of Minsk, on Nov. 1. Catholics in Belarus marked All Saints Day by visiting the graves of their relatives and friends.


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Apple posts Mac OS X 10.4.5 update
Intel and PowerPC versions tweaked
Posted in Personal Tech, 15th February 2006 10:09 GMT
Apple has updated Mac OS X for both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs, bumping its operating system up to version 10.4.5. The patch incorporates a number of fixes and improvements for the OS itself, along with a number of compatibility tweaks for third-party and Apple-branded applications. It also includes Apple's most recent security updates.
More information about the update's particular changes can be found here. There's a version of the installer for systems already running Mac OS X 10.4.4, which weighs in at 16MB for the PowerPC release and 98MB for the Intel version - get them here and here, respectively.
Apple also posted a complete installer designed update any version of 10.4 to the latest release, which you can find here. And you can download the Mac OS X Server 10.4.5 update here. ®


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Nami, a Shiba Inu, from Anchorage, Alaska has worked as a therapy dog by visiting rehabilitation centers. Nami has provided assistance and guidance to his owners, Dwane, Susan, and Jenny Anderson and the rest of their loving family.
· Nami is a Canine Good Citizen Dog
· Will enter her first agility trial this spring
· The 12 Shiba Inu to attain the Rally Excellent Title
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We add a set of AFR 305 heads to our 454 to complete its transformation into a 21st-century big-block.
Last month, we tested five different key components to update an old-school 454 Rat in Joey Diorio's '55 Chevy. Once we changed from the old-tech hot rod parts to the five new pieces, we realized a total gain of 73 hp and 87 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels.
These were not off-the-wall, pie-in-the-sky parts, just the latest off-the-shelf components from the aftermarket. We did this to illustrate how much more horsepower may be lurking in your prehistoric big-block. The first of the five changes was replacing the 20-year-old-design hydraulic flat-tappet cam with a new Lunati Voodoo solid street roller. The gains were such that the old 750 Holley double-pumper was no longer up to the task of feeding the 454. We ditched it for a new Holley 950 HP carburetor.
Going from the stock 14 volts to 18 volts of ignition power using Performance Distributors' Mini VIP gave us another 7 hp and 4 ft-lb. Switching to a Wilson Manifolds four-hole tapered carb spacer in place of a plain four-hole spacer gave us four more ponies. The last swap was getting rid of the '70s-era Weiand Team G single-plane intake for a recently redesigned version (plus 14 hp and 7 ft-lb). These five alterations also dropped the '55's e.t. by more than a second on the strip.
Today's street engines often make more power per cubic inch than '60s and '70s race engines. This is due to the technically advanced designs and manufacturing of today's automotive components. The next step to complement the aforementioned changes was swapping on a set of state-of-the-art cylinder heads. Recent offerings in cylinder heads just blow away those of yesteryear, even if those old castings received a thorough porting job by an experienced and skilled technician.
Our choice for this upgrade was a set of Airflow Research's aluminum 305cc Magnum heads. The 454's stock iron castings were the good (back in the day), high-performance, rectangular port heads. The stock rectangular port castings may have larger intake runners (315-320cc), but they offer less airflow than the AFR's smaller 305cc runners. The AFR 305s provide maximum airflow with minimum port volume for added velocity. A smaller port that flows more air is better for driveability (part-throttle response) and power production throughout the rpm range. These AFR heads demonstrated huge flow improvements at every lift value, not just at peak.
Goin' Flowin'
After receiving the AFRs at our Jersey office, we brought them to SLP Engineering in Toms River, New Jersey, for flow bench testing. We had a pair of ported rectangular port heads on hand to flow-test against the AFRs. After Joey D removed the bone-stock heads from his '55, we benefited from a three-way head-flow shootout. The AFR's average airflow numbers from .200- to .700-inch lift were 48 cfm more than the stock rectangular port heads and 44 cfm more than the ported heads. At .500-inch lift the as-cast AFR 305s produced 62 cfm more airflow than the stock castings and 54 more cfm than the ported units. (See the flow charts on page 92.) AFR now has 315 CNC-ported BBC heads that offer even more airflow gains than the tested as-cast 305s.
The AFRs are stock replacement heads with a few considerations. You'll need longer pushrods and 1-inch-longer head bolts for the four bottom exhaust boltholes. The exhaust ports are raised W-inch, which can cause header clearance issues (like on our Tri-Five with the "605" power steering box). We tried 2-inch headers made to fit a stock BBC in a Tri-Five, but they ended up hitting the block and the transmission bellhousing area. Ironically, we had to reuse the old '80s Blackjack 1 Y-inch headers that fit snugly next to the "605" steering box. For our new combination we should have been able to use 2- or 2 V-inch headers for the new, better-breathing heads. Had we been able to find such headers that fit with the power steering (Joey didn't want to do any cutting on the '55), we would have seen even more dramatic results.
Dyno Time
In Part 1, the five upgrades upped the ante to 402 rear wheel horsepower at 5,400 rpm and 415 lb-ft of torque at 4,800 rpm (this month's baseline). Once again at SLP Performance Parts we met up with Ken Estell (engineering fabricator) and Will Seppelt (product design engineer) and strapped down the Shoebox. Hank Daneicki (director of engineering) handled the dyno-driving duties.
Hank put the hammer down and we witnessed 452 rear wheel horsepower when he let off the gas at 6,200 rpm (this was the shift light setting). On all the previous pulls Hank was letting up at 6,200 since the previous peak power was at 5,400 rpm. Now at 5,400 rpm, the AFRs helped produce 35 more horsepower, and at 6,200 rpm the power was up by 79 hp! With more pulls to come, we didn't want to risk revving the old Rat too high.
During initial back-to-back pulls we noticed the air/fuel mixture ratio was too lean at 13.5. We reached into our Holley jet box for size #82 jets to replace the Holley 950 HP's stock #79 jets on all four corners. The bigger jets added response and three rear wheel horsepower. Still, the A/F was too lean at 13.3 to 13.4. Next, we swapped the high-speed air bleeds (#32s) for a richer set (28s). This brought the A/F to a safe but slightly rich 12.6 along with consistent power output. If we'd tested on a cool day at 65 degrees Fahrenheit, the A/F would have been close to an ideal 12.9. It was not conducive for us to further try more tuning on this extra hot and humid day. Besides, after realizing 82 rear wheel horsepower at 6,200 rpm from a head swap, we were content to leave well enough alone.
Everyone's heard the saying, "It's all in the combination." Selecting the right parts is usually a phone call to the company's tech line. Be thorough with the specifications of the motor, driveline, vehicle weight, and intended purpose. This big-block responded favorably to its new upgrades, and Joey D enjoys driving his No-Jive-Five-Five more than ever. The head swap certainly helped the whole combination come together to become a serious street/strip contender.


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MONTREAL - The Jean Coutu pharmacy chain said more than two-thirds of the drugs it dispensed in the fourth quarter were lower-cost generic alternatives to patented drugs, a ratio it expects will continue to climb as more medications are added each year.
"We can expect another four molecules added to that list probably every year for next couple of years," said chief financial officer Andre Belzile, referring to generic drugs.
Jean Coutu said Wednesday it's raising its dividend as its net profit grew 7.9 per cent to $57.7 million in its fourth quarter. The company earned 30 cents per share in the quarter ended March 1, one cent above analyst forecasts and compared with $53.5 million, or 25 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2013.
Revenues were up slightly to $685.4 million in the fourth quarter compared with $682.7 million in the same quarter last year.
Much of the profit increase was due to the performance of its generic drug manufacturer Pro Doc, which earned $22.4 million on $49.1 million of sales in the quarter, up from $16.7 million on $43.5 million of sales a year ago. Despite lower generic prices, Jean Coutu boosted Pro Doc's margins to 45.6 per cent from 38.4 per cent because of volume increases and cost concessions from suppliers.
Belzile said the company expects further price declines as additional cost savings pursed by governments could reduce Pro Doc's margins to a still healthy 40 per cent. But he said the rate of price declines is diminishing, providing pharmacy chains with more predictable pricing.
"The deflationary impact on generic drug prices is not going to be as bad as we experienced in the last four to five quarters," he said during a conference call.
While most customers on Quebec's public drug program are required to substitute for lower cost generics, Jean Coutu (TSX:PJC.A) still sees volume growth opportunities from those on private drug plans.
The shift could help to further narrow the gap with the U.S., where generic drugs accounted for 81.4 per cent of all prescription drugs sold last year according to U.S. retailer CVS Caremark. The proportion of generic drugs sold by Jean Coutu grew by four percentage points to 67.2 per cent in the fourth quarter. That compared to a rate of 47.4 per cent in fiscal 2009.
Chief executive Francois Coutu said he expects provinces will rely on the pan-Canadian Council of the Federation to negotiate future generic price decreases after efforts by British Columbia and Alberta to act alone were unsuccessful.
"I think it's to the advantage of the province to go with that coalition because it's co-ordinated and they may get more that way than on their own," Coutu told analysts.
The coalition negotiated that four more drugs would be added to the list of 10 generics that charge 18 per cent of the patented drug prices as of April 1, down from 25 to 40 per cent provinces and territories have been paying. Price reductions for 10 commonly used generic drugs is expected to save public drug plans $150 million a year.
Irene Nattel of RBC Capital Markets said generics have been a strong contributor for Jean Coutu, accounting for all of its EBITDA growth in the fourth quarter and more than offsetting lower underlying contributions from franchising operations.
"Jean Coutu remains a regional powerhouse enjoying a 33 per cent share of all prescriptions dispensed in Quebec," she wrote in a report.
The chain said its quarterly dividend will rise 17.6 per cent to 10 cents, above the analyst's forecast for a 12-per-cent boost. It also received TSX approval to double its share purchase program next year to 8.2 million shares.
For the full year, Jean Coutu earned $437 million or $2.12 per share, compared with $558.2 million or $2.57 per share in 2013. Excluding one-time items including gains from the sale of its investment in U.S. retailer Rite-Aid, Jean Coutu earned $224.3 million or $1.09 per share, compared to $211.3 million or 97 cents per share a year earlier.
Revenues amounted to $2.73 billion, compared with $2.739 billion last year, a decrease of 0.2 per cent, due lower generic drug prices.
The Jean Coutu Group operates a network of 413 franchised stores in Quebec, New Brunswick and Ontario under the banners of PJC Jean Coutu, PJC Clinique, PJC Sante and PJC Sante Beaute.
On the Toronto Stock Exchange, its shares gained 23 cents at $21.88 in midday trading.
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• Paynter gallops at Spa
• Brown, Ramsey come full circle
• The Grey Express takes Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Stakes
"He worked great Monday morning and jogged and walked fine Tuesday and Wednesday," the trainer said of Fort Larned, most recently fifth in the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap. "This morning, he was not 100 percent in his training. He was a little off behind. It's not serious, possibly a pulled muscle, but when you are competing against horses on this level, you have to be 100 percent."
Wilkes said the next likely start for Fort Larned, winner of the 2012 Breeders' Cup Classic, would be the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup on September 28 at Belmont Park.
"We'll wait for that and go from there," said Wilkes.
With the defection of Fort Larned, who had been expected to be on or close to the pace, Eric Donovan, oddsmaker for The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA), made Paynter the 2-1 favorite for the 1 1/8-mile race.
Successful Dan is 5-2, followed by Flat Out (3-1), Mucho Macho Man (9-2), Ron the Greek (8-1) and Alpha (12-1).
Along with the Grade 1 Forego and the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch, the Woodward it will be shown live on the NBC Sports Network.
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Woodward morning-line favorite Paynter got a look at Saratoga on Thursday morning with an easy gallop over the main track in preparation for Saturday's race.
Owned by Ahmed Zayat and trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, the 4-year-old Awesome Again colt arrived in Saratoga at 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, following a nearly 17-hour trip from California via Newark International Airport.
"Flying is a very easy deal for the horses," said Baffert's assistant, Jim Barnes. 'He flies easier than he vans, actually."
The 1 1/8-mile Woodward will be the first Grade 1 race for Paynter since he won the Haskell Invitational last July at Monmouth Park. He developed a fever out of that race which evolved into colitis and, ultimately, laminitis in three of his four hooves.
"To tell you the truth, a year ago I didn't know where we were going to be in a year's time. I'm happy to be where we're at, that's for sure," Barnes said. "He's come a long way. The recovery was a lot quicker than I ever expected it to be. When he came back and ran his first race, he was very full of himself."
Paynter showed plenty of energy upon his arrival, turning his head from side to side and neighing loudly and often as Barnes walked him from the van to his residence at trainer John Terranova's barn.
"That's him. That's how he rolls," Barnes said. "He rolls with a lot of energy. It isn't uncommon for him to act like that. He's normal, just how he should be."
Paynter won a seven-furlong allowance on the Cushion Track at Betfair Hollywood Park on June 14 in his comeback race, and followed up by running second, beaten a half-length, in the Grade 2 San Diego over Del Mar's Polytrack surface on July 27.
"He trains at Del Mar and he deals with the racetrack; he just doesn't move over it as well as he does on dirt," Barnes said. "We're glad it all worked out and we're here. When we ran him at Del Mar, so many people showed up; even at Hollywood when he ran.
"I expect it will be the same, maybe even more of a following up here. It's exciting. Racing needs something like this, to have people interested in it and be excited about it."
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Having worked for Hall of Fame trainers Bobby Frankel and Shug McGaughey, Chad Brown had a solid foundation when he opened his own stable not quite six years ago. One of his first clients was the outgoing, outspoken Ken Ramsey.
"When he hired me, he said, 'I'll give you a few horses to get started and, man, I want to be the first winner for you, because you're going to have a good career,'" Brown recalled Thursday morning. "He was very positive about me going on my own and was confident I'd do well as a trainer."
Brown's relationship with Ramsey came full circle on Wednesday, when he sent out Granny Mc's Kitten, a Kitten's Joy homebred, to win the P.G. Johnson stakes for Ramsey's Saratoga Race Course record 19th victory as an owner. Brown has won three stakes for Ramsey at the meet, including the Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational with Big Blue Kitten, and the John's Call with Hyper.
"It's really great to be a part of that for the Ramseys," said Brown, a native of nearby Mechanicville, N.Y. "Ken and Sarah have been with me since I went out on my own. I'm at my home track. The horse is by their flagship stallion. It all came together, and I'm so happy to be a part of it for them. The guy trusts me with a lot of his better horses, and it feels good when you come through for him."
It was Ramsey who gave Brown his first career victory, with a gelded son of Jules named Dual Jewels. Making his 41st career start, Dual Jewels came 10 wide down the stretch and won by 4 ½ lengths as the favorite in an 11-horse field at Churchill Downs on November 27, 2007.
Ridden by Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux, Dual Jewels took the $8,680 winner's share of the $14,000 purse, and was promptly claimed for $5,000 by owner-trainer Mike Johnson.
"We were dropping the horse a couple levels because he really wanted to own the first winner I trained," Brown said. "He said, 'Here's one right here. I want you to drop that thing as far as you can,' and we did. We dropped it in and the horse won, and there was a bunch of claims for it, at least a dozen. He didn't care. He was fine with it. They've been with me ever since. From having just a couple horses with me to now having about a dozen horses, they're not only great clients of mine, but great owners for the game in general."
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The Grey Express took command heading into the far turn on Thursday afternoon and pulled clear after the final hurdle to take the $75,000 Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Stakes, the final steeplechase race of Saratoga's 150th anniversary meet.
It was the first stateside victory in four starts for the 8-year-old gray mare, who began her career in Ireland and now is trained by Hall of Famer Janet Elliot for Gregory Hawkins.
"We bought her last year, actually, specifically to run in Saratoga," said Elliot of The Grey Express, who was second in the Mrs. Ogden Phipps steeplechase earlier in the meet. "[When she was turned out] the other mare kicked this mare in the shoulder and gave her two chips, so that was her out for the rest of the year. So, this has really been her first year. In a way it's helped, because she's had a year to acclimatize."
Sent off at 5-1, The Grey Express returned $13 for a $2 win bet. With Ross Geraghty aboard, she completed the 2 1/16 miles over fences in 4:52.44.
Cat Feathers finished second, with Take Her To the Top third.


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COOKEVILLE , Tenn. – A dual performance by pitchers Adam
Liberatore (pictured) and Lee Henry stunned the Eastern
Illinois Panthers Saturday as Tennessee Tech posted back-to-back
shutouts to sweep an Ohio Valley Conference doubleheader, 4-0 and
The Golden Eagles will look to sweep the series with Sunday's final game at 1 p.m at Bush Stadium.
Liberatore (4-4) went the distance for his first complete game of the season, striking out a career-high 12 Panther batters. Fittingly, he fielded a sharp ground ball in the ninth and started a double play that ended the contest.
Henry (2-3) tied a career high in strikeouts with nine, pitching the second complete game shutout of the day. He allowed only three hits by the Panthers in the 3-0, seven-inning victory.
The nation's leading home run hitter, A.J. Kirby-Jones, fueled the Golden Eagles in a dominating 4-0 victory in the first half of the doubleheader.
Tech took an early 2-0 lead over the Panthers in the bottom of the first when Kirby-Jones crushed the first pitch for a two-run homer after Tate McMillan was hit by a pitch. Kirby-Jones leads the nation with 18 home runs this season and also broke the school's all time record for total bases.
Eastern Illinois had five hits in the following four innings by five different players. Designated hitter Richie Derbak contributed a double in the second, third baseman Zach Borenstein added a single in the top of the third inning on a looper to left field, and short stop Cam Strang singled to third base in the fourth. However, EIU couldn't convert and left three on base over the next three innings.
The top of the fifth inning showcased the first opportunity for EIU. Pinch hitter Daniel Bracken split Tech's first and second basemen with a single into the outfield, and advanced to third on a double by leadoff hitter Curt Restko with one out. With the tying run in scoring position, Liberatore got Zach Borenstein looking for the second out, and then fanned Ben Thoma on a 2-2 pitch.
Tech added another run in the bottom of the fifth after third baseman Zephan Guyear took a base on balls and advanced to third on a single up the middle by Austin Wulf. McMillan laid down a sacrifice bunt to bring Guyear home for an RBI.
The Panthers had another chance in the top of the seventh with runners on first and second, but Restko hit into the force out at third and Borenstein went down swinging for his second strike out of the day.
Guyear rounded the bases for a second time in the bottom of the seventh after a throwing error put him on first. Wulf doubled down the right field line and advanced to third as Guyear beat the throw at home. Wulf went 3-4 on the day for the Golden Eagles.
Tech capitalized in a pitching duel during game two of the series, tallying six hits and scoring all three runs in a late rally.
The Golden Eagles had another strong fifth inning, initiated by a single up the middle from second baseman Frankie Beech. Chad Hayes took first on a throwing error while Beech advanced to third and Guyear earned his first hit of the day with a perfect bunt to load the bases. With one out, McMillan ripped a single up the middle and all three of his teammates came around to score.
Chad Oberacker, Ben Burgess and Casanova Donaldson each added a hit earlier on in the game, while Cam Strang contributed his third hit of the day for EIU. Ben Thoma, and Richie Derbak also added singles for the Panthers.
Tech played perfect defense behind their pitchers in both games, committing no errors and leaving a total of 13 EIU runners on base over both games.


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Gibson/Miller Band
The hard-driving Gibson/Miller Band was one of many country-rock groups to spring up in the wake of the honky-tonk revival of the early 1990s. Frontmen Dave Gibson and Bill "Blue" Miller were guitarists from very different backgrounds. Gibson was born and raised in Arkansas surrounded by the music of Eddy Arnold, Hank Williams and Elvis Presley. As a young man, he worked with John Prine and Steve Goodman before becoming a well-known songwriter in Nashville. Miller hailed from Detroit and played on recordings by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band; he also sang jingles, traveled with Isaac Hayes, and even won an Emmy for providing the theme of an ABC documentary. After living in various cities, he eventually settled in Nashville, despite having never before played country music.
Gibson and Miller were introduced by Epic Records Vice President Doug Johnson, who thought they might make a good writing team. They put together a band, made a demo and sent it back to Johnson, who was impressed enough to sign them. The other band members were bassist Bryan Grassmeyer, who had previously played with Vince Gill and Suzy Bogguss; drummer Steve Grossman, who had worked closely with Grassmeyer; and steel guitarist Mike Daly, who had worked with Gibson for several years and played on all of his demos. The Gibson/Miller Band debuted in 1992 with the single "Big Heart," which, along with its video, was well-received and landed them in the Top 40 the following year. Their second single, "High Rollin'," made the Top 20, and their third, "Texas Tattoo," created quite a stir with its provocative video. This led to their first album, Where There's Smoke (1993). In 1994, their single "Stone Cold Country" reached the Top 40, followed by the album Red, White & Blue Collar. ~ Sandra Brennan


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Tottenham Hotspur face a battle to keep hold of academy stars Alex Pritchard and Shaquille Coulthirst, amid interest from Real Madrid and Barcelona, according to the Daily Star.
The Tottenham starlets have impressed in this season's NextGen series - the youth football equivalent of the Champions League - and the El Clasico duo are thought to be interested in bringing the pair to Spain.
Both Alex Pritchard and Shaquille Coulthirst have scored four goals in the competition - and are joint top scorers.
19-year-old Pritchard is out of contract at the end of the season, and Real Madrid are reportedly monitoring his situation at White Hart Lane.
The skilful playmaker was the shining light for Tottenham in both games against Barcelona, and found the net in Spurs' shock 4-1 win over the Catalans in Spain.
And Tito Vilanova's side are believed to be scouting 18-year-old Coulthirst, after the young forward hit three past the Barca youth team in the same game earlier this month.
Pritchard is something of a dead-ball specialist, and hit the target with a stunning free-kick against Wolsburg earlier on in the tournament. The 19-year-old typically operates in the centre of midfield, and was reportedly the subject of a bid from Premier League side Queens Park Rangers earlier this year.
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And if only they could find a reason to delay the release date until a year from today, they'd hit the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth!
Wait, no, bad, I don't want to give them an excuse to delay further...
Maybe they can delay the PS3 version until 2009. PS3 owners are used to getting late versions of games anyway.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Intelligent Design IS Creationism, just renamed to fool people on purpose. I'm sorry you fell for the Dicovery Institute's trick. Read about the Wedge Strategy [wikipedia.org] and the accidentally leaked Wedge Document [antievolution.org].
My logic isn't flawed, I'm simply reporting the flawed logic and lies that the Discovery Institute themselves perpetuate, but don't tell the general public. They were very upset that the Wedge Document leaked, but it tells it like it really is. The Discovery Institute says one thing in private to their superstitious religious whack-job supporters who believe in the fairy tale of Creationism, and they say something totally different in public. That IS their Wedge Strategy. That's just what the Wedge Documen
Darwin is really not the personification of the enemy for these people - it is Mendel. An educated member of the clergy (blasphemy for some
The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright [donhopkins.com]
Macintosh HD:XmotiveHarness:src/Motive.c
Tuesday, January 28, 1997 / 9:25 AM
This is the prototype for the soul of The Sims, which Will Wright wrote on January 23, 1997.
I had just started working at the Maxis Core Technology Group on "Project X" aka "Dollhouse", and Will Wright brought this code in one morning, to demonstrate his design for the motives, feedback loop and failure conditions of the simulated people. While going through old papers, I ran across this print-out that I had saved, so I scanned it and cleaned the images up, and got permission from Will to publish it.
This code is a interesting example of game design, programming and prototyping techniques. The Sims code has certainly changed a lot since Will wrote this original prototype code. For example, there is no longer any "stress" motive. And the game doesn't store motives in global variables, of course.
My hope is that this code will give you a glimpse of how Will Wright designs games, and what was going on in his head at the time!
Read The Soul of The Sims code here... [donhopkins.com]
You have just perfectly summarized the point of Stanislaw Lem's [www.lem.pl] short story, "The Seventh Sally [blogspot.com]" in his excellent book "The Cyberiad [wikipedia.org]" (also reprinted in DugHof's "The Mind's I"), which inspired SimCity [wikipedia.org].
From Wikipedia's SimCity article [wikipedia.org]:
In addition, Wright also was inspired by reading , a short story by Stanislaw Lem, in which an engineer encounters a deposed tyrant, and creates a miniature city with artificial citizens for the tyrant to oppress. [1]
"And how do you know there aren't civilizations a hun
So I was discussing this news with a couple of my friends as we'd all been interested in the game. Sadly, I will be in the middle of studying for PhD qualifiers instead of being able to play.
You need to understand how to calculate actual release dates from announced release dates. What you do is take the delta between the last release date they announced and the current release date, divide by the
It's not that strange, if you define "strange" as meaning something similar to "unusual". It is a bit of a worry though -- my general impression of Spore has been of a "it's done when it's done" type of project, and aiming for an arbitrary release date seems contrary to that.
Still, I have hope. Even all those years ago when it was first demonstrated it appeared pretty gamey, even if the different phases weren't linked. And I've been seeing various hands-on previews that say the game is virtually complete.
The only confirmed platforms so far are Windows PCs, Macintoshes, the Nintendo DS and various mobile phones. Wright wants the Wii, 360, and PS3 to have the game, but they're not firm 'yes'es yet.
A Wii version has already been announced. What can you say about what that's going to play like in terms of structure, control, etc.?
I can't say much about it except the fact that the overriding kind of factor in my mind and Lucy [Bradshaw]'s, in terms of looking at what direction that team goes with it, has been to make really good use of the controller. What interests me about the Wii is that in some sense you have a much higher bandwith controller than you have with any other console or even a PC. How do we abstract the maximum Because one of the biggest advantages we have is our procedural animation system, which means that we can have an infinite of variety of animations that we can make the creature do because it's done procedurally. So that's a natural kind of strength of having a higher bandwith input device--it should really feel like I'm puppeteering this creature very directly, as opposed to I'm just indirectly controlling with a few buttons here and there. The rest of the design is totally going to evolve around that.
If it's good, a lot of us may end up buying it and playing it.
If it's bad, then we've lots of other shit we can be doing instead - it's really no biggie.
So give us a quick tinkle when it's out in the shops, otherwise just **BUGGER OFF** until it's ready.
Thanks for your time and understanding.
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NEWARK — Sunday's regular-season finale, a 3-2 loss to New Jersey at the Prudential Center, had little meaning for the Bruins.
Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci, Milan Lucic, Jarome Iginla, Daniel Paille, and Chris Kelly didn't travel to Newark. The Bruins recalled Alexander Khokhlachev, Justin Florek, Craig Cunningham, and Matt Lindblad from Providence on an emergency basis.
Chad Johnson was in goal. Dougie Hamilton started as the fourth-line right wing.
But the bosses were watching closely. Assuming full health, the Bruins will carry one extra forward in Jordan Caron and two spare defensemen for the playoffs, most likely Andrej Meszaros and Corey Potter.
Injuries are bound to take place in the playoffs. When they do, the Bruins will have to call upon their young players to help out.
"I need to get a good feel of those players moving forward," said coach Claude Julien. "We've got one extra forward here when you look at our lineup being healthy. If we need to call some guys up, I think it's important that I see those guys.''
It was the first NHL game for Khokhlachev, the team's second-round pick in 2011. He replaced Bergeron between Brad Marchand and Reilly Smith.
Lindblad started with Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton. Florek rode shotgun with Carl Soderberg and Loui Eriksson. Cunningham centered the fourth line. Some of the youngsters could get the postseason call.
"The goal tonight was to have a good compete level, which I think we had, a decent showing, and give those guys an opportunity to play," Julien said. "We did all of the above. Certainly not disappointed, although you always hope to come out of here with a winning outcome vs. a losing outcome."
Lindblad, Florek, and Cunningham project to be bottom-six NHL grunts. Khokhlachev could be a top-six forward. In 63 games with Providence, the left-shot center had 21 goals and 36 assists. Khokhlachev is second in the AHL in rookie scoring.
The Bruins believed they had traded Khokhlachev, Matt Bartkowski, and a first-round pick for Iginla last year. The deal didn't happen after Iginla informed the Flames he preferred to play for Pittsburgh.
Khokhlachev nearly scored his first NHL goal Sunday, but Martin Brodeur gloved his attempt at 4:03 of the third. The center had two shots and won 8 of 17 faceoffs in 15:14 of ice time.
"He competes really hard," Julien said. "He gets his nose dirty everywhere. He makes things happen. He was battling hard on those draws, so that was a good thing to see."
Kelly, Paille sidelined
Paille (head) didn't play. Paille was injured Saturday after taking a hit from Buffalo's Jake McCabe. Paille was woozy after the check, but was feeling better Sunday. Paille has not been ruled out for the start of Round 1.
"He's doing really well today," Julien said. "We got some good news today. He's feeling great. It's just about going about it day to day. It's certainly real positive news today."
Kelly (back) missed his third straight game. The Bruins are hopeful Kelly will be available for Game 1.
Salute to Brodeur
Brodeur started in what was likely his final game as a Devil. Brodeur will be an unrestricted free agent. The lifelong Devil wants to continue playing; the team does not intend to bring the goalie back.
"He's the ultimate competitor," said Julien, who coached Brodeur in 2006-07. "When I was here, he worked as hard in practice as he did in games. He didn't get upset about getting scored on. But he didn't let anybody score on him. He never went through the motions. He'd stay afterward and do some extra. That was pretty impressive to me for a guy at that age who had accomplished so much — that he still had that edge and wanted to do some extra work afterward and work on certain areas of his game.
"He's accomplished what he's accomplished because of his approach and his attitude. Being a good goaltender, when you have that attitude, you go from good to great. Marty's been a great goaltender in this league."
Sunday marked Brodeur's 1,259th appearance, all with the Devils. Brodeur will turn 42 May 6. He is the NHL's all-time leader in wins (688), losses (394), goals against (2,764), shots faced (31,540), saves (28,776), and shutouts (124).
Captain material
With their leadership group not in Newark, the Bruins tabbed Campbell, Thornton, and Johnny Boychuk as their alternate captains against the Devils . . . Hamilton played the first period at right wing. He switched back to defense for the final 40 minutes. Potter took his spot up front. "We know now if we need a forward who to call on. Not me," Hamilton cracked. Hamilton played forward for a year and a half in pee-wee and bantam hockey . . . Campbell, Marchand, and Smith were the only Bruins to play in all 82 games . . . Marchand scored a third-period power-play goal and assisted on Eriksson's one-up strike in the first. They were Marchand's first PP points of the season. Of Marchand's 53 points, 46 were at even strength and five (all goals) were on the penalty kill. Marchand hadn't been a PP regular all year. Last season, Marchand scored four of his team-leading 36 points on the power play while averaging 1:44 of ice time per game . . . Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello said coach Pete DeBoer will return next season . . . With two assists, Devils wing Jaromir Jagr passed Gordie Howe for eighth place on the all-time assists list with 1,050. Jagr also moved into a sixth-place tie with Steve Yzerman on the NHL's points list (1,755).Fluto Shinzawa can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeFluto.