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Asphalt roof shingles are available in two types – Fiberglass and Organic-Mat. Skywalker Roofing of stoneville offers Asphalt roof replacement and repair service for both types of shingle roofs. Organic shingles use a cellulose-fiber mat derived from wood that is saturated with asphalt to make it waterproof. It is then coated with adhesive asphalt and then ceramic granules are embedded. Organic shingles contain around 40% more asphalt per square (100 sq. ft.) than their glass fiber counterpart which makes them weigh more and gives them excellent durability and blow-off resistance.
On the other hand, Fiberglass shingles have a glass fiber reinforcing mat that is manufactured to the exact shape of the shingle. This mat is then coated with asphalt which contains mineral fillers. While the fiberglass mat is not waterproof by itself, asphalt makes it waterproof. Fiberglass makes the shingles strong. However, the asphalt itself will not stick to the mat. For this reason, "fillers" are used. The fillers in the asphalt cling to the glass fibers in the mat. The asphalt then encapsulates the glass fibers, fills all the little holes and voids in the mat rendering it waterproof. After this cools a bit, adhesive asphalt is used to cover the mat and the ceramic granules are then embedded.
Which Type of Asphalt Roofing to Choose?
The stoneville roofing contractors at Skywalker Roofing can help you make the best decision for your stoneville home when it comes to asphalt shingles. Fiberglass shingles are thinner, lighter, and carry a better fire rating than organic shingles, but organic-mat shingles are tougher and stay more flexible in cold weather when freeze and thaw cycle is in its full glory.
We are not limited to Asphalt Shingles but can also help you with Wood Shingles that are derived from wood blocks; they are tapered and generally have a relatively smooth surface. Wood Shakes are split from wood blocks; they are less uniform in thickness than shingles, are sometimes grooved, and frequently have little tapering.
We are also very well known for Metal Roofing needs of our residential and commercial customers in North Carolina.
Why stoneville Should Hire Us for Their Asphalt Shingle Roofing
The expert roofers at Skywalker Roofing have been serving stoneville and the Triad of North Carolina for more than one and a half decades. Our replacement, repair, renovation, catastrophe restoration and new construction services are top notch and we are the preferred local roofers in stoneville, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and the Triad of North Carolina. We have completed thousands of roofing projects across the country with zero failures to complete – a testament to our unyielding commitment to client satisfaction. Our experience and dedication to our clients set us apart from other roofing companies in the stoneville area, and make us your top choice for roofing services.
As a BBB Accredited Business, Certified Roofer, you can trust Skywalker Roofing to provide professional quality results every time. Our success is reflected in the quality of our roofing services and the drive to get the job done right the first time. It has been and will always be our intention to provide all our clients with a single point of contact for all their roofing needs.
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- Our story with Skywalker began when I surfed the web for a roofing company that included metal roofing in its services. Skywalker was the second company I reviewed and after reading everything on their website I just got a really good feeling that they were the people we wanted to come into our home and give us a quote for the job. The salesperson (Wyatt Brown) arrived on time, a smile on his face, a good firm handshake and revved up to give us his presentation. He was an impressive guy with a great personality and very down to earth. He physically climbed on our roof and took a video of what was going on up there and showed it to us. We were astonished at how 24 years of NC weather had managed to really play havoc on our roof. He continued with his presentation, we picked our color and signed the contract. We knew we had the right company who had the right people to service our needs. Well, the installation day arrived on one of the hottest days in NC history and the crew arrived with all their equipment and started ripping off old shingles. The crew supervisor (Quinton) was very customer oriented as he would come to the door and let us know exactly what they were doing in case we had questions. They were all hard workers, neat, tidy, focused and two and a half days later we had a gorgeous Mansard Brown Standing Seam Metal Roof on our house. It is beautiful and has really enhanced the look of our country cottage home so much. The crew did a cleanup before they left and that included checking for any nails that might have landed in the yard. They blew off the debris on the front porch and deck and they were spotless. We were so satisfied with Skywalker because from the beginning to the end we were treated as friends of the family. By the way, Skywalker is a family run business and that says a lot.
- Skywalker Roofing staff did an excellent job for our flat roof replacement. We have reached out to multiple roofers, but Skywalker roofing was the only one that seemed reasonable. The team was easy to work with and patiently answered all our queries about the company, the material they used, the time they fix. Highly recommended whenever you're looking for the best roofing services.
- Skywalker Roofing company is awesome! When most of the roofers in Greensboro were busy, Skywalker Roofing team answered and handled all my requirements, and next day Wyatt Brown came to my house and took an in-depth inspection of my damaged roof. The same day they fixed my roof corner and the hole near a gutter. I am very thankful to Skywalker team.
- Skywalker Roofing is one of the rare companies that communicate as much as a customer would like. I was updated daily from my initial request for an estimate all the way through the day after my project was complete. I am extremely happy with our new roof, and the crew that came out was fantastic. I would recommend Skywalker Roofing to anyone who is looking for roofers in Greensboro area.
- "The whole process from the initial phone call, into the office, and to the financing process was flawless, seamless, and effortless. Everyone there knew what they were doing and walked us through step by step, so we knew what to expect during each step. They really made the whole process so easy."


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Urban Real-Estate Prices Are Booming, but Most People Live in Suburbs
Has there been a Renaissance in city living over the past year? That depends on how you look at it.
Urban real estate prices increased faster than suburban prices between March of this year and last, according to Trulia. But suburbs continue to outpace cities in population growth, and for good reason -- there's a lot more suburbs than cities, and since it's easier to build in suburbs, the 'burbs can add new homes more quickly, holding prices back.
Nationally, urban home prices increased 9.8% over the past year. Suburban home prices grew 9.4%. The order is flipped for household growth, however: Suburban population increased by 1.1% and the urban population by 0.9%.
Trulia defines urban and suburban differently than your typical demographer. Rather than focus on political boundaries -- say, the City of San Francisco compared with smaller cities around it -- they define urban and suburban by form.
An urban neighborhood, by Trulia's definition, is one where a majority of the housing is attached product like apartments and towering condos -- the kind of place that "feels like a city." Suburban neighborhoods are where there's a majority of single-family homes.
Some people will ask: What about all the cranes and high-rises you see in cities across the country?
There are indeed a lot of cranes going up, and prices in the few ultra-dense downtown neighborhoods -- high-rise neighborhoods, in Trulia's parlance -- rose 11.4%, outpacing other urban and suburban neighborhoods. But a lot of those cranes are building apartments after years of underbuilding during both the boom years and the recession. To some extent, cities are playing catch-up.
City populations are also growing faster than they were during the boom years -- just not as fast as other suburbs.
"To sum up: although home prices and population are growing fastest in hyper‐urban high‐rise neighborhoods, asking prices are rising only slightly faster in urban neighborhoods than in suburban neighborhoods. Furthermore, population is growing faster in the suburbs than in urban neighborhoods," notes Jed Kolko, Trulia's chief economist, in a release. "The suburbs are far from over."


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Apple Inc. edged lower Monday as the tech giant kicked off its developer conference by unveiling a new version of its iOS operating system, while Broadcom rallied after the chip-maker said it's exploring whether to abandon the cellphone baseband business.
Apple AAPL, +0.13% fell 0.7% to close at $628.65 as the iPhone maker began its Worldwide Developer Conference, known as WWDC. Apple introduced iOS8, a new version of its mobile operating system. The company also unveiled developer kits geared toward the home and health care.
The tech sector got a boost from shares of Broadcom US:BRCM, which were up 9.3% to close at $34.84. The chip company announced Monday that it was exploring the sale of its cellular baseband business, which is expected to cut expenses by $700 million.
But technology stocks took a hit from declining shares of Google Inc. GOOGL, -0.49%, Hewlett-Packard HPQ, +0.08% and Facebook Inc. FB, +0.08% Google was down 1.3% to close at $564.34, while Facebook shed 0.4% to close at $63.08 and H-P fell 0.2% to close at $33.43.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.16% slipped 0.1% to close at 4,237. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index US:MSH was off a fraction, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.15% was up 0.5%.
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GOP: Lerner targeted Crossroads
House Republicans on Wednesday accused former IRS official Lois Lerner of breaking agency rules by aggressively urging denial of tax-exempt status to Crossroads GPS, the giant political nonprofit founded by Karl Rove.
The House Ways and Means Committee released emails showing the former chief of the tax-exempt unit took a special interest in Crossroads GPS in early 2013 — inquiring with IRS officials why they hadn't been audited. Around the same time an email suggested she might be applying for a job with a pro-President Barack Obama group, Organizing For Action, though it is unclear if she was joking.
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Democrats decried the release, calling it an election year gimmick to win over the party's political base. One campaign finance group came to the defense of Lerner, who has denied any wrongdoing, calling the probe a partisan witch hunt.
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The Republican committee letter calls her actions an "aggressive and improper pursuit of Crossroads… but no evidence [that] she directed review of similarly situated left-leaning groups."
The documents were released after a rare, closed-door Ways and Means markup, where the panel voted 23-14 along party lines to send a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting he take the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division to court — though the department already has an ongoing investigation.
The scandal, spurred when Lerner publicly acknowledged extra scrutiny of tea party groups followed by a critical inspector general report, has surged back into the spotlight in recent months as congressional committees finish their investigations.
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Lerner became a lightning rod for Republicans after she pleaded the Fifth and refused to testify before a House panel. The original inspector general report found that the targeting was inappropriate but found no evidence of partisan motivations.
Republicans want her charged for improperly influencing the IRS to take action against conservative organizations; disclosing confidential taxpayer info, a felony; and impeding an investigation.
Democrats cried foul play, accusing Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) of releasing private taxpayer information, and said its protests have nothing to do with holding Lerner accountable.
"This executive session isn't about any of us condoning the mismanagement at the IRS tax-exempt division," top panel Democrat Sander Levin (D-Mich.) said after the public was dismissed from the hearing, according to a release. "It now seems clear that Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee have decided that they do not want to be left behind in the Republican campaign to declare this a scandal and keep it going until November."
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Lerner's lawyer William Taylor III said he had not heard from Ways and Means on the issue, and maintained his client's innocence.
"Ms. Lerner has done nothing wrong," Taylor, a partner of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP said in a statement. "She did not violate any law or regulation. She did not mislead Congress. She did not interfere with the rights of any organization to a tax exemption. Those are the facts."
Camp defended the release.
"We have a right and obligation to protect the American people and to oversee the IRS and to hold them to account for their actions," he said. "This was a career employee at the IRS so we have to make sure the signal goes out that this can't happen again."
The Justice Department said it will review the letter and noted it is already probing the matter.
"It remains a high priority of the Department," Justice spokeswoman Emily Pierce said.
The actions come a day before the House Oversight Committee will vote to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions on the controversy.
Advocates for reform of campaign finance rules say the scandal obscures an important policy debate about whether such politically active groups deserve tax-exempt status in the first place.
Crossroads spent $176 million during the 2012 election cycle — 99 percent of the time to back Republicans and bash Obama and Democrats. Its nonprofit arm spent about $70 million.


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The WHO Programme on Cardiovascular Diseases works on prevention, management and monitoring of cardiovascular disease (CVD) globally. It aims to develop global strategies to reduce the incidence, morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) by:
- effectively reducing CVD risk factors and their determinants;
- developing cost effective and equitable health care innovations for management of CVD;
- monitoring trends of CVD and their risk factors.
CVD in developing countries
Economic transition urbanisation, industrialisation and globalisation bring about lifestyle changes that promote heart disease. These risk factors include tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet. Life expectancy in developing countries is rising sharply and people are exposed to these risk factors for longer periods. Newly merging CVD risk factors like low birth weight, folate deficiency and infections are also more frequent among the poorest in low- and middle-income countries.
Social and economic consequences
Clinical care of CVD is costly and prolonged. These direct costs divert the scarce family and societal resources to medical care. CVD affects individuals in their peak mid life years disrupting the future of the families dependant on them and undermining the development of nations by depriving valuable human resources in their most productive years. In developed countries lower socioeconomic groups have greater prevalence of risk factors, higher incidence of disease and higher mortality. In developing countries as the CVD epidemic matures the burden will shift to the lower socioeconomic groups.
Key areas of work
Our goal is to effectively control CVD risk factors and to reduce the burden of the fast growing cardiovascular disease epidemic, particularly in developing countries. Our key areas of work include:
- Reduce major CVD risk factors and their social and economic determinants through community based programmes for integrated prevention of NCDs.
- Development of standards of care and cost-effective case management for CVD.
- Global action to enhance the capacity of countries to meet the health care needs of CVD.
- Developing feasible surveillance methods to assess the pattern and trends of major CVDs and risk factors and to monitor prevention and control initiatives.
- Developing effective inter-country, interregional and global networks and partnerships for concerted global action.


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10/03/2009 – In some respects, Spain has joined the ranks of countries with a modern, responsive and creative system of tertiary education. But the tertiary system must accelerate the pace of reform to respond to the social and economic pressures facing Spain.
This is the main conclusion of an independent Review of Tertiary Education in Spain led by the OECD. Spain is one of 24 countries which participated in a major OECD review designed to assist countries to understand how the organisation, management and delivery of tertiary education can help them achieve their social and economic goals.
Spanish tertiary education has changed remarkably over the past three decades. The system has responded successfully to the rapid growth in demand. It has put in place a comprehensive framework of governance and quality assurance, readying it for successful integration into the European Higher Education Area. It now has a broader range of institutions, with an increasing number of private universities and the expansion of the non-university sector. The autonomous communities have assumed responsibility for funding and support of tertiary education, and institutions now have autonomy over the design of their educational programmes.
However, the system is still very much academically driven and that means it cannot respond adequately to the diverse needs of today's economy and society. Key challenges identified by the review team include:
The review team based its findings on extensive background documentation prepared by the Spanish authorities complemented by a ten-day visit to Spain in May 2007. During their visit, the team met with a wide range of educational authorities and relevant agencies and visited several institutions of tertiary education. This allowed the team to obtain a wide cross-section of perspectives from key stakeholders on the strengths, weaknesses and policy priorities regarding tertiary education in contemporary Spanish society.
Members of the review team included José Joaquín Brunner (Professor, Research Institute in the Social Sciences, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile); Guy Haug (formerly with the European Commission, France); Salvador Malo (Research Director, Institute for Competitiveness, Mexico); Paola di Pietrogiacomo (Senior Scientific Officer, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy); and Paulo Santiago (OECD Directorate for Education).
The OECD drew upon this report on Spain and reports on the other participating countries to prepare an international comparative report on tertiary education, Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society (OECD, 2008). The country reports are available on the OECD website at www.oecd.org/edu/tertiary/review.
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Our goal is to prepare students to not only take what they have learned in the classroom and use it outside the classroom, but to take the love of that language and the interest in the culture that has happened in the classroom and take it into a community where they can continue learning it.
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Christians are to be the light of the world
In Matthew, Chapter 5, we read, beginning with Verse 14, "Ye (meaning Christian people) are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father, which is in Heaven." That is through Verse 16 in Matthew 5.
In last week's column for The Examiner, I wrote about salt found in Verse 13 of the same chapter of the Bible. Christians are to be salt and light in this world in which we live. Many Christians, I fear, have lost or allowed the salt of their lives to be diluted and are not worth as much as they could be to the lost around them who are looking to them for guidance and help. The same is true for our lights. I shared with my Sunday school class students this past Sunday that many of us have allowed our globes to become dirty and tarnished with the things of this old world.
I can clearly remember my Mama Cole having two kerosene lamps that sat proudly on our mantle in the parlor or front room of the spotless white farm house in which I was reared during the first years of my life in Georgia. I remember that those two lamps were either my grandmother's mother's lamps or from someone she considered dear and near to her heart.
Every week or so, Mama Cole, and only Mama Cole, would get those two lamps down, take them ever so carefully into the big country kitchen and put the glass globes down into good, sudsy dishwater and wash them until they gleamed. She would then rinse them carefully and stand them on readied dishtowels until the water had run off of the sides and they were clear, shiny and inviting. She'd take another rag and dust the metal part in the middle and carefully make certain not a particle of dust remained on the bottom of the lamp. No one else in our home was allowed to handle those lamps unless Mama Cole was at work when a sudden storm visited and knocked out our power, and we had to light them to see.
Christian people should keep their lights shining brightly and be on the ready to point others to the source of the light – the Lord Jesus. As examples of this teaching, I took several objects along with me to Sunday school that I gathered from my home. They were all ordinary and easy objects to obtain, but they made lasting impressions on our students if the feedback I have received is accurate thus far. I first held up and opened a large box of old-fashioned kitchen matches. They are rather difficult to find now, but I remembered in this same farmhouse I described, my Mama Cole had some sort of an old metal box that hung on the wall and the cardboard matchbox slipped down into the larger one and the matches fell to the bottom ready for use. There was a strip along the bottom where the match would be drawn across to strike it for lighting.
In my lesson I compared these old sturdy matches to older, dependable Christians who had lived longer lives and had gathered many life experiences. They may look old-fashioned and outdated in some cases, but they were sure fire and very valuable. I struck one or two of these matches and demonstrated the good light that still came from them. After class, one of my students, Thelma, asked me if I knew something else the burned match was used for in the old days. I did not and she told me that young girls who did not have mascara or the money to buy it at the store and wanted to color their brows would save those old matches, dip them into water, and use the match to add darkening to their eyebrows. We learn every day if we are observant.
I also displayed a current book of matches that one might pick up at a restaurant or as a form of advertisement and compared that to other Christians and even new Christians. I showed a small tea light candle and said that the light emitting from its small wick might represent a brand new baby Christian. I showed a much larger candle, with a huge wick, lit that and talked about pastors, teachers, and those who labored to share the Word of God with hungry students. I showed other candles and spoke of missionaries, witnesses, and friends and neighbors attempting to share the Gospel message with those they loved.
Finally, I took out a favorite of mine – an old lighthouse with a huge beam that spread from the glass windows at the top. I compared the lighthouse to a church, a house of worship, a group of believers, all working together to spread the light and who have joined in an effort to see that the light goes out to all who need to see it from wherever they are in life.
May we as Christians let our lights shine forth brightly and glorify our Father in Heaven, no matter where we find ourselves on this earth.
Brenda Cannon Henley is an award-winning journalist and writer living on the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast. Having enjoyed more than four decades in ministry, Brenda shares her columns with our readers and works with churches and faith-based programs nationwide. She can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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I think that it was Australian food writer John Lethlean who labelled the region north of Heidelberg in Melbourne as a gastrodesert. On the surface, it's gastronomically grim up north; the oleaginous wasteland of charcoal chicken and Smorgy's. People speak with fondness of shopping mall food courts and premixed bourbon and cola. If Stuff White People Like was written by an Australian white person on unemployment benefits, these are the Likes with which they would Stuff themselves.
Like any desert, the surface appearance is deceptive. There is a whole hidden ecosystem, not as rich as much of Melbourne, but still prepossessing. Witness the above xiao long bao, the Shanghainese soup-filled dumpling that is currently enrapturing well to do Melbournites via the CBD restaurant Hutong. This was to be had in Bundoora, well north of the Heidelberg hinterlands at Little House Restaurant. I'd always thought that the idea of a hidden menu at suburban Chinese restaurants was a racist conceit. Sure, there is the occasional suburban menu where you need to read between the lines of poor translation but my experience is that restaurants put whatever they're trying to sell at front and centre. The specials board in Mandarin tend to turn up on the menu elsewhere in English. The secrets involve organ meat.
This is not the case at Little House. Xiao long bao appear nowhere on the menu – I'd received a tip from a previously unknown source that these were some of the best dumplings in the state, a claim that I was only going to verify simply because it sounded too ludicrous to carry any truth. Anonymous tipsters paid big bucks in Hong Kong, so why not north of the gastro-divide?
Granted, it is not as good as Hutong's version – Little House's xiao long bao has slightly thicker pastry and is not formed with the same delicate hands – but it is a good third cheaper and it fits with the homely appeal of Little House. They are a dumpling that is well above average. Hutong is opposite Melbourne's best known Cantonese restaurant, Flower Drum. Little House is next to a suburban tattooist run by a man named "Nugget".
The rest of the menu is modest Shanghainese with a heavy dose of Szechuan – mapo tofu, lamb, chili aplenty. Malaysian is on the sign but barely referred to on the menu, maybe a remnant of a previous owner.
Location: Little House Restaurant, Dennison Mall, Bundoora, Vic


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My Name is Mary L. HOBSON, I was born Sept 1962 in the Charleston SC Naval hospital. My Father Charles Edward HOBSON was morn to Marion Edward HOBSON and Mary Jane PFEIFER, march 1941. My Grandparents were my world.
My grandmother used to tell me some amazing stories. One of those stories was she loved a man in uniform and when she saw my grandfather she said that is the man I will marry, and she did. She would say that is how you came to be, but there is so much more.
I have always loved to know where I came from and started writing down every thing my Grandmother told me when I was in my preteens. I still have those notes I wrote to this very day. The paper has yellowed but the pen still stays. My Grandmother was amazing when it came to names, dates, and relations. I have been searching on the computer for the past 17 years and have compiled proof of the dates she gave me.
I have found data streaming as far back as the 1700's. I am not searching 1 name but 7 at the moment. I have been trying to go back on all 4 grandparents. I have much to say about each, but not the time to type it all at this time. I will try to put in each name and all that I have found in a timely fashion.
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Asus has been seriously innovative the last few years, starting off a winning creative streak with the original Asus Eee Pad Transformer which culminated in the Transformer Infinity, to be followed by the no less revolutionary PadFone and its gorgeous successor, the Asus PadFone 2. Now it's trying its hand at yet another product like no other, the Asus Taichi Ultrabook.
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The Taichi (a name that syncs nicely with Asus' previous Zenbook) is a laptop like no other. It has not just one 1080p IPS screen, but two – and we're not talking about a slide-out affair like the Lenovo ThinkPad W701ds.
With the Taichi, its lid is a second screen, and one that supports both touch and a pressure-sensitive stylus. This means that, when you 'close' the 'laptop', this little machine turns into a tablet, but one with all the connectivity and power of a regular Ultrabook – and naturally, it's running Windows 8 to make full use of this feature.
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There will be two Asus Taichi models, the 11.6-inch, 1.25kg Taichi 21 and the 13.3-inch, 1.55kg Taichi 31. Size aside, the only difference between the two, erm, sizes is that the smaller of these innovative Ultrabooks drops the SD card reader found on the larger ultraportable. Everything else, from specs to screen resolution and connectivity, remains the same. You'll have to wait till 2013 to get your mitts on the 13-inch Taichi though.
Asus Taichi Design and Build
Very like Asus' Zenbook, the Taichi sports a gorgeous, brushed aluminium unibody chassis. The difference this time 'round is that the outside of the lid is toughened Corning glass, which protects the 'top' screen.
Though the entire top is inevitably glossy, Asus has thankfully gone for a matt black screen bezel and the 'inside' panel sports a matt finish too. Yay.
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Hearken ye nations and give heed with ears, for my crimson bridegroom hath spoken. He asked and he hath received.
I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys. I am the mother of fair love and of discernment and of holy hope. I am the fertile vineyard which putteth forth sweet-smelling fruit, and my flowers are flowers of honour and loveliness.
I am the bed of my beloved, around which stand sixty valiant ones girt with swords against the terrors of the night. I am fair and in me there is to be found no flaw.
I look through the window and behold my beloved through the lattice. I wound his heart with a single glance, with one hair of my neck I pierce him.
I am the wisest of the virgins who come forth like the dawn, like daybreak at morning, chosen like the sun, as fair as the moon, making no mention of what lieth within me.
I am as the mighty cedars, as the cypresses of Zion. I am the crown wherewith my beloved wil be crowned upon his wedding day and even am I all his joy, for my name is as a balm poured out.
I am the chosen vineyard unto which the Lord sent workmen at each hour of the day. I am the land of promise wherein wise men have sown gold and silver. If this grain doth not fall into me and die, then it will not bring forth the threefold fruit.
I am the bread from which the poor will eat unto the ending of the world, and shall never again know want.
I give and I ask nothing in return. I give pasture and I fail not. I give safety and am never afeared. What more shall I say unto my beloved? I am she who mediateth between the elements, who goeth betwixt the one and the other.
What is warm I cool and what is dry I make moist. What is cool I warm, and what is moist I dry out. What is hard I soften, and what is soft I make hard.
I am the end and my beloved is the beginning.
I am the work entire, and all knowledge is hidden within me.
I am the Law in the priest, and the word in the prophet, and counsel in the wise man.
I kill and I give life, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. I offer my mouth unto my beloved and he kisseth me. He and I are one. Who can part us from our love? None in either length or breadth, for love is stronger than death.
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Manchester City v Bayern Munich: Big Match preview
Manchester City v Bayern Munich
UEFA Champions League; Etihad Stadium; Weds, 7th Dec, 2011; 1945 KO
Team News
Micah Richards is a doubt for the Citizens, with the England defender struggling with a calf problem. Pablo Zabaletta could replace the full-back.
Gael Clichy is expected to continue at left-back in the absence of Aleksandar Kolarov .
Arjen Robben and Toni Kroos are both out for the visitors, with the winger and midfielder suffering from flu.
Thomas Muller and Mario Gomez have also been struck-down by the illness, but should be available.
City will 'never say never'
Roberto Mancini admits mistakes have been made in Manchester City's Champions League campaign, but that they will be looking for victory against Bayern Munich and hoping for the best in Spain.
The Citizens know three points might not be enough to progress from Group A, with Villarreal needing to hold Napoli to a draw at El Madrigal to open the door for the Barclays Premier League leaders.
And, whilst it remains an unlikely conundrum (the Yellow Submarine are yet to claim a point in the competition), City will be playing to the end and hoping for the best.
"After the draw we knew that it would be a difficult group and I think we made some mistakes in this group. But we have another game - never say never. I think we should think only of beating Bayern Munich," said Mancini.
"Afterwards, if we have a good result from Villarreal, it would be good. I think that if we go through we will be a problem for the other teams. If we win and Napoli don't beat Villarreal, for us it will be an important moment.
"I think we are better than Napoli as a team but Napoli beat us in Naples and if they win in Villarreal they deserve to go through. We should accept that."
For Munich, manager Jupp Heynckes insists his side won't be taking it easy despite their position at the top of the table being assured already.
The Bundesliga leaders have claimed 13 points thus far, and will be looking for a repeat of the win at the Allianz Arena.
"Tomorrow's a big match between the leaders of their respective leagues - which is always a matter of prestige," he added.
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The Choiix Wave Stand for iPad is an aluminum holder that will work for any tablet. It's beautiful looking -- almost Apple-esque -- well-made, sturdy, and inexpensive, what's not to love?
The Wave Stand has lots of nice touches like rubberized feet to keep it in place even when you're tapping, typing and prodding at your iPad. The back of the stand is also rubberized and grooved to keep your iPad from slipping down or out. You can easily adjust angles and because it's strong, it stays right where you want it. You can use it with your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode, though in landscape mode pushing the iPad home button does make it wiggle a bit. (You can use your iOS 5 multitasking gestures to get around that.)
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Tornadoes in the Midwest and Southeast this past spring killed hundreds and ravaged thousands of homes and buildings. Some fitness clubs in communities hit hardest by the storms were not spared.
Olympic Fitness Center, which had been in operation for years in Joplin, MO, was destroyed by an EF5 tornado on May 22. One report said that members hunkered down in a closet inside the club while the tornado roared over them.
Powerhouse Gym CEO Henry Dabish spent many anxious hours making calls and sending texts to his Joplin club's owners and managers before he finally heard that they were OK. Powerhouse Gym opened its doors to displaced homeowners to use its shower facilities, Dabish says.
A Curves club in Joplin and its owner survived the tornado. The club, however, has been closed indefinitely, and the equipment has been removed to deter looters, according to a Curves spokesperson.
Maccaroo Gyms, a kids' fitness facility in Joplin, did not sustain any detrimental damage, says operator Ken Scheuerman. The gym was used for the American Red Cross and Americorps after the tornado and re-opened for business on June 1, Scheuerman says.
"Things are a little hectic, but we feel it is important to promote a sense of normalcy as the community moves forward," he says.
The three YMCA facilities in Joplin also are back to normal operating hours, but membership usage has dropped dramatically, and most of the usual programming has been suspended, according to Amy York, associate executive at the Joplin Family YMCA.
As of June 6, the tornado had killed 141 people, and all of the missing persons had been accounted for.
"You simply cannot imagine the devastation here," Kevin Rhinehart, owner of Rhino Fitness Center that was unharmed in the Joplin tornado, said last month. "Nuclear war couldn't be much worse."
The description of the aftermath was eerily similar to what an EF4 tornado did to Tuscaloosa, AL, earlier this spring. The April 27 tornado there destroyed both a Planet Fitness and a World Gym. A few members at Planet Fitness took shelter in the locker room and were unharmed while the storm pummeled their club.
"The city in general is absolutely devastated," David Leverett, owner of Fitness South in Tuscaloosa, said after the tornado killed 40 in his hometown. "It's indescribable. It's like a bomb went off right where Planet Fitness and World Gym were. It's hard to fathom."
Universities in both communities came to the aid of survivors. An athletic center at Missouri Southern State University became an American Red Cross shelter. The University of Alabama's student rec center housed students whose off-campus housing had been damaged.
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Brenda L Croft
(Australia 1964 – )
- Community
- Adelaide, Spencer region, Canberra, South-east region
- Language group
- Gurindji, Fitzmaurice region, Mudpurra, Fitzmaurice region, Malngin, Fitzmaurice
Noel Collett and Shane Phillips, Eveleigh Street, Redfern,
- Other titles:
- Shane Phillips and Noel Collett, Eveleigh Street, Redfern
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
These images were originally part of a collaborative installation work, titled 'Conference call', made with renowned African-American conceptual artist Adrian Piper, for 'The boundary rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney', Art Gallery of NSW, 1992. In the Biennale, the images were displayed in a darkened room furnished with office chairs where people were encouraged to sit and answer incessantly ringing telephones. On the 'phones, listeners heard someone talking in an unidentified Aboriginal language followed by a translation in English.
Croft took these photos at key sites around Redfern and presents images of Aboriginal people, with a diversity of experiences and backgrounds, standing proudly within their urban environment. Contrary to the usual media depictions of Redfern's Aboriginal community, Croft presents a positive image from an insider's viewpoint. Included in these images are significant individuals who have worked tirelessly for their people, some of whom have since passed away and are thus memorialised in the images.
- Year
- 1992
- Media
- Photograph
- Medium
- duratran
- Dimensions
- 182.8 x 275.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Brenda L. Croft 2000
- Accession number
- 166.2000.2
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- © Brenda L Croft. Licensed by Copyright Agency


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Anthrax: Epizootiology and Ecology of Anthrax (2006) (PDF 1.16MB) This paper describes what is known about the ecology of anthrax, and it reviews several significant outbreaks of anthrax in livestock populations in the US and abroad. The epizootics reviewed herein included a period of at least 30 years (1971 to 2001), three continents (North America, Australia, Africa), four countries/provinces (the United States, Canada, Namibia, Victoria) and two broad classifications of animals (domesticated livestock and wildlife). Anthrax epizootics in livestock and wildlife are restricted to specific geographical regions, regardless of continent, country, or geopolitical unit within a given country. Epizootics in livestock in the US are restricted to states west of the Mississippi River. Similarly, epizootics of anthrax in livestock and bison in Canada have been restricted to the western provinces.
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Bibliography for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE, 8/96)(PDF 220KB) Contains a comprehensive bibliography of articles up to 1996 from refereed journals and publications of government, professional associations, and international organizations. Subjects covered include TSE's, BSE, human spongiform encephalopathies, Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy (TME), scrapie, and spongiform encephalopathies in other species.
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Bovine Spongiform Enchephalopathy: In the News
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: Implications for the U.S., 12/93 Contains a review of BSE in Great Britain, a discussion of risk factors and surveillance for BSE in the U.S., and a quantitative assessment of the possible role of nonambulatory cattle in transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in the U.S.
Quantitative Risk Assessment of BSE in the U.S., 1/92 Presents a systems model of BSE epidemiology, scrapie/BSE contamination of rendered product, risk assessments at state and county levels, etc.
Qualitative Analysis of BSE Risk Factors in the U.S., 1/92 Discusses differences and similarities of epidemiologic risk factors for BSE between the U.S. and Great Britain, including sheep population, cattle inventories, slaughter, rendering and feed industries, etc.
Infectious: Viruses
|Caliciviruses of Animals in the United States (2003) (PDF 216KB) Caliciviruses of animals in the US first began to receive attention approximately 70 years ago. Since then, numerous caliciviruses have been isolated from a variety of animal species. The epizootics of rabbit hemorrhagic disease in the US in 2000 and 2001, and the reported isolation of a "vesicular exanthema of swine-like calicivirus" from an aborted bovine fetus in 2002 have heightened concerns about the roles of caliciviruses in diseases of animals. This paper provides the reader with an introduction to the caliciviruses of animals. The current taxonomy, natural history, epidemiology, clinical signs, zoonotic aspects, and the significance of caliciviruses in animal health were discussed.
Epidemiology and Ecology of Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (2004) (PDF 291 KB)
Eastern equine encephalomyelitis viruses (EEEV) are members of the Alphavirus genus, family Togaviridae. EEEV can be transmitted to equines and humans during the bite of an infected mosquito. In addition to horses and humans, EEEV can produce severe disease in common livestock species such as swine and cattle. EEEV, or virus-specific antibodies, have been recovered from birds such as the turkey, pheasant, quail, ostrich, and emu, among others. Other animals in which EEEV have been found are the turtle, snake, hamster, and fish. In addition to the mosquito, EEEV have been isolated from the horse fly, blackfly, mite, lice, and Culicoides spp. The majority of EEEV isolates have been from only 27 species of mosquito, and a high percentage of the isolates have been from a single species of mosquito, Culiseta melanura.
| HPAI: Update on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza, January - June 2007(PDF 44KB)
Since January 2007, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) was officially reported for the first time in six countries: England, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Ghana, and Togo. New outbreaks occurred in seven countries that had previously declared themselves free of the disease: Japan, Thailand, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Czech Republic, and Germany. The pattern of outbreaks in 2007, which continued through June, differed markedly from that in 2006, which peaked earlier and had largely subsided by May.
HPAI: Recent Spread of Highly Pathogenic (H5N1) Avian Influenza in Birds (2005) (PDF 183 KB)
During the spring and summer of 2005, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, subtype H5N1) started spreading westward out of Southeast Asia, where it has been circulating for several years. By the fall, HPAI was reported in poultry and/or wild birds in several countries in Central Asia and around the Black Sea. The range of HPAI expanded rapidly beginning in 2006, and by the end of April, H5N1 virus had been found in 34 countries not previously reporting the disease.
Epizootiology and Ecology of Western Equine Encephalomyelitis (2006) (PDF 622KB)
Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) is an arthropod-borne virus infection that is confined to the Western Hemisphere and is caused by a WEE complex of four closely related viruses. WEE virus is associated more frequently with disease in animals and humans than are the remaining members of the WEE complex. WEE virus has been isolated from horses, wild birds, mammals, mosquitoes and humans in numerous states west of the Mississippi River.
| Dioxins in the Food Chain: Background (2000) (PDF 67 KB)
Dioxin and related chemical compounds are toxic industrial pollutants which are ubiquitous and persistent in the environment, and which accumulate in the fat tissue of animals and humans. Foods of animal origin are the primary source of human exposure to dioxins. In June 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed a ten-year effort to reassess the science base associated with dioxin and closely related compounds and their associated risk to human health. The draft dioxin reassessment concludes that dioxin is a human carcinogen and that the lifetime cancer risk associated with the average person's body burden of dioxin is between 1 in 1000 and 1 in 100. This estimate of risk is ten times higher than EPA's previous estimate and represents a very significant public health concern.
|The Potential for International Travelers to Transmit Foreign Animal Diseases to US Livestock or Poultry, 9/98 --REMOVED -- Summarizes what is currently known regarding the potential for human infection and human-to-animal transmission of FAD, focusing on the International Office of Epizootics (OIE) List A diseases. The ability of humans to be biological or mechanical vectors for each disease is also explored, resulting in a qualitative risk rating for each disease.


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It's time for an update on those crazy
thirty-year-old adults kids from the Jersey Shore! On tap today, we have have a ridiculously rich fist pumper, a very relieved former pill popper, and the announcement of the premiere date for what will likely be the gang's (or at least Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's) final season of the show.
Forget GTL, everyone's favorite future pseudo uncle needs a new catchphrase–GTM2, as in gym, tan, make millions. Forbes just released its list of highest paid deejays, and Pauly D was number 7 in the rankings. The easy-going prankster can clearly spin some turntables as it's being reported he made $11 million in the last twelve months. Yes, you read that correctly! How does one learn to spin tunes? I could surely be a blogger by day and a deejay by night, right? Who needs sleep? Given that Pauly has his own spin-off, a line of clothing, his name on some tanning lotion, and a set of headphones he markets with 50 Cent, it's safe to say that Pauly is more than just
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New opium production bodes ill for Afghan security
Four years ago, Afghan and U.S. officials touted Nangarhar as a model for Afghanistan's other 33 provinces, bolstered by successes against the Taliban and the near-total eradication of opium poppies.
The tide has since turned. Poppy growing is rising, as is support for the insurgency, fueled in part by a harsh government poppy-eradication drive that's sparked clashes and led some farmers to sow land mines. Many people fear that one of the most crucial provinces will only slip deeper into bloodshed and corruption as U.S. troops withdraw.
Popular backing for the Taliban "is greater than before, and it's increasing," warned Malik Hassan Khan, the district chief of the province's Nazian district.
It's unlikely that such dark assessments will be heard at the NATO summit that opens Sunday in Chicago. Amid cheery declarations of improved stability after more than a decade of war, President Barack Obama and his fellow leaders are expected to finalize the exit of U.S.-led combat forces by 2014.
Nangarhar's backsliding "doesn't fit the good narrative that people want to see propagated at this moment," said a Western official, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly.
Yet what happens in the province of 1.5 million people as NATO's U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force leaves could significantly affect Afghanistan's security, and provide an indication of where the country as a whole might be headed.
Nangarhar is a major financial and political hub. The traffic-clogged, dust-drenched provincial center of Jalalabad is eastern Afghanistan's most populous city and business magnet. One of the few cities that are still a relatively safe drive from Kabul, Jalalabad hosts the U.S. base that oversees combat operations along the nearby border with Pakistan's tribal area, the insurgency's main sanctuary.
River-watered plains sprout lush crops of wheat and other produce that feed the region, providing jobs for the licit economy. The mountainous frontier with Pakistan is a major smuggling conduit that powers the illicit economy. The Pakistani rupee is preferred over the afghani.
The province controls the centuries-old trade – and invasion – corridor that runs from Pakistan's port of Karachi through the fabled Khyber Pass to Kabul, and north to Central Asia.
Nangarhar's strategic importance led U.S. and Afghan officials in 2004 to intensify counterinsurgency operations. They also backed an aggressive drive by the governor, Gul Agha Sherzai, to eradicate poppy – the plant that produces opium, from which heroin is made –, a major source of income for the Taliban. Afghanistan supplies about 90 percent of the world's illegal opium.
Sufficient progress was made by 2008 that U.S. diplomats and commanders promoted a $3.2 billion development and job-creation plan that they dubbed "Nangarhar Inc." The United Nations declared the province "poppy free," earning Nangarhar a reward of $10 million.
The U.S. plan, however, never materialized, and poppy growing has risen every year since then, reaching an estimated 6,000 acres last year. While that's nowhere near the 2004 level of some 69,680 acres, Western and Afghan officials expect an annual U.N. survey to find that more than 7,400 acres were planted in Nangarhar this year.
Experts view poppy cultivation, which is illegal in Afghanistan, as a barometer of security: A low level indicates that people are living mostly by licit means and cooperating with the government.
On the other hand, "Where there is poppy cultivation, there is insecurity," said Syed Ubaidullah Dinarkhel, Nangarhar's director of counter-narcotics. Interviews earlier this month with a dozen tribal elders and local officials confirmed that the increase in poppy cultivation in Nangarhar has been accompanied by rising support for the Taliban, who in some areas help farmers protect their crops in return for shares in the proceeds.
"People will support those who can help them feed their families," said Maulvi Gulam Habib, of Achin district, who drove to Jalalabad with other elders because it was too dangerous for a foreign reporter to visit their areas.
Popular support for the insurgents, they said, has been fueled by Sherzai's U.S.-backed eradication campaign, which has mobilized some 800 Afghan police officers and soldiers and has destroyed more than 3,000 acres of poppy just since March.
More than 200 farmers have been arrested, and at least five Afghan security personnel and several civilians have died in bomb blasts and clashes, Afghan officials said.
"We are very serious. We are very harsh with these farmers," Dinarkhel said. "In order to bring security and peace, we have to fight the drugs."
A massive spike in the price of opium, the result of a shortage due to a disease that attacked poppy crops in 2010, hasn't helped.
Opium, which had sold for up to $165 per kilogram, now fetches as much as $400 per kilogram, explained Dinarkhel, who waved a sheaf of papers that he said were broken pledges not to grow poppy signed by farmers across the province.
The massive profits have generated massive corruption, according to the elders. They charged that local and provincial officials conspire with farmers to eradicate only small portions of their crops in return for bribes and shares in the proceeds.
Provincial and local officials "make a deal with the owners of the land," asserted Aziz ur-Rehman Sidiqi, an elder from Batikot district.
The problem almost certainly will worsen, several experts warned.
With a presidential election set for 2014 and parliamentary polls due the next year, powerful officials and warlords will have to find other sources of lucre to feed their patronage networks as spending by U.S.-led combat forces dries up, they said.
The elders and local officials cited a host of other reasons for the worsening situation. Feeble governance, a lack of development and searing poverty – especially in remote areas – topped every list.
"We don't have potable water in the district. None of the roads in the district are paved and they are used by the enemy to plant" homemade bombs, said Khan, the Nazian district chief. Building new infrastructure "can create jobs and prevent poppy cultivation, and that can keep down the Taliban's influence."
Deputy Gov. Mohammad Hanif Gardiwal insisted that the high price of opium and intimidation by the Taliban are the main reasons for the spread of poppy cultivation.
He vehemently denied that the provincial government promises to approve aid projects in return for farmers' agreeing not to plant.
"We don't make any deals," he said.
Khan, however, said farmers increasingly were unwilling to heed demands not to plant poppy because Sherzai and other officials – himself included – have repeatedly broken promises to build dams, roads and other infrastructure.
"The anger of the people is extreme," he said. "They are poor people, and we have seized the bread from their mouths. We are lying to people. We tell them, 'We will help you. We will bring you some projects and we will bring you wheat and other stuff to grow.' But people know we're lying because they have tested us before."
Asked how he avoided retribution, he replied: "I bring a tribal elder from every village as part of a delegation to the provincial governor. If the provincial governor lies to them, then he is lying directly to them, and I won't be blamed."


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The red carpet occupies its own place in the pantheon of fashion, somewhere between the runway and the street. Thanks to their access and visibility, Hollywood stars have had a jump on the fall collections and trends, which they have been wearing to events and premieres all summer long. Here are a few of our favorite examples of menswear-inspired, luxe leather and navy-is-the-new-black looks, plus red accents and cap-toe shoes.
Malin Akerman in a Vena Cava jumpsuit and Louis Vuitton cap-toe pumps at the Ciroc Cabana Club May 26 in West Hollywood.
Emma Stone in a Chanel dress and Christian Louboutin shoes at the premiere of "The Amazing Spider-Man" on June 28 n Los Angeles.
Jessica Alba in an Alice & Olivia sweater, TopShop pants and Giuseppe Zanotti shoes at the LuckyFABB blogger conference April 30 in Santa Monica.
Kristen Stewart in a foulard-print Roberto Cavalli jacket at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles on July 22.
Zooey Deschanel in an Oscar de la Renta dress and red belt at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 11.
Sophia Bush carries a red Clare Vivier clutch at the premiere of "Magic Mike" in Los Angeles on June 24.
Jaime King in a Stella McCartney navy blue jacquard shirt and skirt at the CBS, Showtime and CW TCA summer tour party in Beverly Hills on July 29.
Kate Beckinsale in a Rag & Bone tuxedo jacket and leather pants at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 13.
Nicole Richie in a Winter Kate leather top at NBC Universal Summer Press Day in Pasadena on April 18.


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An artist's concept shows a family of six planets orbiting a star known as Kepler 11, which was discovered by the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. The six planets are packed in close to the star; all orbit at less than half of Earth's distance from the Sun. They were discovered as they crossed in front of the star (as three are doing in this illustration), blocking a tiny bit of the star's light. Kepler has discovered evidence of about 1,200 other worlds in other star systems, but most of them are awaiting confirmation. [NASA/Tim Pyle]
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Kepler 11
Until a few months ago, GSC 03144 was just another yellow-dwarf star -- one of billions in the Milky Way galaxy. It's the same size, mass, and temperature as the Sun, and perhaps a few billion years older.
Today, though, it's a stellar celebrity. It's home to one of the largest planetary systems yet discovered -- a family of six worlds. Only one other system beyond our own is known to have that many planets.
It also has a new name: Kepler 11 -- the 11th star for which the Kepler space telescope has discovered planets.
Kepler's goal is to find Earth-size worlds in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like stars. Such worlds are the most likely to be Earth-like, with conditions that are friendly for life.
It'll take another couple of years for Kepler to confirm such worlds. In the meantime, it's discovering lots of other planets. In February, mission scientists released a catalog of about 1200 possible worlds orbiting almost a thousand stars in the constellations Lyra and Cygnus.
The largest system in the bunch is Kepler 11. None of its planets is much like Earth, though. All six are less than half as far from their parent star as Earth is from the Sun, so they're too hot for liquid water -- a key ingredient for life as we know it. They're all a good bit bigger and heavier than Earth, too.
Even so, Kepler 11 shows that big planetary families are probably pretty common -- and some of them are likely to look like our own.
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EDIT 1: What the math?! 200% in less than 1 day... You are all amazing!!! We have to crash for the night, but we'll be online in a few hours to respond to questions/emails.
EDIT 2: >400% We can't express our gratitude. Also, we realize that there's a number of people who want to donate more than $40 but that there are no more rewards for higher levels. We are going to leave for the night but we'll try and resolve this soon.
EDIT 3: >700% and 3 weeks to go. It's amazing to know that something you've put your blood/sweat/tears into is being enjoyed & anticipated by so many people. First of all, if there's anyone at GDC who wants to say hi, I (justin) will be there. Just hit me up with an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) or tweet (@jarmustard) if you want to say hi. Also, the demo will be available to play at OnLive's booth near the IGF on the Expo floor. Second, check out Update #3 for some info on new rewards and what the increased funds might mean.
Edit 4: The OnLive demo has been extended! See below.
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Plus thanks to Christopher Waters for the $96 pledge that brought us to such a nice even number!
EDIT 6: We've just added a new update: it includes a 2nd gameplay video as well as the news that... FTL will be on Steam!
"I've been playing an early build of the game, and it's amazing. When it comes out... you should play it because it's amazing." - Graham Smith - PC Gamer Preview
"...fighting to stave off the inevitable destruction of my ship and crew as we make a mad dash through the cosmos gets my blood pumping every time." - Nathan Meunier - Gamespy Preview
"This game is brilliant, and brutal, and different every time." - Tom Francis - PC Gamer Preview
FTL: Spaceship Simulation Roguelike-like
FTL, Faster than Light, is a game coming to Windows, Mac & Linux made by Justin Ma and Matthew Davis. It features a blend of exploration, discovery, ship management and real time strategic combat that creates an experience quite unlike other games in its genre.
EDIT: But don't take our word for it...
The OnLive demo is over!
For the first 2+ weeks of the Kickstarter, a demo of FTL was featured as part of OnLive's Indie Showcase. It was an event coinciding with GDC that allowed people at home to try a number of the IGF nominees and honorable mentions. It was hugely successful: FTL was one of the most played demos of the event. At one point it was the 2nd most played game on the entire OnLive service*! For now we will be working hard to get the game ready for the beta in May. In the meantime we will be putting up some more gameplay videos to let you get a better feeling for the game.
*Or so we were told at GDC.
The GameFTL has been described as "Firefly by way of Spelunky." Many games have tackled the goal of recreating the feeling of space operas, but few have focused on the inner workings of a single ship. How does the crew react when their ship takes a heavy missile barrage and the shield batteries shut down? Do you reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape? Do you power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky before they can breach your hull? Or do you teleport a boarding party onto the enemy ship and take the fight to them directly? FTL allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
- A setting of intergalactic war: The player is tasked with a mission vital to the survival of the Galactic Federation currently threatened by a nearly victorious rebellion.
- A story that engages, but does not dictate player experience: The setting provides direction but the real story of FTL is created by the player and it evolves organically during each play-through.
- An arms race: The locations and enemies grow increasingly dangerous over the course of the game. To survive you will need to find and purchase equipment; hire and level up crew; and upgrade the ship's systems.
- Exploration is key: Every location you Faster-Than-Light travel to contains a text based event. This includes scenarios like attempting to help an infected space station pleading for help; slavers demanding your surrender; hunting pirates through a nebula; and surviving an uncharted asteroid field.
- A random galaxy: Each play-through will feature different encounters, events, choices, and results to your decisions.
- Permadeath is at the core of FTL: Knowing that your crew's lives are in your hands and that each battle could mean the end of your trek fills the player with a sense of urgency and desperation that adds importance to every decision.
- Sleek and focused gameplay: FTL focuses on the development of your ship, recreating the atmosphere of space operas without the countless menus and confusing interface that frequently go hand in hand with ship management and galactic sim games. Currently each game lasts between 15 and 90 minutes.
The Combat
Ship-to-ship combat is a large focus of the game. Check out this older gameplay trailer to see it in action:
EDIT: There are new gameplay trailers to watch. Check them out in Update #4 and Update #5!
The Final Game
A lot of these elements are fully functional and can be experienced (briefly) in the demo... so what will we be adding between now and release?
- Ship Customization: Choose & name your ship; outfit it with weapons & equipment; and hire & name your crew.
- Alien Races: We are working on 5 playable alien races that have unique abilities, ships and implications during exploration.
- Crew Development: Your crew will gain skill over time, allowing survivors to have improved combat and operate ship systems to increase their potential..
- An Ending: The current game is infinite (play until you lose), but we want to have a more controlled game mode that gives the player a final goal and rewards for completion.
- Deep Meta-game: Unlock playable ships, unique crew members, weapons and equipment to be used in subsequent play-throughs.
- Custom Soundtrack: We have two songs so far, but our sound designer will be working hard to give us a soundtrack that greatly enhances the experience.
Why Kickstarter?
You may be wondering, "if the game is so close to completion, why do you need our money?" When we quit our jobs last year, we intended to work on a small project for a few months. During development we received such overwhelmingly positive feedback that we changed our plans. We decided to bring FTL up to a finished game quality. However, releasing a game takes money and our funds are starting to deplete. Your generous pledges will go towards:
- Business Costs: To officially start selling the game we have to set up a company, deal with licensing and other expenses.
- Paying Our Sound Designer: It is fine that we're working out of pocket, but we will need to have money to pay our wonderful sound guy, Ben Prunty.
- Polish & Improvement: Making FTL as good as it can be.
Access to the Game
Your pledge of $10 or greater will get you a copy of the final game when it's released. We do not know what will be our primary method of distribution, but regardless we will give you a DRM-free copy for Windows, Mac and/or Linux. See below for estimated system requirements. We're aiming to be content complete within a few months and then release the game by the end of summer. This is subject to change and the closed Beta will likely cause delays.
Pledging $25 or more will also give you access to our closed Beta. The exact date and details are still uncertain but we will attempt to start it within a couple months of the end of the Kickstarter. Here is what we know now:
- The Beta will initially require Windows and have only English localization.
- It will initially be available only to backers.
- EDIT: The beta will be organized through Steam! This means you will need access to a Steam account to join the beta.
The requirements are all subject to change. We're doing our best to accommodate as many machines as possible, but with our currently limited testing we're unsure of what the final requirements will be.
- OS: Windows (XP/Vista/7), MacOS, or Linux
- Processor: 2ghz Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 512 MB
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 Support, 256 MB (dedicated card preferred)
- Minimum Resolution: 1280 x 720
Thank YouFTL's website can be found at www.FTLgame.com
If you're confused about the game, check out our FAQ
You can voice any questions or concerns to firstname.lastname@example.com
Sign up for the newsletter on our website.
Follow us at @FTLgame
And of course, thank you to the girlfriends, friends, and family who have been with us every step of the way: finding bugs, vetoing bad ideas, and feeding us. Plus a special thanks to Leah Churchill for helping us with the video.
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